0709 Spear Trap
As soon as he dodged away, two soldiers picked up two packets of paper from the barrels next to him and stuffed them into the chambers. The paper bag is full of lead bullets that are more than half an inch in diameter! This is the most primitive shotgun! If you really want to talk about large-area destruction, it has to be a shotgun, but the range of the shotgun at this time is too close!
The Mongol cavalry was still a hundred paces away when the cannon was fired, and when they were finished, they rushed to within thirty or forty paces. This distance is the best killing distance for shotguns, just enough to give them a hard hit!
By the time the artillery was ready for the second round of firing, the musketeers had already fired three rounds of firecrackers! And the lethality of the musketeers is much stronger than the first round of artillery! Anyone who rushed into the range of the fire was within their range, and with each salvo a cavalry would fall from their horses, or a horse would be wounded and thrown off their horses!
In either case, the fallen cavalry will not end well! Either he was thrown to death, or he was trampled to death by the horses of his companions! But after paying a considerable price, the Mongol cavalry finally rushed through the fire! Now they are only fifty or sixty paces away from the wall!
At this time, there was no need for anyone to command, and these Mongolian cavalry began to shoot at the longest distance with their bows and arrows! Due to the different living environments and shooting targets of the Mongolian cavalry and the Houjin cavalry, the bows and feathered arrows used are completely different!
The Mongols live in the steppe, and the biggest animal they face is the wolf! The wolf is considered to be small among animals, and the other prey is only otters, rabbits and other smaller animals. So the Mongols generally used short bows because they didn't need much strength to hunt these animals.
Then Jin is different, they live a life of fishing and hunting, and the size of the animals they face is quite large! For example, wild boars, bears, and even tigers and other ferocious animals, which require their bows and arrows to have a lethal effect, so the Houjin soldiers generally used longbows, which required the user to have a very large strength, and the range was much longer than that of the Mongolian short bow.
For example, when the Mongol cavalry shoots arrows, it is about twenty or thirty paces away when accuracy is required, and only when the head is not needed is it shot at a distance of 50 paces. Then the Golden Cavalry is different, they can generally shoot accurately at a distance of 50 paces, and can shoot at about 80 paces when throwing. If it is a covered shot that does not require the right head, it can be done outside of 100 units!
This distance is not low! Because one step of the ancients is equivalent to one step on each leg, this is called a step. The distance is about one meter three to one meter five. The range of a bow and arrow at this distance is already equivalent to the range of a firebolt!
So these Mongol cavalrymen could only risk their lives to rush to the enemy's close range and shoot arrows. But these Mongol cavalry archery is very accurate, and even the distance of the drop when throwing is quite good, and the basic landing point is near the wall!
At this time, the three rounds of loaded guns were finished, and the second round of artillery had not yet been loaded, and the battlefield was filled with the shouts of Mongolian cavalry and the sound of feathered arrows breaking through the air! The Mongols' bows and arrows were fired very fast and continuously! Feather arrows rose from the crowd like a water hose spraying water! Even from the side, you can see that the dense feathered arrows form a bridge-like shape in the air!
The feather arrow fell, and for a moment the "tuk-tuk" sound of the feather arrow hitting the wood, the "clank" sound of falling on the iron armor, and the "poof" sound of piercing the flesh, and the screams were all in one! But there weren't many screams!
The reason for this is that the Mongols were so poor, and most of the feathered arrows used by their cavalry were not iron arrowheads, but bone arrowheads! In the face of the iron armor of the Wu'an Army, the iron arrows may not be able to play a role, let alone the bone arrows! Most of the wounded soldiers are wounded but not killed, and only a small number of unlucky people will die when they are shot in the vital position!
The Mongol cavalry in the front row fired three arrows in a row, then put away their bows and arrows, drew their scimitars, and at the same time turned their horses' heads and rushed to the wagon. In their opinion, a heavy vehicle is the best place to climb, and if you are lucky, you might even be able to jump into it on a prancing horse!
But as soon as they drew their scimitars, a number of soldiers suddenly appeared around the baggage vehicle, and they went out vertically and flattened them, pointing straight ahead! In the blink of an eye, what seemed to be a defect in the walled wall became a deadly trap!
In fact, these pikemen have long been gathered behind the baggage vehicles, but their spears are really inconspicuous in the dark night
The attention of the Upper Mongolian cavalry was not on them, and they fell into this terrible trap!
When the Mongolian cavalry was charging, they suddenly saw a dense forest in front of them, and they were immediately shocked, and the people in the front row subconsciously gently pulled the reins of their horses! Even the war horses under their crotches were frightened when they saw the snow-white and shiny tip of the spear, and took the initiative to reduce their speed to avoid it! After all, war horses are also living beings, and they have the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages!
But the Mongol cavalry was wrong to think that they would be able to avoid the trap in this way, because the main killers of this trap were not the ones who went out, but the artillery mixed in with it!
This time, Liu Haojia brought 80 cannons, all the artillery was arranged on the surrounding wall, and there were many artillery trucks loaded with tiger cannons, which were even more powerful weapons in close combat, and they were the biggest weapons for harvesting human lives!
Sure enough, the cavalry in front subconsciously reduced the speed of the horse, and when the cavalry behind was still speeding over, the people and horses in front of the car instantly became dense! At this moment, the newly reloaded artillery fired! Look at the book
I only heard a series of artillery sounds, and the dense shotguns swept through the wheat seedlings like sickles, and instantly swept down a large area of the cavalry company and horses in front of the car! For a while, the screams of people and the sorrowful roars of war horses were mixed together, and the cavalry in the front row instantly became a mess!
Seeing the companions who fell in an instant, the Mongolian cavalry behind them were stunned! They hadn't seen such intensive killing in years! Even the warriors who often participate in inter-tribal battles are also terrified when they look at it!
Hatch saw this scene and his heart was like a knife! Because the people at the forefront are the most elite cavalry in the tribe, and their purpose is to break through the other party's wall! As long as they can rush in and entangle the Ming army, the cavalry that follows behind can throw their flying claws to pull away those vehicles that are coming, so that an opening is made, and the cavalry can swarm in and slash and slash!
But now the soldiers have already suffered heavy casualties before they have rushed under the wall, and the density of firearms on the other side is far greater than he imagined! It even made Hatch feel that the team in front of him was not the Ming army he was familiar with!