I want to be emperor

Chapter 793 History
Looking at the hundreds of indigenous soldiers attacking from the opposite side, Wu Jintang was very upset.

The native soldiers on the opposite side, the matchlock guns, spears, and armor in their hands were all produced by Chu State itself and exported through the early Dongyang Trading Company.

So I couldn't help but feel very upset about the behavior of Toyo Trading Company in the early years.

But if you are unhappy, you still have to fight.

As a senior army soldier who served in the army for ten years and was deployed twice to the Jinshan area of ​​North America, and retired after reaching the rank of sergeant, Wu Jintang has rich experience in fighting Native Americans.

He is very clear that the natives on the opposite side seem to be holding matchlock guns, but the way of fighting in Shanghai stays in a very primitive tribal combat mode. To be honest, these indigenous soldiers holding matchlock guns are not as powerful as those native countries in Nanyang Woolen cloth.

Therefore, even though his side only had about 50 troops, he still did not retreat, but instead ordered the troops to start a battle formation.

This is not only the cavalry infantry with horses on their own side, they have higher mobility and can quickly retreat at any time when the battle is unfavorable.

It's not because they have no way out, Songxi Village is behind them, their home.

But because they are confident enough to defeat the incoming enemy.

As for the native soldiers on the opposite side, Wu Jintang dared to say that it was unrealistic to wipe them all out, but defeating them was not a big problem.

why?
You really think that the 21-year-style captive guns and revolvers in the hands of Wu Jintang and the militiamen are fake!

Not to mention that in addition to Wu Jintang, there are six retired soldiers in the militia, who respectively serve as the captains of the various squads in the militia.

With these retired soldiers and Wu Jintang, a senior retired sergeant, as the backbone, to put it bluntly, with these NO.50 militiamen who have undergone frequent and long-term military training, let alone fight these indigenous tribes with no rules and outdated weapons and equipment Soldiers are gone.

Even in the face of the same number of regular Spanish troops equipped with flintlock guns, they can fight a dozen... Anyway, they are all mounted infantry, with stronger mobility and able to grasp the initiative on the battlefield.

Fifty militiamen, under Wu Jintang's order, quickly got on their horses and started a battle formation.

Among them, more than 30 people from the first, second, and fourth teams were on the front line, and they continued to advance with a 65mm light field gun.

Zhao Gantong's third team of twelve began riding horses to make a flanking detour.

At this time, the native soldiers on the opposite side also discovered the militia team of Songxi Village. There was a slight pause at first, but soon dozens of native soldiers on horseback rushed over, and a large group of native infantry behind them also rushed over. Follow along with a spear or arquebus in hand.

Looking at this, it seems that they want to take advantage of the absolute number of people to take the initiative to rush over and fight a wave.

At this time, Wu Jintang decisively ordered the 65mm light field artillery to start preparing for shelling on the spot.

I saw that the 65mm light field gun was quickly deployed, and the deployment of this light field gun was very simple and convenient.

Just separate the artillery from the leading vehicle. Two artillerymen push the separated artillery together for quick aiming. At the same time, one artilleryman leads the horse to leave, while the leading vehicle, which is also the ammunition box, is left in place.

A gunner took out a 65mm spherical solid shell with a wooden bullet holder and a propellant charge directly from the ammunition box of the leading vehicle.

In order to increase the rate of fire, the 65mm series field guns in the Chu Army began to use quantitative propellant packs in the early days of the Unification War.

This kind of quantitative propellant powder package is to weigh a certain amount of propellant powder in advance and wrap it in paper. It is very convenient to use, just put the entire paper-packed quantitative propellant powder package into the gun barrel.

The use of paper-wrapped quantitative launch charges is an important factor for the rate of fire of the Chu army's 65mm field guns to reach two rounds per minute, and the skilled gun crew can even reach three rounds.

In fact, quantitative propellant packs are also widely used in other artillery pieces of the Chu army. The propellant packs used by some medium and large caliber artillery even use expensive raw silk as packaging.

Although the price of the raw silk propellant package is a bit expensive, compared with the cost of the propellant itself required to fire a shell from a large-caliber artillery, the raw silk cost is actually nothing.

