The first salvo of the Hall rifle was at a distance of 300 meters. 【No pop-up novel website】Due to the spirit of economy and revolution, the Navy's Hall rifle was modified from a Minie rifle, and the caliber was naturally not adjusted.
Due to the problem of air leakage, the pure version of the Hall rifle is inferior to the muzzle kinetic energy and range of the muzzle-loading rifled gun. Although the rate of fire is greatly advantageous, it was still used as the muzzle-loading rifled gun before the Civil War because of the range problem. replaced.
The version produced by Lingao has made certain innovations. The cartridge tube has been changed to a stand-up type. A brass shrinking locking device is used in the joint part. After pressing and pushing forward, it can be inserted into the rear of the gun barrel. After the propellant explodes, The shrinking device expands to seal the leakage of gas from the breech, so the muzzle kinetic energy of the Lingao Hall rifle can reach 250 joules and the effective range is 500 meters." "Novel. Not only is the power less powerful than the front-loading Mini rifle, but the shooting speed is also taken into consideration.
The 13mm lead bullet rotated along the rifling, flew over 300 meters with a scream, and instantly tore the bamboo bundles. Although this kind of bamboo-handled shield was effective in resisting bows and arrows and matchlock muskets, it could not resist rifled rifles at all. Mini bullets, the bullets passed through the shíhòu bundles of bamboo, and the fibers were torn into countless bamboo sticks along the longitudinal lines, and were shot out like exploding bullets. Even if the soldiers standing behind the bamboo-handled shields were hit by bullets, they were pricked all over by the bamboo stick-like fragments. They fell down screaming and rolling and shouting one by one.
The shooting speed of the Hall rifle is very fast. The average soldier can fire 6 rounds per minute. What's more, the First Expeditionary Team is an experimental unit and does not skimp on ammunition during training. Generally speaking, it can shoot more than 10 rounds per minute. Although Shi Zhiqi deliberately used a double-row formation to fire in turns to control the rate of fire and save ammunition, within one minute the two companies also poured out 1,500 rounds of bullets - bullets raining down.
One minute of continuous shooting knocked down almost half of Lin Cha's men. The formation completely collapsed. The bamboo shields in the front row were smashed into a pile of fragments, and the soldiers holding the shields were either dead or injured - the injuries were particularly tragic, almost all of them were secondary injuries caused by the exploding bamboo fragments, and some were even covered in bruises and bruises. He was bleeding, but he would not die for a while, rolling and screaming on the ground.
The archers who followed had already fled in all directions. On the contrary, the Tengpai soldiers at the end of the formation are quite brave. Known as "the one who values righteousness over life", he is also the "disciple soldier" personally led by Lin Cha and Lin Sheng. Now my waist is filled with money again, and I am courageous. Under the hail of bullets, the enemy immediately collapsed. Generals Lin Sheng and Lin Cha led their soldiers back and forth, shouting loudly, and encouraging the soldiers to charge forward with rewards.
The rattan soldiers bowed their heads. Hide behind a shield. He charged forward regardless of life and death, very fierce and bold. In another time and space, the Tengpai soldiers earned the name "Mad Dog" for their bravery and fearlessness during the battle with the Dutch on Taiwan Island.
However, the firepower density of the Hall rifle was far from comparable to that of the Dutch matchlocks. The rattan soldiers persisted in the hail of bullets for about thirty seconds. The soldiers who rushed forward fell one after another, and the broken rattan swords scattered on the ground - ―méiyǒu A person can rush over a distance of fifty meters.
The soldiers who were lucky enough to survive could not bear such a blow and no longer cared about the promised money. They dispersed in a hurry and dropped the knife in their hands. They scattered and fled for their lives. Unable to suppress the attack, Liang Lin had to retreat with his own soldiers.
"Lost like this?!" The hearts of the Zheng family generals who were watching the battle sank. Originally, they didn't have high expectations for Lin Cha's bamboo-handled shield to be knocked down, but the thief Kun fired more than ten shots in succession to beat the seven hundred brothers who were stuffed with money. This was too ridiculous. .
The worst part is that the enemy's muskets are far sharper than the legend says. Taking lives from a distance of more than 100 feet is like trying to retrieve an object from a bag. It is far and accurate, and it is still a "shooting gun"! How to fight again?
The two guards under him were equipped with Portuguese matchlocks purchased from Macau. Even according to European evaluations, they were excellent firearms, but their range was no more than a hundred steps at best. It is even more pitifully slow to launch, completely incomparable to Kun Thief's musket.
If this continues, as long as the enemy moves forward slowly and fires row after row, he will be able to kill his troops alive!
Thinking of this, he immediately called a messenger: "Send the order to General Ma and tell him to fire!"
General Ma is Matos. At this time, the officer of the black guard was directing the gunners to aim the guns on the center left city.
There are two naval guns dismantled from the Hong Kong Hai Xun No. 64 on the turret that has been repaired in a hurry. It was Chechidan Paul's ability to seize the patrol boat and seize the two cannons that impressed the Zheng Group. Of course, it also includes a few new things that he got by himself.
