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Chapter 392 Cannons Against Shield Vehicles

The Goryeo Rod and Meat Shield was pointed at by the Green Camp soldiers with swords, guns, bows, arrows, and muskets, forcing them to rush forward to consume the Ming army's ammunition.

However, the Qing army's attack was still much more prepared than before. Luo Yangxing and his team were much more prepared for the attack. Rows and cannon fodders pushed the shields forward slowly, followed by the Green Camp soldiers who were pressing the formation.

The Green Camp soldiers have always acted as cannon fodder. Now they have been upgraded to the supervising team. Every Green Camp soldier is excited and complacent. But they have forgotten one thing: once the sticks in front die, it will be their turn to be cannon fodder.

Behind the Green Camp soldiers were the musketeers of the Eight Banners Han Army and the Manchurian Eight Banners archers. A group of dead soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchurian Eight Banners were also involved. Just now, Duoduo heard that the army's armored soldiers were very powerful. Goryeo Bangzi had already attacked the castle, but was driven down by a group of invulnerable iron armored soldiers.

The Ming army's iron armored soldiers were covered with pieces of iron armor, with iron helmets on their heads, and iron masks on their faces. Even their boots were iron, wrapped tightly, invulnerable to swords and guns.

Duoduo learned the news, so he gritted his teeth and sent more than 2,000 heavy armored soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchus to follow the Green Camp soldiers, and wanted to have an iron armored conflict with the Ming army to see who is more powerful.

In addition to the iron armored soldiers, Manchurian heavy cavalry and Mongolian light cavalry also followed behind. Once the infantry in front rushed forward, let the cavalry follow behind. Because the Ming army's castle was not high, the cavalry could rush to the top of the city with sandbags.

Seeing the Qing army's shield car coming out, Zhao Peng knew that the appearance of the shield car would cause him some trouble. First of all, the penetration effect of solid shells is not that strong. If the Qing army did not have a shield car, it would be no problem for the twelve-pound field artillery shells to penetrate a hundred people. After the Qing army had a shield car, a twelve-pound shell could penetrate a shield car, it would at most cause more than ten casualties to the opponent.

Secondly, the shield car will cause great trouble to its musketeers. Even the powerful flintlock rifle is difficult to penetrate the shield car. Even the more powerful turtle dove gun, the bullet will have to penetrate the shield car, and it will not have much lethality.

Finally, the shield car will block the shotgun and shrapnel fired by its artillery. After these two shells are fired, the shotguns ejected may not be able to penetrate the shield car.

However, Zhao Peng still has the best weapon to deal with the shield car, which is the flowering artillery shells.

The flowering artillery shells fired by howitzers and mortars can cause the shells to fall behind the Qing army's shield chariots to explode, killing the Qing army behind the shield chariots. Moreover, these two curved artillery shells can directly cross the heads of the Qing army's cannon fodder in front and fall into the formation of the Eight Banners soldiers behind. As long as some Eight Banners soldiers are killed, Duoduo will hurt.

Seeing the Qing army's shield chariot formation enter within 500 steps, Zhao Peng gave an order: "Twelve pounds of field cannons, set off!"

"Boom boom boom" Twenty twelve-pound field artillery fired at the same time. One by one, one shell whistled out and hit the shield car formation in the front row of the Qing army. The twelve-pound shells hit the shield car, and the thick wooden boards were vulnerable in front of the twelve-pound shells. The shield board hit by the shells suddenly turned into countless pieces, knocking the Goryeo stick that was pushing the shield car forward to the ground like shrapnel.

The kinetic energy of the twelve-pound shell that smashed the shield was not reduced. It continued to drill into the Qing army crowd, rolled and jumped, and took away the lives of more than a dozen stick cannon fodders.

Twenty twelve-pound field guns fired in a round of volleys, destroying sixteen shield cars, killing and injuring more than 200 Korean cannon fodder.

After the gunners ignited the artillery, they immediately cleared the cannon chamber and began to load the shotgun. Although the shield car could block the shotgun, when the twelve-pound field guns were loaded, the Qing army must have reached the bottom of the castle. The shield car could not climb up. At that time, the Qing army cannon fodder that climbed onto the platform would be hit head-on by the shotgun.

Immediately afterwards, the six-pound field guns also began to fire, and rows of shells roared away, hitting the shield car formation. Although the power of the six-pound gun is much smaller than that of the twelve-pound gun, hitting the shield car can also smash the shield plate. As long as the shield car's shield plate is shattered, these shield cars will lose their function.

Sixty six-pound field guns fired in a round of volleys, which made the Qing army's shield chariot formation burst into pieces. At least forty shield chariots were destroyed and more than one hundred North Korean cannon fodder were killed.

Two rounds of artillery bombardment killed less than 400 rod cannon fodders. Such losses were not painful at all for Duoduo. There were nearly 10,000 Korean batons, and less than 400 killed. Such losses were considered very small. Duoduo felt distressed that the Ming army destroyed more than 50 of their shield cars in two rounds of artillery bombardment. These shield cars were much more valuable than rod cannon fodder.

The Qing army had a total of 200 shield cars. The Ming army destroyed more than 50 of them in two rounds of artillery attacks, which made Duoduo feel very painful. These shield cars were all exquisite shield cars brought from the capital. These well-made shield cars used thick wooden boards from Sancun, covered with a layer of iron plates on the outside, and the iron plates were also covered with a thick layer of cowhide. Such shield cars not only could block the attack of any muskets, but even light Franchise and Turtle Dove guns could not penetrate.

But these exquisite shield cars were smashed one after another like egg shells in front of the Ming army's twelve-pound field cannons and six-pound field cannons.

The shield car was slow, and the Ming army's six-pound cannon had a chance to fire solid shells.

The gunners put the wet mop into the barrel chamber, cleaned the barrel, then wiped the barrel chamber with a dry mop, immediately loaded it into the fixed charge pack, and then stuffed the solid shell with a cork bracket into the barrel chamber.

Today's New Army field artillery not only blooms fire shells, but also has bullet support, but also solid shells are equipped with cork support. The function of cork support can not only strengthen the airtightness of the barrel, but also increase the accuracy of the shells, because after the shells with cork support fly out of the barrel, they will head forward like badminton, and cork is behind, maintaining the stability of the ballistic and greatly improving the accuracy.

As for whether a solid shell is installed with a cork support and whether the shell will bounce again after it lands, it is actually not a problem at all, because after the shell hits the target, such as the ground or a shield cart, when it hits a hard object, the powerful impact force will peel off the cork support from the shell, leaving only a ball on the head, so that the shell can roll and bounce on the ground, increasing the killing effect of the shell.

The gunners loaded the shells as fast as possible, and within less than half a minute, the gunners then pushed the six-pound field guns to reset the cannon.

"Fire the cannon!" Gong Xiaoda shouted loudly.

The gunners extended the torches toward the fire door, and the lit medicine twist shortened into the fire door at a rapid speed. With the sound of deafening cannons, the gunboats sprayed fire, and the shells roared towards the Qing army's shield formation with afterimages.

"Why is Minggou firing so fast?" Duoduo was shocked.

Sixty shells roared and smashed into the Qing army's shield formation. The shells hit the shield board. The exquisite shield boards were shattered like eggs hit by a hammer. The Goryeo sticks who had no time to dodge behind also screamed and fell down a large area.

The shield car was extremely slow, which gave the Ming army's six-pound field guns an opportunity to fire a round of solid shells. At this time, the twelve-pound field guns were almost loading the shotgun.

Zhao Peng regretted a little, regretting that he did not allow the twelve-pound cannon to load solid shells. He forgot a little. The shield car was too slow, and it was enough for the twelve-pound cannon to fire two rounds of solid shells. Solid shells were a powerful tool to destroy the shield car. However, the cannons of this era had been loaded and could not be replaced, unless the shells were fired out.
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