Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 324 Get ready!

The chariots and artillery carts of the Qing army were on the move before, and the gunners of the Ming army were not easy to aim, and they were able to hit [-] to [-] percent of them.

Now that they have stopped, the hit rate of the bright artillery has immediately increased significantly, reaching [-] to [-]%.

Bright artillery is used on warships, mostly cannons, that is, flat-firing guns.

However, in order to be convenient for use in land warfare, Zhu Wei asked craftsmen to manufacture a batch of special artillery vehicles when he was in Chengdu.

By adjusting the elevation angle of the artillery, the bright artillery can be used as a projectile projectile in most of the land battles, and only when the elevation angle is adjusted to the level can it be classified as a flat fire.

Seeing that the Qing army's chariots and artillery carts entered for about a mile, some artillery crews did not believe in evil, so they first tried to shoot flat with live ammunition.

However, the live ammunition at this distance is quite powerful. After hitting the car, it can even be displaced several meters away. But if you want to defeat the car, or even hit the Qing army behind, it depends on luck.

Generally speaking, it can only be achieved by hitting the key and fragile parts of the car.

But this probability is very small.

Therefore, two shots were tried, and each battery group used back-fired shells.

It takes considerable skill and experience, as well as some luck, to throw the bullets into the Qing army behind the chariot.

Once successful, the Qing army hiding behind the chariot will fall down, causing many casualties.

The flowering bullets fall on both sides of the car, which can also achieve some lethal effects.

But if the flowering bullet falls in front of the car, the power is not even as good as the real bullet...
However, the Ming army has another advantage, that is, there are many artillery pieces over there.

According to the establishment, each battalion of the Border Guards and the Imperial Guard has a sentry artillery, and at the same time, there is a military town directly under the artillery post.

That is to say, there are four sentry artillery in a military town.

Each post has at least 160 bright artillery pieces, so the second and third frontier towns have at least [-] bright artillery pieces!

Therefore, the Manchurian Eight Banners Army that is attacking now feels as if it is being "warmly taken care of" by one or two hundred Hongyi cannons with flowering bullets.

Doduo saw the sudden increase in the casualties of the Eight Banners Army with binoculars, and he couldn't help saying angrily: "Why is Boluo still dawdling behind? At this time, he should lead the Mongolian cavalry across the front to approach the Ming army's position!"

He is still shrinking back, is it because the king wants to order him to teach him how to command in front of the battle? ! "

According to the previous military proposal, it was necessary to use Mongolian cavalry to approach the Ming army's position first to test its firepower, and at the same time to provide some cover for the march of the Eight Banners heavy armored infantry.

But when marching, the Mongolian cavalry did not rush to the forefront at the beginning-if this was done, with the speed of the Mongolian light cavalry, the slowness of the vanguard chariots, and the heavy armored infantry, the two could easily get out of touch on the battlefield.

Therefore, in the actual battle, the Mongolian Qingqi moved slowly behind the forward of the Eight Banners Army.

When approaching the Ming army's position for a mile or two, the Mongolian Qingqi should speed up, pass the forward army, and arrive at the Ming army's position first.

Therefore, seeing the significant increase in the striker's casualties, Duduo scolded Boluo angrily.

Maybe he felt Doduo's anger, or maybe he knew that he had to do this. After Doduo finished scolding, Boluo and Erosechen led the Mongolian cavalry to speed up.

Because they were loosely distributed, they quickly passed the forward of the Eight Banners Army and quickly approached the Ming Army's position.

At this time, Boluo's hands were sweating and he was very nervous.

Because he remembered the tragic scene of being bombarded by one or two hundred tiger squatting cannons yesterday when he circled the Ming army formation.

Driven by nervousness, not only did he not slow down, but he made the horse run faster...
On the Ming army's position, the generals of each artillery group were shouting at the artillerymen in accordance with the military orders of Zeng Ying and Yang Zhan.

"Listen well, the tiger crouching cannon will only be used halfway later. If we use all of it, it will scare away the Qing army, and the battle behind us will be difficult to fight. Do you understand?"

"I understand!"

Therefore, when Boluo led the Mongolian cavalry a hundred steps closer to the Ming army's position, only half of the artillery crew fired scattered ammunition under the cover of the trench.

In an instant, a net of death covered the Mongolian cavalry outside the position.

Although the Mongolian cavalry was looser than yesterday, many cavalry were killed and wounded by shotguns.

Then a rather interesting thing happened—many Mongolian cavalry turned a corner when they were two hundred steps away from the Ming army's position, and they never ventured within a hundred steps, let alone shoot arrows at a closer distance.

Most of these cowardly Mongolian cavalry escaped yesterday, and they were already terrified by the many tiger squatting guns of the Ming army.

Duoduo saw this scene through the binoculars, his face was livid with anger, he couldn't help but sucked the air with his whip, and said angrily: "These Mongolian dogs, after the troops are withdrawn, the king will definitely ask them for cowardice!"

