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Chapter 456 The Chu thief's guns are really sharp

A young soldier from the East who was approaching didn't know what happened at first, but he heard the people around him shouting something, and immediately looked up, and saw a group of people seemed to be vacated on the high platform where the Chu thief was in the distance. white smoke.

Immediately afterwards, he heard a whistling sound, and when he looked up, there were more than a dozen black spots flying towards them...

The speed didn't seem to be very fast either. He stared at it for a long time before he saw these black spots falling slowly, and one of them landed two feet in front of him.

Is this the Chu thief's shell?

After the black solid shell hit the ground, it seemed to have made a small hole in the ground, and then bounced up.

This speed doesn't seem too fast, so it shouldn't have much power?
Such a thought flashed through the mind of the young Dongbang soldier.

After the solid shell in the front bounced up, it landed a few meters forward, and then slowly rolled towards their queue. It seemed that the speed was even slower...

Such a slow shell should not be dangerous, and the shell is not too big to be honest, it should be about nine catties and ten catties.

Ever since, this young soldier from the East, who was on the battlefield for the first time, didn't dodge the cannonball rolling in front of him, but stretched out his foot, trying to stop the cannonball that had slowed down a lot. Come down, this is an iron lump after all, it can be exchanged for a lot of money if you take it back...

But what I didn't expect was that in the next moment, the young Dongbang soldier let out a scream and fell down.

Look at his outstretched feet...it was slightly deformed and twisted at this time!
But the solid cannonball that was dark, stained with dirt, and looking gray was still rolling forward, and then hit the right foot of a Dongbang soldier behind him, causing the Dongyao soldier to shoot He fell down with a scream, and howled on the ground holding his twisted right foot.

The solid cannonball continued to move forward, and broke another five or six legs before it stopped completely.

Even though the shell fired by the nine-pound cannon belonging to the heavy artillery regiment traveled a long distance of 300 meters and landed early, it absorbed a certain amount of kinetic energy after several bounces, but it still killed a lot of people in the follow-up. Seven captive soldiers.

Coupled with several other artillery shells that fell directly into the Dongbang forward formation, this first round of shelling killed and wounded dozens of Dongbang soldiers.

Despite these casualties, it is impossible to cause any actual shake to this Eastern captive forward array with more than 2000 troops.

However, it still caused a certain amount of panic, and it made the generals who led the team even more worried.

Because at this time, they are still more than 400 feet away from Shanhaiguan. According to the past, they should advance slowly, and then slowly spread out after entering a distance of about [-] feet. Pull out the cannon, then slowly push it up.

As for attacking the city directly with long ladders and shield chariots, it is all within a hundred feet.

But now...

Those damn Chu thieves fired from four hundred feet away, and they were very accurate.

When will this Hongyi Cannon be able to shoot so accurately.

There are also Hongyi cannons in the Dongyao army, and ordinary soldiers may not know about them, but most of the senior generals in Dongyao know about Hongyi cannons.

This thing is powerful, and it can hit four or five hundred feet away if you let it go, but it is still quite difficult to hit it accurately, especially at long distances.

It is almost impossible for the gunners in the Eastern Looting Army to accurately hit the enemy at a distance of four hundred feet.

They naturally didn't know that the Chu army had already marked the distance outside the city in advance, and used hidden signs to mark the distance, and the artillery officer had also planned to shoot Zhuyuan early.

The difficulty of the shelling this time was basically the same as that of shooting a fixed target, and it was not less difficult than ordinary shelling.

In addition, the gunners in the heavy artillery unit of the Chu Army are all veteran gunners, especially their gunners, who are basically selected from the whole army.

Don't dare anyone else, but each of them has fired at least a few hundred rounds of live ammunition.

Hundreds of rounds of live ammunition... For the gunners on Dongyao's side, they would not be able to shoot so many shells in their entire lives.

Dongyao is also poor, and it is difficult for their gunners to get the opportunity to train with live ammunition. If there is no live ammunition training, then artillery skills will naturally not be that good.

They judge others by themselves, so it is naturally difficult to understand why the Chu army's artillery can hit so far.

In addition to the soft power of these artillery officers and gunners, it is actually related to the fact that the quality of the artillery in the Chu army is better than that of Dongyao.

The army artillery of the Chu army is now all copper cannons, and copper cannons are easier to process than iron cannons. In addition, the Chu army has used large-scale hydraulic machinery to process the barrels, so the cast copper cannons are more expensive than iron cannons. The tube is smoother.

The gap between shell and artillery timing is also smaller.

And these can effectively increase the hit rate.

The technical level of the casting artillery of the Dongyao people is actually similar to that of the Ming court, not much higher than that, and the casting artillery is far inferior to the same caliber artillery in the Chu army.

Huang Taiji in the rear naturally also saw the striker being bombarded by the Chu thieves, but although he felt a little surprised, he still let the army continue to move forward.

For an army of 20, the casualties of a few hundred people are nothing.

Ever since, there was a situation on the battlefield where the Eastern Captive Army was beaten unilaterally.

The heavy artillery of the Chu army continued to fire, from 300 meters to 1000 meters. At this time, even a large number of nine-pound field artillery in the divisional artillery unit also fired.

