At a distance of one hundred paces, the infantry archers on both sides had already begun to shoot at each other, but the distance was too far, and the accuracy of the shooting could not be guaranteed, but the Ming army transferred the musketeers at this time, but it was still unexpected by the Qing army. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In this era, only the three-eyed guns and bird guns were really installed in the Ming and Qing armies.

The three-eyed gun appeared earlier, but now it is only occasionally used by cavalry in armies from the northern border army, and the reason for this result is very simple, the reloading speed is too slow, and the range is too much, and it can only be used as a stick after fifty steps. And the bird gun, when Qi Jiguang was alive, began to be popularized in the Ming army, and the Qing army later began to use it, especially the Han Eight Banner Army, but the effective range of the bird gun is only about 80 steps, Shi Tingzhu is a firearms expert in the Qing army, knowing that the bird gun will reduce the use of drugs to prevent explosions, and prevent being hurt by Mars and do not aim when shooting, the Ming and Qing armies are like this, so the range and accuracy must be further calculated, and the effective range can have a seventy steps is good.

The bird guns of the Eight Banners of the Han Army were specially made in the firearms workshops of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the quality was naturally better than that used by the Green Battalion, but it was already like this since the end of the Ming Dynasty when reducing medication and shooting, and even many bird guns did not understand why they would do this.

Without him, habit.

However, at this moment, the Ming army, which had just shown great ability in the whole team and marching, had transferred the firecracker at a distance of a hundred paces, and the appearance of such a low-level mistake was indeed worthy of Shi Tingzhu's sentence "This is impossible!" ”

It's just that the moment the shock full of doubts blurted out, a burst of gunsmoke and fire only made when firing broke out in front of the Ming army, and the artillery commanders, gunners, and loaders who were still busy in the front row of the Qing army almost fell in response, and were shot and wounded dozens of people by the Ming army in an instant.

The Qing artillerymen who were still busy resetting, cleaning the slag, and loading were all stunned, this distance logically speaking, they only need to pay attention to those arrows that are close to the limit of the effective range, and the strength is far inferior to the initial arrows, which is not a difficult thing for their veterans who have accumulated over the years, as long as they pay attention, they can suffer a lot less injuries. As for the firecracker, it is impossible to hit people at this distance, and only those nervous recruits will choose to shoot at this distance.

But what happened just now really frightened them, and there was more fear in the incredulity in their eyes - the range of the Ming army's firearms was far greater than before, if you think of the tenacity of those defenders last night, many soldiers in the Qing army who saw this scene had thoughts similar to the Ming army's use of the Yangmen Array or some unknown witchcraft.

However, before they could react, the second round of shooting of the Ming army began, and what overwhelmed them the most was that it was not the firecrackers who had been replaced, but the guys from the evil sect just now.

As a guy from the evil sect, Zhang Yida, the firecracker of the Shentang battalion, had just finished shooting, and he hurriedly reloaded under the command of the officer, not daring to hesitate at all.

In fact, with his qualifications and merits, he should have been promoted to the captain or deputy captain of the firearms team, but due to the establishment of the Shentang battalion, the infantry team of the four bureaus was not transferred except for the new recruits, and his promotion was temporarily shelved. However, according to the supervising officer, he already has the rank of lieutenant of the guard, and he has been given the right to be promoted first, and he can always be promoted when the next army expansion or position is available.

Zhang Yida didn't quite understand what this word meant, but since joining the Ming Army, he not only got rid of the status of a domestic slave, but also obtained the tax-free land that belonged to his family, moved the graves of his grandparents and parents, and even married a daughter-in-law.

It was the appearance of the Ming army that gave him these happy lives and desires, all of which made him exceptionally content with his life in the army, and while offering Chen Wen the tablet of immortality at home, he was also happy to believe what the prison officers said, because the promises made in the army before had been fulfilled, and this should be no exception.

From an archer to a firecracker, Zhang Yida quickly adapted to this brand-new thing, this thing looks more complicated, but it is far easier to form combat effectiveness than a bow and arrow, the blow just now, he personally watched the Qing army artillery commander a hundred paces away being knocked to the ground, is the best example.

