These walls are just made of temporary trees. Although the bottom is fixed with sand and gravel, how can such temporary defenses built in just a few days be able to block such a solid ball shell weighing almost five kilograms? of bombardment.
The cannonball hit the wall of the village, directly knocking a big hole out of the wall. While sand, gravel and sawdust were flying everywhere, the cannonball still did not stop, but continued to roll forward, knocking several people away. A Ming soldier just behind the wall!
Several of the Ming soldiers who suffered the impact of the shells died on the spot, but one of them had his leg broken. The broken leg was almost completely twisted and out of shape. This was no longer as simple as a fracture. , but was completely shattered.
The soldier with the broken leg was also driven several meters away before falling to the ground. But before he fell to the ground, he already let out a shrill scream!
This scream seemed to be like an air defense siren in later generations. It sounded over the Ming army camp, sending a warning to other Ming army soldiers: The rebels are firing artillery, run away!
Sure enough, a few seconds later, there was another loud noise and another shelling from the position of the puppet Tang rebel army opposite!
And the loud noise continued for a few seconds. As the continuous rumbling loud noise sounded, white smoke rose from the Datang Army artillery position, and the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke instantly filled the entire artillery position.
As the shelling continued, one shell after another was projected into the Ming army's camp, and these shells all headed directly towards the Ming army's wall.
Part of the wall with bowl-mouth gun emplacements is a particularly important bombardment direction!
A section of the village wall on the east side, which was only ten meters wide, was heavily bombarded by three artillery pieces from the Second Artillery Battalion, because the Ming army deployed several relatively large-caliber artillery pieces here, many of which weighed two to three hundred kilograms. .
In just a few minutes, this section of the village wall was already completely destroyed, and the artillery deployed here also fell. There were still more than a dozen Ming artillerymen lying on the ground who could not escape, and the few Ming soldiers who survived were still lying on the ground. The soldiers were howling in pain.
These howls only made the Ming soldiers run around trying to avoid the bombardment!
However, there are still not many Ming soldiers who can make evasive reactions in time and are qualified to evade. Many soldiers subconsciously run around, and some hide themselves behind the wall, while the Ming soldiers standing on the wall He lay down and huddled up, but hiding behind such a wooden wall to avoid shelling actually had no protective effect at all. On the contrary, he was more likely to be hurt.
Because if it is in an open area, as long as it is not unlucky enough to be directly hit by a cannonball, the chance of death or injury is actually not high. However, if it is close to a village wall, there is a great possibility of wood fragments being knocked away by the cannonball. Hit by gravel etc.
Facing the shelling of solid bullets, you should either hide behind a solid bunker, or simply stand in an open area away from the crowd!
The hit rate of artillery these days is not very good, and no one will fire in the direction where there are few people. In this kind of offensive, the first goal of the heavy artillery artillery is to cause great obstacles to one's own attack. Artillery and stronghold walls, so they will clear the enemy's artillery and stronghold walls and other obstacles first, followed by the enemy's effective forces.
If you want to kill and injure the enemy's effective forces, you will often target dense crowds with artillery fire. Only in this way can you cause the maximum enemy casualty rate.
Artillerymen will not shell scattered enemy soldiers. That is a waste of artillery shells!
However, in this era of East Asian battlefields, there are still not many soldiers who know how to effectively dodge artillery shells, and they often cannot dodge, especially when forming a formation.
Otherwise, how could you see that when modern armies were fighting, infantrymen lined up in rows to resist the enemy's artillery fire? Because if you want to fight, you must maintain the formation. If you disperse in order to avoid the artillery fire,
If the formation is out of shape, it means that this unit has already collapsed on its own before fighting the enemy.
In modern army operations, in addition to killing and injuring enemy troops, artillery also plays a very important role in dispersing the enemy's dense formations.
Once the enemy troops are unable to withstand the artillery bombardment, and their morale is low and chaos occurs, then this troops will basically be unable to play any important role in the future.
Therefore, although the Ming Army's camp was still under continuous bombardment by the Tang Army at this time, most of its troops always maintained a tight formation, ready to welcome the attack of the Tang Army's infantry at any time!
Why? Because when the First Artillery Team and the Second Artillery Team of the Second Artillery Battalion of the Datang Army continued to launch artillery bombardments, the infantry units of the Datang Army were also not idle. At this time, the dense phalanx of infantry continued to advance to the distance
About two hundred meters away from the Ming army camp!
At this time, the battalion artillery teams under the two infantry regiments and the third artillery team under the second artillery battalion continued to move forward. They would move forward to a distance of about 150 meters from the Ming army camp.
, set up artillery and launched a shotgun bombardment of the Ming army, and cooperated with the heavy artillery from the rear to launch a bombardment of the Ming army camp.
