Chapter 81 Decisive Battle at the Boundary River: Shura Purgatory

Chapter 080

The artillery killing method at this time was different from the artillery of later generations. If faced with the howitzers of later generations, they would run as far as they could. The artillery of this period fired live ammunition, and the killing method was by jumping with live ammunition, and blood and flesh flew everywhere in its path.

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The best way to deal with this kind of cannonball is to dig out soil or sand, which can quickly consume the kinetic energy of this kind of cannonball. However, if you don't build an ice wall, once the cannonball hits the ice wall, it will explode into pieces and produce ice chips.

Flying everywhere, just like flying shrapnel.

The weather is too cold now. If you don't dig the soil, even the excavated soil will be frozen solid. It is similar to the situation of the ice wall. The only way is to use dry sand.

But the question is, where does Cheng Shijie go to dry the sand now?

Cheng Shijie thought about it and his eyes fell on those carts. The carts were filled with grain. Each bag of grain was one stone, and one cart was fifteen or sixteen stone.

"Order, pile the food in front of the formation!"

In front of Cheng Shijie, although food was precious, with one tael sold for eight cents, the price was still not what it was when Kong Youde's rebellion broke out. It could only be more expensive now. However, Ning Haijun's soldiers were more expensive than food.

Just as they finished building sandbags with grain bags, the cavalry on the opposite side began to scatter left and right, and the black muzzles of the artillery were exposed one after another.

Cheng Shijie saw that there were as many as sixteen artillery pieces on the opposite side, and his pressure suddenly increased. Unlike the Fo Lang machine artillery equipped by Ning Haijun, the Fo Lang machine artillery was a rapid-fire gun with a range of only more than 1,300 meters.

Later heavy machine guns had a long range.

However, the artillery and artillery under Kong Youde's command were captured in the gold mine, which was a fixed defense and did not require maneuvering, so it was equipped with Hongyi cannon, that is, a front-loading smoothbore cannon.

Kong Youde ordered to the artillery: "Fire!"

The artillery took aim briefly and then lit the fuse of the artillery.

With a hissing sound, the barrel of the artillery sprayed out a ball of fire, and the shells roared out, drawing arcs in the air, and then slammed into the middle of Ning Haijun, causing blood to splash everywhere!

The explosion of gunpowder gives the cannonball a powerful kinetic energy. This big lead ball flying sideways has amazing power. As long as they are lightly touched, the brain will burst, and the worst case will be the loss of limbs!

There were loud screams among Ning Haijun. Out of the sixteen artillery pieces, only one shell hit Ning Haijun's military formation. The other fifteen shells missed. However, the problem was that this one shell killed dozens of Ning Haijun's soldiers.

Soldier casualties.

After all, Ning Haijun is a new army. Even the soldiers who are called veterans are also new recruits. However, the performance of the new army soldiers made Cheng Shijie look at him with admiration. As the commander of the first army, he was a little frightened. He held the long case and said

Barely able to stand still.

These neurotic Ning Haijun soldiers turned a blind eye to the wounded soldiers around them, but the rebel captives and reformed soldiers in the camp were so frightened that they ran around like headless flies. Ning Haijun's military law team picked up their knives and chopped them into ten pieces in a row.

It took several people to stabilize the situation.

The firing speed of the Hongyi cannon is extremely slow. Even a well-trained gunner can only fire one shell every three minutes. It cannot be fired too fast, but the inside of the cannon is too hot and the gunpowder will spontaneously ignite without ignition. Secondly, the black powder residue is too high.

It's a lot, and it's not easy to clean. It's not like in movies and TV shows, where you take a mop with a cotton cloth and pound it, and it'll be fine in no time.

The biggest problem in this era is that the artillery does not have muzzle brakes. Every time the artillery fires, the artillery will fly several meters, and it may accidentally damage your own artillery.

It took more than a minute to reset the artillery. It took two full sticks of incense to complete the reset of the rebel artillery.

The rebel artillerymen began to nervously wipe the barrels and clean the barrels.

Kong Youde looked at the Ning navy soldiers opposite with a solemn expression. This was the first time he had seen such a motionless army in the battle sequence of the Ming army, except for the Denglai New Army.

"Shaoan, tell brothers, this Ning navy is not weak. Their military discipline is strict, three points better than that of Jiannu. They can almost catch up with Jiannu's white-armored soldiers. Please be careful, don't underestimate the enemy!"

Li Shaoan really didn't take Ning Haijun seriously at first. Now that their troops and equipment have been greatly improved, even if they face Jiannu, they dare not say that they can win one on one. In a one on two situation, against

The red-armored soldiers of Jiannu were evenly matched.

Now they can easily win even if they face two Niulu Jiannu. You must know that one Niulu Jiannu can catch up with Wan Ming's army and flee across the mountains and plains.

"Really that strong?"

"When have you ever looked past me?"

"No matter how strong they are, what can we do? In front of our cannon... we will blow them into pieces..."

"okay!"

Kong Youde said: "The cannon is omnipotent. If they really rush over directly, the cannon won't be able to fire a few shots!"

In the face of an artillery attack, defense alone is the most destructive to morale. Cheng Shijie has seriously insufficient experience in directing such a frontal war. However, as a technical cadre, he has a principle of doing things. For professional things, find professional people to do it.

The artillery commander of the Ning Navy is always Yuan Shiliang, the former artillery phalanx commander (Maestro de Campo) of the Denglai New Army. This position is generally held by Westerners in the Denglai New Army, and Yuan Shiliang is one of the few.

