Chapter 403: Platoon Gun Duel 3
The Portuguese Governor Schroeder is now not thinking about the unfortunate Spanish Governor Javier, nor about his brother-in-law, the Dutch Governor Governor Edgeon Yi, what is happening now, they have successfully approached the enemy at a distance of sixty meters, and they are about to win, let you see what is the Platoon Shooting tactics of the Tessians, what is the three-stage shooting tactics, and what is the war of civilized people.
He raised his hand high, and suddenly the rhythm of the snare drum changed, becoming slow and heavy, "Knock-", "Knock-——,", "Knock-——,".
Whether it was the Portuguese phalanx, or the Spanish phalanx that was crippled, or the Dutch phalanx that was even more miserable, or the British army that had broken through to a distance of fifty meters, almost gun-to-gun with the enemy, muzzle-to-muzzle aiming, there were shouts and voices one after another.
"Standing,"
"Gun under the shoulder,"
"Raise your gun,"
"Ready,"
About a dozen seconds of silence passed.
The artillery of the Huaxia Army, except for those damaged cannons, artillery wagons, and pack horses, all of them are in the process of transferring their positions, there is no way, the enemy has run under their noses, they have to retreat, at this time, the Portuguese position opened a round of artillery, and then quieted down, can no longer open artillery, and if the artillery is fired again, it will hit their own people.
Today's artillery doesn't say that it can shoot indirectly, it is all direct-fire artillery, and the entire queue now covers the firing range of their artillery, unless they want to fire behind their own flanks.
In the procession, there was still room for them to fire from the side, and when the queue stopped, after it unfolded, this section was closed, and now it was the time for the muskets of the two sides to fight.
"Fire."
This order was not given by the queue in front of the Portuguese coalition, but by the Chinese army not far away.
How could the impatient Huaxia Army, who had been waiting for a long time, be so stupid, Zhang Qiang was waiting for this moment.
Nowadays, in addition to some people who are also equipped with Jingai-1 arquebuses in a hurry, another part of the field brigade is equipped with Jingai-2 arquebuses, and most of the soldiers of the guard regiment are equipped with smoothbore flintlock pistols.
Sixty meters is a good distance, and the enemy's aim will not be so high, because they are at most using a gold-1 arquebus.
Zheng Chenggong not only regarded these guns as the treasure of his own trade, but also gave the Spaniards a very high price and made a lot of money from the Spaniards, and also used these guns to imitate, although the quality of the imitation products was not as good as the quality of the Huaxia Army, but various parameters still reached about eighty percent of the Huaxia Army's gold reform 1 arquebus.
The Spaniards also bought these guns, so the Spanish army was equipped with a lot of genuine Huaxia Army Jingai-1 arquebuses, as well as copycat Jingai-1 arquebuses imitated by Zheng Chenggong, as well as Spanish arquebuses produced by themselves, British and Dutch arquebuses bought, and their own imitations of Zheng Chenggong's imitation arquebuses.
In order to shoot steadily, each of their arquebuses was heavy and required a rack to fire, which resulted in a few extra steps of procedure and a little more time to prepare.
The British arquebuses were not bad, and the Portuguese arquebuses were all bought from others, although they also copied them, but there were no special people to study them, and it would be good to be able to make someone else's arquebus.
If you want to talk about research, you have to study it in the local military department.
Most of the Dutch were also armed with their own arquebuses, and a small number were equipped with the arquebuses they had developed, rifled arquebuses.
When no fire was fired, no one knew whether these miscellaneous arquebuses could stand against the smoothbore flintlock pistols of the strongest guard regiment of the Chinese Army.
With the order to open fire was given.
The Huaxia army, which had been waiting for a long time and withstood several rounds of artillery and suffered hundreds of casualties, opened fire unceremoniously.
The continuous firepower, crisp, muffled, and the sound of gunfire resounded throughout the battlefield, and smoke rose up, enveloping all the Huaxia troops who fired in smoke.
For the Huaxia arquebus and flintlock pistol, which can hit more than 100 meters, the distance of 60 meters is really good, and Zhang Qiang, who is standing at a high place and standing at the end of the line, can see that the enemy queue in front of him has fallen like dominoes without using a telescope.
It is peeled like a scalp.
"Okay." Zhang Qiang was very happy.
Schroeder on the other side was not happy.
The first platoon of Portuguese soldiers who had just been ready to shoot were all dead. How to play this?
In order to allow as many soldiers as possible to participate in the shooting, the first round of shooting, whether it was the Portuguese, or the Spaniards, the Dutch, who had already advanced to a distance of fifty meters, used dislocation shooting as much as possible, that is, two soldiers stood at a certain distance, their shoulders turned slightly sideways, and then the soldiers in the back row took advantage of this space and also joined the ranks of shooting, anyway, there were people in the third row behind, who had already loaded their ammunition and could fill the position.
After the people in the second row finished shooting, they immediately left the vacant seat, so that there was no shooting next to them, and the comrades who were blocked by the people in the first row in front became the first row, so that the comrades in the third row quickly plugged in, supplemented the vacant seats in the first row, and formed a new first row, so that the first row squatted down, and the second row became the first row, and the number was enough, and they became the third row of the reserve, although the number of people in the third row was less, but they could quickly switch positions with the comrades in the second row, and participate in the shooting with the comrades who squatted in the first row, which was a two-stage shooting, Make the most of the firepower of the initial strike.
