Valley Emperor

Today in the Datang Army, the dangers of various military services are quite different.

The safest is naturally the baggage unit. Usually, baggage is transported and escorted in the rear. Generally, it is more likely to encounter battles. Even in a decisive battle, the front-line generals will pull the baggage units up to act as line infantry, but they are usually placed in the front line. The secondary fronts will rarely withstand the onslaught of the enemy's main force.

Then ordinary musketeers, artillerymen and even some spearmen who still exist are also relatively safe!

Don't look at how many casualties they suffered in the decisive battle, but that was because of their large base. In fact, as long as they did not suffer a fiasco, the number of casualties would be relatively limited.

The more dangerous ones are cavalry, assault battalion soldiers, and grenadiers!

For cavalry, it needs to act as a reconnaissance mission, and sometimes it is necessary to frequently engage in small and medium-sized cavalry of the enemy. The outcome of this kind of battle depends entirely on individual skills, and has basically nothing to do with tactical formations, but the Tang Dynasty The cavalry of the Ming army is generally not good in personal skills, and it is basically not the opponent of the elite cavalry of the Ming army or the Tatar cavalry.

Even in a large-scale charge operation in which the Datang cavalry had an advantage, the casualties of the cavalry would be relatively large!

Needless to say, the soldiers of the assault battalion rushed up to face the enemy's guns and guns, and risked their lives to charge and occupy key locations. The casualty rate has always been high.

Come again, it is the grenadier!

As the most elite troops in the Tang Army, the grenadiers can be seen from the conditions of their selection of soldiers, how dangerous the tasks they undertake are. The grenadiers are selected from the veterans. , basically not selected from recruits.

To be selected as a Grenadier, you must have two years of service experience or three large-scale battles with outstanding performance.

In terms of physical fitness, the height should not be less than 1.75 meters, the physical fitness is good, and the longest distance for throwing grenades should not be less than 35 meters.

But more importantly, if you want to be selected as a grenadier, you need extraordinary courage!

Yes, it is such a courage that it is difficult to have any accurate judgment standard!

Because the grenadiers need to throw grenades, and they hold grenades that will explode at any time, and they can't throw them out at the first time. They must wait until the last few seconds to throw them, otherwise, the enemy will pick them up and throw them back!

And in the process of throwing, the distance from the enemy is only more than 20 meters, rarely more than 30 meters, and you can clearly see the movement of the enemy shooting at you!

In this situation, it is impossible to throw a grenade smoothly without extraordinary courage. If your hand shakes, it is better to throw it in advance. If you hold it in your hand and don't throw it out, then you will be killed. people.

However, it is precisely because the grenadiers usually have extraordinary physical fitness and courage that the front-line commanders prefer to let the grenadiers undertake solid tasks.

This has also led to the fact that in addition to throwing grenades, the grenadiers often appear on the most dangerous and difficult fronts. This has also led to the fact that the death and injury rate of the grenadiers has always been high!

However, in the Datang Army, the most dangerous service is not the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers in the assault battalion, nor the musketeers who only wear cuirass or even no armor, nor are they facing the enemy's artillery fire and running to a distance from the enemy. The army throws grenades more than 20 meters away, and they are always the grenadiers who appear on the most dangerous front!

But the gunner of the heavy short-barreled howitzer!

That's right, in the Datang Army today, um, including the Datang Navy, the most dangerous military service is the gunner of the heavy short-barreled howitzer!

Due to the problem of fuzes, the howitzers of the Datang Army are more prone to accidents nowadays. It is good to blow up the chambers. It explodes in advance when it leaps overhead.

The Fourth Army encountered this kind of unfortunate incident when it attacked Kaifeng. A 24-pound grenade exploded ahead of its own troops as soon as it was fired. A musket team under the shells killed and injured dozens of people on the spot. .

So that this musket team actually participated in the battle, and it has completely lost its combat effectiveness!

Today, the Datang Army and the Datang Navy have invested a lot of money to support various arsenals and the Royal Institute of Technology to develop new grenade fuzes. They want to completely eliminate this **** match fuze as soon as possible.

The teachers and students at the Royal Institute of Technology have already tried to find other fuzes to replace the ancient and extremely dangerous matchstick fuzes. They have tried many methods, but the core goal is not to escape, that is to abandon the need for gunners. It is a backward and extremely dangerous control method to ignite the external match string of the shell before firing.

What they are trying now is how to use the high temperature in the chamber pressure to ignite the fuze of the cannonball, or simply imitate the flintlock gun, when the cannonball hits an impact fuze, when the cannonball hits the ground, it drives the iron and flint to ignite, and then ignites the cannonball .

But no matter which way it is, there are many problems now, and it still cannot be solved for a while.

Although Li Xuan knows a lot of things, to be honest, as a person who uses the battlefield scenes in film and television dramas as military textbooks, you can't expect him to know how the modern fuze was created, so he can only give some big The guidance on the direction, he will not intervene in the specific.

