Hit it closer
In the whistling sound, hot cannons fell from the sky and smashed down.
Like hailstones falling from the sky, this hail is iron.
One by one, the cannonballs smashed into the shield car array, smashed into the Tartar soldiers hiding behind the shields, rolled a few times on the grassland, and directly brought out a bloody road.
Whether it is a slave pushing a shield cart or a Tartar soldier hiding behind a shield cart, as long as they are hit one by one and fall to the ground screaming, the unlucky ones can't even scream, and they will die with a whimper.
The shield carts and infantry arrays of the Tartar soldiers are too dense, even if they are fired indiscriminately, they can hit with a single shot, not to mention that Wang Zezhi's artillery battalion gunners are among the best.
The redcoat cannon has many advantages, such as a long barrel, a thick tube wall, a large caliber, and the overall shape gradually thickens from the muzzle to the tail of the gun, which conforms to the principle of bore pressure from high to low when gunpowder is burned.
There are cylindrical lugs on both sides of the center of gravity of the gun body, and the gun can adjust the firing angle with this axis and change the firing range according to the amount of gunpowder; It is equipped with a crosshair and a light gate, and the trajectory is calculated according to the parabola, which is very accurate.
Most of the redcoat cannons are about 3 meters long, with a caliber of 110-130 mm and a weight of more than 1 ton.
As long as it is hit by a shot, let alone a person, even the most elite shield cart composed of two layers of wooden planks, two layers of sand, two layers of quilts, two layers of animal skins, and iron covers cannot stop it.
Those gunners of the artillery battalion, under the command of the commander of the artillery battalion, calmly opened fire, cleared, loaded ammunition, ignited, and opened fire again.
For the training of these gunners, Wang Zezhi has never slackened.
Moreover, the artillery battalion adopts the system of survival of the fittest, and those with poor accuracy will be eliminated and become other branches of the army.
None of those left were on target.
These gunners, not to mention in Wang Zezhi's team, are among the best in the entire Ming Dynasty.
The gunners next to each gun constantly used the jumping eye method to estimate the distance and adjust the angle, and under their adjustment, the gun deputy kept moving the gun body and adjusting the firing angle.
Under their aimed fire, shield carts, including those behind them, were smashed.
Including the Tartar infantry hiding behind the shield cart array, all suffered, and under the blow of the red-coated cannons, neither men nor shield carts were spared.
Wang Zezhi's fierce artillery fire caused a commotion in the shield car camp that came in front.
Even, some of the Alu captives were frightened, snatched the scimitars of the Tartar soldiers around them, and attacked reflexively.
"Horizontal and vertical is dead, there is no way to live, my warriors of the Alu Department, fight!"
After being defeated, he could still survive as a slave, but he continued to push the shield cart forward, and there was no way to survive.
The slaves of the Alu tribe rebelled in an instant.
The Tartars hiding behind the shield cart array reacted and immediately carried out a bloody suppression.
While slashing and killing the rebellious Alubu slaves, they themselves pushed the shield cart on top and continued to advance.
Wang Zezhi saw that it was a pity, if the current artillery technology was advanced enough and the quality of the artillery was passable, there was no need to worry about the barrel overheating and causing the bore to explode.
The redcoat cannon did not have as many cannons as the Franc cannon, and could only fight a few rounds.
Now the redcoat cannons have to rest and cool down.
Wang Zezhi has no choice, he is not a science and engineering man, let alone a military man, he has not mastered more advanced artillery casting skills, and the cannon must be stopped after a few rounds of fire to dissipate heat, otherwise it is very easy to explode.
Wang Zezhi could only wait for them to advance to the range of the Fu Lang machine gun before attacking.
The densely packed shield carts finally came into the firing range of the Furlong cannon.
There are a lot of Franc cannon kings, and he has transferred a hundred to the camp in Naturalization City alone.
The Ming Dynasty's Furlong machine gun adopts the structure of the mother gun and the child gun, the mother gun is the gun barrel, the child gun is actually a small fire gun, each mother gun is equipped with six guns, each gun is loaded with ammunition in advance for use, during the battle, first a child gun is loaded into the bullet chamber of the mother gun, after firing, the empty gun is withdrawn, and another gun is equipped, because the sub gun can be changed in turn, the time of temporary loading ammunition is reduced, and the firing speed is greatly improved.
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Under Wang Zezhi's order, the cannons and gunners who couldn't wait moved in unison.
"Ready, put!"
Following the order of the commander of the artillery battalion Franc cannons, the gunners of the Franc cannons began their show.
At the front of the Tartars, the most elite shield carts had been smashed by the red-coated cannons, and most of the remaining shield carts were wooden, and the Furlong cannons could easily shatter them.
A hundred cannons rang out like a huge thunderbolt.
Thick puffs of smoke rose from Wang Zezhi's camp, and the overwhelming cannons whistled, carrying the trajectory of fireworks like a rain and a gust of wind towards the entire shield car array.
The gunners of the Franc machine moved very quickly, and as soon as they fired a cannon, they immediately replaced the guns, lit them, and fired the cannons.
Soon all six rounds were fired, and the Franc cannon also needed to be cooled, otherwise the Franc cannon alone would be able to wipe out the shield array.
Six hundred cannons were overwhelmingly attacking the shield car array.
The power of firearms is unimaginable to the nomads, and they have never seen such a powerful attack.
The Tartar infantry, leaning on the shield carts, raised their shields one after another.
The cannon of the Franc cannon can shatter even a simple shield cart, let alone a thin shield.
In the shield cart array, there was a constant scene of shield carts shattering, and soldiers being smashed by cannonballs and falling to the ground.
The Fu Lang cannon and the red-coated cannon were not needed for the time being, and Wang Zezhi estimated that with the distance in front of him, Lu Mi Gong was completely able to attack.
"Fire Battalion, three salvos."
With Wang Zeyi's order, the sergeants of the fire gun battalion came to the front of the position with fire guns, climbed in the trench protected by barbed wire, and began to shoot.
A thousand guns fired in a volley, forming a sound wave like thunder.
Finally pushed in, and the last row of shield carts was instantly shattered.
The Tartar soldiers behind the shield cart fell like wheat, one after another.
The shield chariot array was shattered, and the Tartar infantry, red-eyed, howled, and charged towards the position with their scimitars against their shields.
At the same time, the cavalry, which had retreated to the flanks, also began to accelerate.
Lin Dan Khan's cavalry took advantage of the cover of the shield chariot array and secretly lurked on the north and south flanks.
Now that the cavalry is in formation, if they rush in, Wang Zezhi's camp is very likely to be broken.
When the time comes, he will have no soldiers to use except for the soldiers in the naturalized city.
"It's a bit of a strategy."
Lin Fan Khan was indeed very powerful, he sacrificed so many Alu prisoners and foot soldiers, just to cover the cavalry to lurk on both flanks and outflank Wang Zezhi's camp.
"Order the cavalry to shoot arrows."
Wang Zezhi's cavalry was not used from the beginning, not because he was unwilling, but because he couldn't.
Sending steel-armored heavy cavalry and light cavalry without understanding the enemy's tactics is likely to be completely annihilated if they encounter an ambush.
Now that he knows Lin Dan Khan's tricks, it is time to use cavalry.
However, he had to wait a little longer.
He wants to annihilate Lin Dan Khan, and he can't give Lin Dan Khan a chance to make a comeback.
If you want to fight, you have to hit hard, hurt the enemy, only then will the enemy be afraid, and the enemy will be one step closer to defeat as soon as he is afraid.