Chapter 170: City Gate Offensive and Defensive Battle (Part 2)
Wu Shigong was indifferent to Ma Xianglin's words. Wu Shigong didn't want to give away even dozens of firecrackers, not to mention hundreds. But at this time, Wu Shigong had a question: Although his blacksmith Yang Goudan was indeed better at craftsmanship
, but among other craftsmen’s households, there may not be blacksmiths with skills similar to Yang Goudan’s.
It's not like Qin Liangyu and Ma Xianglin have never seen fire guns before. But why do the fire guns made by Yang Goudan make them feel so amazing? What Wu Shigong doesn't know is that the reason is actually very simple.
Wu Shigong pays enough wages, pays well, and strictly controls quality.
The production of firearms in the Ming Dynasty could not even meet such basic requirements. This shows how poorly the military production of the Ming Dynasty was developed. To be honest, in Houjin, although the craftsmen did not get rid of their status as slaves,
However, the treatment they received was much better than that in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, in terms of the production of weapons, the Later Jin Dynasty actually surpassed the Ming Dynasty in the future.
Of course, there are still relatively few qualified craftsmen in Houjin now, but as the number of craftsmen they enter and plunder increases, Houjin's weapon manufacturing level will soon catch up.
Let’s not go off topic like this. At the beginning, the Hou Jin Army did not block the gate at all, thinking that they would let the cavalry rush out if they had the chance. However, they saw the cart heading towards the city gate. Later, the white-pole soldiers attacked
They immediately understood that the Ming army wanted to break the city gate and invade Luanzhou City from the city gate.
Therefore, the Hou Jin Army immediately arranged for soldiers to start blocking the city gate with sand and stones. Although it took half an hour to cut the iron chains, because the city gate was too big, it only took so long to block the city gate.
Small half of the city gate.
So when the Franco machine gun on the far side fired the shell, as expected, the shell penetrated the city gate. After observing the movement of the shell flying into the city gate, the soldiers on the cart in front immediately turned around.
, waving to the back excitedly.
After Wu Shigong saw that gesture, he happily said to Ma Xianglin: "There is a gate! The city gate is not blocked."
Of course Liang Hui, who commanded the artillery team, also saw this gesture, and he immediately ordered the remaining artillery to fire. After these three shells, especially the shells from the two three-pound cannons, penetrated the city gate, in addition to the shells, there were also wood chips in the city gate.
It also splashed inwards, acting as shotguns. It caused a large number of casualties to the Hou Jin army behind the city gate who was blocking the city gate.
The Hou Jin troops blocking the city gate were all Mongolian soldiers and surrendered Ming troops. Those soldiers who were lucky enough not to be killed by the cannonballs immediately fled from this hellish gate in the city gate cave, screaming.
Seeing the embarrassment of his soldiers, Namutai was so angry that he turned blue. He ordered loudly: "Let them block the city gate quickly. You are all out of your mind. Don't you know how to use military law?"
Turge and Tanggudai immediately came forward with their own soldiers. When they were halfway through, another round of artillery shells hit the city gate. The soldiers who escaped were even more confused.
The soldiers stepped forward and punched and kicked the fleeing soldiers, finally controlling the chaotic situation. The soldiers took sand and stones and tried to rush into the city gate to block the city gate, and then another round of cannonballs flew in.
There was another flurry of excitement. When they saw several soldiers throwing down the sand and stones on their shoulders and trying to escape, the soldiers supervising the battle waved their knives and chopped them down. Several heads rolled to the ground one after another.
The soldiers were frightened. Anyway, advancing or retreating would lead to death. These soldiers also tried their best. They rushed into the city gate with sand and stones...
After the artillery fired five rounds, the shooting of the two three-pound artillery stopped. On the one hand, it was because, after five rounds of firing, the barrels were already too hot, so they needed to cool down. On the other hand, because,
There is a problem with the artillery's driving design.
At that time, the general artillery of the Ming Dynasty was very troublesome to transport and prepare for firing. The artillery had to be loaded onto a cart before it could be transported. When the artillery was ready to be fired, the artillery had to be unloaded from the cart.
