Hongyi cannon is the general name of the European front-loading smoothbore cannon in the Ming Dynasty, its size is different, the small one is even one or two hundred catties, the big ones are like the ones on the head of the city, and the huge cannons that were specially transported to destroy the city wall of Guangzhou are 10,000 catties, and the effective firing range has reached an astonishing three miles. Compared with the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Chen Wen has seen before, except for the few doors that Jin Li brought to bombard the fortress, there is not a single one that can compare with these, not to mention that Shang Kexi is still condescending now.

The 10,000-jin Hongyi cannon in the head of Guangzhou City is extremely powerful and has a long firing range, which is much better than the Hongyi cannon brought by Chen Wen, not to mention the mortar cannon with the same caliber and charge that is closer in range due to the greater arc of the ballistic curve.

The mortar cannon used by the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang is specially made for siege, the caliber is huge, and the charge is also amazing, and its design not only uses the technology of adding iron hoops to the artillery in the Ming Dynasty to strengthen the cannon body, but also has some of the mortar design concepts that Chen Wen has seen on the Internet before.

The combination of Chinese and Western, coupled with a more advanced and purposeful design concept, coupled with the advantages of artillery aiming technology and technologies such as granulated gunpowder and fixed charge packs, made the mortars used by the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang not inferior to those small-caliber Hongyi guns in terms of range. But in the face of such a huge cannon, it is still far inferior.

In this case, it is necessary to either carry the opponent's artillery bombardment and confront the defenders, or use some means to evade the defenders' artillery bombardment.

According to the report of the Guangzhou Station of the Military Intelligence Department, these are the Hongyi cannons that Shang Kexi waited for in October during the siege of Guangzhou, and their power was so great that it took only one day to collapse the city wall of Guangzhou, which is not terrifying. Later, Geng Jimao moved to the town, and Shang Kexi did not let his "virtuous nephew" take the giant cannon to fight Zheng Chenggong.

Of course, the importance of Guangzhou is self-evident, and the Manchu high-level also tended to use huge cannons to defend Guangzhou, in order to strengthen the ability to defend against the Ming army in Fujian and the Ming army in the southwest, and the result should now be on Chen Wen's body.

It's a pity that Chen Wen's tricks can be described as varied. Now that the range of the defenders' Hongyi artillery has long been included in the plan of the General Staff Department, and even the data of the thickened walls and forts built by Shang Kexi for those Hongyi cannons have long been known, so there is no need to carry the artillery bombardment and cause more damage.

Sun Wuzi said: The husband is the victor without a fight, and he has to count a lot; The temple is not victorious without a fight, and it is considered to be less. More is better than nothing!

That's exactly what it means.

The artillery of the defenders at the head of the city was aimed and loaded, and with Shang Kexi's order, they opened fire on the artillery positions outside the city. The huge cannonballs whistled away, and the recoil alone made Shang Kexi feel that the city wall seemed to shake, this was still a fort specially built for these 10,000-pound heavy cannons, if it was on other city walls, I was afraid that it would not take a few cannon bricks to shake down a few pieces first.

These artillery crews are even more professionally trained, and the skills that Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming learned in Dengzhou should basically be on them, and after aiming, the accuracy is naturally better than that of other artillery crews.

The shells flew out, and the angles were specially adjusted. The first shell crossed a parabola, and then smashed heavily on the half-moon bunker, and immediately shook like a mountain, even if there was the earth as a carrier, it was not inferior to the head of the city, so that the artillery crew behind the bunker subconsciously went to support a cannon, and the anti-cannon deviated from the good aiming angle.

In the first round of shelling, the hit rate of the Hongyi artillery was good, but Shang Kexi was not satisfied. The reason is very simple, there are only a few cannons in total, and there are twenty-two artillery bunkers scattered on the battlefield on the Ming army's side, but they all point to the city wall of Dongcheng. In the first round of these shells, one shell hit the bunker, one shell flew far behind the artillery position, and the others all landed on the ground in front of the bunker.

The Ming army suffered no casualties, which was difficult for Shang Kexi to accept. What he needed was to use the range advantage to knock out the mortar or a large number of anti-personnel artillery, so as to reduce the possibility of the walls being bombarded. But now this structure is much worse than he expected.

