Daming kill

Chapter 258 Always Different
150 years later in another time and space, Napoleon's legal 12-pound cannon light shotgun was basically controlled within 400 meters when used, in order to ensure lethality and accuracy.

Of course, the heavy shotgun it uses still has the ability to kill enemy units at a distance of 600 to 800 meters.

However, at this distance, the barrage had already completely dissipated, and the person who fired the gun probably didn't know who would be hit.

Since Li Ping's medium-sized field gun is only slightly inferior to the French 12-pound gun used by Napoleon, its use requirements are basically similar. The light shotgun shells fired (the barrage is denser) are enough to accurately and effectively hit surface targets within 400 meters.

Especially in the range of 200 meters to 400 meters, it is the distance that can ensure a large scattering surface and sufficient lethality.

Therefore, although there were only six cannonballs, the successive shots directly slapped the forward arrows of Zhang Xianzhong's cavalry into pieces like six slaps, which were stretched into a long and irregular inverted V shape and charged intensively.

Even those cavalry who escaped the rain of bullets by chance, many of them instinctively slowed down their charging momentum due to the terrible casualties and the horses being frightened by the continuous cannon fire at close range, and some even turned to one side and ran away.

However, most of these lucky ones who escaped the first shelling managed to control the horses desperately, and continued to move forward, with even more ferocious expressions on their faces.

As the leading cavalry leading the direction at the forefront, they are the most elite and fierce group of people.

But immediately, their expressions suddenly changed again.

More flames began to flash violently!
The twelve light front-loading guns and Franco cannons that had been silent as if they had lost their sense of existence fired, and their shotgun shells began to harvest life within 200 meters.

Amidst the sound of cannons, the few remaining Zhang Xianzhong cavalry forwards were no longer spared, and they turned their backs in panic.

Because all these changes are too fast, the entire cavalry brigade behind is still charging according to the inertia. Most people only have time to rejoice that they are not unlucky ghosts, and only have time to spend their minds on how to avoid the overly large horse corpses that fell in front.

And most of them also had a simple thought: this time they can rush with confidence.

However, many people hadn't even finished their thoughts, and another cannon rang!
It was a Fran cannon that could be fired in rapid succession.

When many people were full of surprise, the dull and loudest cannons also rang out again.

Li Ping's artillery completed the burst loading of medium-sized field guns every 15 seconds.

This time, the charging cavalry were all dumbfounded, and many of them began to stop their horses unconsciously or turn around.

They have never met or heard of such a situation, let alone build up the courage to be fearless.

They are not completely ignorant of the artillery in Li Ping's army.

In Daye County, Zhang Xianzhong's infantry attacking the city had suffered enough, so they knew that the power and range of Li Ping's new artillery were astonishing, and the rate of fire was not low.

But at that time, the rate of fire of these artillery was generally within their cognitive range, at least not so fast.

Today, the rate of fire of these artillery has been increased by at least two to three times.

They did not expect that the city fire prevention artillery in Daye County at that time did not need to fire rapidly when defending the city wall, but paid more attention to the ability of continuous shooting, including the Fran cannon. The rate of fire of all artillery was actually greatly reduced artificially.

Although they didn't understand this, these cavalrymen understood that if they wanted to rush over, they would have to suffer several rounds of shotgun shells, which meant that almost all those who rushed ahead would die.

Isn't this a joke!

No one likes a fatal charge. As for sacrificing oneself to create opportunities for the people behind, everyone is not familiar with each other, so forget it!

As a result, the cavalry began to turn around one after another.

A duel between cavalry and artillery ended hastily like this!

The failure of the cavalry and the sudden increase in the firing frequency of the official artillery shocked Zhang Xianzhong's infantry who were attacking, and many trots who started to trot slowed down again, especially when the artillery adjusted the muzzle to bombard them again. when.

After only one round of shot, all Zhang Xianzhong's infantry who rushed within the range of the artillery shot, including those close to this range, also dispersed.

This was the case on the west side where cavalry were used as cannon fodder first, and the east side where no cavalry was first used as cannon fodder was even more chaotic. Zhang Xianzhong's infantry over there suffered several rounds of cannonballs, and many troops collapsed immediately.

Not only did they escape quickly, but some even directly clashed with the supervising team.

Seeing all this, Zhang Xianzhong's eyes turned green.

He gritted his teeth and said: "Notify all the troops to retreat a mile to avoid these artillery pieces. Tell everyone to restrain your subordinates. Anyone who dares to use the retreat to disturb our army's morale and flee will be killed immediately." ..."

Zhang Xianzhong's troops were not in a formation tightly leaning against Baishui.

He's not that stupid yet.

In fact, the back of Zhang Xianzhong's army formation is about 3 to 4 miles away from Baishui, which means there is enough space behind it.

But because of this, Zhang Xianzhong, who has rich combat experience, was very worried that rashly ordering a retreat would lead to the collapse of the entire army.This is a situation that is easy to happen to troops that lack training, and he has seen many such examples alone.

But soon, Zhang Xianzhong found himself thinking too much.

Before his order was fully conveyed, the troops that had just retreated had already begun to squeeze back desperately, and they were instinctively avoiding the range of the artillery.

And some leaders of Zhang Xianzhong's armies also acquiesced in this behavior, condoning and even leading their subordinates to retreat again and again.

