At that time, the specific method of Mu Ying's use of firearms in the early Ming Dynasty was a rotation group of three people.

The musketeers at the front fired first, then retreated to the rear of the line to concentrate on reloading, and the second soldier stepped forward to fire. Three people alternate reloading and firing, tripling the efficiency of arquebuses that would otherwise take a minute or more to shoot at a time!

Later, this became the standard configuration of the "Shenji Battalion" in the Ming Dynasty. However, since the early Ming Dynasty became strong, this kind of combat method with high requirements for craftsmanship and soldier quality has rarely been seen on the battlefield. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the battlefield returned to the state of fighting with cavalry and cold weapons.

This has to be said to be a regression of the level of science and technology and military civilization!

And now, after Zhao Wushuang's guidance, this method has been re-studied and studied by Chen Liansheng, Liu Niu and other generals of the Guangzhou Navy. And again applied to the battlefield. Right now...... It is a re-appearance of the three-stage musket shooting method.

As it turned out, the results were still very good.

Although most of the projectiles were missed, some of them hit the British, making a viscous and dull sound of hard objects and flesh crashing.

The British soldiers who were shot fell into the shallow water, and their bodies were naturally lying in wait; The undead rolled in the water and wailed, and the blood suddenly spread. Those who were not shot continued to rush forward. Their guns also hit many of the Chinese defenders, with casualties on both sides. But the line of British soldiers advanced a great distance, and had already left the sea and completely stepped on the sandy land!

However, the defenders of Humen were still very calm, and there was no large-scale rout, which made the British soldiers who were desperately rushing to the beach flash a trace of confusion in their hearts - in the other battles they participated in against the Qing army during this time, as long as their side gained a slight advantage, the Qing army would have surrendered in fright......

Soon, they couldn't even continue their doubts. Because at this moment, there was a strange sound in the sky. It was like the chirping of a large bird, or the sharp whistling of something flying rapidly. It's very much like ...... Cannonball!

Boom, boom!

Shell after shell rained down from the sky and hit the beach, bringing up a puff of splattered sand and blood. Some British soldiers were not blown up by the artillery, but only their upper bodies remained, and before they died, they let out a terrible cry on the beach. He let out a flurry of horrified curses in English - of course no one would pay attention to him.

War is so cruel!

Some British officers who were still watching from the sea and had not yet participated in the landing battle were stunned when they saw this scene, and they did not dare to imagine what was happening in front of them. This is too contrary to common sense and their perception of the Manchu Dynasty, the decaying empire of the East!

Not to mention the combat effectiveness and cohesion shown in the past two days, the shells falling from the sky in front of them now make them a little confused and forced.

The reason is very simple, under normal circumstances, many of the Manchu artillery in this period were fixed, there was no gun carriage at all, and it could not be moved! Again, even if there is a gun mount, most of them can only adjust the high and low angles, but not the direction angles.

This also meant that the Manchu artillery could only have a fixed firing position, and once it was fixed before the war, it could not be adjusted. It's stupid, to the point of appalling!

In addition, the entire gun carriage is made of inferior wooden gun carriage, once the cannon is cast, the strong recoil will cause the entire gun carriage to loosen and almost fall apart, and the rack will be unusable.

What's more, there will be cannons without sights on the turrets! Even if one out of a hundred cannons can be picked out with an aiming device, there will either be only a "star fighter" that determines the direction, or only a "gun gauge" that determines the high and low angles. Those who have both are completely gone!

Therefore, when the British fleet that went north fought in the area of Dinghai and Zhoushan before, the artillery of the Manchu defenders was basically useless. Originally, the number of cannons was not large, and the firing position was still fixed, which did not cause much trouble to the British soldiers who landed from the sea to fight.

In this battle at Humen Fortress, they thought that because this was the only relatively open Guangdong region of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the coastal defense force was relatively strong. The number of cannons compensated for the inability to adjust the direction of fire. But now, when they saw the shells falling from the sky directly at the British soldiers who landed on the beach, the British knew that the cannons on the Humen side could actually adjust the direction and firing range!

Now Richard, who is in the main ship, listens to the report from the front, and I am afraid that he has a crazy feeling of wanting to kill people in his heart - he originally thought that he would take the Humen fortress in one day and force the Manchus to sign a treaty quickly. Unexpectedly, it was self-defeating, and after two days, it was only a landing, and a large number of soldiers were lost. Even if he does win, he will probably be impeached by the chattering politicians in parliament when he returns home. The thought of this made him irritable.

"Give me the order to die in the front line, before it gets dark today, you must capture the Big Horn and Sand Horn Forts!" After Richard angrily smashed a crystal wine glass, he sent his henchmen to give stern orders......

Besides, after the landing on the frontline beach, the British have basically adapted to it after the initial shock. At this time, they no longer have a trace of contempt for the Humen garrison in their hearts, and they have already regarded it as a battle with a powerful country of the same level!

After all, the three-stage musket shooting method of the Humen garrison was still not very proficient, and the range and quality were indeed quite different from the two front-loading smoothbore guns of the British army, the Bakrer flintlock pistol and the Brunswick firing pistol. Therefore, after cooperating with the artillery on the top of the hill to leave almost a tenth of the landing British troops alive, they were finally dispersed by the oncoming British troops.

The armies of the two sides really came face-to-face, and the fiercest hand-to-hand combat began!

A burly British soldier ran with a bayonet and shouted: "Kill! For the glory of the British Empire, for the glory of Her Majesty the Queen! Kill all the barbarians! ”

He was confronted by a relatively thin Qing soldier from the Guangzhou Navy Division, who also shouted the slogan "Xinlong God has eternal life" at this time, and stabbed him with the spear in his hand.

The burly British soldier dodged the spear stab in his chest, and with a swipe he dodged to the right, his sharp bayonet forward. Forcefully stabbed into the body of the thin Qing soldier from under the ribs, making a muffled sound of a sharp weapon piercing through the flesh. Then with a terrible scream, blood spurted out.

The British soldier had a hideous smile on his face, and was about to take advantage of the pain of his opponent to draw his bayonet and strike it at the heart or neck. But he found that a thin but powerful hand was tightly grasping the place where his bayonet and musket met—it was the thin soldier who endured the severe pain and held on to his bayonet!

(Today's first chapter!) Sorry for being late, but today I said that the good 3 more, never in arrears! There will be 2 more later~)

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