I want to be emperor

Chapter 455
Naturally, Zu Dashou would not say that the shelling of the Chu bandits was actually not that violent, at least far less violent than the shells fired by the Chu bandits in the Battle of Tianjin. Continue to assault like life...

This is the most critical factor in the fall of Shanhaiguan.

However, there is no need to tell these Dongyao people about these things. Although his ancestor Dashou temporarily expressed his surrender to the Dongyao people, he even bowed down.

But if there is an opportunity, Zu Dashou doesn't mind, and is even willing to cheat the people of the East, so as to weaken the strength of the people of the East as much as possible.

In this way, after entering the customs, the division of the Yellow River will become a reality!
Otherwise, with the current situation where the strength gap between the two sides is too large, what can he do to ensure the smooth implementation of the Yellow River as the boundary?

Dongyao is not a fool!
After hearing this, Huang Taiji said: "There are really more than a hundred red-clothed cannons?"

Before Zu Dashou could answer, he continued to talk to himself: "I have heard that the Chu thieves are good at making guns, and there are many guns in the army. From this point of view, the Chu thieves have more guns than the rumors say. Want more!"

"There are only [-] to [-] troops, and there are hundreds of cannons in red clothes. Tsk tsk, this is much more than ours!"

Huang Taiji also brought a lot of cannons on his expedition this time, more than 80 cannons!

However, compared with the more than 60 of the Chu army, these more than 100 artillery pieces seem to have no numerical advantage.

In fact, the Dongyao people also attached great importance to artillery. In the early years, they relied on the artillery captured from the Ming army and made some old artillery by themselves.

Later, craftsmen were gradually collected to build Hongyi cannons, and these Hongyi cannons were installed on portable two-wheeled gun mounts and pulled onto the battlefield for field use.

When entering the customs two years ago to fight, Dongyao [-] encountered Hong Chengchou's Qin army.

At that time, the Qin army under Hong Chengchou had imitated the Chu thieves and equipped them with a lot of two-and-a-half catties of field artillery, so the Eastern Captive Army suffered a head-on blow.

After returning to Liaodong, the Dongyao people brainstormed and collected information extensively, and finally learned that a light red cannon was widely used in the battle between the Chu rebels and the Ming army.

The small two-wheeled cannon of the Chu thief is called a field cannon. The barrel is shorter than the traditional Hongyi cannon of the same caliber, so it seems to be less powerful, but the weight is greatly reduced. Sexuality also correspondingly improved a lot.

In the end, Dongyao decided to imitate this kind of field artillery. In the past two years, it has also accumulated a batch of iron-cast two and a half catty field artillery, five catty field artillery, and a batch of long-barreled red cannons for siege. This formed the artillery unit in the hands of the Dongbang people.

For this expedition, Huang Taiji brought most of the field artillery and some Hongyi cannons in his hands, there were more than 80 of them.

Among them, there are more than 20 Hongyi cannons with relatively large caliber and relatively long barrels, and more than 20 five-jin field cannons, and the remaining half are two-and-a-half catty field cannons.

Huang Taiji was extremely proud of this cannon's strength, but after learning that the Chu thieves at Shanhaiguan used hundreds of long-barreled cannons, and at least hundreds of mortars of various calibers, he was completely shocked. All right……

There are only more than 4 Chu thieves on the opposite side. Strictly speaking, this is just a partial teacher among the Chu thieves.

It is just such a partial division, but it has more than 100 long-barreled artillery, which seems unbelievable to Huang Taiji.

If this is the total strength of the Chu bandits in the entire Northern Zhili area, wouldn't they have more than two hundred long-barreled artillery?
Well, he actually underestimated the number of artillery pieces of the Chu army!
The Second Army and the Third Army in the North Zhili area have a total of five divisions, plus several cavalry brigades, and independent artillery units, various types of two and a half catties field artillery, five catties field artillery, nine catties field artillery and nine Adding up the fourteen catties of heavy artillery, the total number has reached more than three hundred...

In the Chu army, in a first-class division, there are fifty or sixty field guns of various types... Although most of them are two and a half catty field guns, they are also field guns.

The combined artillery of the Second Army and the Third Army of the Northern Expedition is basically more than the total artillery of the original Ming Army Frontier Army and the Dongyao people!
In addition, in order to support the army's operations, the navy will temporarily dismantle the naval guns and move them ashore to be used as heavy siege artillery. Especially in the battle of Shanhaiguan, several naval warships directly removed more than [-] naval guns on board. Moved to the shore, and then moved to the artillery position at the head of Shanhaiguan City, and used it as a defensive artillery for the fortress.

If Huang Taiji and Zu Dashou recklessly ran over to attack Shanhaiguan, they would probably be hit head-on.

On the siege side, even the number of artillery is not as good as that of the defending side, so it will be very embarrassing to fight.

However, no one dared to say this before the fight, so the next day, Huang Taiji and Zu Dashou led their armies to the outside of Shanhaiguan City.

