Chapter 8096 Reactionary 16

After dawn again, in the Qianjin Fort, a sub-city in the north of the city of Gongwei, in front of Su Yuanjing, the envoy of Xuanhui, it was good news and bad news.

The good news is that after a bloody battle, the reinforcements sent by Luodu finally "recaptured" Nanguan City at Heyang Bridge.

Before those Huaidong soldiers were "defeated", the Heyang Bridge was blown up, which was not an easy thing;

Although the Heyang Bridge is a typical Yellow River pontoon bridge, the more it has been destroyed and built again and again in history, it has been quite solid to this day.

Fixing the Heyang bridge deck is 16 giant chain cables with thick ring arms, and the pier of the foundation is a giant boat of hundreds of stones, which is used every other section to pull the iron cage caisson full of large stones with double iron cables as the anchor floating; Therefore, even when the Yellow River flood season is large, it can be safely passed.

But now it has been destroyed like this, and according to the on-site investigation, it is not simply to cut off the cable that fixes the bridge deck, but even the hundred stone pontoon boats that serve as the bridge foundation, a large piece is directly missing, and only a little smoky stubble and edge are left.

This also means that there are at least 30,000 follow-up soldiers and horses, which are cut off on the opposite shore and can no longer be used in a short time.

Of course, they can also make a detour to Dayang Bridge in the upper reaches of the Yellow River in the northeast of Shaanxian County, Henan, but they will have to face the important towns of Mianchi and Shuangqiao Pass, which have been captured by the Southern Army.

This result made Su Yuanjing sigh heavily, it was really a bumpy state affair.

In fact, the appearance of the strong soldiers and horses he has worked hard to create is actually quite a lot of water; Because of the need to coerce and lure more troops from the frontier, he almost exhausted all means to get them to go south; But along the way, there are still many people who can't bear to flee secretly, or run away.

In the end, the 100,000 troops who were able to reach the north bank of the Yellow River with him as scheduled were probably only 40,000 or 50,000 qualified soldiers, and the rest were all people who came from the places along the way, carrying chess pieces and indiscriminately filling the numbers.

However, now that the bridgehead and passage have been obtained, through subsequent gathering and summoning, the actual number of this reinforcement can probably be doubled, climbing to about sixty or seventy thousand.

This is also the maximum number of soldiers and supplies that he can gather in the border area with his prestige and skill, so that there are many middle-aged men under the age of sixteen, and even young men who have not yet grown beards.

Despite this, these new forces are still quite a precious means of sustaining life for Luodu City. But apparently, his follow-up plan was unexpectedly ruined by this Huaidong army.

As for the confirmation of the relevant news, under the accounts of Wang Duanchen, the commander of the Central Road Command, and Wei Chen, the ambassador of Henan, they had an unbelievable expression and reaction. ……

On the banks of the Yellow River's tributaries, on the ruins of Kim Yong City, the Huaidong Army, which had just repelled the enemy, also stopped briefly again.

Although the scale of several battles in succession is not particularly large, it is quite fierce; Du Shulang, the captain of the artillery army, also gasped for breath, sat down on the still somewhat hot artillery carriage, and looked at the battlefield in the distance with some tiredness and some triumph.

A considerable part of them are the gunners under his command and have achieved a lot of results.

Not long after the battle ended, the gunners and auxiliary non-commissioned officers had already begun to clean and test the barrel with a through rod, cool the gun body with large pieces of felt soaked in water and a damp cloth, oil and maintain the parts of the gun carriage, and disassemble and debug the tension springs on the gun carriage tracks,......

Meticulously maintaining and inspecting every part and detail on the gun truck, they were so attentive and racing against time.

It seems that because of the capture of Nanguan City and the destruction of Heyang Bridge, it is like stabbing the hornet's nest of those northern captives in the north of the city, making them crazy to search and pursue this one, which seems to be quite mobile and flexible.

Relying on the superiority of the cavalry, they were almost defeated and defeated again and again, and tirelessly climbed up again and again, as if they did not know what defeat and setbacks were. It was precisely because of these ensuing battles that the Huaidong Army had to gradually deviate from the original route of returning to its own camp.

So, as the army continues to turn to maneuver, the next battle may break out at some point. Careful care and maintenance in the leisure of the battlefield can undoubtedly avoid the fate of these precious and delicate weapons being abandoned and destroyed to the greatest extent.

You must know that these precious family foundations have also taken several years for Huaidong to slowly accumulate.

Nowadays, on the scientific and technological tree of artillery development under the Huaidong system, there are mainly two major divisions of inch diameter;

Below six inches, there are mainly long-barreled field guns required for battle formations, mountain guns with shortened barrels and simplified gun mounts, and specially strengthened cavalry guns with reinforced wheels; There are also heavy artillery, mortar artillery and fixed plug artillery that are mainly attacking fortifications of more than six inches.

Of course, the scale of artillery under the banner of the Marquis Army of Huaidong is only two artillery battalions plus one regiment. Then, in wartime, the team is used as a unit, and it is assigned and strengthened into a specific unit; As a ranged fire support and suppression, or as a siege auxiliary.

