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Chapter 320 Breaking Yuan Zongdi Again

"With this level of combat power, you dare to attack my Dasan Pass by force. It seems that the intruder was really killed by Guo Xingye last year, and the elite soldiers and strong generals lost a lot.

Alas, it's a pity, if Governor Sun hadn't been held down by His Majesty in this Shaanxi land, he knew that he couldn't defend it, but if he changed to a province where everyone wants to be a thief, he would definitely not have suffered such a murder..."

Standing on the wall of Dasan Pass, Cao Bianjiao with a stern face, put down the binoculars to look at the enemy's situation, and couldn't help thinking this in his heart.

Of course, some thoughts were a bit outrageous, and he only dared to think about them in his heart, and he would never say them out, not even talking to himself in a low voice.

In fact, he just arrived at Dasan Pass secretly just two days ago, but he didn't make any noise.The task Zhu Shuren gave him was also to take the opportunity to eliminate more invaders who dared to invade, to hurt the enemy, and to completely eliminate the opponent's thoughts of going south.
At the same time, it also allows the prince who is about to return to Beijing to report one or two more good news about the efforts of the Huguang army to fight against the thieves, so that His Majesty can feel at ease.I firmly believe that the Huguang army will always use its own method to grasp with both hands, and both hands must be tough, and it has always maintained a battle with the Chuang army, and has not raised its own self-esteem.

Cao Bianjiao knew very well that if he wanted to hurt the enemy, he had to give the enemy some hope first, and he couldn't be stubborn all at once. That's why he hid a lot of heavy weapons in the first day or two of defense.

Until now, Yuan Zongdi on the opposite side seemed to come up with the method of digging holes in the city wall and burying gunpowder to blast it. Only then did Cao Bianjiao become serious and realized that he had to deal with it properly.

Cao Bianjiao is an old man who has fought with the thieves for more than ten years, and of course he knows the tricks and routines of the thieves.

Li Zicheng used the trick of digging holes and planting explosives to blow up the city wall in Kaifeng last year, but the city wall of Kaifeng was too thick, so he failed.Later, when Zhang Xianzhong attacked Chengdu, he used exactly the same routine, but he succeeded that time.

The famous generals in the official army naturally mentioned the highest priority for the degree of embankment of this move.Cao Bianjiao guessed [-]% to [-]% when he saw the wood donkey digging wildly.

But he knew that it was impossible for the coffins full of gunpowder to be hidden under the first batch of wood donkeys—because there were dozens of them in the first batch of wood donkeys, it was impossible for the army to have so much gunpowder. There are several large coffins with more than [-] catties of gunpowder hidden under each wooden donkey.

And even if you want to hide, with the size of the city-digging wood donkey, if you really stuffed so many coffins, it won't be able to hold a few carts and digging soldiers, and the progress of digging will be very slow.

Therefore, the most classic tactic of the thieves is that the first batch of wooden donkey carts did not put gunpowder in them, and only focused on digging walls.According to the actual combat progress, confirm which points are dug the fastest and the soil quality is the loosest, and then the second batch of wooden donkeys is specially transported gunpowder, focusing on burying and bombing the points that are easiest to break through.

Cao Bianjiao knew this very well, so he calmly let the first batch of wooden donkeys approach the city wall, and the enemy dug casually without using heavy firearms to stop them.

It wasn't until the evening of the bloody battle that Yuan Zongdi dispatched another large number of wooden donkey carts as substitutes that Cao Bianjiao accurately judged that the meat was about to play.

Among these wooden donkeys, there must be coffins full of gunpowder!

"All the Frang machines are prepared, and the only two Hongyi cannons are also prepared. All of them are replaced with new-style ammunition with bullet holders. The Qianjin Flang machine will use ammunition, and all of them will be aimed at the reinforcements. The cavalry is also ready to follow the general at any time to open the door and charge!"

The artillerymen of the Ming army immediately followed the order and loaded the artillery with new-style ammunition with bullet holders——

As early as the second half of last year, Zhu Shuren had invented the technology of adding bullet supports to artillery shells. Its first show in actual combat was on the battlefield in Chen County in August of that year. At that time, only shrapnel shells were equipped with bullet supports.

