The newly annexed army, which had just been formed, had been frightened and still could not move, no matter how the order was given, and did not listen to the dispatch at all.

The battlefield is changing rapidly, and the opportunity is fleeting, Bailiyan is in a hurry, and sends the guards to rush to the shore with the quilt on their heads, and adds another layer of quilt just in case, approaching to fifty steps, and pressing forward five steps again.

At this time, the guns on the river were fierce, hundreds of shooters took turns firing, and thousands of projectiles poured on the quilt like a torrential rain, either rolling down or penetrating, to no avail.

Seeing that the coalition forces were approaching the shooter less than fifty paces, Mooney was anxious:

"Master Lodgenaka, you've got a solution!"

"The earth-shattering fire destroys iron like mud, I have never encountered this situation, and my subordinates really can't think of any way."

"Then can't you destroy them with a big mouth of earth-shaking fire?"

"I'm afraid it won't work. The Large-Mouth Heaven-Shattering Iron Pellet fires almost straight and will hit our own men, and it will need to be repositioned to attack the shore. ”

In order to facilitate the cleaning of the residual drug residue in the chamber, the breech gun generally adopts a straight trajectory, and will never use a large elevation angle ballistic, especially such a primitive heavy artillery that moves one or two thousand, three or four thousand catties. An excessively high muzzle meant that it was difficult to clean, so without changing the charge, the relative range of the projectile was fixed, and the gun position had to be changed in order to correct the firing target.

As it has been said, the range can be changed by changing the charge, but in fact this requires precise experiments and calculations to work out a detailed shooting table, but the Jinxuedi people obviously lack this kind of knowledge, as well as the relevant mathematical skills.

Mooney was annoyed by this:

"Damn! Norengar! ”

"The subordinates are here!"

"Order, withdraw all the people for me, stop crossing the river!"

"Your Excellency, their morale has been crushed, and they are about to attack the west coast, and it is worth the loss to stop the attack at this time."

"You know what, the northerners are less than fifty steps away from our archers at this time, and their black fire powder, fire oil, and bows and crossbows will easily reach our people."

Before the words fell, an explosion came, followed by a series of explosions, and Mooney twitched his cheeks in annoyance:

"What are you doing in a daze, don't you go quickly!"

"Yes!"

The Coalition forces were desperately short of bows and crossbows, and Mooney was well aware of this, with the only threat coming from the Coalition's thrown explosive canisters and oil.

At this time, the surface of the river exploded, and the explosion ignited the powder keg on the ship, causing a detonation, and more than a dozen small boats were sunk in a row, and the other small boats hurriedly untied the cables and scattered in formation, and fled eastward quickly.

"My lord, they ran away!"

"If you don't run, you're a fool, and once it explodes, hundreds of boats are tied together."

"My subordinates have seen that a small boat has capsized into the water, why don't you let someone fish it up later?" Jiang Jie suggested.

"It's better to wait for the second half of the night, go and send an order to Sikong Nan, leave 5,000 cavalry, and the other battalions patrol along the river to prevent the Jinxuedi people from forcing them to cross from other places."

"Yes!"

Bai Liyan saw very clearly that the morale of the newly annexed army here was completely finished. I still don't know how many artillery pieces the Jinxuedi people still have, and if they continue to fight like this, and even the river is blocked by artillery, it is a huge threat to the morale of the new annexed army and even the old soldiers of the coalition army.

Fear comes from ignorance, and the initial damage of primitive firearms is still the intimidation of the senses of sound and light, which demoralizes the opponent and inflicts much less physical damage.

At the moment, the firearms of the Jinxuedi are obviously much more practical, and the physical damage is enough to destroy the dense storm formation. It is undoubtedly a disastrous blow to the cold-armed army, and this situation must be reversed as soon as possible.

At this time, the pontoon bridge repaired to the west bank was burned down by the coalition forces, and the Jinxuedi people quickly retreated to the east bank, and after counting, they found that there were fifty-two small mouth-shaking fires missing, and Mooney was furious about this:

"Damn Bailiyan, can't you just do anything about him!"

"Your Excellency, their morale has been crushed by us, and if we work harder, they will drive them to extinction."

Norenga's words were an understatement, and Mooney could not continue his previous optimism, saying:

"But every time, when we thought we were about to break them, every time we were beaten by them."

"But this time, it was they who were beaten by us, and as long as they had a little more mouthful, they could be completely defeated."

"It's easy to say, do you think I don't want to. Our treasury is empty, our finances are in dire straits, and we can't get a single one out of it. Just today, on the day of the forty-six statues, they shot out 3,125 large iron pills, tens of thousands of catties of black fire powder, and all they shot were money.

The order goes down, the launch is stopped tomorrow, we need to replenish more projectiles as soon as possible. ”

As the saying goes, when the cannon goes off, it is the national strength that fights the war, and when the technology does not match the productivity of the times, the deformed consumption that will bring about will consume a huge amount of resources.

Within two days, Mooney recklessly fired more than 4,000 rounds of projectiles, nearly 50,000 catties of pig iron, and almost half of the projectiles of the accompanying army were consumed. [Note 1]

Of course, solid projectiles can also be recycled, but only if they cross the river.

In the second half of the night, Bailiyan asked people to fish from the river, and a total of seven earth-shattering fires were fished out.

