"Fire the arrow!" an officer from Tianjin Guard shouted.
More than two hundred archers rushed out of the rout. He started firing arrows at the Japanese pirates who were walking slowly.
These two hundred archers were the elites of Tianjin Guard Commander Chu Lanqing. He spent most of his resources on one hundred cavalry servants and three hundred archers. Unfortunately, today's street fighting resulted in the loss of a hundred archers.
The archers roughly determined the distance, immediately raised their bows at a 45-degree angle, and began to release arrows. The queue is quite neat, which shows that they usually train a lot. At this time, officers basically relied on their servants and technical units to fight the war. Ordinary soldiers just work together.
The archers fired arrows one after another until all thirty wolf fang arrows in the quiver were shot. Then quickly back away. By this time their arms were too tired to lift. Physical strength is basically exhausted.
The shooting speed of bows and arrows is much faster than that of matchlock guns.
A qualified archer can easily shoot sixteen arrows in one minute. A pot of arrows, all shot in two minutes.
Overall, the combat skills of ancient infantry have been on a downward trend since the Tang Dynasty.
In the Tang Dynasty, an infantryman was equipped with three horses, one for riding, one for carrying armor and weapons, and one for carrying food and supplies.
When fighting on foot, each soldier is equipped with long weapons such as spears or horseshoes, fighting weapons such as horizontal knives, and short weapons such as daggers. Throwing weapons: hand axe, small javelin. Smash armor-breaking weapons like bones, maces, iron whips, maces, etc.
Everyone in the Tang army had a compound bow. When approaching the battle, shoot out all thirty arrows first. Inflict great damage to the enemy. Then they formed a formation and charged with spears. Shock and scatter the enemy, then slash with a horizontal sword.
By the Song Dynasty, soldiers were no longer all-rounders. Basic spearmen knew how to use guns and nothing else.
In the Ming Dynasty, soldiers no longer knew how to use a single weapon. They were basically recruited and trained on a temporary basis.
The guards basically don't know anything, they just send them a weapon and drive them into battle.
A dense rain of arrows fell from the sky, Sakurai Momo was a little nervous, and she subconsciously held on to the corners of her clothes.
stop! stop!
Withered feather arrows flew down from high altitude and fell densely into the military formation.
Suddenly, there was a jingling sound.
The steel armor provided by Yang Fan showed superior performance at this time, and the iron arrows bounced directly on the stomach of the armor.
After putting down the visor, there are only two holes for the eyes. However, these holes are too small and cannot be penetrated at all. If he ejaculated, he would have no choice but to consider himself unlucky. This is entirely a matter of character. The manufacturer Yang Fan will not be responsible.
The Ming Dynasty's arrows were much more powerful than the Japanese bamboo bows. Even though there was no bow armor, the impact was still painful. This is still with leather armor lining.
But soon, the believers discovered that no one was injured. Although these arrows were much more powerful than Japanese bows and arrows, their own armor seemed to be even more powerful.
A wild cheer erupted from the crowd.
Fan Lin looked at the other party and just paused for a moment before moving on, and suddenly panicked. These people's stomachs are also very good. It was better than the mountain armor he wore, and he was a little red-eyed.
"Three-eyed gun, go up and fire." Fan Lin knew this was not the time to hesitate and quickly continued the order.
This time it was the turn of his servants. Two hundred servants rushed over with three-eyed muskets. They were more than ten meters away from the Japanese pirates and lit the three-eyed guns.
The three-eyed blunderbuss equipped by these servants is relatively regular. After all, they are the soldiers of the Tianjin Commandery Department. Their three-eyed blunderbuss also has a long-haired head between the three blunderbuss tubes, which can stab the enemy in an emergency. The long handle connected can be swung and used as a heavy weapon to smash enemies who have penetrated armor.
Although it carries a two-pronged fork, which is used as a shooting stand and can also assassinate enemies.
There is also a round shield with a hole in the center from which the three-eyed blunderbuss can be extended. This can cover the gunner when shooting. Carrying the shield on your back when not in use can also protect your back.
