Chapter 522: Bloodstream

Rumble! Rumble! Fifty Kamui General Cannons and 100 Dardanelle Cannons, start a confrontation! Countless iron balls or granite cannonballs were in the air, weaving strange spider webs, and even several cannonballs met in the air, and after a loud bang, both of them fell to the ground.

In terms of range, Shenwei's artillery has a slight upper hand, and in terms of accuracy, Shenwei's artillery has a slight advantage, but the helpless troops have just been formed, and the Safavid army is far from being comparable to the Ottoman artillery in terms of the quality of the soldiers and the proficiency of the movements!

So after a period of stalemate, the scales of victory tilted in favor of the Ottoman side, slowly! But on the side of the musketeers, the opposite is true!

The Ottoman army was still equipped with an ancient arquebus, which needed to be kept burning all the time to ensure the continuous firing of the musket; And the Safavid army is equipped with a flintlock pistol drummed out by Hua Houwei, which can be directly fired, how can it be twice as fast as the speed?

At this time, the musket did not have any accuracy at all, and relied on large-area killing as the main means.

The Safavid soldiers could not keep up with the speed of reloading, but the natural advantage of the flintlock pistol made up for it, and gradually the tide of the battle changed a little.

The cavalry led by the Ottoman Sinan Pasha was a little overwhelmed, and was scattered by the tribal army led by Ustakilu and scattered into several small forces.

Sinan Pasha gasped and ordered: "Move closer to the Chinese army, move closer to the Chinese army!" Shoot them with muskets! Artillery, artillery, what are our artillery doing? "The Dardanelles cannon is just a front-loading gun, and after firing a few shells, it must be physically cooled down, otherwise it will set off fireworks itself without the Safavid cannon.

The same was true of the Safavid artillery, fifty Kamui General Cannons had reached the limit of their firing and were forced to stop firing most of the cannons.

"Hurry up! Depend on! At this time, it doesn't matter if it looks good or not? Direct! The Yellow River mussel roared hoarsely and kicked the Safavid soldier's ass fiercely!

Whew! A puff of white smoke rose into the air, and there was a strong pungent urine smell permeating the air, and the Yellow River Mussel had already held his breath and jumped out to kick a soldier who didn't open his mind!

The middle of the Shenwei General Cannon is a steel pipe, and the outside is brass with better thermal conductivity, and the endurance is much better than the bronze barrel of the Dardanelle Cannon.

So when everyone's guns are overheated, they can still maintain a tie situation, after all, the Ottoman side has an absolute advantage in numbers!

Both Selim and Ismaili saw that the key point of this war was the fire of the Chinese armies on both sides.

The two of them invariably drove their subordinates towards each other and launched the most fierce attack! Yan Wuyang had a whistle in his mouth, and kept blowing according to the inherent rhythm, Zhang Houtun held a leather whip in his hand, constantly whipping the soldiers who disrupted the formation, and Tang Ren kept giving orders in his mouth: "First row, shoot!" Second row, shoot! The first row of spin reloads! Third row, shoot! "The battle of the three-stage attack is famous all over the world, where has the Ottoman army on the opposite side seen such a tactic?

At this time, the musketeers were still competing for proficiency, and there were no advanced tactics like Da Ming.

In the three-stage shot, the soldiers of the three platoons took turns to reload the ammunition and take turns firing, and the team of 3,000 people always had a thousand flintlock pistols spewing gunsmoke.

A dense rain of bullets rushed into the phalanx of the Ottoman musketeers, bringing out bloody arrows. With the sound of wailing, one by one the Ottoman musketeers fell to the ground one after another, and the huge phalanx of musketeers was like a mille-feuille, being sliced off layer by layer!

The primitive musket tactics competed with the proficiency of the soldiers, and even more so to compete who was more afraid of death, so before rifled guns became the mainstream, the war of musketeers was also called 'lining up to shoot'.

Ottoman musketeers were not lamb's bellies, and the bullets fired from the arquebuses in their hands could also kill, so the Safavid soldiers were also constantly suffering casualties.

At this time, the ruthlessness of the commander and the accurate judgment of the battlefield situation have become the key to the direction of the war.

Ismaili never dreamed that firearms would be so powerful to use! Seeing that the brave knights who had been invincible in the past fell under the fire and artillery, they were extremely glad that they had spent half of the treasury!

Fortunately, with the firearms of the Ming Dynasty, and fortunately with the young prince of the Ming Dynasty, he could have the opportunity to defeat the Ottomans.

In the telescope in his hand, the battlefield situation is clear at a glance. The left wing Nur Ali has broken into the opponent's formation, and the advantage is constantly expanding; The opponent on the right flank of Ustaki Road also sought the protection of the Chinese army, and only the artillery and musketeers were still in the standoff.

As long as you take down Selim's Chinese army, this war has already been won! Selim also sees it this way, these two once-prominent Middle East hegemons invariably issued almost the same battle orders.

The musketeers on both sides marched towards their opponents with firm steps amid the constant sound of drums. In the sound of gunshots, the 500-meter open field became a place of death!

Countless soldiers screamed and fell, and countless soldiers stepped on the corpses of the front robes and kept moving forward, and the blood flowing from the corpses slowly converged towards the low-lying place, and a blood-colored lake was gathered!

Anyone who dares to disrupt the formation will have only one end, and the head will be cut off by the executioners of the Overseer!

Both sides are so cold that no one is exceptional. Zhang Houtun fell, a huge hole in his chest to see the dirt behind him; Cao Di fell, and his head turned into a tattered watermelon, and he couldn't see his true face at all.

Jing Goat fell, he was hit in the chest and abdomen by the speeding ricocheting, and the huge kinetic energy directly took away his upper body!

Liu Sanblind also fell, and the cannonball hit the ground and hit the stone in his chest, spitting out not only blood when he was dying, but also shattered internal organs!

The giants of the Safavid Army were not much better, Nur-Ali was hit by a stray bullet in his helmet, and the severely deformed helmet squeezed his head, causing him to fall from his horse in an instant, and in the blink of an eye, he turned into a mess of mud!

The losses on the Ottoman side were even heavier, the governor Hassan Pasha was beheaded with a knife and died tragically on the spot, and the Rumeli cavalry collapsed in an instant, and was divided and outflanked by the cavalry led by Ustakilu, which was a catastrophe.

Most of the Dardanelle cannons are no longer usable, and there are less than ten of General Kamui's guns left still spitting flames; After the Huzun artillery lost the command of Liu Sanblind, it was completely suppressed by 200 mortar cannons; The Ottoman musketeers lost far more than the Safavids, but the huge difference in numbers made it impossible for the Safavids to win.

The battle has been fought so far, and it is difficult to distinguish the winner in the short term. But the huge and rapid losses are too much for both sides to bear!