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Chapter 1244 Artillery Battle
Standing on the horseback, Sun Chuanting could not help but smile when he saw the soldiers of the Ming army who were beaten by the rebels and ran away.

He is not Zhu Xieyuan, an old man in his seventies, but Sun Chuanting who can shoot left and right in his prime.

The unique skill of standing on horseback is just a piece of cake for him.

Of course, in fact, this height cannot meet Sun Chuanting's vision requirements at all.

However, due to limited conditions, he had no choice but to do so, which was better than nothing.

Seeing that the attacking team of the Ming army was scattered by the rebel cavalry, Sun Chuanting quickly ordered the cavalry to return to the formation to avoid damage.

Although there are quite a few cavalry under Zhang Dashou's command now, in fact, there are only about half of the qualified cavalry who can really charge and cavalry.

Although the remaining half of the soldiers have mastered riding skills, they have not fully mastered riding combat skills.

The number of rebels is only half of that of the Ming army. If the cavalry loses too much, then there is no chance of winning this battle, so it has to be used sparingly.

This formation of the Ming army is quite similar to the T-shaped crutches of this era, so Sun Chuanting gave it a bright eye and called it "the crutch formation."

Obviously, Zhu Xieyuan also realized that the so-called "kidnapping array" did not play its due role, so after a trial, he suspended this "send the head" behavior.

And just after the Ming army was silent for a while, suddenly the flag waved and the formation changed. After a short while, twenty teams came out, each with a few cannons, and pushed them out.

After that, there were more than a thousand gunmen lined up horizontally, divided into three rows, standing with their guns raised.

Afterwards, due to the shadow of the gunners, Sun Chuanting could not see any changes.

"It seems that the Ming army is going to break the formation with artillery!" Sun Chuanting instantly understood Zhu Xieyuan's thoughts.

"Pass down the order to order the field artillery and golden artillery of the rebel army to line up, and the cavalry to line up to the left and right, and prepare to fight back against the Ming army!"

Following Sun Chuanting's order, the soldiers in the front line of the rebel army also separated from the left and right, and the artillery and cavalry came out in a file, horizontally in front.

Not long after, the formation of the two armies was completed, and the artillery lined up in front of each other.

However, due to the distance between the formations of the two sides, they were out of the range of the artillery, so the soldiers began to push the artillery to approach each other.

As the artillery of the Ming army advanced, so did the musketeers of the Ming army, while the rebel army advanced with the artillery, and the cavalry began to hover on both sides of the artillery.

"General, the Ming army is not easy to deal with!" Zhang Dashou also stood on the horseback, watched for a long time, and couldn't help frowning.

Originally, the cavalry is the nemesis of the artillery. They can use their own mobility to lure the artillery to fire, and then rush up between the artillery loading and kill the enemy's gunner.

However, this time after Zhu Xieyuan ordered the gunners to line up their cannons, if the rebels really rushed forward, they would definitely become a living target for the gunners behind the artillery.

Mantianxing Zhang Dashou felt sorry for his own cavalry, for fear that Sun Chuanting would order them to forcibly charge the artillery positions of the Ming army.

"Why is it difficult to deal with?" Sun Chuanting laughed when he heard the words, and pointed out, "Although the Ming army has many artillery pieces, there is no way to deal with it. It is not as far away as my rebel army!"

The rebel army under Zhang Shun's command was known for its "sharp artillery" very early on, so Sun Chuanting couldn't think of it.

It wasn't until he joined the rebel army and came into contact with the artillery team of the rebel army that he realized the key.

In terms of the number of artillery pieces, the rebel army is actually not as far away as the Ming army.

For example, a standard car battalion compiled by Qi Jiguang has about [-] soldiers, equipped with eight general guns, four rockets, and one hundred and twenty-eight Francophones.

A standard car battalion compiled by Sun Chengzong has more than [-] soldiers, equipped with [-] cannons, [-] cannons for destroying captives, and [-] Francois machines, with a total of [-] cannons. The density is extremely scary.

