The bronze cannons of the firearms unit were the first to sound, and the thunderous sounds rose and fell with each other, and the rolling thunder that could only appear in the world like lightning and thunder in the empty plains continued to reverberate.
The smell of gunpowder smoke filled the artillery position, and because of the distance, the artillery that had been fired in a round could only see the confusion of the enemy troops in the shelling position within the visual distance of the naked eye, and it was difficult to judge how much effective damage had been inflicted on the enemy troops.
"Why didn't you fire the kind of shell you just fired just now?"
Li Tan came to the artillery position, and because of his identity, he knew more or less the type of shell, and found that he was firing a solid shell and raised questions.
At present, there are not many types of shells, and the main categories are solid shells and flowering shells, and the other is shotgun shells of a melee defensive nature.
Solid bullets are made because of the difference in the proportion of materials such as iron and lead, and the proportion of materials that you want to shoot far enough depends on the ratio between materials.
Flowering shells are broadly divided into two types: shrapnel and projectile, and there is also a category called incendiary grenades.
Whatever it was, it looked like a roughly round, black thing.
Solid shells have no other device, and the projectile has a charge inside the projectile that adds a fuse device.
When firing different shells at the same time, the breech will also have different mounting aids, for example, the flowering shell needs to have a booster device.
The artillery captain answered Li Tan's question.
Shells containing iron balls were too expensive, and the cost of firing a single round was more than 100 times that of ordinary solid shells, and they believed that the number of guns that could be fired now was sufficient, and that solid shells could be lethal enough.
"In addition, the enemy army is already frightened, and in order not to cause unnecessary waste, it is better not to fire special ammunition."
Li Tan didn't know how to evaluate the artillery captain's concept of saving money.
The Han Empire was a country with poor civil affairs and not poor army, and the institutions that belonged to the state were the richest in the army.
"Even you artillerymen think that if you can save it, you can save it," Li Tan teased: "It can be seen how expensive the firearms unit is. ” The artillery lieutenant was completely speechless.
For example, firing that kind of iron ball cannonball, the value of one shot can make thirty spears, and to say that it is not expensive is really to open your eyes and talk nonsense.
However, looking at the power that has just been exerted, it must not be said that the huge cost is worthless, and it should be judged as worthwhile.
The sound of artillery continued, and the grassland coalition forces that were shelled were completely stunned.
They had never seen a similar weapon, and at first they thought it was thunder, but although there were clouds in the sky, there were not many clouds and they were all white clouds, so there should not be such a non-stop appearance of rolling thunder.
If the mere sound of rolling thunder would have frightened people and horses, they kept finding the sound of breaking through the sky in their heads, and saw their nearby companions being hit or swept by something.
Objects that are hit or swept by a solid bullet, whether it is a person or a horse, are instantly a tragic image of flesh and blood, and they will die immediately, and if they are not dead, they will hold their broken arms or legs and wail, or even their bodies will be swept in two and wait for death in despair.
Tens of thousands of steppe coalition troops were completely chaotic, and people and horses in the core positions were crowded everywhere, and countless people were killed and injured by trampling on each other; The steppe coalition forces on the periphery, they didn't even think about leaving this place where the water flowed like hell.
The grassland coalition forces located on the river beach, they have no regard for how deep the riverbed is and how turbulent the current is, even if the people in front still have scruples, they will be squeezed into the river by the people behind.
"What a spectacle" "Tsk, it's so miserable that I can't describe it in words."
"The river will soon be blocked by corpses" "I don't know if it will be blocked.
The fish and shrimp here are sure to become exceptionally fatty. ” "Do you dare to eat?"
"It's disgusting to think about, and I still eat it" It was indeed an unusually miserable scene, those steppe people entered the river, and soon they were washed down by the rushing river, and the heads of the people were loaded and floated when they were hit by the water, and the number of people seemed to be all the heads and hands undulating on the horizontal plane, which was like a scene of hell on earth.
"I don't pity them at all."
Dou A said expressionlessly: "Think about how many decades ago, our people were forced by Hu Lu to jump into the river, and tens of thousands of women were driven into the river. ” That was a real thing, and it happened in the early days of the Qiang people's ravages in the Central Plains.
