Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 870 Decisive Battle in Sand City ([-])
Gao Pragmatism, who was regarded as a thorn in the flesh by Zasak Tuhan, was actually not particularly calm, because the Battle of Sand City was also a brand new experience for him.

It's a new experience of being blocked in the city by others, and being beaten passively.

But the strange thing is, except for himself, he found that most of the people around him were very calm, especially Ma Gui, who was so relaxed and comfortable as if he was not in the middle of a war at all.

Gao Wushi, who ran to the east city tower early in the morning to check the enemy's situation, couldn't bear it any longer, and said to the calm Magui beside him, "Xiquan, I think you are very confident in this battle, and you don't seem to be confident at all. Are the pictures in your eyes?"

Ma Gui smiled and said: "Although Tumen and Xin Ai have more than 7 people, that is meaningless. It is useless to give him another [-]. They will not pose any threat to Shacheng within three months."

"Why so sure?" Gao Wushi asked.

This question seemed to be a bit of Ma Gui's surprise. He said with a little surprise: "I defend him and attack. I have a strong city to rely on and cannons to kill the enemy. His cavalry, if they come and go freely, are certainly in the I'm above me, but it's hard to make any progress under the city, and I will leave sooner or later, why should I worry?"

Gao Wushi nodded and said: "You mean, they don't have any effective means of attacking the city. Although they are surrounded by the city with great momentum, they are actually useless?"

"Naturally." Ma Gui smiled and said, "Let's wait and see..."

Ma Gui pointed to the cavalrymen of Tumen and Xin Ai who had camped far away to surround Shacheng and said, "Although they say they are besieging the city, they chose a very far place to set up camp, which shows two things: first, he is afraid of our artillery bombardment; Second, he is afraid that our army will suddenly kick the battalion."

"Kick the battalion?" Gao Wushi asked back.

Ma Gui nodded and said: "They don't know the mobilization of our troops, they probably think that there are [-] to [-] cavalry in the city, if there are really [-] to [-] elite cavalry, if they gather at one gate and suddenly break out of the battalion, the chance of success is quite high. Not low.

At that time, his [-] army was scattered outside the four city gates, and each gate had a maximum of less than [-] riders. If they were kicked suddenly, there was a high chance of collapse.As for after the collapse of one door, it is not a good thing for them whether our army will continue to pursue and expand the results of the battle, or whether our army will withdraw its troops and return to the city. "

"Unfortunately, there are not many cavalry in Shacheng." Gao Wushi finally felt relieved, 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 beginning to end... Oh, we can still let them see something occasionally, lest they have any other thoughts .”

Gao Wushi nodded and said, "Xiquan, what you said reminded me that yes, they 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 who looks like Dacheng Taiji and the other who looks like Aligo, and then prepare the guard of honor for Dacheng Taiji, especially the flag. Let them go to the city tower to patrol the city occasionally, not too many times, just once a day, and it doesn't have to be too long, just a stick of incense is enough."

Cao Gan responded with a smile, and then asked, "Do you want to find another Qia Taiji's substitute? Although impersonating him is a bit difficult, but Tumen's people are far away, so they can't see clearly."

Gao Wushi had just thought about finding an actor for Chataiji to replace him, but Chataiji's behavior, especially his eyes, was hard to imitate—he was a Jebe sharpshooter, with sharp eyes, like a hawk, like a falcon, ordinary If someone pretends to be him, it's a show with just one look.

But Cao Gan is right in reminding that although Chataiji's eyes are not easy to impersonate, but the pictures are far away, and they are not perfect shots per person, and they can still see "Qiataiji" clearly from such a distance eyes?

So Gao Wushi thought for a while and agreed, so Cao Gan went down to prepare and started looking for someone.

Ma Gui said: "You don't have to worry, servant. Now Shacheng is dominated by our Ming army, and our army is good at defending. Now the strong city has all the cannons and food. As long as Tumen can't change the cannons, he won't even think about it." Break into the city."

Gao Wushi nodded, but he sighed slightly in his heart.

It seems that the use of cannons by the Ming army as weapons for defending the city cannot be said to be Yuan Chonghuan's unique invention, but there are early signs and even traditions. It's just that Yuan Chonghuan's understanding of the use of weapons is a bit biased, so he went astray.

During the period from the late Ming Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, should artillery be used to defend the city?Gao Yushi thinks it is possible, but this possibility should refer to small and medium-sized guns that can shoot down, and even long-range muskets, rather than Yuan Chonghuan's defense of the city with Hongyi cannons.

Take Ningyuan City in the late Ming Dynasty as an example. The city was 12 meters high (converted), and it took 2.2 seconds for the shells to drop to the enemy's height of 1.41 meters.Even if the Hongyi Cannon shoots at an angle of 0, with an initial velocity of 360 m/s, even if the speed decreases to 1.51 m/s before landing after 220 seconds, a blind zone of at least 406 meters will be formed under the city.

