Nowadays in the Datang Army, the danger difference between the various branches of the military is relatively large.

Relatively safe is naturally the baggage troops, usually in the rear transport, escort baggage, generally more encountering battles, even if it is a decisive battle, the front-line generals pull the baggage troops up as line infantry use, but generally placed on the secondary front, rarely will bear the impact of the enemy's main force.

And then ordinary musketeers, artillerymen, and even some pikemen, who still exist, are also relatively safe!

Don't look at the fact that they suffered a lot of casualties in the decisive battle, but that was because of their large base, in fact, as long as they did not suffer a heavy defeat, otherwise the number of casualties would be relatively limited.

And the more dangerous ones are the cavalry, assault battalion soldiers, and grenadiers!

Cavalry, need to act as a reconnaissance mission, sometimes need to frequently engage with the enemy's small and medium-sized cavalry, this kind of battle, the victory or defeat depends entirely on personal skills, and the tactical formation has nothing to do with anything, but the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty, personal skills are generally not good, basically not the elite cavalry of the Ming army or the opponent of the Tatar cavalry.

Even if it is a large-scale charge battle in which the Tang cavalry has an advantage, the casualties of the cavalry will be relatively large!

Needless to say, the soldiers of the assault battalion rushed forward in the face of the enemy's guns and artillery in battle, risking their lives to launch a charge to occupy key points, and the casualty rate has always been high.

And then the grenadiers!

As the most elite unit in the Tang Army, the grenadiers can be seen from the conditions for selecting soldiers, how dangerous the tasks they undertake, and the grenadiers are selected from veterans, and basically not from new recruits.

To be selected as a grenadier, you must have two years of service experience or have participated in three large-scale battles with excellent performance.

In terms of physical fitness, the height should not be less than 1.75 meters, the physical fitness should be good, and the maximum distance for throwing grenades should not be less than 35 meters.

But more importantly, it takes extraordinary courage to be selected as a grenadier!

Yes, it's such a courage that is difficult to have any accurate criteria for judging!

Because grenadiers need to throw grenades, and with grenades that will explode at any time, and can't throw them at the first time, they must wait until the last few seconds to throw, otherwise the enemy will pick them up and throw them back!

And in the process of throwing, you are only more than 20 meters away from the enemy, and at least more than 30 meters, you can clearly see the enemy's action of shooting at you!

In this case, it is impossible to throw a grenade smoothly without extraordinary courage, if you shake your hand and throw it in advance, it is fine, if you hold it in your hand and do not throw it out, then it is your own person who will be killed.

However, it is precisely because the grenadiers usually have excellent physical fitness and courage that the commanders on the front line prefer to let the grenadiers take on solid tasks.

As a result, in addition to throwing grenades, the grenadiers often appear frequently on the most dangerous and difficult fronts, which has led to the high casualty rate of grenadiers!

However, in the Datang Army, the most dangerous branch of the army is not the heavy armor sword and shield soldiers in the assault battalion, nor the musketeers who only wear cuirass or even do not wear armor, nor do they run to a distance of more than 20 meters from the enemy to throw grenades in the face of the enemy's artillery fire, they are always the grenadiers who appear on the most dangerous front!

Rather, the gunner of a heavy short-barreled howitzer!

That's right, now in the Datang Army, well, including the Datang Navy, the most dangerous branch of the military is the gunner of heavy short-barreled howitzers!

Limited by the problem of fuses, the howitzers of the Datang Army now have more frequent accidents, and the explosion is good, at most it is just a dead or wounded artillery group, but what is even more unfortunate is that the shell just went out, and exploded in advance when it leaped over the head of its own troops.

The Fourth Army encountered this kind of unfortunate thing when attacking Kaifeng, a 24-pound grenade just exploded above the heads of its own troops, and a musket team under the shell killed and wounded dozens of people on the spot.

So much so that this musket team actually participated in the battle, and it has completely lost its combat effectiveness!

Now the Datang Army, and at the same time the Datang Navy, are investing a lot of money to support various arsenals and the Royal Institute of Technology to develop new grenade fuzes, wanting to completely eliminate this damn arquebus fuse as soon as possible.

The teachers and students of the Royal Institute of Technology have tried to find other fuzes to replace the ancient and extremely dangerous arquebus fuze, and they have tried many methods, but the core goal is not to deviate, that is, to abandon the backward and extremely dangerous control method of 'requiring the gunner to ignite the external arquebus of the cannonball before firing'.

What they are trying now is how to ignite the fuse of the cannonball by the high temperature in the chamber pressure, or simply follow the flintlock pistol, hit a striking fuse of the cannonball, let the cannonball hit the fire, and then ignite the cannonball.

But no matter which way, there are more problems now, and it still can't be solved for a while.

Although Li Xuan knows a lot of things, to be honest, as a person who teaches military materials on the battlefield scenes in film and television dramas on the spot, you can't expect him to know how modern fuses are made, so he can only give some guidance in the general direction, and he won't interfere with the specifics.

