"Bow down to the cannon, and kowtow before the sage, Confucius! Every shot will hit the mark!"

With the shout of Niu Lu, a Hongyi Cannon of the Zhenghong Banner Han Army, King Kong Youde of the Qing Dynasty, King Zhishun of the Qing Dynasty Shang Kexi, Bai Guangen, the commander-in-chief, and other Han soldiers of Zhenghong Banner, Xianglan Banner Han Army and Henan

The generals of the Green Battalion all knelt down together and kowtowed respectfully towards the twenty red cannons lined up in front of them and the statue of Confucius, the most holy teacher, placed in the middle of the cannons. In front of the cannons and the memorial tablets, there were also

Incense burners, candles and various tributes.

Kong Youde, who was kneeling at the front of the crowd, kowtowed and muttered: "Bless me, Grandpa God of Guns, and my ancestors will bless you with perfect shots!"

A group of people behind him, headed by Shang Kexi, also shouted together: "Sage Kong bless you with perfect hits!"

"Second kowtow, the artillery is safe!" Niu Lu, the Han soldier with the red flag, shouted again.

Kong Youde, Shang Kexi and others kowtowed and shouted together: "Sage Kong, please bless the cannon and the cannon safely!"

"Three kowtows and the gun is ready!"

The big guy kowtowed to the cannon and the Confucius tablet again, and then shouted: "Sage Confucius bless the cannon!"

"The ceremony is over!"

After finally kowtowing, Shang Kexi stood up with a heavy heart, walked to Kong Youde, the top Hongyi artillery expert in the Qing Dynasty, and asked in a low voice: "Ritu, why is it that Confucius still has something to do with worshiping artillery?

Does it work?"

It turns out that what was just performed was the artillery salute of the Qing Dynasty artillery team. This was not unique to the Qing artillery team. The artillery team of the Ming army also had to worship. However, it was not done before every battle, but only after the cannon was delivered.

It's time to say goodbye and ask the cannon for help. Don't blow up the barrel.

Kong Youde's Zhenghongqi Han Army Artillery Corps was particularly pious in worshiping cannons. They would bow before every battle. Moreover, his artillery salutation ceremony is still improving, and recently it even had a memorial tablet in honor of Confucius.

Worship together.

"Why doesn't it work?" Kong Youde glanced at Shang Kexi and said, "Confucius is our ancestor, and he cares about everything. Brother Yuanji, haven't you heard that people in Qufu shout, 'Blessed by Saint Kong, invulnerable'?"

Because Kong Youde's surname was Kong, he adopted Confucius as his ancestor, but the Confucius family in Qufu did not recognize it. However, the Daqi Shunwang, who was born as a miner, took it seriously. After becoming the prince, he not only worshiped Confucius in his mansion

I also asked Mr. Bao Yi (Zheng Hongqi’s Bao Yi slave) to teach me how to read and calligraphy. Now I can recite the Analects of Confucius.

After hearing about Confucius's "latest method of use" in Qufu, he immediately had someone prepare a memorial tablet for Saint Confucius, and use it when worshiping cannons. Since Saint Kong was concerned about "invulnerability", he couldn't care about "always hitting the target".

and "Is Pao Pao safe"?

Shang Kexi frowned and thought: Qufu is there to protect Confucius and the famous religion. Of course Confucius will appear to bless us. We are following the Tatars and becoming traitors. How can Confucius protect us? But don't have any counter-effects.

, blew up the barrel of the cannon! I have to stay away when the cannon fires later!

"Ritu," Shang Kexi asked again, "What should we do now? Fire?"

"Wait a little longer," Kong Youde said, "the auspicious time has not come yet."

Shang Kexi thought to himself: It's quite elegant! I wonder if Fengyang City can be demolished?

Just as he was thinking about it, the sound of rapid horse hoofbeats came over. Shang Kexi looked back and saw that it was Meile Zhang, Jingshuozhan and others from Manzhou Zhenghongqi who were bringing people over.

Monk Kong Youde is glad to be a prince, Shuo Zhan is just a Meile Zhangjing, and the worldly official is a Niulu Zhangjing. But he is an authentic Eight Banners uncle, his surname is Fucha, under the Manchuria Zhenghong Banner, and he is also ordered to supervise the war. The two water-injection princes are not

If you dare to stand up to others and stand respectfully and kowtow to each other, you will not be able to go on. It is also outrageous for the two princes to kowtow to Mele Zhangjing!

