readx; The heads of these white-armored soldiers were really wronged. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ［.. Not only a few of them, but the hundreds of Qing soldiers who died in the battle tonight also died too unjustly, if they knew what means the Ming army was using to deal with them, they would never crash into them and send them to their deaths. Of course, this "injustice" is purely from the perspective of combat, if you take into account the blood debt of thousands of Ming people they are carrying, it is still cheaper for them to die in such a way.

First of all, the biggest guarantee for the Ming army to dare to advance outward was the so-called "No. 3 Operational Plan." In fact, this combat plan is very simple, that is, to use a newly developed artillery: the flowering cannon.

The so-called flowering cannon is actually what modern calls howitzers. Howitzers and cannons are not fundamentally different in their bodies, but the shells used are completely different. The shells of the cannon are solid, mainly relying on the kinetic energy of the shell itself to destroy the target, such as tank guns, anti-tank guns, naval guns, shore defense guns, etc., all belong to cannons.

Howitzers, on the other hand, used shells that are hollow and contain explosives. After the shell is fired, it will explode after a period of time, mainly relying on the fragments generated by the explosion to kill the enemy.

In fact, the howitzer principle is very simple, that is, when the shell is fired, the fuse is ignited at the same time, and when the fuse burns to the explosives inside the shell, it will naturally explode. Like the two kicks in the firecracker, it can be regarded as the simplest howitzer.

Zhu Youzhen is a person who has traveled over the 21st century, and of course knows that a few centuries later, the first choice for dealing with targets such as infantry or cavalry will be howitzers. Because the biggest feature of howitzers is that they have a large killing range, where the explosives collapse, the fragments will fly, and the flesh and blood have no resistance to it.

But now this time and space is still the seventeenth century, whether it is the Hongyi cannon or the Franc machine gun, they all use solid cannonballs, that is, cannons. Therefore, from the beginning of the establishment of the military factory, Zhu Youzhen asked Sun Yuanlong, Wei Zhen and others to focus on tackling howitzers, that is, the flowering cannons that craftsmen like to call.

The name Blossom Cannon is borrowed from the "Illustrated Illustrated Weapons", but many of the firearms in the "Illustrated Illustrated Weapons" are only the author's ideas and have not actually been manufactured. After countless tests and failures, Sun Yuanlong finally found that shortening the gun body as much as possible can reduce the pressure in the gun chamber, so that the shell will not explode before it is discharged, and the problem of stable combustion of the fuse is solved with a letter tube.

Despite this, due to the constraints of the level of ironmaking, there are still occasional explosions, so although the flowering cannon was developed, it has not been mass-produced. It was not until after the expansion project of the Beijing Division began, in order to ensure that the Beijing Division was foolproof, that Zhu Youzhen ordered the military factory to use the iron mold casting cannon method to produce a large number of flowering cannons. For the defects of the flowering cannon, you can only be patient, after all, no weapon can be perfect when it first appears, and it can only be slowly improved and perfected in the process of use.

As early as a few months ago, when Zhu Youzhen, Xie Sheng and other generals formulated a plan to defend the city, they envisaged that if the Qing army attacked the city with all its might, regardless of casualties, and conventional artillery such as Hongyi artillery and rapid-fire artillery could not suppress the Qing army, they would have to use the No. 3 plan, that is, the use of flowering artillery. Of course, the flowering cannon is not as far as the Hongyi cannon, and even inferior to the rapid-fire cannon, but it has a large killing range and can still effectively stop the impact of the Qing army.

However, in the continuous battle for several days, the Qing army did not use all its strength, and the No. 3 combat plan was not activated. After all, the flowering cannon is easy to blow up, and it has not been used in actual combat, and the gunners have no bottom about this new type of artillery.

As the war progressed, the Qing army began to draw forces to loot other places, and the main force could withdraw at any time. In this case, if you don't need to use the flower cannon, you may not have a chance to use it. At Xie Sheng's insistence, Zhu Youzhen finally approved the use of this artillery. Of course, for the sake of safety, he only asked Meng Gong to carry four flowering cannons out of the city, and if it didn't work, he quickly withdrew to the city.

However, including Zhu Youzhen's reconciliation victory, no one expected that the flowering cannon would achieve such a big result. The four flowering cannons only carried out two rounds of salvo fire, and nearly 200 Qing cavalry were killed, you must know that the Ming army bombarded the Hongyi cannon, Yuanrong cannon, Xiaoyao cannon and rapid-fire artillery for several days, and the Qing soldiers killed directly were only hundreds. After this battle, Zhu Youzhen strengthened his determination to use the flowering cannon.

Of course, the instability of the flowering cannon still existed, and just after completing two salvos, when the third shot was fired, one of the guns blew up, which was not only scrapped on the spot, but also wounded two gunners.

However, compared to the tremendous power of the flowering cannon, this situation is still tolerable. Meng Gong hurriedly told the gunner that the next time he used the flowering cannon, he must set the fuse longer, and after the gunner lit the fuse, he should quickly dodge a few feet away. In this way, even if the artillery is blown up, no one will be injured.

In addition to this biggest secret weapon, the Ming army also experienced the power of trench warfare for the first time in actual combat. Although Zhu Youzhen was not a soldier in his previous life, he didn't watch a lot of war-themed movies. It is common sense to dig trenches in positional warfare, and you don't need any professional knowledge, as long as you can think of it, anyone can dig it out. In the fierce battle just now, in addition to the power of the flowering cannon, the Ming army relied on the cover of the trenches, and its own casualties were also very low, not a single martyr, only a few soldiers were slightly injured.

As for the barbed wire, this is also what Zhu Youzhen copied from his previous life. In fact, in ancient wars, there were also obstacle tools used to delay the enemy's attack, such as horse rejection, thistle, etc., which had been widely used as early as the Warring States Period. The so-called rejection of horses is to tie several thick and straight wooden stakes together to form a cone, which acts as an obstacle. Tribulus, on the other hand, casts iron in the shape of four sharp corners and sprinkles it on the path of the enemy. If the enemy rushes hard, it will be pierced by thistles.

But both deer firewood and thistle terrestris have their own drawbacks. The disadvantage of deer firewood is that it is too wood-intensive, and it is very bulky, and it is not easy to carry. Although the tribulus terrestris is small, the number is small, and it is not good, and it has to be thousands of pieces when it is sprinkled. Not to mention how to make so much thistle, recycling after sprinkling is a big problem. If it is not recovered, the enemy army will not be able to pass, but the Ming army will not be able to pass either; If you want to recycle, it's much harder than spilling.

In contrast, the advantages of barbed wire are too obvious. First of all, it is easy to move, just pull out the stake; Secondly, it is easy to erect, just drive the wooden stake wrapped with wire into the ground. Compared to thistle, iron wire also uses much less iron. The only trouble is that it is more cumbersome to make.

In this era, there was no wire drawing machine, so Zhu Youzhen had to use the most stupid method to let the craftsman forge the iron into extremely fine iron bars, and then quench it in a circle, so that it could be used as iron wire. Don't look at this mile-long barbed wire, it took more than a month to make.

As for the deaths of those Qing soldiers and white-armored soldiers, they can only blame the Qing army for not paying attention to observation. After fighting for so many days, they still don't know that there is a difference between the Lumi Gun and the Bird Gun, and the effective range of the Lu Mi Gun is one hundred and fifty steps!

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