Zheng Sen said with some embarrassment: "Your Majesty, please don't go up there, right? I am your eyes. I can truthfully report everything you see to you. You don't need to go to high altitudes to see everything."
Gao Qiqian also persuaded him: "Yes, long live my lord, please don't go up there."
"I just want to see it with my own eyes." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "Besides, isn't it tied with a cable? It's not like we're actually letting the flying car fly over the battlefield. What are we afraid of?"
Zheng Sen said: "It can only rise ten feet. The wind is strong today. No matter how high it is, it may be blown away by the strong wind."
It is not safe to use a cable to tie a hanging basket. If the wind is strong, the hemp cable will be broken. Such tragedies have not never happened during Air Force training in the past.
"I'll listen to you, just ten feet." Chongzhen agreed wholeheartedly.
Zheng Sen immediately arranged for the Air Force to assemble the flying car and then ignited it and took off.
A moment later, Speed Car No. 1 slowly ascended to the sky above the battlefield carrying Chongzhen, Zheng Sen, Gao Qiqian and another Chinese student who had just been assigned to the Air Force.
As the height rises, the view becomes wider and wider.
Looking around, I saw that the Ming army had fully deployed its formation.
The four infantry brigades formed four huge solid square formations, lined up.
Hu Guozhu's cavalry platform was divided into two parts to protect the two wings of the infantry.
In front of the infantry are the artillery positions of 6 artillery brigades. 270 4-inch field guns and 270 2.5-inch mountain guns have been laid out in rows. The black muzzles are all pointed at the slave camp.
Seeing this scene, Zheng Sen couldn't help but feel excited: "The majesty of our army is rarely seen in ancient times and modern times!"
Chongzhen couldn't help but feel a little emotional. It has been five years since he traveled to this world. During this time, there were many difficulties, and after a lot of effort, he finally got where he is today.
The French army in the Battle of Waterloo was probably nothing more than this, right?
Of course, the Ming army was not the French army, and the slave-building forces facing them were not the Anglo-Russian-Austrian-Behemoth coalition forces. Therefore, it was absolutely impossible for the Ming army to turn the Battle of Dagukou into the Battle of Waterloo.
The final result of the Battle of Dagukou could only be that the Ming army quickly destroyed Jiannu's positions.
Regarding this point, Chongzhen was still confident enough, because there were only about 10,000 slaves on the opposite side, and they were basically the Eight Banners Han Army and the Green Camp. There were no Eight Banners Manchu Supervisory Army, and the number of artillery was not many, only a hundred.
On the left and right sides of the door, mainly the Folan cannon and Tiger Crouching cannon, and the number of Hongyi cannons is very small.
Whether it is military strength, firepower or morale, the two sides are completely different from each other. It is difficult to lose this battle.
Jiannu on the opposite side obviously felt the pressure, so before the Ming army could launch an attack, the few Hongyi artillery in the formation began to fire first.
There were about thirty Hongyi cannons owned by Jiannu, and they were deployed in more than thirty cannon towers.
Therefore, the artillery shells fired were also uneven, but the farthest artillery shell was at least two hundred steps away from the Ming army's artillery position. This distance was obviously calculated.
At this distance, the Ming army's artillery group could hit the Jiannu position.
However, Jiannu's Hongyi artillery could not hit the Ming army's artillery positions.
After a while, the 540 cannons of the Ming army also began to fire one after another.
There are ten rows at the front and rear, each with 54 cannons, firing row after row. The scene is quite spectacular and can really make the blood in your veins boil.
Zheng Sen and the newly graduated Guozi student couldn't help but cheer loudly.
It's a good thing that there is no censor here, otherwise it would definitely be a disgrace to the emperor.
However, Chongzhen felt a little regretful in his heart, as he was still a bit off.
A cannon must be equipped with explosive shells to become the true god of war.
Before the advent of explosive ammunition, artillery was at best an auxiliary arm on the battlefield.
Before there were explosive shells, expecting artillery to defeat the enemy was purely wishful thinking, because the killing efficiency of solid iron lumps was really unflattering, and the noise was just scary.
This is also true. The shelling caused very little damage to the Jiannu slaves.
Chongzhen raised the telescope and could see clearly through the six times field of view of the telescope.
Before the first row of shells from the Ming army's artillery fell, Jiannu on the opposite side had already hid behind the gun platform's protective wall, or simply hid in the gun platform's bunker.
So when the Ming army's artillery shells fell, they made dents one after another on the protective wall of Jiannu gun platform, and plowed ditches one after another on the slope protection in front of the gun platform and the platform inside the gun platform, and even
Yu destroyed the Folan cannon and the Hongyi cannon that were too late to move one after another, but the casualties were very few.
In other words, it looked spectacular. The entire camp of Jiannu was beaten into smoke and dust. Jiannu who was hiding inside might also experience the feeling of the earth shaking.
But the actual killing effect is just that.
As long as you don't run around and quietly hide in the blind spot where the shells can't hit, you can survive 99% of the time.
