Valley Emperor

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Since the real rise of the Tang Dynasty and the sweeping of Zhengtai County, the army of the Tang Dynasty has never been afraid to fight the Ming army head-on in the field, and many times they have won more with less.

This situation reached its peak when it entered Guangdong and Guangxi and Beishang Huguang!

When the Datang Army marched into Guangdong and Guangxi, the Huguang Ming Army attacked Xingquan Mansion and once besieged Xingquan Mansion. Although at first, it relied on the absolute superiority of troops and achieved considerable results, and even once captured Zhengtai, the land of Longxing in the Datang Dynasty. county.

But then it was attacked by the Fourth Army of the Datang Army in Huguang, and then fought two consecutive field battles. More than 30,000 Ming troops were destroyed one after another, and even more than 30,000 Ming troops who entered Xingquan Prefecture were almost surrounded. .

However, although the Ming army was not surrounded, it was frightened that the Ming army fled north in embarrassment, and the siege of Xingquan Mansion was solved!

In last year's autumn and winter offensive, the Datang Army went north to Huguang on a large scale. At that time, the Ming Army planned a large-scale active counterattack with more than 100,000 troops mobilized. The two sides revolved around Yizhang, Chenzhou, Guiyang Prefecture, Hengyang and other places. Several large-scale battles took place in the hundreds of miles of area.

The results of it?

The Ming army has never won even once!

The 10,000-odd Ming army in Chenzhou was intercepted by the predecessor of the 4th Mixed Regiment, the Temporary 4th Regiment.

The 8,000-strong army of Yizhang left the city and was about to cut off the food route of the Tang Army to the north. The result was also outside the city of Yizhang and intercepted. After the war broke out between the two sides, the 8,000-strong army was completely wiped out!

The thousands of Ming troops who reinforced Yizhang from the west were also intercepted a few days later, and the entire army was also wiped out!

The more than 10,000 Ming troops who attacked Guiyang Prefecture were also intercepted by the main force of the First Army. Half of their troops were directly lost in frontal battles in the field, and only half of the remaining soldiers fled back to Guiyang Prefecture in embarrassment.

The result of this series of wars is that in the end Yizhang, Chenzhou, Guiyang and other places were captured by the Datang Army. Under the heavy losses of the Ming army, they had to retreat to Hengyang and Changsha, and take the huge area south of Hengyang. Hand in hand.

This series of field combat tactics scared the Ming army. The original Guangxi governor Wei Yan said that "Tang thieves are invincible", which was widely circulated in the Ming army privately, and it was also achieved A consensus has been reached, that is, if there is no absolute necessity, that is, don't fight with the pseudo-Tang bandit army!

Therefore, until later, the Ming army kept avoiding field operations with the main force of the Datang Army, but firmly implemented the tactic of defending the city, which slightly restrained the fierce offensive of the Datang Army. Side stood firm.

However, the Ming army began to shrink its head as a turtle, and began to train on a large scale and build guns. In order to pry open these turtle shells, the Datang Army devoted great enthusiasm to researching various city-breaking tactics.

And the most enthusiastic is the large-scale equipment of heavy artillery. Not to mention the large-scale equipment of nine-jin field artillery, and also produced heavy howitzers, a large number of field artillery and heavy howitzers, outside the city, the Datang Army attacked the city and pulled out the village. Sharp weapon!

In one fell swoop, he broke through the bridgehead of the Ming army in Jiangxi, with perfect fortifications and a large number of artillery to help out Luling City in Ji'an.

All of the above can prove that the Datang Army has a great advantage in the field of field operations, except that the number of cavalry is not as good as that of the Ming Army.

Among them, the 1st Soldier Division is a leader in this kind of frontal decisive battle in the field!

The main force of the forward troops under Wang Chaohong's command is the 1st Infantry Regiment, which belongs to the 1st Infantry Division, and is a well-deserved ace unit in the Datang Army today.

Relying on the full manpower, and also the First Infantry Regiment strengthened by artillery, cavalry and other arms, and it is a defensive operation, Wang Chaohong is confident to keep the enemy from the fort.

And he doesn't need to defend alone for long, he only needs to defend for three days!

Three days later, the third mixed regiment chasing from the direction of Hengyang will be able to arrive, and at the same time the main force of the first army will also be able to arrive.

At that time, the Hengyang Ming army of nearly 30,000 people will not be able to escape even if they want to escape, let alone Changsha.

Obviously, the Hengyang Ming Army also knew the crisis it was facing, so there was not much delay. It abandoned the ship and landed ashore overnight, and then rushed directly to the position of the first army's forward troops in the dark, and began to build artillery positions at the same time. Get ready to attack!

In the early morning of the next day, the small highland on the edge of the Xiangjiang River sounded a dense rumble of cannons!

