After the bombardment was over, Gong Xiaoda asked Ying to fight: "General, please let the last general's three thousand new firecrackers come into your hands!" ”

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Wang [Fu] Chen rejected Gong Xiaoda's request to fight: "The new-style firecracker is the trump card of our army, and it can't be easily shown to others until the critical moment!" Let's let the ordinary self-generated firebolt in their hands, with the new skirmishers. ”

The drums of the Qiongzhou army were noisy, and groups of infantry in red and white-edged military uniforms lined up in a neat formation, walked out of the large camp, and pressed forward step by step. Skirmishers in green uniforms on both wings move quickly. From a distance, these skirmishers looked no different from the previous skirmishers, all wearing green uniforms, but the weapons in their hands had been changed, replaced by a kind of mini-bullet rifled gun with an extended barrel and a new smokeless powder as the propellant.

The Milney rifled gun for the skirmishers has a caliber of 11.4 mm, a barrel length of 1.25 meters, and a muzzle velocity of an astonishing 420 meters per second! The effective range can reach a thousand steps!

This skirmish rifled rifle can become a sniper rifle as long as it is added with a sniper scope. However, the guns and bullets were very expensive to build, and only a small amount of equipment was equipped, so only the most elite skirmishers and night sharpshooters could be equipped with this powerful new rifle.

In order not to reveal that he was already heavily equipped with rifled guns, Wang [Fu] Chen did not dispatch the infantry in the line of Mini bullets, but still used the infantry in the line of smoothbore guns.

After the line of red-coated infantry and the skirmisher line of green-coated infantry were dispatched, the railroad soldiers were also dispatched, and groups of railroad soldiers pushed out of the camp at the end of the railway line with shield wagons carrying sandbags. The railroad soldiers pushed the shield cart and slowly pushed towards the Qing army's defensive line.

"Minggou has attacked!" The shouts on the Qing army's positions came and went.

A Qing guerrilla anxiously shouted: "Quick, pull the cannon up, don't let Minggou's shield car approach!" ”

Just as the Qing gunners pulled the cannon out from behind the position, a white object slowly rose above the Ming artillery position.

"Damn! What is it? Wang Ying, the commander-in-chief of the Qing army, was stunned and looked at the white object rising above the Ming army's position, only to see that the object was very large, the size of a house. I really can't figure out how a behemoth as big as a house can fly into the sky?

Cai Yumao, the commander of Fengyang of the Qing army, had seen a little of the world and knew that it was a hot air balloon of the Ming army. Cai Yumao shouted anxiously: "Not good! That's the big Kong Ming lantern of Ming Dog, and there are people sitting under the large Kong Ming lantern! Minggou is in the sky, and you can clearly see the location of our artillery team! ”

The artillery of the Qing army has already been pushed out, and it is too late to take it back. So the Qing artillery garrison had no choice but to give an order: "Set up artillery and bombard the Ming dog shield car!" ”

At the same time as the artillery garrison of the Qing army issued an order, in the railway battalion of the Qiongzhou Army, the ironclad train slowly raised the muzzle of the rifled gun, and according to the coordinate position provided by the hot air balloon, the gunners loaded the shells. With an order, the four rifled guns roared in turn, and the whistling shells swept across the sky and landed on the artillery positions of the Qing army.

Although the rifled cannon fired a solid shell, but the accuracy was extremely high, a row of shells fell, a Qing artillery was hit by a shell, the heavy Hongyi cannon barrel flew up from the scattered wooden frame, and then fell heavily, by the way, the heads of the two Qing gunners were smashed like watermelons. The barrel of the cannon swirled and swept in the air, and the plasma, bone residue, and wooden blocks splattered everywhere in an instant, and even the gunners who were not swept by the cannon body were beaten all over by the flying small wooden blocks, and fell to the ground screaming.

The reloading speed of the breech-loading rifled guns was quite fast, the four rifled guns on the ironclad train had just completed a round of firing, the gunners opened the bolts, cleaned the chambers, reloaded the shells and cartridges, closed the upper bolts, and in just fifteen seconds, another round of rumbling guns sounded.

At the same time as the four breech-loading rifled guns were exerting their might, the Ming army's 24 12-pounder new howitzers also spoke, and the muzzles of the 24 howitzers spit out tongues of fire in turn, and the high-powered flowering shells landed on the artillery positions of the Qing army with a whistling sound. This high-powered flowering shell made up for the lack of accuracy of the smoothbore gun, and the shell fell to the ground and exploded a large area. The shells loaded with these guns were all anti-personnel shells, and when one shell landed, shrapnel and iron balls flew horizontally, and the Qing gunners screamed again and again.

One of the shells exploded behind the Qing artillery position, detonating the powder keg placed on the side of the gun emplacement, which immediately caused a violent explosion, and the heavy cannon flew into the sky like a toy, and the flesh and blood of the Qing soldiers around it flew everywhere. When the smoke cleared, only a large crater was left in the ground.

"Hurry up!" The Qing artillery garrison shouted.

The artillery of the Qing army also roared, and the shells smashed into the shield car array that was slowly advancing. However, the formation of the shield cars of the railway soldiers was very loose, and the Qing army only hit two shield cars in one round of artillery bombardment.

One of the shield cars was hit by the Hongyi cannon and was instantly shattered, killing six railroad soldiers and wounding seven. Another shield car was hit by a general cannon shell, which was blocked by multiple thick wooden planks covered with wet felt, but the shell still caused the planks behind it to crack, killing one railroad soldier and injuring many others in the flying debris.

Both sides suffered losses, but the Qing army was destroyed by seven cannons, and the gunners were killed and wounded more than 50 people, while the Ming army only lost one shield car, seriously injured one shield car, and killed and wounded more than 10 railway soldiers.

The railroad soldiers shouted at the general Yu Zhenxing, and the railroad soldiers pushed the shield car slowly. Shells continued to fall, and another shield car was hit by a solid shell, tilted to the side, and many railroad soldiers pushing the cart were killed or wounded.

On the artillery position of the Qing army, the artillery shells of the Ming army have blown up the artillery position of the Qing army into a sea of fire, a large number of Qing gunners have been killed, and one cannon after another has been destroyed.

"Brothers, do your best! Pave the railroad over! Yu Zhenxing opened his voice and shouted.

The railroad soldiers shouted, pushed the shield cart, approached the obstacle in front of them, and threw the sandbags on the cart. Then the railroad soldiers immediately pushed the shield cart and retreated. Under the cover of their own artillery fire, the shield cart continued to advance and drop sandbags. After a whole day of work, a roadbed more than 200 steps long extended from the Ming army camp.

"Not good! Minggou is going to push the roadbed up directly! Once they've finished laying the tracks, their land warships will be able to shoot us straight up! Seeing the gradually extending railway embankment, the Qing army's guerrillas were frightened into a cold sweat.