Chapter 268 The cannon has just been discharged, and the artillery responsible for cleaning the chamber does not see if it hits the target at all, each cannon is actually operated by five soldiers, one cleans the chamber, one person releases gunpowder, one person loads the shell into the chamber, one person installs the fuse, and is responsible for ignition, and the gun commander is responsible for aiming and observing the results of the shelling.There are no auxiliary units in the artillery of the whole family army, because they have a part of the cadet soldiers, who do not count as regular soldiers, and undertake some preparatory work, such as carrying gunpowder, shells, and so on.In the future, a mature artillery regiment, 36 field guns, will increase to about 300 people, and then get the hot air balloon out to act as an observer.Now, this army is in the hands of Quan Xu, and it is also experimental in nature.One after another, the black cannonballs smashed into the Houjin cavalry formation, smashing the Houjin cavalry to the point that they were on their backs.The formation of the Houjin cavalry is a little scattered, Quan Xu can see it more realistically in the perspective of the telescope, those Houjin cavalry who were originally unscrupulous to drink and brag, flesh and blood flying, broken arms, wailing, screaming."
It's a pity!"
Quan Xu said with some dissatisfaction: "Liu Quan, you fuck, how did you hit this cannon, ninety-six, where did the dozen cannons fly, and I didn't even catch a single hair!"
”Theory, in fact, is just theory.One shot can kill a person, but in terms of combat effectiveness, some enemies are beaten into a sieve, and some enemies are unscathed.The same is true of this shelling, some of which can kill a dozen cavalrymen with one cannon, and sometimes, several cannons bombard the same position.To say that the shelling effect is not good, it is really a bit wronged.In this shelling, at least more than 100 Houjin cavalry were bombed into scum, and even the medical skills of later generations, they could not be cured.Although this kind of field artillery is relatively primitive, the power is really not small, especially now, the ground has been frozen hard, and the shells fall on the ground, which is easy to eject, causing secondary and tertiary kills.Liu Quan's face turned red: "Come again, shoot freely!"
”"Boom, boom, boom" was filled with gunsmoke, and the line of sight was blocked.What the effect is, Quan Xu can't see clearly.However, three rounds of 288 shells came over, and the artillery stopped."
Don't stop, keep firing, extend the artillery fire, and leave me with this group of bitches!"
Liu Quan said with some embarrassment: "Master Quan, the cannonballs are too expensive, save some money!"
”"Save a fart!"
Quan Xu was a little dissatisfied, he yelled at Liu Quan: "Lao Tzu has money, shoot the cannonballs, Lao Tzu is going to bury these bitches today!"
”Liu Quan reluctantly ordered: "The artillery continues to bombard!"
”It's no wonder that Liu Quan doesn't understand, in Quan Xu's understanding, the form of war should be like this, first the missiles and bombs are washed on the ground, and the artillery is prepared, and there are no hours to be embarrassed?
There are only three shells, and in less than half a column of incense, how can the shelling stop?
Quan Xu's order was issued, and these artillerymen only worked mechanically as they usually trained, cleaning the barrels, putting on the black powder in the paper bag, loading the fuse, stuffing the shells, stabbing them, adjusting the firing angle, and then igniting the fire again and again.The power of the "boom boom" granular black powder is still quite good, especially in the explosion in the barrel of the high-carbon steel casting, the huge ability generated gives the cannonball huge kinetic energy, and this kinetic energy is definitely not something that the human body or war horse can compete with.Especially on the frozen ground, the cannonballs bounced up, directly piercing the war horses continuously, and as the cannonballs fell, the Houjin cavalry turned over on their backs and became a mess.The scene of people and horses squirting blood outward together is very shocking, especially the torches under Quan Xu's command, which are quite bright, burning torches high, and the most bizarre thing is that the shadow guards under Sanniang's command have more than a dozen high-intensity light spotlights, which reflect this kind of sprayed blood more magnificently.Durba was very lucky, because a cannonball hit him in the chest first, and his death was painless, silent.The other Houjin cavalry were not so lucky, some of them watched their lower bodies disappear, but the key is that they couldn't die yet, and could only watch their own death bit by bit.Some of the Houjin cavalry were stoned to death by tearing apart, and some were scared to death by being scared to death.It's not that they haven't seen such a thing as artillery, but no matter how powerful the artillery of the Ming army is, they don't play like this, and more than 500 cavalry actually threw nearly a thousand shells very luxuriously.Therefore, on the entire battlefield, there was not a single complete corpse, nor a complete war horse, and all the people and war horses disappeared after the smoke cleared.These Houjin warriors, who originally ignored life and death, could accept the head of the war sword, they could also accept being trampled to death by a war horse, and they could even accept being injured by a cold weapon in the melee to death.Now, this unprecedented way of dying was beyond their knowledge, and the taut thread in their minds was finally broken by the terrifying power of