In the early morning, when everything was still shrouded in morning mist, the roar had already resounded throughout the earth, awakening all living creatures in the grasslands and on both sides of the Yellow River.
The Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty began their first official attack on the Tatar soldiers and horses since their expedition.
One hundred and twenty Tiger Howling Cannons roared in a wide fan-shaped cross-section. The shells roared out one after another, cut through the thin morning mist, and fell into various parts of Dalat City. A calm city filled the air.
Suddenly a cloud of smoke and flames burst out. The shock of this scene left both the enemy and our troops speechless. Most people had never experienced such a scene. This kind of scene with roaring artillery fire was something they had never seen in their lives.
Battle scene.
The gunners constantly adjusted their shooting according to the orders. Starting from the top of the southern city wall of Dalat, they carried out a covering and indiscriminate bombardment against the defense system and defense facilities on the city wall.
The goal of this is obvious, which is to destroy the Tatar defense system and make them lose the means to defend the city from the front.
With the roar of intensive artillery fire, the artillery, ballistae, arrow towers, and fortifications arranged on the city wall exploded and were destroyed in the fireworks. Even though the Tiger Howling Cannon's strike was not so precise, it could not withstand this carpet-like attack of multiple artillery.
The facilities on the city wall of Dalat South City were basically destroyed in half an hour.
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After that, the fire from the Tiger Howling Cannon began to extend, extending from the vicinity of the city wall into the city. A round of indiscriminate bombardment was carried out in the lowest-lying streets and house areas, blasting the low-level city area several miles north of the south city wall.
All over.
After nearly an hour of bombing, the Ming Dynasty's Northern Expeditionary Army poured about more than 7,000 rounds of various solid ammunition and explosive shells into Dalat City. The low-lying areas of Dalat City were riddled with holes, and even the houses on the streets were riddled with holes.
Not all was destroyed, but it was basically reduced to ruins.
After the Tiger Roaring Cannon stopped bombarding, the ten Dragon Roaring Cannons began to roar.
These ten Longyin cannons are heavy cannons with extended barrels, modified from the original Longyin Mountain cannon. They combine the characteristics of the previous heavy bow cannon and the Longyin Mountain cannon.
In order to have a longer range and better accuracy, the modified Longyin Cannon abandoned the design of the twin cannons of the Folan cannon. It did not pursue rapid shooting, but only pursued long range and accuracy. The integral barrel and breech
In the casting process, three reinforcing hoops were added to the barrel to ensure the strength of the barrel. In addition, the cannonballs were completely replaced with conical cannonballs instead of round cannonballs.
Although it takes a stick of incense for each artillery shell to go from aiming to firing, and then to resetting and aiming. However, the accuracy and range of each artillery shell have reached the limit of capabilities and the highest level that the Wild Dog Ridge Arsenal can achieve.
Over the years, the Yegouling Arsenal has cultivated a large number of skilled craftsmen in smelting, forging and assembly processes. After Zhang Yanling tried the mountain cannon and Longyin cannon overseas, he came up with the idea of combining mountain cannons with heavy artillery. This idea also came quickly
was realized. This is due to breakthroughs in manufacturing processes and materials, as well as breakthroughs in gunpowder purification techniques in gunpowder workshops. These are the results of craftsmen who have accumulated hard work and continued practice and study in the Wild Dog Ridge Arsenal for many years.
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These ten Longyin heavy artillery were forged in the few months after Zhang Yanling returned to China. During this expedition, naturally they were all disassembled and loaded into vehicles to fight together with the army.
This is already the second generation of the Dragon Roar Cannon. The ultimate range has been increased from five miles to six miles in the first generation. Don’t underestimate the range of this one mile. It is already a big leap in firearm manufacturing these days. The key is,
The accuracy of artillery has been greatly improved. Cannonball shape
The changes make the flight more stable and the ballistic trajectory more accurate. At the extreme range, the error of the artillery shell is within a radius of fifty steps. This seems to be a large error range, but for the long-distance ballistic artillery of this era, it is already extremely large.
Amazing accuracy.
The ten Longyin heavy artillery began to fire slowly and continuously. Each heavy artillery was equipped with fifteen operators. The command hand holding a telescope observed the target, estimated the distance, marked the position, and gave the data of the shooting elements.
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The soldiers began to fully control the angles of the muzzle up, down, left, and right, and locked the muzzle after it was in place. Two loaders loaded the conical shells with an increased charge amount into the breech, and then pushed the gunpowder cake into the breech.
In the barrel, lock the barrel.
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The igniter lit the match rope dragged outside, and the match rope ignited the gunpowder. Then there was an earth-shattering thunderous sound that resounded in all directions, really like the roar of a dragon.
The huge recoil of the launch will cause smoke and dust to spread around the heavy cannon, and the gun body will be displaced due to violent vibrations. The operators need to reconnect and adjust the heavy cannon's chassis and the logs below that are used to fix and increase the chassis area.
Location. The entire launch process is cumbersome and slow.
However, the power and effect of the artillery bombardment at the target point make all this tediousness extremely worthwhile.
The inner city of Dalat, which is like a castle, uses cliffs as natural city defenses and fortifications on the north side. A spiral staircase is dug out, winding between the black rocks. Although the cliff is only more than ten feet high, there are three steps from top to bottom.
layer of fortifications.