But it doesn't matter if you don't know the specific way, this fuze is nothing more than a smooth and safe ignition, control the detonation time of these key points, mainly with basic scientific knowledge, find more methods, test a few more times, and finally be able to find out.

Although the current heavy short-barreled howitzer is very dangerous, and the results depend on character, it is undeniable that this weapon appeared in this era, and that is an epoch-making weapon!

Let the shells fly to the enemy and then explode, which simply subverts the current war model, and also allows the Datang Army to rely on this weapon to have more tactics, especially when attacking the city, it is very dependent on this heavy short-barreled howitzer.

Dozens of heavy howitzers shelled, not to mention a few blow-ups, after all, this matter is irrelevant in the eyes of Wang Chaohong and other senior generals, the key thing is that they cooperate with those cannons to successfully and completely suppress the counterattack of the Ming army at the head of the city.

Thus covering the troops for blasting and assault!

On the fourth day, when the Second Army committed more than 1,000 assault battalions as the forward troops, and more than 20,000 infantry launched a charge, the artillery units also launched a final round of large-scale artillery bombardment.

They fired rapid fire, trying to get more shells out in a short period of time, and basically aimed at the head of the city and then fired, and some of the grenades were aimed at the depth of the city wall intended to be attacked.

This shelling did not seek to kill or wound many enemy troops, but to comprehensively suppress the counterattack of the Ming army and cover the charge of the infantry!

Otherwise, the Ming army withdrew the artillery to counterattack, and it didn't need much, and it didn't need to be powerful, just need to push out those Franc machine guns and the bang, and the Tang infantry in the charge would be able to kill and wound a large number of people!

The breakthrough direction of the assault force is still the blasting point, taking advantage of the huge ruin gap in the blasting area, quickly advancing, and then occupying the city walls on both sides, stabilizing the breakthrough, and covering the main force into the city!

Usually if this step is completed, the city can basically be declared broken!

However, as an old opponent who has fought with the Tang Dynasty for many years, the governor also knows this routine of the Tang Army, although there is no way to completely curb it, but there is still a defense.

When defending a city, the Governor usually had a reserve force deployed in every section behind the wall, and it was all hoplites, accompanied by musketeers.

They were used to plug the gap and compete with the assault forces of the Tang Army for the gap in the ruins.

This time, they did it anyway!

When the loud sound of the blasting reached the ears of every Ming soldier, the leading few senior generals of the Ming army did not go to the ruins that were still shrouded in thick dust and smoke, because they didn't need to look to know that the city walls of that place had become rubble ruins.

Their first reaction was to order the reserves in the rear to immediately go up and plug the gap!

Just when the assault battalion of the Second Army outside the city advanced quickly through the trench, and then jumped out from about 30 meters away from the city wall, and rushed towards the ruins, on the back side of the ruins, hundreds of Ming army reserves were also the first to rush towards the ruins under the leadership of the generals.

At this time, among the ruins, there must be a person, well, it should be said that there is no living person, the Ming army defending on the original city wall is impossible to survive in such a violent blast, and even the Ming soldiers on the nearby city walls on both sides will be affected.

At this time, the ruins are a blank area, whoever rushes up first, and then who can condescendingly occupy the advantage, and then inflict heavy damage on the other party!

The assault battalion of the Second Army outside the city was still charging, and at this time, the smoke and dust on the ruins had been blown away by the cold wind of winter, although it was still a little blurry, but the outline was already clear.

The soldiers of the assault battalion wore thick full-body plate armor and half-body plate armor, and held waist knives made of stainless steel, and among them, some soldiers wearing half-body armor held knives in one hand and a short musket in the other!

This is the latest invention of the Royal Institute of Technology of the Tang Dynasty: the flintlock pistol!

The principle is basically the same as that of the flintlock rifle for infantry, except that the barrel is much shorter, and this pistol was not actually developed for the soldiers of the assault battalion, but for the cavalry.

It's just that the cavalry troops of the Tang Dynasty were miserable by the previous arquebus guns and arquebuses, so they are now very repulsive to things like muskets, even if the arquebuses have become flintlock pistols now.

Many cavalry generals of the Tang Army have never used muskets in large-scale operations, let alone pistols, they don't even use cavalry guns, and a very small number of cavalry generals even shouted: You don't need muskets to die!

Li Xuan's scolding can't change the bad impression of the Tang cavalry generals on the musket, their idea is that it is enough to be pitted once, and they must not be cheated a second time!

And the musket doesn't match their wall-mounted charging tactics!

Therefore, these two weapons, in the Tang cavalry, are decorations most of the time!

The Tang cavalry only trust the cavalry knives in their hands!

There's nothing that can't be solved by riding on the wall and charging up with one slash, and if there is, then two!

If it doesn't work, turn around and rush again!

It sounds a bit silly, but that's what the Tang cavalry did!

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