This Goshha is under the command of Dai Shan, seeing his frightened look, Amin reprimanded him with disdain: "What are you afraid of this dog minion, there are so many shield cars here, they are all specially reinforced heavy shield cars, no matter how powerful the artillery of those Han dogs is, can they still break these shield cars?" ”

Amin was indeed full of confidence when he said this, since he heard that Daishan had suffered a big loss under the artillery of the Ming army, he specially ordered the construction of a batch of thickened heavy shield vehicles. These heavy shield carts are all made of the thickest wooden planks, and they are also wrapped in thick leather quilts around them to cover up the shells and projectiles, in Amin's opinion, let alone firearms, such a thick shield car is estimated to be unable to penetrate the projectiles of the artillery.

Seeing Amin's disdainful look, Dai Shan was also holding back the fire in his heart, in the past, this Amin didn't care what he thought in his heart, but at least on the surface, he was still respectful to himself, but since he knew that he had lost the battle, there was a smell of yin and yang in his words, so that he was not angry, and now he openly drank his own minions, and it depends on the master to beat the dog, Amin, you are too much.

Seeing that his Goshha was reprimanded so much that he didn't dare to say anything, Dai Shan snorted coldly: "Sashei, since Erbeile said so, what are you in a hurry about, just stand here and watch." ”

"Huh!" After being reprimanded, Goshha was also a little aggrieved, and he kept his head down and kept silent.

Listening to the constant sound of horns in the camp of the Ming army a mile away, a Ming gunner in a green military uniform was constantly busy on the position, Dai Shan said with a calm face: "Amin, if I were you, I would order a group of soldiers and horses to go forward to attack the artillery position of the Ming army, and I can't let them attack us calmly." ”

"Big brother, what you said is not right." Dai Shan originally had good intentions, but in Amin's ears, he thought that Dai Shan wanted to let his blue flag be used as cannon fodder, and he said with a cold face: "Although our blue flag children are brave, they are not given in vain. I'm not going to let them die in vain. If the eldest brother thinks that this is necessary, you can send your Zhenghong Banner down, and I will not stop it. ”

"You ......" Dai Shan was so angry that he almost scolded his mother, if it weren't for the fact that Lao Tzu's vest soldiers lost part of it a few days ago, and yesterday he handed over all the vest soldiers to Yue Tuo to go out to fry the other party's ass, and now Lao Tzu can talk to you in such a low voice?

Just when Dai Shan was so angry, a sharp whistle sounded at the foot of the mountain, which spread throughout the entire Ming army position.

With the sound of the whistle, a huge roar suddenly sounded in front of the Ming army's position, and the whole earth seemed to shake, and one hundred and twenty artillery pieces collectively spewed out thick gunsmoke, and a large amount of dense white smoke produced by the burning of black powder immediately filled the front of the entire artillery battalion under the illumination of the hot sun.

In the billowing smoke, countless black iron pellets flew towards the mountain. At first glance, these iron pellets were slow, as if the naked eye could see the flight trajectory of these iron pellets, but soon these iron pellets flew above the Houjin Tartar position.

With the help of the artillery mirror, the artillery battalion was exceptionally fast and sophisticated in both reflection and mapping accuracy, and nearly half of the shells hit the target in the first round of shelling.

Only the sound of "crackling" breaking the shield car was heard, and one by one the iron pellets fell on the positions of the Houjin army, and from time to time the Houjin Tartars were hit by the projectiles, and a stream of blood mist rose, carrying the howls of the wounded. These heavy shield carts, which were originally considered extremely sturdy in Amin's opinion, were smashed to pieces, and many shield carts were instantly pierced.

"Boom!"

I heard a loud bang, and the shutter of a heavy shield car suddenly exploded, and an iron ball directly pierced the heads of the two Houjin soldiers, and the remaining projectiles remained in the chest of a tartar, and he flew out with his whole person.

For a time, the position of the Houjin army in Dry Grass Ridge was full of minced meat, blood mist spraying, high-motion iron balls, and a large number of sharp wood chips produced after shooting the shutter of the heavy shield car, and also swept the Houjin Tartar soldiers around the rear of the shield car.

These post-gold tartars, except for the archers wearing cotton armor, many of the rest are auxiliaries or even clothed minions, and the Jurchens naturally will not equip these cannon fodder with valuable armor. In this way, the fun will be great, those sharp wood chips that shoot are driven by the huge kinetic energy of the iron ball to produce a huge lethality, these auxiliaries and coated minions were shot all over the face by the fragments, one by one blood flowed like a lot of people covered their heads and faces and howled wildly, they either knelt on the ground and cramped and trembled in pain, or rolled on the ground in pain.