At first glance, no enemy can be seen on the rolling cliffs. However, thousands of defensive troops can be hidden there. The more than 20 ravines between the cliffs are where the Tatars hide their troops. Between the cliffs
Connected by a rope bridge, it facilitates transportation and combat transition support.
This was originally the northernmost and highest point of Dalat City, five miles away from the battlefield. It was a location where absolutely no firearms could hit outside the city wall. But now, they are all within the bombardment range of the Dragon Roar Heavy Artillery.
within.
The heavy artillery shells landed on the cliffs here and there, causing rubble to fly, shrapnel to fly across, and fireworks to explode. Of course, because of the shelter of the cliffs and terrain, the casualties caused to the Tatar soldiers on the cliffs were not serious. However, the huge psychology
There is no doubt about the pressure and deterrence. Once a shell exploded on the cliff, all the Tatar soldiers could only hold their heads behind the stone fortifications and in the stone bunker to avoid being hit by falling rocks and shrapnel.
The key point is that it was not one cannon, but ten heavy cannons. They fired one shot in the east and one in the west, endlessly, as if there was no time to stop.
Wherever roads connect, where there are suspected bunker fortifications, where there are houses on cliffs, and where Tatar soldiers appear, they will all be bombarded by heavy artillery.
When the landing point is accurate, it can smash the target fortification or bunker with one shot and kill some Tatar soldiers and horses. When it is not accurate, it can just smash some rocks and ignite some vegetation on the cliff. But obviously the Ming army does not care.
Not too precise, they seemed to be enjoying the feeling of bombarding the cliff one after another. Looking at the puffs of smoke and gravel exploding between the rocks on the cliff, they seemed to have achieved their goal.
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The heavy artillery bombardment continued until after noon, and actually only fired more than 300 artillery shells. However, the cliffs on the north side of Dalat City were already shrouded in smoke from artillery explosions and smoke from burning vegetation. From a distance,
, rather like an overseas fairy mountain among the clouds and mist.
It had been quiet for an hour at noon. In the afternoon, the heavy artillery roared again. The shells exploded up and down the cliff again, and the torture of the Tatar soldiers and horses began again.
In the evening, the roar finally ended and everything became quiet. Soldiers on both sides suddenly discovered that silence is such a beautiful thing, because for the whole day, there were huge roars and explosions in their heads and ears. It was simply infuriating.
Almost going crazy.
It was finally quiet at this moment. The sun was setting in the west and the grasslands were rolling. I just felt how beautiful everything was. Even the sound of the flowing water of the Yellow River became extremely gentle, like a whisper.
After dark, after it was confirmed that the Ming army's shelling would no longer continue, the Tatar soldiers finally breathed a sigh of relief. But for Batu Monk and a group of Tatar generals, they were in a bad mood.
The Ming army's continuous artillery knockdown on this day did not cause too many casualties, only more than 400 people were killed or injured. However, all the defense facilities on the city wall, including the artillery arrow towers, had been blown up by the opponent. This means
, it was already effortless for the Ming army to invade the city. There was no defensive facility that could stop them.
Of course, this is not a worry. If they really launch an attack, they will give themselves a chance to counterattack. The fact is that the other side shows no signs of attack at all and just continues to bombard the top and bottom of the cliff with long-range artillery fire. This causes
caused great harm and distress.
First of all, a lot of stairs, roads and fortifications on the cliff were destroyed. The bombardment of heavy artillery caused the collapse of several cliffs, causing road blockage.
Secondly, the cableway connecting multiple cliffs was burned by the fire, making it impossible to pass between the cliffs. This is actually a big trouble. The cliffs are jagged, and the middle is a huge gap formed by the flooding of the Yellow River and the injection of rainwater from the grasslands into the Yellow River.
Deep ravines and cliffs can be said to be relatively independent, unless they are accessed from the ground. But that is very time-consuming.
The ropeway between the cliffs was built to facilitate mutual transportation, but now it was completely destroyed by artillery fire.
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What made Batu Meng even more annoyed was that under the bombardment of the opponent's artillery fire, a huge boulder rolled down from the cliff in the afternoon and smashed into the No. 13 Tibetan Soldiers Gully. Dozens of Tatars were killed on the spot.
The cavalry caused quite a panic. As a result, riots and trampling broke out in the 13th Tibetan Soldier Ditch. In the end, more than 200 people were trampled to death by the frightened horses and soldiers.
It doesn't matter that hundreds of people died, but it was the result of the collapse of boulders caused by the opponent's heavy artillery bombardment. This means that the same thing will happen again. If the Ming army continues to bombard in this way,
The same thing might happen again. The opponent's artillery fire threatened a large number of soldiers and horses in the trenches, which was something that was never expected. At this moment, these soldiers and horses could only hide in those wide trenches and had nowhere to go.
Batu Munch couldn't think of any way to evade it, except to launch an attack now and fight the Ming army desperately. But that was obviously inappropriate.
After much thought, he could only hope that there would not be a large-scale cliff collapse in the next few days, resulting in large-scale casualties of soldiers and horses, or that the Ming army would run out of artillery ammunition.
No matter what, he had to wait until the two supporting cavalry arrived at the front and back of the Ming army before launching an attack. Otherwise, with the Ming army's terrifying frontal combat capabilities, he would never be able to fall behind.
For this reason, Batu Munch looked up to the sky and prayed devoutly to the Immortal Heaven they believed in. He hoped that the Immortal Heaven would open his eyes and help him solve the problem at hand.
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