Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 203 Artillery Battle ([-])

Seeing Fukang'an's sudden loss of composure, E Hui, the Chengdu general on the side, persuaded: "Marshal, don't be angry if you are a good fighter!" The general soldier, and then followed Fukang'an to quell the chaos in the northwest.

The soldier who reported the letter was frightened by Fu Kang'an's ferocious expression, and said in a hurry: "Master, what the servant said is true! The person who came to report the letter is the Xiaoqi sent by the master before."

Fukang'an realized that he had lost his composure, he let go of the guard, leaned on the back of the chair and took a few deep breaths, feeling a little calmer, and then ordered: "Call that Xiaoqi to come up, I want to ask what happened thing."

The Xiaoqi who came to report the letter was waiting under the commander's platform. After running up, he knelt down in front of Fukang'an and said, "I heard from the fleeing soldiers that Wujunmen led troops three or four miles east of Fuerdan City. At that time, thousands of thunders fell from the sky, and our army suffered heavy casualties. Later, everyone saw that the flag of the Wujun Gate was gone, so there was chaos.”

E Hui said in disbelief: "That's 5000 people! How could they be defeated in one fell swoop? What about Dai Sanbao, Guanbao and the others?"

Na Xiaoqi lowered his head and replied: "Several people were stopped by the mark to ask questions. They all said that the chaos started from the Central Army. As for the whereabouts of other Shangguan, they also said they didn't see it."

Fukang'an closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then murmured: "All thunder falls together."

E Hui thought for a while and said, "Marshal! Presumably the thief used a weapon like a sky cannon or an enemy of ten thousand people?"

Fukangan shook his head and said: "Not necessarily. The sky cannon can't hit it." Before he finished speaking, he only heard waves of roaring from a few miles to the north, like rolling thunder sweeping across the earth.

Beihai Town is fired!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!."

Near a general's gun position between the first and second lines of the Qing army, huge explosions sounded one after another; orange fireballs soaring into the sky completely covered the entire gun position, several Qing army gunners, cavalry guarding the gun, The Javelins took off into the air as the explosive flames rose.

During the collapse of heaven and earth, the bronze cannon weighing five thousand catties was thrown away together with the cannon carriage, and the seven or eight cast iron cannonballs stacked behind the cannon were carried up by the blast wave, and then slammed heavily into the surrounding clear Soldiers; tens of thousands of prefabricated fragments wiped out all life within a radius of [-] meters; clouds of gray-white gunpowder smoke were blown up by the wind and dissipated above the Qing army formation.

Fukang'an on the stage pushed away the guards standing in front of him, only to see the smoke billowing in the formation, the neighing of war horses, and the screams of the wounded.Fukang calmed down, and ordered his opponent: "Go and find out the damage immediately, and send someone to find out where the cannon came from!"

"tie!"

At this time, the tens of thousands of Qing troops present were all dumbfounded. Most of these people had participated in the Jinchuan Battle and the pacification of the Northwest Rebellion, and they had rich battlefield experience.But even so, no one has ever seen such an explosion.Many people thought that such an explosion occurred because the gunpowder pack on the gun emplacement was ignited.

The cavalrymen of the Vanguard Battalion on the second line were frightened by their horses, reining in their horses and running around. It was a mess.

A few minutes later, the gunpowder smoke was gradually blown away by the wind, and Fukang'an and E Hui could clearly see five large craters several feet deep scattered around the General Cannon because they were standing high.The musketeers, cavalry, and drummers who had been guarding the cannon were killed and wounded, and the blasted copper cannon, cannon carriage, and human and horse fragments covered an area with a radius of tens of feet!

Seeing such a scene, Fukang'an couldn't help taking a breath.He gritted his teeth and said with a pale face, "This can't be done! The Chinese military guards put on the flag and follow me to the front to command!"

E Hui was shocked, and hurriedly persuaded him: "Don't do it, Commander! The thieves and cannons are really powerful, so don't put yourself in danger!"

Fukang'an said: "Old E, the morale can't be discouraged. The emperor and the princes of the court have been planning for more than half a year, but they are not waiting for someone to bombard them today! From today's perspective, it is just a tough battle! The emperor treats me like nothing else. Family, father and son, the kindness and trustworthiness are so extraordinary, I, Fukang'an, have only one dead fan today to repay this great kindness!"

After what he said, E Hui sighed unceasingly. He bowed his hands and begged for his life: "Please lead the army to watch the battle, and let me go to the front line!"

Fukangan turned around and took out a command arrow from the box, and said in a heavy tone: "You command the ten battalions in the west, and I am in the east. If you win this battle, you will be prosperous together; if you break it, you will be humiliated!"

