Chapter 895 The Ural Campaign in the fifth year of the test artillery Dingxin was decided in just one day, and the Tsarist Russian army broke through the more than 100,000 troops in the Ming Dynasty, and only 1,139 people escaped.In addition, in this battle, Tsarist Russia lost more than 79,000 war horses and more than 23,000 horses, including 109 artillery pieces, more than 21,500 muskets, and a number of cold weapons.This is the battle report of Tsarist Russia's own statistics, but it is not the case with the public announcement, they claim that in this offensive campaign they were ambushed by the superior forces of the Ming army, suffered a small setback, and lost nearly 10,000 horses and horses, causing casualties of five or six thousand Ming troops.In fact, the Ming army suffered a total of 387 casualties, 57 were directly killed, 72 were seriously wounded or infected, and a total of 129 were killed, about 38 were seriously disabled and 220 were lightly wounded.Among them, the highest-ranking officer killed was Chen Haoxiang, lieutenant colonel of the 94th Regiment and chief of staff of the brigade, who was the front-line commander of the battle, and was blown up by a hound explosives bag to destroy the front-line headquarters, including four staff officers and two communicators.Of course, the results were very impressive: more than 17,000 people were captured, more than 7,400 horses were captured, more than 83,000 enemies were killed, about 20,000 muskets were captured, and more than 70,000 swords, guns, and cold weapons were captured.At the operational analysis meeting, most of the casualties were wounded by the hounds of the Tsarist Russian army or the explosive packs of wolves.To this end, the Ming Dynasty decided to set up a mesh barbed wire fence on the basis of barbed wire to avoid similar tragedies.Subsequently, the detailed information of the Ural campaign was gathered and sent to Quanxu.Quan Xu looked at the battle report and sighed with emotion.Speaking of mobile defense, many people think that the German Manstein during World War II was the master of mobile defense, and some people think that this defense theory was invented by the Germans (see the decisive battle of the expeditionary soldiers in the Third Reich) In fact, this mobile combat method first appeared in the hands of Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty.Liu Yu was in the fifth year of Yixi (409), when Liu Yu was in the north to attack Southern Yan, and in the twelfth year of Yixi, he broke more than 30,000 cavalry of the Wei army with nearly 2,700 infantry, and since then he has been famous all over the world.In fact, this includes the theory and practice of mobile defense, in the northern expedition to the Southern Yan, he adopted the frontal defense of the car formation, the way of the lateral defense of the rangers, so that the Yan army had no clue, and later when fighting against the Wei State, it was a joint operation of the four arms of the car, infantry, water and cavalry.Since then, the Moon Formation has been lost, because it requires close cooperation.Until the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty, Meng Heng led the two major battlefields of Sichuan, Shu and Jinghu in the Southern Song Dynasty, and single-handedly dominated one-third of the battles on the Second World War front in the Southern Song Dynasty.When the Southern Song Dynasty resisted the Mongols, Meng Heng adopted the strategy of mobile defense of the naval army and firmly defended the Qianli River.Now the General Staff is in the vast territory of the Ming Dynasty, and this strategy has been adopted, but on the basis of cold weapons, it has taken advantage of the rapid mobility of the railway armored forces.The S Army uses space in exchange for time, while the German Army uses the mobility of armored vehicles and tanks, so as to complete the strategy and tactics of large-scale encirclement and annihilation with limited troops.From the perspective of Jeon Wook, it is easy to see the disadvantages of this kind of railway mobile defense, that is, the enemy will destroy the railway, but this situation is not difficult to solve, the blown up railway can be repaired at any time, and it will not delay much time.In fact, after Tsarist Russia took the initiative to provoke this battle, the Anbei Governorate decided to organize troops to start a counterattack, taking advantage of the defeat of the Tsarist army, and the Ming railway has been repaired to the Ural Mountains, so there is no problem with logistics supply.It's just that the Ming army was far less resistant to frost than the Tsarist Russians in terms of cold resistance, and in order to avoid unnecessary attrition in battle, a large-scale counterattack would be postponed until the ice and snow melted.Of course, there is no idleness now.Instead, the Ural campaign was used as a testing ground for the new weapons of the Ming Dynasty.The artillery used by the army is still a mortar, but mortars have the weakness of mortars, first of all, range, and secondly, power.Mortars are naturally powerful enough to deal with cavalry and infantry fortifications in field conditions, but the problem is that for cities or military fortresses, it is a bit powerful.Especially in the Ural Mountains, Tsarist Russia arranged more than a dozen castles along the route from north to south, and each city was built of solid stones, and mortars hit it was equivalent to tickling.At this time, the Ufa Castle was located in the Ural Mountains, one of the important strongholds of Tsarist Russia, and this Ufa Castle had to mention Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov, after Mikhail came of age, according to tradition, in the Kremlin gathered many maidens of noble families, and the future empress