Ruduk also carried a shield. These days, the Eight Banners and Real Manchurians were all versatile warriors. They were proficient in horse, infantry, archery and hand-to-hand combat, so the weapons they carried were quite complicated, including bows, arrows, shields, fire blunderbuss, lancets, etc. You can bring it, as long as you can afford it and carry it.
Hearing someone shouting "Javelin", Ruduk quickly threw down his bow and arrow and went to get his shield, but he was still a little slow. Before he could raise his shield, the javelin struck down. There was a popping sound around him, which made his hair stand on end. Someone had already been stabbed and screamed hoarsely, but Ruduk was lucky enough to be unscathed. He quickly put the vine shield on his head, and then there was another whistling wind. The second wave of javelin attacks has begun!
There was another muffled sound of bang bang bang, which must have been the javelin being attached to the shield, and occasionally there were a few horrifying sounds and screams of sharp blades piercing the human body.
Ruddock was lucky and was still not skewered. But next to him, there was a man from the Gualjia family whose arm was pierced by a javelin. He was kneeling on the ground and screaming - he had actually raised his shield, but he still did not completely block the highly penetrating javelin!
However, although the javelin is powerful, it is inconvenient to carry and too laborious to throw. Therefore, the number will not be too much. Now that the opponent has thrown two waves, it should be almost enough. As long as the turtle dove's blunderbuss does not come on, Ruduk will not be afraid.
Just when Ruduk thought of this, he heard a booming sound, and then his left arm sank, and there was a muffled banging on it. He knew without looking that it was a long arrow from the Ming Army, and it would definitely not be able to penetrate him. vine shield.
Seeing that the other party started shooting arrows, Luduk also breathed a sigh of relief. His men not only had shields, but also wore two and three layers of armor. Bows and arrows had limited damage to them.
"Put away your shields and get your bows and arrows!" Luduk quickly ordered his men to put away their shields and get their bows, and shoot at the Ming army on the opposite side.
Later generations of the Qing Dynasty liked to use bows and horses to conquer the world. This statement is of course a bit exaggerated. The equipment of the Eight Banners soldiers was both abundant and good, and it was not just bows and horses. However, their advantages in these two aspects are indeed not small!
But their biggest advantage is not that they can shoot accurately with bows and arrows or ride horses better, but that they are "all-around". Ruduk has more than 200 warriors under his command, all of whom can ride horses, are good at hand-to-hand combat, and can also shoot arrows!
Although the infantry battalion of the new army that faced him was five hundred in number, it had only one hundred and twenty archers, and only eighty of them could actually shoot. Moreover, the archery ability of these eighty people is still not as good as that of the more than two hundred people on the opposite side. Both the accuracy and the speed of archery are inferior.
In other words, the five-hundred-person New Army Infantry Battalion's bow and arrow firepower is roughly only one-third of that of an Eight Banners Manchurian Niulu with more than two hundred people. If another Niulu comes up and the two sides are equal in number, then the Eight Banners soldiers will have a six-fold advantage in bow and arrow firepower!
Fortunately, the front-line troops of the new army of overcoming difficulties are equipped with armor. Whether it is cloth armor or lath armor, as long as the quality is passed, the effect in preventing arrows is pretty good, even if it is a plum needle specially used to break armor. Arrows can only break through the gaps between the armor plates.
Moreover, there are more than a hundred sword players on the New Army's side who can be placed in the first row to block arrows.
Therefore, although the infantry battalion of the new army to overcome difficulties is not as good as its opponent in terms of bow and arrow firepower, it can still hold up.
Just as the leading troops of both sides started to exchange bows and arrows, their follow-up troops also came up. Coming up from the new army's side was another infantry battalion, and the Qing army came with another four Niulu - the Jia La sent by Alzin to take the lead had five Niulu, and Ruduke took one. Now The remaining four came up. Now the Manchurian soldiers had a slight numerical advantage!
In this case, you will definitely lose if you try to shoot arrows. After all, relying on cloth armor and lath armor cannot be 100% immune to the damage caused by arrowheads. Facing the enemy's six times advantage in arrowhead firepower, it will not last long.
"Drum roll! Prepare to charge!"
Tian Qingyi, who was in command on the battlefield, also knew that shooting arrows would not work, so he ordered the drums to be beaten to form a charge formation.
