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One hundred and sixty guns, an average of one hundred small iron galls fired at a time from each cannon, that is, sixteen thousand. Not all of these little galls were the same, and the same type of gun used the same ammunition, but the grapeshits in the twelve-pounder were more than one-third larger in diameter than those in the six-pounder. The cavalry of the Wako was indeed very fast, but the cannonballs were even faster. Sixteen,000 small iron galls fell fiercely in the formation of three thousand cavalry, and immediately knocked the cavalry team into a blank.

The bombed horses also scurried around, making the Japanese cavalry even more chaotic. Even many enemies fell to the ground together, not knowing what was going on. When the Japanese cavalry continued to attack, the Japanese army behind also rushed up. Although the dead corpses of the war horses blocked their way forward, they still couldn't stop them from wanting to make a contribution. I just don't know if they will be able to behave like this when a large number of shells fall on them after a while.

The distance was soon shortened to one hundred and twenty meters, which was already the best firing distance for muskets.

"Fire!"

He raised his voice to issue orders. At a distance of one hundred and twenty meters, the Mini bullets fired by the new musket could penetrate an inch and a half deep into the oak plank, and hit the person's body, immediately creating a large blood hole. This is the new type of musket, which can only be done with Mini rounds. The musket equipped with the Beijing Chengshen Machine Battalion has an effective range of only 60 meters. The Wako attached much more importance to muskets than to the Qing court, so their muskets had a range of 100 meters. The effective firing range is about eighty meters.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

In the constant gunfire. Grain by grain of Mini bullet whizzed away.

Really. Enemies in the distance, people are constantly falling. Many of the Japanese cavalry who had just escaped the grapeball, before they could figure out what was going on, were brought down by the sudden Mini bullet. A round of artillery fired, and a round of gunfire rang out, and only half of the 3,000 Japanese cavalry were still standing. Most of the remaining half are still scurrying around like headless flies, able to continue the attack. There were only five or six hundred riders.

The Japanese cavalry rushed forward again for some distance, and seeing that the enemy was already close at hand, the sound of gunfire continued to sound in their ears, and then one by one they fell, and not a single horse rushed thirty meters in front of the marines. Soon, in just a dozen seconds, the first hundred eight-pounder and six-pounder Furlong cannons to replace the guns opened fire again, and tens of thousands of small iron galls flew out.

Geng Jingzhong stood on the roof of the big car behind, holding a clairvoyant mirror, calmly looking at Yiqiē on the battlefield. Enemies on the offensive. Under the blows of grapeshot bullets and mini bullets, they kept falling. In a few moments, thousands of people were killed, and many more fell to the ground wailing. As they continue to close, more enemies will be killed. This is a true path to death, and once you set foot on it, you will rarely have a chance to escape your fate.

The three thousand cavalry can be said to be scrapped now, and it has not had the slightest effect. Originally, he wanted to use the powerful impact of the cavalry to charge the formation, but unfortunately the enemy formation did not rush, but completely disrupted his formation. In twenty seconds, although the infantry of the Japanese invaders were blocked by the corpses and wounded, they all rushed close to about 100 meters.

The figures of the short swords and spears rushed up like a tide, and the commander in front of the Japanese was not a fool, and immediately led the Japanese to rush towards the artillery positions arranged on either side of the musketeers. But they were still greeted by the "thump" of musket shots.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa and his entourage stood quietly on the side of the battlefield, seeing that their 3,000 cavalry did not have any effect at all, so they were reimbursed, and they almost turned their backs in distress. Although there were still seven or eight hundred cavalry on the battlefield, and they were horses in front of them, they could not play any role. Now pray that these cavalry will be able to control the horses and not continue to disrupt the formation of the attack. The gunfire on the opposite side continued to ring, and his eyes turned to his own samurai, who had just rushed halfway to the distance, at least a hundred meters away from the enemy camp, when he saw the samurai in the front row fall in response.

He couldn't help but open his mouth wide in shock, how could it be? How could Geng Jiajun's musket hurt people at such a distance? He had attributed the loss of the cavalry to the damage of the artillery, but now he suddenly found that the enemy's muskets were just as powerful, which was unbelievable. Their artillery is inferior to others, but in terms of muskets, they are proud of themselves, their iron cannons are more than four layers of the Ming army in range, but now even the muskets of the Geng army are stronger than them.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa and several elders around him subconsciously thought that when this battle was over, they must study the enemy's muskets carefully. Having found the secret that would make the muskets and artillery more powerful, they could at least dominate Kyushu Island.

After the gunshots rang out, they rang out rhythmically one after another, and the ronin samurai who rushed in front fell to the ground one by one like cutting straw, but the endless stream of figures still rushed forward one after another, rushing and shouting in their mouths.

Although the Japanese in front of them have fallen, there are still more Japanese in the back rushing forward. Fifty thousand people gathered together, and a large area of black pressure was full of human heads, and nothing else could be seen at all. The Japanese in the back were almost stepping on the corpses in front of them and rushing forward, and some of the Japanese who were not dead were unwilling to swallow their last breath under the trampling of the large army.

At this time, the guns on the left and right sides were loaded with ammunition and continued to fire.

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

It was still a large piece of scattered bullets, which fell on the top of the heads of the Japanese Invaders like scattered flowers of the Heavenly Maiden, and there was a crackling sound, and a large number of Japanese Invaders fell. Some of them wore armor, and the small iron gall the size of a thumb belly hit the iron armor, and made a ping-pong sound. Many times, a round of grapeshotfire falling does not kill a large number of enemies immediately. But after being hit by a little iron gall. But it immediately lost its combat effectiveness.

