Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 230 It would be great if the Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners were here (please subscribe!)
Before coming to Leizhou Fucheng, the guards encountered a little trouble.

Compared with the green battalion soldiers, the people here are full of martial arts.

Qin Zhiguo also got a taste of the "folk customs" here.

As a native of Fujian, Qin Zhiguo believes that the ferocity of this place is no less than that of Fujian's natives fighting with weapons.

On the way the Guards marched, some ordinary people took the initiative to confront the Guards with knives and hoes.

The reputation of the Ming Guards here has not spread.

Especially when transportation was inconvenient in ancient times, even if someone said that the dynasty changed, it would probably take a long time for these ordinary people to react.

Previously, under the propaganda of the Qing Dynasty, the people in Leizhou Prefecture only knew that there were thieves on the other side who would attack them at any time, so they were asked to prepare weapons at home and defend their homes at any time.

The soldiers of the Guards didn't want to fight, so after firing a few shots into the sky, the people fled in all directions, and soon lost the previous "pure and simple folk customs".

It didn't take long for the guards to completely control the villages near Leizhou Fucheng.

For these villages, Qin Zhiguo did not use the most common method of ransacking homes and dividing the land by beating local tyrants. Instead, he stabilized the local situation first, appointed local officials to organize the security, and then waited for the Ming Emperor's order to plan one by one.

In big counties outside the village, such as Xuwen County, the garrison officials plus a thousand Qing soldiers, as soon as they heard that Daming was coming, they immediately fled.

As for the other officials in Xuwen County, they also took their families and property and fled towards Leizhou Mansion following the guard overnight.

As a result, Xuwen County fell into a state of no one under control, and chaos ensued.

Fortunately, the guards arrived in time and quickly restored stability in Xuwen County. They also formed a "militia organization" in accordance with the routine of the Luzon Protectorate to maintain order in the county and fight fires and arrest robbers.

Qin Zhiguo was a little surprised to regain Xu Wen so easily. Can the Tartar army run a little slower?

His mortar has not had time to use it yet!

It is about 1000 meters away from Leizhou Fucheng.

Sparse voices appeared in the jungle, and someone even pointed their thumbs at the position on the city wall, and then shouted: "Fire!"

The roaring sound of the artillery shells scared the Tartar Green Battalion soldiers on the city wall to death.

They stretched their heads and looked into the distance, only to see dozens of small black smoke coming out, which felt like fireworks.

But in a moment.

Whoosh... There was a sound of breaking through the air, and it quickly hit the ground and the city wall, and then a huge flame burst out.

This is the blooming bomb of the tiger squatting mortar!
Those green battalion soldiers who were within the explosion range of the shells flew out, lay motionless on the ground, and died immediately.

The scene was full of shrapnel and blood, and I couldn't bear to look directly at it.

Seeing this appearance, the rest of the green battalion soldiers were terrified, what the hell is this!

In fact, this is also the first time the guards have fired a salvo of explosive ammunition. In the past, limited by the nature of the artillery, the explosive ammunition was only used at critical moments.

In addition, thanks to the popularity of mathematics in artillery, although this is the first time the Guards have used tiger squat mortars, they basically hit the target.

Even so, the green battalion soldiers in Leizhou were not so easy to defeat. Immediately, someone shouted loudly: "Ming bandits have attacked the city! Ming bandits have attacked the city!"

For a while, the entire city wall of the Qing Dynasty was in chaos.

The green battalion soldiers pulled out the Hongyi cannon in a panic.

They loaded ammunition in a hurry, and some even took out firecrackers to shoot.

At least it looks like a capable soldier.

But not long after, the second round of bombing came. A large number of shells fell from the sky, hitting the city wall and bursting into huge sparks.

The eyes of the green battalion soldiers were full of bright fireworks, but for them, this was not beautiful at all.

Their casualties also skyrocketed, with every round of shelling, hundreds of corpses of Qing soldiers would fall down the city walls.

At this time, the green battalion soldiers were bombarded.

Why is the firepower on the other side suddenly so fierce, and how can it be so accurate at such a long distance.

In addition, the number of shells simply made them unable to take care of them.

Under the command of Qin Zhiguo, the guards shelled a section of the city wall directly, and a large number of tiger squatting mortars were loaded with sugar gunpowder, and then stuffed with civilized bullets.

With the sound of bang bang bang, the shells flew towards the city wall with the sound of breaking through the air, and then hit the wall heavily, causing a violent explosion.

Although the power is not as powerful as the mortar shells used by later generations, it is not something the infantry of this era can resist.

Compared with cannons such as the Hongyi cannon, the charge of mortar shells is larger. Because of the low pressure of the firing chamber, the wall of the shell can be thinner to increase the number of steel ball fragments. Moreover, when the shells fall at almost right angles, it is more conducive to the scattering of fragments.

Soon, the green camp soldiers on the city wall couldn't stand it!
The chief of the green battalion hurriedly shouted: "Brothers, hide quickly, hide quickly!"

"Forget about the city walls, the cannons of Ming bandits can pass over the walls!"

Many green battalion soldiers scrambled to hide under the city wall, but they still felt unsafe, because the parabolic trajectory of the mortar directly crossed the female wall and exploded behind the city wall.

Even several buildings in the city were blown down by this kind of shells, and there was panic in the city for a while.

The function of the mortar can shoot the target behind the cover. It is designed in an arc, which means that it uses a parabola to adjust the shell to the enemy's position, so that it can directly hit behind the cover. Hidden infantry.

This function is very important for modern warfare. With the popularity of thermal weapons, modern infantry will frantically build bunkers, because if you don’t have mortars, then you have no way to destroy the enemies hiding behind the bunkers. To capture the enemy's position, or to destroy the enemy, it will cost a lot.

At the same time, because the mortar is easy to build and withdraw, it can often be moved in front positions and various places. In this way, the survival probability of the mortar can be improved, and the enemy's firepower can be avoided, which will cause personnel damage.

The Japanese army used the Taisho ten-year grenadier and the [-]-type grenade in World War II, which are the smallest mortars.

On the battlefield, artillery combat has a very obvious feature, that is, you have to shoot one shot to change the place, because after you finish fighting this place, the enemy will know that you are here, and the enemy's shells may fall on you. position above.

Therefore, after firing a few shells, it is necessary to change the position to continue firing. Mortars are very suitable for this kind of mobile warfare and positional warfare.

The mortars of the Guards are simply a dimensionality reduction blow to the infantry of this era.

"The fugitive will be killed without mercy!"

A green battalion garrison suddenly shouted, and raised the knife in his hand, trying to stop the green battalion soldiers from escaping.

But no matter how he shouted, there were still countless escapees.

At this moment, he was thinking in his mind: It would be great if the Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners, which the Qing Dynasty was so proud of, were there, no matter whether they could defeat the enemy or not, at least they could suppress these green battalion soldiers from escaping.

(End of this chapter)