However, at present, the main equipment that Huaidong can produce on its own is field artillery and mountain artillery under six inches, as well as a number of cavalry artillery that is experimentally rationed to facilitate rapid marching.

As the product and feature of a series of new technologies accumulated in Huaidong, it is a rear-loading gun with copper and iron twin nesting and self-tightening and spiral bolting.

It's just that because the specific process is more complex and there are many parts, and the requirements for the gun body material are also very high, so with the rate of qualified products produced every month, the total number of guns only fluctuates between twenty or thirty.

Moreover, a considerable part of this proportion will be directly allocated to the naval forces as firepower equipment for the new inland river vehicles and ships and the newly built fast sea patrol ships in the open sea.

As for the sequence of heavy guns of more than six inches, most of them are still dismantling the old old ones from the detained sailors' ships, and they are both installed in front and after, and the system is relatively mixed, and the main arrangement is stationed at some hubs and key points.

In addition, there are some small artillery teams that are organized in half of the main battle battalions, which are equipped with the same simple design and operation, and the front-loading live-ammunition/scattering small cannons of less than two inches are already specialized in trolls.

However, these non-commissioned officers who have experience in simple artillery operations are also equivalent to potential candidates and reserve forces for future artillery expansion.

Therefore, compared with other rapidly developing arms such as Mabu and Shuigongzi, the construction and expansion of Huaidong's artillery can only be in the process of slow accumulation, and it can only train enough manpower first, and then slowly wait for the stage of equipment.

This time, in order to act in front of the army, two artillery regiments were sent successively, and now they are unified under the command of Du Shulang, the commander of the capital, and there are at least 23 groups of large and small cannons, about 67 guns of length and shortness; A total of 557 artillery soldiers are on the staff.

In addition, there are more than 400 large livestock used to pull artillery carts and haul heavy baggage, among which the gun carts and ammunition are all standard military horses.

In addition, he was responsible for digging trenches and repairing fortifications, assisting in the handling and loading of ammunition, cleaning the gun chambers, retrieving balls, taking care of livestock, and repairing and maintaining gun trucks, which was equivalent to the engineering baggage brigade of 300 people in the alternate formation; In the end, there were two hundred additional white soldiers and gunners who were attached as escorts.

It is almost equivalent to the formation of most of the artillery battalions on the two wings of the Marquis Yu's army, or the size of a standard garrison battalion.

Therefore, with so much artillery fire concentrated, a single volley of artillery could almost break and disperse at least one dense array of the Northern Army in the front, or rather, in a field battle facing head-on, no one could withstand more than two concentrated blows, without wavering and retreating, and even the existence of a collapse of morale on the spot;

Of course, the steering and marching speed of the gun carriage itself, as well as the sequence and frequency of the cannons, are also obviously hard, and they are most afraid of the close penetration of cavalry or loose light soldiers.

Therefore, every position where almost all artillery is fired is protected by a hollow large array that has been arranged, and small cannons filled with scattered shells and white lines are used as close cover, so that they can let go of their hands and feet and exert their power unscrupulously.

It's just that in this desperate battlefield, there are almost not many enemies who can be annihilated in this way, especially when there are many friendly troops on the side, as long as the enemy army is slightly weakened and shaken, they can't wait to launch a charge and counterattack.

In a certain network term in later generations, it is to grab people's heads and fly, and unless they are bombarded by Unicom friendly forces, they have not many opportunities to play to their heart's content, and they have been in a state of unfinished business.

And this time, Huaidong broke away from the friendly army and walked alone, and the initiative to attack and fight in the style of encircling Wei to save Zhao made Du Shulang, who had been feeling that something was missing since joining the war, tasted a certain pleasure of releasing to his heart's content, and walked on the edge of life and death with a long time of physical and mental vigilance, and could not be described.

This is the usage and development direction of the artillery army, and many tactical details and experiences are almost forced out in this situation of life and death.

In the most dangerous of all, a small squad smashed through the garrison array that served as a shield on the right side, and scattered some of them, driving straight to his artillery position.

Then, in the midst of panic and anxiety, as the commander-in-chief, he personally pushed and pulled out a small cannon full of shotguns, enveloping the incoming enemy cavalry and the scattered friendly forces they were chasing, together in the close lead rain.

While driving these defeated garrisons back to their original positions, the lost morale and shame were brought back to them, and the auxiliary personnel of these artillery units once again held the broken array.

This was also the first time he had lost a member of the artillery crew.

On the other hand, near Kip Stone Fort, a stronghold on the outskirts of Luodu, an enemy army who was ambushed by night tried to destroy them with the thrown incendiary materials after the marching artillery caravan approached, which eventually caused the loss of at least one artillery group, and the result and lesson that two guns had to be dismantled and buried.

Therefore, the current members of the artillery regiment, in addition to being able to operate and discharge artillery, must also be able to meet the basic ability of hand-to-hand combat and hand-to-hand combat in close combat, and resist the enemy in the formation as a last resort.