open sea

Chapter 165
Guangzhou Fucheng, city tower.

It doesn't feel good to be abandoned by the world.

Wang Rulong, wearing a helmet and wearing armor, raised his arms to Chen Mu's place on the hillside, more than a thousand steps away from the city. He asked, "What kind of cannon is that?"

Perhaps his original intention was to raise his hand to point out where the cannon was, but he raised his arm half way up, but firmly clasped it against the female wall without pointing.

'What's that cannon' or 'What's that? '

The black cannon body is not too thick, but the cannon body is very long, and the red cannon carriage is very conspicuous. Wang Rulong even saw a few pack horses nearby.

Use pack horses to carry artillery carts, and use the sharp weapons on the city walls in field battles?

Wang Rulong didn't know that he had been imprisoned for too long, and the scene in front of him hurt his inner pride no less than the power of five shells falling on the Japanese pirates' front.

He was a miner who lived in a dark mine for ten years until General Qi Jiguang asked him to join the army to kill Japanese.

He is a recruiter who has lived on the road of chasing and killing Japanese pirates for ten years.Xiaotingling beheaded four Japanese and promoted to general manager; Fuqing Niutian beheaded four Japanese, his subordinates won the first [-], Xinghuafu Lindun won the first [-], and was promoted to the defense of Fujian North Road; defending Xianyou, Expelled the bandits from Zhangpu Garden, directly attacked the two lairs of Japanese pirates Hengyu and Xiaoshiling, was promoted to command the affairs of the capital of Fujian, promoted to the general of Guangdong, and awarded the title of General Zhaoyong.

He never lost.

He has no regrets in exchanging a pair of handbooks for the rest of his life in prison. If there is, it is nothing more than that he can't attack the northern captives with General Qi stationed in Jizhen, so what about the northern captives!
A letter from afar said that Qi Shuai was training troops in the north to guard against the northern captives. It was difficult for mandarin ducks and tigers to squat and cannons.

General Qi helped him a lot, but Wang Rulong couldn't help him, he was locked up at the foot of Yuexiu Mountain south of Wuling, he could neither share the worries of the Qi family nor fight the enemy, he was not free.

Although some loneliness is unavoidable, Wang Rulong never felt sad.

How many years have passed, the Japanese pirates came and went, the officers and soldiers fought and retreated, no matter when he called Wang Rulong to fight, it was to defeat the enemy and win, and it never changed.

Until the Battle of Xinjiang, he saw a bird gunner with a small general banner pierced with a familiar cartridge;
Until the battle of Guangzhou, he saw the artillerymen of a small thousand households bombard the Japanese pirates seven hundred paces away with artillery he had never seen before.

No one in the city can answer Wang Rulong's question, and no one has seen this kind of artillery.

But this at least proves to the disheartened Wang Rulong that there are still changes in this world.

Maybe he, who is in Guangdong, can help General Qi again.

The military situation has of course changed.

In front of the commander-in-chief of the battalion, his army had not yet engaged in battle with the Japanese pirates. After one shell fell into the enemy's formation, killing and wounding seven or eight Japanese pirates, five shells shot straight at them, precisely walking in the Japanese pirate formation, directly After defeating a group of more than [-] Japanese pirates, before the battalion soldiers even had time to pursue them, the pirates scattered and fled back to the camp.

Six solid bullets smashed all the Japanese pirates showing off their might.

Under the hillside, the morale of the flag troops in formation was greatly boosted, and the artillerymen shouted. Under the leadership of many hundreds of households, the spearmen shouted in order with their spears.

It seemed as if the shells that were constantly falling from the hillside did not exist. In fact, in the eyes of many Guangcheng officials at the top of the city, those shells were falling like rain. Thirty or forty large ships in the river were fully fired, forming a ring formation on the water surface. The Japanese pirate warships walked with their tails in their tails, and bursts of light burst out from the side of the ship. Hundreds of Franco cannons of different shapes and sizes and even old mortars, regardless of whether they could hit or not, poured shells on the position where the smoke was rising on the hillside as if venting their anger.

The smoke and dust whizzed up the hillside, even if you watched it from a distance, it still made people tremble from the bottom of their hearts.

The guards, however, celebrated with extremely high morale. They fired a salvo of several cannons to defeat the enemy. around them.

This is a divine army protected by the gods.

Of course, some people were also afraid. Many guards and some battalion soldiers who accompanied the army to Guangcheng fled in all directions when the Japanese warships bombarded the first round of artillery fire. Ya Guan ordered the Banner Army and servants to stand behind Deng Zilong and the others. Some people were scared to pee by the artillery fire from the other side of the hillside.

But they are brave and still standing here.

The same is true for Chen Mu's banner army. When the first round of artillery fire came, the vibration under their feet almost broke them, but after they found out that no artillery shells could hit them in this place, as Qianhu had taught them, Then the morale, which was almost collapsed, suddenly picked up and turned to encouragement and admiration.

"Qianhu, why don't you stand back, this cannon can hit you hard." Huang Dexiang paused, shouting loudly to suppress the roar on the other side of the hillside, and the smoke and dust covered Chen Mu's armor, "Sit down It’s not worth it!”

"Hahaha!"

Chen Mu laughed loudly. At this moment, all the pains he paid to practice artillery skills were rewarded, and the joy in his eyes couldn't be concealed, "It's here, it's here!"

"The Fran machine gun, Huang Qianhu, Zeng Sanlao used the Fran machine gun, this kind of gun, Chen has 150 catties, 230 catties, 80 catties to [-] catties, more than [-] guns! All ship guns I dismantled them and moved them to the land to shoot them. I have shot them flat and high. I have shot them at fifty steps, one hundred and two hundred and three hundred and four hundred steps. All the trees have been measured and drawn!"

The artillery of the Xiangshan Qianhu Institute is powerful. They have a brief Chen's artillery manual to learn. Each cannon, fire, and Fran cannon is equipped with a wooden frame distance sight that is basically accurately measured for the gun type. , with the front sight can achieve the greatest degree of accuracy in this era.

As long as an artilleryman who knows how to look at the sight adjusts the gun position, the accuracy of the fired guns is almost the same.

But where did these data come from?

It was their artillery instructor, Chen Qianhu, who led his own affairs, Wei Balang, to fight them one by one. Although it is not accurate to say that Chen Mu fought, because he always let the flag army to light the fire. In fact, Guanghaiwei It was the first time he fired the cannon, but all the data measured in Xiangshan, every cannonball fired was the cannon adjusted by him.

The cannonballs he fired this year were much more than the birdcrack bullets he fired in the past four years!

In Xiangshan, no one is more familiar with the ballistics of various artillery pieces than him.

Only when people really speak up can they be confident.

Chen Mu stretched out his arms and pointed to the side of the mountain, which was the direction where the Japanese pirate fleet was on the river in his mind across the hillside, "Someone Chen said that he couldn't reach here, and his old master Zeng just blew up the ship's guns and killed his gunners." They all collapsed to death—and I couldn’t hurt a single hair of my Xiangshan Qianhu Banner Army!”

　The third watch is coming!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)