In a war where there is not much gap in equipment, the key factor that determines victory or defeat is to respond in a timely and accurate manner.

Although the loss of more than 50 gun emplacements, compared with the more than 500 shore defense gun positions of the Humen Fort, such a loss was not fatal, first the whole artillery group fired, and then the three groups of 150 guns continued to bombard, the explosion of the flowering shells after the concentrated explosion of the air waves on the river surface, dispelled the condensed fog of war, and the appearance of the British warships can also be seen as a general idea.

The concentrated artillery fire, not simple shooting, made the entire British fleet, in a short period of time into a dangerous situation, many battleships have begun to fire out of the fleet, although there is still a faint smoke, but the fireing warships, can already be regarded as clearly distinguishable.

"Bronze cannon, focus on one battleship, and knock them out one by one!"

The smoke on the river was blown away, this is a fighter, for the English battleship, Yang Meng didn't want to let go when he encountered it, taking over the command of these three giant cannons, for Wang Fengyou, it was not a substitute, after all, his ability was limited, and commanding other artillery in Humen was enough for him to be busy.

The roar of the giant cannon sounded, but the result was not satisfactory, the wounded battleship, in the move, hit the fixed target, the artillery has a considerable accuracy, but the moving target, even if it has been honed for a long time, many times still depends on luck, after all, the accuracy of this artillery is not high enough to point where to hit the Cheng dù.

Although the white copper cannon did not concentrate on the target, it also exploded near the target, the shells used in the Humen Fort. It's a flowering bomb. Huge waves on the river. It was enough to threaten the British warships, and in Yang Meng's opinion, the fleet of Ergin, who had tested this kind of Cheng Dù, could already retreat.

However, the development of this battle situation is often unexpected, and Yang Meng's side has responded, and the British side is the same. Compared with the response made by the Humen Fort after Yang Meng's arrival, the response speed of the British army was undoubtedly timely and accurate.

This kind of response is not something that can be learned from books, it needs to be honed by a thousand hammers in actual combat, and the artillery fire in front of Humen is a little sparse, but the artillery fire in the dead corner area shows a considerable density.

The Humen Fort is not an all-round, no dead end battery, based on the original fort only expanded the quantity and quality of artillery Humen Fort, the dead end is still the same. This dead end is something that the British army accurately grasped, the artillery fire of the dead end. Although the threat to most of Humen is not great, the group of gun positions within the scope of artillery fire can only be beaten passively.

"Third master, Wang Fengyou asked for the order to remove the manpower on that batch of gun positions, and the white copper cannon shot at the dead corner of the Humen Fort!"

Wang Fengyou's response this time was quite decent, and this should be the way it should be, although the gun emplacements covered by artillery fire in the dead corner area were somewhat threatening to the British warships on the river, but with the deepening and intensification of the artillery fire, the role of these gun emplacements was very limited.

"Do as he says!"

The three white copper cannons have almost no dead end area, but the threat of three guns to the dead end area is still too small, and the dead angle attack, although not fatal to Humen, is very troublesome.

The loss of each gun position will expand the activity area of the British battleships, Wang Fengyou gave up a part of the gun positions, and the British warships were able to attack one more area, and the advantage was once again pulled back by the British army, and the only thing left for the Humen Fort was passive beating and scattered artillery bombardment.

"Ministry, according to the direction of the smoke on the river, the British warships have dispersed and are attacking on the river, how should we deal with it?"

Wu Yuanyou, as the old oilman of the green battalion, is still very experienced, the army can distinguish the number of troops and the elite according to the dust brought by the march, and the sailors can also determine the formation of the British warships according to the direction of the smoke.

"Coping? This is Wang Fengyou's business, let Wang Fengyou talk about it! ”

Flexible use is easy to say, difficult to do, after seeing the British army's response, the strength of the new army and the British army can already be distinguished, although the new army is trained in actual combat, but training is training after all, far less than the battlefield of life and death to the grinding of soldiers, in terms of experience and response, the new army is undoubtedly the weak side.

