Soon, the news of Zhongyongbo came, and he said: "If Dong Nuguo has a Shenwei general cannon, my artillery battalion is not as good, the most important artillery in the battalion, only five catties of cannons." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Wang Dou's words made the atmosphere of the Beijing division reach a climax, the artillery of Zhongyongbo is not as good as the thief slave, and Jinzhou is in danger! Daming is in danger!

Under the boiling of the government and the opposition, Emperor Chongzhen and the cabinet could not sit still, Emperor Chongzhen summoned the ministers for several days, and after the death of Xu Guangqi a few years ago, the Hongyi cannon casting in the north came to a standstill. In addition to continuing to appoint officials to cast cannons, the topic of purchasing Western-style firearms was put on the agenda again.

Also, there are many Hongyi cannons in the southeastern provinces, and Emperor Chongzhen ordered the governors to transport them immediately, but the mountains are high and the roads are dangerous, and the distant water cannot save the near fire, and the battle of Jinzhou is close at hand. Therefore, the Chaoyi Divine Machine Battalion went to war, and its battalion used a large number of weapons such as bird guns, abduction guns, thunderbolt guns, five thunder god guns, and nine-headed birds.

It also collected 30 Shenwei General Cannons from all over the country to accompany the army, as well as a large number of rocket vehicles, including a variety of winged rockets such as "Divine Fire Flying Crows" and "Flying Thieves Shaking the Sky and Thunder", and countless cluster rockets such as "Hundred Tigers Running Together", "Swarming Bees", and "Flying Cheap Arrows".

The Shenji Battalion has Wang Chengen as the supervising army, and it is also the supervising army of the Jinzhou front.

Originally, he was a hidden soldier, and he was the godfather of Wu Sangui and others, who was familiar with Liao affairs, and it was best to use him as a supervisor of the army. However, after the Battle of the Giant Deer, he didn't know where to go, and everyone only thought that they were killed in the Battle of the Giant Deer, and after Lu Xiangsheng, they also carried out a series of rewards.

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doesn't say that the Beijing division is noisy, but it is said that after Wang Dou learned the news of Liaodong. The generals were immediately convened to discuss the meeting, but it was in the meeting hall of the Operations Section of the General Staff Division.

The General Staff Department is headed by Wen Fangliang as ambassador, and Han Chao, Zhong Xiancai, Zhong Tiaoyang, Gao Shiyin, Sun Sanjie, Wen Daxing, Li Guangheng, and Zhao Xuan are deputy envoys. The combat department also divided the divisions and studied the battle against Dongnu respectively. The strategy of the northern captives, the rogues, and the mountain bandits.

At this time, everyone gathered in the Dongnu Battle Hall, which was a huge hall, in which the staff officers praised paintings coming and going, and on the hall, there were a set of sand tables near the East Road, as well as Tumut, which was far away. Brief topographic maps of Karaqin, Chahar, etc.

There is also a topographic map of the sand table in Liaodong, and on several walls, there are huge maps of various places.

At this time, the proceedings are discussed. In addition to the ambassadors and deputy envoys of the General Staff Department, Chi Dacheng, Yang Guodong, Xie Yike, Wu Zhengchun, Shen Shiqi, Gao Xun, Lei Xianbin, Huang Yujin, Yin Yijin and others were also present, and there were also some heavyweight praise paintings, such as Qin Yi and others. There is also Wen Fangliang's uncle, who praises Wen Shiyan, who has been active over the years and frequently makes suggestions. At this time, he was also able to be present.

When Wen Daxing read out the information of Liaodong, the meeting hall immediately exploded. The controversy of the crowd is endless, and the reaction of each person. It is broadly divided into several categories.

There are Wen Fangliang, Han Chao, Wu Zhengchun and other "cautious, prudent, and serious factions", Gao Shiyin, Shen Shiqi and other "radical, dismissive factions", Zhong Xiancai, Zhong Tiaoyang, Gao Xun, Sun Sanjie and other balanced factions, Li Guangheng, Zhao Xuan and other indifferent factions.

