1580, flares lifted into the air, Gatling fired two
Huang Taiji, Daishan and others were shocked when they saw the flares rising into the sky one after another on the Drum Tower.
Their cognition simply cannot imagine that there are weapons that can light up the night sky.
However, a living example is right in front of us. Those light balls are suspended in the sky, illuminating most of Zunhua City as bright as day.
An ominous premonition came to mind. I'm afraid something will happen!
Judging from their dealings with Yang Fan's soldiers and horses, these people wearing strange green floral clothes can always come up with some super powerful weapons that they have never heard of. They beat them to a pulp every time.
Fortunately, Yang Fan had very few troops. According to a detailed report, Dingyuan Hou only had a regiment of about 3,600 people. Even the Ming Dynasty knew this. In addition, he also maintained 3,600 servants.
There are also some messy soldiers and horses.
For example, the barracks, the artillery team, etc. This is what Jiannu knew. The cavalry training regiment was kept secret. Even the court did not know of their existence. They usually appeared in the name of regiment training. Anyway, the uniforms were the same.
Yang Fan's cavalry army and infantry army in the northwest are even more secret.
As for Duolun, they actually knew about it. After all, many Mongolians came to them. However, Duolun was close to Chahar. Huang Taiji didn't want Yang Fan and Lin Danhan to cooperate, so he never bothered Duolun.
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This time they entered the customs, in fact, what they wanted to rob most was the territory of Zunhua and Yang Fan. The investigators have already found out clearly. Marquis Dingyuan is the largest landowner in Ji Town. He owns 500,000 acres of paddy fields in Ji County. In Zunhua
There are at least two million acres of land in the western region.
I have always heard that Dingyuanhou has a high grain yield. After the guano was on the market, some businessmen resold it to Shenyang. But the quantity was not large, because there were clipper ships in the Bohai Sea to catch smugglers. They could only sell it to the merchants of Guan Ningjun first, and then they used
The boat was transported along the Liao River to Shenyang.
These guano were used on the land in Liaodong, and they were shocked by the effectiveness. The yield of sorghum per mu soared from two quintals to five quintals.
I heard that Dingyuan Bo’s sorghum is mainly used as silage fodder. The harvest of the entire plant from one acre of land can reach four tons.
Ton is the unit of measurement for Marquis Dingyuan, and they know that when converted into a quintal, it is sixty-six dan and six dou. This yield is terrifying. Because sorghum is horse feed and is very important for feeding war horses. They really want to obtain the seeds of this sweet sorghum.
and cultivation methods.
This kind of sweet sorghum is the latest achievement of modern times. Naturally, Yang Fan will not release it. Now Yang Fan's several large horse farms require a lot of feed. For the convenience of transportation, the horse farms are located along the railway lines in the grassland, just to facilitate transportation.
Silage feed.
Opening Zunhua to obtain steel is the first step of Huang Taiji's plan.
But now, the first step is stuck.
Although they robbed the workshops, ironworks, and mines of the civil service system, and robbed 100,000 miners, ironworkers, and a large amount of pig iron. However, they got very little of the steel they wanted so much. The steel was all inside the high walls of this industrial zone.
Huang Taiji understood that if these prisoners could be sent back to Shenyang, Liaodong's mining and iron smelting would also develop greatly. Liaodong had coal and iron mines, and this time he also obtained coking technology. He had actually made money.
However, people's hearts are not satisfied. He just couldn't get in when he looked at the high wall, and he developed high blood pressure.
"Don't retreat, anyone who retreats will be beheaded." Huang Taiji said fiercely.
He was afraid that the soldiers would be afraid of these almost miraculous things, so he had to exert pressure and force them to continue the attack.
After the flares took off, this almost miraculous presence immediately caused many people to be frightened. They turned around and ran back. The White Fang soldiers immediately rode forward to kill them and drove them back.
Woo hoo hoo! The bull horn sounded, and behind the Han army flag, the Eight Banners also rushed up. On the one hand, they blocked the escape route of the Han army flag, on the other hand they supervised the battle, and at the same time, they took over when the Han army flag collapsed.
This is what siege warfare is like, a hundred miles and half a mile. When the siege party cannot hold on, the defenders are also exhausted. At this time, the competition is about whose will is stronger.
When the Han army flags no longer work, the Eight Banners will replace them.
Luo Siyuan looked at the Han army flags rushing towards them like a roaring mountain and a tsunami below, and the Eight Banners pushing carts behind them. He waved his hand, signaling the Gatling cannon to fire.
On the top platforms of these towers, these Gatling cannons are all six-barreled guns with a caliber of 30 mm. They require five people to operate. A machine gun team consists of a team leader who is responsible for commanding, firing and aiming at the target, and a team leader who is responsible for adjusting the height of the machine gun.
, one is responsible for the horizontal direction. The other two are ammunition handlers, responsible for loading ammunition.
After all, when Gatling fires, he needs a huge amount of ammunition. One of the two people is responsible for carrying the ammunition up, and the other is responsible for adding ammunition. The team leader sits in the upper firing position and is responsible for firing.
This type of Gatling gun was originally developed as a secondary gun for shallow-water heavy gunships. Because its range could reach two kilometers, it was later adopted and used in city defenses.
This thing is much better than the red cannon. This machine gun is mounted on a rotating base with two shield steel plates, and its rate of fire can reach 600 rounds per minute.
Each fort immediately began to rotate its muzzle, aiming at the dense crowd below. As soon as the gunner stepped on the pedal, the Gatling cannon immediately rotated its barrel and fired.
Nowadays, shotguns are used. Each 30mm bullet has twenty small steel balls inside. The shooting range of shotshells is relatively short. It is only less than 500 meters. The effective range is only 300 meters, but it can deal with dense crowds.
, the shotgun effect is the best.
Buzzing..., a sound different from the firing of artillery was heard. Gatlin spit out tongues of flame. At the same time, the brass bullet casings fell to the ground like raindrops from a heavy rain.
On the Drum Tower in the distance, Huang Taiji and others could clearly see strange weapons opening their gun jackets and then opening fire at the surging crowd attacking the city.
As soon as the bullet flew out of the muzzle, the lead covering immediately shattered, and twenty small steel balls scattered, flying forward in the shape of a gradually expanding discus cloud.
Gatling's terrifying rate of fire could fire six hundred rounds of bullets a minute. Twelve thousand small steel balls formed a dense barrage and flew towards the city.
Gunnery Commander Hu Qingxiang shouted commands and directed the two soldiers to adjust the height and left and right angles, while intermittently stepping on the firing pedal. Fifty rounds, fifty rounds, were fired downwards.
He must control the speed, otherwise, all the ammunition will be fired in one minute.
An overwhelming rain of steel balls came down. The shield of the Han military flag completely lost its effect. Under such a large kinetic energy, the carriage was riddled with holes.
Although it didn't penetrate, it would definitely be broken if fired a few more times.
Li Yongfang watched as a group of more than a thousand men and horses were swept away by tongues of flames and flaming whips. They were all beaten into two pieces at the waist. The arc of the fire whip whipped over, and everyone who was swept away was hit.
