Tang Ruowang said with certainty: "The same goes for the Imperial Father and the Regent, as well as Nanming. In order to equip each self-generating fire gun with a sleeve bayonet of the same size as standard, at least half of the production capacity needs to be sacrificed."
"In this case, forget it, output is more important."
After careful consideration, Dorgon decided not to equip the Qing Dynasty's self-generated fire guns with bayonets as standard.
After all, the national power of the Qing Dynasty was originally not as good as that of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Chongzhen could squander the national power arbitrarily, but Dorgon could not, so the blacksmiths of the Qing Dynasty should seize the time to build self-generated fire guns.
While he was thinking about it, Hong Chengchou walked in excitedly.
"Master." Hong Chengchou knelt down and said, "Two more tunnels have been dug under the Ming army's peripheral artillery platform. I am preparing to try another attack. Master, can you personally come to the front line and take command?"
Due to physical discomfort, Dorgon has handed over command to Hong Chengchou.
The Manchu generals such as He Luohui, Ta Zhan and Bai Yin Tu were extremely dissatisfied with this and even went so far as to violate it, causing several attacks by the Qing army to fail miserably and losing many people.
Dorgon was furious and killed several Niulu Ezhen.
After that, He Luohui and other Manchu generals no longer dared to defy the odds.
But Hong Chengchou was extremely smart and never forgot to ask for instructions and report everything.
Hong Chengchou's cautious approach made Dorgon very satisfied, and he said happily: "It's okay to watch the battle in person on the front line, but forget it from sitting in command. I think Heng Jiu, you can command very well."
Hong Chengchou said hurriedly: "Is there any chance that a slave is not as talented as the master?"
"Okay, there's no need to talk about this." Dorgon interrupted with a wave of his hand.
Then Dorgon led a group of Manchu and Han ministers to the observation tower on the front line.
The lookout tower is a rammed earth platform built on a bag of earth, with a total height of about ten feet. From a high position, you can have a panoramic view of the entire Gaizhou Acropolis and dozens of Ming army blunderbuss towers on the periphery.
Hong Chengchou pointed to two of the gun towers: "Master, these are the two gun towers. It took a full month for those Nikans to finally dig the tunnel under the gun towers and bury enough gunpowder.
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Dorgon asked happily: "Hengjiu, how did you avoid being discovered by the Ming army?"
Hong Chengchou said: "The method is actually very simple. It is to send cavalry to make a lot of noise in front of the formation. From time to time, the green battalion is ordered to fire a few cannons at the Ming army's position. Nikan, who is responsible for the excavation, must be careful as much as possible. The movement cannot be too loud. In this way
, the Ming army on the opposite side would no longer be able to discover the exact location of the tunnel."
"Is it that simple?" Dorgon was a little surprised.
Before this, the Ming army could always accurately find the location of the Qing army's tunnels, so they said everything. Some even said that there was a Tu Xingsun on the other side of the army who could escape and find the exact location of the Qing army's tunnels.
The Qing army also tried many methods, such as digging only during the day or digging quietly in the middle of the night, but they were all useless.
"It's that simple." Hong Chengchou nodded and said, "Now I dare to say that the Ming army must have used debate to determine the exact location of the tunnel, so making noise can confuse others."
"As expected of Hengjiu." Dorgon said happily, "Nothing can stop you."
"Master, you are too flattering." Hong Chengchou said quickly, "The gunpowder has been buried, and when detonated, it will be enough to level the two gun platforms on the ground. This will open a big gap in the Ming army's defense line by our Qing soldiers."
"Then what are you waiting for?" Dorgon nodded and said, "Hurry up and order the attack."
"Hey!" Hong Chengchou knelt down and struck a thousand, then stood up and shouted, "Send the order, light the fire!"
The messenger standing behind Hong Chengchou took out two small triangular flags and sent signals to the front.
Then it was a matter of waiting, because it took some time for the fuse to burn. After about a few minutes, the two gun towers in the field of view of the Dorgon telescope suddenly arched upward.
After about a few seconds, the arched gun platform suddenly sank again.
Then there was smoke and dust rising into the sky, and the ground beneath his feet began to tremble.
Then there was a faint muffled sound of thunder coming from underground, and the movement was really quite big.
Dorgon put down his telescope and looked forward, only to see that the two Ming army gun towers in his field of vision were completely obscured by smoke and dust. The Ming army guarding the gun towers was probably doomed.
Before the smoke cleared, the Qing army launched an attack.
About two Niulu Eight Banners Han troops rushed into the smoke with self-made fire guns.
Behind the two Niulu Eight Banners Han Army, there is another Niulu Eight Banners Manchuria. This Niulu Eight Banners Manchuria can not only provide fire support to the Han army, but also serve as a supervisory force.
This time it was said to be a forceful attack, but in fact it was still a probing attack.
Just with a try mentality, if we capture it, we will invest more troops and continue to tear at the Ming army's defense line until the Ming army collapses and flees back to Gaizhou City. If we fail to capture it in the end, the loss will not be too great.
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Using the cover of smoke and dust, the Qing army easily occupied the two bomb towers that had been blown up.
The Ming army's Crouching Tiger Cannon and the Red Coat Cannon remained motionless because their sight was blocked.
