It is not strange that Haoge is rare and strange, although the Qing soldiers repeatedly invaded the south in the past few years, Dolgon, Abatai, and Azig all suffered big losses in the hands of Pang Gang, but only Haoge has not seen the power of Pang Gang's new firearms, so his understanding of firearms is limited to the firearms battalion that is obedient to Wang Kong Youde, and even uses the previous concept to measure, thinking that the power of firearms is also like that. []

Dolgon and the others boasted for the Han because they had suffered a big loss at the hands of Pang Gang to show their helplessness, but at this moment, the seven or eight corpses lying in front of him had already told him at a bloody price that his previous understanding was probably wrong.

Although Haoge was reckless, after all, he had been in battle for a long time, he took a long breath, forcibly settled his mind, and turned around and ordered: "Someone, pass on the king's order, immediately send out the forward battalion, and go forward to bring the heads of those Han people in front to this king!" If you can catch the king alive, you will be rewarded! ”

Since suffering a big loss in the hands of Pang Gang, Huang Taiji has reformed the army, and the original military system of the Qing soldiers is: every 300 people are 1 Niu Lu, and the Niu Lu is really 1 person; 5 Ox Lu is 1 Jiala, and 1 Jiala is really 1 person; 5 Jiala is 1 solid mountain, and 1 solid mountain is set up.

After Huang Taiji ordered the improvement of the military system, he issued an edict stipulating that each team should have a forward battalion in Jialali, and each forward battalion should have 200 soldiers, and the forward battalion should select those who can hold the bow of the six forces, so as to be customized; If there is a bow with seven powers, it is very good. According to the regulations, half of the strikers use shotguns, which are called shotgun strikers. There is a captain in the basic striker and a captain in the shotgun striker, all of which are selected in the striker. Each flag captain and chief have six people, each leading their team. The officers of the forward battalion received the helmets of the following officers, and the top was covered with a black tassel hanging from the tail of an otter. The helmets of the striker school and the striker soldiers are all red-topped with iron tops. Each of the forwards was equipped with a pair of armor, a jacket, a bow, seventy arrows, and a sword. Shotgun strikers are each equipped with a firearm. As well as the corresponding gunpowder and buckshot, etc. ）

Although the Manchu people were rejecting firearms in their bones, the times were advancing, whether Huang Taiji and the royal nobles below were willing or not, after suffering several big losses in the hands of Pang Gang, they had to admit in their hearts that the role of firearms was getting bigger and bigger, and there was even a trend of gradually replacing traditional cold weapons.

Therefore, Huang Taiji had to order that each flag in the Eight Banners be equipped with a certain number of firearms. This is indeed a big blow to the Manchu people, who have always been proud of their skill in bowing horses.

But the times are advancing, and the weapons in the hands of the army are also developing, which is not subject to anyone's will, and with the appearance of Pang Gang in this era, the development of this time and space has become more and more confusing, and the firearms battalion that the Qing soldiers originally appeared in more than a hundred years has now begun to appear in advance. {}

Soon, a group of two hundred horsemen galloped forward, half of them with muskets in their hands and the other half with longbows. They shouted and rushed forward.

Five hundred paces away from the Qing soldiers, there were more than a dozen Dahua Ye Bu Hui Zheng riding horses standing on a dirt slope, coldly looking at the Qing soldiers rushing towards them, and several Ye Bu Hui was still unhurriedly loading the Nimi rifles in their hands with pills. Their expressions did not show any panic, and judging from their expressions, they must be a group of battle-hardened men.

One of the leaders put away the clairvoyant mirror in his hand, nodded, and said, "The Tartar is here, let's withdraw quickly." ”

"Yes!"

With the order, more than a dozen people who did not put away their rifles immediately turned their horses backwards, and immediately galloped away.

After a while. When the officers and men of the 200 forward battalions of the Qing army came to the dirt slope where the officers and soldiers of Shicai were standing, they saw only the dust and smoke in the sky and the figures that had disappeared. …,

"Phew!"

A Qing army leader led by him spat at the figure that was still faintly visible in front of him, and scolded: "These timid Nikans can only hide in the dark and release cold arrows, what kind of ability are they?" There is a kind of fight with the master! ”

Look at the dust and smoke ahead. One of the captains behind him asked, "My lord, are we still going to pursue?" ”

The assistant leader said very unwillingly: "Of course we have to continue the pursuit, the prince asked us to come out not to let us watch the excitement, pass the order, the shotgun strikers are in front." The rest of the people are behind, all of them are in pursuit, and the heads of those lowly Nikans must be cut off! ”

"Wow!"

The sound of rumbling horses' hooves sounded again, and almost at the same time the two hundred horsemen raised their whips and whipped them on the back of the horses they sat down, and the two hundred horsemen chased forward again.

"Head, those Tartars are chasing you!"

