Valley Emperor

Before the Datang Army deployed a large number of nine- and five-jin field artillery, they had to deploy a large number of heavy artillery and shelled the city of Malacca to cover the deployment of a larger number of small and medium-caliber artillery.

As for when the infantry will charge, that will be a matter of the future. Anyway, before the artillery completely destroys the city of Malacca and gains an overwhelming firepower advantage, the infantry will not rashly launch a charge to attack the city, because that is not a siege, but a death sentence. !

The Portuguese people also have muskets and a lot of artillery. For example, those Flang machine guns are the same as the one-pound, two-pound, three-pound shotguns that are attached to a large number of data by the Tang military. A weapon that kills people, no matter how thick the plate armor is, it can't stop it!

Since Datang's artillery unit built a heavy artillery position on a hill of about 500 meters, the artillery battle between the two sides officially broke out!

Dozens of large-caliber artillery on both sides carried out fierce shelling at a distance of 500 meters!

In the Tang Dynasty, the two types of heavy artillery, the 24-jin and 18-jin heavy artillery, were the first to fire. The total number was more than 20. These heavy artillery had a long range and great power, even at a distance of more than 500 meters. The rate is not very good, but it can be compensated by the huge power of the shells.

The only target of these heavy artillery bombardment was the Portuguese artillery, or more accurately, their artillery, on the top of the city of Malacca.

When attacking a city, use dense artillery to engage in artillery battles with the enemy, then destroy the enemy's artillery units, turning the enemy's artillery into scrap metal, and finally use the artillery to cover the infantry to launch a charge. This has always been the Tang army's attack city ​​routine.

That's how they played in the United War back then, and they still play like this now!

The reason why this has always been done is actually very simple, that is, the Datang Army has almost an absolute advantage in artillery.

When they fought the Ming Army, the Tang Army had the advantage of artillery, and now they have the advantage of artillery against the Portuguese. Now the number of artillery pieces that have reached the front line has reached more than 100, and there are still a lot of them in the joint landing fleet. Armed merchant ships and even navy warships are still continuing to dismantle their artillery and put them on the case, and continue to reinforce them.

The Datang Army, which has the advantage of artillery, has always liked to use artillery to suppress people, not to say that there is no need for artillery, and stupidly play hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

And obviously, the Portuguese have obviously never seen such a violent shelling!

It's not a matter of how many artillery pieces there are. There are also a lot of people. When they occasionally pretend to be pirates to attack other people's ports, they have also played with hundreds or even hundreds of artillery pieces bombarding enemy ports.

What really frightened the Portuguese was the artillery shells used by the Tang military!

It is also a front-loaded smoothbore gun. Most of the Portuguese still use solid bullets. At most, they occasionally risk using grenades with external match fuzes. However, the Tang military has fully popularized the use of grenades with built-in fuzes.

So in terms of shells, the Portuguese are at an absolute disadvantage!

Whenever the artillery shells of the Tang military landed on the Portuguese artillery positions, it would cause a **** storm!

Especially the shelling of the six 48-pound short-barreled howitzers, its power is even more earth-shattering!

The 48-pound artillery used by the Tang army and navy is equivalent to the Westerners' 64-pound artillery. Needless to say, the power of this type of artillery is so great that every 48-pound grenade explodes in Malacca City. , that scene is earth-shattering, even if it is missed and landed in no man's land, it will bring great psychological deterrence to the Portuguese.

If such a cannonball happened to land on the Portuguese city head, its explosive power would be enough to sweep across the nearby city wall within a range of tens of meters, even if it flew over the city head and fell into a building outside the city, its huge The explosive power can also directly blow up various buildings.

It is true that this 48-pound short-barreled howitzer is difficult to reload, and it takes several minutes to shoot a single shot. Moreover, the accuracy of this short-barreled howitzer is even worse. In fact, few artillery shells can accurately hit the enemy's artillery positions.

But its enormous power makes up for everything!

This kind of artillery, even if it can't kill the enemy, can scare the enemy to death.

In addition, the six large-caliber cannons of 24 jin, although powerful, are relatively few in number, so the overall killing effect is not too great.

And what can really bring heavy damage to the Portuguese city head artillery units is actually a large number of 18 and 14 catties of artillery.

Its 18-jin artillery is a typical semi-cannon, and it is also the main naval gun of the Datang Navy, and its tactical importance even exceeds the 24-jin naval gun.

In fact, this kind of artillery was developed and equipped as a supplement to the 24-pound cannon in the early years. It was only used as a transition at the beginning. The 24-pound cannon was the pursuit of the Navy.

But later the navy discovered that the 24-pound artillery was good, it had range and power, but it was too heavy! It can only be equipped with a large number of warships above the 800-ton level. If the warships with a smaller tonnage are barely equipped, the number will not increase.

This also means that a large number of frigates and various auxiliary ships in the Datang Navy cannot be equipped with such real main heavy artillery.

Under this circumstance, the navy still recalled the 18-pound naval gun and installed it on various types of warships of more than 400 to 500 tons, whether it is a battleship, a cruiser, a frigate, or even an armed transport ship. Classes are widely equipped, this kind of artillery is the real main naval artillery in the navy at present, and its strategic position is even more than 24 pounds of naval artillery.

But if you want to talk about range and accuracy, in fact, this 14-year-old 18-jin naval gun is not as good as the 16-year-style 14-jin new naval gun, because this 16-year-style 14-jin naval gun , is currently the Tang military, a gun with the highest barrel diameter, the diameter has reached an astonishing 28 times.

Its caliber is 150 mm and the barrel length is 4,200 mm, and the grenade it fires uses a wooden base because of the new type of grenade, and at the same time to increase the charge, so the current grenade is actually not. The prototype is a pointed cylindrical shape, and its bomb type also exceeds the concept of fourteen pounds in the traditional sense.

Because of the gradual development of artillery, especially the weight of shells, it is becoming more and more difficult to completely divide the types and power of artillery. Because of the same nine-jin artillery, there are actually several types of the Tang military, the navy's nine-jin naval gun and the army's nine-jin gun Jin field artillery, these are two completely different artillery, and fourteen catties of artillery, the army and navy are equipped with five kinds at the same time, ranging from twenty times to twenty-eight times.

Li Xuan is also promoting the new division of artillery types and organization, and intends to divide the cost of artillery by caliber and barrel length, rather than simply by traditional ammunition weight.

However, this is a follow-up matter. At present, the Datang military still refers to various types of artillery by bomb weight. If subdivided, add the year.

Among them, the 24-jin naval guns of the Navy belong to cannons. In terms of model, they all belong to the 12-year type. Although there have been improvements later, the improvement is not large.

Eighteen catties of naval guns are semi-cannons, belonging to the fifteen-year type.

The 16-year-old 14-jin naval gun is a long gun. In addition, the navy also has a short 14-jin naval gun, which is a 9-year type, and the barrel diameter is only 23 times.

Among them, the 16-year-type 14-jin long gun has an amazing range and good accuracy. In theory, even if it is shelled at a distance of about 800 meters, it still has a certain hit accuracy. It was bombarded at a distance of more than 500 meters, and the hit rate was quite impressive.

As for not paying attention to accuracy, the maximum range of this artillery can reach 6,300 meters!

At the same time, the shells of this artillery are lighter and easier to move by manpower. For artillery with more than this caliber, the shells are too heavy, and loading is very troublesome.

The shells are lighter and easier to load, so the rate of fire can naturally go up, so to a certain extent, the rate of fire of this fourteen-pound artillery can be comparable to that of a nine-pound artillery.

Long range, high precision, easy to reload, and moderate power, so this 14-pound 27-fold artillery has always been popular with the Datang Army, Navy, Guards, and company fleets. Favored by the official armed forces of the Empire.

Twenty-eight times the 14-pound artillery has always been favored by the armed forces of the Tang Empire, including the army, navy, guards, and company fleets. However, love does not mean a lot of equipment!

why? This gun is expensive!

Because the overly long barrel represents the difficulty of casting, the yield of the gun barrel is relatively low, which relatively increases the manufacturing cost!

Then for the navy ~www.wuxiaspot.com~150mm caliber, the shells fired are still not as powerful as 18kg or 24kg shells, and their ability to attack ships is a bit worse. In pursuit of power and only quantity, the Navy would rather choose a lighter cannon that can deploy more 9-jin artillery pieces!

So I am very helpless. This 14-pound naval gun is 28 times as large as an auxiliary type of artillery in the navy. Four pounds of naval guns are equivalent.

As for the Army, they also like this 14-pound artillery that is 28 times more expensive. It's a pity that this cannon is expensive and heavier.

The army's artillery needs to strictly control the weight of the artillery, because the weight represents the mobility. If you make an extremely heavy artillery, it is useless if you can't transport it to the front line.

Then, the Army is more stingy than the Navy when it comes to purchasing equipment!

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