It is naturally easier to deal with a stationary target than against a moving target, and with the first round of shelling as a reference, the second round of hits is even higher. One by one, the projectiles fell into the formation of the Tartars as if they had eyes.

In particular, it is necessary to mention the 12-pounder cannon equipped with the artillery battalion, when the projectile weighing 5.44 kilograms falls into the camp of Houjin, the lethality caused by it is very unexpected, no matter how thick the covering wood is, how thick the leather quilt is, it is also a dozen big holes, and constantly what shield car will be mutilated as long as it is hit, and debris flies, and the Houjin Tartar behind the shield car is either dead or injured, and it is a mess.

At this time, Dai Shan and Amin had already retreated to the rear behind a dirt slope under the escort of the surrounding Goshha to avoid the constantly flying projectiles, looking at the Houjin soldiers who were wailing in the artillery fire, Amin's original deliberate composure was immediately gone, especially when he saw with his own eyes that a Goshha who was less than twenty steps away from him was directly hit in the head by an iron pellet the size of a fist, and the head of the guard, together with the helmet, was immediately shattered like a broken watermelon, White brains and red blood even splattered on him, and his face quickly turned pale.

Historically, at the beginning, the Houjin Tatars looked down on artillery, until Nurhachi was wounded by artillery and had to return to Shengjing, and later died of illness due to his injuries, and it was only then that the Jurchens paid attention to artillery. It can't be helped, even your own sweat has made the artillery burp, and if you still look down on the artillery, it can only be said that there is a problem with your IQ.

Later, with Geng Jingzhong and Shang Kexi, the generals of the Ming army surrendered to Houjin, and brought a large number of craftsmen and gunners who could make firearms, Houjin formed the first firearms army, but the good times did not last long, and after the Jurchens won the world, the Qianlong Emperor, who was afraid of being overthrown by the Han people, blocked the firearms again, until the Westerners knocked on the door with strong ships and cannons, and woke up in shock, but it was too late at that time.

Through the thick smoke of gunpowder, enduring the choking smell of gunpowder smoke coming from his nose, Yang Feng saw from the telescope that the Tartars on the mountain ridge were rushing under the attack of artillery, Yang Feng nodded with satisfaction, although the artillery battalion has only been trained for a few months, and the gunners are not too proficient in operation, but the advanced aiming equipment has made up for the shortcomings of their lack of training, and they have played very well.

Zhao Shujiao on the side also looked amazed, a few days ago he watched the Jiangning Army's artillery attack on Daishan's Zhenghong Banner at the head of Jinzhou City, the Jiangning Army only had twelve artillery firing, and the effect of the 120 artillery guns firing collectively is completely different, just look at the current sky, after several rounds of shelling in a row, the whole sky is filled with thick gunsmoke, and there are deafening loud noises everywhere, he can't imagine anything else that can withstand this kind of attack at this time, I'm afraid that even the strong walls will have to fall under this kind of attack, right?

After six rounds of continuous attacks, Yang Feng used the walkie-talkie to give the order to change the ammunition.

"The Tartar shield car is basically destroyed, immediately replace it with a shell!"

"Understood!"

As the order was given, the porters, who were busy carrying the shells in the back, hurriedly brought up the flowering shells that had been placed in the back.

Unlike solid bullets, flowering bullets are much more difficult to manufacture. Because the manufacture of the trigger fuse was too difficult, Yang Feng could only make relatively primitive flowering bombs.

Before firing the shell, the gunner should first visually measure the distance between the target and the gun, estimate the time for the shell to reach the target, then cut the fuse of the grenade to a suitable length, and then light the fuse and fire the grenade with the howitzer. If the fuse is cut too long, the grenade will not explode for half a day after it lands, leaving time for enemy soldiers to dodge and even be trampled by bold enemies. If the fuse is too short, it can explode in mid-air. This is also the reason why the use of flowering bullets in this era is not as widespread as the use of solid bullets.

