Most court officials were generals who led troops, and only a small number were heavenly officials. However, in this era, heavenly officials had more decision-making power because they could communicate with ghosts and gods in the world and divine everything.

Han was about to perish, and Qin's boats were transporting grain along Hedong Road, Henan Road to Jinyang, Yecheng, and Zhongmu again. Knowing that the other officials clearly judged that the Qin army would launch a new attack on Zhao next year. Lianyu ran around again, but Qi did not accept his panic. After all, the Qin army was only active within Qin and did not attack Zhao. Wei was happy that Qin attacked Zhao again, not attacking himself. Both the monarch and ministers believed that the Qin army would be defeated by Li Mu again.

The people of Qi were good at eloquence. The Qin army had not attacked Zhao territory, so naturally it could not be considered a war and there was no need to panic. However, they obviously did not understand or deliberately ignored an iron rule of total war: mobilization means declaring war. The Qin army had mobilized Zhao State, and declared war on Zhao State.

The city was destroyed by the dark clouds, the Shaopi military camp with the howling north wind, and amid the strange sound of the flute, a convoy of more than three miles slowly entered the martial arts field under the attention of more than a hundred court officials. Unlike normal soldiers, these people were not wearing armor, and this was not a convoy, but an artillery team.

Because the infantry is in the 44 system, the artillery can only be in the 44 system. The four guns are a company, the fourth company is a battalion, and the other division is the smallest strategic unit, so it is specially equipped with a company's fifteen-pound cannon. In this way, a standard infantry division is equipped with twenty artillery guns, with a fire density far higher than that of Napoleon, who is equipped with two cannons per thousand people. The artillery organization is far from perfect, but this does not prevent a combat demonstration for the courtiers.

A ten-pound cannon requires four horses to pull, a fifteen-pound cannon requires six horses to pull, and twenty cannons have twenty cannons. According to the configuration of two hundred shells of a cannon, a ten-pound cannon requires a four-wheeled carriage to carry gunpowder, and a four-wheeled carriage to carry gunpowder. Because the power of gunpowder is insufficient, four times the charge is required, so the gunpowder is one third heavier than the shell, which makes the fifteen-pound cannon require two four-wheeled carriages to carry gunpowder.

Logistics is the top priority. In order to better reflect this, the artillery and logistics team specially equipped for eight days of horse materials and soldiers' rations. Compared with horse materials, soldiers' rations are negligible. A ten-jin cannon has a cannon truck and two ammunition trucks, which requires twelve horses to be picked up; a ten-jin cannon also has a cannon leader, six gunners, and six drivers. In addition, five drivers who need to drive, the remaining eight need to ride horses, so eight horses are required.

A cannon requires twenty horses, eighty horses in a row, and three hundred and twenty horses in a battalion. These horses need to consume at least 3,200 kilograms of horse feed per day. If they want to maintain supplies for eight days, with the poor loading of four-wheeled carriages in field combat, and the huge consumption of transporting horse feed, a total of 143 horse carriages and 572 horses are needed.

In the field state, the standard weight of a horse is 250 kilograms, and the total weight of four horses is 1,000 kilograms. If the carriage weighs 500 kilograms, it can only transport 500 kilograms of horse material. Any means of transportation has self-destruction. Four horses transporting horse materials consume 40 kilograms of horse materials every day, and 320 kilograms are required for eight days. The only one that can be used for artillery horses is the pitiful 180 kilograms.

If calculated in this way, then an artillery battalion requires 860 horses and thirty-two horses to ride; an infantry division uses more than one thousand horses to artillery, reaching an astonishing 1,080 horses, and a thirty-two horses to pick up the thirty-one infantry divisions. However, now the horse material transport vans displayed in front of the courtiers have only seven horses in a company and only thirty-two baggage vans, rather than the theoretical ones of each division - it is equivalent to pulling the horses that pull the fodder and not eating the fodder on the carriage.

With this in mind, the court officials saw more than 130 four-wheeled carriages appearing in the martial arts court and still exclaimed: "There are so many horses..."

"There are indeed many horses." Cheng Jie nodded slowly with his stomach. He had seen a test fire of artillery and tried his best to demonstrate to the court officials. The purpose of course was to make the court officials clear: it would be possible to enter Xianyang without the other three kingdoms alone. "But the thunder god's weapon, ghosts and gods, please wait and see and know."

Cheng Jiezhi was arrogant, Xiang Yan remained silent, and the elders of the Yue tribe stared at the cannons dragged into the martial arts field without saying a word. There were thunder sounds every day in the north of Yingdu City. At first, they thought it was the Thunder God, but later they realized it was the king's new weapon. Cheng Jie yelled to demonstrate, but none of them disagreed with it and were all waiting for this day.

"King?" The artillery still belonged to Ying's army at this time, so Gongshu was afraid to bow to Xiong Jing for advice.

"Why are there so few heavy chariots in the food and fodder? I heard that a division should have 190 heavy chariots." Xiong Jing smiled and asked about the baggage. He had to let the courtiers know that artillery is not omnipotent, and that the number of horses required by an artillery was extremely large.

"I report to the king that our army's food and fodder is mainly transported by water, so there are fewer carts of supplies." E Zhuo's thick eyebrows and big eyes. He did not stand on the position of his direct superior Xiang Yan, but on the position of his husbands such as Cheng Jie.

