Volume 4 is in the ascendant Chapter 398 Tactics
Bai Tu's proposal was rejected again, and... this time it was the veto from the Privy Council.
Even Bai Tu's beloved adoptive father, Lu Bu, did not agree with Bai Tu's idea...
“Hard drive, even as a father, I cannot break through the county wall that is supported by the people in one blow.” Lu Bu’s reason was simple. The city wall... is useful to me, how can it be useless?
Lu Bu also advised: "Even though our Great Chu is now strong in military power, there is no guarantee that no one will jump over the wall in desperation. Moreover... even if we can keep the enemy out of the country, we still have to consider future generations."
Sure enough, even if Baitu does not demolish the old city wall, some people are thinking about renovating it.
The inner city wall was built by Cheng Ji herself, and its main purpose was to isolate the Ji-zao soldiers. The outer city wall... still had to be built by herself.
"Foster father, what I mean is not to keep the enemy out of the country, but the role of the city wall... is much greater than the cost of building it. When you were in Bingzhou, you often fought with the Xiongnu and the Qiang cavalry. You should understand the principle of field battles instead of sieges. The heavy artillery of the Ministry of Works is about to be put into use. By then, it will be more powerful than the catapult. Ordinary city walls will be like melons being smashed. Even thicker ones can hardly withstand five or six attacks. Moreover, there is no need to make bullets from stones like catapults..." Bai Tu explained.
"The heavy artillery of the Ministry of Industry? I've seen it, but only the heaviest ones can achieve the effect that Hard Drive said, right? Ordinary field artillery, the projectile power for the city wall is not much stronger than the catapult, but the advantage is that the solid iron bullets are more lethal to soldiers on flat ground. Moreover, those so-called field artillery nowadays can't go up the mountain or into the water, so they are very limited.
As for the heavy artillery... if they could move the heavy artillery to the city, they deserved to lose." Lu Bu shook his head in disdain, saying that those "guys" were not much better than catapults except for their sound and convenience.
Bai Tu was speechless when he heard this.
It’s not that Lu Bu was wrong, but... Bai Tu didn’t expect that his adoptive father would study behind his back?
It is clear that those cannons were only recently developed by the Ministry of Industry and are still in the final debugging stage. Mass production and distribution are still in the planning stage!
"Hard Drive, you don't think that your father had nothing to do all day in Jinling before, right?" Lu Bu said with a smile.
"Of course not! I've heard that my adoptive father is so busy with his work that he has passed by home three times without entering..."
Bai Tu lied. He really thought that his adoptive father went home to accompany his aunt after reporting for duty at Jiangshan Pavilion in the morning.
It turns out that Lu Bu has always been concerned about the new weapons...
As the Privy Councilor, he also has the highest right to know about the Ministry of Works' research on military equipment. If Lu Bu secretly studied behind Bai Tu's back, it would not be surprising for him to know all this!
Lü Bu was very pleased with Bai Tu's compliment, but he still said, "The new artillery is indeed more convenient than the catapult. Unlike the catapult, it cannot be moved over long distances and can only be manufactured on site. In addition, iron bullets are easier to transport and do not need to rely on local materials. However... it is still a long way to completely change the mode of war."
Bai Tu also had to admit that in terms of tactical laning, his godfather did have a unique vision and could see the problems with the artillery at a glance.
Are city walls useful against artillery?
It cannot be said that it is useless. In fact, during World War II, when China was invaded by island countries, the city walls also played a certain role - the Chinese army was restricted by the performance of artillery, and most of the blasting cannons could only loosen the bricks, while the armor-piercing cannons of the island countries could easily destroy the city walls... Therefore, in the middle and late stages, the Chinese army, as the invaded party, could only demolish the ancient city walls wherever they went, to avoid the embarrassment of being used by the enemy in the future!
As for the Ministry of Industry’s current “cannons”, there is no need to distinguish between shrapnel shells and armor-piercing shells. There are only the most common solid shells.
The main way of causing damage is the rolling and bouncing of iron bullets and lead bullets after they are fired.
Don't count on it being able to shoot out and explode for now.
That requires a hollow bullet filled with gunpowder, or a "grenades". Howitzers not only have higher requirements for fuse technology, but also have restrictions on the length of the barrel. Now the Ministry of Industry has the idea of shrapnel shells, but they either explode or the shooting distance is too short...
After all, this has touched upon some blind spots in the knowledge of "hard disks" and needs to be solved by the Ministry of Industry itself.
To some extent, it is not as reliable as another project of throwing shrapnel, which has been suspended at halftime due to safety reasons.
Even for the few types that have been successfully tested now, if they are to be mass-produced... the problem of the energy source of the "true qi machine" still needs to be solved. Otherwise, the generals in the army will have to act as tools to power the stamping machines... I'm afraid the output will be worrying!
Pang Tong had already made some progress and was discussing it with Hua Tuo.
With the firepower and technology of the Ministry of Industry's current artillery, after being ejected solidly and "bouncing" three or four times, it can still maintain sufficient lethality to people, with a theoretical killing distance of over a thousand steps.
Compared with the Chu cannon, the Baigong cannon is like a dwarf compared to a giant. It is still very tempting, but... it is still a "dwarf". On the battlefield, apart from its loud noise, it can basically be regarded as an enhanced version of a catapult!
That’s why Lu Bu said that artillery cannot change the mode of war!
Bai Tu couldn't refute this, after all, what Lu Bu said made sense. As for what Bai Tu was thinking about, the "future" development of artillery, he couldn't explain it to others.
However, Lu Bu's words also gave Bai Tu a new direction, that is...war mode.
Bai Tu suddenly realized that even his adoptive father had not yet adapted to the change in tactical thinking. This was not just a problem with the city wall...
Using old tactics to apply new equipment will undoubtedly result in half the effort and twice the result.
And from this perspective, if Bai Tu can convince Lu Bu to change his tactical thinking as a whole, then it would be natural to abandon the city wall!
"Godfather, how about we do a sand table simulation?" Bai Tu said confidently.
"Oh? Hard disk wants to teach godfather how to fight now? Hahaha, okay, godfather will play with you for a few moves." Lu Bu said with a smile.
Sand table simulation is not some high-tech thing. It is just using sand and stones to simulate the terrain and chess pieces to simulate the battle in the sand table. What Bai Tu proposed is not even an invention.
An hour later...
"No, no, no, you can't count it that way. It's useless even if your cannons can fire and roll... Your father and his three hundred men are enough to break through your battle formation. You've already lost!" Lu Bu said as he pushed down all the soldiers and chess pieces on the sand table.
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This is the third time. We agreed to fight five thousand against five thousand, with each man having thirty Chu cannons and two thousand Shenbi bows.
But every time Bai Tu got a little advantage, Lu Bu would say that he could break through the formation with 300 men, and come over to pull down his general flag...
But Bai Tu couldn't say anything.
After all, even if this was a real battlefield, Lu Bu could still charge like this!
