Daming Military Empire

Chapter 143 Infantry Drill Code
It's a long story to say that the artillery goes from loading the matchlock, to loading the ammunition, to loading the shells, and then to adjusting the angle and direction, but it didn't take long, at most it took four to fifty seconds.

In other words, the two hundred cannons were ready within one minute. Seeing that all the small flags had been raised, the commanding guerrilla general took a deep breath, and immediately shouted: "Light it up."

The small flag in front of him waved the flag down, followed by shouting: "Light it up."

The artilleryman in charge of ignition quickly ignited the match, then took a step back and stared at the match.

The small flags next to it waved down the command flags one by one, and all the artillery began to ignite one after another. Less than ten seconds later: "Boom boom boom boom."

Starting from the middle, all the cannons emit white smoke one by one, and the white smoke that spreads rapidly to both sides like ripples has a unique aesthetic feeling, which makes people dazzled.

Of course, this dazzlement refers to the Ming army. The Houjin and Mongolian coalition forces on the city wall did not have this kind of blessing, because Azig knew that they were going to fire when he saw the series of actions of the artillery on the opposite side. When the match was lit, he immediately ordered everyone to retreat behind the parapet and arrow stacks.The Ming army, is he crazy? He doesn’t do anything, and he just ran here to play with cannons. Can firing a few cannons scare the young master into surrendering?Neuropathy!

The people on the city wall didn't see anything, they only heard: "Boom, boom, boom." There was a roar, and then there was the sound of shells hitting the wall, and some shells just rubbed against each other. The edge of the parapet smashed into the city wall, and the people squatting behind the parapet were bloody and bloody, so there were sparse screams after the sound of smashing the wall.

On the side of the Ming army, Zhu Cijiong had already raised his binoculars, aimed at the opposite city wall, and carefully observed the effect of the shelling.How to say this effect, some hit the female wall directly, and then fell below the city wall; some directly hit the arrow stacks, and then fell below the city wall; ; There are also individual ones who rubbed against the female wall and smashed into the city wall, causing certain casualties.

It seems that the live ammunition barrage support effect is not good. Zhu Cijiong sighed and scanned aimlessly. Suddenly he saw that half of an arrow stack had been smashed off. He couldn't help but carefully observe each arrow stack. Sure enough, several arrow butts were also loose, but the bricks on them had not been smashed off.

This is an unexpected harvest. The solid bullet can smash the arrow stack. It is not surprising when you think about it carefully. An iron ball weighing more than ten to twenty kilograms slammed into the arrow stack that was only one brick wide without any skeleton support. It's no wonder that it can't be smashed.That is to say, as long as enough rounds are fired, all the arrow stacks on the opposite city wall can be completely smashed, and then only the bare parapet will be left, and even the parapet may be smashed with pits!
In that case, it will be much more convenient to attack the city, at least it will be inconvenient for the enemy to observe the siege troops below. When there are arrow butts, they can observe the bottom through the observation hole in the middle of the arrow butts. You can only stick your head out and look down. When the time comes, the flintlock guns will fire again, basically sticking your head out means death!

At this time, the guerrilla general commanding in the front row had commanded all the artillery to load the shotgun. He raised the binoculars again to observe the effect of the shelling, and then decisively ordered: "Ready to adjust."

All the small flags repeated his order in turn, and then all the artillerymen in charge of adjustment were in place, and the hoops on both sides of the cannon ears were loosened.

The commanding guerrilla general continued to order: "The direction is straight forward, and the angle is [-]." "

This only needs to be adjusted a little bit, and all the artillery will be adjusted soon.

According to Zhu Cijiong's order, the guerrilla general did not stop for a moment, and directly ordered the fire to be fired.

The Hou Jin soldiers and Mongolian soldiers who had just stood up on the city wall did not need Azig's command anymore, and they immediately retreated behind the arrow stacks and the female wall in fright.

"Boom boom boom boom" There was another roar, and this time there were more screams on the city wall, because the shotguns were originally attacking in pieces, and the guerrilla general who commanded the firing adjusted the angle again, so that the bombardment The area was closer to the arrow stacks. Except for the people who were close to the parapet and the arrow stacks, they were fine, and the rest of the people who were slightly behind were scratched or hit.Although egg-sized shotguns are not as powerful as solid bullets, if they are hit on key parts, they will be fatal in one blow, so thousands of people were killed or injured on the city wall.

Zhu Cijiong observed carefully, and then nodded in satisfaction. It seems that the support effect of the shotgun barrage is quite good.

The last round was the blooming ammunition. The support effect of the blooming ammunition was almost the same as that of live ammunition. Unless it happened to fall into the city wall, it would not cause casualties at all.

Zhu Cijiong felt that the barrage effect was almost done, and besides, he still had a lot of things to arrange, so he stretched shamelessly, and then asked Sun Chengzong: "Teacher, why don't you come here today?" , everyone is tired, go back and rest first, we will continue tomorrow."

Sun Chengzong rolled his eyes when he heard the words, what do you mean everyone is tired? This is because you just set up the formation and fired three rounds of artillery, so you are tired?What a joke!

But the siege was not in a hurry. He guessed that Zhu Cijiong had some new ideas, so he wanted to call it quits so early.Now that the emperor has spoken, let's call it a day. Sun Chengzong pretended to clear his throat, and replied respectfully: "Everything is up to the emperor."

