There were no mufflers or flame suppressors in those days, and there was a lot of movement when firing guns.

Every time a gun is fired, there is always a loud sound and the accompanying white smoke, and relatively speaking, the muzzle flame is not much to be seen in broad daylight.

Therefore, it is difficult for the musketeer unit to maintain concealment during the battle, even if you hide it secretly, but at the moment of shooting, it is equivalent to directly telling the enemy your own direction.

When Ying Tianhu heard the dense gunfire, the first thing he did was to follow the source of the sound and look to the left, and in his sight was a low hillside, and behind the hillside were rows of dense musketeers.

Pseudo-Tang Thief Army!

There is no doubt that these people are the firecrackers in the puppet Tang thief army that they have been chasing for the past two days!

Ying Tianhu didn't have time to think, so he shouted directly: "Lie down, if you don't want to die, let Lao Tzu lie down!" ”

This lying down doesn't mean that you can't fight and have to surrender or something, but to dodge the bullets of the pseudo-Tang thief army!

In fact, there is no need to shout at Ying Tianhu, the more than 100 Ming troops have already fallen in response to the gunshots!

Of course, this response was definitely not that the bullets of the puppet Tang in the thief army hit them all, but to take the initiative to lie down and avoid the bullets.

After lying down, Ying Tianhu raised his head and saw that the puppet Tang thief armourers on the left were about seventy steps away from them, and this seventy steps was actually a considerable distance for the battle between the two armies.

Even if the archers are at this distance, they can't play much role, but Ying Tianhu still doesn't have the slightest carelessness.

He knew very well that at this distance, even if he and a few of his own soldiers put on armor, they were very likely to be punched out of a big hole.

He has fought many times with the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army, but he knows quite well that the kind of long fire in the hands of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army can hit far and is extremely powerful.

Not only Ying Tianhu himself knew, but other Ming soldiers also knew.

As a Ming army that has fought many times with the puppet Tang thief army, Tong'an Qianhu can be said to be the Ming army that knows the puppet Tang thief army best.

In this process, the soldiers of the Ming army of Tong'an Qianhu also have a slight understanding of the various tactics in the pseudo-Tang thief army, first of all, they know that these pseudo-Tang thieves are all chicken thieves very much, and they will flee if they are a little troubled, and they will escape quickly.

The Ming army will never be given the opportunity to fight head-on!

Secondly, these puppet Tang thieves are particularly fond of ambushes and attack the small units of the Ming army, and the last time the Ming army's grain transport team was attacked many times by the puppet Tang thief army, and the losses were not small.

Moreover, there are dozens of armor-breaking bandits in this pseudo-Tang thief army, all of whom are not afraid of death, and from last year to now, the Ming army has suffered losses under these dozens of bandits several times.

However, all of the above are still within the comprehension of the generals of the Ming army, even if it is a pseudo-Tang thief army, even if the pseudo-Tang thief army has dozens of armored bandits, these are nothing to the generals of the Ming army.

But the puppet Tang thief army's long-term firecrackers made the Ming army quite helpless!

The Ming army's large-scale contact with the puppet Tang thief army's firecrackers was when they entered the mountains to encircle and suppress at the beginning of the year, and several times the destruction of the grain transportation team was because they were defeated and collapsed by these firecrackers.

Later, when the high-level of the Ming army secretly investigated Longhua Town, when it was breached, they also learned that the puppet Tang thief army at that time used fire guns to shoot a hundred steps away to break the morale of the young men defending the city.

After Fengjiazhuang was breached two days ago, the remaining people on Fengjiazhuang's side also found the generals of the Ming army later, and they trumpeted the great power of the puppet Tang thief army.

Not only can you shoot from 100 steps away, but it's also powerful!

In this way, it is difficult for the local Ming army not to be impressed by the firecracker.

Now that they know that the puppet Tang thief army has a large number of firecrackers in their hands, the generals of the Ming army, including Ying Tianhu, will naturally figure out how to deal with these firecrackers of the puppet Tang thief army.

They put forward a lot of methods, such as wearing thicker cotton armor to resist bullets, I have to say that this method is actually effective, although the defense effect of cold weapons such as spears and stabs is very general, but the defense of bullets still has a certain use, at least the defense of the Ming army itself is still quite effective.

At the beginning, the Datang New Army also captured a lot of this kind of cotton armor, but later the Ming Army faced by the Datang New Army was mainly based on cold weapons, in order to strengthen the defensive effect of cold weapons, the Datang Ministry of Industry modified the cotton armor captured from the Ming Army, and added iron sheets to the inner lining to increase the defensive effect of cold weapons, making it a relatively primitive cloth iron armor and cotton iron armor.

But Ying Tianhu himself also knows that even if it is a thickened cotton armor, it is unreliable in the face of the kind of long fire gun of the pseudo-Tang thief army, and it is okay in the medium and long distances, but once it is within fifty steps, it is enough to choke, if it is a distance of thirty or forty steps, it is still a dozen holes.

