As the minister of military training, Du Xing'a naturally has some understanding of all kinds of firearms, and he knows very well that the flintlock pistol of his military training equipment can only be hit if he enters 100 steps to shoot, and if he wants to get a good shooting effect, he must enter 50 or even 30 steps to shoot, and there is not much difference between the arquebus and the previous arquebus in terms of range.

But these Chinese rebels on the opposite side actually shot two hundred paces away, and what made him feel even more panicked was that at such a long distance, they could still get a good hit, so that hundreds of their own soldiers fell.

I have long heard that these foreign guns of the Chinese anti-army are different from the guns of our imperial army, but even the foreign guns purchased by the Eight Banners New Army and the Jianghuai New Army from the foreigners earlier, I have never heard of them being able to form an effective hit from a distance of 200 steps.

Du Xing'a had doubts in his heart, but he did not flinch, but urged the troops to speed up the pace of advance, now it was only two hundred paces away, as long as he entered within eighty steps, then he could let the soldiers fire the first volley.

But in front of the Mini rifle of the Chinese army, is this distance of a hundred paces so easy to cross?

I saw that the Zhili Training Army and the Gyeonggi Training Army, which had more than 10,000 people, continued to advance at a pace, and the distance between these training troops and the Chinese Army gradually shortened according to the speed of the formation and the terrain restrictions.

One of the most advanced battalions of the training army was already only a hundred paces away from the Chinese army on the opposite side!

But by this time, the Chinese troops of an infantry battalion on the opposite side had already fired a second volley at them, and after the gunfire passed. The sound of this battalion's direct training of the army suddenly sounded, and I saw that almost half of the soldiers in the front row had fallen, which made the remaining soldiers in the front row stunned!

I was so scared that I couldn't even hold the gun in my hand. But the commander of the battalion in the back still shouted for them to move on, and the previous training was finally showing its effect at this time, and the soldiers continued to move forward while shaking their hands.

At this time, the staff members who were watching the battle in the rear were also frightened at first when they watched the Chinese army in front of them ring out one after another of gunfire, and the training soldiers in the front row fell one by one. But when they saw that the soldiers in front of them had suffered heavy casualties in the front row, they were soon supplemented by soldiers in the back row and continued to move forward.

This time. They smiled again: "It is worthy of being the elite division of the imperial court, and it is still not panicked when it is hit by this fierce blow!" ”

Another person said: "Now that the rebel army has just released a burst of guns, now is a great opportunity to rush into battle, and wait for Lord Guo Bei's army to rush up and release the guns." These rebels will inevitably turn around and flee! ”

But it didn't take long. Things did not go as they imagined, only to see that after these training troops carried the two rounds of shooting of the Chinese army, they finally entered a distance of about 100 meters from the Chinese army, and then the officers who led the army in front probably felt that the distance was about the same, and immediately ordered the whole army to stand still and prepare to shoot.

But at this time, they were again subjected to concentrated fire from the four-pounder infantry guns of the various infantry battalions of the Chinese Army, and in an instant. I saw that many of them had fallen again.

However, they still did not retreat, but followed the orders of the officers. They pulled the trigger in their hands one after another and fired their first round of shots in this battle!

A distance of 100 meters, although it is already considered the effective range of a smoothbore rifle, but the effect is naturally not comparable to that within 80 meters, or even within 50 meters.

The accuracy and range of the smoothbore guns were so problematic that in recent years, when the Western line infantry was fighting, they often fired at each other at a very close distance, and there were many examples of British, French and German armies firing at nearly 20 meters and 30 meters.

This round of training salvo fire undoubtedly brought certain casualties to the Chinese army, only to see that the soldiers in the front row of each three rows of horizontal formations fell hundreds of people in an instant, but this casualty is nothing to the huge formation of more than 10,000 people, only to see the soldiers in the second row of the Chinese army stepped forward to fill the gap in the front row.

