Valley Emperor

Genius to remember the address of this site in one second: (apex Chinese), the fastest update! No ads! In the Tang Dynasty, because of the existence of the later generations, Li Xuan, has begun to use relatively primitive mechanical equipment, and even quoted When water power was used as power to produce artillery, the Ming army still could only use hand-made artillery. Even if they had a large population and could collect more craftsmen, it was still difficult to produce a large number of field artillery in a short period of time. realistic.

Craftsmen who can simply make guns by hand are not so easy to train!

In addition to the slow speed of manual crafting and the difficulty of cultivating craftsmen, this also involves a high cost of field guns!

The field guns of the Ming army were all made of bronze!

And what is bronze? That is money. To put it more bluntly, a bronze cannon is piled up with copper coins of the same weight. The cost of raw materials is self-evident.

If it weren't for the high cost of bronze-cast cannons, the Tang Dynasty would not have bothered to use iron-cast guns, even if the iron-cast guns were not as good as bronze guns in terms of performance.

Even so, at present, the Tang Dynasty can only use iron to make 5-jin field guns, and field guns above 7-jin still cannot be cast with iron, which has led to the Tang Dynasty directly abandoning the production of 7-jin field guns. And concentrated bronze resources are used to cast nine catties of field guns.

The Tang Dynasty was limited by cost and used iron-cast five-jin field guns and two- and three-jin shotguns on a large scale. The Ming army was no exception, and naturally equipped with a large number of various shotguns. gun.

The range of the shotguns that were limited by the two sides was generally only more than 100 meters, so the previous artillery battles were still dominated by the field artillery of both sides, but the Ming army saw that the field artillery shelling effect was not good, and it was a decisive order. Directly launched the charge of the infantry, and their shotguns also rushed up with the infantry!

When the infantrymen of the Ming army began to move up slowly, Wang Chaohong on the top of the hill also said: "The field artillery shifts the target and concentrates the artillery on the enemy infantry!"

After the transfer of firepower, more than 20 field artillery began to project solid bullets at the numerous infantry squares of the Ming army!

Whenever a solid bullet falls into the Ming army array, it can always set off a **** storm!

And when the infantrymen of the Ming army crossed a distance of 300 meters under the artillery fire, suddenly dozens of violent explosions occurred in the array of the Ming army.

This is the landmine that the Datang Army realized. These landmines are very large. Although it is inconvenient to ignite, their powerful power makes up for it all!

The violent explosion almost completely collapsed the Ming army formations that were in the midst of the explosion!

This is not close to the top of the mountain, the Ming army has already collapsed three square formations, and these square formations are also square formations with a scale of four or five hundred people. If they add up, they are more than a thousand people.

Rao is that the Ming army generals in these three phalanxes tried their best to restrain the troops, but they still failed to stop the complete collapse of these three phalanxes!

Even at the end, it still caused confusion in several nearby squares!

And because the terrain is not wide enough, the place that can be used for frontal attack is so large, so this time the troops sent by the Ming army are only a dozen square formations. Now three collapse, three or four are in chaos, naturally Unable to continue to attack.

Therefore, soon the sound of gold was heard from the rear, and the remaining Ming army was like a tide, coming and going quickly, and instantly retreated five or six hundred meters away.

The Ming army generals in the rear reorganized these retreating phalanxes on the one hand, and sent a second wave of offensive on the other side!

There is no way, there are enough Ming troops, even with wheel tactics, they can continue to launch four or five waves of offensive!

This time, the Ming army who came here still listed a square formation and pushed forward despite the artillery fire of the Datang Army. Moreover, they learned to be smart this time. They sent a team of troops to search forward in advance, and they found it out. Mine leads hidden on the ground, and many mines were found along these leads.

In this way, although they were still ambushed by a small number of mines at about 200 meters, the casualties were much smaller than the first wave, so they could continue to push forward reluctantly.

But when they entered 150 meters and the shotgun artillerymen in front of the infantry phalanx were ready to reload and fire, they suddenly saw the position of the pseudo-Tang bandit army ahead, revealing dozens of dark Muzzle!

Seeing this scene, they still don't know what these are, they must be shotguns of the pseudo-Tang bandit army!

Immediately afterwards, a dense cannon sounded!

The Ming Army infantry and gunners in the front row fell in rows, causing heavy casualties in an instant!

