Gao pragmatism, who was regarded as a thorn in Zhasak Tuhan's side, was actually not particularly calm, because this battle in Sand City was also a brand new experience for him.
A new experience of being blocked in the city by others while being beaten passively.
But the strange thing is that, except for himself, he found that most of the people around him were very calm, especially Ma Gui, who was as relaxed and comfortable as if he was not in the middle of a war at all.
Gao Pragmatic, who ran to the east city tower early in the morning to check the enemy's situation, couldn't help it anymore, and said to Ma Gui, who looked calm next to him: "Xi Quan, I see that you are very confident in this battle, and you don't seem to care about it at all. Do you take Tumen seriously?"
Ma Gui smiled and said: "Although Tumen and Xin Ai have more than 70,000 people, it is meaningless. Even if you give him another 70,000, it will be useless. They will not pose any threat to Shacheng within three months."
"Why are you so sure?" Gao pragmatically asked.
This question seemed to be a bit unexpected to Ma Gui. He said with a slight surprise: "I will defend his attack. I have a strong city to rely on and cannons to kill the enemy. His cavalry, if it comes to coming and going, is of course in I'm above you, but I can't make any progress at the foot of the city. I'll have to leave sooner or later, so why should I worry?"
Gao pragmatic nodded and said: "You mean, they don't have any effective means of attacking the city. Although they are surrounding the city with great momentum, it is actually useless?"
"Of course." Ma Gui smiled and said, "Please wait and see."
Ma Gui pointed to the Tumen and Xinai cavalry who were camping far away outside to surround Shacheng and said: "Although they said they were besieging the city, they chose a far away location for their camp. This shows two things: first, they are afraid of being bombarded by our army's artillery; second, they are afraid of being bombarded by our army's artillery. , he is afraid that our army will suddenly attack the camp."
"Kick the camp?" Gao pragmatic asked.
Ma Gui nodded and said: "They don't know the deployment of our army. They probably think that there are 20,000 to 30,000 cavalry in the city. If there are really 20,000 to 30,000 elite cavalry, they will concentrate on one branch and suddenly attack the camp. The chance of success is quite high." Not low.
At that time, his 70,000-strong army was scattered outside the four city gates. Each gate had less than 20,000 riders at most. If the camp was suddenly attacked, there was a high chance of collapse. As for whether our army will continue to pursue and expand the results after the collapse of one branch, or whether our army will withdraw its troops and return to the city, it will not be a good thing for them. "
"It's a pity that there are not many cavalry in Shacheng City." Gao Pangshi finally relaxed and said with a smile: "It seems that Tumen Khan was disappointed."
Ma Gui laughed and said: "Let him be scared. Let's defend the city as usual and prevent the cavalry from showing up from beginning to end. Occasionally, we can still let them see something to prevent them from having any other ideas."
Gao pragmatic nodded and said: "Xi Quan, your words reminded me that yes, we still need to make sure that there is a main force of cavalry in Shacheng."
As he spoke, he turned to Cao Gan and said: "Go find two people. One should look like Dacheng Taiji, and the other should look like Ali Ge. Then prepare Dacheng Taiji's ceremonial guard, especially the flag. Once you get it together, Let them go to the tower to patrol the city occasionally, not too often, just once a day, and it does not need to be long, just one stick of incense is enough."
Cao Gan responded with a smile, and then asked: "Do you want to find another substitute for Chaterji? Although it is a bit difficult to impersonate him, the people in Tumen are far away and can't see clearly."
Gao Pragmatic had just considered finding an actor to replace Chatterjee. However, Chatterjee's behavior, especially his eyes, was difficult to imitate. He was in trouble with just one look.
However, Cao Gan was right to remind him that although Qia Taiji's eyes are not easy to fake, the pictures are far away. They are not the most talented people in the world. They can still clearly see "Qia Taiji" from such a distance. Eyes?
So Gao Pragmatic thought for a moment and agreed, so Cao Gan went down to prepare and start looking for people.
Ma Gui said: "Your Majesty, don't worry. Our Ming army is the main force in Shacheng now. Our army is good at guarding it. Now the city is equipped with cannons and plenty of food. As long as Tumen can't use cannons, he can't even think about it." Break into the city."
Gao pragmatic nodded, but sighed slightly in his heart.
It seems that the Ming army used cannons as city defense weapons. It cannot be said to be Yuan Chonghuan's unique invention, but there are already signs and even traditions. However, Yuan Chonghuan's understanding of the use of weapons was a bit biased, so he went the wrong way.
From the late Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, should artillery be used to defend the city? Gao pragmatism thinks it is possible, but this yes should refer to small and medium-sized cannons that can shoot down, or even long-range fire guns, and it is definitely not Yuan Chonghuan's red cannon to defend the city.
Take Ningyuan City in the late Ming Dynasty as an example. The city height is 12 meters, and it takes 141 seconds for the artillery shells to lower to the enemy's height of 22 meters. Even if the Hongyi cannon fires at zero angle and has a muzzle velocity of 360 meters per second, even if the speed is reduced to 220 meters per second before landing 151 seconds later, it will form a blind spot of at least 406 meters below the city.
So if we calculate based on the record of the small shooting angle commonly used by Ming Dynasty cannons of one minute and 75 degrees and a range of three miles, the blind zone will be at least 1,500 meters. Can you still shoot accurately from 1,500 meters away? Naturally, the result is that you can’t hit accurately when you’re far away, and you can’t hit when you’re close! Who can be beaten to death depends entirely on their appearance.
