Chapter 739: The Age of Roaring Artillery Strikes Has Arrived

For a person who has never touched firearms to be able to keenly capture the patterns of use of firearms from the results of previous battles in the Huaxia Empire, this cannot but arouse my heavy attention. So he was thrown into the newly formed firearms regiment of the Praetorian Guard.

As a result, his training was extremely strict, and he was able to get the first place in every exercise, and he was stricter, and he could also treat his soldiers well, quite like his father, and finally his son boldly promoted him to the position of acting head of the Janissary Firearms Regiment.

And today, it will be the first time that the Janissary Firearms Regiment will show their heroic posture in front of the public, well, although there are no ordinary people as spectators, but today there are a large number of military generals, and more than 20,000 soldiers of the Chinese Revival Army who participated in the military exercise as audiences.

Soon, twenty-four brass guns, each drawn by six horses, appeared in the eyes of the people, this kind of artillery made of stainless steel for the gun carriage, brass for the gun body, and also used hydraulic retraction machines as a device to reduce recoil.

"This is an infantry field gun, with an overall weight of 1,375 pounds and seven taels, and it is ......designed with a son-and-mother gun," an artillery casting expert next to him began to explain the origin and model of this artillery to the civil and military ministers present.

“…… It can launch a flowering projectile weighing six catties to a distance of 1,500 meters, and if you want to attack the fortification, you must use solid shells, the weight of the shells is 11 catties, the firing range is about 800 meters, the angle of the artillery can be adjusted from forty-five angles to zero degrees to fire, well, that is, the artillery is fired horizontally, when firing horizontally, you can use scattered shells to attack, each scattered shell can shoot out more than 350 leads, covering up to 300 meters of lethality......"

Listening to the artillery expert's story, while admiring the beautiful and slender guns, the weight of the shells is very close to the weight of the six-pounder guns of the Great Voyage, but because we use a conical warhead, the caliber is much smaller, so the barrel appears very slender. Not only did it reduce the caliber, but it also saved the brass used in the heavy body, and reduced the weight of the gun, but even so, the weight of the gun still accepted 1,400 catties.

Soon, all twenty-four brass guns were ready. As the commander next to him reported the distance, the artillery of Yimen began to adjust the elevation angle of the artillery, and then, when the command flag was waved, the artillery of Yimen spewed out a tube of white smoke, and in the sky, a dense scream crossed the sky, and then fell on the infantry phalanx made of straw men more than 1,300 meters away.

Although it is said to be a straw man, at the front of these straw men are nearly a hundred heavily armed heavy armor of Mo swordsmen, and after that, there are nearly three hundred plates and chains composite armor, and after that, there are various iron, skin, and even cloth armor such as Mingguang armor and Shanwen armor.

Therefore, from a distance, there is no dullness and sparseness of straw men, anyway, it looks like a disciplined army standing in the wilderness. At this moment, the screaming gradually came to the top of the military formation.

From afar, you can see that after a ball of light burst out more than ten or twenty meters above the infantry phalanx, billowing smoke rose one after another, but a few shells fell directly on the ground, only one of them exploded instantly when they fell on the ground, and the others did not react after landing directly, and a few others exploded at an altitude of nearly 100 meters.

However, I am very satisfied with the fact that about fifteen shells can explode at a distance of five to thirty meters above the infantry phalanx, accounting for more than sixty percent, and it is already very difficult to achieve such a success rate in an age when only gunpowder fuses can be used.

In order to make the gunpowder fuze burn at the same rate, the gunpowder of the fuze has a very strict standard, and it is completely mechanical, which reduces the difference in burning time caused by human factors.

The contact fuse is really helpless now, and I can only stare at it, although I can use flint to fire, but the speed of using flint to fire is too slow, and it is not suitable for use on cannonballs at all.

Just when Ben Gongzi felt nostalgic, the second shot began again, the blazing white smoke and thunderous roar resounded through the heavens and the earth, and the top of the infantry phalanx where the straw man was stationed was already shrouded in a large area of dense fog, even if it was far away, you could still see those grass targets constantly falling back and forth, as if the wheat field that was about to be harvested in autumn suddenly suffered a hailstorm.

The shrapnel that shattered raged relentlessly, frantically tearing apart everything that stood in their way, whether steel or leather.

Seeing this scene, all the important ministers of the court who were present to appreciate it were completely shocked and even shocked, and it could be seen from their expressions that an unprecedented fear and joy were wandering in their eyes.

Fortunately, this weapon is in the hands of the Chinese Empire, and what is afraid is the shocking and terrifying lethality of this weapon. However, many Wenchen were so frightened that they almost sat on the ground with a butt, and it took them a long time to come back to their senses, but they didn't bother to sit down again, standing and enjoying the roar of the cannon fire in the sky.

