Valley Emperor

Grenadiers, whose physical fitness is generally better than that of ordinary soldiers, have always been the elite arms of the Datang Army, not to mention that grenadiers are not only in good physical fitness, but also difficult to be selected as grenadiers.

Part of it was during the recruit training period, and was directly selected because of various conditions and excellent training performance. Well, this is relatively rare!

Most of them are selected into the grenadier unit after serving. After passing the rigid conditions of height and weight, soldiers are still required to serve for at least one year or have at least three combat experience.

As for why such strict requirements are required, it is because they are grenadiers, and they are troops that need to stand up to the enemy's fire and then throw grenades. They require soldiers to have great courage and discipline.

And now the grenade is very heavy, not a strong soldier, and still can't go far.

Various conditions have made the grenadier the most elite infantry branch in the army, no one.

An infantry battalion, whether it is an Army or a Marine Corps, has a similar basic infantry structure, with a team of 140 people, and a battalion has six teams, basically four ordinary infantry teams. , a team of heavy musketeers, a team of grenadiers.

The infantry battalion of the Guards also has the above six teams, but the infantry battalion of the Guards, in order to maintain its consistent strength advantage, at least let the infantry battalion of the Guards reach a scale of more than 1,000 people, so the advantage is additionally added. an infantry team.

This infantry team is equipped with 18mm muskets and is equipped with half body armor, which can be regarded as an upgraded version of the ordinary heavy musket team.

As for whether the bust is useful or not, it doesn't really matter, because what the Guards consider is that these selected soldiers are physically fit anyway, so it's not impossible to equip them with busts!

In short, a higher defense is better than nothing.

Of course, this is just the idea of ​​the top officials of the Guards. In fact, in actual combat, if there are no special circumstances, many soldiers do not wear such heavy half-body armor at all.

For example, in the Battle of Malacca, the soldiers of the four Heavy Musketeers in the Second Temporary Formation of the Guards threw away the heavy half-armor while they were still on the boat, and went directly to the army in civilian uniforms. .

However, this situation is only temporary. When the siege begins, and the Portuguese really fight, it is estimated that these people will wear it again.

After all, it is too dangerous to attack a city, and it is good to have an armor on, even if it is just a psychological comfort.

And the Portuguese soldiers are not all equipped with muskets. They still have a large number of troops using cold weapons such as spears, swords and shields.

The artillery and material transportation of the various departments of the Seventh Army lasted for five days. This is how the artillery was finally transported to the front line, and then the construction of artillery positions was much simpler.

When the artillery, especially a large number of heavy artillery, is in place, this is the announcement that the general attack on the city of Malacca is about to start!

Around the city of Malacca, Ding Chenzhen commanded the artillery unit and built three large artillery positions. The artillery in these three artillery positions added up to about 170.

Among them, there are six short-barreled howitzers of 48 jin, six long-barreled heavy artillery of 24 jin, 28 long-barreled heavy artillery of 18 jin, more than 40 heavy artillery of 14 jin, and the rest are 9 jin or more. Five pounds of field guns.

Among them, the heavy artillery of more than 14 pounds is naturally the main artillery of this siege, because these artillery have a long range and great power.

As for the nine- and five-jin field artillery, although these artillery can play a big role, their power is still somewhat insufficient compared to a typical solid bastion like Malacca City.

In contrast, the Portuguese deployed about a hundred artillery pieces on the top of Malacca City!

Dozens of them are ordinary small and medium-caliber artillery pieces, also facing the land direction, and there are dozens of artillery pieces, which are actually shore fire artillery deployed on the top of the city of Malacca. Most of them are heavy artillery of more than nine pounds. Whether it is ordinary artillery or heavy artillery, most of the artillery pieces that come to guard against the enemy ships in the port are actually dismantled from the fleet.

Although the Datang Navy attacked the Portuguese fleet, to a certain extent, it thwarted the Portuguese's attempt to move all the artillery in the fleet to the city of Malacca, but they had already moved some of the artillery to the city.

In addition, the coastal defense artillery on the side of Malacca City facing the port, although it was said to be facing the port direction before, but when necessary, it is estimated that these Portuguese will move these heavy artillery to other locations for defending the city.

After all, artillery is dead, people are alive, and these Portuguese are not stupid. Naturally, it is impossible to watch a large number of heavy artillery on the side of the sea without doing anything, but in other directions, it is the fact that the Datang Army has come in.

This siege of Malacca is, to a certain extent, a battle of artillery between the two sides. As long as one of the artillery can gain the upper hand, it can take the initiative in the battle.

For example, if the artillery of the Datang Army can overwhelm the Portuguese in firepower, it can give great support to the infantry troops. Even if the city of Malacca is sturdy, it can be gnawed down.

Conversely, if the Portuguese can suppress the artillery positions of the Tang Army outside the city through artillery warfare, then they can also gain a great advantage.

Because without the support of artillery, the Datang Army outside the city could not attack the city at all.

To put it bluntly, in the face of a solid city defense like Malacca City, without artillery to help, even if the three infantry regiments of the 19th Infantry Division died, they might not be able to rush up.

This has nothing to do with the courage or even the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, just because of the lack of artillery support.

This is also why Ding Chenzhen would rather drag it all the time, try his best to move the artillery to the city of Malacca, and let the Navy temporarily organize a naval heavy artillery battalion.

Artillery will be the core force of this Malacca siege!

With the construction of the three major artillery positions, in order to avoid the Portuguese on the top of the city from taking the opportunity to attack, the Seventh Army started to build artillery positions covertly. The artillerymen also took advantage of the night to pull the artillery up from the rear. Fire the artillery, and pull those heavy artillery down to the artillery position.

At this time, the Portuguese on the top of the city finally made their first real counterattack, landing on the tenth night!

In order to prevent the Datang Army from building artillery positions and erecting artillery in the direction of about 500 meters outside the city, the Portuguese on the top of the city shelled the Datang Army artillery positions outside the city even at night.

The rumbling of cannons rang sporadically from the early evening, and the sound of shelling was occasionally heard almost all night, but after dawn the next day, the Portuguese on the top of the city made an astonishing discovery.

Their sporadic artillery bombardment last night did not achieve any actual results. About 500 meters away from the city head, on a low hilltop, it was still empty yesterday, but today, a complete artillery position has appeared. and dozens of artillery pieces.

Although the Portuguese were very alert and carried out artillery bombardment at night, it has to be said that their shelling did not bring the expected results. On the one hand, it was because at night, although the Datang Army built artillery positions and transported artillery. At that time, it was not carried out in the dark, but carried out with torches openly and aboveboard, but the brightness of the torches was enough for the construction troops of the Datang Army, but not enough for the Portuguese artillery troops.

At night, aiming at the light of the torch to shoot, this is actually a very unreliable thing, let alone in order to confuse the Portuguese, in fact, Ding Chenzhen has arranged a large number of people, and in various irrelevant places, hide Behind the bunker, then holding artillery to confuse and lure the Portuguese into firing.

At the same time, the construction troops also have protective measures. The biggest protective measure is to use the reverse slope. The artillery of the Datang Army are not stupid. Their artillery positions are built on the top of the hill, and the back of the hill is the safest. The place.

The only thing that will be attacked by the enemy is actually the top of the mountain, and on the top of the mountain, they used the method of digging trenches to build artillery positions directly, rather than stupidly running to the top of the mountain and throwing the artillery on the ground.

A perfect artillery position naturally requires corresponding protective fortifications.

In addition to the night, the reverse slope, the trench and other measures, coupled with the relatively long distance, it is almost close to the limited range of the artillery, and the hit rate is not as high as there.

At a distance of 500 meters, this is almost the limit of the limited range of contemporary large-caliber artillery. Even many nine-jin artillery can barely hit this far, and there is no accuracy at all.

Although it is said that the artillery of this year can also extend the range by raising the elevation angle~www.wuxiaspot.com~, but this range is almost meaningless. Based on the accuracy of contemporary artillery, if it exceeds 500 meters, God and the old man do not know that the artillery shell will fly there.

Based on the same reason, this is why the Datang Army chose to deploy heavy artillery at a distance of 500 meters. It is very risky if it is close, but it is a big deal if it is far away. This distance is just right.

If the accuracy is sufficient, in fact, the Datang Army can bombard the city of Malacca directly from the sea, or shell Malacca in the landing field four kilometers away. If the elevation angle is raised, the nine-pound field gun can shoot so far.

Just doing this, apart from wasting artillery shells, will hardly achieve any practical results.

Even if it is 500 meters, the Datang Army is only deploying heavy artillery. As for a large number of 9-jin and 5-jin artillery, in fact, it has to continue to be deployed forward. The initial selected orientation is about 400 meters. At this distance , These nine-jin and five-jin artillery pieces are the ones that can exert the greatest power.

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