The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 344 Blasting
The next day, the Ming army chose to bombard Ninghai Gate in the west again.

When the sky was getting dark, five hundred military servicemen came to help carry the artillery. Although the total weight of the six-pounder gun did not exceed one thousand one hundred catties, and the body weight of the gun was less than five hundred catties, it had to be transported five or six miles between the camps that had been dug into ravines. It also requires cooperation.

The engineers had already preset the route of the gun carriage, and the temporary bridge through the ravine had been erected, which could definitely bear a load of more than two thousand catties.

Soon all the cannons were in place for installation and debugging, and at noon the twelve field cannons roared again.

"That's not right!" The artillery observers watching at the lookout post discovered the clues, and the four Franji instructors immediately came to the lookout post to observe with binoculars.

After looking at it for a while, Fulang Yalanda affirmed: "There is no real artillery emplacement, the enemy is very cunning, they hide the artillery, those covered should not be, at least most of them will not be."

E Honglue said indifferently: "In fact, it is of no great use for the enemy to do this. We destroyed the artillery at the top of the city one by one to prevent the Ming army from being attacked by the enemy's artillery when they took the city. Is there any difference between them taking the initiative to transfer the artillery and being destroyed by us? "

Fulang Yalanda said: "There is not much difference when attacking the top of the city, but it will not be sure in the future. Who knows where the enemy will hide the cannons transferred from the top of the city? When those cannons suddenly join the battlefield Must be a disaster."

Song Pengfei also noticed the strangeness immediately. He immediately went to several Franji instructors and artillery chiefs to listen to their opinions. He had personally observed the effect of the shelling again, and three or four of them were beaten to their original shape. The fake gun positions are clearly in sight.

Fulang Yalanda asked for instructions: "Master Song, the enemy troops at the top of the city can hardly be seen. What our artillery fire hits are nothing but worthless straw and wood. Do you think our army's artillery bombardment still needs to continue?" ?"

The cost of shelling is actually very high. Firing two six-pound shells means throwing out a month's salary of an ordinary battalion soldier. If you only hit wood and bricks, you really can't do this, what a waste of money!
After thinking for a moment, Song Pengfei said firmly: "Fight, keep fighting. The red barbarian cannons that Jiannu set up at the top of the city of Jinzhou generally weigh more than two thousand catties, and some are even close to four thousand catties. It's not so easy to move, and they must still be at the top of the city. .

Otherwise, there is no need for Jiannu to hide it, and let our army find out that the city is empty. Wouldn't it save the trouble of arranging fake artillery emplacements to confuse our army? "

Fulang Yalanda agreed: "General Song is right, we don't care if it's true or not, we continue to shoot and destroy the artillery positions one by one, the real ones can't be faked."

The artillerymen of the Ming army persevered, and after another hour of fighting, they finally fired a red cannon. The artillerymen cheered like thunder when they heard the news.

The twelve cannons fired unhurriedly until the afternoon and finally screened out all the real and fake cannon positions, found and destroyed three Hongyi cannons.

Although the results were achieved, Song Pengfei was still worried, because the Hou Jin Army had hidden dozens of artillery pieces, which was a potential danger. It's like a light on your back.

When Qin Yuyi brought 360 female soldiers to the port of Langwobao on an old lock boat, there were already three berths available for use. Since this place has the conditions of a natural deep-water port, building berths will do more with less, and the berths can fully meet the needs of thousands of tons of warships The boat docks.

There is already a hundred artillerymen waiting to receive the artillery at the port, and the guards in charge of transportation have already recruited the manpower to carry the artillery. There are [-] more field artillery on the front line of Jinzhou, and the ability to attack the fortifications has doubled.

The port, Wolf's Nest Fort, and the less than [-]-mile road connecting Jinzhou are the main projects that must be completed this year. Huang Han asked for the road to be repaired firmly in order to be able to quickly transfer the field artillery.

Qin Yuyi was the first to enjoy the feeling of walking on the road. The team formed by cannon carts, wheelbarrows, and horse-drawn carriages exceeded 2000 people.

The road construction project is not over yet, and it should be more than half completed. At present, it can guarantee the one-way passage of [-]-pound field artillery vehicles or large carriages. After completion, two [-]-pound field artillery vehicles can run side by side.

Qin Yuyi rushed to the Jinzhou camp with his troops, and suddenly there was an earth-shattering explosion, and some Han people who had just been enlisted in the army suddenly became chaotic. Dozens of people threw away the wheelbarrows used to transport supplies and started running around.

Ma Yuefeng immediately said loudly: "The women's barracks quickly formed with General Qin as the center."

The women who had been training for more than half a year were no worse than ordinary battalion soldiers at all. They immediately appeared in the usual training positions, with the blunderbuss in their hands flat-ended, and the matchlock already ignited and burning slowly.

Only Qin Yuyi and Ma Yuefeng have war horses here, and they are the only two wearing helmets.

Because Huang Han knew the development trend of the army, armor that was bulky and extremely uncomfortable to wear would withdraw from the stage of history with the popularization of firearms.

Therefore, the armor of the "Red Banner Army" is given priority to equip cavalry and cold-armed infantry, and only when the armor has a surplus will it be equipped with excellent shooters and officers of hot-armed troops.

The women's battalion had no plans to go to the battlefield at all. Of course, they only had mandarin duck battle jackets and the cotton armor that every soldier and guard army had. Army" standard.

Just when Qin Yuyi thought that he was about to meet the enemy and was ready to fight, several people galloped over. The leader was Wang Zhanpeng, the commander of the engineering battalion. Come and explain."

It turned out that when the laborers excavated the big river from Unicom Wolf's Nest Castle to Jinzhou, there was a section of small mountain. If it was hammered hard by manpower with a pickaxe, it might not be finished in two months. In order to ensure that the project could be completed before the frost period came, Wang Zhanpeng Take the engineers to drill the holes and explode.

Both Wang Zhanpeng and Qin Yuyi were named generals, and Qin Yuyi knew that Wang Zhanpeng was one of her husband's confidant generals, so she happily asked Wang Zhanpeng to take her to see how to blast open the river.

Wang Zhanpeng issued an order to several low-level officials in this team to give a good review of the records of the laborers who were unmoved when they heard the explosion just now, and remove all the dozens of laborers who ran around. These people can only keep farming and working. They cannot be drafted into the army.

Qin Yuyi was taught by Qin Liangyu's precepts and deeds since she was a child, and she has an instinctive understanding of the terrain. She saw the Jinzhou defense system under construction in person, and she was already admiring her husband's generosity in her heart.

Wang Zhanpeng enthusiastically introduced the defense here, and he told Qin Yuyi that a blockhouse of concrete and stone would be built near the riverside on the mountain where the blasting had been completed, and the name was Eagle's Nest Pier.

(End of this chapter)