Qiming 1158

Chapter 397
In order to fill in the moat, the siege side often dispatched both offensive and defensive chariots to carry soldiers, and let the soldiers hide in the chariots and throw sandbags into the moat to fill the moat.

Of course, it would be more convenient if there was no water in the moat, but a large sinkhole of this scale itself requires a huge number of sandbags to fill, and it cannot be completed overnight.

In particular, the siege party will never turn a blind eye.

Therefore, it is also possible to let the vanguard troops cross the river and start the siege first, in order to attract the firepower of the defenders, distract the attention of the defenders, and help the rear reclamation troops to complete the reclamation work as soon as possible.

Right now, the Jin Army's strategy is like this.

Although there is no water flow, the river ditch still exists. If you can't jump over it, you can't fly over it. You still have to use the usual means of crossing the moat to attack.

The army approached the moat, and pushed forward six trench bridge vehicles to build a passage across the river to provide a road for soldiers to cross the river.

A large number of chariots were dispatched to approach the moat, and the protective cover of the roof of the chariots was used to cover the soldiers in the cars. The soldiers began to throw heavy sandbags into the moat ditch, hoping to fill it up as soon as possible.

At this time, the bowmen at the head of the Restoration Army also began to act.

The dense rain of arrows crashed down with the big arrows fired by the bed crossbow and the stones fired by the trebuchets, working together to give the Jin army a head-on attack.

Many exposed Jin Army soldiers died tragically from arrows. Their bodies would not be recovered. It would be best if they fell directly. Those who did not fall would also be pushed down the ditch by those behind to fill the pit.

The Jin Army was not unprepared. In addition to erecting wooden veils for defense, they also dispatched a large number of crossbowmen to shoot arrows at the city head to suppress firepower.

Under this circumstance, the bowmen of the Restoration Army had a favorable geographical position and had a greater advantage. They would also erect wooden veils as a defense to protect the bowmen from damage as much as possible, and then release arrows.

The two sides shot against each other, and the losses of the Jin Army were obviously more than the losses of the Restoration Army, but their numbers were much larger than the Restoration Army, so they could still be supported in the rain of arrows.

The Restoration Army used both crossbows and catapults to fire large arrows and stone bombs to attack the siege equipment that covered the infantry to fill the ditches.

However, these siege machines are well-made and of good quality, and they have quite heavy defense facilities. Stones and big arrows are difficult to destroy, let alone ordinary arrows.

Under the protection of these siege weapons, the soldiers of the Jin Army quickly carried out the command of the commander, and a large number of sandbags were thrown into the moat.

Although the moat of Hejiancheng is very wide and deep, it cannot be filled with such huge human and material resources of the Jin Army.

There are many people and many sandbags. If the moat goes down like this, it will not be able to hold such a large number of sandbags. The moat will be filled up soon, and it will lose its function of guarding the city.

Therefore, the garrison troops will never watch without reaction.

In addition to the stones thrown by the catapult and the large arrows fired by the crossbow, Jiang Liangping decided to use firearms for such a sharp siege by the Jin Army.

Fire attack is an ancient method of siege, and it is also an ancient method of defending a city. The siege equipment is basically made of wood, which cannot be smashed, but once a fire is burned, it will be gone.

Therefore, huge siege equipment is often equipped with a considerable degree of fire prevention facilities, including but not limited to coating the surface of the siege equipment with mud, so that the flame cannot achieve the burning effect.

The firearms of this year mainly use combustion rather than explosion as the means of attack, and all defensive weapons are also aimed at the defensive transformation made by incendiary firearms.

However, the firearms newly equipped by the Liberation Army that Jiang Liangping decided to use did not use burning as the main means of attack.

In this battle, Su Yonglin took out all the firearm reserves that he had painstakingly collected and manufactured.

The manufacture and storage of gunpowder is not an easy task. The cost of manufacturing and collecting available gunpowder is quite high. Su Yonglin's toilet commandos have traveled to almost every toilet they can find.

Nevertheless, gunpowder production is difficult to increase.

According to prior estimates, all the firearms made of gunpowder that Su Yonglin had accumulated over the years would be exhausted in this war.

