Chapter 241: What are you doing with so much force?
"General, don't, general......" King Yanqi looked at Han Yannian with a frightened face.
Secretly Dao, the envoy of the Han Dynasty before, he was not like this, why is he so domineering and unreasonable now?
Why did he come to him and say what he didn't say?
The disaster of innocence, this is the disaster of innocence!
No, he must not be allowed to continue.
The little abacus in King Yanqi's heart was constantly calculating, but there was no better way for him at the moment.
"General, Xiao Wang is willing to surrender, Xiao Wang is willing to lead the Yanqi people to merge into the Han Dynasty, and please don't implicate the innocent Yanqi people in the war......" Seeing that Han Yannian did not hesitate at all, King Yanqi could only obediently surrender, and first swallowed his anger to calm down the war in front of him.
As for the future?
He will definitely go to the Han Emperor to complain fiercely, what are you discussing?
Even if he has a tough attitude, he doesn't think it's unacceptable, this special mother obviously doesn't give people a chance to speak......
"Hmph, you say surrender for a while, and don't admit it for a while, if the big man doesn't have a temper, can he still be a big man?" Han Yannian snorted coldly, today's Yanqi country, he is destroyed.
No matter how much King Yanqi prayed, it had no effect.
From Yumen Pass to Yanqi, such a long distance basically gave Han Yannian a certain degree of understanding of the vehicles of the New Army.
Coupled with the previous journey from Chang'an to Yumen Pass, the distance of nearly two thousand miles added up also made Han Yannian feel a lot more relieved.
The problem of the vehicles has been tested, but the combat effectiveness of the troops has not yet been tested.
Han Yannian had an idea in his heart, this idea he had never mentioned before, and even he himself didn't care too much about this idea now, he needed more actual combat to test it to support his idea.
He didn't come here just to subdue a Yanqi, if he could, who wouldn't want to fight and seal the wolf?
After a long period of training for more than half a year, the new army has become almost impeccable in terms of combat discipline.
From the time Han Yannian gave the order, in just over ten minutes, the troops were ready for all the preparations before the attack.
And attacking Yuanqucheng, a small city with a population of only more than 3,000 people, would not need as many as 20,000 people even if it was besieged from all sides.
Of course, in order to ensure that he left room for trial and error, Han Yannian was not so arrogant that he thought that he could solve the battle in front of him by sending a few troops casually.
So, Han Yannian first sent a thousand infantry, and the thousand people followed behind the truck, and after the shells were suppressed remotely, after the city gate was opened, and a fast passage was cleared, they would quickly rush up to establish the passage, stabilize the passage, and provide space for the spearmen behind to attack.
The corresponding number of troops out of the new army is 2,000 men, and nominally the smallest combat unit of the new army is 500 people, but no one knows what kind of effect the new army can play on the battlefield.
Therefore, Han Yannian also did not dare to be careless, so he set a rule, when the new army went out, its smallest combat unit was four battalions of 2,000 people.
This is just a preliminary test setup, and it will continue to be tested based on a large number of battles to see if it is feasible.
However, if there are 2,000 people, the standard configuration should be 167 vehicles, and if the driver is included, the personnel on each car are 12 people, including the entire number of combat vehicles.
But the cart didn't need that many people, and only five soldiers were needed to control the cart to throw the shells, except for the two drivers.
To put it more directly, the 2,000-strong new army was divided into four battalions, each battalion was equipped with four throwing vehicles, although it did not use so many people, but the establishment was still ten people, which was to prepare for the later expansion of the army.
And after Liu Ponu went all out to produce trucks, Han Yannian naturally expanded the number of vehicles for the grenadiers, and even configured two trucks for Yizhi, one for the modified throwing vehicle, and the other for nothing, specifically responsible for transporting artillery shells, and the soldiers rotated regularly to ensure that everyone could have the opportunity to practice.
That is, in terms of firepower allocation, every hundred people of the new army can get long-range fire support from one throwing vehicle.
The attack of 2,000 new troops meant that the opponent had to face more than 1,000 guns and 16 bombing vehicles at the same time.
"Stop!" Feeling the distance about the same, Gao Feng notified the driver in front of him to stop through the microphone.
When the vehicle slowly stopped, the entire offensive formation also stopped.
And the Yanqi defenders on the city wall couldn't help but look at the movements of the Han army below, the momentum was quite spectacular, but what were you doing stopping at such a distance?
What made them even more speechless was that their bows and arrows at this distance had no effect at all.
