Valley Emperor

On the east bank of the Lanjiang River, a thousand households of the Ming army watched as the front troops on the other side of the river were persuaded to enter, and even after the chains of crossing the river were cut off, they felt as if they had been slapped by a dog.

Where did these fake Tang thieves come from?

Didn't I just say that the reconnaissance cavalry of the pseudo-Tang thief army has just arrived, how come more than a thousand fake Tang thieves army appeared after a while?

At this time, he didn't have to guess at all, because the facts were already in front of him. Those pseudo-Tang thieves must have arrived at the Lanjiang ferry early, and they were waiting in ambush for him to send someone over to die.

More than 100 people, they all collapsed without being able to hold on for even a moment, and they didn't even wait for reinforcements to be dispatched to cross the river.

Now how to do?

What else can I do? Just wait. Anyway, if you continue to cross the river, you will die. Naturally, he will not let the soldiers under his command die indifferently, but the more than 100 people who lost in front of him have to find a good excuse to avoid dragging him down. .

Turning back, he said to Xiangfeng that it was the deputy Qianhu who led the team who underestimated the enemy and rushed forward. Originally, he just sent a few people to investigate, but the fool did not find that the fake Tang bandit army was lying on the side, so he insisted on continuing to cross the river and rushed forward. So much so that he was ambushed by the pseudo-Tang thief army, and he was unable to save him even if he tried his best to rescue him.

It's just that it's easy to shirk responsibility, but it's difficult to fight it next.

The opposite side of the Lanjiang Ferry has been seized by the pseudo-Tang thieves, and the chains have also been cut off. If the subsequent team members want to cross the river, they can only make rafts on the spot and forcibly cross the river.

And I don't know how many people will die when crossing the river like this. If nothing else, thousands of people from the pseudo-Tang bandit army stand in a row by the river, and then shoot platoons of guns at the side of crossing the river, which will cause heavy casualties.

However, maybe the two Wankou guns that the main force later moved from Fucheng should be able to inflict heavy damage on the pseudo-Tang bandit army, thus turning the crisis around. The sky collapsed and the earth cracked, and the momentum was called a great change in the world. How could it be compared with those small handguns of the pseudo-Tang bandit army.

It should be noted here that the fire gun in the mouth of the Ming army in this period is a general term, and all metal tube-type shooting firearms can be called this, so regardless of whether it is an artillery or a musket, in the mouth of the Ming army in this period, it is all fire guns.

Specifically, the Ming army called medium and large caliber firearms as bowl-mouth guns, zhan-mouth guns, etc. As for the small-caliber firearms used by individual soldiers, they were called hand guns.

So don't think that this Ming army thousand households said that the fire guns of the pseudo-Tang thieves were hand guns, and thought it was a fool, thinking that the fake Tang thieves were equipped with pistols, but people knew the fire guns of the pseudo-Tang thieves. Not the short-barreled pistol.

It's just a difference in name!

However, this difference in appellation does not exist in the Datang New Army. The Datang New Army does not have the title of fire gun, only muskets and artillery. Even the related arms are called musketeers and artillerymen.

This habit of calling is naturally brought by the ancient sage Li Xuan. As a modern person, he can't play retro and has to make his familiar musket a fire gun.

As for whether other people would get used to it, 99% of the Tang Dynasty were illiterate, and when they were not tall enough to pay attention to habit issues, they would call them whatever Li Xuan called them.

At this time, Li Xuan did not know that the main force of the Ming army also brought two bowl-mouth cannons. If he knew, he would probably have taken the artillery that was still in Huangzhu Mountain before he came, and is still being tested and manufactured. It was also pulled out to compete with the Ming army.

However, take a serious look at whether the artillery of the Ming army is as powerful as recorded in the history books. A single shot can erode enemy camps for dozens of miles and kill countless people.

If this is the case, then he turned around and chopped up all the artisans in Huangzhushan who studied artillery making. Nima has been doing it for a year and a half, and has made several prototype cannons. , and after the effective range reaches 500 meters, life and death will not be able to go up.

It's okay to have a longer range, but the quasi-head is basically gone. After one shot is fired, the final shell will fall there.

Maybe they can fly to the outer sky!

In short, up to now, the craftsmen in Huangzhushan have not been able to produce artillery with an effective range of more than 500 meters. As for the maximum range of shooting with a large elevation angle, that thing has no practical significance, and Li Xuan has never liked these flashy data.

More importantly, the artillery that can shoot an effective range of 500 meters is too heavy. Because the artillery craftsmanship is so poor, in order to avoid the explosion, the barrels are very thick, in order to increase the accuracy and facilitate the aiming increase. Effective range, the gun mount is heavier.

After doing this, a 75mm gun with an effective range of more than 78 kilometers could be produced.

Even without considering the age and technical factors, such artillery is still too heavy for the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and it is not as good as the Folang machine imitated by the Ming army.

What Li Xuan wanted was not this kind of dead-heavy artillery. It was used as a battalion-level support artillery. The weight should only be a few hundred kilograms.

Because the current scope of activities of the Datang New Army is in Zhengtai County or Xingquan Mansion in a larger scale, but taking a step back, even if one day the Datang New Army is so powerful that it takes most of China, their scope of activities is still the same. In the southern region with complex terrain and many mountains.

Therefore, for the battalion-level infantry support artillery envisaged by Li Xuan, the weight is a big threshold, and it is difficult for people to accept more than 500 pounds.

As for the heavier and longer-range artillery, we will wait until that day when there are tens of thousands of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

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And the artillery infantry of the Ming army did not make Li Xuan wait too long. In the evening, with the arrival of the main force of the Ming army, Li Xuan finally saw the artillery brought by the Ming army!

"This is the artillery?" Li Xuan looked at the big iron lump carried by the Ming army on the other side of the river. That thing was not very similar to the artillery under his influence.

How should I put it, this thing is like a pipe. Well, it is still a relatively stubby type of pipe. If someone hadn't reminded Li Xuan that Li Xuan was so far away, he might not have been able to find and see this thing. It's the artillery.

At first sight of this cannon, Li Xuan's first impression was that this cannon is too low, and calling it a cannon would be an insult to the words 'God of War'.

It's still the artillery test-built in Huangzhu Mountain that looks handsome!

But since the Ming army had taken out the artillery, wouldn't it be petty if he didn't take out one?

Immediately, he waved his hand and said, "Send someone back to Huangzhu Mountain immediately and pull our Italian cannon over here!"