Chapter 754 Counterattack
After so long, He Yusheng's cavalry had almost returned to the team, and only a few were still within four hundred steps of shooting range.
This is because the cavalry did not know that the Mongol gunners were fighting so slowly, and they ran back in a roundabout state. As a result, it was only after so long that the Beilu reloaded the ammunition.
The battle soldiers array here can't help laughing, and the artillery side is even more laughing. Fortunately, there is battlefield discipline, otherwise I really don't know how many people will laugh wildly.
This is also the joy of yelling and loading around the city...
"boom……"
The sound of cannons started, and several general cannons fired projectiles again, but the landing points were still unexpectedly different. The nearest one was dozens of steps away from the running cavalry.
These Beiluo used wooden gaskets to adjust the elevation angle of the muzzle based on their eyes. This kind of shooting method must be able to hit the target.
Their artillery level is not even as good as the Ming army's gunners. The Ming army can calculate the approximate distance at least. The Ming army's gunners are mostly experienced veterans and will definitely not make such jokes.
This time the laughter was even more obvious, and I guess I could hear it on the top of the city.
Amid the more rapid curses and urging, several more Folang machine cannons fired. This time, the Beili were even more lucky. With two loud "bangs", two cannons exploded at the top of the city, and smoke and fire rose into the air at the top of the city. It seemed that some people flew down from the city because of too much dodging. Because they were wearing big hats and curled up, they were like a flying rabbit.
This time, many soldiers were laughing so hard that they could not laugh. Many people were shaking all over. The artillery positions were even more powerful. Even the officers couldn't hold on to them, and they burst into laughter.
Zhang Han had already arrived at the central military throne, and Sun Yao and other staff members came over, and Zhang Han made a move to ask them to continue commanding without caring about their arrival.
As the army became more and more specialized, Zhang Han had more and more things to do. He no longer had to go into battle in person like he had brought a group of tigers out to fight, and he didn't even have to do what he commanded himself.
In other words, Zhang Han only focuses on the overall situation and command the battlefield, such a specialized and refined task is no longer suitable for him.
Although Liang Xing is average in talent, he has always been commanding on the front line and has participated in many officer trainings. Zhang Han is definitely not inferior to Liang Xing's theoretical knowledge, but he always commands on the front line, masters the overall situation and adjusts it at any time. This is something that Zhang Han cannot compare with.
Since you know that it is better to let go of power than to know that you are worse than to let go of power, Zhang Han still has this kind of elegance.
"Sir, I'm going to order the artillery to fight back." Liang Xing had just laughed for a while, and there was still a smile on his face. Although Zhang Han had no intention of interfering in command, he still greeted him.
Zhang Han was already sitting down in a chair, and he smiled and said, "Don't worry about me, I'm just here to watch the fun."
Liang Xing laughed for a moment, then said seriously: "Send orders to the artillery to shoot all the base of shells."
The central army was located on a small mound, and a command vehicle was fixed with a sandbag in the middle. This vehicle was usually maintained and managed by the baggage soldiers and handed over to the central army for use during wartime.
After the huge body is fixed, the body can be raised to a height of nearly four meters, which is more than ten meters. On a very flat grassland, this height can almost overlook the entire battlefield, and each department can also clearly see the flags of the flags on the command car.
For battlefields with plain terrain with tens of thousands of people, this kind of command vehicle is of great use.
If it is more than 100,000 people, and the battlefield is dozens of miles in radius or even mountainous areas, the efficiency of this kind of command vehicle will be greatly reduced, and the pond horse is still the best choice.
Sometimes, Liang Xing or other commanders would climb onto the car and observe the enemy's situation and the array situation on his own side. If it is a battlefield dominated by cold weapons, the most important thing is to fight the formation and then fight. The two armies are cold in contact, and one side causes the formation of the other side to be chaotic. Usually, after the array is chaotic, it means losing the war.
In the merchant army, the array is also very important, including the ranking of jumping soldiers, the phalanx of spearmen, the position of musketeers, the configuration of cavalry, the configuration of artillery, etc. The most important thing for each commander on the battlefield is to constantly arrange his own array according to the terrain and the position of the enemy, and to face the enemy with the best formation.
Today is to prevent the enemy from raiding out of the city and protect the baggage and civilians. Therefore, Liang Xing's formation was a rectangular formation, one after another, and the cavalry was placed in the north, mainly for the involvement. A few cavalry were placed on both wings, so they could cover the artillery troops placed in front of the array at any time.
He Yusheng's artillery usage method is already on a completely different path than that of the Ming army. Zhang Han has a lot of research on Napoleon's "artillery cluster" tactics. After all, it is difficult for a normal military history enthusiast to not get in touch with the era of Nahuang. Not to mention professional research books, it is influencing the drama to show the French artillery at that time. The so-called artillery cluster is to use artillery together in a tiered manner, in order to conduct saturation bombardment in a short time and kill the enemy to the greatest extent.
