Chapter 54: Bloodstained Shijingshan
Zhu Cihong held the binoculars, and when he saw this effect, his serious face finally showed a smile.
In "Wu Bei Zhi", it is said: "Bird gun: Weilu Mi gun is the farthest and most poisonous." ”
In later generations, some experts have restored and tested the Lumi gun, which can actually hit 600 meters with granular gunpowder, and its accuracy and armor-piercing ability are even stronger than ordinary bird guns.
Of course, the actual effect of different distances depends on the armor worn by the opponent.
The musketeers in the front battle formation of the Yongwei Battalion used a flintlock pistol of one color, which was actually the Ming version of the self-generated Lu Mi gun, plus the paper tube to set gunpowder, which was more powerful than the previous Lu Mi gun.
Even if the flintlock pistol only penetrates one or two layers of armor from a hundred paces away, it will bring a strong sense of pain to the human body, and can even shatter bones and internal organs.
Moreover, the war horse is only covered with a layer of cotton armor or cloth armor, which cannot be prevented at all, so even if it can't kill people and hits the war horse, it can also deal a heavy blow to the Qing army.
After the first round of musket firing, hundreds of Manchurian cavalry were reimbursed, and many war horses were shot, neighing painfully and falling to the ground, throwing the Qing soldiers on their backs to the ground, and being trampled into flesh by the cavalry behind.
The reimbursement of the cavalry in front tripped up a lot of cavalry behind, blocked the advance path of the cavalry in the rear, and slowed down the cavalry behind.
It's like a young man driving a sports car and a horse out for a ride, just stepping on the accelerator to start, before he reached the third gear, an uncle who touched porcelain jumped out in front of him, and he was very uncomfortable.
Tan Tai saw that the situation was not good, and he was a little anxious, but he was a character in the end, and he still had two brushes.
He pressed the wound with one hand and controlled the war horse with the other, barely avoiding a few Qing soldiers who fell to the ground, and shouted: "Warriors of the Great Qing Dynasty, rush...... Yes! ”
The words did not fall, only listened to "Poof! With a bang, a lead bullet shot into his mouth and flew out of the back of his head, Tan Tai only felt that his throat was blocked by something, his head turned black, and then the whole person shook twice on the horse's back, and fell down.
The firepower of the Yongwei battalion is too dense, even if it doesn't hit the first round, it will always eat the projectiles under the subsequent rounds of blows.
In the array of musketeers in the Yongwei battalion, the muskets were still fired in turn one row after another, and as the Qing cavalry was closer to the impact, the power of the muskets became more powerful, and one shot directly penetrated three layers of heavy armor, without ambiguity.
After the use of paper-shelled fixed ammunition in the Yongwei Battalion, the frequency of musket firing has also increased significantly, and basically everyone in the battalion can fire four or five rounds in one minute, and some fast gunners can even fire seven rounds.
Many of the Qing soldiers have gone crazy, and they have already lost hundreds of cavalry, and this loss is still expanding.
The projectile used by the musketeers of the Brave Guard Battalion was lead bullet, not steel ball, which, although penetrating, was far less lethal than lead bullet.
When the high-speed lead bullet enters the flesh, it will deform and roll, causing a relatively large cavity area, and such a wound will quickly enter the air, causing blood to spurt.
The wound may be one, or the lead bullet may hit the bone scattered, showing multiple wounds, in the late Ming Dynasty such an environment and medical conditions, as long as the lead bullet hit the basic can give up treatment.
According to the plan of the Qing army, although the Ming army used firearms, in front of their own iron cavalry, they did not get much opportunity to shoot at all.
Although it will suffer a certain blow at the beginning, its own iron cavalry will still enter the Ming army's formation with a devastating impact, and the Ming army will be scattered. After the infantry came up, it was easy to clean up the mess.
In the past, the Qing army basically followed this routine against the Ming army, and it was tried and tested.
But today, the firepower of the Ming army is not only strong, it seems to never stop, round after round of blows, and the Qing army feels that they have come to line up to be shot.
Under the fierce blows of the musketeers of the Yongwei Battalion, the Qing soldiers continued to fall from their horses, and many white-armored soldiers and Niu Lu Zhangjing were also killed by the Yongwei Battalion.
During this period, the cavalry of the Qing army was still extremely strong in combat, although it suffered a heavy blow from the Yongwei battalion and lost its command, the remaining Qing soldiers were not defeated.
