"Push harder! Faster, faster..."
Feng Sizhong, who once served as the head guard of Zhu Cixi and later as the commander of the new army of Xiaoling Guards. However, he messed up on the Xiaoling Guards' errand and was demoted two ranks to become the battalion commander. Now he is shirtless and pushing a cannon. , and shouted labor chants while pushing. Moreover, the whole person is dark and thin, and looks like he has suffered enough.
It’s so damn hard to be an official with Zhu Cihong! Damn last place elimination is like a whip in the back. And in front, there are all kinds of paintings to attract you. What about land, money, a wife, an official position, a title... As long as you don't see through the world of mortals, there will always be something you want that enchants your soul!
Feng Sizhong is an inscrutable master. After falling two levels, he still tried his best to climb up! He really found a chance to climb back to level one. It wasn't that he had trained the Xiaoling Guards' new army well, but that his family's ancestral arithmetic and construction skills had given him a hand.
His family is from the Defense Department of Tianshou Mountain, and they are also very skilled. From the time when the ancestors were crowned kings, they have built mausoleums and looked after graves for the old Zhu family for generations. , to watch the celestial phenomena, you also need to be able to calculate. His ability to count on his fingers was much better than Song Xiance's.
The foundations of construction, Feng Shui, celestial phenomena, and fortune-telling are based on mathematics and the study of objects. Therefore, Feng Sizhong was very good at mathematics and gewu, and it was easier to learn gunnery.
Therefore, after the foreign general Ferreira was in place, Feng Sizhong was transferred to the artillery regiment. Not only could he learn Western artillery skills from the foreign soldier Ferreira, but Zhu Cixiang often taught him some knowledge of Western mathematics and physics.
Feng Sizhong, on the other hand, is probably a man with a science major. He learns very quickly, and he can already calculate simple ballistics in just a few months!
As for the things on the cannon ruler, he can not only recite them, but he also knows the principles (also taught by Zhu Cixiang) and can calculate them himself - this is a real skill. There are still a lot of general cannons here in the Ming Dynasty. If he can do it Calculating the cannon ruler is much more powerful when used.
In addition, Feng Sizhong can also visually measure distance! If you can't even tell the distance, how can you read Feng Shui? Within three to five miles, the error can be less than ten steps.
This range-finding ability combined with his mathematical ability makes him a gunnery wizard! You don’t need to worship Confucius with cannons, you can still shoot accurately.
And shooting accurately is only one aspect of gunnery. Zhu Cixiang's requirements for the artillery were to shoot fast and run fast!
Fighting faster can increase the density of firepower and inflict greater casualties on the enemy. Running fast allows you to quickly shift positions, and is also conducive to the concentrated use of artillery.
These days, the three-pound cannon is not light. Not counting the gun carriage, the gun body alone weighs 600 pounds, which is more than 500 kilograms in weight (a big thing made of more than 500 kilograms of bronze is worth several thousand pounds in raw materials alone One hundred taels (the Portuguese asked for one thousand two hundred taels when selling it to Zhu Cixiang), plus a strong and sturdy gun carriage, weighing more than a thousand kilograms.
However, with the joint efforts of six draft horses and a dozen artillerymen, the artillery carriage still maneuvered on the official road like flying - it ran much faster than the shield carriage pushed by the Eight Banners coatmen!
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Aobai was on the left wing behind the Qing army's shield car line. Instead of riding a horse, he dismounted and walked, stepping on the increasingly deeper stream. He was followed by about a thousand heroes under the Zhenghuang Banner, all carrying bows and arrows.
The shield cart pushed by the coated slaves was just more than ten steps in front of these Zhenghuang Banner warriors. Its wheels had sunk into the water, but it was still moving forward slowly.
Obai looked forward from the gap between the two shield cars and saw a flickering fire. This is a bonfire lit by the Ming army, placed right in front of their formation.
The weather was very good tonight. The moon and the bright light from the bonfire allowed Obai to vaguely see the Ming army wearing red cloth armor forming an array. In their array, there were countless sparks shining - this should be It’s the light emitted by the burning match rope on the fire gun!
There are so many sparks, indicating that the number of firecrackers is quite amazing, perhaps thousands.
