In the early morning, mist rose from the grassland. The other side of the river can no longer be seen clearly.
At this time, two thousand Mongolian soldiers, with their waists crouched, holding shields made of cowhide covered with wheels in one hand, and waist knives in the other, sneaked in quietly.
Ilgen and Alabayan, with dozens of guard cavalry, stood in the distance and watched the dismounted soldiers quickly surround them from three sides.
"Today we can catch that cunning fox and see if he has three heads and six arms." Irgen said coldly.
"As long as our people can rush up the mountain, their more than one hundred soldiers, even if they are all sharp archers, will only have one way to be destroyed." Alabayan said.
Now that they have figured out the truth and the truth, they are no longer afraid. Everything will end today.
Wang Hao used the sight on the crossbow in the trench and clearly saw that the enemy had reached the river.
The hunched figures were looming in the mist. The ghosts and ghosts walked forward in a serpentine shape.
Wang Hao laughed. These Mongolians actually knew how to maneuver like snakes to avoid shooting. He picked up the whistle, put it to his lips and blew.
"Bit!" A sharp whistle sounded.
All the infantrymen woke up, grabbed their guns, and quickly arranged their formation. Rifles were set up in the trenches.
In the highest bunker, An Sanxi and Huang San observed carefully with binoculars. There were enemies approaching on foot from three sides.
The closest ones have reached the river, and they are all herdsmen holding shields in one hand, swords in the other, or spears in the other.
"Go down the order, no one is allowed to fire, and you can only fire when the trumpet sounds." Huang San ordered.
It took so much effort to deceive all these people, but if the shot had been fired earlier, they would have been defeated and frightened, and they would all run away.
There is no place for the infantry to find them.
An Sanxi and Huang San discussed it and decided to take the risk and put the enemy fifteen meters away, then give them a hard and sudden fire.
In this way, even if the enemy is defeated, it will take them a long time to escape the range.
You can play a few more rounds. In the words of the master, eliminate as much of their vitality as possible.
This battle is crucial. If they annex the Baiyin tribe, they will completely gain a foothold on the grassland.
When the castle was built, the water transportation route was fixed. From now on, we can implement the master’s strategy of going all the way west. Eat the tribes on Lin Dan Khan's left wing.
Then turned around to deal with Jiannu. By then Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu will be completely safe.
The left wing was looted by Lin Dan Khan last year and is seriously weakened. It is a good opportunity to annex them.
The right wing and the establishment of slaves are both powerful, so let’s put them aside for now.
Irgen and Alabayan looked nervously at the mountain opposite.
By this time, the sun had risen. The fog cleared and everything was clearly visible.
When the whistle sounded, although they didn't know what the sound was, it didn't stop them from understanding that the enemy had discovered them. And calling the police.
"Speed up and rush forward, you idiots." Alabayan cursed.
After the whistle, the other side started shooting arrows. Looking at the density, there are still about fifty archers.
Alabayan and Irgen nodded, the enemy situation has not changed, they are still the same people. Let them be destroyed today.
The crossbow is very accurate. At a distance of more than 100 meters, as long as it is aimed by the cross sight, it is almost one arrow.
Bahra was a centurion. He had only been in the water for a while, but five people had already been shot to death in his front, back, left and right.
He was so frightened that this small tribe actually had so many tiger-powered bows and sharpshooters.
While he carefully looked at the barbed wire fence in the river, he had to be careful about his steps to prevent slipping on the moss-covered pebbles.
If you slip, you may get tangled in those barbed wires.
The arrows on the opposite side were very tricky, shooting in from different angles. People often fell into the river with a splash.
Finally, after paying the price of more than 200 people, the remaining 1,700 people crowded across the river.
"Come on! Kill all these untouchables!" The captains and centurions shouted crazily, as if they had been given blood.
After crossing the river, everyone's morale suddenly rose. They all rushed up to the top of the mountain, shouting wildly and wildly.
Now it's their turn to be proud and proud. These losers are like chicken blood when fighting against the wind. When there are many people bullying others and few people, everyone is brave.
At this time, the arrows stopped, and Captain Batu shouted loudly: "They have scared away, charge, kill them all. Don't let them run away."
