From the Yueyang Tower, Fan Zhongyan, an old cadre who has been famous for his generation and has been famous for his generation, a scholar-in-law, a politician and a famous general, was in a happy mood when he pretended to be forced back. As soon as he returned to the position of the Central Army, he saw that the traces of the short battle had been basically cleared.

Obviously, with the continuous control of key points and the suppression of most parts of the city, the Taiping Army has become more abundant. There are also people watching on the surrounding city walls, and today they are investing in new weapons to fight for the first time.

"This is a sharp big baby...it's like thundering movement when used."

Chen Nian, the newly transferred team of the Firefighting Team, boasted to the other soldiers who were amazed at the left and right.

"As long as you put enough medicine, even those yellow heads will be crushed to pieces, even if they are fierce, they will be crushed to pieces..."

"Of course, you have to learn something better if you don't get hurt."

"Not only do you need to have a basic foundation in rapid calculation of basic numerology, but you also have to learn some skills in calendar, geometry, and measurement... Otherwise, if you get a slight difference, you will be far away."

"Good, this is really an amazing ability and means..."

Suddenly someone gathered together and exclaimed loudly.

"Isn't this the magic weapon that the head of the head asks the Thunder and Lightning Mother in the sky borrowed from the mortal world?"

So, there were still people who worshipped this firearm in various ways. Obviously, some simple and ignorant concepts were not so easy to be reversed and corrected immediately through the enlightenment and education methods in the army.

Zhou Huaian couldn't help but smile.

The weapons that were used in the anti-raid battle were the latest batch of front-mounted cannons with rolling forging through hydraulic machine tools and polished out bowl-shaped pots. In order to save costs and strength in materials and reduce weight, the composite design of iron chamber hot-covered copper tires was adopted to make full use of the thermal expansion and ductility of bronze materials and the wear resistance of hard cast iron.

Therefore, it is possible to use the internal diameter of a half inch and a full charge of the safety threshold to launch two to three pounds of prefabricated pig iron projectiles, or large-grain lead iron shots that are twice as heavy as half. The ammunition is made of flammable coarse nitrogen silk to set the projectiles and gunpowder particles separately, and also comes with a cloth bag with different lengths and extension leads.

In this way, you can directly select a few medium-sized sub-medicine packs according to different charges. Because they are relatively short and small body tubes, veterans who have been proficient in operation will not be much slower than the future post-loading cannons. This batch of new small cannons has accumulated in small batches in exclusive workshops one after another.

But about 30% of them were because the elimination rate that needed to be refilled was not met. Therefore, they were finally spread out on the finished products, and each of them was twelve pounds of tin, seven pounds of lead, thirty-five pounds of copper, fifty-five pounds of raw cast iron, and eleven pounds of white forged steel. In addition to other replacement components, the material and labor cost reached 70 to 80 pounds, which was about 70,000 yuan per unit.

This battle brought out all 86 qualified items. In addition to the six directly assigned to the direct regiment, the other 80 were composed of three to five people as an operating group, and together with the logistics Zibo assisting personnel, two brigades were organized into the firefighting team sequence (six squadrons/24 squadrons/80 artillery groups and twenty baggage auxiliary groups).

Of course, this thing that was improved and upgraded from the big trolley that used to hit live targets was actually more like a large-caliber gun suitable for shooting splash bullets. When needed, you can even sacrifice range, accurate head and future service life, latte slag stones and other things to make up for one or two, just add a hardwood pallet to assist in the promotion in front of the ammunition package.

The optimal kill range for specific scattering is about ten to twenty steps, and the coverage of the projectiles is greatly reduced. As the distance goes, the penetration and clearance force gradually disappears, and only the kinetic energy inertia that smashes the person's head and blood. If it is replaced with other physical projectiles with larger shapes, the killing distance can be further extended.

Therefore, this is just a rather primitive army support firearm; to the standard of a certain moon chef and related book lover, it is the whitest-plate star-free human treasure; only after the mass-produced launching medicine and explosive technology tree is pointed out and the corresponding flowering bullets, gun steel, and blow-fighting fuze production capacity can it be upgraded to the so-called military-level and city-level treasures.

Therefore, like other firearm equipment, these small cannons are also one of the important trump cards and killer weapons prepared for this battle to help Jiangling; as long as they are equipped with special fixtures and expansion equipment, they can even sacrifice the cannon body to carry out directional damage operations.

Usually, it is installed on a rigid small cannon stand with iron-wood wheel hub to perform basic maneuvers with the infantry; or when encountering rugged terrain, the cannon stand is divided into four parts, carried by two soldiers, or a single mule and horse carrying a march; while on normal roads or flat and open areas with harder ground, it can be fixed on some reinforced large chariots to facilitate rapid maneuvers with cavalry and riding infantry.

When stopping, wooden cards and hand cards can be added as temporary shields, or soil bags and chest walls can be built for protection, and temporarily arranged into corresponding warning gun positions to provide initial fire support and suppression; it is considered an initial model that is basically simple and has better versatility under various conditions to practice.

The main reason is that the stacked spring steel process is not enough to pass the test, and the only production capacity is used for vehicle manufacturing and crossbow components; otherwise, you can try the pipe-retarded cannon rack. This preliminary product was also named as the "Enemy-resistance" series of cannons by Zhou Huaian.

However, by mistakes along the way, there was no chance to come in handy. Therefore, it was hidden until the moment I entered Yuezhou City, and I was able to first try the waters on the battlefield; in this process, some details and shortcomings were also exposed and appeared;

For example, no matter how skillful the training and running-in details are, after encountering a real enemy, some people will make mistakes in a hurry; for example, the enemy has begun to incur shelling even if they have not entered the optimal killing distance and range, and some people have made nervous mistakes to pack the fan-killing shotgun bag into a linear destructive ball.

Fortunately, the final killing effect and power were still acceptable, which also shocked and intimidated the Zhongwu army that was pretending to attack, causing it to stagnate and confusion for a moment; this did not evolve this sneak attack and counter-ambuster to another unexpected track.

However, despite this, the statistics of the subsequent summary of the results were still quite impressive and slightly heavy. As the price of dealing with these scattered Zhongwu Army in the city, even with the active help and cooperation of local residents, the rebel army still paid nearly 2,000 casualties in the obvious advantages and advantages of subsequent street fighting.

In terms of the number of casualties, it has far exceeded the losses in the battle in Tanzhou Town, and it is the first time that there are much fewer casualties than those in the battle.

Because these remaining soldiers of the Zhongwu Army are quite experienced and very fatal; even at a disadvantage, they are not only fierce to the enemy, but also to their own people; they often would rather bear more pain and harm in despair and achieve the result of dying with the enemy.

In contrast, these new and old soldiers were inevitably afraid of their efforts. Instead, they were dragged and disturbed by local people who had little courage but lacked experience and skills, and were inconvenient to project weapons.

On the other hand, the report conclusion was delivered at the post-reflection and summary meeting, which was that these loyal and military soldiers were obviously stronger and more skillful; therefore, they had more lasting physical fitness and endurance than the relatively uneven rebels.

Therefore, after the opponent occupied the building to block the crossbow and other long-range killing methods, the rebels often had to rotate two or three batches of people before they could take down the exhausted opponent; it was not until the fire pot and poisonous smoke ball were subsequently invested to improve this situation, but there were still examples where the soldiers of the rebels were unable to reveal their flaws and were killed by the opponent or rushed out of the siege because of their exhaustion.

Therefore, although the enemy was finally removed from the battle, the wounded people who survived the battlefield were basically seriously injured, and the proportion of minor injuries was rarely caused by accidents or indirect factors outside the battle.

But since Yueyang City, a water and land hub connecting Dongting Lake, connecting the Yangtze River, Han River and Xiang River, has been initially taken down, it means that the remaining Jiangling siege is not far away; as the saying goes, the reason why soldiers are fast and take advantage of the enemy is unprepared, Zhou Huaian still understands it.

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Outside the northwest gate of Yueyang City, which had just been opened, Zhou Yanling, the general of the Zhongwu Army, was really furious and fled with dozens of remaining confidants. Although the first moment he discovered that the city was attacked by the enemy, he asked someone to yell the Zhongwu soldiers in the city to gather at his place to fight against the enemy.

However, he obviously overestimated his appeal to these, and the Zhongwu soldiers who were robbed and plundered, and were in the forefront of the brute force; in the end, only half of the Feihuang whom he directly led was able to join with another lieutenant, Pang Cong's troops, and he was able to work together to piece together four or five hundred people;

As for other loyal soldiers who were not as good as possible, they were all attacked quickly and attacked in full swing by these thieves who relied on the advantage of numbers and were divided and separated into various parts of the city, showing a trend of being defeated by each person.

Although he relied on these four or five hundred loyal and powerful soldiers who had been through many battles, he could choose to withdraw from Zicheng to resist guarding and wait for assistance, or go out to fight outside the country and attack, and respond and gather the scattered soldiers;

However, the situation then turned sharply and far beyond his expectations. Zhou Yanling's men were blocked by several thieves' soldiers, with fire-throwing weapons and crossbows shot in the base area, and were defeated again;

In this kind of chaos in the end, even if they have tens of confidence in the battle formation skills and sophisticated skills on weekdays, they are short of food and machinery and hungry and exhausted, and they cannot play three or four points; but they can only rely on their personal fierce fighting and perseverance to persevere in the wind.

Although he finally broke through several defense lines of thieves arranged and assembled by several formations of thieves, more than half of the Zhongwu soldiers under his command were there, and they even got apart in the melee with another school captain, Pang Cong's troops.

At this moment, Zhou Yanling became a little uneasy and hesitant. Compared to the Jin Hui who was determined to make a turnaround, or the other commander who had lost or lost in chaos, as the adopted son of the Jiedu governor Zhou Ji and led his troops, he undoubtedly knew more about adaptability and cherishing his life.

Especially after seeing with his own eyes that the people in the city were in agitation, some men, women, young and old, holding hatches, forks, and slightly sticks, joining the momentum of the thieves besieging the soldiers of the official army/Zhongwu army; he realized that it was impossible to do so and could only quickly turn around.

As the elite soldiers of the North, the Zhongwu Army was able to judge the situation and move forward in a timely manner in the battles between various rebellious vassal states and rioters. As the saying goes, the basic principle of being able to overcome the enemy is to run faster and more decisively than the enemy.

Therefore, although they are famous for their strength and good combat, they have a great reputation as if they are still as tall as a mountain. However, they are always able to leave behind the end of their friendship and close neighbors from the siege of thieves or rebels who have gained the advantage and the upper hand, and have been able to successfully pass in and out to preserve most of their strength.

At least he left most of his troops and fled back. Although he was inevitably punished or even engaged in military law, he was able to at least save his next life and start over. It was much better than losing his life and his life here.

Moreover, if he could bring back the news that Yueyang was attacked by the thief army to the camp of the Shannan Jiedushi Liu Jurong, he would undoubtedly have made up his merits; and then use this to fill in some people to continue to make military achievements, it would be better if he returned to Xuzhou in the future.

He ran along the official road by Dongting Lake but was never blocked at all, which also made his mind slowly calm down. It was not until he met an inn that he ordered to stop and rest for a while, and collected some available items nearby;

At this time, a harsh horn sound suddenly sounded on the road not far away, and many cavalrymen rushed in smoke and dust. Zhou Yanling, who had dry mouth and cleft lips, couldn't help but feel shocked, and then turned into a certain surprise. Looking at the other party's direction, was it that Liu Jieshuai, who was attacking Jiangling, sent the subsequent cavalry to come here?

But after a while, this surprise turned into a stream of bone-like ice water that was completely poured down. Because these "official cavalry" had no intention of slowing down at all, they rushed towards their remaining soldiers; there were still several head-like things hanging on their saddles.

"Formation,"

Zhou Yanling, who was hoarse in Sangzi, only came and shouted a loud voice, but was rushed into the post station by these cavalrymen with spears and swords, and kicked and chopped down the soldiers of Feihuangdu who were trying to stop them.
Chapter completed!