Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Battle of Shanhaiguan 3
Those gunners of the big and medium army have long been impatient, and when they finally wait for this time, how can they continue to be stunned! So one by one, the red-hot strips were immediately passed into the fire door of the cannon body.
There are a few guns of gunner action is more strange, they did not go to ignition, but pulled the rope in their hands together, the original several heavy guns, now the firing mechanism has been replaced by a flintlock device, no longer need to use a torch or a red-hot strip to light the cannon, so it also makes their operation much safer, only need them to pull the gun rope, the flintlock device will immediately fall, ignite the primer in the fire door, instantly in the large Chinese army array, it also began to send out a series of flashes, Immediately a thick cloud of gunpowder smoke rose up, and in a short time the rumbling sound of artillery spread throughout the battlefield.
Huang Taiji has been staring at the situation on the battlefield in the distance, he expressed his satisfaction with the accuracy of those cannons on their side, the accuracy of the second round of shelling is obviously much higher than the first round, it seems that killing people can sometimes play a good role, this round of shelling at least killed and wounded dozens of soldiers and generals of the Dazhong Army, so that the Dazhong Army tasted their power first.
However, the performance of the next Dazhong Army made Huang Taiji's heart slammed, he obviously watched a lot of cannonballs fall in the Dazhong Army formation, and set off a cloud of blood mist, flying up stumps and broken arms, but he didn't see the kind of chaos he expected, the Dazhong Army's formation after suffering such a blow, as if it was nothing, continued to move forward step by step, the formation continued to maintain that kind of convincing neatness, these cannonballs fell among them, as if they did not play any role, It did not have much impact on the morale of the Great and Medium Army at all.
Huang Taiji's heart tugged at once, including the slave chieftains under his command, their eyes widened one by one, they hadn't seen it yet, what army could not panic under their artillery bombardment, but today's performance of the Dazhong Army was an eye-opener for them, they couldn't think of how these Han barbarians could do this, after being shelled on the battlefield, they could still be in shock.
Think about it, although their slave army has always been known to be brave and good at fighting, but when they are bombarded, they can't do it like the Dazhong army, so those slave chiefs, including Dai Shan and other slave chiefs who have not fought with the Dazhong army, when they saw this scene, their scalps began to tighten, and the calmness of the Dazhong army has exceeded their expectations, can an army behave like this on the battlefield, or can they defeat it?
At this time, the eyes of all the Jiannu suddenly flashed a bright color, and then the eyes of every Jiannu soldier widened.
I saw that in the big array of the Great Chinese Army, those cannons finally began to roar at this time, and the shells were like hailstones, whistling and flying into the battlefield, and as if they had eyes, they crashed into the Han soldiers of the Wuzhen Chaoha Battalion who were marching towards the Great Chinese Army.
This time it can be lively, a salvo of Jiannu is more than a dozen heavy artillery, but the big Chinese army does not fire, as soon as the fire is dozens of cannons roared together, the cannonballs fell like hail, and immediately those Han soldiers of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion fell into bad luck, after these shells landed, they also jumped up and flew forward with the help of the rebound of the ground, and a series of these slave soldiers who blocked them along the way were torn apart, until they completely lost their momentum, and then stopped, but the nightmare was not over at this time, After some of these shells stopped, they were still smoking, and suddenly they exploded with a bang, and a cloud of fire and smoke was raised, and the shattered shells immediately flew in all directions like a torrential rain, and all the slave soldiers who approached these shells, even if they were torn apart by these shrapnel, in front of these flying shrapnel, the armor on the bodies of these slave soldiers was like paper paste, and they were torn apart in an instant, and then the shrapnel ripped open their flesh, tore their internal organs, and scattered their limbs.
Originally, the Han soldier training of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion was far inferior to the systematic training of the large Chinese army, although they learned the training of the large Chinese army, but they only learned a little bit of skin, it was simply a virtual appearance, under the supervision of the king of Sanshun, the formation was arranged, and slowly advanced forward, but compared with the neatness of the large Chinese army front, their formation could not be as neat as the queue of the large Chinese army, although they also learned to make drummers to beat the drum to control the marching speed, At the beginning of the walk, it was still a little good, but after a hundred steps, their array looked at it again, and when they looked at it from the side, the whole thing was like a snake, and no matter how the officers in the army screamed, they could no longer keep the queue neat.
This alone shows the gap between them and the Great Chinese Army, and now they are bombarded by this cannon, and the Wuzhen Chaoha Battalion under the command of King Sanshun immediately began to mess up.
Since it is these people who surrendered to Jiannu, then first of all, these people have no national consciousness in their bones, and it shows that these people are not people who dare to die, and now the king of Sanshun is supported by his master, and these Wuzhen Chaoha battalions are formed, and the Han soldiers are in the absolute majority, most of these people are basically captured by Jiannu on the battlefield, or Jiannu who surrendered to save their lives, so they are not warriors, even under the coercion of the master of Jiannu, They have shown much stronger combat effectiveness on the battlefield in the past than when they were working with Daming, but they are still cowardly people in their bones.
