"You're so brave!" Feng Sizhong jumped to his feet and yelled, "Old man Lu, check the artillery quickly...quickly, quickly!"
He yelled and ran around the battlefield. He was checking whether the deployment of each gun was correct and timely. Feng Sizhong was in charge of six of the 24 three-pound guns. The Louis Lu foreigner and two other foreigners were each in charge of six three-pound guns... Each of the four of them was the commander of a gun battery.
"Gunshot! Shotgun..." Seeing that the six three-pound cannons he was responsible for deployed very quickly, Feng Sizhong quickly ordered the gunners to load the shotgun.
The so-called shotgun is a pile of lead bullets wrapped in cloth into an oval shape, and then forced into the barrel of the gun and shot out. Because the thrust generated by the deflagration of the gunpowder will tear the cloth bag apart when the cannonball is pushed out of the barrel, the lead bullets will scatter and fly forward, hitting a large piece!
While the gunners were reloading, Feng Sizhong turned around and stared at the "Qing Warriors" struggling to advance in the stream - he was estimating the distance.
Because of his high level of ranging, the 24 3-pound cannons here were all under his command. After he ordered to fire, a 3-pound cannon next to him fired first, and then the other 23 3-pound cannons fired.
"Niulu Zhangjing, those Nikans seem to have set up their cannons!"
"This, this, this is too fast!"
Li Yingzhong saw an incredible scene at this time. In the reflection of the bonfire, 24 general cannons placed on the gun mounts were manned by hundreds of deft gunners. They were lined up in a row. In the blink of an eye, they were completely deployed. That's it...the muzzles of the black hole are all facing towards me!
Are you going to kill yourself?
"Quick, quick, quick! Shoot!" Li Yingzhong opened his throat and shouted.
Most of his fire cannon soldiers were bird cannon soldiers. The guys in his hands had a very short range and couldn't hit the Ming army's artillery that was still fifty or sixty steps away... But he didn't care about it and hit him first. Let’s talk about it later!
You might scare the enemy away!
Even if you can't scare away the enemy, you can still be brave enough to hear the roar of gunfire.
But before Li Yingzhong could hear the roar of firecrackers, there was a loud bang in his ears, and then a scene that he would never forget appeared in front of him - in fact, he only had a short time left in his life. ...because he was shot!
The muzzles of more than twenty Ming army cannons burst into flames almost at the same time, followed by an earth-shaking roar! More than a thousand lead bullets loaded in the twenty-four-three-pound cannon spurted out instantly, flying over dozens of steps at extremely fast speeds, easily tearing apart the cotton armor worn by the Zhenglan Banner Han Army gunners, and the bullets Their bodies deformed and disintegrated, forming a terrible cavity effect. The blood of the injured spurted out along the holes made by the lead bullets and turned into blood arrows, which were shot into the Qingliu River, and the water began to change color.
Li Yingzhong's three-layer armor was as good as nothing in front of the lead bullets fired from the 3-pound cannon! The lead bullet hit him in the stomach. He held his stomach and fell into the water. He couldn't even scream because when he opened his mouth, the cold stream water poured into his mouth. And his intestines and stomach were beaten to pieces by lead bullets and could not hold cold water at all, so the cold water quickly turned into blood and flowed out of his abdominal cavity... People are like this, Of course even gods can't save him.
At the last moment of his life, Li Yingzhong just lay helpless at the bottom of a clear stream, unable to breathe, unable to scream, and even unable to see clearly (because the river water was polluted and the sky was dark), but his mind was still clear.
At this moment, he realized for the first time: The Qing Dynasty might be over! This is ridiculous, how is this possible!
"Pa bang bang..."
At the same time that Li Yingzhong died, the bird muskets and turtle-dove foot muskets in the hands of the Zhenglan Banner Han Army gunners finally fired - the shotguns fired from the twenty-four 3-pound cannons knocked over a hundred Zhenglan Banners on the spot. The Han army's artillery soldiers, but they still had 1,780 lives left (this is because their formation was scattered and the artillery shells could not cover them), and they escaped partially. At this time, they were firing their cannons randomly.
