sweeping the world

Chapter 962 Times Have Changed
The bronze cannons of the firearms unit fired first, and the thunderous sounds rose and fell with each other, and the empty plains continued to reverberate like lightning and thunder that can only appear in the world.

The artillery position is filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke. Due to the distance between the fired artillery, within the visible distance of the naked eye, only the enemy troops at the artillery position are in confusion. It is difficult to judge how much effective damage has been caused to the enemy. .

"Why didn't you fire the shells just now?"

Li Tan came to the artillery position, and because of his status, he knew more or less the type of artillery shells, and he raised doubts when he found out that they were firing solid shells.

There are generally not many types of shells at present. The main types are solid shells and open shells, and the other is shotgun shells for melee defense.

The reason for the solid bullet is that there is a difference in the ratio of materials such as iron and lead. If you want to have a long enough range, it depends on the matching ratio between the materials.

Explosive bombs are generally divided into two types: shrapnel and projectiles, and there is also a category called incendiary bombs (grenades).

No matter what kind of shell it is, it looks like a black thing that tends to be roughly round in appearance.The solid bullet has no other devices, and the charge inside the projectile will add a fuze device.When launching different shells at the same time, the barrel will also have different installation aids. For example, the open shell needs a booster device.

The artillery captain answered Li Tan's question.

Cannonballs containing iron beads are too expensive, and the cost of firing one round is more than a hundred times that of ordinary solid bullets. They believe that the number of cannons currently shooting is enough, and solid bullets can also produce enough lethality.

"In addition, the enemy army is already timid. In order not to cause unnecessary waste, it is better not to fire special bombs."

Li Tan didn't even know how to evaluate the artillery captain's idea of ​​saving money.

The Han Empire was a country with a poor civilian government and not a poor army, and the military was the wealthiest institution belonging to the state.

"Even you artillery think you can save money..." Li Tan teased, "It shows how expensive the firearms army is."

The lieutenant of artillery was completely speechless.

Take that kind of iron ball cannonball as an example, the value of one round can make about thirty long guns, if you say it is not expensive, you are really lying.But judging from the power exerted just now, it can't be said that the huge cost is worthless, it should be judged to be worth the money.

The sound of the cannon continued, and the grassland coalition forces who were bombarded were completely dumbfounded.

They had never seen similar weapons before, so they thought it was thunder at first, but although there were clouds in the sky, there were not many clouds and they were all white clouds, so it shouldn't be like this kind of continuous thunder rolling.

If it was just the sound of rolling thunder, it would scare people and horses, but they kept finding the sound of piercing through the air around their heads, and saw their nearby companions being hit or swept by something.

Objects hit or swept by solid bullets, whether they are people or horses, instantly turn into a scene of blood and flesh flying all over the place. It’s fine to die immediately. If they don’t die, they will hold their broken arms or legs and cry , and even his body was swept in two, waiting to die in despair.

Tens of thousands of prairie coalition forces were in total chaos. The people and horses at the core were scrambling everywhere, causing countless casualties and trampling each other. The prairie coalition forces on the outskirts had to leave this hell-like place without even thinking about it. place.

The prairie coalition forces located on the river bank, regardless of how deep the river bed is and how fast the water is, even if the people in front still have scruples, they will be pushed into the river by the people behind.

"What a spectacle!"

"Tsk tsk, it's so miserable that I can't describe it in words."

"The river will soon be choked up with corpses, won't it?"

"I don't know if it will be blocked. The fish and shrimp here will definitely become extremely fat."

"Do you dare to eat it?"

"It's disgusting to think about it, why don't you still eat?"

It was indeed an extremely miserable scene. Those prairie people entered the river and would soon be washed down by the turbulent river. When the people's heads were hit by the water, they would sink and float. When the number of people increased, it would appear that they were all heads. Undulating on the horizontal surface with his hands, it is like a scene of hell on earth.

"I don't feel sorry for them at all." Dou'a said blankly: "Think about decades ago, our people were forced to jump into the river by the Hulu, and tens of thousands of women were even driven into the river."

That is what really happened, it happened in the early days when the Jie tribe ravaged the Central Plains.

