As the Musketeers' team collapsed, a desolate horn sounded in the backyard.
All the servants retreated back like a tide.
Taozi was overjoyed and ordered loudly: "Follow me immediately, and the whole army will come on me."
Yang Fan just wanted to stop her, but her order had already been issued before he could say it out loud.
Now that Taozi has given the order, he cannot raise objections. In a newly formed army, the commander's personal prestige is very important.
At this time, Yang Fan wanted to help her establish her prestige instead of tearing her down, and she had to carry it out even if she was wrong. Because establishing prestige is more important.
The Japanese soldiers are somewhat similar to the Koreans. When they win a battle, they can't hold back and get carried away easily. They immediately start chasing and killing them while shouting and screaming.
If they lose the battle, they won't pick up their dog-skin hats if they fall on the ground in the middle of winter, even if their ears freeze off. He kept running for his life.
At this time, it was seen that these servants were still well-trained. Even if they retreated, there were still some who cut off the rear and were always fighting and retreating.
Their armor and stomach are weak, and their limbs have no protection. The armor they wear inside their robes is chain mail, which has little effect against slashes, but is very ineffective against assassinations and crossbows.
At this time, Japan's sword was barely enough to resist Japan.
Suddenly there was an earth-shattering noise from behind, and the pirates who attacked the back door used explosives to blow it open. A large number of pirates rushed in through the back door.
There are two watchtowers at the back door. Although they are not big, they are not far inside the gate. A hundred musketeers gathered on each one, and they took advantage of the height to shoot at the pirates.
At close range, the pirates' armor had no effect. The dozens of pirates who rushed into the backyard first fell to the ground one after another under the crossfire of two small watchtowers.
"Shield soldiers, hurry up, use shields to cover on both sides." He Kui shouted loudly.
He is the commander of the first battalion of the pirate regiment. He was born in his hometown, Ding, and he participated in the battle against the Jiannu. He has rich battlefield experience.
"Damn, this is a Lumi gun. These bastards actually have so many Lumi guns." Squadron leader Qian Xiaolong cursed angrily.
The people who just rushed in were all members of his squadron's first general flag, and half of them were killed and injured at once.
The Rumi gun is a matchlock gun improved by the firearms developer Zhao Shizhen. The prototype is a matchlock gun paid tribute by the Turkish Rumi country (Ottoman Empire).
Turkish envoys came to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty. In 1598 (the twenty-sixth year of Wanli), Zhao Shizhen asked Duosima, the envoy of the Lumi Kingdom, for advice on the structure and production methods of the Lumi muskets. After improvements, he made the "Lumi gun".
It is now 1628, which means that this advanced firecracker has been around for no more than thirty years. The number is very rare in Ming Dynasty.
Because Yang Fan's army attaches great importance to education and has a weapons exhibition hall to increase the horizons of officers and soldiers. Therefore, Qian Xiaolong and the others recognized it as Lumi Gun through actual combat observation.
The Japanese iron cannons at this time were relatively excellent among the East Asian matchlocks. The length is about 1.2 meters. Of course, this is also related to the short limbs of Japanese people. If it is longer, they will not be able to use it.
The Lumi Gun is two meters long, and the barrel alone is 45 centimeters longer than the Japanese Iron Cannon.
The longer barrel gave the lead bullet greater propellant power.
As a result, the muzzle velocity is higher, the range is longer, and the penetration is stronger.
The maximum firing range reached 550 meters, which greatly exceeded the Japanese iron cannon's 400 meters. Of course, the effective range does not exceed 150 meters. But this is also much higher than the 80-100 meters of the Japanese iron cannon.
The most terrible thing is that this thing is very accurate.
Because its caliber is large, the projectile is heavy, and the charge is greatly increased.
Its barrel is made with ten pounds of iron refined into one pound of fine steel, so it can withstand very large chamber pressure without exploding the chamber, and the gunpowder they use is granular powder.
There is also a machete hidden in the butt of the gun, which can be folded into the butt during normal times and taken out in time of war for close combat.
Such a good gun is naturally very expensive. The cost is more than ten times that of ordinary gunshots.
Zhao Shizhen wrote a book on the manufacturing methods of Lumi gun, called "Artifact Spectrum", and presented it to Emperor Wanli. It was approved by the emperor, so he allocated funds to manufacture a batch to equip Ningyuan's troops.
A battalion of religious soldiers quickly passed through the second gate and rushed toward the rear.
The servants were defeated and retreated all the way.
The religious soldiers rushed all the way to the back garden, preparing to join the pirates who came in through the back door.
