When Zhao Peng sold artillery to Li Zicheng, every fifty cannons was equipped with a data table. These fifty cannons were cast from the same mold, almost exactly the same. When the gunner loaded the gunpowder, he just needed to follow the data on the table.

Zhao Peng also handed over the method of visually measuring distance by twitching the eye to the Shun Army. The artillery officers of the Shun Army only need to visually measure distance by twitching the eye to measure distance, then load the medicine bag according to the form and adjust the angle of the muzzle. Although Zhao Peng did not handed over the method of measuring the wind direction and speed of the Shun Army, as long as there is a charge and angle, they only need to aim at the densest intermediate artillery bombardment of the enemy formation crowd, and the shells can always fall into the enemy group.

"The distance is eight hundred steps, the angle is eight degrees, and the medicine bag is loaded!" Shun Army Artillery General Qian ordered.

The Shunjun gunners stuffed the fixed charge pack into the gun bore and pushed the bullet rod to the bottom. Then they stuffed a solid shell with a cork support to push the shell to the bottom with a push rod. Then they stabbed the shell from the fire door behind with a pointed iron vertebrae, pierced the medicine bag and inserted the medicine twist. The cannon was loaded in just over ten seconds.

Each gun team reported to the general manager in turn:

"The No. 1 gun is loaded!"

"The No. 2 gun is loaded!"

"The third cannon has been loaded!"

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"The No. 10 gun is loaded!"

The general commander's personal soldiers shook the green flag in the direction of the general Qian, indicating that the ten artillery he belonged to had been loaded.

Mr. Qian, who was standing on the high platform, ordered: "Fire the cannons, fire hundreds of cannons!"

The personal soldiers shook the red flag in the direction of the artillery position. Seeing this, the 100-man teams of each artillery were shaken and the red flag was also shined.

The gunners held torches and lit the medicine twists on the fire gate at the same time. The two 200 four-pound cannons from the two thousand-person artillery teams on both sides sprayed out flames almost at the same time, and white smoke rose up. The shells roared towards the infantry formation of the Qing army's eight banners heavy infantry and the eight banners and Han armaments mixed formations.

The Shun Army infantry, who were retreating, heard a "boom boom" sound of cannons. They raised their heads and saw overwhelming shells passing by their heads and smashing them towards the Qing army formation chasing them.

Groups of Qing army's Manchu Eight Banners heavy infantry and Eight Banners Han army's musket soldiers were marching forward. Suddenly, they heard a roaring cannon sound from the prism ahead. They raised their heads and saw black shells appearing in the sky, flying towards their formation.

The shells flew over at a speed visible to the naked eye. They looked unfast. They seemed to be able to catch the shells by reaching out to grab them, but all this was an illusion. In fact, the speed of the shells reached more than 200 meters per second, much faster than the speed of the bow and arrows of sixty meters per second. At such a fast speed, when the soldiers saw the shells, they were actually too late to dodge.

By the peak period of smoothbore cannons before the 19th century, the initial velocity of shells could reach an astonishing 490 meters per second. The initial velocity of four-pound cannons in this era was about 200 meters per second, but it was not something that people could dodge.

Two hundred black iron balls drilled into the formation of the Eight Banners soldiers from both left and right angles. The shells fell neatly into the dense Qing army crowd. The first group of unlucky ghosts who were directly hit by the shells were immediately crushed to pieces and turned into a scattered blood mist. Even if they were wearing thick armor, they were as fragile as paper in front of the shells. The Qing soldiers subconsciously raised their shields and tried to block the shells, but the shells hit the shields, and the iron shields immediately shattered and turned into countless shrapnel splatters. The Qing army's dead soldiers were covered with iron pieces, and blood mist was sprayed all over their bodies.

The shells that smashed the shield continued to fly forward. After crushing an Eight Banners soldier, the shells fell to the ground, changed their trajectory and bounced up, and continued to sweep over another Qing soldier.

Two hundred shells drilled into the Qing army's crowd. Shield fragments, weapons fragments, and human head fragments mixed together and flew into the sky. The Qing soldiers with few arms and legs were missing and fell down a large area. The landed shells bounced happily in the crowd, colliding happily, and ruthlessly smashed all objects trying to hinder their advance. Whether it was human bodies or weapons, they would break when they hit and break when they were rubbed. Two hundred iron balls plowed out two hundred crooked flesh-and-blood alleys in the Qing army's formation, overthrowing a large area of ​​Qing soldiers like a lawn mower.

The Shun Army's round of artillery attacks caused nearly a thousand casualties in the Eight Banners of Manchu and Han Dynasty! It directly tore a corner of the Qing army's 10,000 team!

