On the east bank of the Lanjiang River, a Ming army man with a thousand households felt as if he had been beaten by a dog when he saw that all the leading troops on the other side of the river were being persuaded to move in. Even the chains for crossing the river were cut off.
Where did these pseudo-Tang rebels come from?
Didn't I just say that the reconnaissance cavalry of the Puppet Tang Thief Army had just arrived? Why did more than a thousand of the Puppet Tang Thief Army appear in just a short time?
At this time, he didn't have to guess at all, because the facts were already in front of him. Those puppet Tang rebels must have arrived at the Lanjiang Ferry early and were lying in wait waiting for him to send people there to die.
There were more than a hundred people, and they all collapsed before they could hold on for even a moment. They didn't even wait for reinforcements from the troops crossing the river.
Now how to do?
What else can he do? Just wait. Anyway, if he continues to cross the river, he will die. Naturally, he will not let his soldiers die indifferently. However, the more than 100 people who have been lost in the front have to find a good excuse to avoid dragging him down.
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I turned around and told the leader that it was the deputy Qianhu who led the team who underestimated the enemy and rushed in. Originally, he just sent a few people over to investigate, but the idiot didn't realize that the puppet Tang rebel army was ambushing aside, so he insisted on continuing to cross the river and advance rashly.
So much so that he was ambushed by the puppet Tang thief army, and he was unable to save him even though he tried his best to rescue him.
It's easy to shirk responsibility, but it's difficult to figure out how to fight next.
The opposite side of the Lanjiang Ferry has been seized by the puppet Tang rebels, and the chains have been cut off. If our own team members want to cross the river, they can only make rafts on the spot and forcibly cross the river.
And I don’t know how many people will die if we cross the river like this. Among other things, if thousands of the puppet Tang rebels stand in a row by the river, and then fire volleys of fire at our own side crossing the river, there will be heavy casualties.
However, maybe the two bowl-mouth blunderbuss that the main force later moved from Fucheng should be able to inflict heavy damage on the puppet Tang rebel army, thereby reversing the crisis. The bowl-mouth blunderbuss of our own army is a real big fire blunderbuss. If you hit it with one blunderbuss, it will be a disaster.
The sky collapsed and the earth shattered, and the momentum was so great that it could be called a huge change in the world. How could it be compared with the small blunderbuss of the puppet army of the Tang Dynasty.
It should be noted here that the Ming army in this period called firecrackers a general name, and all metal tube-type shooting firearms could be called this. Therefore, regardless of whether they were artillery or muskets, the Ming army in this period called them firecrackers.
Specifically, the Ming army called medium and large-caliber firearms bowl-mouth blunderbuss, zhankou blunderbuss, etc., while small-caliber firearms used by individual soldiers were called hand blunderbuss.
So don’t think that this Qianhu of the Ming Army is a fool when he says that the firecrackers of the Puppet Tang Dynasty Army are handguns. He thinks that the Puppet Tang Dynasty Army is equipped with pistols. But people know that the Puppet Tang Dynasty Army’s firecrackers are handguns.
It's not a short-barreled pistol.
This is just a difference in name!
However, this difference in titles does not exist in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. There is no such title as a gun in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. There are only titles such as muskets and artillery. Even the related arms are called musketeers and artillery. There are some obvious differences.
This naming habit was naturally brought about by the ancient sage Li Xuan. As a modern person, I can't play retro and have to turn the familiar musket into a blunderbuss.
As for whether other people will get used to it, 99% of the people in the Tang Dynasty were illiterate. Before they were old enough to care about habits, they would call him whatever Li Xuan called him.
At this time, Li Xuan didn't know that the main force of the Ming army also brought two bowl-mouth cannons. If he had known, he would probably have taken the cannons that were still in Huangzhushan and were still being tested and manufactured before coming.
He was also pulled out to compete with the Ming army.
However, take a serious look at whether the artillery of the Ming army is as powerful as recorded in the history books. A single shot can destroy the enemy camp for dozens of miles and kill countless people.
If that was the case, then he would go back and kill all the craftsmen in Huangzhushan who were studying cannon-making. He had been working on it for a year and a half. He had made several prototype cannons, and twice the first shot exploded.
, and after the effective range reaches 500 meters, it will be impossible to survive or die.
It's okay to have a longer range, but the accuracy is basically gone. Once fired, where will the shell land in the end, you can only rely on blindness!
Maybe you can fly to the outer sky!
In short, until now, the craftsmen in Huangzhushan have not been able to produce artillery with an effective range of more than 500 meters. As for increasing the elevation angle to pursue the maximum range, that thing has no practical significance, and Li Xuan has never liked these flashy data.
More importantly, the artillery that can shoot an effective range of 500 meters is too heavy. Due to the poor manufacturing technology, in order to avoid exploding the barrel, the barrels are very thick. In order to increase accuracy and facilitate aiming, the gun barrel is very thick.
Effective range, gun mount is heavier.
By doing this, an artillery piece weighing almost a thousand kilograms was actually produced. If this weight had been used during World War II, it would have been able to produce a 75mm artillery with an effective range of more than seven or eight kilometers.
Even if age and technical factors are not considered, such artillery is still too heavy for the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and it is not as good as the Folang machine imitated by the Ming army.
What Li Xuan wanted was not such a heavy artillery. As a battalion-level support artillery, it should weigh only a few hundred kilograms, preferably less than five hundred kilograms, and the larger the effective range, the better.
Because the current scope of activities of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty is in Zhengtai County or, if enlarged, Xingquan Prefecture. To take a step back, even if one day the New Army of the Tang Dynasty becomes powerful and takes over half of China, their scope of activities will still be
In the southern region with complex terrain and numerous mountains.
Therefore, for the battalion-level infantry support artillery envisioned by Li Xuan, weight is a big threshold. It is difficult to accept if it exceeds 500 kilograms.
As for artillery that is heavier and has a longer range, we can wait until the new army of the Tang Dynasty has tens of thousands of people that day.
Now, no need!
The artillery infantry of the Ming Army did not keep Li Xuan waiting for too long. In the evening, with the subsequent arrival of the main force of the Ming Army, Li Xuan finally saw the artillery brought by the Ming Army!
"Is this artillery?" Li Xuan looked at the big iron lump carried by the Ming army on the other side of the river. That thing was not very similar to the artillery he had influenced.
How should I put it, this thing is like a pipe, well, it is still a relatively thick and short kind of pipe. If someone else hadn’t reminded Li Xuan, Li Xuan might not have been able to spot and see this thing from such a distance.
It's the artillery.
When he first saw this artillery piece, Li Xuan's first feeling was that this artillery piece was too cheap. Calling it a cannon would simply insult the word 'god of war'.
The artillery piece I tried out in Huang Zhushan looks handsome!
But since the Ming army has brought out their artillery, wouldn't it look like a petty thing if I didn't bring out one?
Immediately he waved his hand and said: "Immediately send people back to Huangzhu Mountain to bring my big Italian cannon over!"