Baiyintu and Aobai also came over quickly after receiving the report.
After listening to Gao Di's explanation, Baiyintu said nothing, but Obai didn't believe anything he said.
"Impossible, impossible, this is absolutely impossible!" Obai looked disbelieving and scornful, "The Ming army's Crouching Tiger Cannons are all huddled inside their formation, with a slope protection in the middle. What do you think of the Crouching Tiger Cannons?
I believe that the lead can go over the slope protection, because the Tiger Crouching Cannon was originally fired into the sky, which is the same as the long-distance projectile of the Mongols. But you explain that the Army's Tiger Crouching Cannon can hit our fort across the slope protection.
, then you are just treating us like monkeys, do you think I will believe it?"
"No, Mr. Obai, how dare I play tricks on you?" Gao Di was so anxious that he almost cried, "What I said is true. The Ming Army's Crouching Tiger Cannon really looks like it has eyes. It's so accurate.
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"It's impossible even if you have eyes." Oboi said angrily.
"Can you see the direction of the Ming army across the slope?"
"Ah this..." Gaudi was speechless because he still couldn't figure it out.
In the end, there was nothing he could do. Gao Di pointed at the dozens of corpses that were killed by the Ming army's squatting cannons and arranged in a row and said: "But Mr. Obai, these dozens of corpses can't be fake, right?"
"Who knows how they died?" Obai still didn't believe it.
"Now let your people go to the front to build the fort. I want to see how the Ming army's squatting cannon can hit your heads across the slope."
"Master Obai." Gao Di suddenly became anxious.
"Aren't you letting us die in vain?"
Seeing that Ao Bai was unmoved, Gao Di could only ask for the sound map.
"Lord Bai Yintu, what I said is true, it is true."
"Gao Di, I believe you." Baiyintu's eyes flashed and he added, "But what Obai said makes sense. We have to know how the Ming army defeated you before we can figure out how to deal with it, right?
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Gao Di was desperate. These slaves didn't treat them as human beings.
However, people have to bow their heads under the mast of the house. Who told them to surrender now?
At that moment, Gaudi ordered his troops to descend and divide into fifteen teams to repair the front fort again.
The soldiers who surrendered were of course very dissatisfied, but facing the bright butcher knife shown by Jiannu, they could only grit their teeth and move forward. At the same time, they prayed in their hearts that the Ming army would never fire artillery again, or that they would not be able to hit them.
However, the ancestors have obviously abandoned these descendants who have forgotten their ancestors.
Just after the surrender troops entered the fort that had not yet been repaired, the Ming army's Crouching Tiger Cannon sounded again.
Along with the loud "boom, boom, boom, boom", rows of closed-mouth bullets and thousands of half-weight lead bullets fell on the construction site like a heavy rain, and the soldiers fell instantly.
"It's really true!" Seeing this scene, Obai finally believed it.
"Gao Di, get the people back quickly." Baiyintu said quickly.
Gao Di quickly asked his servants to pay tribute and withdraw all the surrendered troops.
However, just this time, his army suffered dozens more casualties.
"This is really evil." Obai finally believed Gao Di's words.
"The Ming army's Crouching Tiger Cannon can hit even invisible people?"
Gaudi said with a grimace: "My lords, the fort is really beyond repair."
"No, the fort still needs to be repaired." Baiyintu thought for a moment and then said, "But we can stay farther away from the Ming Army's gun platform. The Ming Army's Crouching Tiger Cannon can only hit three hundred steps at its furthest, but we
The Folan cannon can hit five hundred or even eight hundred steps away, so just build the fort three hundred steps away, so that the Ming army can only stare."
"Hey!" Gao Di had no choice but to obey.
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Jiannu's move to move the fort 300 steps away was quickly reported to Chongzhen.
Chongzhen once again took his two sons to the front for a closer observation.
"Father, there seems to be nothing we can do now." Zhu Cijiong said a little depressed, "The Crouching Tiger Cannon can only hit 300 steps, and it is out of reach."
"Your Majesty, why don't we attack?"
Tian Xiong took the initiative again and asked for a counterattack.
"No, we can't attack!" Chongzhen sternly refused again.
Now is the critical stage of building up confidence and morale. Tian Xiong's soldiers, or in other words, Xia Zhen's ten soldiers, have finally accumulated a little confidence, but they cannot squander it casually.
The Jiannu slaves have not yet moved south in large numbers.
The real test will come when the Jiannu move south in large numbers.
"But Your Majesty, we can't just watch Jiannu build the fort, right?" Tian Xiong said anxiously, "When Jiannu builds the fort, we will just be beaten without being able to fight back."
"No." Chongzhen said: "Jiannu building a fort five hundred steps away is just like a blind man lighting a lamp."
"A blind man lights a lamp?" Tian Xiong, Huang Degong, Zhu Cixiang and Zhu Cijiong all looked confused.
"It means it's a complete waste." Chongzhen explained with a smile, "A blind man can't see even if he lights a lamp."
Zhu Cijiong said: "Father, are you saying that even if Jianu builds the fort, he won't be able to hit us?"
"You can still hit them, but they can only hit the slope protection in front." Chongzhen smiled and said, "They can't hit the gun platform behind the slope protection."
Huang Degong, Tian Xiong and others still looked confused.
Chongzhen knelt down and drew a sketch on the ground.
In fact, it is a simple schematic diagram of a ballistic curve.