The Jie tribe drove Han civilians to various rivers more than once, and then carried out massacres on the banks. When they were tired of killing, they first let the Han people who were still alive throw their bodies into the river.In the end, the Jie tribe also drove the Han people who were not killed by weapons into the river and drowned.

The Jie people have a tradition of arresting women for marching and fighting. Women use them for adultery at night, and they cook them when they want to eat.When they are defeated and forced to retreat, they usually choose to drive the captured women into the river.

At present, the Jie people have been eliminated from the world, but the things they did will not be forgotten, and the Han people's pursuit of the Jie people is still going on.

In the scene that happened on the prairie battlefield, the prairie coalition forces were forced to jump into the river, and there were no so-called innocents among them.

Soldiers go to the battlefield and are hacked to death, and they are also dead if they are forced to jump into a river. The moment they enter the battlefield, they enter the stage of "either you die or I die". It doesn't matter how you die.

Forcing civilians to jump into the river?In a broad sense, there are actually no innocents, but only the sorrow of the weak.

How to look at a killing depends entirely on what position one is in.

Contemporary Han people do not reject killing, and it can even be said that they have a strong interest in killing aliens because of their earlier tragic experiences.

There is only one reason why Han people like to kill. When they look at any foreign race, they feel that they will invade them one day. It is better to leave those foreign races as a threat, or to kill them first.

On the battlefield, the grassland coalition forces in the south had no one to organize, and those who wanted to escape began to attack the periphery desperately.

The Han army on the left and right wings could no longer be purely spectators, and they were happy to join the ranks of killing the coalition forces on the grassland.

"Those prairie people are really unfortunate." Xeas didn't know what kind of mentality it was, and said: "Their misfortune is that they are too close to the Han Empire, and at the same time they are regarded as a threat by the Han Empire."

Cambyses knew what Xias was feeling right now. It was nothing more than seeing the prairie people being slaughtered, giving birth to a sense of sadness like a dead dog cooking.

"We know more or less about the nomads in the northern border of the Han Empire." Cambyses said with a depressed mood: "There have been many overlords here, and each overlord has threatened the Han people."

"The Xiongnu Empire used to suppress the Han people, but now the Huns left behind have been digested." Xias looked at the slaughter on the battlefield and said: "The Huns who migrated westward were able to travel all the way. Show off your might, and even destroy countless countries all the way west."

"The cavalry of the nomads has always been good, don't look at how easy it is for the Han people to deal with now..." Cambyses was also witnessing the killing: "If tens of thousands of cavalry of the nomads are in other places, they will face a lot like Ji Duo Against an opponent like Luo, it will be a different scene."

What they were more curious about was how the Han army managed to drive and surround the tens of thousands of grassland coalition forces to this river bank.

You must know that the difficulty of simply annihilating an enemy army and driving the enemy army to the position you want is different, and the difficulty of annihilating will be lower.

"We may be able to wipe out a nomadic cavalry of tens of thousands of people." Xias sighed: "But we can't drive them to the desired position."

Seemingly simple things are infinitely more difficult to operate, requiring a commander who can always grasp the overall situation, as well as an absolutely elite army.

The role of the commander is to mobilize the troops to the right place at the right time every time, and at the same time master the appropriate strikes to force the enemy to rout in the direction they need.

"Is the Han Empire's North Zheng General Li Tan in command of this war?" Xias had to admire: "What an excellent general!"

The good general, he had left the artillery position and rushed to the flank of the rifle line.

The riflemen who have been advancing in a line array are also facing more or less impacts from steppe infantry every time.

"This is called rolling shooting?" Li Tan looked at the line of riflemen: "The name is very appropriate!"

The riflemen forming a line of riflemen, they stop in place to clear their guns and reload ammunition after firing in a row, and the row behind the row of robes steps forward and enters the shooting position to fire, and so on and so on. Shooting keeps going.

Dou Ah also came to the flank, just in time to see Li Tan and came to join him.

