At such a distance, the new army's equipment of the Lu Mi gun is not unable to hit the battle formation of the Northern Expeditionary Army, but the energy attenuation after the bullet out of the barrel, with the range and power of the Lu Mi gun, at this distance, it no longer has the ability to break armor, and the damage to the Northern Expeditionary Army is negligible, and it can even be said that it can be almost completely ignored.

It's just like this, and if you keep being beaten passively, naturally you can't do it. The New Army was forced by the range of the Northern Expeditionary Army's guns to hold the line any longer, so they had to march in unison, so as to rely on their legs to provide enough firing range for the guns.

As the New Army moved forward, the Northern Expeditionary Army did not maintain continuous firing, but continued to advance after reloading, as if the round of fire just now was to force the New Army to break away from the established line and accelerate its convergence.

The new army adjusted its formation slightly, and the front row was replaced by a full range of musketeers, and while striding forward, there were also artillery crews pushing the three-pounder guns of the gate to follow the battle formation.

Without the sound of the firing of firearms, the battlefield was occupied by the footsteps of the two armies advancing in columns, low and depressing.

The two sides moved forward step by step, approaching from a distance of 123 meters, 100 meters, 90 meters, 80 meters, and 70 meters, and walked a small and half distance. It was not until this distance that the Northern Expeditionary Army stood still again, and then the rainstorm of shooting rang out again.

It was only at this time that it was no longer a volley like just now, but the musketeers were divided into three rows, taking turns to launch a continuous fire at the battle formation of the new army.

Seventy meters, this distance is much higher than the hit rate of the A-type firebolt just now, and the armor-piercing effect is also better.

At this moment, it is difficult for any new gunners who are shot by the armor-type firearms to resist the shooting of such firearms, even if they are wearing the half-body armor that was modeled after the old armor used to equip the firearms of the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies, and even if they can resist the shooting, their huge kinetic energy will make the new gunners protected by the half-body armor feel as if they have been hammered by a hammer.

Gunfire rang out at very small intervals, and soldiers were shot and fell to the ground almost every minute on the Novuvelles side. But this distance, for Lu Miquan, shooting unarmored soldiers is very rich, but if you want to pierce the iron armor, it is absolutely unattainable.

The disadvantage of the firing range made it necessary for the new army to continue to advance in this continuous fire. Every time they shot, there would be new soldiers in the queue who fell to the ground, and the officers at the bottom were already drawing their swords in their hands, scolding and whipping at the bodies of those new soldiers anytime and anywhere.

Thanks to the harsh training brought by Liu Cheng from the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and under the whip and military law for a long time, the more frightened the new army was, the more subconsciously obeyed the order. This army is no longer the feudal army of the past, but has evolved into a semi-feudal and semi-modern army.

Among them, the Janissaries, who have been trained the longest and have experienced great battles, are like walking corpses, whose brains no longer seem to have the ability to think independently, and are only governed by orders, and the influence of the surrounding situation is driven by the whip and military law, and there are many cases of deafness. At first glance, it seems that the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was semi-feudal and semi-slavery, had trained a modern army.

Under the harsh military laws and the continuous cultivation and brainwashing of a sense of crisis, the new army broke through the limitations of the political system and reached a tenacity that the Beiyang New Army could not reach in later generations.

Without the soil of the modern nation-state and the system of modernization, all this is just an outlier and cannot be replicated at all.

Even, at this moment, the Praetorian Guard was already two completely different armies compared to the other new armies, and when this sense of crisis disappeared, it was impossible for the Qing court to completely root this modern army in the soil of semi-feudalism and semi-slavery by relying on the leather whip alone. But at this moment, even if it is only a one-time product, the threat in it is still not to be underestimated.

The Northern Expeditionary Army continued to shoot, and the center and left flanks of the New Army marched forward in columns. Starting from 70 meters, the stride has advanced a distance of 20 meters, and no less than 3,000 soldiers of the new army on these two lines have been shot and wounded by the Northern Expeditionary Army. But at this distance, the power of the Lu Mi gun was enough to break through the normal armor, and the new army did not hesitate to launch a counterattack on the Northern Expeditionary Army after adjusting the queue slightly.

The three rows of musketeers lined up as they had done against Wu Sangui, and as soon as the officer gave the order, a long-suppressed salvo rang out.

The thumping of gunfire mingled with Lu Mi, and the shooting of the Northern Expeditionary Army in the distance was immediately stunned.

However, the half-body armor of the Northern Expeditionary Army was different from the heavy armor of the New Army, but adopted the structure of plate armor, which was cold-forged with a whole iron plate to the required arc and then processed.

