Valley Emperor

Days go by, sometimes faster, sometimes slower.

In the season that is about to enter the autumn, some people feel that time is lost without a trace without a trace, while some people feel that life is like a year, and every day is so long.

For Yu Dayou in Fuzhou, the time passed quite quickly, and he even felt that it was not enough. He wanted to reinforce the city defense, and wanted to evacuate the personnel and materials that should be evacuated in advance, and these were all necessary. Time, but what he lacks the most right now is time.

He has already received a report that the Puppet Tang Bandit Army from Quanzhou is only three days away from Fuzhou. What does this mean? It means that after three days, Fuzhou will face the front of the Puppet Tang Bandit Army. threaten.

However, for Yu Dayou, there is not enough time, but for the Ming army in Nanping City, it feels that every day is extremely difficult.

Since the Puppet Tang Bandit Army officially launched the general attack the day before yesterday, the Ming army in the city has finally truly felt the powerful siege ability of the Puppet Tang Bandit Army, or more accurately the sharpness of the guns of the Puppet Tang Bandit Army.

At the beginning, the puppet thieves of the Tang Dynasty were only bombarded with five-jin, nine-level field artillery. Although the Ming army in the city was a little shocked that the pseudo-Tang thieves outside the city had so many long-barreled heavy artillery, the Ming army and the Tang army were at war. For many years, the Bandit Army is one of the few new troops in the Ming army that can be counted as worthy of a name. Naturally, they are no strangers to the new guns.

The Bandit Army itself is also equipped with a large number of guns, and even purchased several nine-jin heavy guns from those foreigners.

But these new-style field guns, the Bandit Army has only about 20 guns in total, and the cannons placed on the head of Nanping City are only a mere seven or eight, and more are those old-style bowl-mouth guns.

But the Puppet Tang Bandit Army on the opposite side pulled out more than 50 cannons of this kind with long barrels, of which there are 18 nine-jin cannons and 36 five-jin cannons. .

According to the latest artillery formation of the Datang Army, the artillery regiment under the infantry division has four artillery battalions, one 9-jin field artillery battalion and two 5-jin field artillery battalions, with a total of fifty-four field artillery.

The infantry regiment under the infantry division also has a large infantry team under its jurisdiction, with nine two-jin shotguns and three three-jin shotguns, a total of twelve shotguns.

The mixed regiment has an artillery battalion under its jurisdiction, and it has a team of six nine-jin field guns, two teams of six five-jin field guns each, and a total of eighteen field guns.

In addition, the mixed regiment also has a shotgun team. Like the infantry regiment, it has nine two-jin shotguns and three three-jin shotguns.

To a certain extent, the mixed regiment is actually an infantry regiment that strengthens a field artillery battalion, a baggage battalion, a cavalry and other auxiliary units.

Before the 6th Infantry Division entered Fujian, it had just completed the reorganization of the new organization. Not only were the three infantry regiments more powerful, but the 6th Artillery Regiment was also fully organized.

Fifty-four field artillery swung outside the city, completely overwhelming the Ming army in the city in terms of firepower!

And this, not counting the six short-barreled heavy howitzers of half a battalion that Cai Erhu had borrowed from the Second Army.

In fact, most of the casualties caused to the Ming army were the six short-barreled heavy-duty howitzers in this area. Because the Ming army defending the city had not experienced this kind of short-barreled heavy-duty howitzer before, it was based on the solid defense. Those who bombed to arrange the defending troops left a large number of defending troops on the city head and near the city wall.

And when one after another grenade exploded in the city head, it instantly caused heavy casualties to the city head.

Just one day after the artillery battle, the Ming army on the top of the city just thought that the casualties were so heavy that they could not stay on the top of the city in large numbers.

What's more serious is that the artillery units of the Ming army arranged at the head of the city also suffered heavy casualties, and even some light bowl guns were directly destroyed by the powerful nine-jin artillery.

Although those field guns are good, they can't stand the heavy casualties of the artillerymen.

With the heavy casualties of artillery, these artillery naturally do not have enough manpower to operate, and artillery is a thing that requires professional artillery to operate, not ordinary soldiers.

So in fact, during the first day of the artillery battle, the artillery units of the Ming Army in the city, especially the field artillery with a relatively long range, actually lost their ability to counterattack.

However, the 6th Infantry Division was not in a hurry to carry out a strong attack, but continued to siege the city according to the previously formulated plan. They began to dig tunnels, and then prepared to blast them. At the same time, they also wanted to continue to let the artillery kill the Ming army in the city and destroy them. morale.

In this case, even though the city has not been breached, the 10,000-odd Ming army in the city has no courage. No matter who the enemy's artillery shells fly overhead from time to time, it will even explode. Whether or not some of our soldiers were killed or injured in the artillery attack, and when one is unlucky, and a large number of casualties will still be injured, the morale will not be as high as that.

More importantly, they can't fight back just by being beaten!

