Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 399 Tactics
Bai Tu's proposal was rejected again, and... this time it was rejected by the Privy Council.

Unexpectedly, even Bai Tu's beloved adoptive father Lu Bu did not agree with Bai Tu's idea...

"Hard disk, even as a father, I can't break through the county wall with the support of the people with one blow." Lu Bu's reason was simple. The city wall... is useful to me, so how could it be useless?
Lu Bu then persuaded: "Even if our army in Chu is strong now, there is no guarantee that no one will jump over the wall in a hurry. Besides...even if we can defend the enemy from outside the country, we still have to do it for future generations."

Sure enough, even if Baitu does not demolish the old city wall, there are still people who are thinking about renovating it.

The inner city wall was brought by Cheng Ji, mainly to isolate Ji's soldiers. The outer city wall... still had to be built by herself.

"Father, what I mean is not to protect the enemy from outside the country, but the function of the city wall... is far greater than the cost of building it. When my foster father was in Bingzhou, he often fought with the Xiongnu and Qiang cavalry. You should understand the principle of field battles replacing sieges, and the heavy artillery of the Ministry of Industry is about to be put into use. By then, it will be more powerful than catapults. Ordinary city walls can be beaten like a melon, and thicker ones can hardly block five or six times, and they do not need to be used like catapults. Just like a car, you can make bombs out of rocks..." Bai Tu explained.

"Heavy artillery from the Ministry of Industry? I have seen it, but only the heaviest one can achieve the effect mentioned on the hard disk, right? The projectile power of ordinary field artillery is not much stronger than that of trebuchets for city walls, and it is just a solid iron bullet Advantages, so the damage to soldiers on flat ground is greater, and the so-called field artillery nowadays cannot go up mountains or into water at all, and has great limitations.

As for the heavy artillery... If you can move the heavy artillery under the city, you deserve to lose. Lu Bu shook his head disdainfully, saying that apart from their sound and convenience, those "guys" were no better than catapults.

When Bai Tu heard this, he was speechless for a moment.

It wasn't that Lu Bu was wrong, but... Bai Tu didn't expect that his adoptive father would study behind his back?

Obviously those cannons have just been developed by the Ministry of Industry and are still in the final debugging stage. Mass production and distribution are still planned!

"Hard disk, you don't think that before you became a father, you had nothing to do all day long in Jinling, right?" Lu Bu said with a slight smile.

"Of course not! I have heard a long time ago that my adoptive father is always busy with official affairs and never comes in after visiting the house three times..."

Bai Tu lied. He really had always thought that his adoptive father would go home to be with his aunt after having a meal at Jiangshan Pavilion in the morning.

It turns out that Lu Bu has always been interested in new weapons...

As a privy envoy, he also has the highest right to know about the Ministry of Industry's research on ordnance. If Lu Bu studied quietly behind Bai Tu's back, it would not be surprising to know this!

Lu Bu was very impressed by Bai Tu's compliment, but he still said: "The new artillery is indeed more convenient than the catapult. Unlike the catapult, it cannot move long distances and can only be made on site. Moreover, iron bullets are easier to transport, and you don't have to rely on them." We can use local materials, but... we are still far from completely changing the mode of war."

Bai Tu also had to admit that his adoptive father did have a unique vision when it came to tactical alignment, and he could see the problems with the artillery at a glance.

Are city walls useful against artillery?
Indeed, it cannot be said that it is useless. In fact, during World War II, when China was invaded by the island country, the city wall also played a certain role. Cannons can easily destroy the city walls... Therefore, in the middle and late stages, the Chinese government army appeared as the invaded party, and they could only demolish the ancient city walls in one place, so as to avoid the embarrassment of being used by the enemy in the future!

As for the current "artillery" of the Ministry of Industry, there is no need to separate flower bombs and armor-piercing bullets, and they only have the most common solid bullets.

The main way of causing damage is the rolling and bouncing of iron and lead bullets after they are fired.

Don't expect it to shoot out or explode just yet.

That requires a hollow bullet filled with gunpowder, or a "grenade". Howitzers not only have higher requirements for fuze technology, but also have restrictions on the length of the barrel. Now the Ministry of Industry has the hypothesis of exploding the bomb, but it will either explode the barrel or The shooting distance is too short...

After all, this has touched upon some blind spots of "hard drive" knowledge, which needs to be solved by the Ministry of Industry itself.

To some extent, it is not as reliable as another project of hand-throwing explosive bombs, and that project has been suspended at midfield due to safety reasons.

Even if we want to mass-produce the ones that have been successfully tested now... we still need to solve the problem of the energy source of the "Zhen Qi Machine". Otherwise, we will rely on military generals as tool men to supply energy to the stamping machines... I am afraid that the output will be worrying!

Pang Tong already had some clues and was discussing with Hua Tuo.

With the firepower and technology of the Ministry of Industry's current artillery, if it is ejected solidly and "bounces" three or four times, it can still maintain sufficient lethality against people, with a theoretical killing distance of more than a thousand steps.

Compared with the Chu Pao, the Baigong Pao is still very attractive, but... it is still a "Witch". Apart from being loud on the battlefield, it can basically be regarded as an enhanced version of the catapult!

That's why Lu Bu said that artillery can't change the mode of war yet!
It was not easy for Bai Tu to refute this. After all, what Lu Bu said was indeed reasonable. As for what Bai Tu thought about, the "future" artillery development, he could not explain it to others.

However, Lu Bu's words also gave Bai Tu a new direction, which was... war mode.

Bai Tu suddenly realized that even his adoptive father was not very adaptable to the change in tactical thinking. This was not just a problem with the city wall...

Using old tactics to use new equipment will undoubtedly achieve twice the result with half the effort.

And from this perspective, if Bai Tu can convince Lu Bu to change his overall tactical thinking, then it will be logical to talk about abandoning the city wall!
"Father, how about we do a sand table simulation?" Bai Tu said confidently.

"Oh? Now the hard drive wants to teach the godfather how to fight? Hahaha, okay, the godfather will help you to fight." Lu Bu said with a smile.

The sand table deduction is not a high-tech, but in the sand table, sand and stones are used to simulate the terrain, and chess pieces are used to simulate the confrontation. What Bai Tu proposed is not even an invention.

An hour later...

"No, no, no, it can't be calculated like this. It's useless even if your cannons can shoot and roll... My father and 300 men are enough to break through your battle formation. You have already lost!" Lu Bu said and directly moved the soldiers on the sand table. Push down all the chess pieces.

Baitu: ...

For the third time, it was agreed that five thousand would be against five thousand, each of them would have thirty Chu cannons and two thousand divine arm bows.

But every time Bai Tu took advantage of it, Lu Bu said that he could defeat the formation three hundred times, and came directly to remove his handsome flag...

Unfortunately, Bai Tu couldn't say anything.

After all, even if this was a real battlefield, Lu Bu could still charge like this!

(End of this chapter)