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Chapter 85 Thunderbolt

Even if the lobster soldiers in the Opium War did not equip them with artillery, they would not give them bullets. I believe they could still beat the Qing army of that year.

That is the problem of the modern army against the feudal army. The casualties that the feudal army can bear are too low. The Qing army collapsed after suffering 10% of the casualties; the lobster soldiers can bear 70% of the casualties and can continue to charge!

This problem is calculated on the Ming army back then. How many people can really fight a Ming army with 10,000 people? I'm afraid there are only 500 clerks, or even less than 100 clerks, and the rest are all watching and making soy sauce. Once the elite clerks lose more than half, even the main generals start to retreat. Why don't the remaining ten thousand clerks run away? So from this perspective, the Ming army can bear only a pitiful percentage of the casualties, and it can't even go up to 10,000 clerks. But if the clerks don't lose, those clerks lose nearly half of the clerks lose, this army will not collapse. From this point of view, the Ming army's ability to withstand is relatively strong.

That is, the strange family system of the Ming Dynasty made most of the soldiers dress up.

Gao Shixin would definitely not use this strange family servant system, which is better and better. He wants his own personal soldiers, but personal soldiers are not servants who sell themselves as slaves, but just a group of elite personal guards.

According to Gao Shixin's formation method, the Tang army formation with classic cold weapons was used. The first row of soldiers were shield soldiers, holding large shields to cover the rain of arrows for the soldiers behind them; the second row, third row, and fourth row were spearmen, and the spearmen contained flag gunners, the fifth row and sixth row were crossbowmen, the seventh row were archers, the eighth row was replaced with three-eyed gunners, and the ninth row of Mo Dao soldiers were replaced with long sword soldiers. Because Mo Dao had been lost, he could only use the two-handed propeller hand handed down from the Song Dynasty, and the last row was still palladium boring and boring hands.

The two wings of the infantry formation are protected by Fran cannons and cavalry. At the beginning of the battle, if the enemy rushed over, they would first fire with Fran cannons. Each Fran cannon was equipped with three sub-guns loaded with solid shells and two sub-guns loaded with shotguns before the war. Before the enemy rushed over, the Fran cannons installed on the car retreated.

When the archers were 150 steps, they shot light arrows on the enemy's light cavalry; when they entered sixty steps, the crossbowman began to fire strong crossbows, the archers replaced heavy arrows, and shot heavy arrows from the enemy's entry within fifty steps; when the enemy entered twenty steps, the crossbowman began to shoot; when the three-eyed gunman stepped forward and began to attack the enemy. At the same time, the spearmen stepped forward and resisted the enemy, and the last row of long sword soldiers began to move forward.

To deal with the charge of the Later Jin heavy cavalry? There is basically no need to consider it. When the Later Jin army encountered such a strict formation, they did not dare to force the infantry formation with cavalry.

The response technique of the Later Jin Dynasty was to push the shield chariot in front of the front. The shield chariot could withstand crossbows and bows and arrows, and block three-eyed guns. Some excellent iron-packed shield chariots could even block the light Franchise and tiger squat cannons used by the Ming army.

To break the shield, you need a more powerful firearm.

The Red Cannon smashes the shield chariot, just like smashing tofu and eggs. It’s not too easy. However, the Red Cannon is not suitable for field battles. The three or four thousand kilograms of red cannons are only suitable for use in siege wars and city defense wars, and it is difficult to walk in the wild.

The 300-pound general cannon, the 100-pound enemy cannon, the 500-pound heavy Franchise, and the 100-pound attack cannon cannon all penetrate the Jin Shield chariot. However, these weapons must be carried by a chariot battalion. Xiong Tingbi and later Sun Chengzong all formed a chariot battalion, and Sun Chuanting's train, which can carry the above weapons and can break the shield.

But Gao Shixin did not plan to form his own car camp. The dynamics of the east and west machines were too poor. He used Sun Chengzong's carriage to build a fortress, and it continued to build a fortress from Shanhaiguan to Chenyang. How much financial resources would the Ming Dynasty need to support it? Finally, Emperor Tianqi passed away and Sun Chengzong's plan was not completed. He changed into Yuandudu and built a fortress. He also vowed to pacify Liao in five years, but finally he was pacified to the bottom of the capital.

Sun Chuanting had created a weapon, which was to place a 500-pound general cannon on a gun stand with wheels, and created a field cannon. It looked very similar to the field cannon with wheel-type cannons later, but it was a three-wheel cannon stand with two large wheels in the front and a smaller wheel in the back. This three-wheel cannon stand was not as garrisoned as those field cannons that were later introduced in the West. After firing one shot, the recoil caused the cannon stand to retreat. However, this kind of field cannon was very advanced back then. It could be traction with horses and march with the team, and fired at any time. It had a special cannon stand, which was very powerful. Unfortunately, Sun Chuanting's new field cannon could not save the Ming Dynasty. In the end, Sun Chuanting died, and those cannons and people and cannons became Li Zicheng's spoils.

The army that Gao Shixin wanted to form was known for his mobility. Even infantry was also highly mobility infantry, equipped with a small number of baggage vehicles and light artillery, and too heavy artillery was not within his consideration.

After repeated considerations, Gao Shixin decided to ask the court to provide a batch of high-quality turtledove guns to use this weapon to deal with the shield chariots.

The turtledog gun is a heavy convex gun that can fire a single projectile, weighing 1 tael or 8 cents. It can penetrate the shield of the Later Jin at a close range and can also fire shotguns. Four rounds at a time, and it has excellent lethality to unprotected targets. Although the projectiles of this heavy convex gun are still lighter than those of the three taels of the light convex machine, the turtledog machine has a serious air leakage and its power is greatly reduced, so even the light convex machine weighs nearly 100 kilograms, while a turtledog gun weighs only more than 20 kilograms.

Later battle examples proved that Gao Shixin's choice of the turtledove gun was a correct choice. He also added bayonets to the turtledove gun, which not only allowed the turtledove gun to shoot, but also allowed the melee battle.

In addition, considering the threat of the rear gold shield, Gao Shixin also created a new type of small enemy of ten thousand people, in fact, the original black gunpowder grenade.

He asked someone to cast a pottery jar, and in addition to filling it with gunpowder, he also added iron beads, iron nails, etc. The black gunpowder is relatively small, and the grenades made weigh more than one pound, while the explosion power is less than half of the grenades in later generations. Because these grenades are extremely heavy, they can only be equipped for special grenadiers. The knife players in the front row also work as part-time grenades.

There was a lot of gunpowder in Liaoyang City. Gao Shixin asked someone to use most of the gunpowder to make grenades. This weapon was named Pili Feilei by him.

After the first thunderbolt thunder was made, Gao Shixin personally conducted bomb drop tests. A pottery weighing more than one pound was added to the back of it, and a small hole in the head with a fuse inserted.

Gao Shixin first ignited the fuse with the fuse hanging around his neck, then grabbed the wooden handle, held it tightly in his hand for two seconds, and then threw out the flying thunder with force.

Thunder flew more than fifty steps away and landed accurately at the target position. Only a "boom" sound was heard, a flash of fire, and white smoke filled with permeation rose. A row of scarecrows in front fell down amid the explosion. The explosion range was about four meters in radius, and all scarecrows around fell to the ground.

Huang Degong ran away in person, and saw that the falling scarecrows were covered with iron nails, iron beads and broken pottery pieces. Even the scarecrows who were a little far apart were also covered with iron nails, iron beads and broken pottery pieces.
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