Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 343 The Rise of Rifled Cannons
The white fish belly has appeared in the east.

Outside Helin City.

Among the Ming army.

"Your Majesty, Arutai personally led the cavalry to attack. Do you want to return to the camp?"

Qingyao drove his horse and came to Zhu Gaoxu's side, saying respectfully.

"How many troops did he bring this time?"

Zhu Gaoxu asked calmly.

Qingyao bowed and replied: "About ten thousand horses."

"If it's Wan Qi, it should be his entire family fortune."

Zhu Gaoxu said while stroking his beard while looking at the Ming army soldiers attacking the city in the distance.

He paused, looked sideways at his left and right lieutenants Zhu Neng and Chen Mao, and ordered: "I order you two to personally lead the two fire cannons of the Second and Third Beijing Army to ambush them in the trenches. , as long as Arutai’s cavalry enters the shooting range, free fire is allowed!”

"Yes!"

Zhu Neng and Chen Mao were overjoyed when they heard this and hurriedly stood on horseback to accept the order.

Seeing Yang Hong leading the soldiers to start the battle to climb the city, they could not wait to join the battle.

The power of the new vehicle-mounted general gun with rifling was not only beyond their imagination, but also beyond Zhu Gaoxu's expectation.

Helin City, which might have taken two or three days to capture, could probably be captured in one day.

Since the power of the new vehicle-mounted artillery is unexpected, the fire gun song equipped with the new rifled fire gun will definitely shine in the upcoming blocking battle!

It can be said that blocking Arutai's cavalry is a good opportunity for them to make a contribution. How can Zhu Neng and Chen Mao not be excited?

"Your Majesty, do you want to return to the camp?"

After Zhu Neng and Chen Mao rode away, Qingyao asked respectfully again.

Zhu Gaoxu hesitated for a moment, and then said decisively: "I am right here, watching my soldiers of the Ming Dynasty invade Helin!"

At the time of the original discussion, the strategy he proposed to break the city was nothing new. It was just to concentrate firepower and storm a city wall.

Fortunately, the new vehicle-mounted general artillery fulfilled its mission. When dozens of artillery pieces attacked the same city wall one after another, a hole appeared in the city wall like a finger poking into tofu.

"Your Majesty, the Arutai cavalry is approaching fiercely. The two Huogun Qu have a total of only more than [-] people. It is still unknown whether they can stop the opponent's thousands of cavalry. I ask your Majesty to move to the Chinese army camp."

Li Jinglong, Duke of Cao State, spoke while on horseback with his hands raised.

"Your Majesty, what Duke Cao Guo said is right. A gentleman will not stand behind a dangerous wall. I also ask your Majesty to return to the camp temporarily."

Yang Rong, the Minister of War, said immediately.

Pingyang Boquneng bowed his head and said, "Your Majesty, please think twice!"

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the admonitions of the three important ministers, smiled slightly, and stroked his beard and said: "You are too worried. Back then, my father defeated Alutai with the Shenji Battalion, and today I also defeated Alutai with the fire gun."

"No!"

He immediately changed his words: "In this battle, I will destroy Arutai and Tuohuan in one fell swoop!"

After saying this, Zhu Gaoxu picked up his telescope, turned sideways to the east, and vaguely saw three lines of Alutai's cavalry rushing toward him more than 30 miles away.

Not long ago, Arutai had divided his eight thousand cavalry into three groups.

Abu led [-] cavalry to attack on the left, Angkopolo led [-] cavalry to attack on the right, and he himself led [-] cavalry from the middle to Zhu Gaoxu's position.

"Uncle Pingyang, you go and pass on my order, tune six firearms songs, divide them into two groups, and cooperate with Zhu Neng and Chen Mao to block Arutai's cavalry. In addition, allocate thirty new vehicle-mounted artillery pieces to Zhu and Chen each. , each equipped with five hundred explosives!"

Zhu Gaoxu put down his telescope, thought for a moment, and then told Qu Neng: "I want to annihilate all the living forces in Alutai here!"

"The end will be ordered!"

Qu Neng bowed and saluted on horseback.

"Qingyao?"

Zhu Gaoxu looked at Qingyao and said.

"The minister is here."

Qingyao said respectfully.

Zhu Gaoxu asked: "Have you found the hiding place of the disgraced heavy armored cavalry?"

