One hundred and ninety-eight chapters of arming

Loaded with iron bullets, the range of the Tiger Squat Cannon is almost a mile, and of course the Great God Cannon can hit even farther - but don't expect any accuracy.

The 400-kilogram cannons in the arsenal of Chengdu Mansion all have gun trucks, and when they are cast, they must use bricks and stones to jam huge wooden wheels. Although it was so cumbersome that it was a mess, dozens of people could still move it when they were dragged and dragged it; The tiger squat cannon, which weighs only a few dozen pounds, has to be fired fixedly. As the name suggests, this kind of small cannon body is wrapped with thick iron claws, which must be firmly fixed to the ground with long nails before firing, like a squatting tiger, hence its name. Because it is too light, if it is not fixed, the huge recoil will lift the cannon body and sweep backwards a few feet away, whether it can hit the enemy is not easy to say, and there is no suspense about killing and crippling one's own people - so Qi Jiguang specially stipulated that no matter what the circumstances, the tiger squat cannon must be cast outside the battalion, and there can be no people in the fan-shaped area behind.

This is a weapon designed with the primary goal of restraining infantry group charges, and it is usually loaded with 100 small iron bullets and stone bullets weighing a few coins for probabilistic surface killing, and the effective killing range is more than ten zhang away. Sun Jie has a total of five tiger squat cannons in his army, in order to overcome the disadvantage of having to fire fixedly, Sun Jie thought about making gun trucks for them - from beginning to end they can only hit a specific direction at one angle, which greatly limits the power of such big killers - with the gun car, you can turn the direction at will, and you can also make some fine-tuning of the pitch angle by means such as padding the wheels, and its power can be increased exponentially. But he soon discovered that a more serious problem arose: the lighter gun carriage also faced a recoil problem, and even exploded in all parts, causing more damage to his own men, and if made strong enough, it would seriously slow down the march. Sun Bu is a field army, and it is not a matter at all to put dozens of pounds of artillery on a heavy car, and you can even ask the auxiliary soldiers to carry it on the narrow mountain road! Making a frame of a few hundred pounds out of thin air for this thing obviously outweighs the loss. Fortunately, Sun Jiajun's combat power is first-class, since Sun Jie led the army, in addition to exercises and daily drills, several cannons have not been used in actual combat, and often a white-knuckle charge wins, so Sun Jie didn't care too much.

Shen Gang heard that five of the seven cannons on the wall had exploded, so he brought two from the camp to Sun Jie. Sun Jie asked the auxiliaries of the Chengdu Central Guard to drive out two huge wooden bases overnight, which were five feet square and more than three feet thick - nailing the cannon to the wooden frame and then jamming it with a large stone, this weight could overcome the recoil, and without considering the casting efficiency, the firing direction could also be properly adjusted left and right by pulling the thick rope on the base together. The two guns were placed on the left and the right above the gate, and they were responsible for guarding the gate, which replaced the bed crossbow, which could be adjusted at will, to deal with the most threatening temporary targets.

Outside the city, Sun Jie also built a simple fortification about ten feet away from the wall, with his back facing the city gate. transferred the C team of the Changjie battalion, and taught Lao Shun to supplement them with a half hundred households, and unified it was commanded by Shi Meng, the officer of the C team-this Shi Meng is Shi Erlei's father.

The reason why he set up a fortification outside the gate at this time was because Sun Jie was confident that the firepower of the city head could ensure the safety of the city gate under the previous rounds of extravagant Chongming's offensives, but at this time, most of the heavy guards were ineffective, and he had to rely on brave soldiers to defend the city gate. To put it bluntly, it's simple: not enough equipment? Human lives are coming! In the words of Luo Ganxiang, "That's it"!

Of course, the city gate was closed, and there were several knife carts on the side to prepare for emergencies, but the side gate on the gate was open, so that the soldiers in front of the gate could not only get the fire support of the two tiger squatting cannons and archers directly above the city head, but also enter and exit through the side gate, take turns to rest in the door hole, and evacuate the wounded. The most important reason is: Sun Jie wants to counterattack! Only when Luo Ganxiang led his troops to suddenly turn back, all the defenders on the Chengdu wall were about to pour out of the nest to attack, and after driving the Yi thieves away from the battlefield, the soldiers of Chengdu Zhongwei returned to the city, and the native soldiers of Changjie Battalion and Shuinaozhai continued to cover and kill until they drove the main force of Luxury Chongming into the trap preset by Shen Gang in Longquanyi.

In the face of the huge siege towers, the small projectiles of the Tiger Squat Cannon could only be regarded as scratching the boots, and the well-trained Sun Army artillery crew still loaded half of the normal amount - and then sealed it with a large iron bullet. The two gunners watched the mallet gently knock the iron bullet into the barrel, then raised their eyes to carefully observe the approaching tower, quickly estimated the target's route in their hearts, and then each took out the bamboo tube from their waists and put it on the gun body, leaned over and aimed far away from the bamboo pipe, and waved the other hand, directing Ding Zhuang to pull the rope of the gun carriage and point the muzzle of the gun in the direction that the target would pass.

Chengdu Zhongwei is now more people and less artillery, Lao Shun picks and chooses, and the only two remaining cannons have been equipped with the best artillery crew...... Well, relatively speaking. Sun Jie repeatedly emphasized that because the barrel of the cannon should be cooled down after each cast, and it would take a long time to reload, it would be better to put the thief closer to fight to ensure the hit rate, and both guns should use the sound of the tiger squat cannon as the firing signal.

In order to retain the strength to quickly charge the wall after approaching, the towers that had entered the firing range were still moving very slowly; At the same time, in order to interfere with the aiming and shooting, the first to charge were the Miao soldiers under the cover of the chariot. Ordinary bows and crossbows can't deal with the chariots, and Sun Jie has to save on the use of artillery, which does provide effective protection for many Yi soldiers...... However, the drawbacks soon became apparent.

When the Yi soldiers shouted and rushed to the city wall more than ten zhang away, with a sharp bamboo whistle, they did not wait for the expected rain of arrows, but hundreds of black fist-sized objects were thrown on the city...... Fall, then blast overhead!

Fry-cans!

Gravel flies. Although the Yi soldiers who charged first were all covered with captured iron armor and cotton armor, those who were hit on the head, face and limbs fell to the ground and could not stand it, and those who were hit on the armor could not stand it! Seven or eight carts lost control or stopped or overturned, and the explosion in the air also caused the Yi soldiers who were cowering behind the cars to show their flaws, and they all covered their heads and looked up at the sky, and in their sight, hundreds of fried cans fell towards them......

It was the first time that the Yi soldiers had seen the canister, and after Ding Zhuang had thrown three rounds, there were already figures jumping around under the wall to dodge. The crossbowmen on the wall began to aim and shoot under the orders of their respective battlement commanders, and the Yi archers hid behind the carts and fired back at the city, kicking off the bloody battle of the day.

Shi Meng, who was behind the front of the door, shouted loudly, and sent the Zhangwu spear in his hand outward through the first wooden fence, stabbing an enemy who pounced on him with a knife in his hand, and then slammed back, the body was blocked by the fence, and he collapsed softly, and the blood that shot out splashed Lao Shi's face...... This is the first Yi soldier to die in front of the city gate today.