However, a standard battalion of the rebel army has about [-] soldiers, but it is only equipped with five field cannons and five golden cannons each. military.

However, when it comes to the intensity of firepower, it is definitely not inferior to the Ming army.

Regardless of the large number of artillery pieces in the Ming army, among them, the Francophone is just a "sprayer" with a caliber of about one inch, which is used to launch shotgun.

Most of the extermination guns are small red cannons with a caliber of about [-]-inch [-]-inch to [-]-inch [-]-[-]-inch, which can fire shells the size of goose eggs.

Only the "big guns" are mostly forged "big general guns" between nine pounds and twelve pounds, and their functions are similar to those of the rebel field guns and golden guns.

It's just that the field artillery of the rebel army is a standard [-]-pound artillery, and the golden cannon is a standard [-]-pound artillery. Both its power and range far exceed that of the "General Cannon" of the Ming Army.

It's not that the Ming army didn't understand the power of large-caliber artillery, nor was it that the Ming army couldn't manufacture the same large-caliber artillery.

In fact, because of the sharp artillery of the rebel army, even Sun Chuanting imitated a few of them during his tenure as governor of Shanxi, but eventually gave up.

why?
Because it is too heavy, it is almost the same as the Hongyi cannon, and it is really inconvenient to maneuver.

And just a few cannons that are much lighter than ordinary Hongyi cannons, even if they are transported to the battlefield, they seem to have little effect on the Ming army.

Instead, why continue to use the heavier and more powerful Hongyi cannon?

As a result, it was not until Sun Chuanting came into contact with the artillery of the rebel army that he fully understood the fundamental difference between the usage of the rebel army and the Ming army.

The art of war says: "The earth produces measure, measure produces quantity, measure produces number, and number produces name."

Based on the calculation of the road passing capacity, it can be concluded that the maximum weight of the artillery should not exceed two thousand catties.

Then, with this as the upper limit, three types of artillery, namely the Golden Cannon, the Field Cannon and the Feibiao Gun, were designed.

Then I will talk about the three types of artillery mounted on special artillery carriages, with ten gunners and ten mules and horses, so they can move freely and run like flying.

Among them, ten gunners were all trained in the military academy, and each performed their duties. Regardless of their shooting speed and accuracy, they were far superior to ordinary gunners, so they naturally had an advantage in shelling.

"Fire the cannon, fire the cannon!" When the enemy entered two hundred feet and had not yet entered the range of the Ming army's shooting cannon, the rebels set up their artillery and began to fire at the opposite side.

The accuracy of artillery in this era is limited, and a distance of [-] meters can only hit a house; [-] meters can only hit a price the size of a carriage at most, and it cannot destroy the artillery on the opposite side at all.

Therefore, the goal of the rebel army was not the artillery on the opposite side at all, but the gunners lined up behind the artillery.

The shells of the field artillery flew into the gunner array, and three or four of them hit the target. About seven or eight gunners and five or six spearmen behind them were beaten into several pieces on the spot, blood clotted. , The internal organs flowed all over the place.

Scary is quite scary, and there was a commotion in the Ming army formation.

Immediately after being scolded and whipped by the officer, he gradually calmed down again.

It turned out that the formation of the Ming army was very thin, and even if it was hit by solid bullets, the casualties were not serious.

As for the shotgun shells that can kill intensively, the range is only more than two hundred steps, so how can it reach the gunners who are two hundred feet away?
"It's not so easy!" Zhang Dahue frowned and said to himself involuntarily.

According to his many years of combat experience, he might need a strong attack.

If you don't take down the artillery in front of you, once you are approached by it, the densely formed rebel army will become a artillery target, and the consequences will be disastrous.

"What's the hurry, the show hasn't started yet!" Sun Chuanting smiled slightly when he heard the words, and couldn't help comforting him.

"I heard that Zhu Xieyuan was named a famous general when he conquered the Southwest. Today I want to see how good he is!"

(End of this chapter)