"Infantry landing!"

"Hurry up!"

"Springboard! Springboard set up! ”

"The second company has landed!"

"One row of guards, three rows of cover, two rows of dock cleaning!"

With the terrible whistle and the sound of a hustle and bustle, on the north shore of the pier outside Liuzhou City, the infantry of the mountain village rushed to land here, which was less than two kilometers away from the outer city wall of Liuzhou, and the soldiers with good eyesight could even see the panicked figures flashing on the west tower...... The villagers who lived near the pier on the north shore buzzed when they saw this scene, and the whole scene was a mess of crying fathers and mothers......

At the beginning of the operation, the commanders repeatedly warned that the beginning of the landing was the most dangerous period, and that it was necessary to quickly set up all the facilities for the landing of the follow-up troops, so that the large troops in the back could quickly land to form an offensive and defensive combat force.

Fortunately, there was no chaos in the whole landing operation, and there was no defender of Liuzhou City to attack, maybe the other party was caught off guard, or it was possible that the big war ship was using the bed crossbow on the ship to throw small bombs to the Xiying in the outer city to disturb the other party, no matter what, there was no major problem with the landing, but a few soldiers who accidentally fell into the water were quickly picked up and sent to the tent set up to change clothes and drink hot ginger soup.

The infantry carried by more than 30 ships landed ashore to form a defense system of three companies, which was enough to ensure the defense capability of subsequent landing operations. After the infantry's defense system was established, the remaining ships began to dock one by one as planned, from light mountain cannons and specially improved shotgun ammunition, to barbed wire and angle iron for erection produced by the wire drawing factory, and finally four breech guns with a caliber of 12 centimeters and a total weight of 1,000 kilograms after assembly were disassembled and transported ashore!

When all the supplies that arrived on the ships together, as well as the militia companies that came with the ships, the time had come to 10:50 in the morning, during this period, although the city of Liuzhou was tossed and turned for a while, the defenders still sent a number of small forces to test after calming down, but these teams were blocked by the defending infantry from afar, and two of the bold guys tried to use the terrain to launch a surprise attack, But before they could taste the power of barbed wire, they were fired from a platoon of guns and dropped to the ground.

The unloaded ships began to turn around and return upriver to carry more supplies, while the three mechanically powered ships remained behind to block the river and ensure that the boats of the Liuzhou Water Camp would not interfere with or hinder the entire operation. In the past few hours of landing, in addition to the big ship being throwing bombs at the west camp of Liuzhou Outer City, the other two small speedboats have also cleaned up several large and small boats of the Liuzhou Water Camp, and the mechanical thermal power allows them to have sufficient mobility to keep a certain distance from the enemy ships, and under the arbitrary adjustable separation distance, the two soldiers in charge of attacking on each speedboat can swagger and use various postures to accurately smash the 60-millimeter small bomb on the head or any part of the waterline of the enemy's hull...... Three mechanically thermally powered ships remained, but if you thought the returning fleet would be easy to bully, you'd die a miserable death, and the ten soldiers who were also escorted with the ships with short grenadier weapons were hoping that there would be an eyeless fool to give them something to do......

The departure of the fleet seemed to have no way back for those flowery soldiers, but in this way, the defenders of Liuzhou City did not dare to launch an attack, and even the night guards of the peripheral reconnaissance were much more honest, and the allusion of the last battle had already clearly told everyone that these people were not to be messed with......

"Shi Cheng, how far do you say the artillery on the shelf on the tower can hit?"

Putting down the monoculars produced by the mountain village, Luo Dan looked at the teacher's binoculars hanging on Huang Shicheng's chest with some nostalgia, although the mountain village has developed good quality glass for optical equipment, but because of the difference in natural quality and grinding process compared with later products, this monocular can only be said to make the telescope produced by foreign devils in this era become garbage.

"I don't know! Judging from the intelligence data, the artillery in the city is not a Hongyi cannon, it is estimated that it is either a Franc machine or a small cannon, and the teacher told me that the range of this kind of artillery can be 500 to 800 meters, which is already good, and it depends on whether it is made in Guangdong or the origin of the red-haired devil...... If the intelligence information shows that the cannon body is more than one zhang, that is, the three-meter-long Hongyi cannon...... Then our landing point won't be located here, and the maximum range of that thing can be up to 5,000 meters! ”

Huang Shicheng shook his head and said that he could not observe the effective range of the other party with the naked eye, because the quality of artillery in the Ming Dynasty was very different, especially the iron ore in China with a high sulfur content was brittle, and if it was made in coal mines, it was brittle because of the sulfides in the coal, so the artillery cast in Guangdong was made of charcoal as fuel because of more wood, which reduced the sulfur content. And it was customized by the special appropriation of the Ming Dynasty. (Note: The sulfur content of this artillery material is from the book reviews of other works and some ancient books, so don't blame you if there are mistakes)

"That's it......" Luo Dan, who couldn't get an accurate answer, grinned and said that it hurt a little, and the military policy of knowing himself and the other made Luo Dan very eager to know all the information that the other party could threaten him, and after rolling his eyes, he stabbed Huang Shicheng with his elbow and whispered: "Or, use your heavy artillery to stab the other party to test and ......"

