Cavalry Gun
Chapter 469:Cavalry Gun
The Zhenjiang in Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty is not the Zhenjiang of Jiangsu after the successor.Here, a small army castle on the border between Ming Ting and North Korea, even the city is not counted, and the place is a very remote mountain.It is separated from the Yalu River from North Korea, and there is a mountain road to the north to Kuandan and even Hetuala, and to the southwest it leads to Dandong and even to Fuzhou.
Because of the remote mountains, there is no wide field outside the city to accommodate a large army, only uneven slopes, hills and depressions.It was quite difficult for Zhou Qingfeng to open three infantry phalanxes in the field outside the city, and the North Korean army of more than 10,000 people across the road was even more stuffed with a full valley and had no position.
Seeing the other side so messy squeezed into a mess, Zhou Qingfeng felt that his nearly half-yearly tactical theory was not wrong - Laozi pondered what formations, fire configuration, road traffic, logistics management, military geography, and thought to the pain of brain.Doesn’t care about these people?
Is the enemy commander really a mouse drawing a box and attacking it at any point?
Looking at the enemy firing at a few hundred meters away, all the officers and soldiers of the Guard feel absurd - the commander said less than 50 meters when he was training every day.It is necessary to have a strict formation to ensure the output of fire, and it is necessary to have a firm will to die and not escape.Once the formation is negligent, it will suffer huge losses and even painful failures.
Now it seems that we are "the eyes are made to the blind", and such a beautiful formation has not encountered the corresponding opponent.
The enemy is so strong that he is not afraid of death!
The clamor was passing orders, and the officers were stabilizing the soldier's mood.Two cavalry guns on the left-wing low ground of the Guards Guards were ready and were asking for fire—the flag replied: no fire, until the enemy was drawn closer to two hundred meters.
The people who ride the gun platoon feel a little dry in the throat, and the platoon leader in charge of the command canton can not help but unscrepe the water in his throat, and at the same time pours some water on the barrel of the riding gun next to him, hoping that he will be able to cool down quickly in the future.On the battlefield, even a second can give great psychological comfort.
When the Guards build gun crews, the commander of the force is indoctrinated with the idea that you are the magic weapon of victory on the battlefield and need to appear in the enemy's key position at any time.That is why the enemy will hate you.Be careful in combat, play firepower at the same time pay attention to maneuver, to avoid falling into a desperate situation.
To put it bluntly, the troops who play cannons belong to the thin stuffing that is particularly hated.Careless, it is easy to provoke the attack of the enemy generals, so for their own small life must be clever point - in front of this riding cannon platoon is the first time to fight, the whole row up and down on the two small guns with very close range, see the opposite side of the enemy with the advantage of the number.More than 20 men in the row were all worried.
"The platoon leader, the enemy has entered our effective range of 300 meters."The squad leader of the gun squad gave a thumbs up, his eyes were closed alternately, and a number was returned.
The "Revolutionary Army" military workers use a single-shot telescope built with crystal, and the cadres of the company have a hand.The artillery is special, and the platoon leader is there.Let them know the situation within a few kilometers around them.The commander of the gun platoon once again looked in the direction of the commander's main formation and shook his head and said, "The commander ordered another shot within two hundred meters, the order has not changed, we cannot fire."
The cavalry gun of the 1617 caliber was only a poor fifty millimeters, and the projectile could hold it with one hand.When the gun is designed, it emphasizes weight loss and requires that transportation can be decomposed when marching.You can quickly retreat on a horse when you fight – you don’t have time to break down, you have to run fast.Slow down a little bit and die.
Because of excessive weight loss, this gun weighs less than 80 kilograms.The barrel of cooked iron forging is very thin and does not use too much gunpowder, resulting in an effective range of only 300 meters.However, in order to carry out rapid shooting in a short period of time, this gun was the first hot weapon of the "Revolutionary Army" to use fixed-load bombs.
Its shells are wrapped in medicinal silk and waterproofed with tarpaulins on the outside.When loaded, the tarpaulin is torn off and the silk cloth is loaded with the gun and the shells are tucked into the cannon.Silk is burned directly during shelling, leaving no residue.The shells are wrapped in grease-soaked sheepskin and stuck in the cannon to improve airtightness.
This artillery, which is still in a state of testing, met the North Korean army for the first time.The long-distance gun platoons who commanded the two guns took the lead and occupied a forest highland outside Zhenjiang City, overlooking the North Korean fire-dwelling hand that was raging opposite.When the enemy entered within a range of two hundred meters, a nearly perfect queue side appeared in front of him.
After entering the hot-armed era, slant fire was the idea that every commander lined up.Their own strength must not be slanted sideways by the enemy, but their own firepower should be poured on the enemy's side as much as possible.Because in the queue, there are only a few rows of people on the front, and the side may gather a dozen or even dozens of rows.
“Call the captain to fire.”The commander of the gun platoon shouted at the communications soldiers holding the signal flag.
Flags are waving and messages are passed within hundreds of meters.The platoon of the communicator seems to have accepted a long sentence, "the commander said, you are mobile firepower, on the basis of conforming to the big principles, the aircraft itself grasps, without repeated instructions."This article is later recorded in the canonary of the Mounted Army.”
