Chapter 838: Zhao Dong's War (Seeking Monthly Ticket)
The King of the Tang Dynasty is preparing to conquer the monthly ticket list again. Please bring your monthly tickets to join the battle!
This time millions of royal troops go on an expedition, the road ahead is bumpy and there are countless powerful enemies. Perhaps, countless soldiers will fall on the road of conquest, and perhaps, their success will be undone.
But the king of Tang Dynasty fought in the south of the city and died in Guobei, and never retreated!
In this monthly ticket battle, fight even if you die!
Finally, let us shout:
Long live the Tang Dynasty!
Long live the Tang Dynasty!
The year of the Tang Dynasty!
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After Zhao Dong shouted, his two gunners started running in a hurry, and then began to hurriedly prepare to load the shells.
To deal with the enemy's infantry attack, nothing is more useful than artillery shells, especially when attacking the opponent's dense phalanx. A solid artillery shell can plow out a bloody channel.
While Zhao Dong was hurriedly reloading, other Ming troops on top of the city naturally discovered the movements of the puppet Tang rebels outside the city. The artillerymen had already started to reload one by one, and then no one stopped firing randomly, and
After loading, wait for the Puppet Tang's infantry to rush into range and fire.
At the same time, many Ming army generals commanding on top of the city were also shouting loudly, asking a large number of soldiers behind the city wall to prepare to board the city. Several heavy armored troops specially used to fight against the assault battalions of the puppet Tang rebels also
When the preparations are complete, once the assault battalion of the Puppet Tang rebels launches an attack on that section of the city wall, these heavy armored infantry who have been prepared in advance will correspondingly invest in a certain section of the city wall, using heavy armored infantry to fight against heavy armored infantry.
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This is also one of the most commonly used city defense strategies by Ming army generals. Although it fails most of the time and cannot really block the assault camp of the puppet Tang rebel army, this does not mean that this response method is wrong. In fact,
The above method is correct, but it fails every time. That is because it is difficult for the Ming army to concentrate enough heavy armored infantry on a certain section of the city wall.
In the assault camp of the Puppet Tang thief army, even the ordinary low-level officers and even ordinary soldiers in the Ming army knew what type of army it was. It was a troop with all members wearing armor, and every thief army was tall and powerful.
The kind that has superb martial arts skills, can fight while wearing heavy armor and is very flexible.
When fighting to defend the city, what the Ming army feared most was not the bombardment, but the assault camp of the puppet Tang rebels!
Once the heavy armored infantry gets to the top of the city, they will basically kill gods when they encounter them, and Buddha when they encounter Buddhas. Apart from using the same heavy armored infantry to fight against them, the Ming army has almost no other effective means of control!
And this situation became even more prominent after the puppet Tang thief army completely changed into plate armor on a large scale!
The Ming army also seized a small amount of plate armor from the pseudo-Tang rebels and tested it. After the test, it was found that the entire body of this plate armor was made of fine steel, and several large pieces were connected to each other. The vital parts were simply
There are no gaps, and the ability to resist blows is very strong!
All kinds of cold weapons, especially spears and swords, unless inserted directly through a very small number of weak points, will basically be unable to break through the defense of plate armor. Only heavy weapons such as maces and hammers can be used.
Only heavy-duty cold weapons that rely solely on hitting people to kill have some effect.
At the same time, this kind of plate armor of the Pseudo-Tang rebel army can actually effectively defend against bullets at medium and long distances. Although it is still unable to withstand bullets at close range, at a distance of tens of meters, ordinary bullets simply cannot
Penetrate this plate armor.
But none of this shocked them, but what really shocked them was that the Pseudo-Tang rebel army could actually equip a large amount of this kind of plate armor made of fine steel, which was obviously expensive at first glance, and almost all long-term weapons were available.
The spearmen all have one piece of armor, and although most of them are half-armor and breastplate, this still makes them almost unbelievable.
