Chapter 108: Fire Hammer

Many banner soldiers couldn't help but turn their heads to look at the seriously injured man, and saw that the calming soldiers were quickly debridement, disinfecting and stopping the bleeding for that person, and many people felt a little more relieved.

But the arrows of the second and third rounds flew quickly, and more of the wounded left the team or were carried out of the formation.

After three rounds of arrows, about a dozen banner soldiers were forced to leave, all of whom were soldiers without armor.

There are actually more arrows in the armored banner army, but the arrows thrown from such a distance can still penetrate the human body if they are unprotected, and it is basically difficult to cause damage if they are protected.

Most of the arrows of the armored banner soldiers are flesh wounds, and they do not have to leave the queue.

The two sides were separated from each other and soon entered within fifty steps, the bandit archers began to shoot flat, but the arrows they shot were not as threatening as the projectiles, the front row were all swords and armor banner troops, and the power of the flat arrows was great, but most of them were blocked by the square cards that were more than one person high, and they fell on the cotton armor, and it was difficult to penetrate through the body, and it was still only a flesh wound.

Min Yuanqi observed in the formation, so far he was a little relieved, most of the bandit archers used small bow bows, very few Kaiyuan bows, or imitation military bows made by the people, but the quality was uneven, the bow force was generally seven or eight forces, or even five or six forces, and most of the arrows used were light arrows. It is impossible to shoot through the iron armor with a light arrow with such a bow force, and it is extremely difficult to break through the armor even if it is cotton armor and chain mail.

There are generally two kinds of Ming bows: small bow and Kaiyuan bow. Both of these are recurve bows, and the small bow bow comes from West Asia, and the bow body and tip are shorter, and the rate of fire is pursued rather than power. The Kaiyuan bow is a long-tip bow, and the recurve part is more complex and longer than the small bow, and the power is much greater than that of the small-tip bow.

Both kinds of Ming bows are not as long as the clear bow system, the power is not as good as the clear bow, the clear bow pulls large, the arrow is heavy, the bow tire is long and thick, the bow tip is also wide and long, the arrow is a streamlined digging arrow, the heavy arrow arrow is heavy, and the power is great when attacking.

Generally speaking, the clear bow is more powerful, although it grows up, due to the wide bow tip, it is easy to control the bow and shoot on the horse, and the shooter with many years of actual combat experience can overcome the shortcomings of the heavy pound and slow rate of fire, and the power when killing the enemy is definitely above the open bow.

Thinking of this, Min Yuanqi tightened the bow body of the step bow in his hand, and handed over his bird gun to Shen Liang, as a hereditary military attaché, Min Yuanqi's archery skills are far beyond ordinary people, but a strong bow is rare, and the bow in his hand is just the most ordinary small bow. There is a strong bow in the arsenal, but it is too old to look good, and it is no longer usable.

The bow in his hand was made of sun-dried bamboo chips, which looked quite crude from a distance, and when he got it, he realized that it was not simple.

The bow body should be dried for more than two years with a wide and thick bamboo piece of less than six feet, staggered the length of the bamboo to intercept the need, and then polish and polish, and mark and straighten.

After pressing the line straight, it is finely sanded with a planer, and then finely ground after cutting out the bow tire, and then the rope is wound, the wedge is beaten, and the shape of the bow body is determined.

Then after a long time of baking and fixing, the wedge is removed and the rope is removed, and then the bow is slowly tamed to complete the shape of the bow tire.

The bow in the hand is not a recurve, it saves a few steps of procedure. It may also be that the craftsmen who made the bow in the Wei Institute intentionally made this kind of bamboo straight draw bow in the past two years, although it also requires time and meticulous polishing work, but it is always much easier to make than a serious standard military bow, and the cost is much lower.

Min Yuanqi tried the tensile force when winding...... This bowstring should be made of raw cowhide, and the thinly cut raw cowhide is kneaded into a bowstring, and the stability is generally good.

The more elaborate traditional bows not only use animal tendons, but also have stork or crane tendons to make bowstrings, which means that the tendons of birds can make arrows shoot farther...... Of course, this is just a chisel and a chiseling.

The bowstring made of raw cowhide is good, and the inferior is to use hemp rope to rub into a bowstring, in fact, the bow shot out is as stable, the bow is not ejected by the bowstring, this is people's misunderstanding, it is by the elasticity of the bow tire to determine the strength and distance of the bow and arrow, the bowstring only plays a fixed role in pulling the bow tire, and the disadvantage of the hemp rope is that it is easy to break, which is not conducive to the maintenance of ordinary time.

Min Yuanqi tried the bow force, which was about thirty pounds, that is, about five or six forces, and this pull was really too light for his level.

This is the general entry-level tension in later generations, men have a certain arm strength training foundation, thirty pounds entry is too light, and those with no foundation are thirty pounds. Girls are all twenty or twenty-five pounds at the beginning, after all, the nutrition of later generations is comprehensive and balanced, even if a delicate girl pulls a twenty-pound bow, it is not too difficult.

After a certain foundation, men generally use a 50-pound bow or higher, and some novices do not measure their strength, starting with 50 pounds, and their arms hurt for at least two weeks after a day of pulling...... There are just too many such reckless newbies.

He gently pulled the bowstring, and the whole bamboo bow tire was almost pulled together, and he pulled the bow by bending the joints of his thumb on the bowstring, pulling the bowstring with the joint of the thumb, and clamping the tail of the arrow with the joints of the thumb and index finger...... This is the standard Mongolian archery, which can draw a stronger bow and arrow, if it is a hard bow with a higher pound force, you need to wear a wrench, and this soft bow is definitely not needed at the moment.

Min Yuanqi sighed, it is better to have this bow, but he obviously does not expect to use this bow, if he, the main general, is forced to use the bow to protect himself, this battle will almost be lost.

