Because of the prosperous commodity economy, the level of urbanization can be comparable to or even surpass that of the Song Dynasty, and her citizen culture is quite rich. [Full text reading]

In the feudal agricultural society, the richness of citizen culture is mainly reflected in the diversity and popularity of quyi works. For example, although it is located in the northwest border town, Zhang Xianzhong, who once served as a soldier in Yan'anwei, listened to storytelling in the teahouse of the Acropolis.

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a work of the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, and most of the citizens of the Ming Dynasty have heard about the commentary on "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". When Zhang Xianzhong was a soldier in Yan'anwei, the only book he heard was a small story about Guan Yu in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Although some time has passed, Zhang Xianzhong still remembers the storyteller's description of Guan Gong vividly.

Storytellers at the time described Guan Gong, who used an eighty-two-pound broadsword, as like a prehistoric monster with incredible power. It is said that when Guan Gong, who was in a state of small cosmic explosion, took a big knife, it was a terrifying situation of "dying if you touch it, and dying if you touch it".

As a martial artist, Zhang Xianzhong admires the huge combat power of Master Guan Gong. Having embarked on the road of rebellion, he sometimes imagined that he could have the kind of huge force that made people "die if they touch, and die if they touch".

However, unfortunately, on the one hand, it may be because the unit of measurement in the Han Dynasty is different from that of the Ming Dynasty, and on the other hand, because of Zhang Xianzhong's status, at most, he can come into contact with some bandits and bandits who can barely eat enough, or ordinary people who can't even eat enough and live on the edge of survival.

Not to mention that the units of measurement in the Han Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty were different, that is, there were really people like Guan Gong in the Ming Dynasty who could use an eighty-two pound broadsword as a weapon, and according to Zhang Xianzhong's social class, he couldn't see it at all.

Therefore, the legendary "death if touched, death if touched", Zhang Xianzhong has never had a chance to see the huge force.

Until today.

The development of artillery has also gone through the era of solid cannonballs and flowering shells as propellants and explosives, and has developed to the stage where both propellants and explosives use modern high spirits.

Before TNT and Black Sorkin were invented and widely used, the power of black powder shells was indeed fully developed due to advances in gunpowder processing technology.

However, when the potent powder was invented and applied, the power of the black powder cannonball became very weak.

Before 1625, because there was no qualified chemical enterprise in this time and space, the Revival Army remained in the era of fine black powder. By 1625, picric acid was successfully imitated by the efforts of the Ordnance Bureau of the Baath Party's Technology and Technology Institute. After the successful industrial production of picric acid, the imitation and production of TNT also achieved a breakthrough in that year.

So, in 1627, all the artillery of the Baath Army was loaded with TNTM shells.

Unlike the black powder cast-iron shells, the power of the TNT steel shells surprised the entire Baath Army. Compared to black powder cast iron shells, TNT steel shells have a better explosion effect and a larger killing range. And because of the use of new propellants, the cannon also had a longer range.

This kind of lethal effect is amazing, the maximum range can reach six kilometers of artillery, the revival army itself is surprised, has entered the era of industrialization of the revival army itself is surprised, so for Zhang Xianzhong's cold weapons are not complete, even the backward bronze cannon does not know what the peasant rebel army looks like, everyone can imagine how amazing the artillery effect of the revival army is.

After being stunned for about half a minute, Zhang Xianzhong's mind was filled with the words "If you touch it, you will die, and if you touch it, you will die".

The idea of the 1st Army Corps of the Northwest of the Baath Army was simple. They don't care about the tens of thousands of homeless people in front, who are cannon fodder, who have just made a move. The defensive line, consisting of wooden piles and barbed wire, may have been a bit weak in the eyes of the ancients, and no fortress walls had a defensive effect. But in fact, this kind of multi-layered defense line composed of trenches and barbed wire, the ancient people actually did not have the slightest solution.

