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When the rebels' Hongyi artillery was transported to the front of the formation, cheers erupted immediately from the rebels, and their morale immediately improved a lot. In the eyes of the rebels, they had such a powerful weapon on hand, and this Xishan Village man

No matter how powerful the cannon is, it can never beat their Hongyi cannon!

So they will use Hongyi artillery to bombard them next, and they will probably blow the wall of Xishan Village into rubbish. By then, the rural soldiers in Xishan Village will definitely be scared to death. When they swarm up again, they will probably be able to easily defeat this village.

Xishan Village.

As a result, each of the rebels began to relax again, became excited, became a lot more arrogant, and became a little confused about their own surnames.

Zhang Tao held back his big mouth and looked at their Hongyi cannon triumphantly. He ordered triumphantly: "Push the cannon up, set it up, aim it at the Xishan Village, and give me a few shots at them first.

Let them have a taste of our power. If the tiger doesn't show its power, these bastards will really think that I'm a sick cat! Let me bomb! It's better to bomb them all to death and turn them into rotten meat!"

Dozens of rebel gunners directed the civilian laborers to take away the mules that were dragging the cannons, and began to rely on manpower to push the clumsy cannons toward the front of the formation.

Although the Hongyi cannon has a long range, it is only compared to the old artillery in the past. Some Hongyi cannons are overloaded with gunpowder. When they were tested, they could indeed hit the shells five miles at a high firing angle.

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The experimental data cannot be taken seriously. After the muzzle is raised, the cannon can hit far, but its accuracy is already terrible. Not to mention using it to hit a wall that is not too high, even if it is used to hit a tall wall.

The city wall is also difficult to hit effectively.

Therefore, in actual use, Ming army artillerymen would often let the enemy troops come within one mile before launching artillery bombardment, and it was not the kind of precise aiming and shooting, but rough shooting to attack those enemy groups in a planar shape.

So under Zhang Tao's orders, the rebel gunners drove a large number of civilians, dragging them with ropes and pushing them with their hands, pushing the Hongyi cannon towards Xishan Village, and arrogantly pushed the Hongyi cannon all the way outside Xishan Village.

, at a distance of about more than 300 meters but less than 400 meters, it stopped.

What makes the Sea Wolf officers on the wall of Xishan Village even more irritating is that these rebels don't even have basic anti-artillery common sense. They just put the cannons in the open space with such arrogance that the plains are clear and unobstructed.

People on the wall can have a clear view of their actions.

Dai Fang, Wu Shengtian and others saw that the rebels were so careless and couldn't help but sneer at them. In fact, we can't blame these rebel gunners for their poor vigilance, because no one from top to bottom knew that Xishan Village also had cannons.

Yes, it's just that it hasn't been exposed and let them know.

They thought that the cannons placed three to four hundred steps away were very safe. Even if there were one or two cannons in Xishan Village, they would not have Hongyi cannons.

Ordinary artillery, even large copper-haired cannons, can only hit more than two hundred steps at best. Their Hongyi cannons should be absolutely safe if they are placed three to four hundred steps away.

Therefore, after they pushed the cannon outside the village, they unloaded some gunpowder barrels and shells from the carriage and placed them directly next to the cannon without taking any protective measures.

Dai Fang snorted coldly and said: "Didn't you hear that these Ming army gunners were personally trained by the Folangji people? Why don't you even have this bit of common sense? This is a serious violation of regulations! Damn it, you actually put gunpowder on it.

The barrel is placed next to the cannon. Isn't this looking for death? If you bring it to your door like this, don't blame me for being rude! Come on, start loading and aim at the Hongyi cannon! Grandma, aim a little and try to use it as quickly as possible.

Du, get rid of it!"

Without saying a word, the gunners of the two cannons began to load the guns. The loading movements were as skillful as a choreographed dance. They were strong, powerful and closely connected, which made people amazed.

After several years of development, with the improvement of raw materials provided by Seawolf's basic industry and the improvement of processing technology, Seawolf's artillery has been operated differently from the past.

In the past, the adjustment of the height and angle of the artillery was done by relying on several set steps and using skids, but now it has been improved to use bolts. This improvement makes the artillery adjustment easier and the aiming accuracy higher.

, and even developed a very simple sight, but it can effectively improve the aiming accuracy, making the accuracy of the artillery even higher.

Therefore, the first gunners of the two guns leaned over the sights on the gun mounts and quickly rotated the handles with their hands. As they shook the handles, the gun barrels began to slowly raise the muzzles until they aimed at the target.

, the two first-gunners shouted loudly: "Aiming completed!"

The rebel gunners could be said to be completely ignorant of the movements on the wall of Xishan Village at this moment. A large group of people, including those who were forcibly recruited, gathered next to the Hongyi cannon. Although the civilians were coerced,

But they were also very curious about this legendary killer weapon and stuck their heads out to watch the fun. Anyway, they were not being forced to attack Xishan Village at this moment, so they didn't feel too uncomfortable.

