Lu Ming

Chapter 552 Ming-Portuguese War ([-])

When the strength gap is relatively large, the leading party will be able to take care of themselves.

The same is true for the time-traveling crowd.After the artillery group landed that day, it was almost dinner time. Although the artillery array had not been completely set up, Mr. Cao had already started to invite the guests to leave the meeting and go downstairs for dinner, forcing a war into a nine-to-five rhythm.

The next night, aside from the excited Ming people, the Portuguese hiding in the fort naturally had a hard time.

Seeing that a large number of cannons were sent ashore by a devilish force, the process was so fast, the Portuguese naturally hated and feared.

However, being afraid of returning home is of no use.The Franji ghost couldn't even attack the artillery array at night-not to mention that the field of fire between the two armies had been flattened, and the beams of light strafing all night also made it impossible for any humanoid object with thought to hide.

Fortunately, the fort is solid.

When the St. Paul's Fort was built, it inherited the usual method of oriental engineering technology in this era. The original formula cement of glutinous rice juice, syrup, sand and oyster shell powder was used to fill the joints between the bricks and stones, so it is extremely strong.Some time ago, because of the looming war, the Portuguese even bought some cement from multiple channels to reinforce the fort and add protrusions.

This is the only thing the Portuguese can rely on.

Time: The next morning after the artillery array was deployed.

The straight-line distance between the Lotus Stem Gate and the Fort is two kilometers.After a busy day and night, at the midpoint of the two places, on a piece of land four to 500 meters in front of the gate, the artillery array has been completely placed.

On the emplacements whose ground had been hardened in advance, the sturdy cannons glowing with metallic luster formed a majestic 4-row phalanx.According to the different calibers, the small cannons are in the front and the cannons are in the back. During the period, ammunition carts filled with gunpowder and shells were regularly distributed.The artillery array is generally horizontal and vertical. At first glance, it looks like a crouching beast, full of murderous aura in silence.

At this moment, the generals of the Ming army on the tower were in complicated moods while observing the artillery formation.

In fact, when the scene of the cannon landing yesterday appeared, many people had already realized what it meant.

The so-called layman watches the excitement, while the insider watches the way.Among the many generals invited to come this time, although there is a hereditary wine bag and rice bag, it is a minority after all, and most of the rest are regular officers, who are very sensitive to military technology.

Yesterday's amphibious cannon landing operation, for these discerning people, the word "speed" was the most shocking thing, followed by "lavish" and "mechanical device".

Although these officers have played with bronze runners and Francophones on weekdays, and even the battalions of several anti-Yao generals who have been in combat readiness for a long time have their own artillery teams, but it is precisely because of this that they understand the importance of deploying artillery in front of the enemy. of horror.

You must know that in the original Pearl River Delta environment full of water systems and vegetation, even if it is just a few small tiger squat cannons, it will take a lot of manpower and time to move them to the enemy's village.

But yesterday, in front of everyone's eyes, the cannons of several thousand catties were transported to the land by sea, and it only took a few hours before and after.Such an efficient logistics capability is indeed unimaginable for the old-style officers, not to mention that this is not one cannon, but dozens of them!
Thinking of the power contained in this, among the generals who rushed to "work" early in the morning, someone finally spoke: "It is possible to deploy such a cannon array within ten days. My lord is clever, and the salary is sufficient. The last general Submit!"

The black-faced general who spoke did not appear to be flattering, but with some expressions of admiration from the bottom of his heart.This person is Lianshan Defense Xianggong, who was born in the army. Because of his bravery in battle, he has accumulated meritorious service all the way to the defense officer.

Xiang Gong belonged to the kind of straight-hearted military general who relied on desperate battles for military merits, and he didn't have too many twists and turns in his head.After being shocked yesterday, he went back and thought about it all night. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the cannon array was powerful inside and out, so today when he saw General Cao early in the morning, he finally couldn't hide his admiration, and he stood up honestly and handed it over. A bow.

Hearing this, General Cao nodded kindly to this nominal subordinate, and then laughed: "Xiang garrison and sit down for a while, today is the main attack, and there will be a show later."

Hearing the two of them answering each other like this, most of the people present had smiles on their faces, but if you looked closely, some of them looked at Mr. Cao, which meant something difficult to understand. After all, not everyone is rectum.

After going back last night, as professional soldiers, most of the generals will actually think of a question: If one day "Cao Jun" mobilizes the artillery array and army horses in front of their own houses, how should they respond?

The answer for most people is "can't handle it".

The pace of war in the Middle Ages was very slow. In this southern water network area, a war could easily last for years and months.

However, last night when someone with a heart thought about this problem, cold sweat flowed down: a large number of artillery crossed the water and landed, and stood in front of their own city/fort overnight, and the messenger sent here for help had not even looked at the gate of the provincial capital Arrived, let alone mobilized soldiers to rescue.

Looking sideways at the court pillar/Zhongyong Bo Cao Chuan who was chatting and laughing with He Zhen, and thinking about the fact that the city will be besieged by the same number of heavy artillery in the future, many people present today are naturally worried.

