I want to be emperor

Chapter 159

Facing the sharp shelling of the bandits, Lu Xiangsheng was a little uncertain for a while.

Next, I still let the infantry continue to advance slowly according to the original plan, and wait for the enemy infantry to fire light artillery, bows and muskets before approaching, and then engage in hand-to-hand combat?

In this case, the infantry array of our own side may have been unilaterally bombarded by the bandit army. According to the fact that the bandit army does not take a moment to destroy a phalanx, it is estimated that when our side slowly passes to the engagement distance, the frontline army Many phalanxes had to be knocked out.

If you don't line up slowly, just rush over?This can reduce the casualties of the shelling, but it is still hundreds of meters away. If you charge directly, it will consume a lot of physical energy of the soldiers.

Especially those main fighters, wearing heavy armor weighing tens of kilograms, running for hundreds of meters with spears or shields and long knives, their physical energy will be greatly consumed, which is very unfavorable for subsequent battles.

Not to mention this kind of rapid charge, it is impossible to maintain the formation at all.

Most of the soldiers under his command are actually miscellaneous guard soldiers. In fact, there are only two to 3000 soldiers who can fight a little. up.

Once the complete formation is lost, the dense infantry formation is also dead in the face of the bandits.

This rush is not true, and it is not true whether it is not rushing. For a while, Lu Xiangsheng was caught in a dilemma.

At this moment, Lu Xiangsheng had a very bad premonition in his heart, a premonition that he had never considered before.

Maybe, maybe, this battle will be lost!
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On the other end, Luo Zhixue couldn't help but smile when he saw the good shelling effect in front of him, and said to Xu Zhixian beside him, "This cannon is the god of war. As long as the cannon can be used efficiently, this war will be easy." Much easier."

Xu Zhixian immediately said: "This is all thanks to the general's strong support for the development of artillery, otherwise how can we achieve today's results."

"The subordinates at the front heard from brother Zhang that the combat manual for the [-]-jin long artillery has been prepared. I read it and was shocked. Seeing this, we should not increase our investment in artillery in the future!"

Luo Zhixue chuckled, the artillery combat manual for the [-]-jin long gun was produced under his direct instructions, and the purpose was to enable the gunners to use the artillery more reasonably and effectively in combat.

After all, artillery is considered high-tech equipment, and the level of education of grassroots gunners is just that. Even Luo Zhixue has temporarily provided targeted literacy education for technical arms such as gunners and grassroots backbones in the army, and low-level officers.

However, the cultural level of the soldiers of the Rural Protection Army is still very low, and the gunners are no exception.

Even gunners who have received literacy education mostly don't understand all kinds of complicated ballistic calculations.

In order to enable gunners with low levels of education to be able to operate artillery proficiently, in addition to formulating shooting tables, a special artillery manual was also formulated.

In the newly formulated [-]-jin artillery combat manual, there are perfect guidance for different enemies.

For example, for large-scale formations of infantry, because the target is large, it is stipulated that limited sporadic shelling can be carried out within a distance of [-] meters from the enemy.

Conventional shooting can be carried out after the enemy enters 700 meters.

After the enemy army enters 250 meters, switch to full-loaded shotgun shells for shelling. In the last [-] meters, regardless of the life of the barrel, emergency rapid fire can be carried out until the enemy army collapses or the enemy army rushes up.

The combat manual says that shelling can be carried out from a distance of a thousand meters, which seems to conflict with the 350-meter limited range of the six hundred long guns.

But it doesn't actually conflict.

There is actually no hard and fast standard for the effective range. It depends on the size of the target and how much lethality you want to maintain.

The effective range of a 600-meter long gun refers to the shelling of a target about 20 meters wide and one person high, and the hit rate can reach more than 95% under the control of a skilled gunner, while ensuring that the shells still have sufficient lethality.

After comprehensive consideration, the effective range of 350 meters of the gun was finalized.

But this is not to say that this kind of artillery can only hit 350 meters. The maximum range of this gun can actually reach more than 2000 meters. Of course, the maximum range is meaningless.

Because when the gun bombards a target at a kilometer, the hit rate has dropped to only about [-]%, and the shells are not very lethal.

In actual combat, the artillery units of the Rural Protection Army will not shell targets kilometers away, but they will not wait until the enemy actually enters 350 meters before shelling.

The shelling will often start after the enemy enters 500 meters. Sometimes the situation is more special, and the long-range shelling of the enemy with a relatively low hit rate will be carried out at a longer distance, even at a distance of about 800 meters.

It depends on the situation, mainly depends on how wide the enemy's formation is... the wider the enemy's formation, the higher the hit rate of long-distance shelling.

For example, in the current situation, the Ming army is everywhere in front of the mountains, and the frontal width of any square formation can reach several tens of meters. The proportion will still be very high.

In the live-fire test of the 20-jin long gun, the target is [-] meters wide and one person high, and it is under the control of a skilled gunner.

