An Jiangchen and Song Chengen looked at each other, and watched the Qin artillery team manipulating those terrifying-looking artillery.

The gun, with a dozen or twenty men waiting, laboriously pushed to the predetermined position, set it up, adjusted the height of the muzzle, cleared the barrel, and then loaded it with gunpowder and solid iron bullets that looked heavy.

It's not buckshot, it's iron.

It seems that this cannon is specially used to deal with the city wall that can't run away, so heavy, it should not be able to be used in field battles, and the field battles should be used in those relatively flexible and convenient vehicle-mounted Fulong machine guns, those cannons have more than a hundred guns in the hands of Qi Dayong, and the roar is estimated to be quite terrifying.

I heard that Xiao Ruxun, the first general of the Ming Dynasty, was good at using firearms, and mobilized more than 200 artillery pieces to destroy the Japanese and annihilate more than 200,000 Japanese in the Korean battle.

It is said that the Great Qin Five Roads marched into the army, with a total strength of 160,000, and there were more than 100 Furlong machines along the way, and the five roads together were not more than 600.

There are so many artillery, even if the power of a single piece is not very large, together, it is very terrifying, not to mention the power, the sound alone is scary enough.

It is said that in the early years of the Yongle Ye period of Hong Wu Ye, artillery guns and the like relied on sound and formation to deter the enemy, and the lethality was actually quite limited.

Later, during the Jiajing period, after the introduction of the Fran cannon and the bird gun into the Ming Dynasty, they also saw this kind of firearm, and found that this kind of firearm was indeed much stronger than the bowl mouth gun and the five thunder god machines.

But it's also quite limited.

But at the moment, this kind of giant cannon is too terrifying, just looking at it makes me feel infiltrating, and I don't know what kind of formation it will be when it roars later.

I'm afraid it can be as intimidating as thunder and lightning, if so, even if it can't hit two miles, it can still play its due role.

At least the opposing cavalry will be affected, and the horses will be extremely frightened.

"Prepare for it, the first round of test firing, determine the distance!"

The artillery officer shouted.

"Yes!"

The artillery team shouted in unison.

They are quite fond of this kind of thing that is not dangerous to shoot a live target, they can kill each other, and the opponent's weapon can't reach themselves and they can't threaten it, this feeling is not ordinary two pleasant.

And it should be said or not, the Banshu Army did not pay less attention to firearms, and it did introduce Fran cannons and bird guns.

But Yang Yinglong is not so wealthy, firearms are a money-burning thing, and he is not so good at paying attention to firearms, and he has not done the point where Xiao Ruxun has prescribed the research direction and cut other strange firearms one size fits all.

What three-eyed guns, four-eyed guns, a swarm of bees, divine fire flying crows, tiger squat cannons and bowl guns, etc., there are also very heavy general guns, Weiyuan guns, there are also bird guns, Fran machine guns, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di's early original handcuffs and big guns, etc.

This is a hodgepodge of early first-generation firearms and second-generation improved firearms.

This situation also widely existed in the Chinese army from the middle to late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, and there was basically no firearms unit that used one standard of firearms completely.

There was also one, however, after a series of concussive events after Mao Wenlong's death, that artillery unit surrendered to the Manchus.

Xiao Ruxun's large-scale efforts to develop more and more in a strange direction of the Ming Army's firearms research department, specifically in the two general directions of muskets and artillery, incidentally also put forward the concept of grenades, and recruited civilian firearms talents from all over the country to enrich the talent pool.

Yang Yinglong did not have this kind of consciousness and could not foresee the importance of the development of firearms, so while introducing new firearms, a large number of firearms from the previous generation were also retained, and because of the cumbersome operation, there were very few troops willing to use new firearms.

Like the Ming Liaodong Army, because they were used to using the three-eyed gun, they were suddenly asked to replace it with a bird gun, and they were still unwilling.

After all, the operation of the bird gun is much more troublesome than the three-eyed gun, and there is also the danger of exploding, and the Liaodong Army also knows how fragile the inferior firearms produced by the military industry department of the Ming army are.

Of course, Yang Yinglong's troops also knew that instead of using those new firearms that were not very stable, it was better for the old guys to make it easier.

So the situation became like this, on the wall of Luomengguan there were not only Furlong guns, but also Weiyuan cannons, as well as general cannons and bowl guns, and soldiers not only had bird guns in their hands, but also three-eyed guns and four-eyed guns, as well as soldiers who operated strange firearms such as divine fire crows.

Of course, there are more hand-to-hand combat troops armed with standard bows and crossbows, spears and knives.

The Banzhou army's hand-to-hand combat ability was not weak at all, and they were not afraid of hand-to-hand combat, but when they learned that the Qin army had killed, everyone had a nervous and panicked look on their faces.

There was no other reason, the news of the annihilation of the whole army in the three-way attack also reached Luomeng Pass, although Yang Yong personally went to the pass to lead the troops to guard, and put on a leading appearance, but they still couldn't help but panic.

This was the case with the old army, which did not have strict military rules and discipline and organization, and fought quite sharply against the wind, and once it encountered a setback, it immediately became cowardly, and did not have the courage to face difficulties.

They fought for the pay, for the food, for the women, not for anything else.

This is certainly a driving tactic, but an army that does not have strict military rules and discipline and is not organized is not a strong army in any way.

Once such an army encounters a stronger and more organized army, it will inevitably be defeated, which is the reason why the Qing army was defeated by the British army.

During the period of the First Crow, the comparison between the firearms of the Qing army and the British army was not too inferior, and the British army also praised the Qing army's artillery casting technology was very good.

Throughout the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the firearms and equipment of the Qing army was also slightly backward from the beginning to catch up later, after the Westernization Movement, the gap between the two sides in weapons almost no longer exists, and the weapons of European countries, no matter how new, the Qing army has equipment.

When the Beiyang Naval Division, the Nanyang Naval Division, and the Fujian Naval Division were established, the foreigners exclaimed that the Chinese Naval Division was the first navy in Asia and the eighth maritime force in the world.

The Qing army has never fallen behind in weaponry to the point of being crushed, but because of the qualitative gap between the feudal army under the old system and the modern army, the difference is not in weapons and equipment, but in some components needed by the army itself.

The Qin army under Xiao Ruxun is transforming in the direction of the modern army, which is a qualitative gap, and the army that fights for the sake of military pay and women can never understand why some armies will fight for some reason until the whole army is wiped out and does not collapse.

This is not an isolated case under the leadership of a single army or a single general, but a general phenomenon in the army of an entire country, and once it becomes a general phenomenon, it proves that this army has shaken off the old restrictions and completed its transformation.