Chapter 21: Head-to-head (2)
"Playing Gong Dou I'm not familiar with the female frequency routine at all. I came here to read the men's frequency historical text, and if I don't accept it, I will do it, without discussion! At this time, Xiao Xuan smiled and emboldened himself, and said to himself. Although the relatives around him didn't understand what male frequency and female frequency were, they also felt a little calm when they saw that Xiao Xuan was still "having nothing to do".
"Fire!" The two "second general guns" carried by the artillery team were the first to speak at this time.
The gun, which had been loaded with shotshots that could not easily cause a bombardment, opened fire. Under the condition that the charge is also moderately set, the sound brought by the cannon makes people feel a lot of vibration and momentum even from a distance of about 100 paces. Although in addition to preventing the explosion of the chamber, and in order not to cause the recoil to cause the overturn of the gun carriage with a total of 300 pounds or cause injuries to personnel, the charge was kept to a minimum. Hundreds of leads, weighing about one or two, totaling seven catties, were thrown into the distance at the same speed as a bow and crossbow. In order to prevent the shot from being low, the high angle shot more than half of the lead through the palace wall, and only a few lead were blocked by the palace wall.
Quite a few large lead weights of one or two weights were thrown into the buildings within the palace walls, and the scene of lead bullets flying around the rebound brought about by the rebound really made many people feel frightened. Although few people were injured at all.
Compared with the relatively flat streets in the capital, the difficulty of operating the gun truck has been somewhat reduced. The teenagers who didn't look very strong could easily push the three-hundred-pound No. 2 general cannon cart back and forth as long as there were only four people.
In order to ensure continuous firing, Xiao Xuan divided the ten No. 2 general guns he carried into five gun crews to fire in turn. In this way, although the teenagers are not very skilled in the process of loading ammunition, they can at least ensure that there is a round of fire every ten seconds or so. Although it couldn't kill and injure many opponents who relied on the defense of the palace walls, it also made the core forces of the inner court army who were not strong lose the courage to launch a counterattack during the day.
This kind of prepared frontal attack still made Xiao Xuan, who had already arranged and prepared, not feel at a loss for anything to happen, after the continuous artillery fire shocked the opponent. Xiao Xuan immediately asked the elites of those Imperial Horse Supervisors to launch a "riding shot".
In fact, there are few people in the entire Imperial Horse Prison who can open a hard bow, or except for the Jiannu outside the pass, even among the elite of the border army, there are not many people who can open the standard war bow of the main force of the Song army. Most of the people who are equipped with the Imperial Horse Supervisor are about twenty or thirty pounds of two-bucket bows that can be easily pulled away even if they don't have a bow and arrow foundation, and the bows and arrows are not very long. The smallest light arrow with a launch weight of only seven cents, after a few rounds of test firing, barely threw the small light arrow to a distance of about 100 paces, even for people with a little light armor and light shield protection, it seems that it does not pose a threat.
However, the momentum brought by the continuous release of arrows by hundreds of amateur archers was not small, and it barely formed a rain of arrows like flying locusts. The second bucket bow is not too much of a burden for these imperial horse supervisors, so even if they release arrows ten times in a row, no one will feel tired at all.
Tian Xiuying, Pang Tianshou, and even the other two Imperial Horse Supervisor officers who followed were still much stronger than the amateur archers, and they were able to open the four-bucket bow in the men's archery event in the Olympic Games, and they could barely throw the relatively standard war arrows in the early two in the East to a distance of about one hundred and fifty paces. Moreover, the bow and arrow that is not up to standard with such a hunting bow is not easy to get tired in a short time. With the help of the mobility of the horses, it spread out from both flanks, after all, for the first time, the lateral fire at a distance of about sixty or seventy paces made the defenders, who had adapted to the rain of arrows and artillery positions, feel a real threat.
Under the bombardment of thousands of arrows and even at least thousands of shotguns, although only seven or eight people were injured in the core strength of the inner court army covered by the palace wall, most of them were minor injuries that were not fatal, Wei Zhongxian and even hardcore henchmen Li Yongzhen, Li Chaoqin and others all felt that it was not a way to shrink under the cover of the wall at all, and they had to give the opposite side some color!
"They're all aimless, and they're not flying fast at all! You will withdraw as soon as you open fire, there will be no danger! At this time, the leaders of the eunuch party ordered some of the folk masters who had managed to make up some firearms and bows and arrows.
In this way, waiting for the plank ladder that had been prepared for a long time, these capable warriors finally approached the wall under the protection of the person in charge of raising the shield cover. When the bow was drawn and the ammunition was loaded, someone finally bravely showed his head.
But at this moment, the elite warriors of the eunuch party who were in charge of firing suddenly found that the opposite team seemed to be approaching a distance of about sixty or seventy paces as a whole, and when they just appeared, there were clumps of white smoke and the sound of guns that followed.
How to conduct the battle and how to suppress it, Xiao Xuan had already made a careful plan long before the battle. More than 100 turtledove musketeers who have undergone a lot of training these days have divided a clear "firing zone" at this time, and each of them has aimed at the head of the wall in front of them in the perpendicular direction to the enemy formation of the palace wall according to the aiming angle that has been prepared for a long time, and slightly raises the muzzle of the gun according to the improvement angle measured by the previous test firing test, so as to facilitate more accurate hits, and the target will fire in his own area as soon as it emerges.
At the same time, because there was still no full confidence in the accuracy of the arquebuses of this era, the previous test firing on the school field also proved this. So when he was about to fight, Xiao Xuan changed his mind again: it was better to use these turtledoves to launch shotguns with a lower risk of exploding. Originally, in the late Qing Dynasty, a similar gun was used for this, and it was also more conducive to hitting.
So whenever someone showed up on the wall, at least three or five nearby turtledoves covered it with dozens of one-dollar projectiles with fierce fire. Even so, although the not small scatter of turtledove shotgun shells still did not guarantee at least half of the hit rate against the enemy on the wall who were shooting at the head of the wall, the suppressive effect on the elite eunuchs who planned to shoot on the wall was immediate.
Under the suppression of the turtledove, even the observers who were watching from the roof of the palace from a distance did not seem to dare to show their heads easily. After waiting for at least two capable people to disappear from the wall with screams, Xiao Xuan at this time finally made up his mind to start a melee attack. The morale-boosting war drums carried by the team also sounded at this time.
"The demolition team is ready!" At this time, the twenty teenagers of the demolition team, who had been selected through a combination of voluntary registration and drawing lots, personally pushed a small cart with a weight of hundreds of pounds and "ten thousand enemies of soil" approaching the two palace city walls on the flank of the enemy formation.
Of course, because he has seen the huge gap between the black powder in this era and the imaginary modern fireworks and firecrackers, even if it is a total of thousands of catties of enemies and hundreds of catties of gunpowder, whether he can blow up the wall of the main gate of the palace that looks very thick, Xiao Xuan is not sure at all.