In terms of the thickness of the iron armor, the two sides are generally the same, but the plate armor is different from the armor that still needs the human body to bear a part of the energy, and the geometric arc realizes the offset of energy. The armor-breaking rate of the new army in this round of salvo fire was far inferior to that of the exercise, and those officers and men of the Northern Expeditionary Army who were hit but their armor could not be broken were not at all as heavy as the new army in the same situation, which did not affect the next battle at all.

The smoke of gunfire was filled, and none of the musketeers of the new army, in accordance with the regulations of the firecrackers, observed the results of the battle, and all of them immediately switched to the process of reloading after the shooting. On the side of the Northern Expeditionary Army, compared to those guys who stole the art on the other side, they strictly followed the discipline and fought, only at the moment when the casualties first appeared, there was little hecticism, but it also returned to normal in an instant.

In this era, firearms killing, hand-to-hand combat has become the most common scene on the European battlefield. At least on the Chinese battlefield at this moment.

Next, the salvo on the side of the New Army gradually changed to continuous shooting, and the same was true for the Northern Expeditionary Army. The two sides did not hesitate to push up the small-caliber artillery in their divisions, and the continuous shooting and artillery bombardment became the main theme of the Eastern Front battlefield between the Chinese army, the left flank of the Qing army, and the right flank of the Ming army.

Every minute, every second, there will be officers and non-commissioned officers falling, and both sides are waiting for the moment when the opponent's formation falters in such a war of attrition.

In these scenes, only those hunters of the Northern Expeditionary Army seemed a little eye-catching, and they targeted the middle and lower level officers and artillerymen of the New Army through precise aiming at three points and one line, and what was even more shameless was that these people did not have the demeanor of shooting in formation, either squatting or lying on their stomachs, and even used the remains of war horses as cover, which was similar to their previous shooting in a skirmish line.

The confrontation between the Chinese armies of the two sides and on the battlefield on the Eastern Front was carried out, but not long ago, when the Northern Expeditionary Army entered a distance of 120 meters, the battlefield on the Western Front, which was already close to the canal, was a completely different scene.

When the Northern Expeditionary Army entered a range of 120 meters, the Chinese Army and the Northern Expeditionary Army on the right flank stopped firing and waited for the New Army to advance before moving into a distance where it was easier to cause actual casualties. This was a tactic established before the battle, however, the Young Guards Division on the left flank did not do this, but continued to advance.

The infantry is not in battle, and the most feared thing in the infantry battle formation is to break, because once it breaks, it will give the opponent the opportunity to achieve division and individual breaks.

However, at this moment, the Young Guards Division, when the Chinese army stopped shooting, chose to continue to advance, committing the taboo of the soldiers. However, as the Northern Expeditionary Army's central army and the right flank troops continued to advance, the amplitude of the left flank was not very large, and it could barely be regarded as advancing in unison. But after the Northern Expeditionary Army stopped shooting at the new army again, the formation opened up more and more as it moved.

The shooting of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Chinese Army and the Eastern Front battlefield sounded, the New Army was forced to advance, and the Wuwei Right Army was afraid of breaking the formation, and the same was true. As a result, the distance between the two sides has been greatly increased.

In this way, one was a new army that was discriminated against because it was originally commanded by the Han Chinese, and the other was a strange army that was not even equipped with a spear, and the outliers in the two respective armies were constantly approaching. By the time the confrontation between the Chinese army and the Eastern Front sounded, the distance between the two sides had not only entered the effective range of the Lumi guns, but even only a short forty meters or so.

"Stand!"

Inherited from the same discipline, the non-commissioned officers of the Wuwei Right Army stood still in unison after hearing the officer's order. Next, the orders to "raise the gun" and "aim" sounded in turn, and with the last "shot", the front of the battle formation of the Wuwei Right Army was filled with gunsmoke, and the bullets swept over the battle formation in the front row of the Young Guards Division like raindrops in a blink of an eye.

At a short distance of forty meters, Ding Junjie could already see the general appearance of the new army opposite. When the new army on the opposite side stopped and raised the fire gun according to the order, Ding Junjie knew very well what the next scene would be, and his chest was occupied by fear.

However, after a long period of training, like a new army trained according to the same drill code, the more frightened Ding Junjie is, the better his body will obey orders, as if he is involuntary. As the sound of thumping shots sounded, what could be seen in the eyes was not only the smoke of gunpowder spewing out in the distance, but also the trajectory of the bullets that crossed one by one, deepening the fear in my heart.

"Ahh

The screams of the bullet sounded, Ding Junjie only felt that his left shoulder was hit, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw Li Youzhi, who was standing on his left side in the queue, fell heavily to the ground.

This young man who likes to laugh the most in the team on weekdays fell down so easily, his legs had been mechanized and he walked forward, Ding Junjie couldn't even see how he fell in the last picture in the afterglow, where he was shot, whether he was injured and fell to the ground, or died on the spot. At this moment, the only thing he could see was that Huang Daqiang behind Li Youzhi stepped forward and filled the vacancy left by Li Youzhi without hesitation, nothing more.

