Chapter 293 Air Explosion
"It's so fucking exciting"
In the infantry and cavalry formation between the two wing artillery, the nine-headed infantry and cavalry soldiers watched the shells roaring into the group of Tartar cavalry from time to time, causing bloody storms, stirring up waves of people and horses, and were extremely excited to see them and slapped their thighs. Mobile Net
"It's great, I didn't expect the artillery brothers to be so powerful."
"That's right, this is our Nine-Headed Bird's artillery. You have never participated in the Battle of the Grand Master. At that time, our artillery brothers directly used the Divine Power Cannon to attack the castle. Damn, one shell is nearly fifty kilograms, especially at night, when the shells took off with Mars, it was really like a meteor. At that time, Company Commander Lu of our artillery regiment used one shot to knock down a solid fortress of the Dutch." A brother who participated in the Battle of the Southeast Sea excitedly boasted, and his saliva flew everywhere.
He stood in the formation with one eye holding a waist knife, listening to the soldiers' boasting, and smiled knowingly. He glanced at the Miao soldiers and local soldiers in the formation. These soldiers were the most difficult to manage along the way. They had to cause trouble, either fighting or quarrel, and for the sake of some big things, they looked at you and were dissatisfied. They stole my position, smelly feet, and snoring when they were sleeping.
Because it was broken up and reorganized during the war, Mr. Qi One-eyed Qian did not bring all his original brothers, but most of them were new recruits from other towns, mainly these town soldiers and white pole soldiers.
However, now, these usually fierce barbarian soldiers were all looking at the distance with shock and fear as the Qing Tartar soldiers struggling in artillery fire.
"Look at it carefully. Wherever you go?" Qi Yiyan smiled and said to these barbarians who were afraid of it. One of his units was infantry equipped with new muskets. The other was infantry with spears and sword cards. The soldiers who took cold weapons were mainly these newly participated town soldiers and white pole soldiers.
A thin and dark Miao town soldier had his lips dry. He looked at Qi Yuan and asked, "Sir, this Tartar cavalry is about to rush up. Can we just stand here to block it?"
Although the artillery fire was very fierce, the Tartars were also fierce. They were almost rushing forward.
"Don't worry, the more powerful ones have not taken action yet," Qi Yuan said.
The artillery had fired four rounds of shells, killing at least one or two hundred cavalry, but the Qing army still rushed up.
Anderson was also amazed at the ferocity of these Qing cavalry, but he was not panicked.
"It's finally time for my killer to come on the field. The time is to witness the miracle." Anderson shouted excitedly, his face turned red. He waved to the artillerymen and shouted. "Push our howitzer up."
The newly made howitzer from Huangzhou Casting Factory has four models, nine kilograms, eighteen, twenty-four kilograms, and forty-eight kilograms, five models, using the most open kilograms, corresponding to 12,24, 32,64 pounds. However, the forty-eight kilograms of howitzer has reached more than 5,000 kilograms, and it is not carried on the warship. The thirty-two pounds is only more than 2,000 kilograms, but it is carried over.
Anderson's company has nine pounds and four pounds, eighteen pounds and two pounds, twenty-four pounds and seven howitzers are added in total, and the number of short pounds and field guns is the same.
"Packing a shrapnel"
Anderson personally watched the gunner dig holes on the disc fuze at the target distance. Set the explosion delay time. The set fuze was installed into a shroud projectile equipped with a wooden cradle, and finally transported and loaded into the gun barrel.
After one fixed-packed shrapnel one by one was loaded into the new Cannon howitzer chamber, Anderson excitedly issued a firing order.
The sound of cannons was roaring, and shrunk shells flew out of the cannon chamber. The fire of the launcher ignited the flames during the explosion ignited the fuse gunpowder on the cannon shells. The shrunk shells flew out even more powerful than the previous solid iron bombs. These shells with wooden bases did not rotate when flying, but flew towards the target like badmintons, carrying a Martian flame tail.
Anderson stared at the shells.
These shells were more arc than the previous short Ganon solid bullets, with a large curve, and then fell straight towards the Qing cavalry.
"The show begins soon, open your eyes and look at it."
Anderson shouted wildly.
"Ten, nine, eight"
When Anderson called out, the shrapnel finally fell to the heads of the Qing cavalry, only a few feet away.
"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom"
In front of the Ming army, Zakdan led his subordinates to charge. It was a short distance of several miles, but it seemed as long as a lifetime. The enemy was right in front of him, but they could not rush through it. Along the way, one after another, shells came over and killed hundreds of soldiers above. These warriors were killed on the way to charge without even being able to meet their enemies.
