please make me king

Chapter 1246 Essentials
Hearing the sound of the Ming army's rumbling drums, Sun Chuanting couldn't help but sneered and said, "The donkeys are so poor!"

The Art of War says: There is no invitation to upright flags, no dignified formations.

For a well-formed team like the Rebel Army, if they attacked hard, and even if they were able to defeat them, it would be "killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred" would not be worth the loss.

Of course, if you know this truth, the left governor Zhu Xieyuan doesn't know it?

Of course he is well aware of this, but he has no choice but to act.

Although the current situation is that "the thieves are weak and the strong are strong", but with the arrival of the main force of the "thieves", the Ming army will soon be in an extremely weak position.

If the opportunity cannot be missed, if this "thief" cannot be resolved before the main force of the "thief" arrives, the situation will become more and more out of control.

The lesser of two evils, Zhu Xieyuan was forced to attack.

As the drums of the Ming army sounded, the artillerymen stopped advancing one after another and began to build artillery positions to prepare for shooting.

The gunners behind the artillerymen also approached a certain distance forward to prevent the rebel cavalry from attacking their own artillery positions.

At the same time, behind the gunners, the killer team of the Ming army became active again.

It's just that compared to the killer team commanded by Jiang Xiang before, this time there are more people and more distinctive armor and weapons.

And each of these killer teams hung a "soft wall" in front of them to avoid Yamaru.

The so-called "soft wall" is actually a wooden frame on which old cotton quilts are hung.

It is seven feet high and six feet wide. If it is soaked in water, the arrows will not enter. When it is arrayed, it can cover two or three people horizontally.

Not long after, the killer team gradually surpassed the lineup of gunners and appeared in front of the rebels.

"Hehe, is this a quilt for drying in broad daylight?" The rebel army couldn't help laughing when they saw it, and started discussing it.

"It must have been because of the reputation of our army last night that I was so scared that I peed my pants, so I had to dry the quilt while fighting, or I would have to sleep in the wet quilt at night!"

"Hey, don't say it, it's really such a rationale!"

Sun Chuanting couldn't help crying and laughing when he heard the words, and had to turn his head to explain to Wei Zhiyou and Zhang Dashhou: "This is a soft wall, which can be lifted, and it is specially used to cover arrows and projectiles. It should not be underestimated!"

"Then how to break it?" Wei Zhiyou couldn't help but worried.

But Zhang Dashou didn't say a word, and regarded it as a normal thing.

It turned out that he was also from the frontier army, and he had some basic knowledge of tactics and combat, and he already knew about it.

"It can block Yamaru, so can it also block the artillery?" Sun Chuanting smiled, couldn't help asking, and then ordered.

"Pass down the order and strike with artillery. The field artillery fires solid bullets, the golden artillery continues to fire lime bombs and poisonous smoke bombs, and the flying blunderbuss fires grenades to suppress the enemy's firepower!"

Pomegranates are often called "fire pomegranates" by Ming people.

During the Jiajing period, Wang Ji, Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, tried to fire this cannon. Unexpectedly, "the flying iron burst out and slandered the cheek of the hole", so that he had to "beg for the remains due to illness and lay down for seven years".

In fact, this so-called "fire pomegranate", or "pomegranate" is what the West calls "shrapnel".

The outer shell is made of pig iron, and there are delay fuses and shotguns inside, so as to kill enemy soldiers.

After being presented to Zhang Shun by Dudu Zhang, this thing became one of the three "blooming ammunition" of the rebel army after repeated tests. It was mainly equipped with golden cannons and flying blunderbuss.

The caliber of the Flying Biao was five inches, and it could fire [-] jin of solid shells. If it was replaced with "pomegranate shells", hundreds of shells could be stuffed inside. The power was extremely astonishing, so it was listed as one of the secret weapons of the rebel army.

Following Sun Chuanting's order, the rebel artillery "boomed" resounded across the battlefield.

At the same time, the "General Cannon" of the Ming army also spit out flames.

Unfortunately, three or five shells were fired into the formation of the rebels.

However, the guns of the generals of the Ming army were of different shapes and many of them could only fire seven catties of bullets. The lethality was not very great, and only a dozen people were killed.

The artillery of the rebel army aimed specifically at the artillery of the Ming army and fired salvos. In just one round, five or six artillery positions were filled with lime and poisonous smoke.

"Ah, my eyes..."

"Ah...Ah, what the hell is this..."

