golden scales

Standing at the head of Fengjia Village, Zhu Cihong was wearing a black iron armor, a bright helmet on his head, and didn't even have a military rank on his shoulders. He looked like an ordinary Ming military officer. .He held the binoculars and locked it firmly on the tall and strong rattan player.

The rattan player was like a rampaging bull, and no one who collided with him could stand still, and quickly tore apart the enemy's line.

The mandarin duck formation was not as rigid as the phalanx formation, and gave full play to its high penetrating power and flexibility, driving the enemy soldiers back behind the parapet.

"This is really a tank!" Zhu Cihong couldn't help but said to Sun Chuanting, who was also supervising the battle.

Sun Chuanting was wearing the military uniform of the supervisor, coupled with his eight-foot tall stature and a noble spirit, just standing here was enough to boost morale.He also noticed the prominent red dot, and heard Crown Prince Chen Zan, he also said: "Indeed, this son is indeed a brave man who can overcome difficulties and make a smooth journey. Your Highness's word 'tank' is quite expressive."

Zhu Cihong smiled, turned to Min Ziruo and said, "Go and see if Mr. She Qian is free, and if it's convenient, let him come over."

Guarding Fengjia Village is the [-]th Headquarters of the [-]st Guards Battalion, She An, Chief Qian.Now he has also made a name for himself in the East Palace Department, everyone knows that he is the number one general under Xiao Mo, and the most difficult and dangerous tasks always fall on him.He also lived up to Xiao Mo's trust, and the soldiers under him became stronger and stronger as they fought.

Not long after, She An was summoned, and she made a military salute by clenching her right fist and tapping on the breastplate.

"Is this the secretary of Liu Si?" Zhu Cihong asked.

She An leaned on the wall and glanced at it, and said: "Your Highness, it is Liu Si. This Liu Lao Si is now the general manager, but he still regards himself as a rattan player, but he refuses to take command in the middle." There was a bit of hatred in the words The loss of steel.

"There will be strong generals and wise generals. This Liu Lao Si is a real strong general." Zhu Cilang said with a smile: "It is rare to be like him. You can assign him more combat staff to make up for his shortcomings. After this battle , let him come to see me."

"As ordered!"

The artillery on the village completed the process of cleaning, cooling, and filling, and let out a battle roar again.

Every roar created a crack in the heart of the Dashun army who was besieging the city.

The green-shirted doctor guarding the city, led the civilian husband and auxiliary soldiers to carry the injured soldier back on a stretcher.The seriously injured were sent to the village for surgery, and the slightly injured were bandaged on the spot.

The first tentative attack of the Shun army came to an end, and the troops were withdrawn.

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boom!boom!

After a short rest, the sound of rumbling guns came from outside the village. This was the artillery of the Shun Army.This means that the tentative attack of the siege war is completely over, and now it is the onslaught of Liu Fangliang's main force.

According to the battle plan, when Liu Fangliang went into the main battle, it was also the moment when Xiao Mo launched two thousand headquarters to carry out a surprise attack from the rear.Under the front and back attacks, even if Liu Fangliang wanted to escape, it was already too late.

Xiao Tugeng stood on the hill and looked at Liu Fangliang's gun carriage with binoculars.As early as there were rumors that the Firearms Bureau was going to annex the Shenji Camp, he had paid attention to all kinds of firecrackers and artillery of Daming.After analyzing the performance of various artillery, Xiao Tugeng was not superstitious about the red cannon that could hit five or six miles away, but was quite interested in the Fran cannon.The two artillery bureaus of the Firearms Division are equipped with Fran cannons as standard equipment, one is a heavy Fran cannon bureau, and the other is a light Fran cannon bureau.

This time Liu Fangliang was lured to the Lexia defense line, and Xiao Tugeng was immediately ordered to bring an artillery bureau to join the battle.Heavy Fran cannons are fortress and city defense guns, weighing more than a thousand catties.The light Fran cannon is a field gun, only weighing more than 150 kilograms.Although the range of the Fran cannon is far inferior to that of the red cannon, it has a high rate of fire, fast heat dissipation, and the fixed amount of gunpowder is easy to operate.The most important thing is that the blasting rate of the Fran cannon is much lower than that of the red cannon.

This time Xiao Tugeng brought a 150-jin light Fran cannon with a range of about two miles. If you use solid bullets from a high position, the range and power are very impressive.

Zhu Cihuang also handed Xiao Tugeng the command of the Artillery Bureau of the Battalion sent by Xiao Donglou, but the Artillery Bureau of the Battalion was equipped with tiger-squatting cannons, which was difficult for Xiao Tugeng to understand.

