sweeping the world

Chapter 643 I'm still a bit out of control
After Li Tan personally fired the first cannon, the other artillery pieces were also fired one after another. Continuous loud noises appeared on the battlefield, accompanied by the sound of "Wan Sheng" shouted by all the soldiers of the Han army. .

In one day, the top leaders of the remnant forces of the Jie people were named by the bronze cannon twice in a row. It is hard to say how many died and how many were disabled. It is a fact that the Longteng guards who defended the city lost their command in an instant.

The shelling continued, and the catapult was slowly advancing.

Although training has been going on, the firing efficiency of the artillerymen who can operate the 120mm bronze guns is really not up to speed. After each bronze gun is fired, the gun chamber must be cleaned, and then the gunpowder pack and projectiles will be reloaded, and the shooting of the guns will also happen. Recalibration was required, and it was only possible to fire three or four times in a quarter of an hour.

The enemy guarding the city, they had never seen the explosion of gunpowder weapons, and one of them was stunned.

I have to say that the Longteng Guards can be regarded as the most elite troops of the Shijie Zhao State. Running, most people can stick to their posts.

"Run what!"

"Don't run around."

"If you are trapped in an isolated city, you cannot survive by running."

"Only by holding on can we survive!"

In fact, those who escaped were quickly brought to justice, and the words shouted by officers at all levels made sense, allowing the Dragon Guards, who were still terrified, to stay on the city wall.

"Fire arrows!"

"All remote devices, launch!"

The bronze cannon fired at intervals, and there would be a roar from time to time on the battlefield, and there were too many people shouting, making the battlefield full of noise.

Shijie Zhao Guo already had strong crossbows, but there were not many of them.They also have a sharp weapon such as bed crossbows, which are inherited from the Huns and Zhao Kingdom.

All kinds of arrows on the top of the city continued to shoot outwards, but at this time, even the nearest Han army was out of their range, and it could be seen how panicked they were.

The army defending the city had to panic. They would be hit by a projectile from three miles away from time to time. If it was a solid bullet, it would be fine. In fact, it would be nothing more than a stronger stone bullet, but the flower bullet is different. up.

The flowering ammunition of the Han army is not any kind of Huaxia system. Liu Yan had previously studied Western gunpowder weapons out of curiosity. He was very curious about the improvement of the original flowering ammunition by French technician Henri Peckhans, so he went to look for it. Articles and videos are impressive.Therefore, the flowering bombs of the Han army are actually a type of explosive bombs.

In the busy artillery of the Han army, they performed different operations to fire flowering bullets and solid bullets.To launch a solid bullet, you only need to place a booster explosive package, and then fill the projectile into it.The booster explosive package is also required to launch the flowering bomb, but there is a wooden bullet holder at the bottom of the flowering bullet. The wooden bullet holder not only closes the gun chamber, but also increases the stability of the shell launch, which can make it have a higher hit rate.

The shell of the flower bomb is the same as that of the solid bullet, and the explosive and iron balls are placed in the hollow inside, but the fuze is not a fuse, but a wooden fuze.After the artillery is ignited and fired, the explosion of the booster explosive pack not only provides the thrust for the projectile to launch, but also ignites the wooden fuze, which avoids the accident of premature explosion.

Whether it is explosive bombs or explosive bombs, they actually have the same terminology, that is, grenades.When this thing explodes, it can evaporate the surrounding area, and the iron beads ejected can sweep across it. The person in the center of the explosion will definitely become a broken corpse, and the appearance of the person swept by the iron beads will not be any better. .

The Dragon Guards could endure the bombardment of solid bullets, but they couldn't stand the bombardment of explosive bullets at all.There will be new dragon guards filling in the places where the solid bullets sweep past, but no one wants to go to the places after the explosive bullets explode.

It took two quarters of an hour?The cumbersome catapults could be regarded as about to enter the range of the enemy's long-range equipment. They stopped at the edge of the enemy's range, and as usual, they were waiting for the crossbowmen to organize arrow arrays to suppress them.

Of course, the range of the catapult is not as far as the strong crossbow. There are only [-] bronze cannons firing, and the firing interval of the bronze cannons is really longer. The section of the city wall that can be suppressed is actually limited. As long as the defenders are not scared to collapse on their own , I really can't continue to advance slowly.

