On May 15th, at the top of Huai'an City, Zheng Kaicheng looked at the Jiangbei Army surrounding the city and cursed him as a traitor.
As everyone expected, the Jiangbei Army took advantage of Li Zhi's attack on Henan and attacked Li Zhi from the south. The 160,000 Jiangbei Army came out in full force and met the South Route Army of the Huben Army defending the city in Huai'an.
Although Huai'an Prefecture is a prefecture in southern Zhili, Li Zhi set up courts and tax bureaus here, and stationed a large number of personnel. Because the courts and tax bureaus protect the powerless common people, many local people bravely stood up to defend themselves.
The legitimate interests of Li Zhi offended the local gentry. If Li Zhi abandoned Huai'an and allowed Huai'an to be occupied by Jiangbei's army, the local gentry would obviously jump out to counterattack the peasants.
So Li Zhi advanced the defensive position of the Southern Route Army to Huai'an Prefecture.
Compared to the intruders, Jiangbei's army has much more sophisticated weapons.
At the top of the city of Huai'an, artillery roared, and whistling shells were flying everywhere in the sky. One thousand heavy artillery pieces of Jiangbei Army were lined up five miles south of the city, shooting towards the city wall. Although the distance was a bit far, Jiangbei Army
The solid bullets still hit the city wall of Huai'an Fucheng heavily, making black holes in the blue bricks outside the city wall.
Occasionally, artillery shells even hit the horse path above the city wall, killing the Tiger Soldiers guarding the city wall.
Zheng Kaicheng had known for a long time that the Jiangbei Army had purchased a large number of artillery pieces from Hongyi. This time the South Route Army brought 800 heavy artillery pieces to defend the city. At this time, the heavy artillery was deployed behind the crenellated walls on the city wall and fired back at the Jiangbei Army's artillery positions.
The flames erupted from the muzzle of the cannon one after another, illuminating the city head extremely brightly.
Eight hundred artillery pieces were protected by stacked walls, and the Tiger Ben Army's gunners were obviously more sophisticated, suppressing the Jiangbei Army's artillery.
However, although he had the upper hand in the artillery battle, there were still casualties. Although Zheng Kaicheng asked the soldiers on the city wall to stand in a loose formation, Jiangbei Army's artillery shells still hit the soldiers from time to time.
An iron ball weighing more than ten kilograms is smashed down, which can result in the loss of limbs or limbs, or even loss of life.
Seeing the constant casualties among the soldiers defending the city of the Huben Army, Zheng Kaicheng was heartbroken and clenched his teeth in anger. In recent years, the Huben Army has rarely suffered casualties in its campaigns in all directions. Zheng Kaicheng did not want a large-scale war to repel the Jiangbei Army.
damage.
The gunners of the Jiangbei Army can be recruited after they die, but the elites of the Huben Army cannot be sacrificed at will.
Fortunately, the artillery of this era could not fire continuously. After ten rounds of artillery fire, the artillery on both sides of the war overheated and stopped firing.
Jiangbei Army sent 20,000 soldiers and began to attack the city.
The Jiangbei Army sent out heavy armored infantry. These infantry were wearing thick two-layer iron armor and slowly moved towards the foot of the city wall. The Jiangbei Army obviously did not know that Li Zhi had begun to equip steel-core bullets, and hoped to use the heavy armored infantry to obtain
Advantage on the battlefield.
The South Route Army was not polite. Three hundred meters away, the soldiers of the Huben Army at the top of the city fired at the heavy armored soldiers.
The use of steel-core lead bullets is no different from ordinary cone-shaped lead bullets, which is very convenient. Amidst the crackling gunfire, the Jiangbei Army's heavy armored soldiers were shot one after another and fell to the ground screaming.
The heavy armored soldiers wore five to sixty kilograms of armor and walked slowly, making them the best targets for riflemen.
The soldiers of the Jiangbei Army were obviously shocked when they saw the soldiers of the Huben Army shooting down the heavy armored soldiers 300 meters away.
The heavy armored soldiers walked very slowly, and they would probably be wiped out by the firepower of the city before they reached the 200-meter range. Where did the heavy armored soldiers on the front line dare to move forward? They were all so frightened that they fell to the ground.
Find obstacles to avoid.
