Please ask me to be the emperor

Things in the world are so evil sometimes.

Obviously the gunner's understanding of the hot air balloon was wrong, but it did not prevent him from drawing the correct conclusion.

After Zhang Shun's hot air balloon rose into the sky, he stood high and looked far away, expanding his field of vision.

Therefore, in addition to observing the battlefield situation more intuitively, it can also guide artillery to carry out coverage strikes on important local targets.

Zhang Shun didn't know why King Zhishun Shang Kexi was so unwise and took the initiative to expose his position. Naturally, he was not polite and directly let the rebel artillery counterattack.

Poor monk Hongtai prepared a "sniper attack" for a long time, but Zhang Shun didn't even notice it and was stillborn.

When Zhang Shun saw how "dumb" the Hongyi cannon was, he immediately gained the upper hand and refused to spare others, and directly ordered the rebel army's main formation to advance forward.

"So reckless?" Hou Jin had just finished building the watchtower. When Hong Taisheng went up to take a look, he couldn't help being startled. Then he smiled and said, "It's a pity that this time I have the protection of the mountains and can't tolerate your Hongyi cannon." presumptuous!"

It turns out that the reason Hong Tai deployed more troops and horses on the right wing east of Chiyou Spring this time, and deployed less troops on the center and left wing, was because after careful inspection, he found that the hills to the west of Chiyou Spring were undulating. Just in time to avoid the "Red Barbarian Cannon" of the rebels, he had the courage to resist the rebels.

"The central army and the left wing are on standby. The right wing is beginning to approach the left wing of the 'Shun Thief'!" Na Hongtai couldn't help but calmly ordered.

"Slave, let's do it now!" Fan Wencheng knew that a battle that would determine the final ownership of the world was about to start, so he couldn't help but responded quickly and carefully conveyed Hong Tai's order to the ordering soldiers.

The messenger received the order and conveyed part of it to the flag bearer, who asked the flag bearer to convey it to the nearby Houjin soldiers in flag language.

The other part was written down, put into a bamboo tube, and then dozens of riders galloped away from the left and right wings of the rear gold.

We have said before that in this era without telegraphs, telephones, or radios, military operations generally use golden drum flags as the command and communication system.

However, this primitive communication system has its limitations.

Once the scale of the war is too large and the battle formation stretches for more than ten miles, then the golden drum cannot be heard and the flag cannot be seen, so other methods must be used.

Among them, using the messenger to gallop quickly is still a more feasible method.

In fact, on the battlefield, there is more than just long-distance communication.

Even under normal circumstances, when more complex orders need to be conveyed, messengers are still the only choice.

Not to mention Mrs. Hong's plan, let's say that the rebels were forced to be three hundred steps away from Houjin, and then they stopped.

Then the rebel artillery was rolled out, including "golden cannons" and "flying cannons", each pointing diagonally at the opposite side.

"I'm so afraid of birds. If you have the ability to get around it!" the sentry who lined up behind the hill on the opposite side lay down on the top of the hill and took a look, and couldn't help but cheer himself up.

It is known that artillery can only shoot directly. Even if there are some artillery that can shoot in a curved direction, but the number is small, they still have to shoot at close range. What are they afraid of?

"Elevation angle six minutes, test firing!" Following the order from the commander of the rebel artillery battalion, a golden cannon and a flying gun suddenly sat back, and then sprayed out a bunch of smoke.

Then the two shells flew out violently driven by high-pressure airflow, and soon fell behind the opposite hill and disappeared.

As soon as the cannonballs flew out, the flag bearer of the artillery camp quickly turned his head and looked in the direction of the hot air balloon where Zhang Shun was.

"It's high, the Golden Cannon will be lowered by one point, and the Flying Biaogun will be lowered by half a point!" Seeing the flag bearer on the hot air balloon shaking, the flag bearer quickly responded with the flag in his hand, and then conveyed.

"Reduce the golden cannon by one point, and reduce the flying gun by half a point!" the artillery battalion commander ordered after hearing this.

"Boom!" Not long after, two more shells flew out.

"The golden cannon went up by half a point, and the flying gun went down by another half point!" Not long after, another flag bearer conveyed.

After three or five rounds of adjustments, the rebel artillery was finally calibrated.

"Five and a half points for the golden cannon, five points for the flying gun, salvo!"

"Boom, boom, boom!" Immediately, twenty-five golden cannons and ten flying blunderbuss fired fiercely at the Houjin army formation hiding behind the hill.

"Ah, what's going on?" Hou Jin's soldiers, who thought they were infallible, suddenly encountered disaster, and more than thirty artillery shells were fired in.

Some were in mid-air, some had just landed on the ground, and some fell to the ground and rolled twice before suddenly exploding.

For a time, flying shrapnel and shotguns swept across the entire battlefield, and countless soldiers died on the spot.

A large amount of "white smoke" enveloped them, falling like snow, burning the soldiers' eyes.

It turns out that in the hands of the rebels, in addition to the flying guns specially used to attack cities, they also had golden cannons in the shape of howitzers, which could also be used for direct fire.

Although this golden cannon cannot be thrown at high angles, it is enough to deal with the Houjin soldiers hiding behind the low hills.

This was also the original intention of the rebels when they selected two types of artillery, field artillery and golden artillery, to be equipped in a one-to-one ratio.

The field artillery is positioned in the rebel army as a multi-functional weapon. It is mainly used to launch solid bullets for direct strikes, as well as shotgun shells.

The other type of golden cannon is responsible for multi-purpose use, including three common uses: direct-firing solid bullets, curved-firing grenades and close-firing shotguns.

Na Hongtai was not mentally prepared for this and thought he had a plan, but was suddenly stunned by the rebels.

"What's going on, what's going on, how did we get through it!" Mrs. Hong put down the telescope with trembling hands and muttered to herself.

In fact, he should have thought of this when the rebels fought back against Shang Kexi's red cannon.

However, because the Hou Jin soldiers pushed the red cannon too close to the top of the hill in order to fire direct cannonballs, he thought it was a coincidence that he was "following the thieves", but now he saw that he had fallen into the trap of "following the thieves" among.

"What should I do? What should I do, Your Highness?" Fan Wencheng looked worried and couldn't help but muttered.

"What else can be done? Let the Chinese army attack and fight!" Hong Tai sighed helplessly and ordered decisively.

Indecisiveness leads to disaster.

In war, one must care about every drop, but one cannot care too much.

If something is lost here, just find it over there.

One gain and one loss, who can calculate it so clearly?

"Dong dong dong!" The dull war drums sounded loudly, and the Houjin soldiers hiding behind the hills showed their heads one after another, slowly appearing on the horizon at a speed of one inch at a time.

"Okay, good time!" Zhang Shun saw clearly from the hot air balloon and couldn't help but ordered, "Follow General Zhaode Zhang Fengyi and command the Chinese army to fight immediately!"