Chapter 587 The bullet is a fool, and the bayonet is a hero
The salvo of 3,000 muskets was like thunder, and so was the slaughter made......
The formation of the team training collapsed in an instant.
Although the thickness of the formation was far greater than the three rows in the era of queuing for shooting, the thickness of the first third of this Dutch-style temporary regimental formation was really like a collapse, and the soldiers who were originally turning and fleeing were completely turned into a pile of dead and wounded soldiers......
Almost no one was spared.
At such a distance, even a smoothbore gun has a hit rate of more than 40 percent.
Even if not all of the muskets were fired, more than 2,900 muskets would still be fired
This is the first round of shooting.
The barrel is clean, the ammunition inside is carefully loaded before the war, and it is also specially checked that it is not damp, so it can be said that as a musket, this is the best state it can achieve, and the success rate of firing is also the highest. There is no problem of accuracy at a distance of 20 meters, the soldiers are trained for a long time, and the Marine Corps is the first army in the Ming Dynasty to be trained according to Western-style tactics, and it can be said that this round of shooting is the most successful round of shooting in the entire Ming Dynasty and even in the whole world.
A real thunderbolt.
Then, while the gunfire was still echoing, the enemy opposite them collapsed without any suspense.
The remnants of the 500 or so group training were screaming and crying in horror like crazy, crowding each other, pushing and trampling each other, running backwards desperately, and even crawling on the ground to escape without caring about getting up after falling......
They were all stupid in the rear.
But in the midst of a shocked gaze, the soldiers who had finished shooting did not continue to reload.
"Charge!"
The roar of the officers rang out.
All the Marines began the charge with their bayonet-mounted rifles......
"Perfect!"
Yang Yi said with satisfaction.
"It's just that now the enemy knows about our new tactics, and it will be troublesome to learn them in the future."
Lin Sen said.
"Learn?"
Yang Yi smiled.
"What do they learn?
Do they have the ability to keep their soldiers, facing bullets and shells, just not to return fire and keep the formation beaten, until they reach within seven feet?
This tactic is not difficult to learn, in fact, the musket tactics are very simple, but we didn't use rotations to break the enemy in the past?
Jiannu has been defeated.
It's not how amazing our tactics are, it's not how good our weapons are.
But our soldiers are not afraid of death.
Our soldiers can be killed and wounded by thirty percent, and the formation is still fighting without collapse, and those regimental training casualties will inevitably collapse, and now our soldiers do use flintlock pistols to take advantage, but this is also the result of replacing them with turtledoves. Fighting a war does not depend on some subtle tactics, weapons are better, fighting a war depends on the soldiers who are not afraid of death, and now these soldiers, replace their muskets with crossbows, I dare to guarantee that we will win in the end.
At most, there were more casualties.
Speaking of which, it seems that we have far fewer casualties than the enemy, right? ”
He said.
It is true that there were not many casualties.
The arquebus trained by the regiment was purely resigned to fate when it was ten feet away, and no matter what the results of this thing were on target on weekdays, the wisest shooting distance on the battlefield was thirty yards.
This is not a test out.
This is what the Europeans have tested with countless wars and tens of millions of bloody lives.
That's thirty yards.
With only half of the arquebus, and eight rounds of fire, how many bullets can be fired during the ten meters that the Marine Corps has traveled?
How many of them can hit?
That's what the tactics of Duzi play, all attacks from thirty yards away can be ignored, that is, there are some casualties sporadically, and no tactic is better than walking twenty meters with bullets, and then everyone shoots a salvo to solve the problem, and the rest is to charge with a bayonet......
"The bayonet is good, the bayonet is serious, the bullet is stupid, the bayonet is a hero!"
Yang Yi watched with great interest as the soldiers who were chasing the enemy with bayonets.
This stuff really works.
Especially after the collapse of the enemy army, countless soldiers with muskets with bayonets, shouting morale like rainbows, the scene of chasing and killing was extremely spectacular, and even those enemy troops who fled were frightened and lost the courage to resist. And they are also difficult to resist, the turtledove is difficult to fight because of its weight, that is, it can be smashed hard with a big stick, but it cannot be compared with the flexibility of the bayonet, although the spear seems to have an advantage over the bayonet, but the spear that does not form a formation is meaningless......
It's too long.
Except for straight stabs, there are almost no other abilities.
It doesn't have to form a straight stab, and it's easy for those bayonets to dodge or block.
The surging bayonets overwhelmed the enemy in the blink of an eye.
"Enemy cavalry!"
Lin Sen suddenly said with a grim expression.
The regiment trained the cavalry on both flanks, and they had to make sure that the rout slowed down, as this would impact the middle formation behind.
The five hundred cavalry, who had been on standby on both flanks, immediately attacked.
But they are still musketeers, although the battle of Wuxi has tested the flaws of this tactic, but shock cavalry is not easy to cultivate, cold weapon fighting, spear impact, all require real martial arts. The advantage of the musketeers is that they don't need to be so troublesome, they can ride a horse and turn that semi-whirlwind action, so it is definitely unrealistic to expect the regiment to change to shock cavalry in a short period of time.