The garden of Li Mansion is very strange. There is not a single tree, nor any cloisters or pavilions. Just a vacant lot, bare.
In the middle of the huge garden stands a blue-grey castle, a four-story tower. At this time, the remaining six to seven hundred servants and more than a thousand people from the Li family's family and servants all withdrew into the watchtower.
Yang Fan and others had no choice but to continue moving forward with the Fo Lang machine gun.
Before they even reached the garden, they heard the sound of musket shooting, which sounded like exploding beans.
Minamoto Matsudaira stumbled back from the front, covered in blood, and said loudly: "Madam, there is a castle in the garden in front. It is a small castle. There are thousands of musketeers inside. The shooting is very accurate. Our army has suffered casualties. There are more than two hundred people.”
Sakurai Momo thought about it and felt that as the coach, she should go to the front to see for herself. However, I can't make up my mind. Couldn't help but look at Yang Fan.
"Let's go over and take a look. Don't let the people below rush in. Let them find cover first and protect themselves first."
Sakurai Momo nodded heavily, thinking in her heart that Yang Jun was still calm and composed, the more the situation, the calmer he became.
At this time, the pirates in the backyard were also blocked by these two small watchtowers.
He Kui said angrily: "Damn it, there is only one place in the entire Ming Dynasty that has this thing, and that is the Ningyuan Firearms Camp directly under the jurisdiction of Governor Yuan. This thing is so expensive, he didn't put it on the front line to deal with the slaves, but he did it like this There are so many, none of these civil servants are good."
Last year, in 1627, Huang Taiji attacked Jinzhou and Ningyuan. Yuan Chonghuan used the Lumi gun to achieve the great victory in Ningjin.
At that time, under the operation of the Donglin Party, he immediately became trembling after getting such a sharp weapon.
He changed the old way of winning the battle at Ningyuan and used cannons to fortify the city.
Instead, the eight battalions of the Ningyuan Firearms Battalion of 4,000 people were pulled out of the city, set up with car camps under the city wall, and directly fought a field battle with Huang Taiji.
The powerful performance of Lumi gun is fully displayed under the cover of the car camp. After three rounds of shooting, 1,700 muskets were fired at once, knocking Jiannu's heavy armored cavalry off their backs.
Huang Taiji attacked with heavy armored infantry and asked the slaves to push the shield cart to cover. However, the red cannon on the city wall penetrated the shield cart again, causing heavy casualties.
The car camp is to use a large car with thick wooden boards on both sides as protection, and the head and tail are fixed with iron chains. The vehicle was equipped with French cannons and cannons, as well as muskets and ammunition.
When marching, you can use oxen and horses to drag you, or you can use human power to pull and push back.
This turns the infantry into musketeers or artillery who can assemble fortresses at any time. Used to deal with the cavalry and field infantry of the slaves in the wild.
At that time, the Lumi gun had an effective range of up to 150 meters, which far exceeded the maximum direct shooting range of the Jiannu horn bow of 50-60 meters. Although they captured a small number of powerful crossbows from the Ming Dynasty, the direct shooting range was only 70-80 meters.
Although the crossbow can shoot at a distance of more than 200 meters, it cannot hit the Ming Army musketeers hiding behind the shooting port because of the cover of the carriage panels, so there is no room for it to be useful.
The heavy lead bullets of Lumi gun have great kinetic energy, and Jiannu's triple armor will cause serious blunt injuries even if it can be blocked within 80 meters.
At this muzzle velocity, the cotton armor cannot absorb much energy at all.
In the battle of Ningjin, four thousand cavalry sent by Yuan Chonghuan attacked Jiannu from the rear. As a result, even though Jiannu's field infantry in front were defeated by Lumi's muskets, they still caused serious casualties to Yuan Chonghuan's cavalry.
However, in the end, the Eight Banners could not bear such heavy losses and turned to attack Jinzhou City.
Jinzhou fought for five months, and once again a lot of people were killed and injured, but they were not defeated.
Finally had to retreat.
Huang Taiji was beaten to the point where he developed high blood pressure and his nose was bleeding continuously.
The more than 4,000 Lumi guns in Yuan Chonghuan's hands were equipped by the Emperor Wanli Dynasty out of his own pocket. At that time, the internal expenditure was more than 300,000 taels (the extra amount was lost).
This thing is too expensive, one costs at least thirty taels of silver. Moreover, the price of each round of pellets and lead bullets used is twice that of a bird blunderbuss, and ten times that of a three-eyed blunderbuss.
Not only can it not be built, it cannot be used.