"Look, this is our gun platform. There is a slope protection in front of each gun platform. The height of the slope protection is only 2 feet higher than the fence of the gun platform."
"The distance between the two is 30 steps."
"The fort built by Jiannu now is 500 steps away."
"If Jiannu's Folang machine gun wants to hit our gun platform, it must see at least half of the front fence, which must be at least 2 and a half feet high. If you don't count, it will be 2 feet."
"The height of 4 feet is multiplied by 17 times, which is 68 feet."
"In other words, the Jiannu had to build a 6-foot-8-foot fort so that they could see the gun platform and let their cannonballs pass over the slope protection and hit the front of the gun platform."
If you can't hit the front, it's meaningless.
Because the defenders of the gun platform usually guard the front of the gun platform.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "What? A 6-foot-8-foot fort?" Huang Degong, Tian Xiong and others all looked at each other.
Are you kidding? 6 feet and 8 feet is not as high as the Nanjing City Wall? How big of a project would that be? Even if the slaves spent a year here, they might not be able to build the fort.
Zhu Cijiong asked: "In other words, if you are less than 6 feet and 8 feet tall, it is the same as not cultivating?"
"Yes, the same." Chongzhen said with a smile, "If the fort cannot be built to a height of 6 feet and 8 feet, then there is no difference between mounting the cannon on the fort and setting it on the ground. It can only hit the slope protection or hit the cannon.
The rear of the platform, but that makes no sense because the defenders of the platform can hide in the front of the platform."
Zhu Cijiong said: "Unless they can learn our tiger squat..."
"Shh!" Chongzhen quickly made a silencing gesture to Zhu Cijiong.
Zhu Cijiong has a really smart mind, so he started to draw inferences from one example to another.
He had already thought from the "guided shooting" of the Crouching Tiger Cannon that the Fo Lang machine gun and even the Hongyi cannon could also perform guided shooting. Zhu Cixiang and Huang Degong never thought of it at all.
No one even thought of it in the entire era,
The Hongyi cannon can also shoot in a curve.
So this must be kept secret, strictly confidential.
It's not that I don't believe Huang Degong, Tian Xiong and the others.
But this is just a thin layer of window paper.
Once this layer of window paper is pierced, with the "good at learning" qualities displayed by the recent two top leaders of the establishment of slaves, they will definitely learn this magic weapon quickly and popularize it.
If the Jiannu really discovered the beauty of this, the artillery force of the Eight Banners and Han Army would soon be divided into observers, and there would also be an artillery staff officer specializing in ballistic calculations.
Maybe Jiannu's mathematics will improve by leaps and bounds.
This was something Chongzhen did not want to see anyway.
It is already difficult enough for Jiannu to have a powerful Hongyi artillery unit. If Jiannu's Hongyi artillery unit is allowed to understand the essence of guided shooting and evolve true infantry artillery support, supplemented by the Eight Banners soldiers,
With the powerful field kills and the mounted shooting of the Mongolian cavalry, how could the Ming Dynasty still compete?
Therefore, this layer of window paper must not be easily punctured.
Guided fire can only be limited to the range of the Crouching Tiger Cannon!
At least before the Ming Dynasty's artillery had a crushing advantage over the Jiannu artillery, the concept of guided shooting could not be easily introduced to the Fo Lang machine gun and Hongyi artillery units, and it would not even be mentioned.
Chongzhen stopped Zhu Cijiong and said to Tian Xiong: "General Tian, while Jiannu is busy building the fort, let's seize the time to measure more shooting parameters and give Jiannu a calibration shot."
Tian Xiong asked with a confused look on his face: "Your Majesty, what is calibrated shooting?"
Chongzhen drew a few more circles on the map, pointed at the circles and said: "Look, Mr. Tian, these are about fifty muskets that your town is responsible for. Originally, Jiannu attacked any of the muskets on the outside.
At that time, only the four adjacent musketry stations could provide artillery support, but in fact, there were eight more musketry stations within 300 steps of each other."
"The squatting tiger cannons of these eight gun stations can actually provide artillery support."
"If a total of 12 musket stations and 24 tiger squatting guns can measure the shooting parameters in advance,"
"Then if Jiannu attacks a certain gun platform, after the defenders of this gun platform retreat, the 24 tiger squatting cannons of the 12 adjacent gun platforms will be able to calibrate and fire on it!"
"Ah this?" Huang Degong and Tian Xiong looked solemn.
Each gun platform originally only had 2 squatting tiger cannons.
How come it turned out to be 26 squatting cannons after firing?
Could this be the old legend about spreading beans and forming an army?
Chongzhen warned again: "But the parameters must be measured accurately.
"If the measurement is inaccurate or off track, it is a small matter to waste ammunition, but it will be a bad thing if the lead falls on Pao Ze's head."
"And after the parameter measurement is completed, you must make a simple record and name each point in sequence with numbers. For example, point No. 1 means the first set of parameters, which corresponds to the No. 1 gun platform."
Tian Xiong seemed to understand.
Chongzhen sighed when he saw this.
He had tried to simplify it as much as possible, but Tian Xiong still didn't understand.
But no wonder, this is much more difficult than guided shooting.
To put it simply, guided shooting is to make the cannon grow eyes, while calibrated shooting is equivalent to giving the cannon a program.
It seems that without a high-quality artillery unit, large-scale calibration shooting is not realistic, so you can only work hard and measure the shooting parameters yourself.
