Valley Emperor

Today, the artillery and artillery tactics in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, because of the existence of Li Xuan, can barely keep up with the mainstream of artillery in the world today. There are artillery pieces of 800 catties or even 1,300 catties. Converted to the units commonly used by the Western military, that is, six-pounder guns and nine-pounder guns.

Moreover, this type of artillery is still a typical long barrel cannon. It is very powerful when firing solid bullets. When used in land warfare, it is even more so when encountering gods and killing gods, or encountering Buddhas and killing Buddhas. Once the cannon passes, nothing can stop it. These heavy solid ductile iron shells.

It is a pity that this kind of heavy artillery has relatively high requirements on smelting technology. At present, the craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry of the Datang Dynasty have no way to use iron to make this kind of important, but only use bronze. But for making coins.

In other words, the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty is directly casting guns with copper coins!

On the contrary, the 150-pound battalion guns were also made of bronze at the beginning, but because these 150-pound battalion guns are shotguns with short barrels, the requirements for the barrels are not too high. Those craftsmen are already ready to use iron to forge this shotgun.

After all, the bowl-mouth guns of the Ming army were actually made of iron. There is no reason why the Ming Dynasty could play like this, but the Tang Dynasty couldn't do it, right? At most, the cast shotguns are heavier and lower in quality. That's it.

But even so, it's very cost-effective!

The price difference between copper and iron is huge!

However, to use cast iron guns, even short-barreled shotguns, will take time. Don't expect the craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty's Ministry of Industry to be able to come up with them in a short period of time.

After sustaining multiple rounds of shelling, the soldiers in the front row of the Ming army on the opposite side suffered a lot of casualties, and these Ming army soldiers, like most of the Ming army in the inland areas of this era, participated in this large-scale operation this time. 's battle.

The inland has been in peace for a long time. Most of the Ming army in these inland areas is to suppress bandits, catch a bandit and so on. The real large-scale war, it is not known how many years ago.

These Ming Army soldiers who have stepped onto a large-scale battlefield for the first time are actually no different from new recruits. When they see their front-row soldiers fall down one after the other, there are not many soldiers in the front row. People can withstand such terrifying battlefield pressure.

People are afraid of death!

So they stopped involuntarily, no one dared to rush forward, and they all wanted to hide behind their comrades.

For a time, the vanguard units of the Ming army, especially those who were shelled, even had small-scale riots.

Not to mention the fear of these ordinary soldiers, even the officers of the Ming army, and even the senior generals, were quite surprised to see the artillery bombardment of the new army of the Tang Dynasty!

Artillery, they have seen it, and there are many more!

But most of their guns are tens of kilograms, hundreds of kilograms of bowl mouth guns, which can't hit very far, and many artillery pieces are actually still mounted on so-called gun carts.

They often need to walk within fifty or sixty meters before firing, and the use of artillery also lacks standards and techniques. Many Ming army gunners are not very professional, and they are not even good at aiming. They only know The most basic loading, firing.

But if you let them aim at that area, and then carry out accurate artillery fire, it is very reluctant. The Ming army's definition of qualified gunners is very simple: just be able to fire the artillery.

So at this time, it was natural for them to be surprised when they saw that the artillery of the pseudo-Tang thieves accurately covered their forward soldiers.

Zhu Zhihai couldn't help but sigh: "These fake Tang thieves' firearms are really sharp!"

At this time, he had not seen the heavy artillery shelling in the Artillery Battalion of the Datang New Army. If Zhu Zhihai saw the heavy artillery shelling of the Datang New Army Artillery Battalion, he would not be sighed, but stunned.

This can't blame Zhu Zhihai for making a fuss, but these heavy artillery is beyond his cognition.

The artillery of the new Tang army and the artillery of the Ming army are completely different concepts, and can even be said to be the product of a different era.

The senior generals in the Ming army were surprised by the shelling of the pseudo-Tang bandit army, and some middle and low-level officers of the Ming army who were on the front line felt even more deeply.

The adults in the rear may have only seen the great momentum of the artillery fire of the Pseudo-Tang Thieves Army, and they can also see that many of their soldiers fell, but this feeling is far less than that of the officers on the front line.

Every time the opposite pseudo-Tang thief army spewed white smoke, the soldiers in the front row would collapse in unison. .

Even the officers who led the team were mostly afraid. Many people began to look around at a loss, trying to find the order to go to the peak, especially the order to let them retreat.

Just walking up so stupidly, I don't know how many people will die!

However, these are all the thoughts of the middle and low-level officers on the front line. In the middle of the vanguard army, Chang Pingchang frowned, but as a general commander, he was also trusted by Zhu Zhihai and sent him to be the vanguard of the entire army. It means that this person still has the ability.

After watching several rounds of artillery bombardment by the pseudo-Tang thief army, he has already estimated the frequency of the bombardment by the pseudo-Tang thief army and how many casualties it may bring to his side!

