After Li Tan personally ignited the cannon and fired the first shot, the rest of the artillery was also ignited and fired one after another, and a continuous loud noise appeared on the battlefield again, accompanied by the sound of "Wan Sheng" shouted from the mouths of thousands of soldiers of the Han army.
Within one day, the top leaders of the remnants of the Qiang people were named by the bronze cannon twice in a row, and it is difficult to say how many died and how many were disabled, but it is a fact that the dragon guards defending the city lost command in an instant.
The shelling continued, and the catapult was slowly moving forward.
Despite the constant training, the artillery that could operate the 120 mm bronze cannon could not fire very quickly, and each bronze cannon had to be cleaned of the chamber after firing, and then it would be reloaded with gunpowder packs and projectiles, and the firing elements would also need to be recalibrated, and they could only be fired three or four times in a quarter of an hour.
The enemy troops defending the city, they had never seen the explosion of gunpowder weapons, and one of them was stunned.
I have to say that the Dragon Guards can still be commendable as the most elite troops of the Zhao Kingdom, they have lost their supreme commander, and they are frightened by the weapons they have not seen, but only a few of them run away, and most of them can still stick to their posts.
"What to run" "Don't run around."
"Trapped in a lonely city, you can't run and live."
"Only by holding on can we survive" In fact, those who escaped were quickly punished, and the shouts of the officers at all levels made sense, so that the Dragon Guards, who were still terrified, could still stay on the city walls.
"Shoot the Arrow" "All remote instruments, launch" The bronze cannons were firing at intervals, and from time to time there would be a roar on the battlefield, and then there would be too many people shouting, filling the battlefield with noisy sounds.
Shi Qi Zhao Guo already has a strong crossbow, but there are not many of them.
They also have a bed crossbow, a sharp weapon, which is inherited from the Xiongnu Zhao State.
All kinds of arrows on the top of the city continued to shoot outward, but at this time, even the closest Han army was out of their range, and it could be seen how panicked they were.
The defenders of the city had to panic, from time to time they had to be hit by a projectile fired from three miles away, if it was a solid bullet, it was nothing, in fact, it was just a more powerful stone bullet, but the flower bullet was different.
The flowering bomb of the Han army is not any kind of the Chinese system, it is because Liu Yan has studied Western gunpowder weapons because of curiosity before, and he is extremely curious about the improvement of the original flowering bomb by the French technician Henri Peckhans, and he went to find articles and videos, and he was deeply impressed.
Therefore, the flowering bomb of the Han army is actually a type of explosive bomb.
In the busy Han artillery, they had to fire flowering shells and solid shells were carried out different operations.
To fire a solid projectile, you only need to place a booster charge packet and fill the projectile into it.
Launching a flowering shell also requires a booster explosive pack, but there is a wooden butt at the bottom of the flowering shell, which not only seals the chamber of the cannon, but also increases the stability of the projectile launch, which can make it more likely to hit.
The shell of the flowering bomb is the same as that of the solid bullet, and the internal hollow protects against explosives and iron balls, but the fuse is not a fuse, it is a wooden fuse.
After the artillery is ignited and fired, the explosion of the booster explosive pack not only provides the thrust of the projectile launch, but also ignites the wooden fuse, which avoids the accident of early explosion.
Whether it's a blaster or a flowering bomb, they actually have the same term, and that's grenades.
This thing can evaporate the surrounding area when it explodes, and the iron ball that shoots out can be swept across, and the person in the center of the explosion will definitely become a broken corpse, and the person who is swept by the iron ball will not be able to see where to go.
The Dragon Guardian can endure the bombardment of solid bullets, but it can't endure the flowering bullets at all.
There will be a new Dragon Guardian to fill in the blanks where the solid bullet has been swept over, but no one wants to go over the place after the flowering bullet explodes.
It took two quarters of an hour to make the heavy catapults that were about to come within range of the enemy's long-range equipment, and they stopped at the edge of the enemy's range, as was customary, waiting for the crossbowmen to organize an arrow array to suppress them.
Of course, the range of the catapult is not as far as that of the strong crossbow, only thirty bronze cannons are firing, and the firing interval of the bronze cannons is really longer, and the section of the city wall that can be suppressed is actually limited, as long as the defenders are not frightened into collapsing on their own, they really can't continue to advance slowly.
"There's still a foundation."
