"Cannon No. 1, ready!"

"Cannon No. 2, ready!"

"Cannon No. 3, ready!"

…

"Cannon No. 8, ready!"

Yuan Shiliang then shouted: "Three rapid fire shots!"

The firing of the Franco machine gun is to place the sub-shells in the barrel of the gun's rear, and then use a wedge structure to close the gap between the sub-shells and the main gun.

As Yuan Shiliang's order was issued, the eight Franco machine guns began to emit orange-red fire. After one gun was fired, the gunner did not need to clean the gun bore. He directly used iron clamps to pick up the shell casings and put the new shells in again.

Just plug it in and it will be as solid as possible, and you can launch it again.

"Boom boom boom..."

A rebel gunner who was fixing the artillery hoe heard the sound of the cannon. He subconsciously looked up and saw a huge fireball flashing in front of his eyes. A Franco machine shell hit him directly.

The powder keg in front of me.

This was a real gunpowder barrel. Each barrel could hold fifty or sixty kilograms of black powder. Immediately, his consciousness suddenly shattered.

The explosive power of black powder is equivalent to one-fifth of the energy of TNT explosives. Of course, if the formula is not good, there will definitely be a certain error. This is only theoretical data, but by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the technology of black powder had matured, and the golden ratio

The formula is quite powerful.

A barrel of fifty or sixty kilograms of black powder has an explosive power equivalent to more than ten kilograms of TNT. Everyone has no intuitive understanding of more than ten kilograms of TNT. In later generations, a 105 high-explosive howitzer shell in the beautiful country weighed almost thirteen kilograms. The shell was loaded with

The total weight of the 122 mm high-explosive howitzer shell is 21.46 kg, and the charge is 3.675 kg.

The explosive power of this barrel of black powder is basically equivalent to a 122mm high-explosive grenade, and the killing radius of 122mm is 30 meters.

The gunner's body, every cell in his body, was shattered in an instant and disappeared without a trace. The shock wave of the explosion spread like a mountain. A cannon weighing 16,700 kilograms made a deafening roar.

It rolled and flew into the air.

The rebel soldiers within fifteen meters of the explosion point were instantly shattered to pieces, and those within twenty-five meters fell down wailing in a flash of fire, bleeding from all their orifices, vomiting out dirty blood in large mouths, and it seemed that they would not survive.

However, what is even more terrifying is that this barrel of black powder also caused a chain reaction. The explosions of fire burst out among the rebels one after another. The violent sound of thunder made them scared. They stood too close together, and every gunpowder barrel

Explosions exploded among them. A dozen or even dozens of people were thrown into the air by the blast wind, torn into pieces and then fell one after another, leaving a shower of blood...

Just three rapid fire rounds from the Folang machine caused successive explosions on the rebel artillery position. Cheng Shijie was stunned to see it.

This is the consequence of not paying attention to safe operation.

In later generations, when the artillery troops of almost all countries fired, the distance between the artillery and the artillery was very large. Like in movies and TV dramas, it is impossible for one artillery to be next to another. Either the director is not careful.

If you understand the military, it's either to highlight the visual impact, but it's just fun to watch.

The distance between Ning Haijun's artillery and artillery is at least fifty meters. Unless the opponent has high-explosive grenades of more than 155 mm, it is impossible for one artillery shell to connect two artillery emplacements.

But the problem is that these rebels, even the artillerymen of the Denglai New Army, do not have this awareness yet, which is very dangerous.

Just like now, just one shell hit the powder keg, and the 16 artillery pieces of the rebel artillery force, including 300 to 400 soldiers, were blown directly into the sky.

A piece of intestine more than a foot long hit Li Shaoan on the face under the action of the shock wave. He instantly became a little fatter.

Even Kong Youde was splashed with blood from the sky.

Li Shaoan's face turned pale: "What a powerful enemy!"

Kong Youde looked at the corpses scattered around him and the torn limbs, broken arms and pieces of meat falling from the sky. On the surface, he remained calm. He was already thinking of dying.

As the saying goes, if you are fearless, you will have nothing to fear.

Let’s look at Zhao Wencai again. Even though his name is Wencai, in fact he has nothing to do with Wencai. Like Kong Youde, he is an illiterate who cannot read Chinese characters.

This warrior, who was far more smooth with a knife than a pen, was almost thrown off the horse as his limbs were stiff and his eyes were distracted while the horse was struggling like crazy!

The two looked at each other, and Kong Youde saw the long-lost horror in Zhao Wencai.

"General, what the hell, what kind of cannons are the officers and soldiers equipped with, and they are so crazy!"

Kong Youde said calmly: "I know that the officers and soldiers who can break stones are definitely not weaklings!"

In this round of shelling, Ning Haijun's artillery achieved a huge victory in annihilating the rebel artillery. Cheng Shijie's heart finally dropped.

What he was most worried about was that if Kong Youde saw that the situation was not good, he would definitely run away.

Once Kong Youde escapes, it will be difficult to catch him again.

This is the advantage of cavalry. If you can't defeat it, you can run away. If you can't defeat infantry, you can only die.

Ning Haijun's artillery did not stop bombarding. One shell after another was fired at the rebel formation, while the artillery gunners quickly loaded the empty shells on site.

Cheng Shijie clearly felt that the morale of Kong Youde's department was rapidly declining.

At this moment, He Sheng, the Ning Navy Cavalry Reconnaissance Chief in charge of reconnaissance, reported important information to Cheng Shijie. There were no other rebel troops within a radius of thirty miles. They only had the more than 3,000 troops in front of them.

