"Hold on!"

"Calm down, everyone!"

In the main camp, Adolf, the officer of the Shence Artillery Battalion, shouted in Ningbo accent that the cannons in front were all small cannons such as Tiger Crouching and Franji from each battalion.

As the most elite imperial guard, the Shence Army has ten battle camps, one cavalry battalion and one artillery battalion.

The artillery battalion gave up the cumbersome siege guns and instead equipped the field guns ordered by the emperor. After the cooperation and improvement of the Macau Bugalao Artillery Factory and the Zhoushan Artillery Factory, the gun battalion improved the quality of the explosives and reduced the thickness of the barrel wall to use copper.

Casting shortens the length of the barrel and reduces the weight of the gun.

It uses three-pound shells and is named field artillery. It is also commonly known as camp artillery in the army.

This improved gun after repeated trials is 3 feet 6 long, weighs only 280 kilograms (approximately 470 kilograms) together with the gun mount, and even uses integral shells, thereby simplifying the loading procedure and improving firing efficiency.

After nearly two years, each town of the main imperial camp now basically has a direct artillery battalion. The artillery battalion has six posts, including four field artillery posts, one engineer post, and one blasting post.

Each of the four field artillery posts has two three-pound field guns, and the entire battalion has eight three-pound guns.

A three-pounder gun actually only needs two gunners, but each Ming army artillery camp still has twelve soldiers. In addition to the two gunners, the rest are equipped with a groom, and the remaining soldiers are gunners.

, can also be replaced as a gunner at any time.

After using preloaded shells, these guns have an amazing rate of fire. Although they are not as good as the Fran machine with three sub-cannons, and the first three cannons can be fired in half a minute, they are still faster than the blunderbuss.

A shotgun can fire six rounds in three minutes, but these three-pounders can fire eight rounds in three minutes.

Although the three-pounder cannon is not as good as the real field artillery in Shenji Town, Shenji Town is a professional artillery force with siege artillery and field artillery. Among them, there are three types of field artillery: 24-pounder, 18-pounder and 12-pounder.

Siege guns also have greater caliber and firepower.

However, it was not easy to transport heavy artillery by motor, so Shenji Town was not able to participate in this battle.

Adolf had a long beard that was trimmed very stylishly.

His name is said to come from Old German, which means noble wolf. However, Adolf was just a poor man in Europe and made a living by working as a mercenary. Later, he couldn't stand the fighting during the Thirty Years' War, so he was recruited by the Portuguese and took a ship.

He went to Malacca in the east and worked as a mercenary to guard the castle. However, the Dutch attacked him a few years ago.

After a long siege, they finally had to surrender due to lack of food. Fortunately, because they surrendered, they were able to leave safely.

After leaving Malacca, he first returned to Goa, and then followed the ship to Oriental Macau, where he continued to work as a mercenary.

Because the salary was not high, life did not get much better, but it was still much better than fighting a bad war in Europe. After all, Macau was very prosperous and wealthy. Later, I accepted employment from Ming Dynasty because they offered higher salaries.

In the blink of an eye, he has served in the Ming Army for three years.

This guy who can’t figure out whether his ancestors are German, Dutch or Swedish has lived a very satisfactory life in the past three years. He can already speak authentic Zhejiang Ningbo dialect, and can also speak some Cantonese and Nanjing dialect. Now

I can also speak some Shandong dialect.

Wearing the military uniform of the Ming Dynasty, it actually looks quite similar.

Because he is a professional artilleryman with rich combat experience, he has also been put to use in the imperial camp. He has even made a lot of contributions and been promoted along the way. Now he has become the artillery battalion officer of Shence Town, even as early as two years ago.

Years ago, he applied for Daming citizenship, married a wife and had children in Ningbo.

The battalion officer gets fifty taels of silver a month, as well as other personal rations, envoy silver, etc. He even has a fifth-grade martial arts rank. It can be said that the life he is living now is a few years ago when he was wandering around as a mercenary to earn a living.

Unthinkable at the time.

Although he is a foreigner, Adolf does not regard himself as an outsider. It is better to be a Ming Dynasty official, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty are better. Although Europe is his homeland, he has no idea of ​​his motherland. He will never think of that ghost place that is beaten like shit.

Don't want to go back.

He even gave himself a Chinese name, Zhao Adao. The surname Zhao ranked first among the hundreds of families. In fact, he wanted to be surnamed Zhu, the emperor's surname. Later he learned that he could not change the surname of the country casually unless the emperor gave it the surname of the country.

Zhao Adao knew the eight three-pound cannons in the artillery camp like the back of his hand, and was as familiar with them as his mother-in-law.

Now these eight cannons are hidden in tents in the camp, and the gunners have prepared grapeshot.

"Hold on!"

Adolf kept shouting.

The range of the three-pounder can reach one thousand meters, but the effective damage caused by shotgun shells is only about two hundred meters, so it is best to shoot closer.

This fighting opportunity is rare, and he plans to show his skills well and make a great contribution.

He heard that His Majesty the Emperor wanted to strengthen the artillery force. In the future, three-pounders would be equipped at the battalion level. Each battalion would be equipped with an artillery post and two three-pounders to increase its firepower.

The artillery battalion directly under the town will be equipped with twelve-pound guns. This is the real field artillery.

