However, there were still at least 20 Divine Fire Flying Crows that landed in the Eight Banners Manchuria phalanx. With a huge explosion, more than 20 dents were instantly blasted in the Eight Banners Manchuria phalanx.
Behind Eight Banners Manchuria, Eight Banners Mongolia and Waifan Mongolia also took several hits.
The Eight Banners soldiers who were within five steps of the center of the explosion were instantly blown into charred corpses.
The Eight Banners soldiers within a radius of 20 steps were also thrown to the ground by the huge air wave generated by the explosion. After getting up, they were all stunned. Even when their companions called them, they did not respond.
However, Eight Banners Manchuria truly deserves the title of elite.
Suffering such a critical blow, let alone collapse, there was not even a trace of commotion.
The six flags were placed in a total of seven square formations, large and small, but they didn't move at all.
The Eight Banners Mongolia on the right rear and the Waifan Mongolia on the left rear suddenly fell into commotion.
Fortunately, the generals of the Eight Banners and the Taiji of various Mongolian tribes responded quickly and quickly calmed down the riot.
The generals of the Eight Banners Mongolia and the large and small Taijis of the outer Mongolia have indeed seen big scenes. Even when they were hit by unexpected long-range firearms, they remained calm and composed.
This is the powerful foundation of a victorious army.
The confidence accumulated over the past fifty years is truly worth bragging about.
However, it was not over yet. As soon as the Eight Banners Mongolia and Outer Mongolia returned to peace, hundreds of sacred fire crows roared into the sky from the Ming army formation ahead, once again filling the sky.
"The mother-in-law, are you coming again? Is this the end of the world?"
Sony instantly realized that the Ming army still had many divine fire flying crows.
Did the Ming army turn the divine fire flying crow into a conventional weapon?
If that's the case, wouldn't it mean waiting to die if you stay where you are?
There are only two choices at this time, either to go back or to go forward.
Retreating is definitely not possible. Once the war starts, we can only advance without retreating. If we retreat, the formation will be in chaos. The Ming army will take advantage of the situation and crush them. What awaits the Qing army is a big defeat. If they are not defeated, they will be defeated!
Only by moving forward and moving quickly can we avoid the attack of the Ming army's divine fire flying crows.
Because Sony has keenly discovered that the interval between attacks of the Ming Army's Divine Fire Flying Crow is very long.
At that moment, Sony roared at the top of his voice: "The big banner sends the order, the whole army advances, advance at full speed!"
The few bagaras guarding the flag immediately pressed down Sony's central army banner and pointed it flatly forward.
Seeing this scene, the trumpeters in the Qing army blew the horns vigorously, and the drummers also beat the war drums vigorously. The low horn horns and the passionate war drums soared into the sky again.
The Eight Banners Han Army, which was originally stationary, was once again pushed by the Green Battalion with side carriages and artillery carriages moving forward quickly.
The central army and the Eight Banners Manchurians on both wings also pushed the heavy carriages forward quickly, and the cavalry of the Eight Banners Mongolia and Outer Mongolia also lined up in a slightly messy formation and hurried to follow.
Lian Yong, who was walking at the back, also followed with fear.
But even so, it is impossible to escape the third wave of divine fire flying crows.
Soon enough, the Qing army had moved less than ten steps, and the Ming army's third wave of divine fire flying crows had already fallen overwhelmingly. Most of them fell on the central army and the left and right wings.
The hit rate of the Ming army's divine artillery was indeed very poor. The error of 300 steps was a basic operation.
Especially after the first wave of launches, the launcher shifted, and the hit rate was even worse. There were even cases where the rockets collided in the air and then fell.
But the target is too big to hold up.
What Jiannu laid out was a huge military formation with a width of nearly seven kilometers from north to south and a depth of more than three kilometers from east to west. Therefore, as long as the Ming army's divine artillery battalion aimed at the central army of Jiannu, the chance of missing was close to zero, because even if it deviated
Five hundred steps later, the impact point of the divine fire shells was still within Jiannu's military formation.
Therefore, except for those dropped by collision in the air, almost all the shells hit.
There were gaps between the Jiannu Front Team, the Second Team, the Third Team, and the Fourth Team, and the gaps were very large, causing many artillery shells to hit the gaps. Even so, the hit rate was still 20% to 30%.
So when the third row of artillery shells fell, Jiannu was blown over a lot more instantly.
One of the divine fire shells landed not far in front of the Chinese army's observation tower. With a huge explosion, several practitioners who were responsible for pulling the observation tower were killed in an instant.
There were more Lian Yong who were knocked to the ground.
The lookout made of white birch wood almost tipped over.
Sony and others standing on the lookout almost fell down.
The hundreds of practitioners who were responsible for pulling up the observation tower almost collapsed.
After all, these brave warriors do not have the foundation of Eight Banners Manchuria, and they are easily frightened.
However, the bannermen of the two yellow flags reacted very quickly, and after beheading several heads, Lian Yong regained his composure.
The Eight Banners Mongolia and Outer Mongolia were similar. After cutting off a few heads, they quickly regained their composure, because in comparison, the supervising team's saber was more lethal.
The chance of being killed by the Ming Army's divine fire flying crow is actually not great.
But once he turns around and flees, he will 100% be killed by the supervising team.
