Valley Emperor

The battle of Susong was very important to the Tang Army, and it was equally important to the Ming Army Supervision!

Because this place is the bridgehead for the Ming army's superintendent to fight against the Second Army's entry into the hinterland of Hubei!

Once this place is lost, the subsequent Datang Army will be able to pass through this place continuously, and then enter the hinterland of Hubei. At that time, the supervisors in Hubei will be passive. Therefore, the Ming army supervisors also spent a lot of effort to defend this place. .

This has also led to the fact that the Tang Army has invested heavily in order to conquer this place, and an entire Second Army has been sent to all of them!

On the first day of the general offensive, the 3rd Infantry Division, the absolute main force of the 2nd Army, launched two full-division-scale charges, and under the cover of numerous artillery pieces, began to attack Susong!

In this battle, the artillery of the Datang Army, especially the numerous howitzers, once again played a major role. In this tough battle, nothing can kill the enemy in large numbers and shake the morale of the enemy more than a powerful howitzer. .

These heavy howitzers also gave the 7th Infantry Regiment the most powerful support when the 7th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Infantry Division was at its most dangerous!

In the first round of the day's general offensive, after the 7th Infantry Regiment initially opened a gap in the 3rd Assault Battalion, Colonel Qi Shoulin, the head of the 7th Infantry Regiment, decisively led the entire regiment to launch a fierce attack.

In just half an hour, it occupied the 100-meter-long city wall, but then the Ming army organized a large number of troops to counterattack, and regardless of the life and death of the Ming army superintendent soldiers who were still fighting the seventh infantry regiment, directly A large number of shotguns were used to cover this gap.

Abruptly suppressed the offensive momentum of the 7th Infantry Regiment!

At this time, Qi Shoulin directly requested support from the howitzer battalion in the rear, and sent back the clear shelling parameters. Then the howitzer troop shot from a large angle to cover the many shotgun positions ambushed by the Ming army in the city. Shelling!

Although the hit rate of this covered artillery shelling was not high, the huge explosion prevented the enemy from continuing to intercept the shelling, and then the Seventh Infantry Regiment launched a fierce attack again!

A large number of flintlock musketeers wearing breastplates and helmets no longer insisted on using a linear formation as in the field, but launched attacks on a team scale, boldly using bayonet charges and other means, and successfully cleared them. The surrounding Ming army even fought a counterattack, destroying many positions of the Ming army's shotguns.

Thanks to the brave operations of the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 3rd Assault Battalion, the 2nd Army finally succeeded in opening a large gap, and then the other units of the 3rd Infantry Division quickly followed and continued to advance!

By the afternoon, the three main infantry regiments of the 3rd Infantry Division had all successfully entered the city, and began to join the other troops of the 2nd Army into the city.

However, the Ming army in the city was completely defeated without the loss of a section of the city wall. At this time, they fully let the Second Army know what is called the battle of trapped beasts.

After the loss of the first city wall, they pushed it to the city area, where there is the inner wall that they have newly built in the past year, that is, the second city wall, and between the first city wall and the second city wall, there are many Strong fortresses, these fortresses often have a shotgun as a fire support, and a number of musketeers form a defensive point.

This battle mode is not street fighting, but a pure fortress battle, which caused a lot of trouble to the Second Army.

But it only caused a little trouble. When the tens of thousands of main troops of the Second Army entered the first city wall and continued to attack the second city wall, they continued to exert their firepower advantage.

They even directly pulled the field artillery into the city from outside the city, found a Ming army fortress or defensive position, and immediately launched an artillery bombardment!

The five-jin field artillery that the Second Army is heavily equipped with, although it is said that it is not lethal to a city wall several meters thick, it can do one shot at a time for such a small fortress.

The firepower support points of these small fortresses of the Ming army, that is, ordinary masonry structures, cannot be as thick as the city walls, so these small fortresses support each other, but when the second army directly pulls out the artillery, When direct accurate artillery fire is carried out at a distance of one or two hundred meters, it is often possible to do one shot at a time.

And conquering these small fortresses is just a microcosm of the Second Army's use of firepower advantages!

In this offensive operation, all kinds of artillery, grenades, and even flintlock guns of the Second Army were fully demonstrated!

If the tactical role of the flintlock gun is only ordinary in this tough battle, then the grenade and grenade, the two explosive weapons, play an irreplaceable role.

Today's grenades are no longer standard for grenadiers. The Datang Army will use grenades on a large scale in a few important battles or defensive operations, especially in defensive operations. The requirements are not high. Just set it on fire and throw it out, you don't need to be as demanding as the grenadiers.

