"Hurry up, fire!"

A hundred households shouted loudly.

The effective range of the Red Cannon is 500 meters, a little later per mile. At this distance, both sides can hit each other. Although the ammunition has been pre-installed, the thief's cannon has also been arranged first.

The formation of the Ming army was similar to that of the Revolutionary Army. Before the Red Barbarians broke out, the artillery with the farthest range and the most powerful were fully utilized. In order to avoid affecting the fish in the pond, the rest of the battalions and teams fell slightly.

Behind the Red Barbarian cannon are archers and bird gunners. However, his bird gunners do not stand in three rows with obvious levels like the Revolutionary Army. Instead, they squat in the front row and stand closely against the back row. Then, the range is from near to far, the tiger squat cannon and the Folang machine cannon, and some swords, shields and cavalry interspersed there.

Shi Kefa looked ahead nervously.

"Bang!"

A sudden cannon sound on the opposite side made people feel moved. Before they could come back to their senses, a shell had already landed on the side of a red cannon on the outside. Only a bang was heard, the ground under their feet jumped, soil and gravel splashed, and the shells bounced away, making irregular movements. The people around them were smashed to pieces without a sense of dodging!

"Luckily, the thief is not accurate enough!"

Xu Shao sighed.

Shi Kefa could only think like this, but just now this idea came out, and there were three cannons in succession. Three shells landed around the other three red cannons, causing waves of mud and stones. More than ten people were hit by the jumpers and killed.

"It's our turn!"

When Xu Shao saw that one of his red cannons had not been damaged, he immediately exclaimed.

The gunner has long-term contact with artillery and has his own experience of avoiding the jump. He can roughly determine the landing point of the shell and know where the dead corners are. When the cannon fire, he has already hidden himself first. At this time, he is all very strong and vows to avenge a single arrow. He quickly runs to the cannon and prepares to fire the cannon.

The torch was ignited and the lead was about to ignite, but at this moment, four roars exploded at the same time!

Four black dots approached quickly with a shrill scream!

"Run!"

I don’t know who shouted, but the gunner didn’t care about ignition, rolled and crawled, and hurriedly avoided, but no matter how fast the two legs were, how could they be faster than the shells flying in the air?

"Boom! Boom!" Two sounds!

From left to right, two red cannons were shot straight, and because the cannon chamber was filled with ammunition, they were hit by high-temperature and high-speed shells, which immediately triggered a death explosion. The flames flashed one after another, and the dark gun barrel exploded. The iron block was like a scattered flower in all directions, and within more than ten steps, screaming and all of them were beaten into blood!

Although the other two shells failed to hit the cannon, one of them hit the ammunition. In an instant, even more violent flames rose and the scorching waves swept away. A soldier screamed and threw them away, with flames all over his body.

"How is it possible? How can the thief's artillery be fired so accurately?"

Shi Kefa was shocked!

In fact, it was not only him, but many Ming soldiers didn’t understand. Is this still a thief? The Beijing camp is not as accurate as this, right?

The Red Cannon at that time did not have any aiming device, and the firing was based on experience to adjust the angle. However, the Revolutionary Army was different. Li Xin handed over two simple measurement methods. Although the soldiers of the artillery battalion could not use formulas to calculate, it didn't matter. Li Xin drew the distance, angle and charge on the table in a functional curve, and then compared the measurement results to see it at a glance.

The first shot is positioning, and the second shot is officially fired.

"The Caofu, it's not good!"

Xu Shao turned around and said with anxiety.

Indeed, two were destroyed by just one encounter with the four red cannons. Nearly a hundred were killed or injured in the artillery camp, which was extremely tragic. What was even more dangerous was that the morale of the army was seriously affected.

After all, the Ming army is not a strong-willed army. It is still possible to fight against the bandits of Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, but it is impossible to meet the regular army with a higher salary with a fist and trained according to the standards of the First World War.

Of course, because the days were still short, the Revolutionary Army was far from meeting Li Xin's expected goals, but it was much better than the Ming Army.

Shi Kefa clearly saw the soldiers showing fear. If it weren't for his policing, someone would have run away. He also knew that his soldiers could not be compared with Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong's soldiers. Those generals fought against bandits for many years and were fearless of death. Huaiyang had not experienced any wars for two hundred years and was extremely powerful in military affairs.

Taking the Navy as an example, the early years of Jiajing was an important node in the complete collapse of the Ming Dynasty's military. The Navy was more serious than the Army. Many soldiers were unable to pay wages and had to start a canal transportation for their livelihoods. They ran ships for generations. Can such soldiers fight?

Thinking of this, Shi Kefa was full of regret. If he had known that the thief was so strong, he would not have taken into consideration his face and invited Huang Degong to come and then make plans.

Huang Degong at least defeated Zhang Xianzhong, and his military discipline was fine, and he rarely disturbed the people.

But how can I take the medicine for regret?

"boom!"

A dull sound came from the other end of the canal far away. Xu Shao looked at it and guessed: "The Caofu, it is probably the Grand Duke Han who is attacking Mengchengyi. I think the main force of the thieves is here, and I am afraid that they will be able to break it soon!"

yes!

Shi Kefa was shocked, took a deep breath, and called out: "Soldiers, the Han prefect of Yangzhou is attacking Gaoyou while the bandits' forces are empty, and they are about to break away from time to time. Although we have no red barbarian cannons, there are also tiger squat cannons and Folang machine cannons. In terms of number, the number of bandits is overwhelming. As long as the top and bottom are united, they will be able to win. The whole army obeys the order and charge forward. The headquarters and you will walk together. Anyone who retreats will be killed!"

As soon as he finished speaking, four cannons were fired on the opposite side. Four shells fell into the Ming army's tiger squat cannon formation. Nearly ten tiger squat cannons were blown over, and dozens of soldiers were hit by jumping, leaving no corpses dead!

"How could this be?"

Shi Kefa and Xu Shao showed a look of horror at the same time!

You should know that the tiger squat cannon formation is still a hundred steps away from the forward's Red Cannon. Although the Red Cannon theoretically has a range of nearly two miles, after one mile, there is basically no accurate head. Now all four shells fall into the tiger squat cannon formation, which shows that the thief is targeted to strike!

How could his cannon be so far? This is one of them!

Secondly, the short firing interval is beyond common sense. After the Red Barbarian cannon is launched, it needs to be reset, cooled down, cleared the drug residue, loaded, compacted, mounted ammunition, aimed, etc., and even the most skilled gunner will take about three minutes to fire one shot, while the thief's cannon is only two minutes apart.

In fact, this is the result of Li Xin's comprehensive implementation of ammunition fixation in the military. Not only gun medicine, but also gun medicine is also fixed. In advance, the gun medicine is loaded with hard paper according to the size of the inner wall of the barrel, compacted and sealed in advance. When using it, the paper barrel was directly stuffed into the barrel, which saved two steps of loading and compacting, greatly saving time.

"Bitch, the Bitch is coming!"

Xu Shao suddenly shouted again.

Without waiting for Shi Kefa to attack, the Revolutionary Army has already been suppressed in advance.
Chapter completed!