Chapter 287: Zhu Zilong smiled with satisfaction!
I saw that dozens of nearly 100 shells were intensive, and they entered the ranks of the Qing army that were trotting forward.
In an instant, the Houjin Stormtroop formation with Niu Lu as the unit was disrupted, and their military formation was originally a zigzag formation, but now it was messed up together, scurrying like a headless fly.
The Qing soldiers screamed and fled, and many people ran back and forth, not knowing what to do. There were also some people who lay on the ground and did not dare to move, but they also dodged the rain of bullets. Seeing that they had an effect in doing so, many Qing soldiers began to follow suit and lay on the ground one after another.
Finally, the shelling stopped.
However, it was Zhu Zilong who deliberately stopped the artillery regiment with a banner, because his infantry phalanx had already come up and set up the formation.
The shells are powerful, but if you want to rely on them, you will hit a large army of the Qing army, the cost is too high, and it will take a long time. Some are unrealistic!
The role of artillery shells is more like psychological warfare, and to give the enemy a big dismount.
Most of the time, modern people are misled by the military propaganda on idiotic television. In fact, it's never a bullshit bullet that kills an enemy on the battlefield, and snipers can't do it.
Not even a gunner with a higher aim, let alone a bombardment of artillery shells over a large area?
Therefore, shelling is more often used when it is used in a dense crowd of people to charge from a distance, when destroying large targets, and when it is used in psychological warfare.
Of course, when anti-aircraft guns appeared, they were also responsible for attacking groups of low-altitude aircraft.
That's all!
If you want to rely purely on artillery shells, you will defeat the enemy army 100%. Unless it's an intensive shell scrubbing regardless of the cost!
Take, for example, the battle at hand right now.
If the number of artillery pieces of the Zhu Jiajun had increased from 100 to more than 700 to 1,000 artillery pieces, and they had directly bombarded indiscriminately regardless of the cost, it would have been possible to fight thousands of Qing soldiers crying and calling their mothers without waiting for the two sides to fight at close range, and they would have been hit hard.
At this moment, Abatai saw that the artillery on Zhu Zilong's side had stopped, and he was overjoyed.
He instinctively thought that this should be the Ming army's artillery was afraid of exploding, so he had to rest.
Don't miss the opportunity, when will you wait if you don't charge at this time?
So, soon.
The remnants of the Qing infantry under artillery fire separated the middle road, and the cavalry went into battle to charge. The others followed and charged!
Soon, the distance between the two sides was getting closer.
When approaching a distance of 100 paces, many Qing soldiers were already on their horses, taking out bows and arrows and preparing to strike at the Ming army.
In the blink of an eye, these archers were within a hundred paces, and the arrogance on their faces, as well as the thick white breath exhaled from the cold weather, could be clearly seen.
After a hundred steps, these Qing soldiers who were only wearing cotton armor or wearing iron cotton armor were already under the blow of the Zhu family's arms. Zhu Zilong exhaled softly and said to Ma Xiaosan on the side: "Massacre, let's start!" ”
Immediately, several thousand generals, various generals, various team officers, as well as Ma Xiaosan and others. They all pointed the long knife in their hands forward, and then shouted: "Shoot!" ”
Bang, bang, bang, bang (omit hundreds of bangs)!
The deafening sound of firearms from the soldiers of the Zhu family army immediately sounded, and the firecrackers in the front row were all fired in a salvo. The infantry phalanx of the Zhu family army had already been laid out in a row, and on a battle line hundreds of meters long, a long and dense area of gunpowder smoke was vacated.
In the next second, the dense Qing soldiers in front of them who immediately rushed wildly, the cotton armor on their bodies provoked a blood mist, and a large number of people were instantly recruited. After being shot, many people seemed to be stunned for a moment, unable to believe it, and then came back to their senses, and rolled from their horses to the ground and screamed.
Of course, many of the screams only lasted for a while without sound.
Because falling off the horse means that the horse's hooves behind will step on the body of the fallen horse, even if you are not dead, you will be trampled to death or seriously injured on the spot.
Some of the remaining Qing soldiers who were not shot began to shoot sharp arrows desperately, but at such a long distance, they were shocked in their hearts. The power of these arrows is very weak, and the Zhu family's arms soldiers on the opposite side only need to bow their heads and use their iron helmets to resist the flying arrows.
Even if there are people with black faces, arrows in the chest and body, but they can't shoot through their modern stab-proof suits. When so many people came down, only a few dozen musketeers were hit by arrows in their arms, and they snorted and retreated to the female nurses of the health team to treat their injuries.
On the other hand, the cavalry of the Qing army, this wave of more than 800 people, the number of people who can still run alive is definitely not more than two or three hundred.
I saw that after the gunners in the front row of Zhu Jiajun's army finished shooting, they immediately retreated to the third row and reloaded. In the frightened eyes of the remaining Qing soldiers on the opposite side, the firecrackers in the second row took a few steps forward. They raised their firearms and aimed them at the Qing soldiers on the opposite side.
The Gun of Death, again!
"Put!" Ma Xiaosan and the others roared, and immediately a large stream of gunpowder smoke erupted.
For a while, the Qing army was even more chaotic, and they couldn't fight back just by being beaten, and watching the archers next to them fall one by one, this kind of psychological pressure was too great.
Moreover, after a large number of archers in the front row fell, the rest of them were followed by auxiliaries, whose will to fight was not as strong as that of the horsemen.
Seeing that there was a collapse of their own archers, the Qing army issued an order for special soldiers to retreat. Let the rows of heavily armored pikemen, together with the auxiliaries, pick up the dense layers of spears and halberds and turn them up, shining dazzling in the cold winter, shouting and pushing out the shield cart with their guns, and starting to rush forward.
The shield cart's defenses are indeed capable of blocking most bullets, and even the armor on the heavily armored soldiers has a similar function.
However, the fact that the artillery of the Zhu family army in the back did not fire for the time being, it did not mean that the people in front of him had no artillery.
The logistics engineer team of the Zhu family army was not watching the show from behind, and a team of people stepped forward and launched a small Franc cannon that had already been loaded with ammunition but was not too heavy from the square.
This thing is made up of a mother and a child. The female body is slender and has a small caliber, and the body is equipped with a front sight and a light door, which can aim and shoot at long-distance targets. There are gun lugs on both sides of the gun body, which can be placed on the bracket and can be tilted to adjust the firing angle.
The sub-guns are similar to the small firearms, each female gun is equipped with 5 to 9 sub-guns, which can be pre-loaded with ammunition for backup, and the mother guns can be loaded and fired in turn during battle, thus increasing the firing speed.
Not only in Zhu Zilong's troops, but also in other units of the Ming army, but the materials used by Zhu Zilong are modern in the 21st century, there is no possibility of exploding, and the performance is on a higher level.
Similar to the machine gun's advance ancestral board!
Each door weighs about 200 pounds, the female gun is 2.85 feet long, equipped with 4 sub-guns, placed on a small cart, two or three people push or carry it, it is not too easy.
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"
In the thick and sharp smoke of gunpowder, dense iron ball projectiles shot away from the Franc cannon. The Qing army's wooden shield group dozens of steps away immediately collapsed, including many shield carts, which were also in tatters, and their defensive capabilities were greatly reduced!
When, after the second round of firing and replenishing the knife, immediately many Qing soldiers behind the wooden shield were affected by the projectile, screaming and rolling to the ground.
Zhu Zilong, who was watching the battle, suddenly showed a satisfied smile on his face-
(To be continued.) )