After such a long time, He Yusheng's cavalry was close to all returning, and only a few of them were still within the range of four hundred paces. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This was because the cavalry did not know that the Mongol gunners were so slow, and they ran back in a roundabout state, only to find that after so much time, the northern captives reloaded their ammunition.

The array of soldiers here couldn't help laughing, and the artillery side was even more laughing, fortunately there was battlefield discipline, otherwise I really don't know how many people would laugh wildly.

At this speed, there is also the joy of the shouting and scrambling of the city heads......

"Boom ......"

The cannon sounded, and several general cannons fired projectiles again, still unexpectedly at the same point, and the nearest one was dozens of paces away from the cavalry running in a roundabout way.

According to the eyes, these northern captives roughly adjusted the elevation angle of the muzzle with a wooden spacer, and this shooting method must be able to hit the hell.

The level of their artillery is not as good as that of the Ming gunners, the Ming army can at least calculate the approximate distance, and most of the gunners of the Ming army are also experienced veterans, and they will definitely not make such a joke.

This time the laughter was more pronounced, and it was estimated that even the city had heard it.

In a more rapid scolding and urging, there were several more Franc cannons, this time the northern captives were even more unlucky, with two loud bangs, two cannons in a row exploded at the head of the city, smoke and fire rose in the sky at the head of the city, it seems that there are still people because of too many evasive movements, flying down from the city, because of wearing big hats, the body is curled up, like a flying rabbit.

This time, many soldiers couldn't laugh themselves, many people trembled with laughter, and the laughter on the side of the artillery position was even more violent, and even the officers couldn't hold their hands, and laughed out loud.

Zhang Han had already arrived at the position of the Chinese army, Sun Yao and other staff officers, as well as Liang Xing and others, all came over, Zhang Han made a hand gesture, telling them to continue to command, regardless of their arrival.

As the army became more and more specialized, Zhang Han had more and more things at hand, and he no longer had to go into battle in person like when he brought a group of bullies out to fight, and he didn't even have to come to command himself.

In other words, Zhang Han only grasps the overall situation, and the specialized and detailed work of battlefield command is no longer suitable for him to do.

Although Liang Xing's talent is average, he has always been commanding on the front line, and at the same time has participated in many officer trainings, and Zhang Han is certainly no worse than Liang Xing in terms of theoretical knowledge, but he has always commanded on the front line, grasped the overall situation and adjusted it at any time, which Zhang Han cannot compare.

Since it is better to know that it is better to let go of power, Zhang Han still has this elegance.

"My lord, I'm going to give the order for the artillery to fight back." Liang Xing also laughed for a while just now, and now he still has a smile on his face. Although Zhang Han did not mean to interfere with the command, he still said hello.

Zhang Han had already sat down in a chair, and he smiled: "Leave me alone, I'm just here to see the excitement." ”

Liang Xing smiled, and then said with a straight face: "Send the order to the artillery, and use up a shell base." ”

The Chinese army is located on a small mound, and in the middle of the position is fixed with sandbags a command vehicle, which is responsible for the maintenance and management of the baggage in peacetime, and is handed over to the Chinese army in wartime.

After the huge body is fixed, the body can be heightened to a height of nearly four zhang, that is, more than ten meters, in a very flat grassland, this height can almost overlook the entire battlefield, and the various departments can also clearly see the flag on the command vehicle.

This kind of command vehicle is extremely useful for the battlefield of the plain terrain with a scale of tens of thousands of people.

If the scale is more than 100,000 people, and the battlefield is in a radius of tens of miles, or even in mountainous or forest areas, the effectiveness of this kind of command vehicle will be greatly reduced, and Tangma is still the best choice.

Sometimes, Liang Xing or other commanders would climb into the car and observe the situation of the enemy and the array on his side. If it is a battlefield dominated by cold weapons, the battle after the battle is the most important, the two armies are cold and armies are connected, one side makes the formation of the other side chaotic, usually after the array is chaotic, it means losing the war.

In the merchant army, the array is also very important, the position of the jumping soldiers, the phalanx of pikemen, the position of the musketeers, the configuration of the cavalry, the configuration of the artillery, etc., the most important thing for each commander on the battlefield is to constantly deploy the array of their own side according to the terrain and the position of the enemy, and meet the enemy with the best formation.

Today is to prevent the enemy from going out of the city to raid and cover the soldiers and people, so the formation of Liang Xing's platoon is a long phalanx, one after another horizontal formations lie in front of the city gate, the main force of the cavalry is placed in the north, mainly to play a pulling role, a small number of cavalry are placed on the two wings, which can cover the artillery units placed in front of the array at any time.

