Chapter 465: The Deterrent Power of Grapeballs

At the time of Meng Xia's shooting, the soldiers of the artillery battalion, .

After the previous victories, the soldiers of the artillery battalion were full of confidence and determined to further exert the power of the god of war and teach the incoming Tartars a hard lesson. Dare to go to Shandong to spread wild, do you think Shandong is so easy to come? Now that you're here, don't go back!

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

Grapeshells were constantly being thrown out of the muzzle, bursting out with a large amount of fire. There was a deafening loud bang that shook the city wall and caused dust to fall continuously. The soldiers of the Tiger Army standing next to the cannon could clearly feel the shock of this powerful force.

After flying a distance of more than 100 zhang, the grape bullets spread out and became a large number of marbles, which landed in the ranks of the Tartars. The tartars who rushed up were beaten by marbles and crawled and fell. Some died on the spot, while others writhed on the ground in agony. Everyone's body is bubbling and bleeding outward. There are also mouths foaming at the mouth, which is miserable.

The land, which had been dried by the sun, was once again soaked in blood as if it were a muddy pool. The Tartar who rushed up from behind, stepped on the muddy bloody ground, and the speed could not be fast at all. Even, if you are not careful, you will fall. After someone fell, he finally got up and found that he had become a bloody man, and his body was all bloody and wet dirt.

The ground was littered with weapons, swords, bows and arrows, as long as you could imagine. The most unfortunate thing is to be stabbed by these swords when you fall, or even directly stabbed to death. There are no shortage of such examples. Some arrows are upward, and after falling directly, if the angle is just right, the arrow will directly penetrate the human body.

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

As the Wyvern Cannon continued to roar, more marbles fell.

The speed at which these marbles were fired by the cannon was astonishing, and the lethality was no less powerful than that of Minnie. Unless they are white-armored soldiers or red-armored soldiers, they wear iron armor and can remove some of the lethality of marbles. Otherwise, ordinary leather armor, hit by marbles, is basically the result of either death or injury.

In fact, even if the iron armor is hit by marbles, the damage is very large. Not all iron armor can withstand the huge energy carried by marbles. Some of the iron armor was directly shattered, and the fragments of the iron armor pierced deeply into the human body, which was also fatal damage. Some of the tartars were hit with marbles in their helmets, and the helmets did not break, but the people died, that is, they were stoned alive.

The marbles flying all over the sky obviously caused great psychological pressure on the Tartars. The casualties caused by marbles are not actually the most fatal. What's worse is that no one knows where these marbles will fall from or how to avoid them. No matter how the tartar ran or how he dodged, in the end, he could not completely avoid the greeting of marbles.

Many Tartars ran and fell. After falling, he could no longer find the marbles that hit him. Unless it's marbles that stay in their bodies. Even to death, it is not clear how he was killed. Of course, there were more wounded Tartars. After all, the marbles are not Mini bullets, and the distance is far away, and the possibility of being fatal with one hit is slightly less.

"Speed up!"

"Speed up!"

"Speed up!"

Haninga hurriedly roared.

The best way to deal with the defenders' artillery is, of course, to get close to the bottom of the city walls. Ordinary cannons have a shooting dead end, and the bottom of the city wall is the largest shooting dead end. At a distance of 20 zhang, the Franc cannon was completely ineffective. As for the shooting dead angle of the Hongyi cannon, it is even larger, at least more than 30 zhang.

In the past, the Tartars were about ten zhang away from the city wall, avoiding direct artillery fire and constantly shooting arrows upward. Since there was still a distance of ten zhang from the city wall, it was difficult for the defenders at the head of the city to hurt them even if they threw wood, Molotov cocktails, boiling oil, and the like downward. Therefore, once the ladder is erected, they can ascend the city in large numbers.

The surviving Tartars swarmed to the bottom of the city wall with all their strength. However, the corpses of the rebels on the ground, as well as the muddy bloody paths, hindered their progress. Forcing them to stay longer under the guns of the Tiger Army. In such a situation, the longer they are exposed, the more likely they are to suffer a devastating blow.

