The Red Yi Cannon was a general term for European smooth-bore cannons in the Ming Dynasty. Its sizes vary, even one or two hundred kilograms, and the sizes were as big as those on the top of the city. Shang Kexi had previously transported the giant cannons that collapsed the Guangzhou city walls weighed ten thousand kilograms, and the effective range reached an astonishing three miles. In contrast, the ones that Chen Wen had seen before, except for the ones that Jin Li brought to bombard the ridges, which could be compared with these, let alone Shang Kexi is still condescending now.

The 10,000-jin red artillery cannon at the head of Guangzhou City is powerful and has a long range. It is much better than the red artillery cannons brought by Chen Wen, not to mention the larger arc of the ballistic curve, which leads to the mortars with the same caliber and charge in the range.

The mortars used by the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were specially made for siege. They had a huge caliber and amazing loading. The design not only used the technology of installing iron hoops to enhance the cannon body during the Ming Dynasty, but also some of the mortar design concepts that Chen Wen had seen on the Internet before.

The combination of Chinese and Western styles, coupled with more advanced and purposeful design concepts, combined with the advantages of artillery targeting technology, granulated gunpowder, fixed charge packs and other technologies, makes the mortars used by the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang not inferior to those small-caliber Red Barbarian cannons. However, facing such giant cannons, they are still far inferior to those.

In this case, either bear the opponent's shelling and fight against the defenders, or use some means to avoid the defenders' shelling.

According to the report of the Guangzhou Station of the Military Information Department, these are the red artillery cannons that Shang Kexi waited for in Guangzhou's besieged in October. It was so powerful that it collapsed the city walls in just one day. It was terrifying. Later, Geng Jimao moved to the town, and Shang Kexi did not let his "nephew" take the giant cannon to attack Zheng Chenggong.

Of course, the importance of Guangzhou is self-evident. The high-ranking officials of the Qing Dynasty also tended to use giant cannons to guard Guangzhou to strengthen the defense capabilities of the Ming army in Fujian and the Ming army in the southwest. The result is now on Chen Wen.

Unfortunately, Chen Wen's tricks are numerous. Now the range of the Red Barbarian artillery in the defenders has long been included in the plan of the General Staff Department. Even the data on the city walls specially thickened by the Red Barbarian artillery and the forts built by Chen Wen has long known that there is no need to carry the shelling and cause greater damage.

Sun Wuzi said: Those who have won the temple before they fight will have to calculate more; those who have not won the temple before they fight will have to calculate less. Those who have to calculate more will have to calculate less, let alone have to calculate nothing!

That's exactly what it means.

The artillery of the defenders on the city was aimed and loaded. With Shang Kexi's order, they opened fire at the artillery positions outside the city. The huge shells roared away, and the recoil alone made Shang Kexi feel that the city wall seemed to have shaken. This was a turret specially built for these 10,000 kilogram artillery. If it were on other city walls, I was afraid that a few cannon bricks would have to be shaken down first.

These gun teams have received professional training. The skills learned by Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming in Dengzhou are basically based on them. After aiming, their accuracy is naturally better than other gun teams.

The shell flew out and the angle was particularly adjusted. The first shell drew a parabola and then hit the half-moon bunker heavily. It immediately shook like a rocking mountain. Even if the earth was used as a carrier, it was not inferior to the city's head. So the artillery crew behind the bunker subconsciously helped a cannon to prevent the cannon from deviating from aiming at the angle.

In the first round of artillery, the hit rate of the Red Barbarian cannons was good, but Shang Kexi was not satisfied. The reason was very simple. There were only a few cannons in total, and there were twenty-two artillery bunkers scattered on the battlefield, but all pointed to the city walls of the East City. Among the first round of artillery shells, one shell hit the bunker, and one shell flew far behind the artillery position, while the other few fell on the ground in front of the bunker.

The Ming army did not suffer casualties, which was difficult for Shang Kexi to accept. What he needed was to use the advantage of range to knock down mortars or kill artillery large numbers of artillery soldiers, thereby reducing the possibility of the city wall being bombarded. However, this structure is much worse than his expectations.