After working with Luo Dan for a few years, Huang Shicheng naturally understands what this big brother means, anyway, he is idle and has nothing to do, so why not bombard him with a few shots? !

"Wait!"

Huang Shicheng, who was worried that he would have to wait for the second wave of ships to land before launching the final attack, dropped his coat and a word, rolled up his sleeves and ran to his heavy artillery position. Under his order, the artillerymen quickly advanced the four heavy guns to the front of the defensive position, took out the ammunition from the ammunition box and loaded it into several heavy guns, with the familiar sound of cannons, the four heavy guns used for the first time in actual combat spouted twelve pounds of spherical solid iron bullets, the length of the cannon body of more than two meters made the cannon diameter ratio reach seventeen times the caliber ratio, such a caliber ratio also made the shells fly out of the cannon muzzle at a muzzle velocity of more than 460 meters per second, Piercing through the air, with a whistling sound and blazing heat, it smashed viciously on the city walls and towers 1,500 meters away......

"I rub!! This accuracy is okay......"

Looking at the movement caused by the four solid iron bullets on the Xiqiao Tower and the city wall, Luo Dan grinned and expressed his comfort, but when Huang Shicheng fired two rounds in one minute, Luo Dan began to shout for the little brother to stop......

"What are you doing! I'm playing high......"

Huang Shicheng, who was stopped by Luo Dan from pulling the cannon rope, was very unhappy to look at the brother who crawled to his side to stop himself from firing.

"Please, stop fighting! You bombarded the entire western city wall and the tower twice at this speed!! The defenders of Liuzhou have not fired their artillery until now, how can I test the range and power of the opponent's artillery......"

Luo Dan pulled the little brother, his voice was a little anxious and changed his tone, this little brother is good at everything, but he forgets everything that is easy to get excited after the cannon is fired......

"Oh...... Oh yes...... I forgot about it when I heard the cannon......"

Huang Shicheng had a row of thighs, I don't know if he was really stupid or pretending to be stupid to say this sentence that made Luo Dan almost fall on his head...... This little brother, how special is it that he doesn't feel at ease......

This kind of heavy artillery seems to be very large, the height of the two iron wheels is more than 1.4 meters, and the weight is more than a ton, but this feeling is a bit bulky artillery, in fact, under the help of skilled artillery, it can shell the enemy at a rate of two shells per minute, and if the artillerymen want to bombard the enemy continuously, it will drop to a rate of one round per minute, so that the barrel can be fully cooled and can continue to fire for a long time; Of course, it would be better if it was reduced to one shot every two to three minutes. And if the enemy infantry swarms and shortens the distance between themselves and the artillery position to less than three hundred meters, the artillerymen will continue to fire shotguns at a high rate of four rounds per minute until one of them turns and flees or is killed, as described in the manual.

Just as Luo Dan and Huang Shicheng were pulling, the artillery of the defenders on the city wall in the distance finally opened fire, and the sound of the cannon on the opposite side made the attention of the two people all turn to the front, only to see the first cluster of mud splashed at a distance of about 700 meters from the city wall......

"About 700 to 1,100 meters......"

After waiting for more than ten minutes, looking at the various first landing points of the opponent's artillery projectiles and the subsequent ejection rolling distance, not only Huang Shicheng and Luo Dan, but also all the officers and artillerymen estimated the maximum range of the opponent through the ranging methods they had learned......

"Brother Luo......" Huang Shicheng rubbed his hands, grinned and showed a look of asking for others, and placed it in front of Luo Dan.

"What's the matter?!" Luo Dan looked at the appearance of this little brother and little brother, and his teeth ached, and he had nothing to do, and it was no good thing to be annihilated or stolen!

"This ...... You see, although we tried to find out the range of each other's artillery, I just played with a few rounds of solid ammunition, or ...... How many more time-lapse flowering rounds shall I use to test the power? ......" Huang Shicheng tried his best to smile the most, but in the eyes of Luo Dan and the infantry officers next to him...... No matter how you look at it, it makes people want to give him such two punches......

Hearing the request of the little brother and junior brother, Luo Dan almost knelt down for the other party without a plop, rolled his eyes and organized the words, Luo Dan squeezed out a few words from between his teeth:

"Brother, leave some scum for our infantry and get some combat exploits......" (To be continued.) )