Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 812

[Chapter 812 Start the War!]

Zhongling Pass.

With the arrival of the last batch of Qin-style rifles, war was imminent.

Ordering the generals to distribute Qin-style rifles, Chang Wei summoned Qin Shan, Guan Tong and Lu Chang.

Qin-style rifles were mainly distributed to soldiers under the command of the three.

But with the Qin-style rifle, it is necessary to take on the task of attacking fortifications.

“In the past month, the soldiers have basically mastered the shooting points and corresponding tactics of the Qin-style rifles. Will it be no problem to win Zhongling Pass this time?” Chang Wei said, staring at the three of them.

Guan Tong’s body was straight, his mouth was the most broken among the three, and he said first: “When the front loaded the rifle, the last general commanded the soldiers to capture Zhongling Pass, not to mention the Qin-style rifles now equipped. , the final general is willing to lead the third army of the royal family to climb the city wall of Zhongling Pass first.”

After the army was reorganized, he and Qin Shan Lu Chang were no longer the titles of captains, but were promoted to generals of Zhenwu, and each had three captains under his command. Wei, commanding 30,000 people.

However, because Wu’s army entered the south bank of Jiujiang River, he and Qin Shan each had a captain who was dispatched to the north bank of Jiujiang River.

Currently, there are 70,000 people in Zhongling Pass.

Except that Lu Chang’s soldiers were full, he and Qin Shan were both short of 10,000 soldiers.

But even so, he also wanted to grab a first attack task.

“The first attack should be our first army, one and three, who is in front, don’t you know how to count?” Qin Shan gave Guan Tong a cross-eyed glance.

The three of them had a good relationship in private, but he wouldn’t let them pass the battle on the battlefield.

“Oh, you guys don’t want to argue anymore. There’s nothing to argue about. Isn’t it obvious who the first attack is for?” Lu Chang spread his hands, “Whoever has more soldiers now will attack first.”

Guan Tong and Qin Shan exchanged views After a glance, the two scolded together: “What’s wrong with the 30,000 people, your 30,000 people may not be the opponent of our 20,000 people.”

“Hey, the two of you are still wearing a pair of trousers. Why, are you not convinced? Do you want to practice?” Lu Chang rolled up his sleeves, “You two fight together, as long as you can beat me, the first attack will be yours.”

He said After the words fell, Chang Wei slapped the table, “What are you doing, are you shopping for food during the war? Haggle here, no matter how noisy, go to patrol the north bank of Jiujiang, there are many generals who want to fight, and there is no shortage of you three.”

Chang Wei When Wei Wei got angry, the three of Qin Shan suddenly became honest, and each of them smiled, “Whatever the general says is what he says.”

After snorting, Chang Wei said, “This time the attack on Zhongling Pass is the first attack, and I will give you five days.” It’s time to take Zhongling Pass, if you can’t take it down, your official positions will be cut, and you will all go back to Beidaying to feed the pigs.”

“Yes, General.” The three stood at attention and gave a military salute to Chang Wei.

After giving this order, Chang Wei walked out of the camp and looked at Zhongling Pass six miles away.

Just half a month ago, they were stationed two miles away from Zhongling Pass.

But unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, they were bombarded by the opponent’s artillery.

During the evacuation, he found that the opponent’s artillery had an effective range of about 1,500 meters.

This is obviously not the effective range that the Shizu artillery should have.

Therefore, there is only one possibility, and that is that there are artillery from the country of Ross on the wall of Zhongling Pass.

After all, after the investigation by the hot air balloon soldiers, a large number of Beidi soldiers were found at Zhongling Pass.

According to their intelligence, this is Mule Hongzhen’s younger brother, Ashur’s army.

During this period, Ross State sold a lot of guns and artillery to Beidi.

In order to cope with this situation and reduce losses, he ordered the digging of trenches during the training of soldiers.

Trench fortifications were built under Zhongling Pass City.

Discovering this, the Shizu army and Beidi army at Zhongling Pass also began to dig trenches.

Both sides thought of digging.

So now, within 300 meters from the city gate, there are all moats of powerful clans.

Their trench was blocked three hundred meters away.

“Ashur, let’s compete this time.” Chang Wei clenched his fists.

He knew the name of Ashur, besides Mule Hongzhen in Beidi, Ashur was the best at fighting.

Moreover, the soldiers under Ashur’s command are more familiar with firearms, and it is said that hand-to-hand combat is also very fierce.

This can be seen from his ability to capture Tubo in a short period of time.

But even so, he still has full confidence in his soldiers.

In previous wars, his generals and soldiers had been honed by blood and fire.

Personal bravery on the battlefield is not inferior to Beidi, or even slightly better.

What’s more, this time they were equipped with terrifying Qin-style rifles.

As a general in charge of fighting, he is naturally very sensitive to changes in muskets.

After the first Qin-style rifle came to the army, he was convinced that the Qin-style rifle was the future of firearms.

First of all, compared with front-loading rifles, Qin-style rifles are very flexible.

On the battlefield, when a muzzle-loading rifle fires a shot, the soldier must stand up to reload.

This can expose soldiers to danger.

Moreover, although the bullets of front-loading rifle guns are conical and easy to load, soldiers still need to smash the bullets in with cleaning rods, and the loading steps are cumbersome.

But the Qin-style rifle has completely lost this problem.

Soldiers can load bullets in any posture, even lying on their stomachs.

Furthermore, reloading is also very convenient, just pull the bolt open, load the bullets and close it.

It is precisely because of the simplification of loading that the Qin-style rifle can shoot ten times in one minute, which is almost twice that of the front-loading rifle.

Of course, there is the most important point, since their front-loading rifles are modified on the basis of flintlock guns, the effective range is only about 400 meters.

Although Yan Wang said that the front-loading rifle still has potential, and it can reach 900 meters.

However, compared with the musket equipped before, the effective range of the Qin-style rifle was improved, reaching 600 meters.

Excellent soldiers with such excellent rifles, not to mention Ashur, even if the troops of Ross and Britain came personally, he would be able to beat them to pieces.

Thinking of this, he walked through the tent and went to the temporary school grounds.

At the moment, the soldiers are training.

The content of this training is mainly the movement skills of using the Qin-style rifle.

For example, at this moment, a soldier is crawling on the ground holding a Qin-style rifle.

There are also soldiers holding Qin-style rifles to practice shooting positions such as standing, kneeling, and lying down.

There is also a team with the flag as the unit to practice tactical battles.

After inspecting the results of the soldiers’ training, Chang Wei was very satisfied.

Undoubtedly, from now on, the fighting method of the royal family’s pro-army has completely changed.

It was another three days, after the last batch of soldiers equipped with Qin-style rifles underwent adaptive training, Chang Wei gave the order to attack.

Under the command of the general, the soldiers entered the trench with Qin-style rifles.

Artillery quickly established howitzers and rifled gun positions.

Aim the muzzle at the city wall of Zhongling Pass.

The change of the royal family’s troops immediately aroused the vigilance of the guard at Zhongling Pass.

This guard is none other than Ashur.

Beside Ashur was a Russian officer.

It was Olsky who fought against the Ning Jin army with the Tongniu Wangzhang last time.

This time, he was ordered by Ivan to assist Ashur.

(end of this chapter)