The fast rate of fire of the Franco machine gun is very consistent with the fire suppression tactics advocated by Yaoji. If each Franco machine is equipped with twenty medicine chambers, in theory, as long as the artillery position is not threatened or destroyed, it can give the enemy on the opposite side Braids cause serious damage.
If the Hongyi artillery is cancelled, it seems reasonable to just use the long-range combination of "Congreve rocket" and "big and small Fran cannon". If it is simplified into three types of artillery, not only will it be easier to train artillery, but the pressure on logistics supply will also be reduced. A lot lower.
One or two hundred "little Napoleon cannons" were built. Then the "big and small Fran cannons" equipped by the New Army and the Yongwei Battalion, as well as other artillery pieces, can be sent to the miscellaneous armies.
The "Little Napoleon Cannon" is the M1841 6-pound field gun, with a maximum range of nearly 1,400 meters. But if it were left to the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty to build, it would be lucky to have a range of 1,000 meters.
Compared with the "Big Napoleon Cannon" which has a range of nearly two kilometers, the "Napoleon Cannon" is indeed a bit mini, but its weight is only 35% of the PLUS version.
During motorized transportation, the "Xiao Na" can be easily towed by two pack horses, but the "Dana" weighs more than one ton. The strength of the Asian horses is far inferior to that of the European horses, and the artillery pack horses are also incomparable. Cavalry horse.
Therefore, although the "Xiao Na" has a low range and low power, it is relatively cheap to build and has higher maneuverability. It is more suitable for the Ming army's existing animal power to tow. It is impossible for Yaoji to pay for every "Xiao Na cannon". Go and prepare two good horses.
Considering that if the range of the copycat version is too low, the barrel will be lengthened, thereby increasing the weight of the artillery. The "small gun" may become a "small fat gun", so there is no need to consider a more bulky "big gun". .
Lao Tang can't let Lao Tang know the specific parameters of this weapon. As an expert in cannon making, if he takes a look at it, it will basically be considered useless and he can't make "takeaways". This small cannon may still be able to Ten thousand foreign cannon fodder was tricked.
Artillery is different from airships. You can let Lao Tang go up and have a look, or even take off for a test flight, because Lao Tang has never seen this kind of weapon. Not to mention the core technology, even the basic structure is all based on speculation, and the research has to start from scratch. Artillery is just the opposite.
As a senior counselor, Lao Tang contributed a lot to the court, but relatively speaking, a group of Western magicians were allowed by the emperor to build houses everywhere and preach to the people. This was a mutually beneficial cooperation. Yaoji had no reason to reveal all his trump cards. Look at each other.
There are no technically confidential things on the market anymore, so the cost of acquisition is naturally not high. But if a certain weapon is the Scorpion Laxiang - the only one, then it is a rare commodity. If you don't buy it, others will.
Therefore, both the "Congreve Rocket" and the "Napoleon Cannon" are considered weapons with the highest level of confidentiality. Yaoji did not even mention it, letting Lao Tang know that there are three new weapons: mortars, repeaters, and grenades. Even if the benevolence and righteousness are exhausted.
After obtaining the Mud Emperor, combined with the unique characteristics of the airship, not to mention crushing the French and Swedish troops on the battlefield, at least it will be beneficial to the invincible position when facing the steel front.
If the "Congreve Rocket" is added to this basis, then the balance of victory will definitely tilt towards the Erha family, and then a certain prince will not be able to maximize the auction value of the weapons.
Especially when playing "queue to kill", the distance between the two sides is less than 200 meters, and more than a hundred explosive packets suddenly fly out from the mud troops, which can kill thousands of people on the opposite side in an instant...
The anti-two-Kazakhstan coalition forces may not be afraid of airship attacks or flying artillery shells, but they are definitely afraid of "flying explosive packets."
That was several kilograms of actual explosives, plus hundreds of iron pillars. If it fell into the infantry square, it would knock down a large area!
Too many cannons can scare people to death. The Mud Emperor acquired three to five hundred of them and waited until the decisive battle of 100,000 people on both sides to take them out.
It is no exaggeration to say that musketeers without armor protection will become prey to explosive charges on the battlefield...
Yaoji will not let his musketeers go to the battlefield with zero protection. The infantry of the new army are all armored infantry, referred to as "armored soldiers". If you include throwing grenades, they are "armored grenadiers" .
The armor is a chicken helmet and heavy armor covering the torso and knees. The standard weapons are a smoothbore flintlock, bayonet, five grenades, and small crossbow arrows. If there is enough silver, each person will be equipped with a handgun.
Anyway, the Qing Gong commonly equipped by Braid cannot shoot his own "armored grenadier" directly. He can only accept his fate when he is killed by Huang Taiji's Hongyi cannon.
