Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 244 One shot into the soul grants invincibility
The Portuguese in Macau also knew from Bi Fangji that a young prince supervised the regent of the Ming Dynasty. After hearing that the regent had an open attitude towards them, they were very excited.

Although they managed to reach an agreement with the Ming Dynasty before, paying 2 taels of silver tax and 500 taels of ground rent a year, and achieved the result of leasing Macau, this is not very stable.

With the weakening of Portugal, there are more and more challenges and threats in the Far East. The Portuguese in Macau don’t want to have a hard relationship with Daming. British etc.

Zhu Yihai bought guns, guns and gunpowder from them, and sent them a large sum of money. The Portuguese were very excited.And Zhu Yihai was willing to allow them to freely enter the territory of Ming Dynasty to preach, and even opened a church, which made them faint with excitement, not to mention that Lu Jianguo also newly opened four trading ports of Guangzhou, Ningbo, Fuzhou, and Wenzhou to them.

This time they worked overtime to cast 26 24-pound guns, and even bought 26 get [-] free to build [-] three-pound guns. This type of three-pound gun was used by King Gustav II of Sweden in Europe. To enrich his field artillery unit, it is called regimental artillery.It is said that a regiment is equipped with two three-pound guns, and when a musketeer fires six rounds, a professional gunner can fire eight regiment three-pound guns, mainly using grape bullets or shrapnel.

Compared with the four-pounder gun with a lifting weight of half a ton, his three-pounder gun has a shorter body and a lighter mount. The 1.2-meter-long three-pounder regiment gun is only 280 three kilograms even with the mount, and is made of wood. Box-packed shells save a lot of time.

In Zhu Yihai's view, this three-pound gun should be called an advanced version of the Daming Tiger squat gun, with a longer range, faster, more precise, and fast mobile field combat.

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The coachman came slowly with eight horses and a giant cannon, followed by ten artillerymen.

"In fact, a cannon can be loaded and fired with only two gunners." Although Lao Bi is a missionary, most of the missionaries are mathematicians these days, and all of them are very good at casting cannons. They are all versatile. "The rest are mainly responsible for the reset of the artillery after firing and guarding the position."

"I suggest that Your Highness form a special artillery unit, and each cannon is equipped with a dedicated coachman, gunner, engineer, and infantry escort."

"The lonely Shenji Town is a special firearms unit."

It is really difficult to transport a five-kiloton heavy artillery. It requires eight horses and ten soldiers to push it behind. Someone has to hold a hoe and shovel by the side. There are potholes in front and you have to go there immediately. After paving the ground, you can imagine how difficult it would be to transport these cannons if it was raining and muddy.

The cannon is majestic and majestic. Wherever it passes, countless people scramble to watch it and let out a sound of admiration.

The speed of the cannon carriage was very slow, and it took a lot of time to pull it to the bottom of the city.

In order to protect the cannon worth 5000 taels of silver, Wang Zhiren also specially dispatched 100 taels of shield carts. These shield carts covered with cowhide were also built for siege, and they were protected by a shield wall in three layers in front of the cannon cart.

One mile away from the city wall, the coachman reined in eight horses.

The hook-nosed, red-bearded and blue-eyed Franco mercenary gunners quickly started operating.

The groom took the harness horse away.

The artillerymen first cleared the artillery positions with hoes and shovels.

A group of people were on the sidelines to watch the excitement, even the governor Wang Zhiren, the admiral Wang Xiang, and even several university scholars were watching. This thick and big copper guy is really mighty.

According to the catty, a catty is worth one tael of silver.

It is really precious to have eight horses and a dozen people serving him, and they all want to see if he is worth the price and treatment.

The maximum effective killing range can reach more than three miles. Now shooting at a distance of one mile is undoubtedly the strongest killing distance. At sea, if you fight at this distance, if you hit an enemy ship, you can often penetrate the ship's plank.

The tall mercenaries were tall and strong, operating skillfully.

Straighten the fixed cannon, and then start to clean the barrel, charge the powder, and send more than 20 kilograms of iron balls into the barrel.

A gunner also took out a bunch of guns and began to measure them. After tossing for a while, he was satisfied with putting away the tools.

"This cannon only needs two people to load and shoot, so why so many people?" He Tengjiao asked.

"After this kind of cannon is fired, the recoil force is very strong, and the gun position will move, so at least ten people are required to move the cannon again. In addition, they also act as musketeers protecting the artillery, preventing the enemy from rushing to the artillery position during the battle."

everything's ready.

"Your Highness, the gunners are in position, and they have aimed at the South Gate Tower of Hangzhou. Please allow us to shoot!"

Zhu Yihai looked at the city gate building a mile away.

Although the range of a cannon can be several miles, this kind of cannon cannot be too high and accurate. Even if it is one mile, there is a high probability that it will miss.

He first took out two balls of cotton prepared in advance and stuffed them into his ears, then covered his ears with both hands, and retreated back.

"You also step back first, back away."

Zhu Yihai retreated dozens of steps, not forgetting to stand behind the shield car.

Wang Chuangzi stepped back ten steps, thinking that enough was enough.

Liu Mu, who was full of murderous words, wanted to step back a little more, but when he saw Wang Chuangzi stop, he stopped too.

Several great scholars took twenty or thirty steps back and stopped.

Zhu Yihai waved to them, "Stand back, this cannon is very loud, it can vibrate for more than ten miles."

He Tengjiao didn't think it was such an exaggeration. Isn't it just a cannon? When he was in Huguang, it wasn't that there were no cannons in the army.

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City head.

When Zhang Cunren saw the giant cannon, he couldn't help but look back at the Hongyi cannon on the city. He always felt that the cannon on his city was much smaller than the cannon on the city.

Moment horrified.

The Ming army actually had cannons stronger than them?

At this time, there were twelve Hongyi cannons in Hangzhou City, four at the east gate, one at the north gate, four at the south gate, and three at the west gate.

In addition to the twelve Hongyi cannons, there are also eight Tongfagong cannons, twenty Franji cannons, 170 Weiyuan cannons, and 120 other cannons, for a total of 330 cannons.

However, although there are more than 300 large and small cannons, the truly powerful ones are the twelve 120-jin red cannons. The cannon looks like a big vase, but it weighs only [-] catties. It is said that it can be aimed and fired at a thousand steps, and it can hit three catties, six or two large lead, but in reality this thing is more likely to hold small lead and shoot within a hundred steps. .

The Frang machine is a rear-mounted iron-cast sub-cannon. Although it has a fast range, quick heat dissipation, and low cost, it has a short range and low power. Even the extra-large Qianjin city defense Fran machine has this problem.

"Where did the cannons come from?"

"Those seem to be Hongmao Fan. Didn't they come from Macau?"

Zhang Cunren saw that the gunner was skillfully operating, and the people around the gun position were retreating, and he also realized that the gun was about to be fired. He hesitated for a while, and finally lifted his legs and left.

The gentleman does not stand under the wall.

Although the cannon is not accurate, who can guarantee that his luck is so good?
When Taizu Nurhachi led an army to besiege Ningyuan, Yuan Chonghuan just put the red cannon on the top of the city and bombarded him. Taizu was seriously injured by the blast, and he died not long after he was carried back.

Zhang Cunren went down to the city with a dark face, Xiao Qiyuan, Tian Xiong and others also left after seeing this.

Zhu Guopan was far away from the cannon, and his heart was full of pride. He didn't leave, but stood there. He wanted to see Daming's red cannon bombard Hangzhou City with his own eyes.

Sudden.

Zhu Guofan saw the red light flashing on the muzzle of the cannon, and then felt a violent vibration under his feet.

Immediately afterwards, there was a loud thunder from the sky, rumbling like the sky falling and the earth cracking.

Then came a louder screeching sound.

From far to near, in a blink of an eye.

Zhu Guofan felt tingling in his ears, and then he couldn't hear anything.

The next moment, the ear heard the voice again.

There was a loud bang.

He only saw a group of black shadows rushing towards him.

The city gate building at the south gate of Hangzhou, the topmost floor, disappeared immediately.

In the sound of clattering, half of the corners of the city gate tower exploded, and pieces of wood flew around.

The guards on the city gate screamed, and many people were injured by the broken wood and rotten tiles, and some unlucky ones were even directly killed.

Zhu Guofan was covered in dust, and he reached out his hand to touch it a few times, but no one was injured or bleeding.

At this time, after the shell shattered half of the city gates, it continued to fly into the city, and hit a house in the city, blasting a big hole in the wall, and even blasted out from the other side, and hit the next house. the wall, hitting a hole in it before falling into the street.

Upstairs in Nancheng, there were screams.

The more lucky guys were all stunned by the shock.

This cannon is too fierce. If it bombards the city wall, even the thick brick-covered city wall will probably not be able to withstand several bombardments, right?

Thinking that the Ming army had such a big weapon in their hands, the Qing army on the city couldn't help trembling. They thought that the city was so high and strong that they would not be afraid of the besieging army below the city, but now that the opponent has such a big cannon in their hands, how can they defend themselves? ?
Under the city, in the city gate, Zhang Cunren and the others stood there silently, hearing the screams from above, Zhang Cunren frowned.

A servant ran out and would come back to report the situation later.

Hearing how powerful this cannon was, Zhang Cunren's lips trembled.

Xiao Qiyuan felt cold hands and feet, "Fortunately, there is only one cannon."

Zhang Cunren was not so optimistic. It is impossible for the Ming army to have only one cannon in red.

Outside the city, soaring cheers came from far away.

He Tengjiao got up from the ground in some embarrassment. The sound of the cannon just now was so loud that he even fell down on the ground with a disfigured face.

Liu Mu and Wang Xiang shook their heads there, they were too close, and they still felt their heads were buzzing.

Zhu Yihai came out from behind the shield car, took out the cotton stuffed in his ears, and looked at the power of this cannon with a smile on his face.

"These Franco gunners are really amazing, and they hit them with one shot."

He thought he would miss, but who knew it turned out to be a full house.

"A reward of ten taels of silver for the chief gunner, five taels of silver for the assistant gunner, and two taels of silver for the rest of the gunner, including the groom."

"Your Highness, this cannon is so powerful, it should be awarded the title of General." Wang Zhiren was also beaming with excitement, very excited.

Granting the title of general to the cannon was considered a routine operation in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Calling cannon a general started from the time of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.

Not only are the cannons given the title of general, but even the cannons are sacrificed every year. These military weapons are very respected.

At this time, there are four red cannons in the city of Hangzhou that have been named as Shenwei Generals.

"Then give Feng Zhenwei the Invincible General!"

Zhu Yihai is also very happy, the 5000 taels of silver, the people of Macau did not lie to him, one door is so powerful, if all 26 doors are pulled over, lined up, and the artillery bombards, then the city wall of Hangzhou will be blown away directly ?

(End of this chapter)