It also took advantage of Chuangjun's ignorance of the existence of this new type of weapon, which solved the problem of "the shotgun cannot reach far", allowing the shotgun to fly a hundred or two hundred steps under the cohesive constraints of the bullet holder, before breaking free from the shackles under the air resistance and starting to shoot. spread.In the end, he successfully beat Li Zicheng himself into a pockmarked face and a one-eyed dragon. He also killed Li Guo and shot a large group of guards around Li Zicheng.

After returning to Huguang last fall, Zhu Shuren asked Fang Yizhi and Song Yingxing to continue to improve along this technology tree, and they quickly learned by analogy, trying to add a shell to all kinds of shells, including solid shells, and the latest research and development just this year. The original first-generation flower bomb.

These tasks were completed successively last winter and this spring, but in Zhang Xianzhong's final battle, these weapons were useless.When attacking the city, it is enough to bomb directly with solid bullets, and it is meaningless to add bullets, so I have never got an actual combat opportunity, and I just got my first show today.

The newly developed flowering ammunition in Zhu Shu's army is still relatively primitive. It uses a delay fuze that ignites the fuse before firing, which is dangerous to a certain extent.It belongs to the kind that if the firing action cannot be completed within five to ten seconds after ignition, the shell may explode directly in the barrel.

The specific delay of a few seconds is related to the length and burning speed of the fuse of the explosive bomb. Changes in climate and humidity will also affect the burning speed of the fuse, which cannot be precisely controlled.Therefore, in actual combat, for the sake of your own safety, you must leave some margin. It is better to explode after a few seconds after landing, and not to be too stuck.

Otherwise, it would be like the player in the chicken eating game who is too chasing for air explosions, and may directly mine himself.

Even if the firing time is well grasped, if the shell rotates too fast during flight and the air friction is too large, there is a certain probability that the lead wire will be blown out by wind resistance, thus becoming a dud when it lands, or requiring other ignition excitation.

It is normal for the dud rate of flowering ammunition in this era to reach half. After adding the support, the spin of the shell during flight will decrease to a certain extent, and the probability of wind resistance blowing out the fuse will also decrease, but the self-stability of the shell will also decrease. will fall,

Generally speaking, the accuracy improvement brought by the bullet rest and the decrease in accuracy brought about by the reduction of shell spin can basically be offset.If it is used for solid bullets, it is a bit unnecessary to bring a bullet holder or not. For cracked bullets, in order to reduce the dud rate, it is more cost-effective to bring a bullet holder.

In addition, when hitting inclined armor, the version with a bullet holder to reduce spin can reduce the probability of ricochet and improve the armor-piercing effect.The variety without a support has a strong spin and is easy to ricochet, and the killing efficiency of rebounding personnel will also be improved.

If you want to hit human targets and pursue ricochets to kill as many people as possible, then you don’t need a bullet rest.If you want to pierce armor and hit the wall, bring a bullet holder.These data have been rigorously tested with live ammunition in Zhu Shu's army, and considerable experience has been summed up, which can only be verified in actual combat.

It is precisely because this kind of thing has not improved much compared with the previous generation of weapons, so the technical difficulty is not too great, so it can be produced so easily.

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Under Yuan Zongdi's command, the one in charge of commanding the first-line excavation and blasting was a brave general named Lan Yingcheng.Lan Yingcheng is also a cold-blooded and cruel person. In the past two days, he has lost thousands of cannon fodder, old and weak, and used his life to wade through this bloody road in the prison.

At this moment, as the explosives truck was still about [-] steps away from the city wall, the Ming army's heavy artillery on the wall suddenly fired intensively, which also instantly shocked Lan Yingcheng.

"Boom boom-"

"Whizzing--"

The shells whizzed across the sky, and sharp-eyed people could even see some debris falling from the shells in mid-air.
Apparently, the bullet holder of the shell had been blown apart by the high pressure when it was ejected from the chamber, and it was forced to fly a hundred steps by virtue of inertia, and then it was pushed off the shell body by the wind resistance.

