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In the previous battle on the banks of Yulang River, the Ming army still did not rush to launch a charge, and moved forward slowly so that the artillery carriages could keep up with the queue.

On the way, several staff officers of the Ming army were always using telescopes and other tools to calculate the distance between each other. It wasn't until it entered the range of the artillery, just like in the previous war, that the whole army stopped and began to load and aim.

"Last time, the thief on the other side was like this."

Hong Chengchou clearly remembered that Bai Guangen had previously mentioned that the range of the Ming army's firearms was longer than that of the Qing army, and they were also very good at using this range difference to achieve greater damage. Seeing this, Hong Chengchou immediately gave an order, and then the war drums of the Qing army sounded, and the army pressed towards the Ming army at such a slow speed.

"Fire!"

With the experience of the last time, Hong Chengchou's reaction was naturally faster than Bai Guangen at that time. It's just that when the Qing army moved, the loading work on the Ming army's side was also completed. The order was given, and the artillery roared in turn. In an instant, one after another, the shells pierced the sky and blasted into the ranks of the Qing army.

The Qing army was on the march, the queue was as dense as usual, and every shell falling from the sky would mean one or several casualties of the Qing army.

This is a normal thing, and if you lose range, you must get into range as soon as possible before you can return fire. The life and death of the Qing army at the bottom, and even the life and death of these Qing army commanders around him were not placed in Hong Chengchou's heart at all, he had only one purpose, that is, to try to defeat the main force of the Ming army, nothing more.

In fact, the difference in the firing range of the artillery between the two sides is not very large, which is nothing more than the fixed charge package to avoid the artillery subconsciously reducing the amount of gunpowder in the process of loading in order to prevent explosion, as well as the increase in the power of granulated gunpowder.

When the Qing army came into range of their artillery, those guns also stopped and began to load and aim. However, the phalanx of the Qing army did not stop, but continued to advance.

"Leave those Tartar artillery alone, shoot with ricochets, give me a phalanx of Tartars!"

Artillery aimed at distant artillery positions to strike with precision, which was unrealistic in this era, and even like a dream. Chen Wen will not make such mistakes, even if he has the heart to do this, the staff officers next to him will speak out, this is their job, and it is also their duty, in order to let the Ming army make as few mistakes as possible on the battlefield.

As soon as the order was given, the gunners of the Ming army lowered their muzzles.

Increasing the angle does not necessarily increase the range, but decreasing it often leads to a decrease in range. From experience, they know very well what elevation angles are needed to maximize the firing range, which is the basic quality of artillery - they exist on the battlefield because of the advantage in range and power.

However, according to ballistics, even many experienced gunners know that when the angle of the gun is reduced to a certain extent, although the range of the shell will be reduced, it may form a ricochet effect, which will cause greater damage!

The Qing artillery was quickly loaded, and these gunners were extremely experienced, and they knew very well what angles they had to use and how much gunpowder they needed to load to reach the longest range. Even due to the excessive use of artillery medicine, there may be explosions, and they will subconsciously reduce the amount of medicine, but when they get to this distance, it is probably enough.

Lighting the fuse, the first round of artillery bombardment of the Qing army began, and a large number of shells flew through the sky of the Qing army's phalanx with gunpowder smoke, and directly bombarded into the ranks of the Ming army.

As the Ming army did before, after each shot, there will always be one or several casualties of the Ming army. Although the Ming army always maintained a vertical formation to avoid firearm killing, so that there would always be some shells that could not enter the battle formation, but on the whole, Hong Chengchou was satisfied. However, in the next second, when the artillery of the Ming army began to counterattack, Hong Chengchou realized that in fact, his use of the word satisfaction seemed to be a little too cheap.

The angle of the Ming army's muzzle was reduced, and the range of the shells would inevitably be affected, and the artillery fired in turn, and the first shell was fired, and it had landed before it reached the phalanx of the Qing army, but it did not smash out a crater and splash a piece of mortar as normal, but it rose into the air again, as if it was throwing stones at a specific angle to the water surface, and easily bounced into the phalanx of the Qing army.

The Qing army used a Spanish phalanx, and according to the Jesuit priest's training method, each battalion was organized into a phalanx, leaving gaps between the battalions to facilitate the entry and exit of cavalry.

This method of training is decent, but a phalanx of up to 700 people will inevitably form dense areas one after another. After the previous test firing, the corrected Ming artillery was all misaligned with these phalanxes.

The first shell bounced into the front camp phalanx of Jingbiaozhong Town, starting from the left leg knee of the first pikeman, thigh, lower abdomen, chest, and neck, and when it hit the bird in the back row, the head was smashed like a watermelon, and the red and white sprayed the surrounding Qing troops. And this cannon is not over, when it smashed the head of the Qing army, the momentum only slowed down slightly, but it did not prevent the Qing army behind from being beaten one by one, until the last Qing army was beaten to the ground by gravity, and the energy contained in it was completely exhausted.