"Wang Fengyou, how are you going to deal with such a situation?"

Yang Meng generally has a way to deal with it in his heart, but it is Wang Fengyou who commands the battle, and if he wants to produce talents in the new army, Yang Meng can't take power at this time.

Moreover, the current tactics of the British army are not a big threat to Humen, and now it is an endurance war, and the British army should want to use Humen's long-term uninterrupted artillery bombardment to abolish most of Humen's artillery.

Although three groups of guns were used to fire in turn, the firing time of the guns was short, and after a period of time, the guns had to stop firing and cool down, otherwise the risk of exploding would be countless times higher.

"In view of the tactics of the British army, most of the artillery in Humen should be allowed to cease fire, and the rest of the artillery should keep shooting sporadically! What does the third master think? ”

Wang Fengyou has figured out the purpose of the British army, this is called an epiphany on the battlefield, right? Wang Fengyou's response during this period of time can barely be regarded as a qualified general.

"You are the Humen guard, how to deal with it is your Wang Fengyou's business, Lao Tzu is just here to watch the battle, you watch it!"

Giving Wang Fengyou more power, making him feel his pressure, and allowing him to further understand what he has learned is what Yang Meng wants to do, and it is also something he wants to verify.

Now it seems that only war is the only way to train a strong army, and without a certain amount of casualties and without taking a detour, even if it is a new army that has been tempered for a long time, it is only a recruit with a better foundation.

"Wu Junmen, Fengyou also needs your help next, and now the English warships, the position of the slamming battery, and the tidal flat in front of Humen, have been abandoned by them.

In order to give the British warships a blow, the artillery battalion needed to go up.

If the British warships wanted to shell Humen, whether it was a formation or a scattered shelling, they had to face the tidal flats of Humen, as long as the artillery battalion of more than 12 pounds of artillery was added to the Humen armory. Stored artillery. Lined up on the Humen tidal flats. It was also extremely effective in killing and damaging British warships.

At that time, the combination of the artillery positions of the fort and the tidal flat is enough for the British army to drink a good pot, once the British artillery bombardment the tidal flat, the manpower of Wu Junmen will be withdrawn, and the combination of the artillery position of the fort and the tidal flat can also make the British army difficult to take care of. ”

Wang Fengyou's way of coping. Let Yang Meng have a feeling of amazement, it seems that his way is still right, without deep and solid basic knowledge, Wang Fengyou wants to come up with such an amazing method in a short period of time, it is impossible to come up with such an amazing method, the initial dullness, the flexibility in the middle stage, and the amazing in the later stage, Wang Fengyou's way should be the way of the generals of the new army. In actual combat, the contents of the stomach are constantly used in the war. It is the Yunnan New Army, the key to truly becoming a strong army.

"Not bad! Wang Fengyou, make persistent efforts, and the new army will have a place for you in the future!

After this artillery battle, according to your method, build artillery positions in a straight line to block the river in the tidal flats of Humen and Dawan, and look at the angle of British artillery fire, and the burden of building and designing fortifications will be handed over to you. ”

Humen made a mistake, of course, there is also Yang Meng's responsibility, before he believed too much in the power of cluster artillery, but compared to the wide Pearl River estuary, the number of artillery in Humen Fort is still far from enough, if Humen has 5,000 guns, a few salvos are afraid that the British fleet will not exist.

But 5,000 artillery pieces cost tens of millions, even Yang Meng, who is wealthy, does not have this ability! Five hundred artillery pieces is already a lot for the Humen Fort, and the defense system is too simple, which is the real weakness of the Humen.

The three-dimensional defense system of land, sea and air, Yang Meng can't build it now, but the defense system combining sea and land is still not much difficult, and mines, gunboats or other means of attack on the water are still very effective for the Gongwei Fort, and it is also very cost-effective.

Relying on mines, the wooden drainage city sank three warships of the British army, if there were more mines, if there were torpedoes and other things, could the British army still shell Humen so unscrupulously?