It is said that all famous generals in ancient times are all able to maintain a strong will, a calm mind, and a belief in victory in an ever-changing battlefield situation; no matter what the situation is, they must never show the slightest panic and lose the fighting spirit of the entire army .As a commander, he needs to stabilize the morale of the army, enhance fighting spirit, and finally win the victory through his own tolerance and emotions.And Fukang'an actually has this quality.

A moment later, the Conch of the Chinese Army Guard sounded.Amidst the rumbling drums, the Qing army continued to march forward.After firing a round, the nineteen general guns also began to move rapidly.

Fukang'an fights for will and military spirit, while Zhao Xin fights for mathematics
In the walkie-talkie just now, Zhao Xin felt that his order to type "half base number" was very imposing.But when the artillerymen successfully used five shells to finish the first artillery position of the Qing army, and then wanted to attack the second artillery position, the problem came.
Weakly ask, who will report the gauge data?The Qing army on the eastern front fought on the surface, which was easy; but on the southern front, they fought on the spot.The artillery company commander, who had just been promoted for only a few months, said that we really don't know how to count this.
"Master!" Zhao Xin didn't know whether he was scolding himself or someone else, and while clasping his hands together, he calculated the coordinates at the table at the top of Fuerdan city.The so-called "Firing cannons for a while, make a crematorium" is talking about Zhao Xin.

Because the heavy artillery of the Qing army is hidden behind the front-line musketeers, the artillery company of Beihai Town is now targeting indirectly; in terms of actual calculation, it is necessary to calculate trigonometric functions.Carry out round-trip conversion through azimuth, distance, and angle data.For example, if you know the distance and angle, you can measure the azimuth; if you know the azimuth and angle, you can measure the distance.To put it more simply, as long as there are three points forming a triangle, the exact position of the enemy can be calculated using trigonometric functions.

Fortunately, Fuldan City is an endless wilderness plain, so these three points are the artillery position, the forward observation point (Zhao Xin), and the artillery positions of the Qing army.The rest is to measure the distance and calculate the angle.So you see, if you are not good at math, you can't really play artillery.
Zhao Xin's current full name is "Zhao-observation soldier-calculator-artillery commander".

First of all, "Zhao Observer" needs to measure the precise data of distance and angle through the rangefinder and steering wheel, and then compare the military map drawn by Chen Qingsong to reduce the error, and then calculate the precise position of the target centered on the muzzle.

Then, "Zhao Calculator" calculates the angles of each angle in the triangle formed by the three points through the target's azimuth and elevation, and the precise azimuth of the three points, and then calculates the distance between the artillery position and the target through the angle.

Finally, "Commander Zhao" used a walkie-talkie to notify the artillery positions to shoot at Zhuyuan. At this time, each artillery group could adjust the height and direction of the machine according to the instructions, load and launch.

If the terrain environment were more complicated, Zhao Xin would not be able to play this way at all.He must set up forward observation points, side observation points, and main observation points, and must also combine the wind speed, wind direction, air pressure, air temperature, gun eye height difference, drug temperature, ammunition batches, and the number of charges of shells, etc. wait. (Do you know why there is such a place as the Artillery Academy? Of course, in modern warfare, fire control computers and radars can be used to achieve faster one-shot shooting, but various observation points must be available.)
So the southern line position in Beihai Town was smashed by another big iron ball and lost two heavy machine gun positions, and the artillery company commander received the new coordinate data.

For 10 minutes, Zhao Xin tried his best to calculate his fate, and it turned out that the interval between two firings needed 10 minutes!He regretted it very much now. He knew that he would have to make such a fuss. What kind of artillery position is it? How easy it is to shoot directly behind the trench.

In the large formation of the Qing army, once the general cannons that needed seven or eight horses to move forward stopped and were ready to shoot, they would not move so fast.

When the second bombardment of Beihai Town started, the gunners of the Qing army who heard the sound of rolling thunder from the opposite side were frightened and all lay down on the ground to pray for the blessings of the gods and ancestors in the sky.So far, no one has dared to escape; Fukang'an has issued a strict order to retreat and kill those who shake the morale of the army on the spot!

Flames exploded and smoke billowed.When the second general cannon was blown up, killing and injuring nearly a hundred Qing soldiers again, Fukang'an decisively ordered the Qianfeng Battalion and Xiaoqi Battalion to attack from the two wings of the big formation, trying to destroy the opposite cannon.

At this time, Fukang'an had already led the Chinese army guards to sit behind the front-line phalanx. When the Qing army saw that the commander-in-chief was on the front line in person, and the banner was raised high, they all mustered up their courage, regardless of the successive explosions behind them. Voice, move forward bravely.

However, when the Qing army entered a distance of 800 meters, the sound of "da da da" that had become Fukang'an's nightmare finally sounded.During the firing of the six anti-aircraft guns, the gunners of the Qing army on both sides of the musket phalanx fell into hell, and many of them were blown to pieces before they could even scream.The Shengong General Cannon, which weighed a thousand catties, flew into the air during the bombardment, and the ignited propellant package blasted the carriage to pieces, and the musket phalanx hit by splashed shrapnel and sawdust shells screamed and wailed.

