These artillery pieces are all standard artillery pieces of the Ming Army.
Yang Fan recognized it all.
It's all a bunch of junk. The cannons equipped by the Jiannu slaves were various. Complex and poor performance.
Yang Fan looked carefully through the telescope and identified them one by one.
The bowl-mouth gun is as big as a porcelain bowl and two feet long.
Place it on a short wooden bench and secure it with seven steel hoops.
This crappy thing was equipped in the Hongwu Dynasty.
The Ming army in Liaodong was corrupt and did not update its equipment, and later fell into the hands of Jiannu. However, it is easy to hit aluminum alloy armor with this thing, and it will definitely kill you if it hits it.
Bamboo-type artillery, cast from pig iron, is about the same size as a bowl-mouth blunderbuss, with a caliber of about 100.
Portable artillery, made of bronze, with a caliber of about 90mm and a length of about 900mm. It has a handle and can be carried around. The wall of the gun barrel is relatively thin, so it cannot hit too far. If there is too much charge, it will easily explode the barrel, but it is easier to transfer.
These junk things can't hit far, only about a hundred meters.
They are all passed down from Liaodong Town for more than 100 years. The guardhouse collapsed, and even the mandarin duck war jacket could be passed down for three generations, not to mention these early Ming Dynasty artillery pieces.
But looking further down, there are some things that can pose a threat.
Attack artillery, Ye Gong's divine musket artillery carriage, Baizi volley of artillery.
These three are shotguns carried by horse-drawn carriages.
There are some lined up in front of the formation, and there are quite a few of them. There are also many squatting tiger cannons, more than a dozen in front of each military formation.
These shotguns will cause huge trouble to the militiamen who attack their military positions.
Looking down, Yang Fan also had a solemn expression.
Folan cannon!
They actually have Franco cannons.
Although there are not many, there are three or two gates in front of each military formation, loaded on small carts. It looks like a small Franco machine gun weighing 150 kilograms, but this gun has a fast firing rate and a range of no less than 300 meters.
Yang Fan felt lucky that he had brought the field artillery battalion and the machine gun battalion. Otherwise, there will definitely be a lot of casualties in the final attack on the rear army formation of the Han Army Flag.
Yang Fan's three-pounder cannon is a cannon with a diameter of thirty-six times. The caliber is 76, the maximum range of direct fire is 750 meters, and the ejection can reach 1,300 to 400 meters. However, this light field gun has no practical value for ejection. The projectile is too small.
Yang Fan's hand-operated Gatling gun has a range of more than 500 meters because of its all-metal fixed bullet caliber as high as 15. They are all well above the opponent's artillery range, enough to suppress them.
After a while, their heavy armored infantry was defeated, and the field artillery battalion and machine gun battalion were sent up.
In the blink of an eye, the heavy armored infantry from both sides were engaged.
Jiannu's method of warfare did not put firearms on the front line, which was different from that of the Ming Dynasty. They used heavily armored infantry and cavalry to charge directly and violently, destroying the enemy in an instant. Only siege warfare and positional warfare will focus on the use of artillery and muskets.
What they really value is the cold weapon troops.
The heavy infantry of Jiannu were relatively miscellaneous in equipment. They were a bit like the Qi family army. Each infantry unit had long and short weapons, which were used together.
There were two or three people in front holding shields and sabers. Behind them were three or four spearmen and two rakers. Two swordsmen and two archers. There are also two holding three-eyed guns.
Such a small group of people gathered together and rushed over to fight the militiamen.
The uniform equipment of the militiamen is the Swiss halberd.
The independent combat unit of the militia is a squadron, which is a phalanx of one hundred people. Following the squadron leader's whistle, the first row of people held their halberds straight and stabbed forward.
"One, two, stab" the soldiers shouted.
He took two steps forward and suddenly stabbed forward.
In front of a square formation, ten halberds suddenly stabbed at them in unison.
The militiamen were in close formation, shoulder to shoulder. Thrust over.
The Han military flag is relatively loose, with three people facing each other and one person holding ten halberds. It was also their first time to fight against Yang Fan's army, and they suddenly became panicked.
Three people could not stop the assassination of ten halberds. The soldiers holding shields in front were stabbed down by halberds thrust from different directions.
