Da Ming started to ascend the throne

"Report to the governor that the captive Tartars seem to be attacking the city."

Qi Jiguang nodded to the soldiers:

"Understood, pass the order of the governor, and the four gates will strengthen their defenses, let's go!"

"Yes"

As soon as the soldiers left, Li Cunxiao stood up and asked for orders:

"The governor's family has knocked on the door, and I will kill them for a while."

Qi Jiguang smiled slightly:

"Don't worry, general. They won't be able to fight. The firearms are more advanced than them. If they dare to attack the city, they will kill themselves."

"Captain, they are showing off their power below the city, the last general's hands are itchy!"

"Hahaha……"

Seeing Li Cunxiao's anxious look, all the generals laughed loudly:

"General Li, wait for us to beat up the tartars, and I will leave the rest to you, you black cavalry..."

Li Cunxiao resentfully said:

"You guys are really boring in this era, and you often make this general unable to exert energy..."

"Ha ha……"

What Li Cunxiao said made everyone laugh again.

Qi Jiguang patted Li Cunxiao on the shoulder:

"Don't be in a hurry, general, let's go to the city to have a look."

A group of people agreed, and followed Qi Jiguang out of the handsome mansion and went straight to the city.

After climbing to the top of the city, they immediately found that the captives under the city were a little different from before.first launch.. ..

This group of Tartars had obviously come prepared, and a row of shield vehicles and siege vehicles were densely packed under the city, which had never happened before.

Qi Jiguang raised his binoculars and looked down the city, he didn't want to ignore any details.

I saw that the shield carts were more than five meters long, and the wood was wrapped with cowhide, and covered with a quilt soaked in water.

Chapter 224 Shield Car and Barrel Ladder

The shield chariot, Dongyao was defeated one after another, and finally no longer arrogant.

The shield car, which used to be the most effective defense against artillery and muskets, reappeared again.

This old fox Daishan is much more stable than the young man.

Like other banner owners, such as Duoduo Yuetuo, etc., when confronting the Ming army, they don't even bother to use shield cars now.

Whatever the result, they all died under their arrogance in the end.

Although Dongyao's chariots were inspired by the Ming army, their combat thinking and chariot design are completely different from those of the Ming army.

It can be said that the Dongyao chariot was invented specifically to restrain the Ming army's firearms and firearms tactics.

When Nurhachi set up the Eight Banners against the Ming Dynasty, the captives in the east lacked firearms.

In the face of the Ming army's firearms, which have a range and power exceeding that of bows and arrows, Dongbao is at a disadvantage.

How to let the cavalry of the Eastern captives approach the Ming army to shoot bows and arrows has become a problem that Nurhachi needs to solve, so the shield chariot came into being.

Regarding the chariots of the Eastern Captives, the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty has this description:

"The card is very thick, with a layer of cowhide and a layer of iron. Small bricks and stones will not move, big bricks and stones will roll down, and firewood will not burn."

The Dongyao chariot is simpler in design than the Ming army, and the main structure is the huge wooden sign erected on the two-wheeled chariot.

One car can move and cover 20 people.The wooden signs are made of 2-5 inch thick wood boards, and iron sheets and cowhide are pasted on the boards to form a three-layer composite structure, which can be said to be a composite armor.

The Ming army chariot only needs to defend against bows and arrows, and the wooden boards assembled are very thin, usually only 1 inch thick wooden boards are installed.

In the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the light car designed by Ye Mengxiong was only 6 cents thick in order to reduce weight.

From such a sharp contrast, it can be seen that the Dongyao chariot is more focused on the defensive function.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, heavy arquebus guns could penetrate 4mm iron plates, but they were powerless against the level of defense of shield vehicles.

It is obvious that neither the bird gun nor the three-eyed gun used by the Ming army could penetrate the Dongyao chariot.

Secondly, as the opponent of the Eastern Captivity, the Ming army often faced intensive charges of Mongolian cavalry in combat.

Therefore, the Ming army prefers to use light artillery with a fast rate of fire, such as light artillery such as Franji and tiger squatting artillery.

And the Ming army often used shotguns that spread over a wide area and could hit a patch of enemies.

Qi Jiguang even referred to the breech-loading smoothbore gun of the Franji, and transformed the original general gun of the Ming army into an "invincible general gun", which can shoot [-] lead in one shot.

The Ming army often did not use large artillery to shoot at farther distances. Instead, they hid cannons that fired shotguns in the formation.

The guns were fired only when the Mongolian cavalry approached to a very short distance, in order to pursue the effect of "strike twenty feet across" with one cannon.

It's a pity that the shotgun just couldn't break the Dongyao chariot.

With chariots that can effectively resist the Ming army's firearms, Dongyao can rely on the chariots to advance to the Ming army's battle formation.

Archers, infantry and cavalry can all hide behind the chariot. When they approach the Ming army, the archers can hide behind the chariot and shoot at the Ming army.

The infantry could take the opportunity to rush out and into the Ming army's camp to overthrow the Ming army's chariots, antlers and other obstacles, and the cavalry rushed out from behind to disrupt the Ming army's formation.

The battle of the Eastern captives using chariots is the most typical battle of the Daling River that took place in the fourth year of Chongzhen.

At that time, Zhang Chun, the supervising army, rescued Dalinghe, and this Ming army car battalion had a field battle with the Eight Banners.

According to the monthly archives of the Eight Banners, the infantry battalion of the Ming Dynasty "dig trenches in a square formation and stand with guns and guns".

So Huang Taiji ordered the Eight Banners Battalion to line up the chariots in front of the formation, and Bai Yala and the Mongolian cavalry to line up behind the formation. The battalion pushed the chariots forward, followed by the horse infantry.

Although the Ming army "fired guns and guns like hail, and arrows fell like rain", under the cover of chariots, the soldiers from the Eastern Captives approached the Ming army, and the horse infantry rushed into the Ming army's infantry phalanx, and the Ming army was finally defeated.

It can be seen that the use of chariots in the Ming and Qing Dynasties has its own characteristics. They are all targeted weapons and tactics created and invented based on their own conditions and the enemies they faced in a specific period.

With the introduction of Western military technology, the military technology of both sides has made great progress.