Fortunately, the rate of fire of the Hongyi cannon is very slow and the accuracy is not high. It is impossible for Huangtaiji to bring all the Hongyi cannons into the pass. In the event of an airship air attack, the braided artillery position will be completely destroyed.
A pure infantry phalanx requires hard steel cavalry. Since there is no assistance from horses, even if there is resistance from horses, it will always be on the defensive. Unless there are chariots to help, there is a chance of victory.
Facing the assault of thousands of cavalry, the infantrymen will feel fear in their hearts, causing the phalanx to inevitably panic, and they must have weapons to suppress the formation.
There is a saying in the art of war: a chariot beats a cavalry, and a cavalry beats a foot.
If chariots and infantry are organically combined and integrated into a combat unit that can cooperate with each other, then not to mention defeating the cavalry, at least they will not be pressed to the ground and brutally raped by the opponent.
The role of chariots has been demonstrated as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In the Battle of Chengpu in 632 BC, the Jin State dispatched as many as 700 chariots at one time.
Before the three families were divided into Jin, the Jin State, which loved to use chariots, had as many as 4,000 tanks. The strength of the overlord was evident from the number of battlefields.
By the Warring States Period, although the number of chariots equipped by various countries was still increasing, their actual role was declining due to the emergence of cavalry.
Due to its high cost and poor mobility, its position in the army was gradually replaced by the more flexible cavalry, and it was reduced to an auxiliary unit.
With the emergence of hard stirrups and high-bridge saddles, the role and status of cavalry were greatly strengthened and consolidated. It was not until the Song Dynasty that chariots were rethought.
Compared with the three strong opponents of Liao, Jin, and Xixia, the Song Dynasty was extremely disparate in terms of horse power. It could only rely on large infantry groups to fight against the enemy's cavalry troops.
Guo Gu, the training and pushing officer of the Fenzhou regiment, proposed the plan of the "trap cart", which was based on a carriage for reinforcement. Five people in the car were responsible for shooting, fourteen people pushed the cart, and another six were responsible for close combat, for a total of twenty-five people. .
Song Renzong was very interested in this, but after analysis, he found that this strategy had many disadvantages, such as the large number of non-combatants, the firepower of the chariots was not extremely powerful, and it was difficult to withstand the enemy cavalry assault, so he had to give up in the end.
In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, Yu Dayou, who was given the title of unfavorable for suppressing the bandits, had the opportunity to "make meritorious service" under Li Wenjin, the governor of Datong, after his friend Lu Bing bribed Yan Shifan, the son of the chief minister Yan Song.
Facing the aggressive Menggu cavalry, a generation of famous generals created a new chariot tactic, with a large unicycle as the core of the battle, equipped with a large Folang machine, and each group had fifty people.
Among them, the formation-breaking attack team consists of fourteen people, including four shield bearers, two tiger fork bearers, two hook and sickle bearers, four sword bearers, and two flag bearers.
The chariot defense team consists of sixteen people, eight gunners, four gunners, and four swordsmen. This team is only responsible for defense and does not participate in offense.
There are two officers, each in charge of a group, and they are also equipped with ten cavalry and eight heavy troops.
Yu Dayou organized thirteen groups of chariots into a small battalion, and thirteen small battalions into a large battalion. The total strength of the large battalion was 8,450, with 169 tanks and ten Cavalry, which is twice the number of chariots, are responsible for defensive counterattacks.
A year later, Li Wenjin relied on these 5,000 elite troops to defeat 20,000 Menggu cavalry at Anyin Castle. He pursued them for hundreds of miles and soon reported the results to the court.
The Ming court was greatly delighted and immediately ordered the establishment of a chariot battalion in the Jingying camp. The establishment copied the scale of the Datong border army, and the existing chariot battalion in the Jingying camp was born.
Yaoji had seen the chariot created by Yu Dayou, which was a flatbed truck with a cannon on it. He couldn't help but want to ask: Brother You! Is this a tank or a cannon... mount?
The chariot has no protection at all, it is just a lone Folang machine. No matter how brave Datong's artillery is, the equipment is not so crude, right?
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the horse administration was corrupt, and there was a huge shortage of cavalry in various ministries. In addition, the government's finances were tight. Yaoji only equipped each infantry brigade with a cavalry battalion of 500 people. The two brigades only had 1,000 cavalry, which was not as good as Brother You. Two-thirds of a large battalion of cavalry.
The small number of cavalry means they are destined to be unable to launch large-scale counterattacks and pursuits against the enemy. The infantry brigade can only conduct positional warfare within its capabilities to kill and injure the pigtails as much as possible.
The chariot designed by a certain prince could not ignore the safety of soldiers' lives. It abandoned the open-top style and changed it to a fully enclosed structure. It adopted a more stable four-wheel or six-wheel frame. Its appearance was similar to the sidecar that Qi Jiguang supported at that time. resemblance.
