Three gunners are needed to operate the Fran cannon, one is loading ammunition, one is responsible for aiming, and the third gunner is responsible for igniting. At this time, each Fran cannon has already been loaded with ammunition. After hearing the order, each gunner
The gunners next to the cannon took out a burning torch from a nearby shelf and lit it on the fire door. The fuse instantly "squeaked".
"Boom, boom, boom!" More than a dozen Fran cannons roared one after another, and more than a dozen iron pellets flew forward driven by the kinetic energy of the burning gunpowder.
Since most of the siege equipment of the Qing soldiers were left under the city wall of Dezhou when the Mongolian soldiers attacked the city, it was too late to rush to make shield vehicles. Therefore, the Qing soldiers also went into battle shirtless, and the two at the front were
The shield cart, which was abandoned by the Mongolian soldiers because its workmanship was too rough, was now picked up by the Qing soldiers and pushed forward like a treasure.
But as the old saying goes, "The gun will strike the first bird." The targets of these two shield vehicles were so obvious that they were naturally the first targets targeted by the gunners on the city wall.
When the cannon sounded, seven or eight iron pellets were steaming and flying forward quickly with plumes of green smoke.
There was a loud "boom", and an iron pellet hit one of the shield cars from a distance. The shield car was torn into pieces and sawdust flew everywhere. The Qing soldiers who were originally hiding behind the shield car saw it from a distance.
The shell was about to hit, but he was so frightened that he fled in all directions.
"Wow!"
After being hit by an iron pellet, the shield cart fell apart at the same time. In addition, the workmanship of this shield cart was so poor that even the Mongolian soldiers looked down upon it. The quality was naturally very poor. After being hit by a cannon,
The projectiles smashed the shield car into pieces under the strong kinetic energy, sending sawdust flying everywhere, killing and injuring several Qing soldiers nearby from a distance. There was even an unarmored Qing soldier following him, with his body and face covered with bullets.
He was hit by sharp wooden thorns and was knocked to the ground with blood dripping all over his body. However, the Qing soldier, whose whole body was covered with wooden thorns, was not completely dead for a moment. He just rolled on the ground and screamed miserably.
This shield truck has been smashed. Is it far from the next shield truck falling apart?
Seeing that the first round of shelling destroyed a shield car, the soldiers on the city wall cheered thunderously. The officers in charge of directing the artillery urged the gunners to quickly clear the barrels and reload the ammunition. The gunners also cleaned the artillery as quickly as possible.
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A French aircraft requires three gunners to serve, one of the strongest unloaders and loaders, an aimer, and a gunner. There are also several pikemen at the back to protect their safety. The artillery has just been fired, and all
The artillery loader immediately used an iron rod to penetrate the secondary blunderbuss and remove the secondary blunderbuss from the mother blunderbuss.
The Fran cannon has always been known for its fast rate of fire. It is composed of a mother gun and a sub-gun. Each cannon is equipped with four to six sub-guns. The sub-guns are pre-loaded with ammunition. It is also the first in the world.
The rear-mounted artillery has a very fast firing rate compared to today's artillery. But because it is easily deflated, the range is not very far. The range of the Fran machine, which weighs more than 300 kilograms, is only 500 steps.
about.
After the loader removed the secondary blunderbuss, he immediately picked up the secondary blunderbuss placed next to him, placed it into the thick elongated hole at the rear of the mother blunderbuss, drove it down with a solid iron rod, and aligned the two ports of the secondary blunderbuss and the mother blunderbuss.
There are lugs on both sides of these Fran cannons, which are mounted on iron-wood brackets. The gun body can be pitched to adjust the shooting angle. At this time, the Qing soldiers have moved into a distance of more than 300 steps, and all the loaders have placed their guns.
Immediately after firing the gun, there was an aimer who checked the front sight and rear sight on the gun body, measured the range with the naked eye, and adjusted the aim at the clearing troops from a distance.
After the aiming hand of the Franco machine gun was adjusted one after another, the gunner raised the torch in his hand and lit the fuse at the rear of the gun.
"Boom boom boom......"
Another dozen iron pellets flew forward at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Originally, using solid bullets to hit people was like using anti-aircraft cannons to hit mosquitoes. The hit rate was naturally very low. But now the density of Qing soldiers is too high. They are all crowded with people. Some unlucky Qing soldiers will naturally
It was bad luck. Niu Lu, who was wearing three layers of thick armor and three small flags on his back, was hit in the chest by an iron pill. The iron pill weighing two kilograms hit his chest.
Breast protector, this Niulu didn't even have time to scream when he was hit in two by this projectile. Then the projectile passed through his chest and fell to the hard ground. It bounced up and hit him again.
A horse-armored soldier who was following this Niulu pulled off half of his head, and white brains and red blood were spread all over the floor.
Finally, the projectile collapsed and fell to the ground, rolling forward, breaking the calves of two Qing soldiers along the way.
The surrounding Qing soldiers looked at Niu Lu, who had only his upper body left, the waistcoat missing half of his head, and the two companions who fell to the ground and kept wailing, and felt a chill in their hearts. These usually fierce Qing soldiers even slowed down their charging pace for a while.
Come down.
"Hurry up and rush forward. If you stop, I will kill you all!" Jia Lazhangjing, who was following behind, raised the heavy sword in his hand and roared desperately, punching and kicking the Qing soldiers who had slowed down, driving them forward.
