Those who have not witnessed the large-scale siege of the Chu army can hardly imagine the shock caused by the hundreds of artillery pieces of the Chu army firing in unison.
This huge scene is far from an ordinary field battle. The Chu army only took out a few, no more than dozens of field guns, mainly firing solid shells, and incidentally firing a few grenades or shotguns. of.
Even the division-level troops in the Chu Army mainly use two-and-a-half-pound and five-pound field artillery when fighting in the field. These two types of artillery have relatively small calibers, and the Chu Army's grenade technology has some flaws. Therefore, grenades cannot be used.
If used reluctantly, the explosive power of this small-caliber spherical grenade is very small, and the range is not very good.
Only spherical grenades launched by artillery of more than nine kilograms, that is, 115 mm caliber, can ensure a certain explosive power at a certain range. However, the explosive power is still limited, and the effective range is longer than that of a solid grenade. The bullet is much closer.
If it is a field battle, unless there are special circumstances, Chu army's field artillery troops generally do not use grenades and directly fire solid artillery shells, which are more lethal at medium and long distances. If it is close range, shotgun shells are the only option. !
Only when it reaches the level of 18 kilograms, that is, a grenade with a caliber of 150 millimeters, can it have relatively large explosive power.
With a larger caliber, although the explosion power is greater, the weight of the artillery is also greater, and the shells are also heavier. It is quite troublesome to maneuver and supply ammunition. Therefore, generally only in independent heavy artillery units, you will see 24-pound howitzers or even Forty-eight pounds of howitzer.
This is also the reason why the Chu army only has twelve 18-pound light howitzers in its division-level troops. This type of artillery is moderate in weight and powerful, and is suitable for deployment in division-affiliated artillery regiments.
Therefore, in field battles, the Chu army actually used less grenades, and the most used were solid artillery shells and shotgun shells.
Even if they are used, most of them are grenades with a caliber of 115 mm. As for the 18-pound light howitzer, because there are not many, it actually doesn't make people feel very shocked when they are fired.
Under such circumstances, it is more difficult for people to realize that there is something outrageous about the Chu army's artillery unit in the field.
Although guns and cannons are sharp, they are basically within the scope of people's cognition.
In the past two years, the Dongji people have fought with the Chu army in field battles many times. In every battle, the Chu army had an absolute advantage in artillery firepower.
But he didn't say that he scared the shit out of Dong Zhu Ren.
But today!
In Guangning Zhongqiansuo!
When hundreds of artillery pieces of the Chu army opened fire in unison, the shocking scene that unfolded stunned several senior Dongli generals who were hiding behind an anti-gun bunker at the top of the city!
"Is this just fucking sharp?"
A middle-aged Dongji general looked at the huge cloud of smoke and dust from the explosion not far from the city wall behind him, and murmured to himself in shock: "This kind of power cannot be resisted by human beings!"
Just now, a shell fired by the Chu army crossed the city wall and landed on a house dozens of meters away behind the city wall. The violent explosion of the shell directly shattered the brick and wood structure house... …Tiles, wood chips, and rubble flew all over the sky, sputtering in all directions.
There was another explosive bomb of the same caliber, which exploded directly in the air about ten meters above the city. The huge explosion power almost swept the surrounding city, directly causing the collective destruction of a nearby two and a half kilogram artillery group... ...Even if there is a ring-shaped anti-gun bunker, it cannot stop the shell fragments coming from overhead!
This huge explosion power completely exceeded their knowledge of explosive bombs!
"This must be Chu Manzi's forty-eight pounds of explosive ammunition, and it's also their new type of explosive ammunition."
"I have seen the blooming bullets fired from their 48-pound mortar before, but they are not so powerful. Their new blooming bullets are even more powerful!"
The Dongjiu general was right. This was indeed a new type of explosive bomb in the Chu army. To be precise, it was a 200mm grenade with a wooden fuse using a wooden support.
Compared with the old 48-pound grenade, it not only uses a wooden support and wooden fuse, but more importantly, it uses better shell materials and processing technology.
In the past, the shells of grenades were just ordinary iron materials, and the strength of the material was very limited. In order to prevent the shells from being damaged by the high chamber pressure in the barrel when they were fired, the shells were often made thicker.
Once the shell is thick, the internal charge will naturally be less. At the same time, because the shell is too thick, even if prefabricated fragments are used, the fragments after the explosion are still not ideal. Many times the shell directly explodes into two pieces without forming at all. There are enough fragments, so the Chu army will choose to load some small iron balls inside to increase the killing capability.
But now the shells of new grenades are made of better materials, and after many improvements, the processing technology has also been improved.
Although the caliber of today's new grenade is the same as that of the early 48-pound grenade, the thickness of the shell has been reduced and the charge has increased by at least 50%. At the same time, the shell fragments after explosion are more uniform and more lethal.
So, this scene happened!
The explosive power of the new grenade fired by the 48-pound howitzer far exceeds that of the early grenades fired by the 48-pound mortar.
Then, Dongjiu people were dumbfounded...
This is unreasonable!
What's even more terrifying is that the Chu army outside the city has a whole regiment of forty-eight-pound howitzers, twenty-four in total!