After five rounds of artillery, the huge phalanx was already in shambles, and everyone stood up and craned their necks to look that way. Seeing that several generals looked itchy and ready to pounce, I quickly stopped them. "Don't worry, I haven't played yet, there are still good shows, and it's not too late to see the effect after you've enjoyed them all."

After the five cannons were fired, the time taken was only forty seconds at most, and such a rate of fire made Ben Gongzi let out a long breath and was very satisfied. This is a new breech gun created and invented by Ben Gongzi after combining the characteristics of the later generations of Franc machine guns, breech guns, and old breech guns, and the breech can be cleaned again every ten rounds.

However, if you really want a continuous high-intensity fire, you must clean the chamber every five rounds and pour water over the barrel to cool down. The maximum tolerance test was done the previous month, and after following some procedures, it was possible to fire 100 shells in a row without exploding.

Of course, this also benefits from the excellent brass barrel material, which is more malleable and super wear-resistant. Otherwise, if it is a cast iron cannon, I am afraid that at most seventy or eighty rounds of iron will definitely explode.

"Brother-in-law, let them hurry up, let's wait to go down and enjoy it." Li Xuanba scratched his ears and cheeks, and looked speechless, he was already a father, and he was still so out of tune.

Well, this guy's baby has been born, and it's really a male baby, and he has a big name, well, this son gave it, but unfortunately Tsinghua and Fudan have become the names of Li Yuanfang's sons, so after accepting the important task given to me by Queen Dou, His Majesty the Emperor of this son racked his brains and sweated, looking at the extremely white complexion, and he didn't pick up Li Xuanba but picked up his mother-in-law's eldest child.

I wanted to call him Li Bai according to his skin, but I thought about it and was afraid that the great writer of another historical time and space would draw circles and curse me, so I decided to call him Li Mubai. That is to say, his father is too dark, he doesn't like to be as dark and thin as his father, and he yearns for his mother's complexion, so he is called Li Mubai, of course, I only told my mother-in-law about this explanation, which caused the two mothers-in-law to laugh directly on the floor.

And that's what we called it at the time, the white one, according to the theory of yin and yang, represents praise such as yang and masculinity, and Mu Ma naturally means that this baby likes to be as heroic as his father.

Queen Dou couldn't close her mouth and praised her again and again, and Li Xuanba was even more happy that she even showed her back molars, disgusting. In the future, I don't know if this Li Mubai will think about fighting like his father all day long, well, it seems that the matter of educating Li Xuanba's son will have to fall on the kindergarten.

Well, at this time, six hundred cuirassiers came out in a neat formation, and with the rhythm of the bamboo whistle, they came to a distance of about a hundred meters from a grass target formation, and then split into three rows of two hundred men each at a very fast speed.

Then, with the whistle, the bra musketeers began to raise their guns to aim, then reload, the second row began to aim and fire, and after the second row had finished firing, they began to reload again, and the third row began to aim and shoot, like a wave of smoke rolling and dispersing into the distance.

And the six hundred cuirassier musketeers fired methodically, each row of bullets like a sharp scythe reaping ripe crops. When I retreated to 250 meters and shot, I could still see grass clippings flying from the grass man's target.

Finally, the shooting stopped at 250 meters, and in just 100 steps, tens of thousands of bullets had already rushed into the battle formation formed by the grass targets, and the entire battle formation had fallen by nearly two-thirds. Even if it is still standing, it is already covered with scars.

Then all the spearmen took out their bayonets from their waists in unison, stuck them in the slots under the muzzles, and then pointed forward diagonally in unison, and began to perform the assassination like six hundred sharp spears.

The first row roared and stabbed bayonets, followed by the second and third rows...... Every assassination would make a neat shout of killing, which provoked all the generals to stand up, and some even couldn't help but stroke the handle of the saber at their waists.

Finally, after continuously rushing back to a hundred meters away from the unlucky grass target, the whole team once again finished the exercise, and before everyone had time to breathe, five hundred lancers wearing bright silver plate chain composite armor came out of the crowd, galloped forward, with a sharp whistle, five hundred lancers raised their hands and aimed ahead, like a roar like fried beans, two hundred meters away a grass target formation suddenly fell to the east,

Then a nice turn, then a run, began to charge on the back of a galloping horse, shoot, recharge, shoot again. On horseback, I control the horse with the saddle of Takahashi and my feet, and shoot with my upper body in turn.

Although the rate of fire is much lower than that of a bow and arrow, the problem is that the range is twice that of a crossbow, which means that the lancers can attack the archers within the range of the opponent, but the archers cannot hit them.