Yang Fan's fire door gun has an effective range, a direct shooting distance of nine meters, and a maximum killing distance of thirty meters. The maximum killing distance of this three-eyed gun is less than twenty meters, and it basically does not move in a straight line. After it is launched, no one can predict what it will hit.
If it weren't for the dense military formation of the enemy, the effect would be simply tearful.
boom! boom! boom!
A burst of smoke filled the air, and the three-eyed gun fired one after another.
The three-eyed gun is also a fire gate gun, it just increases the firepower density in parallel.
This weapon is far different from Yang Fan's nine-knot continuous gun.
This time the three guards finally achieved results. No matter how bad a musket fires at this distance, armor cannot fully protect it. The Jiannu can block it mainly from a distance of thirty meters. They have superb bow and arrow skills to shoot at each other. In addition, their cloth-covered armor is made of real-time cotton-iron composite armor.
The bullets of the three-eyed gun are lead bullets, which are relatively soft. Shot on 1.5mm thick steel armor, it is difficult to penetrate. Unless you use steel ball bullets.
At this time, the believers lacked enough cotton armor behind their iron armor to absorb kinetic energy. Although it failed to penetrate. However, the nail plate was deformed and caused severe blunt trauma. Many people suffered broken bones.
Sakurai Momo watched as a piece fell down in front of her.
"Don't stop, charge forward, they don't have time to reload." Akita Shun shouted, he was the battalion commander of the temporarily formed forward battalion.
The Japanese showed good obedience. They ignored their fallen companions and rushed up running.
These elite servants were not cowards, and they immediately charged forward with their three-eyed guns.
Yang Fan understood that armor had no advantage against heavy weapons.
However, he still underestimated the combat effectiveness of these ronin recruited by Sakurai Momo. These people were all samurai and had trained hard since childhood. In addition, they had been trained on the battlefield for more than ten or twenty years during the Warring States Period. They are all very qualified fighters.
Moreover, there are many of them.
Fan Lin hurriedly ordered: "Blow the drums and the whole army will attack."
"Kill a Japanese pirate's head and be rewarded with ten taels of silver."
The guards here were also driven by the servants, and they all rushed forward in a swarm. The temptation of ten taels of silver is not small, but the soldiers have long been numb after being deceived. Not many people believe that it can be fulfilled in the end.
Yang Fan looked at the fighting scene in front and sighed. The formations on both sides were completely disrupted. They basically fell into a situation where they were fighting on their own. If his soldiers were beaten like this, he would be furious to death, and the officer leading the team would be beheaded on the spot.
Sakurai Momo sat on the chariot and stretched her neck to look at the situation ahead. All the elders also stood on tiptoes to look at the battle ahead.
This is their first battle. This is the first time that this team has been on the battlefield since they formed a team. Each of them is very nervous.
The battle line has been completely lost in the front, and the two flies are mixed together, causing a big chaos.
The guard station has many people, the religious order is well-equipped, and the warriors have strong combat effectiveness, but the soldiers recruited temporarily are far inferior.
As the melee unfolded, things quickly began to turn one-sided.
Long weapons are inconvenient to use in hand-to-hand combat. The guardsmen stepped on the barrels of their guns one after another to adapt to the battlefield.
However, they soon discovered that the other party's armor was extremely strong and Party B could not penetrate it at all. After all, nail seams are hard to find in combat.
After a group of officers were killed in succession, these rabble-rousers completely lost their fighting spirit. With a shout, he suddenly dropped his enemies and ran away.
These people are all locals and are familiar with the terrain. They throw away their unnecessary things and go straight to the green gauze tents and reed swamps.
Yang Fan looked funny. These people were not good at fighting, but they were very good at escaping. In the blink of an eye, most of them were missing.
When Fan Lin and others saw that they had completely collapsed, they immediately rode away and fled towards Hejian Mansion.
They are not stupid. When they go to Hejian Mansion, they are still on the boundary of Tianjin, so they are not running away. This is still resistance.
