Chapter Seventy-Six: Martyrdom

From the color of the gunpowder smoke alone, it can be seen that the gunpowder used by the Ming army is not very fine, and the gunpowder is not burned sufficiently, so there is a lot of black smoke, and compared with the granular gunpowder used by the sea wolf, the poor quality is not a grade.

A cannonball whistled and flew towards Xishan Village, and directly smashed heavily on the wall, making a deep pit on the wall, and the entire wall shook violently, ordinary sea wolf soldiers were better, they saw more of the power of the cannon fire, but for the local recruited villagers, they were all scared to the point that their faces turned blue, and they couldn't help but exclaim.

"What's it called? What's noisy? Isn't it just a shot? This wall is not as unbearable as you think, and it is not so easy to collapse! This was built by Lao Tzu himself, and it is strong! One of the subordinates brought by Liu Wei scolded the screaming villagers.

Although the thickness of the walled wall is not as thick as the city wall, but it is also more than a meter thick, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, rammed with triple soil, ordinary solid cannonballs, not heavy artillery shells weighing more than eighteen pounds, it is really not easy to destroy this wall, unless you get a thirty-two-pound heavy cannon, directly close to the bombardment, otherwise, if you want to collapse a section, with the current rebel cannon, it is really enough for it to gnaw for a while.

After being reprimanded, seeing that the walled wall was indeed fine, these township soldiers were relieved, and their faces were tense, and they hurriedly grabbed the weapons in their hands, pretending to be generous, for fear that they would be cleaned up by their officers next.

Seeing that his cannon bombarded the wall of Xishan Village, and made a deep pit, although it did not collapse the wall directly, but it still made the rebels excited, and suddenly the rebels let out a cheering sound.

But before their applause fell, the two sea wolves' Hongyi cannons opened fire again, and the two cannonballs whistled and flew towards the rebel Hongyi cannons again, and one of the cannonballs almost smashed directly on the gun position of the Hongyi cannon, but it still fell by the side, bouncing on the hard frozen ground, and continued to fly forward.

Along the way, three rebel gunners blocked its way, and as a result, it was torn to pieces by this shell on the spot, turned into a piece of minced flesh and flew out, and the scene can be described as extremely bloody.

Another shell landed a little far, but it was not far away, only five or six meters away from the rebel Hongyi cannon, after landing, just the bullet flew out not far away, first stoned a rebel to death, tore him into a casual, and then exploded with a bang, a few pieces of shell fragments immediately scattered in all directions, and immediately tore apart a few nearby rebels who were watching the excitement, and the huge sound of the explosion, as well as the shock wave, overturned a lot of people, and shocked the nearby rebel gunners one by one with tinnitus and dizziness.

The rebel gunners were a little panicked, because the enemy fired two cannons, and the shells landed closer and closer to them, and they realized that the enemy gunners were aiming very accurately, and at such a long distance, they could still hit so accurately, fortunately, their cannon target was not very large, otherwise it would be a house, and it should have been blown down, this kind of accuracy, for them, it was simply a fantasy, they couldn't even think of it, three or four hundred meters away wanted them to hit a house, unless God opened their eyes and let them hit the luck, it is estimated that it is possible, But the enemy's gunners were so powerful, which made them even more worried.

The more worried, the more scared, the more panicked, the more panicked, the slower, in the general's shouting, these gunners began to reload again in a panic, the action was much more chaotic than the first time, almost out of chaos, finally tossed for a while, not waiting for them to reset here to aim at Xishan Village, people fired again.

In terms of the rate of artillery bombardment on both sides, the gunners on the side of Xishan Village have completely defeated the rebels, and the artillery training of the sea wolves itself is very sufficient, and they have to carry out various training non-stop every day.

In addition, the design of the seawolf's gun carriage is reasonable, and the aiming mechanism is close to that of modern artillery, which is much easier to operate, so if the speed of firing the cannon is not beyond the rebels, it is estimated that the gunner himself should find a crooked neck tree and hang it down.

Therefore, the speed of the sea wolf's gunners is at least three times faster than that of the rebels, and it can even reach four or five times as much, which is absolutely beyond the reach of the rebel gunners.

The sea wolf's gunners did not give the rebels a chance to counterattack at all, the two guns fired in turn, constantly adjusting the angle of fire, and the aim became more and more accurate, and the shell of the six-pounder gun was already grazing the edge of the enemy cannon when it was fired for the fourth time, and a group of rebel gunners surrounding the cannon were torn to pieces on the spot, and a bloody alley was opened.

