"Shotgun, fire!"

Li Xian waved his arm, and a row of roars sounded, and gunpowder smoke erupted in front of the formation, forming a neat white line.

"Retreat! Above! Raise your gun...... Fire! ”

In the front row of the shotgun formation, Jia Hao is on the left, Wu Ya is on the right, a shotgunner commanding the young guard, and a shotgunner commanding the battalion. The sound of gunfire rang out in a neat row as they commanded, in stark contrast to the messy gunfire on the other side. What's even more different is that the gunfire here is like a surging tide, wave after wave, and the interval between each wave is only about ten seconds.

"The first shot missed, and then only the figure could be seen, is this also called a war?"

"We hit two of our first platoon shots! Maybe I'll hit one of them! ”

Luo Tangyuan and Fang Tangheng retreated to the back of the formation, chatting while handing the shotgun in their hand to the miners behind them, and took from them another shotgun that had been loaded with medicine ammunition in the chamber. The last row of the line took a step forward, and they stood up again, and calmly began to load the primer and hold the fire rope.

This is the role played by the miners who followed, the six rows of shotgunmen took turns firing, the rear of the team was loaded with ammunition in advance with auxiliaries, and all the shotgunners had to do was to load the primer and clamp the fire rope, and the firing speed of the entire shotgun formation was greatly increased.

Originally, Xiao Sheng was very disdainful of this method, and criticized that there were two major flaws in doing so, one was a waste of people, and the other was a waste of guns. As many shotguns as there are shotguns, you should push as many shotgunmen as you can into the battle line, so as to ensure that as much lead as possible can be fired at the enemy position.

Li Xi agrees with this evaluation, but he thinks that the actual situation is actually analyzed. That's right, he has more than a hundred shotguns, two hundred people. However, there were 60 elite soldiers who had been trained in 1,000 rounds of live ammunition, and the other miners had only practiced loading for a day or two. Together, these people don't form a smoothly functioning murderous collective.

Xiao Sheng also felt reasonable, so he simply handed over all the shotguns he had trained with the young guards to Li Shi, and the thirty guns he asked for were used for turnover, and with his special habits, he also named this shotgun array "Six Stars Leaning on the Sky Array".

"It's so boring, I can't see people clearly."

Xiao Sheng was also complaining, a few minutes later, the front of the battle was filled with gunsmoke, covering the situation of the bandits in front of him, although he could barely see the other party's actions, but what was the result of his own shooting, but there was no bottom at all, after all, he was firing from a hundred steps away.

"At least better than them."

Li Shi is very confident in the shotgun he made, although the accuracy is not enough at a hundred paces, the lethality is still enough, and the situation on the battalion side is difficult to say.

"Stop!"

The figure of the bandit in front of him was vaguely retreating, and Li Shi waved his hand and gave an order.

The battlefield fell silent, the smoke gradually dispersed, and a burst of cheers roared out as he looked at the situation a hundred paces away.

"Dozens of people......"

Xiao Sheng laughed and said, and saw a hundred steps away on the grass, lying on the ground with bandits.

"It's all on the left......"

The laughter stopped suddenly, Xiao Sheng frowned, the corpses in front of him were basically in front of the young guard's line, and there were only a few corpses in front of the soldiers' shotgun formation.

"Well, I was stingy."

Li Shi pretended to be confused, covering up his negligence in the arrangement of the shotgun array. The young Siwei used a newly made shotgun with a sufficient charge. And the soldiers only have half of the new guns, and the other shotguns don't dare to load enough medicine, and they are basically powerless a hundred steps away, just like the bandits on the opposite side.

Forty shotguns were allocated to the soldiers, and they were asked to replace all the old shotguns, and then some auxiliaries were transferred to help the soldiers reload, so that the two shotgun formations were truly integrated, but the turnover of shotguns was a little less, and the overall firing speed might be slowed down.

"Just now, Yang Chun wanted the whole army to rush up directly, then it would be really over, fortunately, he is also a new tender with low eyes."

Li Xianzheng sighed at his newness, and the bandits in front of him suddenly made a noise.

"Be careful!"

There was no need for Xiao Sheng to remind, Li Xian had already noticed that the second wave of bandits had already rushed in, not only were the number twice as many as the first wave, there were nearly a thousand people, but he could also see more than a hundred archers with quivers on their backs approaching on the side of the human wave.

Taking a breath of cool air, Li Shi said in a deep voice: "You command the whole army, and I command the shotgun team!" ”

He and Xiao Sheng are both fledglings, but in comparison, his sense of the battlefield is even worse, so he can only let Xiao Sheng take care of the overall situation, and he will personally turn the shotgun formation.

It's nothing that there are many bandits, the key is the archers. At the moment, his shotguns are afraid of two types of enemies: cavalry and archers, the effective range of archers is about the same as that of shotguns, but the rate of fire is fast, although the sustained power is poor, but they can suppress the shotgun formation with rapid fire, covering the approach of close combat.

Li Xian hurriedly came to the center of the front row of the shotgun array, and less than two miles away, Yang Chun was also standing in front of the team, watching the large group of people rushing forward.

"General, send the archers now, and when they meet the standard, they won't be able to shoot a few more arrows!"

Yang Chun's subordinates reminded him.

"If you don't send the archers, how many people will be able to make those shotguns bombard?"

Yang Chun's face was pale, he had no intention of entanglement with this wave of officers and soldiers, and wanted to scare them away by setting off guns and cannons, but he didn't expect that not only was he not frightened, but the first wave of shotgunners who went up were knocked out of forty or fifty people. Hearing the dense and heavy gunfire of the other party, he suddenly realized that this was a strong enemy.

If his whole army is pressed, and the opponent's strength is only a quarter of his, it is no problem to win, but if he is dragged into the melee by the other party, Shi Shibiao's bid will be finished.

