The first round of artillery brought a great shock to the coalition generals, and there was still such a terrible weapon in the world.

By the time of the second round, the generals who had been worried were relieved, first of all, the rate of fire was very slow, slower than the bed crossbow, and the ratchet bed crossbow was added, which was slightly faster than the artillery.

The second is lethality, even if it is a forty-pound heavy cannon, the lethality is not very strong at a distance of two hundred zhang, the kinetic energy is almost exhausted, and the most lethal iron ball only killed four soldiers and injured six people. There were even some iron balls, and not a single one was hurt.

There is a reason for this, the first battle taught the Great Chu generals not to line up too densely, although the queue at this time is still very dense, and it is 108,000 miles away from the straggler line, but the Great Chu generals have consciously thinned the array.

Besides, the soldiers are not wood, and after the solid shells fly over a distance of two hundred zhang, they are already visible to the naked eye, and the soldiers who react quickly can even easily dodge the shells flying towards them. You must know that in the Great Chu Army, there is the group with the largest number of warriors, and the reaction speed and skills are much more powerful than the strongest special forces on the earth.

The effect of the first salvo looked bloody, but in fact, the casualties brought to the coalition forces were pitiful, the number of dead was less than 500, and the wounded were nearly 1,000, because the queue was too wide, as long as the shot was shot in the right direction, there was no problem of mistracking.

The war in the Great Chu world is very cruel, the duel of cold weapons is very terrifying, hundreds of thousands of people in the melee, when it is fierce, it is not uncommon for tens of thousands of people to die in an hour, for such a long time, only more than 1,500 people were killed and wounded, compared to the 200,000 coalition army, it is really nothing.

This is the case with the first generation of artillery, its melee scatter projectiles, the lethality is not bad, and the long-range solid bullets, the lethal effect is quite average. In the history of the earth, there have been many examples of cavalry fighting with artillery charges, and there are not many cases of winning with artillery and muskets.

"Dispersed, attacked, the Sound Battalion advanced to two hundred paces, and the rain of arrows suppressed. "Cheng Liang issued an order, he wouldn't watch the Austrians keep firing artillery.

Since this was a dismounted battle, there was no problem of the horses being frightened, although many people were killed and wounded, under the strict military discipline, there was only a small commotion, and chaos was impossible. You must know that this unit was formed with the Liaodong Xiangshui Army as the old foundation, and it was all brought out by Cheng Liang.

When I was in Liaodong before, I fought with Luo to kill people, and it was normal for them to be killed and injured, they were all veterans, who would faint blood, how could there be immortals in war.

Da Chu's two hundred zhang, less than six hundred meters, even if the whole body armor, with the quality of the Xiangshui Legion, it will not take much time, considering that the whole body armor is carried forward, so he did not dare to run, in order to maintain his physical strength, slowly advance, this is the biggest trouble from cavalry to infantry.

You must know that cold weapon combat, when fighting, is the most physically exhausting, riding on a horse is better, infantry ten minutes, can make the vast majority of soldiers out of strength.

The Great Chu World, after thousands of years of evolution, has formed a unique form of scientific and technological development, and its defense capability is quite strong. The quality of the light cavalry's leather armor is quite good, even if the sword and gun are very sharp, if you want to kill an enemy, you need to attack with all your strength. If you encounter a heavy horse, it will be a headache, a body of iron armor, said that invulnerability is a bit too much, ordinary soldiers, it is difficult to break the defense.

The Austrians' way of fighting is very strange, the artillery is still firing, and there seem to be more of them, but for the marching coalition forces, the lethality is all reduced, after all, people are alive, they can't move when they are in formation, the casualties are greater, and it is more difficult to hit when they move.

It wasn't until they entered the hundred steps that the shorter ones finally puffed up their chests and held a black iron pipe in their hands.

Such a close distance has long exceeded the strike range of the shooting battalion, and the arrows like rain are pouring down on the Austrians, but the effect is quite poor.

Although the Austrians were equipped with muskets, they also had armor on their bodies, although it was only leather armor, but it was well-made, not only lighter, but the defensive effect was not bad at all, and it was even stronger than the leather armor on the light horsemen. Not only that, but they also have an iron helmet like a small pot on their heads, this kind of iron helmet, the defensive knife and axe will definitely not be successful, and the effect is surprisingly good for the rain of arrows falling from the sky, even if it hits, it will slide to the side, and it is difficult to bring damage to the Austrian soldiers.

What's even worse is that the Austrian soldiers were in the trenches, and the phalanx changed from a phalanx to a line, and this change made the vast majority of the covered arrow rain shoot in the open space.

After all, long-range suppression, never pay attention to accuracy, just shoot the arrow. If it is a formation, the lethality is still not small, but the target of the attack becomes several lines, and the place covered by the rain of arrows is much less.

Each person in the archery camp shot at least seven to ten arrows, and the forty thousand archery battalions shot more than 300,000 arrows, but the damage caused to the Austrians was less than 2,000.

In this battle that both sides are trying, the duel between the ranged arms, each has its own advantages and disadvantages, artillery VS bow and crossbow, judging from the number of kills alone, the Austrians are only a small victory, and there is no overwhelming advantage.