"Continue to attack! The drums keep beating, don't stop!" Under Fukang'an's strict order, the participating generals and leaders of the musketeers waved their long knives and ordered the soldiers to move forward.

The heavy machine gun position also opened fire, and six heavy machine guns began to straf the Qing cavalry that appeared on the left and right wings.

The soldiers of Beihai Town, who were in the trenches on the southern front, stared dumbfounded at the black cavalry galloping in the distance. Thousands of horseshoes rolled like thunder on the wasteland, raising a large cloud of dust.

Those cavalrymen of the Qing army, who only wore a suit of foam-nailed cotton armor, were led by several golden flying tiger flags in the forward battalion, formed a strict formation, and launched a fierce charge.They waved the one-foot-three-inch iron-headed spears or bows and arrows in their hands, trying to break through Beihai Town's defensive positions time and time again.

The shotgun cavalry of the Qing army did not need to be in a strict formation. They braved artillery fire and charged in groups of three or five. When they were 300 meters away from the trench, they reined in their horses and shot their arquebus guns; They hastily finished reloading, and then continued to charge forward and continue to fire.Repeatedly, until some people were smashed to pieces by anti-aircraft guns or heavy machine guns.

At this time, the three anti-aircraft artillery positions on the south side of the west front position in Beihai Town also opened fire one after another.The howling bullets and shells caused confusion among the Qing cavalry, forcing them to retreat; however, the Qing army quickly made a comeback after making a circle, and the living cavalry still shouted tirelessly and continued to charge bravely.

Ding Guofeng was lying on the trench, seeing this situation, burst into tears.Sheng Haizhou and Heping Tai on the side were also moved by the bravery of the Qing army. They thought Ding Guofeng was the same as themselves.

On the head of Fuldan City, Zhao Xin's hands holding the binoculars were showing blue veins and trembling slightly.He thought of the Bali Bridge in another time and space, and the apricot-yellow banner that fell at the end in the movie.Perhaps, the Manchurian Eight Banners cavalry and Mongolian cavalry at that time were the same as today, braving the smoke of gunfire, launching desperate charges again and again.

"Damn it!" Zhao Xin put down the binoculars and cursed viciously.

After all, the sadness was only temporary. When dozens of cavalrymen of the Qing army approached under artillery fire and were still a hundred meters away from the trenches on both sides, the soldiers in Beihai Town finally opened fire.Hundreds of bullets penetrated into the bodies of these Qing soldiers before they had time to shoot the bows and arrows in their hands, and then turned over and fell off their horses.

When the last fluttering golden flying tiger flag was finally enveloped by artillery fire, there were very few cavalrymen left in the vanguard battalion who launched the attack.And when the anti-aircraft guns on both sides of the position began to turn their flames to the Qing Army's gun battalion in the center of the battlefield, several phalanxes were enveloped by clouds of fire and smoke.Amidst the blood and flesh flying, the Qing army finally stopped!

I don't know who made the first scream, and then, countless screams rang out together.Suddenly, almost all the Qing troops began to flee backwards. They abandoned their artillery, pack horses and luggage, and fled desperately toward the north bank of the Suifen River.Only a few dozen commanders and generals on horseback brandished long knives, and led by several flags, they launched a final charge towards Beihai Town.

The Qing army was finally defeated!In the wilderness, thousands of defeated Qing troops fled across the snow-covered wilderness like black ants.

"Master, get on the horse!" Fukang'an's bearer said with tears.

Faced with the urging of the Chinese military guards, Fukang An, who was in a state of despair, refused to leave. "Where's E Hui?"

"Marshal! E Junmen rushed up with his personal guards!"

Fukang'an wanted to say more, but the two bearers involuntarily picked him up on a war horse, surrounded him and fled south.

On the battlefield on the western front, when the distant flames and explosions reached the eyes and ears of the Mongolian cavalry, they turned their horses around and ran away desperately.

"Ding Guofeng! Order the troops on the southern front to attack immediately! Pursue the enemy, I want to capture Fukang'an alive!" In the walkie-talkie, Zhao Xin shouted excitedly to Ding Guofeng after notifying the speedboat to attack.

"Liu Sheng! You lead the troops on the western front to launch an attack on the Qing army camp! We are going to fight to Ninggu Tower this time!"

After Zhao Xin gave the order, he picked up his automatic rifle, checked the ammunition, and said to Guisheng, "Let's go!"

"Ah? Master, where are we going?" Gui Sheng was taken aback for a moment, and hurriedly put the map and various paper tools on the table into his bag.

"Silly boy, the real battle has just begun!"

(End of this chapter)