There were 180 people in the artillery department of the Polu Camp, of which 20 people were certain to let go, 20 people were looking for, and 140 people were all gunners with experience in firing artillery. Zhao Lie did not focus on training, but it was still easy to find more than 100 gunners from ten thousand people.

After the establishment of this artillery department, an old cannon named Hu Yanxiao was appointed as a general. This "old cannon" does not mean that he is old, but that he has rich experience in firing artillery. In fact, Hu Yanxiao is only in his early thirties. He is in his prime and looks black and thin, and looks very ordinary, and he forgets the kind that he has passed by. But as soon as he opens his mouth, it makes people impress.

"The last general Hu Yan whistles, pay homage to the commander." Just like this ordinary sentence, he said it from his mouth, like thunder, within a radius of several meters, his ears buzzed.

All the generals were speechless.

Zhao Lie laughed: "Is it because you, a loud roar, that everyone who fires cannons on the battlefield cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons cannons?"

The reorganization of the Dragon Que Army involves a large number of personnel, especially the appointment and removal of officers, and Zhao Lie cannot investigate them all one by one. So he adopted the principle of catching the big and letting go of the small and introduced the soldier election system. The grassroots officers below the generals were democratically selected by the soldiers. Deputy generals at all levels were prepared to sit in order to ensure fairness and notarization of the election. The selected fire chiefs, team generals, generals and other officers at all levels were recommended by the officers of the above to prove that these officers were democratically elected. If there were found that there were illegitimate fraud during the future review, the recommended officers would be held accountable.

This method of selecting officers by soldiers and applying for recommendations by superiors has never been known since ancient times. It caused a fluctuation when it was first implemented. Fortunately, Zhao Lie controlled the election scope below the general, which was equivalent to a small-scale experiment of the ninth-rank official. In addition, he controlled the Privy Council and implemented it in the name of reforming the military system, but he did not encounter much resistance.

This small military reform showed its effect in the initial battle. Zhang Ba led only a newly reorganized recruit battalion, with many soldiers in it either the first brother or the surrendered soldiers on the battlefield, which was the kind of troops that were easily collapsed. However, under the terrifying artillery bombardment of the Yuan army, it did not collapse, and it was completely collected when retreating. Before the troops were dispersed, even the bodies of the dead were carried back. This was very good for a newly reorganized recruit unit. Therefore, Zhao Lie praised and did not reward or punish.

If this is possible, the prestige and control of the officers of the Kewu Army play a very critical role.

Jiang Fenglie, Zhang Ba and others were all generals with great experience in fighting formations. From this tentative battle, they saw that the soldier election system, which he didn't understand very well, was so useful that he admired the general even more.

The Hu Yanxiao in front of me is the cannon general recommended by Chen Pingbo, General Wan Zhong Er.

When Hu Yanxiao heard this, he felt a little dissatisfied with embarrassment: "My general, this..." He spoke casually and lowly, almost like someone shouting loudly, which shows that this person is born and not intentionally done.

Zhao Lie waved his hand: "No matter whether you have a loud voice or are really good at it, you are a mule or a horse, and you can pull it into a white sand moustache."

A moment later, Hu Yanxiao led his artillery unit to 180 people, carrying ten single-shot cannons, followed a gun player and musketeer, and rushed to Baishakou by boat. These single-shot cannons are not heavy, and four people can walk with one lift. If it is a double-shot cannon, it is difficult for eight people to carry it. This is a war. The more people there are, the more inconvenient it is to fight. This is also the reason why Zhao Lie only asked Sun Daquan to make single-shot instead of double-shot.

Jiang Fenglie, Ouyang Guanhou, Zhang Ba, Su Jingzhan, Chen Pingbo, Chang Tai and others were watching the row of tall wooden shelves on the sampan that were gradually moving away, and they didn't know what Zhao Lie's move was intended.

Zhao Lie didn't explain, it was not that he didn't want to, but that there were some things that had to be seen by his subordinates to be convincing.

As usual, the Yuan army began to shoot cannons as soon as they saw the Song army rushing to the cliff. Although it took only ten breaths to shoot, the sharp sword hanging on its head and death fell from the sky was terrifying between life and death. No one would be afraid. When a person was afraid, his body would become stiff, his movements would deform, his hands and feet would change, his speed would slow down, and the slower he would become a target.

The slowest and most eye-catching movement is the tall single-stop cannons, which will naturally become the primary target of the enemy Lou Yuan army. However, it is so difficult to aim at a moving target with the stone thrower, a primitive throwing weapon, and destroy it. After firing more than ten guns in a row, the Song army successfully carried the single-stop cannon onto the cliff, but the last single-stop cannon was hit by a blind cat and smashed into pieces. The wooden piece shot was spiked around, and the four pulling hands and a fixed gunner who lifted the cannon were bleeding, covering his face or vomiting blood, and fell to the ground.

Hu Yanxiao, who had already rushed to the cliff, looked back and looked at him with his eyes burst out: "San'er! Dabiao! Bastard!"

He turned around and wanted to jump down, but was grabbed by several gunners on both sides: "Brother Huyan, go quickly, this place is too dangerous..."

Before he finished speaking, the sky darkened again. Several gunners were shocked and pulled Hu Yanxiao back desperately. They stood unsteadily, and everyone got out of the ball.

With a bang, a stone bomb fell from the sky and hit the cliff where Hu Yanxiao and others were just standing, smashing a piece of ground-sized earth.

As the sand was flying, Hu Yanxiao and others had blue faces and white lips, and they were all suffocated.

After a while, Hu Yanxiao suddenly pushed away his left and right, staring at the enemy tower in the north and south, and shouted: "Grandpa will bite it even if he fights to death today! Brothers, follow me!" The voice was like thunder, and the enemy tower Yuan soldiers who were a hundred steps away could hear it clearly, and all looked at each other in shock.

It is hard to say that Hu Yanxiao was elected as the elder brother, and his prestige in the artillery department was taken. He led the way and immediately led the entire artillery department. Although the gunners were hit hard, their morale did not fall but rose instead, and they soared.

Soon, you will rush to the predetermined location and quickly set up the tip gun - this single tip gun is good. You don’t need to be disassembled during transportation. You can lay the board at the ground, level the stones, and then put the gun rack at the bottom and then dry it. If you have two tips, five tips, and seven tips, you have to disassemble and transport them and then assemble them at the ground, for fear that they will be beaten to pieces before they are assembled.

Nine single-shot guns stand thirty steps northeast of the two enemy towers. Although the target is huge, the five-shot guns in the enemy tower can only hit long distances and cannot hit such a close target. Although they can cross-throw, that is, the single-shot guns down the enemy tower in the south, and the single-shot guns down the enemy tower in the north, the enemy tower in the north, but because the Dragon Bird Army's top guns are placed too close to the enemy tower. The Yuan army's five-shot guns are afraid of being attacked by mistake, so they dare not shoot at all. The same is true for the seven-shot guns in Qiongguancheng's big killing weapon.

The commanders of the Yuan army in the enemy building in the north and south were not panicked. When they attacked the calm Qiongguan of the Song people, they also used this trick, so they knew how to defend. At the order of the Yuan army generals, thick wooden houses were laid in the enemy building with thick wood as the base and straw bales as the surface. The single-shot cannons on the left and right Song army fired only two kilograms of stone, and they could not penetrate the defense at all.

The 100 gun players of the Dragon Crow Army and the musketeers were fifty from north to south, with gun cards in front and musketeers behind. Once the Yuan soldiers appeared on the enemy's tower, they were shot dead, but they did not take advantage of the situation to launch an attack, but defended them in front of the gun. Their mission was to ensure the safety of the gun.

Seeing that the Song army did not launch an attack, the Yuan army hid behind the cliff and did not dare to poke out at all. Because there were Yuan soldiers who wanted to shoot the gunner with crossbows before, but died as soon as they showed up. The muskets were so terrible.

The two sides entered a temporary stalemate, and the battlefield was silent.

"Prepare the shells!" Hu Yanxiao's loud voice came when several craftsmen rang out, each carrying a large wooden box on his back, looking quite heavy. The wooden box was covered with polished stone bullets.

But the gunners were stunned when they pried open the wooden box. What was there? It was a yellow ball, as if it was a paper ball, but it was so heavy when I picked it up with my hands, it was 7 or 8 pounds.

Hu Yanxiao received the report and was stunned when he saw it in front of the wooden box. After a while, he remembered what the commander said to him before the battle: "This is the weapon you are going to throw into the enemy building. It is not called a stone bullet, it is called a cannonball."

"That's right, it's it." Hu Yanxiao shouted, "Stop the gunner and set off the shells!"

Hu Yanxiao was talking about shells rather than shells, because the Song Dynasty did not have the word "cannon" at this time.

Although the gunners were puzzled, the command from the general must be executed. Besides, no matter what this thing is, it is heavy enough and it is also round, so that's all.

However, these shells are different from stone shells. Those craftsmen are craftsmen who make gunpowder. They first set up a small pot, put charcoal in, and then inserted more than a dozen iron skewers. When the iron skewers are red, the craftsman in charge will signal Hu Yanxiao that he can set off fire.

The shells were put into the skin, and the craftsmen divided nine people, stood in front of the nine gun racks, lit the fuse with fire, stared at the fuse with wide eyes, and watched the fuse burning. It was probably almost done, and shouted: "Let it go!"

Hu Yanxiao also shouted: "Let it go!"

"Let go, let go, let go, let go..." A series of shouts and shouts seemed to echo the surging tide.

Huh Huh Huh Huh--

Yellow dots and phantoms streaked across the sky, flying into the two enemy buildings in the north and south with sizzling sparks.

Shao Qing seemed to hear the Yuan soldiers' scolding: "What kind of mess is this? There are sparks... Lao Wang, let's have a Cuju, and then I'll kick--"

Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!

The fire in the enemy building soared into the sky, the black fog evaporated, and the remaining limbs flew around, screaming. After a while, the fire became bigger and bigger, and it was obvious that the five-pin cannon was ignited. Although this cannon stand was not easy to catch fire, there were a hundred ropes on it, which were simply a hundred igniters. So it wasn't too big to burn?

Hu Yanxiao and all the gunners were stunned - this is a shell?!
Chapter completed!