This time, the Ming army in Hengyang obviously wanted to kill it in one go, and directly used more than 20 five- and seven-pound field guns, and almost hundreds of various shotguns (Bankou Cannons, Folang Ji) Moved out, and even because of the rush of time, many artillery did not even build any artillery positions, so they opened fire like this.

On the front side of the First Army, there was a temporarily reinforced artillery battalion, with six 5-jin field guns, six 7-jin field guns, and a cavalry detachment belonging to the cavalry detachment with nine 5-jin field guns.

A total of twenty-one field guns!

The field artillery on the Ming Army's side was also mainly five jin, supplemented by some seven jin field artillery. The total number was more than forty.

The two sides added up to more than 60 field artillery pieces, which were shelling each other at a distance of 400 to 500 meters.

However, after the shelling for more than half an hour, the expressions of the generals on the Ming army's side were not very good-looking, because although they had more artillery pieces, they were not able to make accurate shots.

More than half an hour after this fierce shelling, two artillery pieces exploded on the spot!

And this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the artillery bombardment of our own side did not cause any actual damage to the pseudo-Tang bandit army on the small mountain!

Those pseudo-Tang thieves didn't know if they were from groundhogs, but they dug trenches all over the top of the mountain. After the shelling started, the infantry of those pseudo-Tang thieves hid in those trenches. Although the artillery bombardment of their own side continued to have artillery shells falling into their positions, but there was no actual result.

The opponent's artillery positions are also very strong. In front of each artillery, there is a thick ring of civil works, and the artillery shells are blocked.

Unless you are very lucky and hit one of the ring fortifications in a row, then you can kill the artillery of the pseudo-Tang thief army behind the fortifications!

These pseudo-Tang thieves have actually begun to shrink their heads!

The effect of our own artillery bombardment was not great, but the artillery bombardment of the thieves caused a lot of casualties to our own side. Although the infantry of our own brigade were still behind at this time, only the artillerymen of the forty field artillery in front came forward to fight. , but even these artillerymen were also killed and wounded a lot.

The casualties are still small, but if the shelling fails, it will be difficult to provide cover for the follow-up infantry attack!

But there is no way to do this. The artillery bombardment is fruitless. We can't continue like this, wasting ammunition and wasting time. The battle is always going to be fought!

Immediately, the Ming army moved, and the infantry of the brigade began to line up, and in front of the infantry of the brigade, there were many types of shotguns!

In this battle, in fact, the largest number of artillery pieces on both sides were shotguns on both sides.

On the Datang Army side, because the two-pound shotgun technology is mature, and iron casting is generally used, the cost is very low. Although the range is only 150 meters, the lethality can only be said to be average, but it is not cheap. , so the size of the equipment has always been increased.

In the earliest period, an infantry regiment was only equipped with six two-pound shotguns, but later it was increased to eight. When the reorganization period came, according to the latest establishment of the Datang Army, an infantry regiment already had one under it. The expanded infantry artillery team has nine two-jin shotguns and three three-jin shotguns, a total of twelve shotguns!

These shotguns are only tens of kilograms for a two-pound shotgun, and a hundred kilograms for a three-pound shotgun. Moreover, the barrel and the base can be separated, so they can be maneuvered at any time with the infantry~www.wuxiaspot. com~ And that's it, in fact, the Datang Army is not satisfied. They are also preparing to attach those small and medium-caliber short-barreled howitzers to the infantry regiment. Unfortunately, the technology has not been developed yet.

In fact, not only the infantry regiment will be equipped with shotguns on a large scale, but the army's baggage, artillery, cavalry and other arms will more or less be equipped with shotguns to serve as auxiliary firepower.

Two catties of shotguns and three catties of shotguns, but currently in the Tang Dynasty, the Navy, Army and Guards are equipped with the largest number of artillery pieces. In terms of quantity, they are much more than field artillery. The two catties and three catties of shotguns add up to more than thirty.

The same situation actually happened in the Ming army, and more. On the one hand, the Ming army itself was equipped with a large number of shotguns such as bowl guns. In addition, in the past two years, a lot of new things have been produced. Although it is still called a bowl-mouthed gun, it is actually still inseparable from the division of the Datang Army's ordnance standards, although they are copied from the Datang Army in terms of organization, ordnance and even tactics.

The shotguns in the supervising new army have a pound of bowl-mouth cannon, two-pound bowl-mouth cannon, three-jin bowl-mouth cannon, and even five-jin bowl-mouth cannon. There are many more types of shotguns than those of the Tang Army. The amount of equipment is also greater.

The reason is not because they like these bowl guns, but because they can't get more field guns, they can only retreat and build and equip more shotguns.

The mass production of field guns is a big problem even for the Tang Ministry of Industry, which has initially adopted machinery, not to mention the Ming Dynasty, which can only be produced by hand!

After all, it is purely hand-made by craftsmen. Even if it can be mass-produced, it is not a matter of a few months or even a year or two. In a short period of time, the Ming army simply cannot obtain a large number of field guns.