Even the Baath Army let the tens of thousands of displaced people run to the front of the position, and those displaced people could only be helpless in front of the Baath Army's defensive line formed by trenches and barbed wire.

Therefore, the key target of the Fuxing Army's attack was Zhang Xianzhong's core cavalry, which existed as a supervising team and drove the displaced people to act as cannon fodder, riding horses.

Some of them are written about the crying of fathers and mothers when ancient people faced modern military strikes at the level of generation difference. This statement is actually unrealistic.

Let's take the current battle between the Renaissance Army and Zhang Xianzhong's rebel army. When the TNT steel cannonballs with amazing lethal effects exploded in Zhang Xianzhong's cavalry unit located in the rear, Zhang Xianzhong's cavalry unit, which had considerable combat effectiveness in the late Ming Dynasty, was a war horse scattered and fleeing in addition to the flying flesh and blood.

Zhang Xianzhong's cavalry didn't have the kung fu to cry for his father and mother. After the sensitive animal such as the war horse came into contact with the attack of the shell at the level of time and space, the loud explosion immediately made these fragile animals collapse. All the horses were badly startled by the explosion.

The frightened horses didn't care about the reaction of the riders on their backs, they were all frightened and kicked off the humans on their backs, and then scattered in all directions.

When faced with an extremely sudden situation, human beings will enter a state of stunnedness. In fact, this is a spontaneous protective response of the human brain to the human body. This stunned process is actually allowing human beings to have a process that can slowly adapt to unexpected situations.

You can imagine how much damage a violently rising blood pressure would have done to a person without this stunned process. Come to think of it, isn't this how so many cerebral hemorrhages come from in modern society?

Zhang Xianzhong was truly stunned by the sudden arrival of the Revival Army, which fell from the sky and surpassed the current cognitive ability of human beings.

Even when the war horse under his crotch began to run aimlessly, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't understand what kind of encounter he had suffered.

It's not that Zhang Xianzhong hasn't seen what a cannon looks like, and of course he hasn't seen the kind of Hongyi cannon that is "ten miles of might". But when he was a soldier in Yan'anwei, what was a tiger squat cannon, what was a Franco machine, he had seen these small bronze artillery.

Zhang Xianzhong has even seen several actual combat launches of this small cannon. At that time, Zhang Xianzhong was still very dissatisfied with these small cannons, thinking that these cumbersome and cumbersome weapons "are also a large firecracker." ”

And so it is. Zhang Xianzhong began to rebel in 1624, and fought no less than a dozen battles in Shaanxi and Shanxi, the military centers of the Ming Dynasty, and various officials and troops, including the border towns and border soldiers who were known as the strongest in the Ming Dynasty. In Zhang Xianzhong's eyes, the border soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are powerful, and that is because the officers of the guard post in the border town have strong men trained according to the Tatar cavalry.

If it weren't for the families of these border town officers who were very good at riding and fighting like Tartars, the infantry who were cannon fodder in ordinary Daming border towns would not be qualified to fight against their horse teams at all.

In Zhang Xianzhong's heart, the only thing that might really pose a threat to him was the Jiading cavalry in the border town. Even for the cavalry in the border towns, Zhang Xianzhong also thinks that they are not to worry. He felt that as long as the scale of the cannon fodder homeless people charging into the battle was large enough, the Jiading cavalry in the border town was actually not his opponent.

Zhang Xianzhong's confidence in military affairs was found in the nine-sided border soldiers with the most military strength in the Ming Dynasty. In this era, being able to fight with the Ming border soldiers is comparable to winning and losing, and it is indeed something to be proud of and enough to build up one's military confidence.

However, in the face of the revival army, which has surpassed Zhang Xianzhong for hundreds of years in all aspects, Zhang Xianzhong's military ability and confidence are very ridiculous.

That's because the first round of firing of the first batch of twenty cannons of the First Army in the Northwest of the Fuxing Army collapsed Zhang Xianzhong's core troops

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