"The formation of the riflemen looks very thin." Dou A compared the personnel gap between the cold weapon formation and the firearm formation: "Nearly [-] riflemen formed two straight lines, and each line formed three rows of riflemen. Alternate shooting. Although there is a second column that can be added at critical moments, if the enemy's horses can not be frightened, it is difficult to guarantee that the cavalry will not rush to the front with this thin formation and the firing speed of the riflemen. "

Li Tan saw this just now, and came here to see what tactics the riflemen had against the cavalry. Unfortunately, the grassland coalition forces did not pose a sufficient threat to the line formation of the riflemen.

"The enemy army has completely collapsed." Dou Ah said in a suggested tone: "Should I surrender?"

Of course Li Tan knew that it would be easy for the grassland coalition forces to surrender now, and the firearms troops had not killed enough enemy troops to surrender for a long time.

Anyway, today is the first time the riflemen of the firearms unit have participated in the war. Without enough blood, how can they pour out a resounding reputation?
"Wait a little longer." Li Tan pondered for a moment, then said with a smile, "Wait until there are less than [-] enemy troops left, and then surrender."

Dou'a didn't say anything that might make the enemy soldiers jump over the wall in a hurry.

Many times, even if a dog is forced to jump over the wall, it depends on who is surrounding the dog. The dog will struggle violently when desperate, but if it has the strength to kill it with a stick, it doesn’t take too much. of fear.

The advance speed of the line array of riflemen is not fast. They shoot one row at a time and advance slowly step by step.

Standing in front of the line of riflemen, no matter whether it is a man or a horse, and no matter what the man or horse is doing or trying to do, after a row of "cracking" sounds like fried beans, few people and horses can stand in place .

Gradually, the riflemen stepped into the field full of corpses and wounded. They were still like an infinite loop machine, shooting one row after another, the slight difference was that there would be some interspersed shots in each column. Riflemen with bayonets.

What the rifleman with the bayonet does is to make up the enemy on the battlefield. It doesn't matter whether the enemy is lying motionless on the ground or moaning and wailing, anyway, the bayonet is pierced into the heart or the head. Be sure to let the enemy troops actually die.

The line of riflemen advanced and advanced again. I don't know when it started, and no grassland coalition army launched a charge against the line of riflemen.

The sound of shelling on the battlefield did not stop, and the riflemen did not stop firing because the enemy no longer charged, and the one-sided massacre continued.

The prairie coalition forces with a complete mental breakdown tried to break through but couldn't do it. After the initial hair-explosive stage passed, although there were still companions dying around them, the living people seemed to be numb...or lie down, or kneel, or Lie down, or stand, stay where you are in different postures, accepting all the fates you are about to face.

"Killing is meaningless, why didn't the Han army surrender?" Julian didn't have any compassion, but was just confused: "Could it be that the Han Empire no longer lacks slaves?"

"Those prairie people are still alive but they are dead." Flavis has never seen a scene where at least 5000 people stayed in place waiting to die: "The Han army actually killed not many people, and more prairie people died. Trampled upon each other and killed each other. They were utterly hopeless, bodies and minds acknowledging the futility of struggling."

"Okay." Julian nodded and admitted: "Those grassland people are indeed not even qualified to be slaves, and they have been completely abolished."

The onlookers from the big countries are actually not bad, and they can make a few comments.

The other people who came from a small country, there are not a few people who pissed their pants directly, and there are even some people who can be scared out of their minds just by watching.

On the battlefield, the shelling stopped first.

For a while there was no rolling thunder of shelling, and both the enemy and us were not used to it.

Behind, the riflemen also stopped firing.

Apart from the screams and howls, and the neighing of war horses, there was no other movement on the battlefield.

"Should there be less than ten thousand enemy troops?" Li Tan glanced at Dou'a and asked, "Your troops go up and surrender?"

Dou Ah thought about it and agreed.

The surviving prairie coalition army found that the Han army would not continue to attack. First they howled loudly, and then they all cried together.They felt that they were really too miserable, and it was still the kind of unprecedented misery. There was no exchange of weapons with the Han army at all in the whole battle, but the Han army was constantly "booming" and "cracking", The people on my side are almost dead.

"Because of the emergence of firearms." Julian said with an unusually heavy voice: "The war has become completely different from the war we understand."

(End of this chapter)