Since Yang Meng came, the shells poured out of Humen are afraid that they are several times that of the British fleet, and how can an ordinary twenty-four-pound flowering shell cost about ten taels of silver, and thousands of them are poured out, which is much more expensive than the consumption of cast artillery.

In war, the cost of equipment is fixed, and the consumption of these equipment is the real cost of money, a shot of lead bullet, a few grams of more than a dozen grams or dozens of grams of foreign medicine, the price is very small, but hundreds of thousands of people, millions of people, non-stop shooting? This kind of consumption is the real burning of money.

Cheap and effective killing and injuring the enemy is the purpose of the army, which is also Yang Meng's secret creation of white. Phosphorus. The reason for the bullet is a white. Phosphorus. The bullet may be worth tens or hundreds of taels of silver, but the damage he caused was extremely terrifying.

Positional warfare, siege warfare, a hundred whites. Phosphorus. The power of the bullet is probably stronger than the lethality caused by thousands of bullets, hundreds of thousands or even millions of bullets. Phosphorus. The cost of the bullet will also drop rapidly, and for a while, white. Phosphorus. The cost of the bullet is not necessarily higher than that of the flowering bullet, this is a cheap and effective weapon to kill the enemy, as for cruelty or not, that is not a matter of the army, but something that politicians need to explain, the purpose of building an army is only to kill!

Compared with artillery shells, the threat of mines to warships is undoubtedly greater, and the cost of manufacturing, this mine is afraid that a few ordinary people have received a certain amount of training, and can be manufactured by hand, and a flowering bullet with normal power requires at least a dozen people, several or a dozen machines to work together.

War, on the surface, is fought by the combat power of the armies of both sides, but in fact it is fought by each other's national strength and industrial level, under the normal operation of the country, how much food and how much military expenditure can be taken out by a country, which determines the number of troops; The industrial level of a country determines the combat strength of the army, the range of firearms and the magnitude of their power are determined by the industrial level, and the density of firepower is also closely related to the industrial level.

On the industrial base, even after several years of development, the provinces under Yang Meng's rule are still not as good as England, although the scale of the military industry built by Yang Meng in these years is very large, but the continuous production capacity is restricted by the national strength, and it is difficult for the deformed industry to maintain a long-term war.

The reason for this is also simple, just two words: food! Once the war begins, the import of food from outside will be greatly reduced, and it is very likely that the external food supply will be cut off as a result.

The four major lakes in the south of the Yangtze River have not yet arrived, and the grange under the jurisdiction of the Yang family can be self-sufficient in terms of output, but how many people are under the jurisdiction of the Yang family?

The population of Yunnan and Tibet basically belongs to the Yang family, Guizhou and Guangxi can reach seven or eight percent, Sichuan four or five percent, two lakes and Guangdong two or three percent, Anhui and Jiangxi one or two percent, two Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Yang family large-scale granges are few, Zhili, Shandong, Henan and the northwest land, even less, the entire Qing Dynasty 40,000 people, Yang Meng's rule of the people is more than 10,000 points, the four major lakes in the south of the Yangtze River into their own hands, the population of the Yang family can be rich in food and clothing, what to do with the rest of the people?

With a population of 30,000,000 and a great famine, it can take the lives of millions of people, and with military strength, Yang Meng can close the gap with the great powers in a short period of time, but what about national strength? If three-quarters of the people in the country are hungry, even if the war is fought on the mainland, what are Yang Meng's chances of winning?

A large population means more potential soldiers, but it also means a huge burden! Failure to curb the war at home and put the Qing Dynasty's agriculture on the right track meant that Yang Meng could not launch a long-term, large-scale war.

The strength of the military is not the key, nor is the level of the industrial level, the key is the strength of the national strength, as long as the country can maintain, the chance of victory will be eighty or ninety, and the country can hardly sustain itself, so it can only fight a demonstrative battle. (To be continued......)