"Forget it, let me take this opportunity today to tell you my understanding and thoughts on firearms warfare!"
After listening to the emperor's words, the faces of the generals froze. Cao Wenzhao and others had already heard it once, so it was not surprising. Several generals in Shanhaiguan had curious expressions on their faces. It is said that the battle of Longjing Pass was ordered by the emperor. bureau.
This is enough to show that the emperor knows how to march and fight. Now they want to hear the emperor's understanding of firearm warfare.
“First point, you must always remember that no matter what time, a solid building must be useful.
Unless the entire city wall is razed to the ground, any bulge can be used to form a bunker for counterattack.
Secondly, the city wall is only the second line of defense in an offensive and defensive war. If a war dominated by firearms is fought under the city wall, the failure of such a war is almost a foregone conclusion.
The real battle took place a few miles in front of the city wall. Deep trenches were dug not only to prevent the advancement of enemy tanks and artillery vehicles, but also to provide support for counterattacks.
Even if it is a thunder cannon, unless it falls directly into the trench, even if it falls two meters away from the trench and explodes, it may not cause death to the sergeant hiding in the trench.
At the same time, a small fort was built on the position. Unless the thunder cannon was hit directly, it would not collapse. In the fort, flintlock guns, tiger crouching cannons, and Franco machine guns were used to fight back.
However, with the accuracy of the current flying thunder cannons and Hongyi cannons, unless a row of more than a hundred cannons are fired at once, it is unlikely that a single shot will hit the bunker.
In this case, you are not fools, you can also use firearms to fight back, and the enemy will be afraid of death!
Defense is no longer a pure defense, but a defense for offense and counter-offensive. This is the case with the Guanning Defense Line! "
Everyone was stunned for a moment, their eyes full of thinking.
Their current thinking is still basically stuck in cold weapon warfare or they are afraid of explosive firearms, and they still don't know how to use firearms to conduct large-scale wars.
Jiannu's carriages can defend against Hongyi cannons, so naturally the castle can too.
Without waiting for anyone to think about it, Chongzhen continued: "What I just said is that when the firearms strength of both sides is about the same, or the defensive side's firearms strength is slightly weaker, there is still room for a duel using this method.
But if it was like the Ming Dynasty against the slave-building coalition forces in the Battle of Beidou, there were sufficient firearms. Even if they used trenches, it would only be a sudden attack on fish that slipped through the net, and no large-scale damage would be caused.
But even so, that doesn't mean surrendering. If the city wall is useless, then retreat into the city and engage in street fighting, unless the enemy flattens the entire city.
But if they were all destroyed, what was the point of their attack on the city? Think about the final battle in Shenyang City.
Therefore, in the end, firearms fighting is a close-quarters contact, unless it is said to be ignored.
To take a step back, why do we insist on holding on to the city when we know we can't hold it anymore? You can't abandon the city and fight back from a superior geographical location.
What you should pay attention to is that the retreat I am talking about is not a blind retreat, nor is it a passive avoidance of battle, but an active creation of conditions to annihilate the enemy during the movement.
For example, if we retreat into the mountains, will the Hongyi cannon lose its effectiveness? Because of the elevation problem, the enemy's firearms have a short range, while yours on the mountain has a long range.
As a general, you must consider the overall situation and don't care about the gains and losses of a city or a place. Just throw it away today and take it back tomorrow.
It is foolish to think that people will remain in the city despite knowing that it cannot be defended, and the city will be destroyed and people will perish.
As long as people are alive, there will be infinite possibilities for the future.
Think about Huang Taiji's performance in the Battle of Longjing Pass, and then think about why Lin Danhan gave up Guihua City in the Battle of the Grassland! "
Everyone was stunned again.
Yang Guli, the defender of Shenyang City, immediately gave up his defense after seeing the Ming army's flying thunder cannon attack, and massacred the city to attract the Ming army into the city.
Then they took advantage of the terrain to fight with the Ming army, so that the Ming army killed more than 6,000 people.
The emperor was very reasonable. No enemy would desperately bulldoze one city after another in order to kill the enemy. This not only required a large number of firearms, but also aroused the common hatred of the enemy and the people.
What shocked them was that the emperor's last words about being with the city were stupidity, which simply subverted their cognition.
But I have to say that what the emperor said makes sense.
"Don't look at me like this. If you think about it the other way around, if you insist on holding on even though you know you can't hold on anymore, then your death will be in vain.
But you retreat and look for opportunities to counterattack, even if it is ten for one or thirty for one, killing some enemies will reduce the attack power of the city behind.
You must always remember to put people first. As long as people are around, there will be unlimited possibilities. "
Thinking of this, Chongzhen wanted to complain about Chongzhen in history.
As the king of a country, he actually had to be with the city in the end. In addition to the complicated problems of Jiangnan forces and the fear of unrest in the hearts of the people and the morale of the soldiers, it was more about his good face.
If it were him, he would definitely move south when the situation was not right and just deal with it slowly.
Tang Xuanzong fled to Jiannan Road for refuge during the Anshi Rebellion, Tang Daizong fled to Shaanzhou (Sanmenxia), Tang Dezong fled to Xianyang, and then fled to Hanzhong.
No matter what, at least the dynasty continued.
If Chongzhen moved south, with Chongzhen's ability and status as an orthodox emperor, he might be better than the useless emperors of Nanming.
While he was complaining in his mind, a general from Shanhaiguan whispered: "Your Majesty, facing the enemy's firearms strength several times ours, is it true that there is no way to resist at all?"
"Of course!"
Chongzhen, who came back to his senses, nodded: "Build stronger walls and castles to make the enemy's explosive firearms useless, or have minimal effect, and buy time for counterattack."
Seeing what everyone wanted to say, Sun Yuanhua on the side whispered: "Everyone, whether the power of a firearm can blow through a city wall is relative.
A ten-meter-thick city wall and a twenty-meter-thick city wall are two different things.
A city wall made of blue bricks and a city wall made of earth are two different things.
A city wall made of bluestone and a city wall made of standard three-component soil are two completely different things.
Our Firearms Research Institute started looking for ways to resist the thunder after the emergence of Zhentian Lei. Sanhetu is one of them.
The courtyard had tested the city wall made of Sanhe soil. When the thunder cannon hit the city wall from a long distance, it only made a hole the size of a washbasin.
If it were buried one foot deep in a direction, the crater would be about half a meter wide and less than a foot deep.
The flatter and stress-free the surface, the less powerful the explosion will be.
If all the city walls of Shanhaiguanguan City were built with rammed earth, I estimate that without the continuous bombardment by more than 10,000 flying thunder cannons, it would be unlikely to collapse. "
The so-called Sanhe soil is made of three materials mixed in proportions. In some places, it is composed of lime, clay and fine sand. In other areas, it is composed of lime, slag and sand, and then rammed.
"Master Sun, although Sanhe soil is strong, it is not strong enough to meet the results of your test, right?"
