Chu Cai Lao had a few black lines on his head, looking at the people of the sea wolves who were shouting in the business area, he was angry, but he still resisted the idea of sending people to attack the business area, and silently continued to order people to beat drums and urge his subordinates to attack the sea wolf village.

At this time, Yu Xiaotian also turned to the direction of Chu Cai's main attack in the southeast of Dazhai, and climbed an arrow tower to look at the battlefield condescendingly.

After carefully observing the formation arranged by Chu Cailao, Yu Xiaotian said to Li Dazui, who came with him: "Chu Cailao doesn't seem to have a human head and pig brain, although his subordinates seem to be messy, but they are not without a little discipline!"

At least Chu Cai Lao knew that Lu Dao scattered his subordinates, instead of making them swarm into a group to attack, and also knew that Lu Dao used some big shields to use wood to protect his subordinates from bullets and arrows, at least this can be seen that this guy is indeed experienced, not just by virtue of his bravery!

But he's at this level, if they're attacking Zhuang Fort today, it's okay to do so, but it's a pity that he's looking for the wrong opponent, it's up to you below!

I'll be in charge here, and I'll just watch the battle!" ”

Li Big-mouthed Tiger immediately bowed down and hugged his fists and said: "Thank you big boss, his subordinates will definitely not let him come up, today I will let these bastards see how powerful we are!" ”

While the two of them were still talking, there was another cannon sound on the side of the business inn area, and the two turned their heads to look, Yu Xiaotian laughed again, pointed outside and said: "Meng Fei's guy is in a hurry now, Chu Cai Lao completely gave up attacking the business area, and all of them were on our side!" This guy is not willing to be lonely! Okay, no matter what that guy is, let him just toss, let's play better here! ”

Li Dazui nodded in response, and immediately ordered: "Pass my order, without my order, no one is allowed to fire, put them within three hundred steps!" Fill each cannon with solid shells! Hit those big shields first! ”

Li Dazui's order was soon spread to all parts of the wall, and Yu Xiaotian pretended to be relaxed with his hands behind his back, and nodded secretly.

The musketeers methodically loaded the flintlock pistols and covered the lid of the medicine pool, but they did not turn on the nose, knelt on one knee on the wall, hid behind the battlements, and looked out through the holes.

The gunners struggled to push the loaded cannon to the gun door, began to adjust the gun mount, and slowly pulled the gun carriage to illuminate the old Chu Cai subordinates who slowly pushed over.

These new six-pounder guns and twelve-pounder cannons are not the only ones on the wall of the Seawolf Village, because Yu Xiaotian specially set up a combat battalion for land warfare, and these heavy new artillery pieces are not suitable for the mobile combat use of these soldiers, so he specially selected some small cannons from the old artillery to equip the combat battalion for their use.

However, after using it for a period of time, Yu Xiaotian felt that these old cannons were of poor quality and were not very suitable for the use of soldiers, and only a few of the newer tiger squat cannons were still more suitable, so he asked the cannon to spare some time and manpower and material resources, and specially opened a tiger squat cannon gun model for the war barracks, and cast a batch of brand new tiger squat cannons for them, and equipped them with them.

The total weight of this tiger squat cannon is not more than 40 catties, two people can run when they lift it, although the effective range is only a few tens of meters, but the short-distance use of scattered bullets is very powerful, after changing to a fixed charge package filling, the loading speed is also very fast, the fastest can be about 30 seconds to shoot once, especially suitable for the infantry in this era.

And this thing consumes very little man-hours and iron, after the use of the iron fan casting cannon method, the casting speed is very fast, and now the soldiers have been equipped with dozens of such small cannons, this time it was also put on the wall, put on the wall for use.

In addition, considering that the Franc cannon is also an advanced artillery in this era, it has the advantage of convenient loading and fast rate of fire, and recently made the cannon a light Franc machine gun, the weight of the gun body is about 100 catties, and the weight of the solid cannonball is less than two catties, which is roughly the so-called two-pounder gun in the West, and each cannon is equipped with nine guns according to convention.

This kind of cannon is slightly more powerful than the Tiger Squat Cannon, and the range is a little longer, but the weight is slightly larger, and it is a bit too heavy to be carried by manpower alone, which does not include the weight of the gun carriage, so Yu Xiaotian ordered the carpenter to make a two-wheeled gun carriage for this kind of cannon, the gun carriage is made of hardwood, and there is a cannon hoe in the back.

Because the recoil is relatively small, there is a cast iron ring at the rear of the hoe, which can be nailed to the ground with a wedge after arrangement, so as to prevent the recoil when firing the gun, and the process of resetting the gun mount can be saved after the gun is fired, which can effectively shorten the time for firing the gun again.

Of course, if the conditions are limited, it can also be fixed without a wedge, and after the gun rectages, it can also be pushed back to the gun position by manpower.

This new artillery carriage can be towed by a donkey in normal times, and there is a shortage of horses on the island, and there is not a lot of animal power to equip the war barracks, so it is more often necessary to rely on human haulage, so this kind of cannon cannot be cast too big and too heavy, otherwise it is estimated that the artillery can be exhausted to death by human haulage alone.

Now this kind of small Franc cannon has also been put into mass production, but the output is not large, in addition to the war barracks, many warships can also be used as secondary guns, so Yu Xiaotian decided that the next step of this kind of cannon should also be mass production, gradually replace the fleet of those miscellaneous guns.

The distance of 300 meters does not actually refer to these light Franc machines and tiger squat guns, but mainly refers to those six-pounder guns, the effective range of which is 400 meters.

Listening to the sound of cannons coming from time to time in the business area, Chu Cailao's subordinates were worried in their hearts, for fear that the cannonballs would fall on their heads, but this was not the focus of their nervousness, they were most worried about the cannons in the Seawolf Village, because they knew that there were more cannons in the Seawolf Village, and they were all Hongyi cannons.

Therefore, they were afraid that the sea wolf tribes in Dazhai would give them a cannonball at this time, and they all tried their best to hide behind the big shields that were walking in the front, and from time to time stretched out their heads and looked in the direction of Dazhai.

However, they are simply hiding their ears and stealing bells, and although the improvised oars and shields like them are good at blocking arrows, and they can also deal with the guns fired by birds, but at close range, they may not even be able to block the lead bullets of the sea wolf's flintlock pistol, let alone use it to block cannonballs.

Even the most sluggish Tiger Squat shells at a distance of 100 meters could easily shatter them, and as for the shells of the six-pounder and twelve-pounder guns, they didn't even want to block them with this thing.

These minions are hiding behind these shields, just to talk about masturbation, and they have no effective defense against shells.

But after all, they are pirates, and this is the only thing they can defend themselves, and the only thing they can use to carry cannons is their flesh.

Don't look at the shouting and screaming along the way after they set off, but in fact, after they reached some distance, the speed of progress is not fast, these shopkeepers also have their own little abacus, they don't want to be this bird, everyone knows who runs fast, who will be the earliest, the most dead, although they don't care about the lives of their subordinates, but after all, these people follow him, they have to think a little about them.

Therefore, the sea wolf waited for them to approach, but they were like snails arching a little bit forward, and in just over two miles, they walked for more than half an hour, and then gradually approached the distance of about 300 steps outside Dazhai.

Li Dazui looked at these guys, the corners of his mouth were tilted to the side, showing a look of disdain, and he was a little funny in his heart, secretly scolding Chu Cailao for being smart but being mistaken by cleverness, doing so was simply to provide him with the best shelling target.

The number of turrets and shields is limited, these Chu Cailao's subordinates are hidden behind the turrets, just crowded together, if they disperse, the cannons are really not easy to deal with, you can't use the cannons to name them one by one, if you do that, it is better to use bows and arrows or muskets to hit more accurately!

When he saw Chu Cai's old man's shield slowly entering a distance of about three hundred steps outside the Sea Wolf Village, Li Dazui finally shouted angrily: "Fire!" ”

Chu Cailao's subordinates all walked forward with trepidation all the way, but they never saw the Seawolf Village firing cannons, and they were secretly rejoicing at this time, but when they finally walked here, they suddenly saw several flames erupting from the Seawolf Village, and then there were clouds of gunsmoke.

Then they heard the whistling of cannonballs piercing the air, and in the blink of an eye, clouds of dust rose around their crowd.

The effect of the first round of shelling is not very good, this is the reason for the technical limitations of this era, the accuracy of the artillery is still relatively low, even if the use of iron fan casting cannon method greatly reduces the tolerance between the cannons, and at the same time the use of fixed charge packages, but when boring the gun chamber, it is still affected by a lot of artificiality, and the production of gunpowder is also affected by a certain degree of raw material purity and artificiality, and it is difficult to achieve the first hit at a certain distance.

Even the modern artillery of later generations, before firing in clusters, will first carry out a few rounds of calibration to check the accuracy of the shelling, not to mention the artillery of this era, the first round of artillery bombardment can not hit the target, in fact, it is a very normal thing, not to mention that today they are playing a much smaller shield than the ship, so the first round of shelling several shells are all lost.

However, Yu Xiaotian was not very disappointed by the effect of such an artillery bombardment, because he saw that although these shells did not hit the target directly, they were basically not far from the target, and the landing point was controlled within a certain range.

(I'm sorry brothers, I went out early this morning, and I came back in the afternoon, and the update was late, so bear with me!) ）