Valley Emperor

The caliber of the Seventy-Five Howitzer is not large, and the explosive power is naturally not large, but this is not large compared to large-caliber artillery.

The actual power is not small, plus the quasi-head is excellent, at least it has no temper at all to beat the local indigenous army guarding the city.

Because the local natives lack artillery, especially long-range artillery, that is, there are only a few smoothbore cannons. Interestingly, these smoothbore cannons were sold to them by the arms dealers of the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, the artillery of the Tang Dynasty boldly deployed their artillery to fire at a distance of about 1,500 meters from the city head.

This distance is naturally super long for smoothbore guns, and there is basically no accuracy to shoot out, but for rear-mounted rifled guns such as the Seventy-Five Howitzer currently equipped by the Datang Army, it is basically the same as the enemy's There is no difference between the face and the gun. In the hands of an experienced gunner, the cannonball is shot wherever it is directed, and the deviation is very small.

What's more, it's a grenade, as long as it hits the approximate target, it doesn't need to hit the same as a solid bullet to cause damage.

Even if there was only one artillery battalion, but eighteen seven-five howitzers, the natives of City No. 6 were still in a state of misery. In a few minutes, there were countless native casualties on the top of the city, and even more were frightened.

The rest of the people naturally turned around and ran away, or hid behind the battlements and shivered.

The effect of the shelling was quite good. After at least ten minutes, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty could no longer see any natives who dared to appear at the top of the city.

Conventionally, for example, if it is a Tatar or European army, seeing this scene, it should be attacking the city with infantry.

But that is only the practice of barbarian indigenous people, the Tang Army will not do this.

If you rush to win like this, you can definitely win, but casualties are inevitable.

The Datang Army still pays more attention to reducing casualties. Otherwise, the country would not have been developing and equipping rifled weapons, and they would not want to fight at a distance and play kite-flying tactics.

Thinking of destroying the enemy unscathed!

This kind of thinking is similar to that of the United States in later generations. It has advanced technology and more advanced weapons. In the face of backward enemies, it always wants to fight with zero casualties.

Datang also has this trend now.

So stupid direct charge and enemy hand-to-hand combat is impossible.

The method they took was very simple. The artillery continued to bombard the enemy, and then the infantry stepped forward and stopped at a distance of more than 300 meters from the city wall.

Why stop.

Naturally, he raised his rifle and shot at the enemy above the city!

This distance is very safe. The enemy's artillery was originally very few, and now it has been suppressed by the Tang artillery. It is estimated that there are not even a few artillery left.

And their arquebuses and bows and arrows could not kill the Datang infantry more than 300 meters away.

With the precise firepower of the Mini rifle on the remaining enemy troops at the head of the city, this time, the natives on the head of the city were completely wiped out.

Then the siege troops are slowly preparing for the next move!

First dig a traffic trench, then almost reach the city wall and turn it into a tunnel, and then bury gunpowder.

This is the age of guns and guns, who is still stupidly climbing the wall.

It is easy and convenient to blast directly with explosives.

They are even reluctant to charge directly at the city gate, because it also represents an unknown direction, and it is easy to break through the city gate, but the ancient city wall, regardless of the east and the west or the indigenous people here in India, the city gates of traditional cities are all It was a key defensive area, the city gate was blasted open, and the defenders also had other measures to kill the enemy who tried to enter the city directly from the city gate.

Although it was faster to directly attack the city gate, the 52nd Regiment was not in a hurry and didn't care about wasting a day or two.

After all, this time in the Indian campaign, for the army that has made up its mind, there is not much difficulty, so there is no messy tactics such as large-scale maneuvering.

The tactics of the 18th Division are very simple, push it all the way!

Anyway, their strategic goal is also very simple, that is, to scan the surrounding native states, and by the way, capture some gold and silver spoils to supplement military expenditure.

For some areas with convenient inland water transportation and easy development, they are directly under control, while for the remaining areas with poor inland water transportation or poor agricultural development, it is first to fight once to destroy the original ruling class, and then support it. A few puppets, etc., sign various unequal agreements to fully control their military and financial powers, reap economic benefits, and at the same time ask them to pay reparations, at least to repay the military expenses.

When it was at war with the natives, Datang never made a loss-making business. Every time it went to war with the natives, no matter how big or small, the indemnity was necessary.

Now equipped with rifled weapons, especially rear-mounted guns, the cost of this battle is also getting higher and higher. The army has already thought before the war that the cost of this war must be borne by the local indigenous state. Anyway, the army itself is A big boy will not come out.

There is no pressure on the grand strategy, and the specific tactics are simple and rude, so the front-line troops naturally do not have much estimates, how to fight as they feel comfortable, and how to come as convenient.

After suppressing the strength of the enemy's city head, the sappers stepped forward to bury explosives.

