Chapter 200: Imminent

Although the Fire Gun Banner Team was divided into multiple battle teams, Min Yuanqi had already transferred the command to Shen Liang before.

Even Min Yuanqi can also set firearms, and he had a lot of experience in using old smoothbores when he was a teenager in his previous life, but at least in this era, he has not led the firecracker troops to fight, and Shen Liang is obviously more experienced, and his personality is quite tenacious and strong.

This is a fairly qualified tactical commander, and after Min Yuanqi decided the overall situation, he also dared to delegate power to his subordinates.

Shen Liang led the front team, when to release, how to attack, and how to deal with the enemy's offensive, these tactical matters Min Yuanqi handed over to this strong Dengzhou town soldier.

In addition, Min Yuanjin and Yang Zhijin were each in charge of two thousand headquarters, and these two thousand general military attachés handed over the command of the front jumping team to Gao Cuncheng and Xie Xiang and other former enemy commanders.

The divisions continued to move forward amid the rousing and soothing drumbeat.

Officers such as Min Yuanqi and Min Yuanzhong were in the middle army and on the flanks, respectively, and marched together with the pace of the army.

Many people's mood is a little restless, after all, the enemy army in front of them is serious officers and soldiers, and the number of them is several times more than on their own side.

If it weren't for the fact that most of the weapons of the guest soldiers were inferior, and there were very few armored soldiers, even dressed in tatters and barefoot, I am afraid that the flag army would be even more upset.

Attacking more with less, defeating the rabble with elite, this is an easy task.

When one realizes that one's side is far smaller than the enemy's army, one inevitably becomes a little agitated.

Only when well-trained officers and men are confronted with rogue bandits who are close to bare-handed will they have the psychological advantage of being at ease on the battlefield.

This is also before the middle of Chongzhen, after the middle period, the rogue soldiers are divided into five, the periphery is surrounded by the people, then the ordinary battalion soldiers, then the elite infantry, then the more elite old battalion horsemen, and finally the old camp Jiakou.

The Banner Army has always been quite confident in itself, but if there is no strict military law supervision, there is also the inertia formed by military attachés at all levels in peacetime training, and in addition, the Banner Army often trains to kill small groups of bandits and gain some battlefield experience.

With the figure of slightly more than one-third of the enemy's army, the morale of the flag army is afraid to drop a lot.

Even the officers and soldiers such as the guest soldiers, they were afraid to fight when they encountered a strong Donglu, and they were quickly defeated and fled when they encountered a large number of rogues, and it was really common for the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty to be 14 years after Chongzhen.

Even the generals have a wealth of experience, once they feel defeated, they will flee first, and then go to a safe place to gather the remnants of the army, and try to keep their subordinates a certain base and combat strength.

If you are really going to be defeated to the point that there is no soldier, you will definitely not be able to save your head, although the emperor does not dare to kill the generals with heavy troops, and he will not say anything about those defeated generals.

Chongzhen killed dozens of civil and military generals at once in the second year, acquiesced in Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Mao Wenlong, and killed Yuan Chonghuan because the Houjin soldiers came to the city of Beijing, but everyone knew the emperor's temperament.

The team of more than 30 bureaus is still relatively complete at nearly 50 paces, the array is spread out from north to south, there are thousands of households and several earth cities as the flanks, the south side is a large area of trenches and arrow towers, the city and the earth city and the arrow tower are full of people, and the artillery is fired from time to time, the flag army is not worried about being outflanked by the enemy, and the entire array continues to move forward in a relatively complete situation.

After nearly fifty steps, Shen Liang made a hand gesture.

All the strikers slowed down, and the drumming gradually stopped.

The guerrilla team is unfolded, like an open eight characters, the members of the guerrilla holding the sword card are all tall and bold in the flag army, and their number is not much, and they are unfolded in turn like geese walking, clamping down on the other side's scarce guerrillas.

As the vanguard and the main formation began to slow down, the archers of the guest soldiers continued to shoot arrows, but these archers were extremely poorly adaptable, and a large number of elevation shots fell behind the striker, most of them before the jumping team or station.

Most of these soldiers were dressed in cotton armor or chain mail, and a small number of swords and shields were draped in armor, and the arrows were not a great threat to them, because the strength was weak, and the arrows were mostly light arrows, and the sword players used their shields to block the arrows, or the pikemen simply lowered their heads and let the arrows fall on their heads or the upper body protected by armor.

In the sound of the clanging rain of arrows falling to the ground, they finally reached a distance of about forty paces.

At this distance, the two sides could already see each other very clearly, and when the guests saw the firecrackers raising the firecrackers one after another and aiming the black hole with the guns at themselves, they couldn't help but change color in shock.

Even if the firecracker no longer worked in the minds of the guests, when the distance reached about forty paces, it still gave the guests a big enough threat.

But the pace of the battle front team did not completely stop, Shen Liang just ordered the gunners to prepare, but did not signal to stop the military formation and aim on the spot.

In the slow beat of the drums, the banner army formation continued to move forward for another ten steps.

At this distance, the two sides were ready to move, and the generals of the guest soldiers galloped back and forth in the military formation, ready to order their subordinates to quickly pounce and begin to engage the banner army on the opposite side.

At this moment, Shen Liang finally raised his arm.