And the advantage of raw silk is that it burns very completely, and the propellant will not leave too much residue, which greatly reduces the smoldering situation and is more convenient for subsequent loading. This is very heavy for medium and large caliber guns, especially naval guns. .

At present, the propellants of the medium and large caliber naval guns of the Chu army are basically wrapped in raw silk.

The army uses relatively little raw silk, and only a small number of long-barreled cannons are used. Most field artillery still use cheap and easy-to-obtain paper as the packaging material for propellant.

The main reason is that the artillery used by the army is generally small and medium-caliber artillery, and the number of equipment is also large, and the use is very frequent. The overall ammunition consumption is relatively large. There are very few raw silk propellant kits... Of course, it can also be said that they are poor and cannot be used.

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The 65mm field gun in the Songxi Village Soldier Team was completed by four people from advancing to deploying to loading, and the process was extremely fast. It hadn’t been long before the aborigines on the opposite side started to form a battle formation, and they didn’t even have time Within a range of 500 meters, the 65mm light field gun in the Songxi militia has been loaded and ready to shoot at any time.

Such light and fast deployment and loading is why the Chu army has been reluctant to abandon this seemingly ineffective light artillery that can't even fire grenades.

This thing is so convenient to use.

Furthermore, this thing seems to have a poor range and power, but this is relatively speaking. It must be enough to deal with the Chu army itself, but it is used to deal with European colonial troops who have no artillery or only outdated artillery. , That's one dozen one accurate.

Wu Jintang saw that his own artillery was ready, and then saw that dozens of indigenous soldiers on the opposite side had crossed the 500-meter line.

At this distance, the 65mm field gun already has a certain lethality, especially the smoothbore artillery of the Chu army, even the solid shells widely use wooden bullet holders to increase the airtightness of the shells when they are fired, so as to obtain more Large chamber pressure and export kinetic energy.

This also brings greater range and power.

However, after years of development, the Chu Army’s wooden bullet holders are different from the early ones. The biggest feature is that the Chu Army’s new wooden bullet holders are not permanently fixed with the shells. The wooden stock will separate from the shell.

The part connected to the shell is actually not too strong, and it can be pulled out by pulling it by hand.

At the beginning, it was only for the convenience of temporarily replacing the bullet holder on the battlefield, and made a relatively loose and easy-to-replace bullet holder, but after actual use, it was found that this kind of weak bullet holder would fall off due to wind resistance after the gun was ejected from the chamber. , and then let the shell reduce wind resistance, gain greater speed and kinetic energy, and then increase its power.

So the Chu army simply carried out experiments and research and development, and finally designed a wooden bullet holder that would be directly separated from the shell after the shell was ejected.

After all, the role of the wooden bullet holder is only for the airtightness of the artillery when it is fired. If it is a grenade, it is necessary to stabilize the angle when the cannon is ejected from the chamber to ensure that the metal disc fuze in the grenade is ignited.

After the cannon is ejected, the wooden bullet holder is useless, and it may even become a drag.

Because after the spherical cannon is ejected from the chamber, the shell will roll irregularly and quickly. The existence of the wooden bullet holder will make the trajectory more complicated and affect the accuracy. At the same time, the bullet holder will increase the wind resistance, which will affect the power.

Therefore, in the actual use experience of Chu Jun, he finally came up with a separate bomb holder.

With the sound of a cannon, a solid shell flew out of the muzzle. As soon as the shell exited the barrel, the wooden bullet holder at the tail of the shell was directly separated from the shell under the action of wind resistance, leaving only a black The spherical solid shell flew towards the sky, drew a slightly curved curve in the sky, and fell into dozens of native cavalry.

Although the 65mm solid shell looks small, the distance of more than 400 meters and nearly 500 meters is a little far for the 65mm light field gun, but the lethality it brings is still very sufficient.

I saw that the solid shell landed first, and then bounced on the solid ground. After the first bounce, it flew directly towards an indigenous cavalry.

Because the ballistic trajectory is relatively straight, and because the bounce is not large, it only bounced for about one meter. After the shell bounced, it directly hit the shoulder of an indigenous cavalryman.

