Feng Sheng watched the artillerymen push the four strange cannons like big bronze bells forward, and asked Dong Xing with some suspicion, "Old Dong, is this cannon really useful?" The barrel is so short, and the muzzle is so large? ”

Dong Xing patted the Shenwei cannon on the wooden cannon carriage and said with a smile, "Different cannons have different functions, whether the cannon is good or not, the key depends on how you use it." He pointed to the small river in front of him, and the dense bandits, "If such a dense bandit is put in front of it, the shotgun of the Franc machine and the tiger squatting and destroying the captives will naturally have a good effect, but the Shenwei cannon can also hit the bandits hard, you just look at it." ”

Two artillerymen brought a shell box, opened it, and took out a round shell from it.

"This is the explosive bomb?"

"Hmm."

Feng Sheng carefully looked at this explosive bomb, the round shell, but unlike ordinary lead bullets, this shell also had a fuse.

"Isn't this solid?"

"Of course not, this bomb is an iron shell with gunpowder and a lot of shotguns inside."

"What's the difference between that and a regular shotgun? Aren't our Franco, Exterminator, Tiger Squat and even Hongyi Cannon all firing shotguns? Feng Sheng asked, "Why stop at one more step?" ”

"Of course it's different, let me tell you this, the shotgun of our Franc machine is directly loaded with small iron sand in the barrel, and then the outside is pressed with a large lead, as soon as it is fired, the lead is scattered after it is discharged, and it is a fan-shaped strike, and the attack distance is closer. The Hongyi cannon, on the other hand, is generally packed with lead bullets with net ropes to make grape bullets, which will also explode when discharged. ”

"Isn't that the case with this Divine Cannon?"

"Of course not, if we don't do this divine cannon, wouldn't it really be a superfluous move."

Dong Xing carefully explained to Feng Sheng that the explosive shell used in this Shenwei cannon was a completely different kind of shell, and the biggest difference between it and ordinary shells was that he had a fuse, and there was gunpowder in the shell, he was not a solid shell. Nor is it a simple open-shell shell.

By this time, the gunner had already moved an explosive bomb out of the box, and the main gunner took a pair of scissors, and made a few strokes to cut the lead on the shell a little shorter.

"What is this for?"

"Our explosive bomb is to ignite the shell first, then put it into the barrel of the Shenwei cannon, and then ignite the propellant to launch the shell."

"Light a fire twice? Isn't this explosive bomb a sky-shattering thunderbolt? ”

Dong Xing nodded, it was almost the case, using the Shenwei Cannon to fire the ignited cannonballs, and waiting for the set delayed fuse to explode.

"This cannon, like a grenadier. It's just that the power is greater and the throw is farther. ”

"So to speak."

Dong Xing asked the gunner, "Are you ready?" ”

"Ready."

"Hit!"

With a bang, the Shenwei cannon was fired at a forty-five degree angle, and the exploding bomb was not a straight trajectory, but smashed into the enemy position in an arc like an arrow, and the explosive bomb exploded without being discharged.

"Fell in!" Feng Sheng stared at the cannonball, and the cannonball fell into the enemy line.

"Why didn't it ring?"

The gunner said with some embarrassment, "The fuse delay is a little longer." He fell into the water and perished. "However, even if the shell didn't explode, it still injured a bandit.

"Again."

This time the gunner flicked the fuse a little more. Then the fuse is lit, the chamber is released, and it is fired.

The cannonballs were whistling and smoky in an arc over the thieves.

When the bomb landed on the bandits' heads, the fuse burned out. The shells exploded with a bang. The iron-cast cannon shell exploded, and the hundreds of lead bullets inside also exploded violently in all directions.

The explosive bomb was exploding above the heads of the dense bandits, and the dense shotgun exploded at close range. Suddenly, dozens of bandits below suffered a catastrophe.

A fragment of the iron shell of a cannonball sliced through the neck of a rogue, slicing half of his neck open, blood splattering, and the man's head tilted, and the whole person fell to the ground. Another shell shell was fired into the formation, cutting off one of the bandits' arm, and more lead bullets fell like hailstones, and the bandits within the range of more than a kilometer were shot one after another, and some even hit several bullets or a dozen bullets.

Blood splattered.

"Ahh

A lucky but not dead bandit fell into the river, screaming hysterically, at least twenty people died, and many more were injured.

This kind of huge lethality makes the thieves frightened.

Even Feng Sheng and Dong Xing, who were watching with a clairvoyant mirror on the other side, were shocked.

"This lethality is too strong."

"Indeed." Dong Xing muttered.

At such a distance, you can generally only use solid bullets, but it is good that solid bullets can kill one or two at a time, and the accuracy is still difficult to master, and the artillery of the nine-headed bird is more accustomed to putting the enemy closer to fight, hitting with shotguns, and hitting in pieces. And now this ugly cannon actually hit such a long distance, and achieved such a big result at once.

