Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 861

[Chapter 861 Heavy Rain]

“Boom boom boom…” The

shells crossed the sky in perfect curves and landed in the ditch in front of Miancheng. In the violent explosion, flames shot up into the sky.

This is the howitzer bombing.

After the Beidi cavalry’s tentative attack failed, the rifled guns cleared most of the field guns in the opponent’s trenches.

Immediately, Zhao Xu ordered the artillery to push the howitzers forward.

“Your Highness, the Beidi people have turned into shrinking turtles now, hiding behind the trenches and not daring to come out.” Chang Wei stood beside Zhao Xu with a teasing tone.

He thought Beidi would take revenge after suffering such a big loss.

But after that, there was no more Beidi cavalry.

“After this big loss, they should know how powerful they are.” Zhao Xu smiled, “Next, as you said, they can only be a coward and block our attack.”

Tiemu Tower Leading troops rounded back behind them and cut off the grain road.

Just from this point, he understood the other party’s intentions.

They couldn’t fight again and again, and they pinned their hopes on exhausting the food and grass of the royal army.

This point, Zhao Xu and Chang Wei also had a prediction when they entered Yizhou.

The two of them are also betting.

And what they gambled was that they could take Yiyang before the food and grass ran out and severely damage their coalition forces.

“They are destined to be delusional.” Chang Wei sneered.

The 170,000 Yanzhou army equipped with Qin-style rifles, grenades, rifled guns and howitzers will be their nightmare.

For the next two days and nights, the roar of the artillery on the battlefield never stopped.

The shells hit the flour like raindrops, constantly raising dust all over the trench.

The powerful soldiers and Beidi soldiers in the trench were miserable.

On the third day, the sky suddenly became cloudy and it rained heavily.

The artillerymen had to retreat to their tents and pull back the artillery.

“It’s really God helping me.” Zhao Xu watched the rain from inside the tent, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

At this moment, Chang Wei in a bamboo hat came in from outside.

Shaking the rain off his body, he said: “Your Highness, the general went to check it again. There is no problem with the ammunition, and the oil paper wrapped by the military commander is very dense.”

Zhao Xu nodded.

In ancient times, the material used to block water was oiled paper.

Hence the oil-paper umbrella.

In modern times, the moisture-proof function of the oil-paper umbrella is used in the storage of firearms and ammunition.

The Internet is full of jokes about Germany’s oil-paper-wrapped guns in World War I and World War II.

It is said that some firearms wrapped in oiled paper have been lying in the ground for seven or eighty years, and they are still in good structure and can be used when they are dug out.

Therefore, he passed on the small skills of keeping muskets and ammunition on oiled paper to the Bing Zhansi very early.

Later, the paper-shell bullets and paper-shell shells made by Bing Zhansi were made of normal paper inside, but the outside was oiled paper.

This is to prevent ammunition from becoming useless due to wet weather in heavy rain.

But even so, in the rainy days of the front-loading gun era, soldiers’ combat will still be affected.

Because when reloading, rainwater will fall into the barrel, and the bullet needs to be bitten open to pour ammunition, so the probability of misfiring is very high.

But Qin-style rifles avoid this problem.

This is also the reason why rear-loading guns can eliminate front-loading guns.

Even in the torrential rain, soldiers equipped with Qin-style rifles were still able to shoot normally.

Even if the firearm is wet, it will not be affected because it is a needle-type shooting.

However, although the musket was not affected, the artillery was not so lucky.

What Chang Wei went to check this time was mainly artillery and artillery ammunition.

“Your Highness, do you think they will take the opportunity to sneak attack.” Chang Weiwei looked outside.

The rain was heavy this time, and the vision was very poor, and I couldn’t see clearly from fifty meters away.

“Probably yes.” The corners of Zhao Xu’s mouth turned up, and there was evil hidden in his smile.

He believed that even the Ross people in the coalition army at this moment could not understand the thing about acupuncture.

Because this thing is too advanced in this era.

Even if there is, it may just be constantly being tested somewhere in the West.

As for the generals of the West, according to their understanding, guns and artillery are basically unusable on rainy days.

Although as far as he knows, the Britons changed the flint on some flintlock guns into caps.

But whether it is flint ignition or cap ignition, the gunpowder in the exposed gunpowder pool needs to be ignited to ignite the gunpowder inside.

Furthermore, the cap, like the flint, will not be able to strike due to moisture.

Therefore, they can’t imagine that Qin-style rifles can not be affected by rainy weather.

Once they concluded this, for them, the advantage of the palace army would be lost.

The opportunity for hand-to-hand combat is at hand, and both the Beidi people and the Ross people can be good at fighting.

When not to take the opportunity to sneak attack?

“Hey, they must come, they can kill them all.” Chang Wei smiled sinisterly.

He has already arranged it, keeping the soldiers on the side of the chariot always on guard.

When sleeping, the grenade cannot be disarmed, and the gun must be kept at hand, ready to fight at any time.

Zhao Xu and Chang Wei looked at each other, and they laughed sinisterly together.

But Zhao Xu’s smile was not just because of the sneak attack.

There is another point that also makes him very happy.

That is the end of the opponent’s trench.

Such a heavy rain will basically flood the trench.

This problem is often faced by the military during the contemporary World War I.

Under the long-term confrontation, the weather is naturally sunny and rainy.

When it rains, the soldiers in the trenches are out of luck.

The water flows downhill, and this rainwater will naturally be poured into the trench.

At this time, the soldiers in the trench can only rest in the rain.

Just water can soak them half dead.

Even when the rain stopped, the trenches were muddy, making the soldiers miserable.

Now, the soldiers in the trenches are afraid that they are also facing this problem.

He was thinking about it when suddenly there was a loud noise.

Through the rain, he saw a flame rising in the distance.

This is a mine that has been detonated.

Before that, he ordered the planting of landmines on both sides of the battlefield.

For two days, soldiers have been laying mines.

Since the mine is buried in the soil, and the top of the mine itself has a cover-like shell, it will not fail even in rainy days.

Now, the landmine sounded, and there was no doubt that the other party was about to sneak attack and stepped on the landmine.

“Here we come!” Chang Wei yelled, and rushed into the heavy rain, ordering the generals to be on guard.

Although they can still use Qin-style rifles in rainy days, their vision is affected after all.

In the face of sneak attacks, they still have to take it seriously.

“Boom, boom, boom…”

Then, one after another, explosions came from all directions.

Obviously, there are quite a few enemy soldiers who came to sneak attack this time.

“kill!”

It seemed that the explosion had exposed him, and the soldiers of the coalition army let out roars to cheer themselves up.

The sound went from far to near, and it kept approaching their chariot camp.

At this time, the soldiers of the Wangfu rushed out of the camp one after another, came to the chariot, used the chariot as a barrier, and aimed their guns outside.

(end of this chapter)