Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1180 Battle of the Three Kings ([-])

When the Qing army attacked Nanyang, although the Qing army's artillery was also cast with the help of Xiyi in Beijing, Kong Youde still felt a little powerless when facing the Ming army's artillery.

After he voted in the Qing Dynasty, he brought the advanced cannon casting method to the Qing Dynasty, as well as the red cannon. At that time, the artillery of the Qing army did not lose to the Ming Dynasty, but now the gap is very big.

Dorgon used meticulous work to steal the blueprints of casting guns and guns from the Ming Dynasty, and asked Xiyi Tang Ruowang and others who stayed in Beijing to help cast them. It is only a process of smelting and forging, which requires the accumulation of craftsmen, iron smelting, and coal selection. , casting and other lines have all been improved, it’s not that you can find a few Xiyi and get the blueprints to make it.

The Ming army also accumulated a lot of money. It took nearly seven or eight years and Wang Yan invested countless money to make the entire smelting and forging industry develop.

After listening to Kong Youde's words, Dorgon, Doni, and others next to him couldn't help but look back at the battlefield. Dorgon looked at the earthen wall of the Ming army through the binoculars. He didn't see such a big guy like the red cannon, so he said: "Maybe the red cannon is inconvenient to carry, and the Ming army didn't intend to attack Luoyang, so it didn't arrive in time!"

Doni and the others didn't speak, but Kong Youde frowned and said, "Ming army doesn't need to be transported from the south of the Yangtze River, there are at least fifty gates in Nanyang City, it is impossible for the king not to bring a few gates!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the generals suddenly saw clouds of white smoke rising from the mountainside behind the Ming army camp, followed by "boom boom boom"

The sound of the cannon came.

Dozens of cannonballs fired directly at the Qing army's artillery formation from the mountainside, but just as these shells flew over the Ming army camp, a few of them exploded directly in the sky, like thunder.

This surprised the Qing army. They didn't understand what the Ming army was up to. They saw nearly fifty shells flying and exploding, and only half of them were left in an instant. Dorgon and the others behind were stunned immediately.

On the artillery formation of the Qing army, hundreds of gunners who were setting up the artillery felt a shocking force coming. Almost at the same moment, a huge explosion sounded like a thunder above their heads and beside them.

The huge red cannons were overturned, and the soldiers who were blown to the ground could only feel the dust crackling down like rain, hitting them on their bodies.

The artillery commander of the Qing army was lying five or six steps away from a cannon, his body convulsed, his face was covered with blood, and he was vomiting blood profusely from his mouth.

Around him, the gunners of the Qing Army arrived all over the place, all wailing and groaning, some were even dead, and almost none of them could stand up.

The entire artillery array of the Qing army was in a mess, and many of the artillery that had just been mounted were blown out of their positions, and some heavy artillery even broke away from the artillery mounts and fell to the ground.

There was a puff of gunpowder smoke in the air, and the gunners of the Qing army, who were not affected, looked around blankly, and it took a long time to recover, but they did not fire back.

"Hurry up, fight back!" A general of the Qing army suddenly yelled.

The gap between the cannons in red is very long. If you don’t take advantage of the opportunity of the Ming army to reload the ammunition, quickly fight back and destroy the artillery formation of the Ming army. bombardment.

At this time, fifty red-clothed cannons lined up in the artillery formation of the Ming army on the mountainside. They had already calculated the distance and the Qing army artillery could not hit them, so the gunners took their time.

A total of [-] bombs were fired just now. Two years ago, Wang Yan asked the Academy of the Ministry of Industry to improve the Ming Dynasty's bombs, but half of the [-] bombs failed to hit the Qing army's artillery and exploded ahead of schedule. Somewhat unsatisfactory.

"Commander, do you want to continue using flower bombs?" the artillery soldier asked.

Chen Yujie put down the binoculars, and the Qing army's artillery formation was full of gunpowder smoke. He only saw half of the flowering bombs, which exploded on the road, and did not see clearly the tragic situation of the Qing army's artillery formation.

"Half of the bullets are replaced with solid bullets, and half of them are continued to use flowering bullets, and the leads are kept longer."

When the soldiers heard the words, they reloaded immediately, and some gunners twisted the cork on the flowering bomb. The Ming army wound the lead wire inside the cork, and chose how long the lead wire was to stay according to the distance.

This method is still very rudimentary and imprecise. The School of the Ministry of Engineering has already begun to study the impact-triggered explosive bombs, but it has not been successful yet.