On more than one occasion, the Qiang drove Han civilians to various rivers, and then carried out massacres on the banks, and when they were tired of killing, they first let the living Han people throw their bodies into the river.
In the end, the Qian also drove the Han Chinese, who were not killed by weapons, into the river and drowned.
The Qiang people have a tradition of capturing women and marching to fight, and women are used to rape and commit adultery at night, and they will cook and eat when they want to eat.
When they were defeated and forced to retreat, they usually chose to drive the captive women into the river.
At present, the Qiang people have been removed from the world, but the things they did will not be forgotten, and the Han people's pursuit and killing of the Qiang people is still continuing.
In the scene that happened on this grassland battlefield, the grassland coalition army was forced to jump into the river, and there were no so-called innocents among them.
The moment a soldier goes to the battlefield and is hacked to death, and being forced to jump into the river is also death, and the moment he goes to the battlefield is to enter the stage of "either you die or I die", and it doesn't matter what way you die.
In a broad sense, there are no innocent people in forcing civilians to jump into the river, and some are only sad on the side of the weak.
How you look at a killing depends entirely on where you stand.
The contemporary Han people do not reject killing, and it can even be said that because of the tragic experience of the earlier, they have a strong interest in killing aliens.
There is only one reason why the Han people love killing, and they feel that any alien race will invade them one day, so it is better to leave those aliens as a threat or kill them first.
The grassland coalition army in the south of the battlefield had no one to organize, and those who wanted to flee began to desperately attack the periphery.
The Han army on the left and right flanks could no longer be purely spectators, and they were happy to join in the killing of the steppe coalition army.
"Those steppe people are really unfortunate."
Ksiaias didn't know what kind of mentality he had, and said, "Their misfortune is that they are too close to the Han Empire, and at the same time they are regarded as a threat by the Han Empire. ” Cambyses knew that the current mood of Ksiaias was nothing more than the sadness of seeing the steppe people being slaughtered, and giving birth to the same sadness as the death of a rabbit and a dog.
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"We know a little about the nomads in the northern part of the Han Empire."
Cambyses said in a depressed mood: "There have been many overlords here, and each overlord has threatened the Han Chinese. ” "The former Xiongnu Empire was an existence that pressed the Han people, and now the Xiongnu left behind have been digested."
Kesias looked at the slaughter on the battlefield and said: "The Huns who migrated to the west were able to show off their might along the way, and even wiped out countless countries all the way to the west. ” "The cavalry of the nomads has always been not bad, don't look at the current Han people are very easy to deal with" Cambyses is also witnessing the killing: "If the cavalry of tens of thousands of nomads were in other places, facing an opponent like Kidoro, it would be a different scene." ” What they were more curious about was how the Han army managed to drive these tens of thousands of grassland coalition troops and encircle them to this river beach.
You must know that simply annihilating an enemy army and driving the enemy army to the position you want, the difficulty of facing the two different situations is not the same, and the difficulty of annihilation will be lower.
"We may be able to wipe out a nomadic cavalry of tens of thousands."
Ksiaias sighed, "But I couldn't drive them to where they wanted." ” It seems to be a simple thing, but the difficulty of operation is infinitely high, and it requires a commander who can always grasp the overall situation, as well as an absolutely elite army.
The role of the commander in chief is to be able to move the troops to the right position at the right time every time, and at the same time master the appropriate strikes to force the enemy to rout in the direction he needs.
"The commander of this war was Li Tan, the general of the Han Empire's expedition to the north," and Kesias had to praise: "What an excellent general" The good general, who had already left the artillery position, rushed to the flank of the line of riflemen.
The riflemen, who had been advancing in a line formation, were also facing each more or less onslaught of the steppe infantry.
"This is called rolling shooting" Li Tan looked at the riflemen line formation: "The name is very apt" The riflemen who formed a line of riflemen, they were in a row of shots and then stopped in place to clear and reload, and the robe in the back row stepped forward into the firing position to fire, and so on.
Dou A also came to the flank, and happened to see Li Tan and came over to meet.