Shang Kexi is not unaware that the hit rate just now is almost super-level. It has aiming skills, but the first shot is generally used for test shooting, and the artillery cannons can be further adjusted through test shooting. But the reality now needs to be that the red artillery cannons on the top of the city should be cleaned up as soon as possible, because no one knows better than Shang Kexi the consequences of the city walls of Guangzhou City once collapsed!

The first round of artillery fire of the giant Red Barbarian cannon was fruitless, and each gun group almost immediately entered the steps of resetting, clearing the slag, aiming, loading, etc. The most well-trained British artillery in this era also took up two minutes to use such artillery. These gunners who had almost no chance of live ammunition training on weekdays were very familiar with the steps, but the speed was much slower.

However, the artillery of the defenders was condescending. In addition to these giant cannons, some red barbarian cannons could also cover the scope of some Ming army's mortar cannon positions based on their height advantages.

The giant cannon was silenced, and more than a dozen other red artillery guns opened fire one after another. The shells flew from the city like rain. A large number of shells deviated significantly due to test firing, but some still flew into the artillery positions. At this moment, the bunkers were as effective as ever, almost perfectly resisting the bombardment of all the shells. During this period, only one shell was bombarded into the artillery positions, but it was only a false alarm, and the donkey cart that had previously been carried was smashed.

"Auxiliary soldier, go and take a look at the donkey, don't let it make trouble for us!"

With a loud shout, Yi Chenxi, the gunman of this gun team, continued his goal and range measurement work. Yi Chenxi's surname is Yi, but he has nothing to do with Sun Yu's wife. He is a carpenter in Yuezhou Prefecture in Huguang, and he escapes war and enters the mountainous area of ​​western Ganxi. However, compared to Huang Chengming, who is also a Huguang person, he was pulled by the Green Camp to be an auxiliary soldier when Zhang Yong attacked the Yunxiaoshan Rebel Army. In the end, Chen Wen defeated Hong Chengchou and saved his life.

It is natural to be grateful. He also deeply hated the Qing army who killed people and set fire in his hometown and then joined the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Perhaps he was a carpenter, and he was a new recruit who knew nothing about his big words and had a strong talent for aiming and ranging. After the past two years of training and combat, after the production of the batch of mortars at the end of last year, he became the gun captain of this gun group.

Behind the cover, through the holes reserved for observation and aiming, Yi Chenxi skillfully fiddled with the guys in his hand, whether it was a telescope, a gun ruler, a scale and a scale plate, these tools were like part of his body, and within a short while, they calculated the angle required for the mortar.

"The direction is correct, the muzzle is raised twice."

When the order was issued, the gunners responded with practical actions. They had been in the position for a long time, but the brightness was still too short to perform the aiming operation. What's more, the mortars they used were more troublesome in aiming and ranging than cannons, and loading took up time. On the contrary, they were not as quick as those of the somewhat busy Red Barbarian gun teams on the city.

After two rounds of artillery attacks, the artillery on the city was completely silent, and it would take one or two minutes to resume shooting. During this period, various artillery groups, including Yi Chenxi, completed their aiming operations one after another and waved flags to the Ming army formation.

"Let's get started."

Seeing the Qing army on the front of the city using the different artillery, especially those shells bombarding the Ming army's artillery positions, Chen Wen was still helpless even if there was a bunker, and he could only be passively beaten.

The order was issued, and the flag was waving. The front-line gun groups that received the order ignited the fuses one after another, and as if the sparks were frightened, they drilled into the barrel. While everyone had already completed the retreat and blocked their ears, with a loud bang, the huge shells that needed several loaders to carry with special tools during loading suddenly jumped into the sky.

The shells flew high towards the sky between the artillery position and Guangzhou City. After reaching almost a middle point, gravity overwhelmed the rise of the gunpowder and flew towards Guangzhou City slanted down. There was a huge kinetic energy generated by the burning of the gunpowder, and when it fell, it was even more gravitational acceleration. The huge shells suddenly fell, and in just a moment they hit the turret of the 10,000-pound red artillery cannon that Shang Kexi had touched yesterday.