He handed over one-fifth of all firearms and gunpowder reserves to Hejian City, the other one-fifth to Zhending City, and kept one-fifth for himself, and the remaining two-fifths were divided equally by other cities .

Hejian City and Zhending City are of great significance. They are the core cities that the Jin army will inevitably capture, and it is reasonable to equip them with top-level defense tools.

When the stones and giant arrows could no longer stop the movement of the Siege Jin army, he would take out firearms for further attacks.

With an order, the soldiers fired rockets on the crossbows and fireballs on the catapults.

The effectiveness of the rocket was used when the navy of the Liberation Army attacked the navy of the Jin Army, and it achieved a good effect, causing great shock and destruction to the Jin Army.

The explosive performance of the gunpowder after adjustment of the raw material ratio and granulation treatment is much stronger than the powder and paste black powder of the Golden Army that Su Yonglin first obtained, and it is not even the same thing in terms of use effect.

Su Yonglin asked the gunpowder craftsmen to increase the content of nitrate in the gunpowder formula to [-]% when making gunpowder, and then used urine to granulate the gunpowder.

After the granulation process, the gunpowder burns more fully, the double buff is superimposed, the power becomes larger, and the sound is louder. This fireball is not like a traditional firearm for burning, but has the smell of a powerful bomb. .

In order to increase the power, the craftsmen added some gravel and iron scraps left from making weapons to increase the lethality of the firearm.

After the successful test of the rocket used in the crib crossbow, the fireball used for the catapult was also put into the experiment.

The spherical firearm is nothing new, but Su Yonglin made it bigger, filled with more gunpowder, and exploded more powerfully.

And because the accuracy of the trebuchet is not very good, sometimes the target of the attack can be [-] miles away from the intended target, and the lack of projection means is also a very important limiting factor for the use of firearms.

So Su Yonglin asked the craftsmen to make a wooden base for the fireball when they experimented with the trebuchet to throw the fireball.

This wooden bottom bracket fits the shape of the fireball, and the whole is tied together with a strap to form a whole, so that it is safer to transport and has a good effect when used.

The fireball of this device is heavy on one side and light on the other, and when thrown, it can have the effect of a self-stabilizing structure similar to a badminton. It will not change direction and fly to any strange place.

Because of the low accuracy of the early unrifled artillery, smart craftsmen used this method to increase the accuracy of the artillery, so that the solid bullet can hit the target steadily and accurately.

This was one of the few early firearm knowledge Su Yonglin knew, and it just came in handy.

After several tests, it has been proved that this device is effective, the accuracy is much better than before, and the landing point is more controllable, so the fireballs produced next will be in this state.

Rockets, fireballs, and flying muskets are the three types of firearms that Su Yonglin has approved for the army to try out with a certain degree of safety. They are also the three types of firearms that can be mass-produced by the Restoration Army. Other than that, there are currently no other firearms that can be used.

There are indeed many kinds of firearms these days, but there are many kinds of firearms, but the practicality is very poor.

Either the operation is too cumbersome and difficult to use in battle, or the security is too poor, and the damage to one's own people is greater than the damage to the enemy, or the sheer cost is too high to use.

It is not easy to assemble a firearm that is economical and relatively simple to operate.

However, once it comes out, that is, the new weapons that Jin Jun cannot possess and cannot counteract, the deterrence of Jin Jun should be relatively strong, especially the gunpowder granulation treatment. If no experts tell Wanyanliang like this, Wanyanliang Can you think of how to deal with it?

technical barriers.

Jiang Liangping has seen the use of these firearms and is very optimistic about the effectiveness of these types of firearms. Although the dangers are still there, compared to their power, the dangers are going to be ranked backward.

It was useless before, because the Jin army did not enter the attack range in large numbers.

Now that the Jin army has entered the attack range in large numbers, and even some siege equipment has entered the attack range, it is time to use firearms to open their eyes, or take a serious look to see if these firearms are very effective on the real battlefield. Good results.

If the effect is available, it can be installed in a larger batch to the army and used as a strategic weapon in the future.

The battlefield is often a testing ground for new weapons, and it is also the birthplace of inspiration for new weapons.

(End of this chapter)