Unlike archers, there is no training of more than a year, it is not accurate at all, the training cycle is too long, I can't afford to wait, and the materials are not easy to find, and it is not easy to manufacture, not to mention the three-eyed gun, the effective range is only about twenty steps, it is too short, and the ignition is also troublesome.

It is this kind of garbage firearm, which was used as the main equipment by many Ming troops and even border troops in the past, which is really sad!

One hundred and fifty steps, one hundred and forty steps, one hundred and thirty steps, one hundred and twenty steps, one hundred and ten steps, one hundred steps......

As the arrays of the two sides continued to approach, the advance army of the Qing army had gradually entered the effective range of the turtledove.

Zhu Youlang waved the order flag to stop the army and ordered to prepare for the attack.

Zhang Jiayu, the general of the "Gongsheng Battalion", ordered to quickly wave the order flag: "The first row of gunners prepare, ignite the fire - release!" ”

Originally, the firing of the musket had to go through nearly ten steps, such as charging, pressing, loading, charging the fire rope, and ignition. After completing the entire reloading process, it would be nice to be able to fire one shot with thirty breaths. However, the soldiers of the Arch Saint Camp had obviously already taken this into account and had done all the steps before ignition in advance, so that if there was only one last ignition process left, the speed would be faster.

After just two or three breaths, bam! Bang! Bang! ……

More than 400 turtledoves fired at the same time, after a burst of smoke rose, a hundred steps away from the Qing army, more than 100 Dongjiang soldiers were immediately put on hold by the lead bullets shot by the turtledoves, a wail, the turtledoves can penetrate the iron armor within 80 or 90 steps, and the leather armor and cotton armor can be pierced in 100 steps, as long as the Dongjiang soldiers who were hit were not wearing iron armor, almost most of them were shot on the spot, and those who were not killed were also screaming!

Geng Zhongming was shocked and angry!

He never expected that those Ming troops would actually have turtledoves! And so much more!

As early as the early years of Chongzhen, Xiong Wencan transported a batch of firearms to Beijing, including hundreds of such firearms, of which more than 100 were distributed to the imperial history of the right capital, Denglai Governor Sun Yuanhua, for firearms expert Sun Yuanhua to study and imitate.

At that time, Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde and others were still generals under Sun Yuanhua. When observing the exercise, I was fortunate to have seen the power of this heavy firecracker, not to mention the effective killing distance of the bird, even the melee killer tiger squat cannon is much worse than them, and the effective killing distance of the qualified tiger squat cannon is only about 70 steps, and the quality is inferior to even 60 steps.

I didn't expect to see the legendary turtledove here again!

In the fifth year of Chongzhen, Kong Youde took Geng Zhongming and others to defect to the Tartars, captured Dengzhou, and the governor Sun Yuanhua was killed after the defeat, and the research and imitation work of the turtledove was interrupted, so that until now, in addition to Macao, only some skilled craftsmen in Weili, Foshan, Guangdong will cast this powerful heavy firecracker.

Geng Zhongming and Kong Youde, although they have always coveted this kind of powerful firearms, they are suffering from the lack of ability to imitate them, so they can only fantasize in their minds.

The soldiers of the "Gongsheng Camp" can not care about the reaction of the Qing army on the opposite side, after the first column is cast, and then the second column comes forward, the bracket is placed, and it is all turtledoves, the number is still more than 400 doors, with the general Zhang Jiayu's order flag waved, and there is a series of "bang, bang, bang......" firing sound, and suddenly white smoke filled.

There were three rows of turtledove gunners and Spanish light arquebusiers, firing alternately, each platoon of more than 400 people, under the command of the command of the military academy, the horizontal formation changed from sparse to tight, forming a dense long formation. Comparatively speaking, the lethality has also been correspondingly much enhanced.

As the gunshots rang out, more than 100 Dongjiang soldiers in the Qing army's array fell to the ground, wailing.

Arquebus, a primitive firearm, because it is a front-loading smoothbore, has a very low long-range hit rate, even if it is a turtledove, even if the lethality is still very strong eighty or ninety steps away, but there is nothing to say about the head, only many muskets are concentrated together, and the dense salvo can have a greater killing effect on the enemy soldiers and horses, even so the overall hit rate is still not very high, more than 400 turtledove salvos can kill and injure hundreds of Qing soldiers on the opposite side, and the effect is already very good.

In a short period of time, although the turtledove only shot two rounds, it has already caused three or four hundred casualties among the Dongjiang soldiers!

Geng Zhongming's face was pale, staring at the Ming army array in front of him, almost bursting!

These Dongjiang soldiers are the real essence of the whole army, and they are also the absolute main force in infantry combat, but because the number is too small, there are less than 10,000 foot cavalry.

Therefore, it is not at an extremely critical moment, Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi and others are generally reluctant to use it, once the damage is serious, it will really hurt the vitality, and this power cannot be replenished in a short time. It can only rely on continuous killing, survival of the fittest, and slow accumulation and cultivation over time.

According to the past situation, in a war, as long as the main force of the army is not seriously damaged, and when the money and food are replenished, and then a recruitment banner is erected, tens of thousands of horses can be gathered in a short period of time, and the prestige is great.

So no matter how many wars you have experienced, as long as the power of your descendants does not disperse, it is not difficult to make a comeback.

In the previous artillery battles and cavalry battles, more than 600 Dongjiang soldiers had been killed under the artillery and cavalry of the Ming army, and for Geng Zhongming, who only had about 8,000 descendants, it could already be regarded as a broken bone.

Unexpectedly, at the beginning of the musket shooting, his side lost hundreds of elite soldiers at once, Geng Zhongming almost wanted to cry without tears, and his fingernails were pinched into the flesh unconsciously!

The remaining Dongjiang soldiers were shot by two rows of guns in a row, and they couldn't help but feel a big mess, they didn't expect those Ming dogs' muskets to shoot so far, and they were even more shocked when they saw the miserable situation of the robes around them, and they could no longer suppress the fear in their hearts after seeing that they could not protect their lives in leather armor and cotton armor, and they couldn't care about the battalion officer's military orders and the bird guns and tiger squatting cannons in their hands to the Ming army on the opposite side.

It's a pity that because of the long distance, the lead bullet of the shotgun and the cannon of the tiger squat cannon basically have no great killing effect when they reach about 100 steps.

What's more, the musketeers of the Ming army's vanguard "Gongsheng Camp" were all wearing iron armor, iron combat boots, and iron-tipped helmets with eight-petal hats, and they were not afraid of flying lead bullets at all.

The Qing soldiers crackled for a long time, it looked very lively, but they almost didn't kill or injure a few people, they were easily blocked out of the body by the iron armor, only six or seven "Gong Shengying" soldiers were more unlucky, unfortunately they were shot and killed, and they were still hit by the cannons of the few tiger squat cannons that fell into the array.

After the smoke cleared, the Qing soldiers saw that the opponent's military formation was still as strict as ever, and they were immediately depressed!