The shield blocked one or two halberds, but could not block three or four halberds.
As soon as the battle began, a large area in front of the Han army flag was knocked down.
The combat range of long weapons is longer than that of short weapons, and they are still in a tight formation shoulder to shoulder, with no room for maneuvering.
The formation of the militiamen was so airtight that they didn't even look at the various tricks on the other side, just one or two stabs, one or two stabs.
The militiamen practiced assassination for an hour at a time, until they could no longer lift their arms. They stabbed hard and fast. The officers said that in the world of martial arts, speed is the only thing that can't be broken.
stable! allow! ruthless! That's the kingly way.
The rake behind the Han military flag quickly stretched out to block the halberd.
The halberd has a curved hook and an ax head. Although they are both very flat, they have a certain width horizontally and can be caught by a rake.
However, after the halberd got stuck on the rake, it was pulled back directly and disengaged. Then he hooked the shield soldier in front from the back of his neck and pulled his head off directly.
After a while, after several rounds of fighting, all the short-armed soldiers in the front row were killed.
When Yang Fan saw this, he already understood in his heart.
This formation of the Jiannu heavy infantry can make the Ming soldiers fall into disgrace. That is because the Ming soldiers are neglected in training. There is no strict military formation.
When fighting, they rush forward in a swarm. When Jiannu's formation is used to deal with scattered enemy troops, the combination of long and short weapons works very well.
However, when encountering a large formation like Yang Fan, with a unified array of long weapons and halberds, a tight formation will suffer big losses.
Seventeen years ago, during the Battle of Hunhe, Shizhu chieftain soldiers and white pole soldiers formed a tight formation with spears and stabbed two to three thousand people from the Eight Banners to death.
Li Yongfang watched as all the soldiers with short weapons in front were killed. Their cloth armor could not block the thrust of the halberd, and they all fell down.
He hurriedly ordered the soldiers with weapons to go forward and stab the enemy.
In addition to rakes and three-pronged forks, there are also many spears and lances on his side.
Following Li Yongfang's order, soldiers with banners and weapons of the Han army crowded into the front rows. Fight fiercely with the militiamen with the long weapons in their hands.
For a time, all kinds of long-pole weapons kept blocking, pushing away, and stabbing each other up and down.
Zhou Yuji was riding on a horse and saw that the front line was already in a stalemate, so he picked up a spoon and started blowing.
As the whistle blew, the second platoon of militiamen moved into action. They put their halberd poles on the shoulders of the first row of soldiers and joined the battle.
This is the content of the infantry drill code promulgated by Yang Fan.
When fighting, the first row stabs directly forward. The second row placed their halberds on the shoulders of the first row, and then stabbed the enemy on the right side of the enemy's line.
Because people are right-handed, their eyes and brain are mostly on the right side, and they are accustomed to looking from right to left. Moreover, the joints of the right arm of a person move from the right side to the left side. From left to right, the range is lower and inconvenient, and the joints will soon reach the restricted position.
Therefore, it is written from the left to stab the enemy on the right side of the opposite side. In the fierce fight, he will not pay attention at all. Even if he notices, he will not be able to respond flexibly. Because of the function of the left arm when moving the arm from right to left.
This directly resulted in large holes in the enemy's neck and chest, and under the right side of his ribs.
The halberd pierced the cloth armor directly, knocking these people down.
The cloth armor has no helmet mask, no front neck protector, and the helmet only has armor capes on the back and left and right sides. The face and throat are exposed.
Moreover, the armor has poor defense against spears and can basically pierce them.
The more Li Yongfang looked, the more anxious he became. Rows of heavy armored infantry in front were stabbed to death. Less than a quarter of an hour after the battle started, several layers of dead bodies were already thrown down in front.
On his side, the attack effect is very poor.
The militiamen were covered in plate armor with no exposed skin, and the cold weapons of the Han military flag could not penetrate at all. The arc of the plate armor is very smooth and stress-free, and the spear tip can easily slide to the side.
The brittleness of aluminum alloys is due to the relatively large impact force, such as firearms. The power of a human arm wielding a weapon is not enough.
"Quick, let the musketeers come to the front. Everyone up."
Li Yongfang shouted anxiously that if he continued to fight like this, all three thousand of his heavy infantry would be killed.
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