The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 673

When Zhang Jiayu's Dragon Guards approached to about a mile and a half away from the enemy, the cannons on the flanks took the lead in roaring.

Immediately, ten iron balls slammed into the earth wall temporarily built by the Qing army with a sharp whistling sound.

Even the least powerful six-pound gun shook the two-foot-thick wall for a while, leaving a series of cobweb-like cracks.

The nine-pound gun and the twelve-pound gun directly tore a huge gap in the earth wall. Under the dusty sky, clods and gravel shot everywhere, and the Qing army hiding behind immediately howled, and more than ten people covered Rolling on the ground with blood all over his face.

The reloading speed of the artillerymen of the Ming army was astonishingly fast. Before Xinbuku could find the position of the opposite cannon with the binoculars, the second round of artillery shells struck again, and Jianlu's defense line immediately screamed again.

It wasn't until the Dragon Guard fired for the third time that his lieutenant finally found the artillery position of the Ming army and hurriedly pointed it out to him.

"Damn it, do you think I don't have any cannons?!" Sinenbuku sneered and shouted at the herald officer, "Blast those savage cannons hard!"

He was not too worried about the artillery of the Ming army. With the cover of the earth wall, the cannon on his side would not be hurt by the artillery fire from the opposite side.However, the artillery of the southerners was placed in the wilderness, and the artillery shells on their side would soon force the gunners of the Ming army to dodge around.

"Whoo!"

As the messenger officer left, the eleven cannons behind the Jianlu line of defense immediately began to fight back.But to their surprise, the artillery of the Ming army in the distance was actually mounted on a cart, dragged by horses and moved forward more than a hundred steps quickly, causing all their artillery shells to miss.

The gunners of Sinenbuku hurriedly lowered the muzzle and reloaded. During this period, the Ming army's cannons bombarded twice more.

When the Qing army finally finished aiming, the cannon on the opposite side was shifted again, like a slippery loach.

The Deputy Chief of the Artillery Company of the Ming Army put away his binoculars, turned around and saluted Kong Liangcheng and said, "My lord, there are eleven captive cannons scattered around behind the earthen wall, there, there, and there..."

"There are quite a few cannons." The latter looked at the earthen wall and frowned, "Pull up the mortars! Even if you miss, you can scare the Tartars."

"Yes!"

Soon, six horses rushed to the artillery position dragging the 32-pound mortar.This kind of curved gun is difficult to aim in positional warfare, and the artillery company on Huanglongyan's side has limited manpower, so Kong Liangcheng, the company's chief, did not plan to use it at first.

The gunner of a nine-pounder then switched to the mortar.The two soldiers in charge of aiming lay on the ground, holding bamboo pens and began to calculate.They are the best among the last batch of artillery graduates of the New Army Academy, and they have learned to apply the equation left by Zhu Linmi and substitute various parameters to calculate simple ballistic trajectories.

After a while, the two completed their calculations, and shouted out the shooting elements, "The elevation angle is six and a half minutes, the direction is two minutes from the north to the west, and the charge is [-] percent."

The other gunners skillfully loaded ammunition and adjusted the angle of the cannon.With a loud noise, a huge iron ball weighing about thirty kilograms flew out of the gun bore, drew a semi-circular arc in the air, bypassed the earthen wall of Jianlu, and smashed down on the left side of the two nine-pound guns. Ten paces away.

The ground trembled suddenly, as if a small-scale earthquake had occurred.Sinenbuku, who was still as stable as Mount Tai just now, looked at the crater the size of a millstone more than ten feet away in front of him, his eyelids jumped suddenly, and he hurriedly circled his horse for more than half a mile before stopping.

However, Jianlu's cannons were limited by the old gun mounts, and they couldn't be moved at all for a while.

The gunners on the side of the Ming army observed the landing point of the shells in the telescope, immediately adjusted the angle slightly, and then reloaded.

The mortar spewed out anger again, and the shells flew over the Jianlu earthen wall, and fell close to the two nine-pound guns of the Qing army. Although they missed the cannons directly, they smashed the two gunners beside them into a pulp. Four more people were seriously injured by the ejected dirt.

The rest of the more than a dozen Jianlu gunners looked at each other, how dare they continue to fire?Immediately let out a scream, and ran away in all directions.

"Good job!" Kong Liangcheng could see clearly through the binoculars, then pointed to another Qing army cannon, and said to the mortar gunner, "Change the two on the west side..."

During the process of clearing Jianlu cannons with mortars, the artillery company of the Ming army fired another sixteen or seventeen rounds of volley. The old lady is average.

At the same time, the infantry line of the Dragon Guards also approached the [-]th pace of Jianlu. Li Ying ordered loudly, "Arrange the queue and move forward slowly!"

As several signal flares were raised, thousands of Ming soldiers repeated the military order in unison, "Arrange the queue and move forward slowly!" The two-mile-long infantry line lined up, quickly aligning left and right, and then continued to press down in small steps. enemy formation.This way of advancing is mainly to keep the queue as tidy as possible.

Sinabuku stared at the approaching Ming army from the back of the battle formation, with a serious look of resentment, "Damn, don't you just know how to use cannons, what's the big deal?! Wait for you to move forward dozens of steps, and I will teach you to try!" Taste the flintlock of Zhenghuangqi!"

After Dorgon bought stainless steel from Japan to make springs, the flintlocks of Jianlu's "cottage" were finally usable.

As the elite of the Qing army, the Zhenghuang Banner Department of Manchuria was the first to be equipped with this kind of firecracker.And in the hands of the 2000 Zhenghuang Banner Guarding Barracks in Sinabuku's hands, there are more than [-] flintlocks.

He had seen the power of this kind of gun many times before - the rate of fire was high, the soldiers could be arranged closely, and the power of the eleven-dollar gun bullet was even more astonishing.

He was full of confidence. With such powerful guns and the cover of the earthen wall, if the southern army dared to charge forward, it would be as good as death.

Prince Yu only ordered me to stay until noon, Xin Buku sneered in his heart, if I defeated this team of southerners, His Highness would definitely praise me for my bravery...

When he was "self-conscious", the Ming army had already reached about 110 steps from the earth wall, but stopped suddenly.

"What is this for?" Sinenbuku was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized that the southerners were tricking me into firing the gun.How can the firecrackers be accurate at such a long distance, the southerners must be trying to take advantage of the gap between our army's firing and reloading!

He hurriedly said to the officer next to him: "Send the order, wait for the enemy to reach seventy paces before attacking, anyone who disobeys the order will be executed!"

"Whoo!"

Some Jianlu officers originally planned to give the order to fire, and they had to order the soldiers not to move rashly, but they were shocked to hear the loud shouts from the Ming army on the opposite side, "Aim!"

"put!"

The Dragon Guards and the Polu Battalion have now all been equipped with rifled guns. In an instant, the two-mile-long infantry line of the Ming army shone like stars, and thousands of rounds of miniature bullets were like the death-defying charms of the king of hell. , Instantly enveloped the entire Jianlu defense line.

(End of this chapter)