The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 474
Since the barrels had to be wiped extremely clean and smooth, it took a while before the four hexagonal rotary guns were finally ready.

Luck Dehun, who was less than a hundred meters away, had been impatiently urging him several times, and finally saw Mr. Bai, who was in charge of commanding the four cannons, raise a small triangular flag and ordered, "Fire the cannon!"

When the herald heard the news, he rang the gong vigorously, and the gunpowder next to the fire door at the breech of the gun was immediately ignited by four captive soldiers one after another.Sparks first penetrated into the fuse of the first gun from the left, and there was a dull roar immediately after.

A hexagonal cannonball cast into a twist shape suddenly flew out of the muzzle under the impetus of thick smoke and flames, and rapidly rotated axially under the action of the twisted hexagonal barrel.

Immediately, two more cannons followed with loud noises.Because of the rotation effect of the three shells, the flight trajectory is very stable. They whizzed past the battle formations of the Jianlu Central Army and the Front Army, and hit the Dragon Guard infantry line more than 200 steps in front of the infantry line four miles away. , stirring up mud and gravel all over the sky.

However, because the cannonball is not spherical, the ricochet effect is not obvious, and the kinetic energy is exhausted only by jumping forward thirty or forty feet irregularly.

Luck Dehun's scalp was numb from the mighty momentum of the new cannon, and he couldn't help being ecstatic, and immediately raised his binoculars to observe the effect of the shelling.

But he still didn't see anything clearly, but suddenly heard another loud "boom" beside his ears, like a thunderbolt not far away, the movement was more than ten times louder than the previous three cannons!
Luckard's ears were buzzing, wondering why the last shot was so powerful.When he turned his head to look, he was surprised to see that the area hundreds of feet away on the north side was scorched black. The four hexagonal cannons that were showing off just now had disappeared without a trace. More than 30 feet away.

After a moment of silence, the rear of the Qing army suddenly let out screams like slaughtering pigs, "Boom, bomb!"

"Bomb exploded, run away..."

"The cannon exploded, come and save people!"

"It hurts to death, help me..."

"help me……"

Even among the personal guards closest to the north side of Luck Dehun, two of them fell off their horses and rolled all over the ground clutching their bloody wounds, but they were injured by flying fragments or stones.

Luke De was so angry that his face turned pale. He didn't expect that the "magic weapon" he had placed high hopes on had not even hurt a single hair of the Ming army, but first "grew his beard" in his own backyard.

Taking the place where the cannon was placed just now as the center of the circle, none of the soldiers within twenty feet were spared, and at least 400 died.Luke Dehun's heart suddenly trembled, if he got closer just now, his life might be lost.

"Cai Shiying, you bastard!" He gritted his teeth and said, "I will definitely tear you to pieces when I go back!"

In fact, this cannot be entirely blamed on Cai Shiying. With the level of casting in the [-]th century, it is impossible to make a usable hexagonal rotary gun.Even in the nineteenth century, Britain, which had undergone the industrial revolution, could not guarantee the absolute reliability of this gun.

It's just that Tang Ruowang bragged about this new invention in front of Cai Shiying, and the latter strongly recommended this new cannon to Dorgon, Luck Dehun and others, and made a fortune from the court's money for casting cannons.

However, after Tang Ruowang started casting, he found that the progress was extremely unsatisfactory. A lot of manpower and material resources were spent. More than [-]% of the cast guns had cracks or the walls of the tubes were not uniform.You must know that the friction between the shells of this type of gun and the inner wall of the barrel is extremely high. As long as there is a little inaccuracy, let alone firing, the shells will not even fit into the barrel at all.

But Tang Ruowang didn't know that the technical level needed to cast a hexagonal rotary cannon had far exceeded his limit. He was still bewitched and tried his best to improve the process, and mobilized thousands of gunsmiths and more than 4000 laborers for a large number of trial production.It can be considered "good luck" for him, because the casting base is too large, and by chance, four cannons that seem to have no defects were actually built.

Cai Shiying was overjoyed when he heard the news, and he simply asked people to test fire a few cannonballs. Seeing that the real cannon shot was as far as four miles, and because of Luck Dehun's urging, he immediately loaded it into a car and sent him to Jiangnan.

But in fact, this gun was made of fine steel in later generations, so that it can ensure that the barrel is still stable after multiple shots.However, Zhu Linmi's drawings did not indicate the material of the cannon body, so Tang Ruowang took it for granted that the best cannon casting material in this era - bronze.Bronze has good ductility and can withstand higher chamber pressure, but it is not rigid and easily deformed.

Therefore, after Cai Shiying's test-fired guns, the gun barrel has produced a slight deformation. Although it cannot be seen with the naked eye, it is enough to make the friction between the shell and the barrel of the hexagonal rotary gun very precise. Power increased several times!
Just at the time when Luck Dehun fired the cannon for the first time in front of the formation, the knuckle of one of the cannons could no longer withstand the terrifying chamber pressure of more than 300 MPa, and it exploded magnificently.

In fact, even if this cannon is fine, this new type of "roughly made" cannon will not be able to fire the next time.

Lu Kede looked at the chaotic Qing soldiers with a gloomy face. Fortunately, they were in the rear. If he came in front of the formation, the Ming army took advantage of the chaos to cover up and kill them, and the army might be defeated!

He waved to the guards beside him, "Don't let these people mess up!"

Immediately, three hundred Ba Yala rushed up with their knives, pointing their knives everywhere and shouting, "Go back!"

"No running around!"

"Deaf?! Put the person down and return to the battle immediately!"

They drove back the scattered captive soldiers who were saving lives, and conveniently repaired the wounded on the ground.

Most of the rear troops were soldiers from Wucai under the Yongshou tribe and soldiers from the Green Camp in Huizhou. Seeing Ba Yala beheading their wounded robes fiercely, all of them were full of grief and indignation but dared not speak out.

After waiting, the team finally returned to "calm". Luckard suffocated and yelled at the herald: "Beat the drums! The front army directly hit the Southern Barbarian army formation!" He said coldly, "It's only [-] people! Nikan, what kind of cannon? Head-on strangulation is the way!"

"Whoo!"

Immediately there was a loud drumbeat in the Qing army formation.The Jianlu vanguard was stationed only two and a half miles away from the Ming army. Babutai, who was in charge of commanding the front army, pointed his saber forward upon hearing the news, and more than a dozen officers beside him immediately galloped back to their own formation.

After another moment, on the frontal battlefield that was six or seven miles wide, the battle formation composed of more than 3 Qing army infantry began to slowly roll forward like a huge chariot.

The area around Jurong is spacious and flat. When fighting here, the opponent will have a panoramic view of outflanking, sneak attack, detour, etc., and it has almost no effect except to disperse one's own forces.Therefore, Luke Dehun came up with a large force to attack head-on, in an attempt to overwhelm the Ming army with absolute superiority in military strength and combat effectiveness.

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