The casualties were suddenly presented in front of me, and I suddenly realized the cruelty of the war, especially when I thought that the new army on the opposite side would definitely continue to reload behind the smoke of gunpowder, and the more I would panic when I waited for the next round of shooting.

But the body has been dominated by fear, and the long-term training has left an indelible imprint on his body and mind, and the more he fears, the more he will think of the horrors of military law and the leather whip, and the more his body will obey the orders of his superiors like a machine. At this moment, don't say that you have escaped, even if you stop, it is absolutely impossible.

"Young Guards Division, keep going!"

The shouts of the junior officers came and went, and the others were still behind, and when they heard the shouts of Huang Chengming not far from the right, the immediate superiors during the year-long training were more and more impressed, and the body's execution of orders instantly entered the level of habitualization.

The gap in the front row had been filled in by the back row, and the soldiers of the Young Guards Division continued to move forward with a uniform pace. However, the right army of Wuwei was behind the smoke of gunpowder, and the speed of reloading was not affected in the slightest, and only a moment later, the second round of firing began again at the same time as the smoke completely dispersed, and the curtain of blood and gunpowder smoke was pulled back up.

"Ahh

The sound of a pop was heard, and there was another scream. Secretly prayed for a moment, the bullet did not fall on his body, but directly killed the captain Huang Chengming, who was still boosting morale just now, on the spot.

The first immediately realized that he was being hit to his left, and the second, although not close to him, was the captain of the team that he had been with all year round. Fear struck, and this time without the restraint of his immediate boss, his movements began to stiffen. But at this moment, far from waiting for his body to be completely out of control, Su Jingzhi, the former chief of the team who was on the left of Huang Chengming, let out a loud shout, and the loosening was instantly suppressed.

"The captain was injured, I am Su Jingzhi, the former chief of Shishi, and according to the regulations of the battlefield, I will act as the captain. Young Guards Division, keep going! ”

Su Jingzhi's shout sounded, and Ding Junjie could clearly feel that the morale of the people in the robe near Zuo was reinvigorated. But in an instant, the artillery of the new army began the first round of shooting, and the black trajectory flew by, and Huang Dazhuang, one of the strongest men in the team, fell to the ground like two broken pockets when he and the robe behind him, and he didn't even let out a scream.

Cannonballs are no better than bullets, and mortals in the flesh are categorically unable to resist them. I don't know when the next round of shelling will suddenly sound, but I guess the time and distance, maybe I can't take a few more steps, and the next round of shooting of the new army will start again.

Several robes had fallen beside him, and the fear in Ding Junjie's heart was even worse, because he didn't know if there would be a bullet or cannonball on his body in the next second, just like those robes, and he would be killed in this northern land thousands of miles away from his hometown.

The voice and smile of his deceased father, the ardent expectations of his widowed mother, the earnest teaching of his teacher, the love and friendship of his classmates, and the common hatred and hatred of his robes, the pictures kept appearing in front of his eyes, and they kept tearing his heart. Fortunately, in the next second, the sound of military music sounded, and the confusion and contradictions disappeared.

"You don't see it, the final army of the Han Dynasty, the weak crown is a captive, please be long."

When the military music played, Ding Junjie subconsciously followed the rhythm and hummed this catchy military song in his mouth.

"You don't see, Ban Dingyuan, the Peerless Light Cavalry is urging the battle clouds."

hummed softly, but the familiar voices of the robes were already heard in his ears. The singing became more and more numerous and louder, and it was originally a little noisy, but as the military music continued, it became more and more uniform, just like the steps under their feet, stepping on the horizon with a shocking resonance.

The familiar melody dispelled the fear, and all thoughts turned into courage to drive Ding Junjie and his robes to move forward bravely. The shooting of the right army of Wuwei sounded again, but the chest was full of courage, and there were countless comrades with one heart around him. Faith and collective strength are blessed with each other, and the black cannonballs, silver buckshots, and in this passionate war song, have become completely nothing.

Singing war songs, the Young Guards Division strode forward. There are constantly soldiers in the front team falling, but there are also soldiers in the back team who do not hesitate to fill the gap, trying to keep the queue in the front row intact.

Forty meters, thirty meters, twenty meters, and two steps forward, Ding Junjie could already clearly see the whites of the eyes of the new soldiers who were continuing to load, and the fear and shock that filled their eyebrows.

At this moment, the order was issued, Ding Junjie and his robes immediately stood still, looking at the new sergeants who were eighteen or nineteen meters away from the opposite side with their heads held high, as if they were laughing at these enemies, they had been fighting for so long in vain, but they still let them stand here, standing in this place where they could be killed more quickly!

"Raise the gun!"

"Aim!"

"Shoot!"