Chapter 67: Enemy Escalation

An intelligence staff officer stood up and answered the question: "According to our information, including the Houjin Korean Front under the leadership of Sukh Saha and An Buyang, as well as the Houjin Army in the Liaodong region, they have all learned the lessons of the last battle and equipped their troops with a large number of firearms of various types. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Now the Houjin Army has begun to develop long-distance firearms combat capabilities. I hope that all comrades-in-arms will no longer look at Houjin Tartar with old eyes. ”

All the officers present suddenly realized that Jurchen was a fishing and hunting nation and had always followed practical principles.

Although in history, after these guys moved into the Central Plains, they quickly became corrupt and degenerated, and lost their combat effectiveness.

However, in the first few decades of their rise, the post-golden Tatars were still very good at learning and summing up various experiences.

In the beginning, the Tartars formed a fighting style of killing with a large bow and heavy arrows at close range during their long-term fishing and hunting.

Later, after learning about mounted archery during battles with the Mongols, the Jurchen elite began to be equipped with two bows, one for close-range armor piercing, one for mounted archery, or for continuous fire against a large number of unarmored targets.

After that, it was based on the original mounted archery combat method, which was improved and changed to a wall-based combat mode.

Then, in the battle with the Ming Dynasty, the defect of insufficient combat population was obvious, in order to be able to use all the manpower, the army began to be equipped with firearms, all soldiers who could not shoot a bow had to carry a bird gun, and also according to a certain proportion of the troops equipped with guns.

Later, in the bloody battle with the Ming army, he suffered and saw the power of artillery, so he specially formed an artillery unit.

All this shows that the enemy is not an NPC, even if the other party still maintains a barbaric and brutal slavery, but as a people who have survived the harsh conditions, they are doing a good job in the current period in terms of learning lessons.

In particular, after Huang Taiji ascended to the throne, he gradually learned the various rules and regulations and advanced technology of the Han Dynasty, and slowly changed a backward slave tribe on the verge of collapse into a country in the true sense.

Sukh Saha and An Buyang can carry out a coup d'Γ©tat and solve Amin when they are surrounded by strong enemies, then they can't be stupid.

They are not toys to be manipulated by others, and if they suffer a loss, they naturally have to improve their shortcomings.

The soldiers below are also slaves under the slavery system, but the things in their hands are related to their own lives, and naturally there is no resistance from the lower levels.

There is this will from top to bottom, so it is natural for the current Houjin army to increase the proportion of firearms and equipment.

After getting the answer, the officers in the command began to ask their own questions.

The military mobilization officer was the first to stand up and ask: "Can the intelligence department tell us more about the enemy's equipment?"

We need to estimate the number of people and equipment needed for the operation, and if the enemy is stronger, we may also have to prepare to mobilize reserve forces. ”

An intelligence staff officer stood up and walked to the podium next to the conference table: "Okay, we have already summarized the data in this regard, and when the personnel arrive, there will be a detailed transcription of the materials and put them in the reference room, and comrades who need them should borrow them according to their own level of confidentiality."

Now let me give you a general report on Houjin's equipment.

The Korean Front of the Later Kim now has a main force of about 80,000 people.

There are also some auxiliaries who are on behalf of the animals, the number of troops in this part is unknown, and it is still increasing, however, these are all captured coats and aha, there are not many weapons, there is no combat effectiveness, there is no need to care.

Let's talk about the enemy's main force first, the main force of 80,000 people has more than 100 small-caliber artillery pieces of various kinds.

The exact number is unknown, but most of the artillery was eliminated by the main force of the Later Jin Dynasty in Liaodong, as well as the former North Korean officers and soldiers, and some artillery workshops in the Shangjing area made their own.

These guns were all of small calibers, mainly based on various models of Franc machine small cannons, with the occasional mountain splitting gun.

In the early stage of development, our army was also equipped with this kind of Franc machine small cannon, which has the advantage of being fast in firing and can fire about 6 shells within a minute.

However, the disadvantages are also obvious, because of the air leakage, coupled with the short barrel and thin gun wall, the firing range is very close, and the farthest effective firing range is about 200 meters.

The mountain splitting gun is a traditional front-loading small-caliber artillery, the effective actual distance is slightly farther, about 300 meters, but the firing speed is extremely slow, and the skilled hand can reach about two rounds per minute, and because of the material of the barrel, it can not be fired for a long time, and it is easy to explode.

In addition to these guns, the enemy also has a large number of guns, about 20 to 30 people are equipped with one, which is extremely large.

Because of the enemy's lack of careful planning in terms of weights and measures, the caliber of these guns varies, but at least they are all above 20mm.

It takes at least two or three people to carry the gun, and its effective range ranges from about 150 meters to 200 meters, and it can fire shotguns at close range, although it is not very convenient to operate, but it has quite terrifying lethality.

In addition to this, the enemy had a large number of muskets, but they differed in model, caliber, weight and size, and ammunition were not universal.

Among them, part of the enemy's main force, that is, the Houjin army that approached our hinterland through the mountains, used a two-year heavy arquebus modeled after our army.

Although the accuracy of the arquebus is far lower than that of our army's two-year rifle due to manufacturing technology, bore polishing technology, reed production process, material purity, weights and measures, etc., the power of the arquebus is definitely not to be underestimated.

However, the largest number of muskets on the enemy's side was still the bird gun.

Because Houjin now uses the method of inscribed the name of the craftsman on each rifle and investigates it after the fact, those North Korean craftsmen are making it with special care this time.

The chances of the Bird's Guns being equipped by the enemy now are far less likely to explode than those muskets encountered in the last battle. ”

An operational staff officer immediately rushed to ask, "Since the enemy has done a poor job in standardization, there should be no way to equip the enemy's musket with bayonets, right?" ”

"Yes, the enemy, in order to cope with close combat, is armed with muskets and carries a short soldier with a closed hand.

In the choice of cold weapons, the enemy still maintained the same previous combat habits, the Jurchen Tatars were strong bows, tiger spears or heavy short soldiers, the Mongol Tatars used bows and arrows and scimitars, and the Goryeo people used spears and long knives. ”

"So, what's the state of the armor on the enemy's side? Can it still be the same as before? ”