The artillery in these positions was unscathed, but the artillerymen all suffered.

These people were either blinded by the lime, or were choked by the poisonous smoke, and even the unlucky ones were fainted on the spot, causing a panic.

There are also four or five round "grenades", flying towards them suddenly.

Some exploded in mid-air, some exploded in the crowd, and some fell to the ground and killed two people before they exploded.

In one particularly unlucky artillery position, a "grenade" exploded at a height of more than one person, and more than [-] gunners were reimbursed at once.

It stands to reason that the accuracy of artillery in this era is poor, and it is difficult to destroy the opposite artillery at a distance of [-] feet.

However, the rebels used three types of explosive bombs, that is, lime bombs, poisonous smoke bombs and pomegranate bombs, to carry out covering salvos, which not only made one artillery position of the Ming army lose its combat capability, but also severely damaged four or five artillery positions. influences.

When a person stands on a high place for a long time, it is easy to detach himself from everything, and regard all living beings as ants.

The left governor Zhu Xieyuan had just stood on the carriage not long ago, and he had already been subconsciously like this.

Looking at what happened to the artillerymen below, he didn't feel any sadness. Instead, he turned his head and smiled at Wang Shiren, the general of Datong, and said, "The thieves rely on the red barbarian cannons, and now they have what they need."

"If you meet a thief in the future, you can't fight without Hongyi, remember, remember!"

Wang Shiren was taken aback when he heard the words, and couldn't help but also laughed.

It turned out that the officers and soldiers of the four towns of Xuanda Jiliao fought against Hou Jin for years, killed with real swords and guns, and mastered the key to heavy armor and heavy artillery. How can "rogues" and "grass thieves" be able to compare?
It's just that at this moment, what is the reason for Zhu Xieyuan, the left governor, to say these words?

Sure enough, I only heard Zhu Xieyuan say again: "It's enough to find out the reality of this battle. There is no need to fight to the death, so as not to hurt your vitality!"

It turned out that Zhu Xieyuan retreated when he saw that the artillery of the rebel army was so sharp that he could not easily destroy the rebel army.

Not to mention how the two of them boasted about the Hongyi cannon, let's say that after the rebel army fired a round, all the gunners immediately performed their duties.

Clear the chamber, remove the slag, reload the refill, reset the reposition.

Not long after, only the roar of the artillery was heard, and the sound of the rebel artillery resounded across the battlefield again.

"How... How did you get born so quickly?" Youdao is not afraid of not knowing what to buy, but he is afraid of comparing goods.

It turned out that Zhu Xieyuan and others didn't think about the artillery of the Rebel Army, they only thought that the artillery was heavy and powerful.

As a result, comparing the hatchback, it was discovered that the Rebel artillery was not only powerful, but also had a variety of tricks, and it fired extremely fast.

Just now, the two sides fired almost at the same time. As a result, the gunners of the Ming army are only half loaded, and the cannons of the rebel army can fire again.

In this way, the Ming army fired two rounds, and the rebels had enough time to fire three rounds.

In this way, the three same cannons of the rebel army are enough to match the power of the four cannons of the Ming army. Can Zhu Xieyuan not be surprised?

"Earth produces degree, degree produces quantity, quantity produces number, number produces scale!"

In fact, this is Zhang Shun's comprehensive advantages formed by scientifically testing artillery and training gunners.

In this era, it has been found that the longer the barrel, the farther the artillery can shoot, and the higher the accuracy, so the Ming army and the later Jin Dynasty like to cast long-barreled artillery.

However, this kind of fixed impression formed by experience, after repeated experiments by Zhang Shun, found that this kind of improvement is limited.

Especially the artillery of this era can't shoot accurately, even once it exceeds the limit of [-] feet that can be discerned by the naked eye, there is not even a reliable gun watch.

Then this kind of improvement is completely meaningless. Instead, it is better to shorten the barrel, increase the caliber of the artillery, and obtain greater artillery power under the same weight. This is the important secret of "sharp artillery".

And this shortening can not only obtain greater power under the same weight, but also greatly increase the loading speed of the artillery because of the shorter barrel.

It's only short, but it gets what it wants.

The first is: moving speed; the second is: artillery power; the third is: loading speed.

With these three factors, plus the reasonable organization and training of the gunners, this is Zhang Shun's "unique secret book" for going all over the world.

How can Zhu Xieyuan and others take a few glances to "get the essence"?
(End of this chapter)