Like Wang Dou's feast, such a military aircraft discussion, everyone does not need to take into account the official status, and can speak freely, so the controversy is very fierce.

Gao Shiyin shouted loudly: "Everyone, pay attention, although it is said that the Tartars have a lot of artillery birds, but our advantage is very obvious, our army is well-trained, the gunpowder is powerful, the gunners and gunners are piled up with the sub-medicine, the guns are extremely light, dare to ask, do the Tartars have this advantage?" ”

Shen Shiqi said: "Yes, the training and will of my Jingbian Army are comparable to those of the Tartars?" Back then, the great traitor Kong Youde used firearms to fight against our army, but he was defeated and collapsed! The Tartars of Liaodong have suffered a lot of losses from us, so Dongshi has followed suit and also produced artillery and birds, but they are Dongshi, we are Xishi, not a grade. ”…,

Everyone in the hall snickered, and Gao Shiyin's face shook a few times, but Shen Shiqi stood on the same line as him, but he couldn't say anything, scolded in a low voice, and continued to say loudly: "Some people just said that my artillery battalion only fights five catties of cannons at most, and the Tartars have Shenwei General Cannons, and they have more than ten catties of cannons, and they have advantages in range and power." ”

"But pay attention, the five-pound guns fired by my artillery battalion have the same range of two miles, which is not much worse than their ten-pound guns! Also, according to the intelligence, they had to use twelve oxen to pull a cannon, which was heavy and slow, and it took a long time to adjust a cannon. Our side can move quickly, hit hard when it is close, and when the range is close, can their guns beat us? ”

He suddenly said to Zhao Xuan: "Xiao Xuan'er, you said yes, right?" ”

Zhao Xuan was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously said: "Of course, the artillery battalion of my Jingbian Army is the first in Daming, cough cough." ”

Shen Shiqi said again: "Yes, fighting a war depends on skill and will, Tartar gunners, do you have so much gunpowder training from us?" Do we have so much experience with it? The cooperation between the infantry army and the artillery army, is we so in place? They cannons pushed up, and no one knew where to run. ”

Gao Shiyin said: "Others say how fierce the Tartars are, how fierce they are, but my Jingbian soldiers know that they are actually very afraid of death. Not to mention anything else, after the officers of our army are killed, they will be automatically connected below, and the command is still not chaotic, can the Tartars? Even if they have cannons, they are still barbarians, we are Chinese. ”

Shen Shiqi said: "Yes, they have guns or barbarians, we are getting stronger and stronger, more than half of our army suffered casualties in the battle of Julu that year, and they recovered quickly, can the Tartars?" If they could, there would be no need to train the Eight Banners Han Army. These traitor army is just a dog, don't look at the weight of the Tartar weapon now, be careful that the tail is too big, when these traitor army becomes wolves, they will bite the owner back, and then there will be a good show to watch......"

Looking at Gao Shiyin's money, Wang Dou couldn't help but nod, and Gao Shiyin also grew up.

After Gao Shiyin finished speaking, the hall was quiet, and Gao Shiyin couldn't help but be proud when he saw that everyone was being suppressed by himself.

Wen Fangliang coughed and said, "Lao Gao is right, pointing out the advantages of our army and the disadvantages of the enemy. But pay attention, the artillery and bird guns of the thief slaves are indeed trained. According to intelligence, they are likely to outnumber us in artillery. They still have a lot of heavy artillery, and I believe that our gunners have an advantage over gunners, but if their guns are there, it is still possible to inflict a large number of casualties on our troops, so we should take precautions. It cannot be left untaken into account. ”

Han Chao also looked solemn: "The two armies are fighting, it is impossible not to form a formation, in the dense array, our artillery." You can attack their array, they can, and the artillery shoots into the formation......"

For a while, everyone was a little silent, and even Gao Shiyin didn't speak. Among the people present, many people participated in the Battle of Julu, when the Qing soldiers used heavy artillery such as Hongyi twelve-pound cannon and Hongyi twenty-four-pound. It caused a lot of casualties to the Shunxiang army at that time, and it was still on the defensive at that time. If the opponent's artillery attacks during formation......

