The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 108 Shelling
In the camp at the foot of the rogue West Mountain, all the rogues were unaware of the imminent danger.

Behind the wall of the village, the infantry and hungry soldiers among the rogues were arranged in a dense formation, standing close to the wall of the village.

On the wall of the village, a group of archers from the rogues were all waiting in formation. They hid behind the bunker and watched the Ming army standing still below the mountain. They all held their breath, pressed their bows and set arrows, waiting for the Ming army to attack.

They fought many such battles, and every time the Ming army attacked, they would first bombard them with Francophone cannons and tiger squat cannons for a while.

The bunker in front of them was strong enough, unless it was a Fran cannon weighing more than a thousand catties, it would definitely not be able to penetrate it.

The officers and soldiers of the Franc machine with a weight of more than [-] catties will not bring many, and there are few available scenes, not to mention that the thing is extremely bulky and expensive, and the officers and soldiers do not have many mules and horses, so they basically do not know how to carry it.

Sun Yanzong held the soft bow in his hand and hid behind the cover, his hands were trembling uncontrollably.

He swallowed, slightly hydrating his thirsty throat from fear.

Sun Yanzong raised his head and looked through the cover at the soldiers lined up neatly down the mountain. The fear in his heart deepened even more.

But he didn't dare to yell, and he didn't dare to show his panic.

Because just behind them, a ferocious armored soldier was staring at them with a Yanling knife in his hand.

Sun Yanzong turned his head and glanced at the soldier standing behind him, but when the soldier's eyes swept over him, he quickly lowered his head again.

Sun Yanzong sighed in his heart, when he narrowly escaped from the city of Binzhou, he was lucky enough to find an old horse that he didn't know where he came from.

Relying on the old horse, he escaped the pursuit of the Ming army along the way.

There were more than 20 taels of silver and a gold ring in the old horse's luggage, which made him ecstatic.

This much money was enough for him to find a new place and settle down again.

But in the end, he still didn't find a new place, but first encountered another army of fleeing bandits.

With his attire, he was naturally regarded as a fellow traveler, so Sun Yanzong followed them into Fengxiang Mansion in a daze.

In Fengxiang Mansion, their group was incorporated into the army by Li Yangchun.

Going around, he is still a bandit, but relying on that old horse, Sun Yanzong has now become a horse army among the bandits.

But Sun Yanzong knew in his heart that he was not a horse army.

He has lived for more than 20 years, but he has never killed a chicken. The reason why he knows how to ride a horse is because he once learned something from the landlord's livestock herding.

The bow and arrow also watched others use it for a while, and he could only shoot the bow and shoot the arrow himself. As for where it landed, it was beyond his control.

Fortunately, he is not the only one with poor archery skills, the rest of the archery skills are not much better.

Until now, he has not revealed his secrets.

"When the bugle sounded and all the archers withdrew to the wall, the troops waited until the archers withdrew and immediately caught up with the wall!"

The ferocious soldier behind him shouted loudly.

Sun Yanzong responded with everyone.

The soldier's name is Dai Chuanshao, he is the manager of their team, he met them at the beginning, and the leader is Dai Chuanshao.

Sun Yanzong clenched the soft bow in his hand, his palms were already sweating a lot.

This bow was hanging on the saddle of the old horse back then, and it still had a lot of blood stains on it, maybe the blood stains of the previous owner.

Sun Yanzong was beating drums in his heart. He didn't know why the officers and soldiers didn't attack. He raised his head again and looked at the officers and soldiers in the distance.

Sun Yanzong's pupils shrank suddenly, and he saw something that the officers and soldiers seemed to push out from the formation, which he was very familiar with.

Under the big city that seems to be called Binzhou, when he rushed forward with the crowd, the officers and soldiers seemed to push out the same thing.

……

The eight cannons were pulled up the hillside under the tug of mules and horses, and a group of artillerymen quickly got busy.

Eight cannons, four of which are bronze hairpins taken from Li Zicheng's hands.

There are also four fire cannons, but these four fire cannons were directly dismantled from the city wall of Gongchang Mansion City.

Speaking of which, it was Zhao Huailiang's credit that these four cannons were able to enter the army.

Because of the previous report, Hong Chengchou issued a military order requiring the cooperation of all prefectures.

Chen Wang handed over the documents to Zhao Huailiang and asked Zhao Huailiang to ask for food.

