Chapter 6 Shelling Puxi City 2

Zhang Jiace stood on the wall of the Acropolis and looked at the thief ship on the sea. His pupils suddenly shrank. Then he and the officers and soldiers in the city heard the roar of a shell, and then heard a roar from the sea.

The officers and soldiers suddenly went down, and everyone unconsciously squatted down, as if they wanted to avoid these shells flying towards them.

More than 20 shells of various types made smoke marks in the air and fell to the Acropolis one after another. Some shells accurately hit the wall more than ten feet high, and some shells fell in front of the wall of the Acropolis. Some shells flew over the wall of the Acropolis, hit the city heavily, and suddenly raised in the city. A piece of dust.

Almost all the officers and soldiers gave an exclamation, because most of these officers and soldiers participated in the Battle of Penghu last year and saw the Hongyi cannon of the Red-haired people.

Today, when they saw the shells flying from the thief's ship, they recognized that these shells should be the shells fired by the Hongyi cannon, and were by no means the range of the messy tiger squat guns, bowls and captive-killing guns they had at hand.

The shells that hit the wall stirred up pieces of gravel and left holes in the wall. Although they could not penetrate the wall, they still made the officers and soldiers standing on the wall feel waves of vibrations under their feet.

The officers and soldiers were a little panicked. Only then did they understand that the legend is not false. These sea wolves do have a lot of Hongyi cannons. Today, they have completely tasted the power of these Hongyi cannons.

The accuracy of the first shelling was not very high, but most of the shells were not lost. They hit the Acropolis. The one-eyed dragon observed the landing point of the shell with a single telescope, and his excited black face turned red, making his face black and red, and even cheered.

"It's a beautiful fight. If the order goes down, the ships will shoot in a hurry. Just fight like this! Let the officers and soldiers taste our strength! Haha! Fire, fire!"

The gunners of each ship endured the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke in the cabin, quickly alternately used various tools to clean the chamber and began to reload the chamber. Although the loading procedure of the smooth chamber in front was cumbersome, as long as the gunners were well trained and cooperated closely, the loading speed was not very slow, and it took almost a minute. The gunner quickly finished loading here, and struggled to drag the cable pulley group of the gun frame to drag the cannon back out of the gun window, and once again pointed to Puxi City.

The sea outside Puxi City was like boiling, and the sound of cannons began to be connected. One after another, shells roared out smoke marks in the air and hit Puxi City heavily.

The inside and outside of Puxi City also became lively, and the shells hit the inside and outside of the city like rain, stirring up pieces of gravel sand.

Zhang Jiace's face changed greatly. He leaned down under the protection of several soldiers and squatted under the female wall. His heart was full of shock. This time, they really underestimated the ability of the sea wolf. Unexpectedly, the sea wolf did have so many red cannons, so that they couldn't raise their heads.

"Fire! Fire! Hurry up! Sink those thief ships!" Zhang Jiace was a little panicked at this time. Although he had seen many big scenes, today, because of insufficient estimates, he still made him confused for a while. He squatted under the women's wall and shouted loudly, and ordered the officers and soldiers on the wall to fire back.

So the officers and soldiers stationed on the wall did not dare to neglect it. They quickly got up and operated the artillery on the wall and began to bombard the sea.

But what discouraged the officers and soldiers was that their counterattack looked ridiculous, because the cannons displayed on their walls were basically old-fashioned cannons such as all kinds of extermination guns, bowls and tiger squat guns, which could not hit those thief ships hundreds of meters away.

Although many shells flew to the sea, they fell into the sea far away from the sea wolf's ships, which could not kill the sea wolf's warships at all. At best, they were just to embolden themselves.

The Chinese artillery in the Ming Dynasty has a thin wall and is poorly cast. The gunbore has not been carefully blanked, and the front and rear barrel is unevenly thick. Moreover, the front end of the gunbore is large and the venting is serious, so that the gunpowder cannot play a sufficient role in pushing the shell. Most of it is leaked from the gap between the shell and the gunbore, so the effective range phase When it is short, and there is nothing to aim at the gun body, it depends on the experience of the gunners and the lack of training of officers and soldiers, which makes the long-range shooting accuracy a little ridiculous.

Most of the cannons on the Acropolis can't even hit a distance of 200 meters. Even if they can hit cannons 200 meters away, the accuracy is really pitiful. If you want to effectively hit the sea wolf's ships, unless God helps them.

When the sea wolves on the ship saw the shells launched by the officers and soldiers that fell sparsely on the sea, many people laughed on the spot, especially those who were temporarily idle. At this time, because the ship had stopped, they all ran to the side of the ship to watch the battle, pointing to the scattered shells hit by the officers and soldiers, laughing. It is forward and backward.

