Wu Shigong was indifferent to Ma Xianglin's words. Don't say hundreds, even dozens of firecrackers Wu Shigong doesn't want to give them out. However, at this time, Wu Shigong had a question: his blacksmith Yang Goudan, although he did have good skills, but among other craftsmen, there was not necessarily no blacksmith with similar skills to Yang Goudan.

And like Qin Liangyu and Ma Xianglin, it's not that they haven't seen the firecracker. But the fire gun made by Weishenme Yang Dogan will make them have that amazing feeling? What Wu Shigong doesn't know is that the truth is actually very simple, it is nothing more than Wu Shigong's salary is sufficient, the treatment is good, and the quality is strictly controlled.

And the production of firecrackers in the Ming Dynasty could not even meet such basic requirements. It can be seen how badly the military production of the Ming Dynasty was carried out. To be honest, on the contrary, in the Later Jin, although the craftsmen did not get rid of the status of slaves, they were treated much better than in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, in terms of the creation of weapons, the Later Jin Dynasty actually surpassed the Ming Dynasty in the later period.

Of course, there are still relatively few qualified craftsmen here in Houjin, but with the increase in the number of craftsmen they enter the customs and plunder, the level of weapon building in Houjin will soon catch up.

Don't digress from it. At the beginning, the Houjin army did not block the gate at all, thinking that if there was a chance, they would let the cavalry rush out. But I saw the wagon heading in the direction of the city gate. Later, there were white pole soldiers cutting the chains of the suspension bridge, and they immediately understood that the Ming army wanted to break the city gate and attack Luanzhou City from the city gate.

Therefore, the Houjin army immediately arranged for soldiers to start blocking the city gate with sand and stones. But although it took half an hour to cut the chains, because the gate was so big, it only took time to block a small half of the gate.

So when the Franc cannon on the far side fired a cannonball, it was not surprising that the cannonball pierced the city gate. After observing the movement of the cannonballs flying into the city gate, the soldiers in front of them immediately turned around and waved their gestures behind them excitedly.

After Wu Shigong saw that gesture, he happily said to Ma Xianglin: "There is a door!" The gates were not blocked. ”

Of course, Liang Hui, who commanded the artillery team, also saw this gesture, and he immediately ordered the rest of the artillery to fire. These three shells, especially those of the two three-pounder guns, pierced the city gate, and in addition to the shells, the wood chips from the city gate also flew inward, which played the role of shotguns. caused a large number of casualties among the Houjin troops who were blocking the city gate behind the city gate.

The Houjin army that blocked the city gate were all Mongolian soldiers and the surrendered Ming army, and those soldiers who were lucky not to be killed by the shells immediately fled from the ghost gate in the city gate cave with a shout.

Seeing the embarrassed appearance of his soldiers, Namutai was so angry that his face turned blue. He commanded loudly: "Let them block the gates of the city, you are all brains broken, do you not know how to use military law?" ”

Turg and Tangudai immediately stepped forward with their own soldiers, and when they were halfway there, another round of shells entered the city gates. The soldiers who fled were even more confused.

The soldiers came forward and punched and kicked the fleeing soldiers, and finally managed to control the chaos, and the soldiers took the sand and stones and tried to rush into the city gate to block the city gate, and then a round of cannonballs flew in.

Another burst of chickens and dogs. Seeing that several soldiers threw down the sand and gravel on their shoulders and wanted to escape, the soldiers who were supervising the battle waved their knives and cut down. Several heads rolled to the ground one after another, which frightened the soldiers. Anyway, the advance and retreat were death, and these soldiers were also desperate, and they rushed into the city gate hole with sand and stones......

After five rounds of artillery fire, the fire of the two three-pounder guns stopped. On the one hand, after five rounds of firing, the barrel is already too hot, so it needs to be cooled down. On the other hand, there was a problem with the design of the artillery.