Yang Chun weighed left and right, and decided on what he thought was a safe strategy, sending a thousand people to attack, plus all the archers. How can we get rid of the officers and soldiers who are in the way? Even if this wave of people is abolished, he still has nearly 2,000 fresh troops under his command, and it is no problem to attack the standard-lifters.

"I don't know if Meng Dadu has pulled those officers and soldiers, what is the situation over there?"

Yang Chun regretted it a little at this time, he was too far away from Meng Kui, and it took two or three quarters of an hour for the spies to go back and forth, and now he was blocked by this group of officers and soldiers......

"Nope! My calculations are definitely better than that! Set up an ambush in North Bird Road, that guy from Shi Shibi must have expected it! ”

Yang Chun cheered himself up, unaware that his fate had long been squeezed off the rails by someone, as was the case with pawn history, and the same was true when he was a thief. The distant gunfire rang out again, and he involuntarily clenched his fists, but immediately looked up at the sky reservedly.

"I'm General Tianwei! When he defeats Shi Shibiu, he will be called a marshal! If you occupy Guangzhou later, you should be able to claim the king......"

As the current general and the future king, he can't let his subordinates see his nervousness, Yang Chun thought.

"End the gun! Fire! Don't hesitate to trust your instincts at first sight! It's you who dominate the gun, don't let the gun dominate you! ”

Li Xi shouted loudly in front of the shotgun array, and around him, the young guards and soldiers were infected by his shouting, and there was no longer the hesitation to find a target before shooting.

The sound of whining arrows breaking through the air kept coming, occasionally arrows brushed their bodies and fell, and even some people were shot by arrows, but these sounds seemed to be separated by a heavy curtain, and it seemed very empty. Only the heavy weight of the shotgun in their hands, and the fierce recoil when firing, are the real world they perceive. This feeling guided their hands and eyes, and they did not hesitate to pull the trigger according to the target that the gun grabbed at the first time.

"It's still high! The margin is too much......"

After Luo Tangyuan fired a shot, he glanced at the results out of the corner of his eye, and muttered and ran towards the rear team. He kept staring at the archers, but he missed the first two rounds.

"Hengzi!?"

Then he saw that Fang Tang Heng was being dragged behind the formation by the auxiliary soldiers, and a feather arrow was stuck in his shoulder, and blood was gushing like a spring.

"I said I could still fight, but the general director just wouldn't let me!"

Fang Tangheng's face was twisted blue by pain, but he was still shouting indignantly.

"Don't worry, I'll avenge you!"

Hearing Luo Tangyuan's words, Fang Tangheng was so angry that he shook his fist and shouted, "I'm not dead yet!" ”

Turning to the front row again, Luo Tang took a deep breath, listened to Li Xian's order, the trigger was pulled, the gun body shook violently, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled, but his heart was like a mirror, and he definitely hit the ......

Thousands of bandits had already rushed to forty or fifty paces away, and with every firing from Li Shi, the front row of the bandits continued to swing into a blood ball, forming a scarlet line, even if the smoke was thick, it could not stop this dazzling color. The archers in the distance were not spared, Jia Hao, Wu Ya and some teenagers who had outstanding performance in training were specially arranged to bombard the archers, after two or three rounds, more than ten archers sixty or seventy steps away had fallen, and the rest were constantly moving backwards, and the feather arrows that could still cause damage to the shotgun array were gone.

With Li Xian's deliberately accelerated starting rhythm, the rotation of the six-row shotgun formation became faster and faster, the auxiliary soldiers who reloaded the rear gradually became proficient, and the feeling of thousands of rounds of live-ammunition training in the previous ten days of shotgunners was also recovered.

For the first three days, they had no idea where their impact was, so they could only pray to heaven not to miss a target seven or eight paces away. But after three days, the target was twenty paces away, and they began to be able to hit most of the lead on the target. In the third three days, the target was thirty paces away, and the moment they pulled the trigger, they could feel if they could hit it. Nine days later, they could already tell how far their shot could deviate from the aim, and when they took the newly made shotgun and spent another three or four days getting acquainted with the feel of the full-charge gun, everyone was instilled with a sharpshooter's intuition.

Now without the suppression of the archers, the shotgun array is like a death cycle, firing twenty rounds of lead bullets in seven or eight seconds, and thirty or forty paces away, the bandits who attack in a dense formation will be planted at least ten at the same time every seven or eight seconds.

Won't they continue to rush? Rushing through these thirty or forty steps is only a matter of seven or eight seconds.

Of course, some people are aware of such a simple thing, but only a few, and they have all become dead. Within thirty steps, that is the killing distance of the young guards, the battalion soldiers are not much worse, they have trained with the guards for seven or eight days, originally relied on shotguns to eat, with Li Shi's new gun, not to mention beating people within thirty steps, fighting rabbits have the confidence to hit.

The brave ones were bombarded to death, and the less brave ones stopped, hesitating whether to turn around and run or continue to rush. As soon as it stopped, the crowd in the front row became more dense, and another round of guns passed, and Li Xian dared to swear that there were almost no missed shots in this round, and nearly twenty groups of blood flowers burst out, including the unlucky ghost who was shot twice by one person.

[In a corner of the Internet, I found a friend laughing, because he thought that "as we all know, the number 'four' before the establishment of New China was itself an 'unscrupulous' 'wanton'", I also laughed when I saw it, how happy it is to post it...... I thought about it for a while before I realized that he was saying that "four" is a simplified word for "wanton"? It's a strange realization. Let's do popular science, although this popular science is a bit painful, everyone should know it. "Four" is not a simplified word, it is an ancient character. "Four" is used on some occasions as a "solemn writing" of "four", such as the "capitalization" when we now fill in the document. In terms of names, these two are very different. 】