"Brother, do you really think that sending a few cannons can change the situation?" Zu Dabi asked Xiang Zu Dashou with an ugly face.
Zu Dashou raised his hand and patted Zu Dabi's shoulder, then walked past Zu Dabi without saying a word.
"Brother, we can't keep fighting. Too many of us have died." Zu Dabi turned around and stood behind and shouted loudly to Zu Dashou.
However, Zu Dashou said nothing and walked further and further away without looking back.
When Zu Dabi saw that Zu Dashou was silent, he raised his legs and wanted to chase after him.
At this time, Wu Xiang, who was standing aside, reached out to hold Zu Dabi and shook his head at him.
"Don't stop me. So many people have died. I can't just watch." Zu Dabi broke away from Wu Xiang's hand and chased after Zu Dashou.
Seeing this, Wu Xiang had no choice but to follow him.
All the dozens of cannons sent by Huang Taiji were pushed to the front of the formation.
Many gunners were sent along with the cannon. These gunners were originally from the Guan Ning Army, and the cannons were also captured by Huang Taiji after he obtained Ning Jin.
Because of the lack of Kong Youde's support, Huang Taiji did not obtain a large number of mature gunners, and even the casting technology was poor, not even comparable to that of the Ming Dynasty.
Huang Taiji knew the power of cannons and attached great importance to the gunners in the Ming army.
Zu Dashou asked his men to push dozens of cannons in front of the formation and prepare to fire on the top of Shanhaiguan City to suppress the defenders on the city.
However, just as these cannons were pushed to the front of the formation, the roar of cannons sounded from the top of Shanhaiguan City.
Cannonballs soared into the sky and fell towards the cannon in front of Guan Ning's army.
Because the distance was slightly farther, the accuracy was naturally worse, but one round of artillery fire still destroyed several cannons of the Guan Ning Army.
"Fire back with artillery, fire back with artillery." Zu Dashou saw that his cannon had suffered a loss, and immediately shouted loudly for his gunners to hurry up and fire back.
The gunners in front of Guan Ning's army began to adjust their shooting angles and aimed at the city wall of Shanhaiguan.
Artillery is a technical branch. It not only requires frequent practice and familiarity with the cannons it operates, but also requires various calculations to ensure the hit rate and range as much as possible.
Although the gunners of the Guan Ning Army often used artillery to defend against the enemy, especially the gunners from Ningyuan and Jinzhou, they were always one of the busiest people once they encountered an army of slave thieves.
Therefore, they are also very familiar with how to fire cannons.
It's just that this type of classification comes from the number of actual battles they have participated in. When there is no actual combat, they rarely have the opportunity to fire. In fact, even the number of pills to load is based on personal experience.
In terms of personal quality, he is naturally inferior to the gunners of the Tiger Flag.
The condescending Tiger Flag gunners relied on their strong skills and excellent cannons to bombard the Guanning Army's guns and gunners one after another.
Every few moments, one or several cannons of Guan Ning's army could be destroyed.
If the distance between the two sides was closer, the gunners of the Tiger Flag could even be sure to completely destroy more than half of Guan Ning's army's cannons within two to three rounds.
During the artillery fire on the Shanhaiguan city wall, the gunners from Guan Ning's army also tried to fire back. Unfortunately, the distance was too far and they could not threaten the tiger flag gunners and cannons on the city wall.
After destroying several cannons under the shelling on the Shanhaiguan city wall, Qianhu, a member of Guan Ning's army, quickly came to Zu Dashou.
"Master, our cannon is too far away from the city wall to threaten the defenders in the city. We need to move the cannon further forward."
After hearing this, Zu Dashou frowned and said: "Since you find that the distance is not enough, then move forward and move to a suitable position to fight back and suppress the defenders in Shanhaiguan."
"It's okay to move the cannon forward, but the cannon on the top of the Shanhaiguan City is too powerful. We need to send a team of people to use carriages to block the artillery fire from inside Shanhaiguan, so that our cannon can be moved over." Qianhu said.
Zu Dashou said: "Then why are you still standing there? Why don't you go quickly?"
"But our carriages are not enough! They can't protect all our cannons." Qianhu said.
Zu Dashou hesitated for a moment and said: "We will use as many of the carriages as we can. We will first find a way to send the cannon to the appropriate location."
"Yes." Qianhu turned and ran away.
It didn't take long before four catapult carts were pushed out. A dozen cannons followed the four catapult carts. There were several cannons that were not protected by the catapult carts, so they could only fall as far behind as possible. Use the car protection to the front.
Sure enough, with the protection of the carriage, the threat of shelling from Shanhaiguan was reduced.
However, the problem of slow movement speed cannot be solved, which also gives the Tiger Flag gunners some opportunities to knock out as many enemy cannons that are not strictly protected as possible.
As for the carriages, they were handed over to the gunners of the nine-pounders.
However, the nine-pounder can't destroy the carriage with just one or two shots. In addition, Guan Ning's army's artillery does not need to be sent under the city wall of Shanhaiguan, which gives Guan Ning's army a chance.
It took some time, but in the end less than twenty guns were transported to a place about 500 steps away from Shanhaiguan, and only one of the four carriages was destroyed.
The cannons of Guan Ning's army below the city were constantly fired from the top of Shanhaiguan City.
In the end, several cannons of Guan Ning Army were destroyed, but Guan Ning Army was also asked to adjust the shooting angle and load the cannons.
Cannon fire is much slower than blunderbuss fire.
Neither the gunners of the Guan Ning Army nor the gunners of the Tiger Flag can avoid this.
It's just that well-trained gunners have more experience, and their movements on the battlefield are more standardized and less likely to become deformed.
boom! boom! boom!
Of the dozens of cannons sent by Guan Ning's army, only a dozen or so cannons fired at the Shanhaiguan city wall.
Everyone is afraid of death, and so are the gunners of the Guan Ning Army.
They were able to persist for so long in the face of the casualties of their comrades and still be able to fire cannons. It was already very good. Naturally, accuracy could not be guaranteed.
This directly led to the shelling by Guan Ning's army. The threat to Shanhaiguan was almost zero. Only a few solid stone bullets hit the outer wall of Shanhaiguan.
Of course, the first round of firing is mainly to determine the distance and angle, so it is normal for the hit to be low.
But what they faced was a better Tiger Flag gunner.
When the first round of shelling by Guan Ning's army did not threaten the defenders in Shanhaiguan City, the gunners with the Tiger Flag on the city wall began to fire back.
Because the two sides were closer, the two carriages were directly destroyed by the heavy shells of the nine-pounder cannon, and five or six cannons were also destroyed.
This also reduced Guan Ning's army from a dozen cannons to two-thirds of the previous number, and without the protection of the carriages, other cannons were also exposed to the muzzles of the cannons on the top of Shanhaiguan City.
