"Guys ...... hard"

Chen Xu was pushing while cheering up his brothers, and his thick Shandong accent was particularly eye-catching. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The implementation of official dialect in the Jingbian Army is also a part of the consideration for promotion, but Chen Xu is old, and his local accent is difficult to change. He was able to be promoted, but he was outstanding in his skills, nailing horseshoes, building bridges, building outposts, and doing a good job in all aspects, so although he didn't fight much, he was still promoted to the rank of captain.

In the baggage battalion, he was not the only one who led by example like Chen Xu, and many captains greeted their brothers, as well as many team officers, and the generals went into battle in person.

The heavy soldiers pushed the wagons and chariots, and along the mountain road, the dense mules and horses were loaded with baggage, and they meandered to the end of the mountain.

"Come on, all the soldiers."

Zhao shouted and glanced at the baggage battalion behind him with satisfaction, since the eleventh year of Chongzhen, his lovely chariot finally went out again.

And today's chariots, which are more powerful than the wheelbarrows of the past, do not make this chariot fanatic adherent rejoice?

In this battle, the general also listened to his own opinions, and the baggage battalion not only carried a large number of 10,000 enemies to the battle, but also a large number of gray bottle bullets, poisonous smoke bombs and other weapons, all of which were new equipment from military factories.

Not to mention the 10,000 enemies, the grenades of the Ming Dynasty.

As for the ash bottle bullet, it is the inspiration of the members of the military factory from the ash bottle, a sharp weapon to defend the city, which contains lime, arsenic and other materials. After bursting, it is not only harmful to the eyes, but also inhaled into the lungs, which will also make people lose their combat effectiveness.

There are also poisonous smoke bombs, this kind of thing, which appeared before the Ming Dynasty, is not new, and the Ming army often uses rockets to launch poisonous fire arrows. In the Wanli War to aid Korea, the poisonous rockets of the Ming army made the Japanese army suffer greatly. When Wang Dou went out to fight in Luoyang, many defenders also wrapped firewood and grass in nitrate, lit it and threw it down, making the army miserable.

In addition to gunpowder, there are also a large number of croton, wolf poison, lime, asphalt, arsenic and other substances, which produce poisonous smoke when exploding, and the middle person bleeds from the mouth and nose, which is no less than sarin poison gas.

Considering that there would be trench warfare, these weapons could come in handy, and Wang Dou asked the baggage battalion to carry a large number of 10,000 enemies, ash bottle shells, poison smoke bombs, etc.

Of course, these weapons are double-edged swords, and while injuring the enemy, they may also hurt the body, such as when Li Rusong accidentally inhaled his own poisonous smoke, and he did not recover for several months. So after these weapons were made, Wang Dou not only ordered the antidote, but also personally guided the logistics department to make a large number of masks.

Due to the practicality of masks, the Department of Medicine also took a lot of them.

Zhao also suggested that Wang Dou use incendiary bombs, which were called fierce fire oil at this time, and some cities in the Ming Dynasty were equipped with fierce fire oil tanks, and the effect was a bit like napalm. However, Wang Dou thinks that this thing can defend the city, but it may not be practical in field warfare. Moreover, it is too dangerous to carry this kind of thing in the army on a summer expedition, the weather is hot.

Wang Dou's refusal to go on the expedition made Zhao heartbroken, but he was generally satisfied.

He turned back and looked at his artillery battalion, where a large number of gunners, assisting the horses and mules, were pushing the battalion's artillery along the mountain road.

In particular, the relatively heavy Hongyi six-pounder guns, as well as a large number of ammunition trucks in the battalion, which were loaded with shells and gunpowder, all needed the help of the sergeants to push and pull.

Because the military factory built seven six-pounder cannons during the time when the Jingbian Army returned to the East Road, Zhao's artillery battalion at this time had a total of 70 Hongyi cannons, including 33 six-pounder cannons and 37 three-pounder cannons. This is also the advantage of the iron mold method, and there is no need to take into account the season when making cannons.