Tear it with his teeth, tear open the paper package of fixed charges, and then charge, press, load, load the door medicine, and cover the fire door cover, until the captain of the firearms team gives an order, he opens the fire door cover again, takes aim and then pulls the bolt to shoot. Just follow the habits you've developed over the years, and you don't even need to go through your brain at all, just follow the muscles to get used to it.

The paper powder pack made him not need to estimate the amount of gunpowder on the battlefield, as long as the paper bag was torn open, which undoubtedly improved the loading speed of the gunner, but Zhang Yida knew that the Nantang battalion on the right side of their battalion, the first battalion of Hou Ye had already been equipped with a firecracker without an arquebus, and they called it a flintlock firecracker, also called a self-generated firecracker. It reloads much faster than he used, and it's much safer.

With a "bang", it was another round of shooting, and the Chinese army had already completed one more round than the two wings. Shi Tingzhu's eyes were full of questions and swept over Liu Zhiyuan, but what he got was the answer that "the last general has never fought with this Ming army in the field, and I don't know why their firearms are so sharp".

This answer was certainly not enough to convince Shi Tingzhu, who suspected that the Ming army had used a longer range firearm, but how that faster rate of fire came from. There are certain rules for the loading and firing of firearms, not all of which cannot be omitted, but they will not be worse than this. Moreover, the loading speed of the Ming army on the Chinese side is obviously faster than that of the two wings, even if he has seen the battalion flag of the Nantang battalion, Shi Tingzhu can't convince himself. Now the Qing army's bird hand has not moved, but even if it shoots, it is definitely not the opponent on the opposite side, which is obviously beyond his comprehension.

The Eight Banners of the Han Army appeared as a firearms unit, even if it was able to fight independently now, its firecrackers were much more than archers, so it was definitely not a way to be beaten passively, and then a few rounds, his gunners, foot archers, and bird gunners had to be defeated by the Ming army, and there was not enough long-range fire support at that time, and it would be too difficult to win the battle with only infantry and cavalry.

This Ming army has shown too many irregularities, which makes Shi Tingzhu give up his patience to continue. With the forward tilt of the flag and the beating of the war drums, the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, who had been targeted by the Ming army for several rounds, finally did not need to continue to endure and shouted to kill the Ming army.

Among the long-range attack weapons used by the Qing army, the Hongyi cannon had the longest range, even the small-caliber ones they used, but this was far enough away, but it was also the slowest to reload; Then there are those Franc cannons, there is no mention of the firing speed, but unfortunately after the four rounds are fired, they have to be slowly reloaded, and they are already dumb fire here; Further down was the foot bow, with a range of one hundred and twenty paces, but there were too few arrows in the formation of this army, and a few arrows flew back and forth; The one that makes up for this distance is the bird's gun, that is, the range is a little shorter, only about seventy paces; As for the tiger squat cannons, their range is only a little longer than that of javelin throwing axes or something, and it is not enough to reach the Ming army here.

Between seventy steps and one hundred and twenty steps is the distance that the Ming army can maximize the shooting, not only in the proportion of infantry archers, the Ming army's firecrackers have already completed the upgrading, the bird guns have been eliminated from the war barracks, and now the Ming army uses the Lumi guns with an effective range of about 100 steps, or the granulated gunpowder of the fixed charge package, the loading speed is faster and the power is greater, and the Nantang battalion uses the bolt that has been replaced with a flintlock bolt, and the reloading speed is further.

At this moment, the firearms advantage relied on by the Han Eighth Banner Army, which was originally established by artillery, has disappeared in front of the Ming army, not because they are not experienced enough and there are not many veterans, but because Chen Wen and his staff officers have a more detailed and professional calculation of the range of firearms, and technological innovation has also made this Ming army's firearms unit reborn in terms of quality, and what is lacking is just scale.

Everything in the distance can be said to be undoubtedly visible in the telescope, and the Qing army has not yet used this kind of observation equipment commonly used in navigation to observe the situation on the battlefield, but Chen Wen has already begun to build a workshop to make telescopes.

"On the battlefield, fighting slow with fast and fast with slow is nothing more than the word rhythm. Now those fake tartars can't stand it anymore, but I'm not going to give them a chance. ”

Before the words of the staff officers and students around him fell, the general flag of the Ming army shook again, the war drums sounded, and the Ming army once again changed their formation. (To be continued.) )