The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 343 An Embarrassing Battle

When Zu Dashou, the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan, was awakened from his dream by the rumbling God of Cannon, he thought that the Dashun Army led by Hao Yaoqi had already begun to attack the city, so he got up in a hurry, and ordered urgent orders while he was being cloaked.

"Let the people in Nancheng guard it, and don't let the bandits succeed. If you dare to lose Nancheng, the old man will take Qi Wentai's head."

Qi Wentai is the guard of the southern city of Shanhaiguan.

But as soon as the words fell, a figure rushed in in a state of embarrassment, knelt down in front of Zu Dashou and cried loudly: "Commander, it's not good, Jiang's army has begun to attack the city, the artillery fire is extremely fierce, the brothers in Beicheng were killed and injured It's so terrible, I can't stand it anymore."

After hearing this, Zu Dashou was a little confused. Could it be that Hao Yaoqi's Dashun Army attacked the city?Why is Jiang's army attacking the city again?Why did Jiang's army start attacking the city out of nowhere?Could it be that Jiang Chuan has already raised the flag of rebellion?

Countless thoughts flashed through Zu Dashou's mind.

But he is a veteran general after all, he quickly calmed himself down, and asked the soldier kneeling in front of him in a deep voice: "Speak slowly, what is going on?"

That soldier was Wu Sangui's personal soldier, the one who was sent by Wu Sangui to Shanjia to deliver a message. Hearing Zu Dashou's question, he hesitated all of a sudden, and began to falter.

Such a person as Zu Dashou, who couldn't see the strangeness in it, suddenly shouted: "Quickly tell me, does it have something to do with Wu Sangui?"

After all, Zu Dashou had been a general for many years, he yelled loudly, the soldier trembled in fright, his face turned pale, and he hastily told the whole story.

After Zu Dashou heard this, he was startled and cursed angrily: "Zhuzi misunderstood me!" He kicked Wu Sangui's personal soldiers, then grabbed the saber next to him, and strode towards the outside of the mansion. The captain of the personal army hurriedly followed with others.

Outside Shanhaiguan, fifty field artillery bombarded the city head violently.Every time the command flag of the artillery commander was waved down, a round of shells roared and flew towards the head of Shanhaiguan City.

Although these field guns have not been upgraded, they are still front-mounted smoothbore guns.

However, after Jiang Chuan became the king, the system gave a reward building—the arsenal.

This arsenal has two functions. In addition to producing guns and artillery and small bombs for grenadiers, it also has a very important role, which is to develop and upgrade various military technologies.

For example, the technologies that can be developed currently include technologies that can increase the degree of gunpowder combustion, and sights that can increase the accuracy of artillery shooting.

An increase in the degree of combustion of gunpowder means an increase in the range of artillery and muskets.With the bonus of the sight, the power of the field gun has increased a lot.

Another technology is to improve the melee ability of musketeers. To put it simply, bayonets can be added to muskets.

The overall length of the musket with the bayonet added is not much different from that of a normal spear, which also improves the battlefield survivability of musketeers to a certain extent.

There is also a technology to improve the breastplate protection ability of melee cavalry, which is helpful to improve the survivability of cavalry on the battlefield.

Although these technologies are expensive, Jiang Chuan is now considered to be rich and powerful, so he did not hesitate to choose all of them for research and development upgrades.

After the addition of these technologies and equipment, the attack power of the firearms troops of the entire Jiang family army has been greatly improved.

Now this improvement is reflected in the current siege battle.

Although there are a lot of artillery at the head of Shanhaiguan City, most of these artillery are old-fashioned tiger crouching guns.

The barrels of these tiger squatting guns are short and fixed on the city wall. The gunpowder used is the yellow gunpowder with poor combustion efficiency. In addition, the aiming equipment is completely backward. .

What's more, the most terrible thing is that there are not many shells and gunpowder in the hands of the Shanhaiguan defenders, because these shells and gunpowder have to be transported from the Gunpowder Bureau in the capital.Now Li Zicheng's Dashun army has cut off the road from the capital to Shanhaiguan, and the gunpowder cannot be transported at all.

