Chapter 35: The Artillery of the Battle
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Artillery is the god of war, but originally it was only for the defense of the city. In this time and space, Cheng Pan, a person with victimization compulsive disorder, understood the tactics of artillery cluster bombardment for the first time in a field battle. Since Cheng Pan's configuration of the artillery is in a state of half a bottle of water, he is in line with the strategy that more is better and big is beautiful. Ninety percent of the province's one-piece guns were brought at once. A huge number of a hundred doors. A total of 600 men waited on this huge artillery group. This unscientific configuration is definitely problematic. If it is a European general in the Napoleonic period, it can be restrained by targeted tactics. However, Cheng Pan, the opponent of the half-commander, was still in the era of cold weapon warfare, and he did not have enough understanding of artillery. The distance of the formation was based on the maximum power of the cavalry charge, and he did not know that he was under Cheng Pan's gun.
Zhu Zichou, a parabolic genius, is now using a telescope to observe and estimate the distance on the opposite side, and keeps reporting the azimuth and elevation angles. Since the distance on the other side is so close, he is simply using himself as a target. Zhu's self-raised artillery cluster is at a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Perhaps after seeing the power of artillery, there will never be a commander who has put such a dense force within the range of an artillery cluster.
Dudagula was the vanguard of the assault group, and Mozhigen gave him all the cavalry in his hands, allowing him to break through the eastern flank of the thief army and oppress the Chinese army. And after the cavalry, he will follow 1ooo armored infantry to cover the kill. In previous cavalry engagements, Dudagula learned that the thieves were sharp in their firearms. And after the investigation, the foot soldiers on the opposite side also had firearms in their hands. Duda Gula is not a local military household. He had seen the Emperor's guard firearms army in most of the capital, and the scale was far less than the number of thieves in front of him, on the one hand, the combat strength was weak, and there was no bow and arrow practicality. Firearms, on the other hand, are expensive.
But after the rain of bullets from the cavalry on the opposite side, Du Dagula did not dare to despise the riflemen on the opposite side, and at the same time marveled at the wealth of the Huangzhou thieves. Du Dagula looked at the opposite side in such a thin formation, and comforted himself in his heart: "The opposite side is obvious, I don't know how to fight, I think there are strong firearms rampant in the township, so I do whatever I want, I don't know that I rely on courage on the battlefield" He was right ninety percent of his idea, Cheng Pan has indeed never fought, and he has indeed been bullying people with the advantage of weapons, and fighting does rely on courage, the only mistake is that he underestimated Cheng Pan's demon Cheng Dù who made weapons.
In order to save the strength of the horse, Du Dagula led the cavalry queue to set up a charging formation on the east side, looking at the thief soldiers with nervous faces on the opposite side, Du Dagula began to drum up before the battle, he raised his scimitar high and shouted: "There is no advance or retreat in this battle, after breaking the enemy, the three counties will be in the big rope for three days." After Dudagula finished speaking, more than a thousand horsemen were on their horses, and there was a howling wolf howl. After the scimitar of Dudagula was swung. The charge to the death began.
At the same time as the Dudagula scimitar was waved, the command flag of the Chinese artillery group was also waved. After receiving the waiting order, the musketeers on the east flank quickly changed formation, revealing ten black holes and cannon muzzles. Dudagula saw that the exposed cannon was secretly bad. Didn't wait for him to react. The excited artillerymen inserted the incense sticks that had been prepared for a long time. The muzzles of the ten black holes flashed, and a burst of bright light appeared. Then a large number of heavy shrapnel swooped down on the cavalry group three hundred meters away from the muzzle of the cannon like a volcanic eruption. And the cavalry, which was just in the initial stage, was attacked head-on. A large number of cavalry fell on the start of the charge, blocking the route of the subsequent cavalry charge, and the entire front formation was chaotic.
Luckily, Dudagula was shot in the arm and not in the bone, but the pain caused him to drop the knife.
The blow caused more than a hundred casualties, although it was very low compared to the total number of cavalry. But interrupted the steps of the cavalry group. At the same time, the morale of the musketeers on the eastern flank was raised. Recruits who were nervous in the face of a huge cavalry group. After the sound of the cannon, the courage suddenly grew.
After the heavy shotgun fire on the eastern flank was fired, several Chinese corrective guns were fired at the same time, and ten solid shells smashed into the chaotic cavalry group. In Jianghuai, a land frozen hard by the cold wind of early winter, the effect of ricochet is very good, and these solid bullets bring out a road of flesh and blood with limbs and internal organs flying in the crowd of horses.
