After several discussions, the artillery officers never found a way to crack the cavalry shock artillery array. The cavalry stormed the artillery array, regardless of whether the artillery array could hold it or not, and could not fight in a short time. The same breech gun, the era of cold weapons and the era of hot weapons were different in the way they were used. The period of the era of cold and hot weapons is in the seventeenth century, and more detailed, the Spanish phalanx still belongs to the era of cold weapons, and the Morris horizontal team and Gustav line tactics after the Spanish phalanx belong to the era of hot weapons.

The only difference between the two is that the army mainly relies on gunpowder-driven projection weapons such as guns, or whether it is supplemented by guns and cannons, and mainly relies on cold contact weapons such as spears.

The reason why the artillery charge tactics invented by Shen Qing are ineffective is that this is the artillery tactics of the nineteenth century in the era of hot weapons. The infantry of this period were all armed with smoothbore guns and flintlock pistols, and they could always stand behind the artillery and shoot at the enemy, and the bullets were fired from the air through the artillery positions to the enemy, but this was not possible in the era of cold weapons. The foot soldier had to cross the artillery position in order to kill the enemy and crush the enemy formation, and once the foot soldier had crossed, the artillery was behind him, and there was no way to shoot again.

There is no better way for foot soldiers and cavalry pawns, because the most reasonable tactics are being implemented now, but Shen Qing and others are angry that artillery cannot be used in the later stage, and they are eager to change the current tactics.

"The minister thought that the artillery array should stand behind the spear array...... "The warm shogunate, Shen Qing's first sentence caused the generals to laugh. Xiang Liang teased: "I thought that the artillery pawns should be arrayed behind the chasm." ”

Although the artillery position of the Battle of Shashui was not broken through by the cavalry of the Qin army, the position was submerged by the corpses of horses, and they did not participate in the battle again until the end of the battle. This was a common thing in the era of cold weapons, the Spanish spearmen needed to cross the heavy artillery to fight the enemy, and the Ming soldiers needed to cross the tiger squat cannon to fight the enemy, which was an inevitable phenomenon when the hot and cold weapons alternated, but after this battle, the generals who had great expectations for the artillery soldiers inevitably had to make fun of a few words.

The battle with Wang Ben was due to the inability to lay iron stakes on the ice and snow to pull up the huge wire net, and only relied on the chariot array to resist the horses, and the Qin cavalry finally rushed into the artillery array, but fortunately, the infantry behind him did not cause too many losses in time, but this is a bit embarrassing no matter how you say it. Xiang Liang's words made the generals laugh even more, Xiong Jing coughed, and the shogunate quieted down.

"Why does the artillery emplacement stand behind the spear array?" Xiong Jing looked at Shen Qing in bewilderment, he didn't look like he was afraid.

"The frozen earth, there is no pillar, Qin cavalry rushes against me, and the artillery array will be broken. Rather than this, it is better to line up behind the spear array and break the enemy's ...... with thunder bullets."

Shen Qing didn't care about the teasing of the generals around him, first, he didn't want the artillery to only shell before the engagement, but wanted to fight the whole field; Second, there will be more cavalry of the Qin army charging in the next battle. Different from the previous battle, when some short-barreled guns were still on floating ships, the next battle of the Chu army will have 33 ten-jin guns, 12 siege guns, and 134 short-barreled guns. The 179 guns were placed at intervals of 10 meters, with a width of nearly 1,800 meters. For the cavalry of the Qin army to storm such a long array, five thousand cavalry was no longer enough.

"No!" An unexpected person spoke out against it. "There are still 30,000 cavalry in Qin, and only 7,000 cavalry in our army. If the artillery array is not lined up in front of the formation, the Qin cavalry will hook the flank and back of our army, and the artillery must be in front of the formation. ”

"Seven thousand horsemen?" Some generals were surprised when they heard this, but when they thought of the three heavy cavalry wedge formations, they all understood again.

