At that time, whether it was 500 meters, 600 meters, or 700 meters, the range of the cannon far exceeded the range of the bow and arrow, so the Manchu Qing could directly bombard the walls of Songshan City from five or six hundred meters away.

"Cannon?" He Xuan couldn't help but be surprised.

"The Qing army added artillery. "Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, saw that his scalp was numb.

In this era, muskets have not yet been used on a large scale, and muskets are not very useful.

However, artillery is really useful, especially when it comes to sieges.

"The Qing army has artillery, we also have artillery, right? He Xuan said with some puzzlement.

"Where is the matter as simple as you say, the number of artillery in our army is not as good as that of the Qing army, and we will suffer a loss against the bombardment. Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, shouted, and at the same time said to the artillery soldiers in front of the cannons on the city wall: "Prepare the soldiers, try to bombard the place where there are many Qing soldiers." ”

"Yes. Many of the soldiers nodded.

And Su Ding also explained in a whisper on the side, and He Xuan understood what was going on.

Before becoming the nightmare of the Ming Dynasty, Nurhachi, the founder of the Houjin Eight Banners, had been loyal for most of his life. Nurha did a big thing quietly: studying Ming Dynasty firearms.

According to the record in the "Artifact Spectrum": as early as the ninth year of Wanli, Nurhachi even coaxed and deceived many Han craftsmen, and also lured many deserters who were firearms soldiers in the Ming army to come over, and also exchanged a large number of mink skins for saltpeter sulfur for a long time, just for the development of firearms.

And Nurhachi, who has been hidden for most of his life, was able to make up his mind in his later years and turn against the Ming Dynasty because he understood one thing: the Ming Dynasty seemed to have a strong firearms advantage, and it had already been flooded!

The whole system of firearms in the Ming Dynasty, the huge bureaucracy, and the emperor didn't care much about this matter, and he didn't know how to manage it, so the firearms made were a lot of garbage and inferior goods.

On the contrary, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Qinghe area of Fushun, was the Ming Dynasty firearms production base since the Jiajing period, with sufficient mineral resources and many craftsmen and technicians. Then the Ming Dynasty sent firearms while defeating, and what was seized by Houjin was soon able to learn to make it. According to the "Manchurian Record", during the Apocalypse, Houjin was able to make firearms on his own.

But if you want to talk about the reason, it is two words: efficiency!

When the Later Jin Dynasty started, although the economy and system were all barbaric and backward, one that was stronger than the Ming Dynasty was the military mobilization system. In the matter of firearms, we have concentrated our efforts on developing them, and everything from making firearms to pushing firearms to practicing firearms has been highly efficient.

Back to the cannon.

At that time, firearms in the West were already more advanced than those in the East.

Therefore, the best artillery at that time was the red-coated cannon from the West, also known as the Hongyi cannon, although it was not as good as the top goods in the West, but it was also a replacement product, with a range of six or seven hundred meters, which was more powerful, surpassing the local four or five hundred meter cannons.

In the early days, he went to Macao to buy 30 cannons, but when he went to Beijing, he deducted more than half of them, and only pulled 11 to the front line. During the Chongzhen period, the Ming Dynasty decided to independently produce Hongyi cannons, first built a factory in Dengzhou, and planned to introduce the Beijing Military Bureau.

Therefore, the red-coated cannons of the Ming army are actually quite few.

On the other hand, the Qing army, the efficiency of the Houjin Emperor Taiji is amazingly high: it has been rewarding with heavy money, and finally in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Wang Tianxiang, a craftsman of the Han Army, presided over the imitation of the Hongyi cannon of Houjin. There was no nonsense, and immediately after the development was successful, a large number of artillery pieces were built, forty artillery pieces, and immediately put into the battle of the Daling River.

And then the Ming Dynasty's "Denglai Military Mutiny" gave a big gift to Houjin: the Ming Dynasty Artillery Factory in Dengzhou finally succeeded in developing the Chinese version of the Hongyi cannon, and encountered the rebellion of the local garrison Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming.

Based on the pain of Li Yutian, the governor of Liaodong in the late Chongzhen period, he summed it up: The chieftain (Qing army) cast more than 100 cannons, and I (Ming army) cast 10 cannons and was powerless. Ten times as much as my artifact.

If you don't see it, what are you talking about, ten times!

Everyone is a red-coated cannon, and everyone's range is six or seven hundred meters.

However, there are ten times as many people as you.

Therefore, every time the Ming army defended the city, it was actually not very easy to defend, and the artillery fire could not compare to the fierceness of the enemy.

Rumble!

I saw that in the camp of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, more than 30 pitch-black iron balls flew out at the same time, directly crashing into the west wall of Songshan City of the Ming army, obviously planning to use the west city wall as a breakthrough. Most of the shells of this era are such large iron balls. The record is as follows: the ammunition was heavier, ranging from several kilograms to 10 kilograms. Projectiles are mainly spherical solid bullets made of stone, iron, lead and other materials, and can also fire chain bullets, shotguns and other ammunition, with a variety of shapes and methods, and the purpose is to directly impact the physical destruction of the target.

Of course, because of this, the artillery at that time was evaluated like this, this thing is good at siege, clumsy in field warfare, to put it bluntly, it is used for siege, and it basically has no effect at other times.

And on the west wall of the Ming army, among the red-clothed cannons, a large black iron ball was directly blasted. But the number is much smaller, and there are only five or six pitch-black iron balls that are blasted out at once, and the power and momentum are too much worse in comparison.

Rumble!

There were more than 30 shells on the other side, and more than 20 of them smashed on the west wall of Songshan City, making the entire west city wall tremble, and He Xuan felt a tremor under his feet.

Next, it was the process of non-stop artillery and bombardment.

Rumble!

Rumble!

The cannons of the two sides kept firing at each other, but the Ming army was at a disadvantage as a whole.

He Xuan had been behind the city wall and frowned: "In this way, the situation is not good." ”

"yes, it's not good. According to this momentum, I am afraid that the city wall will be destroyed by the other party. Once it collapses, our army will have to fight with the enemy in hand-to-hand, and when the time comes, it will be blocked in Matsuyama Castle without an exit, and it will be worse than fighting with the enemy in the field. However, the firepower of our army is insufficient. What a fuck, I've applied to the top countless times, more artillery, more artillery. As a result, no one listened. Ge Lao Tzu, how do you want Lao Tzu to fight this battle. Yang Guozhu scolded directly.

"If it goes on like this, it really won't work. He Xuan groaned: "It's not my character to only be beaten and not fight back, I have to find a way to get out." ”

He groaned repeatedly.

Yang Guozhu, Gao Yongming, and Su Ding did not have much hope for He Xuan.

He Xuan can shoot the enemy's generals, but the other party is not close at all now, they are all 500 steps away, what can he do? In this era, one step is agreed to be four feet, and one foot in this era is shorter than one foot in the 21 st century, and four feet is about one meter. So a hundred steps is actually about a hundred meters.

And He Xuan can't rush out of the city wall and rush into the camp of the Qing army alone, and he can break into thousands of people, but there is only a dead end.

Not only did Huang Taiji study He Xuan's achievements, but Yang Guozhu and others also studied it, knowing that He Xuan was not really one-on-one thousand, and he also had a limit to defeat 10,000 people, and it was estimated that he couldn't do it with one dozen or a thousand.

(In the previous chapter, I wrote about the range of the cannon, not the water injection, which is useful later, if you don't write it, the rest of the text will be wrong.) Everyone will understand the intention of writing range when you read the update tomorrow. ）