"What a Xiang Tianxing. He actually built so many fortress cannons. He underestimated the enemy..."
Dusting himself off, Nan Yanxi hurriedly ordered: "Commander of Artillery, order the forward artillery to aim at a certain point and suppress the enemy's fortress artillery first!"
"They are all old-fashioned front-loaded cannons, and the projectiles are huge. Their rate of fire will definitely not be very fast. Let me suppress them!"
"Send someone to the main army to call in two heavy artillery teams and blow up these fortress cannons for me!"
"Yes!" Several messengers and artillery commanders agreed upon hearing this, turned around and ran out.
The two sides immediately began an artillery battle. The Ming army's artillery was more advanced, powerful, fast, and accurate.
However, those following the vanguard were medium-sized guns and light guns with small calibers, and there were not many of them.
As for Jingzhou City, although it has some old-fashioned cannons and is fixed on the city wall, it can only defend but not attack.
But because of their large numbers, the density of firepower they unleashed was even stronger than that of the Ming army attacking the city.
Precisely because these cannons were fortress cannons fixed on the city walls, Xiang Jun made them very large and heavy, with great range and power.
The only drawback may be that the reloading speed is a little slower.
Nan Yanxi ordered the artillery of his headquarters to make full use of the shortcomings of the enemy's large-caliber fortress guns and conduct concentrated firepower to suppress the enemy's filling gaps.
Eliminate as many enemy artillery and fortress gun emplacements as possible to cover our infantry charge, while also buying time for the heavy artillery team coming from behind.
At the moment when the first wave of artillery shells from the Ming army hit, the infantry also launched an attack.
Holding a sharp new rifle in hand and using corresponding tactics, he launched a fierce attack on the enemy city.
In order to deal with the enemy's direct fire attack during siege, such as fire blunderbuss, bows, arrows, crossbows, etc.
The Ming army invented a new type of weapon and named it the chariot.
Build a four-wheeled vehicle that is about the same size as a horse-drawn carriage. The front end of the vehicle is a special frame.
The shelves are covered with specially made shields, which are made of heavy wooden boards with a finger-thick iron plate, and a thinner iron plate behind the wooden boards.
Blocking in front of the four-wheeled vehicle, its area is two feet wide and one foot high.
Since it is made up of individual special shields connected together, it can be increased and decreased accordingly according to the battlefield terrain.
If the terrain is wide, add more shields to increase the blocking area. If the terrain is relatively narrow, reduce the number of shields accordingly to allow for flexible passage.
Nine soldiers were hidden behind it to operate it, and six soldiers pushed it forward to provide power.
A captain sits in the center, identifying the direction through the narrow observation slit, and holding the direction stick in his hand to adjust the direction in time according to the terrain ahead.
There were two soldiers fighting on either side of the captain, operating two tank guns protruding from specially reserved gaps.
This gun is specially made, between a cannon and a gun. It has a long barrel and a large caliber. It is a direct-aim shooting weapon.
Compared with a gun, it has large recoil and heavy weight, and cannot be operated by a single person. It can only be set up on a tank to offset the huge recoil and weight.
Fires a type of ammunition between large bullets and small artillery shells. The ammunition can explode when fired, but it is a direct shot.
Because it weighs less than a cannon and its caliber is not as large as a cannon, its recoil is not as terrible as a cannon.
It is fixed on the chariot and can be operated by a soldier. Because it is equipped with three magazines, its loading speed is faster than that of a cannon, but its power is greater than that of a gun.
The ammunition fired is almost as thick as a normal sword handle, and its power is not too big or too small. It is very suitable for covering infantry offensive operations and removing some stubborn firepower points.
This type of tank is in front and can be followed by twenty or thirty army soldiers.
They hide behind the chariots and occasionally appear to shoot at the enemy. They can safely avoid enemy attacks and rush directly to the enemy's city.
This weapon, which can cover infantry attacks and can also carry two small tank cannons, is very effective in siege warfare and was quickly used by the army.
Nan Yanxi ordered the large-scale construction of this chariot. This time, the infantry troops attacking Jingzhou City had one such chariot for almost every dozens of people.
Facing the intensive firepower of the Xiang Army on the city, the tank provided very timely cover and direct fire cover for the siege troops.
It effectively reduced the number of casualties among the siege soldiers and caused great trouble for the Xiang army defending the city.
On the city wall, even though they had made adequate preparations, they never expected that the Ming army would come up with such a strange thing.
The old-fashioned rifle in Xiang Jun's hands has just been developed to the stage of fixed ammunition, and it still uses ordinary black powder.
Because the black powder is not powerful enough, the muzzle velocity of the bullet is not high and the power is not great.
In order to increase the power, the caliber can only be enlarged. In order to save costs, short round-head bullets made of lead, like a nest, are used, as thick as a thumb.
This kind of ammunition naturally has advantages over the ball pellets of old-fashioned muskets, and the fixed ammunition also increases the rate of fire of the firearm.
However, the large-caliber lead bullets driven by black powder did not penetrate well and could hardly pose a threat to the Ming army's tanks.
Xiang Jun also had small and medium-caliber artillery. Although these small- and medium-caliber artillery implemented rear-loading technology, black powder limited their power and their accuracy was not very good.
Fortunately, its power could penetrate the Ming army's tanks, so that Xiang Jun would not be helpless in the face of the Ming army's new weapon.
The two sides were still engaged in fierce exchanges of firepower, artillery against artillery, and gun against gun.
The Ming army had superior weapons, and the Xiang army had the advantage of the terrain. The two sides refused to give in to each other, and the war fell into a stalemate for a time.
Nan Yanxi watched the battle below the city with a telescope from the hidden frontline headquarters. Seeing that his own infantry attack was blocked, he suddenly felt distressed.
Soldiers like myself are very expensive. Whether it is training or equipment, they are not comparable to those of Xiang Jun.
It's really not worth it to have them all fall under the walls of Jingzhou City like this.
While feeling distressed, Li Shuwan's voice suddenly came from behind: "Husband...I'm here..."
"Huh?" Nan Yanxi changed her head when she heard the sound, and immediately said worriedly: "You girl, this is the front line, how dangerous it is, why are you here?"
"Danger, aren't you here too..." Li Shuwan pouted and pointed behind her: "Hehe... I brought you the heavy artillery team."
"How about you give me some help in times of need?"
Upon hearing this, Nan Yanxi's eyes suddenly shone with light, she took two steps forward excitedly, held Li Shuwan in her arms and kissed her twice.
"Hahaha... It's so timely, but it's really a disaster!"
Then he turned to the messenger and ordered: "Go and send the order, let the siege soldiers retreat, let the forward artillery bombard them violently, and cover the soldiers' retreat."