Shang Kexi is not unaware that the hit rate just now is already close to super-level performance, and there is aiming technology, but the first shot is generally used for test firing, and the artillery is further adjusted through test firing. But now the reality needs to be that the red cannon at the head of the city should be cleared out of the mortar outside the city as soon as possible, because no one knows better than Shang Kexi the consequences of the city wall of Guangzhou City once it is blown down!

The first round of shelling of the giant Hongyi cannon was fruitless, and the various artillery crews almost immediately entered the steps of resetting, debris removal, aiming, and loading. The most well-trained British artillerymen of the era also needed up to two minutes to use these guns, and these gunners, who had little chance of training with live ammunition on a daily basis, were familiar with the steps, but the speed was much slower.

However, the artillery of the defenders was condescending, and in addition to these huge cannons, there were also some Hongyi cannons that relied on the advantage of height to cover part of the range of the Ming army's mortar positions.

The giant cannon was silent, and more than a dozen Hongyi cannons opened fire one after another. Shells rained down from the city, and a large number of shells deviated a lot due to test firing, but some still flew over the artillery positions. At this moment, the bunker was as effective as ever, almost perfectly withstanding the bombardment of all shells. During this period, only one shell actually hit the artillery position, but it was only a false alarm, and the donkey cart that had come with the shells before was blown to pieces.

"Auxiliaries, go and take care of that donkey, don't let it make trouble for us!"

With a loud shout, Yi Chenxi, the commander of this artillery group, continued his work of aiming and ranging. Yi Chenxi's surname is Yi, but he has nothing to do with Sun Yu's wife. He was a carpenter in the capital of Huguangyue Prefecture, hiding from the war and entering the mountains of western Jiangxi. However, compared to Huang Chengming, who was also a person from Huguang, he was pulled by the Green Battalion as an auxiliary soldier when Daniel Zhang attacked the Yunxiao Mountain Rebel Army, and in the end, Chen Wen defeated Hong Chengqian to save his life.

It is natural to know that he wants to repay his kindness, and he also deeply hates those Qing troops who killed people and set fires in his hometown, and then threw himself into the banner of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang. Perhaps he was born as a carpenter, and this new recruit, who could not read a single character, had a strong talent for artillery aiming and ranging, and after two years of training and combat, he became the commander of this artillery group after the batch of mortars was produced at the end of last year.

Behind the bunker, through the openings reserved for observation and aiming, Yi Chenxi skillfully fiddled with the guys in his hands, whether it was a telescope, or a gauge, a ruler and a measuring plate, these tools were just like a part of his body, and it didn't take long to calculate the angle needed for the mortar.

"The direction is correct, the muzzle of the gun is raised two degrees."

The order was given, and the gunners responded with practical actions. It had been a long time since they had been in position, but the brightness was still too short to carry out the aiming operation. What's more, the mortars they used were more troublesome than cannons in aiming and ranging, and they took up more time to load, but they were not as fast as the Hongyi artillery groups on the city, which were still a little scrambling.

After two rounds of shelling, the artillery at the head of the city was completely muted, and it would take a minute or two to resume firing. During this time, various artillery groups, including Yi Chenxi, successively completed the aiming operation and waved flags to the Ming army.

"Let's get started."

Seeing that the Qing army in the city took advantage of the difference in artillery to achieve faster shooting, especially those shells bombarding the artillery positions of the Ming army, even if there was a cover, Chen Wen still felt helpless by this kind of passive beating for the time being.

The order was given, the flag was waved, and the artillery crews on the front line who received the order lit their fuses one after another, and the sparks drilled into the barrels as if frightened, and at the same time that everyone had already completed the retreat and blocked their ears, there was a loud bang, and at the same time, the huge shells that required several loaders to carry with special tools when loading suddenly jumped into the sky.

The shells flew high into the sky between the artillery positions and the city of Canton, and after reaching almost an intermediate point, gravity overwhelmed the rising force of the gunpowder and flew diagonally towards the city of Canton diagonally below. There was a huge kinetic energy generated by the moment the gunpowder burned, and when it fell, it was blessed by gravitational acceleration, and the huge cannonball fell sharply, only to smash heavily on the turret of the 10,000-jin Hongyi cannon that Shang Kexi had touched yesterday.

