Chapter 215: Random Cannon Shot 2
"Right-sided, near-arrow...... Left, near-arrow ...... "The observers of several guns immediately reported the landing point of their shells to the rest of the gunners after the shelling, as a gun group, the composition of the gun crew of the Seawolf Battalion has been quite perfect, each six-pounder gun is equipped with six gunners, the gun commander is mainly responsible for adjusting the gun, and the rest of the people have their own division of labor, some people are responsible for clearing, some people are responsible for loading the powder bag, and some people are responsible for loading the shells, when the loading is completed, several people have to push the gun into the gun position together, and then the gun commander is responsible for adjusting the gun for aiming.
One of them, after firing the artillery, observed the landing point of the shells, and reported to the artillery commander and his companion Zhilu Dao, to provide instructions for the next aim, such a division of labor has been very clear, after strict training, if they cooperate closely, they can greatly improve the speed of artillery firing and the accuracy of artillery fire.
At this point, Yu Xiaotian is confident that he can compare with the artillery of any country in this world, and so far his arrangement is in the best state.
When they saw the sea wolf firing the cannon, Chu Cailao's subordinates were still startled, and they quickly shrank their necks, but when they saw that the sea wolf did not hit them this time, they became bold again, and hurriedly continued to raise their shields and move forward, and even the leader deliberately let out a sarcastic laugh in the crowd, laughing at the incompetence of the sea wolf subordinates.
But they were a little too early to be happy, and before they could advance any more distance, clouds of smoke and fire rose from the top of the sea wolf village again.
This time, Chu Cai's old men were not so lucky, under the shelling of the sea wolf, one of the two oars and shields was directly hit, and the other was hit by a ricochet, but the result was basically the same.
The two oared shields were scattered and burst apart by the cannonballs on the spot, and a guy who was hiding behind the oared shield was also torn to pieces by a cannonball directly through the oar shield, and the rest of the minions who carried the oar shield flew out without exception under the huge impact.
This frightened those Chu Cailao's subordinates a lot, because they realized at this time that hiding behind the oar shield actually had no effect on the cannonballs, and once the cannonball hit the oar shield, they were more dangerous, so they were all a little panicked.
Some of the minions involuntarily stopped, and some even began to prepare to turn around and run.
But at this moment, behind them, there was a tight drum sound, which was Chu Cai Lao supervising the formation behind, urging them to continue to speed up and rush to the bottom of the village and start attacking the village.
After the shopkeepers heard the drums behind them, they knew what this meant, so they yelled at their subordinates to hurry up and arch forward, don't wait here to be artillery, anyway, they all know at this time, stop here, that is really looking for death, the sea wolf's cannon is accurate They have already understood, standing here waiting for people to be named one by one, it is better to rush over, after approaching the wall, how much can also be repaid, it is better than standing here to be beaten.
So these startled Chu Cailao's subordinates once again quickened their pace, carrying the shield towards the wall, and some smart minions ate a trench and grew wise, and did not dare to follow behind the shield anymore, and quietly scattered to both sides.
The sea wolf's artillery bombardment is still ongoing, and the number of new six-pounder guns on the wall here is limited, and it is not convenient to transfer more guns in a short time, so this also makes Chu Cailao's subordinates pick up a bargain.
A limited number of six-pounder guns opened fire in turn, and after some calibration, their shelling accuracy became higher and higher, and the enemy was getting closer and closer, making it easier for them to aim, so in the next period of time, several guns had results, and the oars and shields that Chu Cailao had pieced together overnight began to be destroyed under their shelling.
Almost every time the shield is hit, there will be several minions that carry the shield are shocked to spit blood and fly out, and some minions hiding behind the shield will also be hit by castrated shells, don't look at these shells on the ground and bounce off the slow flight speed as if they can reach out and grab it, but the kinetic energy they carry can still easily tear people apart.
There is really such an SB minion When he saw a cannonball, it looked like it was about to fall, and flew towards him, this brainless guy actually raised a big axe in his hand, and slashed down against the cannonball that was about to run out, ready to have a big explosion of character, and human flesh blocked the cannonball.
But just heard a click, and then looked at this guy and flew upside down, his plate axe blinked and he didn't know where the road flew to, and the cannonball smashed heavily between his chest and abdomen, directly stuck in his abdominal cavity, but he was really blocked by his body, but after this guy landed, he vomited blood, raised his head slightly, and even reached out and touched the cannonball stuck between his chest and abdomen, and rolled his eyes and went straight to the underworld.
More and more minions began to be afraid, seeing the sea wolf's cannon fire hard and accurate, their hearts were shocked and scared, just now they were thinking that it would be safer to hide behind the shield, but at this time there are not many people who still have such thoughts, these minions have dispersed, and they dare not follow behind the shield anymore.