Even the gunners were surprised. He knew best about this new gun, which had the advantages of curved fire and delayed detonation, but also had many shortcomings, the accuracy was extremely difficult to grasp, and the gun itself was particularly heavy.

"The thieves are too dense, ready-made rakes." The gunner laughed.

"Then what are you waiting for, come again!"

Although that shot caused dozens of casualties, it was just a drop in the bucket for the tens of thousands of bandits who rushed up.

The four Shenwei cannons were fired at the same time, this time the fuses were adjusted, and the four explosive bombs were launched, and they exploded again over the bandits, and the dense formation made these four shells all missiles, and it was another amazing killing, and hundreds of bandits were killed.

"Spread out, spread out!"

The bandit leaders on the front line couldn't help but be frightened when they saw such a powerful cannonball, and hurriedly shouted. But tens of thousands of people pressed up, and no matter how they dispersed, their formation was still quite dense.

"What kind of cannon is this, how can it hit so far and be so lethal?" Lao Hui watched the battle from behind, and also saw the huge lethality of those cannons. Based on his understanding of the artillery of the Ming army, although many cannons can hit so far, and even the Hongyi cannon can hit one or two miles away, the farther the cannon can hit, the worse the hit rate, and the kind of shells are solid bullets, which is equivalent to a large stone throwing car.

But now this kind of cannon, hit so far, can still explode, what the hell is this?

"Ma Ye don't have to worry, no matter how powerful this cannon is, it must also have weaknesses, you see that the official army only has four cannons to fire, it is estimated that the number is not much, in addition, the interval between firing must be long. We don't have to worry! ”

Ma Shouying felt that it was reasonable, but at this moment, there was another rumbling cannon sound from the opposite side, and he saw four white smoke rising in the distance, and then four more cannonballs with white smoke attacked.

This time, Ma Shouying stared at one of the cannonballs, and then he clearly saw that when the cannonball flew over the head of the rebels over the river, it did not land, but suddenly burst directly above the heads of the rebels.

This time he saw clearly, the cannonball actually exploded, and then countless small lead bullets fell like hail.

The explosion caused at least a dozen casualties.

"What the fuck is this, and why is it exploding in the head?"

Bang bang!

Artillery rang out again, and four shells came again.

"So fast?" Ma Shouying was terrified.

After one round, there were hundreds more casualties.

Ma Shouying was simply stunned, this kind of cannon and cannonball of the nine-headed bird was completely beyond his imagination, he couldn't imagine what kind of cannon this was, what kind of cannonball, how could it be so fast, so far, and so strong.

In the face of such sharp shells, the bandits could only be beaten passively, and they did not even have a chance to fight back.

"Rush, rush, rush, rush up, cut them down!"

Ma Shouying shouted angrily, now he can only let his subordinates continue to rush forward, rush over, and fight them in close combat, then their cannons will be useless.

After five rounds of Shenwei artillery fighting, the bandits suffered huge casualties, and the vanguard finally rushed across the river.

Now they were only a hundred paces away from the positions of the officers and soldiers, but there were still three walls of rejection in front of them. The sharp stakes of the horses are like a profit. Although these horses did not resemble city walls, they could easily cut down and push away, but they also succeeded in slowing them down.

Deng Yuan, the guerrilla officer of the teaching battalion, raised his hand, "Fire Hammer Ready!" ”

Thousands of musketeers stood behind the cannons in three columns.

"Fur machine ready!"

"Kill the cannon ready!"

"Tiger Squat Cannon Ready!"

In front of the musketeers were more than 100 lightweight guns of various types. The cannons were loaded with shotguns, with large lead pressed on the outside, ready to fire.

"Put!"

The bandits had already rushed to the front of the first row of rejection horses and began to swing their knives to slash the rejection horses.

There were loud bangs one after another, the artillery of the Hydra position was bombarded continuously, pieces of lead were bored and bombarded out in a fan shape, and the bandits who were wielding knives to cut back their horses fell in pieces.

"Raise your shield!"

Someone shouted, but there were not many bandits with shields, and in the face of the dense lead rain, even if there were shields, they could not block all the lead bullets.

A bandit held a rattan card and folded up the upper half of his body, and there was a huge vibration on the shield, which made his hands and half of his body numb, and he was just congratulating that he had a shield, but then there was a sharp pain in his leg.

Like a violent wind and a shower, the bandits who came ashore kept falling, and the bandits behind were just as bad, the four Shenwei cannons never stopped, each time four explosive bombs whistled in, no one knew whose head he would fly to, and then with a bang, a piece of bandits was sent to see the king of Hades.

"Firecracker, let's go!"

Deng Yuan waved his sword and pointed forward, and suddenly a continuous array of guns rang out.

The bandits charged again and again, fell again and again, and the guns and cannons of the officers and soldiers were incessant, and it seemed that there was no time to stop.

"Master Ma, you can't fight like this, if you continue to fight like this, the brothers will all die here."

He Yilong, who had gathered the defeated soldiers of the former army, rushed over and loudly persuaded Lao Hui that this was no longer a war, but a queue to die. (To be continued......)