Qiming 1158

Chapter 401 Jiang Liangping is worried

Of course, Wanyanliang's face was stinky. After losing the battle, could he still have a good face?

Wanyan Ben was very ashamed.

"The old minister is guilty, the old minister underestimated the bandit army."

"A lot of people died just now, right?"

Wanyan Liang took a deep breath and said, "What else do you have to say?"

"The thieves' defense is very strict. It is very difficult to fill the moat ditch in one go. It can only be filled little by little at night. Other than that... there is no other way."

Wanyan Benjian honestly admits that his abilities are limited. Although Wanyan Liang is angry, he can't think of a better way, so he can only wave his hand with a dark face to tell Wanyan Benjian to get out.

Unfavorable departure, the first battle suffered a lot of setbacks and obstacles. Hejian City's tenacity far exceeded Wanyan Liang's imagination, which made Wanyan Liang start to worry that he would lose too many troops in the following battles.

However, Hejian City was very important, and he had to attack it, and he had no choice but to continue appointing Wanyan Benjian, who knew the soldiers, to continue commanding the army.

For the next few days, Wanyanliang asked the army to organize attacks day and night, filling the river trenches with arrows and firearms from the Restoration Army, exchanging the lives of soldiers for the progress of filling.

Because of the investment of firearms, the Jin Army has hundreds of casualties every day. The number of casualties is increasing, and the number of wounded soldiers is also increasing. Fortunately, the progress of filling is also increasing, and the advantage of accumulating people has not been lost.

But that's when the war just started.

Even for the goal of conquering Hejian City, it is only the beginning. Even if the moat ditch is filled, it will definitely take a lot of effort to attack the city wall and lose a lot of troops. ?

The wanderers who went out to investigate the news came back and reported that there were no signs of people around Hejian City, as if Hejian City was just an ancient city, and there was no existence around to help, as if they were just fighting beasts.

Such an important Hejian City, but there is no supporting army around it?

Logically speaking, there should be, right?

Wanyan Benjian was a little confused about what the Restoration Army was trying to do, but he could only order the Rangers to go further into Hebei and continue to investigate the existence of the Restoration Army's field army and the existence of human settlements.

If he didn't believe it, he couldn't find anyone.

Just when Wanyan Benjian was worried, Jin Jun's firearm reserve finally arrived.

Wanyan Liang was overjoyed at the past, and immediately arranged for the army to launch a firearm counterattack against Hejian City to increase its attack power on Hejian City.

They also have many different types of firearms, but two are the most common for siege ends.

One is a rocket—an arrow fired by tying a powder keg to the front of the arrow, essentially the same as a Restoration Army rocket.

The other is the cannon—a firearm that uses gunpowder to ignite a combustion elastic mass.

This is very different from the Fireball of the Restoration Army.

The fireballs of the Restoration Army were designed to explode and injure the enemy. After the quality of gunpowder was improved, the Restoration Army mastered more advanced gunpowder manufacturing and storage technology, and obtained new gunpowder weapons.

The artillery used by the Jin Army is still mainly aimed at burning, and the purpose is burning damage.

Of course, they also have explosive gunpowder weapons. The thunderbolt guns, which were born out of the Northern Song Dynasty, are called iron guns.

But their explosion effect is very poor.

The sound is indeed very loud, like thunder, but the way to kill the enemy is not the impact of the explosion of gunpowder, but the impact of the iron shell after it shatters.

It is said that the fragments of the iron shell after the explosion of the iron cannon can penetrate the iron armor, and the terrifying flame can burn the iron armor red.

Sounds powerful.

But judging from the fact that Su Yonglin's captured Jin Army individual soldiers used iron artillery to test it, it's not like that at all.

Gunpowder of this level and magnitude can generally only blast the iron shell into three or five pieces, and some of the poor quality can only be blasted into two pieces. It can indeed penetrate the iron armor at close range, but it needs to be quite close, and it needs to be very lucky. Hit the target or just listen for a bang.

As for the traditional arts that can make iron armor red after the explosion, which is an exaggeration, it is only seen on paper and not in reality.

What is really effective is that the sound after the explosion is really loud, and the ear will be deafened if you are not careful, which is really scary.

However, this kind of individual iron artillery is generally not used in field battles, but for defending the city. When defending the city, the soldiers ignite the iron artillery and throw it down the city, waiting for it to explode and injure the enemy. There is almost no possibility of using it in the field. .

The effect is that.

And a very important point is that the probability of successful explosion of such iron artillery is very low.

Su Yonglin disassembled the iron cannons that failed to explode, and there were only a few problems.

Either too much gunpowder is filled, there are not enough gaps between the gunpowder particles, there is not enough air, the combustion is not sufficient, and it does not explode.

Either it's wet and clumped and won't burn.

Either the gunpowder was bumped during transportation, and the sulfur, saltpeter, and charcoal separated by themselves and could no longer explode.

Among the [-] iron cannons, more than half of the iron cannons have such problems, which shows the practicality of this firearm.

The gunpowder before the gunpowder granulation treatment cannot be stored for a long time at all, and it is largely used immediately.

In this era, the firearms of the Jin army and even the Song army were all troubled by this and could not go further.

So this problem arose when the Jin Army used firearms to fight back against the Hejian City Restoration Army.

Firearms are of course useful, at least the sound is very loud, and they look like they are blown up, but the lethality is hard to say.

Jiang Liangping used a wooden veil as a shield to protect the defenders at the city head. The wooden veil was not only made of wood, but also supplemented with raw cowhide and other elastic materials, which was very effective in defending against smashing attacks. smeared with mud.

In addition to listening to the sound, the fire can not destroy the wooden veil, and the effect of the explosion is not enough to destroy the defense of the wooden veil, so the damage to the Restoration Army is very limited.

As for that big throwing iron artillery, let alone some successful explosions.

The sound is very loud, and the power is not bad. It does bring damage to the Restoration Army on the city.

Several soldiers of the Restoration Army were hit by fragments of iron shells, some were seriously injured, some were killed, and some soldiers were knocked off by the fragments, and they died of blood.

Some iron cannons crossed the city wall and smashed into the city, killing and injuring some reserve militiamen of the logistics transport team.

But in addition to the successful explosions, there are also many misfires. The Restoration Army even recovered dozens of iron artillery pieces that did not explode for research.

Jiang Liangping had received training in the use of firearms and weapons. He looked at the iron cannon that the craftsman had taken apart, and saw that the problem inside was exactly the same as what Su Yonglin had mentioned.

Either the gunpowder was wet and clumped, or the gunpowder components separated by themselves, or it burned a little and didn't burn.

"The gold thief firearms are of poor quality and unbearable to use. It is wishful thinking to use this kind of firearms to attack my city!"

Jiang Liangping kicked away an iron cannon very upset, and asked the craftsman to dispose of the discarded gunpowder inside, leaving the iron shell to be used for defending the city later.

Jin Jun wants to use this inferior firearm to fight against the new firearms of the Restoration Army.

But it should be said that although the firearms of the Restoration Army have increased in power, they cannot completely defeat the Jin Army unless Jiang Liangping has [-] Thor cannons in his hands.

There are only a few thousand Thor cannons in total, and Jiang Liangping is still clear about this output.

In the end, firearms can't play a decisive role, and it is necessary to use more traditional but numerous weapons, and even hand-to-hand combat at the head of the city, in order to defend Hejian City.

Jiang Liangping was very worried as he watched the Jin army attack the great formation, which was densely packed outside the city.

(End of this chapter)