Under the command of their respective Niu Lu Zhangjing, they still struggled to charge the position of the Yongwei Battalion, hoping to rush into the position of the Yongwei Battalion and give full play to their advantages in close combat.
However, in Zhu Cihong's eyes, this is no different from sending him to death. As the Qing army's iron cavalry approached the position of the Yongwei battalion, the blow was even more violent.
Especially after entering within sixty steps, the double armor and triple armor can no longer protect the body of the Qing soldiers, as long as they are hit by the projectile of the fire gun, almost without exception, they penetrate the heavy armor and hit directly into the flesh.
"Shoot the arrows!" When the Qing army entered the sixty-step range, a Qing army's Niu Lu Zhangjing ordered.
The remaining one or two hundred Qing cavalry fired at the projectiles, bent their bows and arrows on horseback, and fired at the Yongwei battalion.
At this time, at the front end of the front of the Yongwei battalion, a row of pentagonal tiger head shields was suddenly erected, the tiger head shield was four feet high, three points thick, and one foot seven inches wide, and the surface of the shield was covered with cowhide, and the pattern of the tiger was painted.
There was an inverted triangular notch at the top of the shield, nailed with stickers, and muskets also stretched out from the notch, aiming at the Qing army's iron cavalry who was about to rush towards him.
When the cavalry of the Qing army began to attack, the shield soldiers were already in place, and the tiger head shield was placed flat in the place, and half kneeled in the place, although the tiger head shield was not heavy, but it could resist the impact of the cavalry in the field.
When the Qing cavalry entered the 60-step range, the shield soldier held the tiger's head shield in a half-kneeling position, and the musketeer behind him put the musket on the notch on the top of the shield, which could not only shoot the enemy soldiers, but also fully protect themselves.
As for the heads of the musketeers, they were naturally protected by the iron helmets that were standard in the Ming army, so the bows and arrows of the Qing army were almost useless to the musketeers of the Yongwei battalion.
There were only a few Qing cavalry with Olympic archery skills, and they shot a few musketeers of the Yongwei battalion, and the musketeers of the Yongwei battalion who were hit by the arrows still gritted their teeth and persisted.
However, in this case, only the last row of musketeers could continue to attack, and the remaining two rows were blocked by shields and could no longer shoot.
In the Chinese army, Zhu Cihong rode on a tall horse and stood on a small hillside, always grasping the battle situation, seeing that the Qing cavalry had advanced fifty steps, he ordered: "Divide and disperse!" ”
The trumpeters around him hurriedly blew their horns, signaling the musketeers in the first two rows to disperse on both flanks, march forward, and shoot at the Qing cavalry movement in the middle in the shape of arrows.
Because the musketeers in the front of the Yongwei battalion were relatively long, more than 300 meters, while the impact surface of the Qing cavalry was less than 200 meters wide, which was enough for two rows of musketeers to advance from both flanks, and the three rows of musketeers presented a three-sided attack.
There were also some cavalry rushing to the two wings, but they tragically found that behind the musketeers on both wings, the cavalry of the Ming army sat on their horses, and also opened fire coldly at them with muskets in their hands.
In front of the Yongwei Battalion, a large cloud of white smoke filled the air, and the air was filled with a choking smell of sulfur, covering up the rich smell of blood in front of it.
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Thank you for some suggestions left in the comment area in this chapter.
Reply to the love of the book friend candlelight: Travel to the end of the Ming Dynasty, especially the Chongzhen period, this time period is always full of wars, the court fought with the Manchus in the north, and fought with hundreds of thousands of hundreds of thousands of thirteen families in the south of the Great Wall.
The identity of the protagonist is the crown prince, the third time the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, they all hit around the city of Beijing, just like the devil in the sweep, does the protagonist have to fight with the group of rice buckets in the court if he doesn't fight? Or is it said that An Anxin is engaged in scientific and technological innovation in Beijing and develops economic sideline business? I can't do it anyway.
I also don't like too many long-winded war plots, but the premise of the protagonist's iron-blooded politics is to have a loyal and strong army, which does not come out of nowhere, but is polished by war.
There are not many wars in the early stage of this book, only a few, except for the first two or three battles that are written in detail, and the later ones are less described.
Especially in the middle and late stages, except for a few royal expeditions, the protagonist is basically governing the country, saving the Ming Dynasty ideologically and economically, and the war is handed over to several generals to fight.
Please rest assured that you will not write a purely military novel.