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Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa was a little disappointed to see the enemy army camping several miles away...

He also counted on the opposite side to deploy the camp closer, and then he would be able to use a batch of nine-pound field artillery and heavy artillery troops deployed at the top to clean up their camp with shells...

Even if the enemy cannot be seriously injured, it is also very good to be able to kill a group of enemy troops, create some chaos for them, and hit the morale of the opponent.

But the other party was more cautious and did not give himself this opportunity.

Well, since the other party is more cautious, let's spend it slowly, he still doesn't believe that the other party can fly through Shanhaiguan...

With more than 100 long-barreled cannons and dozens of mortars in hand, Shanhaiguan's firepower density is very high. If the opponent wants to storm Shanhaiguan, it will have to pay the price of a sea of ​​corpses and blood.

And he didn't believe that the other party could afford such a price!

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On that day, the Eastern Captive Army and the Liao Army outside the city did not launch any offensive, but honestly built camps several miles away.

They did not launch an attack on the second and third days, but were logging to prepare to build some siege equipment, such as long ladders, shield vehicles and the like.

It was not until the fourth day that the Allied Forces of the Eastern Captives and the Liao Army outside the city began to leave the camp on a large scale, and began to march towards Shanhaiguan in formation.

Looking at the densely packed enemy troops in the distance, Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa did not panic, but instead smiled: "They are courting death!"

Major General Kang Hongbao on the side also said: "It seems that they have never been severely beaten by intensive shelling before, but if they have been beaten once, they will not be so careless in forming a dense phalanx!"

"And I don't think they have prepared tools such as hoes and shovels for digging. Seeing them like this, it seems that they are going to come directly to fight us!"

"Let the artillery unit get ready, give them a big gift, and avoid saying that our Chu army is not hospitable!"

At this time, Huang Taiji was dressed in military uniform, riding a war horse under the protection of a group of personal guards and generals, and gradually led his troops closer.

Of course, he wouldn't be at the front. In fact, Huang Taiji was slightly behind, and he only walked halfway. He stopped when he reached a slightly higher hill, and started to set up a tent on this hill. In order to sit in command.

In Huang Taiji's line of sight, front, back, left, and right are all his troops!
More than 5 Eastern Route Army plus [-] to [-] Zu Dashou's troops spread out, almost filling most of the open space east of Shanhaiguan.

Among the large number of infantry formations, there are groups of cavalry covering them, as well as batches of artillery.

This is the first time Huang Taiji has seen such a large army for many years!
"Thinking back many years ago when I went to war with Huang Ama, I mobilized only tens of thousands of soldiers, even less than a few thousand armored soldiers, and often lacked food when marching and fighting, so I had to fight in the field and attack. It was very difficult to attack fortified positions. He also fought south and north, and laid down the huge foundation of Liaodong step by step."

"Today, 20 troops gather at Shanhaiguan, including [-] cannons, [-] cavalry, and [-] armored soldiers!"

"Break through the Shanhaiguan pass, and it will be just around the corner to send an army into the Dingding Central Plains!"

Looking at the magnificent scene of his own army in front of him, Huang Taiji couldn't help feeling heroic, and immediately said loudly: "The order will be passed on, today's battle to break the city will be counted three times. Wait!"

Contributions represent positions, titles, and glory and wealth. After the order was conveyed, bursts of cheers erupted in the Eastern captive army!
The first few Eastern captive vanguards accelerated their speed and moved towards Shanhaiguan!
At the same time, on a protruding high fort in Shanhaiguan City, an artillery colonel was squinting at the approaching Eastern captive army in front of him.

The gunnery staff next to him constantly reported the distance of the opponent's forward army based on the distance mark of the city mark ahead of time, such as a tree, a big rock, or a wooden stake, etc.

"2000 meters."

"One thousand nine hundred meters"

"One thousand and one hundred meters!"

"One thousand and one hundred meters!"

In order to simplify the measurement, Luo Zhixue took the lead in promoting the metric system in the arsenal, adopted the decimal system, and formulated the measurement units of millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers. (Mainly for the convenience of description and everyone’s viewing, no need to delve into it)

When the artillery staff shouted 500 meters, the artillery colonel on the side said in a timely manner: "Every gun is ready, the scale is 300 meters, and the solid ammunition is loaded!"

"One thousand nine hundred meters"

"One thousand and one hundred meters!"

Colonel, the head of the [-]st Heavy Artillery Regiment, drew out his command knife and said loudly at the same time: "Fire!"

Immediately afterwards, the eighteen nine-jin or fourteen-jin long-barreled heavy guns under his command opened fire one after another!
The sound of rumbling guns began to ring out on the majestic pass of Shanhaiguan, and at the same time as billows of gunpowder smoke rose, it also announced that the offensive and defensive battle had officially kicked off.

As the heavy artillery unit of the Chu army opened fire first, and took advantage of the condescending height and the shooting elements formulated in advance, more than a dozen solid shells flew across the sky, and then fell in a forward line of Dongyao...

(End of this chapter)