Chapter 483: Sea of Fire, Sea of Blood
"Boom, boom, boom......"
As the commander of the artillery company waved the red flag, the six three-inch guns roared angrily, firing six powerful shotguns at a distance of less than 100 paces. Each shotgun has 100 small lead bullets inside, and the muzzle kinetic energy of each lead bullet theoretically reaches thousands of joules, which can completely ignore any armor of this era. Whether it is the willow leaf iron armor or the willow wood round shield, in front of these lead bullets that have been blasted by the cannon, they are as useless as a piece of tissue paper!
From the muzzle of the cannon to the projectile sweeping through the Mongol formation, it was only a moment, and the charging Mongol warriors did not have time to react at all. The scythe of the god of death fell!
Within three hundred steps before the artillery position, which consisted of six cannons, it was completely turned into a death exclusion zone! All the Mongol warriors who stepped into it were cut down like straw. And the scene was very bloody. The round buckshot spun and released the powerful kinetic energy it carried, passed through the willow shield, shattered the willow leaf iron armor, drilled into the human body and stirred inside the human body, stirring everything it touched, and then made another opening from the person's back, spraying out the broken flesh, fragments of organ tissue, and shattered bones. Sometimes these messes can fly a few steps away and splash on the heads of the Mongolian soldiers in the back row, and the whole person looks like a demon has crawled out of hell.
Such a killing and bloody scene is not at all something that mortals can bear, let alone any cowardly Xue army, even the most elite line infantry in Europe in later generations, and few dare to charge the enemy's artillery position from the front.
Seeing that the warriors who rushed to the front were all defeated without exception, the lucky ones lost their lives on the spot, and the unlucky ones were still wailing in pain. The Mongols who rushed behind were stagnant. Some even wanted to retreat, but the thought of Kublai Khan's anger was at the thought of him. I can only bite the bullet and move forward with heavier and heavier steps.
"Hurry, hurry. Reload your ammo! ”
The officers and men on the artillery positions of the Ming army did not have the time to appreciate the masterpiece they had just created, but completed a series of tactical actions such as clearing, discharging the medicine bag, releasing shotguns, aiming, and igniting as quickly as possible. After two or three years of operation and rigorous training, the Beiming artillery has summed up the simplest and most efficient operation process, and each artillery group can complete it in a very short time, turning the huge energy of gunpowder explosion into a death sickle that harvests the enemy's life!
Kublai Khan, who had just stood on a simple watchtower, saw it clearly, and in the monoculars, the six big guns in the center of the Ming army's battle line seemed to be six man-eating demons, and the fire flashed. There was a splash of blood in front of them, and no matter how many layers of armor the Mongol warriors were wearing, no matter how superb their martial arts were, they were completely useless in front of the big guns - they were all beaten to a bloody blur!
I thought it was the thinnest part of the Ming army's front, but now it has become a death trap.
"How can it be so powerful?" Rao is the hard-hearted heart of the Mongolian Great Khan, and when he saw that the warriors under his command were actually beaten into meat sauce by the enemy piece by piece, he couldn't help but panic and wonder in his heart - the big guns of the Han people are as powerful as Si, and their own hundred small guns are not worth mentioning at all!
He chose to fight Chen Thief on the banks of the Daqing River. Was it a fatal mistake?
No, it can't be considered a mistake! Because, the Mongol army has already come up with the strongest lineup - although the soldiers and horses have not been fully concentrated, but the sand shield car and the artillery car are the two killer weapons. It is already the most powerful weapon that Kublai Khan can get, if he can't restrain Chen Dexing, then. How will the next battle be fought?
Boom Boom!
Explosions were also heard in front of Kublai Khan's left and right flanks at this time. The Great Khan of Mongolia turned his head to look, only to see countless small pillars of smoke rising in the charging Mongol infantry formation. However, the damage caused does not seem to be comparable to that of the big guns. Because the charge of the Mongol infantry continued.
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"Guards, kill the Tartars!"
In the roar of Chen's big voice. The two galloping infantry phalanxes slammed into each other.
On one side were the pikemen of the 1st Brigade of the Northern Ming Guards Division, and the Han warriors in steel armor were at the forefront.
On one side was a team of three thousand men of the Mongol cowardly Xue army, all of whom were dressed in willow leaf iron armor, armed with cavalry horse pistols, and carrying a khan scimitar in their waists.
Both sides are the strongest armed forces of their own nation!
Moreover, the means of engaging troops is also the white-knuckle hand-to-hand combat that best reflects the army's will to fight - even in the First World War, the bayonet is still the most basic element of an army, let alone in the 13th century.
It was not difficult to defeat the Mongol cowardice with artillery and H-medicine, as was the case with the artillery positions of the Guards Division. However, if you really want to be afraid of these steppe robbers, you have to rely on hand-to-hand combat - with the good skills of the Mongols, it is also their ability to think that they can firmly overwhelm the Han people, and completely subdue them. Let these robbers shudder when they hear the name of the Ming Army, and they retreat.
Only in this way can Beiming win a few years of stable development time.