The long-standing cannon platoon listened for a second, followed by shouting: "Fire!"
Bombing . . . two small calibre cavalry guns roared at the same time, and the gun body was in the quick back seat, gliding several meters on the ground.The gunners of the two artillery squads quickly reset the gun, and the loaders only used the gun brush to stab the gun in the barrel a few times, and immediately plugged in a fixed solid heart bomb.
The gunner opened the closed reed and the pill cap on the barrel and held a prick of a spike into the ignition hole.Poke-wrapped in the barrel of silk-wrapped medicine, and at the same time poured some gunpowder on the pool, and closed the lid of the medicine pool - yes, this light gun now does not need to light a rod.With the help of the wreckage of the "roadmaster", the close guard finally used the flanking fire.
This light gun can be loaded for as little as ten seconds, and can hit a speed of six bursts per minute.During their training, the cannon-riders were required to pour as many shells as possible in as short time as possible.Play for three minutes immediately turn around and escape, do not give the enemy a chance to fight back.Zhou Qingfeng gave this tactic a name - "three minutes, real man".
This fire, the two cannons are pounding.The sound of the gun kept coming, intense and bursting.The temporary artillery positions were quickly shrouded in white smoke, and they soon could not even see the target, but they still poured shells in a general direction.
All the gunners practiced this "three-minute rapid shot" on weekdays, that is, the watch bombarded a total of 18 shells.Every gunner must have enough explosive power to be as tough and strong as a real man in these three minutes.
A gun squad of twelve men, constantly reloading, loading, firing.Everyone is busy with the heat.The platoon waiting for the gun platoon counted the number of times the fire and shouted.For three minutes they immediately lifted the hot cannon like frightened rabbits and quickly mounted them on the best-in-hand horse in the platoon.
The whole platoon quickly weakened, and fled with smoke along the long-arranged evacuation route.
The head does not return...
After about a quarter of an hour, the scouts of the gun platoon came out carefully from another selected observation point.Across the woodlands he first looked at the artillery position he had just fought, where the white smoke had been gone for the most part, and everything was quiet.There seemed to be nothing irritated as the enemy would launch a raging attack on them.
Poorly, it is likely that the shelling of the cannon platoon did not cause much damage at all.The enemy may not feel the pain at all, so he is too lazy to take care of this small team who walks on the battlefield.
"No one is chasing us."The position of the scouts can not see the battlefield, he can only report whether his party is pursued by the enemy.Because the cavalry who carried the cannons did not run fast in the mountains, the people who rode the gun platoon were brainwashed by Zhou Qingfeng to indoctrinate the idea that their situation was dangerous on the battlefield.
But now...
“No one cares about us?”The young platoon leader who first went to the battlefield was also screaming, "Is the smoke that just shelled too much, causing our subsequent firing shells to fall short and not hit people at all?"
The whole row of the twenty-two brothers, after the formation of the troops every day for three minutes.If these three minutes did not hit the target, it is really ashamed of the big fish and the unbuckled silver that have been eaten every day for the past six months.Returning to being laughed and killed by the same robe, and even caused great trouble to the comrades.
Thinking that perhaps because he did not play a good role in the war, the brothers in the gun platoon were suddenly heavy in their hearts.The platoon leader took the initiative to climb out of the woodland where he was hiding in spite of the danger and poked his head out of a grass.Behind him, the deputy platoon leader and the squad leader of the gun squad also followed up, and a head looked around.
“What about people?“What about the Korean army?”
"I just saw a thousand people huddled into a pile, and his mother's eyes didn't even have a ghost."
"It's hard that we didn't really hit anything, and we went after those guys roundabout to the boss's side?"
The cannon platoon rushed to the fire, and simply got up from the hidden grass and ran outward.He wanted to go back to the bombardment position just now to see what was going on.His movement, the whole row of people ran out, hula want to go to the height to see the situation.When they returned to the original shelling position, they were already running panting and holding their knees.
But when the cannon platooners returned to their original positions, they looked out along the firing line of the just-launched fire-hitting field - the original swarm of North Korean firebolts passed through them, and now the people are gone.There was a ravine on the ground left by a jump attack.Because a total of more than 30 shells were fired, within two or three hundred meters of distance, the land was plowed by the shells.
And in this gully of the mud-rolling gully, there was another broken corpse and a miserable wounded man.At first glance, the whole ground was red.Look closely, a large number of broken arms and mud mixed, the condition of the belly through the intestinal flow can be seen everywhere.Many North Korean wounded have not yet died, but they can only roll back and forth in the land of shelling, or cry and want to die.
“My God, how many people have to die?”
“Is that what we did?”
“These guys were broken by us, didn’t they?”
In the face of the dense enemy's flanks, the "Revolutionary Army" Guardsmen's gun riding force, which fought for the first time, opened the door.They poured out their own sudden fire, bombarded the enemy a roundabout attack thousands of troops suffered casualties, directly killed and wounded nearly 100 people.
Tactically, the attack was successful.
But...
“Commander, you see!”A cannon soldier pointed to a vacant lot more than a few hundred metres away and shouted, “Our enemy has not been bombed, they are attacking our flank high ground.”
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