One of the nights, who was galloping forward on horseback, shouted loudly.

The leader of the night, who was running in the middle, looked back, and three hundred paces behind them, a large cloud of dust had been raised, apparently about a large group of cavalry was about to chase after them.

The foreign commissioner who didn't accept the night sneered: "Hmph, a tartar is a tartar, I don't even know the truth of poor Kou Mo's chasing, and I can't complain about others when I die." Come on, stop the horse, let's put a shot and go! ”

With the order, more than a dozen people stopped their horses, took off the Nimi rifle that had been loaded from the back, held it on their chests, and aimed the muzzles of the black holes at the Qing soldiers who were galloping in front.

After waiting for the Qing soldiers in front to enter the distance of two hundred paces, the foreign commissioner's mouth spat out a cold order: "Fire!" ”

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A muffled gunshot rang out almost at the same time, and more than a dozen lead bullets as thick as little fingers whistled out of the chamber, and under the stimulation of the rifles in the barrel, the Mini bullets spun forward at high speed.

They screeched through the air, eager to collide with everything they came across, even if it was to pieces.

In the queue of the Qing soldiers, hundreds of shotgun forwards were fighting their horses and struggling forward, and these birdspearmen were equipped with the latest Manchu firearms, which were much longer in range than the old guns.

In the past, the Qing army's old-style firecrackers were many imitations of the Ming army's shotguns, three-eyed guns, self-generated firecrackers and Lumi guns, but most of the Ming army's firecrackers had a problem, that is, the range was too close, and the power was insufficient.

This is also the biggest disadvantage of firearms in this era, due to the imperfection of the black powder formula, air tightness and other reasons, the vast majority of firearms in this era will not have a range of more than 70 steps, and the effective killing distance will not exceed 40 steps, which is not much worse than bows and arrows, which is also the main reason why firearms have not been promoted on a large scale.

But with the arrival of Pang Gang, the mass killing weapon of the Mini rifle came to this era more than 100 years in advance, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was stimulated, also vigorously developed firearms, and Kong Youde's firearms battalion is the best proof of this.

Huang Taiji also used various means to get a few Nimi rifles equipped in Pang Gang's army to try to imitate, but after wasting a lot of manpower and material resources, the craftsmen in the Qing army reluctantly announced that the Mini rifle was definitely not something they could imitate. The wiring in the barrel alone was enough to make the skilled craftsmen gray their hair, not to mention the high-quality steel used to make the barrel.

In desperation, Huang Taiji, who retreated to the second, could only order the craftsmen to find a way to increase the range of the firearm, and the craftsmen of the Qing army finally referred to the firearms of the Ming army, and finally drummed up the Qing version of the Lumi gun.

Although the range of this firearm is not yet up to the range of 150 steps of the original version, 120 steps can still be achieved. After visiting the demonstration of this firearm, although it was found that this firearm still had difficulties in loading, Huang Taiji ignored it, but could not wait to order the craftsmen to equip this most advanced firearm of the Qing Dynasty into his Eight Banners. …,

Armed with the latest guns of the Qing Dynasty, these spearmen galloped wildly with their firearms in their hands, eager to rush behind the enemy, and as soon as they reached the effective range, they would shoot down the Han people in front of them with their firearms and avenge their companions.

Suddenly, dozens of Qing soldiers who were galloping at the front were surprised to find that the Han people, who were supposed to be galloping desperately, all stopped at night and lined up in a row, faintly holding firearms in their hands.

"Not good! Those Han people are going to open fire! ”

The face of one of the leaders changed, he had long heard of the sharpness of the Han firearms, but he always scoffed at them on weekdays, and he never believed that any firearms could hit a distance of more than 300 steps. The firearm in his hand is already the best firearm in the Qing Dynasty, and the effective range is only seventy steps, and now there is at least a distance of about two hundred steps between the two sides.

But now when he saw that the other party was really in a position of opening fire two hundred paces away, he was frightened, and just as he turned his head and was about to warn his companion to be careful, a low gunfire rang out.

Out of the corner of his eye, the chief saw a burst of fire from the muzzles of the dozen or so guns that had not been collected at night, and then a puff of white smoke rose up, and after a few moments, the shotgunners who rushed to the front were the first to bear the brunt of the unlucky ghosts.

The commander could see clearly, a cloud of blood suddenly appeared on the chest of a shotgunner beside him, and then something seemed to burst open behind him, and there was a soft "pop" sound, and a large hole was cracked, and the shotgunner fell off his horse in a daze, and the shotgun in his hand fell to the ground. Before the bird soldiers who fell to the ground could let out a miserable cry, they were trampled into meat sauce by the war horses that rushed up behind them.

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Because the formation of the Qing army was too dense, the first round of guns fired by the more than ten people who did not collect at night caused casualties among seven or eight Qing soldiers, and for a time, it brought a small amount to the Qing soldiers