Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 563
"Is Nanming the same?"

Dorgon still has some doubts about this.

But Tang Ruowang said with certainty: "Father Regent, Nanming is the same. In order to equip each self-generating gun with a bayonet of the same size as standard, at least half of the production capacity needs to be sacrificed."

"In this case, let's forget it, the output is more important."

Dorgon weighed it over and over again, but decided not to equip the self-generated guns of the Qing Dynasty with bayonets as standard.

After all, the national power of the Qing Dynasty was not as good as that of Nanming. Chongzhen could squander the national power wantonly, but Dorgon could not, so let the blacksmiths of the Qing Dynasty seize the time to make self-generated firecrackers.

While thinking, Hong Chengchou walked in excitedly.

"Master." Hong Chengchou knelt down and played, "Two more tunnels have been dug under the outer blunderbuss platform of the Ming army. The slave is going to try another attack. Can the master come to the front line to command?"

Due to physical discomfort, Dorgon has handed over the command to Hong Chengchou.

Manchu generals such as He Luohui, Tazhan, and Baiyintu were extremely dissatisfied with this, and at one time they even acted in the opposite direction, which caused the Qing army's several offensives to fail miserably, and many people were lost.

In a rage, Dorgon killed several Niulu Ezhen.

After that, He Luohui waited for the Manchu generals and never dared to obey others.

But Hong Chengchou is extremely smart, and he never forgets to ask for instructions and report everything.

Dorgon was very satisfied with Hong Chengchou's prudent advance and retreat, and said happily: "It's fine to watch the battle in person, but let's forget about commanding from the command line. I think you commanded very well, Heng Jiu."

Hong Chengchou hurriedly said: "The talent of a slave is not as good as that of a master."

"Okay, there's no need to say such things." Dorgon interrupted with a wave of his hand.

Immediately, Dorgon took a group of Manchu and Han ministers to the observation tower on the front line.

The watchtower is a rammed earth platform built on a soil bag, with a total height of about ten feet, condescending to have a panoramic view of the entire Gaizhou Acropolis and dozens of Ming army blunderbuss platforms around it.

Hong Chengchou pointed to two of the gun towers: "Master, these two gun towers, it took a full month, those Nikan finally dug the tunnel under the gun towers, and they have buried enough gunpowder. "

Dorgon asked happily: "Heng Jiu, how did you not be discovered by the Ming army?"

Hong Chengchou said: "The method is actually very simple, that is, to send cavalry to make a big noise in front of the formation, and from time to time order the green battalion to shoot a few shots at the Ming army's position. Nikan, who is in charge of digging, should be as careful as possible, and the movement should not be too loud. , the Ming army on the opposite side has no way to find out the exact location of the tunnel.”

"It's that simple?" Dorgon couldn't help being a little surprised.

Before that, the Ming army could always find the exact location of the Qing army's tunnel, so they said everything, and some people even explained that there was a Tu Xingsun on the army's side, who could find the exact location of the Qing army's tunnel.

The Qing army also tried many methods, such as digging only during the day, or digging quietly in the middle of the night, but to no avail.

"It's that simple." Hong Chengchou nodded, and said, "Now I dare to assert that the Ming army must have determined the exact location of the tunnel through debating, so making noise can confuse the others."

"As expected of Heng Jiu." Dorgon said happily, "There is nothing that can stop you."

"My master is too famous." Hong Chengchou said hastily, "The gunpowder has been buried, and the detonation is enough to level the two blunderbuss towers on the ground. In this way, our Qing soldiers broke a big gap in the Ming army's defense line."

"Then what are you waiting for?" Dorgon nodded, "Hurry up and order the attack."

"Hey!" Hong Chengchou knelt down and gave a thousand blows, then got up and shouted, "Send the order, light the fire!"

The messenger standing behind Hong Chengchou took out two small triangular flags and signaled forward.

Then there was waiting, because it took a while for the fuse to burn. After about a few minutes, the two gun platforms in the field of view of Dorgon's telescope suddenly arched upwards.

After a few seconds, the arched gun platform suddenly sank again.

Immediately after there was smoke and dust rising into the sky, the ground under his feet began to tremble.

Then there was the faint muffled sound of thunder coming from the ground, the movement was really not small.

Dorgon put down his binoculars and looked forward, only to see that the two Ming army blunderbuss platforms in his field of vision were completely covered by smoke and dust, and the Ming army stationed on the blunderbuss platforms was probably finished.

Before the smoke and dust dispersed, the Qing army launched an attack.

About two Niulu's Eight Banners Han army rushed into the smoke and dust with self-igniting firecrackers.

Behind the two Niulu's Eight Banners Han army, there is another Niulu's Eight Banners Manchuria. This Niulu's Eight Banners Manchuria can not only provide fire support for the Han army, but also serve as a supervisor.

This time it was said to be a strong attack, but it was actually a tentative attack.

Just with the mentality of trying, if it is captured, more troops will be invested, and the Ming army's defense line will continue to be torn apart until the Ming army collapses and flees back to Gaizhou City. If it fails to capture it in the end, the loss will not be too great .

With the cover of smoke and dust, the Qing army easily occupied the two gun platforms that had been blown up.