After giving the order to use the flowering bomb, Qiu Disheng, who was in charge of the measurement, re-measured the enemy's distance, and then ordered loudly: "Distance...... 526 meters, height 125, azimuth 2145 2544, flowering bomb ready! ”

After receiving the order, the gunners carefully took out the flowering shells from the shell box, but the shells were still round in those years, and no trigger fuse had been developed. Therefore, the flowering shell is first packed with gunpowder into the barrel, and then the round shell is stuffed into the barrel with a wooden butt, which has the advantage of not only sealing the barrel, but also increasing the stability of the shell launch.

The invention of the wooden cartridge is said to be groundbreaking by igniting the wooden fuse inside the cannonball at the time of firing, and then by lighting the medicine bag in the bore to shoot the cannonball out.

The role of the wooden butt is not only to seal the gun chamber and increase stability, but also to insulate and cushion. Because the temperature of gunpowder is extremely high instantaneously when it is fired, the wooden tray can play a role in preventing the high temperature from being transmitted to the projectile body instantaneously, after all, the ignition point of black powder is not high, and too high temperature will also make the shell explode in the barrel. Moreover, when the internal trajectory accelerates, the cushioning effect of this wooden tray can make the instantaneous detonation of the shell not too strong.

The most important thing is that the wooden butt that Yang Feng took out is a very mature type, and the shell and the wooden butt are combined into one, so that when the shell flies in the outer ballistic state, due to the low density of the wooden buttle, the flight of the cannonball will be similar to the head and tail light self-stabilizing structure of a badminton (of course, it is far from reaching the level of spin stability due to high-speed rotation like rifled shells), which increases the shooting accuracy.

"Fire!"

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Hundreds of flowering shells were fired towards Houjin's position.

At this time, Amin and Dai Shan and other generals were hiding behind a natural dirt slope, looking at the wounded soldiers who were constantly wailing on the mountain range, Amin's face was so black that he could scrape off the black charcoal, just now he was still swearing that his shield car could block the shells of the Ming army, but the reality gave him a hard slap in the face, and more than 100 heavy shield vehicles that he worked hard to make that claimed to be able to resist artillery were smashed to pieces by the artillery of the Ming army, and the remaining dozen or so shield cars were only spared because they hid behind the dirt slope.

Just when Amin was calm and silent, a Goshha shouted again: "Master, the Ming army has started to shoot artillery again!" ”

"Uh......h Woowoo woo ......"

"Disperse!" The shouts and curses of officers resounded everywhere on the mountain.

As the sound of an old cow gasping sounded, countless black dots began to appear in the sky, and the Tartars, who had been bombed and killed heavily by several rounds of artillery fire, also learned well. It is said that war is the best teacher, and this sentence is not wrong at all, as soon as they saw the artillery fired on the opposite side, the Tartars who had never experienced artillery fire before were very fast, or hid behind the dirt slope or in the dirt pit, in short, they could not be on the flat ground like a fool. You must know that after those solid bullets hit the ground, they will form irregular ricochets, and if they are hit by those projectiles weighing five or even ten pounds, it is not a joke, and no matter how thick the armor is, it is useless.

"Knock ......"

A cannonball fell to the ground and bounced for a while before rolling to the back of a dirt slope, more than a dozen Tartars hiding behind the dirt slope looked at the black projectile that slowly rolled down in front of him, his eyes showed a look of fear and curiosity, a man wearing two layers of heavy armor looked at the projectile with a cylindrical wooden support behind his butt less than two steps away and scolded: "Damn, this damn iron ball, fuck off!" ”

With that, he raised his foot and was about to kick the projectile away, but saw that the projectile seemed to flash like a red light, and then a violent explosion sounded.

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, the flames and smoke were everywhere, and the shells weighing ten catties exploded, and after the explosion of three and a half catties of black gunpowder, the broken shrapnel and dozens of peanut-sized iron beads in the shells easily broke through the heavy armor of this Zhuan Da and more than a dozen Tartars behind him, tearing their bodies, and peanut-sized fragments rolled and collided in their bodies, bringing them great pain.

The powerful impact force also made the person who was shot roll on the ground in pain, and then looked at the blood arrows that continued to spray on his body, and a group of people either knelt on the ground or lay on the ground and cried and howled in pain. In the face of an explosion close at hand, no matter how heavy the armor is, no matter how luxurious the equipment, there is only one way to die in the face of fragments with a speed of several hundred meters per second.

Facts have proved that the lethality of the flowering shell to the personnel is incomparable to that of the solid bullet, and with the sound of violent explosions, those Tartar soldiers who originally thought that they had dodged the attack of the opponent's shells suffered a lot, and were blown up by the sudden explosion of the shells and suffered heavy losses.