Now, when a large number of shells of the large Chinese army fall on their heads, how can these Han soldiers not be afraid? Although they knew that the military rules of Jiannu were strict, but in order to save their lives, some people still couldn't help but want to dodge the falling cannonballs.
As a result, it was just a volley of fire, and the Jiannu Front, which was not too neat in the first place, immediately began to fluctuate as if dozens of large stones had been thrown into a calm pool.
Huang Taiji's face suddenly darkened, and he snorted coldly again, and said angrily: "Bastard! They have just been shot, and they are so unbearable, they have wasted my expectations of them! Sent an order to Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi, telling them that they must suppress their subordinates and not retreat, otherwise, even if they had merit in the first place, I would not be able to spare them! ”
After a while, King Sanshun got the order of Huang Taiji, and there was a cold sweat on his back, and they also saw that these generals under their command usually looked like they were practicing well, but when they really faced strong opponents, their performance was far inferior to those big and medium generals on the opposite side!
At this time, both sides were shelled, although the losses of the large Chinese army were smaller, and the losses on their side were larger, but the large Chinese army showed that they were not surprised by the changes, and they all regarded death as home, but on the other hand, their subordinates were in a mess at this time, and the formation was also chaotic, although it did not collapse, but it was not far from scattered.
So Kong Gengshang and the three of them immediately ordered their own soldiers to go down to suppress, ordering their subordinates not to mess with their own positions, and those who violated the order were killed, so those pro-soldiers rushed down like wolves, and dragged out more than a dozen scurrying guys in a row, and immediately couldn't help but say, they chopped off their heads, not to mention, this method of relying on killing bullets is really very effective for these poor worms, as soon as they saw their masters angry, this is really to kill people, these cowards are really much more honest, As a result, the chaos gradually calmed down and began to restore stability.
But the thing that made their scalp continue to be numb happened, I thought that the Dazhong Army would be similar to them, and it would take a long time to reload a cannon, but I didn't expect the speed of the Dazhong Army's cannon reloading, so that they didn't have a chance to breathe at all, if it was calculated according to the time of the later generations, that is, a minute of time, the terrible cannons of the Dazhong Army roared again, and the head and face were like burning hailstones, and smashed into the crowd of Jiannu.
This group of Jiannu soldiers suddenly had a commotion again, fortunately, this time there were officers who scolded loudly and pressed them, so that the chaos did not continue to occur, but then, the artillery of the Dazhong Army was like a standard timer, almost every minute, there would be a salvo, just a distance of more than 100 steps, the Dazhong Army came to four salvos against the Jiannu Army, and the generals of the Wuzhen Chaoha Battalion under the command of King Sanshun were miserable and suffered heavy casualties.
On the other hand, Jiannu's cannons, at this time, only fired another round of artillery, whether it was the accuracy or speed of the shelling, they were far behind the Dazhong army, and the angry Jiannu all scolded, and the Han soldiers and gunners who scolded them were all wastes, and they really deserved to be killed.
This really wronged the Han soldiers and gunners in Jiannu, in fact, it was not that they did not work hard, but that their artillery technology was too far behind the Great Chinese Army at this time.
First of all, their gun mount design, are imitated from the Ming gun mount, the operation is extremely inconvenient, relying on the skids to adjust the pitch of the muzzle, after each cannon shot, because of the huge recoil, the gun carriage will be displaced, have to re-push the gun carriage back to the gun position, two or three thousand pounds of cannons, push up is not three or five people can do the work, after each cannon is released, have to hula up dozens of people, in order to reset the cannon, and then re-use the skids to adjust the muzzle for aiming.
The cannon of the large Chinese army is erected on the well-designed gun mount, although the front-loading guns in this era can not talk about any system and retreat or re-entrant belongs to the standard frame of the artillery artillery, but after all, their cannon artillery mount design is much more exquisite, the weight is much lighter, after the shelling is moved back, it is more convenient to push the reset, and the biggest advantage of the large Chinese army is that the gunners have all received strict training in the operation of the gun, everyone has their clear division of labor, and they cooperate with each other very skillfully and tacitly. Wipe the gun chamber, reload, under the full cooperation of the gunners, the action is skillful, dazzling, there is no delay in the middle, coupled with the use of the whole charge package of the large Chinese army, it is to make the gunners' reloading work like a tiger, and there will be no deviation in the amount of charge, so whether it is the speed of reloading, or the accuracy of the shelling, it is higher than that of Jiannu one or even two levels.
It is better not to know that before the infantry armies of the two sides have fought each other, this artillery bombardment between each other has made the quality and technology of the soldiers on both sides immediately superior, and the artillery of the large and medium army has suppressed the Jiannu army in both quantity and quality.
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