When the rebels' Hongyi cannon was transported to the front of the battle, the rebels immediately resounded with cheers, and their morale suddenly rose a lot, in the eyes of the rebels, they had such a big killing weapon in hand, even if the bird guns in Xishan Village were powerful, they would never be able to beat their Hongyi cannons!

So they then bombarded with Hongyi cannons, and estimated that they could bombard the wall of Xishan Village into slag, and when the time came, the township soldiers of Xishan Village would definitely be scared to the point of urine.

So the rebels began to relax again, to become excited, to become much more arrogant, to become a little unrecognizable to their own surnames.

Zhang Tao held back his big mouth, looked at their Hongyi cannon triumphantly, and ordered triumphantly: "Push the cannon up, set it up, aim it at Naxishan Village, give Lao Tzu a few cannons first, let them taste our power, and then say, the tiger is not powerful, they bastards really think Lao Tzu is a sick cat!" Boom to Lao Tzu! It's better to bomb them all to death and blast them into rotten meat! ”

Dozens of rebel gunners, commanding the people, led the mules dragging the cannons, and began to rely on manpower, pushing the clumsy cannons, and marched towards the formation.

Although the Hongyi cannon has a long range, it is only compared to the old artillery before, some Hongyi cannons, overloaded with gunpowder, when the test release, under the high firing angle, can indeed hit the cannonball five miles away, but that is only the real yàn number jù, when it is not true, after the muzzle is hoisted, even if the cannon is far, but the accuracy is already miserable, not to mention that it is not too high to bombard the wall, even if it is taken to bomb the tall city wall, it is difficult to hit effectively.

Therefore, when it was actually used, the gunners of the Ming army would often let the enemy army enter within a mile before launching artillery bombardment, and it was not the kind of accurate aimed shooting, but a general shooting, hitting those face-shaped enemy groups.

So in Zhang Tao's order, the rebel gunners drove a large number of people, dragged them with ropes, pushed them with their hands, and pushed the Hongyi cannon towards Xishan Village, and arrogantly pushed the Hongyi cannon all the way to the outside of Xishan Village, about more than 300 meters and less than 400 meters away, and then stopped.

What made the sea wolf officers on the wall of Xishan Village feel even more angry was that these rebels didn't even have basic anti-artillery knowledge, so they swaggered and placed the cannon in the open space, so that the people on the wall could have an unobstructed view of their actions.

Dai Fang, Wu Shengtian and the others couldn't help but scoff at them when they saw the rebels being so careless, in fact, they couldn't blame these rebel gunners for being too vigilant, because these rebels from top to bottom, no one knew that Xishan Village actually had artillery, but it had not been exposed, let them know.

They thought that the cannon was placed three or four hundred steps away, which was already very safe, even if there were one or two cannons in Xishan Village, it would not be that they also had Hongyi cannons.

And ordinary artillery, even if it is a large copper hair, at best, can fight more than two hundred steps, and their Hongyi cannon is placed three or four hundred steps away, which should be absolutely safe.

Therefore, after pushing the cannon outside the village, they did not even do any cover, but unloaded some powder kegs and shells from the wagon and placed them directly next to the cannon.

Dai Fang snorted coldly and said, "Didn't you hear that these Ming gunners were personally trained by the Francophone people?" Why don't you even have this bit of common sense? This is a violation of the rules of strict zhòng! Mom, she actually put the powder keg right next to the cannon, isn't this looking for death? Since it was sent to the door like this, don't blame Lao Tzu for being polite! Come on, start reloading, aim for that Hongyi cannon! Grandma's, aim a little and try to use it as fast as you can, and kill it! ”

The gunners of the two guns didn't say a word, and when they began to load, the loading action was skillful like a choreographed dance, strong and powerful, and the connection was close, which made people marvel.

After several years of development, with the improvement of the raw materials that can be provided by the basic industry of the Seawolf, as well as the improvement of processing technology, the Seawolf's artillery has been different from the previous way of operation.

In the past, the adjustment of the high and low angles of the artillery used to be adjusted by relying on several set steps and using skids, but now it has been improved to be adjusted with bolts, which makes the adjustment of the gun easier, and the aiming accuracy is higher, and even a very simple, but can effectively improve the aiming accuracy of the sight, so that the accuracy of the artillery is on a higher level.

Therefore, the gunners of the two guns leaned over the sights on the gun carriage, and quickly rotated the handle with their hands, and the barrel began to slowly raise the muzzle of the gun as they shook the handle, until after aiming at the target, the two gunners shouted: "Aim over!" ”

The rebel gunners can be said to be ignorant of the movement on the wall of the West Cottage at this time, a large group of people, including those who were forcibly recruited, gathered next to the Hongyi cannon, although the people were coerced, but they were also very curious about this legendary big killing weapon, stretched out their heads to watch the excitement, anyway, this time was not to force them to attack Xishan Village, they were not too uncomfortable.

