Zhou Changshou was the captain of the team. He wore riveted cloth armor with iron plates inside. A bow and arrow fired from this distance could not penetrate his armor, and the helmet on his head could also protect his head.
Zhou Changshou gritted his teeth and stared at the fire door where the three-eyed gun in his hand was igniting fire.
The helmet obscured his vision, and he could not see the hungry soldiers charging straight in front of him, but the increasingly loud footsteps in his ears made him aware that the enemy was getting closer and closer to him.
Fear lingered in his heart, but without hearing the sound of the bugle, Zhou Changshou did not dare to use the fire to light the three-eyed gun in his hand.
Beside Zhou Changshou, a group of gun soldiers wearing helmets lowered their heads. They held up their firearms and gritted their teeth like Zhou Changshou. They were all waiting for the bugle call to fire the guns.
Many people had bulging veins in their hands because they held the gun too tightly, but no one dared to fire the three-eyed gun in their hands.
Article 1 of the Military Orders and Code of Conduct, Gun Soldiers - Anyone who fires a gun without an order shall be killed immediately!
Hundreds of light arrows drew beautiful parabolas in the air and fell into the Ming army's formation. Zhou Changshou only felt a pain in his body, and the sound of arrows could be heard from all directions.
Zhou Changshou's eyes were slightly stern, even though he knew that such a light arrow could not penetrate his armor, but he could not control his body's instinctive reaction, and his body was trembling.
In addition to the arrows that fell into the formation, there were also many arrows that were lost in front of the formation.
There were many fallen arrows stuck in front of Zhou Changshou.
This burst of arrows was more dense and rapid than the previous bursts.
Zhou Changshou was not injured due to the missing arrow, but it did not mean that other people were not injured.
Although most of the gunmen in the front line were wearing cotton armor, and although cotton armor also had better protection against arrows, its protective power was ultimately worse than iron armor.
The armor of many musketeers was shot through, but only a few of them were shot directly to the ground. Most of them were indeed still standing where they were.
The arrows did penetrate their armor, but the kinetic energy carried by the arrows was also consumed.
The arrow did not penetrate deeply into the flesh and did not cause any fatal injuries. Most of the people hit by the arrow still maintained their physical shape.
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"
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Zhou Changshou trembled all over, holding the fire fold and almost igniting the three-eyed gun fire door in his hand, but at the last moment he still stabilized his body.
He heard the sound of cannons, but the bugle clearly did not sound.
wrong……
The sound of the gunshot came from in front of him!
Zhou Changshou raised his head and looked forward, and several more balls of fire appeared on the scattered front of the rogue bandits.
It's the rogue gun soldiers firing their guns!
Painful wails came from his side, Zhou Changshou's heart beat wildly, someone had been shot...
Most of the former bandits were ordinary poor farmers, and they did not know how to use firearms.
Those veteran bandits who can use firearms have been classified as cavalry. The gun soldiers among the hungry soldiers have not received much training at all. Their training level is extremely low, and they can only play for a while The stage of pretending.
No matter how unbearable the camp soldiers are at this time, they will always use the tactics of rotating fire. Although reloading before the battle will cause panic, they still have the strength to fight again.
Even the guards were able to complete reloading when their military formation was stable.
But for rogue bandits, their muskets are basically disposable consumables. It's good to be able to shoot them in battle.
Even if their three-eyed blunderbuss and bird blunderbuss are shot messily, without much accuracy, and the quality of the firearms is extremely worrying, no matter what, they are still firearms, and they still have great power when they hit a person.
Zhou Changshou did not dare to turn his head to check the situation on his side. The military order was that if the military formation was established, anyone who moved his feet and turned back would be beheaded immediately!
Zhou Changshou's eyes widened, and he could clearly hear his own heartbeat.
The enemy army in front of him was approaching, but the military order to fire the gun had not yet been issued. Zhou Changshou felt that the string in his mind had been stretched to the critical point.
But the string in his mind soon no longer needed to be tightened.
Hu Zhiyi raised his hand violently, and the golden hand standing beside him blew the trumpet hard. The sharp swan sound suddenly spread throughout the entire formation.
“Bang! Bang! Bang bang bang!
!
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Countless flames formed in front of the more than 400-step-long military formation, and more than 300 three-eyed cannons were fired almost simultaneously.
Along with the explosion, thick white smoke was emitted, and countless lead bullets flew out, reaching a distance of twenty steps in an instant.
The lead bullets easily shot into the torsos of the hungry soldiers who were rushing forward, and then continued to deform and disintegrate in their bodies, forming a cavity effect. The blood of the injured spurted out of the body along those holes, and transformed into A stream of blood arrows shot out.
"Peng!" "Peng!" "Peng!"
The deafening sound of the cannon was like thunder rolling in all directions, and large pieces of flying rocks shot out from the tiger crouching cannon in front of the formation.
The huge sound stung Zhou Changshou's eardrums, and the smoke instantly obscured everyone's vision.
