"You're so brave!" Feng Sizhong jumped to his feet and yelled, "Old man Lu, check the artillery quickly, quickly, quickly!"

While he was yelling, he was running around the position. He was checking whether the deployment of each gun was correct and timely. Feng Sizhong was in charge of six of the 24 three-pound guns. Lewis Lu, a foreigner, and two others

Each of the four foreigners was responsible for six three-pound guns, and each of them was the commander of a battery.

"Gunshot! Shotgun" Seeing that the six three-pound cannons he was in charge of were deployed very quickly, Feng Sizhong quickly ordered the gunners to load shotgun.

The so-called shotshells are a bunch of lead bullets wrapped in cloth into an oval shape, and then forced into the barrel of the gun and shot out. Because the thrust generated by the deflagration of the gunpowder will tear the cloth package apart when the bullets are pushed out of the barrel, the lead bullets will scatter

Fly forward and hit a large area!

While the gunners were reloading, Feng Sizhong turned around and stared at the "Qing Warriors" struggling to advance in the stream. He was estimating the distance.

Because of his high level of ranging, the 24 3-pound cannons here were all under his command. After he ordered to fire, a 3-pound cannon next to him fired first, and then the other 23 3-pound cannons fired.

"Niulu Zhangjing, those Nikans seem to have set up their cannons!"

"This, this, this is too fast!"

Li Yingzhong saw an incredible scene at this time. In the reflection of the bonfire, 24 general cannons on the gun mounts were manned by hundreds of deft gunners. They were lined up in a row. In the blink of an eye, they were completely deployed.

When done, all the muzzles of the black hole were pointed towards him!

Is this to kill yourself?

"Quick, quick, quick, shoot!" Li Yingzhong opened his throat and shouted.

Most of his fire cannon soldiers were bird cannon soldiers. The guns in his hands had a very short range and could not hit the Ming army's artillery that was still fifty or sixty steps away. But he couldn't care less about it. He would do it first!

You might scare the enemy away!

Even if you can't scare away the enemy, you can still strengthen your courage by listening to the sound of gunfire.

But before Li Yingzhong could hear the roar of firecrackers, there was a loud bang in his ears, and then a scene that he would never forget appeared in front of him. In fact, he only had a short time left in his life because he

Got shot!

The muzzles of more than twenty Ming army cannons erupted with flames almost simultaneously, followed by an earth-shaking roar! More than a thousand lead bullets loaded in the twenty-four-three-pound cannons spurted out instantly, shooting at extremely fast speeds.

Flying at a speed of dozens of steps, it easily tore the cotton armor worn by Zhenglan Banner Han Army artillery soldiers. The bullets deformed and disintegrated in their bodies, forming a terrible cavity effect. The blood of the injured followed the lead bullets.

The holes spurted out and turned into streams of blood arrows, which shot into the Qingliu stream, and the stream began to change color.

Li Yingzhong's three-layer armor was as good as nothing in front of the lead bullets fired from the 3-pound cannon! The lead bullets hit him in the stomach. He clutched his stomach and fell into the water. He couldn't even scream because he

When he opened his mouth, the cold stream water poured into his mouth. And his intestines and stomach were beaten to pieces by lead bullets and could not hold the cold water at all, so the cold water quickly turned into blood and flowed from his abdominal cavity.

The middle-class people have become like this, and of course even gods can’t save them.

At the last moment of his life, Li Yingzhong just lay helpless at the bottom of a clear stream, unable to breathe, unable to scream, and even unable to see clearly (because the river water was polluted and the sky was dark), but his mind was still clear.

At this moment, he realized for the first time that the Qing Dynasty might be over! This is so ridiculous, how is this possible!

"Papa pa pa"

At the same time that Li Yingzhong died, the gunfire soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner Han Army finally fired the bird muskets and turtle-dove foot muskets in the hands of the twenty-four 3-pound cannons, knocking out more than a hundred Zhenglan Banner Han Army soldiers on the spot.