Min Yuanqi, who was more than 100 steps behind him, was sweating profusely, and couldn't help but say to Min Yuanzhong: "Shen Liang's courage is really iron and steel!" ”

Min Yuanzhong also said: "I thought that he would order the stop after sixty steps." ”

"It's actually very simple." Min Yuanqi wiped the beads of sweat from his face, and said with a smile: "If we have three or four hundred guns, Shen Liang will order them to be released at sixty to eighty steps." Keep moving forward, keep playing, loading, and putting again. If the enemy's archers are weak, the exchange between the two sides is that we will take advantage of it, so we will simply stop and set fire guns, so that the guerrillas can cover and the jumping team will prepare. After a few rounds of shabu, I am afraid that I will be able to collapse the enemy's front line, and at least it will cause them to be in chaos and suffer heavy casualties. ”

"It's a pity." Min Yuanzhong is not a stupid person, and he understood it at once.

Although the fire guns are powerful, they are unfortunately too few in number.

There are less than 100 guns in the machine, and the remaining dozens of them were collected everywhere before, and many of them are still inferior products, which are close to the shot, easy to explode, and have little power.

If there were 400 well-made combined guns, Shen Liang would definitely consider slowing down within a hundred steps, or even stop and take turns to shoot with three blows, and the non-stop firepower output, the bow and arrows of the guest soldiers at about eighty steps were extremely powerful, but the power of the firearms was not greatly affected.

After the rotation of the release, the confidence of the guest soldiers will be a serious blow, and it is not impossible to collapse directly after heavy casualties.

"It's a pity......" Min Yuanqi also had a faint disappointment in his eyes, in fact, he wanted to see the scene of hundreds of thousands of firecrackers sweeping the guest soldiers in front of him, white smoke billowing out, and the soldiers wearing Fan Yangli and wearing Daming armor were walking forward with smoothbore guns equipped with guns, constantly firing the muskets, knocking down the enemies in front of him in rows.

What a beautiful spectacle, and now all the countries of Europe do not have large-scale standing troops, let alone the habit of wearing military uniforms. If it is possible, Min Yuanqi hopes that China will be the first to open up the atmosphere and determine the military rank and uniform, and a large number of standing troops with bayonet smoothbore guns will be invincible, line up to be shot, and China will once again go ahead of the world.

What internal enemies and external enemies are all using smoothbore guns to teach them how to behave.

Countless battle fronts, a team of 100 people marched forward for a horizontal formation on the battlefield, ten, hundred, thousand...... What a magnificent spectacle it was, just thinking about it, Min Yuanqi couldn't help but be excited.

This time it was impossible to catch up no matter what, and Shen Liang's response was quite simple.

If the number of firearms is insufficient, and a considerable part of them are inferior, then the closer the better, at most two rounds, as much damage as possible to the guests, and strive to kill the enemy to the maximum extent and cause chaos to the enemy.

After the vanguard team stopped, all the more than one hundred and fifty gunners raised their firearms in their hands for the first time.

The medicine had already been put on in advance, the projectile was stuffed, and the fire rope was lit.

The arquebus is specially made and can burn slowly for a long time.

As long as it is not rainy weather, the success rate of arquebuses is far higher than that of self-generated firebolts, that is, flintlock pistols.

In this era, it is still quite difficult for flintlock pistols to solve the problem of the success rate of firing, and the success rate of flintlock pistols in rainy weather will further decrease.

On rainy days, even cold weapons troops will avoid fighting, and one is that bows and arrows cannot be soaked in rain, and after soaking the bowstring, they can barely open the bow and shoot arrows, and the bow and arrows will basically be scrapped.

Second, it is difficult for soldiers to move in rainy weather, and the advantages or disadvantages will become ambiguous, and generally those who participate in the battle feel that they can win, and there is no need to drive soldiers to take risks.

In this way, although the flintlock pistol is a technological advance, its significance is not as great as that of a breech to a breech.

After the breech loading was changed to rear loading, there were technological innovations such as rifling, and the lethality and effective firing range of the musket were greatly increased, which can be described as a qualitative change, and the previous changes were nothing more than quantitative changes.

The fire is evenly raised, and the front teams are all lined up, and they are not divided into two or three columns, and it is also considered that the first blow is to bring the most damage, and it is not necessary to strike three stages or divide into two teams.

After pausing for a few breaths, Shen Liang didn't hesitate, directly raised his right hand high, and then waved it down!

A loud horn sounded, and then someone sounded the first bell.

The flames burst out, and after the bell, bullets burst out and shot at the enemy forty paces away.

Due to the close proximity of each other and the dense array of opponents, the effect of this round of salvos was quite amazing.

After Shen Liang waved his hand, he also aimed at an enemy in the array opposite him, and decisively pulled the trigger.

The faucet clamped the fire rope and was turned by the trigger, the fire rope ignited the primer in the medicine pool, and the gun tube shook, and then Shen Liang felt his hands vibrate, and at the same time, both hands felt that the gun tube began to get hot.

If you put a few more guns, the guns will get hot.

But it looks like the other side is definitely not going to wait.

After a volley, the guests forty paces away fell in a large group, a result that stunned and furious the guest generals.

The ordinary guest soldiers were panicked, looking at the large number of partners around them who were smashed in heads and chests, these guest soldiers were extremely frightened.