In this world, there is a very great weapon, and that is the front-loading smoothbore three-pounder that was forged when the United States was founded. Those North American militiamen used this small and lightweight cannon to launch a world-class weapon.
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Yang Fan equipped his infantry units with a large number of three-pound cannons.
Each battalion has an artillery team equipped with 18 guns. The three-pounder gun is the only one that can be sent down to the battalion level to directly support the artillery on the battlefield because it is light enough.
Yang Fan's three-pounder cannon is a copy of the large and beautiful 1776-style 3-pounder cannon.
The performance of the 1776 model 3-pounder gun is as follows:
Time of use: American Revolutionary War (1776-1781)
Rate of Fire: A skilled soldier can fire a 3-pounder in 30 seconds.
Yang Fan once again made basic improvements. One was to replace the cast iron barrel with a pure steel pipe, which greatly saved weight. The other was to use a steel structure as the gun mount.
The axle uses bearings to reduce friction, which can save effort in towing. Three centimeters of solid rubber is added to the outer edge of the steel wheel to increase the grip friction and reduce the damage of the steel wheel hub to the cement road.
The caliber was enlarged to 75mm because Yang Fan felt that the German and French 75mm were authentic. He even didn't like Maozi's 76.2mm.
The range is increased to 750 meters, which is mainly achieved by lengthening the barrel and three propellant bags.
An iron water sleeve is installed outside the barrel, similar to the design of the Maxim machine gun. Because of the firing rate of one round in half a minute, it is very easy for the barrel to overheat. Although Yang Fan uses modern high-strength steel pipes, there is still a risk of overheating.
The Type 1776 has a firing rate of thirty seconds because its firing steps include the following steps:
The first step is to use a worm (helical iron rod) to clean the gunpowder residue in the gun barrel.
The second step is to clean the gun barrel twice with a wet sponge to prevent sparks in the gun chamber from igniting the next round of ammunition.
The third step is to load the ammunition and use the push rod to push the ammunition to the bottom of the gun barrel.
Step 4: Use a needle to drill the gunpowder bag through the fire hole.
Step 5: Install a fuse into the punctured gunpowder bag.
Step 6: After taking aim, use the ignition rope to light the fuse.
It is also a custom-made artillery shell, so there is no room for improvement in this regard. But Yang Fan uses a silk medicine bag, which can save the first step. But the second step cannot be omitted. The fire must be extinguished, otherwise the medicine bag will explode when put in.
The speed of a single shot can be reduced by six to seven seconds. It can fire five rounds in two minutes.
In fact, the three-pounder gun did not have to wait for more than a hundred years. It had already appeared at this time.
Europe is now in the middle of the Thirty Years' War, and it's a time when people on both sides are going crazy. It can be said that the soup is boiling. All parties are acting like chicken blood, from being full of religious fanaticism to having bloodshot eyes for profit.
, and now I can’t stop.
At this time, Europe's technology leader was Sweden.
The deployment of mobile light field artillery was undoubtedly one of the main factors in the Swedish army's military success in the Thirty Years' War. This artillery was a 3-pound bronze cannon, often called a regimental gun.
These relatively light cannons (weighing around 120 to 140 kg) are usually pulled by 1 to 2 horses and require only 2 people to operate. These cannons can fire all 3 of the most common types of ammunition (solid balls, hollow balls filled with black powder
--The effect is extremely speechless, shotgun), the most effective of which may be short-range (about 100 to 200 meters) shotgun (cylindrical projectile filled with dozens of lead bullets).
The firepower of one such regimental gun is equivalent to a force composed of dozens of musketeers.
Therefore, when incorporated into an infantry formation, regimental artillery provides important support to the infantry formation.
In the 1620s, the development of this new type of artillery weapon was carried out in many other developed European countries, in addition to Sweden, the Netherlands, England, Denmark, Spain, the Netherlands and some countries of the Holy Roman Empire.
Yang Fancai was not as picky as them. He had 18 guns in each battalion, and thoughtfully used iron water sleeves to prevent the barrels from overheating.
Although this increases the weight, the continuous shooting time is almost infinitely extended.
As long as there is water in the casing, you can keep pumping it.
Adding some weight is obviously well worth it.
As the retreat signal sounded, the 18 infantry battalions immediately turned around and ran faster than rabbits.
Yang Fan was not prepared to let them go and directly attacked the cavalry with his bayonet.
Although no machine guns have been delivered now, he has better weapons than volley guns, which are more than 400 three-pound cannons equipped to the front-line troops.
You don’t need it at this time, why don’t you keep it for the New Year?
The Heshuote's musket, because it was a Lumi gun, had very good performance, and could possibly penetrate Yang Fan's plate armor at medium to short range.
But their bows and arrows were useless.
Although this kind of aluminum alloy plate armor weighs only one-third of steel plate armor of the same volume, it is more than four times as hard.
Bows and arrows are useless.
But even if you are wearing plate armor and are knocked away by a war horse or trampled by a horse's hooves, you will still suffer casualties.
The war horse, including the knight, armor, weapons and other sundries, weighs six to seven hundred kilograms. Even Iron Man would have to kneel under such a stampede.
After defeating the Heshuote musketeers by lining up and shooting them just now, Yang Fan was completely relieved.
He plans to test all his weapons in actual combat so that he knows what they are doing. Even if he does not go to the battlefield in person, he will know whether the people fighting below are doing their best. After all, the performance of the weapons is in his heart.
The infantrymen quickly ran back to the trench, then lay down on the side of the trench on the slope in front, hiding in the gap next to the sandbags, and stretched out their rifles.
Behind the trench, the soil excavated from the trench was used and sand bags were used to build a parapet one meter high. The second row of soldiers hunched over and stretched out their muskets from the crenellations.
Behind them was a third row of soldiers, standing with their muskets leveled.
In each squadron, there is a phalanx junction with a width of thirty-four men and a thickness of three rows. That is where the squadron headquarters is located. Behind the trench, there is a semicircular sandbag gun emplacement. A gun
The three-pounder is placed there. The squadron headquarters and gun crew are all here.
The Heshuote people were in a bit of confusion. When the musketeers of the First Division of the Infantry Corps tried to rush over just now, they collapsed in chaos and tried to run back.
Orqitu Khan quickly ordered the cavalry to form a team, preparing to rush over and replace these useless musketeers.
The musketeers retreated, the cavalry formed a charging formation and prepared to charge.
During this time, 18 battalions of musketeers calmly ran back to the inside of the fortifications and were ready to meet the cavalry.
Thirty thousand cavalry is not a small number. Four thousand of them were killed and injured just now, which is just a small victory. The main force of the Heshuote people is still there, with more than 40,000 people still alive, and no muscles or bones were injured.
Only their worst people will be sent to be musketeers.
Yang Fan currently has 18 battalions of infantry on the front line. As a reserve force on the second line, there are also 7 infantry battalions and an artillery battalion (the division-affiliated artillery battalion is equipped with 18 12-pound field guns)
The third-line troops, as well as the Cavalry Regiment and the Sauron Infantry Regiment. The remnants of the pirate regiment and the remnants of the four militia battalions have been combined to make up 3,600 people. Now they have gone to the shores of Bosten Lake to intercept possible sneak attacks by the Yarkand Khanate.
Went.
Yang Fan put down the telescope and stretched out his right thumb to measure the distance.
He turned to Zhang Geda and said: "Order to fire. Now they are all within the range of the three-pounder cannon. The field artillery battalion of the twelve-pounder cannon also opened fire to hit the Orqitu Khan's army in the distance."