Because no matter how powerful the artillery of the Beiming is, it is impossible to equip the small units at the brigade level and battalion level with artillery in a short period of time. As long as the Mongols avoided a large army battle and adopted a small-scale harassment invasion, they would not have to worry about artillery. But hand-to-hand combat with the steel-armored soldiers is unavoidable, if even the dignified cowardly Xue army does not dare to fight hand-to-hand with the Northern Ming Guards, then what else do the Mongols have to fear?
With the roar of the sound, the two most powerful armies of this era suddenly collided. The first to pierce the armor was the sharp steel spear of the Northern Ming Army, the length of which was equivalent to more than 3.8 meters in later generations! The length of the carbine used by the Mongols was less than seven feet, or a little more than 2.2 meters. It has a length advantage of almost 1.6 meters, which is enough to insert the indestructible tip of the steel spear into the willow leaf iron armor of the Mongolian warriors before the Mongolian cavalry spear pierces the steel armor of the Ming army.
However, although the Mongol warriors had short guns, they were not completely at a disadvantage. Because the riding spear has always been one-handed. On horseback, the horse must be controlled by pulling the reins with one hand, and there is no reins to pull when they get off the ground, so the Mongols have a wicker shield in one hand and a horse pistol in the other. Although this wicker shield could not block the shotgun fired by the bronze cannon, it could withstand the spears of the Northern Ming army. The sharp tip of the spear will get stuck in the shield, and it will not be able to pierce it, and there is no way to pull it out immediately. At this time, the Mongols would take off their shields, then clamp their arms around the barrel of the gun, and rush up two more steps along the barrel of the gun, and they would be able to slam the spear they held in their other hand into the steel armor of the Ming army!
The lives of both sides were consumed without hesitation. It was not the spears of the Northern Ming Guards who pierced the bodies of the Mongols, but the Mongols stabbed the steel armor of the Guards with horse pistols.
The thickness of the front of the steel armor of the Ming army was only two or three millimeters, although it was enough to resist the Mongols' bows and arrows, and it could also resist the slashing of the Mongolian scimitars. But it's still easy to be stabbed to death when stabbed with a spear!
Historically, in the 15th and 16th centuries, knights in plate armor did not suffer less from spears - what? The Mongols taught the European canned knights a lesson with mounted archery? In the 13th century, Europeans were not so ambitious, the New World had not yet been discovered, and the Renaissance had not yet begun. It would be nice for the European knights of those years to have a piece of chain mail, but they didn't dare to think about any plate armor...... This kind of generous equipment is only equipped by Beiming, who has mastered the secret of steelmaking.
"Long live King Ming! Hooray! ”
The battlefield suddenly resounded with earth-shattering cheers, the Lord of the Northern Ming, the Lord of the Heavenly Dao Sect, and the King of the Descendant Ming sent by the Taiyi God to save the hundreds of millions of people of the Han family had already rushed to the front line at this time! The Sun and Moon King Banner was fluttering, and hundreds of steel-armored knights surrounded Chen Dexing, who was also wearing steel-armor, and galloped over!
The morale of the Beiming soldiers who were fighting the battlefield suddenly soared to the limit.
"Kill the Tartars! Go to Heaven! ”
Chen shouted loudly. His men shouted along, and then stabbed the spear out again and again with all their might!
"Kill the Tartars! Go to Heaven! ”
The crossbowmen behind the pikemen also roared and fired their feathered arrows, and then quickly opened their bows and crossbows again, no matter how many Mongol arrows fell from the sky. These crossbowmen had only one thing on their minds now, and that was to shoot more and faster feathered arrows at the heads of the Mongols!
"Kill the Tartars! Go to Heaven! ”
The grenadiers regrouped, and before the crossbow step, the pikemen lined up behind them, and again and again they threw the little thunderbolts that ignited the fuse!
Spears stabbed each other, feathered arrows shot each other, and the Ming army kept throwing thunderbolts that would explode. Suddenly the battlefield turned into a slaughterhouse! And the invincible Mongolian cowardly warriors suddenly found that they were completely at a disadvantage in this bloody contest with the Han warriors.
Chen Dexing! That's Chen Dexing!
Kublai Khan, the Great Khan of Mongolia, gasped, and then he remembered that he was not a human being as his sworn enemy! People are half-human and half-god! Although it is absurd, the Ming army is convinced, so as soon as Chen Dexing appears, the Ming army there will fall into a state of madness, and its combat effectiveness will soar!
"I want to move forward!" Kublai Khan roared. "Press it all over the line!"
Now is a critical moment, and he can't coax him in front of Chen Dexing. Otherwise, the Mongol army will be afraid (in fact, it is a little scared now)! If everyone is afraid of Chen Dexing, there will be no way to fight in the future!
"Great Khan, danger ahead!"
When Xue Chang'an Tong saw Kublai Khan getting off the watchtower, he was about to turn over and get on his horse, and hurriedly came up to persuade him.
Kublai Khan ignored him and just pointed at his own big slurs. "Move the big rope up! Go to the Shadun Chariot and let all the Mongol warriors know that I am fighting alongside them! ”
As the symbol of the Great Khan of Mongolia slowly moved forward, the cheers of the Mongols also resounded in the sky.
"Long live the Great Khan! Mongolia will win! (To be continued......)