At this time, on the grassland 1,500 steps west of the Ming army's camp, Rosovsky was standing on horseback, holding a telescope to carefully observe the fire, shouts of killing, explosions, and gunfire on the battlefield. He took a breath and said to the people around him: "What the hell, what kind of battle are these Tatars fighting?" Also, how many Ming troops are there? Is it really just over 6,000? This gunfire is too dense......"

Several of the Russian officers beside him were also solemn, all of them had fought - with the Turks or with the Tatars of the steppe. Of course, you can hear how dense the guns of the Ming army are, this is not something that 6,000 rifles can play!

"Your Excellency, is it possible that the Ming army pursuing us is not only more than 6,000, but ...... 20000？ ”

"There can't be so many! Maybe they concentrated all the riflemen on one side? ”

"Even then, the firepower is too fierce!"

"Your Excellency, the enemy situation has changed, let's retreat......"

Rossovsky shook his head: "You can't retreat, at least you have to figure out where the enemy situation is!" Otherwise, we will suffer inexplicably in the future! ”

The corners of his mouth tightened: "The fact that the Ming army can fight so flexibly at night shows that this is a high-quality army, not under us Cossacks!" And their firepower is very strong, the interval between salvos is very short, if it is not for the tactics of multi-row round fire, I am afraid that they are equipped with breech guns! ”

His brow was already tightly furrowed. Multi-row rounds were popular for a while in the 18th century, and the Prussians preferred to play this set. However, this style of play is difficult to coordinate and organize, and it takes a long time of training and running-in to be able to do it well. So by the 19th century. Even European armies don't play with rotation. Instead, it was changed to a two-column platoon of guns. So he didn't quite believe that the Ming army was shooting in rounds. Rather, it was inclined to equip the Ming army with a new breech gun! Breech guns are nothing new, and since he joined the Russian army, rumors about breech guns have been constantly heard. It seems that the Yankees and Prussian armies were also armed with breech guns......

Rossovsky sat back on the horse, took a deep breath, and gave the right and right orders: "Just once, one hammer deal, whether it succeeds or not, rushes once!" Grab as many captives as you can and capture a few of their rifles. ”

"Yes, sir!"

……

Under the cover of night. The Cossacks stepped on their Don hippos, and during the long maneuvers of the past they rode as much as possible on the Mongol horses assigned to them, rather than on their beloved Don hippos, for the purpose of charging this evening!

The Cossacks brought by Rosovsky were not Siberian Cossacks, but elite Cossack cavalry divisions transferred from Europe, all of which were Don Cossacks, they were the tsar's sharp blades, Russian sharp spears. Rossovsky's division fought in four Russo-Turkish wars and fought Frederick the Great of Prussia. He also fought against the great Emperor Napoleon, and he was a real elite of a hundred battles!

But on this night. Rossovsky was not confident of victory. No, he already smells of defeat. However, a defeat does not mean anything, the war between Russia and the Ming Dynasty has just begun, and this war may last for a full 100 years......

"Cossacks, let the Chinese taste the taste of spears and sabers!" Rosovsky pulled out his sabre and shouted loudly, "For the tsar, for Russia, rush!" Ula ......"

"Rush, Ula!"

There was a thunderous whistling, followed by the dull roar of horses' hooves beating against the steppe. 2,500 Cossack cavalrymen at the same time began to gallop on horseback, first trotting, accelerating to a range of 1,000 paces, 500 paces...... Full!

In the midst of the charging queue, Rosovsky squinted his eyes slightly, and observed the Ming army's position in front of him by the bright moonlight - very quiet! Rosovsky faintly saw the muzzles of countless black holes, which seemed to be in two formations, which meant that behind the powerful firepower of the Ming army was a new type of rifle, a breech-loading gun that could be quickly loaded......

Boom Boom Boom ......