Even if it can be transported, the emperor will not let it be transported.Now that the capital cannot protect itself, all supplies must be given priority to the capital.

Therefore, although the Shanhaiguan defenders have artillery, they have to take it easy.Otherwise, if you accidentally use them up, these cannons will really not be much stronger than fire sticks.

On the other hand, Jiang's army brought enough shells and gunpowder for this expedition. Shanjia's vanguard army alone brought fifty artillery pieces and enough shells and gunpowder to conquer three cities.

Moreover, the barrels of Jiang's army's field guns were much longer than those of the tiger squatting guns, which meant that the firing range was also much higher.

Coupled with the improvement of gunpowder combustion technology and the addition of aiming instruments, the consequence is that the artillery of Jiang's army can easily land on the head of Shanhaiguan City, while the artillery shells of the Shanhaiguan defenders can only land on the open space outside the city.

This is embarrassing, everyone is an artilleryman, but one side can shoot as much as they want, but on the other hand, they can only shrink their necks to receive the artillery.

What's even more embarrassing is that even so, the Shanhaiguan defenders had to calculate and fire, while the artillerymen of the Jiang family army could fire without any scruples.

Another point is also an advantage that the Shanhaiguan defenders cannot match.

Jiang's army's cannons are all produced in the fortress base, so they naturally have the quality of quality.According to the attribute description, these artillery can shoot more than [-] times under the condition of normal shooting and no external damage.

This meant that the artillerymen of Jiang's army could fire as much as they wanted without worrying about the danger of bombing.

But the Shanhaiguan garrison will die.The quality of the artillery of the Ming army was not bad when the court was still strong in the early days, but later, as the court became more and more corrupt, financial supervision became more and more corrupt, and the quality of the artillery, gunpowder, and shells manufactured by the Gunpowder Bureau was poor. It is getting worse and worse, and cutting corners has become a common phenomenon.

Moreover, the treatment of craftsmen in Ming Dynasty was very poor. All these factors led to the quality of the artillery, gunpowder, and shells that were made.

The most direct consequence of quality problems is that on the battlefield, when the Ming army was fighting the enemy, there was a loud bang beside him, and then he found that his hands, head, feet, or his whole body were Fly to the sky.

Because the gun exploded.

The same is true for many muskets. When the enemy came up, the musketeers fired in a hurry.Seeing that the medicine was installed and the enemy was in front of him, he lit the fire and there was a bang.

Well, the enemy is fine, his hand flew out, his face turned into pockmarks, and then he was killed by the enemy with a knife when he looked dazed.

So later, many soldiers of the Ming army began to wonder if there were traitors in the gunpowder bureau, and the firearms they made were not to blow up the enemy, but to blow up their own people.

Therefore, many Ming soldiers would rather use old-fashioned swords and spears than the deadly muskets and artillery in the end.

In just a short while, three tiger squatting cannons were blown up on the top of Shanhaiguan City, and more than a dozen soldiers were injured, three of them were seriously injured and could not survive.

Although Wu Sangui, the instigator, was far away, his helmet was still knocked off by a flying iron foot.If he hadn't been able to hide quickly, I'm afraid the heads would have flown out.

Even so, he also became embarrassed, his face was black, his arms were covered with blood, and the image of the originally handsome young general became almost like a charcoal burner.

But he didn't care about these things at this time, he never thought that because of his impulsiveness, Jiang's army would be able to attack the city without any scruples.

He never expected that Jiang's army's artillery was so sharp, with such a long range, and so accurate. Although his own artillery was condescending, it was completely suppressed by the opponent, and he had no power to fight back.

Now he is deeply regretful, he doesn't know how to explain to his uncle Zu Dashou, and he doesn't know how to clean up this mess.

But he couldn't let him go out of the city to surrender now, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue to resist.

At this time, there were already corpses strewn all over the city of Beicheng, and there were still countless wounded soldiers howling and screaming.

This was an unnecessary and unprepared battle to defend the city, all because of Wu Sangui's willfulness.

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