However, Bai Guangen is not a prince. He honestly gave Shuo Zhan a thousand dollars, so he should stand behind Kong Youde with his hands down.

Shuo Zhan is the "Second Generation Banner". He is short in stature, but very stocky, with a dark face, and a beard that reaches to his chest. He looks like he can fight. He got off the horse and squinted his eyes to glance at the salute.

The memorial tablet, the incense table, the sacrifices, and he said coldly: "Have you finished praying?"

"That's it!" Kong Youde said with a smile on his face.

"When can we start?" Shuo Zhan said, "Prince Su just sent someone to urge us, so give us three days!"

"Three days?" Kong Youde was stunned, "It wasn't seven days before?"

"Prince Su now says three days means three days!" Shuo Zhan pointed to the dilapidated city wall more than three miles away, "It's such a broken city, can't it be taken down in three days?"

"You can take it, you can take it!" How dare Kong Youde say no? He quickly turned around and shouted to his artillery team Niu Lu Zhangjing: "The auspicious time has come, fire, fire quickly!"

Niu Lu Zhangjing is also Kong Youde's godson, named Kong Sixi. He is in his early thirties this year and is only ten years younger than Kong Youde. In Kong Youde's team, he is walking sideways! Even a real Manchurian uncle dares to give Kong Youde

Face, he was also polite to him. Because he was a gunner personally trained by the Portuguese gunner! The entire Qing Dynasty is now very young, and he is still one of the highest level, able to master the Western rangefinding and

The method of sighting.

The reason why the Zhenghong Banner Han Army Artillery Team is so powerful is because of him!

Hearing his godfather's voice, Kong Sixi immediately gave a loud order: "Your Majesty has ordered, test the cannon immediately!"

Following the order, a dozen shirtless men with pigtails on their foreheads immediately ran over and pushed one of the Hongyi cannons forward. The so-called test cannon meant test firing.

Kong Youde's artillery team was the only one who truly mastered the art of observation and aiming, and he also knew that teaching apprentices to starve their masters to death would not teach their true skills to others. Therefore, Kong Youde's artillery team adopted concentrated artillery and unified sighting.

Kong Sixi, a master, was responsible for the aiming method.

Today, Monk Kong Youde and Monk Kexi gathered together 20 Hongyi cannons from two Han army Hongyi cannons Niulu, all of which were under the charge of Kong Sixi.

The first thing that was pushed onto the gun position was a Hongyi cannon weighing more than 3,000 kilograms. It was made of bronze and mounted on a particularly heavy gun carriage. It was very heavy. It was quite difficult for more than a dozen gunners to push it.

When the gunner pushed the cannon into position, Kong Sixi had already measured the approximate distance, and then ordered loudly: "The gun gauge is six points higher!"

Then the two gunners began to use hammers to hammer the triangular wedge wedged between the barrel and the gun frame, gradually raising the gun body.

A gun gauge is a tool used to measure the angle of attack. The long handle attached to the gun gauge is usually engraved with a gun ruler. The gun ruler is about one foot long. It is not flat, but a rectangular parallelepiped, with three sides of the rectangular parallelepiped.

There are many scales engraved on the surface, as well as Latin and Arabic numerals. This is to facilitate the gunner to quickly obtain the required filling amount according to the shooting angle when using cannonballs made of different materials (iron, stone, lead).

Designed. Most of the artillerymen of the Ming and Qing armies who were just messing around didn't know how to use the gun gauge and gun rule, but Kong Sixi really knew how to use it.

He took the gun gauge and measured the shooting angle, and then based on the data on the gun ruler, he shouted: "Fill the stone bullets, use two kilograms of medicine!"

The blunderbuss ruler he used was an original product from Portugal. The markings were in foreign characters and Arabic numerals, and the weight unit used was pounds. However, Kong Sixi was very good at arithmetic and could convert pounds into kilograms with just a mental calculation.

This kind of ability is unique among the Qing army! So even if others crack the "secret" of Arabic numerals, they will not be able to use this weapon well.

The gunpowder is packed in a porcelain jar. Use a spoon to dig out the gunpowder one by one. One spoonful is half a catty. If you have two catties, you have to dig out five spoons. All the gunpowder is poured into the barrel of the gun. A gunner uses a long pestle to poke the gunpowder into the barrel.

At the bottom, someone then inserted a fuse made of paper and gunpowder into the fire door. At the same time, the gunpowder had been compacted, and a wooden code was inserted into the muzzle, followed by a hammered stone bullet.
Chapter completed!