Although the fragments of the bullet stock were made of hard wood, they would still kill or injure people if they hit someone. Several soldiers who were not hit in the vital part fell to the ground and howled in an instant, and the morale of the soldiers next to them was also inevitably frustrated.

"Crack--crack--" At least two-thirds of the dozens of artillery shells hit the ground, plowing a bloody path, but two or three hit the huge city-digging wooden donkey cart.

The texture of the wooden donkey cart is far stronger than that of a warship.Because warships have to consider seaworthiness, they are made of wood cut into planks.The wooden donkey cart does not take these into consideration, it is directly cut down a big tree and made of logs. If the tree is one foot thick, the thickness of the wooden donkey cart can naturally reach one foot, and the places where the wood and the wood are relatively thin are filled with mud.

The first batch of shells that hit were all shot by the rapid-fire Frang machine. The cannon itself weighed only three hundred catties, and the projectiles were only one or two catties. After breaking some wooden beams, they did not penetrate the car body and jumped directly. The bomb flew.

The officers of the invading army broke out in a cold sweat, and Lan Yingcheng, who was supervising the battle behind him, was also the quickest to react. He immediately began to urge the vehicles to speed up at the top of his lungs:
"Tell them to push hard! One or two shots from the official army's artillery may not smash through the top of the wooden donkey! It is safer to push it a hundred steps below the city wall! Then the official army's artillery will not be able to shoot down the blind spot!"

The veterans in the Chuang army have rich battlefield experience, and they all know that artillery is difficult to shoot down, and shells are easy to roll out.

The generals of the Chuangjun who participated in the siege of Chen County last year had seen that Shen Jiajun's Fu Langji could shoot down, but the angle of the dive was not very large. The Chuangjun generals were uneducated, let alone scientific knowledge, I don't know that this is caused by the addition of a bullet holder to increase the friction when the projectile is placed in the barrel.

As for the Dasanguan wall in front of you, the front that can be attacked is actually narrower. It is in a narrow valley of the Qinling Mountains, so it is difficult to deploy crossfire on the left and right sides, and there are no enemy towers protruding from the wall. During the county defense battle, the deployment of "the enemy tower on the left shoots down on the enemy on the right, and the enemy tower on the right shoots down on the enemy on the left".

In addition, Yuan Zongdi's troops were precisely the only troops among the Chuang army that had never participated in the siege of Chen County. At that time, they were raising food in the Shangqiu area of ​​Guide Prefecture. No problem either.

The soldiers who broke into the army and dug the city pushed hard one after another, just wanting to get into the shooting blind spot at the root of the city wall as soon as possible.

It's a pity that this kind of operation obviously underestimated the maximum shooting depression angle that can be achieved by the Frang machine with the bullet support-the Flang machine made by Shen Jiajun can even lower the muzzle by more than 30 degrees at the lowest point, ensuring that it is tied A shell with a wooden support will not roll out of the barrel.

And the height of the city wall is less than ten steps. Simple trigonometric calculations show that as long as the enemy does not push the wooden donkey cart to within [-] steps of the root of the city wall, the Francophone can attack the top with a dive.

And the closer the distance, the more perpendicular the angle between the armor of the wooden donkey cart slope and the less likely it is to ricochet.

Anyone who has played bombing games such as "World of Tanks" and "World of Warships" can understand this common sense.

Lan Yingcheng let the soldiers of the invading army rush forward for a few minutes under the firepower, and even sent a large number of veteran soldiers to rush forward at the expense of their lives.

Under normal circumstances, the cart pushers of wooden donkey carts hide in the cart and push under the cover of armor to avoid the blow of arrows and stones.This is also the case of desperately fighting for time. In order to prevent long nights and dreams, people don't even care about human lives. If there are more people pushing, if they can't stand in the car, they will stand on the sides and behind the car and push violently in an exposed state.

The army's musketeers were also sharp in firepower. Seeing so many live targets, of course they were shooting at them crazily. The iron slag, iron nails and lead bullets that had no effect on the thick wood armor were now pierced into the flesh, pushing rows after row. Che Chuangbing turned into a blood gourd, but the car moved slowly, unable to push a step every second, and it became a living target.