One more person.

Yuan Shiliang is not from Shandong. He is a native of Macau and a devout believer in St. Anthony's Church. In the eyes of Westerners, Yuan Shiliang is half a native of Macau.

"Report, Artillery Commander Yuan Shiliang has been ordered to report for duty!"

Yuan Shiliang's accent has a strong Cantonese dialect, which is a bit difficult to understand. If Cheng Shijie hadn't been fond of listening to Cantonese songs and watching Cantonese original movies in later generations, he would really not be able to understand Yuan Shiliang's words.

"Yuan Shiliang, come and take a look!"

As he spoke, Cheng Shijie handed a 99 civilian version of the high-definition telescope to Yuan Shiliang: "Look, can our artillery carry out suppressive bombardment on their artillery positions?"

Yuan Shiliang took the telescope and was extremely surprised, because this telescope not only has extremely high resolution, but also has Arabic numeral scales. It has a ranging function and a low-light night vision function. This is a very expensive telescope.

It cost Cheng Shijie 2,580 yuan.

In fact, Yuan Shiliang did not need a rangefinder. He could also calculate the opponent's artillery position through observation and positioning. He looked at it and sighed: "Commander, the maximum range of our artillery is only more than 1,300

Mida, at this distance, the accuracy is not high. If possible, let the infantry cover our advance for 500 steps. I can guarantee that all the enemy's artillery can be killed within one stick of incense!"

"Five hundred steps..."

Cheng Shijie was thinking. The distance of five hundred steps seemed not far, but the problem was that the rebels had two thousand cavalry. They did not move, just waiting for Ning Haijun's soldiers to attack.

While Cheng Shijie was thinking, the rebel artillery launched another bombardment.

There was another salvo, and five of the sixteen shells from the sixteen smoothbore cannons landed on the grain pile. When the shells hit the grain, the grain flowed out instantly. However, due to the careful use of grain, it served as a

With an excellent buffering effect, these five shells jumped up again without much kinetic energy.

He landed a dozen meters behind the first line of Daoning navy soldiers, jumped up and down a few times, and then stopped moving.

The second round of artillery bombardment achieved zero results.

When Kong Youde saw this scene, his face was so ugly.

Since the rebel artillery did not cause any damage to the Ning Navy, these bold Ning Navy soldiers shouted unbridled taunts at the rebels.

"If you can do nothing about it, why are you rebelling? Just go home and take care of your children."

"You must have learned this technique from your master's wife!"

"I want to rebel and worship my grandfather as my teacher..."

The sentry officer could no longer stand it. Although Ning Haijun mutinied, occupied Dengzhou City, and captured the governor, the problem was that Cheng Shijie had already reached a reconciliation with Sun Yuanhua.

Even Sun Yuanhua, the sufferer, did not admit Ning Haijun's mutiny or Ning Haijun's rebellion. If they continue to spread the word all over the world, are they asking for trouble?

Kong Youde walked to the artillery position with a livid face and shouted at the artillery: "What do you do for food?"

"General, we brothers haven't fired artillery in several years, and our hands are raw. The distance is too far. If the artillery position is moved forward five or six hundred steps, we can hit it accurately!"

Ning Haijun's artillery and thunder muskets were hidden by Cheng Shijie in advance and camouflaged. Especially in the ice and snow, camouflage is too simple. Cover it with a piece of white cloth and sprinkle some snow on it. This is a snow bag.

If you look through a telescope, it's also snow.

Kong Youde thought that Ning Haijun's artillery unit did not follow the army or fell behind, so he agreed to the request to move the artillery position forward.

After more than a quarter of an hour of busy work, hundreds of artillery soldiers pushed heavy artillery carts and moved towards the front of Ning Haijun's formation.

In order to prevent Ning Haijun from crossing the formation and interfering with or impacting the artillery units, Kong Youde ordered Li Shaoan to be on the left wing and Zhao Wencai on the right wing to prevent covering the artillery operations.

Seeing the rebel artillery positions moving forward, Cheng Shijie was ecstatic.

Although the rebels have sixteen cannons, the Ning Navy has only eight cannons, which is equivalent to half of the rebels. However, the problem is that it takes three to four minutes, or even longer, to fire a front-loaded smoothbore cannon.

Cannonballs.

However, the firing rate of the Franco machine gun is more than ten times that of the front-loading smoothbore cannon. The long range of the front-loading smoothbore cannon is the only advantage of this type of artillery. But the problem is that they actually gave up their advantage.

It can only be said that Kong Youde is seeking his own death.

When the rebel artillery advanced about 500 steps, the rebel artillery began to build artillery positions unscrupulously.

Cheng Shijie said: "Yuan Shiliang, fire!"

Yuan Shiliang returned the telescope to Cheng Shijie.

"Give it to you, you need it more than me!"

This telescope is different from the eight-power binoculars equipped at the infantry sentry level. That kind of telescope only costs 180 yuan. This kind of telescope is expensive, but Cheng Shijie has already rubbed off the inscriptions on it, as well as the production location and date.

Already.

"Thank you, Commander, for the reward!"

Yuan Shiliang directly picked up the walkie-talkie hanging on his chest and tuned to the artillery gunner's channel: "Prepare each artillery position to target the rebel artillery position."

"As you command!"

After receiving the order, Ning Haijun's artillerymen took off the white cloth camouflaged on the artillery carriage and began to quickly adjust the firing angle.
To be continued...