Chapter 1502： Artillery battalion

Before Christmas, Heinkers and his Sixth Legion arrived in Dublin under full transport of ships and warships from the North Sea. On the England side, because 15,000 combat troops and 20,000 civilians need to be transported, they are still in the process of transportation.

Marin also came to Dublin with the fleet. However, he did not intend to enter the war, but came to take the field at the beginning. Moreover, Edward did not want him to join the war. After all, unifying Ireland is a very political thing. Edward wants to be an eternal emperor, so he doesn't want others to grab the limelight.

Therefore, Marin just came to Dublin to hold a show to express his support for Edward. Then, it is going back. However, Marin sent an artillery battalion to facilitate Edward's siege.

The artillery battalion sent by Marin had 18 artillery and 300 artillery. In fact, 180 artillery soldiers operating the artillery are sufficient. The other 120 people are the coolies of the reserve team and carrying the shells.

The artillery on land is not the same as the artillery on the battleship. The battleship can be equipped with ammunition and gunpowder, and only a few people can serve each gun. Artillery on land is more troublesome. Because, the army artillery needs to be disassembled and installed. When we arrived at the location, we had to dig a hole and get an easy-to-reset gun position or something.

Moreover, through the war in Italy, Marin discovered that the original artillery can be protected with mounds ...

Gonzalo de Córdoba is a tactician who specializes in earthwork. He likes to dig a pile of earth in front of the army to form a wall of earth to block the enemy's shells. And the Spanish musketeer hides behind the mound, he can calmly use the musket to abuse his opponent ...

In fact, this trick is very useful even in later wars. In the anti-Japanese films that Marin watched, soldiers often hid behind the rudimentary fortifications piled up with mud sacks and shot at the enemy. In particular, such scenes are very common in street battles.

Of course, this defense method also has limitations. If the opponent only uses a gun, it is indeed difficult to break through such a defense. But if the other party uses artillery ... at the level of artillery during World War II, absolutely this kind of rudimentary street fortification will be eliminated in one shot.

Therefore, this kind of fortification filled with sacks filled with sand is only suitable for rookies to peck at each other-no one has artillery, come on, hurt each other! But when I met the devil with 92 infantry artillery, it was unstoppable ...

At that time, during the civil war, everyone used Hanyang to build, and can rely on the mound and the enemy to shoot each other for a long time without a win. But when confronted with opponents with aircraft and cannons, directly GG ... Of course, our army realized that there was a huge gap in firepower, and simply changed it to night attack. At this time, the enemy was dumbfounded-Nima, my artillery can't exert his strength in the middle of the night. Even if there is a flare, if the other party is familiar with the characteristics of the flare and hides it, the devil can do nothing ...

Putting aside those redundant ideas, Marin found that in this era, because it was very difficult to transport artillery on land, it was generally only possible to transport small caliber artillery. This kind of artillery, the general shell is only up to 3 pounds, and it can't penetrate the mound at all ...

Do you know why every time Turkey attacks the German region, it must first attack the Austrian capital Vienna? It ’s not that the Turks are stubborn, but because-Vienna is on the Danube, making it easy to transport artillery by ships on the Danube ...

The Ottoman Empire had artillery, and its caliber was still large. However, those large-calibre artillery pieces are very unsuitable for land transport. Because Vienna is located on the Danube, the Ottoman army can transport the heavy artillery to Vienna by boat through the estuary of the Black Coast of the Danube, and then pull ashore to bomb the city.

Therefore, the Ottoman Turkish army stubbornly besieged Vienna again and again, but did not choose other breakthrough directions. Of course, there are also political reasons that Vienna is the nominal capital of the Holy Roman Empire. After all, the sacred capital of the Holy Roman Empire has been laid down, which can disrupt the confidence of the Germans ...

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However, Marin's artillery is different. Through memory, he has come up with a two-wheeled cannon rack for later generations, which can facilitate the transportation of artillery.

In particular, he also made simple wheel bearings for caged balls, which greatly reduced the resistance of the war horse towed artillery, so that the artillery with a body weight of less than one ton can be moved by horses on the dirt road.

Of the 18 artillery pieces he sent this time, 10 were 12-pound Napoleon guns made of bronze. This artillery is mainly used to destroy the enemy battle array. The 12-pound iron ball shell flew over, hitting a line, which could penetrate the entire company column at a distance of 600 yards, and the power was extremely great.

As for the other 8 guns, it is even more powerful-that is the army version of 8 32-pound Karen guns ...

Don't look at the large caliber of this artillery, but because of the short barrel design, its body weight is only about 800 kg, which is not much heavier than the Napoleon gun. If you only carry 8 doors, as long as you have enough manpower, transportation can still be done. Of course, the premise is not to encounter rainy days.

If it's raining, the dirt road will be muddy and you can't transport such heavy artillery. Unless, there is the paved Roman avenue. But Ireland has been a land of extinction for thousands of years, and the Roman Empire has never conquered it. Therefore, there is no Roman Boulevard in the indigenous control area. Therefore, if you want to transport the artillery, you can only wait for the good weather ...

Fortunately, the island of Ireland is so big that even if it waits a few days, the artillery will still be delivered. Indigenous forces in Ireland are generally poor, and the cities built are also small, ruined cities. Marin took out this 32-pound Karen gun, which was definitely enough to open the city gate.

But considering that there are too many rainy days on the island of Ireland, even winter is no exception. Therefore, Marin also specially equipped the artillery with a huge rain shelter to facilitate the firing of the gun on rainy days.

As for the gunpowder's gunpowder, it does not exist. Because, the artillery propellant of the North Sea State is completely sealed with a waterproof oil paper bag. Only when the gun is fired, the seal will be torn open and loaded ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Even if it is raining, as long as the assembled canopy is built, it can be launched.

As for the shelter, it was destroyed by enemy artillery? It doesn't exist, because the Irish natives of this era have no artillery ...

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After stealing the skills of Gonzalo de Cordoba ’s earthwork, Marin discovered that when he dug trenches before the war, he could put the excavated soil into sacks, and then pile up In front of the artillery, only the notch designed outside the barrel is left.

In this way, the safety of the gunner was greatly improved with the cover of the fortifications piled with sacks filled with mud.

You know, artillery is a technical job in this era, and all of them are killed if they are killed. Therefore, with the cover of the fortifications piled up with sacks filled with soil, the loss of artillery in the North Sea State will be greatly reduced in the future.

what? Are you worried that your opponent's artillery will do the same? Not afraid! Because, the dirt piles piled up by the opponent can't stop the bombardment of the 32-pound gun. Not to mention the bombardment of the iron ball of the 32-pound Karen cannon, even the 12-pound shells of the Napoleon cannon are difficult to resist with ordinary dirt piles. Only those shells of two or three pounds of small cannons will be blocked by the mound ...