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"It's not good, I've been fighting for a long time, and I didn't even kill a single enemy." Yang Zhan disdainful, he can't stand someone acting as a teacher in front of him, and with his temper, he ordered everyone to attack. , where would it take effort to play these tricks outside the city.

"Boom." The Tartar's cannon fired again, but it was obvious that the cannon missed again, and the position of the cannon was completely exposed.

The attacking troops rushed at a very fast speed, and the three squads covered each other and advanced alternately.Without drumming and shouting, it took only half a stick of incense to rush to the base of the city wall.

"Kill!" Seeing someone approaching, the defenders shouted loudly when they left, and a large group of flags rushed out from the streets and alleys.

"Blow the retreat number and let the mortar gunners fire freely." The company commander could see clearly from behind. The distance between the two sides was [-] meters, and his subordinates should still be at a safe distance.

As soon as the bugle sounded, the three attacking squads immediately began to retreat, but at the same time, three mortars fired immediately.

"Dong dong dong." Three mortars rang out, and the tartars who had chased them were blown away.But this group of Tartars still rushed forward desperately.

"Fire again." On the side of the Ming army, the firing speed of the mortars became faster and faster, and the enemy suffered more and more casualties.The gunners did not stop firing until the enemy retreated in fright.

"Go up." The company commander ordered the platoon leader of another platoon, so the soldiers of the three squads rushed up in a scattered manner.

An hour later, the company of the 50th Army occupied the block about 100 meters away, and more than [-] Tazi soldiers were killed or injured, basically all of them were killed by artillery fire.

"Commander Yang, how are you? Pretty." Li Nian looked like a ruffian with a cigarette in his mouth.

"You only used one company to attack?" Yang Zhan asked with patches of pale and red.

"Everyone has seen it! There is only one company, and if there is one more person, I will lose." Li Nian showed off arrogantly.

"How many injured?" Li Dingguo asked.

"Three wounded, one was shot, one was shot by an arrow, and the other sprained his ankle." Li Nian replied.

Everyone in the command post is not calm anymore. Although it was just a small battle, such a casualty ratio has never been seen before. The opponent is not a bandit, but a regular army.

"Then the soldiers of the Sixteenth Army will bring more brothers from other armies to promote this tactic." Li Dingguo turned around and left after explaining.

Yang Zhan hurriedly handed Li Nian cigarettes and water, shouting one brother at a time.It wasn't that he envied Li Nian's military exploits, but that the casualty ratio was too scary, which meant that his subordinates would die a lot less.

Chapter 474: Small Mortar Cannon Attacks Revival

Why did Zhu Youjian update his tactics?

Because the current Ming Dynasty can no longer have a large number of casualties. If there are another large number of casualties, it will take many years for the entire society to recover in terms of population, productivity, and stability.

There are only two ways to reduce casualties on the battlefield: use the latest weapons; innovate tactics.

Zhu Youjian doesn't want to use a big killer like picric acid in the country, so the only way left is to innovate the tactics.

Li Dingguo lay on the camp bed at night and couldn't sleep for a long time. He was a person who didn't have many friends, so he could only think on his own and could not discuss with others.

The tactics of the Sixteenth Army today also touched him a lot, and he understood the emperor's order to innovate tactics and tactics very clearly, and even the emperor's mind was clear to him.

The imperial court has a yellow powerful explosive, which is no secret to generals of Li Dingguo's level.But why didn't the emperor use it?

If the daytime cannons used that new type of explosives, the battle would probably be completed within a stick of incense, and the number of enemies killed would definitely double.

"Ah!" Li Dingguo was frightened by his own thoughts.In one stick of incense time, not one person will be killed, but hundreds of enemies can be killed. What if this is not used on the battlefield?

Also unable to sleep that night was Sun Dingliao, who sat neatly dressed in the lobby and mourned more than 100 people who died during the day.

In the past month, he has been killing his subordinates every day, and the death is getting more and more useless, and the death is getting more and more worthless.

The Ming army, which originally thought it would attack aggressively, only sent a few dozen people to attack cunningly like foxes.And with such a small number of people, his elite subordinates still can't win.

The atmosphere in the lobby was dull and morale was extremely low.

"Let me think about how to break their strange formation tomorrow." Sun Dingliao regarded the Ming army's offensive formation as a kind of formation, and if it is a formation, there must be a way to break it.

"Brother-in-law, these Ming soldiers can't do magic tricks, or why can't our cannons hit them?" Sun Dingliao's brother-in-law, a general with a mustache, said.

