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Chapter 383 Types of Artillery

Seeing that this place is dangerous, Chen Changbing didn't dare to be careless.After discussing with Zhang Dudu and Jiang He, he decided to find a high ground to set up camp and prepare to launch an attack the next day.

Never thought that Kang Jinshan was also a ruthless person, and that night he led a surprise attack on the camp of the rebels with the dead.

Chen Changbing participated in many battles with Zhang Shun, he was already experienced in military affairs, since he chose to set up camp here, he was prepared to fight steadily, and completely captured Kangjiazhuang, how could he be unprepared?

It's just that the mountain roads here are rugged and narrow, which is not conducive to galloping cavalry. Chen Changlan had to give up leading his usual cavalry and instead borrowed [-] infantry from Zhang Sanbai, Li Jiyu and others.

The quality of these infantry was lower than that of Chen Changzhu's cavalry, but they were not only insufficiently trained, but also did not get along well with Chen Changzhu and other generals. After being attacked suddenly, there was chaos.

Fortunately, the five hundred swords and shields under Jiang He's command are all his headquarters, and Zhang Shunyi has lined up this time.

Jiang He hurriedly led his swords and shields forward, and the dead soldiers under Kang Jinshan were brave and brave, but why didn't they go through the battle.

In times of chaos, he still has the upper hand.Once Jiang He led the crowd to form a formation, and the swords, shields and hands formed a shield wall and marched forward in unison, there was nothing for these dead men to do.

The bows and arrows they shot were all blocked by the shields of the sword and shield hands.They had no choice but to abandon their bows and arrows and fight with spears.

It's just that even though the spears in their hands dance like colorful flowers, they still can't avoid the shields of the sword and shield hands.They had no choice but to try to pierce the legs and feet of the sword-shielding hand with their spears. As a result, the sword-shielding hand pressed the shield and used the opportunity to chop their spears with their knives.

During the period of advancing and retreating, Jiang He led the sword and shield hand and gradually approached Kang Jinshan's spearman.As soon as he gave an order, all the swordsmen and shields turned sideways, ran, and directly hit them with their shields.

The spearman was caught off guard, and was approached by Jiang He and other sword-shieldmen, and the spear that was three feet long and four feet long was unable to stab.

Under the leadership of Kang Jinshan, they had no choice but to abandon their spears and draw out their waist swords to fight Jiang He's sword and shield hands.

But where can you beat it?The sword and shield hand only needs to bump the left shield, stagger when hitting the opponent, and then take advantage of the situation to kill a person.What's more, Kang Jinshan's dead men don't have iron armor for defense, only some legs and body are protected by bamboo armor, how can they resist Jiang He's attack?

Within an hour or three quarters, the menacing Kang Jinshan and others were killed by Jiang He in a flash.

It's just that the moon is dark and the wind is high, and the rebels can't see where the enemy is going.After driving Kang Jinshan and others out of the camp, Chen Changzhu hurriedly asked Jin to withdraw his troops, fearing that Jiang He would lose.Jiang He smashed his mouth, so he had no choice but to order the soldiers to withdraw regretfully.

Kang Jinshan barely escaped with his life when he mixed in the crowd, and fled back to Kangjiazhuang in embarrassment.

The so-called "rebellious" refers to this generation.Just like animals in nature, some animals are inherently difficult to be domesticated.As the primate of all things, although human beings can achieve a certain degree of self-domestication, there are still a group of people who are naturally unwilling to be inferior to others.

Kang Jinshan is a typical person of this kind. Even if he is idle and idle on weekdays, he is unwilling to work hard and work for others.

In troubled times, he is a born reckless hero, and in peacetime is a potential criminal.If he has some knowledge and culture and is assisted by others, he may not be able to take advantage of the time in the future and become another Zhang Shun.

It's just that Zhang Shun's wings have grown up now, but because of his knowledge, vision and other reasons, he has become the man with the arms of the mantis.

He thought that he was fierce and hard to control, and his subordinates had raised a lot of money to raise three hundred dead soldiers. Even if the old emperor of the capital came here, he would have to "coil a dragon, and lie down if a tiger".

He never thought that the other party just dispatched a small leader, and beat him to death. This is still under the situation that he took advantage of the opportunity to sneak attack at night.

Kang Jinshan's liver and gallbladder were torn, he quickly retreated to the castle, and never dared to go out of the city to fight again.

It didn't matter if he flinched, the next day Chen Changji and others easily surrounded the Kangjiazhuang, guarding several important access roads.Then, the cannons were set up leisurely and bombarded Kangjiazhuang.

These two cannons were Hongyi cannons borrowed by Dudu Zhang himself, and they were more powerful than the general cannons in Zhang Shun's hands.

Zhang Dudu was originally a person who had been in contact with Western warfare. Seeing that the gunners sent by Li Shi'an were still firing with experience, he quickly gave them some pointers.

First let them conduct multiple test shots with different angles and different charges to establish a preliminary shooting table.Then select the appropriate shooting table content to correct the shooting, which greatly improves the accuracy of the artillery.

At the beginning, Kangjiazhuang was frightened to death when he heard the gunfire of the rebel army.It wasn't until I found out that this guy sounded loud and looked scary, but he didn't know where it was deflected, that he ran to the city wall, shooting holes, etc. to see the strangeness.

As a result, I never thought about it. After watching for a long time, suddenly a shell flew into the crowd, killing three or five people with one shot.Some were smashed into pieces, and flesh and blood flew all over the ground. Only then did they realize they were afraid, and ran around in panic.

It was only when the next few shells missed again that they calmed down.They only thought that those people were unlucky, and there was nothing unusual about this thing.

But they didn't expect that the shells would become more accurate and more powerful later on.As more and more people died, they became really scared and fled into castles and watchtowers to hide.

At this time, the lethality of the artillery was greatly reduced. Zhang Dudu watched it for a long time, and then ordered the two cannons to gather together and attack that watchtower.

This watchtower was originally made of stone blocks, with thin top and thick bottom, very strong.When the heavy bullet of fifteen catties hit it, it just made a dull crashing sound.

Chen Changliang watched it for a long time, but couldn't find what he wanted, so he asked strangely: "This Hongyi cannon is so famous, why can't it even do anything about this watchtower?"

Zhang Dudu couldn't see that others looked down on the cannon, so he quickly argued: "Although this cannon is called the Hongyi cannon, it is actually just a blunderbuss. It is thin-skinned and empty, so it can fire more shells, but the charge should not be too much, otherwise it will easily explode. For a real thousand-jin Hongyi cannon, the shell is only about ten catties, and the charge is two or three times that of the gun, so it has a longer range and greater power. If it is to attack a city, you need to forge a blunderbuss, and the attack will be effective!"

When Chen Changbing heard this, he didn't take it seriously, so he continued to order the artillery to bombard it. It was not until that night that a watchtower was blown down with great difficulty.

Now Chen Changliang couldn't sit still any longer, so he asked Dudu Zhang personally for advice: "If the enemy still doesn't surrender tomorrow and only uses this method to attack the city, I fear that the end of the year will be too early! I don't know if there is still time to forge guns?"

(End of this chapter)