Zhou Shuo personally announced the results of the calculation, and the gun commander supervised the deputy gun commander to adjust the screw, and the hand-built screw became easy to use after a long time of polishing and application, and after the adjustment, the notch, crosshair and target on the gauge were connected into a line.

When the gauge is zero, that is, the elevation angle is zero, the flying shell will land at about 280 meters, if the ground is hard enough, it can bounce, and if Zhou Jian does not encounter a strong enough obstacle, this shell will finally stand at 1,600 meters.

However, the actual effective firing range of the six-pounder gun will not exceed six hundred meters.

At a distance of two hundred and eighty meters, taking into account the fall of the shells and the fact that the target artillery carriage also has a certain height, it is most appropriate to have a ruler of zero.

"Reload solid bullets. Ready for a shot! ”

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

A minute later, the spicy girls fired the first solid shell, the back seat of the cannon reached more than three meters, and the gunner and the helping infantry pushed the heavy artillery back into its original position.

The officers were using binoculars to observe where the shells landed, and instead of reporting the weekly rate, they asked the gunner to fine-tune the elevation and firing angles of the guns at their own judgment.

With a skillful six-pounder gun, it can shoot two rounds a minute, but considering the problems of aiming, revision, heat dissipation, etc., it is generally fired at a rate of one round a minute, of course, the actual combat speed is slower, because the officers have to change the next target after the target is destroyed.

Li Zhaoji stood on the mill and observed the performance of field artillery.

He saw a cannonball fly past one of the Franco's cannons, smashing the head of one of the unlucky ones, and the next one hitting the gun carriage, causing the pirates to run around.

And the shells that finished the first attack successfully formed a ricochet, creating a flesh alley inside Dazhai, but everything it encountered was smashed by it. So it's not surprising that there are arms flying and flesh spraying in the distance.

Li Zhaoji witnessed the performance of these spicy girls, and when he saw that the artillery of the pirates was destroyed, he let out a cry of excitement, at least everything he had done in the past was rewarded, and the artillery that could shoot accurately would inevitably perform better when shooting roughly at the infantry formation.

"I heard that your artillerymen set fire to the ports and cities of the Wajin with molten bombs during the Battle of Hirado. You see, the village is full of wooden buildings, and the firewood and supplies they collected are piled up there, and perhaps we can recreate the glory of that time. Ferreira was also excited about the performance of the field artillery, and he suddenly remembered something and said to Li Zhaoji.

But Li Zhaoji directly rejected this proposal: "Listen, these pungent girls are my love, I won't let Bai Yu be dusted, how can they do those rough jobs?" ”

Shelling cities and wooden buildings was indeed very effective, but Lee would never let his field artillery do that. These were bronze cannons cast in copper and tin, and they were outrageously expensive, and Li Zhaoji had signed the bill with trembling hands, he didn't want to consume their lives.

Speaking of which, Li Zhaoji knew very well that the 12-pounder field gun was higher than the 6-pounder gun, and there was not much difference in the mobility of the two types of artillery in such a water network area as the south, but Li Zhaoji still had to cast a six-pounder gun, not a 12-pounder gun, because of the shortage of copper, and the copper needed for a 12-pounder field gun to cast two six-pounder guns was more than enough.

"Okay, count me too much." Ferreira said.

After firing ten rounds each, the six-pounder guns stopped to dissipate heat, and the whole array did not move forward. Li Zhaoji planned to continue to destroy the enemy's fortifications with field artillery after the heat was dissipated, and then launch an attack according to the situation.

"If it weren't for these field artillery, how many people would we have died if we took this big village?" Lee asked Ferreira.

Ferreira said, "Seventy, at least that's the number." Shi Bi and Ma Xuansheng took advantage of our landing to kill the other two pirates, and it is said that they killed hundreds of people, which showed their courage to defend to the death. And the Governor's order is for us to take it as soon as possible. ”

"Yes, because of the spicy girls, we can at least half of the deaths." Li Zhaoji said proudly.