"Three on the horizontal axis, six on the vertical axis, get ready to aim!" The artillery map in Xiao Tugeng's hand is different from ordinary maps. The entire map is marked with small squares like a Go board.After the artillery position is set, the gunner in the center of the gun position will perform forward pre-firing, set the "Tianyuan" position, and then determine the aiming position of each gun through pre-firing at various angles.

When Liu Fangliang's artillery entered the bombardment range, Xiao Tugeng could judge the position of the enemy's artillery through the markings on the ground, and guide his own artillery to cover and shoot.This stupid method required a lot of live ammunition pre-firing and counting the impact points, and if Liu Fangliang didn't bring the artillery up, Xiao Tugeng could only stare blankly, or just use the infantry to open the meat and stuff his teeth.

However, the benefits of this stupid method are also obvious: no professional knowledge is required, and it is easy to use.At the same time, let the gunner know something in the process of practice, and it will be much more intuitive when learning the theory.

"Fill the gun!" Xiao Tugeng shouted while waving the green pennant.

Each gun carriage is a corps, and the corps leader repeated the order loudly, commanding the artillery to load the gunpowder and lead bullets into the guns.

"Shangzi Gun!" The yellow pennant waved at the same time as the command.

The Fran cannon is a rear-loading gun, because it is divided into two parts: the sub-gun and the mother gun, and it is also called the sub-mother gun in Ming Dynasty.This kind of artillery is more like the guns of later generations that have been magnified hundreds of times: the empty sub-gun is the bullet casing, and after being filled with gunpowder and projectiles, it becomes a complete bullet, and the fire gate becomes the primer of this bullet .The thick belly of the Franco cannon mother blunderbuss can be regarded as the bullet chamber of the gun. After ignition and firing, the empty blunderbuss is taken out, and then the second child blunderbuss is filled.

According to the regulations of the Ming army, the mother blunderbuss was driven by a vehicle and equipped with three child blunderbusses, so that rapid shooting could be carried out in a short period of time.Xiao Tugeng believed in "Shooting a snake and hitting seven inches, cutting the weeds to get rid of the roots", so he added two extra guns, and the first five cannons could be fired within 1 minute.If he hadn't considered the heat dissipation of the female gun, he would have wanted to add two more.

"Open the fire door! Light the fire!"

The red pennant drew a big "x" in front of Xiao Tugeng.

The gunner received the firing order conveyed by the corporal commander and lit the primer.

After three breaths, the fifteen cannons roared and spewed out fireworks, smoke, and projectiles almost simultaneously.

The gun carriage was propelled by the huge recoil force, rushed up the gentle slope behind it, paused slightly when it was near the apex, and returned to the gun position along the rut.

The Ripper quickly opened the gun door, hooked the hot gun with an iron hook, and pulled it out.The loader waited for the smoke in the belly of the mother gun to dissipate, and quickly pushed the second child gun.With the locking of the gun door, the observers have aimed at the calibration again.The gunner held a torch and waited for the order to fire.

Occasionally, wailing sounds could be heard from the foot of the mountain, and the artillery of the Shun Army could no longer be heard.

Xiao Tugeng saw clearly from the binoculars that one of the enemy's heavy artillery was overturned by a ricochet, and the gunners of other artillery were also killed and injured.

He suddenly felt extremely powerful, his body seemed to be filled with enormous power.

"Horizontal axis left bottom, vertical axis Tianyuan! Free fire!" Xiao Tugeng ordered all the artillery to turn to the direction of the enemy's general flag and fire freely.

Free fire is the favorite way of shooting for gunners. In their words: let go!As long as the team cooperates tacitly enough and the tactics are proficient, you can play as fast as you want!It is not only the main way to vent fighting spirit, but also the highlight of internal competition.

Liu Fangliang's general flag did not come into range, but the shells all over the sky were bombarded, and it was inevitable that some ricochets rushed over.Even if it was just rolling on the ground, it would still make the Chinese army's array shake.Those soldiers who happened to be within the shelling range were even more unlucky, as if they were in hell.A few smarter ones immediately ran to the mountain wall, avoiding the shells above their heads, but were forced back to the team by the supervising team, or had their heads chopped off with a knife.

Liu Fangliang was stunned by the cannonball, and thought to himself: No wonder that thief Luo Yukun was beaten to death and went to Yanzhou.

"Come on! If you cross the parapet, you will be rewarded 50 taels!" Liu Fangliang announced loudly.

The army has already lined up and is ready to go. If they withdraw, it will only result in the collapse of the whole army.Rather than being trampled to death by his own rebels, Liu Fangliang would rather they die under the artillery and swords of the officers and soldiers.And judging from the current situation, the Dashun Army still has an advantage in terms of numbers. The opponent is just a small village, with at most 800 people, and their own side has ten times as many people. (To be continued.)