Five Artillery Battalions
"I'll do whatever I want to you!"
The target of these words was the Empress of the Great Tang, Zhangsun Wugou.
Zhangsun Wugou felt that Su Yan had gone crazy.
But for some reason, she felt uneasy.
It was as if the big words that Su Yan said at this moment would become true.
After Su Yan turned around and left.
Zhangsun Wugou heaved a sigh of relief.
The atmosphere just now even made her feel a little suffocated.
Even the Empress of the Tang Empire had a blank mind.
..
It wasn't that Su Yan didn't want to get rid of Zhangsun Wugou.
But at this moment, Yuchi Gong pressed down again.
"Your Majesty, that Yuchi Gong should have already forged the siege weapons.”
Luo Liangce reported.
"He is quite fast."
Su Yan turned to look at Liu Ansheng.
"Old Liu, are the bronze cannons forged by the others usable?”
"Your Majesty, a total of eleven cannons have been forged. Those that can be used... There are four of them."
Liu Ansheng replied.
"The success rate is so low?"
Su Yan frowned slightly.
However, casting cannons was like this. Even if it was a bronze cannon, there was a chance of failure.
However, the bronze could still be used after it melted.
Therefore, the material consumption was not too great.
"Four Supremacies can be used…"
Su Yan rubbed his chin.
Including the one he had bought at a high price from the system store.
He only had five cannons in his hands.
He summoned a few cannoneers from the system.
"Xue Ren, Xue Yi, Xue Li, Xue Zhi, Xue Xin!!”
"Your subordinate is here!"
The five cannoneers knelt on one knee in front of Su Yan.
Su Yan discovered that the loyalty of the characters summoned from the system was fixed at 100.
However, he did not receive any attribute points.
However, the characters summoned by the system were indeed useful.
Each of the five cannoneers was a math expert. They could be used as math teachers when they had nothing to do.
Moreover, with these five cannoneers, he could train more cannoneers.
These were five seeds!
"This king will appoint the five of you as the commanders of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th battalions of the artillery army. You will be in charge of commanding the artillery army!”
"This subordinate will obey!"
The five of them shouted in unison.
The cannons were organized into independent units for combat.
This was also what he learned from Napoleon.
During the Napoleonic era.
The basic unit of artillery was the artillery company.
However, the right to use these artillery companies was concentrated in the hands of the army corps and even higher commanders.
In a battle, the higher-ups would assign an artillery company to each division to provide fire support.
Although the French army had six artillery companies as artillery regiments, each company of the artillery regiment was assigned to a division level unit.
This method of using artillery companies was accepted by the armies of various countries at that time. Of course, Napoleon, Wellington, and Grand Duke Charlie had all tried to distribute some light artillery to regiments or even units below regiments.
However, because this method had too much freedom, it was not conducive to concentrating the artillery fire, so it was eventually changed back to the original state.
Therefore, Su Yan would not try to create any new things regarding the artillery.
He had already walked out of the road.
Wouldn't it be nice to do it?
Of course, Napoleon's artillery company was usually equipped with eight cannons.
And now, Su Yan's artillery battalion only had one six-pound bronze cannon.
Of course, their firepower was far inferior to Napoleon's artillery.
However, Su Yan's weapon was not just a bronze cannon.
This was because his opponent did not have a single cannon.
Therefore, Su Yan, who possessed a cannon, was simply a blow to his opponent.
He also equipped the 80 small torsion-type catapults in his hands to the five artillery battalions.
This type of catapult could throw an object weighing two pounds to a distance of about 180 steps.
This was because the force was constant.
Therefore, in order to attack targets in different ranges, they had to be equipped with different specifications of " cannonballs." The most basic cannonball weighed one kilogram and could be thrown 250 steps away.
If two cannonballs were tied together with a net, it would be a two-pound cannonball that could be thrown 180 steps away.
Different shells had different shooting ranges.
After making the setting table, he could shoot according to the shooting table.
This catapult was very light because it was powered by a twisting force. It weighed less than 200 pounds and could be carried by four soldiers.
In addition, it was manufactured strictly according to the same specifications, so it could barely be used in the field.
Of course, there were also many flaws.
The cowhide tendons used to provide the twisting force would wear out after a few uses and had to be replaced.
However, in this era, when the opponent did not have any long-range firepower, using this catapult to throw out a flower bomb was simply a massacre for the dense infantry formation!
Having five cannoneers in charge of commanding the bronze cannons and the torsion-type engines could be considered as making the best use of everyone's talents.
"Let's go and see what this Yuchi Gong is going to do!”
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