"Back to Your Majesty, I haven't found it yet. I have ordered people to search urgently."

Qingyao replied with some frustration.

Zhu Gaoxu pondered for a moment, then looked at Cao Guogong Li Jinglong and said: "I have ordered five new vehicle-mounted general cannons and a fire cannon to be used by Qingyao to block the armored cavalry of Tuohuan."

"According to the order!" Li Jinglong bowed and saluted.

After the sun gradually rises.

ten miles away.

Zhu Neng stood in the trench, holding up his telescope, and saw thousands of Tatar cavalry rushing toward them with their backs to the sun.

"Listen to my command!"

he shouted to the herald behind him.

At this time, Zhu Neng was silently estimating the distance between the cavalry and the trench.

Although Helin City is very close to the Hangai Mountains, the south and east areas of the city are both flat and flat, so the Tatar cavalry led by Arutai attacked very quickly.

Zhu Neng nervously calculated the distance between the two sides.

He wanted to give the order to fire or shoot when the Tatar cavalry was about to enter the range of the Ming army's new artillery and muskets.

Time passed by second by second.

Amidst the rumbling sound of thousands of cavalry running wildly like the earth shaking, Arutai's cavalry was approaching Zhu Neng's trench at an extremely fast speed.

Six miles!

Five miles!

Four miles!

Three miles!

Zhu Neng's veins popped out on his forehead and he shouted: "Fire!"

When the herald heard the order, he immediately waved his flag.

Thirty artillerymen on a temporary high platform behind the trench quickly lit the fuse.

After a few seconds, thirty new vehicle-mounted general cannons almost simultaneously fired a new-style shell weighing more than 20 kilograms.

These cannonballs broke into the cavalry led by Arutai at super fast speeds. Some of the cannonballs would explode after penetrating the men and horses with huge kinetic energy, and some of the cannonballs would explode when they hit people or horses. Some shells exploded on their way to hitting people or horses.

After each shell explodes, hundreds of rusty iron nails will be shot out. Whether it is a Tatar soldier or a war horse on horseback, anyone who is hit by the iron nails fired at high speed will quickly lose the ability to move.

Iron-cased explosive ammunition has appeared in China since the late Southern Song Dynasty, and its improved version was used by the Yuan army in the campaign against Japan.

Historically, artillery-fired shells were widely used in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. The Ningjin Victory was a successful example of the use of this kind of shells.

After Zhu Gaoxu changed history, various types of explosive bombs were developed in the late Yongle period.

Today's battle against Arutai is the first actual combat of the new type of explosive ammunition!
After the first round of shells was fired, the gunners quickly completed loading, and under the command of the herald's flag, fired the second round of shells.

After three rounds of shells were fired, Zhu Neng discovered through the telescope that there were several gaps in the cavalry team led by Arutai. It was estimated that the number of casualties should be more than 100.

The organization and casualty tolerance of the ancient army were very poor. Generally speaking, the feudal army's casualty tolerance was about 5.00% to [-]%. Those who could withstand [-]% were definitely elite troops.

The cavalry led by Arutai were different from ordinary elites. These people were all determined to die.

Therefore, Zhu Neng's task is to eliminate as many Tatar cavalry as possible!

"Fire again! Until the artillery is useless or there are no more shells!"

Zhu Neng decisively issued new orders.

After three more rounds of shelling.

More than a dozen artillery pieces could no longer be used due to the high temperature of their barrels.

A dozen other artillery pieces continued to fire shells and did not stop until all the shells were fired.

"Eight hundred steps!"

After a dozen breaths, Zhu Neng was sweating nervously and shouted again.

The rounds of shelling just now resulted in the death and injury of at least more than 600 Tatar cavalry, but the cavalry led by Arutai still rushed forward desperately.

"Seven hundred steps!"

After a moment, Zhu Neng was trembling all over and shouted again.

"Six hundred steps!"

After a few breaths, Zhu Neng first shouted loudly, then let the sweat flow into his mouth and nose, and waved his hand: "Shoot!"

As the herald blew the firing horn, the first batch of more than 600 gunmen skillfully pulled the trigger, causing the flint to collide, causing sparks to ignite the gunpowder, and then there was a neat sound like a giant firecracker exploding.

(End of this chapter)