And Yusheng's artillery use method and the Ming army has been on a completely different path, Zhang Han has studied Napoleon's "artillery cluster" tactics, after all, it is difficult for a normal military history lover not to come into contact with the era of the emperor, not to mention professional research books, that is, the impact of the drama on the French artillery at that time I don't know how many times, the so-called artillery cluster is to concentrate the artillery together and use it in echelons, in order to carry out saturation bombardment in a short period of time, and kill the enemy to the greatest extent.

In terms of artillery positions, the artillery of the Napoleonic era could build artillery positions behind the array and bombard at a distance, but at this time, the casting technology of the cannon did not meet the technical standards of the Napoleonic gun, and the artillery may not be far behind, and the manufacturing level of gunpowder is far behind.

He Yusheng's artillery is also a standard large cluster state, more than a hundred artillery pieces are almost all concentrated in one line, after seeing the banner of the Chinese army, Tang Wangzong immediately ordered to test fire first.

Several cannons opened fire one after another, and the shells flew out with a whizz, two shells landing at the bottom of the wall, and several others either landing on the walls of the wall or flying through the air.

The city was still very depressed just now, and now seeing that the performance of He Yusheng's artillery was not satisfactory, I don't know if it was spontaneous or someone ordered it, and the northern captives also laughed.

"Laugh." Tang Wangzong smiled coldly and ordered the second round of test firing to begin.

Each artillery can be adjusted with a crank to adjust the height of the muzzle and redetermine the elevation angle, and under the calculation of John Tang and other officers, almost every gun was readjusted according to the distance that had just hit the battlement.

In the second round of testing, all the artillery either hit the city wall or also fell on the head of the city, a cannonball fell straight into the crowd, and the steaming solid cannonball rolling at the head of the city was a nightmare for the infantry, although it was not a powerful twelve-pounder cannon, but the six-pounder cannonball could also penetrate the infantry array of twenty columns, and it was even more powerful on the hard ground at the head of the city.

In an instant, a large number of screams and wails rang out at the head of the city!

The cannonballs rolled at the head of the city, with a huge movement smashed into the rows of Mongols, the people who were hit at the beginning were undoubtedly the lucky ones, although the brains burst or the entire chest was smashed and collapsed in an instant, but they died instantly, more people were grazed in the shoulder or lower limbs, or did not hit the vital point, but the damage caused by the seemingly slight friction was very huge, the cannonballs jumped, constantly smashed into the crowd, and constantly heard the screams of people and the sound of broken bones, a soldier was knocked into the arm, almost in the blink of an eye, His arm became a mess of flesh and blood, even the bones, musculature and skin were smashed flat, this huge pain is unbearable for human beings, after a few screams, this armor soldier fainted directly in pain, if there is no accident, he will face greater pain after waking up, and there is no cure at all, he can only consume his life in pain again and again, and finally die.

Some lost half of their legs, some had their entire ribs broken, and by the time the smoke and blood-stained shells stopped, more than twenty people had fallen on the walls, most of them dead or seriously wounded.

After this test shelling, the Mongols suddenly could not laugh.

Amid the wailing moans of the seriously wounded at the head of the city, Tang Wangzong gave the order for the entire artillery team to open fire.

All the gunners lit the fuse with torches almost at the same time!

At this moment, the atmosphere on the artillery position was almost frozen, no matter how happy they were laughing just now, everyone was holding their breath at such a time, as if they were to Dabin.

The daily training of artillery is very strict, in addition to a series of procedural training from cleaning to ignition, physical training and cultural classes, especially geometry training, are the most rigorous.

Carrying shells is not only a matter of the bomber, it is very likely that the bomber will die in wartime, which means that the entire artillery crew members have to wear multiple positions at any time, so any artilleryman must be a clearer, a charger, a gunner, a bomb carrier, and even a gun commander at any time, and any possibility exists on the battlefield.

In a rigorous training environment, gunners who are now able to move as accurately as mechanical parts have been created.

John Tong and other instructors were very satisfied with this, in fact, the top artillery corps in Europe was no more than that, and even far less than these Eastern gunners knew how to obey discipline.

The whole artillery position has great depth, from the six-pounder guns to the nine-pounder guns in turn, mainly with six-pounder guns, the number of nine-pounder guns is much less, the artillerymen dig out the gun emplacements in the grass, which can help offset the shallow pits of the strong recoil after the artillery is fired, the iron-cast solid shells are taken out of the basket and placed on the right side of the gun emplacement, and behind the gun emplacements are powder kegs of the same size, the artillerymen stand in turn according to their positions, each has their own position of the gun position, and there is no room for the slightest confusion.

Only when a man in a position has died, will the officer assign a new person to take his place.

The fuse burned into the chamber of the cannon, and almost instantly, everyone covered their ears.

This is probably the first time that such a large-scale shelling has occurred in China, and until then, all so-called artillery bombardment can only be regarded as a joke.

"Boom!"

In an instant, more than 100,000 people on the entire battlefield could barely hear the sound of artillery bombardment.