The armored hammer-throwing artillery... is composed of a shield car equipped with iron armor, a light mortar used to fire super-caliber sugar-powder explosive shells, and is responsible for pushing the cart, shooting, shooting, and hand-to-hand combat. It is a highly integrated advanced unit consisting of infantry, artillery responsible for firing artillery, and grenadier cavalry responsible for covering the advance of artillery and infantry, and launching assaults after the enemy's formation collapses!
In short, it is very powerful and advanced!
However, this "highly synthetic" advanced military unit is not as complicated as it seems at first glance. In fact, it is to upgrade the shield car to a lower level and cover the surface of the wooden shield with a few thin iron sheets, so that it is not easily penetrated by lead bullets fired by shotguns, turtle-dove kick guns, and shotguns. .
Of course, this upgraded version of the armored shield vehicle can only withstand lead bullets and shotguns at a relatively long distance. At close range, it can only block shotguns. It is impossible to block muskets, let alone artillery. .
But this "relatively long" bulletproof distance is enough for the light mortar following the armored shield vehicle.
This kind of light mortar, coupled with super-caliber bullets, can only hit one or two hundred paces. It can't hit no matter how far it is, and even if it can hit, it won't be accurate.
At a distance of a hundred paces, the armored shield vehicle is enough to defend against lead bullets fired from muskets and shotgun shells.
Moreover, the height of this kind of shield vehicle is relatively low, which is as high as one person, so it is not easy to hit it with solid shells fired by cannons.
As the sound of drums continued to sound in front of Shilipu, armored shield vehicles flashing coldly under the sun were slowly pushed out from the Wu army's newly formed formation, and then again An "iron wall" was pieced together.
Judging from the fighting rising behind the Qing army's formation, behind these "iron carts" were thousands of infantry, cavalry and dozens of carriages carrying unknown items.
Some of the infantry were responsible for pushing the iron cart. They were not wearing armor and only wore short jackets on their upper bodies. They bent down to push the push rod of the "iron cart" and shouted "Long live the President...Long live!" forward.
Behind them were rows of musketeers, archers, spearmen, hammer-throwers, and sword-throwers. A rough count shows that there are sixteen or seventeen rows, each with no less than 200 people, and these alone have more than 3,000 soldiers.
These soldiers were all neatly dressed, wearing Ming Dynasty-style flying saucer helmets and cloth face armor, and they slowly pushed over like a wall.
Behind them are more than a hundred carriages. Who knows what is placed on the carriages? They were all covered with oilcloth, so they couldn't see clearly from a distance. Next to each carriage were five or six soldiers on foot.
The final showpiece was the thousands of cavalrymen, all wearing flying saucer helmets and cloth face armor, carrying bows, arrows and spears, walking slowly.
At the end of the team, there was a young general wearing scale armor, a red cloak, and a shining silver phoenix-winged helmet. There was someone beside him holding the general's flag for him, with an eye-catching mark on it. The word "Wu".
Although this unit is still relatively far away from the Qing army's position, the murderous intent is already rolling in!
Zhuo Butai murmured in a low voice: "This is...Wu Shicong, right? What are these iron chariot soldiers doing?"
Zhuo Butai had never met Wu Shicong, but he had heard that Wu Sangui had a very capable "big grandson" who could lead troops to fight at a young age and never lost when he attacked various chieftains in Yunnan.
"It's so far away, this is going to..." Seeing the train formation slowly approaching him, Zhuo Butai suddenly understood something, and immediately opened his mouth and shouted: "Fire the cannons, order the artillery team to fire the cannons!"
Under the Wangdou stood the trumpeters, drummers and messengers of the Qing army. After hearing Zhuo Butai's roar, a trumpeter immediately blew the horn.
The Qing Artillery Team is about to take the field!
It is said that the artillery of the Qing army during the Kangxi period was not weak!
In addition to the Shenwei Invincible General Cannon, the Wucheng Yonggu General Cannon and the Weiyuan General Cannon, there are also lighter general cannons and mother-child cannons.
In particular, the sub-cannon improved from the Fran cannon is excellent. This type of artillery is very light in weight, only 80 to 100 kilograms. The gun body is slender, the sub-gun is made very precisely, and it is extremely airtight. good. Not only can it fire iron sand bullets, but it can also fire solid bullets to bombard enemy warships.
However, including the Shenwei Invincible General Cannon, the Wucheng Yonggu General Cannon, the Weiyuan General Cannon and the Zimu Cannon, these relatively advanced muskets are all so-called Eight Banners firearms!
