Under the city of Kobe, Xu Qingshan, who was on the chariot, looked at the battlefield and saw the surrounding sentinels galloping and the sea of flags fluttering.

At the sound of the horn, the army of the Ming Dynasty was constantly converging, and one army formation after another launched an offensive array, like a silent ocean before a storm.

The dense Ming army soldiers gathered into a vast number of men and horses, which looked heavy as a mountain in the afterglow of the setting sun, and a rich evil aura echoed in the wilderness of the sky.

Seeing the flag like the sea, the guns like a forest, Xu Qingshan is proud in his heart, the power of the Ming Dynasty is so invincible!

Sun Hedou, the general of the artillery battalion beside him, was even more complacent, only to see him pointing to the chaotic Japanese troops at the head of the city, and smiled at the people next to him: "The day dog is really brave, a group of rabble, and when they are dying, they dare to pull the stand and hold on!" ”

He looked at Xu Qingshan and said, "Marshal, there is no need for a large army to dispatch, the dozens of cannons in my artillery battalion only need a burst of bombardment, which is enough to wipe them out!" ”

Xu Qingshan pressed his hand and signaled him not to talk nonsense and go straight to work.

Sun Hedou smiled awkwardly, and said to the left and right: "Pass the order, all artillery pieces will be quickly put in place, ready to attack the city!" ”

The officers of the artillery battalion under his command immediately shouted and issued a series of orders.

The artillerymen moved quickly, and with the assistance of the infantry, they pulled twenty Wuhuang guns into the middle of the front line, followed by heavy mortars and Dongfeng rockets.

The gun carriage of the twelve-pound Wuhuang gun weighs about 340 pounds, and the gun carriage has a simple structure, consisting of four parts: wheels, axles, gun tail mounts and pitching devices.

With the exception of the pitching device, which is an all-metal component, most of the other parts are made of hardwood, such as oak or birch.

In order to ensure that the wheels were damaged by passing through bad roads, such as the dilapidated roads of Little Japan, the wheels of the Takehuang cannon were covered with iron sheets.

Because there are no anti-recoil measures on the gun mount, the recoil of a gun down is very large, and it needs to be absorbed by the gun mount itself, so the gun mount is very strong.

"Commander, all the guns are in place!"

"Fire!"

Sun Hedou shouted violently, and the command flag in his hand waved down violently, with a strong sense of strength.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

The twenty Martial Emperor cannons let out a roar, and the astonishing recoil made the entire gun carriage tremble, and the gun carriage was pushed backwards.

Fortunately, the gun carriage absorbs the recoil and finally transmits it to the skid bracket where the bottom of the tailstock touches the ground (preventing the recoil from breaking the skid-like shape made by the gun tailstock).

Amid the deafening sound of artillery, the artillery camp position was filled with thick smoke, and large and heavy iron bullets whistled out and rushed towards the head of Kobe Castle.

With a loud bang, a walled building at the head of the city was directly hit by several shells of the Ming army, and under the bombardment of seven or eight ten-pound solid shells, the large walled building was smashed through the wood and stone structure, and collapsed instantly.

The Japanese guards entrenched below were smashed and wounded, and in the screams, they were all buried alive in the wood, and it was difficult for a few people to survive.

Although the Wuhuang Cannon is a smoothbore gun, its shooting accuracy is very high, which is enough to engage the enemy at a distance of three miles, and only a few shells can make the enemy of more than 100 people incapacitated.

"Angle down!"

The Wuhuang Cannon only has a simple pitching device, not even a direction adjustment device, but fortunately, this is a siege battle, not a defensive artillery position, and there is no need for extra manpower to help move the gun carriage to change the direction of firing.

The work of adjusting the angle was simple, the artilleryman only needed to install the screw and adjustment handle of the pitching device on the Wuhuang gun.

The artilleryman responded to the call, desperately turning the handle to lower the muzzle, while the observer in front re-aimed through the lifting door on the right side of the gun emplacement and the blade-shaped crosshair on the right lug.

Rumble!

A large iron ball broke through the Kobe female wall, and in the dust, a large mist of blood was sandwiched, and a Japanese soldier was beaten to pieces of flesh on the spot, and some broken limbs flew around with the dirt.

Several others fell to the ground, all of them grizzled and covered in dirt and flesh.

There was another bombardment that broke through the wall, and a Japanese soldier hiding at the battlement was pierced, and his lower body was broken.

He fell far away from the wall, but he did not die for a while, crawling on the ground in pain, and let out a heart-rending wail, which frightened the little Japanese around him pale.

"Brush the gun!"

The artillerymen stuffed the cannon brushes into the iron bucket and dipped them, and then cleaned the barrels with wet wool and wooden brushes.

