Dong Ke had such a thought in his heart, in fact, he did the same.

Compared with Cheng Yan's retreat from the port, there was no artillery fire in the army at all, but Dong Ke led the army, although there were only 4,000 men and horses, but the army was carrying dozens of tiger squat cannons.

As the most common and most common auxiliary small cannon in the army, the performance of the Tiger Squat Cannon is still quite good.

As the improved Tiger Squat Cannon, the power of the original is naturally increased by several percent, although dozens of Tiger Squat Cannons are not a lot, but if they are placed in front of the formation, a cannon fire will not be able to withstand the flesh and blood.

With Dong Ke's order, he immediately saw a team of soldiers carrying a cannon out.

These cannons look like tigers, so they are called tiger squat cannons, in fact, tiger squat cannons appeared in the Qi Jiguang period, and they are the most common in the Qi army.

Chu Yi had a deep memory of the name of the Tiger Squat Cannon, so he ordered the craftsmen of the Ministry of Engineering to improve it on the basis of many artillery pieces in the Ming Dynasty, and personally named it the Tiger Squat Cannon.

A large number of tiger squat cannons were made, and then distributed to the Ming army, the most obvious is the hundreds of thousands of troops who conquered Dongying, and the new tiger squat cannons alone are equipped with more than 1,000 guns.

According to the ratio of Qi Jiguang's tiger squat artillery in the army later, it was almost three artillery pieces for every five hundred people, and Chu Yi was almost doubled on this basis, so the four thousand soldiers and horses led by Dong Ke were almost equipped with fifty or sixty tiger squat cannons.

Dozens of tiger squat cannons were placed in front of the army in such a column, which was naturally quite spectacular.

Through the clairvoyant mirror, every move of the Ming army was naturally seen in the eyes of Governor George and Earl Harry, and when the cannon of that gate was pushed out, the two couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

Governor George is no stranger to artillery, and during this period, artillery has already been equipped in the army in the West, and artillery warfare can be described as the most common way of engagement.

But they had the impression that the bigger the artillery, the better, but when they saw that door looked like a cannon weighing dozens of pounds, George and Harry couldn't help but wonder, could this also be regarded as artillery?

Anyway, in the impression of Governor George, according to the specifications of the artillery, these seemingly small firearms are not enough to be classified as cannons.

The two of them were naturally a little confused about the firepower of the tiger squat cannon, after all, this was the first time they had seen this form of artillery, saying that the artillery was not big enough, and it was not artillery, but it was much larger than the firecracker.

As for ordering the army to stop, George and Harry didn't have such thoughts in their hearts at all, and advancing against artillery fire was the most common way of fighting between the two Western countries.

After all, the artillery of this period was because the shells were almost all solid bullets, so the lethality of the shells was not so great at all, and the biggest role of the cannon was to form a psychological deterrent to the army, after all, anyone who watched a big iron ball roll over, the bloody corpses on the ground were so dazzling.

If you really want to talk about the lethality of artillery, it is much worse than arrows and firecrackers.

"Upper Shield!"

Although Dong Ke didn't believe the words of those soldiers who fled, as a general of an army, even if he didn't believe it in his heart, he had to take precautions, which is the so-called being prepared.

When he saw that the distance between the two sides was getting closer, almost about two hundred meters, Dong Ke gave an order, and saw that one big shield after another was erected.

When he gathered all the shields in the army, he saw that one shield after another stood in front of the army.

Thousands of Scottish longbowmen pulled their bows and arrows in unison, and a rain of arrows washed the ground, and suddenly there was a crackling sound and the screams of the soldiers being shot.

I have to say that the lethality of this Scottish longbow is indeed very amazing, even if Dong Ke has made some precautions, but the penetration rate of those arrows is extremely amazing, and almost a few percent of the shields are directly pierced by those arrows.

Many soldiers were still injured by the rain of arrows even after hiding behind their shields, but fortunately, they had precautions in advance, so even if this wave of arrow rain caused some damage, it minimized the loss.

Dong Ke waved the spear in his hand to push an arrow away, feeling the power coming from the spear, Dong Ke somewhat understood why these arrows were able to break through the defenses of many shields.

In fact, because these arrows are long enough, when they are projectile from the air, the potential energy is very large, and the lethality caused by the conversion into kinetic energy is naturally greater.

Dong Ke may not understand the truth of the transformation of potential energy into kinetic energy, but as a general, he knows how to shoot arrows to maximize the power of arrows.

"Archer, shoot back!"

