The first line of defense of the Ming army was on the small horizontal ditch platform at the front end, and the radial fortifications of two ditches and wooden fences on the left and right formed a frontal blockade of many passages up the mountain in front of the mountain; The second line of defense is on the gray slope ridge above the small horizontal ditch, with three stepped defensive positions at the center of the mountain, which can block the intersection of the small horizontal ditch in front of the mountain and the ancient road up the mountain.

If you have machine guns, it's all for you! Zhu Yongxing stood on the mountain beam of the second line of defense, raised his eyes and looked out, although the distance was not far, but the dust was filled, he could only see the first few rows of Qing troops approaching step by step, but he could not see the specific arrangement behind clearly.

Although the first line of defense was handed over to Zhang Guangcui to command, most of the soldiers were men and horses from the three provinces of Wu, and there were 300 musketeers who had only been trained in the army for half a month. Prevention is a must, and the presence of soldiers has always been a problem that Zhu Yongxing deeply hates. This is not only easy to lead to the tyrannical and domineering warlord style of the generals, but also after the soldiers become the appendages of the generals, they are often regarded by the generals as the capital of "what to do but not pay attention to", and become the reliance on them to preserve their strength and even turn to surrender.

Because of the miasma and the rest of the wounds and illnesses of the Ming army, the recovery of the soldiers was fast and slow, which gave Zhu Yongxing the opportunity to disrupt the establishment and regroup. Of course, this kind of measure was incomplete and incomplete, and he did not dare to make it too obvious, for fear that the generals would have different intentions from it.

The formation of musketeers was based on Zhu Yongxing's inherent thinking of later generations, and sooner or later hot weapons would replace cold weapons, and although the arquebuses captured from the Burmese soldiers had various defects, he would never abandon them. Musketeers are much faster to train than to train qualified archers. Of course, Zhu Yongxing did not expect this newly formed musketeer to win in the field, but when relying on danger to defend, the protection of the musketeers was not too much of a problem, but the penetrating power of this older arquebus could make the armor and shield of the attacker a weak thing.

Zhu Yongxing once smugly wanted to train field musketeers with three- or five-stage shots, but after several trainings, he temporarily gave up this idea and came to the conclusion that it was pure nonsense to enable musketeers to carry out orderly shots in several stages without extremely strict long-term training.

"When the platoons first started firing, there were probably only two or three soldiers who didn't take part in the salvo and shot alone. Immediately afterwards there was a sea of fire in the formation, and the soldiers of the platoons and columns mingled, and the soldiers immediately opened fire on their own as soon as they loaded their bullets, and the soldiers of the first column no longer fired on their knees, although they did want to. At that time, in the face of the chaotic situation of the roar of gunfire, no one, whether it was a general or a junior officer, could do nothing but wait for the troops to advance and retreat on their own. ”

That's right, this is the scene that Zhu Yongxing encountered, almost no different from the one described in a Western military work, and the musketeers that Zhu Yongxing had just trained made such a mistake without the enemy charging into battle.

Although he encountered setbacks that prevented Zhu Yongxing from forming a well-trained musket unit as easily as he had crossed his predecessors, Zhu Yongxing still thought of a solution and decided to use it in the blocking battle.

There is nothing to hide, and in the current situation, the most important thing is to take the lead and boost the morale of the army. What's more, according to the current arquebus, with the musketeers who have just been trained, Zhu Yongxing does not dare to regard them as a killer weapon for victory. Because that's simply not realistic.

The Qing army attacking on the back was already close to the trench, less than thirty meters away from the wooden fence, and in the dusty field, the Qing generals issued a hoarse order. The archers behind the shield fired a rain of arrows from the front and upwards, and then the auxiliaries carrying cloth bags rushed forward to fill the trench.

"Fire!" The commander of the musketeers, He Liangshun, roared.

As the musket unit that took the lead and defeated the enemy in the first battle, it was not under the command of Zhang Guangcui, and this distance also met Zhu Yongxing's requirements that they could start shooting.

The musketeers, who were standing behind the fence and hiding in the trench for the most part, immediately fixed the burning rope in their hands to the board machine, stretched the musket out of the crack in the fence, took aim, and fired.

With a roar, the flames flashed, white smoke suddenly rose behind the fence, and hundreds of projectiles flew out rapidly, shooting towards the Qing army dozens of meters away.

Older arquebuses were eventually phased out because they were large and bulky, and could not replace crossbowmen or archers with sufficient and flexible firepower for the infantry. However, it was so powerful that large arquebuses were often reported to kill several men or horses with a single shot, and they were also quite effective in forming fixed positions against enemy forces under the cover of spearmen and trenches.

With screams and wails, the Qing army's attack array was hit by the first fierce blow, and the large bullets not only killed many of the auxiliary soldiers who filled the trenches and the shield-wielding soldiers who exposed their bodies, but even the shields were pierced, and many Qing soldiers behind were inexplicably hit and fell down with a scream.

When the musketeer finished shooting, he immediately removed the arquebus, handed the musket in his hand back, and the musket was taken by his teammates behind him, and another loaded musket was stuffed into his hand.

Fixing the fire rope, reaching out, aiming, shooting. A series of movements were quick and accurate, but in a dozen seconds, the Ming musketeers fired another round of bullets.

This is the solution that Zhu Yongxing came up with, similar to the assembly line operation in a factory, where three, four or five musketeers line up in a line, each completing their respective tasks, and then the first musketeer fires.

In this way, not only the launch speed is increased several times, but the work is simplified, reducing the possibility of errors due to tension. As long as the shooter concentrates on shooting, he does not have to reload again, and he must pay attention to the position of the fire arquebus, which greatly reduces the probability of misfire.

The roar came one after another, and the white smoke became thicker, and only the chaotic screams and exclamations on the opposite side could be heard, but it was almost impossible to see the situation ahead. After six rounds of firing, the commander of the musketeers, Ho Liangshun, gave the order to stop firing in order to observe the effect of the strike.

The smoke gradually dissipated, but the dust was flying, and it was still difficult to see the full situation of the enemy's attack array, but the front of the trench was already a wolf. Shields, knives and guns, corpses, and wounded soldiers who fell to the ground screaming and wailing, a bloody scene was presented in front of the Ming army.

Just the rounds of musket fire had already crushed the first attack of the Qing army. The Ming army saw more and more clearly, the Qing army was fleeing in embarrassment, and the loess in the sky was flying, as if thousands of troops and horses were descending the mountain.