The first to meet the Cossack cavalry charge clusters were as usual artillery shells, not direct-firing cannons, but curved-fired howitzers. What came out was, of course, the famous Hodchsky grenade, which was filled with starch explosives invented by Zhu Jishi!

The expected screams rang out, and the shards of cast iron were like the scythe of death that harvested life, knocking down hundreds or more Cossacks in an instant. However, the torrent of the charge was not stopped, but became faster and faster.

"All ready...... Fire! Ryoma Sakamoto pointed forward with his katana, and the more than 500 rifles of a samurai battalion under his command suddenly erupted in flames. They were joined by an infantry battalion of Chinese, all of which were made up of veterans of the Jinyi Guards who had been on several battlefields. In tonight's battle, he was also extremely composed.

The orange muzzle flame flashed, spewing out thousands of spinning projectiles, flying over a distance of less than 250 paces, tearing apart the flesh of a war horse or human, and splattering a puff of blood.

More than 1,000 rounds of bullets have created more than a hundred blood flowers, which seems to be a small number, but this is only the starting point of the rain of bullets, as the distance between the two sides approaches rapidly, the killing of each round of salvo will increase significantly! And such a salvo, still three times!

"Reload, reload, ......"

The command voices of Chinese and Japanese with a Cantonese accent sounded at the same time. Two battalions of more than 1,000 infantrymen pulled down the firing pin very neatly and stuffed a cartridge into the magazine, and the whole process took only a few seconds. It is four to five times faster than a front-loading gun, and it can be loaded while holding the rifle flat and maintaining a variety of shooting positions, such as kneeling, standing, and lying down.

"Fire!"

In fact, infantry with a breech rifle no longer need to shoot a platoon gun, because the rifle is also a rifled gun, and the spiral rifling allows the rifle to accurately hit the target at a distance of 250 paces (400 meters). Although due to poor air tightness, the effective range of this rifle is not as good as that of the Bese Mai Rifle. But at 250 paces, this rifle is certainly the most powerful of all rifles in the world at the moment, with enough rate of fire and accuracy, and the platoon tactics are completely redundant for this rifle, but the officers' thinking always has inertia.

"Sure enough, it's a breech gun......"

When the second platoon of gunfire rang out, Rosovsky already knew that the opponent was using a rear-loading gun, because his vision was very good, and he could clearly see that the opposing soldiers did not change their kneeling position, and they loaded their bullets. This is something that cannot be done with a front-loading gun!

"Quick! Reload! ”

Without the officer's urging, Katsuta Shimazaki stuffed a cartridge into the magazine, then raised his gun and aimed at a tall Cossack soldier, pulled the trigger, and the other party fell in response. And Katsuta Shimazaki also received a knife in the back of the head.

"Baga! Listen to the order and fire again...... Now, fire! ”

"Why do you have to listen to orders?" Shimazaki thought this in his heart, but his mouth said, "Hai! Hail! "It should be non-stop. At the same time, he loaded the bullet with his hands and feet.

Another volley of guns roared, a dense flash of fire, and a rain of lead bullets swept over the galloping cavalry once more. This time, the distance between the two sides has been shortened to less than 30 steps! The bullet knocked the Cossack on horseback to the ground like a whirlwind, the horse neighed, and the arrow of the charge slammed, as if hitting an invisible barrier. The Cossacks who rushed to the front were almost all killed, the corpses of men and horses lay sideways, dying cries came one after another, and the front of the guns of the Ming army seemed to be a hell of a nose.

However, the Cossack charge was not repulsed! The large depth shock formation of 2,500 cavalry is not something that 1,000 foreign guns can repel Although thousands of people fell on the way to the charge, the remaining cavalry still held on.

"Prepare to ramble!" Sakamoto Ryoma and another Ming military battalion leader roared, and thousands of bayonets formed a steel forest.

At the same time, another horizontal formation consisting of two battalions of infantry had appeared behind Ryoma Sakamoto and the others...... (To be continued......)