After all, solid bullets are not blooming bullets. Solid bullets are for point damage. If you are lucky, the ricochet can become a line of damage. However, blooming bullets are for area damage, and they explode in a large area.
Hiding solid bullets, there are blind spots everywhere.
To avoid the shells, we can only dig anti-cannon holes, not trenches.
Thinking of this, Chongzhen sighed softly. After this battle is over, it is better to let Gewuke put down the hot rolling mill first. The seamless steel pipe is not in a hurry for the time being. The most urgent thing is to get out the blooming bomb.
But then again, even if there are no explosive shells, even if the lethality is limited, for the Eight Banners Han Army and the Green Battalion in front, a cluster bombardment of this scale is enough to scare them.
This is a cluster bombardment of 540 artillery pieces from 6 artillery brigades!
That is to say, the shelling has not ended yet, so the Jiannu have no chance to flee.
As soon as the Ming army's shelling ends, the Jiannu in the camp will probably disperse.
The bombardment by the Ming army's artillery group continued, and each cannon continued to fire at a rate of one round per minute, firing iron bullets one after another into Jiannu's camp.
Although thousands of steps away in the sky,
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Huang Deheng sat quietly behind the wall of the gun platform, with no expression on his face.
From Shanyang to Xuzhou, and then from Gaizhouwei to Dagukou, this dog slave has experienced hundreds of battles. Although today's bombardment was a bit fierce, it was not enough to panic him.
Huang Deheng even had time to remind his soldiers.
In any case, he is now a sentry commander of the Eight Banners Han Army.
Therefore, I have the responsibility and obligation to impart some experience to the Eight Banners and Han troops under my command.
"Hide everything from me. Don't run around. If you don't want to die, don't stay away from the protective wall."
"Don't cover your ears. Covering your ears is useless. Open your mouth. Just open your mouth."
"Also, don't underestimate Ming Gou's red cannon. It fires fiercely. In fact, it just looks bluffing. As long as you don't panic, the possibility of being killed is very small."
While he was talking, a cannonball landed on the platform inside the gun platform.
There was just a booming sound, and the solid iron bullet plowed a trench on the tamped ground.
"How? Did you see it?" Huang Deheng pointed at the trench plowed by the solid iron bullets and said, "As long as you are not hit directly in the body by Ming Gou's solid bullets, you will not die."
Before he finished speaking, there was another bang.
But another solid iron bullet hit the front guard wall of the gun platform.
Since the Ming army's field artillery and mountain artillery used parabolic shooting, the shells could pass over the slope protection built by Jiannu on the outside of the gun platform from the air, and land directly on the protective wall or even the internal platform of the gun platform. In contrast, Jiannu's
The Hongyi cannon does not have this function. It does not mean that it cannot use parabolic shooting, but it can only shoot randomly.
The protective wall of the Jiannu gun platform is five feet high, eight feet thick at the bottom, and three feet wide at the top. The entire body is made of rammed clay, and its strength is still very high. Even if a 4-inch field gun shell hits the front of the protective slope,
It can only leave a pit. It is impossible to directly smash the protective wall, at least it is impossible to do it in a short time.
Huang Deheng smiled and said: "How? The protective wall is very strong, and the red cannon is useless. When they attacked Shanyang and Xuzhou, the Qing soldiers suffered the same loss. Now it is Ming Gou's turn.
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After listening to Huang Deheng's words, the nearby Eight Banners Han troops gradually calmed down.
Looking at the Ming army's shelling again, it seems that it is no longer as terrifying as before.
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The Ming army's shelling of the Jiannu camp lasted for half an hour.
Less than half an hour later, the slave camp was completely obscured by the smoke and dust splashed by the shells.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Xu Yingwei decisively issued the order to attack. The loud sound of bugles and the officers' commands suddenly rang out. One of the infantry brigade immediately approached Jiannu's camp with neat steps, and the rest
Three infantry brigades and cavalry troops remained in place to guard the platform.
There were still about a thousand steps away from the slave camp, and the attacking infantry brigades began to rapidly expand to the two flanks.
The distance between individual soldiers soon widened to two steps, eventually forming three wavy skirmish lines in front and back. The width of the entire skirmish line even exceeded two thousand steps, almost forming an encirclement on three sides of the slave camp.
Jiannu was trying his best to learn the tactics of the Ming army, but the tactics of the Ming army were still improving rapidly.
Although Chongzhen was a modern man, he also knew little about the tactics of the matchlock and flintlock eras. He only knew that the most effective tactic was to line up to kill in the flintlock era.
This is by no means stupid, but is summed up from countless sacrifices.
But the existence of Chongzhen can speed up the evolution of tactics.
For example, the skirmisher line currently used was summarized after the failure of the last offensive in Gaizhou, and it was proven in war games that it can indeed significantly reduce casualties.
Of course, there is a premise for this, that is, both parties participating in the war are firearms troops.
If the opponent is cavalry, then opening a skirmish line is asking for death.
The Ming army opened up a wave-shaped skirmish line and quickly approached within a thousand steps.
When Jiannu on the opposite side saw this, the Hongyi cannon with the longest range took the lead in launching a bombardment.