Yang Xin was able to train quickly because those anti-thieves themselves had a good martial arts and could have fought on horses.
Even this is barely enough.
Compared with the elite cavalry of Liaodong, it is still not at the same level, not to mention Cao Wenzhao, even the elite of Zu Dashou can defeat him, this kind of ability requires a long time of training, and countless actual combat training, Liaodong cavalry has an absolute advantage in this regard.
So Sun Chengzong is confident enough.
Fortunately, Yang Xin never thought of playing cavalry battles with Lu Xiangsheng, his cavalry had his cavalry play, and the elite cavalry had the methods of the elite cavalry.
Yang Yi's gaze turned to the battlefield.
The pursuing marines quickly stopped, and then formed a formation on the battlefield, the original line quickly shrunk, battalion by battalion formed a quadripartite formation, all the soldiers were as close together as possible and the soldiers in the front row were half-kneeling on the ground to prop up their flintlock pistols with bayonets, and the second and third rows were aiming, and quickly completed the preparation for meeting the cavalry.
Immediately after the first cavalry arrived, but before they could get within firing range, the second platoon of Marines opened fire with flintlock muskets.
The cavalry immediately fell.
It is far easier to shoot a target of this size than it is to shoot a person.
The fallen cavalry affected the impact, and the remaining cavalry on horseback opened fire in a hurry, and the bullets from the short guns rarely hit the target, and they continued to move forward to complete the second round of fire as planned.
But immediately after the third platoon of marines opened fire, more cavalry fell.
The remaining chaos fired.
Again, they don't hit much.
And according to the training, these cavalry began to turn.
But the second platoon of marines who had finished loading opened fire, and the cavalrymen did not dare to meet the spikes of the bayonets on the opposite side, it was not a simple line, in fact all the marines were almost crowded side by side. The second platoon, having finished firing, also knelt in the back with its bayonets, while the third platoon continued to fire, and the cavalry, unable to complete their assault process, began to try to bypass the phalanx in search of a suitable place to attack.
But this is the Quartet.
There were no weak points in the defense, and all directions were full of such crowded soldiers, all so densely packed that almost a cavalry attack was on the surface, and a dozen spikes had to wait.
There is indeed a possibility that the cavalry will ram away.
but he himself will die.
Apparently unaware of the need to sacrifice their lives to make the way for victory, the cavalry chose to continue their search for their targets, and then they were caught up in a chessboard of six battalion-sized phalanxes, and they found themselves facing bullets from almost all directions. These bewildered cavalrymen, running in vain between such phalanxes, were constantly hit by bullets from front to back, left and right, and fell off their horses, and their numbers became smaller and smaller. Even because of the limited space between these phalanxes, the cavalry that had been killed in two ways had to be dispersed, so that they were even less capable of attacking.
In the blink of an eye, a battalion of cavalry turned into a corpse in this chessboard composed of phalanxes.
"The good days of cavalry are over."
Lin Sen sighed.
"Not necessarily!
Change to one that is not afraid of death, and you can still rush away with a spear.
But first, the first wave has to die!
But the infantry can indeed finish the cavalry, in fact, even if there is no this, the old spear plus round fire is enough to restrain the cavalry, but there are still flanks that are not safe enough, and it is best to have cavalry protection, but this does not need cavalry protection at all, as long as it does not go deep into the grassland and is cut off from logistics, when the logistics are sufficient, such an infantry phalanx can already deal with all the cavalry. ”
Yang Yi said.
But those regimental cavalry did not have the courage of Napoleon's Guards cavalry after all, not to mention that the Guards cavalry only broke away.
The hollow phalanx ended the cavalry attack.
The remnants of less than 300 cavalry fled from this trap-like chessboard in terror, and then all the hollow phalanxes reverted to a line, and then re-faced the regimental formation of the Chinese army......
The latter collapsed without a fight.
Those regimental exercises have a fart will to fight, they were originally paid and eaten, they are all people from Shaoxing and Ningbo, and they have seen the good life brought by the Yang family in Zhoushan over the years, and even relatives and friends have gone to work as hired laborers for the Yang family. In the current situation, how can it be possible to fight to the end, and it is already worthy of conscience to be able to hold out until now, and when I see that these marines have completed the formation again, are they still waiting for bullets if they don't run?
The cavalry has lost!
At this time, it is important to run away.
The entire Chinese army formation disintegrated and collapsed like a sand castle that had been scattered by the tide.
"Count them smart, what about our cavalry, pursue them immediately, leave those soldiers alone, follow those boys, I've been thinking about them for a long time!"
Yang Yi said.
As he spoke, he pointed to Zhu Zhiyu's cheerleaders.
The location of the latter is striking.
They were on the protrusion of a hillside next to the Chinese formation, each wearing three-quarter armor and cloaks, holding binoculars and escorts, it was like a bid to sell their heads......
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