Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 3521 Shelling
The [-] cavalry were like wind and clouds, their iron hooves smashed the ground and the ice chips swept through the wind and snow, like rolling thunder coming from the sky.

Seeing the soldiers in front of the Youtunwei camp busy setting up the refusal horses, Changsun Wen gave a loud order: "Go up! Go up!"

Rejecting the horse is indeed the nemesis of the cavalry, which can force the cavalry to slow down the speed of the front and reduce the impact force. Once the cavalry loses mobility, it may not be able to bring more damage to the infantry.Therefore, under normal circumstances, when the cavalry charged into the formation, they ignored the refusal horse at all. They forcibly knocked the refusal horse away with the bodies of soldiers and horses, and even filled up the road with corpses. As long as they jumped over the refusal horse, the cavalry rushed into the infantry formation , the powerful impact force is unmatched, generally speaking, the battle will be over.

Needless to say, the battlefield of cold weapons is so cruel. Not only will the generals not consider what kind of losses the soldiers will bring to the soldiers when they give orders, but even the soldiers themselves have such awareness and will bump into them without hesitation. .

War is not a child's play, it is a fight between life and death, everything is for the ultimate victory, and human life is worthless in this process, and so is the life of others, and so is one's own life.

It's just that although the soldiers of Guanlong's army had made up their minds to die, and kept urging their horses to speed up with red eyes, the enemy on the opposite side kept counting them to hit the horses.

"Tong Tong Tong"

There were muffled bangs in the Youtunwei camp, and then a cloud of smoke rose up, and countless shells pierced through the wind and snow and flew towards them.

"Cannon! Cannon!"

"Attention, disperse the formation! The speed will not drop!"

Changsun Wen ordered a series of orders. First, he bent his waist and pressed his body tightly against the horse's back, trying to reduce the lateral surface of his body as much as possible to avoid possible shell fragments.

However, the cavalry behind him couldn't disperse in formation at all. These cavalry belonged to different groups and had never trained with each other at all. As soon as they collided, one piece fell down, and the soldiers who fell to the ground had no time to get up, and were turned into flesh by the horseshoes behind them.

Panicked, these cavalry did not dare to spread to both sides, so they could only bite the bullet and charge.

After all, the probability of the shell hitting the body is still very small, it is hard to say whether he will die or not, but if it spreads slightly outward, it will collide with the robe around him, and he will definitely die...

"Boom boom boom!"

One after another, the shells dropped from the sky with their long firework-like tails, crashed obliquely into the cavalry charge, and exploded immediately after landing, flying shrapnel to harvest everything around them.

There was screaming and screaming, and people turned on their backs.

Before the Guanlong cavalry could feel the pain of the shrapnel breaking through the leather armor, the second round of volleys in the Right Tunwei camp had been completed, and countless shells fell on the cavalry position again. Changsun Wen, who was running, turned his head to look , The bloody hell-like tragedy made him feel chills in his heart, and all the excitement and pride disappeared.

He looked forward again. The cavalry running at the front were still hundreds of feet away from the Youtunwei camp. Wouldn't they be bombarded by two or three rounds of artillery before the brigade ran to the camp?

Even if they don't all get killed, the formation will inevitably be scattered and it will be difficult to take advantage of the charge.

But at this time, how can he turn around?

I snatched the military power from Hou Mo Chen Lin, that fellow may feel resentful in his heart, if he loses his army and returns home without a feather, not to mention the loss of face, after returning, the fellow will definitely sue him in front of his father Thinking about the possible punishment of his father, and the still completely hopeless position of Patriarch, he felt ruthless.

"Rush, rush! When you get close, the enemy's artillery will become a decoration!"

He can only bite the bullet and rush forward, hoping that these rounds of artillery bombardment are just the right guards trying to cover up the nature of being strong on the outside and doing nothing in the middle. As long as they break through the artillery cover and enter the enemy's formation, the empty force will not be able to stop the impact of the cavalry under his command.

The six thousand cavalry accelerated again, charging forward desperately to avoid the shells falling from the sky.

When they were tens of feet before the camp, Changsun Wen, who was charging ahead, secretly slowed down the speed of the horse, but swung the horizontal knife in his hand fiercely, shouting: "Rush up, trample them to death!"

The soldiers around rushed up to the tall and sturdy Juma with red eyes. "Boom" the tall Juma was knocked to one side by the powerful impact of the cavalry, while the charging cavalry smashed their horses and men into a pulp, leaving behind The soldiers didn't care about stepping forward to rescue, and rushed in like a gust of wind along the gap between the horses that had been knocked open.

"bang bang bang"

The muskets of Youtunwei had already been lined up in a dense array, with countless muzzles spewing gunpowder smoke, round after round, and soon the gunpowder smoke condensed into a huge ball and drifted away with the north wind.