"Qin cavalry is too much, and the artillery soldiers don't kill Qin cavalry, what if?" Fei Jing saluted Shen Qing, "The artillery soldiers should line up in front to kill the Qin cavalry, if the formation is broken, the foot soldiers can save each other." After that, the foot soldiers rushed forward to engage the Qin people, and the artillery soldiers used lightning bullets to hit the enemy at this time. ”

"That's right." Jingsheng and abandoning the heel also said, and the rest of the jockeys also echoed the rate.

"Indeed, the artillery should stand in front." Xiong Jing agreed with the suggestion that these jockeys would be rated.

"But under the ice, the artillery array will be broken." Shen Qing said. "Since it is the final battle, the Qin people will attack me with the whole army."

"Before the Qin cavalry broke through the formation, the artillery stopped firing, and the foot soldiers rushed forward." Zhuang is not authentic. The shogunate has also carefully deduced the problem of the Qin cavalry attacking the artillery array in the past few days, and when the Qin cavalry is about to break through the artillery array, the foot soldiers should step forward to protect the artillery array. "The foot soldiers rush forward, and the artillery soldiers should retreat. After the artillery retreated, they hit the enemy with lightning bullets, especially the trebuchets of the Qin people. ”

"Yes." Zhuang Wudi's suggestion was agreed by Zhou Hou Ruo, Xiang Liang, E Le, Dong Yegu and others, who were deeply troubled by trebuchets. The trebuchet lined up behind the Qin army's formation and constantly fired fire oil bombs, the range of bows and arrows was out of reach, and the cannon had to hit their own people.

"This thunderbolt ......" Xiong Jing is not very interested in thunderbolts. The true diameter of a ten-kilogram shell is only seventy-eight millimeters, and seventy-eight millimeters minus the specially thin fifteen-millimeter shell wall, the remaining space can hold extremely limited gunpowder, less than 100 grams, about 80 grams. This is a big difference of 155 grams of thunder shells from a fifteen-pound cannon. The charge of 130 grams of grenade exploded several pieces at a time, and 80 grams of gunpowder was barely enough to blow up the shell.

"Da Ao mistakenly. Not ten pounds of thunderbolts, but sixty-eight pounds of thunderbolts. "Shen Qing knew that Xiong Jing would think it was a ten-pound cannon thunderball, and what he really wanted to use was a sixty-eight-pound thunderbolt from a short-barreled cannon." Sixty-eight pounds of thunder bullets with a charge of five pounds will definitely be able to destroy the enemy. ”

"Sixty-eight pounds of thunderbolts?" Xiong Jing was stunned. He only knew that sixty-eight pounds of artillery and thunder shells were still being tested.

The heavier the shell, the larger the diameter, the larger the diameter, the more cavities there are, and the more the charge. The 68-kilogram shell has a diameter of 152 millimeters, a charge volume of more than 700 milliliters, and can hold more than 1,200 grams of gunpowder. What is this concept? At an eight-to-one conversion of gunpowder to TNT, this gunpowder is ninety percent of the power of an M24 (Model 1915) grenade with a charge of 170 grams of TNT. The M24 kills with a shock wave, and the lightning shells of the 68-pound cannon will explode cast iron fragments, and all of them will die within two zhang of the landing point, and they will be injured within six zhang.

"Previously, the Great Sima Mansion allowed the Gunpowder Mansion to make 3,000 pieces for testing, so it was not included in the shogunate's brochure." Bu Liangju knew about this, and he asked for it with Shen Qing, and he requested it in June, and it was made and delivered before the snow.

"If you don't have a shooting watch, you dare to use it?" Xiong Jing was not surprised, this was a test bomb, and it could only be adjusted in time by relying on the experience of the gun commander and the gunner. This is still a short-barreled cannon with only six times the double diameter, with less double diameter, short firing range, and low accuracy.

"The trebuchet of the Qin people is more than 100 steps away from our sergeant, and more than 100 steps will not hurt our sergeant." Shen Qing said.

