The empty ground several miles north of the Hunhe River was densely covered with the banner of the Later Jin army. After a long distance of rushing to this place, the Later Jin army, who had been resting for half an hour, began to attack.

From the early morning, Xiong Tingbi has been standing in a car looking at the tower. Behind him were two personal soldiers, each holding a small flag. As long as Xiong Tingbi gave an order, the personal soldiers would shake the small flag and issue orders to the Ming army in the car formation. Then, the flag-carrying soldiers of each team of Ming army would shake the flag and issue orders to each unit.

The Later Jin army launched a fierce offensive. After completing the array, low horns sounded from all directions almost at the same time. In front were shield chariots pushed by Baoyi, behind were heavy armored dead soldiers of the Later Jin army, followed by archers, followed by heavy armored infantry, Korchin Mongolian light cavalry, coated firearm soldiers, and the two wings were protected by the Later Jin heavy cavalry.

"Four hundred steps away!" A personal soldier from Xiong Tingbi on the female wall of the car formation shouted and shook the small flag.

Xiong Tingbi shouted: "General's cannon, let it go!"

Two 500-pound general guns were mounted between the chariots and the chariots behind the chariots. There was a low-high wooden fence blocking them. The muzzle extended from above the wooden fence and aimed at the direction where the Later Jin army came.

The gunners had already adjusted the angle. The gunner in charge of ignition raised the torch and stood next to the fire gate when ordered. The gunner in charge of cleaning the gun chamber held a mop, took a step forward, and stood on the side of the muzzle to prepare.

As the flag shaking, the gunner poked the torch in his hand into the fire door.

"Boom, boom" Only two roaring cannons were heard, and two shells were accurately pierced into the shield formation of the Later Jin army. One of the shells accurately hit a shield car, and immediately smashed the shield car's guard plate. The shells with unrealized power were wrapped in broken wood pieces and spread into the crowd of coats. More than a dozen coats pushing the cart made shrill screams, and their faces were covered with broken wood pieces, rolling to the ground, rolling on the ground in pain.

The shells that smashed the shield car continued to fly forward with smoke and debris, hitting a heavy armored dead soldier in the back gold. No matter how many layers of thick armor on the dead soldier were, they could not save his life. The armor hit by the shells was shattered like an egg shell, and the whole body turned into flying pieces of flesh and blood. The head flew out, leaving only two legs on the ground. After pausing for a moment, the legs fell back.

The shell landed on the hard ground, jumped up, and hit the arm of a back gold archer, tearing the arm of the back gold archer directly from his shoulder.

Another shell did not hit the shield car, and passed through the gap between the shield car and the shield car. It happened to open a blood line in the crowd behind the shield car in the Later Jin army, making a continuous sound of collision. Wherever it passed, the human body and limbs were shattered. The shells fell on the ground and bounced up again, changing direction and continuing to collide. A straight Later Jin soldiers fell down. After the shells passed, the Later Jin soldiers on this line made heart-wrenching screams.

The Ming army gunner who fired the shells began to clean the barrel. A gunner put the wet mop into the barrel for a while and a stream of water vapor emerged from the barrel. After pulling the mop out, the wet mop had turned into a dry mop.

Then the two gunners picked up the barrel with force, held the tail on the ground, and the muzzle was raised toward the sky. Then a gunner in charge of loading held a gourd, scooped out a scoop of gunpowder from an open wooden barrel, poured it in from the muzzle. Then a gunner stuffed a wooden board into the muzzle, and the other gunner held the push rod into the muzzle, pressed the wooden board, pushed the wooden board to the bottom, compacted the gunpowder, and finally put the shell in from the muzzle to the bottom with the push rod.

After completing a series of complicated actions, the two gunners holding the barrel lowered the barrel and placed it on the gun stand.

A gunner standing behind inserted the drug induction tube through the fire door, which was considered to be the completion of the loading.

"It's really complicated!" Gao Shixin shook his head and said to Shang Kexi, who was in charge of the artillery, "This is too slow to load!"