In order to commemorate the passing of the carpenter, it was euphemistically named - the Apocalypse Tank!
The explanation of "tank" is: wherever you go, there is a smooth road; every enemy you encounter is invincible!
The tentative crew members are three people, two shooters and one driver. Since the load capacity of the vehicle should not be too large, there are no plans to add more combatants.
In order to deal with the braided cavalry, the weapons carried on the vehicle are six large-caliber shotguns, three self-defense handguns, three simple knives, and fifty grenades. The crossbow weapons are yet to be determined.
The artillery of the infantry brigade is under the unified command of the artillery battalion, so tanks generally do not need to be equipped with artillery, and the combat weight of the entire vehicle can be minimized because the vehicle is not pushed by humans.
Most of the quasi-combatants are in the baggage camp and the engineer camp. If you add hundreds of carts, it will undoubtedly be a huge burden, so Yaoji has no intention of using manpower to push the carts, otherwise it will become a "rickshaw".
Before the invention of the steam engine and the internal combustion engine, the first choice of power was naturally animal power!
That's right!
Put two cows or horses into the tank and use it as an engine!
Compared with M1A2 or "Leopard 2", our "Apocalypse Tank" also has unique advantages.
That means no fuel consumption!
I would like to ask you if you are convinced? ? ?
Feed some hay, beans, and vegetables, and our tank will be ready to start!
There is no need for auxiliary soldiers to push the cart, it is energy-saving and environmentally friendly, and the cost is not high. It is really a super affordable invention~!
Yaoji thought about front-mounted power, but considering that if the "engine" had indigestion and farted a few times, the entire crew would be fainted by the "engine" in front of them in a semi-enclosed environment, so he decided to I gave up and could only use rear power.
The advantage of front-mounted power is that it has greater pulling force and the vehicle speed will be faster than that of rear-mounted power. However, the problem of "engine" farting is completely uncontrollable and unavoidable. If this cannot be solved, the combat effectiveness of the crew cannot be maintained.
The rear-mounted power does not have the worry of being stunned by the "exhaust gas", but in this case, based on the thrust of the two animals, the tank's top speed will not be much faster than the infantry walking.
In line with the principle of protecting one's own "engine", the second advantage of rear-mounted power is that there is no need to worry about being injured by the opponent. It can be used repeatedly as long as it wins, and it is conducive to the driver's control.
To be able to become the "engine" of a tank, ordinary livestock are not lucky enough to be selected. The first condition must be deaf, because the noise on the battlefield is extremely loud. Once the livestock is frightened and has a conditioned reflex, the entire tank will be useless.
Deaf herbivores are good. On the way to Yang Shicong's mansion that day, Yao Ji saw a stupid horse that had not heard the sound of the gong, stubbornly crossing the middle of the road.
From this, I think that if you can't hear the sound of guns and cannons on the battlefield and can only see the owner in front of you, wouldn't it be a perfect "engine"?
The rear-mounted power allows the driver to sit in front of the head of his own livestock. If they obey the command, he will feed them something delicious, which makes it easy to control the "pure natural engine".
If one out of every one hundred animals is deaf, then there is no way that one hundred out of ten thousand animals can be found.
The two ends are used as the engine of a tank. If they are put together, the armed Donggong Guards should be enough.
The resulting thrust, even with rear power, should be enough to move the tank forward.
The tank is then covered with a layer of iron sheet, the front is covered with iron plates, a bumper is added to the chassis, and spears are erected around it.
In addition to being directly hit by large-caliber artillery shells, Yaoji didn't believe that the braided cavalry could explode this thing.
Shooters can shoot at surrounding targets in 360 degrees without blind spots in the perforations and turrets in the vehicle.
When the defense power reaches level three, the attack power is considered level one, but the battlefield survivability is perfect, which is the most important thing.
It can completely ignore bullet attacks, and is even immune to braided bows and arrows.
If a fire does occur in the car, water and sand can be used to extinguish it.
If a hundred "Apocalypse Tanks" could be installed, there would be airships in the sky, rocket launchers and heartless cannons behind them, and hand grenades for close combat.
Will I be afraid of the cavalry group of the "Qing Dynasty King's Division"?
If a thousand of these heavy weapons are crawling all over the ground, the two yellow flags with the strongest combat effectiveness will have to move around, otherwise even Xiang will be shot out for you.
The only pity is that there are not so many deaf animals.
The task of designing the car body was left to the scientists who had not yet arrived in the capital, and I will not bear the blame.
If the manufacturing cost of a tank is calculated as 500 taels, one hundred tanks is only 50,000 taels.
The physical and psychological harm caused to the braids is far more than fifty thousand taels...