"Forty steps, fire the door!"

Shen Liang had never been so engaged and focused on the battlefield!

The first thing he did after going to the battlefield was to observe the terrain, study the escape route, and wait for the battlefield situation to change with peace of mind...... All the merits of the Ming army are fake, and only the first rank is the real combat exploits. The head of Jianyu Zhenyi is the most valuable, but ordinary people don't have a chance to get this thing, followed by the head of Beiyu, which is also very difficult to get. When Shen Liang fought with the Dongjiang soldiers, those civil officials awarded a reward, and a head was also worth five taels of silver, which was worth Shen Liang's settling-in expenses when he was a soldier.

The Ming army was the most important head, and on the battlefield, they fought for each other's lives to grab the head, and even killed the good and risked the merits, which was caused by this kind of merit system that only valued the head.

At this time, Shen Liang was staring at the enemy in front of him, and the bandit archers did not achieve the expected effect regardless of whether they were projectile or flat, and many bandits showed an anxious look on their faces, and their scolding was much higher-pitched.

According to the experience of the bandits, whether it was Ding Zhuang training for the regimental training that resisted the village, or for the officers and men who came to suppress the bandits, several rounds of projectile and flat firing would cause chaos in the formation, and then as soon as the brigade rushed, the officers and men and the regimental training were directly defeated and fled.

These bandits are also risking their heads with their heads, and they can't be bandits without ruthlessness.

Everything in front of them was obviously beyond the understanding of the bandits, and the archers looked a little dazed, it was the first time they had encountered such an army with long cards and moving forward step by step.

Shen Liang also looked at his position after shouting angrily, the two hundred on the right flank had almost succeeded in cutting diagonally, there were few archers on that side, and the resistance encountered was much smaller, and the left flank of the bandits was already in a commotion, and the formation was chaotic.

The arrays of the first sum and the second sum are noticeably skewed.

No matter how hard the usual training is, the arrows fly above the battle array, and the partners around him let out screams from time to time, and then they are dragged out, this kind of mental tension must lead to deformation of the action, in front of Shen Liang's eyes, the formation of the two hundred is already quite crooked, although everyone is continuing to move forward, but they can't help but want others to take one more step than themselves, so that the speed of the array forward has slowed down, and the originally relatively neat array has also become crooked.

Now the flag army is still moving forward, and it maintains a relatively intact array, and it can still suppress the bandits in momentum, which is also an obvious training achievement.

"Raise the gun!"

The original bird guns, fire guns, Japanese guns, and big western guns were all held diagonally, and when they heard Shen Liang's order, more than 20 firecrackers raised the firearms in their hands, and many people's hands were trembling.

"Shoulder-to-shoulder, not flat!"

Shen Liang saw that two guns were holding the fire guns in their hands forward, and he unconsciously roared again.

He himself put the bird on his shoulder, and the door of fire was not far from his face.

Even if it doesn't explode, it is very likely that the primer will burn up and splash it on the face, and the burns will be inevitable.

Even so, Shen Liang roared angrily and ordered everyone to put the fire gun on the side of their shoulders, and they were not allowed to move forward flatly.

When it is lifted flat, the fire gun will vibrate and skew, and the medicine will not know where to hit it.

Not far away, Min Yuanqi also looked at this side, before the war, he explained to Shen Liang, when to release and how to release it is decided by the captain of the veteran flag, at the strategic level, it is Min Yuanqi who decided to put the fire flag team on the left flank, and at the tactical level, Min Yuanqi does not care.

Everyone waited with bated breath, the two sides had nearly thirty steps, and each could clearly see each other's faces, and everyone was breathing heavily and walking with difficulty.

The right flank of the banner army was closer to the left flank of the bandits, and the bandits began to stop, standing in place brandishing knives and guns and shouting and scolding.

Thirty paces later, the bandit archers who were shooting flat also seemed to see these flags with firearms approaching, and several archers turned their bows and aimed in this direction.

"Hit!"

"Hit!"

"Hit!"

Shen Liang roared three times in a row, and the shouts covered all the noise like thunder, and almost instantly, all the guns pulled the trigger of the fire guns in their hands!

When going to the battlefield, the fire rope is lit and clamped on the dragon head, the trigger is pulled, and the fire rope between the dragon head will buckle the burning end into the fire door with the primer, the fire door has long been opened, if it is a rainy or windy day, the power and efficiency of the fire gun will be reduced indefinitely, or even completely unusable.

However, even if the fire gun can't be used on a rainy day, the bow can't be used either, the bow soaked in the rain will open the glue, and the bow will be scrapped directly after pulling it a few times, so you have to put away the string and be careful of moisture, otherwise it will also have an impact.

In Shen Liang's roar, the twenty-one fire guns were released together in no more than a breath of time.

In the deafening roar of the fire, orange firelight splattered out from the gun, and large and small lead splattered out with the firelight, flying forward, almost at the same time as hearing the sound and seeing the firelight, a long stream of blood floated in front of the bandits.

At least ten or more people were shot at the same time, most of them were hit in the chest and abdomen, and some were hit in the legs, and one person was hit in the face door, the lead is soft and cannot penetrate the body, the kinetic energy is completely absorbed by the human body, all the lead bullets are left inside the human body that was hit, rotating and rolling deformation, expanding the wound, the whole face of the person who was hit in the face was broken, and even the screams could not be made, just rolling on the ground, all the bandits who were shot were screaming and rolling, the wounds on their bodies were inconspicuous, they were all small wounds and big injuries, Many people rolled around and couldn't even make a miserable howl, and after rolling a few laps, they fell to the ground and died.

The bandits' entire formation was in chaos, and the already chaotic array was even more chaotic, and many archers were crowded around by their own people, and they couldn't fire arrows at all.