But Obai is not afraid, because he is now the number one warrior in Manchuria who hides behind the shield chariot...so he is not afraid of fire cannons!
It's a bit dumbfounding to say that the war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties was, to a certain extent, a contest between the crude Ming Dynasty firearms and the solid Qing army shield vehicles!
Without these shield vehicles, the tens of thousands of Eight Banners disciples would not be enough to die!
If the quality of the Ming army's firearms was better, it wouldn't be able to be blocked by a shield car! The shield car is actually a bit similar to the European car and fort tactics. Later in history, Galdan's camel city warriors were similar.
But during more than thirty years of war, who still played with cars and forts? Similarly, Galdan's Camel City was reduced to rubble by Emperor Kangxi's cannons!
Boom boom......
There were several more shellings, and the six Hongyi cannons mounted on the mountainside of Daqianling were firing!
But this time I won't hit Zhu Cixiang. He is too far away and can't be hit at all. So Hauge let the Hongyi artillery bombard the Ming army's formation.
But it didn't hit, and the shells flew over the heads of the Ming soldiers. Obai discovered that those Ming soldiers who were standing straight didn't even move...these Nikans were too slow to react! Ao Baixin said: Silly, how can you defeat the Qing soldiers?
At this moment, a coated slave from the Zhenghuang Banner led by Obai rushed over through the water. Before he could reach Obai, he shouted: "Master, Master Ao, the Nankou's cannon is coming!"
"What? The cannon is coming? What do you mean?" Obai couldn't understand.
"That's right, Nan Kou is coming up with the cannon!"
"Ah!" Obai was a little dumbfounded, "Is it an attacking artillery or a squatting tiger artillery?"
"It's a cannon...at least a general cannon!" The man in charge had already arrived in front of Obai and bowed, "Master, Li Niulu asked your servant to ask you if you want the fire gun soldiers to go up and fight for a round. ?”
Li Niulu is Niulu, a gunner of the Han Army in the Zhenglan Banner. His name is Li Yingzhong. He is the godson of Li Jiuzheng, a traitor who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty together with Kong Youde. Because he has been following Haoge, his official career is not good, and now he is Niulu Zhangjing.
"Fight, hurry up and fight!" Obai said quickly, "Don't let Nan Kou set up the general's cannon!"
"Scum!"
Before Obai's order arrived, Li Yingzhong, a good slave of Zhenglan Banner who had experienced battles in the battlefield, had already ordered his fire gun soldiers to spread out in formation and move forward.
In addition to the use of shield vehicles, the Qing army's artillery and artillery are not weak! In particular, their fire gun soldiers have two unique skills. One is to lure the opponent to fire from a long distance; the other is to fire a volley at close range!
Don't think that firing a volley at close range is difficult - firing a volley up close against the enemy's firepower is really powerful. When the enemy is unable to fight back, it is not difficult to fire a volley at close range. This can be done when a firing squad shoots a prisoner.
As for Li Yingzhong and his men, they all thought they were a firing squad at this time - what a rare opportunity! The Ming army took the wrong medicine, and actually brought twenty or thirty cannons to the front line, and wanted to attack them immediately... How could anyone use cannons like this? Kong Youde's godson Kong Sixi didn't even have this ability.
Obviously, those Ming army gunners didn't know how to do it at all!
"Brothers, go up quickly and get close and fight!" Li Yinglong shouted excitedly, "Kill these Nanbarbar artillerymen who don't know anything!"
"Kill them!"
"Follow Niulu Zhangjing and you will have meat to eat!"
"Kill!"
The fire rifle soldiers under his command are really amazingly brave! The lobster soldiers in history are not as good as them. They dare to charge at more than twenty three-pound cannons... This is not queuing to shoot, this is queuing to shoot!
The shotgun blasts from twenty-four cannons couldn't blast them into pieces!
"Commander, the Tatar soldiers are coming!"
"It's the Fire Gun Soldier..."
"God, they are so brave! Even the Ottoman Sultan's Guards cannot compare with them!"
Feng Sizhong, who was directing the artillery to deploy, heard the exclamations of the artillerymen. Among them was an old foreigner named Lu who had fought in the Thirty Years War and praised the Tatars for their bravery... So brave, so brave that I risk my life!
