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The distance of less than two miles of road was only a moment's work for the Xingtian Army advancing forward, and as they got closer and closer, the villagers who had just finished the whole team immediately felt a strong pressure rushing towards them, and they all showed frightened looks, and there would be a commotion in the team from time to time. (.. ）

Fortunately, there is still an inspector in Xiang Yongzhong who has been suppressing them and cheering them up, otherwise, I am afraid that if they can't wait for the Xingtian Army to come in front of them, some of them may be scared soft.

Even so, as the Xingtian Army got closer and closer to them, they could gradually see the faces of the Xingtian Army soldiers clearly, only to see that the generals of the Xingtian Army were all tightly pursed their lips, without any expression on their faces, just silently holding the weapons in their hands, stepping on the drum step by step, marching while taking care of their comrades on the left and right, and always maintaining the queue. I don't know what to do.

The Xingtian Army went out this time, and there were also a lot of recruits who had just finished training from the recruit camp and were not too long, these people were deliberately arranged at the forefront of the team according to the usual practice, and the experienced veterans were arranged at the back of the queue, for them, a few months of recruit training, so that they were already familiar with the change of the queue, and at the same time they were proficient in some skills of fighting on the battlefield, and many of them even saw the battle, but on the way from Shaanxi, they were mainly responsible for some auxiliary operations, They have not really done anything to people, and the only difference between them and the old soldiers is that so far, they have not really seen the red with swords and guns, and this battle is also quite psychological pressure for them, and it is precisely for this reason that Xiao Tianjian deliberately arranged them in front of the team, that is, let them really see blood in this battle, and in the blood and fire, they really grow into a group of fierce soldiers.

Although these recruits still showed some nervousness when they were getting closer and closer to the battlefield, but after a long time of rigorous training and raining down sticks, they had formed a mechanical instinct to execute orders.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, but Xiao Tianjian, who is in the formation, has never given the order to stop advancing, so the drummers in the formation are still rhythmically beating the marching drums, so that the Xingtian Army's formation has been advancing forward like a wall.

Finally, the officers and men who operated several artillery pieces in front of the officers and soldiers of the two armies, who were approaching 200 paces, could not bear the increasing mental pressure and lit the artillery one after another.

And the guns that the officers and soldiers put in front of the formation are just a few tiger squat cannons or medium-sized Fulong machine guns, needless to say, the tiger squat cannon, the distance of two hundred steps is not enough to reach the Xingtian Army, after the eldest son flew out of a hundred steps, he smashed on the ground, only raising a cloud of dust, not to mention the small lead, dozens of steps away, there was no power, and the one that flew a little farther failed to fall in the formation of the Xingtian Army, and although the range of the Fulong machine gun could barely reach the large array of the Xingtian Army, but after the cannonball hit the formation of the Xingtian Army, It has basically lost its power, not to mention that there will be ricochets, so after a few cannons were released, only the two soldiers in the front row of the Xingtian Army were killed, which basically did not cause much damage to the Xingtian Army, and the casualties of these two soldiers did not disrupt the array of the Xingtian Army, and the entire array of the Xingtian Army still maintained an abnormal neatness, slowly advancing forward like a mountain.

And Xiao Tianjian saw the officers and soldiers on the opposite side firing the artillery, the corners of his mouth showed a sneer, no wonder there were many idiots among the officers and soldiers, from the fact that they fired the artillery at such a distance, it could be seen that the officers and soldiers had trained on weekdays, after this round of artillery was released, at best, it was to give them their own courage, and it could not stop the pace of the Xingtian Army at all.

So he pursed his lips, still did not give the order to stop advancing, and continued to lead his troops forward step by step.

After seeing their own people firing artillery, the villagers on the side of the official army began to applaud and cheer themselves up, but after the smoke cleared, they found that the thief army on the opposite side was walking towards them step by step as if they were all right, without the slightest intention of stopping, so they were all immediately greatly discouraged, and the little morale that had just been stirred up suddenly declined again.

The officers and soldiers who operated the cannon put it over, but found that it was early, so they hurriedly reloaded, and the Furlong cannon was better to say, the loading was very fast, and after the fired sub-guns were laid, they could be placed in the new sub-guns and prepared for firing, but the tiger squat guns were in great trouble, and a group of officers and soldiers who were busy were in a hurry, and they did not complete the reloading for a long time.

However, the Xingtian army was unforgiving, and after entering the distance of 200 paces, it quickened the pace of marching, and the drummer's drumming beat also became rapid, and the soldiers and generals were all full of energy, and strode forward with the beat of the drum, and soon narrowed the distance between the two armies a lot.

"One hundred and twenty steps...... One hundred steps...... Eighty steps ......" A personal guard began to report the distance between the two armies next to Xiao Tianjian, and when he shouted eighty steps, Xiao Tianjian immediately raised his right hand and raised it in the air into a fist.