As a result, the casualties of the Dongbang people's forwards became even greater.

At the end, Huang Taiji gave the order for the striker to retreat temporarily with a black face!
Chu Bandit's artillery fire was too sharp, and the forwards continued to march forward in such a stupid formation. He sent tens of thousands of forwards before reaching the predetermined position, and it is estimated that more than half of them would be killed or injured.

This battle was not fought like this!

So... the massive attack of the Dongbuo people only lasted for about half a day, and the actual bombardment stopped after about a quarter of an hour.

Because the Eastern Captives advanced in a dense array without any obstruction, they suffered hundreds of casualties.

Although the Dongbang people can fight well, it doesn't mean they are stupid... It doesn't mean they can see death as home!
When the attack was launched, there were so many casualties at a position far away from the Chu thief. If they continued to approach, when the other small cannons in the Chu thief also fired together, wouldn't it be thousands or even tens of thousands of casualties every minute.

That's a fart!

Following Huang Taiji's order to retreat, the Eastern Captive forwards, who had been bombarded ahead, also heaved a sigh of relief.

If they don't order the retreat later, but let them continue to bite the bullet, those forward generals can't guarantee whether the soldiers under their command will mutiny on the spot...

After all, this battle was too aggrieved.

It would be fine if they fought face-to-face with the Chu thief on the opposite side, and infantry fighting at close range has always been their specialty.

They kidnapped people from the east and started their business by relying on heavy armored infantry. As for the large-scale cavalry to play riding and shooting, it was only after recovering a large number of Mongols.

But the Chu thieves on the opposite side did not give their heavy infantry a chance to rush up and fight. Just the long-distance shelling caused them a lot of casualties. If they continue, they will have more casualties before they reach the top Thousands.

After the Dongyao people retreated temporarily, Huang Taiji with a dark face called Zu Dashou to discuss the war.

"The Chu thieves' guns are really sharp, and there are a lot of heavy artillery. Do you have any good strategies to defeat the enemy?" After speaking to a group of people, Huang Taiji asked Zu Dashou again: "King Liao, you have used firearms for many years, and you have also fought against the Chu thieves." There have been fights in the customs, what should we do in your opinion?"

After hearing this, Zu Dashou cursed in his heart!
I know what a fart!

If I knew how to deal with these Chu thieves in this way, I would have wiped out those Chu thieves together with Hong Chengchou in the pass. If I took a step back, I would be able to defend Shanhaiguan in the future. Why should I humble myself and join forces with you barbarians? You guys have a lot of cannons and a lot of troops in the East Captives, so they can fight the Chu thieves to the death!

But since Huang Taiji asked, Zu Dashou couldn't say nothing. After pondering for a while, and remembering the attacking methods of those Chu thieves before, he immediately said: "The Chu thieves have sharp guns, relying on infantry to rush forward , even though our Qing army is invincible in the world, I am afraid that it is still powerless, after all, guns cannot be stopped by human power!"

"The current strategy is to follow the example of the Chu bandits attacking the city, use mortars to break the bullets, and use heavy armored soldiers to defeat the enemy!"

Huang Taiji murmured: "Mortar guns? There are some tiger squatting guns similar to the mortar guns in the Chu bandits, but the number is small and not large, and we don't know much about the explosive bombs they use. Unsustainable!"

But Zu Dashou on the side said: "Your Majesty, the Chu thief's mortar is similar in shape to my old short-barreled cannon such as the tiger crouching gun. The Ming army in Guannei also brought some small Chu thief's mortars and imitated them. , this mortar is not difficult to make, it can be made of copper or iron."

"However, flowering bombs are more troublesome. We have imitated mortars before, and the guns can be manufactured, but there are many problems with the manufactured flowering bombs. Either they cannot explode, or they will be split in two after the explosion, and the damage is limited. Unlike It’s like Chu Bandit’s blooming bomb, it shatters evenly after the explosion, and its lethality is greatly increased.”

Before that, the Ming army basically imitated all kinds of artillery of the Chu army, and the mortar was no exception.

But still the same sentence, the cost performance of mortars in defensive operations is far inferior to that of field artillery, and it also consumes a lot of gunpowder in combat, and the cost of use is almost several times that of field artillery.

At the same time, the Ming army failed to solve the problem of the fragmentation of the shell after it detonated, so the Ming army only made a start, and then lost interest in this thing, but imitated all kinds of two-and-a-half catties, Most of them are five-jin field guns.

Zu Dashou is no exception here. He actually asked his craftsmen to imitate mortars, but he quickly gave up. After all, this thing is useless to him, and he can't make it out.

But who would have thought that the Liao army, which had always been engaged in defensive operations, would actually start a siege battle after surrendering to the Ming army...

If he had known today, Zu Dashou would have let the craftsmen specialize in mortars and explosive bombs in advance. Even if they couldn't make them for a while, it would be easier to do it now if they did it in advance.

It's a pity that there are no ifs, so whether it's Zu Dashou or Huang Taiji, they won't be able to produce any mortars for a while.

In the end, we can only use stupid methods, continue to slowly build fortresses, dig trenches and advance!
(End of this chapter)