please make me king

Chapter 1463 Curved Shot
Things in the world are sometimes so wicked.

Obviously the gunner's perception of hot air balloons was wrong, but that didn't prevent him from deriving correct conclusions.

Zhang Shun, a hot air balloon, rose into the air, stood high and looked far away, expanding his vision.

Therefore, in addition to being able to observe the battlefield situation more intuitively, it can also guide artillery to carry out covering strikes on important local targets.

Zhang Shun didn't know why Shang Kexi, the king of Zhishun, was so unwise, and even took the initiative to expose his position. Naturally, he was not polite, and let the rebel artillery directly counterattack.

Poor Monk Hong Tai Kexi prepared for a long time to "snipe", but Zhang Shun didn't even notice it, so he died in the womb.

When Zhang Shun saw how "dumb" the Hongyi cannon was, he immediately gained momentum and ordered the rebel army to move forward.

"So reckless?" Hou Jin had just finished building the watchtower, Hong Taideng went up to see it, he couldn't help being startled, and then laughed, "It's a pity that I have the protection of the hills this time, so I can't tolerate your red cannon presumptuous!"

It turns out that the reason why Mrs. Hong deployed more soldiers and horses to the right flank east of Chiyou Spring, and deployed fewer troops to the center and left flank this time was because after careful inspection, he found that the hills to the west of Chiyou Spring were undulating. It happened to be able to avoid the "Hongyi Cannon" of the rebel army, and only then did he have the courage to resist the rebel army.

"The central army and the left wing are on standby, and the right wing is starting to approach the 'shun thief' left wing!" Mrs. Hong couldn't help but ordered calmly.

"Slave, let's do it now!" Fan Wencheng knew that a big battle to determine the ultimate ownership of the world was about to break out, so he couldn't help but hastily responded, and carefully conveyed Mrs. Hong's order to the messenger.

The messenger received the order, and part of it was conveyed to the standard bearer, who asked the standard bearer to convey it to the nearby Houjin soldiers with semaphore.

The other part was written down, put into a bamboo tube, and then dozens of riders galloped away to Jin's left and right wings.

As we said before, in this era without telegraphs, telephones, and radios, the army generally used golden drums and banners as a command communication system for combat.

However, this primitive communication system has its limitations.

Once the scale of the war is too large and the battle array stretches for more than ten miles, the golden drums cannot be heard, and the banners cannot be seen, so other methods must be adopted.

Among them, the use of messengers galloping fast is still a more feasible method.

In fact, on the battlefield, there is more than long-distance communication.

Under normal circumstances, once a more complex order is to be conveyed, the messenger is still the only choice.

Not to mention what Mrs. Hong planned, let's say that the rebel army stopped three hundred steps after advancing to the distance.

Then the cannons of the rebel army were pushed out. There were "golden cannons" and "flying blunderbusses", all of which pointed diagonally at the opposite side.

"I'm so afraid of a bird, if you have the ability to go around!" The sentinel who was lined up behind the hill on the opposite side looked at the top of the hill and couldn't help cheering himself up.

It is known that artillery can only shoot directly. Even if there are individual artillery that can be used for curved fire, but the number is small, what is there to be afraid of if you have to approach and shoot?
"Elevation angle is six points, test fire!" Following the order of the commander of the Rebel Artillery Battalion, a golden cannon and a flying blunderbuss sat back fiercely, and then ejected a stream of smoke.

Then, driven by the high-pressure airflow, the two shells flew out suddenly, and fell behind the opposite hill after a while, disappearing without a trace.

As soon as the cannonballs flew out, the standard-bearer of the artillery battalion over there quickly turned his head and looked in the direction of the hot air balloon where Zhang Shun was.

"It's too high, the golden cannon will be lowered by another point, and the flying blunderbuss will be lowered by half a point!" Seeing the flag bearer on the hot air balloon swaying among them, the flag bearer quickly responded with the flag in his hand, and then conveyed.

"Golden cannons will drop by one point, and Feibiao cannons will drop by half points!" The commander of the artillery battalion ordered after hearing the words.

"Boom!" Not long after, two more shells flew out.

"Golden Cannon goes up by half a point, Feibiao goes down by half a point!" Not long after, another standard bearer conveyed.

After three or five rounds of adjustments in this way, the rebel artillery was finally calibrated.

"Golden cannon five and a half points, Feibiao gun five points, salvo!"

"Boom, boom, boom!" Immediately, 25 golden cannons and ten flying blunderbusses fired fiercely at the rear golden army formation hiding behind the hill.

"Ah, what's going on?" Hou Jinbing, who was thinking that nothing would go wrong, didn't expect it, but suddenly disaster struck, and more than [-] shells shot in.

Some were in mid-air, some just hit the ground, and some fell to the ground and rolled twice before bursting suddenly.

All of a sudden, the scattered shrapnel and canisters swept across the entire battlefield, and countless soldiers died on the spot.

A large amount of "white smoke" enveloped them, like snowfall, only burning the soldiers' eyes.

It turned out that in addition to the Feibiao blunderbuss specially used for siege, the rebels could also shoot curved shots with howitzer-shaped golden cannons.

Although this golden cannon cannot be projected at a high angle, it is enough to deal with the late golden soldiers hiding behind the low hills.

This is also the original intention of the rebel army to choose the field artillery and the golden artillery to equip them in a one-to-one ratio.

The positioning of the field artillery in the rebel army is one specialty and multiple functions. It is mainly used to launch solid bullets for direct strikes, and it also takes into account the launch of shotgun shells.

The other type of golden cannon is responsible for multi-purpose use, including three common usages: direct-firing solid bullets, curved-firing grenades, and proximity-firing shotguns.

Mrs. Hong was not mentally prepared for this, and she thought she had a plan, but was suddenly beaten by the rebel army.

"What's going on, what's going on, why did you hit it!" Mrs. Hong put down the binoculars with trembling hands, and muttered to herself.

In fact, he should have thought of this when the rebel army fought back against Shang Kexi's red cannon.

However, because Jin Bing pushed the red cannon too close to the top of the hill in order to fire direct shells, he also said that it was a coincidence that he was "shun thief", but now he saw that he had fallen into the routine of "shun thief" among.

"What to do, what to do, Your Highness?" Fan Wencheng looked anxiously and couldn't help mumbling.

"What else can we do? Let the Chinese army go out and fight!" Mrs. Hong sighed helplessly, and ordered decisively.

Indecisiveness leads to disaster.

Above the war, one drop by one must be taken care of, but it should not be too taken care of.

If there is a loss here, just find it there.

One gain and one loss, who can calculate so clearly?
"Boom, boom, boom!" The dull sound of war drums resounded, and the Houjin soldiers hiding behind the hills showed their heads one after another, slowly appearing on the horizon at a speed of one inch at a time.

"Okay, good time!" Zhang Shun saw clearly from the hot air balloon, and couldn't help but order, "General Zhang Fengyi of Zhaode, command the Chinese army to fight immediately!"

(End of this chapter)