A cannon shot out one after another, and the artillery of the Ming army aimed at those phalanxes in the front row, hitting a series of flesh and blood alleys. On the high platform under the banner behind the battle, although Hong Chengchou couldn't see what was happening in front of him, the Ma Harrier King 1 assistant minister beside him could still vaguely see that with the sound of the Ming army's cannons, the Qing army's spear forest seemed to be knocked down by a bowling ball, and disappeared into the phalanx one by one.

"Master Jingluo, you can't let the thieves continue to shoot!"

The artillery firing speed of the Ming army was far better than that of the Qing army, and the ricocheting shot was even more powerful, while the Spanish phalanx of the Qing army was notoriously slow to move.

The person who admonished him was not Wang 1's auxiliary minister, but Hu Quancai, Jiangxi Rao Nan Dao, who was responsible for assisting him in handling military affairs in the Nanchang Shogunate of Hong Chengchou.

This person has served as the governor of Shaanxi and Ningxia, and his talents are outstanding, which is by no means comparable to ordinary civil officials. Before entering the Nanchang Shogunate, he was once demoted to his current position, but as he was reused in the Nanchang Shogunate, almost everyone could see that this former governor was about to turn over the salted fish, and it was just a big victory.

Historically, after Hu Quancai entered the Nanchang Shogunate, he successively served as the governor of Yunyang and the high-ranking official of the governor of Huguang. At this moment, although it is still a platform, his advice is something that Hong Chengchou cannot ignore. What's more, the situation here does not allow him to hesitate at all.

"The cavalry on the left flank is dispatched, targeting the artillery positions of the thieves."

Solid shells can be seen as a more powerful version of the crossbow, but once the ricochet effect is formed, as the cannonball bounces through the crowd, the multiple casualties caused are sometimes even more terrible than some flowering shells. The highest record in history is that one hundred and five soldiers were killed and wounded in one shot, but in order to achieve the effect of ricochet, the opponent must adopt a dense phalanx, and only by rolling out of a bloody alley like a bowling ball can the power of this artillery shooting technique be truly demonstrated.

Prior to this, the Ming and Qing armies were more pure upward and direct fire, and the ricochet effect could sometimes appear, but it was basically accidental.

In Chinese history, in the Western Han Dynasty, there was already an experience summary of the trajectory of arrows, but it was not passed down, let alone used in artillery. Chen Wen vaguely remembered that Galileo, who threw the iron ball on the Leaning Tower of Pisa, had studied ballistics, although it had not yet reached the level of Newton, but he had already set a precedent for this.

After countless experiments, the artillery of the Ming army has also accumulated some experience, but it will take more time to really understand ballistics. Fortunately, these experiences have been able to be applied to actual combat, and before going north to Ningshao, the Nantang Zhuying in Jinhua had already begun targeted training, and the results shown here also strengthened Chen Wen's determination to devote greater importance to ballistics.

On the battlefield, the Ming army plowed deep ditches in the phalanx of the Qing army, but the Ming army, which was accustomed to hand-to-hand combat, carried the same number of artillery, otherwise Chen Wen even doubted whether it was possible to defeat the Qing army purely by artillery.

After the shelling, the artillery bombardment of the Qing army began again as the phalanx entered the range of the Ming army's Franc machine guns. During the firing between the two armies, Chen Wen soon noticed that the left flank of the Qing army near the mountains had dispatched a large number of cavalry.

"Marshal, the Tartars are obviously coming for our artillery, do you want to let the cavalry go out to contain it."

The meaning of this young staff officer is nothing more than to maximize the firing of artillery, and anyone would think so when they see that ricochet fire can cause such huge damage, but Zhang Gongyan, who has specialized in artillery some time ago in order to deepen his understanding of the feasibility of infantry artillery coordination tactics, shook his head.

"Now that the angle is not enough, I'm afraid it will be difficult to cause such a kill in the future."

Ricocheting is a requirement for the angle of shooting, and if the angle is too large, it is even more difficult if the angle is too small. Now that the Qing army is getting closer and closer, although it is still as fast as it is, and even seems to be slower after the shelling, if the angle is not enough, the ricochet effect cannot be formed, and the shooting effect is often not as good as that of the upward fire.

"We have few cavalry, and the Tartars haven't used all their strength, so we can't let the cavalry out. Moreover, the role of artillery has already been played, and there is no need to shoot hard cavalry with Tartars. ”

The order was given, as the cavalry on the left flank of the Qing army roared, the artillery of the Ming army retreated, and the infantry began to step forward, and soon put on a hedgehog-like frightened posture, forcing the cavalry of the Qing army to give up their attempt to rush into the battle formation.

The outer layer is a dense forest of spears, and the inside is the fire of the Qing cavalry by the musketeers and archers, and some cavalry was lost, and the Qing cavalry soon gave up riding and shooting, but they still roared and whistled on the periphery of the Ming army's battle formation, in order to prevent the Ming army from releasing those feared artillery here.