"There is still a foundation." What Ran Min said was that the Longteng guards were not scared to collapse by the bronze cannon. He turned to Li Tan and said, "The king once said that the artillery needs to be used in a concentrated manner. It is best to concentrate more than a hundred guns at a time. Only by covering a certain area can the power of artillery be displayed."

The background behind Liu Yan’s words was that, in order to compete for the command of the bronze cannons, some generals including Ran Min and Xu Zheng proposed to divide up the existing bronze cannons, even if there were one or two under each person’s command sequence. acceptable.

Regardless of whether it is a bronze cannon or an artillery cannon, there must be a sufficient number to show its power. Just one or two cannons are really useless and can only be used as an alternative sniper rifle.It must be said that the sniper rifle can at least guarantee the accuracy of the head, even the modern electronically controlled artillery can't guarantee where to shoot, let alone the bronze cannon that just appeared.

"There is no need to bombard the city wall anymore?" Li Tan pointed to the city gate: "We should concentrate on bombarding the city gate."

Ran Min glanced at the phalanx of crossbowmen who had already formed an arrow formation and then moved forward, then looked at the other troops that followed closely around him, nodded and said, "That's right."

After the appearance of gunpowder, I don’t know what happened. Anyway, the generals of the Huaxia Department and Europa and other places didn’t seem to think that they could be used for blasting. As a result, gunpowder was used in wars and cities still had city walls.

After modern times, Europa no longer built any city walls, but until World War II, there were still battles in the East relying on the city walls. Facts also proved how fragile the city walls are in front of artillery, and the reliance that the city walls can play is very limited.

It is also the first time for Ran Min to command a firearms unit. The use of gunpowder is only for long-range firing. He really did not expect that as long as a death squad rushes in with explosives, approaches the city gate and ignites the explosives, it can destroy the city gate, or even Digging holes on the edge of the city wall and stocking up with enough dynamite packs can also blow up the city wall.

Any new thing needs time to understand. Only by understanding what it is, can we broaden our minds and let that new thing have more uses.

The crossbowmen pushed forward to the range, and the officers roared out bursts of commands, and when the rapid sound of clappers rang, each arrow array shot out densely packed crossbow arrows.

The Longteng guards guarding the city wall, they did not evacuate under the bombardment of the bronze cannons, but most of them retreated from the city wall when they saw the arrow array of the Han army, leaving only a small number of people to stay behind relying on the female wall or shields.

The Longteng guards had seen the power of the bronze cannon, but just because they saw it for the first time, even though they knew its horror, they were afraid, but they were not as thorough as their understanding of the arrow array. They were more afraid of being covered by the arrow array than the bronze cannon. Much is not surprising.

It seems to have developed into the era of muskets, when the whites invaded North America, but the Indians knew the power of the muskets, but in their consciousness they were more afraid of the dense arrows fired by the majority of the people, but they could launch a wave against the whites armed with muskets Another shock.

The real intention of organizing arrow arrays to cover the enemy's solidly defended city walls is not to expect to kill many people, but to use dense arrow rain to force the defenders to evade, so that the rest of your own troops can approach in a safer environment city ​​walls.

The trebuchets started moving again. They would still encounter cold arrows during the advancement process. From time to time, soldiers would be hit by arrows and withdraw from the combat sequence. However, this was considered within the normal loss range. There is no so-called 100% safety on the battlefield.

"It's the first time to launch this thing. I heard it's very dangerous. If you're not careful, it will explode?" Dou'a is terrified that a loud noise can blow up people's bones, especially if it is not operated properly, it is very likely to blow yourself up. It really blew up: "Fix the drawstring, and be sure not to light the fuse early!"

The soldier holding the explosive bag nodded like a chicken, and the hand of the other soldier holding the torch even shook a little.

Because it is to launch explosives, the catapults are farther apart than usual, and even the explosives that need to be fired are stored far away. I am really afraid that a certain operation team will accidentally kill themselves. and harm the rest.

After getting the launch command, the explosive package was thrown out amidst the sound of mechanical friction.

Those explosive packages that were thrown out were tumbling in mid-air, and the fuses on the side feet ignited sparks. Some exploded before landing, and some were detonated after falling on the ground for a while. Exploding dynamite pack.

Ran Min heard the frequent explosions in his ears, and looked at the continuous flashes of light above the city wall. After the light, a puff of smoke rose into the sky, and he bragged to Li Tan: "Rui Cai didn't go to the Yandi battlefield, and the Xianbei barbarian organization The cavaliers who got up were repeatedly blown to pieces."

