Chapter 1438

"General, you're not lying to us, are you?" Cao Min screamed, and Xu Zhao glared at him with a dark face and shouted. "This is a military order from the marshal, and the general does not have the courage to pass on the military order in a false manner."

"Great, the last general commands!" He clenched his fists hard, roared, and hurriedly began to pull the protective gear on his body, and a group of young people with excess energy began to help each other, and then ran straight to the camp.

Suzhou City is about two and a half miles away from the city wall of the Song Dynasty as a barrier, and the farthest north city wall is only three and a half miles, and the Yuan You Shenwei cannon of the Great Song Dynasty, if it is projectile, six miles is not a dream, not to mention Suzhou City, which is only more than two miles.

Ma Kui, the commander of the Jiaodong Navy, volunteered to ask the navy to join the battle after learning that he was going to launch a general attack by night, but was finally vetoed by the planter, but the three gunboats, given the opportunity to show their talents, will take the night to force the shore as much as possible, and then fire at the Liao army camp that is only a mile away from the coast.

The reason why the Liao army camp was chosen to fire was because the water level on the west side of the coast, where the Liao State was located, was deep, which was conducive to the activities of the naval division warships, while the east side was a shoal, and the battleships could easily run aground.

In less than two quarters of an hour after the military order was issued, all the imperial artillery was in position and had reached their respective gun positions.

All 300 guns were uncovered, and even though the artillerymen would conduct various artillery drills and maintain the guns every day, today, they did an extraordinarily fine job.

All the artillery commanders were divided into three groups, the eastern artillery emplacement, 110 artillery positions were responsible for the women's direct military camp, the western artillery emplacements were 90 artillery positions responsible for the Liao army camp on the west side, and the 50 long-barreled guns in the central artillery emplacements plus 50 artillery pieces, their target was the city of Suzhou.

During the day, a group of people had already memorized all kinds of artillery materials and the amount of ammunition they had fired, and each artillery commander had at least 300 live ammunition shooting experience.

So, very quickly, the parameters of the angles of the respective gun emplacements and the elevation angles of the guns were obtained. As for those heads and battalion leaders, they are by no means bureaucrats, and even Guo Shang, the first deputy commander of the artillery in the Great Song Dynasty, has more than 500 live ammunition firing experience.

The parameters of all the artillery commanders will be handed over to the commanders of the capital and battalion commanders, and they will be repeatedly checked to ensure that the artillery fire can be evenly and densely covered fire.

And the other generals of the Liaodong Army all looked unaware of it, watching the soldiers of this group of imperial artillery holding various tools such as pen rulers there, observing there, muttering, writing and drawing.

"What are they doing, could it be some kind of sacrifice?" A Liaodong sergeant asked Wu Changdao beside him in a low voice.

"How do I know, it doesn't look like a sacrifice, but like a painting, it deserves to be from the front of the emperor, and it looks like it's quite knowledgeable." Captain Wu rolled his eyes and continued to look at the artillery commanders who were intently gesturing and adjusting the calculated data.

Not to mention that these Liaodong soldiers can only watch the excitement, even if they are like a kind of master or other Liaodong Army generals, they can only listen to how many degrees these guys are crooked and left, how many degrees they are up, and how many scales are in the line of fire......

They were also embarrassed to ask, mainly because no one stepped forward to ask just now, and the other party's mouth was full of strange and strange physical and geometric terms that people couldn't understand, which made the Confucian general of the Liaodong Army, who boasted of reading poetry and books, retreat with a face of shame.

On the contrary, Guo Shang, who was the deputy commander of the imperial artillery, only took care of the general strategy, and had nothing to do for the time being, so he stayed by the side of the master Dao and others to explain to these generals and colonels of the Liaodong Army of the Great Song Dynasty.

"If you want to become an artilleryman, you must not only be literate, but also be proficient in arithmetic, but also physics and geometry, so that you can be considered qualified to become an artillery commander."

"But if you want to become an excellent artillery commander who can command artillery to hit targets miles away, then it is impossible to achieve it without thousands of repeated exercises and live fire drills again and again."

"Each of our artillery commanders consumes at least thirty to fifty pieces of ammunition at the exercise site every month. Every month alone, the shells and gunpowder consumed by a cannon have to be at least fifty times, and after a year's weekday exercises, a cannon must be scrapped. ”

"Obediently, according to what you say, aren't all these artillerymen piled up with gold?" The generals all gasped in unison, and they sighed endlessly.

"That's, otherwise, how can you train them." Guo Sheng sniffed, his face was full of pride, and he looked at these artillerymen, these are all good seedlings of the Great Song Artillery.

Guo Shang believes that tonight will definitely become a nightmare for Northern Liao and female straight people, and it will also become a good day for artillery to dominate the world.

Even those noble sons and daughters did not dare to be slack off at this moment, carefully observed the distance, calculated the elevation angle and angle of the artillery under their command, and then began to cut the artillery leads according to the military order of the battalion commander, and each cannon must be guaranteed to be forward than the first gun, so that the so-called artillery covering fire can be formed.

As for the commander of the fifty extended guns in the middle position, he is the elite of the elite, and his artillery has a longer firing range, so after repeated consultations, the two battalion commanders have drawn up a strategy.

Ordinary guns fired from near to far, while extended guns fired from far to close, which allowed the enemy to be squeezed into the middle to inflict greater casualties.

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At dusk, whether it is Suzhou City, or the east and west camps, the smoke is rising at this moment. After all, they were all used to it, and they understood that these timid Song people only dared to hide behind the city wall, and they didn't dare to take a step north of the city at all.

What's more, now, after the number of troops reached 100,000, they were even more unscrupulous, and they would not think about the stupid question of whether the Song people had the courage to come out and attack the camp.

Xiao Shen was sitting indoors at the moment, there were several small dishes cooked with color and aroma on the table, and a pot of wine was placed next to it, but he was still not very satisfied with this, after all, in the military camp here, there was no singing and dancing to accompany the wine, and there was no beauty to accompany him, only a group of rough old men, which was really unappetizing.

But as the commander of the first army, he still had to take responsibility for his own heavy responsibility, picked up the wine glass in his hand, and smiled at the generals. "After today's dinner, let the soldiers rest early, and tomorrow, we will decide the outcome of the battle."

"Report to the commander, all artillery is ready." At this time, Guo Shang quickly came to the side of the Seed Master Dao, bowed deeply to him and said loudly.

Seed Master Dao narrowed his eyes, turned his head and asked beside him. "What time is it?"

"Dashuai, it's three quarters of the unitary time."

"General Guo, wait for another hour, wait until three o'clock in the morning, wait until the Liao army and the female direct army are completely undressed and fall asleep, and then launch an attack."

"No!" Guo Sheng nodded heavily, and said loudly.