Chapter 204: Grape Bombs
A three-pound lead bullet flew straight over 500 paces and smashed into the body of a horseman.
In an instant, the soldier's flesh and blood flew sideways, and his body was smashed to pieces by the lead ball.
Flesh and blood splattered, and some broken flesh and bones splashed on Li Youcheng's cheeks.
As the cannon sounded, the horses that rushed to the front neighed one after another.
The cavalrymen desperately held the reins, trying to control their horses.
Only two of the five buckshot bullets hit the fan, smashing two blood grooves in the mud.
"Put!" Five Franc cannons in the rear opened fire immediately after.
The Franc is an iron reloader gun.
The whole gun is composed of three parts: the barrel, the belly, and the sub-gun.
When firing the cannon, the gunpowder projectile is first filled into the sub-cannon, and then the sub-cannon is loaded into the belly of the cannon, and the sub-cannon fire door is ignited for firing.
The belly of the Franc machine is quite thick, and there is usually a steering rod at the tail of the gun, and the barrel has a front sight and a light door.
However, limited to the technical level of the 16th century, the disadvantage of the Franc cannon was that the gap between the sub-cannon and the belly of the cannon was large, resulting in the leakage of gunpowder gases, so it did not have the long firing range of the Hongyi cannon.
At this time, the shells of the Franc cannon shells bombarded by the Panzaar on the hill weighed about three pounds.
Mainly adapted from the spinning guns on the Spanish battleships.
It is lightweight, easy to carry with the army, and has an extremely high rate of fire, with a high accuracy in hundreds of steps.
The artillerymen of the Ming army kept changing the guns, and this time the Ming army traveled and brought a whole hundred guns, all of which were placed in the army carriages and hauled by mules.
The horse is fast, but the horse is basically a local pony in Southeast Asia, where have I seen such a fierce artillery attack.
The horses that rushed to the front were frightened and began to rampage in panic without being controlled by the cavalry.
It directly disrupted the charge of more than 100 cavalrymen at once.
"Don't mess around, rush." Li Youcheng's face was pale, and the war horse was also neighing.
How did he know that Mingren's artillery could fire non-stop.
In just a few rounds, more than a dozen cavalrymen were shot and killed.
"Rush." Li Youcheng gritted his teeth, held his spear and rushed in the direction of the Ming army.
He knew very well that at this time, he could only survive by rushing over, and a distance of hundreds of paces was nothing for a cavalryman.
Previously, they had been completely caught off guard by the Ming artillery.
Now, as long as they gather and continue to rush forward, the Ming artillery can only fight two rounds at most.
Fortunately, the Akito's artillery is not a flowering shell, but a solid shell.
If at this moment, the Ming people used the flowering bombs of the Ming army under the original Nainong City.
I'm afraid that these more than 100 horsemen have already been wiped out.
Li Youcheng's fancai are also the elite of the Guangnan army.
Even in the face of the non-stop bombardment of the Ming people's artillery fire, after a short period of panic, the whole army quickly gathered to kill the Ming army.
On the contrary, it was the cavalry team under Mosin's command that was timid.
Trailed behind Li Youcheng's cavalry.
It's not that these Zhenla cavalry are weak and frightened by the artillery of the Ming people.
It was because these Zhenla cavalry obeyed Mosin's instructions when they were afraid of the Ming artillery.
Mosin handed over the cavalry to Li Youcheng because the situation forced him to do it as a last resort.
Naturally, the idea is how to keep your own horse team.
Therefore, before Li Youcheng took his horse team away, he had already let go of his generals.
Therefore, when the Zhenla cavalry saw that the Ming artillery was very fierce, they also hid in the rear.
This dodge didn't matter, it directly attracted the Ming people's artillery to Li Youcheng's cavalry.
Originally, Mosin's horse team also shared the Ming artillery fire, but now they hid behind Li Youcheng's horse team, and as a result, all the Ming artillery smashed on the heads of the Quang Nam cavalry.
Li Youcheng almost wanted to scold his mother, next year's artillery is not only fierce, but also very accurate, and he has already killed more than a dozen horsemen.
But Mosin's bastards hid behind their own horse team again.
Now all the artillery of the Akito is coming to their side.
However, fortunately, he was only one or two hundred steps away from the location of the Ming army's hills.
"Array of firecrackers." Li Liu, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, hurriedly shouted.
Thirty musketeers lined up in two columns in front of the cavalry and horses.
