Qiming 1158

Chapter 1055 They Are Forced Towards Their Destiny

At this time, it was in the gap between the third round of artillery shells fired by the Ming army, and the Chengtou Song army seized this opportunity and began to fight back.

They shouted slogans, exhausted their whole body strength to give strength to the three-bow crossbow, and then smashed it down with a sledgehammer, firing the crossbow, and the huge arrows roared out.

The same goes for the catapult crew. A group of people drank in unison with the strength of sucking milk. They pulled down the ropes desperately, and threw heavy stones or ignited firearms out, allowing them to fly freely in the air.

The bed crossbows fired big arrows, the trebuchets threw huge stones and lit firearms, and the Song army's counterattack looked huge.

As they fought back bravely, Zhou Benyuan also began to fulfill his promise. After completing a shot, five hundred pennies were directly offered, and the money was counted to you on the spot without delay.

After the soldiers got the money, they immediately put it away, flushed with excitement, and immediately began to prepare for the next shooting. Everyone was as happy as the children who received a large amount of New Year's money red envelopes during the Chinese New Year, very happy.

Because they are happy, their movements are also very fast, very fast, and the efficiency is greatly improved. When the Ming army was preparing to shoot, they were ready to launch again.

Then they shouted and fired big arrows and rocks.

Then he stared at the little officials who were counting money, staring at the money in their hands, all money in their eyes and mind, and nothing else.

Because of this incentive, Song Jun's counterattack became sharp, but it was of no use.

There was no way for the trebuchet to throw the stones and the ignited fireball at the location of the Ming army, and it fell directly halfway, meaningless.

The bed crossbow is a bit interesting, it flies quite far from above.

But the problem is that the crossbow can't aim at all, and whether it can hit depends on luck, so its main purpose is to shoot the city wall and nail it to the city wall to provide a foothold for the soldiers on the city wall, and the secondary purpose is long-range strike.

Seven or eight big arrows more than two meters long shot out, and then continuously shifted their original direction in the air, and finally approached the position of the Ming army, but the position was already offset to the grandmother's house, and finally flew at an ultra-low altitude and fell to the ground.

Not to mention that it is meaningless, it can be considered a waste of effort.

However, this is still somewhat meaningful for the Ming army.

The Ming army discovered the long-range firepower of the Song army through this shooting, and found that the Song army at the city head was fighting back, so the artillery group observers kept observing with clairvoyance, and at the same time made simple mathematical calculations.

The position of the artillery is about 150 feet away from the city wall of Fancheng...

The city wall of Fancheng is about [-] feet high...

The wall of the city wall is about twenty feet wide...

The muzzle of the Great General's gun was raised from a flat shot to increase the range for a time...

In order to increase the accuracy of artillery shooting and to make the mathematical model of ballistic calculation more accurate, Su Yonglin introduced the concept of angle and coordinate system. While teaching the knowledge of coordinate system to the planners, he also made a protractor by himself.

He portrayed the existence of the angle with a mathematical calculation method that he could still vaguely remember, and taught this concept to the central planners, who then brought the angle and coordinate system into the mathematical calculation model of artillery shooting. .

The planners felt like they had gained a treasure from this, and felt that they had insight into the mystery of artillery shooting.

They measured and recorded a series of data from the artillery fire at the experimental base in Zhongdu.

A large number of calculations have also been made on the relationship between the weight of the gunpowder fired and the range of the projectile.

The range change caused by muzzle elevation has also been extensively measured and recorded.

The relevant data of the entire artillery launch was collected and recorded into a set of tables. After a large number of test launches and data recording calculations, as well as the introduction of the concept of rear sight and front sight, the Ming army artillery group gradually developed a scientific concept of artillery launch.

Even the weight of the gunpowder required for different types of artillery and shells of different weights has been calculated, so the gunpowder of the Ming Army artillery was custom-made in a professional workshop, weighed by a special person, minimized errors, and sent directly to the On the gun crew.

The artillery crew has also set up professional observers, holding clairvoyance, who will measure and calculate various data before the war, make rough estimates, and guide the firing, which greatly improves the firing accuracy of the artillery.

After each launch, they will also observe the shooting results, and then adjust the launch position and launch angle for the next launch.

The rest of the gun crew is responsible for adjusting the gun to the best position the observer thinks, and then firing.

This series of processes can be said to be quite scientific, and it can be regarded as reaching the peak of the scientific process of front-bore cannon firing in the smoothbore era.

In the beginning, even the artillery craftsmen only thought that the gunner was an army that needed courage, and as long as you had courage, you could be a gunner.

But later everyone discovered that the gunner needed not only courage, but also mathematical knowledge.

People who don't understand mathematics can't be a good gunner. Even a member of the artillery crew responsible for igniting the propellant must have a certain amount of mathematical knowledge. Otherwise, what if the observer is suddenly injured and cannot guide the launch?
In fact, the training of Ming army gunners is developing in this direction.

The strategy of training gunners in the Ming army has progressed to the point where a relatively systematic mathematics education is required for gunners. A series of currently known mathematical knowledge about guns must be taught all, so that gunners can master them, and exams are also required.

If you fail the exam, you cannot become a gunner.

The results of spending a lot of thought and money to train a gunner are also obvious.

On the current Xiangfan battlefield, after each firing, the professional observers of the artillery group will slightly adjust the firing angle and firing position through observation and calculation, so that the next firing can more accurately destroy the Song army city wall.

When the Song army counterattacks appear on the city wall, the observers can also adjust the shooting angle and orientation through calculation, and attack the crib crossbows and trebuchets that can still strike on the city wall.

It's not to say that it can really be accurate, it can only be said that within the effective range, the shooting accuracy should be improved as much as possible.

The introduction of mathematical concepts allowed the Ming Army artillery team to have a scientific concept that surpassed the times. For the firing of artillery, it no longer counts where it hits, but does everything possible to control the direction of the artillery launch and improve the war value of each cannonball.

The artillery group armed with such a concept is indeed a nightmare for a fixed city.

So the third round of shelling began.

In the roar, the Song army commanders were horrified to find that the Ming army's artillery shells were more accurately bombarded on the city floor, causing a terrible blow to the bed crossbow unit and the catapult unit that were shooting on the city floor.

An iron bullet suddenly fell, smashing the catapult and the crossbow, and at the same time smashing the soldiers of the Song army into flesh. Run away to find cover.

Some people were scared and panicked and jumped over the city wall directly, fell from the seven or eight meters high tower, and fell to their death.

The tower was in chaos. Many soldiers of the Song army were smashed to death and fluttered. The tower was in a mess, and suddenly there were few lucky ones who could still stand.

This round of artillery bombardment hit Song Jun very hard. After that, Zhou Benyuan kept ordering to raise the reward money. As long as he dared to fight back, he would be rewarded directly.

The amount of reward has been increased from five hundred cents to one thousand cents, and it has been straight, but no one wants to go up. Zhou Benyuan is in a hurry, and he doesn't care about anything, and immediately starts killing.

His current image can be described as a machete in one hand and copper coins in the other, cutting off his head and throwing coins at the same time.

"Anyone who goes up to the tower and sends arrows will be rewarded! Retreat from cowardice and dare not go up to the former, kill!"

He ordered his soldiers to kill more than 30 collapsed deserters, and moved out boxes of copper coins to force the rest of the Song army to go up the tower to launch a counterattack.

The soldiers of the Song army could only go up the tower while crying, and were forced to go to their own destiny.

The Song Army soldiers under the city tower were not easy either, because the present of others was their future, and they just didn't have their turn yet.

Grief and fear spread in the army.

But there is nothing they can do about it, because they are only the top soldiers, the lowest people, and it is the generals, the officers who force them, the ones who can decide their life and death.

(End of this chapter)