Chapter three hundred and seventy-fourth flower bomb is so terrifying
The grenades of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty have been in service for several months and have been used in several large-scale battles.
Therefore, some Ming troops who had fought against the New Army of the Tang Dynasty also knew about hand grenades and called them "explosive bombs", and were deeply impressed by the explosive bombs of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.
However, this impression is only limited to the Ming army that has fought against the New Army of the Tang Dynasty and endured grenade bombings. It does not mean that every Ming army knows about the grenades of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty and is deeply impressed by them.
And a very critical point is that almost all the Ming army that encountered the grenadiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty had been annihilated.
The New Army of the Tang Dynasty used grenadiers on a large scale twice, in the two battles of Lanjiang. It was Song Zhiwen's troops who fought with them. However, this Ming army had already been defeated, and there were not even many remnants left.
Most of them were killed, wounded or taken prisoner.
Now, Qiu Yu and other Ming troops who came south from northern Guizhou were fighting against the New Army of the Tang Dynasty for the first time. Although they had heard about the sharp weapons of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, and also heard the term "exploding bullets" from a few words.
But to be honest, without personal experience, it is impossible to truly feel the feeling of having a piece of grenade thrown at your head.
Dozens or hundreds of grenades were thrown into the dense crowd, and then exploded almost at the same time. The noise was far beyond people's imagination.
One or two grenades were still among the crowd, killing and wounding more than ten or twenty people. Although it is quite scary, for an army, especially one with hundreds or even thousands of people
In fact, it's nothing.
Its deterrence is not even as good as a salvo of hundreds of muskets!
When the musketeers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty fired volleys at medium and close ranges, the enemies on the opposite side often fell down in rows. After a salvo was fired, the front rows of the enemy troops on the opposite side often fell down in unison.
Or it's artillery fire. If a solid ball shell fired by an 800-pound artillery accurately hits the enemy's infantry square, regardless of whether the opponent is an elite wearing thick armor or an unarmored cannon fodder, the shot will pass.
If you can plow out a tunnel of flesh and blood, flesh and blood will fly everywhere you go, and the soldiers inside will die if you touch it, and you will even have a chance to be disabled.
The shotguns are equally lethal. Even the bowl-mouthed cannons of the Ming Army, if fired at a distance of twenty or thirty steps, will cause a large area of the enemy on the opposite side to fall when the cannon is sprayed out.
Therefore, even the wars of the 16th century were actually very cruel, with many weapons of great destructive power.
In comparison, simple grenades are actually very limited in their power. A single grenade hitting the sky will kill and injure more than ten people.
But the key point is that these days, the grenades of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty are not thrown one or two at a time, but at least dozens, as many as hundreds or even hundreds of grenades are thrown out at once.
A grenadier carries four grenades in a battle. A grenadier team with hundreds of soldiers can throw out hundreds of grenades in one round, and in just one minute, they can
Throw out all the grenades you have.
This is equivalent to a grenadier team that can throw at least 400 grenades in just one minute.
What would it look like if four hundred grenades exploded at once?
The soldiers of Song Zhiwen's unit who have been annihilated can tell you what the scene is like: hell on earth!
When grenades explode intensively, most of the soldiers inside will be killed and injured immediately. The lucky ones who survive will also be stunned by the sound. The acrid smoke rising after the explosion will make them
You can't see clearly the people and things around you.
The only thing that can be seen is a comrade who was fine a few seconds ago but is now a corpse, or a comrade with missing arms and legs, covered in blood, and screaming in agony.
That scene is enough for a person to never forget for the rest of his life!
Troops that withstand intensive grenade explosions will suffer heavy casualties during the explosion. Hundreds or even thousands of people may be killed, depending on how many grenades are thrown and how dense the enemy's formation is.
But causing heavy casualties to the enemy is only one of the effects of grenades. For an army of tens of thousands of people, the casualties of a few hundred people are uncomfortable, but nothing.
What really brings down the enemy's army is that the casualties caused by the explosion of grenades will severely damage the enemy's morale.
Although soldiers in the army are less afraid of death and injury than ordinary people under orders, they are still human. Most of them are afraid of death. This is the same whether they are elites or cannon fodder.
In just one minute, hundreds or even thousands of people were killed or injured, and fighting for several days to kill or injure the same number of troops are two completely different concepts.
Song Zhiwen's army was attacked several times by the grenadiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, and almost every time it ended in complete collapse.
Now, the usual scene is happening to the Ming army commanded by Qianshi Qiu Yu, the commander of the Ming army.
