Seeing this scene, Sun Xuebin was really speechless.
This is really stupid.
He had previously thought of relying on fortifications to fight a positional war to make up for the shortcomings of too many new recruits.
But looking at it now, the Qianhu House of the Guard is really in such bad shape that it can't even be supported on the wall.
No matter whether it is marching, reconnaissance or camping, there is no order.
In order to take shelter from the wind, the place where the Qianhu of the rear guard camped was a hollow. But the problem was that the camp was safe. Once surrounded by the enemy, they would quickly stop and there would be no other surprises.
Now that the enemy was at his doorstep, Sun Xuebin was not stupid enough to let the enemy take the initiative to attack. Instead, he quietly surrounded the Ming army camp under the cover of night.
It was not until the early morning of the next day that the Ming army discovered that they were surrounded.
At this time, Sun Xuebin had already dragged twelve Napoleon cannons over, four on each side, forming a solid three-sided surround of the Ming army's camp, leaving only the passage leading to Meiren Ridge.
Not to mention that the military camp didn't even have trenches, antlers, or fences. Even if it did, it couldn't stop artillery bombardment.
After receiving the news, Mr. Qianhu, who was awakened from his bed by his own soldiers, could not even react in his dazed mind when the twelve Napoleon cannons fired.
On this trip, Sun Xuebin did not carry the 12-pounder gun, but only the 6-pounder gun, considering the lightness.
But even if it was just a shell fired by a 6-pounder cannon, it could easily sweep through the Ming army's camp.
Every artillery shell flew into the Ming army's camp, directly creating a path of blood.
No matter whether it is a sword-and-shield-hand or a spear-hand, as long as it encounters a cannonball, it will be easily maimed and no one will be spared.
After only three rounds of artillery fire, the Ming army collapsed.
A large number of Ming troops abandoned their weapons and fled towards Meiren Ridge. Discarded swords and guns could be seen everywhere in the camp.
The Qianhu master was naturally the fastest to escape.
Protected by dozens of servants, Mr. Qianhu was the first to rush into Beauty Ridge.
But after walking a few steps into Beauty Ridge, Mr. Qianhu was dumbfounded.
Less than a hundred meters in front of the canyon, there was a chest-high earth wall erected, and black gun barrels were aimed at him.
Just seeing the flash of fire on the muzzles of the guns, Mr. Qianhu felt a pain in his chest. Then he heard the cries of pain from all around, and blood spattered. The Ming soldiers who rushed into Meiren Ridge were heard by gunshots.
fell down.
At this distance of 100 meters, and with the earth wall as a support point, the naturalized soldiers felt that the battle was as easy as target practice.
As the officers shouted orders across the street, the gunfire quickly stopped.
But at this time, Meiren Ridge was already filled with Ming army corpses.
Sun Xuebin was very satisfied at the post-war summary meeting. This battle achieved the goal he had set before and completely annihilated the Ming army.
An inventory after the war showed that 287 Ming soldiers were killed in this battle, 82 were wounded, and 259 were captured.
In fact, there were not many Ming troops killed by Napoleon's artillery. There were only more than seventy people in total. The real heavy casualties occurred after they rushed into Meiren Ridge.
Sun Xuebin ambushed a total of about two hundred people in Meiren Ridge.
However, due to the narrow passage of Meiren Ridge, the rifle firepower was intensive and the lethality was maximized, which resulted in heavy losses for the Ming army before the ceasefire.
Of course, although this battle was a complete victory, there were still some problems.
One is that the recruits participated in actual combat for the first time. They were nervous at first, but then became excited and fanatical. So much so that when the officers across time ordered a ceasefire for the first time, not many recruits heard it. This is why there were so few prisoners.
The second reason is that the recruits were too nervous in the first battle. In particular, some of the recruits were so nervous that they forgot to take out the purge when cleaning the barrel of the gun, and they knocked the purge out together with the subsequent shooting. Fortunately, the barrel was not exploded, otherwise
If so, this will definitely be a big black point in this victory.
Isn't it a joke if no one was killed or injured by the enemy, but instead he was beaten to death by himself?
As for the problems with firearms and artillery, they are naturally due to the inconvenience of cleaning the barrel of the Thunderbolt 1646 after firing and the too low power of the Napoleon cannon.
Fang Xiaoyue recorded these questions one by one.
After all, he also knows that if you sit in the office and immerse yourself in design without listening to the opinions of the frontline troops, the weapons you design will have many problems.
Fang Xiaoyue also wants to develop some more advanced weapons, but the problem is that the current chemical industry is not strong enough.
Although the industrial group has developed picric acid and TNT (yellow drug), it is precisely because the systematic chemical industry has not yet been established that picolic acid and TNT can only be produced at the laboratory level.
The output is pitifully low. If it was not needed to clean up the Changjiang reefs, the industrial team would not be willing to take out that little inventory.
After all, whether it is raw materials such as toluene, nitric acid, sulfuric acid and sodium sulfite, they cannot be industrially produced at present, so they are limited to the industrial production of TNT.
But Fang Xiaoyue planned to get the nitrocellulose out first.
Compared with TNT, the production of nitrocellulose is undoubtedly much simpler.
Nitrocellulose can be produced using only nitric acid and impurity-free absorbent cotton.
Although nitrocellulose is very sensitive, and with a slight vibration, the impact may be artistic, but they are not the senior scientists who need to explore hard. They know how to passivate nitrocellulose and process it into smokeless gunpowder.
The only trouble now is where to get the nitric acid?
Generally speaking, there are two methods for industrial preparation of nitric acid.
One is the ammonia oxidation method, which uses a mixture of ammonia and air, passes through a hot platinum-rhodium alloy mesh, and is catalyzed by the alloy mesh. The ammonia is oxidized into nitric oxide, and then into nitrogen dioxide. The carbon dioxide passes through
When you put it into water, you get nitric acid.
The problem here is that platinum and rhodium are hard to find.
Both metals, platinum and rhodium, exist in platinum mines, but there are no platinum mines on Nanhai Island.
And there were not many platinum mines in the entire Ming Dynasty.
Well, the industrial group has stocks of metal like rhodium.
Because when Fang Xiaoyue was playing with metallization, rhodium material appeared once. It was about a few tons, which was barely enough.
But the metal platinum has never appeared once.
Maybe we should find a Franchi merchant?
It is said that in the 16th century, platinum was sold as a kind of inferior silver by Francois merchants. Platinum was even mixed into silver and used to make counterfeit coins and jewelry, confusing the fake ones with the real ones and making huge profits.
Because this low-quality silver seriously disrupted the economic order, King Franji was so angry that he ordered the low-quality silver to be dumped into the sea.
It was not until the middle of the 18th century that platinum was identified as a new element. From then on, it got rid of the title of inferior silver and became the new favorite of the royal family.
This precious metal is actually thirty times rarer than gold.