When Zhu Cijiong heard the words, he immediately stood up and said in a loud voice: "Tell my will, withdraw the troops and return to the camp. The first regiment of the imperial guards will go first, the Qin army will be in the middle, and the Tianxiong army will be cut off from the rear."

After finishing speaking, he winked at Qin Mingyue and Cao Huachun, and then walked directly to the high platform.

Zheng Chenggong immediately followed up like an eggplant beaten by Shuang, drooping his head, and Shi Weila also shook his head with regret, and followed. They all thought that they would be able to watch a good show today, but it ended as soon as it started. It's too boring.

Back at Daying, Zhu Cijiong immediately said to Cao Huachun: "Decree ordered Song Yingxing to immediately stop producing all three-inch, four-inch, five-inch shells and six-inch blooming shells, and first produce 20 rounds of six-inch solid shells and ten [-] rounds of [-]-inch shot ammunition, and then resume the production of other shells. In addition, the finished [-]-inch solid ammunition will be sent to me as soon as possible, and don’t stop, send as much as you make every day.”

Cao Huachun quickly dug out the blank imperial decree, wrote it out, and then handed it to Zhu Cijiong for review, and then stamped it with a big seal.

Zhu Cijiong issued another decree: "I will tell you that tomorrow, the chief generals and deputy generals of the First Army Corps of the Imperial Guard, Tianxiong Army, and Qin Army will all come to my observation tower with binoculars, and let them take the commanders of their armies first." Hand it over to your lieutenants, generals, and guerrilla generals."

Cao Huachun took the order and left without saying anything all night, and it was the morning of the next day in a blink of an eye.

Zhu Cijiong still asked Sun Chengzong to form the same formation as yesterday. Taking advantage of the time to set up the formation, Zhu Cijiong called the nine senior generals of the three legions including Qin Liangyu, Lu Xiangsheng, and Sun Chuanting to him, and asked seriously: "I know I let you What are you here for?"

Who can answer this question accurately, so all the generals were in deep thought, and none of them opened their mouths.

Zhu Cijiong glanced around, and said to the oldest Qin Liangyu: "Marquis Zhongzhen, you speak first."

They have all been named, Qin Liangyu can't, so he can only guess: "I guess the emperor wants us to see the actual combat effect of the artillery."

Zhu Cijiong nodded and continued: "Well, there are meanings in this regard, but not all of them, Boya, you can also talk about it."

When Sun Chuanting heard the words, he bit the bullet and said: "I guess the emperor wants us to see how artillery should be used in siege battles."

Zhu Cijiong nodded again, and continued: "Well, I also have this meaning, but it's not all. Jiandou, it's up to you."

Lu Xiangsheng has a lot of experience in the use of guns and artillery. He boldly guessed: "I suspect that the emperor wants us to summarize a set of artillery tactics so that all generals can understand the usage of artillery."

Zhu Cijiong nodded with satisfaction, and said approvingly: "What Jiandou said is very close to what I think, but what I want you to summarize is not only artillery tactics, but also musket tactics, and infantry coordination tactics. I believe you I have also seen that in front of the new artillery and firearms, the original swords, guns, swords, halberds, bows and arrows are basically useless. In the future, the world will be dominated by artillery and firearms. Therefore, I have decided that all the troops of the Ming Dynasty will They must be equipped with artillery and muskets. After the Liaodong War, you must work together to compile a tutorial for me to practice the army that is newly equipped with artillery and muskets. I have already thought of the name, and it is called "Infantry Exercise Code". , do you understand?"

Qin Liangyu and others replied in unison: "I understand."

Zhu Cijiong nodded in satisfaction, and continued: "I originally wanted to try the effect of the barrage yesterday, but found that the solid bullets of the six-inch howitzer can knock out the arrow stacks, so I decided to shoot the arrows in the south of Haizhou first." After the stack is completely flattened, try the effect of the barrage again."

All the generals showed puzzled expressions after hearing this, and Lu Xiangsheng asked directly: "Dare to ask the emperor, what is the explanation for the barrage?"

Zhu Cijiong patted his forehead and explained: "This barrage, as the name suggests, is a curtain formed by shells or bullets, which can block the enemy's attack and protect the infantry behind. For example, when attacking a city, if you keep using artillery Bombard the enemy army on the city wall, then they will not be able to lift their heads up, and the soldiers who attacked the city will not suffer too much damage before they climb the city wall. , the effect will be even better. Another example is when the enemy’s cavalry is charging, if we have enough artillery, we can completely form an uninterrupted barrage of hundreds of steps away, and the enemy’s cavalry will not be able to charge up at all.”

Only then did the generals suddenly realize, and they started to compliment each other, saying 'the emperor is wise', what 'the emperor is really a god', Zhu Cijiong was directly defeated by them, so he had to wave his hand and said angrily: "Okay, okay, Stand aside, get your binoculars ready, and see the effect of solid bullets on cutting arrow stacks, and count them carefully to see how many arrows you need to hit to level an arrow stack."

All the generals bowed and retreated, but Zheng Chenggong next to him suddenly cupped his hands and praised: "Your Majesty, you are really amazing."

The so-called Tongyan Wuji, Zhu Cijiong is very useful to this sincere flattery, he couldn't help but smiled and nodded: "Well, success, study hard, I will rely on you to expand the territory in the future!"

(End of this chapter)