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Chapter 631 Shield Vehicle and Artillery Battle

The rebel army mobilized artillery and was clearly seen by Zhang Shiwen, who was standing in the car on the tower, standing tall.

"The thieves must mobilize artillery to bombard our army's formation." Zhang Shiwen shook the flag and sent a reminder signal.

The Ming army launched three more tower-watching cars, and the three of them stood in the tower-watching cars at night, observing the movements of the tide of the tide army camp, and sending the movements of the artillery team to Li Guodong through flag language.

With the accuracy of the cannons back then, it was impossible to destroy small targets that the opponent was moving two miles away. In addition to bombarding large targets such as the city wall, the cannons back then were used to launch artillery attacks on the opponent's dense formations. It was very difficult to destroy the opponent's artillery with artillery fire, after all, the accuracy was too poor.

"Order the shield chariot to continue moving forward. After the trespassing army set up the cannons, then concentrate more than a dozen cannons to bombard the trespassing army's cannon." Li Guodong gave the order.

In this way, the artillery team of the Chuang Army will definitely cause certain casualties to one side, but Li Guodong does not expect to defeat the Chuang Army with zero casualties. After all, his Huai Army also needs to be tempered by war. If he is even timid in the Chuang Army, then how should he deal with the Qing army that is more brutal than the Chuang Army in the future?

The rebel army brought a large number of artillery pieces. The Red and Barbarian cannons alone had thirty-six, more than 100 general cannons, eighty-four Weiyuan cannons, as well as more than 400 small cannons such as large and small Bolang machines, tiger squat cannons, and destroying cannons. In Li Guodong's hands, there were only twelve twelve-pound cannons, twenty-four six-pound cannons, eight twelve-pound howitzers, ninety-six-pound howitzers, ninety-six-pound howitzers, twenty-four thirty-two-pound cannons, one hundred and twenty light Bolang machines and seventy-two-pound tiger squat cannons, and the number of artillery pieces was far inferior to that of the rebel army.

In the camp of the rebel army, the soldiers of the rebel army pushed the cannons out of breath and arrived at the firing position. At this time, the cannons of the rebel army were not as chariots and artillery mounts as the Jinyang Army and the Huai Army field artillery. The heavy red barbarian cannons need to be moved from the ox carts and set up on the ground; medium-sized artillery such as general cannons and destroying cannons must also be moved from the large carts and arranged positions before they can be used. Small cannons such as the rebel army, the Tiger Squat Cannons have fast positions, but those who run a short range and cannot pose a threat to the shield carts of the Jinyang Army and the Huai Army.

"The thief has already started to set up guns!" Ye Busuo on the car in Wanglou sent a signal with flag words.

Li Guodong then ordered: "The shield car formation continues to advance, and the artillery team is ready to open fire!"

The night on the car in the tower did not hold back the small flag, and reported the positions of the artillery positions of several red barbarian cannons of the rebel army to the artillery team through the flag verb.

"Fire!" The artillery leader Qian gave the order.

Twelve twelve-pound field artillery sprayed fire at the same time. The twelve twelve-pound field artillery fired at the location of the trench army's gun position. Accompanied by the roaring cannons, a row of shells roared away. Although the error was large, twelve cannons were concentrated to volleys, and they were the twelve-pound field artillery with the highest accuracy. In a round of volleys, the red cannon that was setting up positions in the turret army was beaten. Twelve shells were smashed down, and three shells fell into the crowd of turret gunners carrying shells and powder barrels, smashing a large number of gunners, and one shell passed by the gun mount of the gun mount of the gun mount, knocking the gun mount to one side.

Twenty-four six-pound field guns also launched a round of volleys. A general cannon of the rebel army was hit by a shell, which knocked the general cannon down the cannon stand, and two shells knocked over a large area of ​​rebel gunners.

The field gunners who had fired a round of shells nervously cleaned the barrel and cooled the barrel. Then they loaded the fixed charge pack and stuffed the shells.

Ye Bush, who was standing in the car in Wanglou, shook the flag and reported the two destroyed artillery positions of the rebels, and then reported the artillery positions of the other positions to the artillery.