It was shells again, and this time there were more.
Moreover, it seems a little different. These shells are not shot straight, but are like stones thrown by stone throwers, with a huge arc.
"Scattered" Zakdan shouted as the shells fell from the sky, but before he could finish his words, the shells that were more than meter high from them suddenly exploded one by one.
Balls of flames burst out above the head, like suns blooming.
Zakdan's eyes flashed by the strong light, and he suddenly became blind for a moment. He could see nothing, and only a white light was left in front of him. He was panicked and frightened, and his ears were buzzing with huge explosions like thunder.
The next moment, countless sharp sounds of breaking through the air came.
A huge impact suddenly came from his left shoulder, and then his whole body was smashed from his horse. He felt a severe pain coming from his shoulder, and reached out to touch him, but he didn't touch his left hand, which was empty.
The severe pain came, and Zakdan shouted like a tearing sound. He found that half of his shoulder bone had been cut off with his left hand.
The first time the Cannon howitzer was used, it achieved amazing results. Especially after Anderson made a new adjustment to the explosion time of the fuse, he changed the original control of the shell until it exploded when it almost landed, and changed it to an air explosion, exploding above the enemy's head.
One by one, the shrapnel bulwarks containing many gunpowder and shotguns were successfully exploded above the heads of the Qing cavalry.
It is like blooming sparks, so brilliant and beautiful, and brings incredible lethality.
Each shrapnel exploded in the air, blasting countless small lead bombs at the soldiers below. Compared to the solid iron ball, this kind of shrapnel that exploded in the head is truly desperate.
Each shrapnel can cover a range of several meters, killing enemies within a range of several meters below, and the shot put iron beads from the top of their heads. There is nowhere to be avoided. The Qing army was unexpected and could not avoid them.
One after another, the Qing army was hit and knocked down. Many Qing army were wearing cotton armor or even double armor, but their mounts were at most covered with leather armor, which was impossible to defend against.
The war horses were shot more often, and the horses were injured and fell down. The knight who was not shot was thrown off the horse and was trampled by the chaotic war horses behind.
In this round of volley attacks of six artillery companies, dozens of shrapnel shells were fired, causing more than 100 casualties in one go.
"Come again" Anderson roared, and the other artillery soldiers were also immersed in huge shock at this time. They did not expect that this new type of artillery would be so terrifying.
The infantry and cavalry in the center of the artillery on both wings kept sounding awesome, and the cries of God and Buddha were constantly.
"Is this the power of Canon howitzers? This is still against cavalry. If it is used to deal with dense infantry formations, who can stop this?" Qi Yuan said in amazement. Infantry is the most dependent on the array of troops, and the strongest part of the infantry formation is the shields or spears on the outside. But now there are such howitzers with shrapnel. They explode from the head and shoot so far. How can they fight?
The denser your formation is, the stronger the power of the shell and the greater the lethality. Even the cavalry can't withstand such cannons.
The trumpet suddenly rang out, and the command of the central army immediately issued a military order to let the cavalry attack after another round of shrapnel bombardment.
The Qing army's cavalry had been beaten by artillery fire and had holes everywhere. The morale of the army was taken away. Although it was still rushing, it was just an action under inertia.
"It's our turn, cavalry brothers, pull out your swords, come with me and cut them over."
The cavalry generals ran past the cavalry formation with their swords and horses, shouting loudly, watching the artillery show their power and abuse the cavalry on the opposite side like dogs, and the cavalry felt very uncomfortable. Now, they want to prove to everyone that they will not be ashamed of the Marquis' heavy spending, and they will use the enemy's head to prove their bravery.
"Zai Guang and the others"
The cavalry charged forward and rushed towards the Qing cavalry that had already rushed.
The cavalrymen came out of the infantry's phalanx and rushed towards the enemy in three strands. Among the three strands of cavalry, there was still a lot of space. When they charged, Qi Yuan also waved the long sword in his hand and shouted loudly, "The musketeer is ready, aim, and shoot freely."
The nine-headed infantrymen equipped with flintlock rifles began to raise their guns, aimed at the closer and closer enemy, and shot at the Qing army from the gap between the three cavalry teams.
Under the cover of the infantry brothers behind, the Nine-Headed Cavalry rushed up quickly. When the distance was only twenty or thirty steps, they drew out a short gun and pulled the plate machine towards the Qing army.
