I want to be emperor

Chapter 423 Good Student Song Zushun
When the sound of bang bang explosions continued, the Dongjiao Fortress just ran out of the artillery fortifications and was about to fight back. The soldiers of the Ming army who intercepted the infantry of the Chu army were immediately killed and injured. At least hundreds of people fell on the ground this time. During the artillery attack, the newly organized counterattack force suddenly showed signs of collapse.

Seeing this scene, Song Zushun, who was watching the battle from behind, had a terribly dark face!
These damned Chu thieves are so cunning that they even killed them with a carbine!

And these damned Chu thieves are not afraid of accidentally hurting their own soldiers...

You must know that when these mortar shells exploded, they were only five or sixty meters away from the soldiers of the commando soldiers of Chu Bandit himself.

At this distance, for a scumbag artillery such as a mortar, if the gunner shakes his hand slightly when firing the cannon, the shell can fall among the soldiers of the Chu army commando...

Under Song Zushun's gloomy expression, the commando of the Fourth Division of the Chu Army had already rushed to the front of the Eastern Suburb Fortress. Instead of rushing up to fight hand-to-hand, they threw out a bunch of black grenades one by one!

Unfortunately...the Ming army on the opposite side also threw out a black grenade...

Luo Zhixue, who was watching the battle from behind, couldn't help but frown at this scene!

Nima, this Song Zushun learns everything...

Learn to make large two-wheeled field artillery, large-caliber short-barreled matchlock guns, even hand grenades...

Why don't you learn how to make mortars like me...

If Song Zushun could hear Luo Zhixue's voice, he would have laughed. This grenade is very simple, just an iron shell with a matchlock, and it is quite useful for defensive operations.

But for mortars, I was out of my mind to make that shit. With this money, I can build a few more two-and-a-half-pound, five-pound field artillery, isn't it good for him?

Song Zushun fought defensive warfare... For Song Zushun, although mortars were useful in defensive warfare, they were far less cost-effective than smoothbore solid artillery.

Mortars are a sharp weapon for attackers in modern times.

However, for defensive operations, although mortars are useful, they are not too large and cost a lot.

Compared with field artillery, the cost performance of mortars is actually very low. Therefore, for Song Zushun, it is far better to buy a few more field artillery than to buy a bunch of expensive mortars.

The difference in the environment and the enemies you face will lead to completely different ideas for building an army.

The Chu army and the Ming army are almost two extremes. The Ming army is focused on various defensive operations, so they have developed various anti-artillery systems, and they have not completely abandoned all kinds of short-barreled artillery until now.

Well, in defensive operations, these short-barreled shotguns are actually somewhat useful. At least they can hit two or 300 meters. If a shotgun can be shot out, if it can accurately hit the dense formation of infantry on the attacking side, it will immediately kill the enemy. Can knock down a large piece.

In addition, these short-barreled shotguns are also relatively light, and at the same time, the cost is low, and even a few dozen taels of silver can be used to build one, and the most important thing is that this thing is a surface kill, so there is no need to consider the problem of shooting accuracy. The requirements for the gunner are also very low, as long as you know how to load and aim, you can pull it out and use it as a gunner.

Unlike those new field guns, because the solid shells are point-kill, and the range is only a few hundred meters at every turn, the requirements for shooting accuracy are relatively high, so the requirements for the gunner are naturally very high.

Therefore, for the Ming army in the contemporary era, there is actually no big problem in building these field guns. They can even cast large-caliber Hongyi artillery with longer barrels, and it is natural to create field guns with smaller calibers and smaller diameters. There is no problem.

At most, the quality of the built artillery is slightly worse, and it is easy to explode...

However, they were really able to make these field guns.

However, for gunners and even higher-level artillery commanders, they have nothing very good to do.

Contemporary gunner training is actually very troublesome. Even the artillery of the Chu army has already formulated a shooting table when it leaves the factory. The gunners can shoot according to the shooting table. At the same time, various distance measurements and shooting elements are calculated and adjusted , There will also be an artillery officer from above to be in charge.

However, the ordinary gunner responsible for loading can operate step by step, but the gunner needs to know some basic geometric knowledge and calculation ability at least.

Otherwise, when the immediate superior artillery officer is injured or injured and cannot provide various distance measurements and calculations of design elements, it is difficult for you to be caught blind.

Finally, gunners, especially gunners, inevitably need a lot of live ammunition training so that they can master accurate gunnery.

In order to shoot the artillery accurately these days, in addition to certain calculations, there is also a very important point, and even more important point is the experience of the gunner...

The gunner who has fired many live ammunition and has rich experience does not need such troublesome calculations at all. He can see the impact point of the bullet with his eyes, and then he can hit the target accurately after a little adjustment.

