You Shiwei watched the launch of the rocket in amazement, and had always heard about the mysterious weapon of the Jingbian Army, the rocket, and saw the real thing during the military parade, but he had always had doubts in his heart. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

He watched the rockets rise from the front of his phalanx, and then roared towards the enemy, the distance already amazed him, and then the power, every time it fell, the army formation around the thieves was in a panic, and no thief could resist the power of the rockets.

The people around him also inhaled in bursts, and Zheng Jiadong, the general soldier of Guyuan, muttered: "Donkey ball, how can you hit it so far?" ”

Gao Jie and his generals Hu Maozhen and Li Chengdong looked at each other blankly, especially Hu Maozhen's mouth was wide open, watching the rockets whistling in the air, and he said for a long time: "It's good, I'm afraid it's too expensive." ”

Chen Yongfu let out a happy sigh, Wang Dou's strength refreshed his senses one after another, but he had already decided to follow Marshal Wang Dou closely, the stronger the Jingbian army, the more honored he felt.

He said to the Gansu general soldier beside him: "With rockets, I am afraid that the form of war will be different in the future." ”

Ma Yi nodded vigorously, he is the grandson of the famous general Ma Fang, he has been influenced by the family, it can be said that after the door, according to him, the war is first slowly knocked in from the outside, and then hit the Chinese army, at this time the enemy is more than lucky.

This is also the advantage of the Hongyi cannon, which can hit far, and sometimes even hit the core of the front formation, bringing great panic to the enemy and shaking their military hearts.

However, the launch of the rocket at the moment is actually directly inside the core of the thief enemy, and even crosses their front formation, directly hitting their rear formation, which is really incredible.

Ma Yi saw a few rockets whizzing down on the core of the thieves' army, perhaps compared to the huge number of thieves, I don't know how many casualties, but Ma Yi imagined the panic of the thieves, that kind of insecurity, it was Ma Yi himself, and he didn't know what to do when he encountered this situation.

In short, it is these old generals of the Ming Dynasty, seeing the vast power of this new weapon, everyone's hearts throb, and they feel that the era of difference has come.

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Wen Fangliang looked at the rocket launch results with satisfaction, and the generals beside him were also smiling, this rocket was too sharp.

They saw with their own eyes that a salvo of 100 rockets had just landed in the camp of the thieves, and in the camp of the guns, there was instantly a large area of terrified shouts and chaos, and I don't know how many thieves and wolves rushed to scream, screaming and screaming, and the officers could not suppress the bullets.

Their panic is certain, needless to say, the thief car battalion is the Ming army that originally surrendered, no matter how well-equipped, there is no fighting spirit. Many of their battalions were the new troops who had surrendered, but they had long since corrupted and faded, and they could not resist in the face of powerful rockets, even light rockets.

There are also heavy rockets, which are launched with the same whistling, unlike light rockets, they need to find more valuable targets, so the car battalion soldiers in the front are not in their consideration, even the horse teams on the two wings of the thief army are basically not in their consideration.

They directly hit the core of their Chinese army, the cavalry of the three walls, and the perimeter of some big banners, although the distance is far away, but they basically fall in that direction, whether they can bomb a valuable target depends on the luck of their own side and the enemy.

At this time, they stopped four miles away, the military formation had stopped, and the rockets, as well as the heavy artillery that they were desperately pulling, would beat the thieves' artillery battalions and car battalions according to the situation, otherwise if the thieves' guns were still there, their own infantry might cause unnecessary losses.

Twenty Hongyi heavy cannons and thirty heavy mortars have been pulled up by horses and mules to various batteries, and they will be launched soon, and those rockets are still whistling.

Wen Fangliang Qinglong Army has two light rocket battalions in the position, each battalion has a hundred launch slots, a total of two hundred, they are divided into two layers of launches, the front and back are dislocated, one hundred in the front, one hundred in the rear, twenty steps apart, and then the front is scattered, and the rear is volleyed.

There was also a battalion of heavy rockets, twenty rocket vehicles, which went up to various batteries.

It was a large earthen platform about a foot high, and they were gathered together in a total of five gates, and the launch was mainly sanda, but if a valuable target was found, it would be loaded into three rockets in a car, or even a salvo, and fifteen heavy rockets would be launched at a time.

Smoke billowed, and the smoke from the rockets filled the front of the arrows, but the porters kept bringing in the ammunition from the wagons and placing them in the launch slots.

The rear battalion observers set up their artillery scopes and finally calculated the distance range of the target: "The distance is four miles and one hundred and sixty steps, the bullet is five and three degrees high, and the salvo is fired!" ”

All the headquarters observers, observers, and rocket commanders of the battalion shouted in unison: "The bomb is five and three degrees high, and it is fired in a salvo!" ”

The rocket handler moves the bipod, adjusts it to the corresponding scale direction on the arrow body, and the rocket length of each arrow cuts the corresponding fuse and inserts it at the head fuse opening.

This is a time-delay fuze, which can burn at a predetermined speed after being ignited, and in wartime, the length of the fuse is cut according to the corresponding data, so that it explodes at a predetermined distance as much as possible.

At this time, flowering bombs often had the problem of exploding early and exploding, but Wang Dou and others believed that the fuse would rather be long than short, and it was better to explode late than early.

It was blown up early, just a bright firework in the air, and if it exploded late, the enemy might have run away, but at this time it was about a strict military formation, it didn't matter if you ran, but the entire military formation collapsed, and it might be better than standing and being bombed.

And the rocket is more than a meter long, and the rear part is launched. The propellant was cast from fragile pig iron at the front, and the gunpowder was seven to ten pounds inside, and the heavy rocket charge was twenty to twenty-five pounds, which was a very staggering number.

Black powder is actually not small, mainly depends on how big the amount is, later generations said that the eight-way grenade exploded in half, that is because of the use of the captured Japanese grenade shell reloading, the strength is too high, and then changed back to cast with pig iron, the effect is very good, except for the larger size.

Moreover, there are prefabricated fragments when the front part of the rocket is cast, which is opened inside, and the rocket does not need to take into account the chamber pressure when launching, and there is no worry that the prefabricated fragments will affect the structure of the projectile body, resulting in an explosion in the gun chamber. Without recoil, it can be fired anytime and anywhere, which is a very good weapon.

Unless large-caliber live ammunition is fired, the Jingbian Army has considered slowly replacing mortar artillery with rockets, because even in low-pressure artillery such as mortar artillery, if prefabricated fragmentation flowering shells are used, it will have a negative effect, and the shells may explode in the barrel of the cannon in advance.

After the idea was opened, it was only the cost that restricted the development of rockets, after all, black powder and iron at this time were not cheap, especially many old-style generals even made gunpowder recipes were very primitive, and they also needed to be purified with a large number of eggs, and the cost of a pound of gunpowder was faster than one or two silver.

If Wang Dou fights like this, at least ten taels of silver for a rocket are gone, and no military general can afford to use it.

The battalion was once again ready for a rocket salvo, and the battalion observer shouted: "Fire!" ”

All the observers, observers, and rocket captains shouted, "Launch!" ”

The igniter of each arrow ignited, they first lit the fuse, and then the tail lead, the fire line hissed and burned, and suddenly the nozzles of each rocket spewed out a fire nearly a foot long, and the thick smoke shrouded the area around the rocket, and then the rockets took off into the air.

They dragged the long red tail flame and flew with a terrible scream, while the rocket continued to rotate under the action of the three inclined spirals installed in the tail, so that it could achieve a relatively stable and accurate effect when flying.

Another large field of rockets flew through the air, dragging flames as bright as fireworks, making an indescribable roar in the air, like falling meteors in the sky, flying towards their targets.

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In one of the artillery forts of the Shun army, this is their typical three-tier artillery fort, with five four-wheel grinding disc cannons at the top, then fifteen ordinary Hongyi cannons at the bottom, and thirty general Franc machine guns at the bottom. In order to prevent the artillery of the Jingbian Army, they also arranged a large number of earthen bags and bamboo baskets around the perimeter, but at this time, they ......

A gunner ran away in flames, he screamed miserably, ran wildly, and the people around him either couldn't dodge, or ran for their lives in the same panic, and the flames on the gunner's body rushed higher and higher, and finally turned his whole person into a big fireball.

The big fireball stumbled, letting out an indescribable wail, and everywhere it passed, things around him were constantly ignited, and suddenly he hit something, and then there was an earth-shattering explosion, and it was a series of explosions.

Finally a large mushroom cloud exploded throughout the fort, and the fierce flames were as blazing as the sun, and the smoke rolled into the air, and then everything in the fort was rising and flying. The rolled up barrels, wheels, and iron materials, with the help of powerful gunpowder, swept in all directions, and the waves of air set off were surging to the periphery.

Yang Shaofan and Gao Yigong got up from the tumbling ground, their horses were already frightened and didn't know where to go, and when the smoke cleared and the sound of collapse stopped, they looked at the fort again, which had been blown into a bare and smoking hole and scorched earth, and the pit was still scorched and full of blood.

There are also the soldiers of the Shun army chariot battalion and the battalion in the surrounding array, they are scattered in large pieces, dead and wounded, the corpses of human bodies and horses can be seen everywhere, as well as dumped chariots, scattered weapons and flags, etc.

They watched all this blankly, letting all kinds of pungent smells go straight to their nostrils, and they were powerless to stop them when they saw that the people around them were crying and fleeing. They had already stopped it once, and the salvo of the hundred rockets caused great panic, and it was the two of them who desperately suppressed it to barely settle down, and now they really can't stop it.

Yang Shaofan staggered a few steps, the ground under his feet was blackened by blood, and he looked blankly at the crowd shouting and running around him, could his ambition end like this?

No, I'm not reconciled!

Yang Shaofan barely cheered up, he was about to say something, suddenly in the terrible roar, another "Divine Fire Crow" flew in, he instinctively wanted to run, but saw that the "Divine Fire Crow" fell a hundred steps away, and it was inserted on the ground without sound.

Yang Shaofan breathed a sigh of relief, this damn Jingbian Army's "Divine Fire Flying Crow" was really terrifying, and suddenly at this time, the "Divine Fire Flying Crow" suddenly exploded again, and there was a terrible scream around him, and many people flew down in all directions.

Then Yang Shaofan was terrified, but it was a long black line shadow over there, whistling sharply, spinning rapidly in the air.

This thing is actually two iron balls, one big and one small, connected by iron chains, it makes a whirring sound, and then quickly beats all the way over, and the people who are hit by this thing are all broken tendons, broken heads, and white brain paddles splashing, the scene is terrible.

Yang Shaofan saw the chain ball whirring and spinning, and suddenly it turned Gao Yigong's head, in his terrified eyes, Gao Yigong's head was torn off alive, and then because of what the hair was strangled, Gao Yigong's frightened head hung on it, and rotated with the chain ball.

Then the chain ball and the human head pounced on a person, wrapped around his chest, and almost broke his whole body, and everything in it flowed out in a tumultuous manner.

Yang Shaofan looked at it tremblingly, especially seeing Gao Yigong's head rolling down, his eyes protruding, and his expression was extremely terrifying.

Yang Shaofan could no longer suppress the fear in his heart, and when he saw a general manager next to him shouting and riding his horse and running over, he chased him over with a knife, grabbed his horse, and fled to the rear.

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The dense cavalry gathered in the rear of the Chinese army, and they looked at the meteor flames in the sky in front of them in shock, and they also looked at the "Great Divine Fire Flying Crow" flying overhead from time to time with palpitations.

Suddenly, the "Great Divine Fire Crow" flew in, and the old camp horse team here didn't know how to react, but there were also people with spirits shouting, and they wanted to stay away.

But seeing that this "Great Divine Fire Crow" had not yet landed, it exploded far away from the neck of the horse, and then dense flesh and blood flew sideways, and the surrounding people and horses screamed and rolled a large area, and there was blood mist rising in the farther periphery, and thousands of small iron bullets flew with the help of the gunpowder explosion, bringing up a strong lethality.

Not only that, but there were four or five larger iron balls that whistled in all directions, piercing through many men and horses along the way, and the momentum was as urgent as artillery bombardment of these people at close range.

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On the Dongsheng Ridge, Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, Li Guo, Liu Xiyao, Yuan Zongdi and others looked at the situation in front of them in amazement, and the falling meteors in the sky made them not know what to say.

And their artillery began to rumble, listening to the whistling of their shells, where the artillery had hit, it was also a heavy artillery that could hit three or four miles away, and their judgment and estimation were once again wrong.

In particular, some of their strange weapons can even hit their rear formation, hitting the core of their Chinese army, and not long ago, one shot hit the bottom of the ridge, directly blowing up a large part of their old battalion Xiaoqi, which made Li Zicheng and the others startled, and they were all creepy.

What kind of weapon is this, it can hit so far, it's all seven or eight miles, right?

Looking at the chaotic form of the front formation, Li Yan looked anxious, and he said: "Great King, we can't let Wang Doujun fight like this, my division can't fight back just by being beaten, so the morale is too bad, and we must contain it immediately, maybe we can attack them from both wings." ”

Li Zicheng gritted his teeth, indeed, the Jingbian army cannot be allowed to fight like this, the soldiers and horses on both flanks of the Chinese army should be moved, and even the three walls of the rear of the Chinese army must be prepared.

In fact, after calming down, he also saw that although the weapons of the Jingbian Army were sharp and could hit far away, the proportion of casualties caused was still small compared to the huge number of people, and as long as he held back his fear and dared to fight hard, it was not necessarily impossible to win back the morale of the army.

But it just can't stand and be beaten like this, and the two flanks attacked earlier, and it seems that the defense strategy of the Chinese army must be adjusted.

He was also inclined to Li Yan's attack strategy on both flanks of the Chinese army, although the frontal battle formation of the Jingbian Army looked thin, but the situation was unclear, it was better to test from the two flanks first, and perhaps he could outflank them in a roundabout way.

He ordered the two flanks of the Chinese army to send some horse teams, and at the same time, Li Zicheng also asked Mianhou Yuan Zongdi to go to the right flank to supervise the battle.

Li Yan wanted to speak and stopped, he was a little worried about the Great Qing Kingdom, but the news of the sentry cavalry, the Jingbian Army launched an attack on the Great Qing Kingdom at the same time, it seems that the two of them are indeed not one side.

Thinking about the majestic spirit of the Jingbian Army with one dozen and two, Li Yan sighed heavily in his heart.

He saw that Yuan Zongdi was about to go down the mountain ridge surrounded by dozens of guards, and in the sudden and terrible roar, a big rocket fell on the slope not far from Yuan Zongdi and the others, and in the sound of surging flames and explosions, they immediately rolled over a large area.

The particularly dense small iron bullets flew with the explosion, and there was mud and blood mist everywhere, and even not far from Li Zicheng's side, there was a cavalry guard who was hit in the head by the flying iron bullets, and his skull was shattered on the spot, and his brains were splashed, and he rolled off the horse without a sound.

Li Zicheng was terrified, he desperately stopped the horses that were alarming under his crotch, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw several long black shadows twisting and flying, one of them pounced on Yuan Zongdi's group of people, the black shadow whirred and swirled, whipped all the way, Yuan Zongdi's face was twitched, and he rolled down to the horse.

After everything stopped, there was a moaning and screaming on the other side, and Li Zicheng and the others hurried over.

"Mianhou."

"Brother Yuan......"

Then their voices stopped abruptly, and everything in front of them made them feel terrific.

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Seeing the terrible whistling sound, a rocket came from the Jingbian army, and then fell into the large array of the Manchurian and Mongolian Chinese army. Fortunately, the target of the Jingbian Army was not them, and not a single rocket fell.

Looking at the smoke of fireworks in the sky, and then the brilliant trajectory of falling, Tang Tong muttered: "I see meteors in the daytime." ”

Wu Sangui's face turned pale, and Zu Dale and the others beside him were also speechless.

Zu Dabi was silent for a long time and sighed: "Alas, I bet on the wrong treasure. (To be continued.) )