The artillery of the Jinyang Army and the Huai Army adopted fixed charge packs and cork bracket shells. The loading speed was extremely fast. In less than 60 breaths (one minute), the Ming army began the second round of artillery shells. These shells with cork brackets were hit accurately and quickly. The second row of shells roared away and hit two more rebel artillery positions. Some of the crooked shells happened to hit another rebel artillery position.

Three cannons of the trespassing army were shot, smashing the wooden cannon crammed, and the broken limbs and flesh flew everywhere. The undead trespassing gunners ran around.

Before the rebels opened fire, they lost five cannons, but this loss was insignificant for the rebels with more than 200 large artillery pieces.

The shield car formation continued to advance slowly. At this moment, the cannons of the rebel army finally opened fire. Rows of shells fell into the shield car formations of the Jinyang Army and the Huai Army. A shield car moving in the front was hit by an eight-pound red artillery shell. The wooden shield in front of the shield car was immediately crushed to pieces, but the auxiliary soldiers who pushed the cart were not injured or killed. The sandbags loaded on the shield car offset the impact of the shells and absorbed the broken wooden boards. The shield cart was tilted to one side, and the sandbags loaded on it fell to the ground one after another.

At least three shield cars were hit by the artillery shells of the general's artillery and the destruction artillery shells, but because of the distance, the kinetic energy of the artillery shells was insufficient. Although the wooden shield was broken, the artillery shells were trapped in sandbags, and the auxiliary soldiers of the Ming army behind were unscathed.

With the roar of the red cannons of the rebel army, more than ten shield cars had been destroyed by the rebel army, but the destroyed shield cars did not completely lose their function. The wooden shield in front of the shield cars was smashed to pieces, and the frame of the shield cars also fell apart under the influence of impact. However, the sandbags carried on the shield cars fell to the ground, forming a sandbag fortress, which protected the soldiers behind them.

The Ming army's shield chariot formation was not very dense. There was a grilled fish between the two shield chariots side by side to accommodate a passage through which a shield chariot was passed. In this way, after a shield chariot was destroyed, the shield chariot behind could circumnavigate from the side, and the formation was left with a gap, which could also reduce the hit rate of the artillery of the crater. The crater's artillery fired in one round of artillery and more than 200 cannons fired chariots, which only destroyed more than ten shield chariots, causing casualties of more than fifty Huai Army auxiliary soldiers.

The Ming army's six-pound cannons opened fire again. Twenty-four six-pound cannons fired a row of storm-like shells, landing on the tide-fighting gunners loading shells, and their flesh and blood flew everywhere. This round of artillery destroyed at least two treasury gunners, killing and injuring 70 or 80 treasury gunners.

Twelve twelve latch guns opened fire and overturned the three cannons of the Break Army, causing wood chips to fly and blood mist to fill. One of the shells landed on the gunpowder barrel behind the Break Army's cannon. The powerful impact force caused the gunpowder barrel to explode immediately. More than 20 soldiers around the Break Army were blown up and flesh and blood. The explosion of the gunpowder barrel also exploded three gunpowder cannons.

With the advancement of the shield car, the large Folang machine, the destroyer cannon, the young general cannon and other medium-sized artillery fired. At least 30 shield carts were hit so hard that they could no longer move. However, more than 30 piles of sandbag fortresses appeared 300 steps away from the positions of the rebels.

More than ten shield chariots were destroyed, more than ten sandbag fortresses were formed. The Ming army gunners following behind the shield chariot array pushed the light three-pound cannons and pushed forward quickly. When they were still three hundred steps away from the crusing army position, these three-pound cannons were pushed behind the sandbag fortress and stopped. The gunners aimed at the artillery positions of the crusing army based on the flag-spoke signals of Ye Bushu, ignited the artillery positions.

As the three-pound field artillery joined the attack lineup, the losses of the CRU suddenly increased. Ninety-six three-pound cannons were shot very quickly, and the loading time was extremely short. Each skilled gunner kept pouring shells into the CRU almost at a rate of two to three rounds a minute. The distance was only 300 steps, and these three-pound cannons were shot quite accurately, rows of shells flew over and landed on the CRU artillery positions. In just a few minutes, the CRU artillery positions were baptized by heavy rain shells, with heavy casualties, and multiple gunpowder barrels were just hit, and a series of explosions occurred.
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