In some places, they had to change their route to avoid obstacles on the ground. For example, in a relatively narrow place, the tartars had to gather together with each other. It was a completely unconscious action, and the Tartar didn't notice anything wrong with it. However, for the artillery fighters of the Tiger Army, such a route is very valuable.

"Three degrees to the left!"

"One hundred and twenty feet away!"

Xu Ziwen said calmly.

The two Wyvern cannons beside him hurriedly adjusted the shooting angle and distance.

On the top of the Wyvern Cannon, there is a front sight and a light door, which can be used to adjust the angle and range. These are not Sun Qinkai's inventions, but Xu Guangqi's inventions. In the past, there were no aiming tools, and angles and distances could only be measured according to the gunner's estimates. The Franc machine artillery that the Ming army bought from the Portuguese also did not have a crosshairs and a light door. Until now, many Franc machine guns did not have a crosshair and a light door on it.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, Xu Guangqi himself invented the front sight and the illumination gate, which were installed on these artillery. Since then, the front sight and the light door have gradually become the standard equipment of the Ming army's artillery. It has to be said that with the crosshair and the illumination, the hit rate of the cannon has been greatly improved. Ning Yuan's Hongyi cannon was able to hit the vicinity of Nurhachi, also because of the crosshair and the door. This is an important condition for the gradual dominance of artillery on the battlefield.

Three degrees to the left, at a distance of one hundred and twenty zhang, the ranks of Tartars were relatively dense, and there were often thirty or forty Tartars crowded together. Such a target is the best choice for grapeshotuncing to exert its power. The lethality of grapeshot is linked to the density of the target, and the denser the target's personnel, the greater the destructive power produced by the marbles. Xu Ziwen wanted to kill and injure the living force of the Tartars as much as possible, and he was responsible for selecting the most dense places for the Tartars to fire.

After adjusting the angle and distance, the two Wyvern cannons were fired one after the other.

"Tom!"

"Tom!"

Two cannons rang out, and two grapeshells were fired.

At the place where the shells fell, it seemed to be raining, and the marbles fell in the middle of the group of tartars, and suddenly brought a bloody rain. Nearby Tartars fell to the ground screaming. Due to the inertia of running, the fallen Tartars slid through the muddy bloody field, and finally mixed with the corpses of other people, and could not be distinguished at all. The road, which was originally wide, was suddenly completely blocked by the dead and wounded. Only a very small number of people were covered in blood and still rushed upwards without fear of death.

"Blossom Bomb!"

Seeing his subordinates fall almost in pieces, Haninga was slightly stunned.

Such large casualties are absolutely rare for the Tartars. In the long battle, the Tartars have summed up a set of ways to avoid the artillery fire of the Ming army, that is, try not to attack towns with a large number of artillery. The flowering bombs used by the Ming army once caused great damage to the Tartars. Later, the Tartars avoided such towns as much as possible. For example, on the Ningjin front, the Tartars never attacked head-on.

The armor of the Tartars, in front of the cannons, was as weak as paper. The last two invasions of the Tartars have cleverly avoided the front line of Shanhaiguan and avoided the places where the Ming army's artillery was dense. However, Haninga never thought that such a small place in Huangxian County would have so many cannons, and the power of the cannons was still so big.

"Damn, it's not a flowering bomb!"

"It's a bullet!"

Immediately, Haninga reacted.

"Spread out!"

Haninga had to scream.

He knew the power of grape bombs. For a dense crowd, the power of the sub-munition is indeed great. The powerful Dajin Army never dared to attack the Ningjin front line head-on, because it was afraid of such artillery fire. The sub-munitions fired by the Hongyi cannon are even more terrifying than the flowering bullets. In the face of such artillery fire, no number of lives are enough.

The ranks of the Tartars began to disperse gradually. After they were baptized by the guns of the Tiger Army for a while, their numbers had decreased considerably. A considerable part of the tartars are now lying on the ground. When everyone dispersed and grapeshotfire fell, there were not many targets that could be enveloped.

"Use a chainball!"

"Bombard the minions behind!"

"Knock out their siege weapons!"

Liu Chenzi quickly made adjustments to the shelling.