What Ran Min said was that the Dragon Teng Guards were not frightened by the bronze cannon, he turned his head to Li Tan and said: "The king once said that artillery needs to be used intensively, and it is best to concentrate more than 100 guns to cover a certain area at a time, so as to show the power of artillery." ” The background of Liu Yan's words is that some generals, including Ran Min and Xu Zheng, in order to compete for the command of the bronze cannon, suggested that the existing bronze cannons be divided, even if there are one or two under each person's command sequence.
Whether it is a bronze cannon or an artillery, it must be a large enough number to show its power, and only one or two cannons are really not useful, and can only be used as an alternative sniper rifle.
It must be said that the sniper rifle can at least ensure the accuracy, even modern electronically controlled artillery cannot guarantee where to shoot, let alone the bronze cannon that has just appeared.
"No need to shell the city wall anymore" Li Tan pointed to the city gate: "You should concentrate and bombard the city gate." ” Ran Min glanced at the phalanx of strong crossbowmen who had formed an arrow formation and then stepped forward, and then looked at the rest of the troops that followed closely behind, and said, "That's right." ” After the appearance of gunpowder, I don't know what the situation is, anyway, the generals of Huaxia and Europa and other places, they don't seem to think that it can be used for blasting, resulting in gunpowder being used in wars and cities around the country still have city walls.
In modern times, Europa no longer built any city walls, but until World War II, there were still battles in the East relying on the city walls to defend the war, and the facts also proved how fragile the city walls were in the face of artillery, and the city walls could play a very limited role.
Ran Min was also commanding a firearms unit for the first time, and the use of gunpowder only stayed at long-range launches, and he really didn't expect that as long as a death squad broke through with explosives packets, they could destroy the city gate by approaching the city gate and then igniting the explosive pack, and even digging a pit on the side of the city wall and hoarding enough explosives bags could blow up the city wall.
It takes time to understand anything new, and only by understanding what it is can we broaden our minds and make that new thing more useful.
The crossbowmen advanced to the firing range, bursts of commands roared out of the officers' mouths, and when the rapid bangzi sounded, each arrow array was a dense burst of crossbow arrows.
The Longteng guards guarding the city wall, they did not evacuate under the bombardment of bronze cannons, but most of them retreated from the city wall when they saw the Han army's arrow array, leaving only a small number of people to rely on the female wall or shields to stay.
The Dragon Guardian had seen the power of the bronze cannon, but because he saw it for the first time, although he knew its horror and was afraid, he did not have such a thorough understanding of the arrow array, and it was not strange to be afraid that the arrow array would cover more than the bronze cannon.
It seems that it has developed into the age of muskets, and the whites invaded North America, but the Indians knew the power of the muskets, but their consciousness was more afraid of the dense arrows fired by the majority of the group, but they could launch wave after wave of attacks on the whites armed with muskets.
The real intention of organizing an arrow array to cover the enemy's fortified walls is not to expect how many people can be killed, but to use a dense rain of arrows to force the defenders to dodge, so that the rest of their troops can approach the walls in a safer environment.
The catapults moved again, and they would still usher in cold arrows during the advancement, and from time to time there would be soldiers who would be shot and arrows out of the combat sequence, but this was within the normal range of attrition, and there was no so-called 100% safety on the battlefield.
"The first time this thing was launched.
I heard that it is very dangerous, and it will explode if you are not careful" Dou A is a frightened mentality that a loud noise can blow people to the ground, especially if the operation is not done properly, it is very likely that he will really blow himself up: "Pull the rope and fix it, don't forget to light the fuse early" The soldier with the explosives in his hand nodded like a chicken, and the hand of the other soldier with a torch even trembled slightly.
Because the explosive package was to be fired, the catapult was placed farther apart from each other than usual, and even the explosive package that needed to be fired was stored far away, so I was really afraid that one of the operation teams would accidentally play themselves to death and harm the rest of the people.
After receiving the command to fire, the explosive package was ejected from the friction of the machine.
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The explosive packets that were thrown out were tumbling in mid-air, the fuses on the side feet were burning with sparks, some of them exploded before they hit the ground, some of them fell to the ground for a while before they were detonated, and there were even explosive packets that did not explode.
