I want to be emperor

Chapter 531: The Dumbfounded Dongluren
Those who have not witnessed the large-scale attack of the Chu army can hardly imagine the shock caused by the hundreds of cannons fired by the Chu army.

This kind of huge scene is far from an ordinary field battle. The Chu army only took out a few, at most dozens of field cannons, which mainly fired solid shells, and incidentally fired a few grenades or cannonballs. of.

Even the division-level troops in the Chu Army mainly use two-and-a-half-pound and five-pound field artillery when fighting in the field, and these two types of artillery have relatively small calibers, and the grenade technology in the Chu Army has some flaws. Therefore grenades cannot be used.

If you use it reluctantly, the explosive power of this small-caliber spherical grenade is also very small, and the range is not good.

Only artillery with a caliber of more than nine catties, that is, 110mm, can fire a spherical grenade that can guarantee a certain range and have a certain explosive power. However, the explosive power is still limited, and the effective range is shorter than that of solid bullets. Not a lot.

In the case of field battles, the field artillery units of the Chu Army generally do not use grenades, but directly fire solid shells, which are even more lethal at medium and long distances, unless in special circumstances. !

And only at the level of eighteen catties, that is, grenades with a caliber of 150 mm, can they have relatively large explosive power.

With a larger caliber, although the explosive power is greater, the weight of the artillery is also greater, and the shells are also heavier. It is quite troublesome to maneuver and replenish ammunition. Therefore, 24 catties howitzers or even 48 catties howitzers are generally only seen in independent heavy artillery units. howitzer.

This is also the reason why the Chu Army only deploys twelve [-]-pound light howitzers in the division-level troops. This kind of artillery is moderate in weight and powerful, and is suitable for deployment in the divisional artillery regiment.

Therefore, in field battles, the Chu army actually used less grenades, and mostly used solid shells and shotgun shells.

Even if they are used, they are mostly 110mm caliber grenades. As for the [-]kg light howitzers, because there are not many, they actually don't make people feel too shocking when they fight.

Under such circumstances, it is more difficult for people to realize that the artillery units of the Chu Army are too outrageous in field battles.

Although the guns are sharp, they are basically within the scope of people's cognition.

In the past two years, the Dongbuo people had fought the Chu army many times in field battles, and in each battle, the Chu army had an absolute superiority in artillery firepower.

But he didn't say that he just scared the Dongbao people out of their asses.

But today!

In Guangning Zhongqian!

When the hundreds of artillery pieces of the Chu army opened fire at once, the shocking scene created stunned the senior generals hiding behind a certain artillery bunker at the top of the city!

"It's just fucking sharp guns?"

A middle-aged captive general looked at the huge cloud of explosion smoke rising not far from the city wall behind him, and muttered to himself in astonishment: "This kind of power cannot be resisted by manpower at all!"

Just now, a flowering bomb fired by the Chu army crossed the city wall and landed in a house tens of meters behind the city wall. The violent explosion of the shell directly shattered the brick and wood house... …tiles, wood chips and rocks were flying in the air, splashing in all directions.

There was also a holding flower bomb of the same caliber, which exploded in the air about ten meters above the city head. The huge explosion power almost swept across the surrounding city head, and directly caused the collective death of a two and a half catty artillery group nearby... …Even if there is an anti-gun bunker with circular fortifications, it can't stop the shell fragments from overhead!

This huge explosive power completely surpassed their understanding of flower bombs!
"This must be Chu Manzi's 48-jin flower bomb, and it's their new flower bomb."

"I've seen their 48-pound mortars fire explosive bullets before, but they're not that powerful. Their new explosive bullets are even more powerful!"

The general of the Dongyao people was right. This is indeed a new type of explosive bomb in the Chu army. To be precise, it is a [-]mm grenade with a wooden fuze on a wooden support.

Compared with the old 48-pound grenade, it not only uses wooden brackets and wooden fuzes, but more importantly, it uses better shell materials and processing techniques.

In the past, the shells of grenades were just ordinary iron materials, and the strength of the material was very limited. In order to prevent the shells from being damaged by the high chamber pressure in the barrel when they were fired, the shells were often made thicker.

Once the shell is thicker, the internal charge will naturally be less. At the same time, because the shell is too thick, even if the method of prefabricating fragments is adopted, the fragments after the explosion are still not ideal. In many cases, the shell is directly blown into two pieces, and there is no formation at all. There are enough fragments, so the Chu army will choose to fill some small iron balls inside to increase the lethality.

But now the shell casings of the new grenades are made of better materials. At the same time, after many improvements, the processing technology has also been improved.

Although the caliber of today's new grenade is the same as the early 48-pound grenade, the thickness of the shell case has been reduced, and the charge has increased by at least 50.00%. At the same time, the shell fragments after the explosion are more uniform and more lethal.

So, this kind of scene appeared!

The explosive power of the new type of grenade fired by the 48-jin howitzer far exceeds that of the early grenades fired by the previous 48-jin mortar.

Then, the Dongbao people were dumbfounded...

