What Huang Dou didn't know was that the gunpowder in that plane was naturally at the level of battle. And in this plane, the saltpeter restored with radish is simply not possible to reach the power of the end of the war and even the later era. Backward gunpowder plus and forgot to make a barrel with a Wilson gold boring machine. The twelve-pounder shells fired from the nearly 1,000-pound field guns were only slightly more powerful than the 12-pounder mountain grenades of the 19th century, because these cannons were originally made with the help of Westerners in the early 17th century, not Westerners in the early 19th century.

Even at a distance of about a mile, the ballistic drop clearly exceeds the height of at least ten people. That is to say, the gunners have rich experience in actual combat, and the sighters who have changed careers from Mr. Feng Shui feel the huge difference between gunpowder and before, and make adjustments in time. Only during the third test shot did a nine-pound artillery shell hit the opponent's shield car.

Jianzhou Niulu is equipped with two shield carts, of course, it cannot cover the entire hundreds of armored soldiers, and more armored soldiers meet the enemy at a longer distance with a horizontal formation that is thin to no more than three columns. This means that even if a few inches or so of the sand-wood composite vehicle shield cannot stop the powerful heavy artillery shell, a shell that hits the vehicle shield can only cause three or at most five casualties.

When the officers and soldiers of the Jianzhou army gradually lowered their bodies, the artillery could only break up the entire shield car when it hit a special position on the body of the shield car, so that many people in charge of the shield car also faced the risk of casualties in the case of armor. It is fundamentally different from many "dozens of people who were destroyed by one shot" in the air at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

It is not impossible for a cannonball to be cleverly side-fired in a particular battle and sweep a row of people with less resistance than a bowling ball, but in most cases it is not possible to destroy hundreds of people in one shot, but in most cases it is not possible at the usual engagement distance. With thousands of people in a hollow phalanx, they faced the superior forces, and in most cases they could not shoot a decent side shot.

Of course, when the sound of artillery became more and more intensive, these more than 30 large and small artillery pieces also brought a lot of pressure to the Jianzhou army. The threat of a nine-pound artillery shell easily penetrating the shield is relatively small, because as long as you crouch down, the shell that passes through the shield will only leave a hole in the shield that can be used as a bow and arrow in a few inches. When the four-pounder cannon reinforced charge shell hit the shield car, the entire shield car was completely overturned several times, although the three-pound bullet after passing through a few inches of sand and wood composite protection no longer had much power, or could not break the car shield at a distance of one mile, but it often brought the danger of death or injury to the black armor who operated the car shield.

In order to increase his firepower, Huang Dou also began to order flintlock muskeviers to shoot at this time. Because experience has shown that the projectiles fired by flintlock pistols of about twenty millimeters are not actually ineffective at a distance of nearly a mile. Sometimes it is possible to injure some enemy soldiers in the leg through ricochet or slide-and-run projectiles.

Thousands of muskets also continued to fire long-range volleys of bullets, plus the threat posed by thirty artillery pieces to hundreds of cattle and two hundred shield carts. At this time, Hei Huan Bolie made up his mind to attack.

Although the shield carts, which stretched for about 150 paces, were knocked down by shells from time to time, and some people were constantly injured by the falling and retreating shield carts, the entire front of the attack still maintained a slow forward posture.

Of course, the 20 rounds of fire fired by 30 guns in more than 10 minutes and fired more than 600 shells also brought casualties to the attacking main force of Jianzhou, but this was too different from the effect of the other plane. Therefore, Huang Dou still decided to completely defeat his opponent in hand-to-hand combat and melee shooting through a resolute attack, and gave the order to attack in the direction that the shield wall was approaching.

In the history of another plane at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the pro-guard brigade led by Huang Dou, who had experienced a lot of actual battles, had no problem at all in terms of psychological quality or actual combat and training, and the entire large array still seemed to maintain a strict pace when moving as a whole.

However, at this time, the fatal blow to the Guards Brigade that had never been suffered before came: whether it was in most of the air in the late Ming Dynasty or in the plane where Huang Dou was located, the "white armor soldiers" of the Eight Banners were only good at hand-to-hand combat or archery. According to this plane close to history, the First Historical Archives of China compiled the "Cabinet Collection of Manchu Old Files" Volume 5 P2175 to 2177, and the ten white-armored soldiers in each Niu Lu carried two cannons as early as the eighth year of the Mandate of Heaven, and the rest were three spearmen, and their main business was simply light artillery piles. Forty red armor and fifty black armor each carried ten cannons. The armored soldiers in one Niu Lu have 22 cannons and light cannons of various kinds. At this time, more than 100 Niu Lu who participated in the war were equipped with more than 2,000 portable guns and light artillery.

Of course, because the Asian gunpowder and firearms of this era were inferior to the West in the war era, these heavy bullets that could be effectively used by one person were even more backward than carrying a gun, and the heavy bullets often could not penetrate the breastplate part of the front of the plate armor, and even the blunt wound on the front of the plate armor could not even form a dull wound with enough attrition, but when those heavy projectiles hit the legs, forearms and even the head of the soldiers in the front row of the Huangdou Guards Brigade, they still immediately formed blunt injuries or contusions that were enough to break the bones and tendons.

The originally tight formation soon loosened under the continuous fire of 2,000 small light guns, and the entire advancing guard brigade had to stop advancing after suffering nearly 200 casualties and attrition under the deterrence of the Jianzhou light artillery group.

At this time, the continuous platoon of guns rang out, and the fierce flintlock fire on the two wings quickly repelled the opponents who tried to outflank the Jianzhou army from all directions, but at this time, the distance between the two armies was also reduced to a distance of about sixty or seventy paces. Dozens of Jianzhou's most elite archers who were able to fire arrows with one stone and five bucket bows or even eight bucket bows with one stone and five buckets or even eight buckets of arrows with one stone and five buckets of arrows were able to fire their bows and arrows.

At a distance of about sixty or seventy steps, the bow and arrow bypassed the shield cover of the plate armor army led by Huang Dou, and accurately covered the shining metallic luster in a certain range from the upper body to the front row and the back, and the heavy force brought by the heavy arrows of about five taels continued to shoot many plate armor soldiers backwards one after another, and in a short period of time, under the fire of dozens of Manchurian strong archers, two or three hundred people were continuously wounded.

It was only at this time that Huang Dou understood: just like the strength of the air forces of both sides in World War II did not depend on the average level, but on the level of one percent of the trump cards. The average level of the bows and arrows of the armored soldiers of Jianzhou is also meaningless for measuring the value of archers. A very small number of strong archers are often able to deliver a decisive significance that is not measured by the "majority".

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