But it doesn't matter if you don't know the specific method. This fuze is nothing more than the key points of smooth and safe ignition and control of the detonation time. It mainly has basic scientific knowledge, finds more methods, and tests several times, and it can always be found.

Although the current heavy short-barreled howitzer is very dangerous, and the outcome of the battle depends on character, it is undeniable that this weapon appeared in this era, and it is an epoch-making weapon!

Let the shells fly to the enemy and then explode, which is simply subverting the current war model, and also allows the Datang Army to rely on this weapon to have more tactics, especially when sieging the city. very dependent.

Dozens of heavy-duty howitzers were bombarded, and after a few blasts, I won’t talk about it. After all, this matter is irrelevant to senior generals such as Wang Chaohong. The key is that they cooperated with those cannons and successfully completely suppressed the Ming Dynasty on the city head. Army counterattack.

Thus covering the troops for blasting and assault!

On the fourth day, when the Second Army put more than 1,000 assault battalions into the vanguard, and more than 20,000 infantrymen charged, the artillery unit also launched the last round of large-scale artillery bombardment.

They fired rapid fire, striving to shoot out more shells in a short period of time, and basically aimed at the head of the city and then fired, and some grenades were aimed at the deep area of ​​the city wall that was intended to be attacked.

This time, the shelling did not seek to kill many enemy troops, but to completely suppress the counterattack of the Ming army and cover the charge of the infantry!

Otherwise, the Ming army will withdraw the artillery to counterattack, and it does not need to be too much, and it does not need to be very powerful. It only needs to push out those Folang cannons and Wankou runners, and the Datang infantry in the charge will be able to be pushed out. They were killed and injured a lot!

The breakthrough direction of the assault troops was still the blasting point. They took advantage of the huge ruins in the blasting area to quickly advance, and then occupied the city walls on both sides, stabilized the breakthrough, and covered the main force entering the city!

Usually, if this step is completed, the city can basically be declared broken!

However, as an old opponent who has fought with the Great Tang King for many years, the inspector also knows this routine of the Datang Army. Although there is no way to completely restrain it, there are still precautions.

When the superintendent is guarding the city, he usually deploys reserve troops in every section behind the city wall, and it is all heavy armored infantry, and there are musketeers as cooperation.

They were used to plug the gap and compete with the assault troops of the Datang Army for the gap in the ruins.

This time, they did it!

When the loud sound of blasting reached the ears of every Ming army general, the leading senior Ming army generals simply did not go to the ruins, which were still shrouded in thick dust and smoke, because they knew without looking. The city walls of the place were turned into rubble ruins.

Their first reaction was to order the reserve team in the rear to immediately block the gap!

The second army assault battalion just outside the city, quickly advanced through the ditch, then jumped out from a place about 30 meters away from the city wall, and rushed towards the ruins, behind the ruins, hundreds of Ming soldiers. The reserve team was also the first to charge towards the ruins under the leadership of the generals.

At this time, among the ruins, there must be a person, um, it should be said that there is no living person. The Ming army who was defending the original city wall was unable to survive in such a violent explosion, even the nearby city walls on both sides. Ming army soldiers will also be affected.

At this time, the ruins are a blank area. Whoever rushes up first will be able to command the upper hand and take the advantage, and then cause heavy damage to the opponent!

The second army assault battalion outside the city was still charging. At this time, the smoke and dust on the ruins had been blown away by the cold wind of winter. Although it was still a little blurry, the outline was clearly visible.

The soldiers of the assault battalion wore thick full-body plate armor and half-body plate armor, and held waist knives made of stainless steel. Among them, some soldiers in half-body armor held knives in one hand, while the other hand was still holding knives. With a short musket!

This is the latest invention of the Royal Institute of Technology of the Tang Dynasty: the flintlock pistol!

The principle is basically the same as the infantry flintlock rifle, except that the barrel is much shorter. This pistol is not actually developed for the soldiers of the assault battalion, but for the cavalry.

It's just that the cavalry troops of the Tang Dynasty were miserable by the previous matchlock lances and matchlock pistols, so now they are very repulsive of muskets, even if the matchlock guns are now turned into flintlock guns.

Many cavalry generals of the Datang Army have never used muskets in large-scale battles~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Not to mention pistols, they don't even use cavalry very much, and very few cavalry generals even shouted: death is dead No muskets!

Li Xuan couldn't change the bad impression of the cavalry generals of the Tang Dynasty on the musket even if he scolded people.

And the musket doesn't match up with their wall-riding tactics!

Therefore, these two weapons, in the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty, are decorations most of the time!

Datang cavalry, only trust the cavalry in their hands!

There is nothing that can't solve the problem by charging up on the wall and slashing it down with one knife. If there is, then two knifes!

If that doesn't work, turn around and try again!

Sounds a bit silly, but that's what the Datang cavalry did!

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