"The formation of the riflemen looks thin."
Dou'a compares the gap between the personnel of the cold weapons army formation and the firearms unit line formation: "Nearly 4,000 riflemen form two straight lines, and each line is lined up with three rows of riflemen to shoot in turn.
Although there was still a second column that could be replenished at the critical moment, if the enemy's horses could not be frightened, it was difficult to guarantee that the cavalry would not rush in front of them with the speed of fire of the riflemen alone. ” Li Tan saw this just now, and came over to see what tactics the riflemen had against the cavalry, but it was a pity that the grassland coalition army did not pose enough threat to the riflemen's line formation.
"The enemy forces have completely collapsed."
Dou Ah said in a suggestive tone: "You can surrender" Of course, Li Tan knew that it was very easy to surrender the grassland coalition army now, and it was not enough for the firearms troops to kill the enemy army if they did not surrender for a long time.
In any case, today is the first time that the riflemen of the firearms unit have participated in a big war, and there is not enough blood to pour out a resounding prestige "Wait."
Li Tan pondered for a while, and said with a smile: "Wait until the enemy army is less than 10,000 left, and then surrender." ” Dou Ah didn't say the words that might force the enemy to jump off the wall.
Many times even if the dog is forced to jump over the wall, it depends on who is surrounding the dog, the dog will struggle very violently when it is desperate, but if it has the strength to knock it to death with a stick, there is no need to be too afraid.
The speed at which the riflemen advanced in line was not fast, it was a situation of shooting forward in a row, one step at a time.
Blocking the front of the riflemen line, no matter what people or horses are doing or want to do, after a row of fried beans-like "popping" sounds, few people and horses can still stand in place.
Gradually, the riflemen stepped into the field full of corpses and wounded, still firing in a row like an infinitely looping machine, with the slight difference that there were some riflemen with bayonets in each column.
The riflemen with bayonets are doing a mending to the enemy on the battlefield, regardless of whether the enemy is lying motionless on the ground or moaning and wailing, anyway, the bayonet is stabbed into the heart or the head, so as to make sure that the enemy is truly dead.
The riflemen line advanced and advanced again, I don't know when it began, and there was no steppe coalition army to charge the riflemen line again.
The shelling on the battlefield did not stop, the riflemen did not stop firing because the enemy troops were no longer charging, and the one-sided slaughter continued.
After the initial stage of frying was over, although there were still companions around them who were constantly dying, the living people seemed to be numb or lying down, kneeling, lying, or standing, staying in place in different postures, accepting all the fate they were about to face.
"There is no point in killing, why hasn't the Han army surrendered" Julian had no compassion, some were just confused: "Could it be that the Han Empire no longer lacks slaves" "Those steppe people are still alive but dead."
Flavies had never seen at least 15,000 people standing still and waiting to die: "The Han army didn't kill much, and many more steppe people died in trampling on each other and killing each other.
They are in complete despair, and their bodies and minds have already admitted that no amount of struggle is useless. ” "Okay."
Julian nodded and admitted: "Those steppe people are indeed not even qualified to be slaves, and they have been completely abolished. ” The big country who is watching is actually okay and can comment on a few words.
There are not a few other people who come from small countries who can directly see their pants wet, and there are even people who can be frightened into insanity just by watching from the sidelines.
On the battlefield, the shelling stopped first.
For a while, there was no rolling thunder from the shelling, and both sides were a little unaccustomed to it.
Behind, the riflemen also stopped firing.
There was no movement on the battlefield except for the screams and wails and the neighing of the horses.
"It should be less than 10,000 enemy troops" Li Tan glanced at Dou A and asked, "Your troops go up and surrender" Dou Ah thought about it and agreed.
The steppe coalition army, which did not die, found that the Han army would no longer continue to attack, and first howled loudly, and then cried into a piece.
They felt that they were really miserable, or that kind of unprecedented misery, there was no weapon exchange with the Han army in the whole battle, but the Han army was constantly "booming" and "popping", but the people on their side were almost dead.
"Because of the advent of firearms."
Julian said with unusual heaviness: "War has become completely different from what we understand it. ”: