There is an air of mystery in the dark night sky, and there are no stars or moon in sight, so it is no better to describe the night tonight than you can see your fingers.

Originally, the only thing to do on such a dark night was to sleep comfortably in the house, but on the path from Namhansan Fortress to the north, a large group of figures that looked black in the night were slowly moving forward. It was as if they were deliberately suppressing their movements, trying not to make a sound.

A deep voice sounded in the darkness, "Everyone work hard, keep up with the brothers in front, and be sure to transport these cannons to their destination before the fifth watch." ”

"My lord, these cannons are too heavy, you can allocate a few mules and horses to us, otherwise we will be exhausted even when we get to the ground." A lower voice rang out in the darkness.

"As I said a long time ago, all the mules and horses are used to transport cannonballs, and there is nothing extra to help us pull the cannons, we are on our own. If you are really tired to death when you get to the ground, I will receive your share of the bounty for you. ”

The deep voice still replied calmly, but it caused a burst of irrepressible laughter around him.

"Hehe, six monkeys, if you are tired of your peach blossoms, I will take care of her for you, you don't have to worry."

"By the way, the reward given by the general now is very high, enough for your peach to find a good family to marry, and you don't have to worry about the rest of her life." "Ahh ”

A low laugh rang out again.

"Alright, you all hurry up, if I don't arrive on time, I'll definitely peel you off before the general cuts off my head."

Amidst a burst of muffled shouting, the team continued to move forward slowly but firmly

At the same time, there was silence in the camp of the Qing army, which stretched for miles and was very open. Countless torches were lit on the periphery of the camp, illuminating the surrounding hundreds of paces. Every quarter of an hour, a patrol of 100 men walked near the barracks, and with the constant sentry posts walking around, the whole camp could be said to be heavily guarded, and any possible attempt to sneak up on the camp at night was minimized.

The war has developed to this day, and the story of attacking the camp at night only exists in the novel, not to mention the difficulty of marching in the dark, even if you get close to the enemy camp, you will be quickly discovered by the sentry, plus the perfect antlers, obstacles and fences in the camp, any general who wants to take advantage of the dark night to take advantage of the enemy camp must carefully weigh whether he can afford the risk of attacking the camp and destroying the whole army.

An auxiliary soldier in cotton armor stood lazily at the camp gate with a spear, and his other companion was already wandering half-asleep against the fence behind him.

The auxiliary soldier stretched his waist and said impatiently: "Damn, it's the fifth watch, why haven't those shifts come yet, I'm almost sleepy, the most fucking annoying shift." ”

As soon as his jail scratched his mouth, his companion, who had been squinting, said lazily, "That's not easy, as long as you upgrade to the infantry or waistcoat, you don't have to keep vigil." ”

"If Lao Tzu can be promoted to Bujia, you still need to say it, then the first one will clean you up and let you wash Lao Tzu's socks." The first auxiliaries to speak seemed to have a deep grudge against their companions, and let out vicious curses as soon as they opened their mouths.

The companion next to him smiled indifferently and said, "Hehe, you want to be promoted to the step armor?" Then wait for the Ming army to be brave enough to attack the camp! ”

"Let's go!"

Just as the auxiliary soldier laughed and canceled his companion, a faint explosion seemed to come from the front, and then there seemed to be a faint sound in the sky, and soon a vague black dot crossed the sky.

"What is this?"

Before the two auxiliaries at the door could figure out what was going on, a violent explosion sounded behind them.

"Boom Boom"

With a violent explosion, dazzling fires rose into the sky in the camp behind them, reflecting the originally dark and silent night sky red.

At the same time, the two auxiliaries, who were still in a daze, shouted loudly in trembling voices: "Enemy attack, enemy attack"

At the foot of a hill two miles away from the Qing army's camp, thirty thick and short bronze cannons were lined up, and hundreds of Ming gunners were nervously shelling the artillery.

This early artillery naturally did not have a hydraulic self-retreating tube like the artillery of later generations, and every time a shell was fired, the gun carriage and wheels had to retreat some distance with the gun barrel, and the sighter had to redirect his companion to push the gun back to its original position and aim again, while the gunner who had been standing aside for a long time would hold a round-headed mop and stick into the barrel of the gun after being dipped in clean water, and quickly clean up the remaining residue inside.

After the clean-up is completed, the other two loaders will each hold a round iron ball cannonball and a two-pound pack of standard firing charges and load them into the chamber.

