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Chapter 738
In the main hall of the Niangniang Temple, Niu Luzhangjing Niu Erjia was prostrated on a door panel, and two doctors from Tianyou Army were stripping off his armor and checking the wound on his buttocks.

Enduring the pain, Niu Erjia shouted angrily: "What is King Huaishun doing, why didn't you fight back!"

At this time, there was a deafening "boom", as if it was right next to him, and even the ground in the hall was shaken.

A member of the God's Blessing Army looked out of Shiku, and shouted loudly: "Return...retaliate...our cannon...retaliate..."

At this time, the cannon array outside the main hall was in a mess, none of the soldiers of the Eight Banners were seen, the North Korean soldiers fled in all directions, and the Tianyou Army also suffered heavy casualties. Many cannons were hit and scattered all over the place.

He Chenggong fired three cannons in a row, but the farthest cannon was still dozens of steps away from the artillery formation of the Ming army. Even if he jumped all the way, it would eventually fall into the shallow ditch in front of the artillery formation , does not pose any threat at all.

On Geng Zhongming's side, because Du Du organized the thousands of Tartar heavy armored infantry in the attack formation to retreat, He Zhenxiong took advantage of the situation to hide and chase, and entered within the range of their artillery.

He suppressed the secret joy in his heart, shouted orders, and more than a dozen cannons of various sizes deployed on this side roared one by one, and his position was instantly shrouded in smoke.

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In the Ming army's position, there were naturally bursts of cheers and cheers.

Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, and Zhang Ruoqi, the commander of the army, also had binoculars. They were so surprised that they could not speak when they saw the bombardment effect of the Shenji camp's artillery.

Zhang Ruoqi sucked in the cold air, and the expression on his face changed. For a long time, he didn't know what words to express his mood at this moment.

Zhang Cheng put down the binoculars. He was still very satisfied with Shenjiying's performance, but he frowned deeply. He always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it for a while: The Tartars didn't seem to do their best?
"Aha!"

The artillery formation of the Shenji Battalion in front immediately cheered and jumped together, proud of the achievements they had made.

Excited, they even sang "Song of the Emperor's Ming" in unison in front of the battle:

"Hehe God, favor my emperor.

The great life is set, and the foundation is solid.

Jueben Yihe?Yude Erotic Palace.

Juezhi Yihe?The vassal state is peaceful.

Celebrating hundreds of generations, Zebei is born in groups.

Timely joy, Tianlu is shameful.

Long live the future, and see the success forever. "

They were so excited that they sang duets to each other, and from time to time someone stood up to dance with them, and their heroic spirit was bursting.

Soon, "The Song of the Juan Huang Ming" turned into another song that was equally mighty and majestic.

But he was a soldier of the Shenji Battalion, whose ancestors were under the command of the Red Scarf Army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. He sang the Red Scarf Army song handed down from his ancestors, which won the sympathy of many military colleagues.

His voice was thick and clear, and he sang loudly:

"The wind follows the dragon, the cloud follows the tiger, fame and wealth follow the dust and the earth.

Looking at Shenzhou, the people are suffering, and the fertile land for thousands of miles is barren.

Look at the world, the barbarians are exhausted, and the way of heaven is incomplete.

Good man, don't leave your parents, just for the sake of the common people and not for the Lord.

Holding the steel knife 99, he killed Hu'er before giving up.

I am a majestic man, why would the Tartars be horses and cows..."

When the song came to this point, it seemed to resonate with the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, and many of them sang in unison:
"A strong man drank all the wine in his bowl and traveled a thousand miles without turning back..."

In the end, almost all the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion sang in unison:

"Golden drums beeping together and the crowd roaring, vow not to break the yellow dragon!

The golden drums are beating together and the crowds are roaring, and they will never stop swearing not to break the Yellow Dragon... swearing forever..."

Chen Jiugao was very satisfied with the performance of the soldiers under his command. He stood on a boulder with his hands behind his back, looked back at the direction of the Chinese army formation, and shouted loudly: "You guys played well, playing the mighty and majestic style of my disciples in the capital!" , but it's not enough..."

He suddenly pulled out the saber at his waist, raised his head high, and shouted excitedly and passionately: "Boys, go up the mountain-piercing thunder cannon, and show the Tartars the great killer of our Shenji camp!"

Piercing the mountain and breaking the ground is actually just another powerful and domineering name of the mortar in Daming. Of course, some people call it the mortar very straightforwardly!
The mortar is a smooth-bore artillery with a short barrel, large firing angle, low muzzle velocity, and high arc trajectory. Because of its short and thick barrel and its shape similar to a Chinese stone mortar, it is called "mortar" in Chinese.

At the same time, because of its large shooting angle and high ballistic arc, it is often used to bombard targets that are separated by mountains and other obstacles and cannot be shot flat. Later, the small-caliber mortar that is easy to carry developed into a common mortar in later generations. gun.

The large-caliber mortar is the same as the Hongyi cannon. This large-caliber mortar also needs to use a four-wheeled gun mount. However, because the recoil of the mortar is transmitted downward, it does not need piles to fix it.

However, the heavy Hongyi cannon needs to be fixed by piling. That is because the large wooden stake and the cannon body must be connected with a retreat cable. It is also easier to reset.

However, its disadvantage is that basically it can only be fired forward and backward, and it is not convenient to turn the muzzle left and right to adjust the shooting range.

Mortars do not need to be piled to fix the dragging cable, and because the recoil force is transmitted downward, the gun wheels on the gun carriage and gun mount need to be more durable.

Of course, it is also possible to remove the barrel of the mortar and place it directly on the field, but it will take a lot of work. Those small-caliber mortars are okay, but the large-caliber mortars are also extremely heavy, but this is not the case. Operate it flexibly.

Another major feature of the mortar is that it can fire both solid bullets and "blossom bullets".

Zhang Cheng held up the binoculars and kept observing the dynamics of the Shenji Camp. He has always been concerned about the explosive bombs of the Shenji Camp, and he also wants to know how effective the "explosive bombs" are in this era.
Because, in the later life he was familiar with, all artillery used explosive bombs to kill the enemy with the fragments and shock waves generated after the bullet exploded, which was the number one weapon to kill the enemy.

Like Zhang Cheng, the governor of Jiliao Hong Chengchou, the commander-in-chief Zhang Ruoqi and others also paid close attention to it. In the Ming Dynasty, flowering ammunition was much more mysterious than solid ammunition. Apart from the Shenji battalion, I am afraid that basically no other artillery battalion used it. .

Looking through the binoculars, the gunners of the Shenji Battalion have calibrated the range of the large-caliber mortars and adjusted the gun speed. This is basically the same as the Hongyi cannon. Because there is no need to fly over the mountains, the elevation angle of these large mortars is also 45 degrees.

Afterwards, the ammunition hand took out a kind of propellant package and put it into the barrel of the gun. The following process was different from that of the Hongyi Cannon.

Because after adding the propellant powder to the medicine room, you need to add wood and add an inch of soil before putting the flowering shells into the front chamber, filling the shells with gunpowder, and then covering them with a layer of wet soil. The muzzle needs to be sealed with wax.

(End of this chapter)