Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1253 The Bombardment of Zhongzuo

The first salvo of the Hall rifle was at a distance of 300 meters.Because of the spirit of frugality and revolution, the Hall rifles of the Navy were modified from Mini rifles, and the caliber was naturally not adjusted.

The pure version of the Hall rifle has the problem of air leakage, so the muzzle kinetic energy and range are inferior to the front-loading rifle. Although the rate of fire has a great advantage, it was still replaced by the front-loading rifle before the Civil War because of the range problem. replaced.

The version produced by Lingao has undergone certain innovations. The bullet tube has been changed to a tree-up type, and a brass shrink-fit locking device is used in the joint part. The necking device expands to seal the gas leaking from the breech, so the kinetic energy of the muzzle of Lingao's Hall rifle can reach 250 joules, and the effective range is 500 meters.Not only is the power not reduced much compared to the front-loading Mini rifle, but the shooting speed has also been taken into account.

The 13mm lead bullet rotates along the rifling line, screams and flies over 300 meters, and instantly tears the bamboo bundle of moso bamboo. Although this kind of bamboo handle shield can effectively resist bows and arrows and matchlock muskets, it cannot resist the bullets fired by rifled rifles at all. Mini bomb, when the bullet passes through a bundle of bamboo, the fiber is torn into countless bamboo sticks along the longitudinal line, and is shot out like a flowering bullet.Even though the soldiers standing behind the bamboo shield were not hit by bullets, they were covered all over by the bamboo stick-like fragments, and fell down screaming and tumbling.

The shooting speed of the Hall rifle is very fast. The average soldier can fire 1 rounds in one minute. What's more, the First Expeditionary Team is an experimental force, and they don't spare ammunition in training. Generally speaking, they can fire more than 6 rounds in one minute.Although Shi Zhiqi deliberately used double formations to fire in turn to control the firing speed to save ammunition, the two companies had already poured out 1 rounds of bullets within 10 minute-the bullets were like rain.

One minute of continuous shooting knocked down almost half of Lin Cha's troops, and the formation completely collapsed.The bamboo shields in the front row were smashed into a pile of fragments, and the soldiers holding the shields were either killed or injured—the wounded were particularly severe, almost all of them were secondary injuries from the burst bamboo pieces, and some even had bruises all over their bodies. Blood, but will not die for a while, rolling and screaming on the ground.

The follow-up archers had already scattered and fled in all directions, but they were still the rattan soldiers at the end of the formation, quite brave.Known as "emphasizing righteousness and despising life", Lin Cha and Lin Sheng personally brought out the "children's soldiers", and now their waists are full of money, and they are courageous.In the hail of bullets, the two generals Lin Sheng and Lin Cha ran back and forth with their own soldiers, shouting loudly, encouraging the soldiers to charge forward with rewards.

The rattan soldiers bowed their heads, hid behind the shields, and charged forward recklessly. Mad Dog".

However, the firepower density of the Hall rifle is far from comparable to that of the Dutch arquebus. The rattan soldiers persisted in the bullet rain for about 30 seconds. No one can rush the distance of 50 meters.

The soldiers, who were lucky enough to survive such a blow, no longer cared about the promised money, they scattered in a crowd, dropped the knives in their hands, and ran for their lives in all directions.The two forests couldn't suppress the bullets, so they had to lead their own soldiers to retreat.

"That's how we lost?!" The hearts of the Zheng family generals who were watching the battle sank.Originally, they didn't expect too much from Lin Cha's bamboo shield, but the gangster fired more than a dozen shots in a row to beat up the seven hundred brothers who were stuffed with money, which is too ridiculous .

The worst thing is that the enemy's muskets are far sharper than the legendary ones. Taking people's lives at a distance of more than 100 feet is like picking something out of a bag.How to fight again?
The two guards under him were equipped with Portuguese matchlock guns purchased from Macau. Even according to the evaluation of Europeans, they were good firearms, but their range did not exceed a hundred paces at best.It is even more pitifully slow to fire, completely incomparable to the musket of the thieves.

If things go on like this, as long as the enemy walks forward slowly, they will be able to consume their own troops to death by firing guns row by row!

Thinking of this, he immediately called an orderly: "Send an order to General Ma and tell him to fire!"

General Ma is Matos. At this time, the officer of the Black Guard is directing the gunners to aim at the city on the left of the center.

There are two naval guns dismantled from Ganghaixun No. 64 on the quickly repaired fort on the tower.It was the action of Qiezhidan Paul who captured the patrol boat and captured the two cannons that moved the hearts of Zheng's group.Of course, it also includes a few new gadgets he made himself.

