The dark night sky exudes a mysterious atmosphere. There are no stars or moon in the sky. To describe the night tonight, you can't see anything.
Originally, what one should do in such a dark night is to sleep comfortably in the house, but on the path from Namhansanseong to the north, a large group of figures that looked dark in the night were slowly walking
Rushing forward. They seemed to be suppressing their movements and trying not to make any noise.
A low voice sounded in the darkness, "Everyone, please work harder and keep up with the brothers in front. We must transport all these cannons to their destination before the fifth watch."
"Sir, these cannons are too heavy. Please give us some mules and horses, otherwise we will be exhausted even on the ground." A lower voice sounded from the side in the darkness.
"I have already said that all the mules and horses are used to transport artillery shells. There are no extra things to help us pull artillery shells. We can only rely on ourselves. If you are really exhausted when you get to the field, I will take your share of the pension reward.
You received it."
The low voice still answered calmly, but it caused a burst of uncontrollable laughter around him.
"Hey, Six Monkeys, if you tire out your Taohua, I will take care of her for you. You don't have to worry."
"My enemy, the pension and silver reward given by the general is very high now. It is enough for your Taozi to find a good family to marry. Liu Monkey, you don't have to worry about her for the rest of her life." "Ah, bah, bah, bah," the voice was obviously a little bit loud.
Angry, "You are jealous. Taozi will not like anyone else except me. You should die as soon as possible."
A burst of deep laughter sounded again.
"Okay, you all hurry up. If you can't arrive on time, I will definitely peel off your skin before the general chops off my head."
Amid waves of low shouts and curses, the team continued to move forward slowly but firmly.
At the same time, there was silence in the Qing army's camp. This camp with tens of thousands of people stretched for miles and was very open. Countless torches were lit on the outside of the camp, illuminating hundreds of steps around it.
It was bright. Every quarter of an hour, a patrol of 100 people walked near the barracks. Coupled with the sentries constantly walking around, the entire camp could be said to be heavily guarded, preventing anyone who wanted to sneak attack at night.
The possibility of camp has been reduced to a minimum.
As the war has developed to this day, stories of attacking camps at night only exist in novels. Not to mention the difficulty of marching in the dark, even if you approach the enemy's camp, you will be quickly discovered by the sentry. In addition, the camp
With perfect antlers, obstacles and fences, any general who wants to take advantage of the darkness to take out the enemy camp must carefully consider whether he can withstand the risk of failing to attack the camp and causing the entire army to be annihilated.
An auxiliary soldier wearing cotton armor stood lazily at the gate of the camp holding a spear. Another of his companions had already been leaning on the fence behind him, wandering half asleep.
The auxiliary soldier stretched out a lot and said impatiently: "Damn, it's already the fifth day. Why don't those who are changing shifts come? I'm almost sleepy. The most damn annoying ones are on duty.
It’s time.”
As soon as he said his words, his companion who had squinted his eyes said lazily: "That's not easy to handle. As long as you are promoted to foot armor or vest, you don't have to keep vigil."
"If I can be promoted to infantry armor, you don't have to worry about it. Then I will be the first to deal with you and ask you to wash my socks." The auxiliary soldier who was the first to speak seemed to have deep resentment towards his companions, and he spoke out immediately.
Vicious curses.
The companion next to him smiled nonchalantly and said: "Haha, you want to be promoted to infantry? Then wait until the Ming army is brave enough to attack the camp!"
"Bata!"
Just when the auxiliary soldier dismissed his companions with a smile, a faint explosion seemed to come from the front, and then there seemed to be a faint sound of scratching in the sky. Soon, blurred black spots appeared from high in the sky.
Crossed.
"What is this!"
Just before the two auxiliary soldiers at the door could figure out what was going on, a violent explosion sounded behind them.
"Boom boom boom"
Accompanied by violent explosions, dazzling firelights soared into the sky from the camp behind them, turning the originally dark and silent night sky red.
At the same time, the two auxiliary soldiers who were still in a daze shouted loudly with trembling voices: "Enemy attack, enemy attack"
Under a hill two miles away from the Qing army's camp, thirty thick and short bronze cannons were lined up, and hundreds of Ming army gunners were nervously operating the artillery fire.
This early artillery naturally did not have a hydraulic self-retracting barrel like later artillery. Every time a shell was fired, the gun mount and wheels had to retreat a certain distance with the barrel, and the aimer had to direct his companions again.
Push the artillery back to its original position and aim again, and the on-call gunner who has been standing aside will take a round-head mop, dip it in clean water, and then put it into the barrel to quickly clean the remaining powder residue inside.