Then, if it is calculated according to the record that the cannons of the Ming Dynasty used a small shooting angle of one minute (7.5 degrees) and a range of three miles, the blind area should be at least 1500 meters. 1500 meters away, can you still shoot accurately?As a result, it is naturally inaccurate when it is far away, and it cannot be hit when it is close!Who can be killed depends entirely on the face.

What's more terrible is that after doing this, the angle of incidence of the solid bullet will definitely increase when it hits the ground, and it will be 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 boarskin.Because the high-speed steel bullets of later generations must shoot steel plates at an angle of more than 70 degrees from the normal line (below 20 degrees horizontally) to form a ricochet.

How could Yuan Chonghuan's shooting angle of more than 30 degrees (larger when landing) form a ricochet?Could it be that Yuan's shells are faster than modern guns, Yuan's lead bullets are harder than steel bullets, or is the place where the wild boar skin stands is a super steel plate?

Because of these shortcomings of artillery in this era, in Engels'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 shooting from the top of a hill Shooting from another hill is very unfavorable shooting conditions."

The two points mentioned in Mr. En's book to greatly reduce the power of cannons, the angle of incidence should not be large and the position of the cannon should not be high, Yuan Chonghuan actually accounted for all of them.

The cannons that can really go up to the city are small and medium cannons.As for the cannon going to the city and the related division of labor, there is actually a record in the Ming Dynasty's "Fire Attack Zhiyao": "If the enemy camps and watches from a distance, they must use long-distance guns to attack them from a distance to disrupt their camp and make them dare not stop for a long time."And it is the cannon (wide-mouthed cannon) that really kills the enemy: "If ants swarm and approach the city, they must use the big cannon as a way to kill them all."

Just say that some people in the country don’t believe it, and continue to use Mr. Engels’s works. He also said very clearly in "The Bastion": "They are built very high, and the artillery can shoot from here beyond the parapet of the bastion. Because of this In the commanding height position of the stack, the artillery with the longest range is usually placed in the stack, so as to harass the enemy with artillery fire at a longer distance."

Look, in an era that has surpassed the technical level of the late Ming Dynasty, on the bastions that have surpassed the city defenses of the late Ming Dynasty, and in the cannons that have surpassed the fortresses of the late Ming Dynasty, cannons that have surpassed the level of the late Ming Dynasty were also used. It's just harassing the enemy with artillery fire!

At that time, Engels was still in the era of bastions, and he somewhat saved some face for Yuan Chonghuan's "use cannons with a strong city".In the era of the city wall, T.N. Dupuy, the master of military science, made a more straightforward evaluation of the cannon going to the city:

"As has been noted, this is partly because castles and walled cities cannot mount large cannons against enemy bombardment. The light guns on the walls cannot hit the enemy's long-range siege guns, which are slightly heavier Although the cannon was able to drag it to the top of the city wall with great effort, it could only have the opposite effect. Because the recoil of the cannon would cause huge vibrations to the base of the wall, which seriously affected the firmness of the city wall, so it was even more Vulnerable." (The Evolution of Arms and Warfare)
Look, "on the contrary, it is easier to be breached", this is really even the last fig leaf, which has been peeled off by "using cannons to build a strong city"!
In addition, Gao Yushi always felt that Yuan Chonghuan exaggerated the power of the Hongyi cannon to the point of exaggeration. At this time, the Hongyi cannon had a faster rate of fire at the beginning, and when it continued to shoot, it was due to the cooling of the barrel. , the rate of fire per hour is only about eight rounds (this is still under the premise of no failure).This rate of fire obviously cannot form enough firepower in the face of swarming enemies.

From Gao Pragmatic’s point of view, the usage of cannons in the era of solid cannons is, first, to siege cities, using large siege cannons, such as the No. [-] and No. [-] cannons under the Jinghua imitation system; For example, the No. [-] and No. [-] guns, the ones with a lower technical level are the tiger crouching guns that Qi Jiguang used to love in field battles.

As for defending the city, giant cannons like the No. [-] Cannon and No. [-] Cannon (the "giant" in this era), Ding Po Tian is a harassment that is better than nothing.

The "cannon" in Magui's mouth does not actually refer to some kind of real thing. What he means is very simple, that is, the cannon that can hit the opponent - the cannon is just used to say.

Gao Yushi, as a typical firearms party, since he has adopted the tactic of central flowering in the "self-death", he must have prepared cannons. In fact, he has prepared quite a lot of cannons - including 76 No. 130 guns and 210 No. [-] guns. , a total of two [-] three cannons.

However, he didn't have an accurate judgment on which city gate Tumen would attack, so the more than 200 cannons were currently evenly distributed on the four towers in the southeast, north and west.

Of course, more than 50 No. [-] and No. [-] guns were assigned to each city gate, which is already exaggerated in this era.

What's more, he doesn't only have cannons - he also has a large number of Longqing Type [-] muskets and a small amount of Wanli Type [-] muskets. These muskets produced by Jinghua, due to their reliable quality, can be charged in sufficient quantities, and their range is significantly higher than usual in this era. The range of the bow and arrow, and the condescending Mongolian soldiers attacking the city are not to mention.

The only question is whether Tumen will choose to attack.
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