In the early years of Emperor Kangxi's reign, there were still mother-and-son cannons in the Green Camp. However, historically, after the pacification of the San Francisco and the conquest of Taiwan, Kangxi told the bachelors and others that "the mother-and-bone cannons are firearms of the Eight Banners and must be made by each province."... ...Of course, during the Kangxi Dynasty, the Green Camp soldiers were not completely unable to equip themselves with such advanced Eight Banners firearms. It's just that Emperor Kangxi's court no longer gives money to buy equipment. There are good slaves below who really love the Qing Dynasty and "donate" it from their own pockets. This "Holy Lord" is really embarrassed to refuse, but he will agree. valley
Who gave Emperor Kangxi so much face? The people below love the Qing Dynasty so much, how can you, a holy king, not allow it? Don't love the Qing Dynasty, you look like a foolish king!
For example, the old slave Sun Sike, who became worthless after the defeat of San Francisco, and the slave Jin Guozheng named Tianfangjiao, both really loved the Qing Dynasty and spent their own money to build cannons to defend the imperial court.
However, in the Yongzheng Dynasty, slaves who really loved the Qing Dynasty were not allowed to spend their own money to build cannons for the court! Yongzheng didn’t have such a good face, and he couldn’t rub the sand out of his eyes...
Later, the craftsmen down below were still out of work, and the soldiers had no cannons to play with, and gradually they stopped working.
It is a pity that the gunsmiths and artillerymen of the Qing Dynasty are still very good at casting and firing cannons, so Zhuo Butai gave an order and more than a hundred general cannons, sub-mother cannons and Weiyuan general cannons placed in front of the formation were fired together. .
For a moment, in front of the Qing army's formation, there was the roar of cannons and smoke!
However, the armored hammer-throwing artillery commanded by Wu Shicong did not stop advancing because the Qing army opened fire. Instead, they continued to move forward despite the Qing army's shelling. However, the cavalry who were originally riding on horseback dismounted to reduce the risk of being shot. Probability.
In fact, these artillery pieces of the Qing army were not very effective at attacking armored shield vehicles. Their general cannons are nothing more than light cannons weighing three to four hundred kilograms, and the solid bullets fired are only about one kilogram. Although it is enough to destroy the shield vehicle, due to the poor shooting accuracy, it cannot hit it from a distance.
As for the Weiyuan General's cannon, it was a mortar, but now it fires solid bullets... It's just to scare people.
The only thing that may threaten the armored shield vehicle is the slender barrel cannon!
This kind of artillery is called a cannon, but it is actually a large musket. When firing solid lead bullets, it has good accuracy because the tube is long and the lead bullets can hit the target. At a distance of more than 100 to 200 steps, it is relatively easy to hit those armored shield vehicles.
But now, those shield cars are still far away...
At the same time, more than a hundred general cannons weighing more than 1,000 kilograms in Wu Sangui's army roared!
These general cannons weighing more than 1,000 kilograms fired stone bullets weighing three to four kilograms, and their firepower was much more powerful than the Qing army's cannons. Moreover, the target of their shooting was not the slowly moving vehicles, nor the cannons arrayed in front of the Qing army's formation, but the Qing army's infantry formation that had just been set up.
Stone bullets weighing three to four kilograms one after another roared through the air and hit those Green Camp soldiers who were "already slaves", "already coated" and "will be coated"—— Even if the green camp soldiers become slaves, they are inferior to the coated slave soldiers and the Eight Banners soldiers!
So when it comes to being beaten, they have to go first!
However, the masters of the Qing Dynasty still prepared "anti-gun shield vehicles" for the green camp slave soldiers - ordinary shield vehicles, placed in front of the "green slaves", coupled with the special tiger head shields of the green camp soldiers.
In this way, most of the green minions can't see Wu Jun's cannons firing... If they can't see it, of course there is no need to be afraid.
And even if you are afraid, you can only endure the bombardment now!
Because the coated slave soldiers and the Eight Banners soldiers are now pressing down behind them. Anyone who dares to take even half a step back will be shot to death!
Fortunately, the stone bullets used by Wu Jun will not bounce back after falling to the ground, and will only turn into scattered gravel. Although they will beat the Green Camp slaves to bloody heads and make them look ugly, their miserable screams will immediately be heard by the Green Camp slave soldiers. sounded on the battlefield.
But the "green minions" can still withstand it, because the coated minions and the Eight Banners minions behind are still very safe. As long as the Second Master and the First Master are fine, what else do the Green Camp slaves have to complain about...just bear with them!
And just when these "green minions" felt that the casualties were bearable, a harsh suona sound suddenly sounded in front of them. Then the chants of "Long live the President..." suddenly stopped.
Some Green Camp soldiers looked forward through the gap between the shield vehicles and found that the row of shiny "iron shield vehicles" had stopped advancing at some point... about 200 steps away!
Something bad is going to happen?
As soon as these "green minions" thought of this, there was a sudden roar from behind the row of iron shield cars, and then they saw dozens or hundreds of black spots flying into the sky at extremely fast speeds!
