Galdan's method was to use a front-loading cannon to swivel a camel cannon. In fact, he put the swivel cannon on the side of the navy ship on the back of a camel. Kangxi's method was to use human or animal power to pull the cannon on a small cart (Qing Dynasty)
The lightweight French cannon improved by Dai Zi was a breech-loading cannon.) Yang Fan adopted the breech-loading French machine gun, camel cannon and three-pounder field cannon, and equipped them to the battalion level.
The firing rate of the breech-loading Franco machine gun is much higher than that of the front-loading cannon, and its caliber, projectile power, range, and rate of fire all exceed that of the Dzungarian camel cannon of the front-loading cannon. Therefore, it is inevitable that Galdan will be defeated. Made by Kangxi
Seven hundred cannons were obtained.
This kind of gun weighs 85 kilograms, which is actually about the same as a large carrying gun, so it is more appropriate to use a rod as the quantifier.
This kind of mother-and-child cannon was pushed to the battlefield on a hand-pushed wheelbarrow or a four-wheeled scooter and used as an accompanying artillery piece for the infantry of the Qing army. Galdan's advantage was completely gone.
Yang Fan saw in the telescope that Orqitu Khan's camel cannon was the type of revolving gun used by the navy. There were basically no improvements. Except for adding a piggyback revolving gun mount.
This camel gun is a small front-loading gun and belongs to the smallest category of front-loading guns.
The length is generally no more than one meter, and the caliber is no more than 3.5 centimeters. Most of Orqitu Khan's camel cannons have this caliber, so that they can fire while the camels are running.
No matter how large the caliber is, the camel's bones cannot bear the recoil.
Yang Fan knew that this thing was generally used on ships as a weapon to kill crew members.
Navy ships prevent small boats from approaching and prevent enemies from swimming close to the ship. They rely on the gyrogun fixed on the side of the ship to attack them. The bullets are mainly shotgun and grapeshot, with the purpose of increasing the hit rate. They are used at short range.
, there is no need for a battlefield even if it is far away.
This is the same as the heavy machine guns with swivel brackets still retained on the sides of modern battleships. This thing is still of great value even in modern times.
The big and beautiful Burke was in the Gulf of Aden that year. Wasn't it true that two people used an inflatable kayak, carrying more than 200 kilograms of explosives, to row close to it, and then blew a 12-meter-large hole in it?
It almost sank the ship.
If we had discovered it in advance and used the heavy machine gun on the swing pillar on the ship's side to fire it, we could have avoided it soon.
There are bags on the back of the camel, one containing gunpowder as propellant, and the other usually containing grapeshot or small projectiles. There is a rotatable device under the barrel, and a wooden handle is usually installed at the tail of the barrel to facilitate control of the design direction.
The ship's gyrogun can be installed in most areas of the ship, mainly on the side of the ship.
After installation, the gun body can be rotated through the handle.
The swivel gun has a wide firing range and a short range.
Usually the muzzle is adjusted to face the gunner when loading. The swivel gun is light and can be disassembled and moved to another place for installation at any time. It is often installed in the weak fire area at the stern of the ship to prevent boarding.
Usually used for boarding battles at sea, and sometimes used to support land battles during landings.
Xiao Niangpi, Lin Yueru, Chen Xi, and Mei Xiang were all looking at the camel cannon in the distance with binoculars.
"Sir, the caliber of their camel cannon is so small. What's the use of such a small projectile? Not to mention the three-pound cannon equipped by our infantry, even the one-pound camel cannon we equip the cavalry army can't compare with them."
Xiao Niangpi frowned and said.
It's true, the front-loaded cannon has a slow rate of fire. It fires one round every three minutes. Yang Fan's Camel Cannon is a rear-loaded Fran machine cannon. One gun is equipped with twelve muskets. The first three rounds only take 20 seconds. It takes only 20 seconds to fire them all.
It won't take three minutes.
In terms of range, this kind of front-mounted camel cannon relies on the body of the camel to bear the recoil. It does not dare to charge too much and break the camel's spine. The range is only more than 300 meters. It is enough to deal with the matchlock gun.
The bow and arrow are more than enough. But against Yang Fan, they are far behind.
Yang Fan's Fran machine camel gun adopts a threaded fracture staggered forward push rotation locking device and a rubber gasket seal. The escape of gunpowder gas is very small, and the range is greatly improved. It can shoot more than 500 meters.
The rate of fire is fast and the bullets hit far. Yang Fan's projectiles are one pound, and Hosote's are 0.75 pounds. The density of shotgun and grapeshot is not good. They are no match at all.
They can't deal with the cavalry, and they can't deal with Yang Fan's infantry either.
The three-pounder gun equipped by the infantry is a serious front-loaded field gun, with an effective direct range of 750 meters. It is a very easy-to-use light infantry gun. The three-pound projectile is enough to deal with ordinary civil field fortifications. Its range exceeds that of their camel cannon.
More than twice as much. It's even more difficult to fight against the flesh-and-blood Tuocheng.
After listening to Yang Fan's analysis, the ladies are confident. It seems that in today's battle, although the Heshuote people have an advantage in numbers, the gap in technical weapons is already a huge gap.
At this time, the horn sounded, and the Heshuotes began to move the six heavy cannons forward.
Before Orqitu Khan came back, he sent people to the Qaidam Basin, hoping to let Gushi Khan (his younger brother Guoshi Khan) bring troops back from Qinghai and attack Hami from behind, cutting off Yang Fan's retreat.
However, there has been no reply to the message. He can only start the war first.
At this time, Gushi Khan had occupied more than 40% of the area in Qinghai. A large number of Mongolians who originally looked like Yang Fan rebelled and surrendered to Gushi Khan. His troops increased greatly, reaching a terrifying scale of 60,000.
At this time, Zheng, Zangba Khan and Baili Tusi were fighting inextricably. Those two were against the Yellow Sect, while he supported the Yellow Sect. The fight was dark and dark.
Wang Hao and Yan Yingyuan were huddled in the Hehuang Valley, which only accounted for 2.2% of Qinghai's area. The thirteen cities were entrenched and did not dare to attack at all.
"Sir, Orqitu Khan has sent the heavy artillery forward. What is he going to do?" Lin Yueru asked. She didn't know much about military affairs. She had been working hard to learn military knowledge.
"He wants to use heavy artillery to bombard our fortifications. Have you seen the obstacles outside the third regiment's ring fortifications?" Yang Fan explained.
"I saw that the Third Regiment cut down some thorny shrubs on the hillside and bundled them into antlers and shrub walls. They also set up an array of anti-carriage rifles. They are all used to delay the cavalry."
"Well, the reason Orqitu Khan went to great lengths to drag heavy artillery onto the battlefield was to clean up these things. You see, their heavy artillery is already in place and is about to fire," Yang Fan said.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the gun barrel to be cleaned below, and then the artillerymen began to charge and reload. Then they began to tilt the muzzle to point at the target.
Orqitu Khan had white hair and looked worriedly at the rows of thorny bushes, an antler wall made of braided branches and a barbed wire fence about fifty meters outside the circular trench in front of him.
He had only two options. One was to send armored soldiers to fight hard. He fired at the opponent's muskets in the trenches and cleared all these obstacles. Just like Jiannu did against the Ming army in Liaodong. The other was to use heavy artillery and spherical weapons.
The solid bullet blasted away a ditch and knocked away all obstacles.
His military strength is only two and a half times that of Yang Fan. The art of war says that if you double it, you can fight, which means that you can fight, but you may not win.
"Open fire and clear these obstacles. Let the armored soldiers and cavalry prepare. The musketeers also load their ammunition."