After one shot, he drew out another gun and another bang.
After firing two shots, they inserted the short gun back, raised their spears and rushed into the collapsed Qing army. Each cavalry kept in mind the pre-war instructions and rushed forward without fighting.
Soon they rushed past the already thin Qing army formation and went to the other side. Then they quickly dismounted, formed a square formation, began to take off the long muskets on their backs, and shot at the chasing Qing cavalry with a volley and random guns.
After the shot, they did not care about the outcome of the battle, and they all carried guns on their backs, jumped on horseback, and began to run back from one side towards the infantry formation.
Qi Yuan waved his knife and shouted again, "Cum fucking"
The infantry fired a volley, covering the cavalry back. The Qing cavalry chasing behind immediately suffered a continuous platoon of guns and fell down.
The cavalry circled back to the front of the formation and reorganized the team, and soon completed the assembly again.
The cavalry raised their spears again, shouted at Zai Guang and others, and turned around and rushed towards the Qing army again.
Impact, penetrate, come back, reorganize the formation, and kill again.
These nine-headed cavalrymen, relying on the support of infantry and musketeers behind, went in and out again and again, and repeatedly rushed forward.
No one could withstand such an attack, let alone the Qing army, who was stunned by the cannons, the Han army could not bear it first and began to escape to the rear of the battlefield. Some of them simply ran directly to the Ming army, raised their hands and abandoned their weapons to surrender.
Although the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry were very fierce and had excellent cavalry skills, they could not fight at this time. They began to escape, and the nine-headed cavalry roared and chased.
Golden State.
Most of the troops led by Liu Jun sailed in Dalian Bay and landed directly on the coast southwest of Jinzhou City. Although there were more than a thousand defenders in Jinzhou City, they were mainly Han army flags and Korean bird gun soldiers. When these soldiers saw the mighty Ming army gathered at the city, they were already scared to death.
The nine-headed bird's artillery directly dragged several siege mortars to the city gate two hundred steps, and then fired several forty-eight kilograms into the city. Several heavy shells crossed the city wall and fell into the city. The violent explosion scared the courage of the defenders in the city.
A moment later, the Han army guarding the city chopped down the left-behind Jurchen officers in the city and opened the city to surrender.
Jinzhou City was easily captured, and more than a thousand defenders surrendered.
After entering the city, Liu Jun found that this large city was very desolate, with a small population, and there were no people in the streets and shops. After the Qing army occupied Lushun, Jinzhou, they killed many people, and later they plundered many Han people as slaves and distributed them to the Jurchen generals and nobles.
Liu Jun still stopped the killing and surrendering. The Manchus in the city, whether they were military generals or the people, did not kill them. But they did not let them go easily. All the property of these people was confiscated, and the people were forced to send them to Lushun and Zhenhai to repair the city.
As for the surrendered Han army and Korean soldiers, Liu Jun did not give them any preferential treatment, neither allowed them to continue to be officials nor confiscated them. Liu Jun restored them to the people and allowed them to start strengthening the defense of Jinzhou. However, before the disbandment, Liu Jun gave each of them a severance fee, which was also a reward for their offering of the city, and their respective property was also retained.
"Do you have to guard Jinzhou?"
"The terrain of Jinzhou is good. There is Daheishan on the back, Nanshan on the right, Dongshan on the east, Qingniwa and Jinzhou Bay on both sides, guarding the Jinzhou Isthmus, which is the important place leading to Zhenhai and Lushun. If we plan to occupy Zhenhai and Lushun Port and Qingni Port, then Jinzhou must guard it."
Liu Jun pointed out the importance of Jinzhou. There are two bays on both sides, and behind it is a narrow Jinzhou isthmus that is only ten miles wide. This place is like a gateway. If you keep it here, the 130 miles behind will naturally become a stable rear.
"Reinforce Jinzhou City, build a fortress in Daheishan in the north, Nanshan in the west, and Dongshan in the east, each of which is the east, and cannons are arranged, and troops are stationed. Well, send people to dig the Jinzhou Canal."
"Digging the Jinzhou Canal is to dig the ten-mile Jinzhou Isthmus to connect Jinzhou Bay and Qingni Bay."
Many generals were extremely surprised when they heard Liu Jun’s plan. The first feeling was that this was too big.
"That's right, dig a strait and turn Zhenhai Lushun into a big island." Liu Jun confirmed that this was not true.
Chapter completed!