"Push harder! Faster, faster..."

Feng Sizhong, who once served as Zhu Cixi's foreman guard and later served as the commander of the new Xiaoling Guard army. However, he messed up on the Xiaoling Guard's errand and was demoted two ranks to become a battalion commander. Now he is shirtless pushing a cannon.

, and shouted the labor chant loudly while pushing. Moreover, the whole person was dark and thin, and it looked like he had suffered enough.

It's not easy to be an official following Zhu Cixi! The damn last-place elimination system is like a whip whipping you in the back. But in front of you, there are all kinds of pictures to attract you. What land, money?

Ah, my wife, my official position, my title... As long as you don't see through the world of mortals, there will always be something you want to attract your soul!

Feng Sizhong is a master who can't see through it. After falling two levels, he still tried his best to climb up! He really found a chance to climb back to the first level. It's not that he has trained the new Xiaoling Guard Army, but

The arithmetic and construction skills passed down from his family gave him a boost.

His family is from the Defense Department of Tianshou Mountain, and they are also very skilled. From the time when the ancestors were crowned kings, they have been building mausoleums and looking after graves for the old Zhu family for generations.

, to look at the celestial phenomena, you also need to be able to do calculations. His ability to count on his fingers is much better than Song Xiance's.

The foundations of skills such as construction, Feng Shui, celestial phenomena, and fortune-telling are based on mathematics and the study of objects. Therefore, Feng Sizhong was very good at mathematics and studying objects, and it was easier to learn gunnery.

Therefore, after the foreign general Ferreira was in place, Feng Sizhong was transferred to the artillery regiment. Not only could he learn Western artillery skills from the foreign soldier Ferreira, but Zhu Cihong often taught him some knowledge of Western mathematics and physics.

Feng Sizhong, on the other hand, is probably a man with a science major. He learns quickly and can simply calculate ballistics in just a few months!

As for the things on the cannon ruler, he can not only recite them, but he also knows the principles (also taught by Zhu Cixiang) and can calculate by himself - this is a real skill. There are still a lot of general cannons here in the Ming Dynasty. If he can do it

Calculating the cannon ruler will make it much more powerful when used.

In addition, Feng Sizhong can also measure distance visually! If you can't even tell the distance, how can you read Feng Shui? Within three to five miles, the error can be less than ten steps.

This range-finding ability combined with his mathematical ability makes him a gunnery wizard! He doesn't need to worship Confucius to shoot accurately.

Accurate shooting is only one aspect of artillery. Zhu Cixiang also requires artillerymen to shoot fast and run fast!

Fighting fast can increase the density of firepower and inflict greater casualties on the enemy. Running fast can quickly shift positions and facilitate the concentrated use of artillery.

These days, the three-pounder cannon is not light. Not counting the gun carriage, the gun body alone weighs 600 pounds, which is more than 500 kilograms in weight.

One hundred taels (the price the Portuguese asked for when selling it to Zhu Cixiang was one thousand two hundred taels per gun), plus a strong and solid gun carriage, weighing over a thousand kilograms.

However, with the joint efforts of six draft horses and a dozen artillerymen, the artillery carriage still maneuvered on the official road like flying - much faster than the shield carriage pushed by the Eight Banners coatmen!

...

Ao Bai was on the left wing behind the Qing army's shield car line. Instead of riding a horse, he dismounted and walked, stepping on the increasingly deep stream. Following him were all heroes of the Zhenghuang Banner, about a thousand people, all carrying

Bow and arrow.

The shield cart pushed by the coated slaves was about ten steps in front of these Zhenghuang Banner warriors. Its wheels had already sunk into the water, but it was still moving forward slowly.

Oboi looked forward from the gap between the two shield carts and saw a flickering fire. This was a bonfire lit by the Ming army, which was placed in front of their formation.

The weather was very good tonight. The moon and the light from the bonfire allowed Obai to vaguely see the Ming army wearing red cloth armor arrayed in an array. In their array, there were countless sparks shining - this should be

It’s the light emitted by the burning match rope on the fire gun!

There are so many sparks, indicating that the number of firecrackers is quite staggering, perhaps thousands.

