Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

However, there are still at least 20 Shenhuo flying crows that landed in the phalanx of the Eight Banners Manchuria. With a huge explosion, more than 20 pits were blasted in the phalanx of the Eight Banners Manchuria in an instant.

Behind the Eight Banners Manchuria, the Eight Banners Mongolia and the Outer Fan Mongolia also suffered several rounds.

The Eight Banners soldiers who were within five steps of the explosion center were instantly blasted into charred corpses.

The Eight Banners soldiers within a radius of [-] steps were also thrown to the ground by the huge air wave generated by the explosion. After getting up, they were all in a daze, and they didn't respond to their companions calling them.

But the Eight Banners Manchuria is really worthy of the title of elite.

Suffering such a critical blow, let alone collapse, there is not even a trace of commotion.

The six flags were placed in a total of seven square formations, large and small, and they were completely motionless.

The Eight Banners Mongolia in the right rear and the Outer Fan Mongolia in the left rear suddenly fell into commotion.

But fortunately, the generals of the Eight Banners and Taiji from various Mongolian ministries responded quickly, and the riots were quickly quelled.

The generals of the Eight Banners Mongolia and Taiji, the big and small Taiji of Outer Fan Mongolia, have seen big scenes. Even if they were hit by unexpected long-range firearms, they were still calm and composed.

This is the strong background of a victorious army.

The confidence accumulated over the past 50 years is really nothing to brag about.

However, it was not over. The Eight Banners Mongolia and Outer Fan Mongolia had just returned to calm, and hundreds of sacred fire crows roared into the sky in front of the Ming army, filling the sky once again.

"Mother thief, are you still here? Is this endless?"

Sony instantly realized that the Ming army still had a lot of Shenhuo Flying Crows.

Did the Ming army turn the Shenhuo Flying Crow into a conventional weapon?

That being the case, wouldn't it mean waiting for death if you stay where you are?

At this time, there are only two choices, either go back or go forward.

Retreating is definitely not an option. Once the battle starts, there will be only advance but no retreat. If you retreat, the formation will be chaotic.
Only by moving forward and moving fast can we escape the attack of the Ming army's sacred fire and flying crows.

Because Sony has keenly discovered that the Ming army's Shenhuo Flying Crow's attack interval is very long.

At that moment, Sony roared loudly again: "The big banner sends an order, the whole army advances, advances at full speed!"

The Ba Yala who were guarding the flag immediately pressed down Sony's Chinese banner, pointing straight ahead.

After seeing this scene, the trumpeters in the Qing army blew their horns vigorously, and the drummers also beat the war drums vigorously.

The Han Army and Green Battalion of the Eight Banners who had been standing still pushed the vans and artillery carts forward again.

The Central Army and the Eight Banners Manchurians on both wings also pushed the heavy carts forward quickly, and the cavalry of the Eight Banners Mongolia and Outer Fan Mongolia also followed in a slightly messy formation.

Lian Yong, who was at the end, also followed with fear.

But even so, it was already impossible to escape the third wave of Divine Fire Flying Crows.

It was too late and then too fast, the Qing army had only moved less than ten steps, and the third wave of the Ming army's Shenhuo flying crows had already accumulated overwhelmingly, and most of them fell on the central army and the left and right wings.

The accuracy of the Ming army's god artillery is indeed very poor, and the error of [-] steps is the basic operation.

Especially after the first wave of launch, the launcher deviated, and the hit rate was even worse. There were even situations where the rockets collided in the air and then fell.

But the target is too big to hold up.

What Jiannu discharged was a huge army array with a width of nearly seven kilometers from north to south and a depth of more than three kilometers from east to west. Therefore, as long as the Shenhuo Battalion of the Ming army aimed at Jiannu's central army, the chance of missing it was almost zero, because even if it deviated After five hundred steps, the landing point of the Shenhuo shells was still within Jiannu's army formation.

So except for the ones that collided and fell in the air, almost all the shells hit.

It is that there are gaps among the former Jiannu team, the second team, the third team, and the fourth team, and the gap is very large, causing many Shenhuo shells to hit the gaps. Even so, there are still [-] to [-] percent hit rates.

So the third row of Shenhuo shells fell, and Jian Nu was blown up a lot in an instant.

One of the Shenhuo shells landed not far in front of the Chinese military watchtower. With the sound of a huge explosion, several Lian Yong who were in charge of pulling the watchtower were killed in an instant.

There are more Lian Yong being overturned to the ground.

The birch-wood watchtower almost tipped over.

Sony and the others standing on the watchtower almost fell down.

The hundreds of practitioners who were in charge of pulling and pushing the watchtower almost collapsed.

After all, these brave practitioners do not have the background of the Eight Banners Manchuria, so they are easier to be frightened.

However, the flag Ding of the two yellow flags reacted very quickly, and after beheading several heads in a row, Lian Yong regained his composure.

The Eight Banners Mongolia and the Outer Fan Mongolia were similar. After beheading a few heads, they quickly regained their composure, because in comparison, the Saber of the Supervisory Team was more lethal.

The chances of being blown to death by the Ming army's Shenhuo Flying Crow are actually not great.

But once he turned around and fled, he would be beheaded by the supervising team [-]% of the time.