And the rebels have only just fired the first cannon until now, and the second gun has not been aimed until now, and so many gunners have been killed at this time, and the flesh and blood of some gunners have been splashed on the cannon body, sticky on the barrel, and the gun carriage is even more stained with the blood and flesh of the rebels, which frightened those rebel gunners to avoid one after another, and just wanted to flee quickly, and they couldn't even bother to fire the cannon.

The rebel general Zhang Tao jumped to his feet and scolded, ordered his own soldiers to go over, and cut down two gunners who tried to escape, only then did the bullet suppress those gunners, forcing the gunners to surround the cannon mount again, and desperately push the dead cannon to reset, at this time they all regretted it, just now they were too careless, did not build a gun position bunker, and now they want to build a bunker again, it is too late, they can only bite the bullet and brave the shelling of the sea wolf to carry out the cannon.

At this time, the first-class marksman and two full-time snipers of the Seawolf infantry on the walled wall were also ordered to start shooting with their wolf tooth rifles at the gunners of the rebel Hongyi cannons.

Although the seawolf's wolf tooth rifle has a maximum effective aiming range of about 300 meters, which is a bit too far now, as long as it hits there, the Minne bullet is still quite lethal, and the rebel gunners are not armored, as long as they hit, they can seriously injure them at least and kill them on the spot.

The rebel gunners worked for a while, and then they were overturned two, although it was a bit of a blind element, but they were inexplicably beaten, and they couldn't figure out where the guns flew from, and they could hit them so far, which scared the rebel gunners even more to death, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

At this time, the twelve-pounder cannon of the sea wolf had already begun to fire the fifth shell, and the poor rebels had suffered heavy casualties until this time, but they still did not have time to fire the second cannon.

This shell seemed to have eyes this time, and it only flew towards the gun position of the rebel cannon, and before there were modern high explosives and modern columnar shells, it was still a rather difficult task for the Seawolf's artillery to destroy such a distant point target with rudimentary round grenades and solid shells.

However, this shell, this time it was very competitive, and the landing point was very close to the rebel Hongyi cannon, but unfortunately it did not directly hit the rebel cannon, but it happened to hit the pile of ammunition stacked by the rebels near the cannon, which caused the explosion of these powder kegs almost instantly.

On the gun position of the rebels' Hongyi cannon, a mushroom cloud suddenly rose, and the naked eye could almost see that a circular shock wave had formed at the center of the explosion, spreading out in all directions.

The rebel gunners were now overwhelmed with blood mold, and all the gunners were either torn to pieces on the spot or swept away by the blast wave of the explosion, even if they dodged the explosion and the shock wave, the violent shock and sound cost them their lives.

Almost all the people within a few dozen steps of the explosion were shattered, and they fell to the ground one by one and then did not move, and some of them were even cared off their clothes on the spot and turned into bare pigs.

As for the Hongyi cannon, the gun carriage was directly blown up, the barrel flew several meters away, smashed on the snow, and the grunt rolled out of a distance, which was completely finished, from their arrival to the destruction of this Hongyi cannon, the poor rebels only fired one shell from beginning to end, which is really tragic to the extreme.

The rebel general Zhang Tao was almost shocked from afar, and was supported by his own soldiers, looking at his cannon like a chicken, and even his thinking stopped running for a while, and he opened his mouth stupidly, looking at the place where the mushroom cloud rose, and his chin did not close for a long time.

Looking at their Hongyi cannons, they were completely destroyed after just one shot, and the morale of all the rebels fell directly into the crotch of their pants, and they couldn't get excited anymore, and they became like mourners, and they didn't have the confidence to fight anymore at this time.

And the people on the other side of Xishan Village, after seeing this scene, suddenly sounded a shocking cheer, and the haze in their hearts was suddenly swept away, they now have Hongyi cannons, but the rebels don't have it, this time they are still afraid of a fart! One by one, the morale was greatly boosted, and some of the township soldiers were even more happy, so they just danced on the wall!

Zhang Tao was so angry that he almost collapsed on the spot, but his reason still allowed him to maintain a trace of clarity, although his main force is not damaged now, but his morale has fallen to the bottom because of today's events, even if he continues to force his men to attack Xishan Village now, I am afraid that in addition to paying the price of casualties in vain, he will not achieve any results.

So he was angry, but he still ordered to retreat two miles and camp on the spot, as for the Hongyi cannon that was blown away, he didn't bother to clean it up, and it was estimated that it was useless, even if it was dragged back, there was no gun carriage, and there was no gunner, it was still a waste, so he simply threw it outside Xishan Village.