Chapter 860 - 407: Countless dead and injured! Zhi Li retreats!_2
Fifty percent solid shot, thirty percent shrapnel, twenty percent chain shot.
This was an experimental artillery strike, aimed at demonstrating the effectiveness of shrapnel under existing technological conditions.
Furthermore, it was a comparison of the killing power between cannons and giant trebuchets at medium to long range.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."
Hundreds of projectiles swept across like black lightning.
The results were both optimistic and pessimistic.
It was optimistic because both the solid shots and chain shots could cause significant casualties even in land battles.
This was due to Zhi Li’s forces being overly numerous and densely packed.
When solid shots were fired, they plowed a bloody path directly through the troops, leaving a trail of scattered corpses and bones.
The chain shots were even more terrifying, slicing through like the scythe of Death itself, decapitating countless heads in their path, yet their power was far less than in naval warfare, making them unsuitable for land battles with their relatively inadequate range.
Regarding the shrapnel shells, as anticipated, each containing over ten kilograms of gunpowder, their lethality was mediocre at best, significantly inferior to massive explosive charges, and had a high likelihood of being duds.