With the dispatch of cavalry, the purpose of the Qing army was quickly achieved, the artillery bombardment of the Ming army came to an end, and the infantry phalanx of the Qing army stepped forward again after a round of reorganization.

After a few moments, the cavalry of the Qing army began to withdraw, and even the artillery stopped firing because the two armies were too close. There are still dozens of paces away from the engagement, but since he knows that this Qing army has given up the tactics of javelins and throwing axes, Chen Wen did not hesitate to put out the firearms team, even if they can only carry out the last round of shooting.

"First row, squat!"

The Qing army was still advancing, but the salvo of the Ming firearms team began.

The fire boomed, and the infantry in the first row of the Qing army was almost swept away. But just with the help of cavalry, after reorganization, the Qing army's front row of several most seriously damaged battalion heads have also been replaced by the follow-up battalion heads, although this round of shooting is not small, but the arquebus queue is sparse, the shooting accuracy of the front-loading smoothbore gun is also extremely touching, and its lethal effect is not enough to make the Qing army completely discouraged.

The Ming army's salvo ended, and the Qing army seemed to have learned this hand, the phalanx stopped, and the battalion leaders in the front row sent the bird guns to the front to conduct a round of shooting with the battalion as a unit.

At this distance, it has entered the effective shooting range of the bird, and the front row of the Ming army was also immediately shot. The only thing to be thankful for is that the phalanx of the Qing army only has spears and bird guns, and the only thing that can protect them from the shot is the armor on their bodies, while on the side of the Ming army, there are still long card players standing in front of the formation, sheltering the spearmen in the back.

The thumping sound is the sound of lead bullet hitting the long card wrapped in iron, and the long card player tries his best to resist the enemy for the teammates behind him, but they often can't take care of themselves, as is the case with the long card player Wu Chang of the Yanzhou Mansion recruit Liao Yiran of the Nantang Battalion.

Just now, Liao Yiran was behind Wu Chang, and saw the Qing army's bird gun hand forward, and the long card players of the Ming army front put on a combat posture, but although the long card is big, it is not as good as the door panel can take care of the whole body, after this round of shooting, Liao Yiran, who closed his eyes nervously, opened his eyes again, and saw that Wu Chang had fallen to the ground.

"Fireman!"

At the same time that Liao resolutely shouted, the firefighters of this team had already rushed over, probed their noses and hurriedly dragged Wu Chang back.

At this moment, the Qing army's shooting was over, the distance was too close, and the loading of the arquebus took too much time, and it was no longer enough to reload and shoot again. While the Qing army continued to advance, soon, the Ming army also set up a defensive formation, but the Nantang battalion was still in a vertical formation.

After a while, the Qing army had marched to a distance of about twenty paces, this distance for the current Ming and Qing armies, probably only the archers thrown by the Ming army could still be involved, but at this time, the firearms team of the Nantang battalion that had just retreated to the gap rushed out again, and after standing still, there was a new round of shooting at the phalanx of the Qing army.

The firing of the arquebus required as many as forty-three steps, as was the case with the Ming army's Lu Mi gun and the Qing army's bird gun, but the Nantang battalion was now already equipped with flintlock guns, which simplified nearly half of the firearms in this operation step and took less than half the time to complete the reloading.

"Good!"

Liao resolutely wanted to shout this sentence, but as a recruit, he also knew battlefield discipline, so he had to suppress this praise in his heart.

The Qing army was taken by surprise, but it did not stop to regroup, because they were the only ones who were hit by a new round of blows by the Ming army, and the other departments were unharmed, so they had to maintain the balance of the front and continue to advance.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and the spearmen of the Qing army have also leveled their spears, and the same is true for the Ming army. The spears approached little by little, and soon crossed the tips of each other's spears, and with the loud shouts that sounded almost at the same time, Liao resolutely held his spear and stabbed at the square-faced and bearded Qing army facing him.

"Kill!"

A spear stabbed out, Liao resolutely stabbed the spear directly into the mouth of the Qing army, the metal head of the spear poked out a little from the back of the head, and then, the bearded Qing army fell to the ground with Liao resolutely collecting the gun.

Liao was very lucky, not only stabbed a Qing soldier to death, but also escaped the assassination of a spear, but still scratched a shallow blood mark on his face. The two armies clashed, this little injury was nothing at all, and after collecting the gun, Liao resolutely immediately aimed at the Qing army that stabbed him, and stabbed him with both arms!

Hand-to-hand combat has begun, but there is still not much movement on the side of the Qing army, and it seems that they are ready to consume it like this. The infantry on both sides opened a flesh mill at the place of the confrontation, but Chen Wen couldn't help frowning.

"In such a battle, the Mandarin Duck Formation is too much of a loss."

In the face of the spearmen of the Spanish phalanx, the pikemen killer team may be better, but the Mandarin Duck formation can only defend on the spot. However, Chen Wen chose the breakthrough there.

"Get the Man in the Iron Mask ready." (To be continued.) )

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