Ferreira nodded: "Maybe there will be fewer deaths, and I even doubt that if the bombardment continues, someone will take the initiative to surrender." ”

"Hey, you guessed right, you see, someone is coming with a white flag." A group of people appeared in Li Zhaoji's telescope, a total of four people, one holding a white flag and three holding hangers.

Soon, Yang Yandi, who commanded the army formation at the front, came to the top of the mill and informed the purpose of the visitor.

"That's Shibi's men, to negotiate, and the hanger they are holding is Lin Cha's robe, and they tie Lin Cha to the watchtower." Yang Yandi pointed to the watchtower in the distance.

The large watchtower was built on top of the barn, and below it was a masonry building, with the main body framed by wood, and a half-naked man was tied to a wooden stake, and the reason why he chose there was that it was high enough and had a good view.

Li Zhaoji glanced at it with a telescope and said, "It's really Lin Cha, you see that one of his fingers is missing, and I cut it at the beginning." ”

"That's Ma Xuansheng, the one who whipped Lin Cha with a whip." Tang Mu, who was also observing with a telescope on the side, said.

He handed the telescope to Ferreira, who said, "That's right, it's Ma Xuansheng." ”

Last year when the four surnames were provoked to fight, the two had gone to see Ma Xuansheng, so they could still recognize them.

As soon as Li Zhaoji heard that Ma Xuansheng was there, he immediately observed with a telescope, and he found that a man was whipping Lin Cha, and he could faintly hear the howl of the other party, and soon, a slightly older person snatched the whip from his hand and pushed Ma Xuansheng aside.

"The person who pushed Ma Xuansheng away is not Shibi." Li Zhaoji asked.

Li Zhaoji didn't know the two, but after thinking about it carefully, the person who dared to push Ma Xuansheng away was relatively old, and it might be Shibi.

Ferreira took a closer look: "Perhaps, I have only seen the stone wall once, or more than ten years ago, at that time he had a beard, why is it not now?" ”

"Send someone to the Second Fleet, and immediately let Zheng Tingqiu come to see you, Tang Mu, you take the shooting watch group, and immediately use the shield car to cover the Dawang Tower, and get as close as possible." Li Zhaoji immediately commanded.

Tang Mu immediately understood, and he said: "Big shopkeeper, if you get it right, maybe ten people won't die in this battle, haha." ”

He pulled out a flag, stuck it in a crack in the stone beside it, and said, "If that person is a stone wall, be sure to take this flag down." ”

Four shield cars covered Tang Mu and more than 20 people behind him to advance towards the big watchtower, in addition to a good view here, another advantage is that it is located on the side of the walled gate, far away from the field artillery company, on a corner, and the trench covers the watchtower.

"Don't get any closer, we'll open fire if we get any closer." On the big watchtower, a stone wall shouted, and he carried a megaphone rolled in iron sheets, chanting continuously.

Tang Mu stood on the shield cart, waved the white flag in his hand, and said, "We are ordered to come to negotiate, and we must hear you." ”

After speaking, he asked a young man beside him in a low voice: "How far is it, can you be sure?" ”

"About one hundred and twenty steps." The young man said, and one of the people next to him said, "One hundred and ninety meters, it's all right, but the closer the better." ”

The man who spoke had an armband with a field gun embroidered on it, borrowed from artillerymen.

Although the production of rifled guns encountered technical problems, they still had practical application value. In particular, after the Tamsui battalion was stationed in Macao, it came into contact with the Ferreira battalion, and during the exercise, it was found that Ferreira's skirmish line technique was very useful, so Zhao Dahe also hoped to organize his own skirmishers.

However, it was not possible to use a heavy arquebus, so Li Zhaoji decided to produce a batch of rifled guns first, and improve them while using them.

It's just that the rifled gun needs to formulate a shooting table and cooperate with the meter ruler because of the long shooting distance, and the one who has experience in formulating the shooting table is the field artillery company, Tang Mu used his close relationship with Zhou Shu to borrow three officers from him to assist the shooter in formulating the shooting table, and the team composed of more than a dozen people is temporarily called the shooting table group.

Since the shape of the Mineer bullet had not been determined, the actual shooting team was to participate in the first rifled gun involving a trading company, so the work of the shooting group has been advancing, and now it is time for them to enter the actual battle.