A few hours later, with a loud bang!

This aboriginal city that the Tang people don't even know the name has just fallen!

After conquering the city, the troops did not move forward, but began to capture prisoners. Unexpectedly, there were tens of thousands of prisoners. As for the soldiers who defended the city, there were only a few thousand in total. Why would there be tens of thousands of prisoners? You Ask me, I ask who to go.

Anyway, there are so many prisoners caught!

According to Datang's policy of preferential treatment of prisoners of war, these prisoners of war will be used to build roads and carry various materials.

As the army moves forward, it relies too heavily on logistics. Although there are rivers in many places, some do not. In places without rivers, the army has to rely on energy storage and manpower for transportation.

And these captives are also full of yearning for Datang, convinced that they all bring their own dry food to help Datang build roads and transport materials.

For the serious Tang Army, the surrounding aborigines countries can't resist it at all.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the surrounding small indigenous countries are not strong.

The situation on the Indian peninsula today is quite chaotic. The northern part of the Indian peninsula is controlled by the Mughal dynasty, but its territory is actually not large.

The entire northern part of the Mughal Dynasty bordered the Tang Dynasty. The north of Kabul in the northwest used to belong to the southern part of Central Asia controlled by the Tatars. Now, it has naturally become the southern part of Central Asia controlled by the Tang Dynasty.

To the northeast is the Tibetan province of the Tang Dynasty.

To be honest, the countries bordering Datang are quite unfortunate. In the past, the Koguryo Peninsula and Fusang Islands have become the mainland of Datang, and the Tatars are also far away from Europe.

The Annan dynasties, Myanmar and other countries on the Nanyang Peninsula have been fighting each other for more than 20 years. It is conservatively estimated that the population is only 20% to 30% of that year.

Not to mention the Nanyang Islands.

The Mughal Dynasty was no exception. In the early years, the Tang Dynasty also supported them against the Tartars, but as soon as the Tartars evacuated from Central Asia, they became the targets of the Tang Dynasty!

Under the influence of the Tang Dynasty, the expansion of the Mughal Dynasty in India was very unsmooth, and now it only controls the middle and upper reaches of Afghanistan, Punjab, and the Henghe River Basin of Delhi, and the southernmost reaches the Agra area.

The Bangladesh region to the east has long since become independent under the instigation of the Tang Dynasty.

The Rajputs in the west were also supported by the Tang Dynasty, fighting against the Mughal dynasty and fighting the Jijirats.

As for the rest of the Indian peninsula, there are hundreds of states, large and small, and many of them are newly emerging states, and many states have been destroyed one after another.

Today, the people of the Tang Dynasty themselves do not know how many indigenous states there are on the Indian peninsula today.

The reason for this situation is naturally that Datang is a scumbag and has created a storm on the Indian mainland.

They also do not annex any indigenous countries. Except for Gehe State and a few regions such as Pomu State, Ceylon Island, and Goa, which have large areas of actual control, the other colonies are actually very small port cities, mainly In order to control the estuaries of the major rivers and excellent ports on the Indian peninsula.

In addition, they have no intention of large-scale annexation of these indigenous states in a short period of time. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

At the same time, Datang also allowed conflicts and wars between these states. Not only did they let it go, but even many arms dealers would personally go into battle to sell arms. In order to sell their arms better, they didn’t mind giving a country a free gift first. stock up on ordnance, and then incite them to go to war.

But they also do not allow any country to unify India, and even too large-scale states are not allowed to appear, which is why the Mughal Dynasty was personally suppressed and dismembered by the Tang Dynasty.

On the whole, on the Indian peninsula today, there is a kind of melee situation of a hundred countries, not to mention that outsiders don’t know how many states there are in India today, even Datang who created this situation alone can’t tell the difference. It is too clear how many states there are in the Indian peninsula today.

Anyway, the chaos is a pot of porridge, and wars are fought every day!

This time, when Datang launched the second Indian campaign, it still did not take the annexation of a large area as its core goal. Of course, the expansion of a certain area of ​​actual control was also being cleaned up.

The more purpose of this battle is to punish!

This time, if the surrounding states are not destroyed one by one, it will not reflect the power of the Tang Dynasty!

In this case, the pressure of military operations is actually very small, and it is not at the same level as the Central Asian side.

Even less pressure than in the Americas.

To be honest, the natives in the Americas are much more fierce than the natives in India. Although they are still backward and ignorant, they are not afraid of death, and their methods are quite cunning. Many tribes can’t defeat the regular army of the Tang Dynasty, so they ran to attack the immigrants of the Tang Dynasty every three days. .

However, ordinary immigrants in Datang are not easy to mess with. After all, immigrants in Datang are generally armed with guns, and there will be militia units at immigration points.

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