In a very short period of time, hundreds of trespassing soldiers who were pushing carts outside were directly lined up and shot. Some soldiers had retreated timidly, but Lan Yingcheng personally supervised the battle and led the old battalion guards to slash and kill the deserters frantically.

"Whoever takes a step back will die! Don't be afraid to rush to the bottom of the wall under the artillery fire of the army! Don't let the brothers in front die in vain!"

Lan Yingcheng killed more than 100 of his own people before he completely suppressed the scene with bloody terror.
However, all his efforts were destined to be in vain. When the wooden donkey cart full of gunpowder approached less than a hundred steps under the city wall, the official artillery had already fired its third round.After calibration, aiming, and ballistic correction, accurate and effective armor-piercing shots finally appeared frequently.

A large iron ball weighing several catties, with only less than one catty of black powder charge inside (early shells should not be charged with too much powder, and the shell should be thicker, lest it will explode when it comes out of the chamber), successively penetrated the wood donkey solid top armor.

The iron ball bounced inside the wooden donkey cart, stirring up blood and flesh in an instant. In such a densely populated confined space, at least seven or eight people were killed in an instant.
Under the screams again and again, the soldiers outside the car had no intention of evading at all. They even went directly into the car under the urging and personal leadership of the officer, trying to fill the vacated positions of the comrades who were crushed to death.

Anyway, you have to push the cart outside the cart, hide in the cart and push it, and you can avoid the shooting of ordinary muskets. Unfortunately, it only took three or four seconds. These soldiers who just rushed into the wooden donkey cart will soon have no chance to regret it. up.

With a loud noise, the time-delayed fuze of the explosive bomb detonated, and a group of intruders who had just squeezed into the car with pleasure, immediately turned into flesh.

Moreover, this kind of loud noise was still a series, the first burst was relatively slight, and only killed all the people in the car, at least it didn't directly blow up the car into pieces.

But the second battle was much more violent, even far beyond the imagination of everyone on the battlefield.

The black gunpowder coffins in two of the wooden donkey carts were martyred. Thousands of catties of gunpowder were detonated together, and they exploded at a distance of fifty or sixty steps away from the city wall.

Cao Bianjiao himself on the top of the city wall was even slightly unsteady due to the tremor. He couldn't help squatting down to balance his center of gravity, and subconsciously lowered his head to hide behind the battlements to avoid flying debris.

Of course, the siege soldiers under the city wall were even more miserable. They were closer to the center of the explosion, and there was no city wall bunker at all.

"Hey, the burglar blasted the city wall of Kaifeng last year and didn't blow it down. He felt that the medicine was not enough, so he increased the dose again? How many thousand catties of gunpowder was loaded under this wooden donkey? If it were really stuffed into the city wall, it would be a big break. There might be a gap in the city wall.”

Cao Bianjiao couldn't help feeling a little scared in his heart.

When he looked up again, he found that around the ammunition detonation site, within a hundred steps of the ammunition depot, there were no intruders standing without cover, and the attacking soldiers at the base of the city wall were completely emptied. up.

"Open the door! The cavalry will charge with me!" Cao Bianjiao saw that the opportunity was right, and immediately rolled down the city wall, stepped on his horse, and urged his subordinates to open the door.
Then he took more than 1000 cavalry troops who came back from rushing to kill Huangtaiji's imperial camp at the end of the year before, and took advantage of the opportunity that the forward of the invading army was killed by his own people and the rear army was also confused by such blasting, and rushed out to death.

On Yuan Zongdi's side, Yuan Zongdi himself was far away from the first-line city wall, but he was not directly killed or injured by the bombing.

Lan Yingcheng, who he sent to directly urge the siege, was blown to pieces, his internal organs were seriously injured by the explosion of gunpowder, and his orifices bled.It's just that he wasn't directly hit by the fragments of the wooden donkey cart, so he didn't die for the time being.The soldiers under Lan Yingcheng's command were also in very bad condition, with high casualties.

