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Chapter 160
Standing on the watchtower, Zhang Cheng held up a binoculars to observe the effect of the shelling. It could be seen that the gunners under Lu Xiangsheng's battalion were really serious about their drills.

Under the command of their artillery team officers, they fired leisurely, then cleared, reloaded, calibrated, and fired again. Everything was orderly and there was no panic.

Although it is undeniable that their performance is already among the elite in the Ming Army, in Zhang Cheng's view, such an artillery team is far from the ideal state in his mind, and there is still a lot to be done. The space can be further improved.

That's salvo!
Yes, it is artillery salvo.

Gather all the cannons together, fire one shot first, calibrate the shooting circle, and then all the cannons fire a standard volley, so that whether it is the killing effect or the power deterrent effect, it is stronger than such an intermittent and scattered self-inflicted attack. emission.

On the wall of the east gate of Jiazhuang, the gunners next to each Hongyi cannon are constantly correcting the height, distance, direction and other data with the parallax method. Adjust the angle of the muzzle.

After the gunner re-aimed, another round of shelling broke out, and the Qing army shield vehicles were smashed, and the Qing archers and heavy armored infantry in the formation were also bloody.

The Ming army's six Hongyi cannons each fired five rounds, a total of thirty solid iron bullets, blasting into the Qing army's approaching array one after another.

Fierce artillery fire, shattered shield vehicles, splattered stumps, the blood-stained ground, and screaming Qing soldiers all over the field made the scene a mess, and the smell of blood filled the air, making people want to vomit.

Those coat-coated Ahhas pushing the shield cart were even more panic-stricken. Looking at the left side and the right side, there was a lot of wailing. Most of them hid behind the shield cart. go.

The Qing army walking in front caused a commotion when they stood in a neutral formation. They naturally lowered their bodies, thinking that they could avoid the shelling of the Ming army.

The Qing generals who were leading the team shouted and cursed loudly to suppress them, and more than a dozen wrapped Ahha who fled backwards were immediately cut down to the ground.

The Qing army stabilized the formation for a while, and they continued to push forward despite the sparse artillery fire, and soon advanced to about one mile away from the Ming army's defense line.

"Hey……"

Zhang Cheng sighed secretly in his heart, if there were more Hongyi cannons, twenty would be enough, and each cannon would be operated by skilled gunners, and they would shoot five rounds of intensive Qi at the Qing army rushing to one side. shoot.

It can be concluded that such a firepower attack can almost collapse the Qing army rushing from this side.

"It's a pity!"

Looking at the east wall of the village, the Hongyi cannons could not continue to charge after firing several rounds. The sergeants covered the cannon barrels with thick felt cloth wet with cold water, and put the round heads soaked in water in handfuls. The mop, inserted into the barrel, cleaned the barrel.

At this time, the Hongyi cannon should not be fired more than five times in a row, and the barrel must be thoroughly cleaned once, and attention must also be paid to the heat dissipation of the barrel. The requirements for all aspects of operation are too high, otherwise it will easily cause an explosion accident.

After the formation of the Qing army stabilized, they saw those deadly solid cannons not coming spontaneously, and they pushed the shield carts, slowly approaching, and soon entered within a distance of one mile.

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Looking at the Qing army's shield vehicles still coming up densely, Lu Xiangsheng said to the messengers around him: "Give the order, prepare the rockets, and all ministries must strictly guard their positions and not retreat an inch."

The orderly soldiers waved the order flags, and all the turrets waved the order flags. Following the passing of the flags, all the Ming troops became busy. Various rockets shot from the walls of the villages and from behind the earthen walls outside the camp. Lift it out and set it up, aiming at the approaching Qing army.

Lu Xiangsheng said again in a deep voice: "Zhang Cheng, Jiang Mingwu, Chen An, quickly go to the whole team to stand by and support everywhere at any time."

Zhang Cheng and other generals shouted their orders, went down the watchtower, each returned to the headquarters, summoned the generals, and the whole team stood by.

"Rocket ready!"

The continuous shouts of orders sounded, and with the shouts of orders, square muzzles were exposed on the defense lines of the Ming army. At the same time, it seemed that the three sides of the Jiazhuang defense line heard shouts of orders one after another:
"... put... put... let..."

A loud thunder exploded, thick puffs of smoke rose from three sides of the Jia Zhuangming military camp, and the overwhelming rockets whizzed, with their unique fireworks trails, piercing the biting cold wind, like a gust of rain, overwhelming He rushed to the Qing army's position.

The Ming army has always been equipped with excellent flying guns, flying knives, flying swords and other large rockets, [-] rounds of which can go [-] steps after burning, and big rockets such as Hundred Tigers Running Together, which are equipped with [-] rounds, can go [-] steps after burning. Even more than a mile away.

Lu Xiangsheng's Superintendent's Battalion, as well as the troops of Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanzhen Town, and Hu Dawei, the chief soldier of Shanxi Township, all carried a large number of rockets to the expedition. These sharp weapons in the army are more convenient to carry than Hongyi cannons, and their power is even greater. Not weaker than Hongyi Cannon, the disadvantage is that it can be used once.

Before Zhang Cheng left for the expedition, he also thought of such a big killer weapon, but he never found it. Fortunately, Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Guozhu and others also distributed the rockets they brought with them to Zhang Yan and Jiang Mingwu. Hu Qiben and other big rockets.

As the military commanders of the three towns, the military rockets that Lu Xiangsheng and others brought this time were carefully selected, and most of them were excellent military equipment.

There was a thunderous explosion, and the blunderbuss of the various Ming armies were deployed at the front. They all acted as rocket shooters temporarily, with one aiming and the other lighting the fire.

Each rocket is ignited, the smoke rises, and the fire flashes. Thirty or a hundred iron guns, iron swords and arrows fly out, like flying fire meteors, flying densely and whizzing towards the clear sky. Army array.

The rain of arrows with trailing flames flew over, covering the sky and the sun. Looking up, it was as if the sky was on fire, and it seemed to cover the entire array of archers of the Qing army.

The power of science and technology is unimaginable for nomads. Relying on tens of thousands of human salvos, they may also be able to cause such a large-scale arrow rain, but their power and lethality are not the same.

The densely packed Qing army raised their shields, but people kept falling to the ground with arrows. The archers had no shields to lift, and crowded behind the shield carts to avoid the flying arrow feathers. one chaos.

Those hard-working coat-coated Ahas were pushing forward with their shield carts, but just now they secretly rejoiced that they had escaped the fierce shelling of the Ming army, when they saw arrows flying in front of them like rain.

Before they had time to react, they were pushed out of both sides of the shield car by the Qing army archers who squeezed up from behind. The unprotected Ahas screamed and ran around crying.

The rockets were launched intensively, and the explosion was like thunder. Many war horses in the rear of the Qing army were also startled by the momentum and jumped up.

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