Chapter Seventy-Six: The Theory of Artillery
"That's it, this artillery is powerful, but it's a pity that it's worse to break through the other people's military formation!"
Listening to this person's words, Gao Lianquan also followed Ying Hedao. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Otherwise, one or two artillery pieces are naturally limited in attack, and if they want to create lethality, they are naturally worse, if they become a formation, hundreds or even hundreds, and ten thousand cannons are fired in unison, what else can exist in the range of artillery?"
Gao Zhong smiled and continued.
"Can artillery be so powerful? The mountains in our southwest region are high and densely forested, not to mention artillery, even the Franco machine guns are difficult to handle, how can this give full play to its combat capability? ”
Someone began to sneer at Gao Zhong, causing countless people to nod their heads.
Furlong cannons and artillery are two different concepts.
The Franc cannon is an early reloader cannon consisting of a mother gun and a child gun. Each mother gun is equipped with five to nine sub-guns, which can be pre-loaded with ammunition for backup, and can be loaded into the mother gun in turn to fire during battle, which can increase the firing speed.
And the artillery is the Hongyi cannon, which is the red-coated cannon called by the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The Hongyi cannon has a large mouth, a long barrel, a thick pipe wall, and a huge power, but the disadvantage is that it is large and heavy, and the lightest one is more than two tons, which is very inconvenient to move.
Such a thick cannon is obviously unable to exert its power in the southwest, for example, the Furlong cannon, although small, but the iron barrel is still difficult to shuttle through the mountains and forests, and the mobility is obviously inferior to that of the archers.
"If the conditions are limited to the southwest, it can't be, but the Fran cannon also has a small caliber, and hundreds of officers and soldiers are assigned one by two, and after several rounds of attacks, even a hill can be flattened!"
Gao Zhong smiled and continued.
"Have you ever participated in the war with the mountain bandits and bandits, and those mountain bandits will not give you the opportunity to fire the Franco cannon, I'm afraid that when you set up the fort, his attack will be swarmed up."
A military household directly told Gao Zhong about the defects of the artillery and its shortcomings in actual combat.
Gao Zhong also nodded, in this world, although artillery has a history of hundreds of years, it has always been difficult to stand alone, because they lack an extremely important point of view, that side is the coordinated operation of infantry artillery.
Even in later generations, the National 0 Army of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression did not pay attention to the importance of infantry and tank coordination, where did the thick tanks need to consume infantry? As a result, the Japanese army was unable to find the north by the coordinated efforts of the air, sea and route.
After thinking for a while, Gao Zhong smiled: "You guys are wrong, the mountain bandits are attacking from the mountain, what are the archers doing?" Couldn't they form the first battle formation at this time and cast a rain of arrows to resist the attack of the mountain bandits? Even if they lose, can't the infantry go up and contain them? Why should the battery be exposed directly in front of the enemy formation? ”
"Besides, one of the effects of the Franc cannon is convenience, the son and mother guns are ready first, and when you get to the battlefield, you can directly put the guns into the inner tank, and when you see the mountain bandits, you can directly aim and fire!"
Gao Zhong briefly analyzed and said.
"This ......"
Gao Zhong's thoughts made everyone present stunned, and then a few acquaintances began to discuss.
"Zhong Wazi, according to what you say, how should the formation be formed?"
Uncle He walked in front of Gao Zhong at this time and asked Gao Zhong.
"This, in fact, General Qi Jiguang has already given us the answer. Ten or twelve people in a group, with spearmen, bows and arrows, shields, and gunners, divide each other to form a squad, and the squad can advance in coordination. Of course, if there is such heavy firepower as the Hongyi cannon, it will naturally be placed in the middle and rear of your own side, protected by mobile cavalry, and slowly advance with the advance of your own team! ”
Gao Zhong thought for a while and said.
This knowledge is nothing to future generations, as long as people who pay attention to some military common sense can say a thing or two.
But people at this time don't understand, because the concept of combat has not yet been fully formed, even Qi Jiguang, who used artillery and Fran machine guns to the extreme in the Ming Dynasty, is still a little hot, otherwise after the end of the Ming Dynasty, who else can play artillery tricks besides this general?
"Feasible, feasible!"
Uncle He nodded, and continued to ask Gao Zhong: "Then, the other side of the battle also has Hongyi cannons, Fran artillery, and hundreds of firearms, so how should we fight the enemy?" ”
"This one is even simpler, dig trenches, all classes lurk in the trenches, and directly counterattack with artillery bows and arrows. If you can't resist the opponent's fire, you will abandon the trench, and the opponent will also be trapped by the trench, and our artillery will attack the trench! ”
Gao Zhong said confidently.
"What is a trench?"
Uncle He didn't understand, and the nearby military households hadn't heard of trenches either.
"Oh, I forgot, this thing hasn't been there yet. It is to dig a ravine, about one person deep, and two to three people wide! ”
Gao Zhong said as he dug a long pit in the ground: "It's like this! ”
"What's going on, isn't this controlling yourself?"
Someone retorted.
"The only way to deal with artillery is to fire at each other in positional warfare, and hide in the trenches to hide your own forces. Moreover, even if the trenches are missed, they can slow down the local movement. ”
Gao Zhong also reacted quickly.
"Interesting, how do you know so much about firearms, and you also know General Qi Jiguang's method of leading the army, didn't your father tell you?"
Uncle He smiled and asked curiously towards Gao Zhong.
Gao Zhong shook his head: "Where does my father know about this, these are all learned from Wenqu Xing Master Zhang Heke!" ”
Gao Zhong doesn't know much about Gao Wei, obviously it is best not to implicate Gao Wei in this firearms matter, otherwise he will harm his father, and that will be a pit father.
"Zhang and Ke?"
Uncle He glanced at Gao Lianquan suspiciously, and then nodded: "How did you do in the test in Wazi County?" ”
"There are only two people left in the county test, Zhang Fanyu and me, and this county test should be ......."
Gao Zhong immediately responded.
"In this way, you should have no problem with this county test, and the next step is the government test, it's a pity......"
Uncle He sighed, and then looked at the military household behind him: "What Zhong Wazi said, you give me a good memory, go back and deduce it well, it will be useful to you." ”
After speaking, Uncle He glanced at Gao Zhong again: "Your phalanx's method is also feasible, this group of rough men studied for several days before thinking of the method of assaulting and disrupting the phalanx before Shangwu lost, if this method is against those swarming infantry, then the combat effectiveness is still guaranteed." ”