After observing the effect of the corrective shelling, Zhu Zichou reported the number of fine-tuning for each group. Dozens of seconds later, a more ferocious swarm of solid bullets flew in. It was precisely because the distance on the opposite side was too suitable for artillery bombardment, and in order to ensure the density of artillery fire, Zhu Zifu increased the charge in each gun, and each gun was loaded with two solid shells. One hundred and fifty large iron balls whirled and swirled, drifting into the cluster of human flesh and horse meat in a perfect arc, stirring them more evenly.
Since, the artillery was fired in a row, in batches in short bursts. The soldiers in the cavalry can see rows of bouncing iron balls, advancing gradually and quickly, if you look at it from a high altitude, the screams in the entire cavalry group, and the flesh and blood flying sideways are also in a ribbon like a wave that affects the entire cavalry group in a few seconds. Zhu raised his own bullet and used a solid bullet to hit the original barrage Xu Jin. One of the horsemen watched a row of bouncing iron balls approach him as fast as he could, and in great fear he fell off his horse, but the wall of iron balls hit by the artillery had already been combed like a comb. didn't wait for him to rejoice in the rest of his life. He now broke his leg. When he tried to get up, there were horses running around him, and he was trampled to death.
This round of artillery alone dealt a devastating blow to the entire vanguard cavalry. Dense solid shells, covering the entire vanguard cavalry group. At least 8oo people were killed and wounded. The entire cavalry assault echelon was lost in half of the battle in a matter of minutes. Under this unprecedented horror, the vanguard on which Dudagula had high hopes collapsed.
Not only people can't stand it, but horses can't stand it either. The sound of the artillery bombardment made the surviving horses of the stricken cavalry group run in all directions in fright, and a considerable part of the dead and wounded of the 800 people were caused by the hooves of the horses. The horse team of the Communist Army is not much better, and for the training of his horse team, Cheng Pan usually leads the horse to the shooting range to observe. Exploding in the horse's ears with firecrackers, this kind of training Cheng Pan didn't do it, he felt sorry for the gunpowder. And this unprecedented artillery bombardment was too loud, compared to the previous target training, it was completely trivial, Wang Tianzhu's subordinates kept comforting their crotch partners.
After this round of shelling, Zhu Zitiao and his men were still a little unsatisfied. Usually the training is one cannon and two cannons, usually how many people learn around a gun, this time it is enjoyable. Zhu Zitiao didn't forget to get down to business, and he asked Cheng Pan beside him for instructions on the next step.
Cheng Pan took a deep breath of the smoke-filled air, and said to the herald cavalry beside him: "Order, the east flank advances along the road to eliminate a qiē resistance, crush the opposite east flank, and squeeze the enemy's main camp." Watch the herald leave. Cheng Pan said to Zhu Zitiao: "All artillery preparations are ready to strike two rounds of double-loading ammunition on the enemy's western flank."
After Zhu received the order, he immediately busily adjusted the firing angle of the artillery group. Once again, the entire artillery group moved excitedly.
In the interval between the end of Cheng Pan's order, 6 Hai took a step forward and said: "Sir, why don't you shell the enemy's commander's assembly place and kill the opponent's commander is not more conducive to the progress of the war." Cheng Pan said: "The purpose of this battle is to completely defeat the Yuan army on the opposite side, and whether or not to kill the enemy commander now has no impact on the result of our final victory." So we don't need to be shortcuts, the more we show our absolute strength, the better the effect of the war will be. Besides, if I beat the coach to death, who will I talk to about the post-war finish. Cheng Pan looked at the artillerymen carrying the gunpowder pack, and then said: "The cannon is ten thousand taels of gold when it sounds."
Zhu raised his own funds and they continued to carry out this rare abusive experience in high spirits. Ten minutes later, at the same time as the battle on the eastern flank. Zhu raised and adjusted the artillery. A hail of iron balls descended on the western flank of the Mongol army. One by one, the iron balls dealt a devastating blow to the obstacles in front of them. When encountering people to burst, encountering wood without hesitation, it does not hesitate to penetrate it, driving the wood fragments to kill for the second time. The infantry on the western flank did not form a dense formation, so they did not inflict the same casualties as the cavalry did in the first time. But the whole camp was in disarray. The western flank, which had seen the miserable state of the cavalry before, saw itself suffer the same blow, and the originally low morale completely turned into fear. The west wing was in chaos.
At the end of two rounds of shelling of the western flank, the Type 1 artillery needed to be cooled down by three 1.5 times the charge. Cheng Pan ordered the 2ooo people on the west wing to assault at this time. Cheng Pan and 1ooo musketeers sat in the Chinese army to guard the artillery group.