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Then the artillery fired one after another! This time, the shells used in the gun are all shotguns! The pounding of his fingers and stomach made a wind-like sound in the air, and countless bullet holes were punched in the dummy's body in an instant! Even the white smoke inside the bullet hole is dense to the state of white mist, which shows the density of the shotgun!

In this way, the soldiers emptied five guns in a very short time, which can be regarded as the end of the Franc cannon drill. However, everyone has seen the Furlong cannon, and they don't think there is anything new! So everyone set their eyes on the five mortar-shaped cannons in the back!

Qi Jiguang said at this time, "Lord Li, this artillery style is so strange, it looks like a bit of a mortar cannon! I don't know, but it's the deformation of the mortar cannon?"

In fact, the firearms of the Ming Dynasty were not lagging behind the West at that time! After getting the concept of artillery, the clever Ming craftsmen also made a lot of improvements and developed a variety of artillery! Among them is a mortar pestle cannon that resembles a mortar cannon!

It's just that this kind of cannon also fires solid shells, which basically has no lethality! So much so that as soon as it appeared, it was quickly eliminated! But it's hard for Qi Jiguang to remember that there was such a thing as a mortar pestle cannon that once appeared!

Liu Haojia nodded when he heard the words and said, "Lord Qi has good eyesight! This thing is the transformation of the mortar cannon! Now the lower official has named him Mortar!"

Qi Jiguang shook his head and said, "This name is appropriate, but it's useless! According to this officer's information, the mortar cannon can certainly hit people over the city wall, but the hit rate is really terrible! So no one used them at all!"

Liu Haojia smiled and said, "What Lord Qi said is right! But the mortars of the lower officials are different! As for why, you'll naturally find out later! Now it's time to start loading, let's see the shooting first!"

I saw a soldier pick up a cake-shaped gunpowder bag and stuff it into the bottom of the mortar, and then smoothed it with his hands! Then two more soldiers carried a huge round cannonball and stuffed it into the chamber! At the same time, the soldier who placed the gunpowder had already poked the fire door with an iron hook on the side, punctured the medicine bag, and inserted the fuse at the same time! And the soldier in charge of adjusting the cannon will also jam the shoot, so that the muzzle of the gun will no longer shake! The four soldiers worked closely together to complete the reload very quickly!

When the other soldiers retreated, there was a fuse lit by the soldiers! Just a few cannon shots were heard, and five large balls flew into the sky with gunsmoke! Seeing this, Qi Jiguang only shook his head slightly! He really didn't believe in the power of this artillery?

In his opinion, no matter how big you make the shell, when the shell falls from the sky, it is still equivalent to a point-to-point attack! And a mortar, which has no accuracy, will not be able to strike accurately at all! What's more, even if you hit every shot, you can only kill one person with one shot, and God knows how many shots you have to shoot to break the enemy down!.z.

At this moment, the five shells had already flown to the highest point in the sky one after another! They began to fall in the air after a moment's pause, landed exactly behind the false wall, and disappeared! But what happened next shocked Qi Jiguang!

I saw five explosions in a row behind the false wall, and five thick clouds of smoke were raised! The explosion was so violent that even the fake wall was blown to the ground!

Seeing this scene, Qi Jiguang almost didn't poke the telescope into his eyes! He stared eagerly at the smoke of gunpowder, wanting to see what would happen after the explosion! It just so happened that at this time, God also gave his strength, and sent a gust of wind to take away the gunsmoke, and finally let Qi Jiguang see the scene behind the fake wall!

I saw that there were already five big pits on the ground that were still bubbling their eyes, and the dummies around the pits had all been shattered! Even if it wasn't shattered, it was knocked to the ground by the force of the explosion! In a large area of dense dummies, only one dummy in the far corner stood alone! But looking at the crooked appearance of his armor, I am afraid that he was also beaten to pieces by the projectile buckshot!

Seeing this scene not only frightened Qi Jiguang, but even the others looked dumbfounded! Although they don't know martial arts, they can always see the miserable scene after the explosion! They quickly brought their vision into their imagination, what would it be like if such a shell exploded in the middle of their own soldiers? The result is naturally chilling!

After the fright, Qi Jiguang stared at Liu Haojia with glowing eyes and said, "Lord Liu,

How did you come up with such an exploding shell? This kind of artillery shell has a lot to offer in siege and mountain warfare!"

Hearing this, Liu Haojia couldn't help but sigh that Qi Jiguang was really a famous general, and he instantly found the most suitable battlefield for mortars! So he explained, "This kind of cannonball is called a flowering shell! Now only this mortar is available, and the flowering shells of other artillery guns are still being tried to be made. And the idea of making a flowering bullet is very simple, it is just to stuff an iron shell with explosives and buckshot! As soon as the cannonball exploded, the skin of the cannonball and the lead bullet inside flew in all directions, killing people and animals within a radius of more than ten steps, which was extremely powerful!"

Everyone gasped when they heard this, and they all felt that this kind of cannonball was really powerful! But Qi Jiguang asked, "How did the fuse of the cannonball ignite? I didn't see the soldiers lighting the fuse!"

Liu Haojia was even more moved by Qi Jiguang's sensitivity when he heard this, and he got to the point as soon as he said it! He immediately said, "You don't have to light all the fuses of the flowering bombs! When the propellant ejects the flowering catapult, the burning gunpowder in the chamber of the cannon will naturally ignite the fuse on it!"

This answer is actually Liu Haojia fooling Qi Jiguang! Because the shells he used were not like this at all! And the flowering bombs used by other stocks have also been successfully made for a long time!

In the early days of using flowering bombs, he did use the method he said. However, this method has a big drawback, that is, it cannot control the time of the shell explosion!

If you're lucky, you can make the shell explode after it hits the ground, and even if you're lucky, you can explode in mid-air close to the target, giving it the effect of an airburst bomb! But there are also times when you are unlucky, that is, the shell explodes not long after it flies out of the barrel!

You must know that artillery is generally lined up behind the infantry, maybe this premature explosion of the shell exploded on the head of your own soldiers! So this kind of unsafe fuze is gradually being eliminated! So clever craftsmen invented the wooden tube!

The so-called wooden tube is a small section of wood, hollowed out of its interior, and then filled with different amounts of slow-burning gunpowder according to the distance of the shell's landing point! And then put the letter tube *** cannonball!