You must know that Li Xuan did not make the kind of small-caliber bird guns in historical time and space, the historical bird guns and the Japanese iron cannons of the same period, the general caliber is between nine mm and eleven mm, in the arquebus and even the flintlock era, they are very typical small-caliber muskets, which are characterized by a relatively high muzzle velocity and a long range, but the power is quite reluctant.

The Mustec arquebus, used by the Spanish musketeers of the same period, with a caliber of up to 20 millimeters, was powerful enough to penetrate two millimeters of plate armor at a distance of 100 meters.

At the same time, the plate armor commonly equipped in the West promoted the popularization of large-caliber muskets, and the popularization of large-caliber muskets gradually withdrew from the historical stage, so that the musketeers finally unified the battlefield.

On the side of the Tang Dynasty, Li Xuan naturally did not know the development process of muskets in history, he only knew arquebuses and flintlock pistols, and when he started to engage in arquebuses last year, he did not strictly set how many calibers, how many weights and lengths, etc.

His requirement was very practical, that is, to be able to effectively penetrate the cotton armor that was more common in the Ming army's equipment at a medium distance, and it was under this premise that the final caliber and barrel length and other data were determined.

In the end, many reasons were for the muskets of the Datang New Army to determine the final data, such as length and weight, and most importantly, caliber: four and a half minutes, that is, about fourteen millimeters.

In the early muskets, this caliber belonged to the medium caliber, and its power was worse than that of large-caliber muskets of more than 20 mm in the West, but it was much stronger than small-caliber muskets of about 10 mm.

In the face of this medium-caliber musket of the Datang New Army, not to mention these cotton armors, even the cavalry cuirass that has reached the peak of protection in modern times cannot be stopped.

Ying Tianhu They have a deep understanding of this, so one of his personal soldiers died under this kind of fire, as a personal soldier, he is naturally well-equipped, wearing cotton armor, but also wearing a layer of iron armor, this level of defense in the Ming army can be said to have reached the peak.

In these years, the warriors of the double armor are often the most elite soldiers, and it is easy to charge into battle, but this personal soldier was killed when he was still forty steps away from the pseudo-Tang thief army.

Since then, Ying Tianhu has known that against the fire guns of the puppet Tang thief army, he will either rely on the number of people to rush forward and fight while they are unable to load, or lie down directly to avoid the bullets.

Now, his choice is to lie down and dodge the bullets!

There are seventy or eighty musketeers on the other side, and it's really unknown whether these hundred or so people can rush over!

In fact, if Ying Tianhu chose to charge, then the end would definitely be miserable!

In the absence of a large number of archers to cover, if Ying Tianhu directly led people to charge, the musketeers of the Datang New Army dared to let Ying Tianhu and them rush to a distance of twenty meters or even more than ten meters, and then come to a close salvo!

After a close-range salvo, Wang Danxu will lead the musketeers to launch a bayonet charge, and these Ming troops are likely to be killed or wounded on the spot, in this case, if these Ming soldiers under Ying Tianhu do not collapse, these Ming troops will not be Ming troops, but aliens.

Because most of Li Xuan's understanding of the tactics of musketeers comes from later film and television dramas, especially those British lobster soldiers wearing big red robes, this has also led to the Tang musketeers trained by Li Xuan, which to some extent can be regarded as a copy of the British lobster soldiers.

And how did the British lobster soldiers fight?

To put it simply, when they fight, they have only one purpose, and that is to resolutely not fire the first shot!

Therefore, in countless battle examples, you can see those seemingly rigid British lobster soldiers in the grenadier march, slowly walking to the muzzle of others, regardless of the other party's bullets hitting their comrades and spraying their own blood.

It was only when he walked twenty or thirty meters in front of the house that he would raise his gun and shoot.

And in the vast majority of cases, they only fired one shot, because after their volley, most of the opponents had already suffered heavy casualties, and then they would directly launch a bayonet charge, directly crushing the opponent with bayonet hand-to-hand combat.

Watching them fight, it feels like watching them drink afternoon tea, which is called a relaxed and leisurely, compared with the armies of other countries fighting and shouting and killing, it is a heaven and an earth.

Of course, it's not that they are very awesome to fight like this, many times they will be beaten up, but people don't care, and they insist on fighting like this from beginning to end.

Today's Datang New Army, under Li Xuan's training, also focuses on training 20-meter salvo and bayonet charge.

Therefore, the two musket teams of the Datang New Army, what they are good at is not multi-row round fire at medium and long distances, but salvo fire and bayonet charge at close range!

And Ying Tianhu was afraid of death, so he let the soldiers lie down and hide as soon as possible, without saying that he directly led people to rush up, which can be said to have directly saved his own life and that of these Ming soldiers.

After the gunfire on the opposite side stopped, the white smoke dissipated, and after confirming that those musketeers had run hundreds of meters away, Ying Tianhu stood up, and then pulled out his waist knife: "Kill!" ”

After shouting various slogans and chasing people for dozens of meters, he stopped his pace, and then sent someone to report to Diao Leixun in the rear: his subordinates were ambushed by the thief army, and he personally led the army to fight back, and after fighting for a long time, the thief army was defeated and fled in a hurry.