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Section 30: The Shelling of the Center Left

The first salvo of the Hall rifle was at a distance of 300 meters. Due to the spirit of economy and revolution, the Navy's Hall rifle was modified from a Minie rifle, and the caliber was naturally not adjusted.

Due to the problem of air leakage, the pure version of the Hall rifle is inferior to the muzzle kinetic energy and range of the muzzle-loading rifle. Although it has a great advantage in rate of fire, it was still used as the muzzle-loading rifle before the Civil War because of the range problem.

replaced.

The version produced by Lingao has made certain innovations. The cartridge tube has been changed to a stand-up type. A brass shrinking locking device is used in the joint part. After pressing and pushing forward, it can be inserted into the rear of the gun barrel. After the propellant explodes,

The shrinking device expands to seal the leakage of gas from the breech. Therefore, the kinetic energy of the muzzle of the Lingao Hall rifle can reach 250 joules, and the effective range is 500 meters. Not only is the power not much reduced compared to the front-loading Mini rifle, but the shooting speed is also

It was also taken into account.

The 13mm lead bullet rotated along the rifling, flew over 300 meters with a scream, and instantly tore the bamboo bundles. Although this bamboo handle shield can effectively resist bows and arrows and matchlock muskets, it cannot resist rifled rifles at all.

Mini bullets, when the bullets pass through bundles of bamboo, the fibers are torn into countless bamboo sticks along the longitudinal lines, and are fired out like explosive bullets. Even if the soldiers standing behind the bamboo shields are not hit by bullets,

Among them, the bamboo stick-like fragments were pricked all over their bodies, and they fell down screaming, rolling and screaming.

The shooting speed of the Hall rifle is very fast. The average soldier can fire 6 rounds per minute. Moreover, the First Expeditionary Team is an experimental unit and does not skimp on ammunition during training. The general level can shoot more than 10 rounds per minute. Although

Shi Zhiqi deliberately used a double-row formation to fire in turns to control the rate of fire and save ammunition. Within one minute, the two companies had already poured out 1,500 rounds of bullets - bullets raining down like rain.

One minute of continuous shooting knocked down almost half of Lin Cha's men. The formation completely collapsed. The bamboo shields in the front row were smashed into a pile of fragments, and the soldiers holding the shields were either dead or injured - injured.

The injuries were particularly brutal. Almost all of them were secondary injuries caused by bamboo splinters exploding. Some were even covered in bruises and blood, but they would not die for a while, rolling and screaming on the ground.

The archers who followed had already fled in all directions. But the Tengpai soldiers at the end of the formation were quite brave. They were known as those who "valued righteousness over life" and were the "disciple soldiers" led by Lin Cha and Lin Sheng personally. Now their waists are full again.

After receiving the silver, he was brave and courageous. He did not collapse immediately in the hail of bullets. Generals Lin Sheng and Lin Cha led their soldiers back and forth, shouting loudly and encouraging the soldiers to charge forward with rewards.

The soldiers of the Tengpai soldiers bowed their heads and hid behind their shields. They charged forward regardless of life and death. They were very fierce and bold. In another time and space, the Tengpai soldiers won the "Tianpai soldiers" for their bravery and fearlessness in the battle with the Dutch on Taiwan Island.

"Mad Dog".

However, the firepower density of the Hall rifle was far from comparable to that of the Dutch matchlocks. The Tengpai soldiers persisted in the rain of bullets for about thirty seconds. The soldiers who rushed forward fell one after another, and the broken Tengpai swords scattered on the ground -

―No one can rush the distance of fifty meters.

The soldiers who were lucky enough to survive could not bear such a blow. They no longer cared about the promised money. They dispersed in a hurry, dropped the sword in their hands, and fled for their lives. Unable to hold them back, Lianglin had to lead his own soldiers to retreat.

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"Just defeated like this?!" The hearts of the Zheng family generals who were watching the battle sank. Originally, they didn't have high expectations for Lin Cha's bamboo shield to be knocked down, but the Kun thief fired more than a dozen shots in succession.

It's ridiculous that these seven hundred brothers who were stuffed with money were beaten to pieces.

The worst part is that the enemy's muskets are far sharper than the legend says. Taking lives from a distance of more than 100 feet is like trying to retrieve an object from a bag. It's far and accurate, and it's still a "shooting gun"! How can we fight again?

The two guards under him are equipped with Portuguese matchlocks purchased from Macau. Even according to European evaluations, they are excellent firearms, but their range does not exceed a hundred steps at best. It is even more pitifully slow to fire, completely

It can't be compared with the Kun Thief's musket.

If this continues, as long as the enemy moves forward slowly and fires his guns row after row, he will be able to kill his troops alive!

Thinking of this, he immediately called a messenger: "Send the order to General Ma and tell him to fire!"

General Ma was Matos. At this time, the officer of the black guard was directing the gunners to aim the guns on the center left city.

On the fort that was repaired in a hurry, there were two naval guns dismantled from the Hong Kong Sea Training No. 64. It was the action of Chechidan Paul who captured the patrol boat and captured the two guns that impressed the Zheng Group.

