Nanming Engineer

Chapter 412 Destruction
Li Tingyu stood in the front row on the left of the Kuizhou military chariot formation. The improved four-wheeled cart that looked like a van was taller than he was riding on a healthy horse. Except for the driver of the imperial chariot, the rest of the chariot soldiers were on the cart. Some places in front of the car array are busy displaying Hong Tianlei.

Sometimes looking at Hong Tianlei's cannon muzzle as thick as a water tank, Li Tingyu would faintly feel palpitations, sighing to himself how amazing the medicine packs fired by such a cannon are, fortunately the Tartars don't have people like Wang Huan, so they can't create Come out such a horrible thing.

He moved his eyes forward and looked hundreds of steps away. The place was filled with smoke and gunpowder smoke. The second shelling had just ended. Only half a quarter of an hour after the first shelling, the Kuizhou army fired a second round. The shells and the surviving shield vehicles of the Qing army are less, and the walls of the originally dense shield vehicles have become sparse, like wolves staggering in the wilderness.

However, the remaining shield chariots were still persistently and tenaciously running forward, and the Qing soldiers who followed were staggering, but as long as they were still alive and could continue to run, no one would be left behind.Some shield chariots were destroyed, but the soldiers behind survived by chance, and they consciously followed other shield chariots. On the land they ran, the corpses of Han army sergeants were scattered all over the field, so bloody that it made people hide their faces.

"There are still more than 60 complete ones." Li Tingyu opened his eyes wide, counted roughly, and muttered: "It seems that thousands of people survived, this cannon hit hard enough, but not many people were killed. "

The same words were also spoken from the front of the right wing of Chezhen, but the speaker was Ma Zuoheng.

"Although the Shenwei cannon is fierce, it focuses on single-shot power. It is excellent for hitting clustered targets, but it is not very effective against scattered targets." Poker face remained expressionless, whispering to himself, as if Say it to yourself: "It's very effective to scare people, but these Tartars don't seem to be afraid of death."

After a pause, he judged: "The distance is very close. The Shenwei Cannon cannot fire the third round, otherwise it will accidentally injure the bird commander in front. Next, it is our turn."

He looked far away, and through the gap in the smoke, he could see that the large formation of the Qing army in the distance was slowly approaching, and the large number of Mongolian cavalry on the two wings were also beginning to gradually move closer to the middle, three waves of attacking formations , has been revealed.

The two were far apart, and when they looked at each other, they could only see a small figure, and they couldn't even see their faces clearly, but after mumbling for a while, Yaoyao raised their hands together in a tacit understanding.

"Hangtianlei, prepare for the first launch!"

The voice of the password in unison came out from the mouths of the two of them.

The craftsmanship of Hongtianlei is far easier than that of the Shenwei Cannon. This large iron bucket-like weapon has no technical content. As long as the craftsmen are dedicated, coupled with the Kuizhou Army's exquisite smelting technology and copper and iron level, it is extremely difficult to produce defective products , and the output is high, so the number of equipment for Hong Tianlei is much more than that of Shenwei Cannon.

However, the output of yellow gunpowder is not enough. The gunpowder farm in the Longevity Valley has expanded several times in size, and several factories have been opened outside that valley, and the scale of pig farms is also increasing. It has driven the pigweed planting industry to become more and more developed, forming a thriving industrial chain.

But the power and status of yellow gunpowder on the battlefield is the lifeblood of the Kuizhou army. Every general loves this yellow powder as much as his wife. At this moment, the serious faces of Li Tingyu and Ma Xintian Next, let out a roar full of hope.

"Group A No. [-] to No. [-] guns!"

"Cannon No. [-] to No. [-] of Group D!"

"Aim at eighty feet ahead!"

"put!"

Between the throats of the two, they yelled the last word together.

The sound of the sound of the cannon was different from the devastating shock when the Shenwei Cannon was fired. Accompanied by the muffled sound of "嗵嗵嗵", the Hongtianlei shot out the burning medicine bags one by one at a very high angle , shot not far.

The bedroll-like medicine bags fell to the ground within less than a hundred feet, rolled on the ground, and landed on the ground in front of the shield vehicle.