As a result, Zhao Huailiang not only asked for [-] shi of military rations from Gongchang Mansion, but also dragged the four-gate city defense heavy artillery of Gongchang Mansion to the army.

Zhao Huailiang was purely holding chicken feathers as arrows. When he was escorting the army rations, he saw the cannons erected on the city. He remembered that Chen Wang valued the cannons before, so he began to think about it.

Li Yangchun had caused chaos in Gongchang Mansion for more than a month, all communications between Gongchang Mansion and the eastern mansions were cut off, everyone was in panic.

The magistrate of Gongchang Mansion was also afraid that Chen Wang, the new guerrilla, would not be able to defeat Li Yangchun, who had many supporters, so he gritted his teeth and did a lot of convenience secretly.

Working up and down, and spending some money, Zhao Huailiang directly pulled the four best-maintained four-guns out of Fucheng in a grand manner.

The firing gun is a front-loading smoothbore gun.

It is imitated and improved from the falcon cannon, and it is a transliteration of falcon.

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of forms.

The first type of attack can be applied to many situations, whether it is a naval battle or a land battle, or defending a city or attacking a city.

The general weight is about five hundred catties, and the lead bullet weighs four catties.

The second type of hair is mainly used for the offense and defense of the city fortress, because it is too large and inconvenient to transport.

It weighs more than a thousand catties and fires big stone bombs as big as a small bucket.

Western-made five-pound guns can shoot as far as four to five miles, but this is the largest range, and the accuracy of this distance can be described as touching.

Just like the maximum range of a bow and arrow can reach more than a hundred steps, but no one will start shooting arrows at the maximum range.

The eight fire cannons owned by Chen Wang now belong to the first type, and they all weigh around five hundred catties.

Converted to the length of later generations, the length of the gun body is about 1.8 meters, and the caliber is [-] centimeters.

The farthest it can shoot is three or four miles away, and the effective range is about one and a half miles.

Chen Wang directly ordered the army to advance to a distance of [-] steps from the camp at the foot of the mountain. At this distance, the accuracy of a skilled shooter in manipulating cannons is already quite high.

During the ambush in Qiutou Town, those extremely unskilled gunners among the Chuang army were able to shoot shells into the Ming army's formation.

When Zhao Huailiang brought those cannons back, he also abducted the soldiers who operated the cannons.

Strictly speaking, it's not considered kidnapping, it's just a temporary requisition, more than 20 artillerymen, the magistrate of Gongchang Mansion swiped them over with a wave of his hand.

The more than 20 artillerymen dispatched by the Gongchang Mansion heard that one or two and a half of the monthly salary was paid in full every month, and their eyes immediately turned red.

After eating food for half a month in the army, the group knelt on the ground and begged Zhao Huailiang to let him join the army.

These days, soldiers don't need to talk about human rights, and their status in society is at the bottom.

The battalion soldiers are okay, at least they have knives in their hands, and there are generals behind them to protect them, but those military households that have been passed down from generation to generation are really looked down upon by others, starving and freezing, and regarded as slaves to the officers' families.

Zhao Huailiang reported the matter to Chen Wang, and Chen Wang directly took him into the army without much hesitation.

The cannons were all delivered, and the magistrate of Gongchang Mansion probably didn't think about going back when these artillerymen sent them, and they could get through all the gates with some money later.

Moreover, these artillerymen are indeed quite capable. Although there is no standard calibration instrument as a reference, they also have their own set of calibration methods, and their shooting is indeed quite accurate.

The soldiers of the eight artillery were mixed, and the veterans were used to lead the new recruits. Those new artillery had also learned for almost half a month, so they had some experience.

Chen Wang didn't know much about artillery, and he didn't show any calibrated instruments to the soldiers.

At this stage, he does not have so many standard artillery pieces, nor does he have so much energy.

However, Chen Wang still made some improvements. He improved almost all artillery vehicles.

The tiger crouching cannon does not need to be improved, Qi Jiguang has already made the tiger crouching cannon well enough.

The two-wheeled canopy of the Franc machine is not bad in terms of mobility and reliability.
However, the gun carriage that fires the cannon has not been improved, and it has gradually become unsuitable.

The gun cart that fires the cannon is directly a four-wheeled cart that cannot be rotated, and it is even difficult to adjust the angle of the bombardment.

Therefore, Chen Wang directly took the artillery cart from the Napoleon era, made some improvements that are more suitable for the artillery, and handed it over to the craftsmen of Gongchang Mansion.