In terms of artillery positions, artillery soldiers in the Napoleon era could build artillery positions behind arrays and bombard them from a long distance, but the artillery casting technology at this time did not meet the technical standards of Napoleon artillery, and the artillery may not be much different, so the level of gunpowder manufacturing is far inferior.
He Yusheng's artillery was also in a standard large cluster state. More than 100 artillery pieces were almost all concentrated on one line. After seeing the banner of the central army, Tang Wangzong immediately ordered a test firing first.
Several artillery fired one after another, and the shells flew out roaring. Two shells fell at the bottom of the city wall, and the other several fell on the walls of the city wall or flew over the air.
I was still very angry just now on the top of the city. Now I saw that the performance of He Yusheng's artillery was not satisfactory. I don't know if it was me or if someone ordered it, so the Beilu also laughed.
"Smile." Tang Wangzong smiled coldly and ordered the second round of test shots to begin.
Each cannon can be adjusted with a shaker and the elevation angle can be re-determined. According to the calculations of officers such as Joshua Tsang, almost every cannon is re-adjusted according to the distance that has just hit the city.
In the second round of test, all artillery shells either hit the city wall or landed on the top of the city. A shell fell straight into the crowd. The steaming solid shell rolling on the city was simply a nightmare for infantry. Although it was not a powerful twelve-pound cannon, the six-pound cannon shells could also penetrate twenty rows of infantry arrays, and even more powerful on hard ground like the city.
In an instant, a large number of screams and wails sounded immediately on the top of the city!
The shells rolled on the top of the city, smashing towards rows of Mongolians with huge movements. The people who were hit at the beginning were undoubtedly lucky. Although their brains burst or their entire chest was smashed in an instant, they died instantly. More people were rubbed on their shoulders or lower limbs, or did not rub the vital points, but the damage caused by the seemingly slight rubbing was very huge. The shells were jumping and kept hitting the crowd, and people screamed and the sound of bones shattered.
A soldier was hit by his arm. In the blink of an eye, his arm turned into a ball of bloody and rotten flesh, and even his bones, muscle tissue and skin were smashed. This huge pain was unbearable for humans to endure. After a few screams, the soldier fainted from the pain. If there were no accidents, he would face greater pain after he woke up, and he could not heal at all. He could only use up his life in pain again and again, and eventually died.
Some people lost half of their legs, some people broke their entire row of ribs. When the smoke and blood-stained shells stopped, more than 20 people had fallen down on the city wall, most of whom died or were seriously injured on the spot.
After this test shelling, the Mongols couldn't laugh.
Amid the wailing moans of the seriously injured people on the top of the city, Tang Wangzong issued an order to open fire for the entire artillery team.
All the gunners ignited the fuse with a torch almost at the same time!
At this moment, the atmosphere on the artillery position was almost solidified. No matter how happy I laughed, everyone held their breath and calmed down at this time, as if they were against Dabin.
The daily training of artillery soldiers is very strict. In addition to a series of procedural training from clearing to ignition, physical training and cultural courses, especially geometry training, are the most stringent.
Carrying shells is not only a matter of the bomb carrier, but it is likely that the bomb carrier will be killed in wartime, which means that the entire gun team members must have multiple positions at any time. Therefore, any artillery must be the conscious of a cleaner, a charger, a gunner, a bomb carrier, or even a gunner, and any possibility exists on the battlefield.
In a training environment that is so strict that it can be said to be a rigorous, the gunners who are now operating accurately like mechanical parts have been created.
Instructors such as Johnson Chan were very satisfied with this. In fact, Europe's top artillery teams were nothing more than that, and they were even far from these Eastern gunners who knew how to abide by discipline.
The entire artillery position has a great depth, from six-pound cannons to nine-pound cannons, mainly six-pound cannons, with the number of nine-pound cannons being much smaller. The artillery dug out artillery positions on the grass to help offset the shallow pit of strong recoil after the artillery fire. The solid iron shells were taken out of the basket and placed on the right side of the artillery position. On the back of the artillery position are gunpowder barrels of the same size. The artillery stands in the position in turn, and each has its own artillery position, and there is no confusion allowed.
Only when a person in a certain position is killed will the officer assign a new person to replace him.
The fuse burned into the barrel of the gun, and almost instantly everyone covered their ears.
This is the first time such large-scale artillery bombardment has occurred in China. Before that, all so-called artillery bombardment could only be regarded as a joke.
"boom!"
In an instant, more than 100,000 people on the entire battlefield could almost only hear the bombardment of artillery.
Chapter completed!