Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 687

Before Chenglin flew from Mojing to Paris, the Ming Dynasty's all-out war against the Western Qing Dynasty once again reached a new peak.

The artillerymen stationed in Škudar in the Western Xia Theater of Ming Dynasty began to shell Yijing on the opposite bank with large-caliber artillery.For this bombardment, the Ming Army mobilized a large number of large-caliber artillery, the lowest caliber of which was 155mm howitzers, and more of them were 200mm and 240mm army cannons of the Ming Dynasty, and even train guns were mobilized.

The military science and technology of the Ming Dynasty basically did not seriously place the technology tree of the train cannon. As a latecomer, Bai Mingxiu knew that the train cannon was invincible and cool, but with the advent of the era of air control, this kind of romanticism full of multi-rivet steamed steel complex Weapons, with very limited practical use, are doomed to be eliminated.

However, Daming still manufactured a few train cannons as a technical reserve. After the war came, the Ming Army mobilized the only two train cannons in Ming Dynasty, which were the 800mm "Wu Ning Wei Guogong Xu Da" trains. Cannon and 360 mm caliber "Zhongwu E Guogong Chang Yuchun" type train gun.

After Turkey was occupied by the Ming Dynasty, in order to control the ambitious Turks and guard against the Western Qing Dynasty on the other side of the strait, the entire Turkey was built according to the standard of a large-scale military combat readiness zone. A large number of military camps and airports were built here. , logistics warehouses and railways.Two heavy-duty train guns are here, which is a great shock to the Qing army on the other side.

Yijing was originally an extremely prosperous city and one of the important military bases of the Western Qing Dynasty.However, as the war unfolded, Xiqing had already realized how dangerous this city was.Therefore, Xiqing has begun to withdraw the factories and labor force in Yijing one after another, and gradually moved north to Bucharest and other places in Romania, forming a new industrial settlement cluster.

Yijing is still nominally the southern capital of the Western Qing Empire, but most of the remaining population here are former Turks and Europeans. The main institutions of the Eight Banners of the Western Qing Dynasty have withdrawn from this city, and only the Qing army remains The Fifth Army, Sixth Army and No.13 Army are stationed here.

There was a rumble and explosion that shook the sky, and countless artillery fire fell on the city of Yijing.The Ming Army officially launched their artillery bombardment. The bombardment came very suddenly. Although the Qing army who had conducted reconnaissance beforehand had already discovered the large-scale artillery mobilization of the Ming Army and issued a warning, the Western Qing Dynasty still underestimated the Ming Dynasty. caliber artillery power and range.

Within eight kilometers near the coast, Xiqing specifically cleared the air, leaving some old residential buildings and facilities as battlefields for street fighting, and also as a buffer zone for the Ming army's attack.Therefore, the main military facilities of the Qing army are all outside this buffer zone.It is very difficult for the ordinary artillery of the Ming army to hit such a long distance across the strait.

But this artillery attack launched by the Ming Army mobilized more than [-] large-caliber artillery pieces - this was a naked firepower show of the Ming Army.

The Qing army was bombarded, and the damage was not small. In order to stop the Ming army's shelling, the Qing army also dispatched artillery in a hurry to bombard the Ming army's artillery on the opposite side of the strait.

"Fortress artillery, order our fortress artillery to fire!" General Yi Libu of the Qing Army issued an order in a hurry.

The fort artillery of the Qing army is an important part of their defense. These large-caliber artillery, which are comparable to naval guns, are placed in the fortress and have a very thick defense.Because apart from the division of Turkey in the past, the two sides had a very shallow conflict for a while, and the Ming and Qing Dynasties did not have any serious conflicts around the Turkish Strait.The two sides occupied both sides of the strait with a tacit understanding, and did not continue to march.

From the perspective of the Qing army, their [-]-[-]mm caliber fortress guns are already extremely powerful.The main purpose of building these fortress guns at the beginning was to deal with the Ming battleships cruising on the sea, and to conduct suppressive shooting when the Ming army attempted to attack, so as to gain firepower superiority.

For so many years, Xiqing has built more than 30 fortress guns on the Yijing coastline, which can be regarded as very hard.

Yilibu is also full of hope: "The Ming army underestimated the strength of our Qing Dynasty. Don't you know that our Qing Dynasty has been preparing for today's battle for many years. Yijing has an army of 30 and countless defensive facilities. The Ming army wants to attack Yijing, even if he pays three times the damage, he will not be able to overcome it. When the time comes to present this great achievement to the Holy One, the Holy One will definitely be pleased!"

Just when Yilibu was thinking about it, he suddenly felt the earth shaking violently.

"What, what's going on?" Yilibu was shocked.

In his sight, a fort on the coast in the distance actually collapsed in this earthquake-like vibration.

"What kind of weapon is this?" Yiribu was horrified. In his opinion, it could withstand thousands of artillery shells without moving. The inner layer was armored steel plates and the outer layer was thick reinforced concrete. It was a bunker that could definitely withstand the world. Attacked by all weapons, but they did not expect that the Ming army did not know what weapons they used, and actually destroyed the fortress cannon with one blow.

Yilibu waited for a long time, and saw that there seemed to be no signs of continuing to attack. Just as he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he felt violently shaken and exploded, and saw that another fortress gun was also blown down.

"What is it?"

The train guns hidden on the other side of the strait are very far away from the Qing army. Even because of the occlusion of low mountains and the coast, the shadow of the train guns is basically invisible.

"Fix the elements!"

"Gives direction!"

"Fire!"

Wu Ning Wei Guogong Xu Da train artillery, a group of extremely capable Ming artillery unleashed the most terrifying attack on the opposite side.After they were deployed, they waited for the reconnaissance planes in the sky, the reconnaissance speedboats on the sea, and even the scouts who had infiltrated the past to send back to Zhuyuan. Although these train guns are very old in concept, they actually have very advanced electronic system.

The latest fire control system and computer developed by Daming are installed on these two train guns.It is precisely because of the extremely advanced fire control that the attacks of these two artillery pieces are extremely precise.

However, the use of train guns is relatively limited, and continuous shooting cannot be performed for a long time.Basically they take 20-30 minutes to fire one round, and the number of shelling per day is limited.

But even so, the other artillery of the Ming army used covering artillery fire, and during this period, there were train artillery that destroyed important military facilities of the Qing army by name, making this artillery attack extremely harmful to the Qing army.

Yilibu was already very nervous. The Qing army was almost powerless to fight back in the face of such bombardment. He was worried that the Ming army would launch a landing operation after the bombardment, so Yilibu ordered his army to retreat a certain distance to give way. , ready to wait for the Ming army to land before attacking, instead of risking powerful firepower to prevent the Ming army from landing.

But he didn't expect that this kind of bombardment would actually start to continue every day, one after another.

(End of this chapter)