What's more terrible is that after doing this, the incident angle of the solid bullet when it hits the ground will definitely increase, making it difficult to form a ricochet. It is even more unreasonable to expect Yuan Chonghuan's red cannon to have a maximum range angle of more than 30 degrees to form a ricochet to kill wild boar skins. This is because the high-speed steel bullets of later generations must have a normal angle of more than 70 degrees and a horizontal angle of less than 20 degrees to form a ricochet.
How can Yuan Chonghuan form a ricochet when his shooting angle is greater than 30 degrees? Could it be that Yuan's cannon shells are faster than modern cannons, Yuan's nns are harder than steel bullets, or is the place where the boar skin stands on a super steel plate floor?
Because of these shortcomings of artillery in this era, in NS's book Artillery, the ideal shooting angle of artillery is set at five degrees "shooting downward or upward on a slope above 5 degrees, or from the top of one hill to another." Shooting, it’s very unfavorable shooting conditions.”
The two key points mentioned in Mr. En's book to greatly reduce the power of cannons are that the angle of incidence cannot be large and the gun position cannot be high. Yuan Chonghuan actually took care of both.
The only defensive artillery that can really go up to the city are small and medium-sized artillery. As for the artillery on the city and the related division of labor, there is actually a record of the key point of the fire attack in the Ming Dynasty: "If the enemy is encamped and takes a look from a distance, he must use long battles and strike from a distance to disrupt his camp so that he does not dare to stand still for a long time." What really kills the enemy is the wide-mouth cannon: "If ants swarm and approach the city, they will use big blunderbuss to kill them all."
Just say that some people in China don't believe it, and continue to refer to the works of Mr. NS. He also said it very clearly in the bastion: "They are built very high, and the artillery can shoot beyond the breastwork of the bastion from here. Because of this kind of blockade At the commanding heights, the artillery with the longest range is usually placed in the stacks to harass the enemy with artillery fire from a longer distance."
Look, in an era that has surpassed the technological level of the late Ming Dynasty, on the bastions that have surpassed the city defenses of the late Ming Dynasty, in the fortresses that have surpassed the late Ming Dynasty fortresses, cannons that have surpassed the level of the late Ming Dynasty have also been used. It's just harassing the enemy with artillery fire!
ns At that time, it was still the era of bastions, which gave Yuan Chonghuan some respect for his "cannons for strong cities". In the city wall era, the military scholar N. Dupuy’s book gave a more direct evaluation of the artillery on the city:
"As has been noted, this is partly because castles and walled cities cannot mount the large cannons needed to deal with enemy bombardment. The light cannon on the walls cannot hit the enemy's longer-range siege guns, which are slightly heavier. Although the cannon can be dragged to the city wall with great effort, it can only have the opposite effect. Because the recoil of the cannon will cause huge vibrations at the base of the wall, seriously affecting the solidity of the city wall, it will make it more difficult. Easily compromised." The Evolution of Weapons and Warfare
Look, "it is easier to be breached". This is really even the last fig leaf, which has been removed by "the cannon of a strong city"!
In addition, Gao Pragmatic has always felt that Yuan Chonghuan exaggerated the power of the Hongyi Cannon to the point of exaggeration. At this time, in addition to the relatively fast firing speed at the beginning, the Hongyi Cannon continued to fire due to the cooling of the barrel. , the rate of fire is only about 100 rounds per hour, which is the premise that there is no malfunction. This rate of fire obviously cannot form enough firepower in the face of swarming enemies.
From Gao's pragmatic point of view, the use of artillery in the solid artillery era was, first, to siege cities, using large siege cannons, such as the No. 1 cannon and No. 2 cannon under the Jinghua imitation system, and the second was to break infantry mass formations, using infantry anti-personnel cannons, such as The No. 3 and No. 4 cannons, the ones with a slightly lower technical level, were the Tiger Crouching Cannon that Qi Jiguang loved most in field battles.
As for defending the city, giant cannons such as the No. 1 cannon and the No. 2 cannon, which are "giant" in this era, can break through the sky and are better than nothing. They cannot reach the height of "defending the city with cannons".
The "big cannon" in Ma Gui's mouth does not actually refer to something. What he means is very simple, that is, artillery that can hit the opponent is just something he is used to talking about.
As a typical firearms party, Gao Pragmatic had to prepare cannons since he adopted the center-flowering tactic of "suicide". In fact, he prepared quite a lot of cannons, including seventy-six No. 3 cannons and 130 No. 4 cannons. Seventeen, for a total of two thousand two hundred and thirteen cannon.
However, he did not have an accurate judgment on which city gate Tumen would attack mainly, so the two hundred or so cannons were currently evenly distributed on the four city towers in the southeast, northwest and northwest.
Of course, each city gate was assigned more than fifty No. 3 and No. 4 guns, which was already an exaggeration in this era.
What's more, he doesn't only have cannons. He also has a large number of Longqing Type II guns and a small amount of Wanli Type I guns. These guns produced by Jinghua, due to their reliable quality, can be charged with sufficient charges, and their range is obviously beyond the range in this era. The range of ordinary bows and arrows is not to mention, especially the Mongolian soldiers who attack the city from a high position.
The only question is whether Tumen will choose to attack with force.
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