Everyone finally returned to the commanding platform to watch the artillery fire, and found that a large number of soldiers rushed to replace a new batch of dummies! A square formation was set up directly on the ground. Look at their spacing, which is almost the same as an ordinary army formation!
As soon as the dummies were placed, five artillery pieces were already in place at the other end of the playground! Qi Jiguang estimated that the distance between the artillery and the dummy was about half a mile! So he nodded secretly in his heart. Sure enough, these soldiers were seriously trained! This distance happens to be the distance where the artillery landing point is most accurate and has the greatest killing power!
However, this time he did not look at the situation at the dummy. Instead, he pointed the telescope at the artillery position. He wanted to see how this new artillery was used! Is it more convenient and more powerful than the artillery currently used?
As soon as the artillery stopped, two soldiers picked up shovels and quickly dug two shallow trenches on the ground! As soon as they got up, the two people behind pushed the cannon forward, and the two wide wheels fell directly into the shallow pit. The cannon was parked very securely!
At this time, the two soldiers threw away their shovels and each got two hammers. They quickly walked behind the cannon's tail and squatted down to hammer it hard! Although Qi Jiguang couldn't see clearly what the two of them were beating, he was so smart that he immediately figured out what they were doing?
He was sure that there must be two iron rings or steel nails on the small tail of the cannon! Just drive the steel nails into the ground to jam the artillery!
Thinking of this, Qi Jiguang couldn't help but feel a little complacent! I felt like I saw through the use of this new artillery at once! And he can be sure that this kind of artillery will definitely flourish after today! Because it is so convenient to use!
Then he saw a soldier walking quickly to the muzzle with a bag of gunpowder on his shoulder, and stuffed the bag of gunpowder directly into it! Then a soldier picked up a wooden pestle with a thick top and pushed the medicine package to the bottom! Then another soldier held a heavy solid cannonball in both hands and stuffed it in, and then pushed it into the bottom of the cannon with a wooden pestle! The soldiers at the rear of the gun had already used an iron hook to pierce the medicine bag in the fire door and installed the fuse. Now the artillery was ready to fire!
At this time, Qi Jiguang put down the telescope and said: "Mr. Li, why did you stuff the cloth together with the gun when you charged it? There will be too much debris in the gun chamber next time, and it will be difficult to clean!"
Liu Haojia said: "I want Mr. Qi to know that the cloth used to pack the medicine is fine silk! The silk is as it is, with almost no residue. It is very convenient to clean the barrel! It is much faster than using other medicine bags!"
Emperor Wanli was stunned when he heard this and said: "Use silk? Isn't that too luxurious?"
Liu Haojia hurriedly said: "Your Majesty! The reason why they use silk medicine bags is to quickly clear the gun barrel! You must know that there are not many quick moments on the battlefield, but the accumulation of many moments is a long time! I have estimated Compared with using a silk waist without using a silk medicine pack, if you use a silk medicine pack, you will have to fire one more round of artillery for every eight rounds! Maybe just one round of artillery can determine the outcome, so you can't be frugal in this regard! "
Emperor Wanli nodded repeatedly to show that he understood. Qi Jiguang also nodded and said: "Master Li can be so meticulous about artillery shooting, which shows that he is very attentive!"
Liu Haojia also liked this feeling, but he still raised his hand and said: "Attention, the artillery is about to fire!"
Everyone hurriedly looked up and saw the artillery fire on the position one after another, and five more smoke trails appeared in the sky in an instant! And at the front end of the trajectory are rapidly rotating iron balls smashing into the dense crowd of dummies!
The results achieved in this round of shelling are very good! Each shell knocked over at least two dummies! There was also a cannonball that miraculously penetrated from the head of the team to the team, beating all ten dummies in a row to pieces!
This sight caused everyone to cheer and marvel! By the time the five rounds of artillery fire were completed, most of the dummies were still intact! The civil servants all looked very sorry, but Qi Jiguang knew that if the ordinary army encountered such a density of shelling, they would probably collapse! If it were those losers from Jingying, they would have run away crying for their parents before the five rounds of shooting were completed!
Before he could express his emotion, a large number of soldiers rushed forward and removed all the damaged dummies and resettled them with new family members! But what surprised everyone was that the number of dummies doubled this time! Moreover, the soldiers also erected a thick wooden wall among the dummies to cover the back half of the dummy, including everything below the chest!
This time Qi Jiguang was very smart and said directly without waiting for Emperor Wanli to ask: "Your Majesty, there is a female wall on that wooden wall. It seems to be imitating a city wall! But I don't know how this artillery can hit the city wall?"
Emperor Wanli said confidently: "Since Liu Aiqing dares to make such an arrangement, he must have a reason! I'll just wait and see!"
At this time, artillery troops were already building positions about 50 steps away from the dummy. The first one to enter the position was the Folang machine gun pushed by two soldiers! As soon as the artillery truck parked, two soldiers picked up two pickets from the car, inserted them into a part of the car body and beat them with a mallet! Everyone understands that this is fixing the artillery carriage!
Then there came that weird cannon that looked like a stone mortar! However, it takes a lot of time to deploy this kind of artillery. The soldiers had to roughly level the ground first, then lift the artillery from the vehicle and put it on the ground, and then nail the four corners to the ground with iron awls!
Everyone saw that the two sets of artillery were ready, and they all watched with bated breath! With just one order, the gunner of the Fo Lang machine gun took the lead in starting to load!
Because the Folan cannon is a type of artillery with its own blunderbuss, it is much faster to load than ordinary artillery! I saw a soldier picking up a blunderbuss with both hands, placing it on the huge gap in the barrel, and then spinning it half a circle. The blunderbuss was basically stable!
But they still haven't finished the operation! A soldier hammered a wooden bolt behind the barrel to secure the breech to the gun mount. At the same time, another soldier pushed up two semicircular metal rings from one side of the barrel! The soldier on the opposite side caught it and clamped the metal ring on the barrel!
Qi Jiguang keenly discovered that these two iron rings were stuck in the places where the Folan cannon was prone to air leakage in the past! With these two iron rings, you can plug the air leakage and strengthen the barrel, and everything is ready! This made Qi Jiguang admire Liu Haojia's carefulness even more!
