Between breaths, the heavy cavalry rushed to within two hundred and fifty paces, which was too close.

Wu Zheng in the stands couldn't help but be anxious, what's going on?

Wu Zheng looked at Song An, and Song An bowed slightly.

Wu Zheng had no choice but to look back at the battlefield again, two hundred steps.

This is the effective range limit of this new batch of muskets.

The musketeers finally moved.

To Wu Zheng's surprise, the musketeers fired a salvo in three rows.

Although this is an impossible battle, Wu Zheng always hopes for a miracle in his heart.

This is definitely not the three-stage attack that Wu Zheng trained in the military academy.

There are two types of musket three-stage shots, one is that after the first row has finished firing, the empty musket is handed to the second row, and the loaded musket is taken from the second row and continues to shoot, and the second row hands the empty gun to the third row, and the loaded musket is taken from the third row, and so on.

The advantage of this three-stage shot is that the speed of the musket exchange is relatively fast, and the interval between shots can be pressed very short, and the disadvantage is also obvious, it is impossible to have high accuracy, relying on volleys, and winning by quantity. In addition, it is always the soldiers in the first row to shoot, and after three rounds, the soldiers may not be able to hold the musket steadily, you know, the musket of the Shenji Battalion two hundred years ago, the weight reached twenty or thirty pounds, plus the shock force of the black powder detonation was extremely large, and the high temperature was smoked, and the three rounds of shooting were basically the limit of the soldiers, and the gun was uneven. So, after three rounds, the power is drastically reduced.

Another kind of three-stage attack is the three-stage attack that Wu Zheng asked the Jiangnan Military Academy to train, that is, after the first row shoots, it retreats, the second row comes forward to shoot, and then the first row continues to exchange positions with the third row, and then begins to load, after the second row shoots, it exchanges positions with the third row, the third row shoots, the second row retreats and exchanges positions with the first row, and so on.

The disadvantage of this three-stage strike is that it is slightly slower than the previous type of firing speed, but it has a relatively good accuracy, because the gun in the soldier's hand has always been his own, and after training and fighting for a long time, he can naturally master the accuracy of the gun relatively well. At the same time, after each soldier shoots, there are two rounds of rest for a more sustained fight.

But now, the musketeers have obviously broken away from the three-stage strike category designated by Wu Zheng.

Wu Zheng thought about it for a while, and then understood that this was Song An's arrangement.

Song An in the Shaoxing Mansion War, led the musket battalion to fight three times in a row, three battles and three victories, although the scale is not very large, but really accumulated a lot of musketeers combat experience, especially in the recovery of Shaoxing City, for the musket street battle has a lot of experience.

To deal with the cavalry, the distance of 200 paces was completed with a three-stage shot, and I was afraid that the cavalry had already entered within 35 paces, and there was no time to carry out the next round of three-stage strikes.

It is better to continue to reload after a salvo, so that you can have time for the next salvo.

It's too late, it's too fast.

The volley of the musketeers, the red-hot projectiles whistling towards the heavy cavalry, this relatively rapid metal collision, so that the armor of the heavy cavalry flashed a series of sparks, but unfortunately, the projectile shot did not penetrate the heavy armor.

In this round of shooting, all thirty projectiles were ineffective, and not a single heavy cavalry landed.

The horses were still charging forward, not even panicking.

Obviously, this elite heavy cavalry has been deliberately trained by Dolgon to be immune to the explosion of gunpowder.

The heavy cavalry rushed to within a hundred paces, and the reloading of the musketeers was completed.

Eighty steps.

The second volley was fired quickly.

Entering the absolute effective range, the power of the projectile increases, and the accuracy of shooting also increases.

This round of shooting finally yielded results.

There is still a gap between Dolgon's ironclad heavy cavalry and the heavily armored cavalry of the West.

His iron armor is mostly composed of iron sheets, and there are still quite a few gaps between the upper and lower fronts, the left and right sides, especially the face and neck.

There is no way, one is that the load-bearing of the war horse cannot be compared with the war horse in the West, and the armor can be a little lighter. The second is that the equipment makes the rider's action rigid and very inconvenient.

The heavy cavalry, on the other hand, could not bend down by the horse's neck to avoid the attack as the light cavalry did, but could only stand upright, not even sideways, because that would likely turn on its side with the horse.

As a result, the two heavy cavalrymen, who were hit in the face by the projectile at close range, fell from the galloping horses and flipped on their sides with their horses.

You don't have to look at it, even if you weren't killed by a projectile, you must have died when you fell off your horse.

Because no human skeleton can withstand falling from a galloping horse wearing more than 100 pounds of iron armor, this weight plus inertia is enough to break the rider's bones.

Therefore, the heavy cavalry was fixed on the war horse to prevent falling.

Three other heavy cavalry seemed to have been struck in a weak part of the chest and neck, and the rider did not fall on his side, but fell headlong on his horse, and did not move, allowing the horse to gallop.

That's what happens in one moment, and the next moment the tide of battle changes in an instant.

After the second round of fire, the musketeers mounted their daggers.

The heavy cavalry crashed through the improvised obstacles, slowing down noticeably, but still charging and starting to accelerate again.

In an instant, the collision between the ironclad war horse and the human body caused more than a dozen musketeers to be knocked into the air.

The short sword of the musketeer did not play any role in the heavy cavalry.

No one could face such oppression, and he could stab his dagger in the neck and face with precision.

But the short sword was the only weapon they could defend themselves with at this time.

Wu Zheng's heart was very painful, he was blaming himself, he should be rationed with more weapons for musketeers, such as thunderstorms, such as mines, etc., these were all equipped by the army in batches in the Ming Dynasty, and there were almost no bottlenecks in research and development.

It's a pity that Wu Zheng didn't have time to do this, and he has been fighting for nearly four years.

didn't even think about it, but now, Wu Zheng deeply understood that if all these auxiliary weapons didn't keep up, relying only on a single musket, in front of the heavy cavalry, there was no room to fight back.

Wu Zheng's teeth bit his lip tightly, and in his clenched fists, his fingernails were already embedded in the flesh.

It seems that only pain can dissolve the sadness and self-blame in his heart.

The heavy cavalry slowly turned around after breaking through the line of musketeers and galloping out for nearly two miles.

What is striking is that the surviving musketeers began to reload after retreating to the other side of the fence, and this composure is shocking.

The heavy cavalry again began to charge.

And this time, more than a dozen musketeers stood side by side, their density, played two roles, one is that the human body can be dense, but the war horse can not be dense, once next to the charge, it is very likely to collide together, so that the impact area will be reduced. In other words, more than a dozen musketeers used this method to avoid a round of destruction. The second is the density of the gunners, which represents the density of the projectiles, and it is not as safe to shoot twenty-five horsemen with a dozen muskets as it is to shoot two or three targets