And the gunners were not elegant at this time. They tried their best to operate their cannons in the smoke-filled cabin or deck, pushed the gun racks to the door or window of the gun, and then shouted, "Finish loading, please fire!"

The captain responsible for managing these gunners will wave the flag and roar: "Gance!"

Then a series of gunfire sounded on the ship, and the hull shook violently again.

The original 1,000 officers and soldiers gathered outside the Acropolis originally wanted to hit the pirates head-on, but now they were hit head-on by sea wolves. Their position was also within the cover of sea wolf artillery fire. Some gun commanders knew that even if their cannons hit the wall, they could not do much. So they simply targeted the officers and soldiers from the out-of-city.

The shell roared and landed at the place where the officers and soldiers gathered outside the city. Now it is winter. The weather is dry and there is little rain. The ground outside the Acropolis is dry and strong. After the round solid shells land, they can be effectively bounced up and continue to fly forward, producing a jumping effect.

As a result, several shells fell into the crowd and instantly opened a bloody alley in the dense array of officers and soldiers.

Where the shells pass through, the body of the officers and soldiers can't stop them at all. Even if they are torn one by one, the broken limbs and arms suddenly fly up in the blood fog, and their appearance is unbearable.

These officers and soldiers gathered outside the city saw the bad situation and dispersed, and suddenly became a group of messy mobs. They turned around and fled into the Acropolis to avoid the shells flying from the sea with the wall.

The sea wolf's shells kept hitting the wall of the Acropolis, lifting pieces of gravel and smashing them into craters, which made the officers and soldiers in the city frightened.

Occasionally, one or two shells are quite lucky. The female wall in the middle of the wall is not as thick as the wall. These six-pound and 12-pound shells hit the wall, which has little effect, but once they hit the female wall and the city stack, they can be immediately destroyed.

And these officers and soldiers hiding behind the women's wall were unlucky. The destroyed women's wall instantly turned into a flying stone, like a scattered bomb, flying around on the wall. Many officers and soldiers were immediately beaten to their heads, blood, injured their muscles and bones, and fell on the wall and made a tragic howling sound.

Although Zhang Jiace saw many such scenes, he couldn't help but be shocked and even more angry. They were just bullied by the cannons of the red-haired people. Unexpectedly, they would be ravaged by the cannons of pirates today, which is simply too much to bully people!

He turned his head and saw the two Fujian self-imitation Hongyi cannons on both sides of the city wall, and suddenly roared angrily, "Why didn't Hongyi cannons be released? Immediately aim at the thief ship and fire! Sink them here! Hurry up!"

In fact, he doesn't need to order. At this time, the officers and soldiers have already thought of these two big killers, and some officers and soldiers are busy operating these two Hongyi cannons.

However, the design of the gun racks of these two cannons is really unreasonable. In order to transport, these cannons were disassembled and installed on the ship. The gun racks were fixed. After arriving here, they were lifted from the ship and laboriously got to the wall. For this reason, they also made a slide for the two cannons in the Acropolis, which was hard to rely on. With the force of pulling hard, he brought the cannon to the wall.

And the two cannons are not installed on a four-wheel gun frame similar to a naval gun like the sea wolf's shore defense gun, and there are also rope pulley sets that reduce recoil to pull the gun rack. They have not yet mastered this pulley system, so they use a thick and stupid fixed gun rack.

Although this clumsy gun rack relies on friction to reduce recoil and transmit recoil directly to the ground, it is very difficult to operate. The imitation Hongyi cannons they have cast are cumbersome. Once they are not careful, it is possible that the gun rack will turn over and reset it depends on people. Force, very difficult to operate, time-consuming and exhausting.

Once the sea wolf's shore cannon is operated by skilled gunners, it can basically reach a speed of one shot per minute, but the two cannons of the officers and soldiers can be reset by manpower, and it will take at least seven or eight minutes or even ten minutes to complete the aiming launch.

So at this time, the officers and soldiers are busy playing with these two cannons, and they have to beware of the shells flying from the sea, which are chaotic. In addition, they did not use fixed packaging to fill *. It depends on the gunner's estimation, which slows down the loading speed and has not been completed for half a day.

After hearing Zhang Jiace's roar, these officers and gunners were even more anxious and tried their best to load the shells. As for the aiming method, their aiming method is basically similar to that of the sea wolf. At the tail of the gun, they leaned against the mat below to adjust the elevation angle of the muzzle, but it is obvious that the officers and soldiers have not yet There is a gun watch, and the amount of charge is uncertain. Even if there is a gate and a sight, it is estimated.

only heard two huge roars, and two groups of blazing flames were spewed out on the wall of the Acropolis. The momentum was quite strong. Many officers and soldiers immediately stretched out their necks and quickly chased the shells to look up at the sea.

Even Zhang Jiace couldn't take care of the danger at this time. He stood up from the wall and looked at the sea.