Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 662 My old grandson is back again (please subscribe!)
The simple Alexei Tolbuzin disagreed with the Polish Count Kilgobski of Rakshasa. He was full of confidence and raised his eyebrows: "Your Excellency, I believe that the Junggars are lucky. There are Cossacks Now, Ming people will cry for the failure of this decisive battle!"

Those who agree with him are Junggar people. Sun Sike is leading the gathered Junggar people to shout together: "Victory! Victory!"

The green battalion guards who got the Raksha arms and re-armed also gave the Junggar people a shot in the arm.

"The green battalion is the sharp arrow in the hands of the Great Khan. The green battalion will be invincible, and the Ming army will be reduced to fly ash in the fierce artillery fire!"

Sun Chengen commanded the artillery unit that had been built at great expense.

In this Yumenguan battle, Sun Chengen will command as many as [-] artillery pieces!
Some were made by Han craftsmen themselves, and some were Europa cannons purchased through Luocha.

Although they are all bronze artillery, after Sun Chengen's improvement on the artillery carriage, they all have considerable mobility.

Although the number of this artillery is not bad, in fact, his artillery unit is also very wet. Nearly half of the artillery has been hastily cast in the past two years. Most of them are light artillery smaller than the European twelve-pound gun. Insufficient gunpowder and iron materials, and the ability to sustain combat is seriously insufficient.

However, for the Sun family, as long as they can meet the needs of this decisive battle, it is enough.

It's easy to say anything if you win, but if you lose, the Sun family has no future, so why care about artillery.

It is also because, in the eyes of Rakshasa officer Alexei Tolbuzin, the ratio of 7 people to [-] artillery pieces is also a first-class and powerful army in Europe in this era!
With this configuration, are you afraid that you won't be able to beat a mere Yumen Pass?

On the second day, the army advanced to a place [-] miles away from Yumen Pass, and began to formally set up camp. Sun Chengen also started to form the artillery team. The awe-inspiring expressions of the Junggar soldiers when they looked at the artillery also filled their hearts with pride.

And Sun Sike, the Great Khan of Junggar, looked at Yumen Pass and murmured in his heart: Gansu, Gansu, my old grandson is back again!

On March 22, [-] Zhun and Russian coalition forces surrounded Yumen Pass, and the offensive and defensive battle in Gansu officially kicked off!

Although the Sun Family's Green Battalion and the Luocha reinforcements had their own thoughts on this battle, when the artillery unit led by Sun Chengen fired the first shell at Yumen Pass, they were uneasy about the future, fearful of attacking Ming Dynasty, and fearful of themselves. All doubts about his strength dissipated in that thunderclap.

Regardless of the outcome, they all felt that Yumen Pass could be taken easily.

In this way, the quasi-Russian coalition forces surrounded Yumen Pass. They continued to bombard and sent a small group of troops to test, hoping to find out the weak point of this pass.

It's a pity that with the original Yumen Pass as the backing, the new Yumen Pass is like a huge gear lying flat on the land!

The fortress and fortress wall of the eight-sided bastion rely on each other, supplemented by two layers of trenches.

The most frightening thing was that the open ground near the fort wall was still fragmented by layers of barbed wire, and the quasi-Russian coalition forces could not conduct a swarming infantry charge at all.

This Yumen pass stands out: this pass is obviously super strong, but it is overly cautious.

After three days, as many as a thousand corpses lay outside the trench hundreds of meters in front of Yumen Pass, which became a lingering haze for the quasi-Russian coalition forces.

Sun Chengen persuaded his father, Sun Sike, to use artillery to make a further test. He said it was a test, but Sun Sike was full of thoughts on blasting the gap as soon as possible.

As the saying goes, once the cannon is fired, there will be ten thousand taels of gold, and Sun Sike also feels distressed, the Sun family is poor!

But there is no way not to bleed, otherwise it will be blocked by a mere Yumen Pass, and Gansu will not be able to take it at all.

As a result, nearly a hundred artillery pieces were pushed to a distance of one and a half miles from Yumen Pass.

Now it is no longer a demonstration shooting, but a storm of artillery fire.

It is not easy to invest so many artillery in a battle. There are only three powers in Asia that can be so luxurious.

One is the Ming Dynasty, the other is the Qing Dynasty, and the other is the Sun family Junggar.

On the 25th, the artillery roared continuously.

"That's great, looking at this movement, highlighting one thing to add to the fun, my food tastes very delicious..."

On the sentry tower in the city, Huang Hansheng, who had changed his day shift to act as a battlefield observation post, drank radish and mutton soup, and he no longer felt nauseous.

From Huang Hansheng's mental state, it can be found that this group of Ming Defense Forces are not worried about Yumen Pass being breached at all!

Although Yumen Pass was constantly being hit by shells, the fort on the wall of the pass was not to be outdone. Although the artillery fire back was not as dense as the enemy's, it kept raising smoke and dust on the enemy's artillery positions!

Looking from a distance, he saw the enemy's cannon shattered and flew into the sky, which was enough for him to swallow several mouthfuls of food.

"About 10 degrees WNW! WNW..."

Huang Hansheng's squad leader was still busy, holding up a high-power telescope to observe the effect of the shelling, and using a microphone to communicate with the communication soldiers in the audience.

When modern ships are built, some pipes specially used to transmit sound will be buried, usually made of copper, with one end opening in the bridge and the other end in the target compartment (such as the engine room).

At the other end of the target cabin, there will be a special person in charge of guarding the messenger, listening to and conveying orders at any time.

When you need to issue an order, open the cover of the corresponding pipe on the bridge, shout the order at the mouth of the pipe, and you can hear it at the other end.

The effective distance of this kind of pipe used to transmit sound is quite good, and there is no pressure to let the sound pass through layers of steel plates tens of meters away.Even after the corded telephone was invented in the late 19s, it persisted for a long time.

The disadvantage of this gadget is that it can only make 1-to-1 calls, but it works just fine when used in Yumen Pass.

The part-time job of the signalman is to provide observation for artillery fire.

The battlefield is full of gunpowder and smoke, and the artillerymen can hardly see the effect of the shelling, but their signal soldiers are on the ten-foot-high platform, and they can see clearly the situation within a few miles!
Veterans like Huang Hansheng's squad leader can even tell which direction is off by how many degrees.

As soon as the communications soldiers below heard the information from the sentry tower, they immediately sent people to rush to the artillery positions of the National Defense Forces.

With such assistance, if the artillerymen of the Ming Defense Force had divine help, the five rifled guns on the fort adjusted their direction slightly and fired continuously!
The artillery position in front of Junggar seemed to be scraped by an invisible iron plow, splashing messy dust, messy debris was mixed and sprayed, and a wheel was seen flying into the air.

Huang Hansheng scratched the bowl of rice, and began to complain that the cook did not cook enough rice for him. Watching the enemy being bombarded indiscriminately, it was really good to eat!
There are a total of ten rifled guns, twenty long-barreled cannons, and thirty mortars in Yumenguan. The firepower is completely decent, and the accuracy is ten blocks away from them.

"Damn it! Why are Ming soldiers so lucky?"

(End of this chapter)