Chapter 623: Three Shocks in One Night (Part II)
The reason for this can only be explained by Jin Yingxuan's theory of strange forces. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info not known, but it is the result of the hard work and knowledge of countless people.
In the era of the front gun, due to the use of black fire @ ammunition as a propellant, the smoke generated from the muzzle of the gun after firing was very large. In particular, after the Nanyue Army adopted the body barrel and flintlock gun machine in the form of adding heat sinks, the rate of fire of the artillery was significantly improved, making it possible for the artillery team to fire continuously. After the rate of fire was increased, the smoke of black powder was a difficult problem to solve, which greatly limited the actual effective rate of fire of the artillery. Know that the faster your rate of fire, the more smoke will be generated by the launch, the less time it will take to obscure your view, and the less time you will have to shoot effectively!
In order to solve this problem, Li Shouhan had to organize talents from all walks of life in Nanzhong to conduct research on the subject. The craftsmen of Ha Jing Manufacturing, the craftsmen of Ha Jing Heavy Industry, the gunners of the water division, the gunners of various towns, several professors of Nanzhong University, and the masters of the Maple Ridge Laboratory gathered together to brainstorm on the problem of artillery firing.
People have repeatedly deduced from the manufacturing process and formula of gunpowder to the artillery firing formation. However, either the distant water does not quench the thirst of the near, or it is not allowed to enter. However, Zuo Wuwei, a staff officer of the artillery team who is not very conspicuous on weekdays, provided everyone with an idea.
His solution may sound a bit clumsy, but it is considered feasible. Especially from the ears of Descartes and other professors at Nanzhong University, his method combined with Descartes's coordinate system theory should have given wings to the tiger's artillery.
The method proposed by Zuo Wuwei, a staff officer with a thin face, is, to put it bluntly, not a particularly tall and epoch-making product.
It is to set up multiple observation points + artillery operation map, and then direct the shelling through the artillery map. This point is basically based on the existing technological achievements of the Nanyue Army, and it is a big step forward.
And the gun itself has a gun table, which corresponds to the firing range and angle parameters. As long as you know the target you need to hit, and then measure the angle parameters from several observation points, you can get the straight-line distance between the target and the artillery team on the map by drawing lines on the map and passing through the intersection points.
And the artillery only needs to hit the desired range target according to the gun table. If the weather visibility is good, you can basically shoot from a straight point. But when firing rapid-fire, thick smoke obscures the view, and this is where the artillery map comes into play.
Of course, in order to achieve this purpose, some conditions are required: 1. The rate of fire of the artillery needs to have good heat dissipation and the ability to shoot continuously. 2. The flintlock machine can shoot quickly, without waiting for the burning of the fire rope, so that the interval is shorter, and the flintlock gun can basically pull the gun rope and fire with it. 3. The formulation of the artillery table is how much propellant, how many firing angles, and how many strike distances correspond. 4. Artillery map, this is more important, but it is more limited by terrain restrictions, that is, the preset battlefield can only be suitable for fortress defense due to the lack of high-precision measuring instruments for rapid field mapping. Because surveying and mapping maps takes a lot of time to complete a detailed grid map within a radius of 2 kilometers around the fortress, the grid area is divided by coordinates. 5. Artillery observation post. It is to set up multiple observation points, measure the angle parameters of the target, and intersect on the map to obtain the accurate distance of the target. 6. The artillery fire control command center, in fact, is the artillery group calculation department through the target parameters to establish the strike parameters of each gun position, of course, if there is an experienced gun commander, you can also directly determine the strike parameters of your own gun position through their own gun table, of course, the map also needs to set the absolute bearing reference, just use the compass to determine it
Zuo Wuwei's new tactics and theories, combined with Descartes' coordinate system theory, soon gave Azig and Cao Zhenyan a little sour and spicy taste on the battlefield of Chemadian.
Originally, I thought that after dodging three rounds of shelling, those Qing troops who were good at hand-to-hand combat with spears, axes and knives would teach a hard lesson to the southern barbarians on the opposite side who would only win with more in the winding trenches, but they never thought that they would die before they could get out of the army, and they were taught to be people by shells on their own positions.
With such new technologies and new tactics, how can Jin Yingxuan think of them?!