Seeing the Ming gunners lining up in the distance, Li Youcheng couldn't help but feel funny.
Even a few dozen firecrackers dared to stop their cavalry.
It was more than 100 steps away, and for the cavalry, they only needed to survive the last round of artillery from the Ming people, and the cavalry could rush over.
When the time comes, both the musketeers and gunners of the Ming army will be slaughtered at will by their own cavalry.
At this time, Li Liu was also standing there tremblingly, staring at the horse team that was getting closer and closer.
What made him extremely annoyed was why he brought so many artillery, but he didn't carry some rejection horses, and even in order to make way for the Franc machine gun, he didn't even bring a heavy fire gun like the Baizi gun, and now he can only rely on the self-generated fire gun in the hands of thirty subordinates to resist the cavalry of the Fanren.
Li Liu gritted his teeth and also raised a self-generated fire gun, the lead bullet of the fire gun can effectively kill up to twenty paces, and the cavalry can rush over with only a few breaths.
The firecrackers may not even have time for three strikes, so Li Liu directly canceled the third team, the two teams one in front of the other, and the front team half-knelt and planned to directly release the guns in two teams, as for how much damage it can cause to the cavalry of the Fanren, it can only be left to fate.
At this time, there were seventy or eighty horsemen left in the horse team.
However, it is clear that the horse team is clearly divided into two teams in terms of speed.
Li Youcheng's Quang Nam cavalry was faster and rushed ahead, while Mo Sin's more than thirty cavalry followed, with a certain interval in between.
But Li Liu, who was in the center of the cavalry charge, naturally couldn't see it.
But Lin Xu, who was on the hill, saw it clearly, and he smiled coldly.
Previously, Yang Yandi's subordinate Huang Jin asked Lin Xu a question.
There are many guns in the Ming army, but there is a lack of cavalry and spearmen, so what if you encounter cavalry.
At that time, Lin Xu smiled and said nothing, but now Lin Xu can tell him the answer.
Soon the Ming army poured the last round of artillery onto the head of the fancai, and at this time, the fancai was less than a hundred steps away from the Ming army's firearms.
Just when the soldiers heard the sound of the Franco's cannon, they wanted to take the last round of artillery.
Hundreds of buckshots were smashed into their faces, chests, and legs.
"Bang! Bang! Bang"
With the neighing of war horses and the screams of riders.
For a while, the dust was flying, and the more than 20 cavalrymen who rushed to the front were beaten to the ground.
Countless buckshots passed through their chests, cheeks, and horses, bringing out blood spills in streams.
More than 20 cavalrymen screamed and fell to the ground, and some of the cavalrymen had half their faces cut off by lead bullets, and they were lying on the ground rolling in pain.
The cavalry in the rear couldn't stop the horses at all, and shuttled directly between the more than 20 soldiers and war horses.
Many cavalry and fallen horses were directly trampled into pulp.
And the last five Franc cannons also fired.
This time, the Guangnan cavalry finally saw clearly what these Ming artillery shots?
With a flash of fire, hundreds of projectiles flew towards their heads.
The projectiles were as clear as grapes, but the size of pebbles.
Compared to before, the buckshot that was more than 3 pounds at every turn seemed smaller and lighter.
What the Quang Nam cavalry did not expect was that the lead bullets the size of pebbles and as clear as grapes were more fierce than arrows and bullets.
Hundreds of buckshots came at them, shattering their rattan armor and tearing open their chests, and in an instant blood gushed out, and the horses fell in pieces.
Grape shells are a type of ammunition that naval sailors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were equipped with a lot.
Simply put, it is a thin tin can filled with a large number of lead projectiles.
The potential energy released by the gunpowder after firing causes the lead projectile inside the container to burst and fly out, forming a scatter, which can cover a curved target and form a wide area of destruction, similar to a flowering bullet.
Because it is put together one by one, like a pile of grapes, it is called grape bomb.
However, it is more of a piece of equipment for use in the Mariner.
The main thing is to tear the sails of the enemy battlefield in naval battles, hit the sails with a large area of scattered bullets and make the ships lose power, and even fight pirates at close range.
As long as the cannon goes down, often a shipload of pirates will either be killed or wounded.
This time, the Ming army came with the merchant fleet, and many of the artillery pieces of the Ming army's merchant fleet were purchased from the naval division, and they were naturally equipped with grape shells.