"It's right there, our leader said, if you get closer, you will cut off Lin Zongbing's hand." Less than fifty meters away from the shield cart, a group of men and horses, armed with bows and arrows, shouted loudly.

The shield car had already advanced to about one hundred and fifty meters, and in order to avoid startling the snake, Tang Mu ordered it to stop.

"Listen, I came to negotiate on behalf of the big shopkeeper Li Zhaoji of the Oriental Trading Company, and the big shopkeeper said, keep fighting, you will be dead. It's better to stop the army and truce, hand over Lin Cha to us, and then surrender, the big treasurer will let you live, you can leave the Pearl River Estuary, as long as you don't show up again, everyone will be safe. Tang Mu said nonsense.

"Okay, I've heard your conditions, and I'll repeat ........."

"Yes, that's it."

"Okay, I'll get back to our leader at once, you wait." The little pirate leader ran to the Great Watchtower and consulted with the people above.

Tang Mu stared at the big watchtower, and sure enough, he found that the guy who stopped Ma Xuansheng just now was waving his arm and saying something to the little boss at this time, but Ma Xuansheng didn't say a few words.

The little leader came back and said to Tang Mu: "The leader of my family said that this is just your condition, and you are willing to let us go, but what about the imperial court?" We need to meet the envoy of the Governor Shen Yulong. ”

"Okay, you wait, I'll send someone to the back camp at once, and the messenger will arrive soon." After Tang Mu responded, he found a subordinate at random and said, "Quick Mill, tell the big shopkeeper to determine whether the other person is Shibi as soon as possible." ”

The two sides were at a stalemate at the front for a quarter of an hour, and the shooters of the shooting watch group began to prepare to shoot.

They loaded the gunpowder in the cartridge into the barrel, which was different from the normal smoothbore gun, which would stuff the lead bullet with the paper package, and the rifled gun could not be loaded like this, and their equipment was also different, in addition to the ejector lever equipped on the gun, there was also a rifling lever tied to the right leg.

The lower part of the chamber cleaning rod is a bamboo tube, but the head on it is wrapped in cotton cloth, which looks a little weird.

On the big lookout, Shi Bi and Ma Xuansheng waited nervously, Shi Bi's son was also here, and when Zheng Tingqiu surrendered, he was directly released.

At this time, he probed his brain, most of his body was hiding behind the wooden plank, Shibi was already very anxious, seeing his son so timid, he kicked his buttocks: "You coward, what are you afraid of, there are more than a dozen bird guns behind the shield car, and the fire rope has not even been lit, what is there to be afraid of." ”

Ma Xuansheng also said: "That is, if you stand there and don't move, the bird can't hit you." ”

"Dad, I'm not cowardly, I'm observing, do you say this is a conspiracy, how can Li Zhaoji be willing to let us go?"

Shi Bi said: "He will definitely not let us go, but he can't help it, this Hong Kong is Ming after all, as long as Shen Youlong is convinced." ”

"I know. But I'm still worried, look at the banner below, where are the soldiers of the imperial court? ”

Ma Xuansheng whipped Lin Cha on his body, Lin Cha screamed, and then cried and begged for mercy, Ma Xuansheng grinned and said: "You see, the general soldiers of the imperial court are like this, and those soldiers will know." It must be cowardly, let the Dongfan soldiers and the Franco soldiers come to fight, and they take the results to ask for credit. ”

Shibi's son said: "Uncle Ma, even if this is the case, the soldiers of the imperial court should sweep the formation behind, or come forward to release a few guns, otherwise how can they explain?" Perhaps, the imperial court soldiers and horses did not go to the island. ”

When Shi Bi and Ma Xuansheng heard this, they became alert, and Shi Bi said: "He is right, maybe Li Zhaoji is playing some tricks, quickly, get Lin Cha down, and when the envoy from the imperial court comes, let's talk about it." ”

After the shield car, Tang Mu kept looking in the direction of the mill, the flag had been standing there, he was a little anxious, at this time, the artillery officer said: "Look, Sir Tang, they have loosened the ties for Lin Cha, maybe they have to leave." ”

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