But the cannonball still didn't stop, but continued to move forward and fell. During the fall, it hit the left fore hoof of a warhorse under the command of an aboriginal cavalry, and then continued to bounce on the ground... and hit the horses of two aboriginal cavalry in succession. leg.

The ricochet tactic is the most practical and effective tactic when the smoothbore artillery fires solid bullets. The gunners of the Chu army kept a certain curved trajectory when conditions permitted so that the shells could bounce.

This condition permits, naturally means that the ground is strong enough.

If it is on soft ground, solid shells cannot bounce.

Just the first shot caused the loss of the four cavalry on the opposite side, one of the cavalry was directly seriously injured, and the other three cavalry seemed not to be hit, but the horses they were riding were cut off while galloping. Leg attack, and even the cavalry was pulled off the horseback, the casualties are unknown.

And the sound of the cannons also caused panic on the aboriginal cavalry on the opposite side, and some aboriginal cavalry couldn't even control the horses under their crotches.

Horses are easily frightened, especially the sound of gunfire.

It takes a long time to train horses to adapt to the sound of guns and guns on the battlefield.

The natives on the opposite side obviously did not have the conditions to allow the horses to undergo such adaptive training, so the shelling caused turmoil in the horses of the native cavalry,

Seeing a good start, Wu Jintang smiled slightly, and then ordered: "Revolver ready, follow me!"

Now the aborigines on the opposite side have come up, but the biggest threat is not the hundreds of aboriginal infantry on the opposite side. Those aboriginal infantry are not a big threat to them.

The real threat is the dozens of native cavalry on the opposite side.

Although these aboriginal cavalry didn't even have much armor, and all they held were arquebuses, spears, and bows and arrows, the maneuverability brought by their war horses was enough to pose a certain threat to them.

It just so happened that Wu Jintang saw that the infantry and cavalry on the opposite side were somewhat out of touch, and also saw that the formation of the indigenous cavalry on the opposite side was in turmoil due to his own shelling. come again.

Without the slightest hesitation, he rushed forward with his militiamen.

However, it was not like the cavalry of the regular army, waving their sabers directly, listing the iconic dense formation of the cavalry of the Chu army to charge... but preparing to ride a horse and shoot a wave with a revolver.

Although everyone in the militia in Songxi Village has horses, they are really not cavalry... they are just a group of infantry who have been training with muskets for some time. You can let them ride on horseback, or even shoot on horseback. , after all, he often trains on weekdays.

But if you let them rush up and kill with sabers like the light cavalry of the regular army, they really can't do it.

Although they also come with sabers!

Therefore, don’t even think about charging with sabers in formation. It would be nice to be able to ride a horse and then shoot a wave with a revolver on horseback.

And this is also a tactic often used by the cavalry militia of Chu State in North America, and even the cavalry of the regular army, when facing indigenous enemies.

There is no other reason, the revolver is so easy to use!

At present, the most advanced Tianwu type revolver has a rollable, anti-forward flip cylinder, six bullets, rear-loaded rifles, and paper-packed fixed-loading. The success rate of firing is extremely high, and misfires are rare. During the process, you can use the wheel to fire.

And it also uses paper shell fixed ammunition, which is very convenient to load.

To a certain extent, the firepower density of this revolver and the continuous firepower brought by the second reloading are very powerful, and it is currently the first.

However, even some other revolvers have a very similar firepower density.

As for the revolver, its biggest feature is its continuous firing. It can be regarded as the earliest semi-automatic firearm in the world. Even the smoothbore revolver equipped by the Chu army long ago also has continuous firing.

This is why revolvers were first used in cavalry units on a large scale, and then gradually served in other arms.

Cavalry loves this stuff.

Although Wu Jintang was not born in cavalry, he also likes to use revolvers.

I saw him holding the rein in one hand, and holding in the other hand a Xijiang brand [-]mm revolver with a [-]mm caliber front-loading rifle produced by Guangdong and Guangxi Arms Company, which was already loaded and ready to be fired. The revolver front-loading pistols in large-scale service in the cavalry units of the military garrisons overseas are also the favorite of many militiamen in overseas markets.

