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Three days later.
The water in the pool was surging, and more than a dozen mountain soldier students were swimming back and forth on the water.
There was a bamboo whistle on the shore, and Lu Xianfeng shouted from the edge of the pool, "A quarter of an hour is up, everyone come ashore."
A group of students came ashore and stood in a row, dripping with water. The captain, a shirtless strong man, stood at the head of the group.
"Today, all the ministries have a major review. The mountain troop trainees will not participate in the offensive drill. The Pangda people have given us new tasks."
A group of mountain soldier trainees panted and stared blankly at Lu Xianfeng. After these few days of training, no one dared to ask questions at will, but they all glanced at the competition field. The large competition field was covered in white.
It was the sunlight reflected by the scales. Groups of soldiers wearing heavy armor formed a line. Small bronze cannons appeared on both sides and in the middle. There were cavalry on the outside of the two wings. Due to the limitations of the competition venue,
System, the rangers did not continue to extend, and Pang Yu's deputy commander's flag was flying high on the review stage. This Pang Pang man has been very concerned about training recently and competes almost every day.
Opposite them are hundreds of scarecrow targets with tattered clothes hanging on them, arranged in a horizontal array, with several rows of long wooden boards in the middle. Each row is made of several door panels and is supported by benches below.
There is a trench dug horizontally in the middle of the scarecrow. I don’t know what it is for.
Lu Xianfeng glanced around and continued, "The mission is to experience artillery fire." There was a hiss in the queue. The Anqing Battalion usually trained to resist bows and arrows, and to resist cavalry, but it had never experienced artillery fire. Here were all trial officers.
, basically all of them participated in the Battle of Chariots and Horses, and their limbs flew away under artillery strikes.
It has been deeply imprinted in my mind.
"Experiencing shelling allows them to know what the enemy looks like when being shelled. Enter the trench." Lu Xianfeng said and led the team towards the scarecrow array. There were several martial arts instructors at the entrance of the trench. They followed Lu Xianfeng.
After giving a few instructions, the team entered the trench. The trench only reached to the chest, and they could still move from the support as they walked.
Under the scarecrow's wooden pole, I saw the armored soldiers, who stopped just behind the rows of wooden planks.
"Have a rest, squat down after the drum sounds, and don't stand up until you ring gold." A group of students agreed and gathered at the edge of the trench to look at the opposite side. The same was true for Lu Xianfeng and Tang Ershuan. Looking at the armored soldiers opposite from the front, they were all wearing
Metallic luster, even the faces are covered with visors, some even have ghosts painted on them
The pattern was not human at all, and the entire front line had a murderous aura. Lu Xianfeng looked at it carefully for a moment, turned his head and said to Tang Ershuan next to him, "Brother Tang, have you seen that the four soldiers are divided into two groups?
The formation is actually a division, but there are two cannons on the left and right, and four cannons in the middle, for a total of eight cannons.
The artillery is allocated according to the thousand headquarters." Tang Ershuan had seen those armored soldiers on weekdays. They were all big and round, so the formation looked particularly heavy. Now standing opposite them, he was really frightened. His attention was attracted by these armored soldiers from the west camp.
, what did Lu Xianfeng say?
Yes, he could only shake his head blankly.
Lu Xianfeng kept his eyes on the opposite side, "To be honest, when it comes to the decisive victory, heavy armored soldiers will be effective. They look safer than our lightly armored soldiers."
"So how many more cannons will the Pangda people give them?" Lu Xianfeng pointed to the middle of the array, "There are people who practice archery among the armored soldiers, but they are only used for defense. When they attack, they just hit them head-on. There will be no delay in the middle.
It is said in the school that no matter how strong your side is, you must attack before attacking.
Use long-range means to destabilize the enemy's position before attacking. Ordinary people rely on bows and arrows, but our Anqing camp relies on artillery, just like the Chemah River." After hearing this, Tang Ershuan nodded repeatedly, saying that he didn't understand other things, but he saw the Chemah River with his own eyes.
