These artillery pieces are all standard artillery pieces of the Ming Army.
Yang Fan recognized it all.
It's all a bunch of junk. The cannons equipped by the Jiannu slaves are all kinds of miscellaneous and of poor performance.
Yang Fan looked carefully through the telescope and identified them one by one.
A bowl-mouth gun is as big as a porcelain bowl and two feet long.
Place it on a low-leg thick wooden bench and secure it with seven steel hoops.
This crappy thing was equipped in the Hongwu Dynasty.
The Ming army in Liaodong was corrupt and did not update its equipment, which later fell into the hands of Jiannu. However, this thing is no problem against aluminum alloy armor, and it will definitely kill you if it hits it.
Bamboo-type artillery, cast from pig iron, is about the same size as a bowl-mouth blunderbuss, with a caliber of about 100mm.
Portable artillery, made of bronze, with a caliber of about 90mm and a length of about 900mm. It comes with a handle so you can carry it around. The wall of the cannon is relatively thin, so it cannot shoot too far. If there is too much charge, it will easily explode, but it is easier to transfer.
These junk things can't be hit far, only about a hundred meters.
They have all been passed down from Liaodong Town for more than a hundred years. When the guard collapsed, even the mandarin duck war jackets could be passed down for three generations, not to mention these early Ming Dynasty artillery pieces.
But looking further down, there are some things that can pose a threat.
Attack artillery, Ye Gong's divine musket and artillery carriage, Baizi's continuous artillery.
These three types are shotguns carried by horse-drawn carriages.
There are some lined up in front of the formation, and there are quite a few of them. There are also quite a few squatting tiger cannons, more than a dozen of them in front of each military formation.
These shotguns will cause huge trouble to the militiamen who attack their military positions.
Looking down, Yang Fan also had a solemn expression.
Folan cannon!
They actually have Folan cannons.
Although there are not many, there are only three or two in front of each military formation, loaded on small carts. It looks like a small Franco machine gun weighing 150 kilograms, but this kind of gun has a fast firing rate and a range of no less than
Three hundred meters.
Yang Fan was glad in his heart that he had brought the field artillery battalion and the machine gun battalion. Otherwise, there would definitely have been a lot of casualties in the final attack on the Han army flag's rear formation.
Yang Fan's three-pounder cannon is a cannon with a caliber of thirty-six times. The caliber is 76mm, the maximum range of direct fire is 750 meters, and the projectile can reach 1,300 to 400 meters. However, this light field gun has no practical value for projectile. The projectile is too small.
Yang Fan's hand-operated Gatling gun has a caliber of 15mm and a range of more than 500 meters due to its all-metal fixed bullets. It is far beyond the range of the opponent's artillery, which is enough to suppress them.
After a while, their heavy armored infantry was defeated, and the field artillery battalion and machine gun battalion were sent up.
In the blink of an eye, the heavy armored infantry from both sides were engaged.
The Jiannu method of warfare did not put firearms on the front line, which was different from the Ming Dynasty. They used heavily armored infantry and cavalry to directly charge and attack, destroying the enemy in an instant. Only siege warfare and positioning
In battle, artillery and muskets will be used more heavily.
What they really value is the cold weapon troops.
The heavy infantry of Jiannu were relatively miscellaneous in equipment. They were a bit like the Qi family army. Each infantry unit had long and short weapons for use together.
There are two or three people in front holding shields and sabers. Behind there are three or four spearmen, two rakers, two swordsmen, two archers, and two holding three-eyed blunderbuss.
Such a small group of people gathered together and rushed over to fight the militiamen.
The equipment of the militiamen is uniform, which is the Swiss halberd.
The independent combat unit of the militia is a squadron, which is a phalanx of a hundred people. Following the whistle of the squadron leader, the first row of people stabbed forward with their halberds leveled.
"One, two, stab" the soldiers shouted.
He took two steps forward and suddenly lunged forward.
In front of a square formation, ten halberds suddenly stabbed at them in unison.
The militiamen formed a tight formation, shoulder to shoulder. They rushed over.
The Han military flag was relatively loose, with three people facing each other and ten halberds. It was also their first time to fight against Yang Fan's army, and they suddenly became panicked.
Three people could not stop the assassination of ten halberds. The soldiers holding shields in front were stabbed down by the halberds thrust from different directions.
