Chapter 86: The Bloody Battle of Suqian (1)

Suddenly......

When a muffled sound came from the air, people couldn't help but look up at the sky.

When he looked up, Yao Wuguo, who was in the front row, could see a black shadow in the air coming, and he vaguely seemed to be able to see the iron ball, and in the next moment, the brothers around him didn't even let out a scream in a hurry, and they fell, and the blood instantly sprayed Yao Wuguo's body.

In the flesh and blood, behind him, one brother after another was knocked to the ground by cannonballs, some brothers lost their lives in an instant, some brothers were broken crotch and leg, in that heart-rending cry, just when Yao Wuguo felt a trace of fear, and even involuntarily wanted to slow down, he saw the corpses everywhere in front of him, which were the corpses of the people who were killed by the Qing army. There are even children who are a few months old in it......

"Kill!"

Suddenly, a roar burst out of his throat again,

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

When another shout came from the phalanx of the loyal army, even if it was a mile away, Dasu was still startled, and he couldn't help but change his words when he looked at the loyal army that was constantly advancing against the cannonballs.

"It seems that this Zhu thief does have some skills......

Not to mention a few skills, in Dasu's memory, since entering the customs, this Ming army under the red-clothed cannon, it is simply difficult to block two rounds, not to mention the top cannon attack, that is, it can be easily defeated by a few cannons, so that the army can not be defeated, there is like now, it can actually advance against the oncoming cannons, and the army is not chaotic.

"Order all the artillery teams to be replaced with honeycomb shells, and wait for my order, all the artillery will be fired!"

The honeycomb bullet in Dasu's mouth is not limited to grape bullets, it is often divided into large, medium and small bullets, the large one is similar to the grape bullet, and the small one is the shotgun, each cannon is fired hundreds of lead projectiles, dozens of guns at the same time, it is equivalent to tens of thousands of bird salvos. Once upon a time, compared with solid bullets, honeycomb bullets were the Ming army's sharp weapon to restrain the barbarians, and after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, this became its killer weapon for attacking the Ming army and suppressing the righteous army.

"Quick, seal the door!"

On the artillery position of the Qing army, amid the shouts of the gunners, the wooden sealing door was stuffed into the barrel of the gun, and it was stabbed by the gunners with wooden sticks. After a dozen gunners finished loading, they immediately pushed their cannons into the shells, and then aimed forward, waiting for the arrival of the Loyal Army, ready to give the Loyal Army a head-on attack.

Just when the gunners of the Qing army were preparing honeycomb shells, less than a mile away, the gunners who were driving the horse-drawn artillery cart had already taken the cannon off the cart with Xu Youzheng's order, and then pushed it forward.

"Blossom bombs, ...... with blossom bombs"

Unlike the Qing army, which needed to fill the wood with wax and fill the wood, and when firing, it was necessary to first ignite the fuse on the shell from the muzzle, and then quickly ignite the fuse on the fire door, which was extremely complicated, and the flowering bullet used by the Loyal and Righteous Army used not only the whole ammunition of the projectile, lining wood and medicine bag, but also the wooden fuse, and the letter tube needed to be cut off before firing or punched a hole in the scale outside the fuse tube to mark the burning time.

"Calibrate for 3 seconds!"

Following Xu Youzheng's order, the gunner immediately used the top cone to push a small hole into the scale outside the tube of the fuse. The tube was then immediately reinserted into the shell, and the reloading was quickly completed. A goose feather tube will be quickly stuffed into the fire transfer hole.

"Distance, 180 zhang ......"

As the numbers came out of Xu Youzheng's mouth, those gunners immediately twisted the bolts made of brass at the gun carriage, and the screw slowly lifted against the tail of the gun, and the moment he completed aiming, the gunner over there immediately lit the goose feather tube at the fire hole with the fuse rod with an order.

Sou!

At the moment when the gunpowder in the goose feather tube was ignited, accompanied by a flame that rose a foot, the deafening sound of artillery sounded in the wilderness, and more than 30 six-pound guns fired at the artillery positions of the Qing army one after another.

While giving the order to fire, Xu Youzheng's eyes were fixed on the pocket watch in his hand, and at the same time he was looking ahead, he needed to determine the set time of the fuse through the first round of shooting, which made it necessary to use a foreign pocket watch to determine the time when the shell fell.

"Pocket watches are still not good, not fine enough, you should get a special chronograph ......"

Although he knew that if there was no pocket watch, he was afraid that he would not be able to make it even with the wooden fuse, but a mountain is always higher than a mountain, and Xu Youzheng, who would hold a pocket watch, longed for a special chronograph in his heart.

"After this battle, I will go to Nanjing and invite a few watchmakers to take a look, and I heard my father say that there are watchmakers in Nanjing......"

When Xu Youzheng muttered in his heart, dozens of shells had already fallen around the Qing artillery team, and when the shells fell, the shells did not explode, but "zizi" outwards with fire, and the shells even swirled on the ground.

"Blossom Bomb!"

I don't know who shouted, before the shout fell, the smoke cloud of the explosion instantly rose near the artillery team, and the iron pieces that were blown up in the smoke flew away, these large or small fragments, or hit the body of the Qing army, or hit the artillery, although many of them did not cause damage because of the distance, but they successfully plunged the Qing army's artillery team into chaos.

"Another flowering bomb?"

The chaos in the artillery team also fell in Dasu's eyes, but there were some doubts in his eyebrows, after all, as a veteran of the battlefield, he knew that this flowering bomb was not only extremely cumbersome to use, but also quite risky, and because of this, it was a last resort, otherwise the artillery team would never use flowering shells, the artillery team of the Ming army used flowering shells before, why did this round also use flowering shells?

The limited knowledge limits Dasu's imagination, he naturally doesn't know that the loyal army has a new type of flowering bomb, looking at the distance between the two armies is only about thirty zhang away, knowing that the artillery team has not been able to point to him, immediately made people wave another flag, the eight banners in front of the Chinese army wearing red, white, yellow and blue armor, although most of these heavy armor soldiers are the eight banners of the Han army, but this is the largest eight banners of the eight banners in the past few years, a full 20,000 eight banners, with Dasu's order, Begin to make final preparations for the upcoming battle. Thousands of Eight Banner archers picked up their strong bows and drew their bows towards the rushing loyal soldiers, and on the ground in front of them, there were several arrows for rapid fire, and the bird soldiers also aimed forward with bird guns behind the wooden fence......