, the artillery attack caused the rogues' line to fall into pieces, but he still felt that the heavy armored soldiers were the most powerful. The rogues could block the cavalry and the marines.
, the heavy armored soldiers collapsed as soon as they came up, and the role of the personal soldiers in breaking the formation was unmatched.
"The Pangda people must have been inspired by Che Ma He. They used artillery to attack the enemy's formation and then attacked with armored soldiers. Now that the artillery is doubled, it won't take as long as Che Ma He did to break the formation."
"What do those cavalry do?"
"The first thing is to deal with the enemy's cavalry, protecting the flanks of the armored soldiers. When the armored soldiers defeat the enemy's formation, they will chase them and behead them. If the enemy is full of infantry, the cavalry will also attack from the flanks during the artillery attack."
"It's so simple!" Tang Ershuan scratched his head, "Then why does my boss say that I can't even be the flag boss?" Lu Xianfeng chuckled and said, "It's so simple to fight. Among the officers' jobs, fighting is just
It is a very small part, and the more difficult thing is to bring the entire army to the enemy and force the enemy to resist the attack of the armored soldiers. Yang Xuezheng told us about the victory of Susong. The Pangda people decided early on that they could only gather together to annihilate the rogue bandits and conquer the battlefield.
We decided to stay on the post road, but we didn't learn about Cao Cao until we landed at Chang'an Port. Ma Shouying and all the giant thieves had arrived. There were nearly 100,000 thieves in the group. Everyone was a little afraid that they would not be able to defeat them. Some people said they would retreat to Leigang, while others said they would circle back to Taihu Lake.
The huge manpower defied all opinions and made a surprise attack on Erlang Town without hesitation. Only then did the bandits force the bandits to fight us decisively at the Chema River. Otherwise, they would have escaped long ago.
He is a talented general." "Pang Dajie is really brave." For the first time, Tang Ershuan was a little envious of his colleagues who entered martial arts, because he would not have heard these contents. It turned out that Susong Dajie had such a difficult experience. He looked at
Lu Xianfeng said, "Everyone in the camp said they wanted to
It’s time to fight the Tatars, and our troops are training hard every day. These cannons may be prepared for the Tatars.”
At this time, a drum sounded on the battlefield. Lu Xianfeng did not have time to answer, and immediately asked the people in the team to squat down. At this time, the trench was full of people. There was more than just this team, and the officers leading the teams were all shouting greetings. There was a sound coming from outside.
There were shouts of orders, and then there was silence. The wind on Shimen Lake passed through the array of scarecrows, and the scattered straw and tattered clothes made a whistling sound. However, it was unusually quiet in the trench, and a group of people looked at each other without saying a word.
language.
Suddenly there was a long-sounding suona, and thunderous cannons exploded one after another. There was a roar in Tang Ershuan's ears, and there was a crackle outside the trench. Broken bamboo poles flew over his head, and torn grass stalks and pieces of cloth were flying everywhere. Although Tang Ershuan
Hiding in the trench, his heart was still beating wildly, and his legs and feet felt the urge to leave the place on his own. Tang Ershuan hurriedly opened his mouth according to the instructions. The pressure on his eardrums was just a little relieved, and there were gunshots outside, and there was a burst of sound on the wall of the trench.
There was a slight vibration, a puff of dust flew into the trench, and a mountain soldier next to him suddenly coughed.
"It's only the second round." Lu Xianfeng waved his hand in front of his nose a few times and simply sat down in the trench. "It will take at least twenty rounds."
Tang Ershuan said in surprise, "How did you know that after so many attacks, it was also taught by martial arts?" "I saw them pulling artillery shells." At this time, there was another round of shelling, and a straw stalk fell on Lu Xianfeng's head.
Xianfeng rubbed his head, "All officers in martial arts must learn artillery generals. Now each thousand headquarters has an artillery commander with a separate square flag. In wartime, he is responsible for commanding all the artillery of the thousand headquarters. He will arrange it according to the enemy's formation.
He decides the order of the bombardment and how much to hit in each section. Artillery pay is higher than that of cavalry. The Pang Pang people value them very closely.
.”