The white mist obscured everyone's vision, and Zhou Changshou slowly calmed down.
Just now, he turned the three-eyed gun in his hand and fired three guns in succession at the fastest speed in his life.
The swan sound sounded again, Zhou Changshou stood up subconsciously, turned around and backed away with the three-eyed gun in his hand, and the gun soldiers in the second row had already squatted down.
They had already practiced this kind of action countless times at the training ground.
“Bang! Bang! Bang bang bang!
!
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The deafening sound of gunfire sounded again.
Feeling the cold touch of the gun barrel in his hand, Zhou Changshou's spirit became slightly dazed.
The smell of gunpowder smoke filling the air was reassuring, and the crackle of the musket dispelled his fear.
Zhou Changshou subconsciously raised his head and looked in the direction of the Chinese army. The fiery red flag was still fluttering in the wind.
Two rows of more than 700 three-eye muskets, plus more than 20 squatting tiger cannons and 15 franc machines intertwined to create a firepower network that could tear apart all flesh and blood.
The madness of the rogue bandits was crushed to pieces after a fierce volley.
Pieces of stone bullets sprayed into the crowd almost touching their faces, and the front line of the originally surging bandit troops was almost cleared.
The shotgun fired by the Crouching Tiger Cannon sprayed out in a fan shape. Even those wearing armor and stomach would not be immune to being hit by the Crouching Tiger Cannon at such a close distance, not to mention those hungry soldiers who were only wearing single clothes.
A large number of the hungry soldiers in the front line fell in the blink of an eye, and the smelly blood splashed on the bodies and faces of others.
The huge casualties and the fear of artillery made the morale of the rogues fall to the bottom in an instant.
The fear of death was completely overwhelming, and those hungry soldiers who were lucky enough to survive almost completely lost their minds.
Their expressions were crazy, they were shouting something unknown, and their weapons were scattered all over the floor. No one dared to take a step forward. They fled to the rear, desperately running backwards...
The infantry soldiers supervising the battle behind the formation were no longer able to stop the rout of the hungry soldiers this time, and were even dragged backwards by the crowd.
"Winter!" "Winter!" "Winter!"
The rapid drum beat suddenly sounded, and the sights of the bandits and hungry soldiers who had no time to escape all turned towards the Ming army's formation involuntarily.
Just as a large number of dense footsteps came from the Ming army's formation, the flaming red flags were frightening, and the scarlet armors were frightening. The Ming army's formation was like a wave breaking towards the two sides. Split sideways.
A large number of armored soldiers wearing high-top helmets, armbands with fine iron bindings, and three layers of heavy armor suddenly poured out of the Ming army's formation, coming to kill...
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Under the fiery red banner, Chen Wang led a group of armored cavalry in the middle army. His heart was not as calm as it seemed.
The plan and strategy were all finalized by Chen Wang, who pretended to have fallen into the trap and sent out camp to help the Hanzhong Guards, attracting rogue bandits to come and besiege them.
The bandit's human sea tactics are indeed terrifying. To them, manpower is not much different from endless.
As long as the elite cavalry army is not lost, they can quickly raise thousands of hungry soldiers after defeat.
For the rogue bandits, it was worth it even if they had to sacrifice the lives of dozens of people in exchange for one Ming soldier.
And that's what they did.
The problem of the pirates is a political and people's livelihood problem, not a military one.
Chen Wang knows this very well. There is nothing he can do now regarding politics and people's livelihood, so all he can do is to treat the symptoms.
This method, like his other methods, was actually learned from the Qing army.
The method is very simple, that is to completely hurt the enemy in a battle and make everyone in the enemy phobic towards them.
Just like the Ming army suffered repeated defeats against the Qing army, when they faced the Qing army later, they were already timid before fighting.
When the rogues launch a massive attack, they use three-eyed muskets, squatting tiger cannons, and a salvo of Fran machine fire to directly destroy the morale of the attacking rogues. The final finishing touch is given to the heavy infantry left in the army.
Most of the current events are not much different from his original plan, except for Hu Zhiyi's crazy decision to order the firing of cannons when the two armies were only twenty steps apart.
The distance of twenty steps is more than thirty meters.
What is the concept of a distance of more than thirty meters? A normal adult can run one hundred meters in about thirteen to fifteen seconds. The time it takes for the enemy to charge is only four to five seconds. .
In the era of queuing to kill, only Napoleon's troops and the British army could maintain a stable formation at a distance of nearly thirty steps, and wait until the military order was issued before firing.
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Of course, the two cannot be equated. After all, during the Napoleonic period, the military armament gap between European countries was not large, and they often fought with each other.
Their opponents were rogue bandits with poor quality and extremely poor armament. Because of their successive defeats, they had a huge psychological advantage.
Months of continuous training and huge psychological advantages enabled them to face the threat of death, but they were able to wait until the bugle sounded before firing.
