It's a pity that because of the complete restraints such as stables, wooden stakes, and iron ropes, some horses were unable to escape from "birth" until they died of exhaustion.
Although some of the horses were lost, after most of the horses got used to the sound of firecrackers, Lu Xu put the firecrackers under the iron barrel and lit them again.
Anyone who has tried this method knows that it will make the explosion of firecrackers sound very much like gunshots. After the war horses got used to the sound, Lu Xu started to play with the tiger squatting firecracker in the ears of the war horses.
Son.
Generally speaking, it takes 15-20 days for mammals to develop a new habit. Under Lu Xu's high-pressure training, the war horses finally fully adapted to the roar of firearms around April 15th.
Lu Xu judged that they were fully able to use the horse-drawn cannon tactic that Lu Xu had always wanted to do.
Feeling that he was fully prepared, Lu Xu set off with his large army on April 16.
However, among his troops, the majestic Crouching Tiger Cannon is not the most conspicuous. The most conspicuous one is another type of artillery that Lu Xu obtained this time that is not a cannon - the lifting gun.
This thing is also called a large musket. It is an oversized musket. Its length ranges from 1.5 meters to 3 meters. It basically shoots iron bullets and shotguns.
Because the shapes are different, the performance is also very different. Some guns have a range of only about 500 meters, while some are said to have a range of 2,000 meters.
If you say it is an artillery piece, it is indeed a big gun. But if you say it is a gun, how can there be such a big gun? Moreover, its caliber and power clearly exceed the standards of a gun.
If a history buff were to know that Lu Xu, a time-traveler who didn't make serious muskets in ancient times, actually came up with such a thing, I'm afraid Lu Xu would be scolded to death.
but!
Some things are often forced to have no choice. One of the great advantages of the Crouching Tiger Cannon and the Raised Gun is that they do not have high requirements on materials.
The barrels and barrels of the tiger crouching gun and the lifting gun can be made of pig iron, and using Suzhou steel is naturally not a problem. Moreover, the caliber of the lifting gun is large, the barrel is thicker, and the processing difficulty is compared to the requirements of being thin, light, and having sufficient chamber pressure.
The processing difficulty of high-end ordinary gun barrels is several levels lower, so even if the gun is larger, in terms of manufacturing difficulty, ordinary guns are still greater.
For the Xin'an Army who have just come into contact with firearms, they are like babies when it comes to using firearms. If they want to learn to run, it is safer to learn to walk first.
in addition!
People who feel that carrying a gun is not enough often only notice that after the Opium War, carrying a gun made it almost impossible to resist in front of the British. However, they ignore a very important issue, that is, the gun is a weapon of the agricultural era, and opium
At the time of the war, Britain was already an industrial country.
The advantages of carrying a gun are very obvious. Although it has poor accuracy and is too bulky, it is indeed the lightest artillery that humans can design before the industrial revolution era.
It is even lighter than the Tiger Crouching Cannon, and the heavier carrying gun is only about 14 kilograms. Two people can easily carry it to maneuver and fight. As a support firepower in the agricultural era, it is excellent enough.
Secondly, during the Opium War, the reason why the gun was unable to resist the British was because its position was too awkward.
You say it's a gun, right? It's as difficult to operate as a cannon. In the time it takes to fire out a "bullet" and reload it, other people's musketeers can fire two or three rounds.
You say it's a cannon, right? Except for the Crouching Tiger Cannon, almost all cannons have a greater range than it. You can suppress it by just finding any kind of artillery.
However, were these issues a problem in the agricultural era?
Especially in the Daliang Dynasty, the Daliang Dynasty didn’t even know what firearms were. How do you expect them to restrain themselves from raising guns and squatting cannons? It’s a joke!
The reason why Lu Xu needs to equip the gun-carrying gun even when he has the Crouching Tiger Cannon is because the gun-carrying gun is more maneuverable and is more suitable for mobile supporting firepower with the infantry.
To put it simply, the Crouching Tiger Cannon and the Carrying Gun are two different things. The Crouching Tiger Cannon is stronger when defending and attacking fortresses. It is more powerful during rapid mobile attacks and street fighting. Therefore, Lu Xu decided to equip both equipment.
With these two things, Lu Xu believes that the combat effectiveness of his Xin'an Army will reach a higher level.
Not only that, these two things have another advantage. That is, as long as the user is brave enough, they can be used without much training.
After all, the accuracy of these two things is not very good, and even the most skilled "gunner" cannot shoot accurately. In other words, from the beginning, the positioning of these two pieces of equipment is to find a few farmers and simply train them to be effective.
Powerful equipment.
Lu Xu happened to have accepted a lot of refugees recently, and many of them wanted to join the army to avenge the Beiting people. Lu Xu simply let them become the first batch of firearms operators of the Xin'an Army.
In addition to giving them firearms, Lu Xu also gave them waist knives and shields, giving them basic self-defense capabilities. It also took more than half a month of training to ensure that they had basically mastered the use of firearms.
After that, Lu Xu took them to the battlefield.
This time, with the equipment of carrying guns and squatting tiger cannons, the Xin'an army needed more supplies during the battle. Lu Xu simply used the horses to transport supplies, and then maneuvered towards Qinzhou Prefecture as quickly as possible
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Just when Lu Xu launched an attack on Qinzhou Mansion, the decisive battle between King Youxian and Wen Yuanzhong was about to break out.
King Youxian wanted to force Wen Yuanzhong to fight with him, but he was very patient. He commanded his cavalry troops to circle around Wen Yuanzhong's main force like shepherd dogs.
King Youxian just wanted to drive Wen Yuanzhong's main force together, and then complete his victory in one battle!
And what about Wen Yuanzhong?
Because of the court's order, he did not dare to fight directly with King Youxian. But his keen sense of smell soon made him realize what King Youxian wanted to do?
It can be said that King Youxian’s actions played into his own mind!
He was just thinking about having a good fight with King Youxian. Now King Youxian came to his door on his own initiative, even though the court's order did not allow him to have a decisive battle with King Youxian.
But if he has been forced into a desperate situation by King Youxian, he can't help but fight, right?
Therefore, he also showed great cooperation during this period. He led his troops towards the battlefield he selected.
On April 16th, the day Lu Xu set out, King Youxian and Wen Yuanzhong happened to be ready for the decisive battle.
Even the Daliang court already knew that the decisive battle between King Youxian and Wen Yuanzhong was inevitable.
Of course Lu Xu knew this, so he chose to set off today. Moreover, he also knew that Wen Yuanzhong was fighting a city defense battle. No matter how bad Wen Yuanzhong was, Wen Yuanzhong could persist for a while.
Although Ding Nian also used this period of time to accumulate a certain amount of wealth, Lu Xu still felt that he could definitely take over Qinzhou Mansion before Wen Yuanzhong's side was over!