"I believe the infantry was blown to pieces." Li Tan said with a little distaste: "The horses of the cavalry must be running wildly, and the explosives will follow if they are defeated?"

Ran Min was in a very good mood, and he didn't mind being dumped every time. People who didn't know thought that he had snatched Li Tan's position as the chief officer, but he really didn't care about it because he was in a good mood, and there was no guilt at all. .

The catapult launch is a kind of projectile trajectory, some fall at the foot of the city wall, some fall on the city wall, and some are directly thrown into the city.The different landing points can be regarded as a disaster for the Longteng guards hiding behind the city wall. They dodged according to the old concept. When the explosive package fell, no one knew what it was. When I got up, the people next to me picked it up and looked at it curiously, and before they were ignorant and unresponsive, they ended up with the surrounding Pao Ze.

There really was an explosive package that fell into a dense crowd. After the explosion, the people in the center were evaporated until nothing was left. When pieces of flesh and blood flew everywhere, people on the outer edges were pushed and thrown away by a huge force. The Han army outside the city was blocked by the city wall and did not see it.

There are only [-] bronze cannons, and each cannon can be fired four times at most for a quarter of an hour. Although it can scare the defenders to tremble, it is not so dense, and more of it has a psychological deterrent effect.

There are as many as [-] catapults in use, and [-] of them are mainly attacking the city wall. The interval between each catapult is about [-] breaths, which shows how dense the density must be.

The dense concentration of arrows can cause the enemy under attack to suffer heavy losses and be heartbroken at the same time. In fact, not many people will be shot to death if they are protected by armor.

Once the explosive packs are densely packed, it’s another matter. When the catapults approach and start firing the explosive packs, after a quarter of an hour, the walls of Miyagi are already in disrepair. People outside the city can’t see what’s going on inside the city. in the smoke.

The bronze cannon had been adjusting to shoot at Zhuyuan just now, and opened fire after the command was issued. Ran Min was stunned for a moment when he saw a catapult truck falling apart in an instant and the wooden structure flying around.

The broken catapult was on the trajectory of the bronze cannon. Fortunately, it hit a solid bullet, otherwise it wouldn't just sweep the wood flying across.

The knowledge of shooting circles, including ballistics, is beyond the comprehension of the Han army.Even in modern times, without any specialized knowledge, soldiers in front would still run into the trajectory of their own machine guns and be shot to death.Missile fires on artillery with a longer range because they don't know that there are people in that area, it happens from time to time even in the Internet age.

Precisely because he didn't know what was going on, Ran Min was in a daze for a while before he realized it, but he didn't order the artillery to stop firing, and he didn't even move the catapult in front of him.

The reason why war is war is a cold-blooded battlefield, killing as many enemy troops as possible, and even killing one's own soldiers when necessary.Not to mention the sweeping of the bronze cannons, the two armies mixed together and then ordered the arrow array to cover the attack. As long as it is beneficial to the overall situation, there are really not too many examples of doing that.

Of course, the city gate was shattered by bronze cannons. The artillery team stopped shooting when the target was achieved. Before that, three catapults were destroyed in their hands.The deaths and injuries of the three trebuchet crews will only be attributed to accidents, and the gun crew operating the bronze cannon will not be held accountable at all.

The obstructing city gate was gone, and any long-range attack weapons were heard. The cavalry of the Han army who were cruising far away were ordered to charge into the city, and the follow-up infantry also began to trot forward.

If you were far away, you could just look at it, but if you were close, you could smell the strong smell of gunpowder smoke, you could see the city walls that had been blown into shape, and broken corpses and limbs could be seen everywhere.

The cavalry of the Han army who entered the city first, they were psychologically prepared for a fierce battle, but after entering the city, they saw a scene like a Shura field.

The ground was full of corpses, too much blood pooled and flowed to the low-lying places to form a blood pool, the dead died, the disabled were crying and groaning, and some of the surviving ones had all sorts of strange behaviors.

The explosion will make a loud noise, and if it is too close, the eardrums will be shattered. Those who are deaf will either run meaninglessly or sit in a daze.

Quite a few were frightened and went crazy, causing the Han army entering the city to encounter no resistance at all...

(End of this chapter)