Of course, there are ten Hongyi cannons, and thirty-five general Franc machine guns are placed in Laishui, and at the same time as the army arrives in Beijing, the defenders there will also transport artillery and grain and grass to the Beijing division to join the army. …,

In this battle, all the Hongyi cannons went to the battle, and there were fifty-five small and medium-sized Franc cannons accompanying them. As for the tiger squat cannon, the effective lethality is thirty steps, and in today's war, it is no longer of much use, so it will no longer be with the army.

These guns in front of them all have gun mounts, and imitating the Hongyi cannon, the Franc machine no longer adjusts the elevation angle with different thickness wooden sleepers, but transforms it, using spiral iron handles to adjust the angle. Even if the Tiger Squat Cannon left in the road also has a gun carriage, but the Tiger Squat Cannon fires scattered shells and has a lethality of thirty steps, so there is no need to use cranks and screws.

According to the information obtained, Zhao knew that the Qing army used three-pound and five-pound Hongyi cannons, which used two-wheel artillery carriages similar to those of the Jingbian Army, and also used spiral iron handles to adjust the angle, which was the case with the Hongyi small cannons of the Ming army at that time, which was not surprising.

But the strange thing is......

The Qing army played more than a dozen catties of cannons, and the heavy artillery of General Shenwei, which weighed three or four thousand catties, was too heavy, so it used a four-wheel gun carriage, and it needed to be fixed with a pile and rope when firing. With such a heavy artillery, the angle of fire of the gun is difficult to adjust, and it is also very difficult to rotate.

Generally, such artillery is only used in defense battles and siege warfare, but intelligence came that the Qing people used a four-wheel grinding disc gun carriage, but this problem was solved.

This kind of gun carriage, when the gun carriage is turned and the height is adjusted, a few or a dozen wrestlers can turn the grinding disc under the gun carriage to achieve the desired result.

At that time, the defenders of Liaodong said: "The thief cannon can be rotated and turned, it can be high and low, although it weighs as much as 10,000 catties, the power of a few people can push and pull lightly." ”

Zhao wondered in his heart what the gun carriage of the thief slave looked like, and he didn't know if he got inspiration from the mule grinder.

At the same time, his heart was full of pride, full of desire to compete with the Tartar artillery battalion.

"Come on, soldiers."

Zhao Xuan shouted at the soldiers of the artillery camp again, and he was in a trance, not knowing where he had flown to.

Those who understand him know that they are obviously pondering the matter of the artillery camp.

Zhao Xuan joined the Shunxiang Army in the ninth year of Chongzhen, when he was thirty years old, a few years later, he was still old, only interested in technical things, and the rest were indifferent.

At this time, he was indeed pondering the issue of artillery battalions and artillery.

After the Jingbian Army was reorganized in May, Zhao Xuan's artillery battalion at this time had 2,000 soldiers, and the gunners were divided into three batches.

In the Hongyi cannon, every 10 people are responsible for one cannon, and every 20 guns are the basic salvo units, with an observer officer and equipped with gun scopes.

Forty artillery pieces are one piece, with a thousand generals, and there are thousands of commanders in the company, and there are 500 people in one group.

Two thousand commanders are in charge of the Hongyi cannon, with a total of 1,000 people.

The big Buddha Lang machine, every five people are responsible for one cannon, set up a general headquarters, there is a general headquarters, and the company counts all personnel, a total of 200 people.

The middle franc machine, the small franc machine and other guns, every three people are responsible for a cannon to set up a general command, there is a general headquarters, and there are 200 people in each company.

Due to the fact that there are enough observers and sighters, and the technical content of the loaders and ammunition operators is not high, the 160 guns that participated in this battle all have experienced gunners.

In addition, an artillery battalion was set up to carry a heavy load, and there were many ammunition trucks in it to transport ammunition.

There is also a battalion headquarters, and these people together are nearly a thousand people.