The hit rate of 1000 meters is about [-]%.

About 700 meters, the hit rate is about 20.00%.

And when it reaches about 500 meters, the hit rate will rise to 60.00% five, and the lethality can still be maintained at a normal level.

After entering 350 meters, the hit rate can reach more than 90.00%, and the lethality is greatly improved. In the past, one shell could even penetrate a queue of more than ten people continuously. If you are lucky, one shell can kill more than ten people.

Of course, all the above premises are based on the command of a skilled gunner and are only a test during training.

However, due to the quality of the gunners and the nervousness of the gunners on the battlefield, this hit rate cannot be achieved in actual combat.

The above data is also the reason why the artillerymen commanded by Zhang Malin are now conducting intensive shelling of the enemy's large-scale phalanx from more than 500 meters away.

At a distance of 500 meters, the solid shells fired by the 800-jin long guns of the Baoxiang Army can still guarantee lethality, unlike shelling at a distance of [-] meters or even kilometers, even if they hit the enemy's array The kinetic energy is not enough, and the lethality is limited.

At the same time, at this distance, facing the large square formation with hundreds of people on the opposite side, the hit rate is also very impressive.

The artillery combat method of the Township Protection Army is based on the collection and comparison of a large amount of data. It is not Luo Zhixue or Zhang Malin's head that just decides at what distance to bombard.

Similarly, this also ensures that the artillery units of the Rural Protection Army have a power far beyond this era.

And it was best reflected in today's Sanyuanzhuang battle.

Just when they first appeared on the stage, they defeated a phalanx of the enemy army neatly, and even caused panic in the enemy army.

However, this is not a joke. Zhang Malin's artillery unit will not stop shelling just because one of the opponent's phalanx retreats. Instead, it will shift its target and continue shelling at another Ming infantry phalanx.

Although it is no longer a high-intensity rapid fire, it still maintains a rate of fire of about one round per minute.

Just 5 minutes later, the second infantry phalanx of the Ming army, which had endured multiple rounds of shelling, inevitably retreated.

There is no way, it is impossible to fight back just by being beaten, and the casualties are particularly large in a short period of time.

This kind of battle even made Lu Xiangsheng's hair numb after watching it, let alone the ordinary soldiers of the Ming army who were on the front line and were constantly under shelling.

It lasted for several rounds of bombardment before it collapsed, and it was already a facelift for Lu Xiang not to flee immediately.

After watching his second infantry formation retreat, Lu Xiangsheng knew he couldn't go on like this.

If the whole team continues to advance so slowly, it is estimated that before they get close, the main force of the Chinese army will be killed by the enemy's artillery.

So after taking a deep breath, Lu Xiangsheng ordered decisively: "The central army rushed up, and the right wing also pressed up. They have fewer artillery and fewer people. As long as we rush over, they will not be our opponents anyway."

"The cavalry is ready to attack, take away their artillery for this officer."

At this time, if you don't want to be defeated one by one by the artillery of the bandit army, there is only one way, and that is to advance quickly, without giving the artillery of the bandit army space and time to play.

Of course, he still kept an eye out, at least the left wing, the more than a thousand pacesetters deployed in Sanyuanzhuang and the two thousand guards did not let them move.

If this time the active attack fails, then Lu Xiangsheng will have to hide in Sanyuan Village, and come to resist and defend.

As for the retreat of the whole army, it's not that Lu Xiangsheng didn't want to. If he could withdraw, he would have led his troops away long ago. Isn't it impossible to leave...

With the distance between the two sides so close, once one's own side retreats, it will turn into a rout in a matter of minutes, and the enemy cavalry will charge and kill after a while, then it will be a complete game.

In contrast, active offense still has the chance to turn defeat into victory.

And retreating to Sanyuanzhuang, no matter how bad it is, you can still wait for the reinforcements to arrive.

Lu Xiangsheng ordered the Central Army and the Right Army to speed up their charge. After seeing this scene, a smile appeared on Luo Zhixue's face.

Even Xu Zhixian next to him looked relaxed: "General, the enemy's formation is in disarray, the army's morale is low, and our army will win this battle!"

The enemy's active attack seems to be able to speed up the distance of hundreds of meters on the battlefield, but in fact, under the rapid impact, the formation is completely gone.

This kind of enemy who has lost its formation will not pose too much threat to the [-]st Infantry Brigade.

But even though the situation was going well, Luo Zhixue still didn't get carried away with complacency, but said with a smile: "It seems that the opponent is going to rush over to close combat regardless of the formation, and send an order to let the artillery not need to save ammunition, and open fire!"

"The cavalry brigade must intercept the enemy cavalry, and must not allow the enemy cavalry to approach and destroy our artillery positions."

"Let the supply battalion go forward and defend the left wing of the [-]st Infantry Brigade."

"The barracks are ready for battle."

"The outcome is in this battle, and I hope you will work hard!"

(End of this chapter)