The fire cannon soldiers, but there were still 1,780 lives left (this was because their formation was scattered and the artillery shells could not cover them), and some of them escaped. At this time, they were firing cannons indiscriminately.

They were just shooting randomly, but they had all seen how the Ming army's cannons killed people? Who dared to think about those futures? So everyone's hands were shaking when they fired the cannons!

After firing their cannons, all the Han army's cannon soldiers turned around and ran away, and they ran very fast, as if the resistance of the river water was gone.

"Iron bullet! Load iron bullet"

After using shotguns to blast away the harassing Qing and Han artillery soldiers, Feng Sizhong did not intend to give up just yet. Because on today's battlefield, his twenty three-pound cannons will become the most dazzling murder weapon.

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Now, their target has changed to the Qing army's shield vehicle that is slowly approaching.

In order to ensure that the wooden trusses mounted on the shield car could be penetrated, Feng Sizhong chose solid bullets made of hard iron. The projectiles made of pig iron weighed two kilograms. During the drill, he spent 9 taels and eight dollars of medicine, and he could shoot at 150 steps.

Smash the large wooden frame mounted on the shield cart from a distance!

Moreover, it can also cause huge collateral casualties while crushing wooden trusses.

Of course, the premise is that it can be hit! The shield vehicle is a moving target, and now it is marching in the river. The height is too low, and it is easy to hit it too far.

Therefore, Feng Sizhong decided to move these slow-moving shield vehicles closer to him, within fifty steps of him, so that he could see the moonlight and fire clearly before firing. He no longer fired in salvos, but aimed at each one.

Seeing that the distance was close, Feng Sizhong opened his throat and said, "Everyone aims and fires!"

A trumpeter following Feng Sizhong heard his order and immediately blew the whistle that conveyed the order, also known as the "suona". It was Qi Jiguang who introduced the suona into the army. He used the piercing sound of the suona in the noisy battlefield.

The effect of transmitting signals is indeed very good.

Therefore, during the formation and training of the new army to overcome difficulties, someone found suonas to replace the gongs that were easily confused with the golden sound of retreating troops, and distributed them to each model regiment and artillery regiment as a tool to convey orders.

As the piercing suona made a long sound, the 24 3-pound guns began to aim at the target under the command of their respective gunners.

Half of these gunners are Westerners, and the other half are "artillery seeds" personally selected by Feng Sizhong. They are all teenagers who are no more than 20 years old, proficient in writing, smart, and good at settling accounts. They are also rigorously trained and continuously eliminated.

Using this method, twenty-four people were selected from more than one hundred people.

In the pre-war drills, their performance was very good, but today we have to see how they cope with actual combat?

"Boom boom boom"

The twenty-four cannons began to roar for the first time. Because they were aiming and firing separately, there was no salvo, only iron bullets fired one after another. Some of them missed, but many still hit.

Marching shield chariot.

The Qing army was a little superstitious about shield carts. Because over the years, as long as their coated slaves worked harder and pushed the shield carts to block bullets for them, they could always restrain the Ming army's messy firearms.

It's as if the shield car is the nemesis of firearms.

So the Eight Banners warriors following the shield chariot didn't take it seriously when they saw the Han army's gun soldiers running away as if they were dead.

That's all the success of the Han army! The Ming army's firearms are more powerful, so they can't stop them.

But so what? You won’t be afraid if the shield car is there!

The first warrior in Manchuria, Obai, also thought so. The first warrior before him did not bring a shield chariot. Otherwise, he would have killed Zhu Cixiang long ago. How could he be in trouble now?

So Obai followed a shield cart very carefully, shrinking back as if he was afraid that the shield cart in front was too small and could not block his burly body.

At this moment, an unbelievable scene happened to him! The wooden frame of the shield cart five steps in front of him suddenly shattered for some unknown reason, and then the sky was filled with broken wood pieces heading toward Obai.

Flying over, Obai quickly dodged, but he was still a little slow. His head was hit hard by something unknown, and then he fainted and collapsed in the water.
Chapter completed!