The Tianxiong Army, the Qin Army and the First Army of the Praetorian Guard are all elites of the Ming Dynasty, and the arrangement of troops is naturally extremely fast, plus the same formation has been lined up once yesterday, the speed of this formation is even faster, and in less than half an hour, the 300,000 army has already set up the formation.

Zhu Cijiong was not verbose, and directly ordered the front row of 618 howitzers to be filled with solid bullets, aiming at the arrow stacks on the southern city wall of Haizhou City, and bombarding them continuously until the solid bullets were finished!

This time the Houjin soldiers and Mongolian soldiers on the city wall suffered, not that Azig was brainless and did not come up with a countermeasure, he thought about it, and rushed to make a batch of wooden giant shields overnight, but that was mainly anti-scatter attacks. As for the solid bullet, it depends on how thick the wooden shield is, if it is only one or two inches thick, then I'm sorry, even someone with a shield will smash you to a pulp, to prevent the solid bullet from the six-inch howitzer, the wooden shield must be at least five or six inches thick.

I don't blame Azig for his command error, the five- or six-inch thick wooden giant shield is at least more than 100 catties, and a few people can carry it! Considering the weight, he basically built wooden shields that were less than three inches, so they were tragic.

Seeing that the Ming army was about to open fire, Azig hurriedly commanded the coalition army to block all the gaps between the arrow stacks with a giant shield, and everyone went up to resist the giant shield in case the impact was too strong and the giant shield was overturned. After a round of shelling, none of the giant shields were overturned, but several giant shields were shattered, and the end of the soldiers behind the shields can be imagined.

This is still the Ming army deliberately accurate arrow stacks, the shells are not aimed at the wooden shield, only a few missed shells hit the wooden shield, to the Ming army is directly aimed at the wooden shield to fire, it is estimated that a round down can at least kill hundreds of people.

Seeing that the Ming army was using solid bullets, Azig regretted it, so he had to command all the soldiers to squeeze under the female wall, and then lean the wooden shield against the female wall, so that as long as the shells did not directly rub against the female wall and hit the wooden shield, there would be no casualties.

Boom, boom, see how many shells you have, see how many people you can smash to death, and piss you bastards. I don't know if the Ming army was angry to death, but Azig himself was angry and ran directly into the city gate tower to rest, leaving only a few guards to lie on the observation hole of the city gate tower to check the enemy's situation.

The Ming army's side of the bombardment is called a cheerful, one shot a minute, one shot a minute, without stopping, through continuous fine-tuning, the hit rate of the shells is getting higher and higher, and after half an hour, finally an arrow stack was completely smashed.

Zhu Cijiong saw that there was really an arrow stack that was smashed, so he couldn't help jumping up from the chair excitedly, and asked excitedly: "How is it, how is it, have you counted clearly, how many rounds, how many shots have been hit?" ”

This section of the city wall happened to be in charge of Lu Xiangsheng, he put down the binoculars, turned around and saluted: "If you go back to the emperor, there are sixty-one rounds of shelling, and about thirty hits are made." ”

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he waved his hand and said, "Okay, continue to observe." ”

After speaking, he sat back and began to calculate in his mind: "The city wall of Haizhou City is about four miles wide, that is, about two thousand meters, about one meter apart, the width of the arrow stack is almost one meter, that is, a thousand arrow stacks, one arrow stack will hit thirty rounds, that is, thirty thousand rounds, about half of the hit rate, that is to say, sixty thousand rounds, the rate of fire of artillery is about one shot, and two hundred cannons will bombard for about three hundred minutes, that is, five hours, according to the current parlance, it is two and a half hours, It didn't take half a day to blast all the arrow stacks away! ”

He was right, but the shelling in front of him suddenly stopped, and Zhu Cijiong asked unhappily: "What's the matter, didn't you let them keep bombing?" ”

At this time, Sun Yuanhua, who was next to him, walked up to Zhu Cijiong and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, due to the rush of time, only 15,000 rounds of six-inch solid bullets have been prepared, and Weichen estimates that they should be finished." ”

It's over, it's over so soon! Zhu Cijiong touched his chin embarrassedly, and said helplessly: "Well, then let's stop here today, I have asked the Ministry of Industry to speed up production, and it should be sent over in two days." ”

At this time, Zheng Chenggong next to him interjected very inopportunely: "It's a pity, this only smashed less than thirty percent of the arrow stacks, and it is estimated that they will be repaired again in two days." ”

When Zhu Cijiong heard this, he couldn't help rolling his eyes, and told you kid, you are not allowed to speak without my permission, why don't you have a long memory? However, it also makes sense, if the fight is stopped, people will definitely repair while fighting, and it seems that this shell must accumulate a certain base.

