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The Western Qi army originally had a large number of garrisons in the Lixia region, after all, this area can be regarded as the west gate of Linzi City, the capital of Qi in a sense. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

However, after the Qi State was destroyed by the Qin State, the defense force in this region has been weakened to a considerable extent, not to mention that after the arrival of the troubled times, the defense system in this region has been hit hard.

In this battle of Jixi, Tian Rong basically evacuated the troops from the military camps in the Lixia area, and the area has in fact become an empty shelf, with only a very small number of people maintaining basic law and order.

Huan Feng had long known about this in the internal intelligence exchange of the Qin army, so on the night of that day, he sent people to quickly take Lixia City and the nearby military camp area, and then used it as a rest area for his troops.

This point, Zhang Jiashi then knew, and did not say anything, after all, Huan Feng's arrangement is very reasonable, rather than creating another camp, it is better to find a more suitable place nearby as a camp, this Zhang Jiashi thinks that Huan Feng's arrangement is indeed a little surprising to him, and he also thinks that Huan Feng has not lost the foundation of being an excellent general.

And the capture of the Lixia region is even worse for Tian Rong's situation. After all, the Lixia region was the most suitable area for the Western Qi army to communicate with the outside world at this time. And after the defense system of this place was broken by the Qin army, for the Western Qi army trapped in the Jixi region, it was a situation of being completely caught by the Qin army's urn.

Of course, such an advantage is dispensable for Zhang Jiashi, after all, Zhang Jiashi has no intention of slowly consuming it with Tian Rong at this time.

It was not that he did not think about letting the Qi army trapped in the Jixi area gradually starve to death, but after thinking that this operation could also be regarded as a military training, Zhang Jiashi quickly gave up this idea.

And for Zhang Jiashi, this operation was a siege war, what was the role of the Xiongnu?

Well, that's a really thought-provoking question.

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In the early morning of the next day, Tian Rong still discovered that he had underestimated the combat capability of the Qin army. Because when watching the Qin army's column slowly advance from the top of the city, what he could see was that the Qin army seemed to have used a lot of equipment in this battle, which he didn't know what it was.

In particular, the two large carriages, which required the use of eight war horses, looked like iron pillars.

Tian Rong didn't think that Zhang Jiashi would use these two things to watch and have fun on the battlefield, it was obvious that these weapons must be a sharp weapon of the Qin army.

At this time, Tian Rong said a sentence to the civil and military forces under his command: "If the other party wants to use this weapon, our strong crossbowmen must suppress them." According to the widow's guess. These weapons must be a never-before-seen device. ”

Tian Rong's conjecture was very correct, and Zhang Jiashi knew about this situation. It is indeed the wisdom of Tian Rong.

But he had long known that the firing range was indeed quite a primitive artillery, and Zhang Jiashi did not plan to use it at this time.

After launching the signal to attack Jixi City, the two guns did not move forward directly, but continued to move slowly.

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A large number of Qin army crossbow chariots and a large number of Qin army heavy crossbowmen were constantly firing dense arrows towards Jixi City.

Then, on the head of Jixi City, a counterattack was also launched against the officers and soldiers of the siege troops.

The officers and men of both sides continued to advance or appeared to be counterattacking in this rather dense rain of arrows.

Many Qin officers and soldiers were shot and wounded on the way forward, and except for a few Qin officers and soldiers who were not very lucky, most of the Qin officers and soldiers were even shot by the arrows of the Qi army. None of them were directly hit.

Many lightly injured Qin officers and soldiers even continued to follow the robe in front of them to continue to launch an offensive.

But the treatment of Qi officers and soldiers was not so good. Because they are relatively few in number, there are very few crossbowmen who can actually have a strong crossbow with a long range and good penetration.

In this case, the long-range strike forces of the two sides are not at all a level of comparison.

The Qi army's long-range counterattack on the head of Jixi City, accompanied by the passage of time and the addition of more and more Qin crossbowmen into the battlefield, gradually lost the effect they were able to play.