"Obediently, I don't think I think from a distance, but this guy is not small up close!" Sikong Nan was shocked, and said with this amount: "There are no forty catties, thirty-four or five catties must be there, all of them are cast in copper, if it is in Xianguo, if it is added to hundreds or thousands, the amount of silver spent is not a small amount!" ”

"Well, what Brother Sikong said is extremely true." Bai Liyan affirmed, and then said: "The Jinxuedi people are rich in minerals and have a huge metallurgical scale, and their copper prices are much lower than those in the Central Plains, but even if they only count 20 yuan, 1,000 yuan will cost 20,000 yuan, 10,000 yuan will cost 200,000 yuan, and their large-caliber artillery will probably cost tens of thousands." ”

"My lord, the cannon is only three or four thousand catties, why does it cost tens of thousands?" Jiang Jie asked.

"You think this cannon can be done in one go? With the Jin Xuedi smelting technique, it is simply not enough to cast such a huge volume of bronze artifacts, and I don't know how many waste products are distributed evenly on each cannon, and the price of one cannon must be tens of thousands. And this is the price of copper, counting coal, labor and molds, etc., a cannon costs tens of thousands of gold and silver. Although the firearm in front of me is estimated at 20 yuan, it will at least double if it is converted into scrap, coal, labor, etc. ”

"It's so expensive, how much food does it cost!"

"The purchase of these visible guys is not the most costly, the most expensive thing is the iron pellet that is still on the head of our army in the past two days, and the projectile ejected by this firearm, not 70,000 or 80,000 catties, but 40,000 or 50,000 catties in half. Before the general's southern expedition, Yongxing City's inventory of stainless steel was only three or four hundred thousand catties, even if it was three or four hundred thousand catties of pig iron, no matter how rich Jin Xuedi was, he couldn't withstand such a cost. ”

"Then why don't they use lead, which is heavier than copper, and cheaper, so you can buy it in large quantities." Jiao Muhua asked.

"General Jiao asked a good question, there is some truth in this, and I can't understand it to you in a few words at the moment. As long as you know, the size of this projectile remains the same, and the lead shot is heavier than the iron and copper shots, and the more gunpowder is required to shoot at the same distance. Of course, you may ask about increasing the dose, but I could have told you that if you increase the dose, the cannon could explode.

The iron pellets used by the Jin Xuedi people now can shoot one and a half miles, and the smallest one is less than one mile, if the amount of medicine remains the same, using lead pellets of the same size, the weight will be increased by half, and the range will be reduced by at least one-third, so that they cannot throw the projectile across the river.

Moreover, the destructive power of iron pellets and lead pellets is not very different from each other at the moment, so they use iron pellets just to make the projectile shoot farther. ”

But if you want to look at the essence through the problem, solid shells, pig iron and lead are mainly physical blunt damage, and the lethality of the two is no different from the destruction of other battlefield targets except for the city wall and armor, and the use of pig iron will have a longer range.

But the price of iron will be very high, even if the Jinxuedi people fully popularize iron, the price of iron is relatively low, and tens of thousands of catties of pig iron are emitted every day, which is undoubtedly amazing for the economic productivity of agricultural civilization and resource consumption. At the same time, advanced medicine bag technology and rapid reloading have turned this consumption into a huge economic burden.

Bai Liyan could even think that in order to give him a dismount, Mooney didn't think about the consumption of ammunition before the war, just to make a good fortune, or even be happy. Thousands of projectiles were shot in one go, and after long-term consumption and confrontation, Mooney simply couldn't afford to consume them.

Without industrial production, matching production relations, a suitable education system and a talent base, any advanced weapon will be a huge burden on finance and production.

Everyone fiddled with firearms, and Sikong Nan said on a whim:

"General, can we make this kind of firearm in Xianguo?"

"It can be made, but General Ben can't look down on it. And this thing is not invincible in a short period of time, if it is thrown up to the sky with a strong bow and a strong crossbow, it can still be shot at a distance of eighty or ninety steps, and even the sky-high crossbow of the Zhi army can cover it all two hundred steps away.

Mooney bullied only because our army did not have strong bows and crossbows, and if there were, the range of this killer was only sixty or seventy paces, and our army only needed to use a bow and crossbow array to defeat it. ”

At this time, Jiao Muhua interjected:

"According to the general's words, if the Xianguo is built, it can be stronger than it."

"At present, the method of iron forging and casting in Xianguo can make fine iron firearms, and there is no doubt that the range power is greater than it, but it is not necessarily the strongest. In order to build stronger firearms, it is still necessary to consolidate education, workers and peasants.

As you have all seen, firearms are extremely powerful, and they save manpower and are extremely powerful, but they cost a lot of money, and if there are no strong workers and peasants and the country, they will not be enough to support a campaign. Therefore, you will have to return to Xianguo in the future, and you must work together to lay a solid foundation for Xianguo. Only in this way can we create the strongest firearms in the world, and I hope you will work together in this life and keep it in mind! ”

"The last general and others will follow the general's teachings!"

The process of history is all gradual and has its own laws of development, but now that advanced firearms have suddenly appeared on this land, they will never appear out of thin air, and Bai Liyan's mood can not be said to be any joy.

He knew very well that the blessing and misfortune were not a single line, the land of the Changsun Kingdom straddled the equator, and its northern territory protruded from the entire Central Plains, and it was a huge peninsula surrounded by the sea on three sides, and it was too north. The unknown text across the sea may be coveting the vast land of the southern hemisphere, where is the way out of the Central Plains, Bailiyan does not see when the division of the Central Plains will end.

[Note 1] Advanced technology will definitely pay the price directly or indirectly in disguise, rather than unrestrained and restrictive, which will be discussed in detail later and will not be repeated here.