When the Fifth Infantry Battalion of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty threw grenades, although they only had fifty grenades, they could only throw so many grenades, but these fifty grenades were thrown at the hundreds of Ming troops outside the city wall.
among the crowd.
The effect is equally astonishing!
In just a short moment, dozens of holes appeared in the crowd of Ming soldiers under the city wall. Each hole represented the fall of at least several Ming soldiers!
Because in a dense crowd, people who fall will make holes appear one after another in the dense crowd.
Dozens of holes represent at least hundreds of casualties!
This number is almost an astronomical figure for a Ming army with at least more than 2,000 people, and of the more than 2,000 people, only five or six hundred people actually rushed to the city wall.
You must know that despite the lively fighting between the two sides, with firing and firing, the actual number of casualties of the Ming army was only a few dozen.
Even if the two sides were in close combat, the Ming army's wall-climbing troops fought hand-to-hand with the heavy armored infantry of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty on the top of the city. Under the close hand-to-hand fighting, the casualties on both sides increased rapidly, so that the small city head was full of people lying on the ground.
The dead and wounded on both sides were killed so that those who came after them could not find a place to stay.
However, even so, the number of casualties on both sides will not be too large!
Why?
Because the city wall where the two sides were fighting was only a small section, not even ten meters wide, and the soldiers fighting in close combat on both sides were all heavily armored units. To be honest, they had to rely on their waist knives to kill the enemy's heavy armored infantry. It was really hard.
Not an easy task.
They even cut each other dozens of times, but nothing happened to each other, leaving only a few knife marks on the armor.
So despite the fierce fighting between the two sides before, in the first few moments, the casualties on both sides were very limited!
But now, it is different!
In just a short moment, the Ming army suffered hundreds of casualties, and the huge momentum caused by the explosion of the grenade greatly affected the morale of the army.
When these circumstances are combined, it is certain that morale will completely collapse.
There is no army that can survive such a violent explosion and suffer heavy casualties without collapsing, not even the modern armies of later generations.
Although the armies of later generations will need to withstand more powerful artillery attacks, they will never be stupid enough to crowd in and get bombed.
This kind of crowding and bombing can only occur in the era of transition from cold weapons to hot weapons!
The attacking Ming army collapsed without any surprise. They came like a tide, and then receded like a tide in just a few minutes.
It's just that when they came, there were five to six hundred people, but in the end, less than half of them were able to retreat!
Some of them were killed or injured in previous battles, and were killed by grenades and injured hundreds of people. The last part was shot by the musketeers and archers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty when they turned to run away, and some of them did not escape.
Ming soldiers of opportunity,
Especially those Ming heavy armored infantry who climbed up the city wall!
They are in a close fight with the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. How can they turn around and run away so easily? If they are even slightly distracted, they will be stabbed by the soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty on the opposite side!
So at the end of the battle, the dozens of Ming soldiers who climbed up the city wall had already killed or injured more than ten people in the previous battle. Only less than ten of the more than forty people who followed succeeded in escaping, and the rest could only
After fighting hard, he was finally killed by more and more soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, or surrendered voluntarily.
The Ming army retreated, but Qiu Yu's expression at the rear was still stunned!
He could hardly believe his eyes. What was going on with that dense explosion? What was going on with the massive casualties?
Originally, he thought that the cannons and artillery of the puppet Tang rebels were powerful enough, but he did not expect that the puppet Tang rebels would have such explosive and densely explosive firearms.
At this time, a Ming army general next to Qiu Yu also recovered from his surprise, but he still couldn't believe what he saw: "This, the explosive bomb, could this be the explosive bomb of the puppet Tang thief army?"
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"Bombs!" When Qiu Yu said this, he almost gritted his teeth. Now he finally remembered that he had received a piece of information about the puppet Tang thief army from his boss some time ago.
It is said that this intelligence was defeated several times on the Lanjiang River. Although it was recorded orally by Song Zhiwen, the bastard who led the puppet Tang rebel army to become powerful. The intelligence contains a lot of information about the puppet Tang rebel army, from the official system to the main rebel leaders.
, and then go to the organization number, strength, types of arms, weapons, etc. of the thief army.
This piece of information can be considered the most detailed information currently available to the Ming Dynasty.
Qiu Yu had also seen this information and read it carefully, but his focus was on who the general of the Puppet Tang Thief Army was, what his personality was like, and how he prepared his weapons.
From this, he learned that the firearms of the puppet Tang rebels were very sharp, and he also learned about such things as explosive bullets.
But even so, he didn't expect that the firearms of the Pseudo-Tang rebel army were so sharp, especially the explosive bullets, which were so terrifying!