Water Margin farming to become powerful

"What is it?"

When Wanyan Zongbi heard the hurried report from his soldiers, he felt extremely confused. All the Jurchen nobles in the military tent knew that something big had happened in Wanping County opposite.

Wanyan Zongbi quickly pushed Zhang Xuan away from him and rushed out of the tent.

When he came outside the tent, Wanyan Zongbi saw that the entire camp was in chaos, with people and horses running around.

At this moment, the same rumbling sound as before was heard in the distance. Wanyan Zongbi looked towards the place where the sound came from.

At the same time as the sound was heard, fiery red light spots flashed on the tall rammed earth city wall newly built in Wanping County.

What it is?
A group of Jurchen young nobles looked into the distance. They were all stunned when the fiery red light flashed. The light was so beautiful, as if they had received precious firecrackers made by the Han from their parents when they were young. It is as bright as the light it emits when burning in the ground.

And with the sound of the cannon, Wanyan Zongbi saw the soldiers around him running in a hurry.

"Sixth Prince, be careful!"

Wanyan Zongbi and others were still staring blankly in the direction of Wanping County City. A centurion from Puli had already ran past him and quickly dragged him behind a dirt bag.

Almost at the same time, a gust of howling wind, carrying a terrifying heat wave, crashed in front of Wanyan Zongbi.

Wanyan Zongbi was pinned down by the centurion. An iron ball hit the ground less than ten meters in front of him, and then rolled away.

The iron ball crushed all the way, directly crushing the calves of the soldiers who were escaping on the road. It would bounce a few times when it hit the stone. It could kill a horse in an instant. Wanyan Zongbi was stunned by the huge power.

"Sixth Prince, don't look!"

Wanyan Zongbi was still wondering, but the next moment he heard a bang, and saw the smoking hot iron ball explode directly, sending smoke and dust everywhere.

The centurion who was protecting Wanyan Zongbi with his body grunted a few times, apparently being hit by the splashing stones.

Although Wanyan Zongbi was pressed to the ground, he was very close to the explosion point. Although he subconsciously pulled his head down in fear at the moment of the explosion, the stones and soil splashed by the explosion still caused blood to flow from the corner of his mouth.

"Run quickly, Sixth Prince, run quickly!"

After the explosion, the centurion quickly pulled Wanyan Zongbi up, while Wanyan Zongbi stood up staggeringly.

He stared at the scene in front of him dumbfounded.

The hot shrapnel from the exploding stone radiated out in an umbrella shape. There were many guards in front of Wanyan Zongbi's tent who heard the explosion and ran out to protect their master.

After a few seconds, the smoke dissipated, and everyone saw a large group of people within the radius of the explosion falling to the ground and wailing. Only some people in the distance were not seriously injured because they had fallen or were in a crawling position. hurt.

The explosion of the iron bomb just now caused at least 20 casualties in an instant.

Even though Wanyan Zongbi, who had been killing people since he was a teenager, couldn't help but swallow when he saw the hell-like scene in front of him.

"This... what is this?"

Zhang Xuan also ran out of the tent, looking at the messy scene in front of him, his face was also pale with fear.

Three of the nobles who had just run out with Wanyan Zongbi were killed immediately after the grenade was fired, and the remaining few were seriously injured in their hands and feet.All the Jurchens were heartbroken when they saw this scene. They had never seen such a terrible weapon. Some even felt that it was a punishment from the gods, so they knelt down and prayed.

At the same time, the two artillery battalions at the top of Wanping County were busy. Shi Xiu stood behind the artillery battalions, watching the artillerymen reloading ammunition quickly.

Facing the attack from the Jin people, the Supervisory Committee knew that as long as it retreated, it would be impossible to preserve the land in the base area, so Jinan Prefecture had long made a policy of resisting.

As the gateway to North China, Youzhou is the top priority in the defense of the base area.

Now a total of [-] protection troops have been mobilized from the North China base area, [-] of which have been placed in Youzhou Mansion, and the most elite artillery battalions have all been placed at the head of Wanping County.

In order to fight this battle to defend Wanping County, the North China base area has made the most adequate preparations.

All the long-barreled artillery pieces that the Supervisory Committee took great pains to deliver were sent to Wanping County, and all the newly developed grenades were also given to the artillery battalion for use.

In the few years since the establishment of the Supervisory Committee University, it has provided a considerable number of technical talents to the Supervisory Committee, the most important of which are artillery talents. Now the artillery level of the Supervisory Committee is no longer the same as that of a grass-roots team when they first attacked Liangshan.

Half of the artillerymen of the two battalions in front of Shi Xiu had at least a short training course degree, and their technical level had long been far superior to that of the veterans back then.

In the first round of calibrated firing, half of the ammunition hit the enemy camp. Immediately after the second round of grenades, [-]% of the ammunition hit. Looking at the bursts of gunpowder explosions that erupted in the enemy camp, As well as the frightening sounds of people shouting and horses neighing, Shi Xiu looked at the situation on the battlefield through the telescope and couldn't help but be filled with excitement.

"Beautiful! Commander Zeng, your artillery battalion did a great job."

The two artillery battalions sent by Shandong to support the North China base this time all belonged to the artillery composite regiment, and the leader of this regiment was Zeng Sheng, the sixth young master in Zengtou City.

Unlike the arrogant young man in Zengtou Market back then, Zeng Sheng has already become restrained after several years of training in the military.

At this time, there was a long scar from the zygomatic bone to the gills on the left half of his face. The muscles on half of his face were severed by this wound. His left eyebrow drooped. When he spoke, only half of his face could move normally. It seemed that Although it is not too ugly, it always gives people a calm and serious feeling.This was scratched by a flying stone during artillery training.

Zeng Sheng spoke with the same calmness in his tone.

"This batch of grenades was used on the battlefield for the first time, and the effect was pretty good. [-]% of them exploded successfully."

"But Commander Shi, this is already our fastest rate of fire."

Grenade that can explode after landing and cause more damage to the enemy is a new weapon that Shandong has just successfully developed this summer.

The technology was quite primitive, and it could not even achieve such a level of precision as making the lead of the ammunition and the cartridge together and firing them out together before launching.

At this time, the artillerymen around Shi Xiu were holding grenades in one hand and fire bombs in the other. There was also a special squad next to them who were responsible for preparing the grenades in advance.

They must first smash the fuse hole on the grenade, calculate the time when the grenade explodes based on the preset landing distance of the grenade, then cut a cylindrical fuse that can burn for the corresponding length of time and insert it into the fuse hole, and give the prepared ammunition to the artillery , the artilleryman used rapid movements to ignite the ammunition fuse and poke it into the barrel, and then ignited the propellant from the other end of the barrel to launch the grenade.

As long as the artillery moves a step slower, the cannon will explode on the tower in minutes. If the grenade with the fuse is accidentally dropped on the ground, the explosion will even directly overturn half of the people in the tower. , not even Shi Xiu can escape.

So even though Zeng Sheng and the others had trained in grenade launching technology for more than a month, the fastest speed was one shot per minute, and the actual explosion rate of newly produced grenades in Shandong was only over 1%.

But the effect of the grenade flying through the sky and hitting the enemy's position still made Shi Xiu overjoyed.

(End of this chapter)