If it is an inexperienced gunner, even if he repeatedly adjusts, he will not be able to hit the target after a long time.

The live ammunition training needs to consume the barrel life of the artillery, and more importantly, it needs to consume the propellant.

An iron cast artillery, the barrel life is only three to four hundred rounds, and the poorer quality may be even less. If you fired dozens or hundreds of rounds during training, then the barrel life of this artillery That's a lot less.

Not to mention the propellant, just one word: expensive!

Because of the high cost of gunpowder, not to mention the live ammunition training of the artillery, even the live ammunition training of the infantry has to be saved as much as possible.

The local tyrants are like the Chu army. During the boot camp, the soldiers only had [-] rounds of live ammunition training... Occasionally, the live ammunition training of the troops during the non-combat period, ten rounds a month is not bad.

As for artillery... Every live ammunition training is carefully calculated and trained in single-digit units.

The Chu army is like this, let alone the Ming army. After increasing the scale of gun equipment, they even have very limited ammunition for combat, which is difficult to guarantee, let alone large-scale live ammunition training. of.

At most, it is a symbolic firing of a few shells to hear the sound, and it is impossible to do more.

The quality of gunners trained in this way is naturally worrying.

If the gunners can barely make do with it, the artillery officer is even more troublesome.

Don't look at it as a smoothbore muzzle-loading gun these days, but the requirements for artillery officers are not low at all.

When the Army Officer Academy of the Chu Army recruited students, it had the highest requirements for artillery cadets, because artillery officers needed to learn a lot of knowledge such as mathematics and geometry.

Even so, most of the artillery officers trained by the Chu army are only half-baked. Many of them have to continue to learn various mathematics knowledge by themselves even after they graduate and serve in the army.

The Chu army made a bunch of half-baked guys, and the level of the Ming army's artillery officers is needless to say...

They don't have a special military academy to train artillery officers. Their artillery officers are either ordinary gunners or transferred from other generals. Few of them know how to calculate shooting elements.

During the battle, if you let them temporarily measure the distance and adjust the shooting elements, most of them will be caught blind!
Under such circumstances, the artillery units of the Ming Army can only imagine the hit rate of the shells fired by them.

During the offensive and defensive battle of the fortress in the eastern suburbs outside Yangzhou City, the artillery units of the Ming army actually fired back very violently. Started shooting during the battle and never stopped.

But their victories were very limited.

Of course, there are mortar artillery units and infantry units of the Chu army, which are all maneuvering through traffic trenches as cover, and there is very little time to show up.

But there are also reasons why the artillery of the Ming army is too poor to hit.

After the Chu army's commando launched a charge, their artillery units were close, and the Chu army's soldiers had obvious targets, so they achieved certain results.

However, this result is nothing compared to the entire battle.

When the soldiers of the [-]th Division Commando rushed to the front of the eastern suburbs fortress, they threw grenades one after another. Although their own side inevitably suffered casualties caused by the enemy's grenade throwing.

However, at this time, the distance between the two sides is only about ten or twenty meters, and the Ming army has no way to stop the charge of the commando.

At this time, some Ming army soldiers in the fortress in the eastern suburbs also launched a countercharge under the urging of the Ming army officers.

For a time, hundreds of soldiers from both sides at the corner of the front line were fighting with each other. They either used bayonet muskets, or spears, or used waist knives and shields to fight.

But not every Ming army soldier on the defensive position had the courage to fight back.

More Ming troops were still huddled in the trenches, trying to resist behind the parapet.

And this kind of unrestrained resistance, in the face of the Chu army commandos rushing in groups, even though it will cause certain casualties on their own side, it will allow the Chu army commandoes to gain room for breakthrough.

Soon, a group of soldiers from the Chu army commando rushed to a trench position of the Ming army, and then killed them.

The screams continued to ring out on all fronts, and the soldiers on both sides used a close-range hand-to-hand melee, which opened the prelude to the most tragic Battle of the Eastern Suburb Fortress in the Battle of Yangzhou.

About a quarter of an hour later, Major General Bao Yangyun, the commander of the Fourth Division, saw that the front line had made a certain breakthrough and at the same time found that the enemy continued to reinforce through the trenches, so he decisively ordered the No.15 Infantry Regiment under his command to reinforce it.

Ever since, the two sides have invested a total of at least 3000 troops in such a small battlefield around the fortress in the eastern suburbs, conducting a primitive and tragic fight!

Rumbling explosions and heart-piercing screams sounded continuously, playing the Yangzhou Battle, which was the most beautiful movement in the entire Jiangbei Battle!
(End of this chapter)