Chapter 256: Artillery vs. Stone Cannon
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As the saying goes, there are 10,000 people, and there is no boundary. The 180,000 rebels lined up and looked spectacular.
However, Jin Yiwei fought a battle with the rebels last time, with 5,000 to 20,000, and he knows the strength of the rebels quite well. They saw the overwhelming number of rebels, and although they were a little nervous, they were not afraid.
Although Chen Guoqi and Wu Huping did not sleep all night, they were very warlike and asked to take the cavalry to kick the enemy's camp, vowing to kill seven in and seven out.
Zhu Youcheng's face was solemn, and he pointed to the arrangement in front of the rebels and said: "Guoqi, Huping, your plan to kick the camp will not work." You see, what is that? ”
The horse is very tall and can be seen very clearly without a telescope.
Chen Guoqi said: "It's just a rejection of the horse." The rejection of the horse is dead, the cavalry is alive, we can bypass the rejection of the horse. With just a gap, we can give the rebels a taste of horseshoe. ”
Zhu Youcheng shook his head and said, "I don't mean the rejection of the horse, the two of you pick up the binoculars and look at the team behind the rejection of the horse." ”
Wu Huping glanced at it, gasped, and said, "Spear formation? ”
Zhu Youcheng nodded and said, "Yes, spear formation!" Remember the first year of the Apocalypse? At that time, the emperor had not ordered me to form the Xizhen Fusi, nor did he allocate war horses to us, and the battle formation that Jinyiwei often trained at that time was the spear battle array-the spear battle array of the Zhuan Ke cavalry. Unexpectedly, the Jinyi Guard had cavalry, and there was a spear battle formation in the enemy army. It seems that there are many high-ranking people in the rebels. But who is this man? It should not be Yiren, because Guizhou has many mountains and few cavalry. So the spear array is of little effect, and no one will study it. Those who study it must have dealt with cavalry on a regular basis, and more likely were cavalrymen themselves. There are very few such people in Guizhou, is it Jiannu? ”
Speaking of this, he couldn't help but laugh. Jiannu is in the north, and Guizhou is in the south. How could they have colluded? Besides, the old slave chief Nuer Ha Chi has just died, and his sons are fighting to the death for the throne, so how can they have the energy to take care of Guizhou's affairs.
A soldier who was monitoring the enemy rushed over and reported: "My lord, the enemy army is building siege equipment, you see, there it is. ”
Siege engines? All three of them were shocked, although now the sky was clear. But the firecracker is still unusable, and when it comes to long-range siege equipment, it really has to suffer a big loss.
The three of them raised their binoculars and looked in the direction of the soldier's fingers, and saw that one hundred and fifty paces from the city wall, the rebels were building a bracket, next to which was a huge wooden pillar with a long handle and a spoon.
"Cast, catapult!" The catapult is also called a stone cannon, Wu Huping saw this thing in his father's army when he was a child, and knew how terrible this thing was. Face countless stones falling from the sky. Except for praying to the gods for help, it is impossible to think at all.
Zhu Youcheng sneered. Is it really a soft persimmon? Bullying Jinyi doesn't have a ranged attack weapon, right? He shouted: "Left and right, call Wei Tai and ask him to bring ten tiger squat cannons and use the artillery to smash their catapults." Today I'm going to use artillery against the rebels' stone cannons and see which one is more powerful. ”
Because it was temporarily stationed in Longli City, Wei Tai did not remove the tiger squat cannon from the carriage yesterday. However, during the night I heard that there were a large number of enemies besieging the city. It is estimated that this time the artillery may have a chance to kill the enemy, and they have made preparations early. Now that he received Zhu Youcheng's order, Wei Tai was overjoyed, and it was finally the turn of the artillery to exert its might.
He instructed his soldiers to bring ammunition and carry the tiger cannon up the city wall. Although the bronze cast cannon body is very heavy. But there were many people who couldn't stand the Jinyi guard, and the tiger squat cannon and the gun mount were quickly lifted up the city wall.
The rebel craftsmen have already put the lever of the catapult on and are debugging. Now is the time to race against the clock, and whoever launches a ranged weapon first will have the upper hand.
Zhu Youcheng, Chen Guoqi, and Wu Huping watched the orderly movements of the artillerymen and were anxious. Zhu Youcheng is still a bit of a city, and he can't see anything on the surface; Wu Huping frowned, his feet stomped on the ground; Chen Guoqi was so anxious that he rolled up his sleeves, if he didn't consider that he had never fired a cannon, going up would only add to the chaos, maybe he would rush over to help.
Wei Tai set up the cannon and asked, "My lord, what is the goal?" ”
Before Zhu Youcheng could speak, Chen Guoqi pointed to the catapult and said, "It's that catapult." ”
Wei Tai commanded the soldiers to adjust the angle of the cannon and shouted: "Target catapult, flower shell fire." ”
The artillerymen filled the cannonballs into the Tiger Squat Cannon, lit the fuses, covered their ears, and leaned to the side.
"Boom, boom, boom" shells rained down on the catapults.
Wei Tai was a good hand at artillery warfare, and he knew that the priority was to make it impossible for the catapult to be fired. The most fundamental way to achieve this goal is to destroy the catapult, but if it is fired in a hurry, the accuracy of the cannonball is limited, and it may not be able to blow up the catapult. However, catapults do not work on their own, so as long as the person operating the catapult is killed, the catapult cannot be fired. And the flowering shells blow up people, that is one bomb and one accurate.
