Chapter 42: Breakthrough
The three-eyed gun, also known as the "sub-mother gun", is shorter than the firecracker, and the firing range is not as good as the firecracker, and it has almost no lethality to the target at a distance of 100 steps.
However, at a distance of about forty paces, the power and accuracy of the Three-Eyed Gun are much stronger than that of the Fire Gun, and the target will definitely be severely damaged if it does not wear armor. Within 30 paces, even if the target is wearing heavy armor, the Three-Eyed Gun can easily break through the armor and seriously injure the enemy.
In the early years, the Ming army was not equipped with many three-eyed guns, but now the Ming army in Liaodong is equipped with this weapon, especially the cavalry troops, which are almost the standard.
Because these three-eyed guns can be fired three times quickly, and after the battle, with the speed of the warhorse, the iron pipe at the front of the firearm is also better than the spear and broadsword against the enemy.
There are not many three-eyed guns to resist gold and save **, and there are only more than 300 rods together, and these are all cobbled together by Li Qigongzi from Gai, Fu and other states in order to "redeem himself". It's about six taels of silver for one shot.
Wei Xuewen's cavalry brigade was the seed of Wei's father-in-law's key cultivation, and since it had been given a key tilt in terms of ordnance and equipment, the entire brigade was distributed a total of 300 poles.
In the previous skirmishes with the Jin Army, the Three-Eyed Gun had actual combat, but the effect was relatively not good. The reason is that the troops on both sides are too small to participate in the battle, so that the warring Ming army cannot use the three-eyed gun to form a strong fire suppression.
Moreover, when the number of people on both sides is small, the Ming soldiers who use the three-eyed gun must break through to about fifty paces of the opponent before they can fire, which makes the three-eyed gun as dispensable as chicken ribs.
Instead of risking a chance to get closer, use a longbow or slash with a sword.
This time it was different, since its formation, this was the first time that the cavalry brigade had attacked with a whole battalion, and it was facing an opponent with superior troops, so Wei Xuewen had made detailed arrangements for this battle as early as before the charge.
After several considerations, Wei Xuewen adopted the strategy of approaching the large-scale use of the Three-Eyed Gun, with which the Three-Eyed Gun could penetrate the opponent's defense line formed by three consecutive fires, and then disperse and defeat the Jin army.
Success in achieving this goal naturally meant that the officers and men involved in the attack would have to pay a lot of casualties at a distance of fifty paces.
The death of the general banner made Wei Xuewen feel very uncomfortable, this person was born in the Flying Tiger Army, and he had been a personal guard by the side of the Thirteenth Uncle in the past, and he was an old man of the Imperial Army. Unexpectedly, he was released and died in Liaodong after being the chief flag officer for less than half a year, which is really embarrassing.
"To fight a war is to die, but if you don't die, can you call a war? What you have to do is to fight not to die, as long as you don't die, you are an excellent general, and you will be able to go down in history in the future. ”
Uncle Thirteen's teachings flashed in Xuewen's mind, and he also fired the three-eyed gun in his hand.
With a "bang", the yellow braid that was drawing a bow and aiming at himself forty steps away was knocked away at once, knocking down the two golden soldiers behind him.
The yellow braid, which was not protected by any armor, was almost shattered in his chest, and the dense projectiles were buried deep in his body like maggots attached to the bones.
The blood couldn't stop bubbling out, so that the yellow braid quickly lost consciousness.
The last thing he saw was that the Ming army, which was still dozens of paces away, had already rushed in front of him.
.......
Gun after gun sounded, and in the sound of "bang", the Wei department, which had paid nearly 100 casualties, began a counterattack against the Jin army.
The Ming officers and soldiers holding the three-eyed gun did not need to aim at all, as long as the mouth of the gun was facing forward. Every time the mouth of the black hole sounded, a golden soldier would let out a scream the moment the smoke of gunpowder rose up.
At such a close distance, don't say that it is leather armor and cotton armor, even the iron armor will be pierced!
With just a few breaths, Hitara felt like he's going to hell.
The subordinates who were originally standing in several rows on his side became empty in the blink of an eye. At least seventy or eighty soldiers were killed and wounded by the opposing firearms.
The Goshha who slapped the master's ass before was the most unlucky, he was not killed by the Ming army's firecracker, but was shot to death by a guy who lost his strength after the hammer and his hands trembled.
The arrow was supposed to be headed in front of you, and God knows how it flew to your neck!
The hapless Goshha stood there stupidly with his neck clutched, not knowing whether he should pull out the arrow stuck in his neck or not.
He didn't make a choice until he fell to the ground.
Akito's firearms are really powerful!
The explosion that occurred yesterday during the second Jiala charge had already left an extremely cruel impression on the firearms of the Ming army, but the scene that was being played out around him instinctively deepened this impression.
With the sound of ear-exploding guns, strange things thrown in by the Ming army like throwing stones smashed around him, and everywhere it was as if it had been swept up by a tornado and the fish fell to the ground.
Hitara didn't even see what they were, and it exploded. In the black smoke, there were the screams of his subordinates, and the iron nails and lead pellets that were flying everywhere.
This thing was called "grenade" by the Ming army, and it was a weapon newly equipped by the Ming army.
The "grenade" is actually a stone mine developed by the War Bureau, but Andre, a Portuguese mercenary engineer hired by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, has made some improvements to the stone mine, so that the stone mine does not need to be ignited by the fire rope, but relies on the flint trigger installed on the top to replace the fire rope, and the principle is the same as the flintlock pistol being manufactured in batches by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau.
The improved stone mine can be used even by a child, and can quickly explode and kill the enemy, so it was highly appreciated by Wei Gonggong, who personally named this weapon "grenade", and approved the town guard yamen to allocate funds for mass production.
With the "grenade", Andre received the second prize of the Imperial Army's scientific and technological invention in the 43rd year of Wanli, with a total value of about 5,000 Spanish silver dollars.
It is rumored that Wei Gonggong also drew two things on the approved strips, which were to be manufactured by the General Administration of Manufacturing according to the pattern, emphasizing that the previous pottery and stone mines should not be used, but mainly made of iron as much as possible.
Because the "grenade" was developed three months ago and has not been tested in actual combat, the number of people distributed to the anti-gold rescue ** is not much, and it belongs to the "bottom of the box".
Now, it's all used, and I'm afraid I won't have a chance if I don't use it again.
Hundreds of grenades were thrown, and the two Niu Lujin soldiers in front of the cavalry brigade quickly became a mess. After beating the medicine, the Ming army raised the three-eyed gun high and stepped into the defense line of the Jin army, which was full of dead and wounded.
Hitara was not killed by a grenade, but he was scared.
The previous disdain for the Ming army, the disbelief in his bones, and the sense of shooting the Ming army were gone, replaced by fear.
Fear that no one has ever seen!
With a "pounce", Wei Xuewen swept past Xitara, and the fire gun in his hand smashed on Xita's face and head like a hammer.
Niu Lu's real death in battle made the remaining dozens of Jin soldiers of the second Niu Lu completely lose their souls, and they all turned around and ran backwards.
The third Niu Lu on the other side was also broken by the Ming army, and the remnants of the soldiers rushed back like crazy. Although the rest of the Jin army Niulu was not attacked by the Ming army, they were also uneasy to witness the rout of the second and third Niulu.