"Dorgon, don't bully others too much." Mangus looked at Dorgon in front of him.
Dorgon glanced at him and said, "If you don't believe it, just try it."
After saying that, he turned around and went back to prepare for the next attack.
There were no carriages to carry the artillery bombardment, so he sent the Mongolians to the front to withstand the bombardment of the tiger-character flag. It was he who came up with the method to let the two white flags avoid the artillery bombardment.
snort!
Mangus snorted coldly as he watched Dorgon leave.
However, he knew that no matter how uncomfortable he felt, he still had to send his Mongolian soldiers to follow Dorgon's request. At most, he would make some fine-tuning in sending troops.
boom! boom! boom!
Before the Mongolian soldiers attacked, more than twenty cannons on the side of the slave thieves were fired.
More than twenty cannonballs crossed the air and fell towards the defense line on the side of the Tiger Flag.
Unfortunately, the artillery shells had already fallen to the ground before they appeared on top of the Tiger Flag's defense line. They did not pose a great threat to the Tiger Flag's defense line.
"Load gunpowder, load more gunpowder." Seeing that the artillery failed to hit the defense line of the Tiger Flag, Sahalian ordered the artillerymen on the Han side.
The more gunpowder is loaded, the farther the cannon fires.
Sahalian was sent by Daishan to command more than 20 cannons brought by the Han soldiers.
"Master Beile, you can't add more gunpowder. If you add more gunpowder, the cannon will explode." A Han general on the side quickly stood up to dissuade Sahalian from requesting more gunpowder.
In order to allow the cannon to reach the defense line of the Tiger Flag, this was the second time that gunpowder was added.
Upon hearing this, Saharian's face sank and he said: "If you don't add gunpowder, just push the cannon forward. You won't even be able to hit the enemy. What's the use of you guys?"
The Han general who heard this lowered his head and did not dare to refute. He could only follow Saharian's wishes and ask his artillerymen to add more gunpowder to make the cannons hit farther.
As for pushing the cannon forward, he didn't dare.
Once the cannons were pushed forward, it would not be them firing the Tiger Flag, but the Tiger Flag's artillery bombarding them.
The gunners of the Han soldiers began to clean the barrels of the cannons and load them with powder and solid iron balls.
Unlike the artillery of the Tiger Banner, the artillerymen in these Han soldiers were basically from the Ming army, and their usual artillery operations relied on experience.
They don't know how to calculate the impact point of the artillery pieces, and rely more on experience, so they are not as accurate as the artillerymen of Tiger Ziqi who have been specially trained by Jiangwu Hall.
Artillery is a technical branch in the Tiger Banner. With higher pay than ordinary soldiers, they naturally learn a lot more than ordinary soldiers.
Moreover, every artilleryman of Tiger Character Banner will accumulate experience through a lot of opportunities to operate artillery from the beginning of learning how to be an artilleryman.
Even some veteran gunners in the Ming Army may not have as much experience as a gunner trained by the Tiger Flag.
After all, the pills and marbles were made of silver. Both the Ming army and the slave thieves were reluctant to hand over a large amount of pills and marbles to the artillery for practice.
An artilleryman not only needs the expenses of ammunition and marbles, but also the wear and tear of the cannon.
A cannon will suffer losses during regular use, and the amount of money required to build a cannon is also not a small amount.
The slave thieves even lacked iron, and it was impossible for the artillery in the Han army to waste the life of the cannon to increase the experience of the artillery. As for the Ming army, there was no shortage of iron, but silver.
There are too many people who share the money between them, and they can't even guarantee the quality of the cannon, let alone use the money to increase the experience of the artillery.
As long as the artillerymen in the Ming army can fire, it is enough. It doesn't matter whether they can hit the target on the battlefield, because most of the people who benefit from it will not go to the battlefield in person.
Boom!
There was a sudden loud noise from the artillery position.
"Protect Lord Beile!" The Han general on the slave artillery position heard the loud noise and hurriedly shouted to protect Sahanlian.
And just not far away from them, a large general's cannon exploded directly, and the surrounding Han soldiers were killed and injured, and they wailed.
"It's really useless." Saha Lian saw that
The cannon exploded, and he pushed away the Han general standing in front of him.
Only then did the Han general notice that the cannon exploded, with a bitter look on his face.
The one that exploded was a general made by Han craftsmen hired by slave thieves. The weight of the gun body was almost the same as that of the Ming army's general cannon.
But the quality of the cannon is really not that good.
Even if the range is short, the barrel will explode easily if you fire a few more shots. Don't pack too much ammunition, otherwise the barrel will explode. Not to mention compared with the cannons of the Tiger Flag, even the cannons captured from the Ming army are Not as good as.
"I'm asking you, is there any way to bombard the tiger bandits?" Sahalian asked, looking at the Han general in front of him.
As for charging the cannon with more explosives to increase its range, he didn't say anything. The explosion just now clearly told him that the idea of adding more explosives to increase its range was simply impossible.
The Han general shook his head with a grimace and said, "Master Beile, it's not that you guys are not trying your best, it's just that the range is not enough and the cannons can't reach the opponent!"
There's nothing he can do if the cannon doesn't work. He's just a Qianhu and can't create a cannon with a longer range and more power.
"Then push the cannon forward. I don't believe we can't hit the tiger thieves when the range is close." Sahalian directly asked the Han general in front of him to push the cannon forward to close the distance with the Tiger Flag defense line.
At this moment, the sound of bull horns came from the direction of the Mongolian soldiers.
Saharian heard that this was the horn sound of the Mongols preparing to attack, and looked over.
Mongolian soldiers gathered in one place.
Soon, a large group of Mongolian soldiers began to charge in the direction of the Tiger Flag.
The Mongolian soldiers in front of them numbered 10,000 to 20,000 cavalry.
"Master Beile, are the cannons still moving forward?" General Han asked carefully from the side.
Saharian glanced at him coldly and said: "What are you still doing? Move the cannon forward immediately. This time I want to bombard the tiger bandits' defense line. I can't take all the credit from the two white flags."
After being scolded, the Han general shrank his neck and ran to order his Han soldiers to move the cannon closer to the Tiger Flag defense line.
Nearly 20,000 Mongolian cavalry rushed towards the Tiger Flag defense line, and the scene was very shocking.
As far as the eye can see, Mongolian cavalry are attacking all over the field.
"Fire! Don't hold back, pull out all the cannons and fire." Lin Ping, the captain of the artillery team, understood that if only part of the cannons were used as before, the pressure on the defense line would be too great.
Now he had to order his men to use all their cannons.
In order to cope with the battle with the slave thieves, the Tiger Flag specially prepared more than 300 cannons.
As the command flag soldiers waved the command flag in their hands, they played flags one by one.
As long as the cannons facing the Mongolian soldiers were fired on the battlefield, they were fired almost at the same time.
The sound of horse hooves was like roaring bursts of muffled thunder, but when so many cannons were fired, it was also bursts of thunder, and it was thunder with lightning.
The cannonballs flying out of the barrel were like streaks of lightning, falling from the sky and crashing into the crowd of Mongolian soldiers below.