They also tried to imitate it, just like they imitated muskets and artillery before, but they gave up after trying it for a while, because plate armor can be made by craftsmen alone, but it takes a long time and is expensive.
It is almost impossible to mass-produce and equip them, even if you have the money, because you simply cannot make so many.
They simply don't know that these plate armors are directly forged and formed by the arsenal of the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty. The process is far simpler than they imagined, and the price is lower than they imagined.
Of course, large-scale mass production of plate armor actually requires a lot of technical prerequisites, which are beyond the reach of the current Ming Dynasty.
To mass produce plate armor on a large scale, you must first have ready-made steel so that it can be forged and formed. Steel plates, let alone the Ming Dynasty, were a precious thing even in Europe. Large-scale mass production is
It was more difficult. Although plate armor had basically been popularized by European armies during this period, the cost was still slightly high.
As for forging and forming, this did not pose any technical problems for the major European countries at the same time. As for the cost, it was naturally inferior to the Datang Ministry of Industry, which used a large number of machinery.
In the current Tang army, plate armor has basically become the standard equipment. Cold weapon troops, that is, spears, swords, shields and other units, are basically equipped with full body and half body armor. A few elites are equipped with full body armor. The reason why not all are equipped with it.
Full-body armor is naturally related to cost. Because full-body armor has too many bits and pieces, its purchase cost is far more than that of half-body armor and breastplate. A set of full-body armor has a purchase price of at least half-body armor.
More than three times, more than five times that of the breastplate!
Unless you are an elite soldier or an officer in a cold weapon unit, you generally do not wear full body armor.
Due to cost considerations, the most commonly used equipment in the Tang Dynasty Army is chest armor. Some cold weapon troops, that is, spearmen, archers, sword and shield men are also equipped with it, and grenadiers, and even some troops are equipped with it.
The Musketeers also equip it.
At first, the Tang Army refused to equip the musketeers with armor because it would affect their mobility. However, later it was discovered that the casualty rate of the grenadiers equipped with breastplates was greatly reduced.
Let the top brass of the Tang Army begin to equip breastplates on a large scale.
Although the power of muskets these days is also great, it is actually limited, and the Ming army still has a large number of archers. Equipping the musketeers with lightweight breastplates can effectively reduce casualties to a certain extent, so now ordinary musketeers
We are also trying to start equipping breastplates on a large scale, but they are also selective equipment, not that they are all equipped at once.
Musketeers equipped with helmets and breastplates were also called heavy musketeers in the Tang Dynasty Army. They specialized in fighting in the front row. After tests, bows and arrows were basically ineffective against such heavy musketeers. Only muskets could be used at medium and close ranges.
They can only be defeated by shooting.
Even the opponent's ordinary cold weapon troops, such as spearmen, sword and shield men, etc., if the opponent is not armored, then they are basically no match for these heavy musketeers!
This is also the reason why in the Tang Dynasty Army, the army's top brass began to equip musketeers with helmets and breastplates on a large scale.
Plate armor, full-body armor, half-body armor, and breastplates, which are cheap and can be industrially mass-produced, are widely equipped with the Tang Army. Especially the breastplates have greatly increased the armor coverage rate of the Tang Army today. I dare not say that it is one set for each person, but it is also equipment.
killed most of the soldiers.
This has led to the fact that the armor coverage rate of the front-line combat units in the Tang Army (excluding baggage, artillery, engineers, etc.) is currently over 70%!
This armor coverage rate is actually quite terrifying. At the same time, the main forces in Europe, such as the Spanish army, had an armor coverage rate of only about 50%.
As for the Ming Army, the armor rate depends on the unit. If it is a garrison soldier, there is nothing to say. It is less than one tenth, and the armor is still in tatters. If it is an elite frontier army, it can be done.
More than fifty percent.
