At the same time that Li Dingguo's more than 10,000 foot cavalry was fighting with the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, the enemy and us on the main battlefield also started a new round of duel.

Under the repeated bombardment of the artillery of the Ming army, the Qing soldiers and soldiers under the command of military academies at all levels were under tremendous pressure, barely keeping the queue forward, during which one hundred and ten soldiers died under the shells of Hongyi and Furlong machine guns, and let out bursts of heart-rending wails!

The rest of them were all frightened and demoralized, and after finally reorganizing the queue, the distance between the two arrays was less than two hundred steps. The Hongyi and Furlong machine guns have a long range and a relatively slow rate of fire, which is no longer useful.

This distance is closer, and it is the world of tiger squat cannons, bows and crossbows, and muskets, Geng Zhongming thought to himself that the other party's artillery was so sharp, and the musket would not be so sharp!

In order to improve morale, he divided the remaining 7,000 Dongjiang elites into more than 5,000 infantry troops at the head of the formation, and the remaining 2,000 infantry cavalry were responsible for defending the Chinese army headquarters and commanding the green battalion.

More than 5,000 Dongjiang soldiers have a well-made bird gun, and half of them have iron armor, and the rest are either wearing cotton armor or leather armor, and the armor rate is almost 100 percent! Armed to the teeth, one could almost say! It is worthy of being an elite that has been carefully built for decades, and this equipment alone is enough to make those beggars of the Ming army die of shame!

In order to ensure continuous firepower output, the Dongjiang soldiers lined up in five formations, with the front row of gun butts raised horizontally, glowing in the sunlight.

Each team of bird soldiers is also equipped with a tiger squat artillery team, and the number of the entire forward team is almost no less than hundred!

Although the Tiger Squat Cannon has a short range, it is extremely powerful because it can be loaded with scattered bullets.

This kind of firepower configuration, if it is an ordinary Ming army, I am afraid that it really can't withstand the sweep of the Dongjiang soldiers for a few rounds, and it can almost be pushed all the way!

In fact, in the original history, the three Shun kings and the first Shun Gongbu headed by Kong Youde, the king of Gongshun, arrived in Huguang with nearly 100,000 troops at the end of the third year of Shunzhi (1646 AD), and almost swept away the leaves in the autumn wind, and in just one month, they successively captured Hubei, Hunan and other areas controlled by the Ming army and the loyal battalion, and swept all the way to Guilin, Guangxi.

The thirteen towns of Huguang died, fled, and surrendered, and the governor He Tengjiao was defeated and captured, and the 50,000 or 60,000 troops of the loyal battalion had to temporarily avoid the edge in the face of the joint attack of the well-armed Sanshun King and the Manmeng Eight Banners, and dragged the family and the mouth all the way to Guangxi.

After seeing the sophisticated equipment of the Qing army's forwards, Zhu Youlang frowned slightly, and there was no way out of the battle now! When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins! Only by facing it bravely can we hope to defeat the enemy!

"The Imperial Camp" Gong Holy Camp "listens to the order and advances to the north, and the turtledove is ready to shoot! The shield hand protects the wings, and the tiger squats and the cannon is loaded! ”

The "Gongsheng Battalion" is an independent firearms battalion with the best firearms equipment in Zhu Youlang's imperial camp and army, with more than 3,000 troops concentrated in the best musketeers and muskets in the whole army, and every soldier is an elite selected by thousands of people!

Most of them came from the rebel army, and many of them were orphans, widowers, and Tartars who had an inextricable blood feud!

They are unpretentious! Loyal! With the full support of the emperor, there is plenty of ammunition, sufficient training, and has experienced several baptisms of war, and the morale is high.

Among the more than 3,000 foot soldiers of the "Gongsheng Battalion", there are more than 860 turtledove guns, more than 500 Spanish light arquebuses (Portuguese mercenaries brought firearms from Macao to aid the Ming Dynasty), more than 2,200 excellent and qualified bird guns, 42 tiger squat cannons, and a total of 164 tiger squat cannons with Jiaolian and Wu Jihei's department, which are no longer under the Qing army.

The front column of the Gongsheng Camp is full of turtledoves, the first column of the Chinese army is arranged with Spanish light arquebuses, and the back columns are all bird guns. The Tiger Squat Cannon was placed at the front of the queue.

The reason for this arrangement is because the power of all kinds of arquebuses varies greatly, the turtledove weighs about 15 catties, the body length of the gun is 5.5 feet (about 31-32 cm per ruler), the inner diameter is 0.6 inches (converted to about 19mm), the medicine is 1.3 taels, the lead weighs 1.5 to 1.6 taels (about 56 grams), the ultimate effective range has reached more than 90 steps of metamorphosis, and it can penetrate the iron armor and shoot through the field weapon "shield car" of the Qing soldiers within 80 steps.

In the early Qing Dynasty, during the era of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, the Eight Banners army used a combat vehicle similar to the Ming army's chariot, which was called "shield car", and the Ming people also called it a brand car.

Fan Jingwen, a native of the Ming Dynasty, has this description in the whole book of beheading: "The card is very thick, a layer of cowhide, a layer of iron, the small bricks and stones do not move, the big bricks and stones roll down, and the firewood is not burned." "More than 20 people in a car are pushed by slaves with a brand car." This kind of shield car can cover more than 20 people to fight. It effectively resisted the guns and bows of the Ming army.

When Jiannu did not use chariots, although there were small gains, they did not achieve a decisive victory. It was not until the shield cart was used to cover the Ming musketeers and shot at the Ming army with a rain of arrows from archers at close range that the Ming army could not bear it and collapsed. Jiannu victory.

The power of the turtledove is four or five times that of the bird's gun, the hit rate is more than half within fifty steps, and it is useless to batch many layers of iron armor, and it is directly pierced, such a perverted heavy musket, the imperial camp now has a total of more than 1,100 doors, and more than 800 are assigned to the head of each battalion and brought directly to the battlefield. The power should not be underestimated.

The Spanish light arquebus, brought by the Portuguese mercenaries, weighed about ten pounds and was 1.3 meters long. The inner diameter is 16mm, and the drug is 18 grams. The bullet weighs 21 grams. The ultimate effective range is sixty or seventy paces, that is, it can pierce through the iron armor within fifty steps, which is two to three times more powerful than the bird's gun.

The bird guns commonly equipped by the Ming army weighed five to six catties and were about 1.3 meters long. The inner diameter is 11mm, and the drug is 11 to 13 grams. The buckshot weighs 11 grams, the power is small, and no matter how good the bird gun is, it will take thirty steps to penetrate the iron armor, and it can maintain a good shooting accuracy within fifty steps, but the effect on the shield car of the Shangqing soldiers is very small, and it is almost impossible to penetrate, let alone the armor soldiers behind the shield car.

The Ming army held a "shield car" on the top, and the Qing soldiers with excellent archery skills were almost defeated in every battle, and firearms were too chicken ribs was one of the main reasons.

Since the completion of the Wuzhou Arsenal, almost all the gunsmiths and gunsmiths in Liangguang have been concentrated in it, as well as some European missionaries who know how to cast and make guns, as well as iron and coal resources. Under the full operation of the arsenal, the imperial camp of the two towns of Yulin and Huben of the Son of Heaven have gradually abandoned the bow and crossbow and the three-eyed gun.

Muskets are relatively easy to get started, and a recruit who does not know firearms at all, as long as he trains for a month and shoots dozens of shots, he can become a qualified musketeer, and he can fight the enemy when he is pulled into the battlefield.