Chapter 397: An Exploding Cannonball
"Bang Bang" the two bronze guns fired first, and then when the shells were loaded, the remaining two guns also fired, so that the enemy could be given a continuous shelling effect.
And the position of the Qi army's artillery unit, after suffering from Xiao Yao's continuous shelling, was completely chaotic!
In the constant sound of explosions, many soldiers were so frightened that they ran around with their heads in their hands, and in the panic, they did not know how to find cover, they would only run in a panic, but in the end they were still hit by the fragments generated by the shells; Some were so frightened that they lay directly on the ground, but they didn't know the essentials of lying down, that is, to support the body with all fours, so that the chest and abdomen off the ground, because the ground can also transmit the shock wave generated by the explosion, if the whole body is lying on the ground, the internal organs will also be directly injured, and then the seven holes will bleed to death!
However, some soldiers were more bloody, and when they watched their positions being shelled and exploded, many of their comrades were killed and wounded, which made them indignant, so they braved the dust stirred up by the explosion, lit the fuse of the sub-cannon, and kept shooting at Chen's position, trying to counterattack!
It's a pity that the range of these sub-cannons, when Xiao Yao designed and produced them, he didn't think that the range would exceed one kilometer, after all, the artillery at that time did not have any opponents! And because they are now using homemade inferior black powder, the power of these cannons is even weaker, and those shells only flew less than five hundred meters before falling on the snow, and then stirred up snowflakes, which did not pose any threat to the position of the Chen army at all!
As the commander of the artillery unit, Zhang Dabao now saw that his artillery unit was in a mess in the incessant explosion, and a shell fell not far from him just now, and then the shock wave of the explosion knocked him to the ground, and the dust stirred up also made Zhang Dabao covered in dust, embarrassed, and a little frightened! However, he was lucky not to let the shell splinter hit, and he could see clearly what the grenade that had been delayed in detonation just now!
It's not an explosive pack, it's a large iron ball that looks like a solid cannonball, but it can explode like an explosive pack!
No wonder they could have fired the shells from such a distance, it turned out that they had turned the strips of cloth from the explosive packets into the iron sheets of the shells! But why didn't Xiao Yao's shells explode in the barrel? How did he get the shells to explode after they had been fired, and to produce so many fragments?
Zhang Dabao looked dazed, and his head was full of question marks!
In fact, when Gao Changgong appointed him as the commander of the artillery unit, he also kept putting pressure on him to train the artillery unit into a unit like Xiao Yao's forward brigade, so Zhang Dabao searched his stomach and kept trying to recall what Xiao Yao had taught them in class before, and Gao Changgong also mobilized others to think together and rely on imagination to improve and enhance the power of these artillery.
So at that time, it was proposed to combine explosive packs and artillery to turn them into a more powerful weapon! Because the explosive package can only be projectile, the attack distance is not far, and the artillery shell is indeed a solid iron ball, and the lethality is not as large as the explosive package.
But the ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny, and soon this idea of theirs was defeated, because they first put the ceramic bomb directly in the barrel of the cannon and fired it, and as a result, it exploded on the spot, not only killing several soldiers in charge of the operation, but also destroying a sub-mother cannon!
So they changed the ceramic canister containing gunpowder to a tin can, but the thin iron sheet still could not withstand the huge pressure generated by the firing of the artillery, so the tin bomb still exploded before it was fired!
But no matter how they improved, they couldn't solve the problem of explosives exploding in the barrel, and finally after destroying a few sub-mother cannons, the distressed Gao Changgong had to order to stop such experiments, or according to the previous method, the sub-mother cannon only fired solid shells, and the explosive package was still thrown by large oil drums! And they also comforted themselves that since even Xiao Yao was so smart and didn't solve this problem, it meant that these ideas didn't work!
But now Xiao Yao told them with his actions that this idea is feasible, and it is even more powerful!
Just when Zhang Dabao was stunned by these explosive shells, Gao Changgong was also stunned in the base camp of the Qi army behind the artillery unit's position!
When he saw an explosion on his artillery position, and there was a loud noise on Chen's position, Gao Changgong shouted in his heart! Because he hadn't seen Chen's army leave its position, but his own position had exploded, he knew that Xiao Yao was using a secret weapon that was more powerful than their artillery!
After listening to his subordinates running to report the specific situation to him, Gao Changgong became even more uncalm, and a chill quickly spread from the soles of his feet to his whole body, making him tremble!
"These are Xiao Yao's secret weapons? How could his artillery be fired so far, a distance of three hundred zhang, could it be that he made a larger cannon out of bronze? But why did his shells still explode? Gao Changgong muttered to himself in confusion.
"Lord Wang, now it's not time for us to dwell on this issue, Xiao Yao has a lot of tricks and ideas, and it's not surprising that he can solve the problem of shell explosion! But now his artillery can hit our artillery positions from such a distance, and now there are explosions on the position, we must let them evacuate the position, otherwise they will all be destroyed by Xiao Yao! "Wei Xiangyuan's mind is still relatively sober, and he is not entangled in Xiao Yao's mysterious weapon!
"Withdraw! Immediately order Zhang Dabao to withdraw the artillery units from their positions! Gao Changgong also reacted and immediately ordered.
Then he looked at the direction of Chen's position, listened carefully to the sound of artillery fire for a while, and then looked at the explosion on the position of the artillery unit not far away, and then sneered and said: "It seems that the number of these more powerful guns of Xiao Yao is not much, there are only two loud noises in one launch, and there are only two explosions here, and soon the loading speed of the sub-mother cannon, it seems that the number of these cannons of Xiao Yao is only four at most!" ”
"What does the prince mean?" Wei Xiangyuan asked.
"The power of these cannons is so much greater than that of the sub-cannon, then its volume must be much larger than that of the sub-cannon! That means they're less likely to move! Let's put the cavalry battalion on strike at once! Avoid the fire of these artillery, attack Xiao Yao from the flank, and destroy Xiao Yao's artillery position! Gao Changgong ordered.
"Then Xiao Yao also has a unit that uses muskets, I believe that this force is defending their artillery position, if we rush over, we must have suffered heavy casualties!" Wei Xiangyuan reminded.
"I can't do that much now! We can't just let Xiao Yao keep attacking us with those explosive artillery! And the power of those muskets, we have also tested, even if they hit people, but as long as they do not hit the vital point, the soldiers can continue to fight! So we have to use a large number of cavalry, and then let them disperse, and then really attack the Chen army, as long as a cavalry rushes into Xiao Yao's position, with the combat effectiveness of our Qi country, we will definitely be able to kill Xiao Yao by surprise! Gao Changgong said decisively.