In the battle of Susong, the 7th Infantry Regiment alone used more than 5,000 grenades. For this reason, in each infantry platoon, two strong musketeers were specially selected to be responsible for dropping bombs. And also conducted related training before the war.

The entire Second Army, in this battle, consumed more than 30,000 grenades, almost all the grenades carried by the army!

As for grenades, there are currently two types: 24 jin and 48 jin, of which 24 jin is the main one. From the preparation of the artillery fire before the general attack to the completion of the siege, more than 3,800 howitzers have been consumed in total.

As for the solid shells of 5, 9, and 14 jin, there are even more, and the total number exceeds 20,000 rounds. Although most of them are solid shells of 5 jin field guns, the shells of 9 jin are only about one-third of the total. One, the 14-pound weight has only a few hundred rounds.

However, a large number of solid shells still played an irreplaceable and important role in the battle of Susong!

When the Second Army completely captured Susong Inner City, completely defeated the defenders in the city, and when the more than 3,000 supervising and remnant soldiers in the city were desperate and chose to surrender, the Second Army actually almost used up the ammunition carried by the army. .

But the Second Army consumed so much ammunition, but Li Xuan in the rear was not at all unhappy, but felt extremely happy!

Because he saw a very key word in it, that is 'firepower advantage'. The Datang Army has been playing with guns and guns for so many years, although they have always said that guns and guns are sharp, the Ming Army said the reason why the Datang Army is so Powerful, purely because of the sharpness of the guns.

But within the Datang Army, Li Xuan himself has never seen it that way. The guns and guns are sharp, which is correct, but if you say that the Datang Dynasty won wars by relying on guns and guns, it would be nonsense! !

Are there fewer guns in the Ming army?

In particular, Zhang Yue's superintendent has a lot of guns. The current Zhang Yue's superintendent's equipment level is no less than that of the early Datang Army, even higher than the Datang Army in the Guizhou era and the Guangdong, Guangxi and three provinces of Guizhou. Stronger, back then, the Datang Army was not enough even with arquebuses.

However, has such a supervising standard ever won against the Datang Army?

No!

In a large-scale battle, they have never won that once!

Why?

Because when both sides were equipped with a lot of guns, the Datang Army's more than 200,000 troops cost more than 20 million taels a year, and now there are more than 100,000 inspectors, but the annual cost is only five Only six million taels of silver!

Why is there such a big gap here?

Because there is a huge gap between the two sides in equipment cost, training cost, food cost, salary cost, etc.

In terms of food and salaries, being a soldier in the Datang Army, not only can I have enough to eat every day, but I can support my family, but in the supervising standard? Even if the soldiers in the main force want to be full every day, it is impossible, let alone expect to have money to support their families.

In terms of equipment and training, the Datang Army will basically distribute the required equipment to all soldiers in need, such as plate armor, and even musketeers can now be equipped with a breastplate.

And now the standard waist knife in the military is almost all steel knives.

Live ammunition training is carried out every three days. Whether it is a musketeer or a gunner, their proficiency in loading and shooting is all fed with ammunition, especially when the gunners of each artillery do not give them live ammunition training. Just relying on simulation training, to be able to hit the hell.

Whether the artillery of this year can hit accurately depends heavily on the experience and intuition of the gunner.

It's not about talent or the like, it's just experience and intuition.

When the gunners want to hit what target~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Although there are some theories, but you are welcome to say that the theories these days are relatively nonsense, the theory is correct, but in most practical situations, the artillery is fundamental If you don't shoot according to your theory, you can hit the enemy theoretically, but it just misses.

There is no way, the accuracy of artillery in these years is so scumbag, and no matter how advanced the theory is in today's artillery, it must be blinded.

Therefore, it can only rely on the personal experience and intuition of the gunners.

This is also why in the Tang Army, the artillery commanders rarely move. The artillery commanded by a artillery commander will basically not change. At the beginning, he is responsible for this artillery, then it will be this one in the future, unless it is The artillery is scrapped, otherwise it will not be easily changed.

Because the same gunner, the same 5-jin field gun, the gunner controls the 5-jin field gun that he is used to, and hits a hundred hits, but if he changed another 5-jin field gun for him, then he would have to be blinded. He can hit approximate targets.

But if you want to accurately hit a small and medium-sized target at a long distance of three or four hundred meters, it is basically impossible to count on it.

It takes a period of familiarity to find the status! .