The best killing distance of the Tiger Squat Cannon is about 100 meters, compared to the Scottish Longbow that can cause a certain amount of lethality almost 200 meters away, if the Tiger Squat Cannon is used at this time, I am afraid that it will not have a very good effect.

The tiger squat cannon can't be used, but the archers in the army can shoot.

The same archers, even if the range of the Scottish longbow is not close, but the archers in the Ming army are not too bad, even if there is a certain difference in the range of bows and arrows in the hands of both sides, when the Portuguese and Dutch coalition forces gradually approached, I saw a wave of arrow rain flying out, covering the opposite coalition phalanx.

If this rain of arrows falls, it will be able to shoot at least hundreds of people.

However, at this time, one shield after another was erected, covering the wave of arrows, and it was just a little riot for the coalition army.

The death and wounding of a dozen or so people did not affect the overall situation at all, and even the formation of the phalanx was not affected, and all the coalition soldiers still moved forward step by step according to the sound of drums.

The arrows poured down like a torrential rain, and Dong Ke understood why the nearly 1,000 soldiers led by Cheng Yan collapsed in such a short period of time, it was really too lethal for this rain of arrows.

In less than a stick of incense, at least thousands of arrows fell at a distance of 100 meters, causing great damage to the army, almost hundreds of soldiers were shot on the spot, and hundreds of soldiers were injured.

Finally, when the coalition forces entered the firing range of the Tiger Squat Cannon, they heard Dong Ke interrupt and shout: "Open the cannon." ”

The gunners, who were desperately shielded behind them, heard the order, almost instinctively set up the tiger squat cannon, and then lit the fuse.

Boom, boom, boom.

In the middle of the smoke of gunpowder, the front of the armies of the two sides was suddenly filled with gunsmoke, and the smoke of dozens of cannons obscured a piece, but through the foggy gunsmoke, it could be seen that the neatly arranged coalition army arrays on the opposite side seemed to crash into the invisible wall at once, and suddenly fell a figure.

At least the hundreds of soldiers in the front row were struck by lightning one by one, and their bodies were splashed with blood, and some of them were directly hit by the flying gravel and broken iron.

Governor George and Earl Harry, who had watched the army advance steadily and even brought a lot of damage to the Ming army on the opposite side, had smiles on their faces.

Both sides were confident in their army, believing that their soldiers and horses were superior to those of the Ming Dynasty.

However, with that burst of roar, Governor George and Earl Harry were directly stunned, the smiles on their faces froze, and the two of them looked at the amazing scene in the distance in disbelief.

Dozens of artillery pieces spewed flames like monsters, and the debris shot out from the sky, directly covering the space in front of them.

Under the cover of dozens of artillery pieces, it can be said that almost none of the soldiers in the front row can escape the coverage of the artillery fire.

Therefore, under the gaze of Governor George, at least three or five rows of soldiers fell directly like wheat harvesting.

The first two rows of allied soldiers looked the most miserable, almost everyone had more than a dozen blood holes on their bodies, and they were almost killed on the spot, as for the two or three rows of soldiers behind them, although there were people in the front row who blocked a large wave of artillery for them, but they were also punched with a few blood holes, these blood holes were not enough to kill but were very painful.

Covered in blood, the pain of not being able to survive and not being able to die made these coalition soldiers fall to the ground and roll and wail.

It has always been smooth sailing, and the coalition soldiers, who have never suffered such a big loss in foreign conquests, were directly dumbfounded when they saw this scene.

The psychological quality of these soldiers is not very good, after all, the coalition army has always been smooth, and the objects of foreign conquest are only some natives armed with spears and short swords, and even if those natives are numerous, they cannot be allied forces armed with muskets, Scottish longbows and even large ship artillery.

Smooth sailing is naturally able to cultivate a heart that dares to fight, as long as it has been smooth sailing, it is indeed able to train a winning army, but such an army may not be able to withstand a defeat.

This is the case with the current coalition army, a group of soldiers saw hundreds of their comrades suffer heavy casualties, especially some of the soldiers were bombarded with blood and flesh blurred and almost turned into a mess of rotten flesh, many people have never seen such a tragic scene at all, to be precise, they have never seen their own people so miserable, so some soldiers actually vomited on the spot.

Such a scene is very shocking for any army, but if it is placed on the body of those Ming soldiers who have survived a hundred battles, it may also bring a great impact, but those soldiers may be the same fearful, but they will definitely not stay there with a confused face, either turn around and flee, or bury their heads in the attack.