In the southern part of Xingqing Palace, near Datong Gate, which has been shrouded in fireworks. Wearing a lock vest and a flaming cloth (asbestos) overall, with a three-inch short blunt on his waist, team (cannon regiment) artisan Chang Bai Duolu also followed a short-barreled light gun on a large wheel. Behind him, he slowly crossed the chaotic palace gate avenue, and before he came to the Drum Tower of Neiheng City Gate holding a big sign.
It looks a little old and decadent, but still on the tall and solid building, there are still people who are constantly fighting and shooting arrows, trying to stop those Taiping soldiers who constantly cross the Datong Gate and attack it. At this time, it was the turn of this new mountain cannon called the Kluk III to come in handy.
Compared to the standard long-barreled wild artillery (anti-enemy type) used to break the battle in the army confrontation, or the large-mouth heavy artillery (flat captive type) used to attack the fortifications and draw bases, or even specially customized four-wheel shock absorbers Mounted to accompany Mercedes-Benz riding cannon (flying star); this short and light cannon looks very simple. Because it was originally for the purpose of suppressing bandits in the mountains and facilitating the needs of traveling and chasing over the mountains and ridges, the front-mounted small cannons were specially forged with wrought iron.
Although the range, accuracy, and power are all reduced compared to the first three, it also fully implements the purpose of being light and portable to the extreme; only a workhorse or two soldiers can carry it on the mountain road. Time; even if you don’t need to build up the cannon stand with stones, or dug a hole for the shooting angle, it can be launched briskly. Of course, due to the limitation of weight and material, it can only be used to make Mutuo powder with half or 30% charge;
Nevertheless, this special firearm tailored to local conditions has played a great role in the process of encircling those mountain sheds and river pirates. It can be said to be invincible and omnipotent to deal with those rough and steep mountain villages that are equally primitive. Even in the face of those barbarians who are accustomed to wandering in the mountains and forests or ruggedly walking on the flat ground, relying on the endless harassment, assaults and even ambush methods that are familiar with the geographical advantages, they can only disperse and disperse as soon as they are sent. The result of the defeat.
At least, it is more precise and precise than those that were made out of crudeness at first, and the flowering (wood) cannon with a tree barrel and iron chamber, or the gypsophila (skin cannon) wrapped in an iron chamber, will be discarded after a few shots. Much sharper. As a result, most people in the throwing team are more familiar with this light and short mountain cannon than the first three, which have few chances to show off before the battle. They affectionately call it "Daiwanjun", "Shankou", "Shankou", and "Shankou". Mr".
Therefore, when the Taiping Metropolitan Governor's Mansion launched the Jiangdong Raiders, this kind of small mountain cannon was further improved and had a fixed installation of the second type, so as to continue to use the reduced charge package to launch new methods such as ball balls, rod bullets, and chain bullets. Medicine; and designed a new type of light gun mounts to be fixed and placed on awning boats and flat boats, as a strengthening of the attack force of the boat division activities in the Jiangnan water network area.
Therefore, this kind of light cannon, named Kluk II, which can board the boat, not only shines in the strategy of Liangzhe, but also extinguished and defeated the wave of anti-turmoil and turbulence in the local area based on the city fortress and camp. It will continue to play a variety of uses in the follow-up to clean up the remnants of the sporadic resistance in the mountainous areas of southern Zhejiang, the remnants of defeated generals scattered around, and the stragglers who fled to the sea.
Therefore, in response to this urgent need, the Taiping Metropolitan Government soon gave birth to a further improved version-the Kluo Three Form. This time, the improvement is in terms of materials and technology, abandoning the originally relatively cheap and mature refined wrought iron, instead using a brand-new paste mold iron molding, plus the second heat quenching and rolling forging expansion. Hundreds of steel-making processes have made the original tube lighter and thinner, and the caliber has reached four inches and seven cents.
Of course, the corresponding production cost has also increased from the original sixty-seven to one hundred and thirteen which has almost doubled; but the benefits brought are more than a little bit. For example, the incremental charges and ammunition types brought about by better chamber pressure resistance greatly expand the range and power. In addition, the iron-wood component is convenient for cross-country and mountain-turning large-wheel gun mounts, as long as there is a big animal such as a donkey and mule. Pulling, it is said that there is nowhere to go in the world.
Especially in the case of Chang'an City where it is obstructed everywhere by the city, the shooting range and the field of view are narrow, and the obstacles are everywhere, which makes it difficult to move. This kind of mountain cannon called Kluo III can be towed or towed by only two people. It is advancing trotting on the street and following up; it is eaten with the grenadiers of the fire throwing team, which can be regarded as a good weapon for attacking and defeating the enemy, fire support and cover suppression.
Therefore, as of the second military dispatch, the number of new and old 300 doors has been accumulated after twelve hours of shifting overtime and non-intermittent production; most of the new equipment has been supervised by the capital. Reinforcement troops were brought into this Chang'an city; they were also used as a fire support formation to strengthen to the regiment (school lieutenant) level, and it can be regarded as brilliant in the city's occupation and occupation.
The group followed by Bai Duolu is also an old version of the front-mounted gun that is specially reduced in weight. The only advantage is that it is easy to maintain and simple to assemble. It can be put into position layout and used directly on the road at any time and anywhere; so from Ming Ming Starting from Le'an Fang near Demen, he has been fought in large and small battles, and passed through the streets of seven or eight city squares before reaching the location of Xingqing Palace in Nannei, where he continued to fight intensively. go with.
