Daming pirates

After looking at the situation outside the city, Li San waved an officer under his command to come up, pointed at the rebel cannon and said, "Come and see if those three cannons can be knocked down after the war starts?"

The officer was just an artillery sergeant. He was the gunner of the gun he brought this time, with the rank of sergeant. After looking at it, he borrowed Li San's telescope to observe it. He gave a thumbs up and visually measured the distance. He hesitated.

After a while, he replied: "The two cannons in front are not the problem. The key is the Hongyi cannon. I'm afraid the small one can't guarantee that it can be knocked out. The distance is a bit too far. I'm afraid it will be difficult to hit it directly. But the small one

I will try my best to knock it off!"

Li San nodded to express his understanding and said: "Okay, try your best, but pay attention to saving ammunition. We don't bring much ammunition this time. Even if we brought in last night, there are only dozens of solid bullets. If it doesn't work, just

Instead of shotguns, I will mainly hit the living people. Wherever there are more people, shoot them where they are!"

"Yes!" The gunner immediately crossed his legs and wanted to salute, but Li San quickly glared. He immediately realized that this place seemed inappropriate, so he quickly knelt down on one knee and said, "I understand!"

The rebels did not bother to send people to force them to surrender. Now they all understand that the Ninghai Prefecture government in Mouping County will definitely not surrender in Kaicheng now, and they will only force it.

So under Chen Guangfu's order, all the non-core elite soldiers and horses were sent out, holding shields in the dark, as well as large makeshift shields, and improvised oars, shields and carts, driving a large number of people.

There were even some women with small feet and some children among them. Everyone was forced to carry some earth bags or bundles of firewood to prepare for filling the trenches.

The war drums rumbled, and the rebels were beating loudly. Seeing the rebels start to move, the defenders, under the order of Zhao Zhizhou, also beat the war drums. The rumbling war drums of both sides echoed repeatedly in the sky.

At this time, the Sea Wolf artillery was dragged up the city wall by dozens of soldiers and gunners. They found the best shooting position and ordered people to use sandbags on the gun emplacement.

A simple ring-shaped fortification was piled up, and a large pile of sandbags was also piled up at the rear of the gun against the inner city wall.

This twelve-pound howitzer was surrounded, leaving a certain width of personnel passages on both sides to avoid blocking the passage of personnel on both sides of the city wall.

Everyone was very curious about the cannon obtained by Xishan Village. Because the gun jacket had never been removed, they could not see what the cannon looked like. At this time, they saw the Xishan Village soldiers giving the cannon to

After it was placed, Zhao Zhizhou came over to take a look with some officials and generals.

When the gun jacket was unveiled, everyone felt their eyes light up, and then they were surprised and happy, because although they had never seen this gun, they could also see that this gun was made with excellent workmanship and was absolutely beyond the ordinary.

All artillery used by the rebels, including the official army.

This cannon does not look big, and the barrel is not very long, but the muzzle is quite thick, and the wall of the cannon seems to be a bit thin, far less than the big guns they have seen. The wall of the Hongyi cannon is thick, and the entire cannon is thick.

The outer wall of the barrel is polished smooth and shiny, and is coated with a layer of grease to prevent rust. It is very well maintained.

What's even more surprising is that although the gun's frame is mostly made of wood, it is all made of very hard lychee wood or even iron wood. Many load-bearing structures are also reinforced with iron, and there are two large diameter ones.

The cannon was mounted on this cannon cart with hardwood wheels. There was no step to adjust the height at the rear, but a thick bolt made of steel that stood up. There was a runner with a handle on the top of the bolt. I didn’t know this.

How to adjust the high and low shooting range of the door cannon.

In addition, this gun can also adjust the range of fire left and right, which is also controlled by another set of mechanisms, but the adjustable range is very small. Even so, it is not easy. In the past, whether it was a naval gun or an army gun, the artillery left and right

To shoot horizontally, you have to manually adjust the gun mount and aim it at the target. You can only adjust the upper and lower shooting ranges. The operation is complicated and consumes a lot of energy.

However, after installing this device for laterally adjusting the firing range, the artillery no longer requires personnel to repeatedly fine-tune left and right. They only need to roughly point the muzzle of the cannon towards the target, and the rest is left to the gunner.

This not only saves labor, but also greatly helps improve the shooting accuracy. The gunner can make slight adjustments by shaking the hand wheel. With the simple aiming mechanism, the shooting accuracy of the artillery has been greatly improved.

Of course, Zhao Zhizhou and his group don't understand this, but they can all see that this cannon is well-made and has amazing skills. It is considered to be a pretty good cannon, but they don't know how powerful it is.

They all raised certain concerns about the thickness of the gun wall.