Let them continue to move forward.
In front of the south city gate, nearly 8,000 Qing soldiers all rushed toward the city wall like crazy, driven by their respective Niulu, Jia La Zhangjing, and Kushba, with towering ladders in between.
When the Qing soldiers arrived 150 steps away from the city wall, the gun barrels of the Folan machine on the city wall had already heated up due to the speed of firing. The gunners had to stop and use clear water to help the gun barrels frequently.
of cooling.
However, after reaching this distance, the Crouching Tiger Cannon, which had been silent due to its range, began to speak. Because the Crouching Tiger Cannon is loaded with shotguns, when the Crouching Tiger Cannon is fired, all that comes out of the barrel are dense lead bullets or bullets.
Iron beads, when the sky full of projectiles fell from the sky, many Qing soldiers rushing in front were immediately hit by the rain-like projectiles.
"ah!"
"ah!"
Seeing the Qing soldiers in front being hit by hail-like projectiles, screaming and rolling on the ground, Abatai, who was supervising the battle at the back of the team, could not help but twitch the corner of his mouth. These Qing soldiers who were knocked to the ground
They included two Niulu, a dozen Kushbo and a large number of cavalry soldiers. These people were all elites with blue flags. Now they were knocked to the ground like wheat by the Ming people's artillery.
At this moment, my heart felt like it was being stamped with a red-hot iron, and it hurt so much that it penetrated my heart and lungs.
Abate's face had become extremely ferocious, and he yelled loudly in front of him: "Charge, charge up, I will disembowel this Ming general and use his head to commemorate the dead Qing soldiers."
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Under Abate's strict order, the Qing soldiers rushed forward desperately. After suffering heavy casualties, they finally rushed to the bottom of the city wall and began to climb the ladder.
"Fire!"
Following a loud roar, there were bursts of gunfire like fried beans from the top of the city. The Qing soldiers who were desperately climbing up immediately fell to the ground. It turned out that it was the cannon soldiers on the city wall who opened fire.
Although the accuracy of this primitive flintlock gun is not very good, it can still hit this obvious target at a distance of more than ten or twenty steps. As the gunshots continue to sound, it is desperately upwards.
The climbing Qing soldiers were continuously knocked off the ladder. Falling from the two-foot-high ladder, those Qing soldiers had lost their fighting power even if they survived, and fell to the ground one by one, screaming and moaning uncontrollably.
A cannon soldier got excited, loaded the lead bullets, and leaned out of the crenel to shoot forward. Suddenly a black shadow flashed past, and the cannon soldier screamed and fell backwards. It turned out that
He was hit in the face by a heavy arrow fired by a Qing soldier, and the long arrow pierced his chest. He lay on the ground and screamed miserably, seeing that he would not survive.
"Attention, everyone, be careful of the Tatar bows and arrows!" A flagman quickly raised his voice and loudly reminded the surrounding sergeants. Unexpectedly, just after shouting a few times, he was hit in the head by a heavy arrow flying from nowhere.
, fell to the ground without saying a word.
It turned out that at this time, the Qing army's archers had already caught up one after another. They stood under the city wall and fired arrows desperately towards the city to suppress the firepower of the Ming army.
Pang Gang, who was standing on the city tower and commanding, saw this scene and quickly ordered: "Order the gunmen to quickly knock down the Tatar archers. They must not be allowed to suppress the city. In addition, you must quickly attack from the east and west.
Each of the three northern city gates will send one hundred gunshotmen over."
"Yes!" After receiving the order, a messenger immediately got off the city wall and ran back.
As the gunners and archers exchanged fire, they were temporarily unable to suppress the Qing soldiers who were climbing up. This made the Qing soldiers who were climbing the ladder suddenly feel that the pressure was greatly reduced. Knowing that the opportunity was rare, they stepped up one by one desperately.
The ladder climbed up, and soon Qing soldiers climbed up one after another.
Li Yuan saw a dozen Qing soldiers climbing up the ladder on their hands and knees to the crenel. From top to bottom, they looked like skewered candied haws. Li Yuan shouted: "Give me all the golden juice."
Fall down!"
At this moment, two baggage soldiers immediately lifted the big pot with iron rods and struggled to lift it to the top of the crenel. The iron pot was poured down hard, and the boiling dung juice inside immediately poured out. It poured down like a waterfall.
Steam was rising in the cold wind. An extremely foul smell began to spread, and a series of miserable screams sounded from below. There were more than a dozen Qing soldiers in vests climbing on the ladder, and the ladder
The next few unarmored Qing soldiers who pressed down on the wooden ladder were all covered with boiling excrement. They immediately screamed and fell to the ground, rolling back and forth on the ground, making sounds that did not sound like human sounds.
Howl.
Although those vests were holding large shields, the shields were not waterproof when they were built. The boiling excrement juice rushed down and covered everyone's face. No one was spared, and everyone fell down the ladder with their skin and flesh torn.
The cotton armor on his body was sizzling and smoking, and it was burned to reveal the iron armor underneath. As for the unarmored auxiliary soldiers below who had no shield protection, it was even worse. Their hands and faces were all burned open, and even the bones inside were exposed.
came out.
These people rolled on the ground and screamed in horror, their bodies were poured with fecal juice, and all of them were severely burned. Even if they survived on the spot and were deeply corroded by the fecal juice full of germs, their wounds would be severely infected and rotten, and there would be no chance of survival.