Chapter 307 Artillery
After taking a deep breath, he ordered loudly: "Military advisor, go to the city wall immediately. Since the Tiger and Leopard Army, I must meet you carefully. See what kind of elite troops this official army that destroyed thousands of cavalry and thousands of infantry in one fell swoop..."
"In addition, let someone inform the other commanders and go to the city wall immediately. The tiger and leopard army is coming..."
With the help of a monocular telescope, the Tiger and Leopard Army two miles outside the city appeared clearly in front of Wu Jingtian.
The Tiger and Leopard Army musketeers, who had more than a thousand people, had formed a very tight line of defense outside the east gate. Not only that, one mortar that he had never seen before, raised his five-foot gun body, and the black hole muzzles as thick as a bowl, without exception, aimed at the walls of Baode County where he was.
Of course, this is just the tiger and leopard army I saw...
Behind these tiger and leopard troops, teams of tiger and leopard troops wearing iron cavalry were patrolling back and forth on the battlefield in platoons. Seeing this, Wu Jingtian couldn't help but think of the night two days ago, the tiger and leopard troops were killing all over the military camp outside the city, and in just over half an hour, he wiped out thousands of his brothers.
At this time, a chaotic footsteps suddenly rang behind Wu Jingtian.
The only two remaining commanders of the musket battalion, one commander of the long gun battalion, three reserve battalion commander, and one commander of the artillery battalion, were already hurried to Wu Jingtian with anxiety on his face.
When they saw that the tiger and leopard army had been surrounded by Baode County outside the city, several people couldn't help but take a breath.
Although they have not yet made a real settlement with the Tiger and Leopard Army outside the city, the Tiger and Leopard Army outside the city has a trace of unprecedented fear and worry in their hearts.
At this time, the artillery leader first spoke: "The commander... the official army has arranged its defense line two miles outside the city, which is just outside the range of our medium-sized Folang artillery. Therefore, unless we actively send troops out of the city and launch an attack on the official army outside the city, we will not be able to do anything to the official army outside the city..."
Wu Jingtian was stunned and asked with a puzzled look on his face, "How could this happen..."
"Didn't you see that the artillery of the government army is also arranged two miles outside the city... The artillery of the government army can attack us from two miles away, and our medium-sized Folang machine cannons are so large. Why can't we attack the official army from two miles away..."
Under Wu Jingtian's questioning, the artillery commander quickly took the monocular lens handed over by Wu Jingtian and began to observe.
As time passed little by little, the incredibleness on the face of the artillery commander was slowly replaced by a trace of incomprehension.
After returning the telescope to Wu Jingtian beside him, he frowned and replied: "Report to the general... Please forgive me for being a slutty person... I have been an artillery soldier for more than ten years and have never seen such artillery on the Tiger and Leopard Army's position..."
As a general, it will only appear in later generations hundreds of years, the leader of the thief artillery has certainly never seen it.
During this six-month development, because Wei Zheng was unable to rifle the barrel and barrel, Wei Zheng directly generals were very bulky and smooth-boreeding Flang machine cannons, which were relatively at least twice as lighter. They were also very easy to assemble and had a very fast firing rate.
However, in order to increase the range and power of the mortar, it can suppress the possible heavy Flanger cannons on the battlefield. Wei Zheng, who had a sudden inspiration, directly made the decision to increase the model of the mortar.
The first mortar produced by the Equipment Department was, because its effective range was only 300 steps and its diameter was three inches. Wei Zheng directly designated it as a medium-sized mortar and equipped it with the regiment-level first-level troops...
In addition, at the request of Wei Zheng, the Equipment Department specially produced two other models of mortars.
The effective range reaches 150 steps and the caliber is only two inches, equipped to the battalion-level first-level troops...
The medium-sized mortar with an effective range of 800 steps, a caliber of 5 inches, a barrel of 5 feet long, and a weight of more than 300 kilograms is specially equipped with a first-level unit of the division...
As for the future army-level troops, after the Equipment Department can carve the rifle of the gun barrel, it will produce the simplest and easiest infantry artillery in the mind of Wei Zheng...
The artillery placed outside the east gate of Baode County is the heavy mortar that the Tiger and Leopard Army had just been equipped for a short time.
The artillery commander didn't know what kind of artillery this was. The people led by Wu Jingtian were even less clear because they were from infantry or bandits.
Therefore, as soon as the artillery commander finished speaking, Wu Jingtian, who had seen the endless new weapons of the Tiger and Leopard Army, couldn't help but sigh helplessly. Then, he said to himself: "I hope the power of this artillery is not too great. Otherwise, our brothers guarding the city wall will only be killed by the bombing..."
Even though he was depressed, Wu Jingtian did not forget his identity.