The other soldiers did not even raise their heads, and continued to reload their rifles, and now the two sides were a hundred meters apart, and the competition was the rate of fire and accuracy.

In terms of accuracy, the Chinese army is undoubtedly far superior to the training army on the opposite side, and if the Chinese army can hit 10 people with 100 rounds of bullets, then the 100 rounds of ammunition training on the opposite side can hit three or four people at most, and the performance gap in this weapon cannot be made up.

However, in terms of rate of fire, the two sides are about the same!

Moreover, at this time, the officers of the Chinese army no longer require the troops to fire a unified salvo, but let the troops shoot with all their strength, and this all-out shooting can generally be said to be free fire, and the soldiers shoot when they are loaded, instead of waiting for their comrades to also load as before, and then fire a salvo together.

However, the all-out firing ordered by Xu Pengan and other senior generals generally refers to firing separately from the battalion, and there is no need to demand a whole regiment or even an entire division to fire a salvo in a unified manner.

Therefore, the front-line units of the Chinese army were divided into battalions and launched all-out shooting.

When it comes to the battalion level and below, it still follows the pattern of unified shooting, because the actual rate of fire of the guns is very limited in these years, and it is very necessary to form a barrage and give the enemy the greatest damage and deterrence in a salvo.

Even if it is not possible to fire a salvo in three or two rows, the shooting of a single platoon will still be maintained, and it is rare to say that soldiers in the same platoon will shoot separately and sequentially.

With the burst of gunfire once again after the sound of gunfire, the opposite side of the Qing army training army is a large piece of down, at this time the two sides gathered 100 meters, for the smoothbore rifle of the training army, this is a relatively long distance, the hit rate is very average, but for the Chinese army equipped with a mini rifle, 300 meters away can achieve an effective hit, and at a distance of 100 meters, the accuracy of the hit is quite high.

There is a gap in the accuracy of hitting, and at the same time, there is also a gap in their actual combat rate of fire, or the number of bullets delivered per unit of time, on the one hand, the training time of the Chinese army is longer than that of the opposing troops, and the actual combat experience is very rich. Except for the new recruits who were replenished when reloading on the battlefield, most of the other veterans were able to reload calmly, so that the reload speed would be faster.

At the same time, the Chinese Army's Mini rifles used fire cap fire. Its ignition success rate is much higher than that of the Qing army's flintlock type, and with the same number of guns firing, there are more rifles that are successfully fired while firing, and fewer rifles that are successfully fired at the same time, which causes a large gap in the number of bullets projected per unit time under the same force.

Accuracy and firing success rate, the psychological quality of the rifle, the above three aspects add up to allow the Chinese army to shoot in line with the Qing army. Occupy a great bargain!

No, after the Qing army had just finished a salvo, Du Xing'a was anxiously waiting for the soldiers to finish loading. The Chinese army on the opposite side was already bursting with rows of guns.

At this time, it was only more than 20 seconds before the Chinese army fired a salvo, and some well-trained elite infantry battalions fired a second round of fire within 20 seconds. This means that their rate of fire has exceeded three shots per minute.

Contemporary front-loading rifles. Usually the combat rate of fire is generally between two and three rounds per minute, and there are very few rounds above three, and only a very small number of the most elite units can exceed three rounds per minute to reach the level of four or five rounds per minute.

At present, although the few infantry battalions in the Chinese army are not yet able to achieve the level of four or even five rounds per minute, the rate of fire exceeds three rounds per minute, and even if it is placed in the armies of the great powers, it can be regarded as the level of the main force.

The Chinese army was able to play another round of dense barrage in advance, there is no doubt about it. At this time, the training troops opposite them fell in a large area again.

With such a close-range shot, this hit rate is quite a lot. A large number of soldiers in the front row of the training army fell in unison, most of them fell at least one-tenth of them, and the soldiers in the front row of the individual unlucky phalanx had more than half of them killed or wounded.

