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The Indian dispatched army tried to set up the first indigenous servant army in the history of the Great Chu Empire in Mumbai: the Indian Army, but this did not affect the Indian dispatched army's offensive against Mumbai.

Since the heavy artillery was put in place, the Chu army began to clean up and bombard the city defense fortifications of Mumbai, mainly the city defense forts of the British army.

However, the bombardment power of these years is not very good compared with the artillery bombardment power of later generations. Even if there is a hot air balloon to guide the sight, the hit rate is good, but the bombardment effect is actually relatively limited, and can only be piled up by quantity, or simply It is grinding bit by bit.

The main reason is that the artillery positions of the British army should have learned the lessons of the Dutch and the Portuguese, and deployed anti-grenade ring fortifications, so that the effect of howitzer shelling was greatly reduced.

As for the solid artillery shells...they are even more useless. Their artillery positions are built directly on a small hill with a very stable foundation. At the same time, there are fortifications several meters thick in front of the artillery...even if it is a solid shell of a 150mm heavy artillery The damage caused by hitting the past is also limited.

Therefore, there is no good way to attack this kind of fort with strong fortifications, but to use more and larger artillery, and then conduct repeated and lasting shelling.

This is why the Chu army paid so much attention to the development of artillery and equipped it with artillery on a large scale.

Facing this kind of fortified city, if you don't pull out hundreds of artillery pieces, and there must be a lot of heavy artillery inside, it will be really difficult.

This also led to the huge number of artillery equipment of the Chu army, and the caliber is generally too large.

The main fighting force in the Chu army, that is, each first-class division has hundreds of artillery pieces of various types.

Among them, the first-class division of Pingyuan, which belongs to the artillery regiment, has three battalions under its jurisdiction, and each battalion has eight 115mm field guns and four 150mm light howitzers.

First-class divisions deployed in mountainous or other inaccessible areas often replace part of them with lighter 115mm mountain guns, that is, twelve 115mm field guns, that is, twelve 115mm field guns, twelve 115mm mountain guns, twelve 150mm light howitzers.

However, no matter what type of first-class infantry division, its field artillery regiment will have 36 artillery pieces.

In addition, the divisional cavalry regiment will have a separate small artillery battalion with eight 90mm field guns as standard, and the cavalry regiment belonging to the mountain division will be equipped with lighter 115mm mountain guns.There are also eight gates.

Each infantry regiment and supply regiment will each have eight 65mm field guns and four 115mm light howitzers with short barrels (a lightweight curved-firing medium-to-short-range artillery, well, it is also positioned like a mortar or infantry mortar)

The Weixian Battalion of the division headquarters will also have two 65mm field guns and two 115mm light howitzers.

These two types of artillery in the infantry regiment, the supply regiment, and the Weixian Battalion are all standard infantry artillery.

The infantry guns equipped by the Chu army are all lightweight and detachable. In the daily marching state, they can be pulled by two inferior horses, and a single horse can do it... If you can't find horsepower, a few soldiers can pull it directly go!
When encountering mountains, it can also be split and carried by mules and horses, or even multiple soldiers take turns to carry it away.

In order to make it easier for soldiers to disassemble and carry it away in an emergency, there are also a few special small rings, which can be easily inserted with multiple wooden sticks for soldiers to carry away.

These two types of artillery specially designed and equipped for infantry are very light and have adequate firepower. Therefore, they are equipped in a large number in the Chu army, no matter what type of troops they are equipped with, regardless of mountains, plains or marines.

And the above-mentioned regular artillery and infantry artillery add up, no more, no less, exactly one hundred!

These one hundred cannons of different calibers, barrel lengths, and combat positioning are the combat confidence of a first-class combat readiness division.

Not to mention that when the Chu army was fighting, in addition to the artillery carried by the division and regiment levels, they also especially liked to strengthen the artillery units for the troops in charge of the siege on the front line.

The reinforcements are often medium and large-caliber cannons or large-caliber short-barreled howitzers. For example, the Indian Expeditionary Army strengthened a No. 20 Seventh Heavy Artillery Regiment, which has 36 heavy artillery dedicated to siege.

At the same time, if there is a navy to cooperate in operations, the navy will often directly dismantle part of the naval guns, and then transport them ashore to form a temporary naval artillery battalion or regiment to participate in the battle.

Just like the current Mumbai city, in addition to some of the artillery of the No. 70 Second Division itself, there are two battalions of the No. 20 Seventh Heavy Artillery Regiment and a heavy artillery battalion of the Navy.

At the same time, the navy also dispatched warships to venture close to the coastline, and directly used a large number of naval guns on the warships to bombard the targets on the shore at a long distance. Although this kind of bombardment is in order to ensure its own safety, it is impossible to get too close, so that the accuracy of the bombardment is not good. , but the Chu army's bombardment seldom pursues any precise bombardment, and is often covered bombardment!
The overwhelming shells exploded in the past, and it doesn't matter if the hit rate is poor...

