I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

"The gunnery soldiers of the opposite central army are their main force. It is difficult to deal with them. We can concentrate our elites to defeat their flanks first."

Hong Chengchou suggested.

"Since the Chinese army is their main force, wouldn't it be better for us to attack their Chinese army directly."

Dorgon's brother Azig said that he was very brave when fighting, but his brain was not very good. Therefore, even if he was Dorgon's brother, Dorgon let Boluo take charge of the command, and Aziger was a general who charged into battle.

"The terrain on the flanks is not conducive to the impact of cavalry, but the position of the central army is suitable for cavalry impact. Without the impact of cavalry, it is difficult to win a big victory."

Bo Luo also agreed to attack the central army, but he considered factors such as terrain, rather than pure blood like Azig.

Bo Luo's reason left Hong Chengchou speechless. After all, the most powerful cavalry unit in the Eight Banners Army was of course.

"Let the gunnery army press down first, and the cavalry is on standby at any time. Nikan, you are responsible for attacking the enemy's right flank and destroying their artillery. Zhao Butai, you are responsible for the enemy's left flank, advancing across the board, and crushing and annihilating it in one fell swoop... ."

Boluo issued various orders, and he also divided the troops into three parts, corresponding to Wu Changqing's three troops.

With his superiority in military strength, it can actually be divided further.

However, the width of the battlefield is not enough after further division. If you want to attack the Ming army, you must detour five or six miles and bypass a section of the hillside. For such a long distance, he could at most send a cavalry to detour, and it was absolutely too late to send infantry.

Moreover, he didn't need to do that very much, as long as he divided the enemy into three parts and defeated them separately.

As long as the enemy army is defeated, it will be time to capture prisoners everywhere.

The cavalry is an absolute weapon to defeat the enemy formation and trigger the collapse of the enemy.

On the other side, Wu Changqing and other senior generals were also watching the enemy's movements with binoculars on the top of the mountain. When they saw that the opponent was divided into three parts and launched a general attack, everyone smiled.

After everything was planned together, things looked good.

"Their vanguard is the fire gun soldiers, and the formation is too loose. Is such a fire gun army powerful?"

Li Shaobin sneered.

If the arquebus team wants to kill, it needs a dense formation.

"Let the artillery fire."

Wu Changqing saw that the enemy had entered the artillery range and immediately ordered.

As soon as the flag was waved, the commander in the artillery position started firing guns as planned.

Thirty red-clothed cannons fired in salvo, with an earth-shattering momentum.

Several large solid iron balls smashed into the formation of the Qing army, and rolled all the way.

That kind of death is quite terrifying. The psychology of recruits is a great deterrent.

In a dense formation, the lethality of solid artillery shells is quite amazing. A shell rolls all the way, and it takes at least ten or twenty people to stop it.

As the cannons of the Ming army sounded, the cannons on the Qing army's positions also began to fire. Their number of cannons was even more, there were fifty.

Moreover, they have the advantage of their troops, so they don't have to worry that the Ming army will send troops to attack their artillery positions.

The difficulty is too great, and the meager number of cavalry in the Ming army used to be just food delivery.

As soon as the cannons of the Qing army rang, the Ming army immediately suffered casualties.

However, these casualties are only a small number compared to the tens of thousands of troops, and the coach can fully bear them.

The only people who need to be afraid are the soldiers at the bottom, who have nothing to do but pray that the shells don't hit themselves.

"General, the formation on the opposite side has changed to a horizontal line."

In the artillery position of the Ming army, a guerrilla general in charge of artillery said.

"Change howitzers."

Zhang Xuanyi ordered that solid bullets have a miraculous effect when facing a column. One cannonball passes, and there are dozens of them in one collision.

After the enemy army became a horizontal team, the troops were divided into three or four rows. When a shell passed, it would hit four or five people at most, and the casualties were immediately reduced by three or four times.

Being able to adjust the formation in such a short period of time is enough to show that this Qing army is an elite force.

Unfortunately, they encountered the Ming army with howitzer shells.

A howitzer bomb flew to the top of the Qing army's head and exploded, and the iron nails and iron pieces inside suddenly shot around at a very high speed, hitting the Qing army's head.

Suddenly, thirty or forty Qing troops stopped and fell to the ground screaming. In contrast, howitzer shells were not as deadly as solid bullets, unless they were shot at close range, or were shot in the head by fragments. Most injured, not so easy to die.

However, the impact surface of howitzer shells is too wide, and one shell can cover forty or fifty people.

Those wounded soldiers also lost their combat effectiveness, and there was nothing to do but to be carried down.

Killing a soldier will only lose one combat power, but if a soldier is injured, it needs two people to treat it, and loses three combat power at once.

Injured soldiers not only affected the speed of the team, but their screams and wailing also affected morale. The treatment also required manpower and medicinal materials.

For the coach, these wounded soldiers are not as good as dead.

Fortunately, the cannons of this era were limited in their accuracy. In a salvo of thirty cannons of the Ming army, four or five shells could fall into the enemy's soldiers at a time, even if it was very good.

The accuracy of the Qing artillerymen was even worse, and most of them depended on experience

to shoot. The Ming army, at this time, has begun to initially implement the calculation of shooting Zhuyuan, and adjust the shooting angle and charge through arithmetic.

This kind of calculation result is not necessarily more reliable than experience. However, the advantage of relying on calculations is that the experience requirements of artillerymen are not high, as long as they are adjusted according to the data.

The Qing army must rely on the experience of artillery, if the experience of artillery is not rich, it can only rely on luck.

The time and cost required to train an artilleryman between the two armies is very different.

One shot of a cannon costs ten thousand taels of gold. Artillery shells in this era are also expensive, and soldiers' usual live ammunition training is extremely limited. It is not easy to find a group of experienced artillery units.

In this way, Bo Luo discovered a situation that he did not expect. The effect achieved by their fifty cannons was not as good as the thirty cannons of the Ming army.

This comparison made him very depressed and could not understand. Apart from scolding the artillerymen for a few words of rubbish, he had nothing to do.

Hong Chengchou put down his binoculars and said, "Why can their cannonballs explode? This kind of exploding cannonball is too much a threat to soldiers."

He discovered this very keenly, but it was useless just to discover it, and he didn't understand the principle.

And knowing the principle is useless for the time being, you can only wait for the next improvement.

"Let Nikan speed up, destroy their artillery as soon as possible, and at the same time capture as many artillery as possible, I want to get the secret of their artillery."

Boluo is not a pedantic person, and he still attaches great importance to advanced artillery.

The effect of this kind of shell that can be blasted is too obvious, and he can see the benefits of this shell at a glance.