As for the new army units such as the Jiangbei New Army, Jiangnan New Army, Dubiao, and the Bandit-breaking Army, the armor coverage rate is lower, basically around 30%.
Their musketeers basically don't equip themselves with armor. It's not that they don't want to equip them, but there aren't that many armors for them to equip!
The Puppet Tang thief army has sharp guns and thick and thick armor, which is recognized by the Ming army. The assault battalion of the Puppet Tang thief army is even more terrifying!
All of them were wearing armor, and at least half of the thieves inside were equipped with full-body armor, and the rest were equipped with full-body armor and breastplates. Once such a heavily armored force allowed them to charge to the top of the city, it would be almost a massacre!
To deal with them, in addition to preparing the same heavy armored infantry for tit-for-tat confrontation, it is more effective to eliminate them on their way forward!
No matter how powerful the thief's armor is, it can't stop the cannonballs!
Not to mention solid artillery shells, even shrapnel fired from shotguns, these armors cannot resist, and at close range, musket shooting can effectively penetrate these armors!
Zhao Dong brought people and equipment in order to intercept the thieves' assault camp!
As long as one shell is hit, it can at least kill or injure many people or even dozens of thieves from the Puppet Tang Assault Battalion.
After loading, he personally operated the artillery and prepared to fire. As long as the rebel army on the opposite side entered his effective range, he would fire without hesitation.
But to his surprise, the assault camp of these thieves slowly entered a distance of about five hundred meters, and then disappeared.
It's not correct to say that they disappeared, because Zhao Dong was condescending and could still see the rebel troops, but they all entered those trenches and continued to advance in the trenches.
And this means that it is almost impossible for his artillery fire to cause any damage to these people.
It seemed that the only option was to wait for them to get closer before shooting with grenades and muskets.
Zhao Dong did not fire, but some other Ming army artillery could not help but fire, and the results were astonishing. The trench had a very good defensive effect on solid artillery shells. Those live artillery shells basically flew over the trench, but they did not.
There was no way to cause any harm to the assault battalion soldiers in the trench!
Zhao Dong waited. He was waiting for the rebels in the trench to emerge. But he knew that the trench of the rebels had only been dug to a distance of about fifty meters from the city wall. They would always have to come out of the trench!
However, while Zhao Dong was waiting, he suddenly felt a strong vibration, followed by two consecutive huge dull explosions in his ears!
The violent vibration caused by the explosion almost made Zhao Dong unable to stand. He finally regained his footing, but found a huge smoke cloud not far away from the city wall. Through the smoke, he could vaguely find that there was
The city wall almost completely collapsed!
Seeing this scene, as an experienced old artilleryman, he didn't know what happened. This was a blast!
The puppet Tang rebels must have dug a tunnel under the city wall, and then buried a large amount of gunpowder for blasting!
It's over, the city wall has collapsed. Needless to say, all the soldiers on the original section of the city wall are definitely dead. Even the soldiers on the nearby city wall are probably stunned by the shock, and even suffered heavy casualties. That section of the city wall within a few dozen meters at least
, there is a vacancy!
Zhao Dong was extremely shocked. Hundreds of artillery pieces from the Tang Army outside the city also fired rapidly. Most of them were aimed at the walls on both sides of the collapsed city wall. Some of them went over the collapsed area and bombarded in depth!
At this time, he looked at the closest assault camps of the Puppet Tang rebels outside the city, and saw them moving quickly in the trench. Soon they reached the end of the trench, then jumped out and headed toward the collapse.
He rushed up to the gap in the city wall!
At the rear, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Tang Dynasty also launched a charge at the same time!
Seeing the pseudo-Tang rebel army rushing over from all over the mountains and plains outside the city, Zhao Dong opened his mouth slightly and was stunned. It was not that he had seen the rebel army attacking the city before, but this was the first time he saw the charge of tens of thousands of people.
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After finally waiting for the shouts of the people around him, he finally reacted and said loudly: "Fire, quick, fire!"