Valley Emperor

Twenty-eight times the 14-jin artillery has a lower yield rate, and the price is naturally more expensive. Therefore, the army only purchases a small number of 14-jin artillery that are twenty-eight times. They are equipped in a very small number of heavy-duty guns. In artillery battalions, or simply in fortresses.

In the field artillery unit of the Army, there are more 20 times the 14-jin field artillery and 23 times the 14-jin field artillery.

Nowadays, outside the city of Malacca, it is rare to see a large number of 14-pound artillery that is 28 times larger, because before the war, considering the strong defense of Malacca, the enemy's firepower is relatively fierce, in order to occupy the firepower advantage, but also to achieve hit accuracy The military specially exchanged a 28-fold 14-jin artillery battalion with the original 20-fold 14-jin artillery battalion of the Seventh Artillery Brigade. At the same time, the navy also provided 10 times the 28-fold of the two teams. Four pounds of artillery.

This also led to the concentration of thirty 14-jin artillery pieces with such long barrels outside the city of Malacca!

And the high hit rate of the long-distance effective range brought by this artillery, the results brought by the military are also amazed!

This is how Ding Chenzhen said to his subordinates: "If this gun is cheaper and lighter, our army should replace all these guns!"

Qian Songquan was speechless next to him!

Even cheaper and lighter, the 14-jin artillery is not this type of artillery, but 20 or 23 times the 14-jin artillery!

If you want high accuracy and range, but also want light weight and low price, how can there be such a good thing!

The Datang siege troops outside the city started shelling the city of Malacca on the tenth day after landing, using heavy artillery with a weight of more than 14 pounds. Of course, the Portuguese in the city did not sit still. The same applies to those on the city. The artillery counterattacked.

But the shelling effects of the two sides are very different.

The Portuguese mostly use solid bullets, and occasionally use grenades with external fuzes, but in actual combat, and they are still facing the artillery shelling of the Tang Dynasty outside the city, some Portuguese gunners have made mistakes one after another, and the external fuze Once the grenade makes a mistake during the launch, the scene is not very good.

When three explosions occurred in a row and dozens of people were killed or injured, many Portuguese gunners preferred to use solid shells instead of grenades with external fuzes, because they didn't hit the enemy, and they were killed first. .

Under the huge gap between the cannonballs of the two sides, although the Portuguese had a solid city defense and their forts were reinforced, they were still unable to resist the artillery bombardment of the Tang siege troops.

Under the continuous bombardment of dozens of heavy artillery, the city defense of Malacca was full of potholes, and more importantly, the gunners suffered heavy casualties.

The Datang Army does not use solid bullets. In fact, unless there are special occasions, the Datang artillerymen rarely use solid bullets, and they are basically all grenades.

Under the intensive explosion of grenades, the Portuguese gunners who lacked effective defensive grenade fortifications suffered heavy casualties.

When the gunners suffered heavy casualties, although these Portuguese still had a large number of artillery and shells, they could not find enough qualified gunners.

Gunners these days are still very expensive, not even ordinary soldiers can serve.

Especially the role of the artillery commander requires mastery of various skills, because the accuracy of the artillery fire depends entirely on how well the artillery commander aims. Even in the Tang military, the artillery commander is an extremely valuable technical talent. It is served by a senior non-commissioned officer.

In fact, even an ordinary gunner, that is, an ordinary gunner who loads ammunition, needs special training. Otherwise, the loading speed will become very slow, and it is also very prone to errors.

After the Portuguese gunners suffered heavy casualties, there were not enough gunners, especially experienced gunners, which began to cause a large number of city fire guns to misfire.

There are artillery, and there is no shortage of ammunition, but there is no gunner!

And this is also a major feature of the Tang Army's siege operations. The purpose of artillery warfare is not to destroy artillery or artillery positions. Artillery is a big iron lump, how can it be so easy to destroy.

Basically, the main purpose of artillery warfare is to kill enemy gunners.

The enemy's gunners were almost killed, and basically the enemy's artillery units lost their combat effectiveness.

As the heavy artillery suppressed the enemy's artillery, other artillery units in the Datang siege force, that is, a large number of five- and nine-jin artillery pieces, also began to enter a distance of about 400 meters or even 300 meters. The city head is densely projecting ammunition.

Although these small and medium-caliber artillery pieces are somewhat less powerful when attacking a city, especially when attacking a solid city defense system like a bastion, they can't stand up to a large number and have a fast rate of fire.

There are hundreds of five-jin and nine-jin artillery pieces in the siege force. This one is pulled out and fired at the city of Malacca, and the momentum is even greater than the artillery bombardment!

At this time, these five- and nine-jin artillery pieces have already taken over the heavy artillery units and assumed the task of suppressing the enemy's artillery, while the heavy artillery units, especially the 24-jin and 18-jin heavy artillery, have already begun to replace the heavy artillery units. Pack solid.

The purpose of the replacement of solid bullets is very clear, that is, to bombard the city walls of Malacca, trying to use huge solid bullets carrying huge kinetic energy to smash the solid city walls.

On the thirteenth day after the landing, after many days of artillery battles, the artillery units of the siege force successively fired more than 10,000 rounds of grenades of various calibers and nearly 1,000 rounds of large-caliber solid bullets against the city of Malacca. The city defense artillery basically has no counterattack.

Even the city wall was knocked down for a while!

The artillery battle has progressed to this level, and it is basically possible to declare that the siege troops have won the artillery battle. Next, Ding Chenzhen is considering launching a general attack.

Although it is said that it is almost impossible to conquer Malacca without artillery, it is impossible to conquer Malacca with only artillery.

For this reason, on the thirteenth day after landing, Ding Chenzhen was an anxious officer, especially the officers of the three infantry regiments under the 19th Infantry Division.

Not only senior officers participated in the combat meeting, but even the major or lieutenant colonel battalion commanders of the infantry battalion also participated in the combat meeting.

The operation meeting is very simple, it is to deploy the general offensive operation that is expected to be launched tomorrow!

According to the combat plan jointly formulated by the military staff and some senior generals, the general offensive will be launched from two directions, namely the north and the east at the same time.

The 57th Infantry Regiment is in charge of the northern offensive, and the north is also a key attack area. In addition to the 57th Infantry Regiment, the 59th Infantry Regiment is also deployed in this area as a reserve for the 57th Regiment.

The 58th Infantry Regiment was in charge of the eastward offensive. The attack here was a feint, and the 19th Cargo Regiment would serve as a reserve for the division.

As for why the baggage regiment was also included, it was naturally because the baggage units in the Datang Army were never simply a unit that transported supplies, but a unit that was positioned to **** supplies.

Therefore, although the combat effectiveness of the nineteenth cargo regiment is not as good as that of the three main regiments, it can still be used as an infantry when pulled out.

Other units, including the 19th Division Cavalry Regiment, the 19th Engineer Battalion and other divisions of the 19th Infantry Division, and the 7th Boat Bridge Regiment and the 7th Reconnaissance Battalion under the Seventh Army Headquarters, are It is to stay behind as a strategic reserve.

It is worth noting that the 19th Division is a cavalry regiment, which has completely abandoned riding horses to fight, but uses muskets as infantry. There is no way, there are no horses, and it can only be changed from cavalry to infantry. .

Another important fighting force in Malacca, the Second Temporary Formation of the Guards, was not idle either. Although they were uncles, they came to Malacca to gain military exploits. Coming battle.

The artillery battalion of the Second Provisional Regiment of the Guards has actually participated in the artillery battle in the past few days!

In the general offensive tomorrow, the second temporary formation of the Guards will form an independent army, bypass the eastern city wall, and then attack the port terminal, and launch an attack on the city of Malacca from the port terminal position.

The reason why they chose this place to open up a third battlefield is because in the past many days of artillery battles, the Portuguese have moved many coastal fire artillery to the east and north walls for defense, that is to say , In fact, the Melaka Coastal Defense Fort near the port is already useless.

Otherwise, it would not be chosen here as the third attack point.

At the same time, the battleships, cruisers and other units in the joint landing fleet will provide artillery cover for the unit.

Therefore, the entire operation will attack from three directions at the same time. At the beginning, in order to prevent the Portuguese from being aware of the main attack direction, the intensity of the battle in all directions needs to be kept within a certain range, and when the battle breaks out to a certain extent After time, after the Portuguese forces were mobilized, the 57th Regiment would go all out to attack, and the 59th Infantry Regiment would also enter the battle.

In this three-sided attack, the only way to leave the west side and not attack it sounds like a three-sided attack, but the actual situation is not the case. In fact, it does not attack from the west side. Not suitable for large scale deployment.

Attacking on three sides at the same time, the enemy was confused, mobilized his troops indiscriminately, and then let the 57th Infantry Regiment and the 59th Infantry Regiment launch a fierce attack from the back, destroying the city in one fell swoop.

This is the core of tomorrow's total attack plan.

It sounds simple, but in fact the detailed tactical arrangement is very complicated~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It doesn't mean that the commander in front waved the command knife and rushed up.

It is necessary to take into account the mobilization of the Portuguese troops, as well as the time and intensity of their artillery support.

In order to avoid any accidents, Ding Chenzhen took many officers and conducted many tactical exercises around the sand table model of Malacca City.

This sand table model recreates almost every detail of the city of Malacca perfectly, because although the city of Malacca is a military fortress, it is also a port city. Businessmen from Datang come to Malacca to do business, not on the wharf. , but into the city to do it.

In fact, when the Portuguese built the bastion here, they were always under the watchful eyes of the intelligence officers of the Datang military. After the city of Malacca was built, the Datang side already had very detailed design drawings.

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