Whether it is the baggage department or the battalion headquarters, there are many artillery apprentices, who learn all kinds of artillery knowledge in the training camp and artillery camp. Actual combat is the best study, and it is better to practice for 100 days on the training ground than to fight on the battlefield for one day, so these people are used as artillery battalion soldiers and all follow the expedition.

At this time, Zhao Xuan was thinking about the problem of the medicine bag.

From the previous development of the Shunxiang military artillery to the present, the artillery battalion is very mature in all aspects.

In the artillery battalion, Xu Guangqi and others compiled the book "Measurement Law" on artillery ranging in the early years of Chongzhen, as well as the "Fire Attack Essentials" for measuring the elevation angle of the gun barrel, which had already been collected. Even He Rubin's "Western Fire Attack Artifact" and Sun Yuanhua's "Western Law Divine Machine" have also been collected. …,

These books, the gunners and gunners, have been carefully studied.

The use of square (moment) and round (gun gauge) mentioned above has been actually studied, and the range and ammunition consumption of different elevation angles are also recorded in special books. Gunners and artillery officers must memorize the assessment of the skills of the non-commissioned officers of the artillery battalion, and this is the difference between the superior army and the inferior army.

Therefore, although the art of observing and aiming at Hongyi artillery is a secret skill of the military state, it is not a secret within the Ming Dynasty. However, the artillery tools related to the East Road were built one by one, coupled with a large number of live-fire exercises, and the mistakes were constantly corrected, and there were also artillery scopes and clairvoyant mirrors, and the artillery battalion of the Jingbian Army had reached an extremely high level of artillery operation.

An artillery apprentice on the East Road pulled out, and in the eyes of others, they were all masters.

The medicine bag has also been used for a long time, this is not a special thing, the above several books, also mentioned the use of the medicine bag, "Bing Lu" has talked about: "Use cloth or paper to sew the charge, still seal the name, use it temporarily, first nail into the fire door, and then use the fire door medicine." ”

At that time, after the Shunxiang Army came out with paper cartridge ammunition, the gunpowder of artillery was also fixed, and paper was used in those years, and later changed to cotton cloth, and shotguns also used cartridges.

What Zhao Xuan is thinking about now is the issue of materials for the medicine bag.

With a cotton pack, there is always unember residue and smoke left in the barrel, and it is necessary to use a wet mop to clean the barrel, otherwise the barrel will overheat, or a little spark, which will cause spontaneous combustion of gunpowder. And it caused the iron cannon to cool down too long.

Zhao Xuan knew that the brass cannon or bronze cannon needed to be cooled much less than the iron cannon, but considering the cost, it was obviously impossible to use the brass cannon or bronze cannon on the East Road. In this way, you can only work on the medicine pack, as long as the combustion is sufficient, the gun chamber is not easy to overheat, and the reloading process can be greatly accelerated.

Zhao Xuan remembered that when he had not set out on the expedition a few days ago, he accidentally caused a fire in the room, but fortunately he put it out immediately. At that time, Zhao Xuan noticed a problem, several pieces of cloth in the room were burned, and there were cotton cloth and silk inside, and the silk burned very quickly, and there was not much ash left afterwards, but cotton cloth was not.

This made Zhao Xuan have a spiritual light, silk is more flammable than cotton, and the medicine bag for ammunition is changed to a silk medicine bag?

Zhao Xuan knew that when the medicine bag was changed from paper to cotton, many people criticized it, secretly scolding him for being a loser, and now he uses expensive silk......

Zhao Xuan thought to himself: "I don't care, being scolded is the general's business, I just have to shoot the artillery." ”

Also, the primer of the artillery is still poured into the fire door with a powder cartridge, not to mention the slow action, and it is easy to be blown away by the wind.

However, if the primer is to be fixed, it is necessary to take into account the problem of flammable catheters, and it must be stiff and straight, so that it can be inserted at once, what material is good to use?

With a full stomach, Zhao Xuan advanced with the army.

In front of and behind them, the gunners pushed heavy gun wagons and winded along the mountain road.

A glittering cannon glows in the sun.

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