Hun Tai Ji Hei also wanted to say something more, in order to gather more troops, and to bring the shield chariots and the associated heavy troops closer. However, at this time, Xiao Xuan ordered the artillery teams of the Guards Battalion and the Yongwei Battalion to start bombarding the wall of the car shield that seemed to have begun to take shape about four miles away, and there was no intention of talking nonsense.

The charge standard is still the ordinary safety standard, and the rate of fire is controlled as much as possible to increase the cleaning time. It took about a second or so before a violent cannon rang out.

The muzzle velocity of the "400-pound general cannon" equipped with the Guards Battalion and the Brave Guard Battalion is estimated to be only one-third of that of the 19th-pounder Napoleon gun in the 19th century under the normal charge standard, and the difference in bullet weight is less than one-tenth of the power. At the muzzle velocity, which is not much stronger than a crossbow, if a solid projectile is fired at a bombardment distance at the level of the early 19th century, it can only smash a little bit on the ground and cannot form any decent killing efficiency, let alone a hit rate. Therefore, it is mainly bombarded with heavy shotguns of about three or two, and even so, at a distance of about two miles, it is almost the limit distance that three or two heavy bombs can maintain some lethality against armored soldiers. Because no matter how far it goes, even if the entire barrel is raised to an angle of forty degrees, those heavy shotguns under air resistance will not be able to reach it at all.

Under normal circumstances, Xiao Xuan would not be like this. But Xiao Xuan, of course, also understood that this was a very important battle, and he had to overdraw all his potential and the maximum possible killing of the opponent. Therefore, not only did the artillery bombard at a long distance, but at least two battalions, at least about one-third, and more than 300 gunners also began to launch projectile bombardment at a distance close to the limit with three or two shells.

At this time, a lot of training and education on weekdays finally saw the effect, and the three or two rounds of thousands of rounds per minute also showed hail-like firepower at a distance of about two miles, and almost every second, three or two bombs that bypassed the car shield fell in the troop distribution area behind the car shield. Of course, many projectiles were blocked by the shield, or were missed. On average, more than 100 heavy bombs have a chance to hit one person.

At such a distance, even though the muzzle velocity is not very high, the energy has been weakened by more than sixty percent, but despite this. The power of hundreds of joules, and the fierce kinetic energy that is not inferior to the lead bullet of the Rhode Island slinger, when it hits the Jianzhou armor soldier who is not plate armor, although it cannot bring the effect of either death or disability, it can also form attritional injuries such as broken bones and tendons or visceral bruises.

Seeing that the opponent's firearms and artillery skills were a little tricky, Hun Tai Ji Hei and Bo Lie reacted in a very timely manner, and quickly ordered the entire army to advance as quickly as possible. and spread out as far as possible from a mile apart from the man who pushed the shield. At a closer distance, he dodged in the blind spot of the fire brought by the car shield.

At the same time, the infantry covering the cavalry also began to approach as close as possible to launch light artillery fire, interfering with and suppressing the opponent's firepower as much as possible, thus finally forming a "battlefield maze wall" that could barely wrap the opponent

With the exception of the artillerymen, who were responsible for firing from a distance, and some of the gunners, who were responsible for suppressing the main force of Jianzhou in the direction of the approaching car shield, most of the gunners had a heavy task, so they had to deliver the most efficient blows to the opponent at the most advantageous distance. Therefore, in the face of the luring attack of the Jianzhou armored stragglers at a distance of about a mile, they did not fire.

And when the straggler wall outflanked by the Jianzhou army from the flank, and the scattered cavalry drawn out, began to approach to a distance of about 200 paces, the gunners opened fire unexpectedly. The distance of 200 paces and about 300 meters is also significantly farther than the effective firing distance of most individual light firearms in this era. For the gunners who can reach a muzzle velocity of 400 meters per second under the standard of strong charge, it is also an extreme range to ensure sufficient armor-piercing power and hit rate, but even so, the violent projectiles still smashed into the crowd one after another with unimaginable power and hit rate. A round of fire from about 600 guns of the two battalions almost caused more than 300 Jianzhou armored infantry to be completely knocked to the ground under the powerful projectiles, and they were either killed or maimed.

When many Niu Lu Zuo leaders thought that this was just a "three-plate axe" routine, the human wall composed of the infantry team was lowered to cover it, and the cavalry behind launched a cavalry and shooting at the fastest speed to suppress it. The guns, which seemed to have been fully fired, did not fire in turns, and after about a third of a minute, when the enemy cavalry had just rushed to a distance of about 100 paces, another round of fierce fire was launched.

At this distance, in the face of the cavalry target that rushed over, more than 600 raised cannons defeated at least 300 horsemen and more than 200 horsemen in almost a single round of fire, and the momentum of the entire team's attack was stunned. The power, range, and even rate of fire of this kind of cannon fire seem to be significantly higher than that of the Western muskets or turtledoves of this era.

Of course, this is not without a price. It is okay for Western Europe in this era to let the body tube of about 20 kilograms exert the power of 8,000 joules of kinetic energy, but for the Ming Dynasty of this era, even if they are all soldiers themselves, and the craftsmen who are not inferior to Jianzhou are still in the two rounds of firing a total of more than 1,000 shots, there were several explosions, and seven or eight people were killed. However, Xiao Xuan reminded the officers of the firearms team to continue to fire with this standard charge. Xiao Xuan believed that after a year's combat and training, as long as they could kill and injure an enemy of sufficient scale, the teenagers would be able to bear the risk of a small number of explosions. In the case of general armor and a certain amount of preparation for cannon shooting, the damage caused by the explosion is also minimized.

Seeing that this is not much inferior to the firepower of those Western-style unknown battalions before. After all, Hei Huan Bolie ordered the infantry and cavalry that had just outflanked the enemy to respond to the enemy in a more dispersed formation, and to withdraw as much as possible from the range of the enemy's artillery fire. Only when the main attacking force in the direction of the shield cart puts enough pressure on the opponent, the elite group with the cooperation of ordinary cavalry infantry may be able to deal a fatal blow to the opponent.

Fortunately, after bearing the cost of nearly 1,000 casualties, the shield wall composed of shield vehicles that stretched for about 150 steps had approached a position of about a mile. Most of the heavy shotguns fired from the large corners of the gun can be effectively covered. The casualty density of the Jianzhou army also dropped sharply at this time, and if it advanced a little further, the Jianzhou artillery behind the shield car that had already been prepared would be the first to suppress it with fierce firepower.

(End of chapter)