Chapter 308: Trial

At this time, Chen Longfu also realized the problem that the city wall was too thick and too much, and the rapid-fire cannon that accompanied the army pursued a fast loading method, the most convenient and fastest firing frequency, and used the quantity to accumulate qualitative changes. （）

This tactic has been invincible in the past few battles, as long as the cannon sounds, the battle situation is basically decided, but it is just a matter of how many casualties will end quickly, and the worst result is to scold at the end, what is the waste of so many shells.

After a round of 50 shells, except for the soldiers who did not have time to dodge on the road, there were many casualties in the first round, but the results of the condolence cannon and the extent of the damage to the city wall were not very satisfied.

The problem of the small caliber of rapid-fire guns and the lack of power appeared, bombing and firing the moving cavalry, the sub-mother cannon was simply a life harvester, as long as the firing frequency accelerated, the Yuan army that rushed up was like being cut wheat.

But today, I met the city wall built by Lu Wende who personally supervised the construction, not only the selection of bricks and stones was not ambiguous, but when the brick wall was glued, the muddy water was mixed with rice soup and hemp leaves in addition to raw ash, and the city wall was thick and strong.

The power of the sub-mother cannon is not small, it is for the fleshy human body, and it is helpless to encounter this kind of city wall, unless Zhao Tianyou can invent a mortar launched at a large throwing angle, which is specially used to bombard the eugenic power of Yongdao, and does not want to destroy the building.

The city gate and the drawbridge Yuan army did not wait for the Song army to destroy, Boyan gave an order, the drawbridge was dismantled and taken back to the city, and the city gate was bolted to block the city gate hole with a large number of stones, even if you blow up the city gate, you don't want to come in.

This is still the outermost acropolis, that is, you have broken through two more roads, and the height is increased by more than a zhang compared to the first one, so that the defending side is more advantageous. Not only these obvious things, the Lu family has been at the helm of Xiangyang for decades, and what they have been thinking about every day is how to defend, defending in defense, but they are only striving for excellence in the skills of strengthening the city wall, which is dozens or hundreds of years ahead of others.

This is also why the Mengyuan army regarded Xiangyang as a thorn in the side in the early stage, no matter how they attacked, they retreated in vain, and then the manpower and material resources consumed, in addition to Diaoyu City, Xiangyang here should be the second, no, now there is a battle that surpasses Xiangyang, it can only rank third.

The officials guessed correctly, that is, in the just-concluded Guangzhou Garrison War, Boyan almost exhausted all the main elites of the Yuan army's southern invasion, completely exceeding the losses in the six-year siege of Xiangyang. Of course, in the more than 30 years of fighting in Diaoyu City, the Yuan Dynasty lost a Meng Ge Great Khan, and Diaoyu City will always be ranked first in terms of scale and loss.

Meng Ge's death gave the Song Dynasty several years of opportunity to recuperate, but the Song Dynasty did not grasp it, not only did not learn from the lessons of the losing war, but also prepared to watch the jokes of the Yuan Dynasty with joy and laughter.

With the unification of the steppe by Kublai Khan and the unification of the four khanates, when a peerless genius revealed his strength, the Great Song Emperor did not understand why these Great Khans of the Yuan Dynasty always stared at the Song Dynasty.

Jiangnan is the land of fish and rice, the richest land in the world, the vast sea in the southeast connects the world, the strange customs of different places, and the beautiful women of all colors are the reasons why Kublai Khan made up his mind to set foot in the south of the Yangtze River.

Chen Longfu made a feint outside the city for two days, both of which were shelling the first acropolis with small-scale artillery, and the defenders of the city became more and more intelligent, and began to grasp or study how long it would take for the cannonballs to explode after the cannon sounded. At the same time, some people are interested in recording, with the smoke and fire from the shells, you can roughly estimate the approximate direction of the impact point of the shells, so as to decide whether to find a place to hide.

This is not an order from a general, but a little bit of experience summed up by soldiers in the mentality of self-preservation, with the price of life and blood in the roar of cannons. However, they underestimate the wisdom of the firearms battalion, and in the simulated offensive and defensive battles in the lecture hall, this method has long been used by some attentive soldiers, and the firearms battalion has already made a means of evasion at the source.

The detonation time after flowering and ejection is mainly determined by the different leads of the shell itself, which is mainly divided into three specifications to control. The muzzle velocity and firing range of the launch are determined by the amount of gunpowder charged by the sub-cannon, and they are treated differently according to the density of use, which is also divided into three specifications: long, medium and near.

This is only a caliber of shells, which produces nine specifications with different effects, and the commander of each cannon is the one who decides the size and quantity of ammunition to spare, and it is entirely up to him to decide which one to use for the next shell.

So he only needs to deliberately mix several specifications of shells when he is not particularly nervous, and those Yuan Jun, who record the explosion data, will immediately have to mess up their heads.

For the strong and tall city wall, Zhao Tianyou does not have many methods, if there is a heavy artillery in hand, there is no need to talk about it, if there is Boyan's determination to cast 10,000 catties of cannons outside the city of Guangzhou, it is also possible to cast a few cannons outside the city of Xiangyang.

Du Hu is also the same as Chen Longfu, after suddenly losing the power of the cannon, he couldn't find an effective way to defeat the enemy, this is Zhao Tianyou's purpose of letting go and not mixing, not giving orders and not making ideas. These Song generals have repeatedly defeated along the way, in fact, they are already a little proud, I have the mentality that I have with the cannon in hand, except for the king of heaven Lao Tzu should be ranked at the head of our cannon, this is very bad.

It's not terrible to despise everything, but it's terrible that you don't have commendable capital, but you are blindly arrogant and boastful, and you feel that when the world is invincible, it is when the enemy kills you head-on, just like the situation of Boyan now.

If time goes back for a while, Boyan at that time was already complacent, thinking that a small light of the rice moon could still cover the light of the sun? The little emperor of the Song Dynasty who fled everywhere was a lamb on the shelf sooner or later, and he only had the fate of being killed and steamed.

Zhao Tianyou didn't want this army to be proud of victory and degenerate in the triumphant singing, so he chose to watch with a smile! In addition to the normal sergeant's intelligence collection and hearing the reports of scouts from all over the country, Zhao Tianyou is not directly involved in the deployment of the siege, and he goes out hunting and barbecue with the big black horse when he has nothing to do.

As he turned the pheasant on the iron drill, he sprinkled the salt on it, and the salt of the white flowers melted in the brown oil juice and dripped into the red bonfire, making red sprays.

If there is no help from artillery, this army will not attack the city, then Zhao Tianyou's hard work is really in vain!

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