was chosen by the tsar himself.Mikhail was more fond of Maria, the daughter of the aristocratic Khlopov family.However, Mikhail's mother, Marfa, took the initiative and forced Mikhail to marry another noble woman and exiled the Khlopov family to Siberia.Khlopov's family was not at fault, and did not even deprive them of their nobility, and after he was sent to Siberia, he lived in the small village of Ufa, and Khlopov used the resources of Siberia to build a fortress belonging to Khlopov, which was built along a valley in the Ural Mountains.It is about 13 kilometers long from east to west, and the city wall is made of stones weighing two tons and about three meters thick.Moreover, this fortress-style castle has three city walls, and it is precisely because the Khlopov family has no sense of security that the Khlopov family has used tens of thousands of craftsmen to build the castle for more than 20 years, which has become a roadblock for the Ming Dynasty.The Ural Mountains, like the Taihang Mountains in China, run north-south, separating the east and west, and it is very difficult to jump over them.The benefits of gnawing on the Ufa Fortress are many, first of all, the Ufa Fortress is located to the west of the Ural Mountains, it is a huge plain with a relatively humid and warm climate, and it can also be said to be one of the granaries of Siberia.As long as Ufa is occupied, the Ufa Plain, which is no less than the North China Plain, can become the advance base of the Ming Dynasty and solve the food problem needed by the troops.After the successful weight reduction of the Gun Bureau, a total of 12 guns of 130 mm and 28 times the diameter of the naval guns were transported by train to the railway station of Decisive Town.However, the decisive town is still nearly sixty kilometers away from the fortress of Ufa, which is quite a terrible distance, you must know that this kind of artillery weighs more than seven tons, and it is also quite cumbersome in later generations.After unloading, the craftsmen of the clever gun bureau came up with a very ingenious solution, a seven-ton cannon was a little toy for a train weighing two or three thousand tons, so they decided to build a miniature version of the railway, which did not require much of the roadbed, nor did it require a steam engine train.Under the hands of the craftsmen, a narrow-gauge railway, similar to a mining steam train, that is, a small railway of only 90 centimeters, quickly extended in the direction of the fortress of Ufa.This kind of railway construction is very aspect, the roadbed is leveled gravel, paved with rails and sleepers, and it can be laid for several kilometers in a day.As for the artillery movement, a small steam engine train was transferred, which was a small mining train customized by some mine owners.With the railway built to a distance of one kilometer outside the city of Ufa, this distance is very clever, not only out of the range of the fortress guns on the castle of Ufa, but also with the use of new artillery to attack the fortress of Ufa.During this time, the Ming Dynasty did not directly attack the Ufa fortress, but the railway was in full swing to modify the railway, which made the Russian army a little baffled, until the morning of February 17, with the whining train whistle sounded.Some of the Tsarist Russian troops who experienced the Ural campaign were so frightened that they almost peed their pants, although more than a thousand Tsarist Russian troops fled back in this battle and experienced the baptism of armored trains, most of these people were frightened crazy, and even if they were not frightened, they also had a shadow in their hearts."
What are these Mongols doing?"
Well, the current Tsarist Russian army has always been reluctant to admit that it was the Ming who defeated them, but stubbornly believed that the Ming was the Mongols who had conquered Moscow."
I don't know!"
Although it is said that the 130 mm 28 times the diameter of the artillery is the same as the naval gun, in fact it is not the same kind, because the naval gun can ignore the weight, like the brake is a completely different thing.Of course, not to mention how much technical content there is, but the barrel length of this kind of artillery is very scary, whether it is the mainstream artillery of this era, Hongyi cannon, sub-mother cannon, field artillery, etc., the barrel length is very short, and the barrel length of this artillery is 3640 mm, and even say that there is no need to test fire, just the black hole and slender barrel, you can see the destructive power contained in these iron guys.Unfortunately, Ufa became a testing ground for these cannons, and engineers had to test the power of these new cannons with the walls of Ufa.In fact, the seven-ton artillery is still too heavy for the army, even if it is equipped with rubber tires, the road surface is quite strong, and it is very difficult to transport such a big guy to the front line.A castle like Ufa, where you can't run, can also take the way of rail transportation, completely field marching, it is difficult to keep up with the footsteps of the army units.To slim down the artillery, you have to make a trade-off, and the engineers came with a plan in the hope that in a real combat situation, it can guarantee the destruction of the enemy's fortress and have enough maneuverability.Also arriving at the front line this time was Shangshu Liu Quan of the General Armament Department, who was the earliest artillery officer of Quanxu, served as the commander of the artillery regiment and the brigade commander of the artillery brigade, and participated in almost all the battles in the early stage of Quanxu."
General Liu, why are you here?""
What?
The little monkey's wings are stiff, and he dislikes the old man?