The cavalry team and the tribal shooters did run away, and they were going to the back mountains to find their horses. After a while, they defeated the enemy and they wanted to chase them on horseback.
Fifty meters, forty meters, thirty meters, the mountain opposite is still quiet.
Irgen and Alabayan looked at each other and smiled. Done, rush forward.
Twenty meters, fifteen meters. Suddenly a burst of military trumpets rose from the ground. The loud voice seemed to break through the sky.
In the trench in front, two hundred and fifty musketeers suddenly stood up and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
boom! boom! boom!
There was a burst of fire and gunpowder smoke, and at such a close distance, it was like lining up to be shot face to face.
Almost all of the 250 rifles hit their targets. More than 200 people were killed and wounded in an instant and fell to the ground.
The Mongolians were stunned and before they could react, the people behind suddenly found that the front was empty.
They were actually very afraid of firearms. Xu Da used infantrymen armed with sharp guns to drive their ancestors back to the grasslands to herd sheep.
While they were still dumbfounded, the first row quickly retreated, took out a new silk fixed bullet, stuffed it into the muzzle of the gun, then pulled out the purge bar under the barrel and inserted it into the chamber.
At this time, the second row had moved forward to the shooting position, and then another burst of fire flashed and smoke filled the air. Another 250 lead bullets were fired.
After Yang Fan used silk fixed ammunition, the rate of fire increased to four rounds per minute. If you use paper-packed bullets, you also need to bite open the paper pack with your teeth.
Pour the gunpowder into the barrel and add the remaining paper-wrapped lead bullets to seal the gap.
Then tighten it firmly, not too loose. If it is too loose, the muzzle of the gun will be downward, and the lead bullet will roll out and the gunpowder will scatter. There's no way to shoot.
It should not be too tight. If the gunpowder is too tight, there will be few gaps, insufficient oxygen, and insufficient combustion. This will cause a large amount of gunpowder to be ejected before it is completely burned, resulting in a large amount of black smoke that affects the field of vision and shortens the range. A waste of military spending.
Just this fighting technique can drive new recruits crazy.
So Yang Fan directly invented a fixed-loading bullet wrapped in silk with a suitable tightness. He mainly used a purge to push it into the barrel. The sparks triggered by the flint could directly ignite the silk and gunpowder.
Greatly simplifies steps and saves time.
Yang Fan's fixed-loading bullets are all conical and elongated, and are structurally lead-coated with a steel core.
This design is mainly due to the strong armor-breaking ability of the steel core.
The reason why the outside is coated with lead is that the lead is relatively soft. If you make a small hole in the back, the lead will automatically deform under the pressure of gunpowder and stick to the barrel of the gun to prevent air leakage. Thereby increasing the range.
In this way, the effective range of the smoothbore gun is increased from 80-100 meters for ordinary bullets to about 150 meters. In the trench, you can easily reach a distance of about 70 meters beyond the other side of the river.
The trench is fifty meters to the river, the river is thirty meters wide, and the other side of the river is within the effective range for seventy meters outward.
This kind of bullet is called a mini bullet.
It was originally invented during the rifled gun era. But Yang Fan equipped it in advance in the musket era.
Mini bullets, the diameter of the cone-shaped bullet is slightly smaller than the diameter of the gun bore, so loading is very convenient.
Yang Fan uses a sharp steel core and pours lead on the outside to form a conical bullet with a concave bottom. More complicated than the historical Minie bomb.
After adding the steel core. Armor-piercing ability is greatly improved. This is to prepare for a rainy day against Jiannu's triple armor.
There is a conical cavity at the bottom of this kind of bullet, and a wooden plug blocks the bottom of the hole. When fired, the gas presses the wooden plug into the cavity, forcing the bottom of the bullet to expand and close to the barrel of the gun.
By sealing the gap between the warhead and the gun barrel so that gas cannot escape, the Mini bullet solves the problem of difficulty in loading the muzzleloader and the short range of the smoothbore gun.
Yang Fan's improvements made the rifle surpass other weapons and became the decisive weapon on the battlefield at this time.
But there are some unsolvable problems with the Mini bullet. It can only be made of very soft alloys such as lead, so that the warhead can easily expand.
