Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Second Gift Before Rejecting the Horse Pistol
The black powder produced a lot of smoke, and the Portuguese musketeers were so close in line that the soldiers' vision was affected by the strictness, and in order to solve this problem, the Portuguese soldiers would move forward in the middle of the battle to avoid the smoke.
However, in this way, the rhythm of shooting will inevitably be interrupted, and the position will suddenly be changed in the combat state, and the team will need to be reorganized to fire a salvo of guns again, which will delay at least one minute, but every time on the battlefield must race against time, and this minute may determine the outcome of the battle.
After hearing about this, Gu Zongfu proposed a better solution, using a big pu fan to fan.
These round and big pu fans were quickly praised by the Portuguese soldiers, and after several drills were tested, they could quickly fan away the smoke, which greatly saved time, and the weather in the south was very hot, and when the summer came, these big pu fans were more practical.
From then on, these Portuguese soldiers had a big fan in their hands, and they never left the fan when they went out to battle, and soon got the nickname of "fan soldiers......
The smoke cleared, and the Portuguese musketeers raised their flintlock muskets again, aiming at the Qing troops and firing.
The essence of three-stage shooting, which is to fire in multiple lines alternately to improve the efficiency of shooting, this tactic is simple and practical, and it is still used until the American Civil War, and it is extremely lethal to dense formations.
The flintlock pistol had a longer range than the bird's gun, the procedure for reloading ammunition was simpler, and it was able to increase the firepower per unit area through a tight formation, and the three hundred Portuguese soldiers stood behind the rifle and fired lead bullets to form a line of death.
Under the big stop of the Chinese army on the slope, Wang Kefan held a telescope to watch the battle.
Flintlock pistols have been active in the history of warfare for more than 200 years, and there is also a process of continuous improvement, and from the perspective of the traverser, these flintlock pistols of the Portuguese soldiers are still very primitive. In addition to changing the firing method, there is not much difference from the arquebus in other aspects, the firing rate is slightly higher, about 70%, and it is precisely because the arquebus and flintlock pistol are often dumb fire, so in order to maintain the fire output, the tactics of volleying in a line will be developed.
Under the command of the officers, the Portuguese musketeers were able to fire about four rows of guns per minute, almost every fifteen seconds, and each platoon could fire an average of seventy guns. In this way, nearly 300 buckshots can be fired in one minute.
This is already very powerful, in a cold weapon war dominated by dense formations, the firepower output of 300 rounds per minute is definitely a nightmare for the enemy!
Wang Kefan secretly made up his mind. You should get your hands on the flintlock pistol and copy it at the repair shop.
As the Eight Banners cavalry continued to approach. The archers and birdmen of the Ming army also began to shoot. The archers used powerful foot bows, which posed a great threat to the Qing army within sixty paces, and the effective range of the bird guns was relatively short, so they specialized in hitting the war horses with larger targets, and the cavalry of the Eight Banners were light cavalry, and the war horses had no vests. You can also be injured if you are hit by a bird at a distance of fifty or sixty paces.
If the Aliha Chaoha soldiers face the bird soldiers alone, they can resist one or two rounds of lead bullets with a high-speed charge, and move the repulsion pistol away to win the battle, but. The firepower of the 300 Portuguese soldiers was too fierce, and with the help of the Ming archers on the side, the more than 30 Qing soldiers who rushed forward were all wiped out before they could rush to the front of the horse pistol.
The Aleha Chaoha soldiers behind all rushed up.
With red eyes, he brandished his saber and shouted, inciting the soldiers to launch a decisive charge, and the Ming army's hole cards had all been revealed, and he was determined to fight the last one.
The artillery position of the Ming army is in front, as long as you rush through the rejection of the horse pistol, kill those musketeers, you can destroy the artillery of the Ming army, he has invested too much capital, it is too late to retreat now, and there is still a chance to win desperately forward.
The flintlock pistols and bird guns were loud, and the lead bullets rained down on the Eight Banners cavalry, and the archers of the Ming army also tried to speed up the frequency of archery.
At this time, the Qing army didn't care about releasing arrows to fight back, they all rushed forward on the war horse, trying to narrow the target and use the war horse as a meat shield, the injured war horse suddenly lost its front hooves, and fell to the ground fiercely, hundreds of pounds of horse body plus high-speed galloping kinetic energy, immediately knocked down the war horse next to it, and crushed the Qing army that fell half to death.
Although the soldiers of the Eight Banners were brave, they also continued to burst out uncontrollable screams when they were dying, and the fallen war horses broke their legs and neighed, and some of the war horses lost their owners, but they were lucky not to be seriously injured, so they ran to the side as far away as possible, trying to avoid this terrible battlefield.
This is a war of attrition, the Qing army in the front row is constantly defeated, the formation is becoming more and more sparse, but the Qing army in the back row is filling in time and continues to rush forward, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was still a primitive fishing and hunting nation a few decades ago, and the body of the Eight Banners has remnants of ferocious wildness, and this tragic battle has aroused their wildness.