”Don't look at Qi Yuanbi is also a lieutenant general in the army, and Liu Quan is on the same level, but in the early days, the two of them were really not people of the same level, the little monkey was Qi Yuanbi's nickname, and now there are not many people who dare to call him a nickname in front of Qi Yuanbi.Qi Yuanbi stepped forward to look at the artillery, and said with some emotion: "I have already mentioned to Your Majesty, our army especially needs the god of war, with it, you don't have to have a headache when you encounter a strong city wall!"
”"You can't talk too much, it depends on the test results!"
Liu Quan said proudly: "The old man has been playing with the cannon for half his life, this is the most powerful cannon!"
”"How's the power?"
Qi Yuanbi asked curiously, "Can you smash that turtle shell!"
”"It's hard to say, if you want to say that you want to smash a mountain, that's pure nonsense!"
Liu Quan looked at the city wall in the distance and sneered: "If you hit their city gates, there is absolutely no problem with one shot, even if you can't hit it, this city can be hit casually?"
”銆愯 养璇嗗崄骞 cun cun gong/p> "Just hit?"
”"It is about the same power as the main naval guns of the navy, and the firing range can reach more than twenty miles, what do you say?""
One shot is more than twenty miles away!
That......
Every corner of the city is within its range!
”"That's right, as long as you put it in the fort, most of the city is within its range, and you can't find a safe place at all."
With the preparation of the artillery of the General Armament Department, this is a direct artillery regiment subordinate to the garrison brigade of the Gun and Artillery Bureau, and it is also a unit specializing in artillery tests.After all the soldiers were ready, the engineers stepped forward to carefully inspect them, for fear of any mistakes."
Tell Liu Shangshu that he is ready!""
Let's start, the little monkey is in a hurry!"
As Liu Quan gave the order, he immediately took out a ball of cotton and stuffed it into his ears, Qi Yuanbi also hurriedly followed Liu Quan's example, and the four bomb carriers came over with the cannonballs, stuffed them into the cannon chamber, and then closed the cannon latch, connected the cannon rope, and the action was extremely familiar.I can't be unfamiliar, people specialize in artillery testing!
The flag was waved down.The gunner pulls the cannon rope hard!"
Boom......
Rumble......
Rumble......
The 12 guns of the ...... were aimed at the female wall of the Ufa fortress, the thickest part in the middle, as well as the root of the wall, the gate tower and other parts.A large cloud of smoke rushed up, even if there was a stationary hoe, it didn't work, and the heavy body of the giant cannon still moved back nearly two feet fiercely, stirring up a large cloud of smoke and dust!
Blazing and furious flames erupted from the muzzle of the black hole, and in a thunderbolt of thunder, twelve heavy projectiles spun out at high speed along the rifling wire, and fiercely chiseled towards the city wall!
The entire section of the city wall burst into flames, the remnants of sand and gravel soared into the sky, the city gate tower collapsed in a loud bang, the Russian soldiers on the city wall flew into the air like pieces of paper, the loud explosion of cannonballs shook everyone's thinking blank, and everything was as terrifying as a nightmare in the frozen line of sight.The Russian soldiers near the bombing site either disappeared in a flash of the explosion, or were blown high by the blast wave, and then torn to pieces and fell one after another, pouring blood down.The Russian soldiers, who were a little farther away, sat down on the ground, covered their ears with their hands and screamed, but even they could not hear their own voices, and the hot and sticky liquid gushed out from their ears, and a smear of crimson ......
It's blood!
They were deafened!
When the smoke cleared, everyone was shocked to find that there were several large holes in the bombarded city wall, many stones were blown away, and the entire section of the city wall was obviously tilted.That's just the power of twelve shells!
The new cannon roared, and the powerful projectiles smashed into the walls of the Ufa fortress with a thunderous force, and every time the cannonball fell, it would cause great damage to the city walls.The walls of Ufa can also be called strong, but in front of these twelve cannons, it is no different from an earthen wall, and now these terrible cannons are concentrating on tearing down the walls, and if they don't run out the cannonballs that have been transported so hard, I'm sorry for the hardships along the way!
With the loud sound of artillery, the stones on the city walls flew sideways, and the whole land was shaken by a violent noise that had never been seen before, and a large burst of fire tore the ground, and looking down from the sky, the entire fortress of Ufa was like a volcano erupting from the foot of the mountain.That scene shocked everyone who witnessed it!
The shadow hung over the hearts of every Russian soldier who held fast to the walls of Ufa."
It's okay, the city wall is still a little bit!"
Liu Quan said with some regret: "The artillery can be extended, how about trying the power!"
”Twelve 130-millimeter cannons scrambled to fire shells into the city, and the shock wave of the explosion instantly engulfed one block after another, one house after another......
The blast wave of the explosion destroyed the houses and uprooted the trees without delay, and no matter how powerful the army was, it could only be ruthlessly devoured in the face of this torrent of steel and flames!
In the city of Ufa, there was no difference between the Russian soldiers and the civilians, all of whom were terrified by the overwhelming artillery fire, covering their ears and screaming in the falling meteors, running wildly, trying to find a safe place to escape the artillery fire.