Chapter 496: Dai Shan

He sent 8 Niulu's men and horses to reinforce the Phoenix City and Zhenjiang areas, while he himself personally led 10 Niulu to reinforce Fuzhou City.

However, when he led the reinforcements and just walked to the vicinity of Gaizhou City, he received a military report that the Huaxia Army had retreated.

At the same time, the soldiers and horses of Dongjiang Town have also appeared in the waters near Fuzhou City many times, and even a small number of Dongjiang Town transport ships have arrived at Yingkou for a generation.

Dai Shan, who got the news, could only leave nearly 1,000 cavalry of three Niu Lu to stay in Gaizhou, and he himself personally led the remaining more than 2,000 cavalry to Fuzhou City.

Along the way, what you can see everywhere is a grain field that has been burned to black, and there is no harvest.

Even the grass that began to turn yellow in autumn was burned. Patches of black were left everywhere on the earth.

At this time, the Huaxia army had been away for several days, and the siege of Fuzhou City was self-relieved.

However, the heavy losses of the White Flag Duoduo Department still made Dai Shan rush to the heart of the heart.

Yue Tuo and Duoduo took Dai Shan to the south gate of Fuzhou City, and there were still a lot of blood stains left in the hole of the city gate, and a large number of lead bullets, cannons, and rockets were not the same size and depth of potholes.

After fighting with the Huaxia Army for so many years, this is the first time that the high-level leaders of the Houjin Army have visited the battlefield after the fierce battle between the two sides to check the situation.

After walking out of the cave of the south city gate, the messy scene on the south city wall, as well as the miserable scene of the battlements on the city head that were almost flattened, made Dai Shan feel the shock.

Judging from the scene after the war, the Huaxia Army and the Ming Army are not opponents of the same level at all, the light small cannon in the Huaxia Army, although the speed of movement and shooting is very fast, but the power is far more than the ordinary general cannon equipped by the Ming Army, which is really not to be underestimated.

At this time, Duoduo also found a few solid iron bullets from the street facing the south city gate, just looking at the shape of these warheads, Duoduo and the high-ranking people of Houjin were already a little big.

They really don't understand, the shells that have been used for so many years are all round, why can they be made into long strips in the hands of the Huaxia Army?

However, although he couldn't figure out the principle, Duoduo still ordered his own coating craftsmen to imitate it and see the effect.

If any personnel in the Huaxia military industry knew about this news, they would definitely laugh off their big teeth, because changing the shell from a circle to a cylinder is definitely not something that can be changed casually.

This involves a series of problems such as the method of loading, the length of the barrel, the use of rifling, the airtightness of the breech, the bolt, and so on. If you can study it by copying a shell, it will be a hell of a thing.

Fortunately, however, there was no one who knew how to do it, so that no one questioned Dord's orders.

Daishan and Yue Tuo on the other side, after hearing Duoduo's order, also brightened their eyes and immediately gave the same instructions.

Now, it is the critical moment for the four major Baylors in the post-Jin country to compete for power with each other, and once the powerful but light and small artillery of the Huaxia Army is successfully copied by one of them, its combat effectiveness will instantly rise several notches.

So, who wouldn't be impressed?

Several people looked at each other and smiled tacitly.

Because most of the artillery power of this era was calculated by the weight of the cannonballs, Duoduo ordered his subordinates to weigh the cannonballs as soon as possible, so as to have a clear understanding of the power of this light small cannon of the Huaxia Army and provide help for future operations.

After weighing, it was concluded that the shell weighed a little more than 4 pounds.

The solid bullet of the infantry artillery of the Huaxia Army has a diameter of about 40mm, and the length of the warhead is about 400mm.

In this era, the weight of the common small shells was about 1 catty, but they were all ultra-small guns such as the Tiger Squat Cannon, with a range of only about 100 steps. The artillery that can fire 4 pounds of shells is basically a heavy cannon weighing thousands of pounds at this time.

However, the soldiers of the Houjin Army, who had been desperately defending against the attack of the Huaxia Army on the southern city wall before, had seen with their own eyes that the movement speed of the Huaxia Army's artillery was a few times faster, and only two or three, and at most no more than four soldiers could push them away.

From this indication, it can be inferred that the weight of the artillery of the Huaxia Army will definitely not exceed 500 catties. Even, some Houjin Jun faintly guessed that it would not be too much to drop this weight by another two or three hundred catties.

Dai Shan remembered that the red-coated cannon made by the craftsmen captured by Dajin before under the strict order of Huang Taiji was a full 5,000-kilogram cannon body weight to hit a seven-kilogram cannon.

Although the power of the red-coat cannon was verified in last year's battle, it was far from being able to move with the army as quickly as the infantry artillery of the Huaxia Army.

Moreover, the casting process of their Daikin's red-coated cannon is very difficult, whether it is using the lost wax method or the clay mold method, it takes several months to dry the mold of the casting cannon.

Often, when casting cannons, at least ten molds are needed to make a qualified cannon.

Dai Shan thought about it, judging from the combat situation this time, the kind of small cannon of the Huaxia Army has a big disadvantage, that is, it seems to have a long range, but because the muzzle of the cannon is too small, after exceeding a certain distance, the power is not enough.

However, within the range of 1 mile, the power and accuracy of that kind of small cannon are very high, which can be seen from the hit rate of the Huaxia army in bombarding the battlements of the southern city wall.

What's even more frightening is that this small cannon can also shoot scattered bullets if it is used in field combat. Moreover, the rate of fire of the shotguns is also very amazing, far exceeding the speed at which all of Daikin's guns fire shotshots.

In the last few battles, if you don't have the cover of shield vehicles, any head-on attack on the small artillery of the Huaxia Army will cause your side to suffer heavy casualties.

From these aspects alone, the use of the small cannon of the Huaxia Army in combat is already far stronger than the red-coated cannon imitated by Dajin.

On the other side, Duoduo was also a little sad at the moment, his white flag, in the previous field battle, the number of beheaded and captured people combined, at least thousands.

After returning to Fuzhou City, hundreds of people died because their injuries were too serious to be treated.

With the more than 1,000 clothed minions who went out together to help carry supplies, and served as cannon fodder at critical moments, only a few dozen escaped, and he can really be said to be seriously injured this time.