Each country's artillery system has its own system and different standards, but they are all relatively confusing. But generally, there are only a few types of artillery at this time. One type is for bombarding the enemy from a long distance, which is generally called a long cannon and a falcon cannon.

The other type is a siege gun used to destroy enemy fortresses, barriers and enemy gun emplacements. This kind of gun is also generally called a cannon, and is also subdivided into half cannons, quarter cannons, etc.

The other type is cannons that fire stone projectiles, such as mortars, stone cannons, etc., which are characterized by being thick and short.

Long guns have thick tube walls and have the longest range. The gun body can often reach thirty or forty times the caliber. It contains high metal content, is heavy, and has a low risk of exploding the barrel.

The second type of cannon has a thinner barrel wall and a shorter barrel than a long cannon. It has a larger caliber and can fire larger shells, but has a shorter range and lower muzzle velocity. The barrel length is generally fifteen to

Twenty-eight times diameter, generally eighteen times diameter.

A half cannon is 24 diameters long, and a quarter cannon is 28 diameters long.

The twelve-pound main field artillery now established by the Ming Army is actually a quarter cannon with a diameter of 28 times. It is actually similar to a long cannon, so it can also be called a semi-long cannon.

The Hongyi cannons of the Ming and Qing armies can actually be said to be long cannons. After all, they are ship-borne long cannons salvaged from Western warships.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Adolf is very aware of the power of these twelve-pound field guns, which not only have ultra-long range, but also have large-caliber shells, heavy firepower, and are even relatively moderate in weight.

, it can be pulled by a horse-drawn carriage to facilitate maneuvering in the field.

Compared with the current three-pound cannon, he really wants to own a few twenty-pound field cannons. Then they will no longer be auxiliary. They can have infantry auxiliary for them on the battlefield and become the protagonists of the battlefield, no matter in the field.

It can also be used to attack cities.

However, although the imperial court has now established a brand new artillery system, the equipment must be obtained step by step. Except for Shenji Town, which has priority for the artillery unit, the other towns, even if they are the main force of the imperial camp, have to line up.

Who equips the new artillery first and who comes last depends on the merits of each town's front.

Outside the camp.

After the cannons of each battalion had cooled down, they unleashed their power again, pouring out shotgun shells. The musketeers also fired continuously.

The battlefield is filled with smoke.

The Tatars suffered heavy casualties. After they crossed the river, they were trapped in horse pits, iron caltrops, deer antlers, trenches, and camp fences, all of which slowed down their speed and greatly increased the lethality of the firearms in the camp.

When they dispersed and rushed closer, they began to jump over the ditch, cut down the fence, and rushed into the camp. The gunmen fled without fear, and then stood behind sections of horse-resistant walls and opened fire with their muskets.

They relied on fortifications and still adhered to the pre-war deployment.

One sentry consisted of eight teams of men and four teams of gunners, each with twelve men. The four teams formed a musket formation, and then two gun teams and two small artillery teams were deployed on both sides of them.

There are four sentries in a battalion.

The four sentries are parallel.

After the camp, there is another camp.

There are also camps on both sides of the camp.

The basic deployment is that the depth is relatively thin, but after all, it is not a battle in the wild. This is a camp defense operation. All can rely on camp fences and trenches. Although the gunmen are not protected by long gunners, they have anti-carb guns in front of them.

In addition, their muskets are also equipped with bayonets attached to the barrels, and they themselves are also spearmen.

The fire gunners used a four-stage shooting method, with four teams at one sentry. Each time one team fired a salvo, and after the shooting, the second team took over, and the cycle continued.

Although this means that the firepower is weakened, it has a continuous suppression effect and there will be no interruption in firepower.

Instead, the cavalry battalion and artillery battalion directly under the town were deployed in the center of the camp, especially the artillery battalion, which was hidden in tents in order to lure the Qing army to penetrate deeply.

As the vanguard of Emperor Zhu Yihai's military reform, after several rounds of reforms in Shence Town, there are no longer troops with cold weapons such as spearmen, bows and swordsmen. The soldiers are all equipped with firecrackers and artillery. Only the auxiliary battalions have spears, swords and shields.

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At this time, only the auxiliary soldiers of the auxiliary camp, holding long guns, were deployed behind the second camp fence. They were between the two battle camps.

The fighting was fierce.

But from the very beginning of its deployment, the Ming army had no intention of using all its strength when it came up.

This is a trap, designed to lure the Qing troops into the camp. There is no fear of them rushing into the camp.

The two thousand soldiers of the Shence Army, plus more than three thousand auxiliary soldiers, were deployed in battalions, and they were not afraid of them rushing in.

This is not a linear defense.

If the Tatars rush into the camp, they will face a stronger attack.

The Qing army fought desperately despite heavy casualties. They were still strong and brave at this time, and they were a soldier who dared to fight.

They charged on horseback, some using three-eyed blunderbuss, some using shotguns, and more using bows and arrows. As they approached, the Ming army also suffered heavy casualties.

Several gaps were opened in the first camp fence, and the riders roared excitedly and squeezed in like a tide.

A javelin roared towards him.

Zhang Tiezhu next to Zhao Xiaolou screamed and fell to the ground. A javelin was inserted into his shoulder, and another arrow flew. Deputy Liu was shot in the abdomen and fell to the ground.

Captain Li Baoquan shouted, "Don't retreat, hold still, and follow orders to fire."
To be continued...