Jin Yingxuan could only comfort Nalan Niulu: "Lord Nalan, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers!" This time, the master of Prince Yu took us south to reinforce, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and countless supplies of grain and grass. Not to mention anything else, there are tens of thousands of shovels and pickaxes and other items carried here, and digging fortifications and building trenches is the most convenient. Nanban occupies the carriage and horse shop, we might as well retreat for the time being and build new fortifications to confront it. ”
"Exactly! Lao Jin is right! This time, Prince Yu took us south, and the Manchurian and Han Eight Banners and hundreds of thousands of horses of the Xinfu Ming Army pressed up together, even if the Nanban's artillery fire was fierce and sharp, it couldn't stand our sea rushing up wave after wave! ”
Yu Deshui on the side is also helping.
This is not unfounded. Jin Yingxuan, as a professional official of the Ministry of Industry, did carry a large number of imitation Nanzhong shovels and pickaxes carefully crafted by Chen Banda this time, as many as tens of thousands of pieces, ready to be distributed to the soldiers and horses of various departments on the front line to dig trenches. At the same time, the army of Duoduo was accompanied by tens of thousands of men who were recruited and recruited, and one of their duties was to build fortified fortresses. In order for the Qing army to continue to confront the Nanyue army in deep ditches and high fortresses, their physical strength and energy were consumed.
"Humph! If I hadn't said that I was discouraged, we wouldn't have fought the right battle. Fight against the Nanban, fight for artillery fire, gunpowder, and food, so where can you fight? The result?! After the first battle, all four fortifications of the striker were lost. All six villages and towns have been returned to the Southern Barbarians! The new Ming army lost two general soldiers and three deputy generals, and I don't know how many of them were below the guerrilla generals. More than 10,000 soldiers and horses, those who died and fled fled, and thousands of people simply mutinied before the battle! Surrendered Uncle Li's team, turned the gun and beat us! This group of mad dogs, when they beat us, they were much more ruthless than when they beat Uncle Li's team! Probably remembering the tragic battle of the day, Nalan Niulu Zhangjing mouthed, although he was still calling the Nanyue Army Nanban, but he was respectfully called Uncle Li to Li Huayu.
Seeing that the words in Nalan Zhangjing's mouth were gradually a little ridiculous, a little bit of a taste of his prestige, Jin Yingxuan hurriedly picked up the wine glass: "Come on, come on!" Cheers! Those of us who are slaves just have to listen to the master's arrangement. The master told us to go south and east! ”
That's exactly what happened! This will, I think our master has also got the news of the master of Prince Ying in front of him, and he is in the midst of what is being planned, and the decisive victory is thousands of miles away! ”
Gan Yingkui is right, at this time, the Yamen of Shunde Mansion, Duoduo's temporary line, is already brightly lit, and the atmosphere is tense to the extreme.
In the winter weather, he stood in the courtyard again, but the governor of Shunde Prefecture still kept breaking out in a cold sweat, lest there be any mistakes in one of his links, so that the regent's younger brother, Prince Yu and General Pingnan, who were known as the absurd princes, sent a nameless fire and moved their heads.
Originally, Duoduo led hundreds of thousands of horses to the south through Shunde, which already made the prefect complain. You must know that in Chinese history, there has always been a saying that bandits are like combing soldiers and passing through grates. Don't talk about anything else, not to mention things like military discipline, just providing firewood, grass, drinking water, and horse fodder for the transit army, and providing food for a general like Duoduo is enough to make the prefect have the mind to find a rope to hang.
"Hundreds of thousands of horses, just drinking water will drain the wells in my Shunde Mansion City!" The prefect stood in the courtyard and secretly complained to himself, and beads of sweat could not stop coming out of the newly shaved scalp on his head. It's easier to drink water, and the well water will be available after a little waiting, but what about firewood and grass? At present, in order to heat and boil water for cooking, the Qing troops stationed everywhere have begun to demolish houses and use the wood to burn fires, in addition to cutting down trees.
"I hope that the prince will announce that I will come, there is nothing else, as long as I can pass this pass smoothly, I will resign and go home!" The prefect has made a great vow in his heart to fasting 100,000 monks, reciting 100,000 sutras, giving 1,000 sets of monks' robes, 3,000 pairs of monks' shoes, and rebuilding five temples, praying for the blessing of the Bodhisattva.
Prince Yu Duoduo in the lobby couldn't take care of the Shunde prefect who was standing far away in the courtyard of the hall and listening to the dispatch, an official the size of a sesame mung bean in his eyes. There was almost fire in his eyes, listening to the report of the deputy envoy who entered Beijing to report the military situation, and the battle situation of one of his officers with the rank of Jialazhang.
That Jia Lazhangjing was born in Manchuria with a white flag, and he was an authentic descendant of Duoduo's subordinates. Although he is not a slave from the eight major families, he was promoted to Jiala step by step by Duoduo because he can fight hard and do not hesitate to fight without his life, and there are more than 1,000 horses under his command, although not all of them are Manchurians, but they are also mainly clothed slaves who carry flags everywhere, and they are not much stronger than those who are attached to the former Ming army after entering the customs.
