Fu Zhaoxin is on the city tower, Li Zhongyi is 300 meters away from the city, and the two old colleagues meet again, and they are already different from each other, and the camps and barriers are clear!

Fu Zhaoxin has always wanted to see clearly whether the command vehicle under the command car of the Chinese army against the army is Li Zhongyi, an old enemy.

However, without the assistance of military telescopes, Fu Zhaoxin still did not find any trace of Li Zhongyi, even though his eyes were almost split.

Li Zhongyi is not a professional artillery officer, but he has seen several classic old movies, one of which is "Napoleon in Austerlitz" and the other is "War and Peace".

In the past, Li Zhongyi couldn't tell which was a 6-pounder gun, which was an 8-pounder gun, which was a 12-pounder gun, or even a 24-pounder gun?

Today, Li Zhongyi not only distinguishes the types of artillery, but even the "Artillery Drill Code" compiled by him has been officially released.

The rules and regulations are actually the most important and important part of Li Zhongyi's army. Simple work is done repeatedly, and the repetitive work is standardized, and standardization is to pick out the details, which is the rule of law.

How can you become an army without a command? Without a drill code, how can it be possible to sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime?

According to the requirements of the artillery drill code, after the 12-pounder infantry siege heavy artillery was pushed to the forward position, it did not immediately charge and bombard the city, but received a military order to rest and stand by.

The auxiliary soldiers of the artillery battalion, who had already set up a frame in the forward position, saw that the lord was standing not far away, so they waved their hoes, iron pickaxes and standard sapper shovels even harder, racing against time to build artillery positions.

A 12-pounder cannon weighing a ton will inevitably cause a catastrophe if it explodes and the metal fragments are scattered, regardless of the factor.

Although the bombardment power of the 12-pounder gun is huge, it is a shell that fires and the entire gun body has to retreat a buffer distance.

Li Zhongyi has always been thinking about the higher firing efficiency and more powerful tube withdrawal artillery, which is the real killer weapon for field wave warfare and siege and killing the enemy.

However, Li Zhongyi is not an artillery expert, and the artillerymen under him don't even understand what physics means, let alone the scientific common sense of physical reaction force countervailing.

Therefore, in order to prevent accidents, in accordance with the strict requirements of the artillery drill code, the 12-pounder gun must be excavated and built a special position before it is fired. The main thing was that the front and left sides of the 12-pounder gun had to be built with sandbags to build a one-man high safety wall.

Then, the buffer area of the erection also needs to leave enough safe space. In addition, both the propellant pack and the ignition powder were sealed and kept by the medicine soldiers.

This strategic decisive battle is different from previous battles and has far-reaching significance in the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains. Li Zhongyi not only brought 65,000 elite soldiers, but also more than 30,000 conscripted village and township troops.

According to the war tradition of this era, today's Li Jiajun can completely blempty and claim to raise 200,000 or even 300,000 troops.

Among these village troops, the soldiers who have been trained for the shortest time have also exceeded six months. This is Li Zhongyi's rigid requirement, which is indisputable.

The reason is actually very simple: according to the requirements of the training syllabus, sending the township soldiers who have been trained for too short a time and who have not participated in the battle of a large corps to the battlefield is tantamount to sending them to death.

Compared with the elite soldiers, the difference between the township army and the elite soldiers who have been trained for a long time is that they have not killed the enemy, have not seen blood, and have participated in large-scale battles of more than 100,000 people.

The conscripted township army is not only the auxiliary army of the entire army, but also a steady stream of supplementary soldiers.

According to the regulations, as long as the soldiers of the village army have participated in three large-scale battles and hacked or seriously injured an enemy in the battle, they are eligible to be selected to be added to the ranks of soldiers and enjoy unusually generous soldiers' treatment.

In the Li family's army, the auxiliaries of the army are located on the penultimate level of the pyramid. The top is the soldiers, and the bottom is the township army that has not been selected, they belong to the hope class that can jump into the dragon gate with a hard fight, and their motivation is naturally leveraged.

Soon, the artillery positions were built. While wiping their sweat, the auxiliaries peeked at Li Zhongyi who was looking around, and their hot eyes made the relatives around Li Zhongyi unable to avoid at all.

The army is the most hierarchical organization, and aside from the senior generals, the salaries and food of the soldiers alone are enough to make the vast number of auxiliary soldiers salivate.

As long as he is out on the battlefield, any soldier in the Li family's army will have meat for a meal, enough flatbread, and the dishes to accompany the meal will be changed every five days, and there will never be a shortage of salt. Not only that, but the soldiers were well-armed, marching with two horses, and their armor was thick, with spears, knives, and crossbows.

On the other hand, the auxiliaries only protect their bodies with half-body leather armor on the chest, and although they are complete with swords and guns, they can only march in horse-drawn carriages. For the daily meal, although the flatbread is enough, there is only broth to drink, and the dish that accompanies the meal is always pickled radish.

If you don't know the goods, you're afraid of shopping around!

The soldiers and auxiliaries fought side by side, the auxiliaries could only dig ditches and build walls, build bridges and pave roads, but the soldiers ate and drank spicy food, rode horses, and had a lot of silver money in their pockets.

The 12-pounder guns shipped this time were actually the only 12 guns left after ten batches of casting.

Bronze is different from iron, bronze has good elasticity, and although the body barrel is thicker than the iron barrel, it is actually lighter than the iron pipe cannon.

The iron 12-pounder gun, because of the backward iron-making technology, has a lot of impurities, and it is easy to blow up. The iron cannon blew up, and the remaining iron slag could not be returned to the furnace for reuse.

Bronze is different, the residue of bronze can be recast after selection, and it can be cast as many times as you want.

However, the bronze utensils of the Goryeo Kingdom had long been looted by Li Zhongyi, and there was nothing to be found, so he helped the artillery battalion of the Li family army to accumulate dozens of bronze cannons.

Li Zhongyi circled around the artillery position, beckoned the artillery commander Li Yongtang to come to him, patted him on the shoulder and said, "How is it?" Are you sure to open the city gates? ”

"Smack!" Li Yongtang put his legs together, straightened his chest and abdomen, stood upright, and replied loudly, "Hui Ye, so many 12-pounder cannons are in formation, and the medicine bag is enough, and it is not raining in Tiangong, and if you can't open the city gate of Bozhou, your subordinates might as well find a piece of tofu and kill you." ”

"Hehe......" Li Zhongyi patted Li Yongtang's shoulder again with satisfaction, this bad boy specializes in learning his mantras, not only does he not fall a word, but even his tone is roughly the same.

However, who said that Li Yongtang was born in the Hechi Township Army, and his accent was mixed with the Shu accent that Li Zhongyi was very familiar with, which was particularly cordial.

"Since you are so confident, then, don't embarrass Lao Tzu with a calibration test shot."

Li Zhongyi knew very well in his heart that Li Yongtang was a shrewd man who said very little, and he said that he was sure to collapse the city gate of Bozhou, which was a sure thing, and there was no almost two words.

According to the artillery code, before the artillery salvo is fired, Li Yongtang must personally fire the first shell to correct the calibrated ballistic trajectory.

With little effort, the 12-pounder gun of Team A, under the command of Li Yongtang, completed all the preparations before the launch.

Li Zhongyi saw Li Yongtang turn his head to look at him, so he nodded deeply, and signaled to him with a smile on his face that he could start.

Immediately, Li Yongtang slashed down his raised right hand and shouted: "Fire!" ”