Shang Kexi spread his hands helplessly: "This is the fastest! Although the cannon is powerful, it is too slow to load!"

Gao Shixin then remembered that the Ming army did not have a fixed charge package at this time, and the reloading speed of cannons such as general cannons was extremely slow. If it were red cannons, the reloading speed could be described as unbearable. When loading red cannons, more than ten gunners needed to lift the barrel of more than 3,000 kilograms, and the muzzle was facing the sky. The loading hand stood on the wooden box, poured the gunpowder in, then pushed the wooden board in, and then stuffed the shells into death. With this loading speed, the red cannons could fire one round in five minutes, which was already very fast; while the general cannons weighing five hundred to one thousand kilograms, such as general cannons, could fire one round in one minute.

Gao Shixin estimated that the loading just now took two minutes! Within these two minutes, the Later Jin army had advanced from four hundred steps away to two hundred steps.

However, at this time, the Ming army's medium-sized Franco cannon opened fire.

Eight three hundred kilograms of Franchise made deafening roars one after another, and eight shells flew out of the muzzle and hit the shield line of the Later Jin army. Only a series of crackling sounds of wood were heard, three shields were hit by shells. One kilogram of shells hit the shield, smashing the shield guard plate to pieces. Another shell was also gathered a shield wheel from the side, turning the wheel into countless pieces. The cart's coats screamed and fell down.

After the Franco machine gunner fired the shell, one gunner immediately pulled the cover with an iron hook. Another gunner pulled out an iron bar to fix the sub-gun and the abdomen. Then the gunner who pulled the cover with an iron hook and pulled it out. A hot sub-gun landed on the ground. Then a gunner put a new sub-gun into the abdomen. The muzzle of the sub-gun aimed at the breeze inside the abdomen and pushed in. Then an iron bar was inserted from the opening on one side of the abdomen, passing through the fixing hole at the tail of the sub-gun, and then extended from the opening on the other side of the abdomen, so that the sub-gun was fixed in the abdomen.

In just over ten seconds, the Fran machine cannon roared again.

Gao Shixin looked at the operation of the Franco gunners and thought to himself: The fire rate of this gun is fast, but the air leakage is too serious. The 300-pound Franco jet can only fire one pound of shells. If it is a European field gun, a 300-pound gun can fire two and a half pounds of shells, which is much more powerful than the Franco jet.

The Franco aircraft had a fast firing rate. In a blink of an eye, the second round of shells was fired again. The gunners quickly loaded the sub-guns and quickly fired the third round of shells.

Gao Shi said in confidence: It seems that it is necessary to improve gunpowder and the use of fixed charge packages by the brothers of the church. By the way, the work of improving the gun stand must also be done well, and it will be changed to a field gun stand for the gun stand. In this way, the real field guns using fixed charge packages will not be much slower than the Fran aircraft, and their power will be much greater than that of the Fran aircraft! With the gun stand and fixed charge package, all artillery fire rate can be increased several times, especially the Red Cannon, which can be increased ten times!

Why is it said that after adopting the new gun mount and fixed-loading package, the fire rate of the Red Cannon increased more than other guns? That is because the Red Cannon is very heavy. It lifts the barrel and loads it and pours powder gunpowder into it. The loading speed is unbearable. Because the Red Cannon has a large recoil, and the fire mount needs to be readjusted once. After using the new gun mount, the reset speed is much faster. Just push the cannon car forward. With the fixed-loading package, there is no need to lift the gun barrel weighing thousands of pounds to load it. Just stuff the medicine bag directly.

Gao Shixin thought of another thing: the shells need to be improved, and adding a cork bracket to the shells can not only omit the step of stuffing into the wooden boards when loading, but also the shells are more accurate.

At this time, the Later Jin soldiers were only about one hundred steps away from the formation of the chariot.

"Swoosh swish swish swish" the sound of arrows flying into the sky, and the archers behind the Later Jin army's shield chariot shot out rows of light arrows.

The first round of light arrows flew into space and covered the Ming military vehicle formation. The second round of light arrows flew into space and covered the Ming military vehicle formation again.
Chapter completed!