Although Duoduo also listened to the pen post around him, he read it to him by the eldest brother, Prince Azig (the three brothers were called privately by their own rank, not by the order of their fellow sons of Nurhachi). Therefore, in the eyes of Dordor, the eldest brother is Azig, and Dorgon is the second brother, not the old and immortal who is a thief. The military report jointly signed by Hong Chengchou and Cao Zhenyan to the imperial court by the Xuanfu envoy also has a little understanding of the military situation on the front line. However, he was still willing to listen to the stories of his minions. Although the words of these minions are often vulgar and unwritten, most of the descriptions are only a corner and fragment of the battlefield. However, compared with the brilliant and blood-boiling war report texts of those talented pen sticks, they can most truly reflect the situation on the battlefield.
"The Nanban's artillery fire has never stopped? And repeatedly bombarding the positions of our army back and forth? ”
Dordor was also puzzled by this. Regarding the use of artillery fire, the matter of the artillery team, and the performance of the artillery equipped by the Qing army, the Ming army, the Shun army, and the Nanyue army, although Duoduo is not as familiar as a few family treasures, he is not a layman. He also knew that even if it was the artillery equipped by the Southern Guangdong Army itself, the artillery that the Ming Army bought from the Westerners would temporarily stop firing for a period of time after firing a few shots. One is to dissipate heat from the barrel, and the other is to give the smoke condensed on the artillery position a time to gradually dissipate, so that the artillerymen can continue to aim.
Now, the Nanyue Army does not need to take this into account, taking advantage of the Qing army's misunderstanding of the use of artillery fire, camouflaging the artillery fire to stop temporarily, luring the Qing army to assemble, and then raiding the Qing army with dense artillery fire, killing and injuring a large number of Qing troops. Such a lack of morality and smoke, although Duoduo kept screaming and scolding in his mouth, he was drooling and bleeding in his heart: "Such a tactic, why don't I have an artillery team in the Qing Dynasty?!" If there is such a tactic, why worry about the barbarians' sharp artillery?! ”
"Namudulu, you go on. What was it like on the battlefield that day?! ”
"Yes!"
Namudu Lugara paused slightly, and then began to talk about the situation for his master.
When the Nanyue army used artillery fire to bombard back and forth, causing great casualties and confusion to the Qing army, the infantry quickly rushed forward.
Taking advantage of the fact that the Qing army was smashed by shells, the formation was chaotic, the officers could not find the soldiers, and the soldiers were holding their heads to avoid the cannonballs falling from the sky, the charging team of the Nanyue Army rushed through the open area between the positions of the two armies. With the fire guns and horsetail grenades in his hands, he harvested the lives of Qing soldiers.
"Nanban's earth-shattering thunder is like no money, and it smashes over like hailstones. Especially those barbarian soldiers directly under the eldest prince of Li were wrapped in white cloth on their heads, holding sharp blades and short fire guns, opening the way with earth-shaking thunder, and rushing all the way to the forefront. As soon as we found out that any of our troops showed signs of forming a battle in formation, a pile of earth-shattering thunder immediately flew over like crows. Blow up our team to pieces! ”
Namuduru remembered that the black pieces flew over his head, exploded among his comrades and minions in front of and behind him, and smashed small fragments through their armor and entered their bodies, and then killed them, the bursts of explosions, screams, and the flesh and blood and human tissues that flew from nowhere and fell on his hands and faces, he couldn't help but feel a little urge to vomit.
After decades of fighting, he went from a nurturing soldier to a foot armor, then a vest, and then from growing to sharing Pashku, Paishku, Niu Lu Zhangjing, step by step to his current official position, and he thought that he was not a greedy person who was afraid of death. However, when death comes silently in front of you like a ghost, smiling and taking away your relatives and friends' subordinates one by one, this also has to be moved and frightened.
"If it weren't for Lord Cao Jueluo Cao's order before the war, the servants dug a lot of small trenches in front of the main trench, and it was the kind of trench that turned around in three or five steps, and it was extremely narrow. At this time, it added a lot of trouble to the Nanban, so that the soldiers of the Nanban had to jump into the trench to fight with us hand-to-hand. The earth-shattering thunder, a sharp weapon that is extremely conducive to fighting on the battlefield, is also intertwined with the enemy and us, so Nanban is afraid of hurting his own people, so he does not dare to use it. Instead, we grabbed some of the trophies that became ours. ”
If it were another time, Dodor might have had the seized object presented at once, and he would have looked at it carefully, asking in detail how it was used, how powerful it was, and so on, and then ordering someone to send it to Dorgon and ask him to send someone to develop a copy. However, now, the news of the defeat in front of him has made him no longer have such leisure.