It's not because of other performance or anything, it's purely because it's not easy to rust in humid and hot weather, easy to maintain, and the failure rate is extremely low. Basically, there will be no problems in how you use it.

The gun products of Liangguang Arms Company have always had a very unique technology in terms of corrosion resistance. The company was the first company in China to use the bluing process to prevent rust on the gun barrel.

The company's firearms products have always been popular with overseas troops.

Xijiang brand [-] mm caliber revolvers are not only corrosion-resistant, easy to maintain, and easy to use, but also powerful. With one shot, the enemy's war horse can be knocked down with one shot.

This gun is very popular among the militiamen in this poor place in America. Even though the militiamen are not equipped with pistols, many militiamen will buy one out of their own pockets.

As for ordinary people, not many use it. After all, this gun has a large caliber and a large recoil. The design goal is not to use it for self-defense, but to use it as a cavalry pistol. Special training is required to use it. Otherwise, when shooting It's easy to injure your wrist.

The daily self-defense weapons of civilians in North America generally prefer two weapons from Hebei Weapons Company. One is an old-style front-loading smoothbore revolver, the He-[-] type, with a caliber of less than [-] mm, low recoil, and good accuracy. Simple to use.

Because the recoil is very small, women can easily control this gun!

In the last year, the He XIII type revolver has stolen the limelight... This thing is actually the civilian version of the Tian V type breech-loading rifle used by the military and police. Although the name is different and the details are slightly different, they are basically the same. the same thing.

The Tian-[-]/He-[-] revolver has almost stolen the limelight of all pistols in the past two years. There is no way, their performance is really awesome...

It's just that this thing is too expensive, and ordinary people are reluctant to buy it, and even the military is reluctant to adopt it in large quantities.

These militiamen in Songxi Village are not very rich, so they are naturally reluctant to buy a He XIII type revolver worth hundreds of Chu Yuan. Good enough, but still nobody buys.

A Xijiang revolver with rifled front-loading cavalry pistol, which is only more than ten Chu Yuan, is much more cost-effective.

Whether Wu Jintang or the other militiamen behind him, they basically carried the Xijiang brand cavalry pistols on the battlefield, and a group of militiamen on horseback trotted forward.

At this time, our own 65mm field gun fired twice more, and the native cavalry on the opposite side killed and injured several people, and the formation became more scattered. Several of them even left the formation and ran to where they went.

Seeing that the timing was almost up, Wu Jintang immediately led the militiamen to speed up, and rushed towards the remaining thirty or so scattered native cavalry on the opposite side.

The number of people seems to be about the same, but the formation of the militiamen of the Chu army is more dense. After all, although these militiamen are all young and strong farmers, they are all trained by retired non-commissioned officers like Wu Jintang during the slack season. There are complete militia training guidance materials and documents compiled by the military organization.

That is to say, the training time is less, and the interval between each training is longer, but: the training subjects are basically not much different from the regular army.

When fighting, they naturally used the same equipment as the regular army.

When the cavalry attacked, they adopted the standard semi-circular tactics. The cavalry rushed up in three waves, and then turned at high speed. During the turn, they used their revolvers to shoot at the enemy natives tens of meters away. .

What's even more funny is that after being attacked, the indigenous cavalry on the opposite side didn't rush up to fight with cold weapons, but stopped and used matchlock guns and bows to fight back...

In fact, at this time, for these indigenous cavalry, the best solution is to bite the bullet and rush up directly, directly attacking the queue of Chu army militiamen with sabers or spears.

At that time, the Ming army, the Eastern captives, and the Mongolian cavalry especially liked to use this trick to deal with the pistol cavalry of the Chu army. .

It also forced the Chu army to be bitten by snakes once, afraid of straw ropes for ten years, and have not waited to see pistol cavalry for more than two decades. Many cavalry generals in the cavalry unit do not like to use pistols to fight.

Even if there are better revolvers now, many cavalry generals of the older generation are very repulsed by the cavalry to use pistols, thinking that it is a sign of cowardice.