After a while, an earth-shattering explosion sounded on the enemy's catapult position, and then there were no more enemy troops standing next to the catapult. In fact, the flowering shells did not kill all the people next to the catapults, and many rebels were lying on the ground. They were so frightened by the sudden explosion that they fell to the ground, praying in their hearts for the protection of the gods and Buddhas. At this time, they said that they would not get up at all. Didn't you see the tall man standing next to the catapult? The whole person was torn apart, his head was rolling on the ground, one leg was hanging in the spoon of the catapult, and as for the other parts, it was estimated that the immortals would not be able to find them. Next to the catapult, there is really a river of blood, who dares to move.
Chen Guoqi saw a catapult swaying from side to side, but it returned to its original position and did not collapse, he felt great regret in his heart, and couldn't help scolding: "Weitai, how did you make such a big move, you didn't even blow up a trebuchet, what's the use of Jinyi Weiyou?" ”
Wei Tai smiled slightly and said, "Lord Pacification, the cannonball just now is a murderer, and the next cannonball is the one that explodes the trebuchet, you can see." ”
After saying that, he commanded loudly: "Target." Trebuchet main beam, solid cannonball fire! ”
Hearing the explosion, An Bangyan, An Wei father and son, and Su Ertai left the tent together and came out to see what was going on. They were all amazed that the catapult actually threw artillery, and this experience is worth promoting. It seems that God blesses the people. Even the stone cannons have become fine.
Seeing that the muzzle of the cannon in the black hole on the city wall was billowing with light smoke, An Bangyan's nose was almost crooked. What the? Long Liwei actually has artillery, why didn't Tan Ma find out this news? Knowing this, he should have pulled out the stronghold of the Ming army in Longliwei and destroyed the artillery inside.
Surtai said: "All the artillery of the surrounding guards has been transferred to Guiyang, and these artillery pieces are probably not left behind by Long Liwei. This Zhu Youcheng is also too shameless, he actually came from Beijing with artillery, as well as artillery! I am not afraid of heavy artillery and tired Jinyi guards. ”
For the first time, these three people were concerned about the logistics of Jinyiwei.
Complained for a while. Anwei asked, "Surtai, what do you have to do?" ”
Surtai pondered for a while, estimating that Zhu Youcheng would not stop firing the cannon, and when the catapult was set up, he would fight against the rebels, and then said: "It seems that the only way to move the catapult back is to move." ”
An Bangyan frowned and said, "Such a heavy catapult, it's inconvenient to move." ”
It didn't take long for Jin Yiwei to address An Bangyan's concerns, and he no longer had to carry heavy catapults. Because half of the catapult was broken by the second round of solid cannons, the main beam was broken, and it became a large pile of rotten wood. When Ahn Bangyan was grieving over the half-destroyed catapult. The third round of solid shells came again, and none of the remaining catapults were saved, all of them turned into pieces of wood.
Seeing that An Bangyan did not have the courage to make a decision on the spot, Surtai overstepped his orders and ordered: "The craftsman who has not died has retreated to the position of two hundred paces and erected the catapult again. ”
Sultai is an outsider. He was just a strategist in the rebels, and his orders were useless. But this time he gave the order to retreat, and as soon as the rebel craftsmen heard that they could retreat, they should not hurry up and retreat from the place where the Jinyi Guard's artillery was desperately greeted.
An Bangyan saw that Surtai gave the order without authorization. I was a little annoyed in my heart, but now was the time to work together with the outside world, and it was inconvenient to turn my face and coax inside, so I held back my anger and prepared to wait for the occupation of Guiyang, and then find him to settle accounts with the Autumn Queen.
The craftsmen once again instructed the rebels to build catapults, and anyway, the rebels had prepared enough materials and were not afraid of wasting them.
While the craftsmen and rebels were in full swing, a loud "boom" suddenly sounded on the walls of Long Liwei.
The craftsmen were so frightened that they fled in all directions, far from the unfinished catapults. They have discovered that whoever gets closer to the catapult is more unlucky.
Jinyiwei released a flowering bomb this time, which did not do much damage to the catapult made of logs, but the lethality to people was huge, and the rebels who did not flee far were either killed or wounded. Then two more rounds of solid shells, and the catapult turned into broken wood again.
An Bangyan was afraid that Surtai would give orders on his behalf again, so he shouted first: "Everyone retreat to the position of two hundred and fifty paces and set up the catapult again!" ”
There is no doubt that this time the catapult was once again destroyed by the Jinyi Guard. Jinyiwei is also too lacking in morality, and two kinds of shells are fired alternately, first firing flowering shells to kill people, and then firing solid shells to destroy trebuchets. Can't you just be single-minded? Either kill people or hit my stone cannons. How can we take your city without such a bully?
After retreating to the position of four hundred paces, the trebuchet was finally set up. However, when the trebuchet was being adjusted, Ahn Bangyan's nose was once again crooked.
Of the 22 stone shells test-fired, seven fell 150 paces in front of the city wall, and the other fifteen, not at all, were used on the rebels in front. Four of the rounds smashed two of the horses alive, and the remaining eleven killed and wounded more than 30 rebels. Well, the power of the stone cannon is indeed not small. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Pay attention to ~ point / official account (WeChat add friends - add official account - enter it), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to the WeChat public account! (To be continued......)
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