Eight two-wheeled gun carriages carrying cannons were quickly made, and in the subsequent test firing, all the gunners also adapted to this new type of gun carriage.

As a bright red command flag was waved down, large puffs of gunpowder smoke suddenly soared up, covering everyone's sight in an instant.

The eight cannons fired together, like thunder in the sky.

The violent recoil of the cannon seemed to shake the ground.

Sun Yanzong saw a large puff of white smoke rising, he wanted to shout a warning, but he opened his mouth, but he couldn't make any sound.

He wanted to turn back, but found that he couldn't move at all, he was already frozen in place.

In the next instant, a huge bang also reached his ears.

The thunder-like explosion made Sun Yanzong's expression pale, and all the memories of the past were suddenly recalled by him like a tide.

At the beginning, a large amount of smoke suddenly rose from the army formation of officers and soldiers, and then a group of people rushing in front of him fell to the ground like this.

The guard who beat and scolded them frequently on weekdays, who was as strong as a bear, fell to the ground like a broken sandbag, and half of his face was beaten to pieces.

Amid the deafening sound of the cannon, the huge projectile leaped a distance of [-] steps in an instant, and eight shells slammed into the camp built by the bandits at the foot of the mountain.

The distance was far away, but Chen Wang could see it clearly. He watched several sections of the wall collapse in the camp at the foot of the Rogue Mountain.

It seems that a shell hit an arrow tower, and the arrow tower broke from the middle and crashed to the ground.

Fire cannons are so powerful that they can penetrate walls, destroy houses, and break trees.

It has a certain damage effect on the city walls made of earth, wood and masonry, not to mention the wall made of ordinary earth and wood.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

The sound of wood and stone collapsing was endless, and the shrill screams suddenly sounded, accompanied by the sound of bones breaking, all penetrated into Sun Yanzong's ears.

Sun Yanzong stood there in a daze, half of his body was covered with blood, and the pungent stench poured into his chest cavity through his mouth and nose, irritating his fragile nerves.

Sun Yanzong regained some control over his body, he turned his head slowly, and looked to the right.

What he saw next made him freeze in place again.

The wall on the right has completely collapsed, mixed with earth and wood, and there are piles of flesh and blood.

Sun Yanzong saw a familiar figure, and that person was also the one who was with them back then.

But now the man only had half of his body lying on the ground, lifeless.

And not far from the field of vision, the archery tower that was repaired not long ago collapsed.

Sun Yanzong watched with his own eyes that the soldiers on the archery tower were thrown to the ground, and then turned into meat paste.

The huge camp changed from the original silence to a pot of hot porridge in an instant. This sudden blow made everyone terrified.

Not only the ordinary rogues panicked, but even the old bandits and the management team of each team were pale and terrified.

It's not that they haven't seen the cannons of officers and soldiers, but when will the artillery used by officers and soldiers have such power.

The tiger crouching cannon hits a hundred paces, and the French machine doubles the distance. The artillery that hits one mile is only seen when attacking the big city.

There was chaos in the bandit camp, and Chen Wang's artillery positions were not bad at all.

Even though it was about sixty or seventy steps away and he had prepared in advance, Chen Wang still felt a slight pain in his eardrums, and his ears kept buzzing.

It was replaced with an improved gun carriage, which is a genuine receding front-mounted smoothbore artillery. Every time it is fired, it will seriously deviate from the original shooting position.

This is true in the distance, but it is even more so in the near.

Even with ear protectors made by Chen Wang, the loud noise still made all the artillerymen dizzy from the shock.

No matter how well you train, there will always be mistakes when you actually play.

Although there was no enemy interference and it was in a safe area, there were riots in the artillery positions.

Some started charging the gun before it was reset, and some tried to clean the gun chamber in a hurry, but they couldn't find the utensils.

However, the commotion did not last long. Under the scolding of the military academy, everyone finally regained their composure.

The rigorous training finally had some effect, and it didn't take long.

As the military flag was waved down again, eight cannons were fired one after another, making a huge roar again.

The eight cannons fired continuously, going round and round, until each of the cannons fired five shells, and the shelling finally stopped.

After the gunpowder smoke completely cleared, in the eyes of everyone, the camp of the rogue bandits at the foot of the mountain was already in dilapidated condition like a missed sandbag.

In the camp of the rogue bandits at the foot of the mountain, the rogue bandits have already begun to flee.

Even before the infantry attacked, they had defeated a battalion of bandits just by shelling.

　The chapter names are repeated, I am confused.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)