The fourth volume of the sharp blade out of the sheath Shenzhou moves

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.

On the very flat Liaodong Peninsula, this height can almost overlook the entire battlefield, and the flags on the command vehicles can be clearly seen by the various departments.

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 forested areas, the effectiveness of this kind of command vehicle will be greatly reduced, and Tangma is still the best choice.

Sometimes, Zhang Yun and other commanders would climb into the car to observe the situation of the enemy and the array on their own side.

In the battlefield dominated by cold weapons, the battle after the battle is the most important. The two armies are cold and cold, and one side confuses the formation of the other, and usually, the confusion of the array means losing the war.

In the Dingnan 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, and so on.

The most important thing for each commander on the battlefield is to constantly deploy his own array according to the terrain and the enemy's position, and meet the enemy with the best position.

Today is to prevent the enemy from going out of the city to raid and cover the soldiers and people, so Zhang Yun's formation is a long phalanx, and one after another horizontal formations lie in front of the city gate.

The main force of cavalry was placed on the north side, mainly to play a pulling role, and a small number of cavalry were placed on the two flanks, ready to cover the artillery units placed in front of the array.

The artillery use of the Dingnan Army and the Ming Army have been on a completely different path, and Qin Haoming has studied Napoleon's "cannon cluster" tactics.

The so-called artillery cluster is to concentrate artillery together and use it in echelons, in order to carry out saturation bombardment in a short period of time and kill and injure the enemy to the greatest extent.

The artillery of the Dingnan Army is also in a standard large cluster state, and more than 100 artillery pieces are almost all concentrated in one line.

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 the Dingnan army's artillery was not satisfactory, I don't know if someone gave the order, and the Tartars also laughed.

"Laugh." Liu Xinyu smiled coldly and ordered the second round of test firing to begin.

Each gun can be adjusted with a crank to re-determine the elevation angle, and under the officer's calculations, almost every gun is recalibrated according to the distance from the battlement just hit.

In the second round of testing, several shells immediately fell into the crowd, and the steaming solid shells rolling at the head of the city were a nightmare for the infantry.

Although it was not a powerful twelve-pounder cannon, a six-pounder cannonball could also penetrate an array of twenty columns of infantry, and it was even more powerful on the hard ground of the city.

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

Cannonballs rolled at the head of the city, smashing into the rows of Mongols with great kinetic energy, and those who were hit at the beginning were undoubtedly the lucky ones.

Although their brains burst or their entire chests collapsed in an instant, they died instantly, with less pain.

Many more people are grazed in the shoulder or lower limbs, or they are not touched, but the damage caused by a seemingly minor touch is very significant.

The cannonballs bounced and smashed into the crowd, and there were screams of people and the sound of bones shattering.

One of the armoured soldiers was knocked into the arm, and almost in the blink of an eye, his arm became a mess of flesh and blood, smashing even the skeletal musculature and skin.

This kind of great pain is unbearable for humans, and after a few screams, the armored soldier fainted in pain.

If there is no accident, he will face even greater pain when he wakes up, and there is no cure at all, he can only consume his life in pain after pain, and eventually 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 20 people had fallen on the walls, most of them dead or seriously wounded.

After this test shelling, the Tartars suddenly couldn't laugh.

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

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

For a moment the atmosphere on the artillery position was almost frozen, and no matter how happy they were laughing just now, everyone was holding their breath and calming down at such a time.

The daily training of the artillery of the Dingnan Army 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 stringent.

Carrying shells is not just a matter for the bombardier, and it is likely that the bomber will die in wartime, which means that the entire artillery crew will have to wear multiple hats at any time.

Therefore, any artilleryman must have the consciousness of being a clearer, a charger, a gunner, a bomb carrier, and even a gunner 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.

Liu Xinyu and other instructors were very satisfied with this, in fact, the top artillery corps in Europe was no more than that, and even far from these Eastern gunners knew how to abide by discipline.

The entire artillery position had a great depth, from six-pounder guns to nine-pounder guns, and the main ones were still six-pounder guns, and the number of nine-pounder guns was much smaller.

The artillerymen dug out the emplacements in the grass to help counteract the shallow pits of the strong recoil of the guns after firing, and the solid iron shells were taken out of the baskets and placed on the right side of the emplacements.

Behind the emplacements were powder kegs of the same size, and the artillerymen stood in turn, each with his own position for the emplacement, and there was no room for 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.

"Boom!"

In an instant, tens of thousands of people on the entire battlefield could almost only hear the sound of artillery bombardment.

Brilliant sparks erupted from the muzzles of the cannons, tongues of fire erupted, thick smoke billowed up, smoke filled everywhere, and one cannon after another burst out with a scream, flying towards the opposite city wall.