The two-layer heavy armor that Jiangbei Army worked hard to build did not achieve any effect in actual combat. Instead, it became a burden that restricted the soldiers' hands and feet.
Zheng Kaicheng used his binoculars to look at the central army of the Jiangbei Army, and sure enough he saw a stir among the generals of the Jiangbei Army. The generals and guerrillas were a little panicked, and they gathered around a civilian official in the middle and started talking. Soon, the Jiangbei Army blew the whistle to withdraw.
The golden sound.
The heavy armored soldiers abandoned more than two thousand corpses and retreated.
There is no point in using heavy armor anymore. The armor that Jiangbei Army spent a lot of money to build was just a waste in the end.
A quarter of an hour later, 20,000 unarmored soldiers armed with rifles rushed out of the Jiangbei Army array. These soldiers seemed to be heavy armored soldiers who had taken off their armor. They rushed towards the foot of the city wall with new rifles, hoping to get within shooting range and Huben.
Military shooting.
Crackling gunfire sounded at the top of the city, and the five thousand riflemen on the south wall poured bullets at the unarmored riflemen who rushed up.
However, when faced with skirmishers, the accuracy of shooting at distances of three to four hundred meters is not high.
When shooting at dense enemies on the ground, a standard rifle with a scope can achieve a hit rate of 70%. That is because in this case, the target of the rifle is not a certain enemy soldier, but actually the entire enemy queue. The bullet only needs
If it doesn't shoot into the air and misses the enemy in the middle, it will also hit the enemies on the left and right or in the back row.
In European musket shooting, the armies of both sides often opened fire fiercely from just two hundred meters away, causing stray bullets to fly randomly.
But when shooting from the top down on the city wall, the hit rate will be slightly lower. Because when shooting from top to bottom on the city wall, the bullets are more likely to be shot into the ground, and the chance of killing the soldiers in the back row is relatively small.
What's more critical is that the Jiangbei Army was arrayed in a scattered soldier town at this time. The distance between soldiers was several meters. Once the bullet missed, the probability of hitting other soldiers next to it was very small.
If it is a stationary target, the scope is easy to use and can accurately target the enemy. But if it is a moving skirmisher, the scope will be difficult to aim at the target. The scope magnifies the scenery several times, and it is easy for the moving skirmisher.
A flash passed in the mirror. At this time, the soldiers on the city wall only had a hit rate of about 20% to 30%.
The skirmishers of the Jiangbei Army resisted the shooting of the riflemen at the top of the city. More than 2,000 people fell down and rushed within 200 meters of the city wall. Then these soldiers carried their rifles and began to confront the Huben troops on the top of the city.
Shoot.
Although the city wall was protected by crenellations, the crenellations on one wall were limited, and only five thousand shooters could stand. Facing the fire from 20,000 rifles below the city wall, the soldiers behind the crenellations clearly felt suppressed.
After the soldiers loaded their bullets behind the crenellated wall, they shot as quickly as possible as soon as they put their heads out of the crenel, without daring to expose their heads to the crenel for too long.
From time to time, soldiers from the Tiger and Ben Army who showed their heads were killed by bullets from the Jiangbei Army.
Under the threat of death, the soldiers of the Tiger Army fired more and more hastily, and the hit rate dropped to a very low level.
But no matter what, the soldiers of the Huben Army behind the wall still have an advantage. The casualties of the Jiangbei Army outside the city wall can be said to be five or six times that of the Huben Army. The two sides exchanged four or five rounds of fire, and the riflemen of the Jiangbei Army
He collapsed and began to run away in panic.
Thousands of corpses were left scattered on the battlefield. Jiangbei's army failed to attack the city wall, ending today's battle.
But for the 160,000-strong Jiangbei Army, such casualties did not seem too bad.
On the city wall, the screams of the wounded soldiers of the Huben Army could be heard one after another. The medical team nervously removed the warheads, disinfected and bandaged the injured soldiers. The bodies of some sacrificed soldiers were also carried down and prepared for burial.
Hong Chengchou stood next to Zheng Kaicheng and said: "Commander, why do I feel that the Jiangbei Army is fighting unhurriedly and seems to have some back-ups?"
Zheng Kaicheng nodded and said: "These gentry don't know what other evil plans they have." chaptererror;