901, the camp and guard troops were defeated four times
While Zhangjiakou was transporting away prisoners and digging up floating wealth, the Xuanfu's cannon finally arrived.
Li Jike looked at the sled pulled by ten oxen and the large Luzon bronze cannon. He said: "They were quite fast this time. They brought the cannon here at noon."
Tian Peng said: "It's not the ice and snow road that helped a lot, it was pulled here with sledges and strong oxen. If the snow melts in spring and there is mud and water everywhere, they won't be able to get it over in three days."
At this time, the artillery casting of the Ming Dynasty had lagged far behind Europe.
Since Britain first produced cast-iron cannons, the Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal and other countries have successively produced cast-iron cannons. By the late Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, cast-iron cannons had become the standard cannon of European navies, and were often equipped on the capital ships of naval powers.
More than 100 artillery pieces.
Artillery has become the core weapon in many wars in European countries.
During the Elizabeth I period (1558-1603), Britain divided artillery into 16 types according to their uses. The largest artillery had a caliber of 6.5 inches, a shell weighing 32 pounds (29 kilograms), an effective range of 3.66 miles, and a maximum range of 12.8.
miles (miles).
At this time, the ammunition weight of European fortress artillery used for coastal defense was even more astonishing. The shells weighed 70-100 pounds. At this time, the largest general artillery of the Ming army at the same time was equivalent to the light artillery of the British army.
There are second generals, not to mention third generals.
Tian Peng looked at these three large Luzon bronze cannons and remembered the artillery course he had taken in the crash course at the Jiangwu Hall. The instructor had explained in detail that this was the most advanced artillery in the Ming Dynasty, except for the original red cannons.
The red-coated cannons at the head of Ningyuan City are actually 22-caliber naval cannons salvaged from the British Navy warship that sank in Guangzhou. And these so-called Luzon bronze cannons are actually Spanish naval cannons imitated by the Ming Dynasty. Imitation
The aim was just behind the British guns.
During the Wanli period, after the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Sarhu, in order to stabilize the situation, they continued to find effective counterattack weapons against the Eight Banners soldiers who were skilled in bows and horses.
At that time, Liaodong manager Xiong Tingbi made many large firearms on his own. In the capital, 300 overseas Chinese craftsmen who returned from the Philippines were also recruited to imitate 28 "Luzon Big Bronze Cannons".
Seven of them were sent to Liaoyang and Shenyang to strengthen city defense.
These heavy artillery in Shenyang fell into the hands of Jiannu. Jiannu used these heavy artillery and the surrendered Ming army gunners to smash the Qi Army's carriage camp and blasted the sidecar into a pile of broken wood.
In the end, it led to the tragic defeat of the bloody battle of Hunhe River. The Sichuan white-pole soldiers who had previously killed more than 3,000 Eight Banners soldiers with their spears were also bloodbathed by the Luzon bronze cannon.
At that time, the officers and soldiers of the Sichuan Army who escaped described the tragic situation when they were bombarded. Every artillery shell caused heavy casualties to the Sichuan Army who formed a dense military formation.
The shells hit him, causing blood and flesh to fly all the way, his limbs were separated, and his flesh and blood was smeared all over the ground.
The Sichuan army's armor was wrapped in quilts, which blocked Jiannu's heavy bows, arrows and firearms. However, in front of the heavy artillery, people were as fragile as paper and were destroyed like dry matter.
Although these heavy artillery are already the largest artillery in the Ming Dynasty, in the Battle of Liaoshen in March of the first year of Tianqi, the performance of the Ming army's self-made firearms, including the Luzon Bronze Cannon, was very outstanding.
These artillery pieces, due to continuous firing during the fierce city wall offensive and defensive battles, frequently experienced failures such as explosions, overheating and being unable to fire.
As a result, it was often unable to be used when it was most needed, and it was impossible to withstand the tidal wave of attacks by the Jin Army.
These three large Luzon bronze cannons were imitations of Western cannons recruited by craftsmen recruited by Ming Dynasty officials themselves, that is, imitations. They were also the same batch of 28 cannons cast by the Ministry of Industry of the Wanli Dynasty.
