Outside the city of Wuchang, the sound of artillery rumbled, the Ming army opened artillery on the Qing army day and night and bombarded fiercely, solid shells of various calibers, flowering shells, howitzer shotguns and rotating rifled shells fell on the Qing army's position like rain, the Qing army worked hard to operate, and spent a lot of money to build the fortified fortress, one after another collapsed in the rumbling artillery. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The solid shells of the 32-pounder cannon and the flowering shells of the 64-pounder mortar were the main force of the sabotage fortification group, and although there were many rifled guns, the rifled guns were too slow to reload and the shells were expensive.

The hit rate of smoothbore artillery is not high, but it cannot stand a large number, and the overwhelming shells are smashed past, and there are always shells hitting the Qing fortress.

Solid shells continued to smash on the fortress, and the stones and bricks of the fortress that were hit by the bullets burst out, and they were immediately smashed into cracks. Then another row of heavy shells whistled, and the already scarred fortress collapsed.

Sixty-four-pounder flowering shells from the mortar guns continued to fall on the trenches, sending up huge fireballs that destroyed the trenches and blew the Qing army's fortifications into a floating earth.

Two strange-looking guns were firing fiercely at the Qing army's fortifications, and these two guns were the new breech-loading rifled guns used by the Ming army to test. This new type of rear-loading rifled gun, the weight of the shell reaches 18 pounds, purely from the weight of the shell is a kind of heavy artillery, but because of the use of conical shells, the caliber of the gun is not very large, the caliber is about equivalent to the caliber of a six-pound gun, the weight of the gun is equivalent to the weight of a ten-pound gun, about 1,500 pounds, but the power of the fired shell is much greater than that of an eighteen-pound gun.

Artillery commander Gong Xiaoda stood next to the two cannons, watching them take turns firing shells.

"The rate of fire of this new artillery is still quite fast." Gong Xiaoda watched with satisfaction as the gunners continued to fire and bombard the positions of the Qing army.

The rate of fire of a rear-loading rifled gun is indeed much faster than that of a front-loading rifled gun, not only faster than that of a front-loading rifled gun, but also much faster than that of a front-loading smoothbore gun. With such a heavy eighteen-pounder gun, the rate of fire was equivalent to that of a three-pounder smoothbore gun. I saw the gunners pull the firing rope, and a fireball erupted from the muzzle of the gun. Then pull the latch, open the bolt, clean the chamber, stuff a shell into the chamber, then load the cartridge, then load the cartridge, then load the primer, close the bolt, and the loading can be completed.

When firing a gun, you only need to pull the rope, and the firing pin at the end of the gun will hit the primer, ignite the medicine bag, and fire the shell, which is very convenient to use.

However, a gunner said: "This kind of cannon is actually not good, the rate of fire is fast, but the bolt leaks seriously, and the firing pin is easy to break, firing ten to fifteen shells, the firing pin is broken, and the firing pin has to be replaced." In addition, the barrel of the gun also heats up too quickly, and it takes time to fire one stick of incense, and it takes time to cool down two sticks of incense. ”

Another gunner said: "The air leak is too serious!" We have brothers who were accidentally burned by the spewing gas; In addition, the leaked gunpowder gas also burned the rope and had to be reconnected. If you don't have to pull the fire rope, no one dares to stand next to this kind of cannon to pull the fire, and it is easy to get burned. ”

Wang Yuyou nodded, turned his head to Gong Xiaoda and said, "This kind of cannon has another disadvantage, that is, the cannonballs are too expensive!" The cost of one shell is worth the cost of fifty smoothbore shells! ”

"After all, it is just an experimental product, and when steel technology develops and the steam engine comes out, the cost of this kind of cannon and cannonball will be reduced, and the problem of leakage of the gun bolt and easy breakage of the firing pin can also be solved." Wang Xinyu replied.

Several gunners with double-barreled firing pin muskets on their backs also said: "In fact, we also have such a problem with our rear-loading self-generated firearms, the air leakage in the breech is too serious, and if you fire it a few more times, the sealing ring will be broken, and the gunpowder gas will be sprayed out, which will burn your own people." In addition, the firing pin is also easy to break. ”

"These problems can be solved in the future." Wang Xinyu said.

Dai Cang, who came to the position to instruct the gunner in the use of rear-loading rifled guns, said: "If you can make a bottom-expanding bullet, the rate of fire of the front-loading rifled gun can also be increased, and it can be increased to be faster than the rate of fire of a smoothbore gun." ”

The so-called bottom expansion bullet is the mini bullet designed by Wang Xinyu, but the mini bullet is not as fast as the ordinary bullet because of the problem of hanging lead and the deformation of the ammunition. However, after the development of material science, you can directly load the gun in the rear, and there is no need to use Mini bullets, so Wang Xinyu does not have high hopes for Mini bullets.

The Ming army launched an artillery bombardment of the Qing army's position in Chijia Village for a whole day, and after firing tens of thousands of shells, 3,000 infantry began to attack.

"Watch out for the right flank, there's a Tartar cavalry coming to fight back!" The scout cavalry of the Ming army, which was placed on the right flank, signaled with fireworks.

About 1,200 cavalry of the Eight Banners, taking advantage of the Ming infantry to launch an attack on the Qing army's position, suddenly launched a counterattack. The Qing army general Guerjia took the initiative to ask Ying to fight, trying to take advantage of the Ming army's formation to advance forward and launch a counterattack, using cavalry to crush this Ming army.

"There are Tartar cavalry on the right flank! Fight the enemy! The Ming army guerrilla Ma Shihong gave an order.

The stragglers who were originally going to suppress the long-range firepower of the Qing army immediately dispersed and retreated. The phalanx of the Ming infantry, which was steadily advancing, was immediately converted into a hollow formation, and these 3,000 Ming troops were all musketeers, musketeers armed with bayonets, which could shoot from a distance and be used as pikemen in close combat.

The stragglers of the Ming army who used rifled guns retreated into the hollow array, raised their rifled guns, and aimed far away at the Eight Banners cavalry of the Qing army running back and forth in the distance.

"The thieves have formed a formation, don't act rashly!" Gualja asked Goshha to signal the flag.

It is impossible for the cavalry of the Eight Banners to attack the infantry that has already formed a formation, and the cavalry and infantry are all running around the periphery, shooting arrows and harassing them from time to time, waiting for the Ming army's formation to collapse, and then launching an attack to defeat the Ming army's formation in one fell swoop. The riding and archery of the Eight Banners of Mongolia, when shooting arrows with its strong bow, they often dismount and shoot arrows, and some of the Eight Banners with the highest archery skills are riding on horses, constantly shooting arrows in the middle of the journey, and those are the sharpshooters who are one in a thousand.

The feather arrows thrown by the Qing army kept coming, and the arrows were shot at the Ming army wearing heavy armor, and did not pose any threat to the Ming army. To deal with the light arrows falling from the sky, the Ming army only needs to lower their heads slightly and use the brim of the six-petal helmet to block the feather arrows.

However, those Eight Banner Soldiers with superb archery skills, they could ride on a running war horse and pass through Yang in a hundred steps, and those archers posed a certain threat to the Ming army, and many musketeers were shot in the face and fell.

……

The clip of Ling Chi, Liang Huafeng and others in the previous chapter was too bloody, and they were depressed by the river crab with a lot of words.