"What a cannon! What a cannon! But Mr. Li, who bought this cannon from you? Is the barrel a little too thin? Will the barrel of this cannon explode? Be careful!

"Zhao Zhizhou asked Li San kindly and warned.

Li San despised these country bumpkins as officials, so he started to fool them, bragging: "This cannon was purchased by our master the year before last when he went to sea far away from the South China Sea from a group of people said to be called French.

It is made of fine iron, not ordinary pig iron. One cannon is worth four thousand taels of silver. Our master bought two or three of them and transported them back here to defend the stronghold!

This kind of cannon may not look big, its barrel is not thick, but it is really strong and will never explode! Since you are worried, please step back, and you will know how powerful this cannon is in a while!"

When Li San was promoted to an officer in the Army Academy, Yu Xiaotian had heard of the term France when he went to give them a lecture on the situation in Europe. Now he brought it out and began to violently deceive Zhao.

Zhizhou et al.

How could Zhao Zhizhou and others have heard of what France is? After all, they are probably from Thailand! Of course they don’t know whether there is such a country as France, and they can’t even imagine where Thailand is and how far away it is from them.

, but they had heard of the red-haired people, the dry silk people, and the Folangji people. They knew that these people were all Taixi people who came from the west, so they didn't ask any more questions.

But they were still a little worried. Seeing that these Xishan Village gunners had begun to load the cannon, they quickly retreated to a far away place. Of course they didn't know whether this thing was safe or not. In addition, they looked at the gun barrel.

Bo, they are still very worried, so it is better to hide as far away as possible, in order to avoid big trouble if it explodes and takes them with it.

The gunners were exhausted from coming here. They were on guard duty with the infantry every day, and had to carry rifles and pretend to be infantry. They had no chance to operate this treasure of theirs. Today Li San spent a lot of money to bring this treasure here, but he

They were so happy that they all rolled up their arms and sleeves and started fucking.

After the cannons were displayed, they immediately began to load them. With skillful movements, the loading was completed in a few breaths. The gunner immediately began to take aim. Their first target was not far from the front.

After visual inspection, they determined the distance and began to correct the left and right firing range and elevation angle of the artillery until they took aim.

The leading gunner was not at ease. He personally checked the aiming, and after fine-tuning it, ordered: "Don't wait for them to fire first, knock them out!"

At this time, the gunners on the rebel side were also busy working around their cannons with their heads down, loading and adjusting the aim. Although the big guns were larger, they were still old-style artillery. The amount of charge was all based on estimation, and there was no

Aiming device depends on

The gunner made his own estimate. In addition, the inner bore of the gun barrel is thicker at the front and thinner at the back, which is very inconsistent with the actual principle. It only has a larger charge, but the actual power is not very great. The muzzle velocity of the shell is low, the trajectory is also very unstable, the accuracy is also very poor, and the recoil force

Also very big.

Playing with this kind of gun is a test of the gunner's experience. Although these gunners have received certain training under Sun Yuanhua, everything depends on pure estimation. If they don't fire enough shells, it will be difficult to figure it out.

They had sufficient experience, so they, the rebel gunners, were actually a little unsure whether their cannons could hit the city wall.

On the rebel side, while they were still busy reloading, the first shot of today's decisive battle was fired on the city wall. Suddenly, a ball of fire flashed across the city wall, a ball of flames spurted out, and then a huge cloud rose up.

There was a cloud of smoke, and a moment later, a loud thunder-like sound was heard.

There was a sound in the air like a cannonball piercing the air, and a black dot that was almost visible to the naked eye flew out from the city wall, and in the blink of an eye, it hit the location of the rebel cannon.

The rebels only felt their scalps tightening, especially those rebels that Zhang Tao had brought to Xishan Village. They all felt that something was wrong. They found that the cannon on the top of the city might be the one who had beaten them in Xishan Village.

That kind of cannon, I'm afraid I'm going to be in trouble today.

Sure enough, the shell roared down and hit directly very close to the big gun. Several rebels who were watching the battle had no time to avoid, and they were torn to pieces on the spot. The shell was very close to the big gun.

It was very close. It could be said that it was as close as a stone's throw away. It startled the rebel gunners and almost caused a stir.

The two sides thus completely kicked off today's battle. They began to exchange artillery fire. For a while, the sound of artillery was heard one after another on the city and below. Of course, it was not intensive, but it was still quite lively.

At such a distance, Seawolf's gunners gave full play to the performance of their cannons. With only three shells, they overturned a Daihatsu to the ground. The gun mount was destroyed on the spot, including the one serving the Daihatsu.

The rebel gunner was also hit by fragments and suffered heavy casualties.

(Can I still ask for a monthly ticket? I no longer have confidence!)