Seeing the official army officially attacking, Xia Nan ordered: "You can open fire!" ”

Huang Hansheng couldn't wait for a long time, and immediately ordered: "Open the cannon!" ”

All the guns have long been calibrated for firing distances and loaded with ammunition. At the www.biquge.info of Pen, Fun, and Pavilion, the gunners stood up at the same time and lit the arquebus.

The first to fire was more than a dozen 10-pound field guns facing the direction of the enemy's impact -- this kind of artillery based on the legendary crossing artifact M1857 Napoleonic cannon was the first time it was put into actual combat.

The shells whistled towards the dense crowd, and the solid bullets of about 10 catties flew towards the enemy 1,000 meters away at an initial velocity of 457 meters per second. One after another, the cannonballs smashed into the crowd with a whistling sound, and the flesh flew everywhere, and the cannonballs that fell to the ground were bounced up by the ground, jumping and rolling backwards, plowing through the bloody ditches in the formation.

The Ming army was not stopped by the artillery fire, and the soldiers rushed forward like a tide, and the generals rode their horses and shouted, galloping back and forth in the ranks to urge the soldiers to rush forward. The second round of shells flew again, and rows and rows of soldiers were knocked off their heads by the jumping shells, tearing their bodies apart, tearing off their arms, legs and feet. Blood was flying, and there were mutilated corpses and screaming wounded.

Compared with the 8-kilogram mountain artillery, the recoil of the 10-kilogram field artillery after firing was amazingly large, and it retreated several meters as soon as the cannon was fired. After each fire, the gunners immediately pushed their arms back into place.

The gunner, who was holding the gunbrush, immediately inserted the gun brush into the barrel of the gun, stirred it vigorously, and hooked out a few pieces of blackened and tattered cotton cloth -- the cotton cloth in which the gunpowder was packed with the shells was always partially left behind every time it was fired.

In the 18th century, a well-trained crew of Napoleonic artillery could fire four rounds a minute at a rapid rate, but this would soon become too hot for the cannon to fire, and the gunners hastily trained by the Escort could not reach this level. The gunners now fired at a sustained rate of fire of one round per minute, and even then, it far exceeded the normal rate of fire from the Ming Hongyi cannons -- even if the proficiency was comparable, the Ming gunners had to take into account the problem of exploding.

"Pull it!" The soldiers of the Ming army's firearms battalion roared and constantly whipped the requisitioned people, cattle and horses, and the Hongyi cannons were dragged to the gun position amid scolding, groaning, wailing and neighing of cattle and horses. The cannons had been set up as defensive weapons last night behind the trenches of the various camps. Because the artillery was too far away from the thieves' camp, it could not be hit at all. Li Mo, the commander in charge of the firearms battalion, organized men and horses to haul the artillery, in order to get as close as possible before firing the artillery.

However, the movement of men and horses in front blocked the advance of the firearms battalion, and it was not until the Chaozhou soldiers began to attack that they could get out of the way. Li Mo didn't dare to hesitate, and hurriedly urged the soldiers to push the cannons.

After the artillery advanced to a distance of only seven or eight hundred paces, under the cover of the attacking troops in front, Li Mo organized the soldiers to set up the cannon, aimed at the earthen fort, and began intense preparations for firing.

"The M1857 Napoleonic cannon is worthy of being a crossing artifact." Lin Weiye, who was standing beside Xia Nan, was full of ambition. He had been encouraging Xia Nan to accept the cannon, but it was replaced by a mountain howitzer, and he didn't get his wish until he was able to refine gray iron.

The lethal effect of solid shells was very satisfactory, but in such a surging crowd, it seemed difficult to force the enemy to flee. The two Ming soldiers and horses were still shouting and rushing towards the camp.

Xia Nan frowned, the Ming army's will to fight seemed to be stronger than expected.

"Shouldn't it, this kind of artillery bombardment can't let this wave of Ming army's offensive collapse?"

"Don't worry." Lin Weiye pretended to be calm and said, "According to the experience of the Civil War, the infantry will hold out at least 100 meters and eat shotguns before they can break and escape......

"Please, this is the Ming army in the 17th century, not the federal army." Xia Nan said, "Shouldn't the Ming army, an army in the Middle Ages, collapse quickly when it encounters such an artillery bombardment?" Didn't they come across the Houjin army and collapse at the touch of a button? ”

"I don't know if the Ming army will collapse if it is hit by artillery." Lin Weiye shrugged, "But if it is shelled, the whole army will collapse, and it can probably only be done by the Qing Dynasty." According to his observations, the density of the shelling was still a little less than the crowd that came in. This artillery density was the average level during the Civil War era.

In fact, the Ming army was at an overall disadvantage in the confrontation with the Later Jin army, and most of them occurred in the process of hand-to-hand combat in the field, for many reasons. Among them, the gap in the quality of soldiers and the extremely low morale are the main reasons, and the most important thing is that because the range and rate of fire are very weak, the bird guns cannot support such an advanced fighting mode as a firearm, resulting in the defeat and defeat of the Houjin army in the face of assault and hand-to-hand combat ability. However, such long-distance firearms strikes are commonplace for the Ming army, and the current casualties are still within the tolerance range of the Ming army, so they can still hold on.

At this moment, there was a loud sound in the distance, and two black shadows flew one after the other, one landed on the lower half of the earthen fort, embedded in the dirt, and the other smashed on the outside of the concrete-poured breastwork, and the earth and cement debris splattered out, startling everyone.

Huang Hansheng reacted very quickly and shouted: "The official army's Hongyi cannon!" Find out where the cannon is fired. ”

The team member in charge of observation on the sentry tower looked in the direction where the shells were flying and saw a fire coming out more than 800 meters away, accompanied by bursts of gunsmoke. The direction and location of the Hongyi cannon was immediately reported.

Huang Hansheng commanded several cannons that were firing back in the direction of the opponent's artillery. Several 10-pound field guns adjusted their direction, and after a simple calculation, one gun took the lead in firing. The shells smashed into the ranks of the infantry not far from the firearms battalion, causing a wave of confusion.

There was a wooden observation tower in the middle of the earthen fort, and the soldier in charge of the observation shouted, "It's off, lean a little to the left." ”

Lin Weiye's mind is full of technical problems, even on the battlefield: "You still have to look at the telescope, so that you can observe the enemy's situation more accurately." ”

Xia Nan agreed: "Now the observation of the enemy's position depends entirely on the naked eye, and the deviation is too large. ”

After two or three rounds of calibration, the position of the target was finally found, and several field guns began to fire at the opponent's gun positions. Solid bullets were smashed into the firearms battalion one after another. On the artillery position of the official army, Li Mo watched in horror as the shells fired from the earthen embankment dragged the smoke and flew over the charging infantry in front, and fell straight down here.

"Oops!" The thought had just crossed his mind when the shells had already smashed down on the firearms battalion. A cannonball landed not far away, then bounced towards the team. A cannonball directly broke a cow in two, and then jumped up and knocked several people to the ground, leaving a field of stumps and flesh. (To be continued.) )