As the chief artisan who specializes in the maintenance and maintenance of artillery units in the combat army, Bai Duolu actually does not need to be in front of the battlefield; however, if military craftsmen like him also want to go further, they must be on the battlefield. Frontiers accompany the operation of the artillery team to obtain first-hand data and experience in field operations, so as to increase the corresponding qualifications and evaluation of battlefield performance.
After all, military craftsmanship like them can be regarded as a shortcut and a quick way. If you can keep improving in actual combat operations and find more improvements and be recognized, it means that there is a greater probability in the post-war period. Opportunities for ascending, relocation and encouragement. After all, he fought all the way from Guangfu to Hunan, from Hunan to Jiangxi, Jingnan, Shannan, and Jiangdong all the way down. In just a few years, Bai Duolu could be regarded as an old man who has experienced many battles.
After Jiang Dong also finished his fight, he was also the top rank of the 16th-rank military officer/sergeant. In theory, as long as you work harder, you can cross the qualifications of the master craftsman, and step into the threshold of junior officers such as the deputy talent officer and the chief military officer at the beginning of the seventeenth rank. And just between the electric flint that Bai Dulu thought about, the three-man artillery group had already divided the work to complete the process of clearing, filling, and calibrating, and inserted a large spike-shaped firing tube into the fire door at the rear of the gun body to swing the hammer hard. knock.
Behind the cover of the big name, the short tube cannon on the big wheel suddenly jumped back, roaring and gushing out big sparks and pungent ash, and then falling back in the preset stowage buffer; and the distance is still far away. In the Quelou, which was throwing arrows and throwing stones to resist the soundness, suddenly a corner broke out of thin air, and a few fragments of limbs were splashed in the flying earth and rock.
And the resistance on the several floors above seemed to be stunned and stagnated for a moment, and then it turned into one after another howling, and the figures of officials and soldiers who began to flee in twos and threes behind the city disc; there is such an exciting one. The good start was used as an incentive, and this gun group also became more fluid and neat.
Soon they cleaned and cooled the chamber with a poke rod soaked in water, and under the strict escort of the friendly forces, they braved the clanking flow arrow, and then made persistent efforts to another Neiheng queu building-the daily bell and rise hall. In the fifty steps in front of the left bell tower of the tower; aim at the lower level where the head and the light are the most dense, and fix the corresponding shooting angle with a single-sided concave triangular plug.
Re-stuffed the pie-shaped thick silk drug bag, and filled it with hardwood and paper-wrapped ball bullets. The young team leader was about to knock down the firing tube but was called by Bai Duolu, and saw him come forward. After making a few gestures, I adjusted the elevation angle of the block on the gun mount, and then signaled the group head to knock on the fire door; between the fire and smoke, a slight arc trajectory crashed into the bottom of the middle building. At the clock station.
Amidst the loud sound of the urn that was dullly impacted and cracked apart, the numerous fragments of large and small fragments passed by with many fragmented limbs, like smashing a large sauce jar, splashing from the lower floor of the building. Come. But it was the cannon that swept in and smashed the big clock in it, and in the sputtering of the rebound, the defenders were killed and injured on the spot.
"bingo.."
"The middle period..."
"Good fight..."
Amidst the admiration of the guards on the left and right, the unexpected result did not stop the gun crew in amazement. In between, they took new medicine from the trolley at the rear; and they took the four inches of heavy cast iron. The seven-point bullet was replaced with a dozen or so large egg bullets wrapped in paper. It hit the stow of the gun mount and raised its elevation a bit; a large group of brilliant sparks burst out again.
With the roar of the muzzle, many more obvious gray-white arc-shaped trajectories stretched out, and they were thrown and poured less regularly within the range between the second and third floors of the Que Building, and there was the sound of popping and peeling. Among them, the Hundred Holes Thousand Clashes that bombarded the outer guards and baffles set up in the middle of the Quelou, suddenly lost most of the sound inside, and only a puff of blood from the big canopy was left, slowly flowing. Out and fell down from the outer wall.
Then, amidst cheers, they rushed to the wall of the Nei Heng Palace, and stepped on the corpses and blood poured into the left bell tower. The Taiping soldiers hardly encountered the sound and movement of resistance, and they already escorted many of them. The desolate prisoner appeared under the bar, but it was the terrible power of this generation that had been bombarded by two rounds of artillery, which scared the courage and heart.
As a result, the artillery group, which had only fired two rounds, had to move quickly with the help of Sergeant Sakon to go deeper into the city wall, where the fierce battle between the Datong Hall and the Xingqing Hall community was carried away. The official army there had already jammed the palace gate and relied on the high wall to set up a new defense formation, once again blocking the way of the Taiping army that had invaded the south. . .
Not long afterwards, in the screaming and rumbling roar that came closer and closer. Once again, he retreated to the Xingqing Temple and the Fengzhou Capital Defense Envoy Shi was within reach, instructing the tooth soldiers to merge the palace gates and plug them up with various objects, leaving only the gaps and tunnels worthy of archery. Then, he sternly said to the hundreds of women who were driven to the temple:
"You are all my family members of the German army, and you must not fall into the hands of thieves, which will humiliate the reputation behind my soldiers, so I can only ask you to go on the road together as a memorial..." (End of this chapter)