In a daze, they saw the Dasan pass closed and opened, and a big "Cao" flag was waving in the wind and rushed out.

"Is Crazy Cao personally guarding the gate?!"

"It's bad! Crazy Xiao Cao himself is here! Didn't he say he's in Hanzhong!"

Among the thieves, there are also some who know how powerful they are. Cao Bianjiao's uncle, Cao Wenzhao, is the big Cao lunatic, and Cao Bianjiao is the little Cao lunatic.They either had the experience of participating in the attack on Gao Yingxiang, the former Chuang Wang, or the experience of beating Li Zicheng to the point where only seven of his own soldiers were left and fled into the Shangluo mountain area. This reputation is still very idiomatic.

The siege troops who were killed by ammunition and killed all the front troops and lost their command system immediately fell into great chaos, and were killed by the iron cavalry.

Reluctantly, Lan Yingcheng led thousands of people to retreat slowly and gather the team.But as soon as he gathered his troops, Cao Bianjiao immediately noticed the target and concentrated on his flag array.

In less than a cup of tea, Lan Yingcheng was stabbed to death by Cao Bianjiao himself in the midst of the rebellious army, and returned with his head.

These more than 1000 riders also got some double-barreled short-barreled muskets used on horseback provided by Zhu Shuren, but the breech was not loaded, so they could only fire two shots and then put them away to charge close to the combat weapons.

Cao Bianjiao has not yet passed the test of Zhu Shuren, so he is not counted as a confidant, and of course he cannot give him the best firearms.
One day Cao Bianjiao is as completely devoted to Zhu Shuren as Zhu Wenzhen, and even if he is asked to deal with other people in Daming, he will do it without hesitation, and Zhu Shuren will naturally give him a musket that is as useful as Zhu Wenzhen.

But for now, these are far enough. Cao Bianjiao's army is still very economical when it comes to shooting twice. When the enemy's army is densely assembled and reorganized, it will fire twice before charging.

As long as the Chuang army did not form an organized formation, Cao Bianjiao's army would not shoot. In the face of loose and disordered enemies, only cavalry charging and backstabbing would be enough.

"Master Guoxing's horse guns are really good. If he had these weapons last winter, he might have overwhelmed Huang Taiji's personal guards and killed Huang Taiji! What a pity!" Cao Bianjiao was still lamenting in his heart while killing thieves like crazy.

Although the Tartar problem cannot be solved by killing one or two rulers,
Even if Huang Taiji is killed, it does not mean that the Tartars will be wiped out. Dorgon Duoduo and Jierhalang Haoge will make up for it.

Cao Bianjiao chased the north and chased the Chuangjun all the way from the Dasan Pass, chasing out of the Qinling Valley on Chencang Road.

And the Ming army in Baoji County also noticed that there was dust covering the sky in the valley far to the south, and the sound of killing was resounding.Ma Guanglie in the city also plucked up his courage and prepared two thousand veterans, ready to fight against the wind at any time.

When Yuan Zongdi withdrew from the valley with his troops who were attacking key points, the siege troops on the Baoji County side also fell into looseness and fear.Ma Guanglie saw the opportunity, waited for the siege of the Chuang army to loosen, rushed out from the gap, and rushed towards the entrance of Chencanggu, at least blocked Yuan Zongdi's last troops and cut them off.

These tens of thousands of remnant soldiers were chased by Cao Bianjiao like wolves and tigers, and Ma Guanglie blocked them. Their morale was completely lost, and they all knelt down and surrendered.

Some shameless captives begged frantically for mercy: "General, don't kill us! We were originally an officer under Governor Sun's command! After Governor Sun died in battle, we had nowhere to escape, so we had no choice but to flee!"

"Bah! A bunch of spineless people! Tied up all of them first!" Cao Bianjiao ordered proudly, arresting all the prisoners first.

Relying on selling the remnants of tens of thousands of people, Yuan Zongdi finally stalled for time, and fled back to Mei County before taking them in. He never dared to face Baoji County and Dasanguan again, and quickly sent people to Li Zicheng. Report urgently.

(End of this chapter)