.Of course, it also includes a few new gadgets that he got himself.

Next to the artillery are piles of cannonballs unloaded from the ship. The spherical cannonballs don't look special at first glance, but each cannonball is tightly fixed on a wooden support with flat iron bars, and silk is tied behind the wooden support.

The gunpowder bags. The wooden supports are painted with different colors: solid bullets, grenades. Most of them are solid bullets.

Under Matos's command, more than a dozen Portuguese and black gunners got busy. This place is more than three miles away from the beach where the navy is advancing. Not long ago, Chechichitan, who was responsible for dismantling the two guns, demonstrated how to do it here.

Maneuver both types of artillery.

Chechidan seemed to be familiar with this system. He demonstrated the shooting techniques to the gunners on the spot and conducted a test firing. The range of these two artillery can not only cover the beach, but also reach the sea.

In Matos' view, there is nothing special about these two guns - they are just very well-cast. But their ammunition is indeed unique, especially the grenades, which can be installed with small copper pieces on the projectile body.

He had never seen a disc before. It is said that after installing this thing, the grenade fired has a detonation rate of more than 90%.

Although there are grenades in this time and space, most of them are fired by mortars. They are rarely fired by cannons, let alone the 90% triggering rate - there was no reliable fuse at that time, and they all relied on fuses to detonate.

Either it will not explode after being fired, or it will explode before being fired. Therefore, the grenade was an "unreliable" artillery shell at that time, and its power was not to mention. It only exploded a few large pieces at a time. Artillerymen would rather fire safe and reliable shells.

Solid shot and shotgun.

If Chechidan hadn't personally demonstrated how to use it and fired it several times in succession, Matos would have been very skeptical about this "grenade", but after seeing the other party's demonstration, he was completely convinced. Not only was the detonation reliable,

, and the explosive power was better than any grenade he had ever seen - the Kun thief was really powerful, and the Chechidan artilleryman was no less powerful.

Matos has also heard some news about how powerful the "Australian" artillery is, and that they can launch a large number of powerful grenades. From this, it seems that this Chechidan also has such technology, and he also said that he

Cannons can be made that are more powerful, have a longer range, and can fire more accurately.

It is unknown whether Kirijidan can build such a cannon, but obviously, the only thing that can let the Kon thieves know how powerful it is today are the cannons and cannonballs they made themselves.

Through the telescope, it can be seen that the "Kon Thieves" column is steadily advancing here, and is already within the effective range mentioned by Chechidan.

The data Chechidan gave them was that these two cannons could launch shells to one-half league (2000 meters) at an elevation of 5 degrees. And only an elevation of 5 degrees meant that the shooting accuracy was much better than other cannons.

Coupled with useful grenades, it can have a great killing effect on the advancing infantry.

"The Australians walked so beautifully!" Matos looked at the neat horizontal formation captured in the telescope: the sailors marching with their heads held high under the guidance of the military flag. He couldn't help but admired. This formation was not inferior to the Spanish veterans! He put down his

binoculars and gave the order to prepare for shooting.

The gunners measured the range, aimed, wetted the chamber, and prepared ammunition in an orderly manner. One gunner punched a hole in the copper disc according to the distance and then screwed on the cannonball. The cannonball was carefully loaded into the barrel. The other gunner stabbed it with an iron awl.

Break the silk gunpowder bag and use the horn to pour the propellant into the ignition port.

"fire!"

The gunner used a match rope to ignite the gunpowder at the ignition port. There was a flash of fire on the fire door, and then the cannon violently sprayed out a thick stream of fire and white smoke. The heavy sound of the cannon was pushed back by the recoil. The four guns on the gun mount

The wheels squeaked.

The thick smoke and fire on the city wall immediately attracted Shi Zhiqi's attention. He knew that he was still 2 kilometers away from the Zhongzuo Station. No matter which side the enemy was, no one would fire at this distance.

A few seconds later, the sound of artillery was heard in the air. The first artillery shell fired from the city wall on the left side of the center landed on the beach 100 meters in front of the line. It exploded with a bang. Sand and iron pieces were scattered in all directions. A palm-sized piece of

The hot iron piece was inserted into the sand less than five meters away from the line with a pop, and white smoke was rising.

"Artillery attack!" This terrible thought immediately flashed through Shi Zhiqi's mind, and a kind of fear gripped his heart: the enemy suddenly opened fire on them at this range that was originally inaccessible, and what they fired were grenades!

Before he could turn his mind, the second artillery shell roared over. This time the shell flew over the heads of the horizontal line and landed on the beach dozens of meters away. It raised a water column mixed with sand and hit the edge of the horizontal line.

One soldier snorted, staggered and fell down.

Shi Zhiqi's face turned pale - the thirty seconds between the two shells were as long as a century, and he was unprepared for the fact that he would be hit by artillery fire. It was with great difficulty that he squeezed out a sentence from his dry throat: "

Maintain the formation! The artillery fire of the brigade! Target: the city on the left center! Suppress the enemy's artillery fire, quickly!" (To be continued...)


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