Chapter 644: Siege Cannon

The man shouted and the horse was neighing, and the auxiliary soldiers equipped with short guns led six siege mortars and moved the cart along the slide rails.

Sliding rails are increasingly used in Kaiyuan Army. Wooden tracks and even stone tracks have appeared in Chinese history, but they are just pulled by animal power. As this trend continues, Macheng is very sure to open.

In the original land, a track cart led by animal power will soon appear, which is the prototype of trains in later generations. The Kaiyuan force is now deeply involved in Mongolia, and the most lacking is livestock. The emergence of animal power tracks will greatly enhance the heavy firearms of the Liao army.

Mobility.

At that time, a cannon will maneuver along the orbits all over Liaodong, and Liaodong will be able to rest assured.

Back in front of me, a gun whistle fiddled with six thick and short mortars. The long whistle was sweating all over his forehead. He had only shot targets and never appeared in actual combat. He had no experience. Ma Cheng went out to watch with great interest.

Cannons and mortars are the prototypes of later generations of verb-fired cannons and the prototypes of howitzers, which are of great significance.

After solving the bottleneck of poor iron quality, the military industry of Taiwan and Kaiyuan governments has truly made rapid progress.

Buying high-quality fine iron from India costs a lot of money, but it is worth the money, which is much cheaper than making copper cannons.

How to get rid of the dependence on Indian iron-rich ore, Macheng turned his attention to the mountain city and turned to the north. One of the most famous iron-rich ore in the world, the Kursk Great Iron Mine, a huge iron-rich ore that stretches for 1,200 miles.

It was enough for Kaiyuan Mansion to spend all its fun and squandered it for hundreds of years. If you swallow your saliva, Macheng could not hide its covetousness for the rich mineral resources of the northern land, and it will be from the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Under the surprise of the soldiers on the front line, six thick and short iron cannons slowly lifted up their muzzles, and a large medicine was packed in, and then a large iron ball with an amazing diameter slid into the muzzle.

The siege mortar with a weight of only one thousand kilograms but a diameter of 220 mm was fired no longer an iron bomb, but a terrifying large iron ball. Such a large iron ball, just look at it.

It makes people daunt.

Recharge, test shot.

Dong!

An indescribable strange loud noise, a huge iron ball soared into the sky, flew to the sky, and fell down at high speed with a whistle-like whistle. Boom, the large shells of the washbasin did not hit the city wall, but

It fell on the hillside and shot a terrifying mass of smoke and dust. Daishan rushed out of the camp and looked in horror as several wood-made shacks were smashed into pieces and shot them. There was no wind.

A large area of ​​smoke and dust will not dissipate for a long time.

The weather was very hot, and after one shot, a group of soldiers and students surrounded him.

The soldiers looked at the soldiers and students, and under the leadership of a gentle professor, they used black charcoal pen to write and draw on a mature pride. The discussion became noisy. Ma Cheng looked very pleased and calculated the mortar ballistics.

In fact, it is not complicated. You only need to master a few basic data to roughly estimate the distance, shell flight time, and elevation angle. With these key data, you can roughly calculate the bounce point.

This is a new field that fascinated Sun Yuanhua. He was leading a large group of disciples to study and asked to go to the battlefield to conduct on-site testing, so Ma Cheng checked.

Sun Yuanhua led his disciples to calculate for a while and shouted: "Low down, try again!

The gunner took the order and began to load it. After a while, another huge cannon shell soared into the sky, hitting heavily on the mountain city wall with a sharp whistling sound in the eyes of the crowd. It looked very spectacular from a distance, weighing thirty kilograms.

The giant shells were like thunder falling from the sky, and rumbling to destroy the city wall. The stones and the human body flew high into the sky. The splashing smoke and dust seemed to grow a black mushroom on the mountain city.

The Ming army was cheering and looking at Sun Yuanhua and his disciples in awe.

Sun Yuanhua felt a little guilty, and he could only make a rough estimate. This shot could hit the city wall purely for luck, and he might not be able to hit ten more shots. However, his disciples were very proud and straightened their backs.

Like a fighting rooster, showing off her feathers in front of the soldiers of Kaiyuan.

In the back formation, Lu Xiangsheng exclaimed repeatedly: "It's really sharp!"

Ma Cheng laughed and paid some ammunition loss, so that Sun Yuanhua and his students could regard this mountain city as a test site for emerging ballistics. These young military students represent the future of Kaiyuan and ballistics.

Compared with other disciplines, it has unique advantages. Although the concept of function has not yet appeared in the West in the contemporary era, the study of cannons and parabolas has been a long time ago. In addition to hard power, soft power is also indispensable in fighting for the world.

If you can't even train a few cannon experts, how can you compete with the Europeans in the world?

Therefore, the Hetuala Mountain City became a stage for Kaiyuan Military Academy students to show their talents.

With the opportunity to test the theory in actual combat, Sun Yuanhua and his students were like injecting chicken blood, commanding the Kaiyuan Cannon Battalion to carry out endless torture on Hetuala Mountain City. The chain bombs fired by the direct aiming artillery were used, and the grapes were used to launch a chain bomb with a direct aiming gun.

The shells, various types of shells fired with curved mortars, all kinds of strange shells fell on Daishan and his 100,000 troops every day.

The cannons roared, and hollow flowering bullets fired by the curved cannon were filled with arsenic, lime, gunpowder, and various types of fillings flying around the mountain city. It was a wonder.

More than ten days later, the mountain city.

Dai Shan used a wet towel to cover his mouth and nose, and stood in front of the ancestral temple with a gloomy face. Looking at the neat courtyard in the ancestral temple, a hollow shell was hit by a hollow shell on the stone steps, or a lime arsenic shell. Isn't it said that there is no hollow poison shell.

The lethality was made. The iron sheets shot after landing, knocking down a large number of guards guarding the temple. Some of them sucked arsenic and lime powder and foaming. They saw that they could not survive. The holy and dignified Dajin Ancestral Temple was everywhere.

It is arsenic lime powder.

Dajin's ancestral tomb was humiliated, and Dai Shan howled hideously: "Macheng, I will tear you into pieces!"

Ma Cheng was not aware of anything, and Sun Yuanhua was not intentionally insulting the founding lord of the Dajin Kingdom. In this era, lime arsenic bombs were very common conventional weapons, and they also threw sulphur bombs, and even rotten corpses of humans and animals to create plague.

Sun Yuanhua and his students only used poison bullets, which was already very humane. How can a group of young military students be so heartless?

The whistling sound came out again, and the guards hurriedly pressed Dai Shan to the ground, pressing on Da Beile without fear of life and death.

Dai Shan was so pressed that he couldn't breathe. Bang, an iron bullet hit hundreds of steps away. The iron piece shot overturned a large area of ​​guards, and a blood mist suddenly burst out. Bayala, wearing bright yellow and thick cotton armor.

The soldier howled and rolled in the pool of blood. One of them was howling in pain with his face. A dark piece of iron was inserted into his eye socket. The other neck was pierced and bleeding was sprayed. More of the body was cut by shrapnel.
Chapter completed!