"You bastard, it's obvious that there were few soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, and they scattered and opened, so how did it become a demon?" Sun Dingliao smacked that general. The Eight Banners of this era are not as ignorant as those of later generations. Both the menstrual belt and the menstrual belt are hung on the top of the city.Besides, we have been fighting each other for many years, and we still know each other clearly whether we can use black magic.

"By the way, judging from the fighting methods of the Ming army today, they should have used a new type of tiger cannon. We can also use the tiger cannon to kill the enemy, and treat them in the same way. human body."

"But our cannons can only fire solid shells. The explosive shells either go out or explode early or fall on the ground for a long time before exploding. The Ming army has few soldiers to attack. How can we kill the enemy?"

Sun Dingliao is one head and two big, and the weapons and equipment of the Ming army have improved a lot in recent years, so big that Houjin couldn't keep up with the rhythm at all.Jin Bing had just changed to a flintlock gun, and the opponent's cannon had already been mass-produced.

When Dorgon tried his best to increase the production of cannons, the Ming army produced a new type of Hu Zun cannon this time. The most powerful thing is the flowering bomb, which makes a noise when it hits the ground, and explodes a piece.

There is also the close-up Zhentianlei, which is the grenade of the Ming army. It actually has a long wooden handle.

"Tomorrow we can't rush out in a swarm, repair the fortifications for me, and gather a few guns together to fight the Ming army..." Sun Yifei and his men studied all night, the purpose is to deal with the new tactics of the Ming army .

At noon the next day, the battle situation of the Ming army was summarized.Compared with yesterday, many celebrities have increased casualties.Especially the cold guns fired by the enemies hiding in the dark did a lot of damage to the Ming army.

"These Tartars have not only hid in the dark and shot slyly, but also used cavalry when attacking from the alleyway. The speed of the cavalry is fast, and the enemy often rushes to us before we can react."

The company commander in charge of the attack reported the situation to the forward command post, and Li Nian at the command post needed to study and improve tactics.

It is impossible to go back to the past and rely on crowds of people to attack and fight. The headquarters issued a death order to research a set of combat methods suitable for new tactics.

And this task is directly on Li Nian's head, there is no other word.

Before there was no fire suppressing weapon like a machine gun, skirmishing was already very dangerous.This is to use the life of the vanguard to attract the enemy to expose, and then use the mortar to destroy the opponent.

"There is a way that might work. But..." Yang Zhan looked at Li Nian and said cheerfully.

"Just tell me if you have any good ideas. Tonight I will treat you to a pickled cabbage fish hot pot. This is a new way of eating developed by the emperor himself." Li Nian knew that Yang Zhan left the special team to curry favor with him yesterday, but he bled. Contributed enough to a "Zhonghuamen" brand cigarettes.

When Yang Zhan heard the pickled fish, and then imagined Zhu Youjian's favorite dried chili, his mouth watered immediately.No way, Yang Zhan, who was born in Sichuan, couldn't resist the temptation of spicy pickled fish.

"My idea is only a few words: the artillery fire cannot be stopped." Yang Zhan said mysteriously.

"What do you mean?" Li Nian was taken aback.

"When one of your squads is attacking, the mortars can't stop, so the Tartars can't show up, right? There are explosions and chaos everywhere, and their guns can't fire. Wait until the Tartars line up Before, I threw the grenade desperately, and the bastards didn't dare to show their faces. At this time, the mortar can go forward. So..."

"My dear, how many grenades and shells do you need?" The chief of staff was frightened.

"What are you afraid of? Anyway, the headquarters didn't restrict our use. The emperor just asked us to reduce casualties." Of course Li Nian knew Zhu Youjian's combat thinking.

Fortunately, there are no sniper rifles in this era, and the shooting distance of the so-called raised guns of Jin Bing is also limited.

What Yang Zhan said was small-scale infantry coordinated operations, but the artillery used mortars, and Ming's howitzers were not yet capable of shooting to the extent that they could cooperate with the infantry.In this way of thinking, the use of mortars must be the protagonist.

"Give me an order to form a group of nine mortars to cooperate with one attack." Li Nian thought for a while, and the number of mortars in a company alone could not pose a threat to the enemy, so give more if you want.

A new round of fighting began. After the Ming army's artillery bombarded a round, the infantry began to attack.

"Hurry up, the Ming army is rushing over." A general of Jin Bing poked his head out from behind a wall, commanding in a panic.