the artillery.They don't have to flee on their own, and the terrified horses will naturally carry them to the territory where they are safe.Crowding, stampeding, roaring, and then slashing each other when the army is defeated, military discipline, human nature no longer exists.Jeon Wook watched the cavalry on the opposite side and began to flee, originally wanting to order a pursuit.But I saw that the cavalry under Qi Yuanbi was drooping their heads, and the surrounding war horses were either foaming at the mouth or lying on the ground, and they couldn't get up.Durba's biggest mistake was that he was too close to the whole family army, and he didn't know about artillery at all, in fact, before Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, and Kong Youde surrendered to Houjin, no one in Houjin actually knew about artillery.The artillery of this era did have shortcomings such as poor accuracy, low power, and bulkiness, however, it was directly replaced by a seamless steel pipe in Quanxu, which adopted the method of well cold casting.In later generations, it was not a very clever technology, however, after the artillery was changed from pig iron to high-carbon steel, the power of the cannon increased greatly.In fact, Durba is not wrong, whether it is 5,000 jin or 3,000 jin Hongyi cannon, the range is extremely close, about the limit range is about three miles, and the effective range is only about one mile.He was more than five hundred paces away from the artillery positions of the whole family army, so that his men and horses were out of the range of the cannons.His mistake was to treat Quan Xu as an ordinary Ming army, and to adopt a light field gun made of seamless steel pipes, even if it was only a 100 mm caliber artillery, the firing range was more than doubled, reaching 2,500 steps, and the effective range was about 1,500 steps.So, here's the problem.In fact, all of the five hundred and six hundred of Houjin were within the range of the artillery of the whole family's army.The first round of artillery rang out, and the white-armored warrior Kang Jili was frightened, and a cannonball whistled in, directly hitting a clothed minion beside him, and the cannonball whistled past his upper body without hesitation.The clothed servant was slashed by the cannonball, and the blood sprayed wildly was very bewitching in the firelight, and his upper body didn't know where it went, and the lower half of his body was still riding on a war horse to protect his master.The blood of the coated minions sprayed on Kangjili's face, and he came to his senses, and he hurriedly ordered a retreat, in fact, without his orders, his men were also fleeing.However, they are doomed to be in vain.No matter how fast the horses were, in the face of whistling shells, they were all younger brothers.In the end, Durba's full of Niu Lu, plus a dissatisfied Niu Lu, more than 500 cavalry can defeat the cavalry of tens of thousands of troops of the Ming army on the frontal battlefield, and under the blow of only nine rounds of artillery fire, it no longer exists.According to Quan Xu's observation, there were less than ten horses that could run out, and one of them ran dozens of steps, crashed into a big tree on the side of the road, and fell to the ground screaming.War horses will not crash into trees, this will be out of animal instinct, it is clear that these Houjin cavalry have been frightened, or the war horses have been blown up to the point of losing their minds.Ma Yinghu, the commander of the first step corps, said in disbelief: "This is the end?"
”"Of course!"
Quan Xu smiled and said: "That's it, what to do, hurry up and clean up the battlefield, I heard that the head of the Tartar is quite valuable, five hundred heads, how can it be exchanged for tens of thousands of taels of silver!"
”The entire battlefield was eerily quiet, and the smoke slowly dissipated.In front of the whole family army was a place of dead corpses, both men and horses, under such a dense firepower, corpses were all over the field, and the corpses were terrible everywhere.Jiang Baisheng, the commander of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, was a little incredulous: "How can this be?
”Although Jiang Baisheng has never served as a general, as a veteran of Liaodong, he knows very well the strength of the Houjin people, but he never thought that the Houjin people are so unfazed now, in a short half an hour, nearly two Niu Lu, more than 500 people and horses, no one survived."
Why does Houjin have this strength?"
Quan Xu smiled and said, "When technology develops to a certain extent, barbarism can't defeat Ming."
Science and technology will change the pattern of war, and the strength of a country is not measured by how many samurai there are in the country, but by the richness of the country, the civilization of the people and the strength of the craftsmen!
”The Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Jurchens, the Southern Song Dynasty and the Mongols, are all very famous examples of the victory of barbarism over the Ming.Of course, this is not really the victory of barbarism over Ming, but that Ming was tied hand and foot, and there was something wrong with him."
My dear, so powerful artillery?"
Liu Honggui, the commander of the Second Artillery Corps, said in disbelief."
Is it big?
It's not that big!
”In Quan Xu's opinion, the power of such a cannon is really not big, but too small.Replacing it with a heavy howitzer of later generations, and destroying a battalion with one shot is not bragging at all.If it is an artillery of later generations, one shell is enough.Now, however, he used more than 900 shells, which, on average, killed only half of the enemy.Lost.