Chapter 271: Musket Killing Array
When the two armies of the Song and Yuan dynasties were eighty paces apart, the Dragon Bird Army preemptively launched a furious attack.
The dense rain of bullets like locusts collided with the guns and players in the front row of the Yuan army, exploding the sky full of sawdust, flesh and bones. The front row of the Yuan army's left and right front arrows was completely shrouded in the loose and long skirmish strike line of the Dragon Bird Army. Under the critical impact of the rain of bullets, it is like a crisp embankment washed by the rolling torrent, peeling off layer by layer.
Six rows of musketeers, each platoon of 800 men, each wave of firing consisted of two rows, one row of squatting and one row of standing firing, which was a "one-stage shot". One group completes the shooting action and immediately retreats to the back of the line and reloads. At this time, the three or four rows in the rear were squatting or standing, raising their guns to shoot, and after completing the action, they retreated, revealing five or six rows in the rear. When the last group finished firing, the first and second platoons of the first group also basically finished loading and re-firing. In this way, six rows and three groups shoot in a rolling manner, reciprocating in a loop, forming a closely connected and continuous "three-stage shot".
There were three rows of gun players on the left and right sides of the Yuan army, with 1,000 people in each row and 6,000 people, forming a triple thick defensive force. However, within a short distance of thirty paces from eighty to fifty paces, the Triple Shield Melee Soldiers, like bamboo shoots, were peeled off layer by layer by the metal storm, and they were bloodily peeled off.
"Shoot! Shoot fast! Shoot the Song people! There was a frightened cry from the Yuan army, and listening to the voice, it was the four thousand household officials of the new annexed army.
At this time, the observation schools hurriedly said: "No! It's not ...... red flag yet," but their voices were drowned out in a deafening chirping.
In fact, there was no need for the urging of these tens of thousands of household officials, and the dense gunshots, explosions, flesh, screams, and fallen corpses had already terrified the nearly 10,000 crossbowmen in the Yuan army's charging formation. Seeing the melee soldiers on the "array wall" in front of them fall in rows, and their long-range troops are about to be exposed to the rain of bullets, under fear, where will they be stupid and wait for orders, let alone whether they rush into the effective range or not, scrambling to shoot the arrows in their hands into the air. For a while, there was a rain of arrows in the air, and ten thousand arrows rang out in unison, converging into a loud buzzing sound that shocked people's eardrums, and pounced on the dragon sparrow musket killing array like mercury.
There are tens of thousands of crossbows and crossbows in the Yuan army, and the layers are as many as more than ten layers, and the denser the melee soldiers are arranged, the stronger the impact resistance, there must be an appropriate distance between the crossbowmen, so that it is easy to open the bow and draw the crossbow to the arrow, the first row and the last row are forty or fifty steps away, it is this gap that dooms the Yuan army to return fire ninety percent of the arrow rain to fail.
Due to being attacked by the Dragon Bird Army first, the Yuan Army's full array of bows and crossbows were induced to counterattack, the first few rows of arrows could be shot in front of the Dragon Bird Army, and the eight or nine rows behind were all 100 steps away, with the five or six force crossbows commonly used by these inferior sergeants, how could the arrows be shot 100 steps away? Even if some of them used a hard bow with seven or eight forces, how could they penetrate the infantry armor on Sergeant Dragonfinch?
Snort!
The hard ground in front of the Dragon Bird Army was instantly filled with countless arrows, which made the mud and dust fly, the gravel flicked indiscriminately, the long wind blew strongly, and the tail feathers shook together......
Ninety percent of the tens of thousands of arrows missed, but there were still nearly a thousand arrows shot into the Dragon Sparrow Army's array.
Most of the sergeants were shot at the head of these arrows that fell out of the air, and they were bounced off with their shiny and wide pot-shaped iron helmets, unscathed. Some of them also fell on the foot armor they were wearing, and they were also bounced away by the fine iron armor Ye Zhengran. Only a dozen or so unlucky sergeants happened to raise their heads or watch or wipe their sweat, and were shot in the face and neck by arrows, killing seven people on the spot and seriously wounding nine others.
Dozens of doctors and stretcher bearers immediately ran out of the Chinese army, rushed to the front along the gallop road in the middle of the large formation, carried down all the casualties of the sergeants, and rescued them urgently in the makeshift medical shed.
As long as the arrow wound in this era is not hit, the possibility of rescue is still very large, these wounded soldiers who have experienced the war are the precious wealth of the Dragon Bird Army, as long as they return to the army, they are elites.
At this time, the sound of explosions in front of the dragon and bird army was endless, and the white smoke of gunpowder filled the entire battlefield, and the long wind blew away, and with the resurgence of the gun, it quickly condensed again, and it always blew away.