A huge vibration came, and the defenders near the city wall almost couldn't stand firm and almost fell from the top of the city. But when they stood firm again, the turret was not only missing a part, but even the giant cannon had no shadow. All that was left was the broken bricks and stones on the turret, the remaining limbs, blood and bodies of the members of the cannon. As for the cannon, which was originally very strong, it had already turned into a pile of debris and splashed all over the ground.

In a flash of surprise, fear began to spread wildly. The scene just now was not unavailable, but the huge shell falling from the sky not only accurately hit the giant cannon, but even threw the barrel from the cannon truck. The barrel did not fly very high, and it just jumped up slightly on the top of the city and fell into the moat outside the city. The splashes of water, river fish and even sludge poured on the heads of the defenders, and they interrupted their surprise.

A scream of horror sounded at the top of the city. The survivors near the fort either collapsed on the ground and could no longer move, or ran around like crazy. It was just a shell, and chaos broke out. The most terrifying thing was that the Ming army had not only one mortar outside the city, but as many as twenty-two!

It was lucky that the first shot was like this, but the subsequent shells also had more scientific aiming technology support. Some hit the outside of the city, and some flew directly into the city, causing greater panic and damage. The rest either hit the walls of the city wall, or hit the cannon positions and soldiers on the city wall, or even if they were just hit on the city wall, the damage to the wall was visible to the naked eye.

In an instant, the defenders' artillery groups that were still unscrupulously bombarding the Ming army's artillery positions were immediately swept one after another, and a huge cannon of 10,000 kilograms were directly hit. In addition, three or four medium-sized Red Artillery Groups were destroyed and they were unable to fight again.

The defenders did not suffer huge losses, but this kind of killing comparison destroyed their confidence to stick to their persistence in a flash. Especially when seeing the ruins on the wall, whether it was the sunken wall, the cracked wall, the broken fortress, the female wall and the broken limbs and arms, it can be said that tortured the defenders' hearts all the time.

The technical level of the two sides is already very different. The artillery of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang not only wins in advanced artillery and aiming technologies, such as fixed charge packs, granulated gunpowder, and especially daily live-fire training. The growth of artillery technology is not the private sale of training gunpowder in Shang Kexi. In wartime, it is almost completely comparable to the feudal army artillery that was originally used to rush artillery.

However, the first shell fired by Yi Chenxi and his gun team was able to achieve such a result, but God's favor is still necessary.

"It seems that God has been disgusting Shang Kexi, this dog thief for a long time. I will also help our Jiangsu and Zhejiang Kings Division this time!"

After deciding to attack like this, the General Staff Office had already expected that the defenders would give priority to artillery positions, so the first target of these mortars was also set on the turrets and threatening Red Barbarians.

The first shot in the war, even if it is technically excellent, there is a test-fire factor. The hit rate of the shelling will be continuously improved with the re-proofreading after repeated shellings. Being able to hit a shot with excellent technology will also require the blessing of the goddess of luck to achieve such a perfect effect, otherwise you can only keep approaching the target again and again.

"What Brother Ma said is the truth, but I don't say a little less. God dislikes the other person. In my opinion, what is more important is that 700,000 wronged souls in Guangzhou are now watching the common tomb not far away. They must hope that justice can be upheld, even if it is just revenge!"

Chen Wen once saw this sentence on the Internet that it was belated justice and injustice. This is a legal proverb, which refers to the rehabilitation of unjust, false and wrong cases. Rehabilitation of unjust, false and wrong cases is a good thing, but more importantly, it is necessary to eliminate the cause of unjust, false and wrong cases. It is the intentional or unintentional negligence of law enforcement officers that caused goodness to be wronged and caused greater physical and psychological harm, which cannot be erased at all.

However, the Guangzhou Massacre was not a false and wrong case. The number of 700,000 victims was recorded by Buddhist disciples who were responsible for transporting and burning the bodies. Even if it was exaggerated to a certain extent, it could not conceal the fact that these traitors led by Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao massacred hundreds of thousands of Guangzhou people here for the Qing Dynasty!

The dead cannot be resurrected, and Chen Wen can do only revenge for them. He also firmly believed that the hundreds of thousands of souls in the common tomb outside the East City Gate also longed for this revenge, this revenge that was 371 years late.
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