The general artillery of the Ming Dynasty at that time, it was cumbersome to transport and prepare for launch. The guns had to be loaded onto carts before they could be transported. And when the artillery is ready to be fired, it is necessary to unload the artillery from the cart.

In addition, it is necessary to dig a big pit in the ground and bury and fix an iron pile placed under the artillery, otherwise, after the artillery is fired, it is easy to cause the artillery to roll over because of the recoil problem.

Of course, it is also possible to take the Tiger Squat Cannon, and place a bracket like a modern machine gun in front. However, in doing so, the artillery should not be too powerful. Therefore, the power of the Tiger Squat Cannon is not great.

At that time, in order to solve this problem, Wu Shigong thought of the artillery vehicles in modern Europe that he saw in modern film and television works. However, Wu Shigong is not an expert in firearms after all, and he is not even a weapon enthusiast. Therefore, he was only able to make this suggestion of his own in a rough way.

And those craftsmen under Wu Shigong built artillery vehicles according to Wu Shigong's suggestion. Although this car solves the problem of artillery transportation, this car has a big flaw compared with the mature artillery car used in modern Europe.

The drivers of those European artillery, after the artillery is fired, have a backward process, which effectively solves the problem of artillery recoil. However, Wu Shigong's car could not retreat a lot, so a large part of the recoil of the artillery was borne by the artillery vehicle.

In previous training, Wu Shigong's artillery once happened, after firing eight or nine shells, the artillery driver could not bear the recoil, causing the situation that the frame fell apart. Of course, this is also the reason why the recoil of three-pound guns is particularly large, and those one-pound guns do not have this problem because of their low recoil.

At that time, in order to solve this problem, Wu Shigong stipulated: After the artillery fired five shells, it was simply replaced with a new driver.

Wu Shigong was not in a hurry to let those craftsmen improve the driving of artillery at that time, because he believed that his army was operating near Guide Province, mainly to carry out some defensive work in the city, so there were not many opportunities for artillery to be used in vehicles.

And Wu Shigong's decision at that time made the current Houjin Army breathe. So to speak: the devil is in the details!

So now, although the two Franc cannons basically do not have the problem of overheating because of the use of mother and child guns, they are still firing non-stop. However, because the power of these two Franc cannons was too small, it was basically difficult to stop the soldiers of the Houjin army from blocking the city gates.

In addition, it is not possible to change the frame when the barrel is hot. So by the time the three-pounder gun got a new driver, more than a quarter of an hour had passed.

And the gate of this Luanzhou City is really built very strongly. After so many shells were fired, apart from smashing many holes, the city gate remained unmoved. Of course, I don't know if Wu Shigong's life is declining, or the life of the Houjin army is too good, so none of these shells hit the latch of the city gate.

So by the time the three-pounder cannon could be fired again, a thick layer of sand had been blocked behind the city gate. Although these sand and gravel were still not able to completely block the shells of the three-pounder artillery, with the obstacle of the sand and gravel, the threat of the shells was much smaller for the soldiers of the Houjin army. The soldiers of the Houjin army blocked the city gate even faster.

When they saw that the city gate was full of holes and the battering ram was ready with a huge tree, hundreds of white-pole soldiers wanted to push the battering ram and hit the gate. But they were stopped by Wu Shigong and Ma Xianglin.

By this time, the gates had been completely blocked. Not even three pounds of shells could penetrate the sand and gravel blocking the gates. There is no need for these white pole soldiers to do useless work anymore.

Wu Shigong and Ma Xianglin returned to Qin Liangyu's side with gloomy faces, this attack on the city gate was completely in vain. Although Qin Liangyu also felt a little regretful, she still comforted Wu Shigong and Ma Xianglin with a pleasant face: "You can take advantage of the war, that's good, but sometimes you still have to use stupid methods honestly." Let's go back to the camp today. Wait until tomorrow to attack this Luanzhou City. ”

When Mingjin withdrew his troops, Wu Shigong looked back at the broken city gate and thought to himself: "The power of his artillery is still a little too small!" ”