Chapter 315: Nine catties of cannons, repeating the mistakes of the past
According to the usual practice, the enemy army is still a little far away at this time, and it seems that it is a little early to fire the artillery now, and it is only the range of the five-pound cannon when the enemy formation moves forward for another mile.
But what is surprising is that the projectile fired by Chen's artillery drew a low ballistic trajectory in the air, and it actually accurately fell into the enemy's artillery position that was slowly advancing.
It turned out that since he knew that the Mongols were also casting copper cannons, Chen Xian began to develop nine-jin cannons and artillery carriages that could withstand nine-jin cannons.
As early as half a year ago, Chen Xian successfully cast a nine-pound cannon according to the parameters of Napoleon's twelve-pounder cannon in his hand.
Chen Xian's nine-jin cannon refers to a cannon with a shell weight of nine songs, and the actual weight of nine-songjin is exactly equal to twelve pounds.
The weight of his nine-pound cannon itself was nearly 1,000 Song Jin (about less than 600 kilograms).
In order to allow this heavy cannon to follow the infantry maneuver, Chen Xian used forgings as the main structural parts to design and manufacture a large gun carriage weighing more than 1,000 catties, which required more than a dozen horses to pull it.
Fortunately, the roads in Chen Xian's territory are developed and the quality is clear, so that this kind of cannon can be passed, and in addition, Chen Xian is not short of horses at this time, so he can afford this kind of cannon.
The advantage of the nine-pound cannon is that it hits far and is powerful! Its firing range is more than a mile farther than that of the five-pound cannon.
With this advantage of more than a mile, the artillery of the Mongol Han army naturally became cannon fodder again.
Under the repeated bombardment of more than 100 nine-pound guns, the artillery array of the Mongolian Han army was soon smashed.
Faced with such a battle situation, the Mongol Han army was once again forced to follow the old path of the last time, and they had to send cavalry to attack
This time, the cavalry of the Mongol Han army was well learned, and they no longer attacked the front of the artillery array with the horse rejection horses in front and the horse infantry behind, but attacked the Chen cavalry division guarding the side of the artillery array.
Looking at the menacing enemy cavalry, Yang Miaozhen's eyes flashed with excitement.
This time, because the enemy's cavalry charged in a timely manner, the Chen army's artillery still needed to continue to destroy the opponent's artillery line, so during the enemy's cavalry charge, they were not hit like last time.
Along the way, they rushed to the front of Chen's cavalry at trotting speed.
When the enemy rushed to a distance of three hundred meters, Yang Miaozhen decisively gave the order to counter-charge.
I saw that the turquoise cavalry were in a battalion, lined up in a tight and neat queue, rushing towards the enemy, they were in a row of 100 people, in four rows, and the cavalry battalion of 400 men looked like a small piece because they were too closely arranged.
Their four cavalry battalions formed a large horizontal platoon, like a shallow embankment, and their enemy, because of the loose ranks, was very large, and more than 20,000 cavalry, like a seemingly unstoppable flood, rushed towards them.
After the cavalry battalion of the first echelon rushed out about thirty meters, the four cavalry battalions of the second echelon followed suit, followed by the third echelon.
When the first echelon collided with the enemy's cavalry, the two assault cavalry brigades and thirty-two cavalry battalions on Yang Miaozhen's side had all rushed out.
When the cavalry platoons of both sides approached one hundred and fifty meters, they all began to accelerate in unison, a hundred meters...... Fifty meters...... The horse's speed was increased to its maximum.
Even in the high-speed charge, Chen Xian's cavalry battalion still maintained a tight formation, if you look down from the air, you will see that Chen Xian's cavalry battalion is like a slender embankment, trying to block the surging flood on the opposite side.
Collided!
The seemingly ferocious flood did not break the slender "embankment", which was as if it was made of steel, and the enemy's fierce wave actually smashed into the "embankment".
But the flood seemed endless, wave after wave on the "dike", and finally smashed the "dike" and drowned.
But there was more than one layer of the dike, and the "dikes" pushed up against the flood one by one, and finally, when the potential energy of the flood was exhausted, they stopped and began to be pushed backwards by the "dikes".
At this time, on the side of the flood, rows of chasers lined up in a neat formation and pressed towards the flanks of the Han cavalry, and they stopped after entering a distance of fifty meters, raised their flintlock pistols in their hands, and began to fire volleys in turn.
It turned out that just now, at the same time as the assault cavalry charged, Yang Miaozhen also ordered the chasers to rush up from the side of the cavalry battlefield in four columns.
The chassars were like an endless long snake, and inadvertently, they had already climbed to the side of the cavalry of the Mongol Han army.
After the huge wave formed by the Han cavalry was killed by the embankment formed by the Chen cavalry, these chasers collectively turned around and changed from a column to a large horizontal row facing the side......
Driven by the dense array of Chen's cavalry, and under the platoon of guns of Chen's huntsmen on the flank, the Mongol and Han cavalry, which had lost speed and turned into a puddle of troubled water, fell into a dilemma, and their command system also failed in this confusion.
The Han cavalry in front knew that nothing could be done and wanted to retreat, the cavalry in the back did not know the embarrassment in front and stood in place and did not know what to do, and the Han cavalry on the right flank exposed to the platoon of guns was also embarrassed, they wanted to flee to the left, but they were crowded with their comrades in the middle.
Under the threat of death, even greater chaos ensued, and the front and right cavalry, dominated by fear, began to turn and attack their companions, hoping to make an escape for their lives, and their companions, who had been inexplicably attacked, began to return fire......
So the cavalry of the Mongol Han army was completely confused, and a massacre was staged on the side of the main battlefield!
When the cavalry of the Chen army slaughtered the cavalry of the Mongol Han army, the artillery of the Chen army also completely destroyed the artillery line of the Mongol Han army.
A familiar scene was once again played out in front of the Mongol Han army.
This time the Mongol Han army reacted differently than the previous time, and their general ordered the infantry to speed up and move forward, in order to get into the distance of the infantry engagement a moment earlier.
After the artillery positions of the Mongol Han army were completely destroyed, the Mongol Han army was still two miles away from the Chen army.
These two miles became the road of death for the Mongol Han army.
The huge cannon turned its muzzle and began to bombard the flank of the Mongol Han army, each shell tearing dozens of people before stopping.
A hundred cannons, each round of shelling kills two or three thousand people! Even more terrifying were the fragmented corpses that had been hit by the cannons, which caused even greater psychological pressure on the Mongol Han army.
Under artillery bombardment, the right flank of the enemy's large array soon fell into disarray.
However, the military formation of the Mongol Han army was too large, and even if it was a hundred nine-pound cannons, it could only threaten the small depth of the right flank of the large array. The Chinese army and the soldiers on the left flank, which were not threatened by the shells, had already maintained order and maintained a steady advance.
Starting from the bombardment of the opponent's artillery array, after more than 20 rounds of bombardment, Chen Jun's cannon became more and more audible due to overheating.
At this time, the entire right flank of the Mongol Han army had been completely eroded, but their central and left flanks had successfully advanced to a distance of 100 meters from Chen's army.
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