There was no loud cannon fire, no smoke and dust all over the sky, but a burst of inconspicuous white smoke rose from the Ming army's position. In the rear of the Qing army, because of the distance and the smoke, Nikan didn't even notice the Kuizhou army's attack. And some weird stuff came out.

Cao Zhenyan, who was desperately pushing the cart with his face covered in blood, saw it. He was standing in the first position behind the shield cart, and he could already see the face of the row of bird commanders from the opposite Kuizhou Army. When he was in the middle of the fire, he instinctively became nervous for a while, thinking that the cannon that was comparable to the cannon in red was firing again, he hastily shrank his neck and braced himself against it, and silently recited the Diamond Sutra, hoping not to hit himself.

Unexpectedly, instead of iron bullets, ten bedrolls rolled and fell to the ground.

The bedrolls were evenly distributed, just in front of the shield car, one at a certain distance, one in front and one behind, but roughly on a line.

Just as Cao Zhenyan breathed a sigh of relief, he thought it would be good if it wasn't an iron bullet.But in the next second, he saw the fast-burning fuse on the bedroll at a glance.

An ominous premonition arose from the depths of his mind, and spread to his whole body at an extremely fast speed, making all the hairs on his body stand on end.

At this moment, his shield chariot was four or five feet away from the nearest bedding rolls, and the soldiers around him were pushing the chariot like crazy. Those bedding rolls were not conspicuous, and many people did not see them.

On the dangerous battlefield, everyone is so nervous that they are out of their shells, staring at the enemy on the opposite side, gnashing their teeth and rushing to fight hand-to-hand, it is easy to ignore some deadly things.

Cao Zhenyan saw it, and he didn't even understand what it was, so he took the time to look around. In the distance, in the direction of Daoxing and Luo Dai, there was a similar bedroll falling down, although he couldn't see the details over there. , but the same lead spark is still visible.

He instinctively wanted to slow down the speed of the shield car, but the surrounding soldiers were too strong, and they still pushed the shield car forward like flying.

"Not good! Quick..."

Before finishing the sentence, Cao Zhenyan felt as if his ears were hit hard by two giant hammers. His hearing disappeared instantly, and the world became extremely quiet, so quiet that there was no sound at all.

A hurricane-like shock wave hit from the front, and even separated by the armor plate of the shield car, his body weighing more than a hundred kilograms was blown up. There was a flash of red light in front of his eyes, accompanied by rolling black smoke, and then his field of vision turned into pitch black. Group, can't see anything.

My brain seemed to be blown apart by those two giant hammers, my consciousness became hazy, I lost all feeling in my hands, feet, and limbs, and I didn't know whether my body had landed, as if I hit something on my back, and it didn't seem to be there.

There was a fire-like pain in the chest and abdomen, and a stream of heat came out of the body and gushed out along the seven orifices. It was really a gushing, not a flowing, and it felt like the blood in the whole body was emptied in an instant.

"What is that?" Cao Zhenyan thought at the last moment of his life.

Due to the length of the lead wires, the ten powder packs detonated almost at the same time, and the rising black clouds were much higher than the gunpowder smoke from the Shenwei gun just now. Connected into one, like a high wall of smoke, erected in the wilderness.

Not far behind the Han army in the shield chariot, they were gradually accelerating. The Mongolian cavalry who planned to rush up to shoot arrows after the shield chariot consumed the last firearms of the Guangming Army clearly saw this scene.

At the moment of the explosion, the parts of the shield car and the broken human limbs tumbling in the air wave flew far away, and some even fell in front of the cavalry. The loud noise drowned out the sound of the horseshoes stamping on the ground , Thousands of Mongols felt that a gunpowder magazine had blown up in front of them, and the strong wind was blowing in their faces, carrying the unpleasant smell of blood and the pungent smell of gunpowder.

In the Kuizhou army formation, Li Tingyu spit on the ground, gritted his teeth and scolded: "One hundred catties of medicine packs, ten is a thousand catties, you can't kill these bastards!"

(End of this chapter)