Wait for the battle to continue to be truncated, and then shoot in three stages, because at that time, even if you don't want to, you have to shoot in three stages, because at that time, there must be many comrades killed by the other side.
At that time, it depends on who on both sides is resolute and who can persevere.
The determined will will finally move forward and have a decisive battle with bayonets. At this time, the comrades who had no chance to shoot because of the width of the battlefield would rush forward to make up for the lack of manpower, but they could only engage in hand-to-hand combat with bayonets.
So the troops behind were all physically strong combat soldiers.
In the first round, the British died the most, because they rushed to the front, and there were two hundred-hundred-fold flintlock units equipped with Dutch breech-loading muskets.
With just more than 400 people, just one round of shooting caused the British to lose 120 soldiers in the front, and the immortal ones lost their combat effectiveness.
The British did not react, a few seconds later, the Huaxia army reloaded with bullets opened fire again, at this time, the British in the second row just reacted from the state of ignorance, immediately raised their guns, and without waiting for the order to shoot, some people fired in a panic, and the second fire of the Huaxia army formed a counterfire.
Due to the panic, only a few dozen guns fired, and the bullets of thirty guns were lucky enough to hit the enemy, and the enemy immediately lay down more than twenty people, not without a bullet can kill the enemy, because the enemy is wearing armor, and the abrasion will not lose combat effectiveness.
In a hurry, the remaining bruised soldiers of the Chinese Army also opened fire indiscriminately, and five or six more fell on the British side, plus more than a hundred flintlock muskets that had been fired earlier, the British fell another row, and the second row was almost wiped out again.
The British were stupid, the other phalanxes were wiped out once, both sides were in a nervous reload, or in a change of queue, and they were fired twice in a row by the enemy, didn't they need to change the queue?
Yes, this time the Huaxia Army changed the queue, although there was still a bullet in the front row that did not go out, but it also needed to change the bullet. There had been a delay of a few seconds, and after a few more delays, the opponent's veteran skilled shooter could also finish loading in more than ten seconds, so the officer leading the team decisively issued an order to change the queue and let the loaded second platoon come forward to shoot.
So the third platoon of the British army has not finished changing the queue, or has just stood up, and the officer has not raised the command knife, the enemy opened fire again, and the Chinese army does not need to wait, their bullets have already been loaded, they just need to fire.
So the third platoon of British troops and the Huaxia army opened fire on each other again, and this time the British army lost 80 percent, and the Huaxia army lost 50 or 60 men.
The remaining dozens of people quickly changed their queues, and the Huaxia Army, who was standing in the second row, fought another round and finished the last bullet.
The soldiers of the British army's three-stage shooting in the front section were all wiped out, and more than a dozen soldiers in the three-stage shooting queue in the rear section were knocked down, and the flintlock pistols of the Huaxia army had a long range, and the two sides were already within a hundred meters of each other, how could they not hit it?
The British Governor Macconjie was about to go berserk, three shots, or five shots, and the enemy killed him a musket battalion, three hundred and sixty men, is this a war?
Combined with the previous bombardment, he had already lost four hundred good native soldiers.
hurriedly ordered the gray cattle phalanx behind to immediately run forward and replenish the British army column behind.
The rest of the cavalry and the infantry and archers of the guards stepped forward to defend their own troops.
And over there, the flintlock musketeers of the third platoon have already finished firing a salvo, and in the tense reloading, the musketeers behind are also loading, and the flintlock musketeers are also in the process of loading, and the flintlock musketeers are so troublesome, after three bullets, it takes a long time to reload, and they can't make up for a while, they can only act as the first column, facing the enemy's firing and reloading on the spot.
The second stage supplemented the phalanx of a battalion of British troops, and quickly began to fire in turn.
A wave of mastery was played, the third column of the Huaxia Army fell to the ground one after another, and by the time it was possible to shoot, the enemy was already in the second row of the replacement queue to shoot, and this time the shooting took place, the Huaxia Army killed and wounded fifty or sixty enemies, and lost seventy or eighty of its own people, so it can be said that the third platoon was scrapped.
There is no 1st, 2nd, and 3rd platoon at this time, and there are less than 200 of the 400 people left in the Huaxia Army, and more than 50 percent of their own casualties.
Those who were already ready automatically replenished to the first platoon and preemptively fired at the enemy's third platoon arquebusiers, only once the enemy fell more than ninety people, and the enemy's third platoon was almost useless.
The two sides bombarded each other in this way, and by the third round, the Huaxia Army could only stand with fifty or sixty people, and the entire battalion was abolished, and it was rotated with another battalion behind.
And the enemy's remnants were no more than fifty or sixty men, still standing in place, and the third battalion behind them was quickly replenished.
The Huaxia army rushed to shoot again, this time, the enemy fell one hundred and twenty people, and the platoon was completely wiped out, this time, the Huaxia army was not careless, and faithfully executed the three-stage shooting, the first row quickly changed positions with the second row, and the second row quickly opened fire, all of which did not need to be prepared, because the bullet was in the chamber.
The second platoon wounded the enemy's second platoon by fifty or sixty men, and the enemy inflicted fifty or sixty wounds on them, and the third platoon quickly filled up, and with one round of firing, the enemy's second platoon was completely wiped out, and the third platoon also fell fifty or sixty men, and the whole battalion was almost destroyed.
Zhang Qiang silently looked at the battlefield from a distance, mainly focusing on the British army's side, because the British army was too far ahead, they were fighting and rushing forward, dreaming of approaching the Huaxia army and firing with their criterion of firing close to thirty meters.
(End of chapter)