In the artillery formation of the Qing army, although many people were stunned by the bombardment and didn't know what happened just now, when the general shouted, the rest of the people still woke up like a dream.The surviving gunner of the Qing army immediately adjusted his direction. A Qing army who was in charge of distance measurement knelt on one knee, and even raised his thumb with one hand to face the artillery formation of the Ming army on the mountainside. He drew two strokes, but suddenly turned around and shouted : "Ba Zong, not within the effective range!"

Boss Ba was stunned for a while, "Then blast the wall!"

As soon as he gave an order, more than a dozen cannons began to roar one by one, bombarding the wall of the Ming army's village, causing sand and gravel to fly, and the wall of the village collapsed.

However, the Qing army had just launched a round of artillery, and there was another burst of white smoke on the mountainside in the distance. The sound of "boom, boom, boom" came, and the shells of the Ming army roared again.

"Back back!" Seeing this, the gun immediately roared. The Qing army on the artillery array remembered the horror just now, and immediately ran back in a swarm. However, within a few steps, the thunder-like sound sounded again. They were blown so that they fell forward one after another and fell heavily to the ground.

The gunner was so powerful that he ran ahead. He only felt a pain in his head and buzzing in his ears. He could vaguely hear screams. people.

At this time, Dorgon, who was in the rear, had a somewhat sickly white face, which had already turned purple.The two rounds of shelling took a very short time. He watched helplessly as the Ming army's artillery shells shot into the Qing army's artillery formation. The dust and gravel that was thrown up could fly several feet high. He even saw several Qing soldiers being blown up and their limbs were torn apart.

This kind of artillery shell, Dorgon seems to have known each other, it seems to be the blooming shell of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army used it during the Ningyuan war, but how can the blooming shell have such power?And the probability of flowering is so high, how is this possible?

The Qing army's artillery team was completely in chaos. Even if there were still people who continued to bombard the Ming army's camp, the scale was far worse than what Dorgon wanted, and it was impossible to cause too much damage to the Ming army's defense line.

The generals beside Dorgon were all silent, and they were also shocked by the artillery of the Ming army. Is this still artillery?This is clearly the divine thunder from the sky!
The generals of the Qing army were shocked, but Meng Qiaofang was better. Jin Guo also invested a lot in the research of equipment, unlike Qing Guang who wanted to steal from the Ming Dynasty.

In the First Battle of Hexi, the Kingdom of Jin used a trebuchet to project a large number of thunderbolts and tens of thousands of enemies, and the effect was remarkable. Later, the court of the Kingdom of Jin ordered the Ministry of Industry to improve and manufacture a large number of thunderbolts, and prepared to use catapults. Machine projectiles, in principle, are similar to Ming army artillery, except that the Ming army used artillery to hit far, while Jin Guo used trebuchets to throw closer.

They all shot out a firearm that could explode, but this comparison revealed the pros and cons. Meng Qiaofang felt that Jin Guo might have gone astray.

The Ming Dynasty was an important period in Chinese history when the army was gradually modernized and weapons were transitioned from cold weapons to hot weapons.

This process was originally interrupted by the Qing Dynasty, and the military of the Ming Dynasty would stay in the era of pre-hot weapons, but now the Ming army is evolving towards the era of middle-hot weapons.

At the same time, Western armies were also undergoing changes, and several important changes occurred. The armies of various countries began to adopt flintlock guns that were more convenient and reliable to fire.

In addition, Gustav invented field artillery drawn by pack horses and mounted artillery, which greatly increased the flexibility of artillery and could participate in field battles, and thus evolved the tactics of coordinated combat with infantry and cavalry.

These changes were also carried out in the Ming Dynasty. The self-generated fire blunderbuss became the main weapon of the Ming army. The blunderbuss thorns had existed for a long time, and the bronze cannons dragged by horses were also made.

The military revolution of the Ming Dynasty is continuing, and it is not just the above points. The bomb technology is one of them, and it surpasses the West.

Dorgon originally wanted to smash the wall of the Ming army's stronghold, and then launch a large army to attack, but the Qing army's artillery battle was completely at a disadvantage. The artillery formation was completely suppressed by the Ming army's artillery, and could not exert [-]% of its strength.

Kong Youde has never encountered such a situation before, "Regent, if the Ming army has a lot of shells, it may be difficult for us to get close to the Ming camp! What should we do!"

All the generals were silent, fighting for many years, they rarely encountered such a situation, this shell fell into the crowd, it would definitely overturn everything, how can this be done?
Dorgon had a headache for a while, and was silent for a while. He couldn't sit still and die, he had to attack clearly.

"This king sees that the Ming army's artillery is powerful, but the Ming army's red-clothed cannons are not many after all, and the shelling gap is long, so that the various ministries can spread out and attack the Ming camp, so that the damage can be reduced!"

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