At present, the artillery commanders in the Huaxia Army who have graduated from the training camp and have received a certain amount of training on the battlefield are generally able to maintain a rate of about two rounds per minute.

The Huaxia artillery units fighting in this southern Liaoning region were also carefully selected by the military department, and basically all of them reached this high rate of fire of two rounds per minute.

Under the auspices of the artillery commanders, the artillery units continued to inflict huge casualties on the Houjin army.

The artillery company of the 11th Infantry Brigade that came with Chen Xin this time, after concentrating the fire of the field artillery on the Houjin Tartars for several consecutive rounds of salvo fire, the Houjin Army suffered a catastrophe at the location of the small copper cannon that rushed to the front line.

The shield carts on either side of the cannon were all broken down into unevenly sized pieces of wood. The gunner who operated the small cannon was even more killed and wounded by the blows of those flying pieces of wood.

The two small-caliber infantry guns that were pushed up by the Tartars, although the cannon bodies did not suffer the catastrophe, but at this moment, they could only be silent.

Not only because the gunner was eliminated, but one of the small cannons was even grazed by a shell, and a pair of wheels on one side were rushed out, flying so high that the whole cannon fell to the ground.

In addition, there was a small-caliber infantry gun, which was left there alone, and its side, both people and things, were wiped out by the concentrated firepower of the Huaxia artillery, and this artillery was completely separated from the enemy's front by the Huaxia artillery.

At this point, when there were no more objects around the small-caliber artillery, and the whole thing was clearly exposed, Chen Xin raised the telescope again and took a closer look.

He found that the artillery was a bit like the three-catty cannon (early infantry gun) that the Huaxia Army had equipped in the early years and was used to temporarily serve as infantry support fire.

However, looking at it like that, it seems that the cannon wall is much thicker than the three-catty gun, and at the same time, the entire body of the small cannon is much higher than the original three-catty cannon.

Although the array composed of hundreds of shield vehicles sent by the Houjin Army was shattered and disintegrated by a burst of artillery fire from the Huaxia Army.

However, behind the crooked and tattered shield carts, there was still a coating that looked more than a colony of ants, and it was still busy working behind.

Infantry artillery and small-caliber field artillery temporarily stopped shelling, and howitzers, which had long been silently waiting for an opportunity, began their own speech.

The coarse caliber, combined with the short barrel length, made it much faster to reload and clear the chamber than infantry and field guns.

With an ultra-high rate of fire of three rounds per minute, and sometimes even more than four, the howitzers constantly swept through the front of the whole uncovered rear gold coat, as well as the Tartars behind them.

Shells weighing between a few grams, tens of grams, or even hundreds of grams, flew out of the muzzle of the cannon in pieces, flying into the area where the coatings were, easily severing any human body that stood in their way.

turned the original vivid life into scattered pieces of stump and flesh.

Just like the countless defensive battles before, the shelling of the Huaxia Army made the pit filling operation of the Houjin Army once again a costly job.

Standing on the rammed earth wall, Zachdan constantly issued various orders, and he used his own artillery superiority and the advantage of close and rapid support on good roads to constantly mobilize troops, so that the Huaxia army could form a local strength advantage in one key location after another.

At the same time, he also attaches the most importance to the use of artillery, and under his orders, the artillery has been increasing the rate of fire, constantly hitting the archers, musketeers and clothed minions of the Houjin Army who are hiding behind the broken shield carts.

The sound of artillery continued to sound on the rammed earth wall, and the breastwork in front of the earthen wall also flashed with its red flames. The Lushun armed garrison units, which were carrying out defensive replenishment work in those places, were also constantly launching the rockets in their hands.

These rockets, which were copied from weapons such as the Ming Dynasty's Hundred Tigers and Arrows and a swarm of bees, were also provided by civilian factories, and even, some of them were obtained from the Ming Dynasty and sold to the Huaxia Army by those military leaders in Dongjiang Town when they saw business opportunities.

One rocket after another was launched continuously, and it was ejected from a distance, and the smoke filled the launch point and extended in the direction of the launch, obscuring the view, so that no one could see how many rockets had hit the enemy.

The rockets equipped by the armed garrison were all Ming standard weapons sent by Dongjiang Town, and they were transported together with containers. The Huaxia Army did not have the time to choose carefully, so they stuffed all their brains into the armed garrison.

Therefore, even if Dongjiang Town had a good relationship with the Ming Dynasty in advance and wanted to come with a batch of rockets made by "Seiko", there were still many shoddy defective products.

There are rockets that only flew out of less than 50 meters and fell to the ground, and after flying out, they turned around, and there was even a rocket, which turned the arrow directly after flying out not far away, and flew over with a "whoosh" from the rammed earth wall and disappeared. This simply blinded Chen Xin's eyes.

"How else can this happen?"

After being a little surprised, Chen Xin could only shake his head secretly, the armament of the Ming army was really worrying! In the past, when the Huaxia Army's weapon production capacity was insufficient, and there were no factories in the private sector to help with production, the kingdom also bought weapons from the Ming Dynasty.

However, at that time, even if it was specially selected in the arsenal of the various battalions of the Ming Dynasty, it was a very laborious matter. Especially this kind of rocket, when it comes to inspection, it is much more troublesome.

At the beginning, in order to select the better weapons in the arsenal of the Ming Dynasty, a group of old military affairs personnel who managed the arsenal were specially hired from the Jiangmen family of the Ming Dynasty.

The difficult days at the beginning are still embarrassing to imagine now.

It was precisely because he knew the quality of the things in the Daming arsenal that after buying this batch of weapons cheaply from Dongjiang Town, the Liaonan Command Headquarters did not even think about it, and all of them were allocated to the armed garrison for use.

It's just that Chen Xin is really a little worried now, will those rockets flying everywhere ignite the artillery cartridges? If that happens, it's going to be a big problem.

After all, for so many years, the army has not developed the good habit of the navy to keep the charge away from the gun position because it has not had an enemy of comparable intensity who can carry out artillery bombardment with its own side.