Someone was so bold that he sold some of them to slaves who had sneaked into the Great Wall, disguised as bandits, and served as internal agents for Huang Taiji's subsequent invasion.
It was finally captured by Yang Fan, who later added a gun mount, wheels, and ammunition cart, and sold it to Sakurai Momo in Nagasaki.
Because Yang Fan has better artillery, he has long been disdainful of these crappy imitations. Even the officers and soldiers of Yang Fan's system also sneered at such cumbersome and defective cannons.
"But you still can't underestimate the enemy. After all, there are three 24-pound heavy artillery on the opposite side. When you can't even defeat the Qi family's army. When the battle starts, first withdraw the people from the top of the city, and then come up again after the bombardment stops." Tian Peng said.
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Li Jike nodded and said: "Okay, I will first place my rifle squadron under the base of the city wall. If the enemy's infantry reaches the bottom of the city, throw grenades and blow up their ladders."
Tian Peng nodded and said, "Yes, that's it."
After a whole morning of busy work, the three Luzon bronze cannons were finally set up.
Chen Guang asked for instructions: "Sir, do you think we should start the attack now?"
"I'll fight now. I'll have lunch after I finish the fight." Hou Shilu looked at the sun, which looked like it was about ten o'clock in the morning, and said nonchalantly.
Until now, he had not realized the strength of the opponent. He just thought that it was just relying on the favorable terrain.
"Fire!" Following Chen Guang's order, the gunner's door immediately began to light the fire door of the artillery. These artillery were all lit with fuses.
The squadron leader Lu Jiong, who was led by the Camel Artillery to support this time, was in a hidden artillery position on the mountain, using a monocular telescope to observe the operations of the gunners on the opposite side. This was a rare opportunity to understand the regular artillery of the Ming Dynasty.
The telescope is a new product put into production by the Optical Instrument Factory in Xincheng. Now Yang Fan has joined the glass factory to produce flat glass. Naturally, it is not difficult to find some experienced jade polishers to grind the glass lenses.
Since monocular telescopes are relatively easy to manufacture, a batch of them were first put into production for equipping the troops.
This time he was ordered to come for support and brought ten camel cannons, which were scattered on the mountain walls on both sides. After all, the valley entrance was too narrow. If the cannons were too concentrated, they would be easily destroyed by the opponent. And there couldn't be too many placed there.
artillery.
They found a suitable slope on the mountain wall, used fertilizer and explosives to blast a large enough earth pit, and then dug it into a hidden gun position.
These gun emplacements are covered with shrubs and dead branches outside. A camel cannon can be placed inside, as well as a crew of eleven people and enough ammunition.
The Gatling team also built a machine gun position near the gun position.
The cavalry are equipped with light three-barreled 7.92mm caliber Gatlings. Each corps is equipped with one, and the corps leader and gunner carry the gun and gun frame. The remaining three people carry the ammunition box. A squad is equipped with six machine guns, plus thirty
Five horses. Usually they are carried by horses when marching. This time, they were carried by camels.
Boom! Boom! Boom! The three big Luzon bronze cannons opened fire.
With a burst of smoke and fire, three 24-pound lead shot shells accurately hit the ice wall. At a distance of less than two hundred meters, this heavy artillery was still very accurate.
The power of the 24-pounder gun is quite good, and this caliber is also considered a siege gun in Europe. Infantry guns in Europe have never exceeded 12 pounds.
Because the ramp is inclined at 60 degrees, after all, the water flowing down will freeze thicker at the bottom.
The ice wall hit by the three shells cracked, and ice chips flew everywhere. Because of the slope, the shells were ballistically refracted, and the three shells ricocheted upwards, directly drawing three deep grooves, carrying ice chips all over the sky, along the
It paddled upward along the ice wall until it destroyed the sandbag crenel at the top, and then flew into the sky.
The cooking team is preparing lunch in the valley behind. A large iron pot with a diameter of one meter is boiling water and preparing noodles. The cooks are busy.
Suddenly, a spherical object fell from the sky, crashed into the iron pot with a clang. The iron pot made a loud noise, turned into pieces, and splashed everywhere together with the boiling hot water.
The leader of the cooking team was doused with hot water. He screamed and rolled into the snowdrift nearby. Several other people were also scratched by broken pieces of the iron pot.