The artillery tools equipped with the Wuhuang Cannon are not much different from the previous artillery, and the artillerymen still use cannon brushes, projectile pushers, debombing levers and breech hooks, and are also equipped with a small iron bucket.

Don't look at the simplicity of the small tin bucket, it can be used for a lot of purposes, not only to brush the gun, but also to splash water to cool the gun body and extinguish the fire of the ammunition pile.

Usually the artillerymen also used this thing to wash clothes, shower and boil water.

After the chamber was cleaned, the loader filled in a new cartridge, while a gunner loaded the iron bullets and installed a new priming rope at the fire door, ready to aim and fire.

Sun Hedou, who loves to fight cannons, is like taking stimulants, and he roared loudly: "Dongfeng rocket is launched by Lao Tzu, and it will blow up the damn fiercely!" ”

In the sharp whistle, the Ming artillery position was covered with thick smoke, and dozens of Dongfeng rockets rose into the air.

Poor Kobe City, a place with a big fart, and a half-pulled city defense, became crumbling under such a blow.

The infantry of the Ming army also began to gradually approach, pushing the ladder under the cover of artillery fire, and preparing to enter the city.

This kind of ladder is not a simple long ladder in the movie, but a huge shield cart, carried by six rubber wheels, with a ladder that can be lifted and lowered, and the soldier climbs up from the back like a staircase, which is both stable and convenient.

After a few rounds of artillery fire, the Tokugawa shogunate's shamrock family crest was still fluttering at the head of Kobe Castle, and Naito Tadashi hid behind the banner and shouted loudly, cheering for the shogunate army desperately.

Although the number of Japanese troops was only four or five thousand, their resistance was quite stubborn, after all, most of them were samurai of the Kobe Domain, belonging to the locals, and their daimyo personally supervised the battle, so there was no way not to fight hard.

In the Ming army's formation, Xu Qingshan frowned slightly, and said unhappily: "What kind of thing is the artillery battalion fighting!" ”

The commander of the artillery battalion, Sun Hedou, froze, and also felt that the artillery battalion had not formed an effective fire suppression on the battlefield, perhaps because of the small number of artillery in the artillery battalion, but the war had already started, and the soldiers who were besieging the city could not be allowed to stare at the bullets of the little Japanese and climb up.

He suddenly shouted: "Chen Yonghua! ”

"Here!"

A young artilleryman in his early twenties ran up and saluted Sun Hedou loudly.

The artilleryman has a dignified appearance, a righteous face, and judging by his appearance, words and deeds, he looks more like a rich young master.

In fact, this person named Chen Yonghua is indeed a young master, his father Chen Ding was a jinshi in the first year of Tianwu, and he is now in Tong'an Zhi County, Chen Yonghua is a second-generation official.

Sun Hedou pointed at him and said: "Chen Yonghua, you kid is the most accurate in our artillery battalion, tell me, can you kill the flag at the head of the city?" ”

Chen Yonghua only glanced at the military flag of the shogunate at the head of the city, and then replied loudly: "Yes!" ”

Sun Hedou said: "Good boy, confident enough!" You go and kill that thing, and the group will always take credit for you in front of the big handsome! ”

"Yes!"

Chen Yonghua didn't say a word, and personally operated the martial emperor cannon under his jurisdiction and aimed at the golden three-leaf banner of the shogunate three miles away.

As a gun commander, he was an excellent gunner in the artillery battalion and had a solid knowledge of geometry.

Moreover, the gun commander personally carried and kept the box containing the front sight and the light door, so he had a better understanding of artillery.

After Chen Yonghua finished the operation, he shouted: "Fire!" ”

The fuse was bubbling with sparks, and Chen Yonghua and the surrounding artillerymen all took a few steps back and covered their ears.

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, a ten-pound solid ball hit a Japanese soldier next to the Japanese standard-bearer at the head of the city, and it was torn apart on the spot.

The flag bearer holding high the family emblem of the golden three-leaf flag of the shogunate was stunned for a moment, looking at the comrades who disappeared around him, and his heart was cold.

The Ming army seemed to be very considerate and did not let him have too many tense moments, and then the second shell carrying Sun Hedou's love flew in.

The second shot hit the trembling standard-bearer directly! Even the people with the flag were gone, and the golden three-leaf flag fell weakly under the city, soaked in the blood on the ground.

"Well done!"

"Young Master Chen is really a cannon god! Give us the face of the old eighth battalion commander of the heavy artillery brigade of the Shenwu Army! ”

Words of praise came into Chen Yonghua's ears, and even coach Xu Qingshan cast appreciative glances at him, which made him suddenly lose face.