A huge tremor came, and the defenders on the left side of the city wall could barely stand on their feet, and almost fell from the top of the city. But when they regained their footing, not only was the battery missing, but even the cannon was gone, and all that remained was the shattered and splattered masonry of the battery, the stumps, blood, and corpses of the crew members. As for the cannon cannon, the original sturdy gun carriage had long since turned into a pile of debris and splashed all over the ground.

In an instant, the horror began to spread. It wasn't for no one to see the scene just now, but the huge cannonball that fell from the sky not only hit the cannon accurately, but even smashed the barrel off the gun truck. The barrel of the cannon did not fly very high, and only slightly jumped up on the top of the city and fell into the moat outside the city, and the splash of water, river fish, and even sludge poured on the heads of the defenders only interrupted their astonishment.

Screams of terror rang out at the top of the city, and the survivors on the left side of the fort either collapsed to the ground and could no longer move, or they all ran around like crazy. It was just a cannonball, and chaos broke out, and the most terrifying thing was that the Ming army did not have only one mortar outside the city, but as many as twenty-two!

The first cannon was so lucky, but the next shells also had more scientific aiming technology, some bombarded outside the city, and some flew directly into the city, causing greater panic and destruction, while the rest were either smashed on the wall of the city wall, or hit the gun emplacements and soldiers on the city wall, and even if they just smashed on the city wall, the damage to the wall was visible to the naked eye.

In an instant, the defenders' artillery crews that were still unscrupulously bombarding the artillery positions of the Ming army just now were on their backs, and a 10,000-pound cannon was directly hit, and three or four medium-sized Hongyi artillery crews were disabled and unable to fight again.

The losses of the defenders were not huge, but the contrast of the casualties destroyed their confidence in holding out in an instant. Especially seeing the ruins and broken walls on the wall, whether it is the sunken wall, the cracked wall, or the broken forts, women's walls and those stumps and broken arms, it can be said that it tortures the hearts of the defenders all the time.

There is already a big gap between the technical levels of the two sides, and the artillery of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies is not only superior in advanced artillery and aiming technology, such as fixed-charge powder packs and granular gunpowder, especially in the daily training of live ammunition, and the growth of artillery technology is not Shang Kexi's training gunpowder sold privately, and in wartime, it is almost entirely dependent on the feudal army artillery that eats the old guns and operates the artillery.

However, the first shell fired by Yi Chenxi's artillery crew was able to achieve such results, but the favor of God was still indispensable.

"It seems that God has been disgusted with Shang Kexi, this dog thief for a long time, and this time he will also help our Jiangsu and Zhejiang kings!"

Deciding to attack like this, the General Staff had already anticipated that the defenders would give priority to shelling artillery positions, so the first targets of these mortars were also set on those batteries and threatening Hongyi artillery positions.

In the first shot of the war, no matter how good the technology is, there is still a factor of test firing, and the hit rate of the shelling will continue to improve with the re-calibration after the shelling again and again. To be able to hit with one shot, the technique is excellent, and at the same time, it is necessary to have the blessing of the goddess of luck to achieve such a perfect effect, otherwise you can only keep approaching the target again and again.

What Brother Ma said is right, but it is a little less, God hates him. In my opinion, what is more important is that the 700,000 unjust souls in Guangzhou are now watching from the common mound not far away, and they must hope that justice can be served, even if it is just revenge! ”

Chen Wen once saw such a sentence on the Internet back then, saying that justice is belated justice and injustice, which is a proverb that refers to the rehabilitation of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases. The rehabilitation of unjust cases is a good thing, but what is more important is to put an end to the cause of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, and it is the intentional or unintentional negligence of law enforcers that leads to the wrongful treatment of goodness, and the physical and psychological harm is greater, and it cannot be erased at all.

However, the Guangzhou Massacre was not an unjust, false and wrongful case, the number of 700,000 victims was recorded by the Buddhist disciples who were responsible for carrying and burning the corpses, even if it was exaggerated to a certain extent, but it could not hide the fact that these traitors headed by Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Guangzhou people here for the Manchu Qing Dynasty!

The dead cannot be resurrected, and all Chen Wen can do for them is revenge, and he firmly believes that the hundreds of thousands of unjust souls in the common tomb outside the East City Gate are also eager for this revenge, this revenge that is three hundred and seventy-one years late.

"Justice may be late, but it will come. Our army is on the side of justice, so that our army can be invincible. Next, what other means does Shang Kexi have, just let the horse come! ”