Yang Yizhong, as the deputy commander of the Eastern Route Army of the Northern Expedition, spoke modestly to this centurion of the Guards, like a peace-level colleague.
This is not surprising.
The Guards are the emperor's personal army.
Zhang Xian and Yang Yizhong only have temporary command rights over them, but no control over them.
To put it bluntly, generals such as Zhang Xian and Yang Yizhong could issue combat orders to the Guards assigned to them during the war, but they did not have the power to deal with even the most ordinary Guards soldiers according to military law.
The punishment of the Guards can only be determined by the Guards generals and the Gendarmerie themselves.
"Brother, what is this thing called and how to use it?"
Yang Yizhong asked.
"Your Majesty, this is a cannon, and it is a huge one.
It is specially used to destroy the walls of fortified cities.
The Holy Emperor ordered Chongming Workshop to build it two months ago."
The centurion replied.
"The artillery can really blast through the two battle thick walls of Zhending City."
Zhang Xian also muttered from the side.
"It's just an enlarged musket.
You can understand it this way.
The walls of Zhending City can definitely be blasted open.
This humble person dares to guarantee it."
According to the normal historical trajectory, artillery should appear before muskets, because it is much easier to manufacture gun barrels than musket barrels.
The former only needs to be produced using traditional bronze casting techniques.
If the latter is made of bronze, the resulting thing is called a musket, but in fact it weighs about the same as a light artillery piece.
It's just that Yue Fei considered that the early stage of artillery was beneficial to the northern nomads where cavalry was dominant, so he did not equip his troops with artillery.
But this situation changed when the Taihang Mountain Zhongyi Army launched a spring offensive behind enemy lines.
Under the auspices of Wan Yanyong, who served as the guard in Xijing of the Jin Kingdom, the Han craftsmen of the Jin Kingdom failed to imitate Han army muskets, but unexpectedly produced bronze artillery.
And it came in handy when counterattacking the spring offensive of the Loyalty Army in the Hedong area.
This kind of accident is not actually an accident.
The craftsmen of the Jin Kingdom racked their brains and tried to imitate the barrels of the matchlock guns of the Han army, but in the end they couldn't do it.
The blunderbuss tube made of pig iron will explode as soon as it is fired, even if the tube wall is made thicker, it will be useless.
Finally, I switched to bronze casting and found that it was useless if the wall of the tube was as thick as the matchlock gun of the Han army.
It would still be easy to explode the chamber, but it could be made thicker than ten times.
The blunderbuss tube made in this way is naturally very heavy and bulky, and basically has no significance for use by individual soldiers in skirmishing combat.
The craftsmen of the Jin Kingdom simply smashed the jars and no longer considered its portability.
Instead, they enlarged its dimensions to increase its power.
In this way, the Jin Kingdom created early primitive copper artillery.
After Yue Fei knew this situation, he had nothing to worry about.
He immediately sent a letter to the Chongming City Workshop to start developing various types of artillery.
The first thing to be built was the Urban cannon specially used for siege.
In fact, for ease of transportation.
The Urban Bronze Cannon built by the Chongming City Workshop is one size smaller than the original Urban Bronze Cannon in history.
But this is enough to deal with the walls of Zhending City.
An hour later, the three Urban cannons had been assembled, positioned and loaded with gunpowder.
A solid granite cannonball nearly two feet in diameter and weighing half a ton was hoisted into the cannon chamber using a special pulley.
Thousands of leading troops of the Han army have also lined up in formation outside Zhending City.
Each of them has cotton stuffed in his ears.
As soon as the city wall collapsed, they rushed into the city at full speed.
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"Ignite" the centurion gave the order, and the fuse of a huge cannon was ignited, and the fuse crawled toward the barrel of the cannon with sparks sizzling.
Abu Han stood at the top of the city, watching every move of the Han army vigilantly.
The actions of a group of people behind the Han army's formation quickly caught his attention.
They seemed to be building something.
Must be assembling a trebuchet or something.
But whether you throw rocks, thunder or incendiary bombs, this Zhending City has already made various preparations.
Abu Han thought to himself.
Suddenly, there was an indescribable roar.
The sound was ten times louder than thunder.
Then, Abuhan felt a ringing in his ears and could hardly hear anything.
A huge black shadow appeared in Abu Han's eyes, shooting towards the wall of Zhending City.
There was a loud "bang", and half of the tower behind Abu Han suddenly collapsed.
It turned out that the stone bullet penetrated the tower.
Several beams and columns broke, causing the entire tower structure to collapse.
The stone bullets did not stop moving after they destroyed the city tower.
They continued to fly into the city and destroyed another building in the city.
On the Han army's cannon position, the centurion ordered: "Shoot it high, lower the sound of the cannon one degree."
A moment later, there were two more huge roars, and two huge granite bullets were fired quickly, hitting the weak point of the city wall structure.
The result was only broken stones and scattered dust.
Two clearly visible transparent holes suddenly appeared on the city wall.
The huge granite bullet actually penetrated the city wall.
But what is more terrifying than the city wall being penetrated is that countless cracks of different sizes spread out radially from the center of these two holes.
On the city wall, both Jurchen soldiers and Han people covered their ears with their hands.
The huge roar of the cannon almost burst their eardrums.
They felt as if the entire city beneath their feet was being grasped by a giant and shaking.
Abu Han's face turned extremely pale.
He knew in his heart that as long as the Han army fired a few more shots like this, the walls of Zhending City would be destroyed.
But at this moment, the Han army fell silent, and there was no movement for a long time.
Abu Han looked far into the distance and saw that the Han soldiers were busy up and down again.
He hurriedly ordered in a loud voice: "Repair the city quickly."
It took a long time for the Jin soldiers and the forcibly recruited civilians to come to their senses and follow Abu Han's orders to repair the city.
But they didn't know how to repair the damage to the city wall, so they worked indifferently for half an hour.
The Han army fired again.
The entire Zhending City was trembling, and with the huge roar, three more huge holes appeared in the city wall.
The cracks of the launcher with the four holes as the center are intertwined, the top of the wall has tilted, and the wall is already crumbling.
Abu Han understood that the city wall could no longer be relied on, and hurriedly mobilized all the Jin soldiers in the city to concentrate on the bombarded city wall, preparing to use manpower to block the Han army's attack here after the city was broken.
After another half an hour, three huge bombs flew in again, and the Zhending city wall collapsed without any surprise.
But the ruins are still far higher.
The golden soldiers who had been preparing behind the city wall swarmed onto the ruins and occupied the commanding heights.
When the huge dust flying in the air settled, on the ruins near the battle height, the golden soldiers were ready.
They also saw clearly that the Han army was attacking the gap in the city wall under the cover of a special large shield car.
The scull shields on this kind of shield car are extremely tall.
They not only serve as scull shields, but also serve as approach bridge springboards that can be lowered.
Help the Han soldiers easily board the ruins of the city
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