Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 634 Infantry Field Howitzer

Now that North Korea had offended Ming, the Ming army naturally didn't have to spare the North Korean officers and soldiers. A soldier of the Ming army walked over without hesitation, pulled the bolt of his gun and fired at the North Korean soldiers on the ground.

Snapped!
The North Korean soldier immediately fell to the ground, blood and dust mixed into a paste.

And the other Ming troops still killed these North Korean soldiers without hesitation, and the gurgling blood gathered into streams and flowed to the low-lying areas.

At that time, more and more Ming troops climbed up, and more and more North Korean officers and soldiers were killed.

Of course, there were also North Korean officers and soldiers who were still sane and started running fast after the Ming army broke into the customs wall. They had no will to fight at all, and even threw their firearms everywhere.

However, the Ming army did not pursue these North Korean officers and soldiers, but drove towards Uiju City after the assembly was completed.

To tearing down the wall of Yizhou City is tantamount to breaking the strongest line of defense in Yizhou City.

Ten 26-pound howitzers were pushed up.

Now the Ming army's combat is completely different from that of any country's army in the world today.

In terms of fantasy novels, it is not a realm.

The Ming Army has now begun to habitually use intensive firepower strikes instead of crowd tactics, although the current firepower of the Ming Dynasty is still not as good as the original World War I era in history.

But at least the siege battle has completely eliminated the siege tactics of combining ladders with firearms. Even twenty miles away, you can destroy your city defenses first, and then use intensive firepower to destroy your heavy army group, and use cavalry to quickly chase and increase casualties.

This kind of tactics, unless the opponent has armored chariots or tanks to force a breakthrough, or has the same advanced weapons as Ming Dynasty, relying on trenches to fight against Ming Dynasty.

But it is clear that North Korea does not have this strength, nor do other countries.

But North Korea did not have this awareness. At this time, the North Korean general Li Ze still confidently said to his subordinates:

"Although the Ming Empire is strong, it is only strong from the outside and capable from the inside. Recently, they have fought south and north, and they may not be able to swallow our North Korea. Besides, their emperor Taizu once said that we are their country that will never be conquered;
If Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty wanted to eat us, their domestic ministers would definitely not want to, because it violated the ancestral system, and the Han people have always wanted to save face and not be cheap. Their cavalry are not afraid of disturbing our rear, as long as they are in our strong Blocked under the city wall, when his cavalry ran out of ammunition and food, he would naturally retreat, and his siege troops would also return;

At that time, we can suddenly attack its rear, and it will definitely make it flee in a big defeat, and it will not be too late to retake Tielingwei and Kangzhouwei. "

"The general said that the Han people are always the best to bully, and as long as we flatter his Emperor Ming, that foolish Emperor Ming and his courtiers will stop attacking us in Korea. Even in order to meet our requirements, they pretended to be generous and rewarded us with Tieling Guard and Kangzhou Guard."

"That's right, is it possible that Emperor Chongzhen of Ming Dynasty still wants to be the second Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty? If he really wants to make such a great success, I'm afraid he will be even more stupid. At that time, there will definitely be 36 anti-kings and 72 roads of smoke and dust in his country. At that time, if he makes a mess in the Ming Dynasty, we will have an even more opportunity to take advantage of."

"No no, Daming is not what it used to be. Zhu Youjian is not Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, and officials of the Ming Dynasty are not officials of the Sui Dynasty. What I can predict is that as long as they suffer from us, they will not fight again. Our idea, and in order for us to continue to be their vassals and maintain a peaceful state, they will also give us Tielingwei and Kangzhouwei, which is nothing to them, and if they don’t give them, we will often harass them On the contrary, it will cause them to suffer greater losses, and he, Daming, will not fail to understand this account."

Li Ze said with a smile, and then said: "This Daming is a fat pig who can eat a bite of meat at any time. As long as you don't want to kill him, he can even take the initiative to let you take a bite. you go bother him."

"Hahahaha, what the general said is very true, but recently the Ming army thought that they had won a few battles and began to think that they were the same as the Sui army back then, and now they are waiting for them to suffer more under the fortification of our cities and kill them. There are tens of thousands of people, and when winter comes, tens of thousands of them will starve to death and freeze to death, it is exciting to think about it!"

When a North Korean general said this, the North Korean general Li Ze also laughed: "I would like to go to the Guanqiang area to see the corpses of the Ming army scattered all over the field."

"We're with the general!"

"go!"

……

Ming army here.

Ten infantry field howitzers began to slowly raise their large-caliber muzzles.

Generally speaking, howitzers have a very large shooting angle, and the ballistic arc of the upward firing is very large, which can make the shooting range very long, even in the early days of the original history, it could reach more than ten kilometers. Howitzers are about the same range.

This kind of artillery is large and has a long range, which is very effective in destroying ground targets.

As a series of metal elements were extracted and utilized according to the properties of the sacred elements, alloy materials began to make greater progress, and this howitzer came into being.

Now when a 26-jin shell is thrown out, its strong recoil even makes the ground tremble.

The range of people's field of vision is within ten miles, so the so-called ten-mile long pavilion is roughly derived from this.

And twenty miles naturally had to be observed with the help of military binoculars.

Mirror-making technology is also an important part of the imperial industry. Fortunately, as early as the 18th and [-]th years of Chongzhen, the Xu family of the imperial family, Wei Guogong, and Jin Yiwei commanded the Tongzhi Li Ruolian family to focus on mirror-making and glass manufacturing technology. This kind of telescope is not a problem.

After all, this is an era when Galileo was able to manufacture astronomical telescopes 20 years ago, and it is not difficult to make telescopes.

The biggest advantage of Daming's rifled artillery and smoothbore artillery is that his shooting accuracy is very high, which is due to the development of imperial mathematics.

The knowledge of trigonometric functions and parabolas established by the Pythagorean theorem has made the imperial artillery no longer illiterate but talented students whose knowledge can reach that of a college student, or even higher than these talented students. Now operating howitzers has One third wore glasses.

This has something to do with the fact that electricity has not yet developed, and the lighting conditions cannot keep up. Many artillerymen can only light candles to study at night.

The ten howitzers flew into the sky at high speed from the moment the smoke was ejected from the muzzles and the ground trembled.

In a moment, through the observer's military binoculars, it was seen that the towers on the entire Uiju city collapsed in a moment, the city gate also collapsed directly, and the surrounding city walls also fell to the ground like dominoes.

The speed of light is much faster than the speed of sound, so after a while, the artillerymen heard the rumbling sound, like dry thunder in the sky, but it was very pleasant.

(End of this chapter)