Now outside the city of Mumbai, the Chu army is still doing this. The army and navy go into battle together, using hundreds of cannons for shelling every day. On the most day, the navy even dispatched more than a dozen warships to increase the number of artillery participating in the shelling. More than 300 doors!

There is no way, the navy's warships have a lot of artillery, just pull out a third-class battleship with seventy or eighty naval guns, and a first-class battleship has hundreds of guns.

Even if it is a side bombardment, only a part of the naval guns can be used to participate in the bombardment, but the number is still not comparable to that of the army's artillery.

The Chu army wanted to rely on this overwhelming bombardment to destroy the fortifications of the British army and their confidence in resistance until they dared not go up to the top of the city to fight back.

The British army was quite heroic at the beginning, and in the first few days they had to fight back despite the shelling of the Chu army.

Especially during the few days when the Chu army was digging the traffic trenches, the artillery units of the British army fought very bravely, even going up to the fort to fight back despite the shelling of the Chu army. Tactical literacy, often jumping out of the traffic trenches and running back stupidly...and then getting bombed.

This has also led to the death and injury of hundreds of indigenous people.

But the British artillery unit was also uncomfortable, because the Chu army would also take advantage of this time to violently shell the British artillery positions, and also specially fired grenades in order to kill the British artillery.

Even if the shelling effect of a single artillery is not obvious, the hit rate is very low, and occasionally they will be hit by their circular fortifications to absorb the impact and shrapnel.

But there are so many artillery pieces that can't stand the Chu army!

This is the shelling of hundreds of artillery pieces at every turn. Even if these English people are well prepared, they will still inevitably suffer a large number of casualties.

Especially their skilled gunners, dozens of them were knocked out today, and dozens more tomorrow. After a few days of work, the British army found that they couldn't even get the gunners on hand.

Then they were very embarrassed... There are still dozens of artillery pieces, most of which are in good condition, and a few gun mounts can be repaired urgently if they are damaged, and the ammunition in reserve is also sufficient. There are not many skilled gunners who can operate artillery.

On the other hand, the Chu army on the opposite side, relying on the range advantage of their own artillery, basically deploys the artillery positions of medium and large caliber direct-pointing artillery, that is, field artillery and cannons, thousands of meters away...The artillery performance of everyone in England Too bad, the shelling over a kilometer away can only be heard.

At the same time, the artillery used by the Chu army to shell hundreds of meters away is a curved-fire howitzer. Whether it is a 150mm light howitzer, a 115mm mountain cannon or a 115mm light howitzer, they basically hide on the reverse slope for shelling... It is basically impossible for the solid shells fired by the British army on the opposite side to pose any threat to them.

As for the grenades...the British army didn't have any grenades, so they just got a few mortars to launch matchlock grenades, and the power was just that, which didn't help the overall situation.

A group of European countries, especially the Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, and English who have more contact with the Great Chu Empire. In fact, they have known the new grenade of the Chu Army for a long time, and they also want to imitate it. But I can't imitate it...

On the one hand, the metal disc fuze currently used by the Chu army for upgrading is not easy to handle. Of course, this thing can actually be produced by hand on a small scale.

But they can't handle the shell casings!

The real core technology of Chu Jun’s grenade is not on the metal disc fuze, but on the shell... and the shell involves materials and processing.

Chu Jun’s grenades, the shells are made of special steel, not ordinary pig iron wrought iron, because only steel shells can be made thinner, and the ability to withstand the chamber pressure is high enough to ensure a certain range.

Looking around the world, only the Chu army can mass-produce shells made of steel...and you can't expect other countries to produce shells with precious steel that has been handcrafted and honed over thousands of years.

Even if they did, it would be difficult for them to process.

To carry out mass industrial processing of steel, the technical requirements are higher... There is no difference between the natives and the heavens who are not good at material technology.

Based on these technical problems, European colleagues who want to make grenades can only follow the Chu army's early grenade model, using ultra-short-barreled mortars to launch matchlock-fuzed iron grenades!

That thing can be used, but its power is not very good, and it is particularly dangerous...

In the early days of the unification war, the Chu army had no choice but to use it on a large scale when faced with many tortoise shells from the Ming army.

At the same time, this stuff doesn't work very well, but it's also expensive to use.

For the British army defending the city, the effect of using these primitive grenades is actually not great. During defensive operations, solid shells at medium and long distances, and shotgun shells at medium and short distances are much better than matchlock grenades.

However, in response to this situation, the Chu army was very experienced... They didn't play any traditional infantry siege with the British army at all, they just dug traffic trenches, and the infantry hid in the trenches and gradually advanced.

