Chapter 112: Snatching the Cannon (Part II)
Stuffing the fourth elder brother who was still not awake into the black dog's dung fork-like mechanical paws, so that the officers and soldiers who were clamoring around me did not dare to act rashly, I ignored the encirclement built by the warriors of the Eight Banners, and looked straight at the general cannon erected on the city gate.
But after just one glance, I became depressed, this big general cannon does deserve a "big" word, the length is about two meters, the caliber is more than one foot, and the weight of the whole body is probably more than 3,000 catties.
At this moment, the lightning rod pointed at the group of men and horses that were slowly approaching in the distance, and began to shout again to persuade them to surrender: "See! The emperor has also brought in seven bronze cannons that have been erected at the other gates of the palace! The guns and cannons are fired in unison, and the others will be turned into powder, but they are only between backhands! No matter how stubborn they resist, there is only one way to die! If you don't hurry up, you will be capture......d."
I didn't listen carefully to the rest of the words, but I looked in the direction of the lightning rod, and sure enough, at the forefront of the brigade, there was a row of general cannons that were exactly the same as those on the city gate building, but unlike the artillery fixed on the gun carriage on the city gate, these cannons were set up on two-wheeled gun trucks for the convenience of handling, and the officers and soldiers were divided into groups of four or five, and they moved forward with push and drag.
I squinted my eyes and smiled, good man, not only helped me lift the cannon from the city gate, but also took the initiative to deliver the cannon to the door, saving me a lot of trouble!
Whoever dares to approach with a yell, let the black dog crush the brain of the fourth elder brother, I rushed straight into the encirclement like a bull and rushed towards the reinforcements that were slowly surging here, the soldier ruffian brought out by the veteran oil like the lightning rod naturally did not want to fight with me, and retreated in a panic to get out of the way, just waved a few spears and waist knives behind me to catch up, and let me break out of the formation.
"Look for death!" This is the evaluation of a few unlucky people who were knocked over by me, and it seems that this is indeed the case, at this time, the technology of the gun carriage has been relatively mature, and it can barely withstand the huge recoil generated when the cannon is fired, so these majestic general cannons have been stuffed with gunpowder, loaded with shells and pulled out the fuse, and kept in a state that can be fired at any time, and my behavior of charging in a straight line towards the artillery position from afar and directly exposing myself to the field of view of artillery firing can basically be simply summarized as having a pit in my brain.
However, I am confident in my choice, and I am extremely sure that I will be safe and sound, and the reason for this certainty is not only the confidence in my current strength, but also because the artillery of this era is really not decently powerful.
No matter what the so-called Kangxi official history, Kangxi secret history, and Kangxi wild history boast of the majestic "Shenwei Invincible General Cannon" into, it can't change the fact that this "Zhenguo weapon" is just the most simple and primitive front-loading smoothbore gun: the cannon is slow to disarm and can only shoot two miles away, the cannonball cannot explode and can only be used to smash people, and more importantly, there are no aiming tools and firing cannon tables, and the hand-poured and polished cannon barrel is even more incorrect.
Such a stupid guy also bullies and bullies Li Heigou with inconvenient legs and feet, if an agile hero like ours wants to be hit by this kind of turtle-speed big iron lump, not only does he have to have a hole in his brain, but his luck also has to be very weak!
Seeing a master break through the guard blockade and go straight to the artillery array, the mighty brigade on the opposite side really ordered to open the artillery, the infantry stopped advancing, let the two artillery carriages rush forward, the artillery pulling the cannon hastily aimed and fixed the artillery carriage, lit the fuse with a torch and turned around and ran, this is because although the general cannon replaced the pig iron with copper with higher density and better ductility, it was still very easy to explode, and the sound and recoil during the explosion were extremely terrifying, and those warriors who dared to stand behind the cannon when the cannon was fired, or fools, were either killed, or deaf, or were shocked into second-class disabilities, and over time, naturally no one wanted to approach a cannon that was litγ
"Boom, boom!", the two cannons fired one after another, and the cannonballs struck me in a parabola, bringing up a sharp sound of breaking the air and distorted air currents, in the eyes of ordinary people, being bombarded head-on by the cannon This is the scene of the end of the world, but for my brother, my brother's dynamic vision can see the trajectory of the cannonball, can I still dodge it?
Slightly to the left, I dodged a cannonball that flew towards me, and my charge did not stop, as for the other cannonball, it ran all the way away when it was discharged, and hit the wall of the Yongdao Palace, rushing into the courtyard of unknown people and crushing a lot of flowers and plants.
After using the general's cannon for many years, the warriors of the Eight Banners have long been accustomed to the situation that the cannon misses the target, and they are not discouraged at all, and immediately someone rushed out from behind, dragging down the two guns that completed the mission, and pushing two new ones, repeating the process of aiming, fixing, ignition, and escaping, although they are skillful and fast, but obviously I am running faster, and I have already rushed to the two cannons before the fuse is burned!
The inhuman movement speed caused a panic in the army behind, but they did not panic, because they not only had cannons, but also guns, with the unified command of the soldiers, one hundred and ten bird guns were raised at the same time, but they did not expect that before the two rounds of shelling were over, I had already rushed to the front, and the fire rope on the gun had not yet been lit, so they did not shoot me directly into a hornet's nest for the time being, but hurriedly took out the fire sickle and lit the fire rope, which bought me a little time.
It's enough time to have that, and while there's no way I'm going to take down so many people in a few tens of seconds, isn't there a cannon here?
Holding the barrel of a cannon with one hand, I let out a loud shout, and with the strength of my arms, I lifted the two cannons up violently, turned the muzzle of the cannon and fell to the ground with a bang.
The soldiers who were busy shooting with the scythe were all stupid, looking at the muzzle of the black hole pointed at themselves, stupidly at a loss, but I had already climbed up the surrounding high wall three or two times, turned over and squatted in the corner to cover my ears, this cannon is too dangerous to use, it is better to hide away.
"Mom~!" This cry was the last sound made by the Son of Heaven's army, followed by two loud noises that made my ear drums numb, and also covered up the screams......
When I climbed out of the wall again, the team that had been as neatly stirring as a torrent of steel was already as dilapidated as catkins in the wind, and the group was only twenty or thirty paces away from the artillery array, and the crowd at such a close distance was run over by two large iron balls that spewed out.
In fact, these two shells caused at most one or twenty casualties, but the fear caused was fatal, hundreds of people blocked the originally wide corridor, some cried and some shouted angrily, some people retreated, once the order of the army collapsed, it was a group of chaotic ducks, people pushed and crowded people, I don't know how many people were trampled under their feet, and I don't know how many people had to draw knives and slash at their comrades in order to fight for their lives, and the scene was completely out of control.
"What, I'm sorry!" Although it was a hostile relationship, I still felt guilty that I had caused so many casualties and chaos, but now my own life was important, so I muttered a word of insincerity to make myself feel at ease, and dragged up a large general cannon that had been thrown on the side of the road because of the rout just now, and took advantage of the fact that everyone had no time to take care of me, and trotted away with the gun cart.