Chapter 107 Decisive Battle (4) (2nd Update)

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Most of the Hongyi cannons on the rebel side are four-pound and three-pounder old artillery, rarely more than six pounds, and they have no qualified gunsmiths, no cannon casting workshops, and no extra financial resources to cast cannons, and most of the only dozens of artillery pieces are looted from the hands of thieves and the imperial court, and there is no talk of upgrading, which has been repeatedly used for many years, and most of them are seriously aged.

Once they faced the imperial camp army, which had more than 100 new artillery pieces, they were immediately bombarded and couldn't find the north.

There is a clear gap between the two sides in terms of the quantity and quality of artillery and the gunners' handling skills. You can't understand it before the match, and you can understand how big the gap is after the match.

So after the artillery of the imperial court fired, the artillery of the left army almost had the power to fight back, and did not wait for a few rounds of artillery to come down, when the dozens of large and small artillery pieces that were supplied like a baby were basically scrapped, most of them lost the ability to attack, in addition to the artillery, the sergeants in the infantry array also suffered heavy losses, only a moment of effort, there were two or three thousand foot soldiers who died under the new artillery of the Ming army, and most of the rest became frightened birds, and the army formation was no longer strictly organized, crooked, and almost collapsed.

Zuo Mengeng was so depressed that he almost vomited blood, he originally thought that the other party was a soft persimmon, even if Huang Zhen helped, there was nothing to worry about, and his main force would definitely be able to win it in one fell swoop.

First defeated the new army of the imperial court camp, and then carried the rout army to disperse the Yellow Army, and finally captured the emperor alive, the plan can be said to be quite perfect and well thought-out. But reality doesn't follow the routine, and the expected soft persimmon suddenly turned into an iron plate, and suddenly hit his head and bleed. More than 100 sharp Hongyi and Furlong cannons directly stunned their own troops, and the two sides had not yet engaged in battle, and there was a tendency to collapse in some places.

The thing Zuo Mengeng wants to do most now is to stop those nights of probing the enemy, if it weren't for the information they sent was too general and too little, why would he be so passive now!

Seeing that the shells on the opposite side were still bombarding unscrupulously, Zuo Mengeng didn't dare to stay in the formation anymore, the current situation, retreat is definitely not able to retreat, a bad one may develop into a rout, only under the pressure of the artillery to continue to advance, out of the range of Hongyi artillery bombardment, he knows this very well.

Originally, I wanted to ask Huang Shu's opinion, but when he saw that the other party was at a loss, Zuo Mengeng secretly shook his head, thinking that he was a scholar after all, and he couldn't be relied on at a critical time!

If you want to win this battlefield, you have to rely on yourself in the final analysis!

But can you really win?

Zuo Mengeng didn't know, he only knew that if he didn't adjust his strategy, he would definitely lose, thinking of this, he immediately ordered the remaining artillery to be transferred to avoid the enemy's artillery bombardment, and at the same time ordered the army to advance 800 steps, and could no longer let the opponent's artillery bombard so unscrupulously.

Under the continuous bombardment of the artillery of the Ming army, the left sergeants under the command of military academies at all levels under the tremendous pressure, barely kept the queue forward 800 steps, during which hundreds of soldiers died under the shells of Hongyi and Furlong machine guns, and let out bursts of heart-rending wails, and the rest were all frightened and demoralized, and after finally reorganizing the queue, the distance between the two arrays was less than 200 steps. The range of the Hongyi and Furlong machine guns is relatively long, and it is no longer useful.

This distance is shortened again, it is the world of bows and muskets, Zuo Mengeng thought to himself that the other party's artillery is so sharp, and the musket will not be so sharp. It's just that when he thinks of the sharp muskets and artillery on the head of the city when he attacked Jiujiang City, he doesn't have much confidence in his heart, and he has no way to retreat from the battle, so he can only face it hard!

Seeing that the rebels were forced by the artillery to keep moving towards their positions, Zhu Youhua smiled, just in time!

"The front army of the imperial camp listened to the order and advanced north, and the musketeers were ready to shoot! The shield hand protects the wings, and the tiger squats and the cannon is loaded! ”

The first few columns of the army are all Spanish heavy arquebuses, that is, turtledoves, and the latter columns are Spanish light arquebuses, and finally the bird guns. The Tiger Squat Cannon was placed at the front of the queue.

The reason for this arrangement is because the power of various models of arquebuses is different, the Spanish heavy arquebus weighs about 15 catties, the body length of the arquebus is 5.5 feet (about 31-32 cm per ruler), the inner diameter is 0.6 inches (about 19mm), the medicine is 1.3 taels, the lead weighs 1.5 to 1.6 taels (about 56 grams), and the ultimate effective firing range has reached more than 80 steps of metamorphosis, and it can penetrate the iron armor and shoot through the field weapon "shield car" of the Qing soldiers within 80 steps.

In the early Qing Dynasty, during the era of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, the Eight Banners army used a combat vehicle similar to the Ming army's chariot, which was called "shield car", and the Ming people also called it a brand car. Fan Jingwen, a native of the Ming Dynasty, has this description in the whole book of beheading: "The card is very thick, a layer of cowhide, a layer of iron, the small bricks and stones do not move, the big bricks and stones roll down, and the firewood is not burned." "More than 20 people in a car are pushed by slaves with a brand car." This kind of shield car can cover more than 20 people to fight. It effectively resisted the guns and bows of the Ming army.

When Jiannu did not use chariots, although there were small gains, they did not achieve a decisive victory. It was not until the shield cart was used to cover the Ming musketeers and shot at the Ming army with a rain of arrows from archers at close range that the Ming army could not bear it and collapsed. Jiannu victory.

The power of the Spanish heavy arquebus is several times that of the bird's gun, the hit rate is more than half within forty steps, and it is useless to batch many layers of iron armor, and it is directly pierced, such a perverted heavy musket, the imperial camp now has a total of more than 3,600 guns, and more than 2,500 are distributed to the heads of each battalion and brought directly to the battlefield. The power should not be underestimated.

The Spanish light arquebus weighs about ten pounds and is 1.3 meters long. The inner diameter is 16mm, and the drug is 18 grams. The bullet weighs 21 grams. The ultimate effective range is sixty or seventy paces, that is, it can pierce through the iron armor within fifty steps, which is two to three times more powerful than the bird's gun.

The bird guns commonly equipped by the Ming army weighed five to six catties and were about 1.3 meters long. The inner diameter is 11mm, and the drug is 11 to 13 grams. The buckshot weighs 11 grams, the power is small, and no matter how good the bird gun is, it will take thirty steps to penetrate the iron armor, and it can maintain a good shooting accuracy within fifty steps, but the effect on the shield car of the Shangqing soldiers is very small, and it is almost impossible to penetrate, let alone the armor soldiers behind the shield car.

The Ming army held a "shield car" on the top, and the Qing soldiers with excellent archery skills were almost defeated in every battle, and firearms were too chicken ribs was one of the main reasons.