In such a battle, although the Nanyue Army had the advantage of weapons, firepower, and tactics, Azig, Hong Chengchou, Cao Zhenyan and others, who already knew that they had no way to retreat, gritted their teeth and commanded their subordinates to insist. Many officers kept shouting back and forth in the trenches: "Our Lao Tzu followed the regent to fight Tashan!" In that battle, Li Huayu's sister's tigress's artillery fire was much stronger than his, and Guan Ningjun's charge was much fiercer, what was the result?! Our grandfather has changed from Niu Lu Zhangjing to the current Melle Zhangjing! Cao Zhenyan, Lord Cao, has become a red belt Jueluo! If you want to be promoted and make a fortune, follow Lao Tzu to fight here! "It's a morale boost.
has long been told by Hong Chengchou that as a general, it is impossible to turn back. Those former generals of the Ming army also burst out with unprecedented combat effectiveness, urging the soldiers to compete with the Nanyue army one trench after another.
This kind of battle lasted a full day. Until night gradually fell, the Qing army gradually collapsed, and there was a decline. There were also thousands of surrendered troops who mutinied, which caused a huge gap in the entire Qing army's front.
"And after that? What is the situation on the battlefield? In the west side of Li Zicheng's department, what unusual actions are there? "What Duoduo is most worried about now is that when his hundreds of thousands of people rush to the battlefield, the eldest brother Azig and these horses have been wiped out by Li Huayu and Li Zicheng.
"Prince Ying ordered the servant to tell the master, Li Chuang doesn't have to worry about it. With more than 100,000 people of King Pingxi chasing after him on his flank, Li Zicheng didn't have the courage to dare to throw his main force here. ”
Use Wu Sangui to deal with Li Zicheng, instead of transferring him to the battlefield against Li Huayu. This was Hong Chengchou's suggestion to Dolgon's brothers, and it was immediately approved by Dolgon. Everyone knows that Wu Sangui's career is inextricably linked to the Nanyue Army. He is one of Li Huamei's godsons, and opposite him is his uncle Li Huayu. Now there are still a large number of Tuntian soldiers in the Denglai area in his army as the main force. How many of the generals under him who came from the Guanning Army have the courage to brush the tiger's beard? Going to argue with your uncle? Instead of letting them become an unstable factor on the battlefield, it is better to let them go all out to deal with Li Zicheng!
For the use of Wu Sangui and his Guan Ning soldiers in this way, whether it is Dolgon, Duoduo, Azig, Hong Chengchou, or Wu Sangui himself, they all think it is very appropriate and appropriate. "Wu Sangui didn't dare to fight the Nanyue army, but it was very easy to fight those Dashun troops. Chased all the way down from Shanxi, with more victories and fewer defeats. It is also a rebellion all the way, and the soldiers and horses have expanded by tens of thousands of people! ”
Taking advantage of the sudden heavy fog, Cao Zhenyan personally took hundreds of spearmen and tiger spearmen to the front line to command the troops to retreat, reorganize the troops, and build fortifications. During this period, there were also encounters with several small units of the Nanyue Army that tried to infiltrate the Qing army's positions and spy on the reality of the Qing army's positions.
The largest time, in the dense fog, I could hear people with the accent of the Nanyue Army not far away, and there were not a few people and horses who listened to the sound, and the number of horses' hooves was as many as 100 or dozens of horses. Cao Zhenyan hurriedly ordered the spearmen of his headquarters to quickly line up in formation, and the tiger spearmen were guarding on both flanks, ready to fight at any time.
Several large-scale use of guns allowed Cao Zhenyan to also touch some doorways. This weapon must be used in conjunction with hand-to-hand combat to be effective. Otherwise, after one round of shooting, there is no way to fight back.
A round of guns was raised, and there was a sudden chaos on the opposite side, and they also returned fire with firearms, and the two sides fought back and forth in the fog for a while, and they didn't distinguish between reality and reality, and they didn't dare to make a mistake. and each of them withdrew his troops.
After Namudulu had finished talking about the encounter he had heard before he set out, there was nothing to say to Dodor about the battle at the front. Just as he was about to get up to say goodbye, he saw Duoduo's applause and Niu Lu stumbling in.
"Master! Master! Prince Ying has another army report ahead! Nanban is attacking! Our army can't support it, please send troops to rescue quickly! ”