Twenty-four 48-pound grenades launch new grenades at a rate of fire comparable to conventional artillery. Its power can be imagined.
What's more, the Chu army not only has 48-pound howitzers, but also five battalions with a total of sixty 24-pound howitzers.
The twenty-four-pound howitzer weighs roughly the same as a nine-pound field gun. Although it is heavy, it is not heavy enough to need to be handled with care.
The Second Field Artillery Brigade directly under the Third Army has one regiment of 24-pound howitzers, or thirty-six.
The Ninth Army also has an independent artillery regiment, which also has two 24-pound howitzer battalions, with 24 guns.
And these are just the two types of large-caliber howitzers under the jurisdiction of the artillery troops on the front line of Guangning Zhongqian Post. In fact, the Guards not far away also has two battalions of 24-pound howitzers. The one to the north of the Guards The Eighth Army also has two battalions of 24-pound howitzers.
This thing is a howitzer equipped in large quantities at the Chu army's military level and group army level. It has a very high tactical status, even higher than the 48-pound howitzer.
Eighty-four large-caliber howitzers in the front line of Nakazensuo are shelling!
In addition to them, there are also eighteen-pound light howitzers under the jurisdiction of several infantry divisions. As division-affiliated howitzers, each first-class division is equipped with twelve guns, no more, no less.
Under such circumstances, the Third Army of the Chu Army gathered more than a hundred howitzers of three different calibers: 150 mm, 170 mm, and 200 mm at Guangning Central Front Post!
As for the nine-pound light howitzer equipped by the infantry regiment, this thing has no sense of presence in this situation, but this thing is more...
The above are all howitzers, and then there are a large number of cannons and field artillery.
In the Third Heavy Artillery Brigade, there is a full regiment with twenty-four fourteen-pound cannons. These are extremely powerful. Just firing solid shells can blast a gap in some relatively thin city walls.
Hundreds of artillery pieces or artillery bombarded the Guangning Zhongqian Fortress indiscriminately, without any discussion of tactics or battles of wits and courage with the Dongluo people...
The infantry of the Chu army did not even come within three hundred meters of the city wall of Zhongqiansuo...
Their offensive trenches haven't been dug there yet!
In other words, the Dongjiu people in the city did not even see an infantryman of the Chu army, but they were already subjected to intensive shelling, and then heavy casualties were inevitable.
Even though they also had city fortifications, they also piled some sandbags on top of the city, deployed ring sandbag fortifications around the gun crews, and built some trench defense systems outside the city.
But in the face of absolute firepower superiority, even the strongest fortifications are unreliable, not to mention that the Dongji people are not as good as the previous Ming army in building fortifications.
In order to fight against the Donglu, and later to resist the Chu army, the Ming army could only passively defend the city because of its inability to fight in the field, so it almost exhausted its efforts to develop various defense systems.
The city defense system they came up with is quite reliable. If you take it alone, without considering things like morale, and just simply evaluate the city defense system, it is estimated that except for the Chu army, which is a crazy big bomb, there are other armies. In addition to using A pile of human lives, otherwise it would be difficult to conquer their turtle shells.
At least not the former Donglu people!
They were not even good at attacking traditional cities, let alone attacking the new city defense system that was forced to be upgraded by the Chu army.
The strength of the Dongjiu people is also in the field battle. They are not very good in city defense.
Now when I met Chu Jun, a big bomber, I was stunned by the explosion.
The continuous falling artillery shells caused heavy losses to the Dongdu soldiers who were originally stationed on the city wall in a short period of time. Then they fled down the city in embarrassment one by one and hid in various bunkers behind the city wall.
Even the senior Dongli generals who had been hiding in the anti-artillery fortifications at the top of the city to watch and command the battle were worried that the Chu army's artillery bombardment was too fierce. They were worried that the anti-artillery bunkers were not strong enough to block the Chu thieves' large-caliber grenades. He also hurriedly fled the city and returned to the safer rear to conduct command.
That is to say, the Chu army's infantry has not yet come up. Otherwise, if this violent bombardment had just begun and the Dongjiu people were panicked and were attacked by the Chu army's infantry, the city would probably have been lost!
After witnessing the true power of the Chu army's artillery, the Dongli garrison at Zhongqian Station immediately sent a flag message to the friendly cavalry troops outside the city: If your cavalry does not attack, we will not be able to defend it...
And Huang Taiji's eldest son Hauge, who had just arrived at Zhongqian Station with cavalry reinforcements from Guangning's former garrison and took over the command of the 20,000 cavalry here, after receiving the news, he directly cursed:
"Trash...they're all a bunch of trash...it's only been so fucking long, and it's only been less than half an hour and they say they can't hold on any longer!"
"You're asking us to attack right now... what the hell, only half an hour is enough. How can 20,000 cavalry attack so fast? Do they think they are just playing tricks and can rush out with just a word?"
"Send a signal and tell them to guard it for me. If anyone dares to take a step back, all the generals and their families will be executed, and all the soldiers and their families will be made into slaves wearing armor!"
"Fucking Chu Manzi didn't even go up with the infantry yet, so he told me that he couldn't hold it, so what the fuck!"
"A bunch of things that are greedy for life and afraid of death!"