Seeing someone retreating, not just one place, the other armies naturally followed suit. No one wanted to become a protruding part and be beaten back and forth by the iron balls fired by the cannon.

As for the crash, it strangely didn't happen.

Perhaps most people realize that they have no place to run if they want to run, and it is impossible to fly over white water!Maybe they felt that they had so many people that they shouldn't run away.Perhaps Zhang Xianzhong's supervisory team and officers at all levels played a role in restraining the troops...

Li Ping was dumbfounded to see Zhang Xianzhong's troops retreating in a chaotic manner.

His musketeers haven't fired a single shot yet!The adjustment just now is tantamount to loneliness.

Really plan can not keep up with the changes!
At this time, it was impossible for him to let the troops push the cannons and follow the retreating Zhang Xianzhong's army.

The French 12-pound gun used by Napoleon is mounted on a two-wheeled gun mount, and each gun has a front cart for ammunition boxes, which is also two-wheeled.When transporting, the gun mount and the front cart are connected together to form a four-wheeled carriage, which is easy to tow.

The total weight of this set (gun body, gun mount, and front cart) is about 2 tons, which is so heavy that it cannot be pulled by manpower, but usually requires 8 to 12 horses to achieve it.

Although Li Ping's medium-sized field cannon was much lighter due to the advancement of metal technology, the cannon itself was separated from the front vehicle when organizing the manpower to push the cannon, which made it possible to push the cannon for a short distance, but it was also extremely laborious.

Moreover, having just learned a profound lesson, Zhang Xianzhong is unlikely to allow him to push the cannon over again.

After all, no matter how proficient it is, it still takes a certain amount of time for the artillery to go from the towed state to erected and then ready to fire.

"We must attack immediately! Once the enemy stops and stabilizes the formation, it will be difficult to fight." Zhou Wen's reaction was quick.

"Immediately issue an order to carry out the attack according to the original plan." Li Ping issued the order decisively.

They were here to attack, and the original plan did not expect that the artillery would come in handy.

Soon, Luo Xiaoliu, who had been dazzled by the cannon in the army formation, received the order to attack.

When Luo Xiaoliu entered Dazhi County to fight back, he had never participated in a defensive battle. He had only heard about the power of the artillery, and had never seen the live effect.

This caused him and his subordinates to keep their mouths open for a long time, and even after receiving the attack order, they didn't recover for a long time.

Luo Xiaoliu realizes that the form of war has changed.

But the communication cavalry who started to change the battle formation and continued to gallop in the huge gap between the regiments and battalions, including the company, still pulled his god back, and he couldn't have the leisure to continue to shock!
Facing Zhang Xianzhong, what Li Ping put out was not a line array, but a very complex multi-layer array.

Although the [-]st, [-]nd and [-]rd regiments are roughly lined up at the front, they are in a second-line formation, that is, they are divided into two fronts with a large distance between the front and the back.

Moreover, this two-line array is not dense, but a combined array with a certain distance between each other formed by connecting as the basic array.

Even the basic combat unit and each soldier inside the phalanx are relatively loose rather than close, and at the same time, a certain obvious distance is maintained between the companies.

The fourth regiment is arranged in the middle and last of this second-line formation.

This makes the entire formation look like a horizontal T on the top, which is obviously different from Zhang Xianzhong's dense formation that is basically lined up.

But it just so happens that the horizontal width of Li Ping's loose two-layer half formation is not much shorter than Zhang Xianzhong's line-shaped dense and thick formation.

Li Ping's strange formation confused Zhang Xianzhong and his army.

They have never seen it.

The chaotic late Ming Dynasty was no longer Qi Jiguang's era, and the complex formation method was also very unfamiliar to most professional generals, let alone the half-way monks who had been fighting low-level peasant wars.

In these people's minds, the denser and thicker the formation, the less likely it is for the enemy to find a breakthrough point to break through, and it is also not easy to be penetrated.

This also became an important factor for Zhang Xianzhong and his army to be too curious and take it lightly after seeing the loose formation formed by Li Ping.

Whether Li Ping's formation is useful or not is hard to say, but it is obvious that it puts high demands on soldiers, especially mid- and lower-level commanders. Listen to all directions.

However, Luo Xiaoliu, who was leading the soldiers in high tension to change formation and start to move forward, finally couldn't hold back and took the time to look back at the artillery unit that was gradually being left behind by the whole team.

The artillerymen there were hastily putting mules on the cannons, as if they were about to switch positions.And a large number of bird gunners who just passed by them replaced them to help the artillery.

Luo Xiaoliu knew that quite a few blunderbuss soldiers lacking close combat capabilities would not participate in the attack, but instead protect the artillery units instead.

Soon, Luo Xiaoliu followed his company and approached the enemy at a distance of about 100 meters in a steady manner.

At this time, some enemies had already started shooting arrows and guns at them.

Fortunately, the enemy is still in a state of chaos and is still trying to adjust and stabilize the messy army formation. There are very few arrows and guns released, and the organization is basically out of the question and messy.

And they all had armor, and the first row was full of sword players holding shields and wearing several layers of armor, so although there were some casualties, they were very small.

And at this time, harsh whistles sounded everywhere on the entire peak line.

Notes:

拿破仑使用的法制12磅炮与拿破仑炮并不是一回事，后者实际是以拿破仑三世命名的，主要型号为M1841型6磅炮和M1857型12磅炮。

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