Although it takes a lot of time, it is normal to spend ten days and half a month on the siege, and even a month or two is nothing.

It is much better than letting the soldiers fill it with their lives.

Ten days have passed since the Chu army came to the city of Mumbai. The artillery fired countless shells, but the British guarding the city didn't even see a single Chu army infantry...

Those damned Chu army infantry were still stationed in the fortifications more than 1000 meters away, and the few infantry who rushed to protect the artillery within a range of hundreds of meters also hid in the trenches without showing their heads.

Then the British were dumbfounded... They prepared a lot of defensive strategies, but they found that none of them were useful in the face of the real offensive mode of the Chu army.

Who would have thought that these Chu people could use hundreds or even hundreds of cannons to bombard them for more than seven or eight days a day, and not a single infantry was sent up during the process!
Looking at this ghost, I'm afraid it will be bombarded to the end of time...

After the artillery on both sides fought for seven or eight days, the English on the opposite side directly admitted their cowardice and stopped using artillery to counterattack... Anyway, the counterattack has no actual results other than killing some aborigines. The most important thing is to continue fighting. The gunners must be exhausted.

What good are more guns without a skilled gunner?

They still have to keep some skilled gunners, and wait for the Chu army to officially attack the city.

Seeing that the British army on the opposite side gave up, Major General Bai Zhen, who was observing and commanding the battle, chuckled: "A group of barbarians, who don't know the heights of heaven and earth, dare to compete with us in shelling. They are so impatient."

"These British barbarians are even more ignorant than the Dutch barbarians!"

When the Dutch fought in the Battle of Ceylon, they all knew that it would be foolish to compete with the Chu army in bombardment. They simply ignored the Chu army's long and continuous bombardment.

It is only planned to use artillery to carry out intensive counterattacks when the Chu army finally uses infantry to attack the city.
Of course, due to the lack of morale of the army and the company's top executives running away early, the counterattack strategy drawn up by the Dutch was not implemented.

However, this is the first time for the English to fight against the Chu army... Before they only heard how powerful the Chu army is, but after all, they have never really seen it, let alone experienced it for themselves. In addition, Mumbai is related to the raw silk of the English East India Company in India. , so I still maintained a certain amount of courage.

Because of this courage, they paid the casualties of a group of precious gunners without much practical significance!

When the Chu army actually launched a siege, the British army would not have many skilled gunners available.

And when the Chu army continued to bombard, and continued to dig various traffic trenches, and continued to advance the front line, the distance from the city wall was less than [-] meters.

In the Indian Army, Lehar, who has performed outstandingly in the training in the past few days, was promoted to corporal and appointed as the captain, with nine soldiers under his command.

After training, Lehar will also go to watch the battle on the front line!
It's just that Chu Jun's fighting style made him incomprehensible, or it was beyond his imagination!
Except for the sound of rumbling guns, the huge battlefield was quiet everywhere, and there were not even a few people in sight. This was completely different from the war scene Lehar imagined where tens of thousands of people gathered together to fight.

Not to mention that the native soldier Lehar couldn't understand it, even the British officers in Mumbai Castle who traveled all over the world and had a lot of experience, some of whom also participated in the 30-year war in Europe, couldn't understand it.

At this moment, the war mode in Mumbai made them equally puzzled, even fearful!

The Chu army's shelling was too ruthless, especially those explosive grenades that were unstoppable.

Once the Chu army launches an infantry attack, its own defenders will definitely go to the top of the city to defend the city. However, this is tantamount to exposing their infantry directly to the fierce artillery fire of the Chu army.

Any officer could not help but frown and even panic when he thought of the scene where his own infantry was exposed to the fierce artillery fire of the Chu army.

No soldier can stand up to this kind of fierce shelling, because that is not fighting, but letting them die, and it is worthless.

Ever since, in another battle meeting, the officers of the British army decided to immediately start to form the second line of defense in the city after deliberation.

Once the Chu army dispatched infantry to attack the city, the British army would not fight the Chu army at the top of the city, but let the Chu army in, and their own side would rely on the second or even third line of defense behind the city wall for defensive operations.

With the city wall and the buildings in the city to block it, no matter how fierce the artillery of the Chu army is, it is impossible to pose a fatal threat to the British army.

The rest is a contest between the infantry, and they have confidence in the bravery of their own infantry... they can't do without confidence.

For street fighting, no matter how bad the situation is, it is better than fighting in the open city with countless shells from the Chu army.

Putting the Chu army's infantry in, killing and wounding the Chu army's infantry in large numbers through street fighting, and finally forcing the Chu army to retreat, this is the only feasible solution that many officers of the British army came up with after careful consideration.

But, can they get what they want?