Pang Gang, who came from later generations, naturally knew that improving the quality of artillery was important for strengthening the attack power of a unit, and he had also watched the training of artillery in this era, and the results made him shake his head, and the artillery of this era relied more on the experience and intuition of the gunners, which was too abstract in Pang Gang's view. But he was in a hurry, he had never been a soldier, and he naturally didn't know the training methods of modern artillery, so Pang Gang had to teach Dong Guo, the artillery battalion, a thousand households, that he knew something he knew, such as simple directions, heights, angles, etc., but he didn't expect this guy to really come up with a set of simple aiming and shooting methods after pondering for a few days.

At this time, Dong Guo stood at the back of the team with a small red flag to command.

"Eleven o'clock, twenty-one degrees in elevation, adjust the height direction!"

"Put!"

"Boom Boom"

A series of loud sounds rang out, and dozens of round iron-shelled shells quickly flew out of the barrel and rushed towards the front. This is a typical round flowering projectile, weighing about 9 pounds, is a hollow iron ball, containing 900 grams of gunpowder, after the explosion to form 5-12 shrapnel balls, the lethality is very amazing. There is a hole in the body of the projectile to contain a time fuse, because it is impossible to control which part of the spherical projectile hits the ground first when it lands, and the impact fuse cannot be used, so it can only explode naturally after the fuse is burned.

Although this kind of shell is very primitive in the eyes of later generations, this kind of shell is not cheap, especially when these shells are still cashed out with iron ore, tungsten ore and other things, which makes Pang Gang feel a little distressed, but in order to get rid of Amin's camp and go home quickly, Pang Gang still shook and cashed in 1,500 rounds of flowering shells for Dong Guo to squander and practice.

"Smack!"

In the camp of the Qing army, a round cannonball smashed into a tent of the Qing army with a roar, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers in the tent who were awakened by the sound of the explosion clearly saw a round iron pellet rolling and jumping on the ground with white smoke, although the Qing soldiers did not know what this thing was, but out of the intuition of the soldiers, they felt that this was definitely not a good thing.

They jumped up and were about to flee when the shell, which had just burned out of the fuse, exploded with a loud bang.

After the huge shock wave blew the small tent to pieces, the dozen or so people in the tent were all blown up into the sky.

The fierce explosion woke everyone in the Qing army camp, Amin walked out of the big tent under the escort of dozens of personal soldiers, looking at the shells and explosions that kept falling around, Amin's face became pale, and he muttered to himself: "What the hell is this, how far can it be pierced." ”

Amin was shocked, in his decades-long military career, he had seen countless kinds of artillery, what Franc machine, general cannon, mighty general cannon, and even a red-coated cannon weighing thousands of pounds, but he had never seen such an explosive cannonball.

As the huge explosion continued to sound, Amin saw that many warriors of the Qing Dynasty were engulfed in the explosion and flames, and many stumps and broken arms flew around in the explosion.

"Why? Why is this happening! Amin looked at the Qing soldiers scurrying around him in pain, and his heart was like a knife.

"Second Baylor, hurry up and gather the soldiers to retreat." At this time, Shuoto came out of nowhere, and he took Amin's hand and said, "Let's go, it's too late if you don't leave." ”

Amin closed his eyes in pain and shook his head, "It's too late, where can we go now in the dark?" Besides, since the Ming army can shell us, then they will definitely have an ambush outside, won't we go out of the camp at this time and throw ourselves into the net! ”

"Huh!"

Shuo Tuo yelled angrily: "I'm waiting for death here, and I'm waiting for death when I go out, so what else can we do?" ”

"Wait!" Amin, who gradually recovered from the shock, regained some of his senses, "I don't believe how long the Ming army's shells can fight, as long as they run out of shells, we will naturally be fine." But now you go and gather the warriors, get them in formation, and when the sky is dark, we'll withdraw our troops. ”

"Withdraw your troops!" Shuo Tuo was slightly stunned and nodded in understanding, now that the Ming army has such a terrifying weapon, before finding a way to deal with them, if the Ming army comes every night like this, who can stand it.

The shelling continued, and from the outside of the Qing army camp, the entire Qing army camp was in chaos, and the flames were constantly rising and tumbling there with the sound of explosions. In the northwest of the Qing army's camp, a Ming army of about 3,000 people was quietly lurking in the dense jungle, waiting for the arrival of prey

Thank you for the rewards of Ran Min Invincible, Little Pig is not bad, and Lang is with his classmates, thank you!

(To be continued)