Chapter 443: The Elephant
"Good!" Xu Zhi'an put down the binoculars and said calmly. "Not only shield carts, but elephant soldiers! Looks like the baby can't be hidden!"
"Pull it out and let me see it!"
Zheng Zhilong smiled and rubbed his hands a little expectantly.
Xu Zhi'an smiled and commanded his own soldiers:
"You go to Mr. Chen and ask him to pull those cannons out!"
"Yes! General!"
The pro-soldiers ran away excitedly.
After a while, he came to the place where the rear square was heavily guarded, found the person in charge, showed Xu Zhi'an's token and said:
"Mr. Chen, Uncle asked his subordinates to inform you that they were pulling our artillery to the front."
"Good! Go now!"
Chen Yujie immediately nodded in agreement, and shouted at the people behind him:
"Brethren! Bright guys! It's time for us to play!"
"Whew~"
The artillerymen, who had never had the opportunity to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield, let out a cheer.
Running all the way to Cochin to fight, can't it just be for the double salary in wartime? Be ambitious! To make military merits!
What is military merit?
Military merit is money!
What can you do with the money!?
Flower!
Profligate!
But the mortar and Chongzhen 4329 can already cope with most of the battle scenes, and the Chuyang is useless!
That's right, the artillery was made by Sun Yuanhua.
Named after his table.
As for Chen Yujie, he is naturally involved. It's just that he was determined to independently build bigger and more advanced artillery, so he refused Sun Yuanhua's request to make him a name.
In fact, for this name, Zhu Youzhen doesn't like it very much. Because Chu Yang is not domineering when he listens, there is no trace of mighty breath.
But think about it again, such a gentle name of Chu Yang is matched with great power, but it is also a bit contrasting and cute. So I approved the name of Chuyang, but in fact, there is really no way, I can't let Sun Yuanhua change his own words, right?
Although it is called the First Sun, it still has a prototype.
Armstrong cannon.
It's a serious Armstrong cannon, not the "Armstrong Whirlwind Spray Armstrong Cannon" in a certain soul.
And it was an improved Armstrong gun with a partition bolt bolt bolt.
After a long period of development, there were many models of Armstrong guns, the largest of which were hundreds of tons, and the shells fired were nearly one ton.
Although the Armstrong cannon became larger and larger, it was originally designed to facilitate field combat.
Under Zhu Youzhen's instructions, Sun Yuanhua created three different models of Armstrong guns.
The prototypes were 5-pound, 20-pound and 40-pound guns.
The lightest of these, 5 pounds, is called the first yang type, and two strong men can lift it and walk.
The 20-pound one is slightly heavier and is known as the Hatsuyo Type 2 and weighs around 800 kilograms.
The heaviest of 40 pounds is known as the Chuyang Type III, which weighs 16,700 kilograms. Considering the portability and practicality, the Chuyang Type 3 was not brought over this time.
I only brought 50 doors of the first type of the sun and 10 doors of the first type of the first sun.
It doesn't seem like much, but it's more than enough.
The former Great Yin Empire defeated 15,000 soldiers and 6,000 Mongol soldiers of the Barbarian Qing Dynasty in actual combat.
And with only 12 Armstrong guns, it was nothing more than a 12-pounder gun. ….
It is said that when the shells of this cannon explode, 42 shrapnel pieces will be separated, and 42 barbarian soldiers will be killed at the same time.
Although it is unlikely, it also tells the story of the great power of the Armstrong cannon from one side.
And now.
Behind Chen Yujie, sixty Chuyang guns were lying quietly!
As soon as Chen Yujie gave the order, the soldiers of the various artillery squads began to act. There is no squad of ten people, the cannon of the cannon, the ammunition of the ammunition.
And the 10 20-pound guns had to be pulled by livestock.
Fortunately, the wheels and bearings used on all artillery are products of the new era, and even if they are pulled by livestock, they save a lot of effort.
The army gave these guns a wide passage.
Chen Yujie was the first to find Xu Zhi'an.
"Uncle, it's up to you to decide where this cannon is placed."
"Mr. Chen, it's hard work." Xu Zhi'an was very polite, he had seen the power of these cannons, and he also knew how talented the people who could participate in the creation of this kind of artillery were, and he deserved to be called sir.
After speaking, he was not polite and quickly assigned to think.
The target of the 50-door Chuyang Type 1 is naturally the opponent's shield car.
The 10 early yang type 2 have to aim at the elephant.
Zheng Jun had already launched a charge, and the speed was still very fast.
They knew that the first thing they faced was the mortars of the Ming army, and they couldn't find a way to crack it. But if you run faster, you will have fewer dead people. Because no one knows if it will be themselves who will die.
Xu Zhi'an naturally did not let them down, and the mortars swished into the sky and then fell.
Zheng Jun was used to such a scene, even if the two sides had only been fighting for two days.
But isn't that what it's all about? I'm used to frying, frying.
Yesterday they had broken through the mortar blockade, managed to get within range of the enemy's muskets, and advanced almost two hundred paces. This time, they used their shields as cover again, and they were completely confident that they would smash the enemy's formation to pieces!
That's what the leaders of the army think, that's what the soldiers think, maybe even the elephants.
So they rushed forward with their tusks in their tusks.
Rumble!
The Wumen Chuyang II type on the left flank fired!
Nearly twenty pounds of shells roared into the herd of war elephants.
The elephants have a big target, and a hundred of them gather together to charge, and it is difficult to hit them accurately.
Five shells exploded in the herd.
The elephant is very large, and the inertia of the big representative when charging is great, and people will definitely not be able to stop it.
Coupled with the fact that the elephant has rough skin and thick meat, it is really difficult to kill it with one or two knives. This also led to the fact that the elephant soldiers were basically at the peak of invincibility on the battlefield in the era of cold weapons.
But times have changed!
There are hot ones who still use cold ones.
Soldiers have seen artillery, and elephants may have seen it.
But neither the soldiers nor the elephants had ever seen such powerful artillery!
The cannonball of the Chuyang II type fell at the feet of an elephant, and the elephant that was originally running Zhenghuan disappeared directly before it could fall, and its huge body was also overturned, directly crushing the soldiers on its back to death on the spot.
That's not all, the shrapnel city scattered from the explosion and flew in all directions, and the elephants around were basically hit by shrapnel, letting out a terrible scream. The more serious ones also fell.
Although he couldn't die for a while, he at least lost his ability to fight.
As for people, they are either dead or crippled when they touch them.
Such shells, five rounds at a time.
The elephants were blown up.
They are simply the kings of the army, and they planned to ride the elephant they used to be proud of and make great achievements, but they didn't expect to run into the enemy's artillery just a few steps away?
But isn't this artillery too powerful?
Sadly, the Ming army did not give them time to be in a daze, and in a daze, five shells attacked again.
Rumble!
Fry a serving of fries