The Guanlong cavalry who rushed to the front had clearly seen the faces of the Youtun guards, but they were knocked down by rounds of muskets, and the bullets hit their bodies as if they had been hammered hard by a heavy hammer. The energy and blood disappeared in an instant, and all the people and horses were beaten into sieves and fell heavily to the ground.

Countless projectiles formed a steel city wall, and the cavalry rushing forward seemed to have been severely whipped by an invisible whip, and fell to the ground covered in blood.This put great psychological pressure and panic on the cavalry behind, and they couldn't help but slow down their charging speed, and even the timid ones shouted, turned their horses and tried to run back.

The elder grandson was angry with his heart, and he rode forward and chopped off a cavalryman who turned his head and fled with a knife, and ordered the soldiers behind him to serve as the supervising team: "Whoever dares to retreat will be killed without mercy! Go ahead, let me go forward. As long as you rush into their position, you can kill them at will!"

The soldiers behind him stepped forward and dispersed one after another. Anyone who retreated before the battle or was afraid of the enemy would rush forward with a knife, fierce and violent.

The cavalry couldn't help it, knowing that the son of the grandson's family was ruthless, so he could only bite the bullet and continue to charge forward.

……

Inside the Right Tunwei camp, Princess Gao Yang, Wu Meiniang, and Jin Shengman stood in front of the window of the barracks, not far away was the artillery position of You Tunwei.

The soldiers took out the shells and propellant packs from the wooden box, first cleaned the bore of the gun with a long-stem brush, then stuffed the propellant, and then the shells. There was a sound, a ball of flames and thick gunpowder smoke spewed out from the muzzle, and then the operation was repeated, and the shells were fired out round after round.

Dozens of cannons lined up in a line, and the earth-shattering power of the salvo made the three women's pretty faces turn pale, and their hearts were shocked.

Under the cover of such artillery fire, it is impossible to imagine what kind of devastating blow the enemy will encounter...

Gao Kan put on his armor and came striding from a distance. He first stood outside the door, and then pushed in after being summoned. Seeing the three women watching from the window, he took two steps forward and bowed in salute. : "His Royal Highness, the two ladies, the rebel army sent another army to attack the camp. According to the scout's report, the number of people is probably around [-], including more than [-] cavalry. They have already arrived for the battle. Our army returned fire with artillery, the momentum was too loud, for fear of disturbing the three, the last general came here to explain, please rest assured."

Wu Meiniang said with a smile: "The general really thinks that the three of us are ladies who don't go out of the door and don't step out of the door? You know, did His Highness shoot the enemy off the horse with an arrow, and Princess Zhende even captured him alive. The Duke of the State would also like to praise a woman who does not give up her eyebrows!"

Gao Kan naturally knew about the capture of the eldest grandson Wen before. He laughed and said in admiration: "Your Highness pierces through Yang with a hundred steps, Lady Jin is very skilled, and Lady Wu is also very resourceful, so I admire him the most. By the way, this time before the Guanlong rebels Come on, the main generals are Changsun Wen and Hou Mo Chenlin. Perhaps it is Changsun Wulang who knows that he has lost his face, so he wants to make up for it. It's a pity that his subordinates are all mobs. "

Jin Shengman didn't care about the elder Sun Wen, who was defeated by his subordinates, but was more interested in artillery, and asked enthusiastically: "How powerful the artillery is, why don't you keep firing when the enemy shows signs and enters the range? If that's the case, Even if there are 20 or [-] enemy troops, they are nothing more than chickens and dogs, and they will be defeated in one blow."

Gao Kan explained in a respectful voice: "Golden Lady doesn't know something. The divine power of artillery is enough to break mountains and crack rocks. It cannot be resisted by the human body. It is the most powerful weapon in the world. However, it also has its own shortcomings. , the temperature is extremely high. Therefore, the barrel of every artillery has a limit of tolerance. Once this limit is exceeded, the tolerance of the barrel will drop sharply, and if it continues to fire, it may cause the barrel to explode. Therefore, Jiu needs to constantly replace the barrel. But the cost of the gun barrel is extremely high, and only foundry bureaus can cast it. It can be said that every shell fired is yellow and orange gold. The commander once had a very appropriate description, "When the cannon fired , ten thousand taels of gold; this can be seen."

The firearms are indeed powerful, far superior to the previous swords, guns, swords and halberds, but the disadvantages are also obvious, that is, they are too expensive.Regardless of the configuration of gunpowder, the R&D and casting of guns and cannons, a large amount of money is needed to support them. I am afraid that a small country will go bankrupt in just a few rounds of artillery battles today, so the navy will staking land all over the world, and even support smuggling. In order to obtain huge wealth to support Datang's firearms system.

(End of this chapter)