"Don't run away, don't run away. There are only a dozen of them, and there are more of us. Come on! Anyone who dares to run away will be killed without mercy!" A member of the household in the tower shouted loudly, waving his sword.
The rebels in the city tower also came to their senses. There were indeed not many of them. There were people from all directions above and below the city. There was nothing to be afraid of. However, the opponent was obviously equipped with firearms. They knocked down more than a dozen people when they met.
Quite timid.
Although he no longer ran away, he did not dare to show his face. He held up his sword and hid behind the wall on the north side of the tower, making loud noises, but he did not dare to rush out to meet the enemy.
"Fire the arrows! Fire the arrows!" the hundred households shouted, waving their weapons.
As soon as he woke up the dreamer, more than a dozen soldiers immediately took off their bows and arrows, bent their bows and stretched out their bodies to shoot randomly outside.
"Boom! Boom!"
The three rebel soldiers who stuck their heads out were hit in the head by cannons and fell to the sky. The surrounding rebel soldiers could clearly see that all three of them had been shot in the forehead, and their brains were pouring out of a bloody hole.
Zi. was immediately frightened and exclaimed.
"Nice job!" Zhang Yanling praised loudly.
The ten brothers brought in by Zhang Yanling are the best in the Guards Battalion, and their combat skills are all excellent. In particular, they are already familiar with the use of blunderbuss. Their shooting level has reached the point where they can hit exactly where they point. From such a close distance
, there are still people who dare to stick their heads out and shoot arrows, they are simply living targets.
At this time, no one of the rebel soldiers dared to raise their heads and fire arrows. Nearly forty people all huddled behind the wall and stared.
Zhang Yanling, Chen Shi and others rushed to the north wall of the tower without any hindrance and stopped.
There are a large number of enemies inside separated by a wall. It is obviously unwise to rush in. Even if the more than ten people on our side are highly skilled in martial arts, they are not afraid of these people. However, the place inside is small and blocked by columns and walls, and the blunderbuss cannot work at all. Even if it kills one or two people,
Both of them are unacceptable to Zhang Yanling.
Why do brothers need to rush in and fight for something that can be solved with force?
"Brother Chen, do you have Little Jingua with you?" Zhang Yanling shouted in a deep voice.
Chen Shi nodded and said, "I'm taking it with me."
"Then what are you waiting for? Please give them a taste of two." Zhang Yanling shouted.
Chen Shi responded with a deep voice, reached out and took out two soft fist-sized balls from the leather bag at his waist, and quickly peeled off the soft shell to reveal a piece of cork.
There was a round hole in the middle of the cork, and a lead wire protruded from it and coiled twice around the cork.
Chen Shiyi stretched out the fuse and lit it up on the torch beside the battlement. Sparks flew out and the fuse quickly burned. Chen Shiyi raised his hand and threw it in through the window. Then he quickly lit it again.
One was thrown in through the doorway.
"Get down." Zhang Yanling shouted, held his head and leaned down, huddled under the city wall.
Chen Shiyi and others also quickly fell down. Only Ma Zhanbao didn't know what was going on and was still hunched over in confusion. Chen Shiyi grabbed his arm and pulled him to the ground. The fall caused Ma Zhanbao's knees to hurt.
Ma Zhanbao endured the pain and was about to get up when he heard two loud bangs, and the ground on the city wall beneath him seemed to shake.
The fire inside the tower was dazzling, and countless stones and sawdust mixed with short limbs of flesh and blood sprayed out from the door openings and window openings.
Ma Zhanbao almost fainted. When he looked up with his mouth open, he saw rocks and flesh falling like rain around him. The windows of the tower in front were shattered, and black smoke was billowing inside, mixed with the sound of screams and moans.
These two roars were really like thunderous mountains crashing and the earth cracking. The shock made Ma Zhanbao's ears buzz, and he couldn't hear any sound for a long time.
In his thirty years of life experience, he had never seen such a scene. At this moment, he realized that it was caused by the two small golden melons that Mr. Zhang had just ordered to throw in.
In fact, from the beginning of the construction of Wild Dog Ridge Arsenal, in addition to the improvement and research and development of firearms, Zhang Yanling had already included grenades in the list of firearms manufacturers. This thing is obviously the same as the fire gun and bird gun, which can influence the situation of the battle.
weapon.
However, Zhang Yanling was disappointed from the beginning. He thought that making grenades was very simple. But after the actual experiment, Zhang Yanling discovered that the power of gunpowder these days is not high and cannot produce much destructive power at all.
Unless a large amount of gunpowder is loaded, the results you want will not be achieved at all.
However, a grenade made by loading a large amount of gunpowder is not a grenade. A grenade the size of a watermelon is useless because it cannot be thrown out at all, and it cannot be carried around as individual firepower. The one Zhang Yanling wants is fist-sized, has the right weight, and can be thrown a certain distance.
, and is a grenade capable of producing range explosion damage.
If the charge is only the size of a fist, the power of the explosion will not even be able to shatter the iron shell of the grenade. At most, it will only open a hole, as if a big firecracker was thrown.
Not to mention, this thing consumes a lot of gunpowder, and when consumed, it is like throwing money away like a stream of water.