The shield blocked one or two halberds, but it could not block three or four halberds.
As soon as the battle began, a large area in front of the Han army flag was knocked down.
The combat range of long weapons is longer than that of short weapons, and they are still in a tight formation shoulder to shoulder, with no room for maneuvering.
The formation of the militiamen was so airtight that they didn't even look at the various tricks on the other side, just one or two stabs, one or two stabs.
The militiamen practiced assassination for an hour at a time, until they could no longer lift their arms. They stabbed hard and fast. The officers said that in the world of martial arts, the only thing that can't be broken is fast.
Steady! Accurate! Cruel! is the way to go.
The rake behind the Han military flag quickly stretched out to block the halberd.
The halberd has a curved hook and an ax head. Although they are both very flat, they have a certain width horizontally and can be caught by a rake.
However, after the halberd got stuck on the rake, it was pulled back directly and broke away from the contact. Then it hooked through the back of the neck of the shield soldier in front and directly pulled the head off.
After a while, after several rounds of fighting, all the short-armed soldiers in the front row were killed.
When Yang Fan saw this, he already understood in his heart.
This formation of the Jiannu heavy infantry can make the Ming soldiers fall into disgrace. This is because the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are neglected in training and do not have a strict military formation.
When fighting, they rush forward in a swarm. When the formation of Jiannu is used to deal with the scattered enemy troops, the combination of long and short weapons works very well.
However, when encountering a large formation like Yang Fan, with an array of unified long-weapons halberds, a tight formation will suffer big losses.
Seventeen years ago, during the Battle of Hunhe, the Shizhu chieftains and white pole soldiers formed a tight formation with spears and stabbed two to three thousand people from the Eight Banners to death.
Li Yongfang watched as all the soldiers with short weapons in front were killed. Their cloth armors could not block the thrusts of the halberds, and they all fell down.
He hurriedly ordered the soldiers with weapons to go forward and stab the enemy.
In addition to rakes and three-pronged forks, there are also many spears and lances on his side.
Following Li Yongfang's order, soldiers with long weapons and banners from the Han Army crowded into the front rows and fought fiercely with the militiamen with their long weapons.
For a time, all kinds of long-pole weapons kept blocking, pushing away, and stabbing each other up and down.
Zhou Yuji was riding on a horse, and when he saw that the front line was already in a stalemate, he picked up a spoon and started blowing.
As the whistle sounded, the soldiers in the second row of militiamen took action. They put their halberd poles on the shoulders of the soldiers in the first row and joined the battle.
This is the content of the infantry drill code promulgated by Yang Fan.
During the battle, the first row stabbed directly forward. The second row placed their halberds on the shoulders of the first row, and then stabbed the enemy one position to the right on the other side of the enemy's line.
Because people are right-handed, their eyes, and brains are mostly used on the right side, and they are mostly used to looking from right to left. Moreover, the right arm joints of people move from the right side to the left side. From left to right
The range is low, and it is inconvenient, and the joints will soon reach the limiting position.
Therefore, it is written from the left to stab the enemy on the right side of the opposite side. In the fierce fight, he will not pay attention at all. Even if he notices, he will not be able to respond flexibly. This is because the function of the left arm when moving the arm from right to left
.
This directly resulted in large holes in the enemy's neck and chest, and under the right side of the ribs.
The halberd pierced the cloth mask directly, knocking these people down.
The cloth armor has no helmet mask and no front neck protector. The helmet only has armor coverings on the back and left and right sides. The face and throat are exposed.
Moreover, the armor has poor defense against spears and can basically pierce them.
The more Li Yongfang looked, the more anxious he became. Rows of heavy armored infantrymen in front were stabbed down. Less than a quarter of an hour after the battle started, several layers of dead bodies were already thrown down in front.
On my side, the attack effect is very poor.
The militiamen had no exposed skin in their plate armor, and the cold weapons of the Han military flag could not penetrate it at all. The arc of the plate armor was very smooth and stress-free, and the spear tip could easily slide to the side.
The brittleness of aluminum alloys is due to the relatively large impact force, such as firearms. The force caused by a human arm swinging a weapon is still not enough.
"Quick, let the musketeers come to the front. Everyone get up."
Li Yongfang shouted anxiously that if the fighting continued like this, all three thousand of his heavy infantry would be killed.