The artillery pángbiān is piled with cannonballs unloaded from the ship. The spherical cannonballs don't look special at first glance, but each cannonball is tightly fixed on a wooden holder with iron flat bars, and silk is tied behind the wooden holder. gunpowder bag. The wooden supports were painted with different colors: solid bullets, grenades. Most of them are solid bullets.
Under Matos's command, more than a dozen Portuguese and black gunners got busy. This place is more than three miles away from the beach where the Marine Corps is advancing. Not long ago, Latchechidan, who was responsible for dismantling these two guns, demonstrated how to operate these two types of artillery.
Chechidan seemed to be familiar with this method. He demonstrated the shooting techniques to the gunners on the spot and conducted test firings. The range of these two artillery pieces not only covered the beach, but also reached the sea.
In Matos' view, there is nothing special about these two cannons - they are just well-cast. But their ammunition is indeed unique. Tèbié is a grenade, and he has never seen a small copper disc that can be installed on the projectile body. It is said that after installing this thing, the grenade fired has a detonation rate of more than 90%.
Although there are grenades in this time and space, most of them are fired from mortars. Cannons were rarely used for firing, let alone a 90% ignition rate - the most reliable fuses at that time relied entirely on the fuse to detonate. Therefore, the grenade was an "unreliable" artillery shell at the time, and its power was not to mention, it could only explode a few large pieces at one time. Artillerymen would rather fire solid shot and buckshot, which are safe and reliable.
If Chechidan hadn't personally demonstrated how to use it and fired it several times in succession, Matos would have been very skeptical about this "grenade", but after seeing the other party's demonstration, he was completely convinced. Not only was the detonation reliable, but the power of the explosion was better than any grenade he had ever seen - the Kun thief was really powerful, and the Chechidan artilleryman was no less powerful.
Matos has also heard some news about how powerful the "Australians" artillery is. They can fire a large number of powerful grenades. From this, it seems that this Chechidan also has such technology, and he also expressed his enthusiasm. Cannons can be made that are more powerful, have a longer range, and can fire more accurately.
It is unknown whether Kirijidan can create such a cannon, but obviously, the only thing that can make the Konthiers powerful today are the cannons and cannonballs they made on their own.
In the telescope, we can see that the "Kon Thieves" column is steadily advancing here, and is about to enter the effective range mentioned by Chechidan.
The data Chechidan gave them was that these two cannons could fire shells to one-half league (2000 meters away) at an elevation of 5 degrees. And only an elevation of 5 degrees meant that the shooting accuracy was much better than other cannons. Again A well-matched grenade can have a great destructive effect on advancing infantry.
"The Australians walked so beautifully!" Matos looked at the neat horizontal formation captured in the telescope: the sailors marching forward under the leadership of the military flag, and couldn't help but admired. This formation is not inferior to the Spanish veterans! He lowered his binoculars and gave the order to prepare to shoot.
The gunners methodically measured range, aimed, wetted the chamber, and prepared ammunition. A gunner punched holes in the copper disc according to the distance and then screwed on the cannonball. The cannonball was carefully loaded into the barrel. Another gunner used an iron awl to pierce the silk powder bag and poured the propellant into the ignition port with an ox horn.
"fire!"
The gunner used a match rope to ignite the gunpowder at the ignition port. There was a flash of fire on the fire door, and then the cannon violently sprayed out a thick stream of fire and white smoke. The heavy sound of the cannon was pushed back by the recoil. The four guns on the gun mount The wheels squeaked.
The thick smoke and fire on the city wall immediately attracted Shi Zhiqi's attention. He was currently 2 kilometers away from the Zhongzuo Point. No matter which side the enemy was, no one would fire at this distance.
A few seconds later, the sound of artillery was heard in the air. The first artillery shell fired from the wall on the left side of the center landed on the beach 100 meters in front of the line. It exploded with a bang. Sand and iron pieces were scattered in all directions. A palm-sized piece of The hot iron piece was inserted into the sand less than five meters away from the horizontal team with a pop, and white smoke was rising.
"Artillery attack!" This terrible thought immediately flashed through Shi Zhiqi's mind, and a kind of fear gripped his heart: the enemy was firing at them from a range that was originally inaccessible, and they were still firing grenades!
Before he could turn his mind, a second artillery shell roared over. This time the shell flew over the heads of the horizontal line and landed on the beach dozens of meters away, setting off a water column mixed with sand. At the edge of the horizontal line, A soldier snorted, staggered and fell down.
Shi Zhiqi's face turned pale - the thirty seconds between the two shells seemed as long as a century, and he was unprepared for the fact that he would be hit by artillery fire. Finally, he managed to squeeze out a sentence from his dry throat: "Keep the formation! Fire the artillery of the brigade! Target: Zhongzuo Castle! Suppress the enemy's artillery fire, quickly!" (To be continued...)