Next to the cannon, there are shells unloaded from the ship. The spherical shells are not special at first glance, but each shell is tightly fixed on a wooden holder by iron flat bars, and silk is tied behind the wooden holder. gunpowder pack.Different colors are painted on the wooden stock: solid bullets, grenades.Most of them are solid bullets.

Under the command of Matos, more than a dozen Portuguese and black gunners got busy.It is more than three miles away from the beach where the marines are advancing. Not long ago, Lai Chezhidan, who was in charge of dismantling the two guns, demonstrated how to operate the two guns here.

Chezhidan seems to be familiar with this set, he demonstrated the shooting technique to the gunners on the spot, and conducted a test firing - the range of the two artillery can not only cover the beach, but also hit the sea.

In Matos's view, there is nothing special about these two cannons-it's just that they are very well cast.But their ammunition does have something unique, especially the grenade, which can be mounted on the body of the small copper disk, which he has never seen before.It is said that after installing this thing, the fired grenade has a detonation rate of more than [-]%.

Although there are grenades in this time and space, most of them are fired with mortars.It was rarely fired with a cannon, let alone a [-]% trigger rate—there was no reliable fuze at that time, and it all depended on the detonator to detonate.Therefore, the grenade was an "unreliable" shell at the time, and its power was not to mention, it only exploded a few large pieces.Artillery preferred the safety and reliability of shot and shot.

If it hadn't been for Chechidan personally demonstrating how to use it and firing the cannon several times in a row, Matos was skeptical about this "grenade" at first, but after seeing the other party's demonstration, he was completely convinced.Not only was the detonation reliable, but it was also more powerful than any grenade he had ever seen—the thieves were indeed powerful, and this Chichidan gunner was no less impressive.

Matos has also heard some news about how powerful the "Australian" artillery is, and they can fire a large number of powerful grenades. From this point of view, this Chechidan also possesses such technology, and he also said that he Can create more powerful, longer range, more accurate cannons.

It is not known whether Chezhidan can make such a cannon, but obviously, the only thing that can let the thieves know today is the cannon and shells they made themselves.

In the binoculars, it can be seen that the line of "Kun Thief" is steadily advancing here, and it is already within the effective range that Chiechidan said.

The data Chetchidan gave them was that the two guns could fire shells to one-half league (5 meters) at an elevation angle of 2000 degrees.And only 5 degrees of elevation means that the shooting accuracy is much better than other cannons.Coupled with the available grenade, it can have a great lethal effect on the infantry on the move.

"The Aussie walks so beautifully!" Matos looked at the neat horizontal formation in the binoculars: the sailors marched forward under the guidance of the military flag, and couldn't help admiring that this formation was not inferior to the Spanish veterans!He lowered the binoculars and gave the order to prepare to shoot.

The gunners methodically ranged, aimed, wetbore, and prepared ammunition.A gunner drilled holes in the copper disc according to the distance and then screwed the shells, which were carefully loaded into the barrels.Another gunner pierced the silk gunpowder pack with an iron awl, and poured propellant powder into the ignition port with a bull's horn.

"fire!"

The gunner ignited the gunpowder on the ignition port with a matchlock, and the fire door flashed, and then the cannon shot out a thick burst of fire and white smoke. The heavy sound of the cannon was pushed back by the recoil. The wheels creaked.

The thick smoke and flames on the city wall immediately caught Shi Zhiqi's attention. He knew that there were still [-] kilometers away from the center left. No matter which side the enemy was, no one would fire at this distance.

A few seconds later, there was the sound of cannons in the air. The first shell fired from the city wall on the left of the center landed on the beach 100 meters in front of the line, and exploded. With a puff, the hot piece of iron plunged into the sand less than five meters away from the horizontal line, emitting white smoke.

"Bombardment!" This terrible thought flashed through Shi Zhiqi's mind immediately, and a fear gripped his heart in an instant: the enemy suddenly opened fire on them at this range that could not be reached at all, and what they fired was grenades!
Before he could turn his head around, the second shell had already roared in. This time, the shell flew over the head of the line and landed on the beach tens of meters away, setting off a column of water mixed with sand. A soldier snorted, staggered and fell down.

Shi Zhiqi's face turned pale—the 30 seconds between the two shells seemed as long as a century, and he was unprepared for being hit by artillery fire.With great difficulty, a sentence was squeezed out from his dry throat: "Keep in formation! The brigade artillery fires! Target: Zhongzuocheng! Suppress the enemy's artillery fire, hurry up!"

(End of this chapter)