Valley Emperor

Although the city wall of Liping House is thicker than that of Xingquan House, strictly speaking, it is still only a small city in a remote area. It is as thick and tall as the city walls of the northern border cities.

The city walls of such a small-scale city are actually powerless in the face of artillery, a siege weapon.

One solid bullet hit the city wall. Although there will be no problems with the city wall in a short period of time, the cracks on the city wall are increasing. No one knows if the city wall will continue to be bombed. Completely collapsed.

Once the city wall collapses, it will be difficult to stop the pseudo-Tang bandit army.

The Ming army defenders on the top of Liping Mansion were apprehensive, while the new army of the Tang Dynasty outside the city were watching the shelling with great interest, and the middle and senior officers were discussing with each other from time to time.

Obviously, they are also full of curiosity about the effect of this shelling.

Because this time the attack on Liping Mansion was the first time since the founding of the Datang New Army to conduct a formal siege operation, and it was also the first time that artillery was used in a city siege operation.

In the previous battles between the new army of the Tang Dynasty and the Ming army, although the two county towns of Zhengtai County, Lianhe County and Xingquan Prefecture were successively conquered, Bailin County was Fuguo County, and the county office was located in Xingquan Prefecture.

However, in these three places conquered, there was actually no large-scale formal siege operation. There were two battles in Zhengtai County. The first time was Su Jiakang using Zhengtai County as a temptation. There were not many Ming troops, and the second time was that Zhengtai County had been surrounded by the new army of the Tang Dynasty for several months, and most of the troops that Su Jiakang had assembled before had been annihilated.

Therefore, the two attacks on Zhengtai County did not actually encounter much resistance.

The same is true for the attack on Xingquan Mansion. The troops of Xingquan Mansion were brought out by Song Zhiwen, and they were all buried in the two Lanjiang battles. Later, some people in the city took the initiative to surrender and opened the city gate to welcome the new army of the Tang Dynasty to enter the city. Therefore, in the attack on Xingquan Mansion, there was no large-scale offensive and defensive operations.

It was a little more formal to conquer Lianhe County, but at that time Lianhe County was isolated and helpless, and at the same time there were not many regular troops of its own, facing the 5th Infantry Battalion and other affiliated troops led by Wang Danxu at that time, it was simply unstoppable.

Such a detailed analysis of the battle cases of the Datang New Army will reveal that the Datang New Army has never fought even a large-scale siege battle.

This time, the attack on Liping House is very likely to be the first large-scale formal siege of the city by the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

This is the first time to play this kind of regular siege operation. Many officers from the 1st Infantry Regiment and even Hao Bainian are a little uneasy. Although they guessed that the strength of the enemy in the city could not be too strong, they still did the best. Prepare.

For example, the shelling has not stopped since it started at noon. The three 500-jin artillery pieces continued to fire at a slow rate of fire.

At present, the rate of fire of this suppressive artillery shell and the emergency rate of fire during combat are one in the sky and one on the ground.

At present, the artillery of the new Tang Dynasty is not much different from the bronze front-mounted artillery used in the next few centuries. At the same time, in order to increase the rate of fire, the gunners of the new Tang Dynasty have not been trained day and night, in order to increase the rate of fire. Turn the many actions of firing guns into the instinct of the gunners.

In addition, they have adopted the mode of division of labor and cooperation without a teacher. For example, some people specially load artillery shells, some people specially load propellants, some people specialize in cleaning the chambers after firing, and some people specialize in resetting the artillery after firing.

When a gun is fired, it needs eight gunners.

With so many people working together, the rate of fire is greatly increased.

However, in addition to the cumbersome or simple shooting process, what limits the rate of fire of an artillery is the quality of the artillery itself.

After the artillery is fired continuously and rapidly, the barrel of the gun is continuously subjected to huge pressure and high temperature, and the quality requirements of the gun barrel are quite high.

Except at the most critical juncture of the battle, the artillerymen will completely ignore whether they will explode. In normal combat, especially in the current shooting tasks that are only repressive, the artillerymen will greatly reduce the rate of fire of the artillery in order to protect the artillery. .

It usually takes five or six minutes to fire a shot, and after half an hour of continuous firing, it will stop for half an hour.

Therefore, the artillery of the new Tang Dynasty outside the city of Liping House always fired a few shots at intervals, but this intermittent shelling was endless, from noon until the afternoon near the evening, and the city wall was also under continuous shelling. and suffered minor damage.

The gunners of the new army of the Tang Dynasty naturally wouldn't shoot indiscriminately, let alone hit one point in the east and one point in the west.

Moreover, the distance of more than 300 meters is completely within the effective range of these artillery, and the hit rate can be controlled within a considerable range.

The same part of the city wall was continuously bombarded, and the more times this time, the more serious damage would naturally occur.

For example, near the north side of the Dongcheng Gate Tower, a section of the city wall with a width of no more than five meters was shot by two artillery pieces of the new army of the Tang Dynasty from the beginning of the shelling. It was piled up into a small hill~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and this section of the city wall was also attacked by centralized artillery. First the outer wall fell off, then cracks appeared in the wall, and finally began to collapse in a small area.

Although it is said that it has not completely collapsed, if it continues to be bombarded like this, it will collapse sooner or later.

This situation made the defenders in the city panic, but the generals of the new Tang army outside the city were somewhat dissatisfied.

It's been all afternoon, and hundreds of shells have been fired in the front and rear, but there is still no way to destroy the enemy's city wall.

This reminded Hao Bainian and the others of the 800-pound heavy artillery in the artillery battalion.

"The power of these 500 jin artillery pieces is still too small. If we had a few 800 jin artillery pieces, their city walls would have collapsed this afternoon!" The deputy commander also served as the 1st Infantry Battalion The battalion commander Huang Xueren sighed so.

Don't look at the difference between 500 jins and 800 jins seems to be only 300 jins, but the power of the two is actually huge difference.

Hao Bainian said, "There aren't many 800-jin artillery pieces in the artillery battalion now. I'm afraid it will take a month before we can make up an artillery team with 800-jin artillery pieces!"

"By that time, we will be able to use these 800-jin artillery pieces, and the workshop of the Ministry of Industry is working on 1,300-jin artillery pieces. Maybe we will be able to use these 1000-jin heavy artillery pieces at that time!" When Hao Bainian said this, he couldn't help but expect that the Ministry of Industry would be able to provide those heavy artillery pieces as soon as possible.

If there are those 1,300 jin heavy artillery, the city wall of Liping House in this district will probably collapse if it can't stop a few cannons!

Hao Bainian, who was outside the city of Liping Mansion, did not know that the artillery workshop established by the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty in Xingquan Mansion had already started the trial production of 1,300 jin artillery, and the first prototype gun had already been manufactured. Come out and wait for the live ammunition test.