Those rebel gunners, who were busy loading the Hongyi cannon at this time, still did not make much progress at this time, even if Sun Yuanhua specially passed the Guò church and invited Portuguese gunnery training from Macao, he did not change them too much in technology.

These Hongyi cannons, which are still using bulk gunpowder, are completely based on the experience of the gunner, filling the gunpowder into the barrel, and then using the barrel to pass the gunpowder into the chamber at the end of the barrel, and then taking a solid iron bullet, loading it into the muzzle, filling the barrel and tamping it, and pouring the primer at the fire door at the end of the gun.

However, after the training of the Portuguese, the gunners of these rebels are relatively skilled, at least they are not careless, and they also know how to cooperate with each other, which is already rare in the Ming army.

After loading the shells, they began to adjust the height of the barrel, the Hongyi cannon was a relatively advanced artillery in this era, the body-to-barrel ratio was relatively long, the barrel casting shape was more in line with the actual needs, and the gun body had a light door and a crosshair, which could be used by the gunner to aim.

Under the service of dozens of gunners, the Hongyi cannon was finally ready, but before they could open fire, they heard two muffled thunderous roars suddenly sounded on the side of the wall of Xishan Village.

Two dazzling fires erupted from the wall of Xishan Village, raising a large area of pale cyan gunsmoke, and then two whistling sounds were heard in everyone's ears, and the two cannonballs immediately whistled and smashed into the rebel Hongyi cannon, the cannonball was left and right, one shot was a little forward, and one shot exceeded some distance and landed near the rebel Hongyi cannon.

The rebels and people who were watching the excitement were suddenly startled, and many people hurriedly hugged their heads as if they would feel safer this way.

The two shells did not directly hit the Hongyi cannon, but the landing point was not too far, the six-pounder shell landing point was only six or seven meters away from the Hongyi cannon, and immediately killed a few people who were gathered nearby to watch the excitement, as well as two rebels, and the twelve-pounder shell fell about ten meters or so, only killing two people.

A few people died, and after being stunned for a while, he immediately dispersed, screaming and fleeing in all directions, and a pig could also see that there were two cannons in Xishan Village, and it was estimated that it was also a Hongyi cannon, and he was trying to defeat the rebel's Hongyi cannon.

The rebels were also panicked all of a sudden, they didn't expect that there were actually two such big killing weapons hidden in the small Xishan Village, and they could actually reach their Hongyi cannons.

This time, Zhang Tao was a little completely dizzy, and secretly said in his heart, what is the origin of the big family in Xishan Village! How could it be possible to even get a Hongyi cannon? This red-clothed cannon is now in the Ming Dynasty, but it is a standard rarity, the entire Denglai army, there are only about twenty, and the cost of each is as high as 1,000 taels of silver.

And one guy is two, and this fucking won't let people live? He was stunned for a while, and suddenly remembered that this was not the time to be stunned, the other party had Hongyi cannons, so it would be unsafe on his side, so he hurriedly took his own soldiers, retreated a distance, and hurriedly ordered his Hongyi cannon to fire, thinking that he could try to take the first step and collapse the wall, and it was best to simply smash the two Hongyi cannons together, so that they would be safe.

The rebel gunners were suddenly shelled by the opponent's Hongyi cannons, and they were a little panicked, but they didn't dare to run, so they could only surround the cannons and wait for the order to fire.

At this time, Dai Fang on the walled wall was using a telescope to observe the landing point of the cannonball, and when he saw the landing point, he turned around and said coldly: "The No. 3 cannon is close to the arrow, and the No. 5 cannon is missing!" Re-aim! Load up the flower bombs! ”

The gunners didn't really need his orders at this time, some people were also observing the impact point, and the other gunners had already begun to clean the gun chamber, extinguish the residual sparks in the gun chamber, wipe the gun chamber with a wet gun brush, and clean the gun chamber again with a dry gun brush, and the fixed charge package had been sent to the gun muzzle, just waiting for Dai Fang to order what kind of ammunition to load.

When the order was given to reload the shells, someone immediately took a bullet, but the six-pounder gun did not have a shell, and could only continue to shell with solid shells.

Because of its long barrel, the six-pounder gun had a higher direct-aim accuracy than the twelve-pounder mountain howitzer, so although there were no flowering shells, it could shoot at direct sight.

The gunners of the two guns quickly reloaded, and reset and aimed again, this time the first gunner aimed much more carefully, taking into account all the factors that should be considered, and carefully fine-tuning.

Just as they were taking a closer look, the rebels' Hongyi cannon suddenly shook violently, and a cloud of flames erupted from the muzzle, and a large puff of black gunpowder smoke immediately rose into the air and spread out in all directions.

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