The car camp and the camp are all old members of the original Hexi Guards Qianhu Station. Yang Fan made their training miserable.
Afterwards, they experienced the Battle of the Grasslands. They were mature and calm on the battlefield and performed stably.
Immediately, the four gunners started reloading. When the gun slowly recoiled to its final position, the recoil force was just exhausted and the gun stopped. This position was just conducive to reloading from the muzzle. This was also originally designed.
Because they used fixed propellant wrapped in silk, they eliminated a key step that affects the rate of fire, which is cleaning the barrel.
If you use bulk gunpowder, because of the problem of gunpowder configuration in this era, there are still a lot of impurities in it, which will cause sparks in it. You must use a mop-like pier, dip the water in the bucket, and then clean the gun barrel repeatedly to extinguish the sparks.
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If you do not extinguish the sporadic sparks, but directly fill it with propellant, the propellant may ignite or explode. At this time, Europe had begun to use paper-wrapped fixed bullets on flintlock muskets.
.We are also experimenting with paper-wrapped powder bags for artillery.
The advantage is to avoid problems such as too much or too little propellant due to tension and interference from various factors on the battlefield. On-site weighing and loading of bulk powder will also be blown away by strong winds and wet by rain. It is troublesome and requires a lot of money.
much time.
There is also a problem with paper-wrapped bullets, that is, the paper cannot be completely burned and residues will be left behind. Generally, the gun must be fired twenty times and the artillery must stop firing thirty times to clean the bore. Otherwise, the residue will block the cannon from the chamber and cause the chamber to explode.
danger.
Yang Fan got it right in one step and directly used silk medicine bags. Silk can be burned completely without leaving any residue, which greatly saves time. However, the disadvantage is that it is expensive, and the cheapest silk cannot be compared to paper.
The reason for using a fixed propellant pack is not only to simplify the firing steps and save time, but also to reduce the weight. If the warhead and propellant are packed together, the weight will be too large and the gunner's physical strength will be greatly consumed. If they are separated, the weight will be reduced.
It comes down halfway in one go. It will also save more effort when loading.
According to the common experience of this era, the red cannon fire rate is three minutes per round. Because their time is not only wasted on the above-mentioned tedious steps. The most time-consuming thing is the cannon reset.
The Red Coat Cannon is a heavy artillery weighing 1.5 tons. Before firing a shot, the huge recoil will push the gun mount to move a long distance backward. If you want to fire a second shot, the heavy artillery must be reset.
If the ground is soft, the ground in the rear seat will be uneven and collapse, causing the artillery to tip sideways. The artilleryman will also need to use shovels to rearrange the firing position and rebalance the artillery. Otherwise, if the artillery is crooked, it will be impossible to know where the shells fell.
The deflection car designed by Yang Fan was originally a four-wheeled heavy carriage equipped with bearings and a steel chassis. The car was designed with a system similar to the artillery reset of European sailing battleships. The heavy artillery was slowed down through slide rails, ropes, and pulleys.
Recoil and reset. And use this system to adjust the up, down, left and right of the muzzle to facilitate aiming.
The 500 kilograms of copper-fired cannons loaded on these sidecars could achieve a rate of fire of three rounds in two minutes. This rate of fire can be said to be shocking in this era.
At a distance of four hundred meters, it would take about three or four minutes to run over wearing armor and carrying weapons, enough time to fire three cannons.
Based on experience, the rebels estimated that as long as they ran faster and rushed under the side cars, they might still have time to fire. Everyone was rushing forward desperately. If they could get to the cars before they fired the second shot,
If you do this, you can hack the gunners to death and stop them from firing.
They have no problem dealing with gunners who don't have much fighting experience. Ming gunners don't have armor or long weapons. They only have light weapons such as short knives.
Hu Youlu shouted loudly, "Push quickly, push quickly, if it's too late, they'll fire again."
The twenty soldiers behind were running desperately to push the cart, and the two shield carts also rushed forward quickly.
Zhao Dianming stuck his head out from the wooden shield and fired a shot at the gun window of the sidecar about 300 meters away. Then, Hu Youlu also stepped forward and fired a shot.
The effective distance of the matchlock gun is only about a hundred meters. Or even only eighty meters. At this distance, it is impossible to hit the one-meter-square gun window.
However, they still have the need to shoot. The main purpose is to disturb the gunners and make them panic. The lead bullets can be fired hundreds of meters away. The lead bullets falling on the carriage will also make them tremble and worry about being shot.
In order to slow down the speed of reloading and buy time for them to engage the enemy as soon as possible.
Dong Jishu, Zuo Liangyu and others are all veterans on the battlefield. They know their stuff. Especially Zuo Liangyu. In several battles to defend the city of Ningyuan, he used firearms to fight against Jiannu. If not for the Ningyuan mutiny,
, the rebels forced Bi Zisu, the governor of Liaodong, to death. Afterwards, Yuandu put the shit basin of lax control on Zuo Liangyu's head. As a result, Zuo Liangyu was transferred out of Liaodong. At this time, Zuo Liangyu was still in Ningyuan.
Dong Jishu said: "Kunshan, look at how these rebels in Ji Town are fighting."
Zuo Liangyu cupped his hands and said: "Junmen, these are veterans of many battles. They fight in a well-organized manner. Even if the soldiers from Ningyuan are coming, they will not be able to defeat them."
Dong Jishu nodded and said: "Kunshan, you are right. If you say it, can you stop these people?"
Zuo Liangyu shook his head and said: "If I had the same number of men and horses, and the soldiers and horses were Guan Ning's army, we could still fight. Now, with this disparity of four to one, I'm afraid it won't work."
Zuo Liangyu still has some military level and ability. Otherwise, he would not have been transferred to the capital by Chongzhen. His bad luck lies with Yuan Chonghuan. Yuandu looked around, but he was not
He is a direct descendant, if you don't mess with him, who will?
He just suffered the disadvantage of being mute and was made the scapegoat for the Ningyuan rebellion by Yuan Chonghuan.
In history, Zhang Xianzhong attacked Sichuan and was able to annihilate Qin Liangyu's 30,000 white-pole soldiers at Zhujunping in Kuizhou with a non-dominant force. Facing Zuo Liangyu, he almost defeated him except for Fang County.
If you lose a battle, it will explain the problem.
It's just that this guy's military discipline is so bad, even worse than that of Jian Nu. People may be captured as slaves if they meet Jian Nu. If they meet his soldiers, they will really have no choice but to live or die.
Hu Dawei stared at the bull's eye and said loudly: "Junmen, they have so many cannons. Uncle Dingyuan is really rich. These hundreds of heavy cannons are all made of copper and are so bright that it makes my eyes ache."
Blinded by the shaking."
Meng Ruhu also licked his lips and said: "If the rebels win this battle, their mother will make a fortune. How much are these coppers worth?"