"Shang Ruoqin army also had warships, which were several times more than me, and how could I cut off my food route?" Xiong Jing continued to pick on the tricks.

"The king, I think the Qin people cannot do it." E Zhuo replied, "The Qin people were not good at building ships, but only good at raising horses. If there were no help from the Chu people in the past, they would not have big wings or big boats. The new big wings could not be built without the help of our Chu craftsmen."

E Zhuo’s answer cannot be wrong. Xiong Jing did not say anything else, but just nodded to indicate that the demonstration began.

Artillery is a technical army. Since it is a technical army, the operation must be straightforward and cannot be made in the slightest mistake. While the court officials were watching, the artillery did not dismount, but was waiting for the order. Xiong Jing signaled to start, and the artillery general Gongshuji gave the order. Wu Kong, the artillery captain who was the actual commander, issued the first order: "The entire camp dismounted."

"The whole camp dismounted!" The gun companies repeated his orders, and everyone except the drivers who drove the car were dismounted.

"Use the Arctic Company as the benchmark and launch a horizontal lineup." According to the immature Caodian, Wu Kong ordered the artillery to enter the battlefield.

"Use the Arctic Company as the basis, expand the horizontal line." The order was also repeated loudly by each company, and each cannon entered the imaginary battlefield at a distance of fifteen meters (this is also the interval of each spear formation), and lined up in a horizontal line.

"Artifacts are on the line!" Wu Kong said again, because a horizontal line of three hundred meters wide had already been launched, in addition to shouting, the flag bearer beside him also raised the signal flag of the artillery are on the line.

Artillery has only two states: rank and rank. When rank, the artillery is connected to the car in front, and when rank, there are only artillery vehicles, which can be fired and fought. The order to release is not only repeated by the company commanders, but also by the gun gun commanders. According to the position of the artillery, the position of the artillery, the position of the car in front, the position of the gunpowder truck, the position of the shell truck, and even the positions of the gun commanders and the six gunmen.

However, at this time Wu Kong's order was temporarily suspended, and the martial arts field was filled with the voices of the cannon captains.

"Just gather the cannons!" Perhaps because I heard too much the sound of cannons, the cannon leader's voice was several times larger than Wu Kong. Six gunners were facing the gun mouth and lined up into three rows. It seemed that after the number was reported, the cannon leader ordered: "Let forward - remove the shelves!"

"Let forward and remove the shelves!" The six gunners repeated the order of the gun captain and turned the cannon car according to the established position. Because the gun was facing backward when towing, the cannon now needs to be rotated 180 degrees to make the gun face forward. After removing the shelves, the gunners were in their positions. Two gunners were behind the gun, and the gunners holding quadrants and four other gunners were in front of the cannon.

"The king once said that it took two years for artillery to be available, and now it is only two months." From entering the field to being removed from the shelves, the artillery's performance was very concise. Xiang Yan sighed and said in detail next to Xiong Jing, not knowing that it was a complaint and still praise.

"Who?" Xiong Jing was unmoved and said, "This is an old soldier three years ago. If it is a new soldier..."

In the era of believing in ghosts and gods, the people of the Chu people were recruiting new artillery soldiers who were being recruited were probably scared when they heard the sound of cannons. Xiong Jing stopped and did not talk about artillery training in detail with Xiang Yan.

"Live ammunition, one shot will be released in each of the entire battalion's 1,000 meters!" The smoothbore cannon is not a Jing crossbow. It is about ten meters of dispersion in the vertical direction within the effective range, and about five meters of dispersion in the horizontal direction. It is completely normal. You can fire again without adjustment.

"Live ammunition, each of the entire battalion will be released one thousand meters!" The gunmasters conveyed the order to open fire, and at this time the entire gun squad began to be busy:

Gunner No. 1 put the wet cotton brush into the barrel, extinguished the spark that might not have been extinguished in the barrel, and cleared the unburned ashes; Gunner No. 2 was actually a gunpowder, and he had already waited on one side with a standard silk-wrapped medicine bag. As soon as the cotton brush of Gunner No. 1 was bored, he stuffed the medicine bag in; Gunner No. 3 was a shell player, and as soon as the medicine bag was entered into the barrel, a solid shell weighing ten pounds was stuffed in; Gunner No. 4 held a push rod and pushed the shells and the medicine bag into the bottom of the barrel.

The No. 5 gunner was spinning the high and low aircraft under the barrel. According to the firing table, he had to adjust the angle to four degrees to reach a range of one thousand meters. At the same time, the No. 6 gunner quickly poked the cannon silk medicine bag with an iron cone and poured in the lead-in gunpowder.

"It's ready!" The No. 5 gunner finally turned to the right angle and signaled the gunner to fire.

"Let it go!" The cannon leader took Lu Lijing and looked at a thousand meters in front of him, shouting and letting go.

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At this time, twenty shells fell to the ground one by one, then bounced high on the solid ground, then landed again, bounced up again. There was no target, and there was no flock of sheep. Everyone could only see these twenty shells bounced harmlessly, and then rolled farther and farther away, and finally rolled down to a place where no one could see it.
Chapter completed!