The Tartars in front scattered, but the servant army behind could not disperse. Because, those servant troops carried wooden ladders, and the speed of movement was relatively slow. If the speed is slow, it is easy to crowd together. At the same time, due to the large number of corpses left on the battlefield, the roads were seriously blocked, which also made it impossible for them to disperse completely. In some places, the corpses were even stacked on top of each other, and they had to go around next to the pile of corpses. Unconsciously, their team became very dense.

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

The Wyvern adjusted its range and fired at the minions behind.

This time, the Wyvern Cannon fired an even more terrifying chain bullet.

"Poof!"

A group of minions were hit by chain bullets, and a large amount of blood rain erupted. A servant soldier in front of him was directly smashed to pieces by the spinning and flying chain bullets, and he could no longer distinguish whether it was a human body. The two servant troops in the back were also cut off by chain bullets, which was miserable. Eventually, the weakened chain bullet hit the skull of a servant army, and the chain was stuck in it, never moving again.

"Poof!"

A group of servants next to him were even more miserable after being hit by chain bullets. There were at least seven or eight of them, and they were swept away by the chain bullets, and each of them lost half of their bodies. The mutilated limbs were swept directly to an unknown corner by the chain bullet. The wooden ladder they were carrying was also swept by chain bullets and broken in two on the spot. The flying sawdust turned into a killing weapon, splashing into the bodies of the surrounding servants, causing even greater casualties.

There are also soldiers of the servant army, who were directly hit in the head by the chain ball of the chain bullet, and the effect is even more terrifying. I only heard a loud pop, and my entire head was completely smashed by the iron ball, and my brain and blood splashed more than a dozen feet away. There are also servant soldiers who were smashed directly below the neck by the iron ball. If you are hit in the chest by an iron ball, you will directly pierce a hole, and then you will be shattered by the chain.

The other servants were taken aback, hurriedly threw away the wooden ladder, and lay on the ground to take shelter. However, the servant army in front reacted, but the servant army behind did not realize the danger. Before they could react, more chain bombs fell, continuing to set off a large area of blood rain in Dalian.

To be sure, chain bullets are less lethal than grapeshot. Grape bombs are raindrops, one at a time, and the enveloping area is huge. The main purpose of chain bombs is to cut off the mast, sails, and ropes on the ship, and it is impossible to kill people in a large area. However, the lethal deterrent effect of chain bullets is much greater than that of grapeshot bullets.

People who are killed by grape bullets, they die when they die, nothing special. It's like being killed by a bullet. Chain bombs are different. The death of a person who was hit by a chain bullet was terrible. As long as it is a human being, when it sees such a tragic situation, it can't help but tremble. There is also the chirping sound of chain bullets spinning and flying in mid-air, which is also very suffocating.

"Poof!"

"Poof!"

"Poof!"

Countless servant armies were directly shattered by the fierce chain bullets.

Chain bullets can cut even the strongest masts, not to mention the fragile human body. As long as you don't get hit, as long as you get hit, it's either death or injury. It's okay to be killed directly, it's a hundred. Those who have broken their hands and feet, or even half of their bodies, can only moan on the ground.

The worst thing is that the servant army was cut off by the waist, as if they were tortured and cut in half, their bodies were divided into two, but their consciousness was still there. Some people's upper body even tries to get closer to the lower body, trying to reconnect the lower body. There is only one section on which he crawls desperately in the bloodfield, and you can imagine what kind of horror scene it is.

There were also chain bullets that hit the top of the corpse, directly shattering the corpse. The whole battlefield is like a huge meat basin, everyone is meat, and the chain bullet is a machine that breaks the meat. The shattered flesh was poured on the ground, covering every inch of the land, and there was no more gap.

Liu Chenzi's meaning was to break those wooden ladders with chain bullets, and as a result, more people were hit by chain bullets. It's also a crooked hit. Compared to grape bullet marbles, people who are hit by chain bullets are obviously much more miserable and have a stronger sense of fear. These servants from North Korea were not afraid of death without the Tartars, and the great power of the chain bullets was really that all of them threw away the wooden ladder and lay on the ground at once.