I have only heard of bed crossbows and other things, but the Han people don't need that thing now, and the most important thing is that the Qin people use more.
However, the Han army did not leave them much time to think, after the vehicle stopped, Gao Feng calculated the target distance by visual approximation, and then ordered the combat soldiers behind him: "Forty-three degrees, full string section, one test shot!" ”
"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"
The Grenadiers have already figured out their combat experience in just a few months, and although they are not yet too mature, at least they are not a person who knows anything about it now.
As Gao Feng's combat order was issued, the five soldiers behind him had a clear division of labor and were doing their own work.
The main thrower was responsible for aiming the flat 'cannon muzzle' at the center of the city gate, and then the deputy thrower next to him was responsible for adjusting the 'cannon muzzle' to a forty-three degree angle, one soldier was responsible for turning a roulette wheel with great force, and the arrow string was dragged out with a trembling sound of fear, the other soldier was ready for a brand new cannonball, and the last man next to him, hiding far away, ran directly to the front of the car to get a burning stick.
With the tacit cooperation of the five people, the entire pre-launch preparation work took only about 10 seconds to be prepared.
As the shooter ignites the lead on the cannonball, a pair of eyes are fixed on the rapidly burning lead, and when the fire is about to reach a certain position, the main thrower is immediately alerted to fire.
'Buzz ......'
The tense cowhide band suddenly released a huge elastic force, and the cannonball rushed forward along the smooth track on the throwing car.
Just after the cannonball was fired, the deputy thrower directly reached out and grabbed the cowhide band that just bounced back, and skillfully put it at will, and easily reset the cowhide band.
Seeing this, the soldier in charge of winding immediately spun the roulette wheel and readjusted the firing string to the firing position, preparing for the next round of attacks.
On how to improve combat efficiency, the Han army's grenadiers are the most talkative.
The soldiers in charge of the battle are only responsible for the affairs of the battle, and they just need to fire the shells according to the order, and as for whether they can hit or not, and where the shells will hit, these have nothing to do with them, and their task is to do nothing, only to fire the shells in the shortest possible time.
Because the technology is still not very good, so the Han army has also made great efforts in this regard, Gao Feng is the observer of the throwing soldiers, to be serious, he is the officer of the artillery, one person is responsible for four projection vehicles, but at the same time, because Gao Feng has the best results in repeated training, so he is also the observer of these sixteen throwing vehicles.
'......Boom'
As the shells flew farther and farther, a loud bang exploded about 20 meters in front of the gate of Yuanqu City, and a puff of smoke rose, and even a large crater was blown out on the ground.
After seeing the landing point of the shell, Gao Feng, who has thousands of guidance experience, doesn't even need to calculate any more data, even if he has an answer in his heart.
Immediately picked up an iron horn and shouted loudly to the surroundings: "Target city gate, two teams and four teams, forty-five degrees, one team and three teams, forty-four degrees, all full strings, free launch......"
The mission had already been issued before the battle began, and everyone knew that the city gate was their main target.
The others were not idle during the test firing before, first aimed the muzzle of the cannon at the city gate, and then adjusted the angle to forty degrees, the arrow string was directly full, and the cannonball was held in his arms.
Less than five seconds after Gao Feng gave the order, the first shell was fired, and within two seconds, sixteen throwing vehicles fired all the shells.
A salvo, sixteen shells, the effect is still very good.
Although the power of black powder is not as great as expected, but after the powder granulation, the power of black powder has also increased a lot, plus the shell is composed of a layer and a half centimeters of iron, which can provide higher impact pressure for the inside, so the power can naturally be achieved within a radius of ten meters from the center of the explosion, and it is basically difficult for anyone to survive.
'Boom, boom, boom, ......'
Shells fired from different angles of the front exploded violently one after another.
The previous explosion prevented the Yanqi defenders on the city wall from reacting, and then more explosions were heard.
The Yanqi officials who stood above the city gate and watched never realized what the Han army brought this time, after a volley, the Yanqi city gate was instantly broken, although the shells did not directly hit the city gate, but directly blew up the city gate.
"Gao Feng, what are you doing with so much effort? If you have a lot of strength, you have no place to use it, so go to your girls and scatter it, they don't think you have a lot of strength, now you tell Lao Tzu, how should Lao Tzu climb the city wall next? Although the scene in front of them stunned everyone, even the Han soldiers in this formation, this was the first time they had seen the picture of the salvo of the throwing car, but this silent picture was still ruined by a discordant scolding.