"Can you hit the rear of the Qin people?" Zhuang Wudi took the opportunity to ask. He knew that after the two armies exchanged troops, because the Qin Pawn array was only forty lines and the depth was only a dozen paces, the interval between these ten or so steps could not be bent and fired, because the shells might be missed. The rear formation is different, the rear formation is 100 steps apart, and if you miss, you can't hurt your own people.

"When Meng Tian and Wang Ben were in place, the front and back formations were separated by 100 steps, and Wang Jian was also 100 steps apart from each other?" Xiong Jing Road. "If I am Wang Jian and see the enemy's artillery shooting at me, I will be ordered to retreat quickly, and I will not be able to reach five hundred paces away."

"Yu Daao, the thunder bullet is lighter, and it can reach 700 steps." Bu Liangju interjected.

"Then stand seven hundred paces behind." Because the charge of the thunder bullet is indeed lighter than the solid bullet, Xiong Jing nodded. "The front formation will be broken, and the rear formation will inevitably come forward, how many cannons can be fired in seven hundred steps?"

"Ten cannons, twelve cannons......" Shen Qing silently calculated in his heart the time it would take for the Qin army to rush through seven hundred steps. This kind of fast-moving shooting needs to calculate the amount of advance, the cannonball must land where the Qin pawn is about to pass, and the wooden signal pipe must explode just right when it hits the ground. These two points alone will make some new gunners scramble. It's really troublesome to not have a shooting meter.

"Hit the trebuchet, hit the enemy......" Xiong Jing saw his embarrassment and didn't say the rest of the words.

The generals have no concept of the thunder bullet, and most of them think that there is no difference between the lightning bullet and the solid bullet. Everyone saw the embarrassment of the artillery in the battle of the chasm, and many people put forward suggestions for improvement.

"Can't the artillery array be between the spears?" Ruo Ao Duxing also talked about his thoughts, which was discussed before.

"Qin cavalry rushed at my artillery array, the artillery array will be broken, only with foot soldiers......" Zhuang Wudi wondered why he would ask this question again. The cannon array is between the spear arrays, and the foot soldiers cannot step forward to protect them, and once the formation is broken, the Qin cavalry will cut and kill the artillery pawns.

"I know." In the past few days, the shogunate Ruoao has not heard the discussion of the artillery array, but he has only some new ideas on the basis of these. Without speaking, he picked up the pen and paper on the wooden table and drew an array directly. His painting skills are really inferior, and there is no one who does not laugh when he sees it after Chu Paper unfolds it. Xiong Jing also smiled, what he painted was too ugly, but fortunately, the artillery array was a cannon array, the foot pawn was a foot pawn, and Qin Qi was Qin Qi, so he could basically understand it.

"Qin cavalry rushes at me, and the artillery array will inevitably be defeated." Ruo Ao was blushing from everyone's laughter, but he still insisted on finishing his thoughts. "I can only save myself with foot soldiers, so the artillery array must be before the spear array, not between the spear array, but also?"

"Yes." Zhuang Wu nodded, and the rest of the generals also nodded.

"However, if the artillery array is in front of the spear array, and the foot soldiers come forward to protect the artillery and engage the enemy, and the artillery array is already behind the spear array, the artillery soldiers must not strike the enemy again." Ruo Ao walked alone and then walked. "And there are many dead horses in front of the artillery position, and it is inconvenient to stop, so you can only bend and shoot at the enemy."

"Yes." Zhuang Wudi replied again, and the rest of the people didn't nod anymore, this is still something discussed a few days ago.

"If it is ......" if Ao is alone and wants to draw again, someone has already sent a bargain. Although he did not go to military school, he usually saw a lot and knew how to use new chips. After the artillery array, spear array, Qin cavalry array, and Qin army's infantry array were arranged, he fiddled with the chess pieces on it and said, "Qin cavalry rushed at me, and the artillery array shot Qin cavalry." The closer the Qin cavalry is, the artillery array is invincible, so I step forward to protect each other. At this time, the Qin pawns also came, and the foot pawns exchanged troops with the Qin pawns. However, why can't our infantry march diagonally before engaging with the enemy, so that the artillery array is between the spear arrays? ”

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