Zhang Cheng stood on the watchtower, holding a telescope to observe the effects of the bombardment. It could be seen that the gunners under Lu Xiangsheng's command of the Biao Battalion were indeed serious in their usual drills.
Under the command of their own artillery team officer, they fired the gun calmly, then cleared the barrel, loaded the ammunition, calibrated the gun, and fired again. Everything was in order and without any signs of panic.
Although their performance is undeniable among the elites in the Ming army, in Zhang Cheng's view, such an artillery team is far from the most ideal state in his mind, and there are still a lot of problems. space can be further improved.
That's a salvo!
Yes, it's a salvo of artillery.
All the artillery is concentrated, fires one round first, calibrates the firing range, and then all the artillery fires a standard salvo. In this way, whether it is the killing effect or the power and deterrence effect, it is stronger than such an intermittent and sporadic one. emission.
On the wall of the east gate of Jiazhuang, the gunners next to each Hongyi cannon are constantly using the parallax method to correct the height, distance, direction and other data. After the observer reports the audible data, the gunner continues to use the crank and screw Adjusting the angle of the muzzle.
After the gunner re-aimed, there was another round of shelling, and each Qing shield vehicle was smashed, and the Qing archers and heavy armored infantry in the array were also bloody.
Each of the six Hongyi cannons of the Ming army fired five rounds, with a total of thirty solid iron bullets, blasting into the approaching array of the Qing army.
Violent artillery fire, shattered shield vehicles, scattered limbs, blood-stained ground, and Qing soldiers wailing and hissing all over the field, the scene was in a mess, and the smell of blood filled the air, making people feel sick.
The coated Aha pushing the shield cart were even more panicked. They looked to the left and right of them and were wailing. Most of them hid behind the shield cart. Some of them were so frightened that they turned around and ran away. go.
The Qing army in front caused a commotion as soon as the formation was neutral. They naturally lowered their bodies, thinking that they could avoid the Ming army's artillery fire.
The Qing generals who were leading the team shouted and cursed loudly and suppressed them. More than ten coated Aha who ran backwards were immediately chopped to the ground. They were not dead, but they could not stop rolling and crying.
The Qing army stabilized the array for a while. They continued to press forward despite the sparse artillery fire, and soon advanced to about a mile away from the Ming army's defense line.
"Why……"
Zhang Cheng sighed secretly in his heart. If there were more Hongyi cannons, twenty would be enough. Each cannon would be operated by a skilled gunner, and they would fire five rounds of intensive volleys against the Qing army rushing towards them. shoot.
It can be concluded that such a fire attack can almost collapse the Qing army rushing on this side.
"What a pity!"
Looking at the east wall of the village, the Hongyi cannons could no longer be charged after firing several rounds in succession. The sergeants covered the cannon barrels with thick felt cloths wetted with cold water, and put round heads wetted with water. The mop was inserted into the barrel to clean the barrel.
At this time, the Hongyi cannon could not be fired more than five times in a row, and the barrel had to be cleaned thoroughly, and attention should be paid to the heat dissipation of the barrel. The operational requirements in all aspects were too high, otherwise it would easily cause a chamber explosion accident.
After the Qing army's array was stabilized, they saw those deadly solid cannons flying involuntarily. They pushed the shield cart again, slowly approaching, and soon came within a mile of each other.
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Looking at the Qing army's shield vehicles that were still coming up one after another, Lu Xiangsheng said to the ordering soldiers beside him: "Give the order, prepare the rockets, all departments must strictly guard their positions and not retreat even an inch."
The ordering soldiers waved the order flags, and the order flags were waving on every turret. As the flags were passed, all the Ming army became nervous and busy. Tubes of various types of rockets fired from the walls of various villages and from behind the earthen wall outside the camp. He lifted it out and pointed it at the approaching Qing army.
Lu Xiangsheng said in a deep voice: "Zhang Cheng, Jiang Mingwu, Chen An, hurry up and assemble your team to be on standby to support everywhere at any time."
Zhang Cheng and other generals received their orders loudly, walked down the watchtower, and returned to their headquarters. They summoned the generals and formed their teams to stand by.
"Rocket ready!"
Continuous orders were heard, and with the orders, square muzzles were exposed on various defense lines of the Ming army. At the same time, it seemed that orders were coming one after another from three sides of the Jiazhuang defense line:
"...put...put...put..."
A loud thunder exploded, and thick smoke rose from three sides of the Jia Zhuang Ming Army camp. The overwhelming rockets roared, with unique fireworks trails, penetrating the biting cold wind, like a strong wind and rain, overwhelming the sky. Pounced towards the Qing army's position.
The Ming army has always been equipped with sophisticated flying guns, flying knives, flying swords and other large rockets. The thirty-round rockets can go three hundred steps after being fired. It can even reach one mile away.
Lu Xiangsheng's Supervisor Battalion, as well as the troops of Xuanzhen Commander-in-Chief Yang Guozhu and Shanxi Town Commander-in-Chief Hu Dawei, all carried a large number of rockets on the expedition. These military weapons were easier to carry than Hongyi cannons, and their power was even more powerful. It is not weaker than the Hongyi cannon, but its disadvantage is that it can be used once.
Before Zhang Cheng went on the expedition, he had thought of such a powerful weapon, but he had never found it. Fortunately, Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Guozhu and others gave Zhang Yan and Jiang Mingwu some flying spears, flying knives, and hundreds of rockets they brought. Tigers rush forward and wait for the big rocket.
As the military chief of the three towns, the military rockets brought by Lu Xiangsheng and others this time were carefully selected, and most of them were sophisticated military equipment.
There was a thunderous explosion, and gunmen from various Ming armies were deployed at the front. They all acted as rocket launchers temporarily, one aiming and the other igniting.
Each rocket ignited, the smoke rose, and the fire flashed. Thirty or one hundred iron spears, iron swords and arrows flew out, like flying fireballs, densely packed and roaring towards the Qing Dynasty. Military array.
A rain of arrows trailing flames flew in, covering the sky and the sun. Looking up, it felt as if the sky was on fire, and seemed to envelope the entire array of Qing archers.
The power of science and technology is unimaginable to the nomads. They may be able to cause a rain of arrows on such a scale with thousands of manpower, but their power and lethality are not the same.
The densely packed Qing army raised their shields, but some people were still hit by arrows and rolled to the ground. The archers had no shields to lift, so they crowded behind the shield carts to avoid the flying arrows. The Qing army's formation was as follows A chaos.
Those miserable coated Aha were pushing the shield cart forward. Just now they were secretly rejoicing that they had escaped the fierce bombardment of the Ming army, when they saw flying arrows coming like rain from ahead.
Before they had time to react, they were pushed out by the Qing archers from behind and pushed to the outside on both sides of the shield cart. The unprotected coated Aha screamed and cried and ran in all directions.
The rockets were fired intensively and exploded like thunder. Many war horses in the Qing army's rear formation were so frightened by the momentum that they jumped.