The crossbowmen of the Yuan army, who had lost their targets in the thick fog, were panicked, and they began to hesitate when they pulled the strings, and their arrows were weak and weak, and more aimlessly.
The musketeers of the Dragonbird Army, who were also in the thick fog, meticulously loaded their ammunition, advanced forward, raised their guns to aim, and pulled the trigger according to the sound of the horn. Blind shooting in the smoke of gunfire was a common occurrence for musketeers, and they did not need to aim at a certain target, dozens of steps ahead of them, densely packed with targets, just follow the direction in front of them.
Thousands of arrows flew through the air, and thousands of lead bullets whizzed from below, each rushing towards their target, either digging deep into the muscles or exploding a cloud of blood...... Every moment, someone on both sides is falling, and it depends on who falls more and who can't hold on.
It is obvious that the Dragon Bird Army, equipped with modern weapons, using modern tactics, and armed to the teeth, has a far lower casualty rate than the Yuan army. This casualty rate exchange ratio is even to the point of eye-popping.
After four consecutive waves of three-stage shooting, the first three rows of gun players of the Yuan army were beaten to pieces, and there were only a few more than 1,000 people left, and they could not protect the crossbowmen behind them at all. At this time, the 20,000 Yuan army rushed into battle, like a turtle that had been stripped of its hard shell, revealing a body of tender meat...... At this time, the Yuan army's sharp arrow "Arrow" was still fifty steps away from the Longque Army's musketeer formation.
A thick fog shrouded the front of the two armies, and the gunfire of the Dragonbird Army's musketeers position was still neat and dense, calmly harvesting lives like machines. And the flesh and blood of the Yuan army were flying, and the crossbowmen fell in rows, and the arrows they shot began to thin out, and the screams of exclamation became louder and louder, overpowering the sound of the ringing of the dwarp.
At this moment, the entire battlefield was filled with only two voices—the terrifying head-numbing gunfire and the terrible and dying howls.
Finally someone cried: "Don't rush any further...... People are dying, dying! ”
Someone else screamed in horror: "The gunmen are dead, the shield wall is gone!" We have all become targets, run ......" Before the words fell, a bloody flower suddenly exploded in his head, and he fell headlong.
Youyuan Bing couldn't stand it anymore, and threw the bow and arrow in his hand: "The Song people's musket is so powerful that they can't beat it!" Run......"
A sword light swept by, and the hundred-household official named Shout was beheaded by Liang Xiongfei. At this time, the Song general's eyes were bloodshot, and he roared: "Don't mess up!" Don't run! There is a team of warlords in the back, retreating is death, advancing is also death, it is better to move forward, and you can still fight for a trace of life......"
Bang bang bang! The three lead seeds burrowed into Liang Xiongfei's chest, lower abdomen, and thighs in no particular order. Liang Xiongfei's roar stopped abruptly, a large mouthful of blood spurted out, and his body shook, swayed, and shook, and fell down with a bang. The last two words he said were "life", but he was lifeless.
"Oh no, Lord Wanhu is dead!"
"Run......"
As soon as Liang Xiongfei died, the right forward formation under his command was the first to collapse, which immediately caused the left forward and rear formations to waver.
The hundred slaves led five hundred horses to slash and kill in the rear, beheading more than 100 in a row, just barely stopping the collapse, but they heard the thunderous drums of the Dragon Bird Army, and the sound of killing shook the sky - the Dragon Bird Army melee gun soldiers and axe soldiers attacked.
The two thousand melee warriors of the Dragon Bird Army attacked brazenly, and finally became the last straw that crushed the camel, and the remnants of the new annexed army collapsed on all fronts, and the hundred slaves and his five hundred Mongolian horsemen were drowned in the turbulence, and many Mongolian horsemen were overturned and fell off their horses, and countless pairs of big feet were trampled and trampled into flesh.
The defeat was like a mountain, the morale was gone, and the army of more than 10,000 yuan was just more than 10,000 cattle and sheep at this time. After this battle, in the following battles, this army could no longer go into battle and was basically abolished.
The generals of the Yuan army who watched the battle on the hill had two facial muscle twitches like a toothache, and his face sank like water, and he sighed softly: "Musket killing formation, this is the Song people's musket killing formation......"
Originally, the Yuan army's tactics were to arrive at the place where the red flag was, and then send ten thousand arrows at once, and the sound would take the people first, at least to give the Song people a ruthless blow. As for this group of new annexes, it doesn't matter if they fight out, as long as they fight half or even two or three of the Dragon Sparrow Army, it will be a victory. Unexpectedly, the impact of 20,000 people could not even rush in front of the Dragon Sparrow Army—only thirty or forty steps away! But just these dozens of steps away, but it is like a heavenly mat, no matter how dead people can't rush over!
Next, how to fight?
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