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The words show that the army has been bombing under Haizhou City for two days, why didn't this Emperor Taiji react at all?

He wanted to react, but there were too few elites under his command, he only had a total of 100,000 elite horsemen, and it was a bit unreliable to take it to the phalanx composed of 300,000 troops of the Chongming Army. If the muskets and artillery of the Ming army were still the original burning sticks, he would dare to try it, the problem is no longer the problem, it is amazing, his 100,000 elite horsemen rushed up, and he was simply looking for death. Of course, if the other party is attacking the city, you can also try, the problem is that the Ming army is like afraid of his sneak attack, every day in a neat military formation, just with artillery bombardment, just not attacking the city, what can you do with him?

Could it be that Huang Taiji is helpless? Of course it's impossible, he has a lot of tricks!

For example, now, don't look at him at all, he has actually sent a lot of scouts to find the Ming army's food storage place. If you want to defeat the strong with the weak, the easiest way is to sneak attack the enemy's grain storage place and burn their grain and grass to the core, which is known to Hou Jin, who regards "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as a textbook, and Huang Taiji naturally knows it.

However, this time Huang Taiji is destined to spurt blood, and the news that the scouts came back that the Ming army has three places in the grain and a Sancha River Fort, at least 20,000 or 30,000 defenders, and the general Zu Dashou; A three-platform fort, with at least thirty or forty thousand defenders, the guards are full of Gui; There is also a Dalinghe Fort, which also has 20,000 or 30,000 defenders, and the guard general He Kegang.

After Huang Taiji received the news, he scolded angrily: "Sun Chengzong, you old horseman!" ”

As soon as you look at these generals defending the city, you know that this is definitely arranged by Sun Chengzong, they are all generals of the Liaodong Army, they are all hard stubble, and the most annoying thing is that they are all old kings in the turtle shell, and they may not be very good at doing anything else, if you want to defend the city, they have almost never been breached!

Huang Taiji had a headache when he thought of these goods, so he had to reluctantly give up the most threatening tactic of sneaking up on the grain storage place.

What's next? Do you want to send reinforcements? Now there are only three points that can be surrounded, a Dalinghe Fort, a Santaizi Fort, and a Dingliao Right Guard, these three places, two city guards, one with an army of 100,000, are not easy to provoke, his 100,000 elite cavalry surrounds it, will people be afraid, will they ask for help? This is really not necessarily, it is very likely that people will not pay attention to him at all, you surround you, I will continue to attack the city, hit Shengjing City, see if you panic, then maybe he will be helped, so the tactic of encircling the point to send reinforcements is not available now.

Huang Taiji stared at the map, his fingers swiped back and forth on it a few times, his eyes slowly became cold, since the sneak attack on the grain storage place and the encirclement point for reinforcement are not available, then you can only use the most poisonous move, as for what this trick is, sell it first and continue to return to Haizhou.

It is said that after Zhu Cijiong crackled and used up all the six-inch solid bullets, he decided to rest for a few days first, thinking that he would wait until he had enough shells before attacking. However, he had only rested for less than half a day, and in the afternoon of the same day, a group of high-ranking generals came to him.