It's just random shooting, but have they all seen how the Ming army's artillery kills people? Who dares to think about those futures? So everyone's hands are shaking when they fire the gun!
After firing their cannons, all the Han army's cannon soldiers turned around and ran away, and they ran very fast, as if the resistance of the river water was gone.
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"Iron bullets! Load iron bullets..."
After using shotguns to blast away the harassing Qing and Han artillery soldiers, Feng Sizhong did not intend to give up when he was ready. Because on today's battlefield, his twenty three-pound cannons will become the most dazzling murder weapon!
Now, their target has changed to the Qing army's shield vehicle that is slowly approaching.
In order to ensure that the wooden trusses mounted on the shield car could be penetrated, Feng Sizhong chose a hard cast-iron solid bullet. The projectile made of pig iron weighs two kilograms. In the drill, by using medicine for nine taels and eight dollars, you can smash the large wooden frame mounted on the shield car at a distance of 150 steps!
Moreover, it can also cause huge collateral casualties while crushing wooden pillars.
Of course, the premise is that you can hit! The shield vehicle is a moving target, and now it is marching in the river. The height is too low, and it is easy to hit it when it is too far away.
Therefore, Feng Sizhong decided to move these slow-moving shield vehicles closer to him, within fifty steps of him. Only when he could see the moonlight and fire more clearly did he fire, and no longer fired in salvos, but aimed at each one.
Seeing that the distance was close, Feng Sizhong opened his throat and said, "Everyone aims and fires!"
A trumpeter following Feng Sizhong heard his order and immediately blew the whistle, which was the "suona" that conveyed the order. It was Qi Jiguang who introduced the suona into the army. The harsh sound of the suona was used to convey signals on the noisy battlefield, and the effect was indeed very good.
Therefore, during the training process of the new army to overcome difficulties, someone found suonas to replace the gongs that were easily confused with the golden sound of retreating troops, and distributed them to each model regiment and artillery regiment as a tool to convey orders.
As the piercing suona made a long sound, the 24 3-pound guns began to aim at the target under the command of their respective gunners.
Half of these artillery commanders are Westerners, and the other half are "artillery seeds" personally selected by Feng Sizhong. They are all young men under twenty years old, proficient in writing, clever, and good at settling accounts. Twenty-four people were selected from more than one hundred people through rigorous training and continuous elimination.
In the pre-war drills, they performed very well, but today we have to see how they cope with actual combat?
"Boom boom boom..."
The twenty-four cannons began to roar for the first time. Because they were aiming and firing separately, there was no salvo, only iron bullets fired one after another. Some of them missed, but many hit the moving shield vehicle.
The Qing army was a little superstitious about shield vehicles. Because over the years, as long as their coated slaves worked harder and pushed the shield cart to block bullets for them, they could always restrain the messy firearms of the Ming army.
It's as if the shield car is the nemesis of firearms.
Therefore, the Eight Banners warriors following the shield car did not take it seriously when they saw the Han army's gun soldiers running away as if they were dead.
As for the Han army...that's all it's worth! The Ming army's firearms were more powerful, so they couldn't stop them.
But so what? There is a shield chariot...don't be afraid!
The first warrior in Manchuria, Obai, also thought so. The first warrior before him did not bring a shield chariot. Otherwise, he would have killed Zhu Cixiang long ago. How could he be in trouble now?
So Obai followed a shield cart very carefully, shrinking his body, as if he was afraid that the shield cart in front was too small and could not block his burly body.
At this moment, a scene that made him unbelievable appeared! The wooden frame of the shield cart five steps in front of him suddenly broke into pieces for some unknown reason, and then pieces of wood flew towards Obai. Obai quickly dodged, but was still a little slower. , his head was hit hard by something unknown, and then he fainted and collapsed into the water.
The number one warrior in Manchuria seems to be changing again!
