Chapter 37 The Battle of Longzhou 4

(Today, I will discuss a question for you, that is, the recent discussion about the style of pig's feet in the book review area. I don't think I need to say more about the character of pig's feet, but for his style of acting, I think so. After all, pig's feet are not very old, but from a modern past, for ancient times Many things are not as well understood as historical military scientists, so most of the time they cross the river by feeling the stones. They need to gradually accumulate experience before they can gradually mature. As for the ideal, there are pig's feet, but in troubled times, it's not good to say. If you are not careful, you may hang up. More often, pigs The foot is to take into account the things in front of him, and for the time being, he thinks about the next step, so sometimes there will be some contradictions in his actions. After all, he should gradually understand those historical figures until he breaks with them! What's more, when the strength of the rebels was not strong at that time, the rebels would unite with each other, so that they could fight against the power of the government and the officers and soldiers. This is not a contradiction. There are no eternal friends, but only eternal interests! Don't you think so?)

These simple return guns have not even been cut off the bark. They look very rough, but this does not affect their power. The key parts of these return guns are made of hard wood. The rotating shaft of the gun is simply made of iron. Each gun rod is made of whole logs. The length There are more than three feet. After lifting it, it even caught up with the height of the wall of Longzhou City.

So the weight of these return guns is also considerable. Each of them weighs several tons, and it is impossible to lift them by manpower alone, so if you want to move them within range, you must put logs under the gun rack to push them to move.

Several artillery vehicles slowly moved towards the city wall under the push of Xing Tian's soldiers, looking from afar, as if a group of ants were carrying a huge piece of food.

Huang Shengqiang once again commanded his artillery. Under the cover of the shield car pushed by Zhao Er donkey's sentry, he pushed the five-door French cannons to push down the city.

The French machine that was blown down by the enemy on the first day was just a gun rack that was scattered. In two days, the craftsman in the camp drove out a pair of gun racks and repaired the bronze gun, so that the gun could return to the battlefield.

On the shield cars in front, each shield car was also equipped with two tiger squat guns. In the last siege, because the enemy's artillery was so sharp that the tiger squat guns of the Xingtian Army did not have a chance to play a role at all. Pingbai also damaged one, but today with these shield cars, the tiger squat guns can play their role. It is.

Thousands of people slowly pushed towards the city wall like ants. Anyone standing on the wall would never be indifferent when looking at such a scene. Every officer and soldier standing on the wall and Xiang Yong's face became solemn, and even Yang Yulin unconsciously clenched his fist tightly.

"Four hundred steps... three hundred steps... three hundred steps... two hundred and fifty steps..." There are soldiers in the city who specialize in observing the distance of the enemy's army constantly reporting the distance between the civilian army and the city wall, and Yang Yulin has never given the order to fire, but quietly stared at these mutant civilian troops and the ants pouring outside the city. Several tall return guns secretly thought about how to deal with them.

Seeing that the civilian army was getting closer and closer to the city wall, some officers and soldiers guarding the city began to be a little **. They couldn't help but want to cast their firearms, but they were still shouted by Yang Yulin. If someone opened fire without authorization, they would definitely be cut off, and then they were suppressed again. He restrained the desire of his officers and soldiers to open fire.

And the reaction of the garrison also made Xiao Tianjian, who was standing behind the battle, start to worry a little, because this time the performance of the officers and army was very abnormal, because in Xiao Tianjian's impression, the officers and soldiers were often undertrained, and the officers and soldiers were very flustered in the face of the war. In today's situation, I'm afraid that the officers and soldiers had been unable to stand it for a long time. It's going to fire early. What he wants to see most is that the officers and soldiers fire in advance, so as to consume a large amount of ammunition from the officers and soldiers, and at the same time reduce casualties to his side.

The more the officers and soldiers do not fire, the more Xiao Tianjian feels that things seem to be a little bad. After all, this time, a large number of his soldiers have also been put into the battlefield. Although it is not the main task of attack, because they are mainly responsible for providing fire support for Li Zicheng's troops, it will certainly attract the focus of the heavy firepower of the defenders. Take care, so if the general of the other side's garrison is a calm general, it is not good for them at all. Now judging from the performance of the officers and soldiers, the generals in the city are indeed not an incompetent person. In this way, it seems that today's battle is still not optimistic!

And Li Zicheng looked very optimistic. He pointed to the head of the city with the whip in his hand and smiled at Xiao Tianjian, "The officers and soldiers have been scared, and they have not dared to fire until now. It is difficult for them to defend Longzhou City this time!"

Xiao Tianjian laughed dryly and despised Li Zicheng's opinions. Speaking of which, Li Zicheng was also a famous general in Shaanxi, Henan and other places for several years. Unexpectedly, he could not even see this kind of crisis, which made Xiao Tianjian look at Li Zicheng a little, but when he turned his head and saw Li Zicheng's eyes, he gave up again. He just despised him, because although Li Zicheng said it very easily, there was a trace of concern in his eyes. It turned out that Li Zicheng said so, not that he did not see the crisis, but used this performance to cheer up his subordinates.

"Give the drum, let the children increase their strength and get up quickly!" Li Zicheng pretended to wave the whip easily and ordered his own soldiers.