The infantry phalanx temporarily stopped, because this distance is already a relatively dangerous distance. If they get closer, they will be bombarded by Ming army shotguns and projectile attacks by archers, so they are within two hundred meters.
It stopped at a distance!
The soldiers of each unit began to organize their formations again, preparing for the final attack!
The officers were riding horses one by one, observing the situation of the Ming army camp in front, and at the same time, they were always paying attention to the movements on the hilltop where Hao Bainian was behind!
Once Hao Bainian conveys the order to attack through flag language, the infantry in front of him will immediately launch a wave of attack.
However, Hao Bainian in the rear was not in a hurry to attack at this time!
Because it was not him who was anxious, but the Ming army!
The Ming troops on the opposite side continued to be bombarded, and their Muzhai camp could not provide them with effective protection. Now these Ming troops were no different from their own heavy artillery in the wild. These Ming troops either rushed out on their own initiative.
Fight to the death, or continue to bear the bombardment from your own side!
This time, he brought all the artillery shell reserves with him, including several thousand rounds of artillery shells!
Thousands of big iron balls are smashed down. Even if a solid ball shell only kills one person, it can also kill thousands of enemy soldiers!
Of course, it is unlikely that all these shells will be fired, because the Ming army will not stand there stupidly and accept their own bombardment. Over time, they will definitely make corresponding changes, either take the initiative to attack, or collapse and flee.
Or retreat!
After raising the single-channel telescope in his hand for observation again, Hao Bainian smiled and said: "Old Chen's artillery fire is not bad. It seems that he has worked hard to learn this artillery!"
At this time, Fang Dongquan on the side also said: "Yes, when Lao Chen wanted to learn this artillery, we laughed at him a lot, but we didn't think that it had only been a few months, and this artillery had just slipped away.
, when the artillery battalion continues to be upgraded in the future, a major general may not be able to escape!"
When Fang Dongquan spoke, he showed an envious tone!
After so many months, he felt more and more that his career prospects were bleak!
Although he continued to rise through the ranks, from battalion commander to regiment commander, then to deputy brigade commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade, and his military rank was promoted to colonel, he already knew that he was unlikely to be like Hao Bainian in a short time.
, and successfully became the brigade commander of a main infantry brigade.
Because when he first served as the regiment commander, he felt that it was not enough to command an infantry regiment of more than 2,000 people. After he served as the deputy commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade, following Hao Bainian, he felt that he was unable to command 5,000 to 6,000 or even tens of thousands of people.
The great difficulty of human combat.
He also thought about learning new tactics like Tufu Chen, and then changing his tactics like Tufu Chen, but he was already in a high position, but he could never make up his mind to learn. Even if he learned some in a hurry, he still couldn't get enough of it.
It's just scratching the surface.
When he followed Hao Bainian to fight south recently, he became more and more worried when he saw Hao Bainian commanding the troops to fight!
Even if His Majesty asked him to serve as the brigade commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade, he would never be able to command such a huge corps in combat based on his own abilities!
But we can't just wait and see. Although I have heard that His Majesty has already prepared to establish a third infantry brigade, it is absolutely impossible for him to be the commander of the third infantry brigade. If he wants to continue to be promoted to major general and keep up with Hao Bainian,
I'm afraid they have to find another way to pace themselves.
The brigade commander of the main brigade need not think about it. If he wants to be promoted to major general, he will probably have to take up a casual position in the Privy Council in the future, because the ranks of several division chiefs in the Privy Council will continue to rise with the expansion of the army. Zeng Ziwen is very likely to
Become the third or fourth major general in the Tang Army!
In other words, the positions of several directors subsequently assigned by the Privy Council will be the positions of major generals in the future.
Or he could be transferred to the garrison brigade. Although the current garrison brigade commander has the rank of colonel, there will definitely be a larger garrison force in the future. If there is a garrison division, it will definitely be a garrison division.
If he becomes the commander of the garrison division, he will naturally obtain the rank of major general.
Although he thought so, he was still a little unwilling to leave the main force. He was the leader of the Huangzhushan bandits at the time, and he personally supported His Majesty to the emperor's throne. In any case, he was indispensable for supporting him.
Moreover, he has been in the main force all the way, and his promotion speed is not slow. If he leaves the main force in the future, he is worried that he will be even more marginalized.
If you serve in the 1st Infantry Brigade, you won't get any credit, but at least you can get some hard work after Hao Bainian, and you will often look good in front of His Majesty. There is hope for further promotion in the future.
While Fang Dongquan was thinking this, the artillery in front was also firing continuously. The rumbling sound of the artillery kept ringing on the bank of Liujiang River, and continued to spread far and wide!