ps: Add updates tomorrow to end this battle.

Frontal stalemate, flanking encirclement.

Zhao Liang's tactics in the battle in front of him are very simple, even very clear. You only look at his military configuration, and even a person who does not understand military affairs can taste it.

"Boom boom boom..."

On the narrow frontal battlefield, cannons from both sides roared, and shells crossed each other in the air.

The limited space on both sides of the Grand Canal is really not big, but this is normal. In the classical era, there were not many vacant land in China? Of course, all of them had to plant crops.

In such a relatively narrow space, nearly a hundred cannons roared from each other. The density of the cannons was quite large!

Zhao Liang is not worried that the artillery battle will lose to the opponent.

Even though the Qing army had a larger number of artillery artillery, it still had many larger heavy artillery, just those heavy artillery of five or six thousand pounds.

——From the Kang Mazi era, the heavy artillery of the Qing army was generally divided into three categories. One was the Shenwei General-type artillery, weighing more than 2,000 kilograms, which belonged to the light artillery among heavy artillery; the second was the magic general-type artillery, which was generally upwards of three thousand kilograms, which belonged to the medium-type artillery among heavy artillery; the last was the Wucheng Yonggu General-type artillery, weighing between 3,600 and 7,000 kilograms, which belonged to the absolute heavy artillery.

To put it another way, the weight here refers to the weight of the gun body, without a cannon truck.

However, because the Qing Dynasty was behind in the level of casting artillery, there was basically no improvement compared to the level of the Ming Dynasty. It was just that it was a little bigger. So in terms of range, these heavy artillery that were often three to four thousand kilograms and four to five thousand kilograms did not have any advantage over the artillery of Chen Jun.

Even at a disadvantage in terms of rate of fire.

I don’t mention anything else, just talk about the length of the cannon body, one side is 2.34 meters, two.56 meters, and the other side is only 1.67 meters, and at most 1.78 meters. With this alone, how much advantage can you get than the Qing army when you clean the cannon cabin?

In addition, Chen Jun used customized pharmaceutical powder here, and even directly made a fixed charge.

The raw silk-wrapped medicine bag is tied directly with the shell, and a bullet holder is added at the end. This fixed-loading bullet can be directly sent into the cannon chamber, which is naturally more cost-effective than the separate filling time.

Moreover, there is very little residue after burning of the raw silk medicine bag, and almost nothing is present in the environment inside the barrel, so that the firearm will not be easily smoldered after the latch is opened and cooled down.

Less residual and no smoldering are related to life.

Otherwise, after the shooting is completed, the remaining burning residue in the gun barrel will detonate the firing medicine during loading, causing the gun team to ascend to the sky collectively.

Therefore, cleaning the cannon chamber is also necessary.

In this regard, the Qing army took advantage of this, because they did not say that they fired a drug bag, just like a musket, the cannon also directly loaded with powder, and a long-handled shovel must be accompanied by the powder bucket.

But because of this, the Qing army must carefully clean the barrel after the artillery was fired, otherwise the temperature inside the bore will be too high and the powder will cause, and the chaos will be huge.

In short, Chen Jun absolutely crushed the Qing army there in terms of firing rate.

As for the accuracy of the shells, Chen Jun's gunners are familiar with the gun watch. The aiming method is also European-style gun tail sights, and some supporting measuring instruments, such as torque, gun rules, gun rulers, etc.

It is much better than the Qing army's experience and fire artillery based on their feelings.

And how were the Qing army's artillery arranged?

It was still naked in front of it.

Xi Ming knew that there were many sharpshooters on Chen Jun's side, so he even arranged a row of soldiers holding large shields in front of the artillery to protect the artillery.

But this kind of protection can block the gun, can it block the shells?

Chen Jun was filled with willow frames in front of the cannon position, and the willow frames filled with earth bags and gravel, which could perfectly block the cannonballs jumping in.

Because both sides are hit by solid bullets.

This kind of iron bomb cannot explode, and its lethality does not lie in the moment it lands, but in the subsequent "bounce" of "bounce".

Just like flying water, the shells that fall into the team can easily blew a path from the crowd.

The greatest significance of the willow frame is not to prevent the shells from falling directly, but to prevent the shells from "bounced" after they land!

With these advantages, Zhao Liang is not worried about artillery battles at all.

But he also knew that it was not easy for him to push the Qing army from the narrow front.

Unless the Qing army on the opposite side is a fool, he can watch his artillery kill the Qing army's firepower one by one without any hesitation, but this is really difficult.

Because the Qing army was corrupt, their upper-class officials were not stupid.

They can easily discover the function of the willow frame.

As long as they copy the homework and throw some sandbags into front of the cannon position, even if Zhao Liang felt that his artillery team had a great advantage in terms of firing rate to technology, it would be unrealistic to knock out so many cannons accurately.

Because the Qing army was not an idiot, they would not watch the willow frame without being indifferent.

In fact, Xi Ming has now noticed the willow frames in front of Chen Jun’s cannon position, and he even instantly understood the purpose of these willow frames.

"Good idea, good idea. Zhao Guangming is indeed a coincidence!"

Then he turned around and shouted to someone under his command, "You can't go and handle it!"

It is rare to find these frames now, but there are sacks in the Qing army, and they pile generations of soil and sand in front of the cannon position, which is similar to the willow frame.

Even the sandbags of land can be hidden by military soldiers and used to counterattack the sharpshooters on the opposite side.

"Sure enough, I learned it very quickly."

Seeing the sudden burst of sacks of landblocks in front of the Qing army's artillery position, Zhao Liang was not surprised. Although the Qing army was seriously corrupt, they should still have this little cleverness.

"boom……"

A shell landed on the ground and then jumped forward.

The Qing army in front of him watched the shells fall to the ground, and he wanted to retreat to the side, but the seemingly slow shells were actually not slow.

I felt a chill under my knees, and then the severe pain instantly destroyed his will.

"ah……"

A shrill scream sounded again from the Qing army formation.

Chen Jun knew that it was rare to hit the cannons on the opposite side more than a mile. But it would be better to hit the shells one by one in front of the opposite gun position, and then use the shells to "bounce" to kill the opponent.

As a result, the effect is very good.

The four cannons on the opposite side have now collapsed.

The artillery shells fired by the Qing army either passed over the head of the Chen army's artillery position or fell in front of the Chen army's artillery position, but the willow frames easily offset their threat.

"Hey, hey..."

Even when the frontal artillery battle was fierce, on the flanks of the battlefield, the Qing army and Chen army, who wanted to surround the opponent from the side, were also struggling to wade through the rice fields full of mud and mud.

The Qing army even carried some small cannons.

For example, mountain-splitting cannons and magic machine cannons, as well as mother-child cannons and strange cannons.

The strange painting was built in the 24th year of Kangxi. It is shaped like a Folang machine cannon. The cannon is 5.56 feet long and weighs 30 kilograms. It has 4 aconite cannons and the lead cannon weighs 2.5 taels. It is installed on a tripod and loads the ammunition from the tail to adjust the firing boundary.

This is a very large bird gun in a sense.

The magic machine cannon is cast with iron, approximately straight cylinder, 2.6 feet long, without aiming devices, and is carried with a flat-panel four-wheeler. It is a simple imitation of the magic machine cannon of the Ming Dynasty.

The Desheng cannon was cast in copper, 6.3 feet long and weighed 365 kilograms, thin in front and thick in the back, and the cannon was mounted on a two-wheeled cannon truck.

These are all light artillery equipped by the Qing army. Now they are dragged to the muddy and difficult flank, so naturally they have the idea of ​​making achievements.
Chapter completed!