Ran Min listened to the frequent explosions in his ears, and then looked at the bright lights that kept flashing on the city wall, and after the bright light, a burst of smoke rose into the air, and boasted to Li Tan: "Ruicai didn't go to the Yandi battlefield, and the infantry and cavalry organized by the Xianbei barbarians were repeatedly blown up to the flesh and blood. ” "The infantry army was blown to pieces, I believe it."
Li Tan said with a little disgust: "The cavalry's war horses will definitely run around when they hear the sound, and the explosives will run after the army."
Ran Min was in a very good mood, he didn't mind being dumped repeatedly, and people who didn't know thought that he had robbed Li Tan of the position of the chief official and tolerated it, but he really didn't care about it because he was in a good mood, and he didn't feel guilty or anything.
The catapult launch is a projectile trajectory that falls at the foot of the city wall, falls on the city wall, and is thrown directly into the city.
The different landing points can be regarded as making the dragon guards hiding behind the city wall pour blood mold, they dodge according to the old concept, when the explosive bag falls, no one knows what it is, the person who was hit did not get up, the person next to him picked it up and looked at it curiously, and then before the ignorance and reaction, it was finished with the surrounding robes.
There was really an explosive bag that fell in the dense crowd, and after the explosion, the people at the center point were evaporated and nothing was left, and when a piece of flesh and blood flew sideways, the people on the periphery were pushed out by a huge force, that is, the Han army outside the city was blocked by the city wall and did not see it.
There were only thirty bronze cannons, and each quarter of an hour was fired at most four times, although it could scare the defenders into trembling, but it was not very dense, and it played more of a psychological deterrent effect.
There are as many as 500 stone-throwing vehicles put into use, and there are 300 in the main attack city wall, and the interval between each projectile is about 100 breaths, which shows how dense the density should be.
The dense number of arrows can make the attacked enemy army suffer heavy losses and break down the heart, and there are not too many people who are actually shot dead with armor.
Once the explosives pack is dense, it is another matter, from the point the catapult arrives close and the explosive pack is fired, after a quarter of an hour has passed, the walls of Miyagi are no longer in shape, and people outside the city cannot see what is going on inside the city, and it looks like it is in a cloud of smoke.
The bronze cannon had been adjusting the shooting Zhu Yuan just now, and after the password was given, Ran Min saw that a stone-throwing truck fell apart instantly, and the wooden structure flew everywhere, and he was stunned for a while.
The scattered catapult was in the trajectory of the bronze cannonball, but fortunately it hit a solid bullet, otherwise it wouldn't have just swept the wood away.
The firing boundary, including ballistics, this knowledge is not something that the Han army can understand.
Even in modern times, if you don't have the corresponding knowledge, there will still be a situation where your own soldiers in front of you run into the trajectory of your machine guns and are shot.
Artillery with a long range does not know that there are its own people in that area and there are accidental hits, even in the Internet era.
It was precisely because he didn't know what the situation was that Ran Min was stunned for a while before he could react, but he didn't order the artillery to stop firing, and he didn't even let the catapult in front of him move his position.
The reason why war is war is that it is a cold-blooded killing arena, killing as many enemy soldiers as possible, and even killing your own soldiers if necessary.
Not to mention the bronze cannon sweep, the two armies mixed together and then ordered the arrow array to cover one piece of attack, as long as it is conducive to the overall situation, there are really not too many examples of doing that.
Of course, the gates were shattered by the bronze cannons, and the artillery team stopped firing until the target was reached, but three stone-throwing trucks were destroyed by them.
The casualties of the three catapult crews will only be attributed to accidents, and the crew operating the bronze cannons will not be held accountable at all.
The city gate that was in the way was gone, and any long-range attack weapons listened, and the Han cavalry, which was cruising far away, received the order to charge into the city, and the follow-up infantry also began to trott forward.
If you are far away, you can smell the strong smell of gunsmoke, you can see the bombed city walls, and the broken corpses and limbs can be seen everywhere.
The cavalry of the Han army who entered the city first, they were originally mentally prepared for a fierce battle, but after entering the city, they saw a picture like a Shura field.
The ground was covered with corpses, too much blood collected and flowed to the low-lying places to become pools of blood, and the dead were dead, the crippled were wailing and moaning, and some of the undead were acting strangely.
The explosion would be loud and loud, the eardrums would crack if they got close, and the deaf would either run around meaninglessly or sit in a daze.
There were many who were frightened and went crazy, and the Han army that entered the city did not encounter resistance at all: