Valley Emperor

The process and even the results of the Malacca campaign can be said to have always been under the control of the top military generals of the Tang Dynasty.

From declaring war to organizing landing troops, then attacking the coastal defense fort in Malacca and the Portuguese fleet, then landing, and launching artillery battles against the city of Malacca.

These changes have always been firmly under the control of Ding Chenzhen and other senior naval and land generals in this battle.

Of course, it is not to say that there are no accidents. At least after landing in Malacca, it was hit by torrential rain. This is to be expected. You must know that before departure, those meteorological experts swear that there is nothing in this season. It was raining heavily. As a result, the volatile Nanyang climate gave them a slap in the face, causing the troops to advance very slowly after the landing, and the overall combat time was forced to be delayed for several days.

When it came to the artillery battle, the process was relatively smooth, but it could not be said to be smooth sailing, because although they carried out a fierce artillery attack on the city of Malacca, on the surface, they completely suppressed the Portuguese artillery fire, but in fact, they did not. Completely wipe out the Portuguese artillery.

Although the Portuguese artillery suffered heavy casualties, there were still some artillerymen who survived and fought back fiercely in today's general offensive.

After the 57th Infantry Regiment launched the attack, it was violently counterattacked by the Portuguese. They used artillery, especially shotguns and even arquebuses represented by numerous Flange machines, to attack the 57th Infantry Regiment. After approaching a distance of about 100 meters, it opened fire violently.

And caused a lot of losses to the 57th Infantry Regiment!

Originally used as a vanguard, the No. 2 Grenadier Team, which was used to conquer the protruding fort, had nearly 240 people. In the first wave of the attack, nearly 100 people were lost, but they failed to reach the fort.

The captain of the 2nd Grenadier Team, Shi Enli led the troops to fight for nearly 20 minutes, the troops they belonged to were completely suppressed, and finally had to suspend the offensive.

Lieutenant Colonel Dong Qiankun, the interim commander of the 57th Infantry Regiment, saw that the assault troops were suppressed. On the one hand, he ordered them to slow down the offensive and gather the troops. At the same time, he ordered the 1st Grenadier Team and the 3rd Grenadier Team. The remainder of the troops reinforced the 2nd Grenadier Corps.

After receiving reinforcements, the grenadier troops crossed the Portuguese fire blockade by charging at the risk of death, and destroyed the Portuguese resistance in the fort by throwing grenades toward the inside of the fort.

After suppressing the firepower of the fort, the remaining 300 or so grenadiers began to climb the long ladder, and finally reached the inside of the fort!

After conquering this prominent fort, Captain Shi Enli discovered that there were only more than 100 enemies defending this prominent fort, and most of them were Portuguese militiamen, at least a few were their local professional soldiers .

This made Captain Shi Enli very angry!

It was the Portuguese who were just ordinary sailors or just ordinary people more than a hundred and a half months ago. Under the leadership of more than 20 native Portuguese soldiers, they actually blocked his troops for nearly half an hour, and more importantly. What's more, it also caused hundreds of casualties to his troops.

The dead and wounded soldiers are the most elite grenadiers!

Most of the dead and wounded grenadiers did not die in the melee combat with the enemy, but suffocated and died on the way of the charge, hit by the enemy's shells and bullets.

However, these damned Portuguese, from the beginning to the end, hid safely in this fort, shooting and killing their own soldiers through the small muzzles and muzzles.

Shi Enli was very angry, but he felt helpless!

In normal field operations, he was confident that a single charge would defeat them all, but in the face of a fortress like a fort, his grenadiers seemed a little helpless.

And this, I have to say that the defense function of the contemporary bastion is powerful!

For example, the Battle of Metz, which was launched by Henry of France and Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire a few years ago, is a classic battle of contemporary European bastions. .

Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire used a total of more than 45,000 troops, while the defenders were only 5,800.

The siege force of the Holy Roman Empire fired more than 7,000 artillery shells at the city of Metz in one day, and as a result, the city's fortifications were still largely intact.

Subsequent Holy Roman Empire carried out several storms, all of which ended in heavy casualties.

This battle made Bastion's reputation in the European continent!

In the East, the Tang military also began to use bastions in the early years. Bandan City and Luzon City, the coastal port cities of these two overseas territories, are the earliest bastions of the Tang Empire, and they have resisted many times. Pirate or native attack.

On the northern border, the Tang Army also built many bastions. For example, the Hetao line of defense, which played a major role in the battle with the Tatars in the early years, was actually a line of defense connected by more than 20 large and small bastions. .

In any small bastion, there may be only one battalion in the garrison, but it can easily resist the attack of thousands or even more Tatars.

As for those big cities, the Tartars were even more afraid of them, and they didn't even dare to think of attacking.

Although Datang applied bastions a little later, it is worth noting that Datang's bastion defense system has been developing and improving.

Especially after the large-scale popularization and application of grenades by the Datang military itself, in order to prevent the bombardment of heavy artillery, it is also to prevent the bombardment of grenades. Out of the fortress-style artillery fortifications.

In fact, it is very simple to say, just add a top cover to the anti-artillery fortifications. The thick city wall on the front is used to resist solid bullets, and the top fortifications are used to prevent the bombardment of grenades.

At the same time, shoot outwards through small holes and muzzles!

This also constitutes a relatively special anti-artillery fortification, and at present, this kind of fortification is basically only done by the Tang military itself, because the Tang military deeply knows the power of the grenade.

Although the grenades of these years basically have little penetrating power, because the compressive capacity of the shell is not good, and the fuze is not very reliable, if the shell is deformed, there is a high probability that it will become a dud.

Therefore, either the gun with a relatively short barrel is used for launching, and even if the Datang Army uses a large number of guns with a caliber of more than 20 times the caliber for launching, it often uses a method of reducing the propellant when launching grenades.

As a result, when the grenade is launched, its trajectory is relatively curved, and the projectile body is relatively thin, and its penetration is not good. The grenade can only explode on the surface of the fortification.

It is actually very easy to prevent this kind of grenade, just add a slightly thicker roof fortification on the top.

The Ming army had already done this in the face of Tang Jun's grenades more than ten years ago!

Later, when the Datang Army built fortifications, it also paid more attention to the top defense, so it often added a top fortification to the anti-artillery fortifications.

The bastions built by the Portuguese in Malacca are largely copied from the Datang bastions. Although the main body is a traditional bastion, but in some special parts, it imitates the Datang bastions and builds a roof to prevent grenades. Cover fortifications.

This prominent turret is typical!

A top cover is placed on the top of the fort to prevent the shelling of grenades and grenade shells. This is the standard design of the Tang military when building permanent fortresses.

And the Portuguese in Malacca obviously learned this trick from the past!

The only thing that reassured the Tang army generals who were sieging the city was that these Portuguese apparently had no intention of copying the design of the Tang military's bastions, but only on these prominent forts, while the main buildings of the bastions, especially The fort in the city wall is still the same as the traditional bastion.

In addition, these vacant fortifications, which are retaliated through the muzzle, have relatively weak frontal defense capabilities. It is more difficult to make the artillery aim and launch smoothly. The fortifications directly in front of the artillery cannot be repaired like the city wall. Several meters or even more than ten meters Thick.

This also gave Cannon a chance!

Datang's siege troops didn't notice this before, but now that they found it, they quickly reported it. The artillery commanders in the rear made a decisive decision and immediately changed their artillery attack method.

The small and medium-caliber artillery continued to fire grenades to suppress the enemy, while the large-caliber cannons quickly replaced solid bullets and appropriately increased the propellant to increase the shelling kinetic energy of the solid bullets.

These cannons that fire solid bullets are aimed at several other prominent fortresses in the city defense system of Malacca, as well as some fortifications with similar characteristics of anti-howitzer shelling.

Naturally, Shi Enli, who was on the front line, did not know what the follow-up effect would be. Now he has just led the troops to take down this prominent fort, and is preparing to attack the main city wall more than 20 meters ahead.

The protruding fort and the main city wall are also connected by the city wall. The passage is in this city wall that is just over 20 meters short, but this passage of the city wall is not blocked in any way. The Portuguese on the opposite side relies on a solid wall. The parapet fortifications are used to defend, and it is not so easy to rush to it~www.wuxiaspot.com~ But the battle has reached this point, it is not the time to retreat when encountering a little difficulty.

After Captain Shi Enli simply observed and analyzed the situation, he decided to adopt the simplest and most violent method: bayonet charge!

In this case, it is unreliable to shoot slowly and face-to-face, or to call shotguns, or to act as a striker when a heavily armored unit is used, because time does not allow!

The fighter plane is fleeting, and now there are only a hundred Portuguese soldiers behind the parapet on the opposite side, but after another three or five minutes, there will be hundreds of Portuguese soldiers on the opposite side, and Captain Shi Enli will not be surprised!

Therefore, Shi Enli did not hesitate at all, and directly issued the order to charge the bayonet!

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