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In history, Yang Xiuqing has an overview of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. If it is not the expansion of his ambitions in the late stage, he will take Hong Xiuquan instead, and his achievements in life will not stop there. ..

This is also true. Hong Xiuquan in the wilderness is extremely jealous of Yang Xiuqing. From the very beginning, Hong Xiuquan put Yang Xiuqing into the army and simply did not let him intervene in the national affairs of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

However, to create doctrines, organize sects, and play with power, Hong Xiuquan is naturally a middle-ranking expert. But when it comes to governing national politics, Hong Xiuquan can be a complete layman.

Therefore, the economic situation in the three counties under the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is not so good. It relies on Hong Xiuquan’s personal prestige to maintain his rule.

The people under the rule of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are extremely poor.

Jiangshan is easy to change, and it is difficult to move.

Although Hong Xiuquan is not as extravagant and extravagant as his predecessor, it is inevitable that he will be ridiculous and appropriate. The concept of "all the world" that he proposed in his previous life has also been completely abandoned.

Hong Xiuquan of this world is an outright king of the supremacy.

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Looking back to the battlefield, Yang Xiuqing led the department and launched a third attack on the Mulan Fortress.

Above the battlefield, the smoke filled the air.

"Boom!"

Under the constant bombardment of the artillery, the wall of the Mulan Fortress was under great test.

Taiping Heavenly Kingdom South Road, the army, not afraid of death. The soldiers were armed with iron shields, fearless of sacrifice, and swearing to guard the four artillery pieces, and ironed their hearts to the Mulan Fortress to blast a large hole.

Ming dynasty artillery, is it easy?

In the middle of the rumble, the corner of the east wall was finally blasted into a big pit.

"Aim at the big pit, blow me through it!"

The commander of the artillery, excited, is the dawn of victory.

Ever since, the four guns volleyed, one after another, "bombs", bombarded into the big pit. The big pit of the city wall will be more and more powerful and deeper.

Due to the defects of the Ming Dynasty artillery itself, the accuracy of the artillery at this time is really unsatisfactory. Among the four shells, one can hit a big pit, which is extremely lucky.

During the Ming Dynasty, both firearms and artillery were widely used, but why didn't they completely replace cold weapons with hot weapons like the West?

There are four main reasons.

First, the artillery should be able to launch a "flowering cannonball", that is, a bomb.

Why? Because only the explosive bomb can make the artillery from a siege device into a field weapon, it can kill a large number of targets; if it can only launch a solid iron ball, it will naturally have a limited lethality.

A shell bombed and burst into numerous pieces, causing a large area of ​​damage.

The "poisonous fire fly" made by the Ming Dynasty, the barrel is made of wrought iron, loaded with more than two gunpowder, the shell is cast by pig iron, the bomb contains "sulphur poison five or two", after the ignition will fly the beat three hundred meters In addition, the violent wounds hurt people.

Unfortunately, this technology was still immature during the Ming Dynasty and did not have a large-scale application.

In the Qing Dynasty, not only did this not improve, but instead it regressed, instead using solid iron shovel, even stone, iron filings and so on.

Before the Westernization Movement, the power of the Qing dynasty artillery was naturally a child's play.

In the 1870s, Zuo Zongtang went to the West to find the "flowering shells" in the late Ming Dynasty in Fengxiang, Shaanxi Province. He couldn't help but sigh: "The weapon has entered China for three hundred years, so that some people were paying attention to it at that time. How long have the islands been arrogant about the sea?"

Man Qing’s conservativeness in the guiding ideology of weapons and equipment made the Qing army pay a heavy price in the Opium War. Before the Westernization Movement, during the two hundred years of the Qing Dynasty, firearms technology was even more backward than the end of the Ming Dynasty. Compared with the active improvement of firearms by the Ming government, the ignorance of the rulers of the Qing Dynasty can be seen.

Second, the artillery must be quite maneuverable.

The maneuverability of the artillery is not conducive to a large concentration. The artillery of the Ming dynasty is not good in maneuverability, whether it is a tiger rifle, a franchise machine or a later red rifle.

Although the tiger cannon is not big, it can be nailed to the ground before launching. The red cannon was originally a Portuguese gun, weighing up to a thousand pounds. It is too bulky to be used only for defending the city.

On the other hand, in the West, the cannons have the proper caliber and are pulled by horses. They can quickly form an artillery position in a short time. The Ming army also has a horse-drawn artillery car, but the artillery power on the car is too small.

Just like the five artillery pieces that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom brought from Tianjing, it took a lot of effort on the way. Otherwise, the artillery that appears on the battlefield is not five, but ten, or even more.

Third, there must be a considerable number of firearms.

Even arquebuses have a big advantage over bows and arrows, not to mention four or five rounds of firing guns per minute. During the Warring States Period in Japan, Oda Nobunaga’s three-shot musket was famous.

Regrettably, there has never been a real firearms force in the Ming army.