Just as the atmosphere on the city wall became more and more serious, Wu Jingtian's eyes quickly shot out two murderous rays of lights full of murderous aura. Then, he shouted to his subordinates who were depressed behind him.
"Brothers, the Tiger and Leopard Army has completed the siege of us... Now, the only way left for us is to fight to the end, kill and injure the Tiger and Leopard Army as much as possible, and force the Tiger and Leopard Army to take the initiative to retreat..."
"Only in this way can we leave Baode County alive and return to Shaanxi..."
"Of course, maybe someone thinks that as long as we surrender to the Tiger and Leopard Army, we can survive..."
"What I want to tell you here is that people who have this kind of thinking are wishful thinking and whimsical... Don't forget that the tens of thousands of people and residents in the entire Baode County died at our hands and at the hands of all brothers. Do you think that with the vengeful personality of the Tiger and Leopard Army, will we let go of people..."
"From now on, I will pass on the original words I just said without missing a word... and cut off the luck mentality of the brothers under my command. Only in this way can our more than 20,000 brothers under our command be united and fight the tiger and leopard army outside the city to the end..."
The faces of the people standing behind Wu Jingtian showed a deep expression of consent.
After thinking about it, he replied loudly: "Please rest assured, I will definitely let my brothers understand this..."
After solving the military morale problem that he was most worried about, Wu Jingtian immediately turned his attention to the military advisor and asked to the military advisor: "How are the training of musketeers and artillery..."
A wry smile quickly appeared on the military advisor's face, and said helplessly, "Master, in a day and a night, although he taught his brothers how to load and fire guns, it was very far away from going to the battlefield."
"As for artillery, one day and one night, they can only teach them to carry out simple loading... As for aiming and firing, they can't learn it without several months of training..."
Wu Jingtian shook his head and replied: "I can't take care of that much now... The Tiger and Leopard Army soldiers are in a hurry. If you can't go to the battlefield, you have to go to the battlefield..."
"I ordered half of the gunners to be transferred immediately, and the new gunners who had just learned to load the bullets, immediately go to the city wall... In the infantry, two thousand musketeers were quickly transferred, and one thousand long spearmen were brought up to the city wall to prepare for combat... As for the remaining musketeers, continue to train new recruits..."
"In order to allow those recruits to adapt to the battlefield earlier, after the Tiger and Leopard Army launched an attack, they could pull them to the foot of the city wall and train with the sound of gunfire..."
When the dense rebels began to rush up to the city walls, preparing to guard against the tiger and leopard army.
Zhou Yuhong, who had arrived outside the East City, was in order to give the rebels in the city a warning and to undermine their morale in defense. At the same time, in order to test the specific power of the mortar, Zhou Yuhong, with a serious face, directly ordered twenty-seven heavy mortars of the artillery battalion to carry out ten rounds of artillery walls on the Baode County wall.
So, one fixed-loading flowering bullet after another was quickly stuffed into the muzzle by the gunner.
The oil paper for launching medicinal emission was quickly penetrated by an iron nail through the ignition hole at the end of the cannon barrel. Then, a two-inch-long fuse rope was inserted into the ignition hole and inserted into the launching medicine wrapped in oil paper.
In a blink of an eye, twenty-seven heavy mortars were ready to shoot.
Under the command of the battalion commander of the artillery battalion, fire pieces with sparks quickly touched the fuse that stretched out from the tail of the artillery barrel.
A dazzling spark quickly emerged from the ignited fuse, and quickly spread to the gun barrel along the fuse...
The dazzling Mars had just disappeared from everyone's sight. A deafening explosion sounded in front of him. Then, a ball of orange-red flame mixed with a large amount of black smoke quickly ejected out of the muzzle.
Of course, along with the flames, there was a conical mortar shell with a long tail.
Under the gaze of hundreds of gunners, twenty-seven conical mortar shells with white smoke on their tails flew into the sky at a speed visible to the naked eye, with a sharp and sharp howling sound.
Then, after drawing very beautiful arcs in the air, it was like eyes growing, and it steadily hit the city wall...
Although these mortars have been tested many times under the requirements of Wei Zheng and have been marked with shooting angles and scales, under this backward production process, these mortars still have shooting errors of several battles.
However, even so, the twenty-seven shells that whistled in the whistling still had five shells that directly hit the city wall.
When the shell landed, the delayed fuse hidden in the tail of the shell was burned out.
Under the shocked and puzzled eyes of the city wall traitors, the five shells that landed on the ground exploded like the grenades they had encountered...
As a ball of orange-red fireballs soared from the shells, the broken shells were blown up, and a relatively dense steel storm quickly formed, sweeping towards the traitors who were still in a daze around...
The shell exploded, and blood mist exploded directly among the dense rebels. At the same time, five huge gaps in the city walls that were standing full of rebels were centered on the bullet point.
Chapter completed!