Before he finished speaking, another cannon shot was fired, but this time it was not a crackling sound, nor the muffled sound of the shells falling to the ground, but a popping sound like dense raindrops, and the range of flying debris was wider.
Tang Erchuan tilted his head and said, "What kind of cannonball is this?"
"I don't know." Lu Xianfeng stood up, curled up his legs slightly and looked forward. He saw that the straw figures around him were in pieces. The rows of door panels were already damaged in several places. The remaining door panels in front of him were actually densely covered with bullets.
hole.
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"Sir, this type of shotgun has a total of sixty seven-coin iron bullets. The bullet weighs two kilograms and fifteen taels. It uses fifteen taels of medicine. It can kill unarmored enemies within a hundred steps. It can break cotton armor at seventy steps. It can break cotton armor at fifty steps.
Breaking heavy armor." On the review stage, Bo Yu took a piece of submission paper from his attendant and handed it to Pang Yu respectfully, "The four cannons in the middle are according to Su Song's new regulations after the war.
It is a small artillery type. The iron shells and shotshells weigh 2 kilograms and 8 taels each, and the powder used is 15 taels. The barrel weighs 325 kilograms, and the material is copper and tin. The length of the tube is eighteen times the diameter, which is longer than the previous one.
A batch of gun barrels has lost 43 kilograms, the frame has lost seven kilograms, and the rest of the external parts have been similarly added or subtracted, for a total weight loss of 50 kilograms.
Three kilograms, the total weight is 493 kilograms, which is within the 500 kilograms required by the adults."
"How was the gun barrel weight determined at 325 kilograms?"
Bo Yu was stunned for a moment. It was obvious that he was not familiar with this issue. Pang Yu was a little confused, but then he realized that Bo Yu was now in charge of the entire workshop, and some details may not be so clear. As expected, the entourage behind Bo Yu immediately stepped forward.
He stepped forward and said respectfully to Pang Yu, "Your Majesty, I know that the weight of the barrel is one hundred and thirty times the weight of the bullet. As Sir Ying said, the rogues do not have artillery to shoot at me, and the range of their bows and arrows is far less than that of cannons and small cannons."
The range can be slightly reduced to reduce weight and facilitate transportation. The villain starts from seventy times, and increases by ten times each time, until it reaches one hundred and eighty times. The most suitable one for adults is one hundred and thirty times, and
Not easy to explode, in the barrel
Triple the charge and test it ten times to verify its usability. Guan Changzhao has slightly reduced it before, and the range has also been reduced by twenty steps. The actual test in the workshop and artillery has been completed." Pang Yu looked up and looked at the follower, who was in his twenties.
He looked very capable and had a respectful attitude when facing Pang Yu, but his eyes did not dodge. He was probably the leader of the artillery production, and Pang Yu was quite satisfied with his answer.
The artillery on the field was still firing at this time, but the frequency had been reduced. Pang Yu was very familiar with artillery drills. This was a continuous firing rate, about twice per minute. Today's review not only checked combat readiness, but also inspected the products of the workshop.
The general manager of the workshop is still Bo Yu. It is mainly divided into five divisions: armor, guns, paper mills, glass, and vehicles. There is also a steel division under planning. At present, Pang Yu is most concerned about artillery. He transferred
He looked at Bo Yu and said, "The bronze cannon played the most important role in the Susong victory, and Mr. Bo's contribution was among them. The key lies not in how many people were killed, but in breaking the enemy's organization, which is the so-called victory over the enemy."
To kill Qi, you need to kill both the physical body and the mind. With the same effect and range of killing a hundred people, bows and arrows are far inferior to artillery. Therefore, the purpose of artillery is not only to kill people from a distance, but also the key to seizing the enemy's Qi.
The new small cannon model is lighter and arrives
The faster the battlefield, if the test is completed, this model will be produced in the future, but the tolerance must be reduced to one point." Bo Yu raised his head to speak, but Pang Yu immediately reached out to stop him, "Right now, the tolerances of each branch are not small.
The armored battleship is slightly larger and still usable, but the tolerance of the caliber of the muskets and cannons is large, which greatly affects the artillery operations. Each division is equipped with two cannons, and each thousand headquarters has four more cannons directly under it.
There are hundreds of guns given to Fang Junmen. It is impossible for me to make ammunition for each gun separately like Hongyi Cannon. Su Song rushed to deliver the guns before the battle. The tolerance is two to three points.
I have also accepted it, but now it is different when it comes to mass production. In order to simplify logistics, all artillery shells have only one shape, and all artillery fires the same kind of shells."
Seeing Pang Yu's resolute attitude, Bo Yu could only take back what he said, but the one-point tolerance was very difficult for the current workshop, and every process must be very thorough to achieve it.
"Mr. Bo must trust our craftsmen. Anyone who can come up with ways to improve tolerances will receive a one-level pay increase. No matter what method is thought of, the workshop should reach a one-point tolerance for small bronze cannons and cannonballs within half a year."
Bo Yu was a little helpless and looked back at his follower, who also had a worried look on his face.
After Pang Yu finished speaking, he turned to Yang Xueshi who was accompanying the reviewer and said, "The shotguns will be equipped with various units. Can the artillery drill manual be updated?"
Seeing Pang Yu looking at him, Yang Xueshi hesitated and said, "I just added a line. If the enemy enters a hundred steps, you can use shotgun." "Just writing this is not enough. The most common thing in the drill is the number of steps the enemy takes. We Anqing
A battalion is the strongest force in the world. After forming a formation, you should not wait for others to attack, but should take the initiative to attack. Artillery must move on the battlefield. What kind of ammunition should be used to shoot how many rounds of iron bullets from 100 to 300 steps? How many rounds should be fired within 100 steps?
Shotguns, along with infantry marching routes, deployment locations in plains, hills, and mountains, boarding and disembarking boats, shooting from above and from below, although the artillery massacred the bandits in Susong, but
It is far from perfect. If martial arts is not perfect at present, where will the artillerymen of various departments go to learn it?" Yang Xueshi heard Pang Yu's bad tone and had to quickly bow and said, "What you are saying is that the original qualified gunner is not enough.
Nowadays, many more artillery pieces have been added. Most of the new gunners are illiterate, but they are still proficient in firing and transporting the guns. Only in terms of the distance measurement test, less than half of the gunners can pass. This is still flat ground, and only range measurement can be done from the top of the mountain.
10% of them are qualified. Less than ten people can skillfully use various weapons such as gun gauges and telescopes. Only two people can barely handle eight or more artillery bombardments.
, even the daily replenishment of ammunition loss is mostly reported by the clerks of each department."
Pang Yu could only wave his hand, "So to open this martial arts school, it not only teaches the use of weapons, but also literacy and arithmetic. Otherwise, you will not be allowed to serve as a gunner." Yang Xueshi responded, the martial arts itself lacked teaching, and some basic battles
Veterans from various ministries can be transferred to teach skills, but when it comes to command, there is a shortage of talents. The cavalry department finally got two officers from Chen Rulie. They are very skilled in riding horses, but they only know one or two hundred words, so they rely on
Experienced professors often get no accurate answers when infantry officers ask them questions. The writers who help improve teaching materials have no military experience and often fail to express what they mean.
This kind of problem also exists in other departments, and the most serious one is probably the gunnery department, because there was no such branch of arms before. But Pang Yu also knew the truth. In the Ming Dynasty, civil and military forces were opposed. Most of the military personnel were vulgar, and the literacy rate among the people was not high. He
The basic base of this Caotai team is still illiterate. It does not mean that you can learn martial arts immediately after starting a martial arts school. The problem now is
Not even being taught, he thought about it and stood up in front of Bo Yu.
"Both the martial arts and the army are short of people who can use artillery. The most important thing is people who can read, count and understand artillery. There are many talents in the workshop, but we need to train some carefully, otherwise it will be difficult to make full use of the artillery." Bo Yu's side.
The attendant suddenly bowed slightly and said, "If the big man agrees, the little man is willing to join the army as an artilleryman."