There were a few black lines on Mr. Chu Cai's forehead. He was so angry when he saw the Sea Wolf followers shouting in the shopping mall area, but he still resisted and wanted to send people to attack the trading shop.
With his thoughts in mind, he silently continued to order people to beat drums to urge his men to attack the Sea Wolf stronghold.
At this time, Yu Xiaotian also turned to the direction of Chu Cai's main attack in the southeast of Dazhai, and climbed onto an archery tower to look down at the battlefield.
After carefully observing the formation arranged by Mr. Chu Cai, Yu Xiaotian said to Li Dazui who came with him: "Old Chu Cai doesn't seem to have a human head and a pig's head, although his subordinates look...
It seems messy, but it’s not without some structure!
At least Mr. Chu Cai knew how to disperse his men instead of swarming them in to attack. He also knew how to build some large shields with wood on the spot to protect his men from bullets and arrows. At least this can be seen from this. This guy
Really experienced, not just relying on the bravery of his subordinates!
But he is only at this level. If they were attacking Zhuangbao today, this would be okay. Unfortunately, he found the wrong opponent. It depends on you!
I'll leave it to you to command here, I'm only responsible for watching the battle!"
Li Dazui immediately bowed and clasped his fists with a fierce look: "Thank you, Master, I will definitely make it impossible for him to come up. Today we will show these bastards how powerful we are!"
While the two of them were still talking, gunfire rang out again in the shopping mall area. When the two of them turned their heads to look, Yu Xiaotian laughed again, pointed outside and said, "That guy Meng Fei is getting anxious now. Chu
Cai Lao completely gave up attacking the merchant area and escorted all of them to our side! This guy is unwilling to be lonely! Okay, ignore that guy and let him just worry about it, and we can fight better here!"
Li Dazui nodded in agreement and immediately gave the order: "Give me the order. Without my order, no one is allowed to fire. Put them within 300 steps before we start! Load solid bullets into each cannon! Shoot those big shields first.
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Li Dazui's order was quickly spread to all parts of the village wall, and Yu Xiaotian pretended to be relaxed with his hands behind his back, and nodded secretly.
The soldiers on the wall of Hailang Dazhai had already made various preparations at this time. The musketeers loaded the flintlocks in an orderly manner and closed the lid of the medicine pool, but did not open the nose of the machine.
Kneeling on one knee on the wall of the village, hidden behind the crenellations, looking out through the perforations.
The gunners struggled to push the loaded cannon to the gun door, began to adjust the gun mount, slowly turned the gun mount, and took aim at Chu Cai's old men who were slowly pushing over.
These new six-pound cannons and twelve-pound cannons are not the only ones on the wall of Hailang Dazhai now, because Yu Xiaotian has specially set up a combat barracks for land warfare, and these heavy new artillery are not suitable for these battles.
The troops were to be used in mobile combat, so he had specially selected some small artillery pieces from the old artillery to equip the barracks for their use.
However, after using it for a period of time, Yu Xiaotian felt that these old cannons were of poor quality and were not very suitable for use by soldiers. Only a few of the newer Tiger Crouching cannons were more suitable, so he asked the artillery maker to spare some time and
Manpower and material resources were used to specially develop a model of squatting tiger cannons for the Zhan Barracks, and a batch of brand new tiger squat cannons were cast for them and equipped for the Zhan Barracks.
This kind of tiger squatting gun weighs only forty kilograms, and two people can lift it up and run. Although the effective range is only a few dozen meters, the shotgun is very powerful when used at short distances. After switching to a fixed-charge powder package, the reloading speed has improved.
It is also very fast, and can shoot once in about thirty seconds at the fastest, which is especially suitable for infantry in this era.
Moreover, this thing consumes very little man-hours and iron materials. After adopting the iron mold cannon casting method, the casting speed is very fast. Now the soldiers have installed dozens of these small cannons, and this time they were also put on the village wall.
, placed on the wall of the village for use.
In addition, taking into account that the Fran cannon is also a relatively advanced artillery in this era. It has the advantage of easy loading and fast firing rate. Recently, the gun maker has remade the mold to produce a lightweight Fran cannon. The weight of the gun body is about
It weighs about one hundred kilograms, and the solid shell weighs less than two kilograms. It is roughly what the West calls a two-pound cannon. According to convention, each cannon is equipped with nine bullets.
This kind of gun is slightly more powerful than the Tiger Crouching Cannon and has a slightly longer range, but it is slightly heavier and is a bit too heavy to be transported by manpower alone. This does not include the weight of the gun mount, so Yu Xiaotian ordered
The carpenter made a two-wheeled carriage for this gun. The carriage was made of hardwood and had a hoe at the back.
Because the recoil is relatively small, there is a cast iron ring at the back of the gun hoe. After arranging it, you can use a wedge to nail it to the ground to prevent the recoil when firing. After firing, you can save the process of resetting the gun mount.
Effectively shorten the time to fire again.