Although the Eight Banners soldiers were invincible, nearly 10% of them were knocked down before they could see their opponents. Such power made the Qing soldiers frightened, and their morale almost collapsed for a moment.

Valley

"Storm up! The cannon loading of the bandits army takes time! There are still eight hundred steps away, and it takes at least one stick of incense to load the bandits army! When they load the ammunition, we have already rushed up!" The Qing army Gushan Ezhen He Luo would shout, urging the Eight Banners Qing army to stop and continue to charge towards the Shun army's positions.

Shunjun, who had fired a round of shells, nervously cleaned the cannon chamber. As soon as the wet mop was inserted into the cannon chamber, he heard a "pull" sound, and a white mist appeared at the muzzle. When the gunner pulled the mop out, the wet mop was already dry. Then the gunner put another wet mop into the cannon chamber to clean it, and the hot gun barrel temperature dropped a little.

The gunners who had cleaned the barrel stuffed the fixed charge pack through the muzzle, then pushed the medicine bag to the bottom with the push rod, then stuffed the shell into the muzzle, and pushed the bullet to the bottom with the push rod, then pierced the medicine bag from the fire door behind and inserted the medicine twist. Integrate the cleaning of the barrel with the loading ammunition, which is about twenty seconds before and after.

Then, the gunners took about ten seconds to reset the cannon and lowered the gun to about six degrees.

In half a minute, the Qing army's formation advanced about 120 steps.

"Fire the artillery!" The Qiang General of the Shun Army Artillery Battalion issued an order to fire the artillery.

"Boom boom boom" Four-pound cannons spewed out slender tongues of flames again, and the shells flew towards the Qing army formation with a whistling sound.

He Luohui heard the sound of cannons sounded on the Shun Army's position again and was shocked: "Why did the thief army's artillery firing again? How long has it been since they had already loaded?"

But the Qing soldiers had no time to think so much. They watched the shells fly towards their heads, and the formation was suddenly in chaos. The Qing army, who had just suffered a great loss, turned around and ran backward, trying to avoid the shells' attack.

But how could a person's legs run past the shells? Before the Qing soldiers could run a few steps, the shells falling like hail had already penetrated into their crowd, flying flesh and blood, and screaming in terrible times. A large number of Qing soldiers were knocked down by the shells. After the shells landed on the ground, they bounced and collided, causing a greater killing effect and swept away a large number of Eight Banners soldiers.

"Hurry up, I will stop the army!" Ajig shouted anxiously.

The Shun Army had just two consecutive rounds of artillery attacks, which probably caused almost 2,000 casualties to the Eight Banners soldiers! The loading speed of the Shun Army's artillery was astonishingly fast, while the Qing army estimated that the smallest tiger squat cannon was not that fast. I'm afraid that only the Fran aircraft could complete the loading so quickly. But judging from the power of the other party's shells, it was definitely not a small cannon such as a Fran aircraft, but a general cannon. But the general cannon cannot load so fast?

Hearing the sound of gold, the Eight Banners soldiers ran back desperately.

"Good fight! Just two rounds of artillery fire, the real slave was knocked back!" Li Zicheng laughed with his beard twisted.

Yuan Zongdi next to him smiled and said, "King, if Jiannu did not retreat and attacked desperately, I am afraid that ten thousand of them would be completely destroyed, so I would not be able to get close to us! The power of the Red Cannon is indeed powerful!"

Li Zicheng laughed: "We have this powerful weapon, and with the brink of the brink, why not be afraid of Jiannu!"

Seeing that the Mongolian Eight Banners Cavalry had not yet walked away, Yuan Zongdi pointed to the direction of the Qing army's Eight Banners Cavalry 600 steps away and shouted: "King, let's beat him the Mongolian Tartars! You must not miss the opportunity!"

Li Zicheng nodded and issued an order to "fire the Mongolian Tartars" to the two artillery teams.

Two hundred four-pound cannons were loading and were about to be loaded. When the two artillery battalions saw the red flag shaking on the platform, they hurriedly ordered their personal soldiers to send flag-speaking signals to the artillery groups.

The two hundred four-pound cannons that had been loaded roared again, and the hail-like shells hit the formation of the Mongolian Eight Banners Light Cavalry slowly behind. Only a sad neighing sound of war horses was heard. The Mongolian Eight Banners Light Cavalrymen were on their backs and their flesh flew everywhere. At least 300 people were dismissed. Many of them were beaten into pieces, including the men and horses.

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Chapter completed!