While the generals were chatting and laughing happily on the city tower, as the sun rose, the army of traversers, the artillery array that spent a huge amount of resources, was finally about to speak.

About 100 meters behind the artillery array, there are several field tents surrounded by sandbag walls. This is the actual headquarters of this battle.

In the headquarters at the moment, there are young officers in field uniforms everywhere, the sound of telegrams and short and powerful orders are intertwined, a tense form before the advent of the war.

And those who were a little out of touch with the surrounding atmosphere were the three traversers in the corner wearing general uniforms.These few didn't have the tension before the war at all, but were eating breakfast leisurely.

"Hey, I heard that all imported luxury goods are out of stock?"

Wei Yuan, the interim commander of the Pioneering Army, who was big and round, asked vaguely while eating the stewed pork with green peppers and potatoes in the military lunch box.

The person who answered the call was Wang Xiaohui, a naval liaison officer who also came to "observe".This gentleman probably has been trained in the army for a long time. He looks fat and white, and he is not polite when he stuffs his food. Private quota. Alas, I heard that the supply of spare parts is not available, and the equipment in the factory has to be stopped."

Wei Yuan shook his head: "Sooner or later, the stalls will get bigger and bigger, so there will be no supply."

Wang Xiaohui chuckled: "I don't care, anyway, I quit smoking."

Just as the officers were chatting, a dark and thin young officer came over to salute: "Report, I received a telegram from the Fuyuan, asking about the time of our shelling."

At this moment, an equally dark and thin traveler officer reached out to take the telegram.

This person is Yu Mingjie, one of the last time-travelers to join Daye, he served in the artillery unit "before his death", and he is still doing his old job after time-traveling.In this battle, Yu Mingjie, as the director of artillery, was not only in charge of shelling, but also the commander in the first half of the battle.

After taking a glance at the telegram, Yu Mingjie reached out to pick up the walkie-talkie on the folding canvas table, first communicated a few words with the tower and the infantry battalion headquarters behind the tower, then got up and issued an order: "Call back to Fuyuan, five minutes The bombardment was launched."

"Yes!"

After issuing the order, Yu Mingjie walked out of the tent, came to the low wall piled up with sandbags, and said to several staff officers there: "Calculate and shoot Zhuyuan again, and test the gun in five minutes."

The artillery staff officer who received the order began to conduct observation operations with the artillery mirror.

In order to train the troops as much as possible and think about the future, the traversers who have reacted have begun to implement the "de-high-tech" operation in the army.Nowadays, except for the sparsely populated special forces and the army and navy headquarters, the rest of the arms no longer have the right to use electronic equipment.

However, the original artillery scope is more than enough in this case.After all, the Portuguese in the castle on the opposite side had no weapons that could threaten this side, so the staff members could spend their time calculating and shooting the various elements.

Soon, in less than 5 minutes, the data reported loudly by the observers was marked on the map by other staff using the map operation.

Silently watching the staff members skillfully work on the map, although Yu Mingjie's face was tense, his heart was full of emotion: Only God knows the painstaking efforts he has spent in training a bunch of shop assistants and children to what they are today right?

Five minutes later, following Yu Mingjie's order, the herald trotted and sent the note saying "shooting Zhu Yuan" to the artillery position in front.

After reading the note, the artillery company commander in front announced the data loudly with an iron horn.

At first it was a small cannon, and then a cannon. Accompanied by bursts of white smoke and loud noises, according to the different calibers, each artillery group began to test the cannons in turn under the command of the headquarters.

Attacking Macao City from the land direction belongs to west to east.At the moment when the sun rises, it is actually not good for the attacker, because it needs to face the sun directly, which is a disadvantage in the era of cold weapons, including the era of hot weapons.

However, when the technology gap is large enough, these unfavorable factors do not matter.

The artillerymen on the gun positions fired in turn, facing the glare of the sun, and corrected the firing angle of each gun.And at this time, no accident, the shells fired from the opposite St. Paul's Fort also landed near the artillery position.

After 10 minutes, the scattered artillery battle between the two sides temporarily came to an end.

The "Ming Army" ceased fire because Zhu Yuan had been measured, and the next step was to prepare for a salvo.The Portuguese, as the passive side, naturally wouldn't shoot endlessly without thinking.

The reason is simple: the red hairs don't have so many shells to waste, and the cannons they have can't accurately shoot military targets 1000 meters away, so the Portuguese have little interest in this kind of long-distance shooting.

However, some people think otherwise.

Another 20 minutes later, amidst the strange cry of "Battle of Huaihai" by Wang Xiaohui, an expert in military history, the artillery array began the first round of rapid fire.

This round of earth-shattering cannon fire shot more than 50 iron balls of different sizes into the Portuguese castle thousands of meters away.For a while, the artillery positions were filled with gunpowder smoke, and the loud noises from 50+ artillery pieces made Ming people within a radius of 5 miles feel like thunder. Everything changes color.

However, within 2 minutes, the second round of rapid fire was released again, and then the third round, and the fourth round. Ass sat on the ground.

(End of this chapter)