The two drummers were following Tian Qingyi. After hearing the leader's order, they beat the leather drums. These soldiers of the New Army have already been conditioned by "997"! When you hear the sound of drums, your body reacts without thinking at all.
Tian Qingyi's two battalions were originally in a "sparse formation". The sparse formation was a defensive formation. The formation of the pikemen was relatively spread out, and the archers could "hide" in the formation of the pikemen to shoot arrows. .
But now that the charge is about to be launched, the loose formation can no longer be used.
After a burst of intensive drumbeats sounded, the Ming army's formation changes began. First, the archers "hiding" in the pikemen's formation retreated, then reorganized into three horizontal lines behind the formation, and continued to throw feather arrows.
Then the sword and shield bearers protecting the pikemen dispersed to both sides of the pikemen and formed a formation with the pikemen. There were two rows on one side and one row on the other side.
As the sword and shield men moved, the formation of the spearmen began to "tighten", and the soldiers in the first and second rows leveled their spears.
After completing the reorganization of the array, the defensive sparse array turned into a dense assault array, and the whole process was completed very quickly. At this moment, the second war drum sounded again... This was the signal to launch an attack!
It was discovered that the Ming army was about to charge into the formation, and the Qing army stopped shooting arrows. Everyone put away their bows and arrows, raised their shields and drew their swords, and formed a dense shield array with Niulu as a unit.
Unlike the Ming army on the opposite side, they did not carry long spears. In their opinion, long spears were mainly used to deal with cavalry. They were somewhat useful when the infantry was hedging, but once the impact was completed and the melee combat started, they were not as useful as swords and shields.
So the Eight Banners heavenly soldiers are not afraid of the Ming army's spears... But they were a little crazy when they encountered the spearmen today!
"Emperor Taizu Gao is reincarnated!"
When the Ming army's spear formation rushed about ten steps away from the front of the Qing army, the officers leading the team suddenly shouted in unison.
Then the soldiers responded: "Invincible!"
After shouting, everyone rushed forward at full speed with their heads covered!
Yes, it means charging with your head covered, advancing without retreating, and charging until you break through the array of Qing troops on the opposite side is complete!
Ruduk raised the vine shield with his left hand to protect his vitals, held the lancet in his right hand, and squinted his eyes at the moving "forest of guns" ahead. After looking at it for a while, his brows became more and more wrinkled.
Because as the other party got closer, he could already see what was going on.
The charging Ming army's gun array actually maintained a relatively strict formation!
Moreover...they also have an indomitable momentum!
"Quickly block it!" Ruduk quickly buried his head and shouted. At the same time, he lowered his body, raised his shield to protect his head and face, and then blocked the lancet in front of him.
He is standing in the front row now!
The sound of popping and popping were heard constantly. The former was the sound of the spear piercing the human body, while the latter was the sound of the spear piercing the vine shield.
Ruddock's luck hadn't run out yet. His body was still intact, except for a numbness in his left arm. This was caused by a spear piercing the vine shield! His vine shield was really strong, and it actually withstood the thrust of a ten-foot-long spear.
However, the momentum added to the spear was not so easy to withstand. The huge force forced Ludok to retreat continuously. It was not until someone behind him suddenly bumped into him (actually it was him who bumped into someone) that he could barely block it.
He blocked it, but the shield formation formed by his Niu Lu had been smashed into pieces by the opponent's "forest of spears". Countless strong Manchu men had their bodies pierced by spears!
Right next to Lu Kedu, there was a short and stocky man, whose abdomen was pierced by a sharp long blade. He was not completely dead, but he was just screaming in agony, and his hands were still clutching a gun more than a foot long. Sharp.
There were also some spears that didn't hit anything, and the Ming soldiers holding the guns didn't stop, still shouting and charging forward - this is all a skill developed by 997! Just one word: rush!
It's a one-shot deal for the infantry to charge into the enemy formation with their spears in hand. If they can't break through the enemy's formation, they'll be in big trouble. If they were to get close to each other for hand-to-hand combat, who would be their opponents? The one-foot long spear is not a close combat guy!
So there’s nothing to say, just go ahead and charge regardless!
Under their attack, the two Niulu shield formations of the Eight Banners soldiers were actually broken through!
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