They firmly believe that real cavalry should ride horses upright, wield sabers or spears, charge forward in a dense formation, and crush all enemies along the way.

In today's battle, if it was replaced by regular army light cavalry, they would never play half-round tactics. If the cavalry commander leading the team was more enlightened, then maybe the cavalry would use revolvers before engaging the enemy. Hit a wave to make use of the intensive continuous firepower of the revolver. After hitting the enemy, use the saber again, but this is the limit.

Most of the time, the cavalry of the Chu army often rushed up directly wielding their sabers!
Shoot, nonexistent!

However, Wu Jintang and the others are not regular cavalry, so it is impossible to charge immediately. It would be nice to be able to shoot with a pistol while riding a horse.

Under the intensive firepower of the revolvers, six or seven of the native cavalry on the opposite side fell down quickly. When they wanted to rush over to counterattack, Wu Jintang had already led the cavalry away.

Then Wu Jintang and the others reloaded the revolver under the noses of the remaining indigenous cavalry!

The artillery bombarded again, and the militiamen used their pistols to attack and shoot for the second time. After several people fell down, the native cavalry on the opposite side couldn't hold on anymore, and turned around and retreated towards the rear.

But it's not over yet.

The third team, which had been making a roundabout attack before, came out from the side and rear at this time, and it seemed that they wanted to block the retreat of the native cavalry.

This scene made the remaining [-] or so indigenous cavalry look terrified. Where did they dare to stay, they immediately changed direction and quickly retreated towards the other side. , for fear of running slowly.

Not to mention the hundreds of indigenous infantry in the rear...

So the following hundreds of indigenous infantry were faced with such a dilemma: they wanted to approach the battle or organize a retreat, but they couldn't do it because of the entire cavalry of the Chu army. In the end, they could only watch helplessly. A cannon continuously shelled itself hundreds of meters away, and each cannon could cause a lot of casualties.

It's a fart like this... After a few rounds of artillery, the organization retreated and was pressed back by the Chu Army militia, all members collapsed immediately, and each fled for his life.

If they don't run for their lives, the Chu army can use artillery to beat them to death.

But it is not so easy to escape on this battlefield. After all, the soldiers in Songxi Village are all on horseback. If you sprint for a short distance, you can't run with two legs like someone with four legs.

Ever since, a large number of indigenous casualties have become inevitable.

In most battles, the casualties in the duel stage are generally not large. Even if the fighting seems to be fierce, in fact, most of the people who die at this time are in the front row, and the people in the back row are all fine. , is nothing to the whole army.

Most of the casualties in the battle often occurred during the rout stage. Basically, out of ten people died in battle, eight of them died in this stage.

The same was true for the battle between the Songxi village soldiers and the Shanghe tribe this time. In the early stage of the battle, the Songxi village soldiers actually killed and wounded only [-] or so indigenous troops.

But in the follow-up stage of taking advantage of the victory, the Songxi villagers beheaded at least three hundred enemy troops... That scene was like a group of running sheep being killed one by one from behind by the wolves behind!

The wolves behind had no trouble, and even had the strength to drive the sheep away.

The sheep didn't even have the slightest desire to resist, and they didn't even dare to look back. They just fled blindly forward, until they were caught up by the militiamen from Songxi Village on horseback, and then hacked to death!

On June 31th, [-]st year of Chengshun, Songxi Village, Shuanghe County, Jinshan Prefecture, North America was attacked by more than [-] indigenous Shanghe tribesmen. The enemy was defeated.

After this battle, the Shanghe tribe in the northwest of Shuanghe County suffered heavy losses, and they were powerless to fight again.

Three days later, more than 300 light cavalry of the regular army of the Chu army, together with more than [-] mounted and infantry militiamen, rushed to attack the Shanghe tribe in retaliation for the tribe's attack on the settlements of the Chu people and to deter other tribes.

The tribe saw a bad opportunity and tried to escape to the mountains to the east, away from the middle area at the bottom of the Golden Valley where they had lived for generations. However, even so, they were caught up by the cavalry of the Chu army and completely strangled!

The Shanghe tribe has completely become history!

(End of this chapter)