There is no uniform system for those large and small fires, which imposes a great burden on logistics. Some of them even require two people to operate on bamboo racks, which is extremely inconvenient.

Fourth, the artillery should have considerable fire control capabilities.

The so-called fire control ability, specifically the use of instruments such as 铳 gauge, ruler and moment, and the mastery of loading and filling techniques. Without this, the firearm's hit rate is a joke.

A good gunner must estimate how far the enemy is before launching the artillery. Although the size of the human form seen from the telescope can be guessed, the distance can be accurately measured using the moment.

In the early years of Chongzhen, the imitation of the Red Army artillery by the Ming army had entered the stage of mass production. However, the Western use of instruments to improve the precision of the artillery aiming has been a blind spot for many Ming gunners at that time.

Hong Xiuquan won the "Ming Dynasty Artillery Manufacturing Technical Manual", naturally it is incapable of improving the artillery of the Ming Dynasty. It is extremely difficult to produce according to the manual.

Therefore, the four guns of the South Road Army can be seen on the crosshairs.

Four guns were fired in the morning, and only eight shells were fired. They accurately hit the big pit of the city wall, and all the other shells were missed.

Yang Xiuqing sees this, and his face is angry and blue, but he can’t attack.

In the morning, the South Road Army lost more than 6,000 people. After all, the South Road Army has lost more than 30,000 people before and after, but there is no progress.

Thinking of the hard-hitting reply from the king Wang Hongxiu, Yang Xiuqing’s face became more and more ugly. He told the whole army that he must stick to it and not to smash the wall, and never let go.

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Above the walls of the Mulan Fortress, the white look is also unprecedentedly dignified.

The enemy artillery, although not yet effective, brought too much shock to the white.

As a general who came from a warring country, it was a strange thing to start a firearm. Seeing the huge iron monster that the enemy launched, it was able to blast through the wall of several meters thick. How can it be shocked?

From the beginning, he realized that with the appearance of artillery, there will be a change in the future battlefield.

As a god, Baiqi will never be full of the status quo, giving up learning and progress. After this battle, I have to take a good look at the knowledge of firearms.

It seems that the wall is being blown through only a matter of time.

At the beginning of the day, he ordered the ten door-to-door knives and stood by the wall near the northern bombardment.

The plug door cutter is a slashing device used to block the gate when the gate is broken. There are twenty-four steel knives on the front knife wall. When used, the car is pushed to the gap of the city gate, which can kill the enemy and block the enemy's sagittal and stone. This makes it difficult for the other party to climb and form barriers to activities.

Therefore, the door-to-door knife is the most useful rescue weapon when the city is broken.

At the beginning of the design, the Mulan Fortress took a complicated design on the gate. Not only the two consecutive cities, but also the main city gate is blocked by boulder, the equipment must be used to lift the stone door.

This set of equipment was specially improved after the Mohist family settled in.

Therefore, for the South Road Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, if you want to break through the gates of the Mulan Fortress, it is better to directly bombard the city wall, which is simple and simple.

The only downside of the Mulan Fortress is that there is no moat.

Now that the enemy forces are going to bombard the city walls, they can only mobilize the plug-door cutters and organize defenses.

In addition, Bai Qi also came to the murderous evil, let him lead the two divisions of the two mountain reloading infantry brigade, standing near the wall bombed by the north.

Once the wall is bombarded, a **** battle will inevitably occur at the hole in the north bombardment.

Whether it can block the enemy's attack and keep the gap, is the key to this battle. At this time, it is natural to mobilize the most elite troops to participate in defense.

In the entire Shanhaicheng army, there is no more mountainous heavy infantry. This is the more suitable for the subway wall.

Everything was properly arranged, and Bai Qi was relieved a little, and he had already made the worst plan.

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At two o'clock in the afternoon, the entire war situation ushered in the biggest turning point.

"Boom!"

With an iron cannonball, it accurately hit the previous big pit, "哗啦", the eastern side of this wall, finally being destroyed by artillery, blasting a huge hole.

Suddenly, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom South Road army issued a loud cheering ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ just like victory.

Yang Xiuqing’s face is also slightly better. He is well aware that morale is available at this time. Don't wait until tomorrow, immediately order, with the city wall as a breakthrough, the most violent charge against the Mulan Fortress.

Be sure to win in a battle.

In the forefront is Li Xiucheng.

"kill!"

The young general Li Xiucheng, who led the front force, was also the most elite infantryman under his command. He was killed in the first time, his eyes were red and his eyes were dead.

At the first time when the city wall was collapsed, the Shanhai City soldiers cleared the collapsed stones at the fastest speed and pushed the two door-to-door knives accurately to the mouth of the cave.

The evil came to lead the mountain to reload the infantry brigade. After the knife car, it was waiting. The Rakshasa, who came to sit down with evil, made a burst of noise, and could not wait to rush into the battlefield.

One of the most difficult offensive and defensive battles is about to unfold at the narrow hole. To be continued. Please search for "" or enter the URL: