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The consequences of the Ming army's insufficient artillery power have emerged. According to the southern Xinjiang battle report Gao Pragmatic received last time, when the No. 1 and No. 2 artillery were concentrated, it was not particularly difficult to blast through most of the city walls at that time.
If you are lucky, a certain position will collapse after two consecutive shots. If the collapse position is relatively low, it can almost be used as a gap to start an infantry assault after the collapse. If there are more such gaps, the opponent's city defense will be damaged.
The system is basically broken.
Even if you are unlucky and the same location is almost never hit multiple times, as long as the entire city wall is hit more times, it will easily collapse. Moreover, such collapse is more serious than the previous one and often collapses all at once.
A large section led to the immediate collapse of the city defense.
However, this time, his artillery was relatively insufficient. Although the No. 3 gun was a very useful field gun, it was somewhat incapable of bombarding the towers.
The No. 2 cannon can pose a considerable threat to the city tower, but it has just entered April. Although Lingzhou, which is located on the frontier, has thawed, the temperature is still very low. This kind of rammed earth city wall will be relatively stronger at low temperatures. Objectively speaking,
Increased the difficulty of demolishing towers.
Coupled with the small number of No. 2 cannons, the bombardment effect was even more ineffective. Seven rounds of salvos were fired in succession, but only half of the superstructure of the tower was collapsed, and a gap was created in a corner of the tower itself. When can this be done?
If it collapses, I'm afraid only God knows.
Although Gao Pangshi and Ma Gui looked calm, they were actually a little dissatisfied. But they didn't know that these seven rounds of volleys had actually scared the courage of the rebels in the city.
There is a psychological issue here: the Ming army is the only army in East Asia that has the ability to use large-scale firearms. Although Japan, which has entered the end of the Warring States Period, also has a lot of iron cannons (Note: Don’t be fooled by the name, Japan’s
The iron cannon is actually a matchlock gun), but it is just a firecracker, and its level and usage rate of artillery are much lower than those of the Ming Dynasty.
In other words, as part of the original Ming army, the Ningxia rebels did not understand artillery, but they really had not been bombarded by a large number of artillery - more than thirty No. 2 cannons were already a "large number" for them.
"Well, after all, the previous enemy, the Mongols, didn't even have one.
Moreover, in a short period of time, half of the "tower" on the city tower was smashed down, which had a great impact on them. Even because they were staying on the city wall, the shock caused by the collapse of the "tower"
The force even exceeded the damaged corner of the city tower, causing the nearby rebels to lose their souls, as if the countdown to the collapse of the entire city tower had begun, and they would all be buried under the earth wall.
Death itself is not terrible. What is terrible is waiting for death to come without the ability to resist. At this moment, the rebels on the tower are in this state of mind. They seem to be still resisting tenaciously, but in fact they are not far from collapse.
The two battalion commanders of the Guards Artillery Battalion were also very nervous. Even though they were only responsible for directing the artillery bombardment, they were sweating profusely. Standing behind them was not just Datong Commander-in-Chief Ma Gui, who had no real jurisdiction over them.
Standing behind them is the real commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guard, a highly pragmatic person who regards his job as the Minister of Rongzheng!
In later generations, it is roughly equivalent to the deputy minister of defense and the commander of the central theater watching the military exercise of two battalion commanders. Can these two battalion commanders not be nervous? What's more, in actual combat, the offensive effect is not up to expectations.
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The two battalion commanders were so anxious that they went down to the front line to urge the artillery commanders to carefully calibrate and shoot Zhu Yuan. "Any artillery crew that misses again will not be given food tonight. After the war, they will go back to Beijing to find Commander Qi to take the blame."
!I will deal with you first before taking the blame!"
The Ming army was not a disciple of the Red Dynasty, and there was no such thing as "no corporal punishment" in terms of rules. According to the high and pragmatic "modern army" principles, the so-called daily training, in addition to those real techniques and tactics, was the most
The fundamental point is to "make soldiers fear their superiors more than they fear death."
What are the differences between the feudal army, the modern army and the modern army in three different periods? Gao Pragmatic has always believed that it is mainly reflected in the three aspects of discipline, organizational ability and initiative.
The feudal army is an early form of the army. To put it simply, the feudal army is composed of generals and soldiers. Soldiers are often the private property of generals, just like the Ming army today. Therefore, the binding force of the feudal army is graded.
Higher-level officers restrain lower-level officers, lower-level officers restrain lower-level officers, and then lower-level officers restrain soldiers. This hierarchical system is loose, extensive, and lacks unified disciplinary requirements and organizational capabilities.
In such an army, the quality of the army often depends on the personal abilities of the officers, which is the so-called "a thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is hard to find." However, in fact, personal abilities are always limited, and no matter how good an officer is,
It was difficult to take care of all the troops under his command, so the quality of the feudal army was uneven. Even with elite troops, it was difficult to expand in scale.
Why the number of Qi Jiajun is always difficult to exceed 10,000 has a lot to do with this. However, Qi Jiguang also realized this after organizing the Qi Jiajun, so Qi Jiajun placed extra emphasis on discipline. Therefore, after Qi Jiguang's death, no matter who went to Qi Jiajun
As generals, they can maintain a high combat effectiveness until the court sends them to a dead end and all of them die in battle.
The modern army is an upgraded version of the feudal army. The biggest difference is that it establishes unified discipline (note: the discipline here is not just about obeying the law, but more importantly, it refers to the rules of conduct that must be observed).
The modern army has broken the composition structure of the feudal army. From officers to soldiers, everything is under unified command and restrained by unified discipline, thus improving the overall quality of the army. The improvement of the overall quality of the army also improves organizational capabilities.
Improved, complex, large-scale tactical actions can be completed (without worrying about soldiers being unable to complete them).
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Therefore, the advantages of modern armies fighting against feudal armies are obvious: the quality of modern armies is uniform, and they advance like a wall on the battlefield without the need for excellent generals to command.
It is possible to discover and break through the weak links in the feudal army, and any unit can make tactical changes according to the battlefield conditions, and its grasp of fighter opportunities is far better than that of the feudal army.
The feudal generals were helpless against this kind of confrontation with hard bridges and hard horses. Even if the feudal army deployed all its elite troops, the modern army could still defeat it as a whole. Therefore, the so-called Manchu and Mongolian cavalry in the late Qing Dynasty could
When faced with the British and French robber coalition, there was no way to make trouble - it was not just weapon suppression, but more importantly, the crushing of the military system.
As for the modern army, there is actually no major breakthrough compared to the modern army in terms of discipline and organizational capabilities, but it is better or even better in individual soldier initiative. The modern army requires soldiers to obey unconditionally, and the benefits are obvious. However, once
Without command, soldiers in modern armies are likely to be at a loss.
On the modern battlefield, there are many types of weapons, the situation is more complex and ever-changing, and the rigid system of the modern army is not suitable. Therefore, the more soldiers read, the better their performance on the battlefield (this is generally speaking).
)——The fundamental role of reading here is not actually cultural knowledge itself, but the ability to think and make decisions on your own brought by it.
Of course, the system of the modern army has nothing to do with Gao Pragmatism. At this time, the Ming Dynasty was neither suitable for this kind of soldiers nor could it train such soldiers. In Gao Pragmatism's view, what Ming Dynasty could strive to touch during his lifetime was modern times.
The level of the army cannot be higher.
Of course, there is no need to go higher.
The Datong town soldiers were supervised by Ma Chengzhao, and the two artillery battalions of the Imperial Guard also had battalion commanders personally supervising the battle. The firepower of the Ming army quickly became more powerful, and the hit rate of the artillery also increased significantly.
Three more rounds of salvos were fired one after another. The Ming army's artillery was supposed to go into "intermission" to prevent the gun body from overheating. Unexpectedly, the south gate tower of Lingzhou suddenly began to shake visible to the naked eye, and the rebel soldiers on the tower looked like they were headless.
The flies began to scurry around in panic.
Then there was only a loud bang, and the entire city tower collapsed like an avalanche. The officers and soldiers on the tower who were unable to escape in time all fell with the tower, and most of them were buried in the ruins. The remaining parts were not directly
The rebels who were killed or buried let out earth-shattering wails.
The south gate of Lingzhou seemed to have turned into a Shura purgatory in an instant, extremely bloody and extremely miserable.
Gao Pragmatic and Ma Gui, who were watching the battle from a distance, could not help but feel a little numb while watching the battle. It was not that they had never seen dead people, nor that they had never seen so many dead people, but this moment of being buried alive was still...
A bit too shocking.
However, the troops on the front line were different from them. These people who stood there under the gunfire from the opposite side were also facing the pressure of life and death. At this moment, it was like Sun Houhou who had been trapped for five hundred years was suddenly released, and he did not feel at all that the people on the opposite side were under the pressure of life and death.
There was nothing bloody about the tragic scene, but I just felt so relieved that everyone roared with excitement!
"Da Ming - Wan Sheng!"
"Da Ming - Wan Sheng!"
Ma Chengzhao, who was in the stage of changing his voice, also shouted excitedly, then hurriedly looked behind him and waved vigorously to his father, Ma Gui.
Ma Gui took a deep breath, turned his head and glanced at Gao Pingshi, and said in a deep voice: "The city gate has been breached, and we can launch a general attack."
Gao pragmatic stared at the collapsed city gate, pursed his lips slightly, and shouted: "That's right! Flatten Lingzhou for me!"
Ma Gui turned his head and waved his hand violently, and the sound of the military drums immediately started to boom, rumbling continuously, getting faster and faster. The Ming army infantry did not rush forward in one fell swoop, but marched forward in an orderly manner under Ma Chengzhao's scolding.
Although the scene is not as spectacular as swarming up, but in terms of shocking the enemy, this effect must be better!
Gao pragmatically looked at Ma Chengzhao in front of the army, smiled, and said to Ma Gui: "With such a beautiful son in Xiquan, the Ma family will be honored and favored endlessly."
Ma Gui was happy in his heart, but he still hurriedly bowed to Gao Pragmatic and thanked him: "The dog is so stubborn and stupid that it is not worth mentioning. If there are any small achievements in this battle, it is the result of the painstaking cultivation of the lord, and the dog is able to win."
This is an opportunity. If the dogs can be used in one or two ways in the future, I will be very lucky to have done the work of the dogs and horses."
Gao pragmatic smiled and waved his hand, saying: "Xi Quan is too modest."
Ma Gui knew that although Gao Pingshi's words seemed simple, in fact, he acquiesced in Ma Chengzhao's status under his command in the future, and he couldn't help but feel overjoyed. However, Ma Gui was not a person who ignored priorities, so he was happy and that was what he should do.
Still remembering to do it, he immediately reminded: "Nancheng has been destroyed. If Wei Chengen wants to leave, it should be now..."
Gao Pangshi was about to nod his head, but before Ma Gui could finish his words, a messenger in the distance had already loudly reported: "Report to the commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief, there is an elite cavalry force suddenly coming out of the city in the north city. Our army cannot intercept it.
They have broken through and surrounded them. Zhou Shenrong asked the commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief, if it is necessary to pursue him?"
Normally speaking, they must be pursued. There is no need to ask. The reason why Zhou Shenrong sent someone to ask is self-evident: The reason why Yi Chengen made "our army unable to intercept" was that he, Zhou Shenrong, was ordered to release the water.
Result. In this case, of course, we need to ask whether we should pursue it and to what extent we should pursue it.
Ma Gui smiled and said to Gao Pingshi: "Shu Tai, I think I might as well let him chase for a while. He won't be able to catch up either way. It just seems like a good thing to teach Cheng'en to think that he has a plan."
Gao pragmatic nodded and said: "Okay, let him chase. It's best to kill a few so that Kuai Cheng'en won't suspect that I have ulterior motives in letting him go back to Ningxia."
Ma Gui then asked the messenger to bring this to Zhou Shenrong. He himself complained to Gao Pangshi and began to mobilize the army to prepare to enter the city.
At just the first moment, Ming officers and soldiers had already broken into the city. Only then did the rebels in the city realize that although Chi Chengen's banner was standing there unmoved, Chi Chengen himself had long since disappeared, and he was sitting there supervising the battle for him.
It's just a Xibei guy wearing his armor.
Needless to say, the consequences of losing the leader of the feudal army were that the entire morale suddenly collapsed, and almost all organizational systems disappeared without a trace in an instant. The officers could not command the soldiers, and the soldiers were too lazy to look for their own superiors.
They were all in a mess trying to escape or find a place to hide.
More rebel soldiers had neither a place to run nor a place to hide, so they simply knelt down on the roadside, held their weapons high above their heads, and surrendered with a sense of luck.
But what they did was really right. Gao Pragmatic has always opposed civil war, and of course he would not engage in massacres. Ming soldiers were repeatedly told before the war to treat prisoners well, and Gao Pragmatic also adjusted the reward.
Capturing a person will not only have the same military merit as "capturing the first level of head", but will also be rewarded with an additional five coins of silver.
Five coins, this was really the lowest reward Gao Pragmatic had ever offered, but he really had no choice. The military pay in his hand was already very low, and he didn't dare to throw money into it himself. A reward of five coins was already considered a huge reward.
of gifts.
Fortunately, the soldiers in Datong Town are not rich, and five cents is also silver. Isn’t it just one tael of silver to catch two? It’s always more cost-effective than killing them. Therefore, the rebels in Lingzhou City suddenly became
The food was so delicious that everyone rushed to capture him.
The thugs who usually have very bad tempers are no longer willing to kill people randomly. When they encounter dishonest rebels, they just beat them up to vent their anger--you can't live with money when you are angry.
However, precisely because the situation was irreversible and the officers and soldiers were "extremely restrained", the rebels' surrender became smoother. From sporadic surrenders at the beginning, they gradually developed into large-scale surrenders. Lingzhou City Talk
Not too big, the number of troops abandoned by Kuai Chengen in the city was less than 2,000, and the surrender only took place in less than half an hour.
Lingzhou City completely changed hands in just three hours, and the southern gate of Ningxia was firmly in the hands of the officers and soldiers led by Gao Pragmatic.
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