Just as the Chung Shun battalion horse team close to the village was preparing to retreat, the nine guns that had participated in the battle before and had undergone a lot of repairs and renovations continued to fire one after another.

Drawing on the useful experience of the last battle, these guns were re-poured and polished to a weight of about 100 catties, and the standard for loading gunpowder was according to Zhang Lixin's estimate: to ensure that the power of about 1,000 joules per kilogram of barrel was about the same as that of the last generation of smoothbore guns in later generations. Of course, Zhang Lixin does not have the courage to launch live ammunition according to this standard. After all, there is a huge gap between the quality of the barrel and those bronze smoothbore guns in Europe and the United States at the end of the 19th century, but the shotgun has been redesigned and planned, and the muzzle velocity is not fast, and the buckshot standard is more than 200 joules and weighs about 20 grams through the swing angle of the rear seat beam. In this way, the shotgun can also have a certain lethality at a distance greater than 100 paces.

Nine 100-pound barreled guns that continued to venture out of fire fired a total of nearly 3,000 lead bullets weighing six or seven cents under the concealed position, directly covering the relatively close and dense area of the opposing horse team in the direction of the forty or fifty-degree fan.

Although the actual situation on the battlefield was very unfavorable to the development of the maximum effectiveness and power of the artillery, more than 50 horses scattered near the village of Shengxian were shot and bled in a single round of fire, and 17 officers and men who were not well protected were also shaken, and many fell off their horses.

Immediately afterwards, the gunners used thirty-two stone-wood composite guns, which had long been loaded with ammunition, to open fire, and again fired nearly two thousand smaller shotguns to bombard the enemy cavalry at a closer distance. Because of the limited power of the first cannon and the limited lead bullet, the Want Want cannon can only aim at one of the scattered targets as the axis. Perhaps the buckshot from a certain distance was too powerful to knock off even those who were not well protected, but nearly thirty horses were hit by the continuous shelling and panicked.

It seems that these stone-wood composite guns with poor manufacturing quality standards are a bit overdone when loading ammunition, ignoring the uneven level of gunpowder quality. Sawdust and stones covered the two gunners and one observer who operated the gun carriage. If it weren't for the fact that they had been prepared for this possible accident, the gunners had prepared hand shields and iron masks and even effective protection on their bodies, and paid attention to the protection when firing, I am afraid that more than just one person would have been slightly injured in such an explosion.

At this moment, the heavy gunners, who had completed the first round of firing, cleared the chamber as fast as they could, loaded the second part of the ammunition that had been wrapped long ago into the chamber, and launched the second round of fire as fast as possible, bombarding some of the more concentrated enemy cavalry approaching from the other direction in an attempt to detour.

The rumbling of cannon fire rang out again. It's just that perhaps some of the gunpowder is too powerful, so that the original loading standard is very high, and the 100-pound "heavy" cannon that has been used more than once also has problems, and one of the guns was blown up when it was blown up, and debris flew everywhere. But fortunately, for this possibility, Zhang Lixin had prepared for it a long time ago. The gunner, who operates the gun using the tail stick and turntable gun mount, can fire at a distance of about one kilometer from the gun shaft. And he also used iron gauntlets and iron masks to cover the vital parts of his body as much as possible. Only one nearby gunner was slightly wounded in this chamber, and the injuries were not serious.

In this way, in a matter of less than a minute or so, the gunners of the combined stone and wood composite cannon and the 100-pound body-barreled iron cannon that had been prepared before launched two rounds of fire under the personal command of Cheng Hai and Zhang Lixin, killing and wounding at least 200 horses and more than 50 riders of the Zhongshun battalion within 150 steps of the ambush position near the flat ground of Shengxian Village.

Zhang Lixin and others used just the right shotgun that could make the exposed horses see blood and be wounded within the effective range to maximize the effectiveness of the artillery that was not of great quality, and also gave the Zhongshun battalion a huge deterrent at this time. In the rumbling artillery, many people did not immediately organize their own artillery fire to return fire, but retreated and assembled farther away. If it weren't for the extremely limited firepower and even effective firing range that Zhang Lixin and others mastered, perhaps they would have been able to win by artillery fire alone by launching an ambush and surprise attack at a distance that was not very suitable.

It's just that the retreating General Ma and the others found that it seemed that at a certain distance, those projectiles that looked no smaller than the large lead of the Three-Eyed Gun were just a swollen bag that made people be beaten without much blood, and their power could not even pose a danger to the infantry without shields.

Compared with the last encounter, the firepower of these exposed bandits is obviously much stronger, and the ability to deal with the siege of the scattered cavalry is obviously much stronger. But the shortcomings are also obvious: if it is a head-to-head confrontation, it is obvious that the opponent's projection firepower and frontal battle ability still cannot be compared with the large team of soldiers coming to Shengxian Village at this time.

"Don't mess around! There is nothing to be afraid of the gunfire of thieves! There are not a few dead people! "Many officers worked hard to reorganize their ranks at the back of the crowd on horseback.

Before the Ming army was ready at a distance of 200 paces, it was the artillery team that reacted the fastest. The violent rain of bullets was accompanied by a three-pound solid bullet that was not too powerful for Zhang Lixin and the others at this time. There was also the sound of sporadic shotgun fire.

The exposed concealed positions and the continuous rising earth flowers near them seemed to completely suppress the continued fire of Zhang Lixin's artillery team. Of course, the more important reason is that Zhang Lixin is also unwilling to fall into this kind of attrition confrontation with an opponent who has a clear advantage in projection power at too far a distance. Obviously, the best option is to let the opponent attack close and launch another round of strikes.

However, there are already tests on top of the battle, and luck often only belongs to teams that are resilient enough. Not long after the repeated shelling of more than 20 artillery pieces of the Zhongshun battalion, several catapults also threw dozens of pounds of poisonous smoke bombs and ash bottles one after another. For a moment, the improvised ambush position, which was not very exposed, was soon covered in billowing pungent smoke drifting in the direction of the wind.

At this time, many officers and men in the freshman battalion finally admired the foresight of the "general." If it weren't for the use of water-occupying cotton cloth and light yarn to cover their mouths, noses and eyes, it would have been obvious that in the face of such a formation, even if most of the troops would not be reduced, there would have been many officers and men who would not have taken the lead in fighting.

Under the cover of catapults and artillery fire, the team of the Chung Shun battalion dismounted and prepared for foot combat and the station was also ready, holding shields that were still balanced, and some people pushed the shield carts converted from the wheelbarrows and concentrated to attack the direction where the team was located. The dangerous "big test" for the entire team has finally come.