"Stop!" One of the guards shouted hysterically in the army.

After the drummer beat three heavy drums, all the soldiers adjusted their pace, and stopped with a bang, and the rattan players in the first row immediately raised the rattan cards in their hands, forming a shield array in front of the formation, covering their figures.

"Firecrackers fire! The artillery team is out of battle! Xiao Tianjian also reined in the horse's reins on his horse, stopped his march, and then ordered in a deep voice.

The trumpeter immediately blew a few short trumpets, and the musketeers on either side of the queue immediately lowered the bird's guns from their shoulders, and began to light the firerope with the fire breaker they carried with them, which stuck on the bird's dragon head, and the guns were flattened and opened the lid of the medicine pool, and put the butt of the gun against their shoulders.

Just before the team set off, the firecrackers have loaded the firecrackers, in order to save the preparation time for the first round of launches, after receiving the order, they don't need to be careless at this time to load the birds, with the first row of small officers under the order, they pulled down the dragon head at the same time, only to see a row of flames on both sides of the Xingtian army formation spewed out a row of flames and a piece of gunsmoke.

After the readjustment, the Torture Heaven Musketeers were now concentrated in the four corners of the phalanx, and in the corner of each side were a hundred musketeers, twenty in each row, divided into five columns.

As soon as the first row of musketeers finished firing, no one looked at the opposite side to observe the effect of their shooting, so they quickly squeezed sideways to the back row, giving way to the second row of musketeers, and the second row of musketeers immediately raised their bird guns, aimed at the enemy troops on the opposite side, and pulled off the dragon head stuck in the fire rope......

This time, the reason why Xiao Tianjian stopped advancing at 80 steps was because he wanted to test the power of a batch of new-style bird guns that had just been installed in the army, and at the same time to test the combat effectiveness of this kind of phalanx.

After more than two months of intense work by Yang Changshou on the Shuangfeng Village side after the year, the first batch of 200 new-style bird guns has been delivered to the army, which is also the first time that they have used this new type of bird guns, so Xiao Tianjian is now eager to observe the power of this new type of bird guns.

For this new type of bird gun, the firecrackers like it very much, but they think it is a little too heavy, but the bird gun after the addition of the pole does not cause them too much difficulty, although it is a new bird gun, but the principle is no different from the original bird, so they quickly adapted to the operation of this new type of bird, and the first batch of paper shell bullets were also issued to them, each firecracker was issued with a leather box with a lid, which can hold thirty paper shell bullets, although the number is not much, But for these musketeers, it is enough for them to use in a battle, and there are also some baggage soldiers in the army, who are responsible for providing spare ammunition for the musketeers between battles, so the musketeers are not afraid that they will run out of ammunition.

After the initial trial of the new type of bird, the gunners found that the loading of this paper shell bullet is simpler than the previous bamboo tube loading, they only need to bite off one end of the paper shell bullet, pour the gunpowder into the chamber, and then put the remaining projectile into the chamber, tamp it with a cane, and then use the primer pot to pour the powder into the medicine pool, cover the powder pool cover and ignite the fire rope to prepare for launch, the efficiency is much higher than the conventional loading speed, Xiao Tianjian personally operated the test, and came to a conclusion, Even after a skilled firecracker uses paper shell bullets, the loading speed can reach the speed of three rounds in two minutes, and even an ordinary firecracker, after a period of training, can completely achieve one shot a minute.

Therefore, he lined up the musketeers in five columns and adopted a method similar to a three-stage attack to shoot, which could basically achieve the continuity of firepower in the offensive operation, and within one minute, the five rows of musketeers could complete a round of aiming and firing, and prepare for the next round of firing.

It's just that in the experiment, the feeling of the butt kicking the shoulder when the firearm responds to fire is very strong, and it is a bit difficult to master, but Xiao Tianjian of course knows that after increasing the caliber, the charge is greatly increased, which makes the recoil increase when firing by as much as one or two times, if it does not produce greater recoil when firing, it is really strange, which also shows that the power of this new type of bird gun has increased a lot compared with the miscellaneous bird gun used before, which is also the purpose he needs to achieve.

And today he is the first to face only some Xiang Yong, these Xiang Yong's equipment level is very poor, basically no armor, in the face of the Xingtian Army's new bird gun, eighty steps has already constituted great damage to them, to Xiao Tianjian in Shuangfeng Village when testing this new type of bird gun, this new type of bird gun, in a hundred steps can also overturn an unarmored person is no problem, put it in eighty steps, let alone worry about the lack of power.

And eighty steps is also outside the effective range of the enemy's tiger squat artillery, after all, they are arranged in a dense formation, if the enemy's tiger squat cannon scatter shells to give them a few shots nearby, even if the front platoon of the Xingtian army is wearing armor, I am afraid it will be difficult to resist such a bombardment, so for him, eighty steps is already the closest distance that can carry forward their firepower advantage.