Limited by insufficient financial resources and insufficient technology and craftsmanship, Zhang Yanling had to temporarily give up the idea of creating grenades that could be used in actual combat. After all, the development and transformation of firecrackers was what he wanted to do most. He could not use his financial resources to
and supplies are spent on other things.
However, this did not prevent Zhang Yanling from resenting the mines. In his spare time, he continued to discuss and study with Xu Youtang and the craftsmen.
At the beginning of the year, with the further purification of gunpowder raw materials and the further precision of the ratio, the performance of gunpowder was improved. This rekindled Zhang Yanling's hope. Although Zhang Yanling was still disappointed with the results of the test. The iron shell also failed to burst, and the effect
It was still not good, but Zhang Yanling quickly found a solution.
One time while drinking, Zhang Yanling accidentally broke a wine cup. The sight of the wine cup falling to the ground and shattering gave Zhang Yanling a flash of inspiration. He was thinking about making iron grenades, but this idea was actually wrong. In this era, black powder was used.
No matter how precise the purification is, the power of the mixture is actually limited unless the dosage is increased. But this is obviously not possible.
If he only thinks about killing the enemy through gunpowder explosion, he has gone astray. He should use other containers instead of the iron shell. For example, use small fired clay pots. The pottery is not strong and fragile, so it should be very easy.
It will explode. Just add small pieces of iron and caltrops, which are lethal things, to the gunpowder, and it will be enough to cause damage to the surroundings when the gunpowder explodes.
There is no need to compare the grenades made in these years with those of later generations, but to redefine its lethality. As long as it can cause a considerable range of damage after bursting, it is enough to become a killing weapon. There is no need to hope that it can
Produce a powerful explosion, causing massive casualties.
Zhang Yanling immediately conducted several experiments and achieved great success. He fired a small round pottery pot as a container, compacted the internal charge and plugged it tightly with a wooden plug. Through the small holes drilled into the wooden plug,
A gunpowder fuse is inserted into the hole and thrown by external ignition. The fragments caused by the explosion can penetrate cloth armor at close range.
Although it is not lethal to iron armor, the roar and fire produced by the explosion itself are extremely lethal. When used in certain situations, the effect is absolutely outstanding.
Of course, the disadvantage of ceramic grenades is that they break easily after being thrown and are inconvenient to carry. Even if Zhang Yanling came up with the idea of wrapping the outside with a cotton cover to increase the buffer, it would still break. But this is already a white grenade.
Slightly imperfect.
Because the ceramic grenade was yellow-brown in appearance, Zhang Yanling gave it a nice name: Little Pumpkin.
However, small pumpkins are not produced in large quantities because they consume too much gunpowder. Since there are already a lot of gunpowder, the number of paper-packed bullets that need to be equipped and consumed is also greater. Therefore, resources are tilted towards this aspect.
Also because the gunpowder workshop in Wild Dog Ridge was established not long ago, the output of strictly proportioned gunpowder is limited. The amount of gunpowder after a full grenade can make more than a dozen paper-packed bombs. Under the current circumstances, a large amount of refined gunpowder will be used.
It is absolutely impossible to use medicine to make small pumpkins.
This time when he led the army on the expedition, Zhang Yanling only brought more than forty grenades, which were actually left over from the previous experimental development process. When they entered the city this time, Chen Shiyi and others each carried a few grenades.
In fact, apart from Zhang Yanling, only Chen Shiyi and a small number of personal guards had witnessed the real explosion of the small golden melon. Even among the more than ten people on the tower, several of them had seen it for the first time like Ma Zhanbao. Not only was Ma Zhanbao blinded by the explosion
, those few were also confused.
"Oh my God, how can this thing be so powerful? My mother..." Everyone was amazed in their minds.
As soon as Chen Shi got up, he shouted sternly: "Fire the bayonet and charge!"
Everyone quickly drew out their bayonets and mounted them on the front of the blunderbuss, and followed Chen Shiyi and rushed into the smoke. Zhang Yanling also rushed in holding the blunderbuss.
The tower was in a mess, with rebel soldiers rolling and groaning all over the ground. Smoke and dust filled the air, and there was the choking smell of gunpowder and the pervasive smell of burnt flesh and hair. The interior of the tower was mainly made of wooden structures, with broken doors and windows, and corridors.
The columns are mottled, as if they have experienced a catastrophe.
After two small pumpkins were thrown in, they exploded one after another in a small space. The force of the explosion blew away wooden doors and windows, and scattered iron sheets and caltrops, causing widespread damage.
In fact, except for the six or seven soldiers who were very close to the location where the pumpkin exploded and were seriously injured, and their flesh and blood were flying everywhere, most of the rebel soldiers were not seriously injured. Most of them were only covered with iron fragments and caltrops.
.
However, the roar of the explosion, the choking smoke and the resulting shock caused them to lose their fighting ability at this moment. They lay in disgrace in the mess, moaning and rolling, completely out of a sense of dizziness.
In a state of humility.
At this time, Chen Shiyi and others rushed in with blunderbuss and bayonets. It was a one-sided massacre. It took no effort. In a moment, Chen Shiyi and others mercilessly killed more than 30 people in the tower.