In addition, a large hole must be dug in the ground and an iron stake placed under the artillery must be buried and fixed. Otherwise, after the artillery is fired, the recoil may easily cause the artillery to roll over.
Of course, you can also use the Crouching Tiger Cannon and place a bracket like a modern machine gun in front. However, if you do this, the power of the artillery cannot be too great. Therefore, the Crouching Tiger Cannon is not very powerful.
In order to solve this problem at that time, Wu Shigong thought of the modern European artillery vehicles that he had seen in modern film and television works. However, Wu Shigong was not a firearms expert after all, and he was not even a weapons enthusiast. Therefore,
He could only put forward his suggestion roughly.
The craftsmen under Wu Shigong built an artillery carriage according to Wu Shigong's suggestion. Although this carriage solved the problem of artillery transportation, there was a big difference between this carriage and the mature artillery carriages used in modern Europe.
defect.
Those European artillery drivers have a process of retreating after the artillery is fired, which effectively solves the problem of artillery recoil. However, Wu Shigong's driver cannot retreat much, so the recoil of the artillery is
A large part of it was borne by artillery vehicles.
In previous training, Wu Shigong's artillery once happened. After firing eight or nine rounds of artillery shells, the artillery driver could not bear the recoil and caused the situation to fall apart. Of course, this is also the special recoil of the three-pound artillery.
Because of their size, those one-pound guns don't have this problem because of their small recoil.
In order to solve this problem at that time, Wu Shigong stipulated that after the artillery fires five rounds of shells, simply replace the vehicle with a new one.
Wu Shigong was not in a hurry to ask the craftsmen to improve the artillery carriage at that time, because he believed that his army was active near Guide Mansion and mainly carried out some defensive work in the city, so there was no chance of using the artillery carriage.
not much.
But Wu Shigong's decision at that time gave the current Hou Jinjun a breath of relief. So it can be said: success or failure depends on the details!
So now, although the two Franco cannons basically do not have the problem of overheating due to the use of mother-and-child muskets, they are still firing uninterruptedly. However, because the power of the two Franco cannons is too small, they have basically
It was difficult to stop the soldiers of the Hou Jin Army from blocking the city gate.
In addition, because the frame cannot be replaced when the barrel is hot, so more than a quarter of an hour has passed since the three-pound gun was replaced with a new carriage.
As expected, the gate of Luanzhou City was very strong. After so many shells were fired at it, apart from smashing a lot of holes, the gate remained motionless. Of course, I don’t know whether it was because of Wu Shigong’s decline or because of the Jin Army.
Fortunately, none of these cannonballs hit the latch of the city gate.
So when the three-pound artillery could be fired again, a thick layer of sand and gravel had been blocked behind the city gate. Although the sand and gravel still could not completely block the three-pound artillery shells, with the obstruction of the sand and stone,
The threat of artillery shells was much smaller to the soldiers of the Later Jin Army. Those soldiers of the Later Jin Army blocked the city gate faster.
When they saw that the city gate was riddled with holes and the battering ram transformed from a huge tree was ready, hundreds of soldiers with white poles wanted to push the battering ram to hit the city gate. But they were stopped by Wu Shigong and Ma Xianglin.
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At this time, the city gate was completely blocked. Even a three-pound cannonball could not penetrate the sand and stone blocking the city gate. There was no need for these white soldiers to do useless work anymore.
Wu Shigong and Ma Xianglin returned to Qin Liangyu with a gloomy face. The attack on the city gate this time was a complete failure. Although Qin Liangyu also felt a little regretful, she still comforted Wu Shigong and Ma Xianglin kindly and said: "In war, you can use tricks. That is true, but there are
Sometimes we have to resort to clumsy methods. Let’s go back to the camp today and then attack Luanzhou City tomorrow.”
When Ming Jin withdrew his troops, Wu Shigong looked back at the broken city gate and thought to himself: "The power of his artillery is still a little too small!"