As for the reason for this situation, it is because the casualties of the Qi army crossbowmen at the head of Jixi City are too heavy.

In the absence of reinforcements from the follow-up troops. Even if the few remaining crossbowmen still had the courage to continue fighting, they probably didn't have the ability to make the Qin officers and soldiers stop their advance.

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The commander of the Qin army on the front line was naturally well aware of the weakening of the opponent's long-range strength, and he quickly asked the standard-bearer beside him to send a flag to the troops in the rear, signaling that the operating troops of other offensive equipment could follow the battle.

It's not that this tactic is reasonable, but because Zhang Jiashi has to say that this tactic is the most suitable for the combat occasions of these primitive hot weapons with a rather pitiful range.

After all, if these weapons were to fight with the troops on the front line. After a battle, not to mention the extent of the loss of the equipment, few of the officers and soldiers who operated the equipment and the personnel who recorded the actual data of the equipment could survive, because most of these people were directly killed by the crossbowmen of the Qi army at the head of the city.

In the face of this situation, Zhang Jiashi really couldn't relax his mind too much.

However, when these weapons are used in front-line troops, they are more used for opportunistic purposes. Choose your own layout like a stitch.

Just like the two infused iron cannons, they had to choose a place where the friendly troops attacking the walls were not too dense to arrange.

These two infusion iron cannons were operated by nearly 20 officers and soldiers and about 10 reservists each.

At a distance of less than 200 meters from the western city wall of Jixi, the officers and men who operated these iron cannons braved the arrows that fell from time to time in the sky and quickly carried out their operations.

They first had to clean the chamber, and then, after putting in a round flowering shell, they loaded and squeezed the propellant.

This kind of flowering shell is ignited by the flame of the propellant is ignited, and according to the results of many tests, after this flowering shell touches the ground, there is a possibility that the projectile body will be fragmented and affect the explosion effect, and even the possibility of failure to detonate.

Zhang Jiashi did not think about using a pressure fuse as a way to detonate this flowering bomb. But with the current level of science and technology, if you want to do this, it is also a kind of thing that is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.

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The flowering shell, also called the grenade, is the "patriarch" of the shell, it was "born" the earliest, used the longest, and has the most descendants. This type of shell uses fragments and shock waves generated by the explosion of a projectile to kill or blast. It is divided into anti-personnel bombs, explosive bombs and anti-personnel explosive bombs.

The grenade was first made by the Chinese around 1000 AD, and the grenade at that time was only an application of the Chinese's revolutionary technology - gunpowder. By the 15th and 16th centuries. The Europeans also learned to make grenades and greatly increased their power.

In the 20th century, with the advent of new modes of combat, this weapon gradually revived. In trench warfare in World War I, soldiers can use grenades to take out enemy machine gunners without revealing their position. The grenade's mechanical ignition system makes it relatively safe and practical. It is with this system that grenades are gradually becoming an indispensable part of modern warfare.

The typical design of early grenades was to fill a hollow metal container with gunpowder. The soldier simply lights the fuel rope and throws the grenade as quickly as possible. By the 18th century, this weapon was gradually abandoned: in the mode of combat at that time. The grenade is not very useful, and its simple design makes it extremely dangerous.

The grenade designed by Zhang Jiashi is actually a fragmentation grenade.

The "belly" of the anti-personnel bomb is filled with explosives, which explode when it hits the ground, forming a large number of fragments to kill and injure the enemy. Anti-personnel shells of different calibers and structures have different killing effectiveness.

Blasting shells are characterized by a relatively large charge of explosives and a thinner cartridge case. The main thing is to destroy the target by using the huge shock wave generated after the projectile explodes. It is generally equipped with a "short delay fuse" so that it does not explode immediately when it hits the fortification, but penetrates into the fortification to a certain depth before exploding.

Zhang Jiashi hopes to be able to achieve another principle of pressure triggering: when a grenade is ejected, the grenade flies in rotation, and when it flies to a certain extent, under the action of centrifugal force. The detonator that was originally stuck will be released, and the detonator and fire cap will be moved forward, ready to be fired; When the grenade hits the target or lands, the trigger located in the warhead, under the pressure of impact, drives the firing pin directly into the fire cap, and the direct detonation has no delay.

