Chapter 328 Jiaodong Artillery Battle
When he saw Liu Zhaoji's personal soldiers shouting to the top of the city, an officer walked to a fortress, picked up a thousand-mile mirror, looked towards Liu Zhaoji, and found that the one below was General Liu Zhaoji. The officer hurriedly ordered the soldiers behind him: "The one below is Liu Junmen. Hurry up, put down the suspension bridge and welcome the new cannon!"
The city gate was wide open, and the Jinyiwei escorted three twelve-pound field guns, twelve six-pound field guns, six twelve-pound howitzers, three 64-pound mortars and twenty twenty 24-pound mortars entered the bastion, and the remaining artillery were sent to several other bastions by Liu Zhaoji and other Jinyiwei and gunners to be deployed.
Zhao Peng climbed to the bastion and began to arrange cannon positions.
Three twelve-pound field guns with the farthest range and three 64-pound mortars were arranged in the original central turret. The twelve six-pound field guns were placed in two triangular forts, six twelve-pound howitzers and twenty 24-pound mortars were placed in three concave forts, with guns of different calibers and different ranges forming crossfire.
Taking advantage of the moment when the Qing army had not yet launched an attack, Zhao Peng called out the auxiliary soldiers and asked them to go out of the city to measure the length. According to the distance, a shallow trench was dug out at any distance outside the trench outside the city as annotation.
"Zheng Yonghou, what's the use of asking the soldiers to mark the lines in front?" Liu Zhaoji asked in disguise.
"This is the marking line of the artillery, and each line represents how far away. We can choose to load solid shells, flowering shells, shrapnel and socks according to the distance." Zhao Peng replied.
Shen Yunying snorted: "Although the little woman doesn't know how to shoot, she also knows that each firearm has a different range. Even the same batch of shooters has a huge deviation. Are the lines that you are drawing useful when you wait for the bell to be used?"
Zhao Peng said: "The batch of cannons that I personally supervised are all standard. They are cast with the same mold, with extremely small diameter deviations. Moreover, the fixed charge packages used are all measured with extremely accurate balances, and even if there is an error, they are extremely small."
"Every craftsman is different, what is so standard to do?" Shen Yunying asked.
Zhao Peng smiled slightly: "In fact, standardized production is not a novel thing. As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, our Chinese craftsmen already knew about standardized production. Later, in the Three Kingdoms period, whether it was Zhuge crossbows or bed crossbows, they were standardized production. Unfortunately, the Five Barbarians invaded China during the Great Jin Dynasty, resulting in the loss of standardized production, and later the Sui and Tang Dynasties did not recover."
The Five Barbarians invaded China, which almost destroyed the Han people in the north. It was very good to be able to keep the seeds. How could they pass on their skills?
Ran Min's Hu slaughter and the Eastern Jin Dynasty's robes southward, retaining the Han people's mantle. Of course, the automatic sinicization of the Xianbei people is indispensable. The establishment of the Sui Dynasty ended the 500-year chaotic times that began in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and then the Tang Dynasty.
Zhao Peng came to this era and picked up the lost standardized production again. In fact, it was not a pickup, but the advanced technology he brought from later generations to restore standardized production to the Han people.
When the twelve-pound field cannon was fired at a fifteen-degree angle, its maximum range could reach more than 2,700 meters, which is more than five miles. The red-branded cannons of that era said they were flew for more than ten miles, but in fact the range was not ten miles, or about three miles. When the twelve-pound field cannons were fired at a ten-degree angle, its range was more than 1,900 meters, and its range had exceeded the red-branded cannons of the Qing army.
More importantly, the twelve-pound field cannon has a very high accuracy.
Seeing Zhao Peng orderly commanding the gunners to arrange the gun positions, Chen Yunying felt a little more admiration for this man.
Shortly after the artillery positions were arranged, the Qing army launched another attack.
The Qing army set up twenty-four red cannons two miles away and launched violent shellings in the direction of Changyi Castle. The sound of the Qing army's artillery positions rose, and the black shells roared towards the direction of the castle at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The shells kept falling on the prism. Because the inclination angle of the prism made most of the energy absorbed, the Qing army's red cannons had very limited damage to the low prism. It was just that they were shot in vain and could only huddle as a turtle. It felt really uncomfortable.
Zhao Peng ordered: "Let the counterattack against the Jiannu Cannon position!"
On the central fortress of the brink, the gunners measured the Qing army's artillery positions based on the eye-skipping distance measurement method taught by Zhao Peng. After calculating the distance, they loaded three twelve-pound field guns based on a series of data such as wind speed and direction.
The muzzle was raised at the angle of ten degrees, and the muzzle was aimed at the position of one of the red cannons of the Qing army, and all three twelve-pound field cannons were aimed at the position of one Qing army cannon.
Although the accuracy of the twelve-pound field gun is already very high, no matter how high the accuracy of the front-mounted smoothbore gun is, it is impossible to kill the opponent in one shot. It is necessary to concentrate multiple artillery attacks to ensure destruction.
Three twelve-pound field guns that had been loaded were aimed at the target direction. With Zhao Peng's order of "fire", the gunners ignited the cannons one after another.
"Boom boom boom" Three twelve-pound field artillery spit out flames in turn, and smoke filled the gunpowder rose on the turret, and black shells flew towards the red cannon positions of the Qing army's Red Cannon.
The initial velocity of the twelve-pound field artillery shell reached 439 meters per second, exceeding the speed of sound. When the supersonic object flies in the air, the sound of tearing the air becomes very harsh.
The shell landed up at the target position with a harsh whistling sound. The first shell landed closer, landing in front of the Qing army's artillery position, and did not cause any damage to the Qing army. The second shell landed eight steps behind the Qing army's artillery position. Although the shell did not hit the Qing army's artillery position, the shells that fell on the ground jumped up and fell into the crowd of the Qing army's Korean gunners, causing a bloody storm among the Koreans and overturned a large number of Korean gunners.
The speed of the shells that had been flying for more than three miles had dropped below the speed of sound, but the power of the twelve-pound shell was still amazing. This shell that fell into the crowd of North Korean gunners in the Qing army took away the lives of more than a dozen North Korean gunners.
The third shell was shot very accurately and directly hit the cannon mount of the red cannon. The twelve-pound shells at the speed of sound hit the wooden cannon mount of the red cannon. The following smashed the cannon mount. The red cannon weighing more than 3,000 pounds lost the support of the cannon mount and rolled to the ground with a "boom".
After the first round, the three twelve-pound field guns began to load. The gunners dragged the cannon to reset, first pushed the cannon back to its original cannon position, then began to clean the cannon chamber, cool the cannon chamber, then loaded it into the fixed loading package, stuffed it in the shell, pushed it to the bottom with the push rod, then used an iron vertebra to penetrate the fire door, pierced the package, and inserted the medicine twist.
The twelve-pound field cannon was loading much faster than the Qing army's Red Barbarian cannons. In less than a minute, they were loaded and prepared for launch.
Zhao Peng found from the telescope that the first attacked Qing army red artillery was dropped from the cannon stand. He knew that the cannon had been destroyed, so he ordered the gunners: "Aim at the second cannon of Jiannu, the first cannon has been destroyed!"
The gunners aimed at the second artillery of the Qing army, and only needed to slightly adjust the azimuth angle of the muzzle and adjust the elevation angle of the muzzle. Then the gunner ignited the cannon.
"Boom boom boom" Three twelve-pound field artillery made a deafening roar, and the shells rushed out of the muzzle, dragging the afterimage, making a harsh howling sound in the air, flying towards the position of the Qing army's artillery position.
From the telescope, you can see a sudden loud noise from the Qing army's artillery position, and then you can see a flash of fire. A red barbarian cannon of the Qing army flew into the sky with a cannon barrel and a cannon stand.
Chapter completed!