But Obai is not afraid, because he is now the number one warrior in Manchuria who hides behind the shield chariot...so he is not afraid of fire cannons!

It's a bit dumbfounding to say that the war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties was, to a certain extent, a contest between the crude Ming Dynasty firearms and the solid Qing army shield vehicles!

Without these shield vehicles, the tens of thousands of Eight Banners disciples would not be enough to die!

If the quality of the Ming army's firearms had been better, it would not have been able to be blocked by the shield car! The shield car is actually a bit similar to the European car and fort tactics. Later in history, Galdan's camel city warriors were similar.

But who still played with chariots and forts during more than thirty years of war? Similarly, Galdan's camel city was reduced to rubbish by Emperor Kangxi's artillery!

Boom boom......

There were several more shellings, and the six Hongyi cannons mounted on the mountainside of Daqianling were firing!

However, Zhu Cixi was not attacked this time. He was too far away and could not be hit at all. So Hauge let the Hongyi artillery bombard the Ming army's formation.

But it didn't hit, and the shells flew over the heads of the Ming soldiers. Obai found that the Ming soldiers who were standing straight didn't even move...these Nikans were too slow to react!

Ao Baixin said: Silly, how can you defeat the Qing soldiers?

At this moment, a coated slave from the Zhenghuang Banner led by Obai rushed over through the water. Before he could reach Obai, he shouted: "Master, Master Ao, the Nankou's cannon is coming!"

"What? The cannon is coming up? What do you mean?" Obai couldn't understand.

"That's right, Nan Kou is coming up with the cannon!"

"Ah!" Obai was a little dumbfounded, "Is it an attacking artillery or a squatting tiger artillery?"

"It's a cannon... at least a general cannon!" The man in charge had already arrived in front of Obai and bowed, "Master, Li Niulu asked your servant to ask you if you want the fire gun soldiers to go up and fight for a round.

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Li Niulu is Niulu, a gunner of the Han Army in the Zhenglan Banner. His name is Li Yingzhong. He is the godson of Li Jiucheng, a traitor who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty together with Kong Youde. Because he has been following Haoge, his official career has not been good. Now he is Niulu Zhangjing.

"Fight, hurry up and fight!" Obai said quickly, "Don't let Nan Kou set up the general's cannon!"

"Scum!"

Before Obai's order arrived, Li Yingzhong, a good slave of Zhenglan Banner who had experienced battles in the battlefield, had already ordered his fire gun soldiers to spread out in formation and advance.

In addition to the use of shield vehicles, the Qing army's fire cannons and artillery are not weak! In particular, their fire cannons have two unique skills. One is to lure the opponent to fire from a long distance; the other is to fire a volley at close range!

Don't think that firing a volley at close range is difficult - firing a volley at close range with the enemy's firepower is really powerful. When the enemy has no ability to fight back, firing a volley at close range is not difficult at all. It can be done when the firing squad shoots prisoners.

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Li Yingzhong and his men thought they were a firing squad at this time - a rare opportunity! The Ming army took the wrong medicine and actually brought twenty or thirty cannons to the front line to fight...

..How can anyone use a cannon like this? Kong Youde’s godson Kong Sixi doesn’t even have this ability.

Obviously, those Ming army gunners didn't know how to do it!

"Brothers, go up quickly and get close and fight!" Li Yinglong shouted excitedly, "Kill these Nanbarbar artillerymen who don't know anything!"

"Kill them!"

"Follow Niulu Zhangjing and you will have meat to eat!"

"Kill!"

His musketry soldiers are really amazingly brave! The lobster soldiers in history are not as good as them. They dare to charge at more than 20 three-pound cannons... This is not lining up to shoot, this is queuing up to kill.

ah!

The shotgun shells fired by twenty-four cannons could not even blow them into pieces!

"Commander, the Tatar soldiers are coming!"

"It's the Fire Gun Soldier..."

"God, they are so brave! Even the Ottoman Sultan's Guards cannot compare with them!"

Feng Sizhong, who was directing the deployment of artillery, heard the exclamations of the artillerymen. Among them was an old foreigner named Lu who had fought in the Thirty Years War and praised the Tatars for their bravery...
Chapter completed!