Mitsuhisa Shimazu saw the constant firing of the place. A large number of samurai died in battle, and they wanted to withdraw their troops immediately. But at this moment, the action of the army is not like retreating, it can be retreated immediately, as soon as they retreat, the Geng family army on the opposite side is bound to quickly press up, and then it will become a duck and be slaughtered.

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

This was followed by another burst of cannons, this time not firing the Furlong guns. Twenty slower-firing Hongyi cannons. Sixty shells landed side by side in the middle and rear of the Japanese formation, and after the shells landed, they did not jump up and continue to roll forward like the original solid iron bullets, but exploded instantly. A large amount of shrapnel flew in all directions, and the dense charging team fell in one piece.

Blossom bombs! Geng Jingzhong, who was standing in the cart behind, smiled, this is the big killing weapon they prepared for the Japanese robbers.

The so-called flowering bomb is a munition that uses the fragments and shock waves generated after the projectile explosion to kill or blast. In fact, the flowering bomb is not unique to the Mawei Navy, it has been available as early as the middle of the Ming Dynasty. But this flowering bomb is not the other flowering bomb. In this era, there are not grenades or grenades, but they are also very difficult and dangerous to operate.

Now the flowering shells fired by the Marine Corps artillery battalion. Thanks to the invention of the more advanced time fuze, its power has also been greatly improved. The structure of this advanced time fuse is roughly a hollow, open wooden tube with two ends, and the inside is filled with slow-burning gunpowder with a steady burning rate. The wooden tube is marked with a scale, and when using it, the gunner first estimates the firing distance, finds out the flight time corresponding to the distance and the type of shell from the artillery manual, and then adjusts the detonation time by pressing the knob on the fuse, and at the same time makes a hole in the corresponding position of the fuse, and finally stuffs it into the fuse hole of the shell.

At this time, one end of the fuse is exposed outside the shell, and the other end is in contact with the explosives inside the shell. Finally, the shell is stuffed into the chamber with the fuse positioned forward. Because the diameter of the bore of the smoothbore pre-loading gun is slightly larger than the diameter of the shell, when the propellant explodes, a part of the flame penetrates into the front of the shell from the gap between the shell and the breech, directly igniting the part of the fuze exposed outside the shell, and after the shell flies in the air for a specific time, the fuse burns to the position of the explosive in the shell according to the previously adjusted time, ignites the explosive, and the shell explodes.

The old flowering bomb in the Ming Dynasty did not have such an advanced fuse at all, and the fuse used to detonate was usually a hollow reed tube with built-in medicine twist, and the corresponding length was cut according to the distance of the target to be shot before loading, and the fuse on the shell was ignited from the muzzle before the cannon was fired, and then the fuse on the quick-fire door was fired. This method of firing is very dangerous, as mentioned above, the flame generated by igniting the propellant runs from the gap between the shell and the barrel to the front of the shell, which is very easy to ignite the exposed powder twist, and the guide zhì explodes or even explodes in advance. The disadvantages of the old-fashioned flowering bullet are very numerous, not only are they unsafe, but they are also time-consuming and costly to process according to the original technical level, and it is no wonder that the army did not use them before.

Since the flowering bomb was made last year, Geng Jingzhong has been hiding it without revealing it, and now is the time for the flowering bomb to show its skills. "Boom, boom, boom!" The sound of the shelling rang out in pieces, the whistling shells instantly fell densely among the people, and the violent explosions rang out in pieces, although it was already morning, but you could still see countless fireballs flashing in the air or on the ground, and immediately cleared an empty area in the dense crowd of people.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa's face turned pale, what kind of artillery is this, and it has such power? All the charging widows were stunned by the sound of the violent explosions, and the people behind them looked at the large crowd in front of them, which suddenly became empty, and the ground was full of corpses and the wounded who were rolling and wailing and moaning, and they couldn't help but stop their steps quickly, looking at the situation in front of them, not knowing what to do.

The Japanese who had already rushed to the front, heard the same "cannon sound" behind them and almost the same as the front, and couldn't help but hesitate to stop and look back.

After only a moment's hesitation, the successive waves of ronins rolled forward like a rushing river, and the ronins in the flow of people were frightened but were coerced forward. The crowd had just filled the area that had been cleared by artillery fire, and the dense roar of artillery began again, and it was clearly felt that this round of roaring was denser and lasted longer than the previous one.

The whistling swarm of shells not only fell on the old place, but also began to extend backwards, and the dense explosions sounded in the crowd again, and the rolling crowd was immediately blown out of countless gaps. The gunfire and cannon sound in front of them kept ringing out, and bullets and shells continued to pour down on them, and even the obedient Japanese warriors could not resist the rapid high-density and high-intensity continuous shooting and bombardment, and immediately scattered and fled like ants that had exploded their nests.

The naval soldiers, who were originally in the rear, were also dropped to the flank and began to outflank the Japanese invaders, and at the sound of the password, one group after another of the soldiers joined the ranks of the firing, and the gunfire became more and more intense, and more than 30,000 Mini shells poured into the formation of the Japanese in every minute.

Shimazu Mitsuhisa looked at the shape of the entire battlefield in amazement, the more than 10,000 soldiers at the front had turned into corpses, and the samurai who followed closely had long since lost their formation, and they were rushing to flee for their lives, and there was no need for him to withdraw his troops at all. However, the Japanese warriors in the rear are still moving forward, and in the eyes of Geng Jiajun, they are lining up to die.

Even so, Shimazu Mitsuhisa still didn't make any move, and the Japanese army had advanced to a place less than fifty meters away from Geng's army, and they could rush in front of the enemy in more than ten seconds. Moreover, the firecrackers in the hands of their warriors have begun to be fired, and the Geng family army has also suffered casualties! (To be continued......)

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