Once these old Chu Cai's subordinates dispersed, more than 2,000 people hula la-la spread all over the open space outside the stockade, and this time it was too difficult to rely on a few six-pounder cannons to block them.
When these Chu Cailao's subordinates began to rush within 200 meters of the wall, Li Dazui ordered to stop shelling with solid shells, and ordered each cannon to be replaced with grapeshot shells, and the target was still those shields, after all, once these shields reached the bottom of the wall, they would cause them relatively big trouble, and once they entered 100 meters, these six-pounder guns would lose the ability to attack because of the problem of firing boundary.
But the distance of 200 meters is also the best shooting distance for grapeshot shells, this thing is much larger than the dispersion of solid bullets, but the power exceeds scattered bullets a lot, used to hit such a shield, it can be said that as long as the gunner does not faint, it can basically guarantee one shot.
So a few six-pounder guns immediately began to be reloaded with grapeshot shells, and the next few cannons went down, and several more shields were torn apart on the spot, and even killed and injured many of Chu Cailao's subordinates.
At this point, Chu Cai's old men were tired and tired to piece together dozens of shields overnight, and when they attacked the distance of about 100 meters outside the sea wolf wall, there were basically only a little more than half left, and the rest were destroyed by the sea wolf's cannons on the way forward, and they lost all the rotten wood and corpses along the way.
However, after entering a distance of about 100 meters, several six-pounder guns of the sea wolf have gradually lost their effect because of the problem of firing boundary, but at this time, there are still many of Chu Cailao's subordinates, who are rushing towards Dazhai and have not yet entered the distance of 100 meters, so Li Dazui once again ordered all the six-pounder guns to be reloaded with scattered bullets, and began to bombard these Chu Cailao's subordinates indiscriminately.
Chu Cailao's subordinates were worried along the way, seeing that the shields were destroyed by the cannons of the sea wolves, while scolding, they were helpless, so they could only continue to arch forward.
After entering a distance of about 100 meters, Chu Cailao's subordinates finally gained a certain amount of strength to fight back, and some minions carried some small cannons here, and hurriedly began to set up their cannons.
Chu Cailao's cannons are all old-fashioned artillery, the firing range is short and the power is small, and they can only be fired after approaching, so they have to run to the outside of Dazhai to erect the shells of the sea wolf, and these cannons are not made in different shapes, the production is very crude, and even the inner wall of the barrel of some cannons has not been carefully bored.
There are also these guns are very clumsy to operate, the gun carriage is a thick wooden frame without wheels, not to mention the dead and heavy, and many do not even have skids to adjust the pitch of the gun barrel, the gun barrel is simply fixed on the gun carriage, the high and low firing boundary can not be adjusted, you can only move the gun carriage to adjust the left and right firing boundary, when on the ship, even some artillery is simply tied to the ship, fixed in one direction, can only rely on the movement of the ship to adjust the firing boundary, so the firing accuracy does not need to be considered, the probability of hitting the enemy is very low, And from time to time, it will blow up.
These Chu Cailao's subordinates panicked and placed the cannon on the ground, and then began to load, it is obvious that the loading method they used was not a fixed charge package, and the use of powdered gunpowder, the amount of each charge, all depends on the personal experience of the gunner who operates the gun, the shells have both iron bullets, stone bullets, and will also use some gravel or broken iron pieces to act as scattered bullets.
These cannons are very troublesome to load, and the speed is very slow, some of Chu Cailao's subordinates tossed for a long time, but they can't complete the loading, it can be seen that most of these Chu Cailao's subordinates are seriously lacking in daily training.
Anyway, at this time, Chu Cai's old subordinates still began to fight back, and in many places outside the village, clouds of gunpowder smoke and flames began to rise, and then a series of cannon sounds were heard.
The atmosphere on the walled wall also became more tense at this time, all the sea wolf tribes hid behind the female wall and arrow stacks of the walled wall, observing the movement of the enemy outside the wall, and when they saw Chu Cai's old men start to fire cannons outside, they shrunk their necks one after another.
But when these shells fell on the wall, they found that they were a little too careful, these Chu Cai's old subordinates with messy artillery shells, some fell on the wall, smashed on the wall, but such shelling did not cause much damage to the wall, at most it was to smash a pit in the wall, some of the logs built of the wall even just a few pieces of wood, not even the main body of the wall.
And the accuracy of these shells is really low and pitiful, some shells did not even touch the wall, they fell on the open space outside the wall, and some shells simply hit too high, directly over the wall and flew into the wall, I don't know where the road hit.