At this time, the field guns of the pseudo-Tang thief army also began to change their shells. Every sound of the guns means that countless iron nails, shrapnel, etc. were ejected. The Ming soldiers who were hit, even in the front row Those Ming army soldiers in heavy armor were not immune.

After being shelled intensively, this wave of Ming troops inevitably collapsed, and then turned around and ran away!

The failure of two consecutive waves of attacks made the Ming army generals in the rear extremely annoyed!

The field artillery was ordered to make a great offensive. It seemed that the artillery positions of the pseudo-Tang thieves were also destroyed by blasting the artillery!

However, after the Ming army's infantry withdrew, the shotguns of the Datang Army also hid in the trenches again. As for the field guns, although they occasionally suffered casualties, because of the protection of the ring fortifications, the casualties were not large. !

The current situation is that, although the field artillery of the Datang Army cannot urge to destroy the field artillery positions of the Ming Army, the field artillery of the Ming Army is also unable to destroy the artillery positions of the Datang Army.

However, if the infantry of the Ming Army were to launch an attack, the artillery of the undestructed Pseudo-Tang Bandit Army would be able to inflict a large number of casualties on the infantry!

The scene suddenly fell into a deadlock!

Amid the rumbling of cannons, the Ming army's infantry had rested for an hour before relaunching the attack. This time, the Ming army was even more determined. It turned out that six or seven thousand troops were thrown into the small area at once. And this number of troops almost filled the battlefield.

However, the denser Ming army formations also faced heavier casualties when they were under artillery bombardment!

When they were under heavy artillery fire and rushed within 100 meters, when their own shotguns also fired to provide support, rows of musketeers suddenly appeared in the position of the pseudo-Tang thieves. , and then the intensive shooting begins!

Although there were quite a few musketeers in the phalanx of the Ming army who started to fight back, the opposing pseudo-Tang thieves were standing behind the parapet, with only one head showing, and the hit rate was too small.

On the other hand, on the side of the Ming army, they didn't have any protection, and they couldn't even lie down to avoid bullets, because then they couldn't reload.

However, on the Datang Army side, their parapets are actually very special fortifications, and even field fortifications that have been accumulated after countless experiences!

The parapet is about two meters above the ground, but the parapet is not just a lonely wall. The top parapet is about thirty centimeters thick. Behind the parapet, there is another sixty centimeter high and one meter thick. The small platform is about one meter four from the top of the parapet, and the soldiers actually stand on this small platform to reload and then shoot.

These fortifications form an L-shaped fortification on the ground. The upper half is actually used for bullets and shotguns, while the bottom half of the base is used to elevate and defend against solid bullets!

And behind the parapet, there is a trench that is about one meter deep. This half-meter-deep trench is the last means of anti-artillery after the base of the parapet is destroyed by enemy artillery!

And every time the parapet is separated by a distance, there is a small gap, those used to house the shotgun!

In the depth of the parapet, there will be several traffic trenches connected, and connected with the second and third parapet trench defense system at the rear~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and usually in the rear, there will also be artillery positions protected by circular fortifications.

If it is defended on the mountain, then the first, second, third or even more fortifications and field artillery positions can be fired at the same time, and the defensive firepower is extremely fierce.

This field fortification was formed by a group of staff officers of the Datang Army after several years of painstaking research!

It is quite suitable for the Datang Army, which currently uses muskets and artillery on a large scale. In order to allow the troops to quickly dig field fortifications in the field, the soldiers of the Datang Army also got a new piece of equipment: "Wooden-handled shovel!", and Each unit also began to strengthen the attachment of the engineer unit.

Also, this is the first large-scale actual combat of this defense system!

And this set of fortifications is also the greatest confidence of Wang Chaohong. Relatively speaking, the mines laid in advance did not play a big role. After all, these mines have too many defects and need fuses to ignite. As long as people find the fuses, No landmines were found, and simply cutting the match short was enough to make those landmines laid in advance useless.

Seeing that their muskets were not very effective, and even the shotguns were not very effective, a Ming army general in the front row shouted and ordered the troops to charge directly!

In his opinion, the Pseudo-Tang Bandit Army is 100 meters away, and what is blocking them is just a small two-meter-high wall. The absolute superiority of our own forces completely defeated the opponent!

But when they rushed to about 30 meters, a small black spot suddenly flew out from the small wall opposite, and experienced Ming soldiers could recognize it at a glance!

Immediately, someone shouted in horror: "No, this is a blooming bullet, get away!"