And he believes that this kind of casualty is something that his own side can bear!

So he still rode on the horse, raised his head and raised his chest, and asked his subordinates whether to temporarily avoid the edge of the thief army, or simply launch a charge immediately and ignore it.

Instead, he still rode his horse slowly forward, and at the same time commanded to the left and right: "Go on, keep a good formation!"

Then, as if you can't see the shelling of the pseudo-Tang thief army, continue to lead the troops to advance slowly!

Song Tianbiao's expression became even more cautious when he saw that although the Ming army was shaken for a time, it stabilized the formation and continued to advance, and did not even initiate an advance charge because of this.

This Ming army is much stronger than the Ming army I have encountered before!

Immediately said: "Let the musketeers and archers be prepared, and the grenadiers are best prepared. Today, we are going to fight to the death with the Puppet Bandit Army!"

In the previous battles, when the artillery of the new Tang army, especially the shotgun that can cause a lot of damage, began to shoot, the Ming army on the opposite side often made two choices, one was to launch a charge in advance, and the other was to turn around directly. run away.

Here, there are more people who launch a charge in advance!

In this way, although the enemy's advancing speed is faster, it is easy to disorganize the formation, and the cold weapon has no complete formation, so it is not far from defeat.

Next, the new army of the Tang Dynasty will meet the enemy with intensive musket shooting, and bow and arrow to assist it!

Wait until the enemy has advanced within 30 meters, and then let the grenadiers step forward to throw grenades, and at the same time the musketeers conduct the last round of salvos, and then directly launch a spear and bayonet charge.

Under normal circumstances, they have experienced continuous mid-to-long-range interception of artillery, muskets, and bows and arrows of the Datang New Army.

At this time, the heavily armored spearmen will become the core of the battle, completely destroying the enemy army with scattered formations and demoralization. Once the front row of the enemy army completely collapses, it will often spread to the enemy soldiers in the rear row. Then it would turn into a total rout.

This series of tactics of the Tang Dynasty's new army has been tried and tested, and many Ming army generals, especially the Ming army generals who have played against the Datang new army, for example, Song Zhiwen, who has arrived in the capital and was sent to the Tianjing, knows the Datang new army very well. this set of tactics.

But knowing is one thing, how to crack it is another!

Use archers to stand within 70 to 80 meters and play against the new army of the Tang Dynasty?

It can only be said that those who have this idea underestimate the cheapness of the Musketeers!

You can only train one archer in more than ten years, while the musketeers of the new Tang Dynasty can become an army in three months, and two musketeers can be replaced by one archer.

Whether it is the Ming army or the new army of the Tang Dynasty, there are actually not many qualified archers. There are only more than 800 people in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and all of them are prisoners of the Ming army, and the Ming army is similar. In an army of more than 30,000 people, the qualified archers will not exceed 1,500.

Not long after the establishment of the Datang New Army, the number of these musketeers has already exceeded 2,000, and it is still increasing at a scale of hundreds of people every month~www.wuxiaspot.com~ You Ming Army uses archers and Datang New Army The musketeers were exhausted, and the archers must have lost their lives!

Besides, in this case, the new army of the Tang Dynasty will not play against you, they will advance at a high speed, after advancing to 30 meters, they will shoot a salvo, and then directly launch a bayonet charge!

Your archers can only make three shots when facing the enemy. When the musketeers of the new Tang Dynasty rush up with muskets with bayonets, it will be a miracle if these archers do not collapse!

In other words, the Datang New Army actually doesn't even give you the chance to fight for consumption!

From a practical point of view, with the existing arms and comprehensive qualities of the Ming army, the best way to defeat the new Tang army with a complete firepower configuration is to use infantry to contain it, and then use cavalry to launch a flank charge, and the cavalry can't be stupid To attack the infantry phalanx, you have to attack the artillery position.

First destroy the artillery positions, then the cavalry swept the formation, and the infantry continued to contain them. After waiting for the new army of the Tang Dynasty to disperse, they directly launched a cavalry charge.

Otherwise, with the same force, it would be very difficult for the Ming army to defeat the infantry phalanx of the new Tang army in regular field battles!

Of course, there is actually a simpler, more efficient and most practical method for the Ming army, and that is to use human heads to pile up!

No matter how strong the firepower of the Datang New Army is, it is limited!

Of course, it is impossible for you to use the same force to attack frontally, but if you use several times or even more than ten times the force to launch a frontal attack.

I dare not say 100%, but 99% of them can directly crush the new army of the Tang Dynasty!

In the face of absolute military superiority, any tactical superiority is scum!

And now, Zhu Zhihai is using this tactic. More than 30,000 people are pressing forward. Just the silhouette of the mountain and the field, which can hardly be seen at a glance, can make Song Tianbiao's scalp numb!