After the cleaning is completed, the other two loaders will each hold a round iron ball shell and a two-pound package of standard propellant charges and load them into the gun bore.
Pang Gang, who came from later generations, naturally knew the importance of improving the quality of artillery to strengthen the attack power of an army. He also watched the training of artillery in this era, and the result made him shake his head. Artillery in this era relies more on artillery fire.
What is more important is the experience and intuition of the gunner, which in Pang Gang's opinion is too abstract. But he is anxious. He has never been a soldier and naturally does not know the training methods of modern artillery, so Pang Gang has to tell what he knows.
For example, some common knowledge such as simple directions, heights, angles, etc. were taught to Dong Guo, the artillery camp Qianhu. Unexpectedly, this guy actually figured out a simple aiming and shooting method after thinking about it for a few days.
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At this time, Dong Guo stood at the back of the team holding a small red flag and commanded.
"Direction of eleven o'clock, elevation angle of twenty-one degrees, adjust the altitude direction!"
"put!"
"Boom boom boom"
A series of noises sounded, and dozens of round iron shells quickly flew out of the barrel and rushed forward. This is a typical round shell, weighing about 9 kilograms, and is a hollow iron shell.
The ball contains 900 grams of gunpowder. After the explosion, 5-12 shrapnel balls are formed. The lethality is amazing. A hole is opened in the body of the spherical bomb to install a time fuse. Since it is impossible to control which part of the spherical bomb hits the ground first when it hits the ground, it cannot
If you use an impact fuse, you can only wait for the fuse to burn out before it explodes naturally.
Although this kind of cannonball is very primitive in the eyes of later generations, this kind of cannonball is not cheap, especially when these cannonballs are made of iron ore, tungsten ore and other materials, which makes Pang Gang feel a little distressed, but for the sake of justice,
After leaving Amin's camp and hurrying back home, Pang Gang still shook his head and cashed in 1,500 rounds of ammunition for Dong Guo to spend and practice his skills.
"Crack!"
In the Qing army camp, a round artillery shell crashed into a tent of the Qing army with a roar. More than a dozen Qing soldiers in the tent who were awakened by the explosion clearly saw a round iron pellet coming out of the tent.
White smoke rolled and jumped on the ground. Although the Qing soldiers didn't know what it was, due to their military intuition, they felt that it was definitely not something good.
They jumped up one after another and were about to escape when the shells that had just burned out the fuses exploded with a loud bang.
After the huge impact blew this small tent into pieces, more than a dozen people in the tent were all blown into the sky.
The fierce explosion woke up everyone in the Qing army camp. Amin walked out of the tent under the protection of dozens of soldiers. Looking at the shells and explosions falling around him, Amin's
His face turned pale, and he murmured to himself: "What on earth is this? How far can it hit?"
Amin was shocked. In his decades-long military career, he had seen countless types of artillery, such as French cannons, general cannons, mighty general cannons, and even red cannons weighing thousands of kilograms.
He had seen them all, but he had never seen an exploding shell like this.
As the huge explosions continued to sound, Amin saw many warriors of the Qing Dynasty being engulfed by explosions and flames, and many broken limbs and arms were flying everywhere in the explosions.
"Why? Why is this happening!" Amin looked at the Qing soldiers scurrying around in pain, his heart pounding.
"Er Beile, hurry up and gather the soldiers to retreat." At this time, Shuotuo emerged from nowhere. He took Amin's hand and said, "Let's leave quickly. If you don't leave, it will be too late."
Amin closed his eyes in pain and shook his head, "It's too late. Where can we go now in the dark? Besides, since the Ming army can bombard us, they will definitely have an ambush outside. If we leave the camp at this time, wouldn't it be self-surrender?"
A snare?"
"Eh!"
Shuotuo was so angry that he yelled: "We are waiting to die here, and we are waiting to die when we go out. So what else can we do?"
"Wait!" Amin, who gradually recovered from the shock, regained some sense. "I don't believe that the Ming army's artillery shells can last long. As long as they shoot out all the artillery shells, we will be fine. But now you go and summon them immediately.
Warriors, let them get into formation, and we will withdraw as soon as daylight comes."
"Withdraw troops!" Shuotuo was a little shocked and then nodded in understanding. Now that the Ming army has such terrifying weapons, before they find a way to deal with them, who can bear it if the Ming army comes every night?
ah.
The shelling continued. Looking from outside the Qing army's camp, the entire Qing army's camp was in chaos, with flames rising and rolling there with explosions. To the northwest of the Qing army's camp,
A Ming army of about three thousand people is quietly lurking in the dense jungle, waiting for the arrival of prey!