Under the shock of the supervising team, Jiannu's entire formation gradually regained its composure, at least far from collapsing, and after three salvos from the God Cannon, Jiannu seemed to have adapted.

Because they discovered that the Ming army's Shenhuo shells were actually not very lethal.

A Shenhuo flying crow, even if it hits head-on, can kill a dozen people at most.

This kind of lethality does not seem to be much stronger than the red cannons of the Ming army.

After realizing this, Jiannu regained his composure and marched forward while shouting chant. Amid waves of chant after wave after wave, the forthcoming fourth wave of Shenhuo Flying Crows was not so serious. horrible.

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"What a pity." Seeing this scene, Chongzhen said regretfully, "If the black powder of the Shenhuo Cannon is replaced with smokeless gunpowder, the lethality will be increased by at least ten times! If so, maybe it is only the Shenhuo Battalion Ten rounds of salvo can directly destroy Jiannu's formation."

What Chongzhen said is really not nonsense.

The total weight of the God Cannon reached two hundred catties.

It is more than twice that of Shenhuo Feiya (80 catties).

But the weight of the warhead of the God Cannon is only [-] catties.

Because the thrust of the black powder is insufficient, it is impossible to deliver a larger load to a distance of three kilometers.

Among the 400-jin warheads, the cast iron shell and the thin iron nails inside account for [-] catties, and the remaining four catties are black powder, which is equivalent to [-] grams of smokeless gunpowder.

So this is actually a 20-jin large grenade.

It is equivalent to a cluster grenade bundled together with 20 border-made grenades during the Anti-Japanese War.

The lethality within ten meters of the explosion radius is very strong. Even if the fragments cannot penetrate the armor, they can still cause fatal damage to the human body through sound waves and shock waves.

But it seems a little powerless against armored targets ten meters away.

At most, it was overturned by the air wave generated by the explosion, making people dizzy.

However, if the black powder of the God Cannon is changed to smokeless gunpowder, then the total weight of the projectile is also two hundred catties, and the weight of the warhead can be at least forty or fifty catties or even seventy to eighty catties, plus the smokeless gunpowder. The energy density is four to five times that of black powder, so the lethality of the God Cannon will definitely increase by more than ten times.

If this is the case, its power is probably equivalent to a 155 caliber grenade!

155 caliber grenades, leaving no grass within a radius of 60 meters!The maximum killing distance can reach more than 300 meters!

If there were 1000 155-caliber grenades falling on Jiannu's formation at once, the picture would be so beautiful that Chongzhen couldn't even imagine it.

Therefore, the future prospects of the Shenhuo Battalion are very bright.

Of course, throwing flower bombs several kilometers away is not the ultimate goal of the God Cannon.

Because such a task can be completed by field artillery, there is no need for magic artillery.

In Chongzhen's vision, the god cannon is best used to throw incendiary bombs, which is to throw a large tank of incendiary mixed with animal fat, fuel oil, and sulfur fire nitrate into the enemy's large formation and then detonate.

Such an incendiary bomb is enough to make any infantry formation a thing of the past.

In future battlefields, infantry will no longer be able to fight in formation, or else they will be slaughtered.

Although he is still in Beijing and the decisive battle with Jiannu has just begun, Chongzhen's heart has already flown back to Nanjing, to the Daming Arsenal, thinking about improving the God Cannon and developing flowering ammunition.

Ming's firearms need more substantial improvement.

Otherwise, it will not be able to keep up with the expansion of Daming.

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"What a pity." Li Zicheng also sighed in the same way.

"Jiannu was caught off guard by the Ming army's Shenhuo Flying Crow just now, and almost collapsed. If the Ming army seized the opportunity and drove the army to launch a surprise attack while Jiannu was timid, even if Jiannu could not be crushed in one fell swoop, it would be impossible. At least it can make Jiannu passive, but unfortunately, the Ming army did not seize such a good opportunity."

"It's really a pity." Song Xiance echoed, "I missed a good opportunity for nothing."

"Chongzhen, the dog emperor, is still as stupid as ever. He has people under his command but he doesn't know how to use them."

"Scholars such as Zheng Sen, Xu Yingwei, and Yan Yingyuan are widely used instead of veteran generals like Huang Degong and Jin Shengyuan. I don't know why."

Speaking of this meal, he said: "If there is a veteran like Huang Degong in charge, he will definitely not miss this good opportunity."

Li Zicheng hummed lightly and said, "Scholars like Zheng Sen, Xu Yingwei, and Yan Yingyuan don't know how to fight. Chongzhen is playing with military and state affairs, so how can they be undefeated?"

This time, Gu Junen did not agree.

Li Zicheng and Song Xiance could pretend not to know, but Gu Junen couldn't pretend not to know.

The two scholars, Xu Yingwei and Yan Yingyuan, were not simple. The Battle of Hunhe, the Battle of Dagukou, and even the Battle of Shanyang were not the two of them who commanded it?Therefore, if the Ming army did not attack, it may not be impossible to see the opportunity.

Gu Junen is more willing to believe that the Ming army has other considerations.

It's just that until now, Gu Junen still doesn't think the Ming army can win.

In today's battle, the Ming army is still unable to escape defeat, but judging from the current situation, Jiannu probably won't win too easily, which is different from his previous judgment.

But this is a good thing for Dashun.