Five hundred meters away, six heavy artillery had constructed a temporary emplacement and loaded ammunition.
Hanqu looked up, then lowered his head and said, "Everyone is huddled in the trench, squatting, and no one is allowed to stand up. Do you hear me?"
"I heard it, Captain." A voice responded from below.
As the squad leader, Hanqu was in charge of thirty-three brothers. They walked all the way from Hami to here without any casualties, just because he was cautious.
The muzzles of the six heavy cannons were already aimed at their position.
The depth of the trench is about one and a half meters. There is a vertical wall behind it and a certain slope in front. People can lie on it and expose their heads to fire muskets. This is to prevent the enemy from climbing up after entering the trench. Each squadron has a trench.
A three-meter-wide slope exit for retreat. Used to retreat to the rear.
On the vertical wall behind, sandbags were used to build a parapet with a height of 1.3 to 1.6 meters. The ten-wall crenellated parapet is convenient for head protection and shooting.
Sandbags were also placed every 1.9 meters in front of the trench to protect the head.
When the infantry is shooting, the head hides behind the sandbag, and then suddenly flashes out to shoot with the rifle. After the shooting, the infantry hides behind again. If it is a horizontal trench, there is no such protection.
Boom boom boom! The sound of huge cannons came.
The Heshuotes opened fire. Yang Fan could see clearly through the telescope that in addition to the gunners, there were several people wearing Turkish clothes. It seemed that Orqitu Khan had also invited foreign aid. These people should be calculating ballistics.
Expert. In this era, most people do not understand ballistic charts such as logarithmic tables.
"Damn it, let's start, hehe!" The little girl excitedly raised her fist and waved it a few times.
This is the first time I have seen the enemy also have twelve-pound field guns. Although in Yang Fan's place, twelve-pound guns are nothing. The naval guns used by the navy are all fifty-pound. The cylindrical shells have nearly a hundred warheads.
What about pounds?
Six rounds of spherical solid bullets roared out of the muzzle, making a huge whistling sound. The harsh whistle made the eardrums sting. It was very angry and uncomfortable. Obviously, they drilled holes for the spherical solid bullets, and these screams were
These holes are caused by airflow when the cannonball flies at high speed.
The main purpose is to scare the enemy and create psychological pressure.
Yang Fan curled his lips, these Ottomans invited also knew psychological tactics and had quite comprehensive abilities.
Because the artillery position is arranged five hundred meters away, and artillery from Europe generally requires a sight and a crosshair, as well as a simple ruler, the accuracy at close range is remarkable.
Six spherical solid bullets roared and hit various obstacles on the open ground in front of the three groups.
A spherical solid bullet made a loud bang, scraped against the ground and hit the bush wall. The officers and soldiers of the third regiment cut down bushes and tied them up overnight to form obstacles. They were all thorns and thorny bushes, which could cut the skin of horses.
, making the war horse very annoying.
These partitions, which are similar to tree walls, have wooden wedges nailed to the ground every three meters, with a depth of half a meter, for the purpose of fixing them.
When a cannonball hit the tree wall, it was still spinning at high speed. Suddenly, a three-meter-long section of the tree wall tied with shrubs was chopped into pieces by the cannonball and flew all over the sky, without any blocking effect. The cannonball did not play any blocking role.
Continue to fly forward without stopping.
Looking down from Yang Fan's position on the uphill slope, he could clearly see six shells, almost touching the ground at a distance of less than a foot, like six strong winds whistling by. Eighteen shells were shot out of the three-story shrubbery and tree wall.
A gap more than two meters wide.
Then it hit the antlers in the back, and all kinds of broken wood flew all over the sky, and then the barbed wire fence. The shell directly broke the barbed wire fence, and even dragged the wooden piles out of the ground.
Xu Mancang was an honest man. He huddled at the bottom of the trench obediently and did not dare to move. He was a new soldier, and he was actually quite scared. Heavy artillery was no joke. I had seen this thing in acting, one shot at a time.
Blood alley.
With a thud, a large piece of soil fell down. A small gap appeared in the trench wall above his head.
A shell penetrated, shattering three shrub walls, an antler wall, and a barbed wire fence, and finally landed, creating a V-shaped gap in the front edge of the trench. Then the ricochet flew up.
He shivered with fright. He was feeling uncomfortable just now and was about to stretch his waist. Fortunately, he didn't move, otherwise his head would have been smashed at this time.
Behind the parapet were the men of the Sauron Infantry Regiment. Curses soon came from there, and ricochet bullets flew over their heads, startling them. Then the shells fell on the hillside and sank into the soil, only to
The injection left a black hole at the entrance.
The first round of firing made eighteen gaps in the obstacles in front of the curved trench. It seems that these field guns forged by Ottoman Türkiye are very useful.
"Let the people below not move and wait. After a while, the obstacles are almost cleared and their artillery will be overheated. At that time, their musketeers will be coming up."