Chapter 465: The Deterrent Power of Grape Bullets
Chapter 465 The shocking power of the grape bomb
When Meng Xia fired, the soldiers from the artillery battalion also fired one after another.
After having achieved previous results, the soldiers of the artillery battalion were full of confidence and determined to further exert the power of the God of War and teach the invading Tartars a lesson. They actually dared to run to Shandong to play wild. Do you think Shandong is so easy to come? Since you are here, don’t go back!
"Bangbangbangbang!"
"Bangbangbangbang!"
"Bangbangbangbang!"
One by one, the grape bombs were constantly being shot out from the muzzle, and a large amount of fire burst out. A deafening loud noise made the city walls constantly lose dust. The soldiers of the Tiger Army standing next to the cannon could clearly feel the shock of this powerful force.
After flying over a distance of more than a hundred feet, the grape bombs scattered and turned into a large number of marbles, falling into the Tartars team. The Tartars who rushed up were beaten to the point of being beaten and kept falling down. Some died on the spot, while others rolled in pain on the ground. Everyone was bleeding from their bodies. Some foamed at the mouth, which was extremely miserable.
The land that had been dried by the sun was soaked in blood again, like a mud pond. The Tartars rushed up from behind, stepped on the muddy bloody ground and could not speed up at all. They even fell down if they were not careful. After someone fell down, they finally got up and found that they had become a bloody man, all of whom were covered in bloody and wet mud.
There are also messy weapons on the ground, including swords, bows and arrows, as long as you want. The most unlucky thing is to be stabbed by these swords when you fall down, or even be stabbed to death directly. There are many examples of this. Some arrows are facing upwards. After falling down directly, the angle is just right, the arrow will penetrate the human body directly.
"Bangbangbangbang!"
"Bangbangbangbang!"
"Bangbangbangbang!"
As the flying dragon cannon continued to roar, more marbles fell.
The splashing speed of these marbles shot by cannons is very amazing. Although the lethality is not as strong as the Minnie bomb, it is also considerable. Unless it is a white armored soldier or a red armored soldier, with iron armor, it can remove part of the lethality of the marble. Otherwise, ordinary leather armor will be hit by the marble, which will basically result in either death or injury.
In fact, even if the iron armor is hit by a marble, the damage is very great. Not all the iron armor can withstand the huge energy carried by the marble. Some iron armor is directly broken, and the fragments of the iron armor penetrate deep into the human body, which is also fatal. Some Tartars were hit by the marble, but the helmet was not broken, but the person died and was killed.
The flying marbles obviously caused great psychological pressure to the Tartars. The casualties caused by the marbles are not the most deadly. What's more terrible is that no one knows where these marbles will fall and how to avoid them. No matter how the Tartars run or dodge them, they will not be able to completely avoid the marbles greetings.
Many Tartars fell head-on as they ran. After falling down, they could no longer find the marble that hit their own. Unless the marble was left in their bodies, they didn't even know how they were killed until they died. Of course, there were more injured Tartars. After all, the marbles were not Minnie bombs, and the distance was far, so the possibility of a fatal blow was slightly less.
“Start up!”
“Start up!”
“Start up!”
Haninga yelled quickly.
The best way to deal with the defending cannons is of course to be close to the bottom of the city wall. Generally, cannons have shooting dead spots, and the bottom of the city wall is the largest shooting dead spot. The Flang machine cannons are completely useless within a distance of twenty meters. As for the shooting dead spots of the Red Cannons, they are even bigger, at least more than thirty meters.
In the past, the Tartars avoided direct artillery fire and kept firing upwards at about ten feet near the city wall. Since they were still ten feet away from the city wall, the defenders on the city head could not hurt them even if they threw down wood, molten bottles, boiling oil, etc.. Therefore, once the ladder was set up, they could climb the city in large quantities.
The surviving Tartars took out their strength and rushed to the bottom of the city wall. However, the rebel corpses on the ground and the muddy blood roads hindered their speed of progress. They forced them to stay more time under the guns of the Hu Ben Army. In this case, the longer they were exposed, the greater the possibility of being devastating.
In some places, they had to change their routes to avoid obstacles on the ground. For example, in a relatively narrow place, the Tartars had to gather together. This was a completely unconscious action, and the Tartars did not realize that there was anything wrong with doing this. However, for the artillery soldiers of the Tiger Army, such a route was very valuable.
"Three degrees to the left!"
"The distance is one hundred and twenty feet!"
Xu Ziwen said calmly.
The two flying dragon cannons beside him hurriedly adjusted the shooting angle and distance.
The flying dragon cannon is equipped with a sight and a sight gate, which can be used to adjust the angle and range. These are not inventions by Sun Qinkai, but by Xu Guangqi. The artillery in the past had no sighting tools, and the angle and distance could only be measured based on the gunner's estimates. The Flanger cannons bought by the Ming army from the Portuguese also had no sight gate and a sight gate. Until now, many Flanger cannons did not have sight gate and a sight gate.
In the second year of Tianqi, Xu Guangqi invented the sight of the sight and the sight of the gate himself and installed them on these artillery. From then on, the sight of the sight and the sight of the sight gradually became the standard equipment for the artillery of the Ming army. It has to be said that with the sight of the sight and the sight of the cannon, the hit rate of the cannon was greatly improved. Ningyuan's red cannon was able to hit the vicinity of Nurhaci because of the sight of the sight and the sight of the sight. This was an important condition for the artillery to gradually occupy the battlefield.
Three degrees on the left, a distance of 120 feet, the Tartars are relatively dense, and there are often thirty or forty Tartars crowded together. Such a goal is exactly the best choice for grape bombs to exert their power. The lethality of grape bombs is linked to the density of the target. The more dense the targets are, the more destructive the marbles will produce. Xu Ziwen must kill the living power of the Tartars as much as possible, and take the initiative to choose the most dense place for the Tartars to fire.
After adjusting the angle and distance, two flying dragon cannons were fired one after another.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
Two cannons were fired, and two grape bombs were shot out.
At the place where the shells fell, it seemed that it was raining. The marbles fell among the group of Tartars, causing a bloody storm. The nearby Tartars screamed and fell to the ground. Due to the inertia of running, the falling Tartars slid in the muddy bloody ground, and finally mixed with the bodies of other people, and could not be distinguished at all. The originally spacious road was completely blocked by the dead and the wounded. Only a very small number of people were covered in blood and rushed upwards without fear of death.
"Blooming bullet!"
Seeing that his subordinates fell down almost in large numbers, Haning was slightly stunned.
Such large casualties were absolutely rare for the Tartars. In the long-term battle, the Tartars had summarized a set of ways to avoid the Ming army's artillery fire, which was to try not to attack towns with a large number of artillery. The flowering bullets used by the Ming army once caused great damage to the Tartars. Later, the Tartars tried their best to avoid such towns. For example, on the Ningjin front line, the Tartars never attacked head-on.
The Tartars' armor was as weak as paper in front of the cannons. The Tartars' two recent invasions cleverly avoided the front line of Shanhaiguan and the places where the Ming army's cannons were dense. However, Haninga never expected that there were so many cannons such a small place in Huangxian, and the power of the cannons was so great.
"Damn it, it's not a flower bullet!"
"It's a mother bullet!"
Immediately, Haninga reacted.
"spread!"
Haninga had to yell.
He knew the power of the grape bomb. For dense crowds, the power of the mother bullet is indeed very great. The powerful Jin army never dared to attack Ningjin front line, because they were afraid of such artillery fire. The mother bullets fired by the Red Barbarian cannons were even more terrifying than the flowering bullet. In the face of such artillery fire, no one could live enough.
The Tartars' team began to gradually disperse. After being baptized by the guns and cannons of the Tiger Army for a while, the number of people has decreased a lot. A considerable number of Tartars are now lying on the ground. When all the people scatter and grape bombs fall, there are not many targets that can be covered.
"Use the chain bullet!"
"Bomb the minions behind!"
"Destroy their siege weapons!"
Liu Chenzi quickly made adjustments to shelling.
The Tartars in front scattered, but the servants behind could not disperse. Because those servants carried wooden ladders and moved slowly. The slow speed was easy to crowd together. At the same time, the large number of corpses left on the battlefield seriously blocked the road and made them unable to completely disperse. In some places, the corpses were even stacked together, and they had to go around the pile of corpses. Unconsciously, their team seemed very dense.
"Bangbangbangbang!"
"Bangbangbangbang!"
"Bangbangbangbang!"
The flying dragon cannon adjusted its range and fired at the servants behind.
This time, the flying dragon cannon fired an even more terrifying chain bomb.
"puff!"
A group of servants were hit by the chain bomb, and a large amount of blood burst out. A servant soldier in front was directly smashed by the rotating and flying chain bomb, and he could no longer tell the difference between the human body. The two servants behind were also cut off by the chain bomb in the middle, which was a terrible sight. In the end, the weakened chain bomb hit the head of a servant, and the chain was tightly clenched inside and never moved again.
"puff!"
Chapter completed!