The tiger crouching cannons and red cannons of the Ming army remained silent because their sight was blocked.

But after about a quarter of an hour, when the smoke and dust gradually dispersed, the artillerymen of the Ming army began to fire.

Dozens of red-clothed cannons poured shells on the heads of the Qing soldiers at the frequency of a row of shells every 3 minutes. What was even more terrifying was the tiger-squatting cannons of the Ming army. Hundreds of tiger-squatting cannons smashed pieces of lead The bullets were poured on the Qing army's heads, and the Qing army who were rushing to repair the fortifications on the blunderbuss platform were wailing.

Seeing the Eight Banners Han army fall one by one, Dorgon looked embarrassed.

"Damn it, it's nothing more than a tiger crouching cannon. Why can the red cannon of the Ming army hit the inside of the gun platform? Isn't their sight blocked by the cloak in the middle?"

Hong Chengchou, Hou Fangyu and others standing beside were speechless.

But Tang Ruowang suddenly said: "Father Regent, the artillerymen of the Ming army should have observed and shot Zhu Yuan."

"Observation? Shooting Zhuyuan?" Dorgon was stunned for a while, and asked at a loss, "What is shooting Zhuyuan?"

"Uh..." Tang Ruowang was speechless, what was shooting Zhu Yuan?Dorgon really overwhelmed him with this question.

Tang Ruowang organized it, and said in words that Dorgon could basically understand: "The artillery of the Ming army has divided the entire battlefield into blocks, and determined the pitch angles and left and right angles of the corresponding blocks in advance through calculations. , and then when you need to bombard a certain block, you only need to adjust the gun to the corresponding angle."

"The red-clothed cannon of the Ming army can actually point and shoot?" Dorgon couldn't believe it.

"It should be possible." Tang Ruowang was actually a little uncertain, "Otherwise, there is no way to explain it."

"Master, now that I think about it, the red cannons of the Ming army should be measurable." Hou Fangyu had stayed in Xuzhou and Shanyang City for a while, so he knew something about the artillery battalions of the Ming army.

"Because the artillery of the Ming army brought a lot of tools, it seems that they still need to do calculations."

"That's called ballistic calculation." Tang Ruowang explained, "There is a special formula."

"Tang Ruowang, why didn't you say it before?" Dorgon's face collapsed, "Why didn't you bring it up earlier? If you raised this matter earlier, wouldn't the red cannons of the Qing Dynasty be as good as the Ming army?"

"Impossible." Tang Ruowang shook his head and smiled wryly, "Imperial Father, Regent, can't do it."

"Tang, you are so bold!" Cao Eryu shouted, "How dare you look down on people?"

Dorgon also asked with a dark face: "Why can the red cannons of the Ming army work, but not the Qing Dynasty?"

"Reporting to the emperor's father and the regent, the reason is the same as the bayonet bayonet of the self-generating firecracker." Tang Ruowang explained helplessly, "The red cannon of the Ming army must have been standardized like the self-generating firecracker, the same model When the gun is loaded with the same amount of gunpowder and fired at the same pitch angle, the error rate of its impact point should be very small."

"Only in this way can the ballistic calibration elements be measured, and if there is no standardization, even if the gunpowder is the same and the pitch angle is the same, two shots of the same red cannon will have different results. If it is not the same cannon , the impact point is even more irregular, so it is meaningless to calculate the ballistic calibration shooting parameters."

Cao Eryu said with a dark face: "If you say so much, it means that my red-clothed cannon in the Qing Dynasty can't do it?"

"No." Tang Ruowang replied honestly, "Unless our red cannons in the Qing Dynasty are recast, there is no way to calculate the trajectory and calibrate the shooting elements."

Dorgon's face suddenly became more embarrassing.

But Dorgon remained rational after all, and did not vent his anger on Tang Ruowang.

As they spoke, some Qing soldiers had been killed by artillery, while others hid in trenches or cracks that appeared after the explosion.

The Ming army has been observing the battlefield through Kongming lanterns.

After discovering that the shelling could no longer threaten the Qing soldiers, the shelling stopped immediately.

As soon as the Ming army's shelling stopped, Dorgon and Hong Chengchou's hearts arose.

Because after the shelling stopped, the infantry of the Ming army should counterattack next.

Sure enough, almost as soon as the shelling stopped, there was a suona sound of "beep beep beep beep beep beep beep" from the Ming army's position in front. Self-generating guns with good bayonets sprang out of the trenches and charged towards the ruins of the gun platform seized by the Qing army.

The artillerymen of the Green Battalion also fired a row of shells, but it was useless.

Because the green battalion can neither calculate ballistics, nor know how to calibrate and shoot Zhuyuan, so when they fired artillery, they hit the two wings and the deep positions of the Ming army indiscriminately.

The counterattacking Ming army was unscathed.

Seeing this scene, Dorgon, Hong Chengchou and others suddenly felt extremely aggrieved.

The same artillery, why is there such a big gap between the artillery of the Qing Dynasty and the artillery of the Nanming Dynasty?

The only thing that can cause damage to the Ming army is the Eight Banners Han army that emerged from the ruins.

There were about [-] Han troops left in the Eight Banners, and they fired at the Ming army with self-igniting firecrackers.

(End of this chapter)