"What's going on?"

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and guessed the possibility. Kong Youde was unable to fully control this rebel army. The rebel army should have been divided within. Most of the other rebels should have picked up the weak and went to wipe out the large gentry households in Laizhou.

Attacking those big gentry households is much more advantageous than dealing with Ning Haijun. First of all, although the big gentry households in this era also have certain self-defense capabilities, the majesty of the imperial court is still there. They dare not expand their private armies on a large scale, and their armed servants are also neglected in training and have low combat effectiveness.

Not strong.

More importantly, in addition to grain and grass, the attacking army seized weapons and equipment. Unlike a large household, the harvest from just smashing a compound would be huge.

Cheng Shijie likes to put himself in someone else's shoes. It can also be said that what happened to Kong Youde may also happen to him. Today's Ning Navy's combat effectiveness is naturally not weaker than that of the rebels, but Cheng Shijie only used interests to temporarily screw them.

into a rope.

But the same problem is that Cheng Shijie's control over Ning Haijun is still not strong. Chen Guodong took more than a thousand troops of Ning Haijun to Laiyang and hunted down the Zhang family. Although it was said that the harvest was huge.

But from the side, this was not Cheng Shijie's order. Chen Guodong took away more than a thousand of Ning Haijun's troops under the guise of using the Zhang family in Laiyang as hostages to rescue him.

Although he was not there at the time, the problem was even more serious.

An army without faith is just a savage beast, just like the Dongjiang Army. Without the soul figure of Mao Wendong, the Dongjiang Army fought fiercely among themselves, killing heads and flowing into rivers of blood.

In terms of the number of mutinies and mutinies, they are no less than those of the Guan Ning Army.

If you look at the war history of the Dongjiang Army, you will definitely find that in the more than ten years since the Dongjiang Army was established, all the achievements against the slaves took place when Mao Wenlong was alive. After Mao Wenlong died, the Dongjiang Army became a piece of loose sand.

The current Ning Navy has a great possibility of becoming the second Dongjiang Army.

This problem is serious.

Now that Ning Haijun's morale is high and he has won consecutive battles, all problems are hidden. Once Ning Hai is frustrated, all problems will explode.

Although Shen Mingyu is very loyal to Cheng Shijie now, when he was still a member of Qianhu, an official with hundreds of households could be loyal to his boss, because Baihu didn't have the strength to stand tall in Qianhu.

However, the problem is that Shen Mingyu now has more than 6,500 elite troops under his control, and with the cooperation of the navy, and is responsible for tens of thousands of troops, he will have his own ideas.

As the saying goes, the butt determines the head. This is human nature. Where to sit and what issues to consider are the most common values.

Unlike the biographies of celebrities recorded in history books, did Shang Yang, a slave-born man, compile the Qin Dynasty's military merit assessment system in advance?

Shang Yang and Wei Yang were also thinking about how to eat well at that time. His mother was indeed as recorded: "You can be a thief in the mountains and a thief in the water, but don't be a slave!"

It is the opinion of a scholar to point out the country and inspire writing. Of course, it is almost impossible for such a person to succeed. He has exposed his ambition too early. Who dares to use such a person?

Cheng Shijie looked around and found that he had almost no absolutely loyal people. The so-called loyalty actually meant that there were not enough chips for betrayal. Once the chips were enough, the left hand could chop off the right hand, and the right hand could chop off the left hand.

What is it about father and son turning against each other, husband and wife becoming enemies, flesh and blood, brother and sister killing each other? This is human nature. Human nature actually contains animality. If killing is not illegal, who doesn't have a few people who want to kill him?

Don't look at how Ma Shilin is looking down on Cheng Shijie now. Such a person is the easiest to betray.

It seems that some things have reached the point where it is urgent to delay.

Just as Cheng Shijie was thinking about it, Kong Youde also became anxious. The soldiers around him showed strong fear. When Ning Haijun's artillery bombarded them again, people's hearts dispersed.

"The fire gunners came out and shot across them!"

Before Ning Haijun's formation was dispersed, he directly led the cavalry to charge into the formation, which would be a dead end. Those spears were waiting for them to charge.

As the gunmen came out, Kong Youde said again: "Shaoan, we have no retreat. You can lead the cavalry in a roundabout way and see if you can find an opportunity!"

"superior!"

Li Shaoan rubbed his swollen face and said angrily: "Brothers, follow me and kill all these officers and soldiers!"

"kill!"

"There's nothing scary about this group of officers and soldiers, they just have better artillery!"

Li Shaoan shouted while charging: "Those soldiers are still soft-footed shrimps. If you chop down those few, the rest will collapse without a fight! Follow me and rush up, knock away their array, overwhelm them, and kill them all."

They, their weapons and armor are our trophies! Kill!"

"kill!"

Their morale was originally low. Following Li Shaoan's instigation, these cavalrymen roared like ghosts crying and wolves howling, and charged forward.

For a moment, the ground shook, and the snow particles on the snow began to jump up and down. On the plain, the cavalry was so terrifying. Even a mere five hundred people could create a momentum that could only be achieved by a group charge of thousands of troops.

People are timid.

If other Shandong troops had faced this scene, they would have run away long ago. But the officers and soldiers of Ning Haijun were different. They were born in poverty and knew that survival was not easy. Cheng Shijie used his actual actions to establish a good reputation. They, Ning Haijun,
To be continued...