Of course, Wei Yingjia's gathered team had no intention of attacking during the day, and Wei Yingjia, who was the right attendant of the military department, was not an amateur in military affairs, and understood the truth that the lion fought the rabbit and used it hard. And no one knows what these people will do if they are prepared, if their combat power breaks out. When neither side is a strong army, the side that is often in a desperate situation sometimes bursts into a broken will to fight. Therefore, according to Wei Yingjia's original plan: first besiege for three or five days, wait for many people who saw the wind and rudder to see the situation clearly and then put in their forces to join in, and then launch a night attack. In this thousand, some harassment with bows and arrows, throwing stones, or artillery fire will suffice.

"Let the gunners try the cannon first! also give those children some dismounting, the provincial imperial horse supervisor and the new camp those people and dogs jumped over the wall! An officer under Wei Yingjia said.

"It's okay, this official also wants to see if the skills of the demons elected by the Ming Eunuch Party are true or false, and whether they can give full play to the effectiveness of those firearms from the Shenji Camp and the Shenshu Camp!"

Just when the teenagers under Xiao Xuan were about to open fire, they didn't expect the enemy outside the city to fire first. At least five battalions of war with the five military camps besieged on all sides of the Imperial Horse Prison as the core, with a total of more than 200 generals, more than 100 guns of the second general, and more than 100 guns of the third general, and more than 30 longs of various types, totaling more than 200 guns, opened fire in turn. In a very short period of time, more than a ton of lead was struck. Although the weight of these guns is generally not very large, the poundage is not much inferior to that of the guns of the war period.

Of course, Wei Yingjia, who is the secretary of the Ministry of War, once personally advised: It is best to use about half of the standard charge of the bright surface standard to launch. Keep these shotguns at a range and velocity similar to that of a crossbow, which is good for throwing and less prone to blow-ups, especially when firing continuously.

At least tens of thousands of shotguns flew in from all directions like a curtain of rain, as if dust and debris were splashed in every corner of the entire Imperial Horse Warden camp inside and outside the camp. These shotguns are large and small, and there is no certain return, and the error is also very large. However, in the face of such a large target of about 200 paces within a radius of about 100 paces, the vast majority of them still hit the defensive line along the perimeter, and most of them formed a relatively dense "side fire" at the four corners.

This made Xiao Xuan have to be impressed, although the power and effectiveness of these cannons can be regarded as "thunder and rain are weak", but in the use of artillery, it is obviously not as completely amateur as he imagined.

The shelling continued in bursts, and in a matter of minutes there were four rounds of attacks. In the dense rain of tens of thousands of bullets, ranging from one or two to three or four or two bullets, at least dozens of officers and men who relied on fortifications for defense were shot. Although most of the people who were bombarded by the opponent and exposed in the trenches were armoured, and there were more than a dozen casualties among the gunners who did not show their heads according to the regulations, fortunately the injuries were not serious, and only two were killed because of the unlucky forehead hit by a projectile.

But only these casualties made the army only half a month old, and many of the gunners selected by the officers and soldiers of the Guards Battalion at the beginning of the war couldn't help but shrink their heads into the trenches. This also made Xiao Xuan discover a problem: the model of the modern army did not seem to be suitable for this kind of situation where the troops were relatively scattered and fought in the trench and dark fortress. Perhaps this is why the British Imperial Army, which performed so well in the pre-loading era, became problematic in the twentieth century?

Of course, Xiao Xuan also realized what the consequences would be if such a passive fight continued. He personally went to the trenches at the four corners of the position one by one to boost morale: "You have also seen this time, as long as the enemy's shotgun does not hit your unprotected head or hands very unfortunately, it will not cause too serious damage, nor will it threaten the selected armor on your body. If you are so passive and forget about military discipline and peacetime training, then instead of letting the enemy who rushes over you cut off your head for a while, it is better to let you die in front of the public now, and at least it can play the role of killing chickens and monkeys! ”

As a king, the encouragement and threat of being on the front line finally played a role. After the initial panic, the gunners, who were at least half-exposed in the Tiger artillery bunkers, pulled up the covered roofs and began to fire back with their firearms in the direction of the enemy.

The adjustment of the muzzle was roughly estimated before the engagement. According to the horizontal hammer ruler made before, the wooden sighting device made by many practical tests before the war roughly judged the distance, and the angle of the muzzle was already aligned and locked on the wooden aiming sleeve. A fixed standard charge has also been prepared for a long time.

In order to prevent the performance of different batches of gunpowder from being too different, Xiao Xuan also summed up in practice to mix gunpowder from different places and different sources to make a fixed powder package. In this way, it can not only avoid the explosion of the chamber caused by the occasional great power of gunpowder--- or raise the charge standard when the risk of the chamber is certain, but also improve the accuracy of the attack projectile as much as possible.

In order to spread the projectiles too much, Xiao Xuan has personally mobilized a lot of auxiliary battalion personnel to make different batches of "standardized buckshot" light shotguns, which are basically about six or seven yuan, and heavy shotguns are unified to about six or seven taels. In fact, most shotguns are light shotguns.

In a situation of encirclement, the original artillery fire is very disadvantageous, because the opponent can have the opportunity to launch a side-fired oblique fire more effectively, while the own side has to attack the opponent's horizontal formation. It's actually more difficult to get a lethal effect. Wei Yingjia also felt that there should be no surprises in this battle.

However, from ranging to projectiles and even live fire tests on weekdays, there are also various disciplines and intentions to intervene in the risk of artillery explosion to the maximum extent and to make the gunners wear armor and use fortifications, as well as personnel protection and fortifications. The effect of all this far exceeds the bonus of the situation.

When Xiao Xuan's sixteen general cannons and nine newly-made bronze cannons, a total of twenty-five heavy cannons, were fired at twice the standard charge of this era, at least 10,000 light shotguns weighing more than six coins and about 20 grams were fired violently at the same time almost at the same time with a difference of only a few seconds.

The difference with the enemy's shelling is that the firing due to the risk of overdrawing the chamber accelerates the projectile to at least half the estimated speed of sound, and the lower elongation trajectory has a greater projection area hit rate when falling into the enemy group.

Although a lead bullet with a power of more than 100 joules at a distance of about 100 paces cannot threaten the shield target, it can make those opponents who have no effective protection be shot in their hands, legs or on their bodies, and they will have a high probability of getting into the flesh and quickly losing their combat effectiveness.

What's even more ingenious is that when the velocity is increased to the point where the velocity of the six-seven-coin projectile is significantly higher than that of the crossbow, it often forms a rather lethal splash and ricochet when it is on the mostly hard ground in the autumn outside of the Imperial Horse Prison.

The targets of the shelling are locked onto the places where the shield armor is fully protected, the flag is high, or the gun trucks are gathered before the cannon is fired. Therefore, at least the hundreds of projectiles that hit the enemy group in the first round only killed and injured more than 70 people. However, more than half of these 70 people were elite or artillery gunners of various battalions, and the morale of the thousands of gunners who operated the artillery quickly weakened

The efficient first round of heavy fire did not last quickly, but stalled for a while, and many enemy officers and men seemed to feel that the danger of the shelling had subsided and that they had once again poked their heads out of the formation. However, this time, Xiao Xuan's cannon sound rang out as he ventured to attack with live ammunition and double the charge.