Tushetu Khan's cavalry rushed five hundred meters and entered the range of the camel cannon.
In order to be mounted on camels, these guns are high-strength, short-barreled, and low-pressure guns.
Because the strength is high enough, the barrel is very thin and the weight is greatly reduced. The bracket is made of high-strength aluminum alloy to cushion the impact on the camel when the gun is fired.
"Camel cannon, solid spherical bullets, ready, fire." With the wave of An San's hand, the artillery commander immediately gave a big order.
Boom boom boom! Five hundred camel cannons lined up in a row opened fire, and five hundred solid spherical shells roared towards Tushetu Khan's cavalry.
The camel swivel gun first appeared in Egypt. The Mamluks of Egypt noticed the advantages of the Portuguese Caravel's ship-mounted swivel gun during the Battle of Diu in 1509, and then imitated the camel swivel gun and used it in land battles.
After the Ottoman Empire annexed Egypt, the camel swivel gun was quickly absorbed into the empire's army, and was taught to the Persians during the war between the empire and Persia, and then spread throughout Central and South Asia through the Persians.
Although the Camel swivel gun was not adopted in Europe, it was very successful on the battlefields of Central and South Asia and was widely imitated. This weapon, which combines mobility and firepower, is well suited to the poor road conditions in Central and South Asia. In the future, when Yang Fan goes to fight in Central Asia, he will definitely encounter a large number of them.
In the famous Third Battle of Panipat, the camel swivel artillery of the Afghans and Mughals defeated the proud cavalry force of the Marathas.
In this battle that will decide the fate of India. Because of the power of the camel cannon, the European-style infantry of the Marathas was blown up by the Muslims who were outflanking them, resulting in the complete collapse of the Maratha army.
Thus began, the Mughal dynasty of the Mongols. After that Muslims started to rule India.
Considering the camel's endurance, Yang Fan positioned the cannonball at a weight of three and a half pounds.
Camel gun caliber 76mm. Effective range is 500 meters. Shotguns wrapped in silk and loaded with spherical solid bullets or a hundred small steel balls.
Tushetu Khan waved the Damascus scimitar in his hand. This scimitar was inlaid with gems and was a fine product from Persia. Seeing his instructions, the warriors on both sides of him immediately accelerated and rushed towards the enemy.
Tuxie Tuhan was over sixty years old, and he led the charge just for show.
This distance has reached the distance for the Mongolian Qingqi to accelerate and impact, so he slowed down his horse.
However, at this time, he saw something dark on the fiery red camels in the distance. Then those things suddenly spewed out black smoke.
not good! firearm.
Tuxie Tuhan was shocked. The Ming army had a large number of firearms.
He immediately hid in the stirrup, turned over and got under the horse's belly. His agility was not that of a sixty-year-old man.
At this moment, artillery shells flying at high speed came with a sharp whistling sound.
boom! There was a loud bang.
Tuxie Tuhan was under the horse's belly and clearly saw a spherical solid bullet hit from his right side. A dozen cavalrymen on the right were passed through. A blood mist filled the alley of blood as people and horses were smashed.
The remains of flesh and blood sprayed in his face. His mouth opened in horror.
What is this, a cannon that can be mounted on a camel. He was so horrified that he didn't react for a long time.
The shells created a cavalry-free passage, littered with broken pieces of men and horses along the way.
Due to the reduced power of the cannonballs, the men and horses behind were struck by the cannonballs, and their arms and thighs were instantly separated from their bodies. The men also fell off their horses and fell to the ground, howling miserably.
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Then he was trampled to death by the cavalry rushing at high speed from behind.
"Accelerate! Accelerate! Rush over, rush over. Don't give them time to reload." Tuxie Tuhan shouted loudly.
The three-pounder had a rate of fire of two rounds per minute.
At this time, the impact speed of the Mongolian cavalry is four to five meters per second, which is the maximum speed that a Mongolian horse can run. It won't last long.
In other words, it takes about two minutes to rush in front of the infantry.
After firing one round, the camel cannon went silent. The Mongols knew clearly that they were charging and the next round of firing would soon come.
Thirty seconds later, the camel cannon roared again. Boom boom boom!
Now that the two sides are closer, they can clearly see the situation of the enemy on the opposite side. These artillery pieces were mounted on enemy camels, with a rotatable bracket on them to hold the artillery pieces in place.
Another five hundred rounds of artillery shells opened another five hundred flesh-and-blood alleys for Tushetu Khan's cavalry.
The Mongols were somewhat confused. There was confusion in the formation. The horse also stood up and threw the knight down. The tabunangs and nayans in front immediately waved their machetes and hacked to death those who were cowering.
Khalkha's war horses rarely experienced battlefields with so many firearms, and many jumped up in fright. The chaos in front slowed down the speed of the impact.
Because of the fear of people and horses, the knights behind them pushed forward, while the horses and people in front tried to slow down to let others rush forward.
Tu Xietu cursed angrily, calling for his soldiers and Na Ke'er to rush forward and chop all the cowards who were afraid of death to death.
Under the severe suppression of the officers, the cavalry group suffered more than 3,000 casualties under two rounds of artillery fire, and then plucked up the courage again and charged forward.
Boom boom boom! Another volley.
Tuxie Tuhan's troops were once again overwhelmed, and their broken limbs were flying all over the sky.
Then the cavalry finally rushed a hundred meters.
Tuxie Tuhan breathed a sigh of relief. The distance of one hundred meters was rushed over in just a few breaths of time. As long as the Mongolian warriors can get closer, they can launch a one-sided massacre of these gunners.
Immediately afterwards, Tushetu Khan saw three rows of musketeers standing in front of the camels.
He groaned inwardly. It’s over!
Having suffered so many casualties and rushed forward, I didn't expect these Ming troops to have back-ups.
However, he comforted himself that the Ming army's muskets were famous for being easy to explode. Tuxie Tuhan knew who those civil servants in the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty were, even though they were far away in the grasslands.
"Replace the camel cannon with shotgun shells and wait for orders." An Sanxi immediately ordered because the enemy's cavalry had already rushed within a hundred meters.
"Three levels of horizontal formation, fire." An Sanxi ordered.
The soldiers in the first row immediately raised their flintlock rifles. At this time, there were three regiments of fusilier soldiers in front, each regiment forming a three-row horizontal formation.
What was used this time was not the formation where the front and rear teams took turns to fire forward, and the three-stage attack was repeated in rotation.
Because if the front and rear teams are to rotate, the formation cannot be too close. The space for forward and backward movement must flow out.
The flintlock gun relies on dense formation to increase the density of firepower.
Yang Fan directly changed this formation.
Instead, the first row serves as the firing hand, and the last two rows serve as the loader.
The loaded rifles were handed directly to the first platoon, and after the first platoon finished shooting, the empty rifles were turned around and handed over to the loaders behind for reloading.
This achieves the tightest formation of shoulder to shoulder. The formation became tighter, and the barrages became denser. For the same reason, the lethality is even greater.
