Daming Military Empire

Chapter 334 The Fierce Artillery Battle
The city wall first appeared in the primitive society. Its predecessor was the fence and wall used by people to prevent the infestation of wild animals. With the development of history, people found that the high point of the wall can not only prevent wild animals but also prevent the invasion of hostile tribes, so the wall is built more and more. The higher it is, the thicker it is, and there are auxiliary facilities such as parapets, arrow stacks, and turrets. When it develops to this level, it can no longer be called a wall, so people call it a city wall.

City walls are the main means of defense in the period of cold weapon warfare, and siege warfare is also the most common battle in the period of cold weapon warfare. The attacking party will generally persuade the defenders to surrender first, and the soldiers who can surrender without fighting are naturally the most Well, usually as long as there is no deep hatred between the two sides, this persuasion to surrender is an essential link.

Daming just wanted Annan to be honest and obedient, and there was no deep hatred between the two sides. Therefore, before attacking the city, Lu Xiangsheng personally wrote a letter of persuasion and sent people to shoot into the city.

Zheng Bing received the persuasion letter without even looking at it, and tore it up. He is a traitor, how could he surrender? After the Ming army enters the city, he will definitely restore Li Shenzong. Even if the Ming army does not kill him, Li Shenzong will To kill him, so, to ask him to open the city and surrender, there is really no way.

If you don't surrender, you have to fight. Lu Xiangsheng waited for a long time and saw that there was no response from the city. He immediately ordered [-] cavalry from the Tianxiong Army and Guanning Army to cut down trees and make siege equipment, while the infantry deployed five miles outside the city. He was ready to bombard the city with artillery, and let him flatten the arrow stacks on the city wall first.

Annan also had artillery at the moment. Lu Xiangsheng knew about it. To be on the safe side, he did not order the Tianxiong Army and the Guanning Army to bombard the city at the same time. Instead, he personally led the Tianxiong Army to test the range of the artillery in the city.

Since it is a test, it is natural to use the artillery with the longest range. The Ming army now has the longest range is the [-]-type field howitzer, which has a range of about three miles. Lu Xiangsheng gave an order, and five hundred artillerymen pushed fifty guns. The [-]-type field howitzers lined up in a row, slowly approaching the city wall.

The commander of the artillery moved forward slowly with the artillery, while observing the reference object on the city wall with a telescope. When it got closer, it would soon reach the effective range of three miles.
At this time, there was a sudden roar on the city wall, and more than 30 shells flew out from the city wall and hit the artillerymen of the Ming army who were marching. Three miles away, the artillery in the city could shoot three miles away. Although the accuracy was not very good, there was still a team The Ming army was hit, and several Ming soldiers were bloody and bloody!
It's the Dutchman's cannon!Lu Xiangsheng's face was livid. Now the only thing that can compare with Ming's artillery is the Dutch cannon. The Ming army captured so many artillery from the Dutch Far East Fleet. Naturally, they are familiar with the performance of their artillery. The Dutch cannon is divided into two parts. The one with a shorter range has an effective range of about two miles, and the one with a longer range has an effective range of about three miles.

The Annan people must have used the Dutch cannon with a shorter range. Thanks to the height of the city wall, the range is just about the same as that of Daming's [-]-type field howitzer!

What to do, Lu Xiangsheng thought quickly, but after thinking for a while, he really couldn't think of any good solution. At this time, the enemy army on the city wall started to fire a round of artillery shells, and several Ming army artillerymen were unfortunately killed. Hit.

Lu Xiangsheng gritted his teeth and ordered loudly: "The second artillery battalion and the third artillery battalion each launched fifty 150-style howitzers, lined up on the left and right of the first artillery battalion, [-] All the cannons were aimed at the artillery positions in the city, and bombarded me non-stop with flowering bullets."

The messenger immediately galloped away on horseback, and soon, another hundred [-]-style howitzers were launched from the Ming army formation, slowly advancing to the left and right, and at this time, the fifty howitzers that had stepped forward had already set up. Good bracket, ready to load shells.

Fortunately, the Dutch only provided the Annan army with solid ammunition, and the Annan army's artillery control technology is not very good, and the accuracy is extremely poor. However, there are always one or two rounds of thirty or forty shells that can hit the target. The artillery of the Ming army, for a while, the artillery of the Ming army suffered continuous casualties.

Soon, the first [-] cannons of the Ming army were loaded. The commander of the artillery used the scale on the binoculars to roughly estimate the position of the cannons on the city wall, and reported a series of parameters, ordering the artillery to adjust the positions of the cannons. After a while, each artillery position raised the adjusted order flags one after another, and the commander immediately shouted: "Let it go."

"Boom boom boom" Fifty rounds of flower bombs flew towards the city wall with an arc, and thick smoke rose from several places on the city wall immediately, and they hit!
In this way, the Ming army and the Annan army began to confront each other. The Annan people are also a famous fighting nation in later generations. Although the smoke on the city wall continued, the roar of the artillery never stopped. They seemed not afraid of death, knowing that there would be Cannonballs fell from the head, and artillerymen continued to push away the corpses of their colleagues and continued to fire.

The artillery casualties of the Ming army were also increasing, and some artillery pieces were smashed to pieces and could no longer be opened. Lu Xiangsheng frowned slightly, and ordered loudly: "Send the order, and the Guan Ning army will stick to the spot." , not to attack the city, and ordered Cao Wenzhao to dispatch two hundred Type [-] howitzers to the east of the city for support."

An hour passed, and the Ming army and the Annan army were still fighting each other. I don’t know if the Annan army in the city suffered casualties, but the Ming army’s artillery casualties were almost thousands. Lu Xiangsheng didn’t say anything, but just stood on the infantry formation Looking at it coldly, the so-called kindness does not command soldiers, and casualties are inevitable in wars. Such a small number of casualties is just a small scene.

At this time, the artillerymen of the Guan Ning Army pushed two hundred [-]-type howitzers and appeared on the left side of the formation. Lu Xiangsheng took a look and immediately ordered: "Send the remaining [-] [-]-type howitzers of the Tianxiong Army Push all the [-] [-]-type howitzers of the Guanning Army to the front, and line up in two rows at a distance of ten steps from the artillery of the first battalion, the second battalion and the third battalion. Stop boom."

Three hundred [-]-style howitzers were quickly pushed to the front of the formation, and the shells of the Ming army immediately hit the city wall like rain, but the Annan army on the wall was still fighting back, and there were more and more shells. They are also mobilizing artillery from other directions, coming to confront the Ming army.

This artillery battle lasted for two full days. The Ming army ran out of flowering ammunition, and switched to shotguns. When the shotguns ran out, they switched to solid ammunition. Many artillery pieces were misfired.

I don't know the casualties of the Annan Army in the city. At this time, the artillerymen of the Ming Army have already suffered nearly [-] casualties, which means that the artillerymen of the Tianxiong Army have almost lost their casualties. Now all the artillerymen in the front are transferred from the Guanning Army. !
The fierceness of this artillery battle can be said to have never been encountered by the Ming army. The heavy artillery casualties even exceeded the sum of all previous wars in the Chongzheng Dynasty!I don't know how Zhu Cijiong will feel after receiving the news, but Lu Xiangsheng's face is already green with anger.

(End of this chapter)