Several big men shook off their clothes on their upper bodies, revealing their strong muscles. They stood in front of several big drums, waved the heavy drums in their hands, and hit the thick cowhide drums heavily, making a rumble muffled sound. The huge drums rolled like thunder and rushed in all directions. When they arrived at the front of the front, the generals who were still moving slowly heard the thunderous sound of drums and shouted in unison, pushed the shield car in front of them, and accelerated their speed to rush towards the city wall.

It was not until the civilian army outside the city was close to 200 steps away that Yang Yulin waved his hand and shouted, "General cannon, fire!"

After listening to the order, several gunners standing next to the five-door iron cannon placed on the south wall, they did not hesitate to put the red-hot iron pestle into the door of the black cannon. The wall shook violently a few times, accompanied by strong gunpowder smoke and huge roar, several already loaded irons. The bomb roared away from the gun, flew through the air, and hit heavily at the position of the return guns that were slowly approaching the city wall.

The landing point of the solid shell is in front of the way to return the gun. After the shell landed, it first raised a piece of dust and then bounced up and continued to fly forward, even if it crashed into the return gun.

It was the members of the Xingtian Army who pushed back the gun forward. The two shells passed directly between them. Even if there was a blood fog, the originally dense crowd was suddenly opened two bloody roads. More than a dozen soldiers scattered their bones and fell into the blood pool on the spot. It was easy to die, but they were cut by shells. The man with broken arms and legs lay on the ground and let out a sad wailing.

And another shell directly hit the wooden beam of a return gun. The return gun, which was finally built by the craftsmen, shook violently, and then tilted and fell down, so shocked that the generals in charge of pushing the cannon fled. Even so, there was still an unlucky soldier pressed on the wood. Under the shelf, he died on the spot with a broken stomach.

Xiao Tianjian's hand suddenly clenched the whip in his hand, and his heart seemed to be bleeding. These soldiers and generals were his precious heart. Although he also knew that it was inevitable to die in a war, he had lost more than a dozen generals before he fought with the other party, which made him feel very uncomfortable, which also confirmed that With his ominous foreboding just now, the garrison general is really a calm and fierce person. The first chosen target is his counter-back guns. It seems that today's battle is really enough for them.

Fortunately, the discipline of the Xing Tianjun army was strict. Although it suffered such a big loss, it was only a little messy. Soon, it was touched by the officers and part of the manpower was divided to rescue the wounded, and the rest continued to push the gun truck forward slowly.

Li Zicheng took a look at the performance of Xiao Tianjian's subordinates and nodded sincerely, "Brother Xiao's soldiers are really brave. I admire it!" After these days of contact, Li Zicheng was very optimistic about Xiao Tianjian, so after getting familiar with him, he began to get along with the Xiao Tianjian brothers, which also showed that they were closer.

Xiao Tianjian smiled bitterly and looked at the wounded who were rescued being sent to the back camp. He knew that these wounded who were shot were probably useless. Even if they were rescued, I'm afraid they would definitely be disabled. They would not be able to fight again in the future. It was a pity in his heart, but on the surface, he still replied calmly: " It made General Li laugh! It seems that the generals in the city are not ordinary people, and they know how to deal with such a situation! I'm afraid this battle will be a hard battle again!"

Li Zicheng nodded but did not go on, and turned his attention to the battlefield in front of him.

About 120 steps from the city wall, several shield cars stopped. The soldiers hiding behind the car quickly took some baskets from the car, quickly began to dig on the ground, filled these baskets with earth and stones, put them up neatly, and formed a fortification at a fast speed, and kept thickening. These fortifications make it thick enough.

Followed by the Fran machine guns belonging to the Xingtian Army. These Fran machine guns were pushed by the gunners and entered this temporary position at a rapid speed.

The day before yesterday, they suffered a big loss in the defense's artillery fire counterattack. Today, Xiao Tianjian learned to be obedient. He specially transferred a group of new soldiers and pushed the shield car to repair a bunker for these Franco cannons under the city to prevent it from being destroyed by the artillery fire in the city.

You should know that not only artillery is important, but more importantly, it is not easy for their gunners to cultivate a gunner. In addition to long training, it also consumes a lot of ammunition for them to drill. For a Longzhou city, Xiao Tianjian doesn't want to lose all his treasures in a war, so he is very Pay attention to the protection of these gunners and artillery.

As soon as several Fran cannons were in place, Huang Shengqiang immediately ordered to load and aim at the target in the city. They and the defenders had the same idea, which was to suppress each other's firepower as much as possible, and before the return guns were in place, they had to suppress the general guns in the city.

Although the flange machine has the advantages of fast loading and light gun body, it also has many disadvantages. The biggest disadvantage is that because of the process, the combination of the fuselage and the mother fuselage will leak a large amount of gunpowder gas. At the same time, the diameter of the shell is smaller than the inner load diameter of the mother, so the range and power of the flange machine are not as good as the same. The caliber and length of the front-loaded gun, coupled with the complicated casting process, are also the main reason why the Fran machine was gradually eliminated by the not-advanced front-loaded gun.