The coalition forces didn't expect that there was a weapon like artillery in the world, and the Austrians didn't expect that the bows and arrows that had been eliminated a long time ago would be so terrifying when the number of them reached a certain level.

Afterwards, Lei Jun was shocked into a cold sweat, fortunately they were used to using trenches, although in this battle, the number of trenches was much smaller than under normal circumstances, but it was enough to hold all the Austrian soldiers.

Without these trenches, he couldn't imagine what the Austrians would have paid under the rain of tens of millions of arrows.

At least, it is possible to increase the number of casualties by at least five, if not ten. You must know that the arrows used by the Chu army now are made by the workshop of Shengong City, which are extremely sharp, and when they are slinged, they can shoot half an inch into the bluestone and shatter the skull of the cow, and the power is extremely terrifying.

"Shotshots, fire. ”

"Muskets, shoot. ”

The two commands, with an interval of less than ten breaths, the Armenian artillery, when using shotguns, had a very close range, not much farther than the muskets.

A hundred paces away, for a musket, is still a bit far, although it is within the range, but there is no accuracy at all, it can only depend on luck. In the case of a war between Austrians, the distance of the musket is often between 30 and 50 paces, or even closer, and the enemy's nose hair can be clearly seen.

Cheng Liang couldn't understand the fighting style of the Aoren, and Lei Jun couldn't understand the Chu people, everyone was worried and uncertain, so the distance of the musket was doubled, Lei Jun didn't dare to wait, he could see that the Great Chu people should prefer to use cold weapons.

Scattered bullets and muskets, projectiles rained down, sweeping the entire war, and the Chu army fell like cutting wheat, falling a large area, nearly 10,000 people.

Cheng Liang, who was standing on the rear command platform, his face turned white at that time, it was so terrifying, how could there be any terrible weapons, in an instant, just in an instant, more than 10,000 people were gone?

At the same moment, Lei Jun shook his fist fiercely, and after a moment of excitement, he felt that something was wrong, he knew very well the power of scattered bullets and muskets, unless he made a vital point, it was impossible to kill so many enemies at once.

It turned out that Lei Jun knew far more about firearms than Cheng Liang, and after counting the breaths, the tens of thousands of people who had fallen stood up at least half, looked down at the leather armor on their bodies stupidly, and more moans came.

Since I have never seen scattered bullets and muskets, although the losses are not as big as they seem, in fact, they are not small, and there are no less than 3,000 people who were shot on the spot, and more are injured, both minor and serious, I didn't expect the scattered bullets to be so dense, just one blow, the Ao people made thousands of pockmarked faces for the Chu people.

"Fool, the shield soldier is ahead. Cheng Liang roared angrily.

In fact, he was not much better than the soldiers on the front, he stood high and saw far, although he also did not understand artillery and muskets, but he could see how they killed.

The Austrians, who are all long-range weapon troops, shoot things that are far less powerful than crossbow arrows, but they can also kill people. Because there are so many of them, injuries are even more common.

Lei Jun, who was originally excited, also calmed down, and from the other party's casualties, it can be seen that Da Chu's armor is still quite good.

"The musketeers continued to shoot, the grenadiers prepared, the heavy shieldmen prepared for the defense. "Lei Jun ordered that the musketeers' melee combat ability is extremely weak, but the Austrians have a set of means to deal with melee combat.

When the musket first appeared, there were also many jokes about the war between Austrians.

"Mobilize 3,000 heavy cavalry, send them to the front line for 200 zhang, dismount and fight. Cheng Liang said.

After speaking, he waved his hand and added: "Send the pack cart over, send the heavy cavalry to charge, send as far as you can, don't worry about the loss of the horses." ”

There is too much difference between heavy cavalry and light cavalry, not counting horse armor, the heavy armor on the soldiers is hundreds of catties, plus weapons, one hundred and twenty or thirty catties is proper, let them dismount and fight, it is really fatal, even if they are all selected warriors, let them walk two hundred zhang, I am afraid that they will not have the strength to fight.

"General, the Air Force is back, and they drove away the Austrian hot air balloons. "A herald stepped forward to report back.

"Ordered the airship troops, divided into three teams, one team to monitor the Austrian hot air balloon, and the two teams took turns to lower the altitude and carry out precision bombing. Although Cheng Liang had never commanded the Air Force, he was able to find the enemy's weakness in a very short period of time.

That inconspicuous ditch seemed to have caused him great trouble, not only causing him to waste hundreds of thousands of arrows, but also affecting the bombing effect of the airship.

The shooting battalion was only 100 paces away from the enemy, and the airship dropped bombs from a height of several hundred meters, and asked them to only blow up a few ditches of the Austrians, which was too embarrassing, and only by lowering the altitude could the accuracy be improved.

The arrival of the airship put a lot of pressure on the Austrians, after all, they all knew that there were bombs on the airship, but after two rounds of bombing, Lei Jun was relieved, even if he lowered the altitude and wanted to drop the bomb into the trench less than two meters wide, this difficulty was still beyond Cheng Liang's imagination.

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