Under the shock of the supervising team, Jiannu's entire formation gradually regained its composure, at least far from collapse. Moreover, after three volleys of divine artillery fire, Jiannu seemed to have adapted.
Because they discovered that the Ming army's divine fire artillery shells were actually not very lethal.
A divine fire flying crow, even if it hits head-on, will kill at most a dozen people.
This kind of lethality does not seem to be much stronger than the Ming army's red cannon.
After realizing this, Jian Nu regained his composure, and while shouting chants, he stepped forward. Amidst the waves of chants, the fourth wave of divine fire flying crows that was about to attack did not seem so...
horrible.
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"What a pity." Seeing this scene, Chongzhen said with regret, "If the black powder of the divine artillery was replaced with smokeless gunpowder, the lethality would be increased at least ten times! If so, maybe it's just the divine artillery battalion.
Ten rounds of volleys can directly destroy Jiannu's formation."
What Chongzhen said is really not nonsense.
The total weight of the God Cannon reached two hundred kilograms.
It is more than twice as much as the Shenhuo Feiya (80 pounds).
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But the warhead of the divine artillery only weighs twenty kilograms.
Because the thrust of black powder is insufficient, it cannot deliver a larger load three kilometers away.
Among the twenty kilograms of warheads, the weight of the cast iron shell and the thin iron nails inside accounted for sixteen kilograms, and the remaining four kilograms were black powder, equivalent to 400 grams of smokeless gunpowder.
So this is actually a 20-pound large hand grenade.
It is equivalent to a cluster grenade bundled together with 20 hand grenades made in the border area during the Anti-Japanese War.
The destructive power within the explosion radius of ten meters is very strong. Even if the fragments cannot penetrate the armor's stomach, they can still cause serious and fatal injuries to the human body through sound waves and shock waves.
But it seems somewhat powerless against armored targets ten meters away.
At most, it would be overturned by the air wave generated by the explosion, making people dizzy.
But if the black powder of the divine artillery is changed to smokeless gunpowder, then the total weight of the projectile is still two hundred kilograms, and the weight of the warhead can be at least forty or fifty kilograms or even seventy or eighty kilograms, plus the smokeless gunpowder
The energy density is four to five times that of black powder, so the lethality of the divine artillery will definitely increase by more than ten times.
If this is the case, its power is probably equivalent to a 155 caliber grenade!
A 155-caliber grenade leaves no grass behind within a radius of 60 meters! The maximum killing distance can reach more than 300 meters!
If 1,000 155-caliber grenades were to hit Jiannu's formation at once, the scene would be so beautiful that Chongzhen could not even imagine it.
Therefore, the future prospects of the Shenhuo Cannon Battalion are very bright.
Of course, throwing explosive shells several kilometers away is not the ultimate goal of the divine artillery.
Because such a task can be completely accomplished by field artillery, and there is no need for divine artillery at all.
In Chongzhen's vision, the divine artillery was best used to throw incendiary bombs, which was to throw a large can of incendiary mixed with animal fat, fuel, sulfur, fire and salt into the enemy's formation and then detonate it.
Such an incendiary bomb is enough to make any infantry formation history.
In future battlefields, infantry will no longer be able to form formations to fight, otherwise they will be waiting to be massacred.
Although he was still in Beijing and the decisive battle with Jiannu had just begun, Chongzhen's mind had already flown back to Nanjing and the Ming Dynasty Arsenal, thinking about improving divine artillery and developing explosive ammunition.
The firearms of the Ming Dynasty need greater progress.
Otherwise, it will not be able to keep up with the expansion of Ming Dynasty.
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"What a pity." Li Zicheng also sighed in the same way.
"Just now Jiannu was caught off guard by the Ming army's divine fire flying crows and almost collapsed. If the Ming army seizes the opportunity and drives the army to launch a surprise attack while Jiannu is timid, even if it cannot defeat Jiannu in one fell swoop, it will
At least it can put Jiannu into a passive position, but it is a pity that the Ming army did not seize such a good opportunity."
"It is indeed a pity." Song Xiance agreed, "I missed a good opportunity in vain."
"Chongzhen, the dog emperor, is still as stupid as before. He has people under his command but doesn't know how to use them."
"While Huang Degong was left alone, veteran generals like Jin Shengyuan refused to use him, but instead he used scholars like Zheng Sen, Xu Yingwei, and Yan Yingyuan. I don't know what he was thinking."
Speaking of this, he added: "If there is a veteran like Huang Degong in charge, such a good opportunity will definitely not be missed."
Li Zicheng snorted lightly and said: "How can scholars like Zheng Sen, Xu Yingwei, and Yan Yingyuan know how to fight? Chongzhen is making fun of military affairs, how can he be undefeated?"
This time, Gu Junen did not agree.
Li Zicheng and Song Xiance could pretend not to know, but Gu Junen could not pretend not to know.
Xu Yingwei and Yan Yingyuan, these two scholars, were not simple. Didn't they command the Battle of Hunhe River, the Battle of Dagukou and even the Battle of Shanyang? Therefore, the Ming army did not attack because they did not see the opportunity.
Gu Junen is more willing to believe that the Ming army has other considerations.
But until now, Gu Junen still didn't think the Ming army could win.
In today's battle, the Ming army still cannot escape defeat, but judging from the current situation, Jiannu probably won't win too easily, which is different from his previous judgment.