In recent years, the Jingbian army has fought against soldiers and thieves. Constant bombardment of their arrays with artillery often knocks them to the ground, and they can. And flesh and blood are so fragile in the face of metal, a hundred-battle sergeant, it's okay to be hit by a gun, but if he is hit by a cannon, there is no reason to live.

Wang Dou also sighed, although the accuracy of the smoothbore shell is poor, it is very lethal to the dense formation above 10,000 people, and it is a bloody road to run over all the way. Historically, Napoleon used a 12-pounder cannon to roll through 20 columns of spearmen with a solid bullet, and this dense array could not evade retreat, otherwise the army would definitely collapse in chaos. …,

Gao Shiyin actually wanted to say that there are no immortals in a war, it depends on who can survive to the end, but this is not easy to say, and there is no mercy for the lives of soldiers.

Wen Fangliang said: "This is the casualties of artillery, and there are also bird guns!" ”

He said: "The two sides are fighting in formation, you shoot me, I shoot you, the Tartars are as fine as the birds, and their bullets, hitting our army, will also cause casualties, this has to be considered." ”

Zhong Xiancai sighed and said: "The thieves and slaves have artillery guns, and the advantages of our division are a lot less, but there is a way to prevent guns and shells to reduce the casualties of sergeants?" ”

There are many opinions on this point, and some people say: "The front layer of the gun can use a shield." ”

However, after discussion, everyone thought that it was not possible, and there was no problem for the Seiko Bird Gun to shoot through the shield, and if the shield was broken, it would cause damage to the shield hand. Moreover, the use of the shield, during the battle, will cause chaos between the gunners, affecting the combat performance of each soldier.

Zhao Xuan shouted: "You can use the car camp, our chariot has always been stored in the warehouse, and it can be moved out and used, and the hardwood on the chariot is enough to block the opponent's bullets." ”

He is a fanatical supporter of the car camp, and the car camp has been useless all these years, and it has been kept in the warehouse, and Zhao Xuan is angry.

However, after everyone discussed, they refuted him with nonsense, using the car battalion would also cause chaos, and if the other party learned from the Jingbian Army and brought the artillery closer, the car battalion would be useless. Maybe the car battalion can only be used in offensive battles or defensive battles.

Shen Shiqi suddenly said: "When the other party fires, our guns can lie down, so that they can dodge the guns." ”

His words were immediately refuted by many people: "How to lie down? Lie down in the front or in the back? What if the front row lies down and the bullet hits the back? Or is the whole army lying down? What has it become, is it still called a battle array? Lie down a few more times, and the whole array will collapse! ”

Shen Shiqi touched his head embarrassedly and stopped talking.

Wu Zhengchun, who had been silent, suddenly said: "The intelligence says that the thief slave bird soldier also uses the fixed medicine?" ”

Everyone looked at Wen Daxing.

Wen Daxing sighed: "Yes. ”

Different from, the fixed cartridge ammunition has no technical content, the Qi family army used granular gunpowder, classified fixed ammunition, these years, Wang Dou led the rise of the Jingbian army, and there are many people who are concerned. For example, Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei, and Cao Bianjiao used fixed cartridge ammunition in the army, and the Qing people worked all over the Ming Dynasty, so it was impossible not to notice this.

However, the gunpowder advantages of the Jingbian Army are, first, manufacturing, the nitrate collection method adopted on the East Road, the gunpowder is very sufficient, and the rest of the army, regardless of the enemy or us, is far inferior in the production of nitrate. As for sulfur and other materials, there are many minerals in various places, such as Donglu, and there are many of them, and all parties are not worried, let alone carbon.

In addition, this is another major advantage of the Eastern Road, and the stability and power of the gunpowder produced by all sides are far from being comparable with those of the Jingbian Army.

Shen Shiqi muttered: "Damn, now there are more and more Dong Shi, shameless!" (To be continued.) )