Of course, the difficulty of this stress trigger. Compared with the kind of impact fuze triggering that Zhang Jiashi thinks is relatively difficult, in fact, it is even more impossible to do.

After all, he has a lot of ideas now, and he can only think about them......

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At this distance, the operation of these infused iron cannons is indeed quite poor in terms of safety, but because the Qin officers and soldiers on the front line are constantly attacking the city walls of Jixi City, the Qi officers and soldiers defending the city do not have much energy to worry about the two infused iron cannons in this area, which also makes these Qin army operators who are still preparing artillery firing indirectly improve the safety factor. "Boom"

After two rather loud shelling sounds and muzzle flames erupting from the muzzles, the shells fired by the two infused iron cannons flew towards the walls of Jixi City and the city of Jixi City.

The cannonball that bombarded the city wall of Jixi City quickly exploded after touching the stone wall, but this time it had no lethal effect on the Qi officers and soldiers defending the city.

On the contrary, the explosion of the shell this time, the fragments produced even knocked down the ladder car several meters high by two Qin officers and soldiers more than ten meters away.

The corresponding data statistics received by Zhang Jiashi after this battle have to show that this kind of shooting accuracy is obviously the first choice for pit his own people.

However, Zhang Jiashi had no way to punish the officers and soldiers who operated these pit fathers, because in the next few firings, these two infused iron cannons still stepped on the end of the previous guns, and they exploded because of charges or some factors......

These officers and men paid a great price for casualties, and this time, the first actual artillery battle in the world, the effect was indeed unsatisfactory to Zhang Jiashi.

Because of the few shells fired, although there was no recurrence of accidental injury to one's own people in the back, it was indeed quite a trick for the actual killing effect of the Qi army.

Among the three shells that fell into Jixi City, it seems that there is no one that can effectively kill and injure the Qi officers and soldiers in the city.

In addition to a part of the building in the city that was partially destroyed, the destructive effect of these grenades was more likely to blow up a little trace on the ground or city walls.

The problem of exploding the bore caused these two guns to be scrapped in the end, which was an important reason why Zhang Jiashi had to give up the development of artillery in a short period of time.

Blowing up is a very serious tubular firearm firing accident, but even in Zhang Jiashi's original world, artillery explosion is not something that advanced artillery can avoid.

(The U.S. Marine Corps has been using the M777A2 howitzer since 2009, which weighs less than half the weight of other traditional howitzers, fires precision-guided projectiles, and can strike targets up to 30 feet at a range of 25 miles, making it easy to transport by helicopters, transport planes and ships.) When maneuvering on the ground, only one 2 is needed. A 5-ton truck can be towed. has been in the vanguard of the U.S. Rapid Reaction Force.

On March 15, 2011, a Caliber M777A2 light howitzer exploded during a live-fire exercise, injuring two Marines and eight other personnel.

At the same time, a spokesman for the US military said that due to the explosion, the US Marine Corps has stopped all shooting training and can resume until professionals analyze the cause and conduct safety training. ）

However, for Zhang Jiashi, the problem of exploding was indeed an important factor affecting his development of artillery.

Moreover, after watching the corresponding reports many times, an important reason why Zhang Jiashi finally gave up developing artillery in a short period of time was because there were still many imperfections in his training of artillery operators.

Zhang Jiashi knew that his biggest mistake was to ignore the influence of many aspects of the curved ballistics of thermal weapons, which was also an important reason for the explosion of these guns and the accidental injury of friendly troops in battle.

At this time, the ballistics was quite mature, but the ballistics of cold weapons and the ballistics of hot weapons were actually two different things......

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However, the complete destruction of the artillery unit does not mean that Zhang Jiashi has no gain this time. After about an hour of fierce fighting with the Qi army defending the city, a large number of siege troops broke through the defense of the city wall...... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )