1890 King of Southeast Asia

"Azimuth 230."

"Distance 4700."

"Ground target, high explosive charge, instantaneous fuse, one round loaded."

"Loading complete!"

"One round test shot, fire!"

Boom!

Flames gushed out of the 76mm howitzer, and before the flames came out was a high-explosive shell.

This short-barreled howitzer has a low charge, and the barrel is only seventeen times the diameter. The initial velocity of the shell is as low as three hundred meters per second, which can even be seen with the naked eye.

At this time, the artillery can clearly see the 6-kilogram high-explosive shell flying out of the muzzle, flying into the distance, and then disappearing.

Twenty seconds later, the artillery observed the explosion in the gun mirror, and the first round hit, directly hitting the most conspicuous roof of the courtyard.

The explosion lifted the roof, blew away many tiles, and left a huge hole in the roof.

"Good! The first round hit! The whole company will have an extra meal tonight, and fire at full speed!" The artillery company commander cheered loudly.

Boom boom...

The artillery began to work at full capacity, and shells flew out one after another.

Hou Dehui witnessed the panic of the enemy with his own eyes. The soldiers holding guns near the "city wall" were like headless flies, not knowing what to do.

"They have cannons, the location of the city wall, tell the artillery, quickly!" When Hou Dehui was wondering why Jebtsundamba dared to rebel, he saw a group of soldiers surrounding several cannons and leaving the city wall.

This cannon is the standard equipment of Tsarist Russia, purchased from Krupp's 1877 model 87mm field gun.

The caliber is 87mm. The reason for this strange caliber is that the measurement unit of Tsarist Russia is line, which calls itself a 34-line cannon. One line is equal to 1 inch, which is about 54 mm.

The 87mm field gun is divided into two types, light and heavy. The one that appears here is the light type.

It is basically enlarged according to Krupp's 75mm field gun, with a muzzle velocity of 412 meters per second and a maximum range of 6000. Of course, there was no recoil mechanism in 1877, the firing rate was very slow, and a horizontal slide breech block was used.

The most commendable thing is that the barrel is 18 times longer than the caliber, but the weight of the gun body is only 360 kilograms, which is very convenient for towing.

Of course, this does not include the pure weight of shells and various tools.

In order to show support for Jebtsundamba, Tsarist Russia supported six of these field guns, which was also the basis for Jebtsundamba to call himself the Great Khan of Mongolia.

Of course, the Tsarist Russia was so generous, mainly because the cannon equipped with hydraulic recoil mechanism became the mainstream, and they were upgrading their equipment.

Tsarist Russia was replacing the 1902 76mm field gun. This old short-barreled field gun was gradually retired from active service, and waste was used to buy off the "Great Khan of Mongolia".

"Discover the enemy artillery and start anti-artillery operations." The artillery company commander also noticed these artillery.

"Direction 231, distance 4100, rapid fire!" The artillery commander didn't know why the enemy pushed out the cannons instead of attacking them quietly, but this didn't stop him from taking the initiative.

Speaking of this, Jebtsundamba's troops had something to say.

Originally, these cannons were operated by the Russian army. Under the name of training artillery, they sent a lot of people, but they only taught how to fire the cannons, not artillery tactics.

Originally, it was nothing. 99% of Jebtsundamba's troops were illiterate. They couldn't learn and couldn't play the power of the cannons. It was better to let the Russians operate.

But after Hou Dehui arrived at the city of Kulun, these Russians suddenly refused to do it. You know, these people were the ones who jumped the most before.

This made Jebtsundamba very angry. If it weren't for the repeated instigation of the Russians, how could he dare to rebel?

Although he kept shouting the Mongolian Khan, he knew how much he weighed. Since the Mongolian Khan, the grassland people have been suppressed by the Central Plains.

After waiting for the Ming Dynasty to decline, a half-farming and half-fishing neighbor rose up in the east, and they beat them up and recruited them as thugs.

Now, this neighbor has also declined, and the people of the Central Plains have stood up again. They dare to resist because of the instigation of the Russians behind them, a country more powerful than the Central Plains.

As a result, at the critical moment, the Russians actually dropped the ball? !

There is no way, rebellion is not like playing chess, you can regret and start over, and even if he regrets this time, his second half of life will not be easy.

Jebtsundamba thought for a long time, pushed out his own artillery, which was composed of grassland people, and ordered them to destroy the artillery of the revolutionary army.

It’s a pity that these people didn’t learn much at all. The Russians didn’t teach them at all. They only knew how to load shells and how to fire. Aim? Of course it’s impossible to aim.

The 1877 model 87mm field gun has an elevation range of only 0 to +20 degrees. Because of the distance and relative height, the grassland artillery was blocked in the city and could not aim directly, so they left the city.

"May the Eternal Heaven bless you! Fire!" Outside the city, the grassland people put down the cannon, aimed simply with the gun aiming machine, and fired directly!

During the transportation process, there were shells in the barrel, ready to fire!

If this was the army of Nanhua or any other regular country, the entire artillery group would be punished, severely punished, fortunately, they were the army of the Mongolian Khan.

Boom!

The 87mm caliber field gun roared, accompanied by a lot of smoke. The original propellant was chestnut gunpowder, but the grassland people used black gunpowder.

Nothing else, chestnut gunpowder is expensive, and the grassland people can't afford it.

The import price of the Qing Empire is only 0.24 pounds per pound for black gunpowder and 0.98 pounds per pound for chestnut gunpowder.

It takes 3 pounds of propellant to fire an 87mm field artillery shell, which means black powder costs 22 pounds and maroon powder costs 91 pounds.

The exchange rate between pounds and silver is about 1:7, which means that if you use maroon powder, you will need about 6.5 taels of silver for one shot, but only 1.5 taels of silver for black powder.

In the inland, a sheep can be sold for more than 1 tael of silver in the market, but in the grassland, it is impossible to get half the price, and the actual selling price is less than 30%.

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This is not the era of high-speed trains everywhere. The transportation cost is extremely high, especially for live animals, and there is also the risk of illness and death. 30% is a high price.

The burning speed of black powder is faster than that of maroon powder, the chamber pressure is higher, and the movement is much louder.

The grassland people are lucky. Although they have been in service for decades, the quality of the cannons they got is still good, and they did not explode.

However, they did not hit the target either.

"What happened? Didn't the Eternal Heaven bless us? How could it explode when we were still so far away?" The artillerymen of the grassland people looked at the dust at a distance of more than 2,000 meters, their faces full of disbelief.

Because they were at a relatively high point, the cannons had no range of fire, so they had to take the risk of pushing the cannons out of the city to meet the enemy.

They had clearly aimed, but the shells exploded "midway", which made them, who were not well-educated, think that the Eternal Heaven was punishing them.

"What do you mean?" The artillery company commander of the third regiment also couldn't understand the operation of the grassland people.

The first batch of attacks that took the initiative to attack all missed, after all, they were temporarily turning the muzzle, and there was not much time, so they all fired according to the estimated direction.

The artillery company commander was calling for the transfer of the artillery position, but found that there were multiple explosions in the open space in the middle.

"Could it be that they intend to use smoke to block our sight? Like smoke bombs?" The deputy company commander was holding a telescope and couldn't do it.

"With such a strong wind, how many minutes can it block it?" The artillery company commander retorted.

"No matter what, the opportunity is not to be missed, order the artillery groups that have not been put away to counterattack as soon as possible!" The artillery company commander saw that the artillery of the steppe people was busy and gave the order.

The third regiment had received the news long ago that the enemy only had a recoil gun, and they were more familiar with various parameters than the steppe people.

The artillery with the recoil mechanism was not enough for the Tsarist Russia itself. The Far East part of the Tsarist Russia needed to guard against Japan, and it was impossible to give it to Jebtsundamba.

Boom!

A gun group that had not been recovered in time reset the parameters and fired a shot at the steppe people's position.

It took almost two minutes to go back and forth. During this time, even the untrained steppe artillery fired the second shot.

Boom!

boom!

This time, the third regiment did not miss, and a 6-kilogram 76mm high-explosive shell exploded less than five meters away from an 87mm field gun.

Although it did not cause a secondary explosion, the shock wave and shrapnel still easily took away the entire gun group.

The 87mm gun itself, after withstanding the close-range explosion, just fell to the ground, but it was not seriously damaged.

boom...

"Eternal Heaven! Are you really not going to bless the people of the grassland?! Ah!" A gorgeously dressed grassland artilleryman shouted in despair.

"This is what Eternal Heaven meant..."

"Eternal Heaven definitely doesn't want us to be independent..."

"It must be that our behavior angered Eternal Heaven, and the Living Buddha deceived us??"

"The Living Buddha is wrong?!"

The gorgeously dressed man is obviously a noble, and he collapsed, not to mention the ignorant lower-level soldiers (slaves).

In their limited cognition, there is no way to explain the explosion of the shell at such a close distance except the punishment of Eternal Heaven.

Otherwise, why can the Russians shoot so far, but they can't?

They clearly followed the Russians' teachings and learned the Russians' methods to aim, load, and fire, and even the amount of gunpowder is exactly the same!

In fact, the reason is very simple. They only know how to aim mechanically. It is too difficult for them to calculate azimuth and parabola. There are not many people who can read in the entire artillery company.

In their cognition, artillery is like gun, which is straight. The Russians gave them field artillery with a straight trajectory, which further strengthened their ideas.

In fact, because the 87mm field artillery is only 18 times the diameter, it can't fly far in level flight.

"It's not the living Buddha, it's the Khan. The Khan deceived us!" The gorgeously dressed man in the artillery suddenly said.

"But, the living Buddha is..." Someone next to him was puzzled.

"No! We were deceived. He is not the living Buddha. Otherwise, would we be inaccurate?!"

"The real living Buddha must have been framed by him for his ambition!"

"He harmed the living Buddha and wanted to harm us, making us, the honest grassland people, to betray shamefully!" The man became more and more excited.

"Yes! That's it!"

"We are loyal to the Qing Dynasty, we are all living... this liar!"

"Yes!"

"No, we are loyal to the Central Plains! The Qing Dynasty has fallen (very quietly)" the man said.

"Hurry up! Capture the liar alive and hand him over to the angels on the opposite side to convict him, and find the living Buddha as soon as possible!" the man suddenly said.

"Just us? There are so many soldiers inside, they don't know about the liar..."

"Raise the white flag, turn the muzzle, and target the Khan's Palace!" the man said decisively.

As soon as he said it, the grassland artillery began to act and turned the muzzle.

This action made Hou Dehui at a loss.

"What are they going to do?"

"Fire!!"