Fifty steps, thirty steps, ten steps......
The Qing troops in the front row finally approached the rejecting rifles, although they were covered by war horses, most of them were also wounded, the wounds from the lead bullet were gurgling and bleeding, the bows and arrows hung on the armor and kept trembling, and each blow brought a heart-piercing pain.
When the horses were finally weak and about to fall, the Eight Banners on the horse suddenly jumped off their mounts, fell to the ground and rolled a few times before they stood up with grinning...... Unlike the charge that left room in front of the first rejection rifle, the Aleha Chaoha soldiers used all their strength in this charge, and they no longer had the chic and calm just now.
The Qing army at the forefront was a tall and sturdy "Daizi", that is, a low-ranking officer of the Aliha Chaoha soldiers, he casually pulled out an arrow inserted in his thigh, and then picked up a short axe and rushed to the horse rejection gun, slashing the wooden frame supporting the spear, the Ming army immediately had several firearms aimed at him, and the lead bullet slammed on his body, but he only trembled a few times, and then raised the axe and slashed.
"Whoosh!"
A cold arrow flew suddenly, and the sound of breaking the air was obviously a little strange, and the "Daiko" knew that it was powerful, and hurriedly turned sideways to dodge, but after being injured, his body was clumsy, and he only let go of his chest, abdomen and throat, and the arrow slammed into his right arm.
As if struck by a heavy hammer, his right hand went limp, and the short axe in his hand fell to the ground, and then there was a feeling of pain, and he looked down and guessed correctly, it was a powerful wolf-toothed iron arrow, which not only pierced his armor, but also penetrated deep into his right upper arm.
This barbed iron arrow could not be pulled, so Nayoko leaned over and picked up the short axe with his left hand, struck the arrow with the back of the axe, so that the arrow passed through the arm without affecting the movement of the body, and then swung the short axe again and slashed towards the horse rejection pistol.
More and more Qing troops rushed up to help, under the rapid charge, more than 200 Qing troops all rushed to the front of the horse rejecting the rifle, they jumped off their horses, opened their bows and arrows to cover their companions, the Ming and Qing armies kept people being shot down, and the Portuguese soldiers also suffered casualties.
One, two, three......
The companions of the "Daiko" kept falling, and he was hit by several buckshots and two arrows, but like an unbeatable King Kong, he still stood firmly in front of the repulsor pistol, and kept chopping, and when the stake with the thickness of his arm was cut off, he and several of his companions worked hard together to push the rejecting pistol to the side, but his feet were weak, and he fell to the ground motionless.
"Bang bang bang!"
After the last platoon of guns fired by the musketeers of the Ming army, they suddenly dodged and ran away to the sides, and as soon as the rifles were broken, they retreated.
"Rush!"
Aliha Chao Ha Zhangjing let out a roar of rage, and led the Qing army to rush out from the gap in the rejecting horse pistol, this was the final charge, and the Aliha Chao Ha soldiers paid 300 casualties, and finally saw victory beckoning to them.
All the Qing troops had only one goal in mind, that is, the artillery of the Ming army, and no one paid attention to the Ming musketeers and archers who scattered and fled, and they rushed forward in a swarm, and twenty or thirty Qing troops lost their horses and followed the large army on foot.
In order to save time, the Qing army only moved a short section of the second rejecting rifle, and more than 200 Aliha Chaoha soldiers rushed out from this gap, and unconsciously gathered into a group, and the artillery position of the Ming army was forty steps away, and there was no obstacle in the middle, and the black muzzle seemed to be within reach.
This distance is too close, the artillery is useless, there are still some soldiers on the artillery position of the Ming army, but it is certainly not the opponent of the Eight Banners cavalry, there is a cavalry unit of the Ming army coming from afar, and the other two infantry phalanxes are also catching up, but they are too late to stop the Aliha Chaoha soldiers from rushing to the artillery position of the Ming army.
Ali Hachao Ha Zhangjing urged the horse to rush quickly, and the corners of his mouth showed a vengeful smile, as long as it took a few moments, the artillery of the Ming army would be blown up into the sky.
Wait, what are the artillery of the Ming army doing? Why didn't they run away yet?
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On the artillery position of the Ming army, thirteen cannons were loaded with shotguns, and two Qianzi thunder cannons that could only shoot shotguns were also pushed up, fighting side by side with the new Furlong machine cannons.
The Qing army was thirty or forty paces away, and solid shells could not be used at this distance, but shotguns could be used.
With Chen Shangwu's order, fifteen cannons fired together, like fifteen oversized "trolls" (shotguns), spraying countless lead and iron sand together.
That Aliha Chao Hazhangjing rushed in front, and before he had time to make any evasive moves, he was hit by a dense rain of bullets, and even the men and horses jumped up violently, and then fell to the ground with a bang, motionless and dead, his body was covered with wounds, and blood flowed out one after another, gathering into a pool of blood.
Behind him was like a wheat field swept away by a storm, and the soldiers fell to the ground in all directions. (To be continued......)