Han Dai said at the side, "Why should King Yu get angry? The Mongols have always bullied the weak and feared the strong. They lost so many people yesterday. Knowing that the Ming army's artillery was powerful, they naturally refused to go up and fight their lives.

But fortunately, some people rushed up and tried to see how many Ming army tigers squatted.

Looking at the appearance of three or four hundred gates, there are indeed many, but they are not invincible. "

Duoduo gave Han Dai a cold look, and said angrily: "You still need to say it!"

After speaking, he took the binoculars and continued to watch.

Both Han Dai and Nu Shan showed envy—they also wanted to have a telescope, but at present, only the commander of the first army in the Qing Dynasty has one.

As for when they will be able to have it, it depends on the seizure of the Ming country in the follow-up battle.

Through the narrow vision of the binoculars, Duoduo saw that while the cavalry circled the formation, some of the artillery fire of the Ming army was somewhat scattered. The artillery began to fire one after another.

And the car, driven by the coat and slaves, continued to approach the Ming army's position.

It can be seen that the gunners of the Eight Banners Army are also consciously bombarding the artillery positions of the Ming Army, and they are really working hard.

However, this time the Ming army fired freely from each artillery group, rather than clustered artillery fire to cover firepower. Therefore, the artillery positions were loosely distributed on the west side of the two or three miles long position just like the Qing army.

This made each gun position a very small target, and it was extremely difficult for the gunners of the Eight Banners Army to hit it.

With the shelling level of the gunners of the Eight Banners Army and the performance of their artillery, it can be said that it depends entirely on luck to hit the artillery positions of the Ming Army.

In addition, the artillery of the Qing army used live ammunition, that is, iron bullets.

The border guards of the two towns had already dug many trenches, mounds, and even slopes against artillery shells on the west side.

The Qing army fired hundreds of cannons one after another. On the surface, it seemed that they fought the Ming army with great vigor, but in fact they did not cause many casualties to the Ming army.

Only a few unlucky ones will be hit by live ammunition, or die on the spot, or be seriously injured.

As for minor injuries - there are basically no minor injuries under live artillery.

Duoduo couldn't see what was going on in the Qingming Army's position. Seeing that the Eight Banners Army's hundreds of cannons fired vividly, and even faintly suppressed the Ming Army's artillery fire, he finally smiled.

After temporarily putting down the binoculars, he turned his head and smiled at Nu Shan and Han Dai beside him, "Who said that the Eight Banners of Manchuria can't use cannons? We should let that old boy Kong Youde take a look. Our Eight Banners gunners can fire artillery." , not worse than his God's Blessed Army."

The so-called Tianyou Army was the name Huang Taiji gave Kong Youde's soldiers and horses before the establishment of the Han Army Banner.

Among the troops following Kong Youde's rebellion was a firearms unit. Sun Yuanhua originally bought Xiyi guns and artillery, and specially invited Xiyi officers to train them. Therefore, the use of firearms and artillery was ranked first in the world at the end of Ming Dynasty. .

Prior to this, the Qing army repeatedly suffered from the sharp guns of the Ming army in the Liaodong War.

Kong Youde had such an elite firearms unit, and Huang Taiji naturally attached great importance to it after he came to vote in the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, although the Tianyou Army at that time was an army composed of Han people, it was unrivaled in the limelight among all the troops of the Qing Dynasty.

Duoduo has always been contemptuous, even hostile, to the Han people. Naturally, he can't get used to Kong Youde, a Han general who surrendered so well.

Therefore, he has always wanted to capture the firearms unit from Kong Youde, or establish a Manchurian firearms unit.

Seeing the great achievements of the temporary gunners of the Eight Banners Army today, he felt that after this victory over the Ming Army, he could write to Dorgon to establish the Manchurian Eight Banners Firearms Troop.

When Duoduo's mind shifted to the games and competitions of the upper echelons of the Qing army, the forward of the Eight Banners finally entered within a hundred steps of the Ming army's position.

At this time, the Ming army's tiger crouching cannons and shotguns were under the cover of the chariot, and it seemed that they could no longer cause too many casualties to the Eight Banners army.

As a result, Tulai, who was in command of the forward of the Eight Banners, ordered the convoys to continue to move forward, trying to break into the Ming army's position in one fell swoop, so that the Ming army's artillery would no longer be useful.

"Come on—"

Amid the yelling, a large number of slaves, Bao Yi half pushed and half lifted, brought the cart to speed up in vain.

In just a few tens of breaths, more than a dozen chariots arrived at the back of the mound in front of the Ming army, only a dozen steps away from the Ming army in the trench!
The front end of the Qing army's chariot is shielded by a thick wooden raft, and several layers of iron sheets, cowhide, and mud are covered on it, and the surface is arc-shaped, which is not conducive to the impact of rolling stones and live ammunition.

After being lowered, the front end is tilted up, creating a thick baffle with an angle of nearly 45 degrees.

There are even shooting holes on the thick baffle.

Therefore, as soon as the car was parked, the Eight Banners Army immediately shot arrows into the Ming army's position through the shooting holes.

　The second watch is late.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)