Zhu Cijiong looked at the neat generals standing below, and asked with a smile: "What's the matter, didn't you let you rest well, why did you all come here after less than half a day's rest?" ”

Sun Chengzong, who was standing at the front, replied without hesitation: "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that this move is inappropriate, the so-called 'one go, then decline, and three exhaustions.'" 'Now that our army has won a series of great victories, and its morale is in full swing, if it suddenly stops, it will inevitably drop its morale, and the Jiannu side will think that we can't do anything about them, and the morale will definitely be high. ”

Zhu Cijiong didn't expect this, he couldn't help asking, "Then what should I do?" Now that the six-inch solid bullets have been exhausted, if you don't cut off the arrow stacks on the opposite side, you will definitely suffer heavy casualties when you attack the city, and it will be even more detrimental to the battle behind! ”

Sun Chengzong explained: "It is not necessary to attack the city, as long as you maintain this momentum, you can send troops to suppress Jiannu every day." ”

What does it mean to press it? Zhu Cijiong asked curiously, "What do you mean?" ”

Sun Chengzong bowed, smiled and said nothing, Lu Xiangsheng behind him stepped forward and saluted: "Your Majesty, didn't you ask us to summarize the tactics of muskets and artillery, it's good like yesterday, we can put two cannons from time to time, and then carefully observe the effect, so that we can not only suppress the morale of the serpents, but also drill the formation of the troops, and also summarize the tactics of artillery, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone, why not do it?" ”

It turned out to be as simple as that, Zhu Cijiong was still afraid that they would say that he treated the war as a child's play, and there were so many benefits to firing a few guns for a long time, so he naturally had no opinion, so he simply clapped his hand and said: "According to what Zhong Aiqing said, we will continue tomorrow." ”

Now Azig was unlucky again, a small half of the arrow stacks were knocked out, and it was naturally to be repaired, he had just repaired half of the time for the truce in the afternoon and evening, and the Ming army came again the next morning, and he still lined up a formation to fight or not.

What is this doing, isn't there no shells, is your head going crazy or what's wrong?

As a result, he guessed wrong, the Ming army was not crazy in their heads, nor was there no shells, they had just lined up the formation, and immediately began to load the shells again, and all the frightened Houjin soldiers and Mongolian soldiers all retracted under the female wall, holding wooden shields, and did not dare to move.

As a result, after a cannon was fired, there was no movement, they waited for a long time, and they did not see the Ming army firing the artillery, thinking that the Ming army really ran out of shells, and they all jumped up again, but before they could stand firmly, the Ming army began to load shells again!

The Ming army just stopped fighting, tossing back and forth, scattering bullets for a while, flowering bullets for a while, falling to the front of the city wall for a while, and falling to the middle of the city wall for a while, and the Houjin soldiers and Mongolian soldiers on the city wall were tired and complained.

The Ming army seems to be addicted to playing, and it will be like this for several days in a row, first line up the formation, and then release a cannon from time to time, toss the troops in the morning and go back to rest, and continue to toss tomorrow. Azig was so angry that he almost wanted to scold his mother, although the Ming army didn't use solid bullets anymore, and the arrow stacks were all repaired, but the Ming army tossed his 200,000 troops every day into a nervous disorder, and many Mongolian soldiers leaned against the female wall as soon as they got on the city wall, and then they didn't get up. Their reasons are very strong, they have to retract when they get up anyway, it's better to sit still and not get up, and save tossing back and forth!

Their side is tossed nervous, low morale, the Ming army is different, looking at their embarrassed appearance, the Ming soldiers don't mention how happy, morale is rising day by day, Jiannu is no longer an invincible enemy in the hearts of the Ming soldiers, but a turtle with a shrunken head that is not dared to stretch out the head of the beaten.

Zhu Cijiong combined the effect of live ammunition attacks to guide the rapid fire, covering attacks, barrages, saturation attacks and other thermal weapon tactics one by one, and also put forward the concept of artillery shell base and bullet base.

For example, if the base number of Type 618 howitzers is set at 120 rounds, then 200 Type 618 howitzers need to carry 500 base numbers of 60,000 rounds of solid ammunition to bombard all the arrow stacks on a city wall of about four miles like Haizhou.

Zhu Cijiong ignored the calculation of the base number of shells and the number of shells, resulting in the 300,000 troops could only stop here and wait for the shells, which shows the importance of the calculation of the base number and number of shells.

There are also cities such as Dingliao Zhongzuowei, Shengjing, and Tielingwei in the back, and they also have to face 100,000 post-Jin Tieqi, how many bases of various types of shells and bullets are needed, these problems he has ignored before, and this time he just let them calculate them together, so that Song Yingxing can produce according to demand.