The warhead is soft and will deform immediately after hitting the target. The stopping effect is good, but the penetration power is too weak.
This is also Yang Fan's intention to add a steel core to improve the armor-piercing ability.
After hitting the armor target, the lead deformed steel core will not deform. Eventually, the lead bullet may remain on the surface of the armor, and the steel core will separate from the lead coating, penetrating the armor and killing the human body.
Similarly, in order to rapidly expand the warhead to lock the gun bore, only fast-burning gunpowder can be used as propellant. The development trend of propellant is to burn slowly so that the warhead can be evenly accelerated in the gun bore for a long time to increase the muzzle velocity.
These shortcomings determine that Yang Fan's designs are temporary. In order to cope with the battlefield environment at this time, rifled guns and breech-loading guns will still have to be gradually developed in the future.
These Mongolian soldiers were not wearing armor at all, just wearing leather robes.
Only captains of ten had leather armor, and only centurions had chain mail. Only captains of thousands have armor like the Ming Dynasty. Some are fish scale armor, and some are mountain armor. Usually they are captured from the Ming Dynasty.
The second round of volleys completely frightened the stunned herdsmen. There is no need to aim at this distance, one shot will kill one. As long as the fire is normal, it will basically not fail.
After two rounds of launches, the front of the position was filled with smoke. There is no way, the current propellant is not smokeless powder, and it will not be visible after a few rounds.
But this is a mountain, and the mountain wind quickly blows away the smoke.
Batu is Irgen's nephew, and his father was the previous Taiji. After his father's death, Taiji's position was taken away by his cunning uncle. In order to appease the dissatisfied people in the tribe, he was given the title of captain of thousands.
At this time, the first row of shots rang out, and he knew something was wrong. He is not one of those ignorant herdsmen, he knows firearms. He jumped and fell to the ground.
Then he watched as the people in front of him fell to the ground like grass blown down by the strong wind on the grassland.
His scalp felt numb when he saw it. In the thin line between life and death, he instantly realized that these people were not Mongolians. The Mongols had so many firearms and used them so skillfully.
Falling into the trap, this is a trap, a trap targeting the Baiyin tribe. But reason told him that he must not move at this moment, otherwise he would be beaten to death immediately.
Sure enough, in less than two breaths, the sound of footsteps changing formations was heard from above. Then, he saw another dense row of musket barrels sticking out.
He had played with fire guns, and he recognized that the long barrel must be a bird gun. This thing is very accurate and can shoot birds, and its effective range exceeds that of a bow and arrow.
After another hail of bullets hit him, he didn't hear the sound of new footsteps changing formations, so he knew it was reloading.
There was no need to hesitate. We had to rush over immediately and fight with them hand to hand. Otherwise, if we continued shooting like this, there wouldn't be enough people to fill in.
Two volleys killed and wounded at least four hundred people. Now there are only more than 1,300 people left who can charge.
Batu jumped up and shouted loudly: "They are reloading, charge forward, fight them hand-to-hand, hurry!"
All the Mongolian soldiers were suddenly enlightened and understood the current situation. The captain was right and they must rush forward quickly.
"Hula! Hula!" the Mongols roared and rushed forward desperately.
An Sanxi sneered. He knew the war pattern on the grassland too well. Just those three axes.
"Fire!" He ordered coldly.
Suddenly, the three-pounder guns on the five gun emplacements below the command post spurted out flames. Because it was loaded with shotgun shells, each cannon sprayed a thousand small steel balls at the Mongolian soldiers swarming below.
A fan of 40 degrees wide and 300 meters long was instantly created. Five cannons, with a range of fire reaching 200 degrees, basically seamlessly sealed the Mongols' three-sided siege front.
These shells were also custom-made in silk. The steel balls used for shotgun shells were rusty bicycle balls that a fool picked out from the scraps.
Iron filings and rust are more likely to cause infection if they enter the body. The medical conditions of this era are simply unavailable. The inflammation can only continue. He later died of a severe infection.
After a series of gunfire, the battlefield was suddenly filled with flesh and blood again. chaptere
Iron tycoon in late Ming Dynasty