Of course, if conditions are limited, it is not necessary to fix it with iron wedges. After the artillery recoils, you can also use manpower to push it back to the gun position.
This new gun mount can usually be dragged by a donkey. There is a shortage of horses on the island and there is not much animal power to equip the military camp. Therefore, it is often hauled by manpower. Therefore, the gun cannot be cast too big or heavy.
Otherwise, relying solely on manpower for hauling would probably exhaust the artillery to death.
Nowadays, this small Fran cannon has been put into mass production, but the output is not large. In addition to being used in military camps, it can also be used as a secondary gun on many warships. Therefore, Yu Xiaotian decided to use this cannon in the next step.
Mass production is needed to gradually replace the miscellaneous cannons in the fleet.
The distance of 300 meters actually does not refer to these light Folang aircraft and Tiger squat guns. It mainly refers to the six-pound cannons. The effective range of the six-pound cannons is 400 meters. It is just when they can show their power to deal with those
Large shield is quite accurate.
Listening to the sound of gunfire coming from the shopping mall area from time to time, Mr. Chu Cai's men were worried, fearing that the shells would fall on their heads, but this was not the focus of their nervousness. What they were most worried about was the sea wolf.
For the cannons in Dazhai, because they knew that Hailang Dazhai had a relatively large number of cannons, and they were all red barbarian cannons, they could shoot far and accurately.
So they were afraid of the Sea Wolf tribe in Dazhai, and now they would be bombarded with shells. They all hunkered down as much as possible, hiding behind the big shields of those who were walking at the front, stretching their heads and heads towards them from time to time.
Take a look in the direction of Dazhai.
But what they did was simply covering their ears. Although the improvised oar shield like theirs was good at blocking arrows and could deal with the blunderbuss fired by birds, at close range, even the lead of the sea wolf's flintlock gun
They may not be able to block bullets, let alone be used to block artillery shells.
Even if they are hit by a shell from the most boring Tiger Crouching Cannon at a distance of 100 meters, they can be easily shattered. As for the shells from the six-pounder and 12-pounder cannons, they can't even think of blocking them with this thing.
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These gangsters were just trying to comfort themselves by hiding behind these oar shields, and they did not provide any effective protection against the cannonballs.
But they are pirates after all, and this is the only thing they can use to defend themselves. Besides, the only thing they can use to carry cannons is their bodies.
Even though they were shouting and yelling all the way after setting off, in fact they were not moving very fast after they got close to a certain distance. These shopkeepers also had their own little calculations, and no one wanted to be the one who stood out.
They know that whoever runs faster will be the first to be shot and the most people will die. Although they don't care about the lives of their men, after all, these people are following him, and they have to think about them a little bit.
Therefore, the Sea Wolf side was waiting for them to approach, but they were moving forward like a snail. It was just over two miles, and they walked for more than half an hour before they gradually approached the big area.
It's about three hundred steps outside the village.
Li Dazui looked at these guys, with the corner of his mouth tilted to one side, showing a look of disdain. He was still a little funny in his heart, and secretly scolded Mr. Chu Cai and these guys for being so clever that they were misled by their cleverness. This was simply to provide him with the best
Good artillery target.
The number of oar shields is limited. These Chu Cai Lao's men are all hiding behind the oar shields, just huddled together. If they disperse, the cannons will really be difficult to deal with. You can't use the cannons to call names one by one. That way
If so, it would be better to use a bow and arrow or a musket to shoot more accurately!
When he saw the oar shield of Old Chu Cai's men slowly entering about 300 steps outside the Sea Wolf Dazhai, Li Dazui finally became angry and shouted in his Dantian: "Fire!"
Chu Cailao's men were walking forward in fear all the way, but they never saw the sea wolf Dazhai firing. They were secretly rejoicing at this moment, but when they finally got here, they suddenly saw the sea.
Several balls of flames erupted from the Wolf Village, followed by clouds of gunpowder smoke.
Then they heard the whistling sound of artillery shells piercing the air, and in the blink of an eye, clouds of dust rose up around their crowd.
The effect of the first round of shelling was not very good. This was due to the technical limitations of this era. The accuracy of the artillery was still relatively low. Even though the iron mold casting method was used to greatly reduce the tolerance between each gun, and fixed charges were used
Yes, but when boring the gun bore, there are still many human influences. The gunpowder production is also affected by a certain degree of raw material purity and human influence. It is difficult to achieve a first hit at a certain distance.
Even the modern artillery of later generations will conduct a few calibration rounds before cluster firing to check the accuracy of the artillery fire. What's more, for the artillery of this era, it is actually very normal for the artillery of this era to fail to hit the target in the first round.
What's more, today they were firing scull shields that were much smaller than the ships, so the first few rounds of shelling were all missed.
However, Yu Xiaotian was not very disappointed with the effect of such shelling, because he saw that although these shells did not directly hit the target, they were basically not far from the target, and the impact point was controlled within a certain range.
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(I'm sorry, brothers, I went out early this morning for something and didn't come back until this afternoon. The update is late, please forgive me!)