While the Zhenglan Banner cavalry entered the battlefield, Yang Fan's cavalry also filed out of Checheng. At this time, in the center of the battlefield were Yang Fan's three militia infantry regiments.
The three large phalanx clusters pushed forward. Han Junqi hurriedly loaded the gun. By the time it was loaded, the militiamen had already rushed to a distance of five meters.
Immediately, the Han army flag opened fire. Bang bang bang! There was a burst of smoke and a flash of fire. The fire gate guns equipped with the Han Army Flag were fired one after another, and the lead bullets reached the maximum power of the fire gate guns at such a close range.
The overall quality of these firearms is poor. During the Nurhaci era, firearms basically came from seizures. After Huang Taiji came to power in 1626, he began to make his own firearms and gunpowder.
This year is 1628. So far, Hou Jinneng’s imitations are basically fire gate guns. The equipment of the Han army flags were basically captured from the Ming army during the Nurhaci era.
According to the official records of the Ming Dynasty, in the three years from the forty-sixth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty to the first year of Tianqi, the Ministry of Industry allocated a total of various firearms such as general cannons, flannel machines, magic guns, and bird guns to the Ming army on the Liaodong front line. , a total of more than 42,000 pieces.
With the subsequent Tianqi years, Liaodong suffered a great defeat. Such a large number of firearms were lost during the battles between the Ming and Qing Dynasties. A considerable number of firearms were captured and reused by the Qing army.
The firearms that were fired one after another were very complicated and had everything. Not only are the calibers different in size, but the range and power are also very different.
There are rags like a magic gun. There are also other handguns with weird shapes. Han Qingyuan's team, holding long halberds, rushed in front of the firearmsman of the Han Army Flag, just in time for the firearmsman to finish loading and fire a second time.
Han Qingyuan was a squad leader and managed thirty soldiers. He had received officer training, and he saw a variety of firearms on the opposite side.
There were two people holding copper-handled blunderbuss, four others holding short general blunderbuss, and even six long-headed bamboo blunderbuss.
Six flying guns. They knew that since they had rushed here, they could only rush forward despite the fire cannon fire.
Under the dense smoke and line of fire, the militiamen were shot one after another. This distance was the most accurate and most powerful distance for the fire gate gun.
Many militiamen felt as if their front plate armor had been hit with a hammer. The forward momentum paused.
But then he felt that the plate armor had not been penetrated. Because there is no physical discomfort. Moreover, the overall curvature and corrugated structure of the front part of the plate armor maintains good strength.
The force of the shot was dispersed to the front half of the body by the large aluminum alloy plate, and it just felt like there was a backward push on the upper body as a whole.
It's not a big deal. However, a soldier next to Han Qingyuan was hit and flew backwards, falling to the ground with a thud.
Han Qingyuan looked carefully and found that these cunning Han military flags had a No. 3 general cannon hidden in the array of firecrackers.
What the hell is a general cannon? The diameter ratio of this thing is generally around ten. It is a short-barreled artillery piece that is cast or forged from wrought iron.
A field gun with a caliber generally between 80 and 143 mm, a length between 59 and 95 cm, and a handle.
Generally used on loaded vehicles. According to the weight, it is divided into several types such as first general, second general, and third general.
The Three Generals generally have handles that can be carried around. The characteristic of this type of artillery is that there are 5 to 19 iron hoops on the outside of the barrel to enhance the strength.
There is a medicine chamber with a bulging belly in front of the gun tail. The unlucky guy next to him was hit by the third general.
Because this kind of gun is not cast. Therefore, it is light in weight. The No. 3 general gun is generally about 95 kilograms. The wrought iron is first beaten into four-petal iron tiles, then cold forged on a steel column, hammered into a circle, and then an iron ring is added to an iron ring, and the gun body is completely made by cold forging .
Finally, a red-hot iron hoop is put on it. After cooling, the iron hoop automatically shrinks, forming inward pressure on the barrel.
This is the original self-compacting barrel. This kind of cold-forged small general gun has a very thin tube wall, but because it is forged without bubbles and cracks, it is stronger.
Coupled with the short barrel, the weight is also very low. Very easy to hide in a group of musketeers. Of course, this is also a tactic that the Ming army likes to use.
Cold-forged cannons, whether from the Ming Dynasty or Europe at the same time. The caliber cannot be too large, usually only fifty or sixty millimeters.
After all, the hammer is not a forging hammer. However, the projectiles used in this caliber weigh more than half a kilogram. There's no problem in beating up a man wearing plate armor.
Then, not far away, there was a boom, and another large general cannon fired. In addition to loading a one-pound cast-iron spherical solid bullet, Han Junqi's general cannon hidden in the military formation also loaded a hundred iron fragments behind the solid bullet.
This shot directly opened a bloody alley among the militiamen, and five or six people were beaten to pieces. The subsequent shotguns swept out and spread to a thirty-meter fan.
It knocked a large number of people backwards. The firearmsman's last salvo failed to achieve much results. The fire door gun was still blocked by the aluminum alloy plate armor at close range.
Yang Fan was very satisfied. Although he spent a lot of money on materials, it was worth the money. But these hidden light artillery pieces worked, and there were many casualties among those hit.
Even the shotgun shells did not penetrate the armor and caused many fractures and internal injuries. After all, light artillery is also artillery, not matchlock guns, fire door guns and the like.
But despite the casualties caused by the artillery, the militiamen were already upon the musketeers. Following the officer's whistle, the militiamen straightened their halberds, shouted chants, and thrust forward.
Except for the heavy armored infantry who died in front, these people in the Han Army Flag were all wearing cotton armor.
The cotton armor is made of 7 pounds of cotton. It is filled with cloth in a jacket. Thick threads are sewed in dense rows. Soak it in water. Take it out and spread it on the floor. Use your feet to keep it firm so that it does not swell.
Dry. Cotton cannot be washed, as it will lose its fluffiness and warmth after washing. But the cotton nails must be soaked in water and then flattened, so that after drying again, the cotton will be very tight and tough, and will not absorb water.
Cotton armor is very effective for defending against fire guns, especially fire door guns. However, if you want to defend against muskets with long barrels and high muzzle velocity projectiles such as bird cannons and matchlock guns, it is best to wear iron armor inside the cotton armor.
However, cotton armor is effective against fire guns, but it is very poor against spears. The halberd stabbed him, and he had no ability to resist.
Once stabbed, they were pierced, and they were stabbed down one after another. The halberdiers rushed up and massacred the musketeers in a one-sided manner.
Those in the first few rows didn't even have time to escape before they were stabbed to the ground one by one by halberds. The fire gunmen in the back threw away the fire guns in their hands and drew their swords to fight.
At this time, the array of halberds had an advantage over the long knives and waist knives of short weapons. Rows of halberd wielders shouted and thrust forward.
The queue makes a collective lunge every time it takes a step forward. Every time he stabbed someone. Seeing that after the Han army flag was defeated by the first phalanx of 3,000 armored heavy infantry, the second phalanx of firecrackers was pierced by the militiamen.
Han Qingyuan led his team and kept thrusting. As he thrust, he suddenly found that the front was empty. There is no one left.
But in the distance, there are three phalanxes lined up in front of many large and small vehicle-mounted general cannons, second general cannons, and Frankie cannons.
A large phalanx of heavy infantrymen wearing long blue armor was looking at them eagerly. Before he could react, he heard the captain shout: "Everyone, get down, get down."