But after about a quarter of an hour, when the smoke gradually dispersed, the Ming artillery began to fire.
Dozens of red-coated cannons poured shells on the heads of the Qing soldiers at a rate of one row every three minutes. Even more terrifying were the Ming army's squatting tiger cannons. Hundreds of squatting tiger cannons dropped pieces of lead
The bullets poured on the Qing troops, causing the Qing troops who were repairing fortifications on the cannon platform to wail incessantly. The shot shells from the Crouching Tiger Cannon were really brutal.
Seeing the Eight Banners and Han troops falling one after another, Dorgon looked embarrassed.
"Damn it, it's just a squatting tiger cannon. Why can the Ming army's red cannon hit the inside of the gun platform? Isn't their line of sight blocked by the protective cloak in the middle?"
Hong Chengchou, Hou Fangyu and others standing nearby were speechless.
Tang Ruowang suddenly said: "Royal father and regent, the artillery of the Ming army should have already observed and fired at Zhu Yuan."
"Observe? Shoot the Zhuyuan?" Dorgon was stunned for a moment and asked blankly, "What is shooting the Zhuyuan?"
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Uh..." Tang Ruowang was speechless. What is shooting Zhu Yuan? Dorgon's question really knocked him down.
Tang Ruowang organized it and said in words that Dorgon could basically understand: "The Ming army's artillery has divided the entire battlefield into blocks, and has calculated the pitch angle and left and right angles of the corresponding blocks in advance.
, and then when you need to bombard a certain block, you only need to adjust the cannon to the corresponding angle."
"The Ming army's red cannons can actually hit wherever they point?" Dorgon couldn't believe it.
"It should be possible." Tang Ruowang was actually a little unsure, "Otherwise, there is no way to explain it."
"Master, when I think about it now, I think the red artillery of the Ming Army can be measured." Hou Fangyu had spent some time in Xuzhou and Shanyang City, and he had some knowledge of the Ming Army's artillery camp.
"Because the artillery of the Ming army brought many tools, and they seemed to have to do calculations."
"That's called ballistic calculation." Tang Ruowang explained, "There is a special formula."
"Tang Ruowang, why didn't you say it before?" Dorgon's face fell, "Why didn't you mention it earlier? If you had raised this matter earlier, wouldn't the red cannons of the Qing Dynasty be like the Ming army?"
"It won't work." Tang Ruowang shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Royal father and regent, it can't be done."
"Tang, you are so bold!" Cao Eryu shouted, "How dare you look at a person's bottom like a dog?"
Dorgon also asked with a dark face: "Why can the red cannons of the Ming army work, but not the Qing Dynasty?"
"Reporting to the Emperor and the Regent, the reason is the same as the sleeve bayonet of the self-generating gun." Tang Ruowang explained helplessly, "The red cannons of the Ming Army must have been standardized like the self-generating gun. They are the same model.
When artillery is loaded with the same amount of gunpowder and fired at the same elevation angle, the error rate of its impact point should be very small."
"Only in this way can the ballistic calibration elements be measured. If there is no standardization, even if the gunpowder is the same and the pitch angle is the same, the two shots of the same red cannon will have different results. If it is not the same gun
, there is even less regularity in the bullet impact point, so it is meaningless to calculate the ballistic trajectory and calibrate the shooting elements."
Cao Eryu said with a dark face: "By saying so much, do you mean that my Qing Dynasty's red cannon is not good?"
"No." Tang Ruowang replied honestly, "Unless our red cannon of the Qing Dynasty is recast, there will be no way to calculate the ballistics and calibrate the shooting points."
Dorgon's face suddenly became more embarrassed.
However, Dorgon remained rational after all and did not express his anger at Tang Ruowang.
While they were talking, some Qing soldiers had been killed by artillery, while others hid in trenches or cracks that appeared after the explosion.
The Ming army has been observing the battlefield through Kongming lanterns.
After discovering that the bombardment no longer threatened the Qing troops, they immediately stopped the bombardment.
As soon as the Ming army's bombardment stopped, Dorgon and Hong Chengchou's hearts arose.
Because after the bombardment stopped, the infantry of the Ming Army should counterattack.
Sure enough, almost as soon as the shelling stopped, the suona sound of "du da du du du du tu" sounded from the Ming army's position in front. Accompanied by the loud and exciting suona sound, the black Ming army carried the
The self-generated muskets with good bayonets sprang out from the trenches and launched a charge towards the ruins of the musket platform seized by the Qing army.
The Green Battalion's artillery also fired a row of shells, but it was of no use.
Because the Green Camp did not know how to calculate ballistic trajectories, nor did they know how to calibrate the shooting elements, they fired randomly at the two wings and the deep positions of the Ming army.
The Ming army that counterattacked was said to be unscathed.
Seeing this scene, Dorgon, Hong Chengchou and others suddenly felt extremely aggrieved.
They are both artillerymen, so why is there such a big gap between the artillery of the Qing Dynasty and the artillery of the Nanming Dynasty?
The only ones that could cause damage to the Ming army were the Eight Banners and Han troops who emerged from the ruins.
There were about 500 Han soldiers left under the Eight Banners, and they fired fiercely at the Ming army with self-made firecrackers.