Although the artillery units of the Ming Army guarding the city still had some intact artillery pieces on hand, the gunners suffered heavy casualties.

Because on the first day of the artillery battle, a large number of artillery pieces of the 6th Infantry Division concentrated on the artillery positions of the Ming Army, and all the howitzers hit the artillery positions of the Ming Army.

Under the heavy casualties of the Ming army gunners, they naturally could not have enough gunners to operate the remaining artillery.

Moreover, the shelling of the pseudo-Tang thieves was so sharp that even the remaining gunners did not dare to take the risk of going to the city to operate artillery counterattacks.

Seeing that the Ming army on the top of the city was completely suppressed by his own artillery, Cai Erhu also sighed extremely: "This year's war is already dominated by guns. If there are not enough cannons in this battle, I am afraid this battle is really bad. beat!"

"No wonder Butcher Chen was going to be an artilleryman early, he still looks farther than me!"

Butcher Chen is now more dashing than Cai Erhu. As an artillery soldier early on, butcher Chen worked hard, although he was not as good as Cai Erhu, Wang Danxu and others in terms of promotion in the early days, he has been playing steadily and has become a veteran. The battalion commander of the artillery battalion and the head of the artillery regiment were later transferred back to Zhaoqing to serve as the artillery chief.

Artillery Director, this position is quite special. It was only established by Li Xuan in the first half of the year. It belongs to the Privy Council, but it does not belong to the various departments of the Privy Council. It exists independently. Its responsibility is to shoulder the development of artillery. It is not an exaggeration to be the artillery commander of the Datang Army.

The same goes for the cavalry chief.

Compared with Butcher Chen, Cai Erhu realizes that although the two have the same military rank, his family knows his own affairs, and with his own ability, he can barely serve as a regiment commander, but being a division commander like this is actually not enough. Otherwise, he would not have delegated almost all of the operational command of the 6th Infantry Division to the staff team, and he would have only acted as a rubber stamp to give the final order.

Many people know about his own situation, and His Majesty is even more aware that he can be the commander of the 6th Infantry Division. This is because he has occupied the early stage of the dragon, and he is hard-working. It's over, it's almost impossible to go one step further and become an army commander.

Even if Li Xuan asked him to be the army commander, to be honest, he would not dare to go!

Now in the Datang Dynasty, if officers at the level of division commander, mixed regiment, and regiment commander can still find a few mediocre talents, then at the level of commander, almost all of them are the highest strategic and tactical in the Tang Army. Super few people.

Hao Bainian, Li Chunjing, Wang Chaohong, the names of these three people are not only within the Datang Army, but also famous generals in the Datang Dynasty. Their names are even known to the old man Zhengde, and they are. quite familiar.

Without sufficient prestige and qualifications, and without strong enough strategic and tactical capabilities, it is basically impossible to serve as the leader of the army in today's Datang Army.

Sometimes, Cai Erhu actually misses the early years. Although there were guns and guns at that time, the effect was not so great. That was also the most dazzling era for him and Chen Tufu.

Wearing heavy armor, holding a sharp blade and leading heavy armored soldiers into the enemy's array, as if entering a land of no one, this is what Cai Erhu is best at.

It's a pity, this situation is gone forever. Even the Datang Army has been equipped with large-scale batches of plate armor. In terms of armor, it has almost reached the peak of the past dynasties, but the heavy armored troops can play a role. The decisive battle can only be a city offensive and defensive battle, or more precisely a city head-to-head battle. At other times, the heavily armored troops can hardly decide the trend of the battle with a single blow.

However, even if this is the case, the heavy armored troops can only have a chance to play a role after their own artillery has achieved an overwhelming advantage. Otherwise, the heavy armored troops of the assault battalion will be attacked by the artillery on the way. Completely crashed.

No matter how thick the armor is, it can't stop bullets, let alone artillery shells.

Cai Erhu sighed at the end of the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers~www.wuxiax.com~ but soon he was glad again!

Although the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers are outdated, their own Datang Army has a powerful artillery unit!

Dozens of heavy artillery pieces were placed outside Nanping City and blasted for two days. The Ming army in Nanping City could only hide behind the city wall.

Relying on the absolute advantage of artillery, the 6th Infantry Division launched an attack on Nanping City almost in a crushing manner, first with artillery battles, and then with three large-scale explosions.

When the soldiers of the assault battalion in plate armor rushed to the head of the city, this tough battle came to an end.

After five days, the 6th Infantry Division took Nanping City with an absolute advantage, nearly annihilating the Ming army in the city, and its own casualties were less than 500.

After winning Nanping, it was announced that Fuzhou had opened its arms to the 6th Infantry Division. Immediately, Cai Erhu led the 6th Infantry Division to continue south, preparing to return to the division with Wang Chaohong, who had already arrived at Fuzhou City.

Prepare to launch the final general attack on Fuzhou, as long as Fuzhou is taken, it can basically declare that Fujian has been brought under the rule of Datang.