Outside the Nanguang defense line, Li Kun also took a group of generals to climb a small hill, which was far enough away from the front line to not worry about being shelled, and at the same time, the terrain was relatively high, and the entire battlefield could be effectively observed through telescopes.

Li Kun, who was dressed in military uniform, put down his binoculars, his face was not very good-looking, just now he clearly saw that a field artillery company under his command was under the fierce shelling of the enemy.

Although the losses were still under control, what made him a little uneasy was that it was not the enemy's heavy artillery that shelled his own field artillery units, but the opponent's field artillery.

"That's their nine-pound artillery? How could it be possible to hit so far, this is at least a distance of 1,600 meters, and it can be an effective hit? Li Kun's subordinates also frowned.

Everyone is a veteran general who has fought on the battlefield for many years, and as soon as the opponent's artillery is fired, even if you just listen to the sound of the cannon, you can roughly tell what caliber the artillery is.

They saw very clearly that in their own field artillery unit, except for one artillery company that was extremely unlucky at the beginning and was shelled by the opponent's mortars, the second artillery company was shelled by the opponent's nine-pound field artillery.

Although it is a relatively small probability that they will be attacked by mortar artillery and suffer losses, they basically have no other ideas other than considering themselves unlucky.

After all, the mortar cannon can occasionally be hit at a distance of more than 2,000 meters.

But probability-wise, they are still acceptable.

However, their own field artillery units were accurately shelled by enemy field artillery at a distance of 1,600 meters, which made them incomprehensible.

"How could their nine-pound field guns hit so far?" Some people were puzzled: "Now it's at least a distance of 1,600 meters, and it is impossible for a field cannon to maintain such accuracy!" ”

But as soon as his words fell, he saw that the artillery unit in front was being shelled by the other side.

Still hit.

They saw with their own eyes a solid shell fall in front of a gun crew, and then it was able to jump forward, smashing the gun carriage and killing and wounding several artillerymen.

Although the casualties were not large, it still made them frown, and they felt bad in their hearts.

There was nothing to kill and wound a few artillerymen, and even if there were only two or three artillery left in a field artillery, a well-trained artillery could still keep the artillery combat.

But the problem is that this is still on the way forward, and they have not yet reached the predetermined field artillery position, and they have not even entered the effective firing range.

Moreover, even the gun carriage was scattered, and although the barrel itself was still completely intact, it was impossible to push the hundreds of kilograms of artillery forward in this case.

This cannon has been deprecated.

"This is already the third artillery gun lost, and the artillery has lost more than a hundred people." A doctor said worriedly: "If we continue to move forward, I'm afraid the casualties will be even greater!" ”

"But we have dispersed in advance, not only every artillery company has opened up the distance, even if every artillery group inside the artillery company is separated by tens of meters, in this case, at a distance of 1,500 meters, such casualties have been suffered, this is not normal!"

The advance of the field artillery units of the Guang'an people was not random, they scattered each artillery company and each artillery group, but forty or fifty field guns, scattered to a frontal battlefield of more than 2,000 meters, even if it was because of the terrain restrictions, but it could still be divided very scattered.

This was to avoid heavy casualties due to intensive enemy shelling during the advance.

And another: "Not only the artillery units, but also the infantry units that accompanied us to advance suffered a lot of losses!" ”

"There have been more than two hundred losses before and after, and this has not yet launched an attack!"

Naturally, the artillery unit cannot advance alone stupidly, especially at a distance of only two thousand meters from the enemy's defense line and advance alone, if there is no infantry or cavalry protection, people will send a cavalry unit to a quick counterattack, and these artillery will have to die.

Therefore, in addition to the artillery unit, there will also be infantry to accompany the advance.

Although the main target of the artillery unit under Lin Ziran was the opponent's field artillery, when the hit rate was not good, it would occasionally hit the opponent's infantry phalanx.

As a result, the infantry of the Guang'an people also suffered a lot of casualties.

Li Kun always frowned when the First Artillery Battalion on the Nanguang City defense line opened fire.

The opponent's field artillery was strange and hit too accurately.

It is normal for field artillery to have a firing range of more than 1,500 meters, and even two or even three thousand meters can be fired, but there is basically no accuracy at all.

And if you get more than two thousand meters, the lethality is also very weak.

Li Kun's own unit's nine-pound field guns have an effective firing range of 1,200 meters, but the optimal artillery strike distance is between 500 meters and 1,000 meters.

Beyond this distance, the accuracy drops dramatically.

However, although the number of the opponent's nine-pound field guns is not much, it is estimated that there are only about ten, but they are too accurate.

The opponent's heavy artillery suppressed their own, which was expected, although they had more heavy artillery.

However, when the number of the opponent's nine-pound field artillery is small, it can still suppress its own field artillery troops in this way, which is abnormal.

But he already knew that this had a major impact on his battle plan.

At the same time, on the No. 2 battery in Nanguangcheng, Gao Gao continued to steadily command his artillery unit to carry out artillery bombardment.

"The enemy army has entered a range of 1,500 meters, and all artillery is ready, and they will be ruthless again!"

1,500 meters, this is already within the effective range of their nine-pound new field guns, even if they can still only fire solid shells at this distance, but as long as they hit, then the lethality will not be small.

Soon, the nine-pound new field guns of the 1st and 3rd Artillery Companies opened fire again.

Lin Ziran, who commanded the fortress, watched as these artillery pieces fired, and then the black shells crossed the sky and landed on the opponent's Guang'an artillery unit.

The Guang'an artillery units, which were still advancing and had not even arrived at the scheduled positions, suffered losses again.

Then came the second and third rounds, and the advancing field artillery of the Guang'an Army and the accompanying infantry units were blown up on their backs.

"Okay, good fight!" Lin Ziran couldn't help but smile: "Sure enough, you get what you pay for, this money is not spent in vain!" ”

Luo Mazi on the side also stepped forward and said: "They are all wise adults, such expensive artillery, few people have the courage to purchase so much!" ”

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