This is not normal!
What's even more frightening is that the Chu army outside the city has a whole regiment of 48-jin howitzers, a total of 24 guns!
Twenty-four 24-jin grenades fired new grenades at a rate of fire comparable to conventional artillery, and its power can be imagined.

What's more, the Chu army not only has 48 catties howitzers, but also five battalions, a total of sixty 24 catties howitzers.

The weight of a 24-pound howitzer is roughly equivalent to that of a nine-pound field gun. Although it is heavy, it is not so heavy that it needs to be handled carefully.

In the Second Field Artillery Brigade directly under the Third Army, there is a regiment of 24-pound howitzers, that is, 36 pieces.

The Ninth Army also has an independent artillery regiment, which also has two battalions of 24-pound howitzers with 24 guns.

And this is only the two types of large-caliber howitzers under the jurisdiction of the frontline artillery unit of Guangning Zhongqian. In fact, the Guards not far away also have two battalions of 24 catties howitzers. The army also has two battalions of 24-pound howitzers.

This thing is a howitzer equipped with a large number of army-level and group army-level howitzers of the Chu army. It has a high tactical status, even higher than the 48-jin howitzer.

The 84 large-caliber howitzers in the front line of Zhongmae are shelling!

In addition to them, there are several [-]-pound light howitzers under the jurisdiction of several infantry divisions. These are division-owned howitzers, and every first-class division has an attachment, no more, no less, twelve.

Under such circumstances, the Third Army of the Chu Army concentrated more than 100 howitzers of three different calibers, 150mm, 170mm, and [-]mm, in Guangning Zhongqian!

As for the nine-pound light howitzer equipped by the infantry regiment, this thing doesn't have much sense of presence in this kind of occasion, but there are more things here...

The above are still howitzers, and then there are a large number of cannons and field artillery.

In the 24rd Heavy Artillery Brigade, there was a full regiment with [-] fourteen-pound cannons, which were so powerful that they could blast a gap in some relatively thin city walls just by firing solid shells.

Hundreds of guns or artillery were bombarding Guangning Zhongqian, and they didn't talk about tactics or fighting wits with the Dongyao people at all...

The infantry of the Chu army did not even come within 300 meters of the city wall of Zhongqian...

They haven't dug their offensive trenches there yet!

In other words, the Dongbang people in the city had been subjected to intensive shelling without even seeing a Chu army infantry, and inevitably suffered heavy casualties.

Even if they also have city defense fortifications, they have piled up some sandbags on the top of the city, deployed ring-shaped sandbag fortifications around the gun crew, and built some trench defense systems outside the city.

But in the face of absolute superiority in firepower, even the strongest fortifications are unreliable, not to mention that the Dongyao people are not as good as the previous Ming army in terms of building fortifications.

In order to fight against the Dong captives before, and later to resist the Chu army, the Ming army could only passively defend the city because of their inability to fight in the field, so they almost racked their brains to develop various defense systems.

The city defense system they created is quite reliable. If it is taken alone, without considering such things as morale, if you only evaluate the city defense system simply, it is estimated that other than the Chu army, the frenzied bomber, other troops will be replaced. Human lives are piled up, otherwise it will be difficult to conquer their tortoise shells.

At least not the former Dongbang people!
They are not good at even attacking traditional cities, let alone attacking the new city defense system that was forced to be upgraded by the Chu army.

And the strength of the Dongyao people is also in field battles, and they are not very good at city defense.

Now that he met the big bomber of Chu Jun, he was immediately stunned.

The continuous falling shells caused heavy losses in a short period of time to the soldiers who were still stationed on the top of the city, and then fled down the top of the city in embarrassment one by one, and hid in various bunkers behind the city wall.

Even the senior generals of Dongyao who hid in the artillery fortifications at the head of the city to watch the battle, it was because the Chu army’s bombardment was too fierce. He also fled the city in a hurry, and turned back to the safer rear to command.

That is to say, the Chu army's infantry hadn't come up yet, or else the heavy shelling had just started, and if the Dongcap people were panicked and then attacked by the Chu army's infantry, the city would have fallen!

After witnessing the true artillery power of the Chu army, the East Captive defenders of the Zhongqian Institute immediately sent a semaphore to the cavalry friendly troops outside the city: If your cavalry don't attack, we will be unable to defend...

Hauge, the eldest son of Huang Taiji, who had just led the reinforcement cavalry from Guangning Qiantunwei to Zhongqian Station and took over the command of [-] cavalry here, immediately scolded his mother after receiving the news:
"Trash... They're all a bunch of trash... How the hell has it been? It's been less than half an hour and they say they can't keep it!"

"Let us attack now... Shit, half an hour is enough to do it, how can [-] cavalry attack so fast, don't they think it's just a play, and they can rush out with just a word of mouth!"

"Send a flag to tell them, let me guard it, whoever dares to take a step back, all the family members of the general will be executed, and all the family members of the soldiers will be enslaved!"

"My mother, Chu Manzi, didn't even go up to the infantry, so she told me that I can't hold it, and put his mother's shit!"

"A bunch of stuff that are greedy for life and afraid of death!"

(End of this chapter)