Nie Shicheng was in Liaodong, and Lian Shun was in Jinzhou, and they had all seen the bombardment of Japanese artillery. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

And Tang Renlian, Mei Dongyi, these Xianghuai veterans are all fighting the Taiping Army, and when they twist their heads, they all use red cannons with lead shots, and they have not started fighting for 30 years, where have they seen the rampness of this kind of modern artillery?

Especially when everyone walked on the Great Wall, they saw a 450-kilogram bronze cannon cast in the fifty-first year of Kangxi, which was actually blown into two sections, one of which was far away and didn't know where it flew to the city.

It was even more shocking.

"The Japanese artillery is so sharp!"

Mei Dongyi stood on the pile of flesh and blood corpses cut by the grenade plow, looking at the corpses full of holes, and the deformed metal projectiles densely inlaid on the walls on both sides, he couldn't help but change color.

"This is a grenade bomb, it explodes overhead, and it is full of projectiles, which is said to have just been out for a few years, and it is impossible to guard against it."

Nie Shicheng said bitterly, when he was in the Yalu River, he heard the Qing troops retreating from Pyongyang say this, and he was still half-convinced, thinking that it was just a deliberate exaggeration by them in order to evade responsibility.

As a result, in Hushan, his artillery battalion and the Japanese artillery fired at each other, and as a result, they were almost completely wiped out by this bomb.

"And what kind of shell is it that blows up this cannon?"

Tang Renlian looked curious.

"No, it's a high-explosive bomb, or a flowering shell produced by our Beiyang Bureau for the use of Western artillery on ships;"

As a witness to Dalian Bay, Lian Shun certainly knows the horror of this kind of shell: "But our nineteen dare not use it, the production is too poor, and the artillerymen are afraid of exploding the bore or getting stuck in the muzzle." ”

Seeing the mess on the city wall, as well as the houses that were destroyed one after another in the Guancheng behind him, no one general dared to say how good the old antique cannon of the Qing Dynasty was.

North Wing City.

He Changying, Xu Bangdao, Jia Qisheng, Xia Qingyun, and Li Jingfang stood in Beicheng.

Looking at the Japanese positions on the opposite side.

Seeing the sharpness of the Japanese artillery, the generals of the three cities outside the gate finally couldn't sit still and gathered in the northern wing city to discuss strategies.

It's just three guns, and if eighteen of them are fired at the same time, it's really a collapse!

How to resist?

"Because of the frozen soil, the burst of lead pellets of the redcoat cannon is much greater than the burst damage of solid armor-piercing bullets fired by modern artillery; For example, it is much larger than the iron solid bullets of our Western artillery. ”

He Changying said in a cold voice: "It's a pity that the Japanese army will not use this kind of armor-piercing shell at all, except for artillery duels, and now they will not use armor-piercing shells in the duel between their fortress artillery and artillery, but will use this kind of high-explosive high-explosive shells." ”

At this time, the Japanese army did not have the ability to produce artillery, and all the artillery was purchased from Western countries, and the entire army had about 240 artillery pieces.

The standard configuration of a division is an artillery wing, armed with 26 guns.

Except for the 27 new steel-bodied cannons of the 1st Heavy Artillery Wing, the rest were old Krupp bronze steel-bore guns. He Changying once read a document that in the entire First Sino-Japanese War, the average Japanese soldier fired a total of eight shots and fired eight bullets.

The Japanese army artillery fired a total of 34,090 shells, and among these shells, only a few hundred solid shells were fired, and the rest were all grenades.

He Changying lit a cigarette and said: "The effective range of the red-coated cannon for three miles can indeed provide fire assistance to the North Wing City of the North Two Miles, or the East and West Luo City of the North One Mile; But the Japanese army is not stupid, how can this situation occur? The high-explosive bomb is okay, the soldier can basically dodge it when he lies down, and the most difficult thing to reach is the grenade bomb that rains all over the sky. ”

"These cannons are really sharp! So, the Penglai shelling is also remarkable? ”

Li Jingfang couldn't help but think of an incident a few days ago.

Li Bingheng, the governor of Ludong, relied on his family's money to donate money to buy a county prince, and after relying on his father Li Hongzhang, he became the prefect of Yongping Mansion, but because of corruption, he was calculated by the enemy and lost his official hat.

During this period, his father was symbolically protected by him, and he did not have the strength, so he has been hated by Li Bingheng all these years, and this time he was promoted to the position of governor of Ludong by the emperor and the imperial party, which was to fight with his father in the ring.

After Li Bingheng came to power, he demoted Lu Dong's father's descendants one after another, and now Weihai is empty, and his father has repeatedly reminded him that Li Bingheng is turning a blind eye and is bent on strengthening the defense of Yantai and Penglai.

A few days ago, Li Bingheng didn't know that he found a five- or six-thousand-pound hundred-year-old cannon there, which was erected on the top of Penglai Tianheng Mountain.

Li Bingheng wrote in his recital to the emperor: The sound shook for ten miles, the water column was monstrous, and the Japanese warships fled in panic.

Shanhaiguan received the telegram from the capital, and Li Jingfang believed it at the time, but now he knows that it is just a braggart.

The Japanese small-caliber artillery on land was so sharp, and the naval artillery was so good.

If you really want to fight, you can easily level the small city of Penglai, and it is estimated that it is not a problem, afraid of this old cannon with a range of three or four miles?

"It's not that the Japanese army is sharp, but that the Qing Dynasty is too weak; The current strength of the Japanese army and navy can easily crush any country in the Western Ocean; The ridiculous thing is that the whole country of the Qing Dynasty, from the common people to the ministers and generals, is extremely ignorant and ridiculous, and they think that they really won the European power France ten years ago and became a military power! ”

He Changying sighed and thought, don't talk about now, even six years later, the whole of North China will not be full of senior brothers and second senior brothers who are making a fuss about 'invulnerability'.

Duanjun Wang Zaiyi, Minister of Military Aircraft Gangyi, Zhao Shuqiao, -- these highest-level power holders of the Qing Dynasty actually waved their flags and shouted for the 'senior brother' door.

Zai Yi directly invited the senior brothers, and his Duanwang Mansion tried to open the altar.

There is also the national farce a few decades ago, in which how many consciences and Chinese elites fell.

In this country, it is not necessary that the upper class is necessarily more intelligent and wise than the awakened people at the bottom, the angry youth.

Otherwise, there would not be Emperor Jin Hui's sentence, 'Why not eat minced meat'.

Suddenly, He Changying seemed to have caught a line of extremely important things, but that glimmer of light flashed away, and he couldn't think of anything he could think of.

This artillery bombardment of the Japanese army at Shanhaiguan was a blow to the Shanhai army, but it was a matter of half of the gains and losses for the three cities outside the pass.

The "loss" is the loss of the assistance of the Guancheng artillery, and the "gain" is that the Japanese army has fired more than 100 high-explosive bombs.

Moreover, He Changying also roughly knew the size of the destructive power of the various projectiles of the Japanese army on the city wall of the northern wing.

The damage to the city wall caused by the grenade bomb was almost negligible.

At the same time as the warhead hits the ground, the body of the high-explosive bomb explodes instantly, mainly killing and injuring, tearing apart soldiers and objects on the surface, and the damage to the city wall is still limited.

Only solid bullets are the great enemy of prying the walls of the city wall.

However, it is not so easy to smash the city wall, which is six or seven meters high and six or seven meters thick.

For the solid ammunition that is basically useless in the current artillery battle, He Changying estimates that the Japanese heavy artillery wing will not bring too much.

Then, the most important thing to guard against below is the Japanese sappers.