Those rebel gunners were busy loading ammunition for the Hongyi cannon. They still had not made much progress at this time. Even if Sun Yuanhua specially invited Portuguese artillery instructors from Macau through the church, they did not change much technically.

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These Hongyi cannons still use bulk gunpowder. They rely entirely on the experience of the gunners to load gunpowder into the barrel, and then use the barrel to pass the gunpowder into the medicine chamber at the rear of the barrel, and then take a

A solid iron bullet is loaded into the muzzle, filled into the barrel and tamped down, and primer is poured into the fire door at the rear of the gun.

However, after being coached by the Portuguese, these rebel gunners have become relatively skilled in their movements. At least they are not careless and they know how to cooperate with each other. This is already rare in the Ming army.

After loading the shells, they began to adjust the height of the barrel. The Hongyi Cannon was a relatively advanced artillery in this era. The barrel-to-barrel ratio was relatively long, and the casting shape of the barrel was more in line with actual needs. There was also a rear sight and a front sight on the gun body, but

For the gunner to aim.

The Hongyi cannon was finally prepared with dozens of gunners waiting on it, but before they could fire, they heard two muffled thunderous roars from the wall of Xishan Village.

Two dazzling fires spurted out from the wall of Xishan Village, and a large cloud of light blue gunpowder smoke rose up. Then everyone heard two whistles, and two shells immediately roared and hit the rebel house.

The army's Hongyi cannon fired shells to the left and right, one shot was closer to the front, and the other shot went beyond a certain distance and landed near the rebel Hongyi cannon.

The rebels and civilians who were watching the excitement were suddenly frightened, and many people quickly held their heads as if this would make them feel safer.

Neither of the two shells directly hit the Hongyi cannon, but the impact point was not too far away. The six-pounder cannon shell only landed six or seven meters away from the Hongyi cannon, killing several people immediately.

There were two rebels among the civilians watching the excitement nearby, and the twelve-pound shell landed about ten meters away, killing only two civilians.

Several people died. After being stunned for a while, the civilian husband immediately broke up and fled in all directions screaming. Even a pig could tell that there were two cannons in Xishan Village, and they were probably Hongyi cannons. He was thinking

We must destroy this rebel red cannon.

The rebels were immediately panicked. They never thought that there were two such powerful weapons hidden in the small Xishan Village, and they could actually reach their Hongyi cannon.

At this moment, Zhang Tao was a little dizzy, and he thought to himself, where did this big family in Xishan Village come from? How could they even get the red cannon? This red cannon is now a standard rarity in the Ming Dynasty.

There are only about twenty Lai troops, and the cost of each door is as high as a thousand taels of silver. Even if the big families in Xishan Village are very rich, where can they get such red barbarian cannons?

And one guy only has two guns, how can he let anyone survive? He was stunned for a long time, and suddenly remembered that this was not the time to be in a daze. The other party had Hongyi cannons, so his side was not safe.

, so he quickly led his soldiers back a certain distance, and hurriedly ordered his Hongyi cannon to fire. He thought that he could take the first step and knock down the wall of the village. It would be better if he could simply connect the two cannons.

If the Hongyi cannons are smashed together, then they will be safe.

The rebel gunner was suddenly bombarded by the opponent's Hongyi cannon. He was a little panicked, but he did not dare to run. He could only bite the bullet and surround the cannon, waiting for the order to fire.

At this time, Dai Fang, who was on the wall of the village, was using a telescope to observe the impact point of the shell. When he saw the impact point, he turned around and said coldly: "The No. 3 gun fired a close shot, and the No. 5 gun missed it! Re-aim! Load the shells!"

The gunners did not need his instructions at the moment. Some people were also observing the impact point of the bullet. In addition, other gunners had already begun to clean the gun bore, extinguished the remaining sparks in the gun bore, wiped the gun bore with a wet gun brush, and cleaned the gun bore again with a dry gun brush to set the charge.

The bag has been delivered to the muzzle, just waiting for Dai Fang to order what kind of ammunition to load.

After receiving the order to load the explosive shells, someone immediately fetched a blooming bullet, but the six-pounder gun did not have any blooming bullets, so it could only continue to use solid bullets for shelling.

Because the six-pounder has a longer barrel, its direct-aiming accuracy is higher than that of the twelve-pounder mountain howitzer. Therefore, although it does not have explosive shells, it can still perform direct-aiming shooting.

The gunners of the two guns quickly reloaded and reset and aimed again. This time the first gunner aimed more carefully, taking into account all the factors that should be considered, and made careful fine-tuning.

Just as they were taking careful aim, the rebel's Hongyi cannon suddenly vibrated, a ball of flames erupted from the muzzle, and a large column of black smoke immediately rose into the sky and spread all around.

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