159 No embarrassment of artillery
"Zhao Yan, have you mastered all the 'grenades' we made?" Hong Tiancheng put down the monoculars and said to Zhao Yan, who was wearing armor and armor beside him.
"Your Majesty the Emperor of Qiqi, I have arranged for the strong soldiers of the headquarters to train and master the grenade, there is no problem with throwing, but the lethality of the grenade is not ideal, a grenade can not be completely destroyed even by three wooden people standing together, the deterrent effect is higher than the actual lethality, if it is our headquarters elite musketeers encounter these thrown grenade bombardment, at most it will only slightly cause the scattering of the formation, and will not affect the order of the overall battle line."
"That's enough, if our enemy had the morale of the elite musketeers of our army headquarters, we would have been defeated a long time ago, where could we still stand on this land? In terms of population, materials, social productive forces, and other national comprehensive strengths, we are not as good as the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, but they are forced by us to the point of desperateness.
Under the backward feudal system, our enemies could not even mobilize the strength of the entire country, and our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was just fighting against a group of aristocratic knights who sat on the heads of most of the poor people, and they did not have much advantage, and our loyal and fearless Taiping soldiers will surely achieve the final victory! ”
Hong Tiancheng commented in high spirits.
Zhao Yan nodded in agreement after hearing this, but then frowned and asked worriedly: "Your Majesty the Heavenly King, if we overthrow the feudal ruling class of the European whitekees and promote the national revolutions in European countries, how should we deal with it?" ”
Hong Tiancheng glanced at Zhao Yan meaningfully, and replied word by word: "It's better not to have that kind of thing happen, otherwise the land of Europe will be full of blood, and your life and I will become extremely difficult!" ”
Hong Tiancheng said this sentence at the same time, his mind was also thinking about this possibility, although the 17th century was far from the realm of national ideology, but the possibility of peasant uprising is still very large, the poor ghost serfs in Europe are not brainless livestock without the spirit of resistance, I don't know how many large-scale uprisings have been set off in history, but because the number of nobles with leadership ability in the serf uprising is very small, the peasant uprising is only a group of rabble in the face of the asymmetric war of the knight corps, it was not successful.
However, once the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom really overthrew the feudal system in Europe and established a military dictatorship empire, it was bound to exile the vast majority of the aristocratic class with knowledge reserves to the bottom of society, and at that time, the aristocratic intellectuals with combat experience and incitement power combined with the serfs and civilians who accounted for the vast majority of the population, the superposition of power was not just as simple as 1+1, and it was very likely to detonate a powder keg of race war!
The power of the people has always been strong, what they lack is only a capable leadership group, the aristocratic class in continental Europe is more stable than the gentry class in the East, and the aristocratic class with intellectual property rights and educational ability rarely really integrates into the bottom of society, so the peasant uprisings in Europe, no matter how large, will be easily disintegrated, and they cannot lift the vast scale of the peasant uprisings in the Eastern countries.
Although it is not possible to read people to react, but in the truly successful peasant uprising, the most indispensable thing is precisely the readers, any successful peasant uprising in history has a certain number of scholars to join, knowledge is power!
It is precisely because of this that Hong Tiancheng will not give up the encirclement of the surrendered white aristocratic class when he is powerful, and he cannot completely eliminate the contact between the exiled aristocracy and the bottom of society, and can only use the method of co-opting to weaken the number of opponents of the aristocratic class with intellectual power as much as possible.
When Hong Tiancheng and Zhao Yan were talking, the artillerymen on both sides had begun to speak one after another, but there seemed to be a bit of a big gap with the artillery battle scene expected by Hong Tiancheng......
Although the artillery hit rate in the Lithuanian aristocratic coalition army was very low, it at least occasionally shot into the infantry formation of the Taiping army, setting off a bloody storm, on the other hand, the dozen or so artillery pieces of the Taiping army bombarded for most of the hour, and not a single shell fell into the enemy group!
Hong Tiancheng, who had been paying attention to the battlefield, was very puzzled and sent someone to question the officer in charge of artillery, and came to an unexpected conclusion - there were no soldiers in the Taiping Army who could use artillery......
Hong Tiancheng was slightly stunned and looked at the Taiping Army officer who was called in charge of artillery: "Didn't we catch a few white soldiers who can shoot artillery?" Didn't they teach our soldiers to fire? Why can't you still hit it accurately?! ”
"Your Majesty, the white artillerymen we captured were not professional artillerymen, the real artillerymen were requisitioned and killed in the Battle of Mozili as early as that battle, and the artillery prisoners captured by our army in the Polesiye area were actually just ordinary people who could shoot artillery, they only knew the specific steps of firing artillery, but they did not know how to fire the artillery.
Even in the regular army of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, artillery is a rare technical class, and the number is small and very precious......
In fact, our soldiers can ensure that they do not explode during the firing process, which is already considered to be a super level of performance, and they can't aim at them at all......" The Taiping Army officer who was called said with a sad face.
"Damn, I finally captured a dozen cannons, but no one could shoot them accurately! Forget it, you let the artillery stop point save ammunition, and the province will accidentally hit our own people when it launches an attack! Hong Tiancheng waved his hand irritably.
"His Majesty the Heavenly King is really wise, and his subordinates just wanted to ask if they could stop the shelling when the infantry attacked, because those artillerymen themselves were not sure that they would not hit their own people when our infantry attacked......"
Hong Tiancheng: "............"
"The professionalism of the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army in the total war system is really strong, the infantry does not use artillery at all, and those old artillery guns do not seem to be difficult to operate, why is it so difficult to shoot accurately?"
In the interval between Hong Tiancheng's heart's complaints, the Taiping army's artillery gradually stopped, and the horn of the Taiping army's attack sounded, and then, the drums of the Taiping army's elite musketeers who had long been on standby sounded in unison, and a small horizontal phalanx marched forward with the beat of the drum like an honor guard.
The phalanx of small horizontal formations was like waves on the uneven ground, and under the guidance of the officers, they gradually merged into a single horizontal formation.