After this round of design, if someone was counting the numbers at this time, then he would have found that after two rounds of firing on the march and two rounds of firing after stopping the counter-firing, the casualties of the various training troops belonging to the Chinese army under the direction of the Qing army, that is, the Chinese army under the commander of Du Xing'a, had exceeded 3,000 casualties.

The left and right flanks of the Qing army are dominated by the Green Battalion and the Old Army of the Eight Banners, and there are 4,000 cavalry on the two wings, while the main force of the Chinese army is the training army of the various departments of the commander of Duxing'a, including the 6,000 people of the Gyeonggi training army directly under Duxing'a, the 4,000 people of the Zhili training army of Commander Nader, and the 4,000 people of the Shandong training army under the command of Hu Linyi, and the 2,000 people of the Shanxi training army, and the training army of the above departments has a total of 15,000 people, and now that the battle has just begun, strictly speaking, from the beginning of the artillery bombardment, then the time for the two sides to engage is only half an hour. And the infantry on both sides has been firing at each other for only a few minutes from the beginning to now.

However, in just a few minutes, more than 2,000 people had fallen in this training army under the command of Duxing'a, and together with the hundreds of people killed and wounded by the previous shelling, the total number of casualties had exceeded 3,000, accounting for about 20 percent of the total strength.

If such a huge casualty rate had been replaced by those old green battalion troops, it is estimated that they would have collapsed a long time ago, but even if these training troops have poor combat effectiveness, they can be regarded as new troops, so they are still holding on here!

However, many soldiers have been affected by the dead and wounded comrades-in-arms in front of them and behind them, and these training soldiers are not the Chinese army on the other side, and the soldiers of the Chinese army, especially the soldiers of the Royal Army, are veterans who have fought for several years, but these training troops are generally only formed and trained in the past two years, and more importantly, they generally lack large-scale combat experience.

When I looked down, I saw that the corpses of my comrades were all over the ground, and the wounded soldiers who fell to the ground were still howling in pain.

Many soldiers' hands have already begun to shake, either the gunpowder has not been poured into the barrel but has been spilled on the ground, or the bullet has been accidentally adjusted, or the gunpowder is pressed with a strip too hard, and it is difficult to say whether the gun can be fired or not, even if it is impossible to explode.

As the commander of this training army, Du Xing'a was a little panicked for a while in the face of such a situation!

He really couldn't understand why this happened, he asked himself from beginning to end without any mistakes, he successfully led the soldiers to rush through a distance of hundreds of meters, so that he could shoot at the Chinese rebels on the opposite side, and he also managed to keep the troops holding on without collapsing, but why did his own soldiers fall one by one.

And the Chinese rebel army on the opposite side has only killed or wounded two or three hundred people so far!

What makes him even more incomprehensible is why it has been so long, why hasn't his own training army fired yet? According to the time, even if they would shoot later than the Chinese army on the other side, it would not be too late, and now, he couldn't hear the uniform gunfire, only scattered gunfire!

These situations of military training were seen by Xu Pengan on the other side, and he showed a smile at this: "These military training, but Er'er!" ”

The training army on the opposite side has been unable to organize a large-scale salvo, and the messy gunfire means that they have fallen into chaos at this time, and at this time, I saw that several infantry battalions of the Chinese army on the opposite side have gradually approached through gradual shooting, and it is only about fifty meters away from the training army on the opposite side. ”

"The Chinese Empire is invincible!"

"Rush!"

"Kill!"

In the next moment, the soldiers of the Chinese Army in the front row had already launched a bayonet charge towards the Lian army on the opposite side!

Looking at the swarming Chinese army, those training soldiers were already on the verge of collapse, and now they rushed over with bayonets like tigers and wolves, just like all the collapsed line infantry, they turned around and fled!

Looking at the Chinese army surging up like a tide in front of him, and then looking at his own training army that kept turning around and running away, Du Xing's face was like ashes, and the whole person looked at the front blankly, as if he had fallen into a demon. (To be continued......)