Bah bah bah bah...
As a piercing whistle sounded, a deafening volley of muskets suddenly sounded on the battlefield!
The 32 musket companies belonging to 16 Ming army infantry battalions now all formed three columns, the first two of which could fire at the same time. That is to say, more than 2,500 Hongxing three-year-old matchlock guns fired a salvo. The momentum was incredible!
According to the memories of the soldiers who participated in the war, the huge sound at that time shook the earth and almost burst people's eardrums. Therefore, after the salvo was fired, many people could not hear anything clearly for a period of time. So I couldn't hear the whistle and the officers' commands clearly, so I had to give up the volley and start to mess up the guns. The tactic of lining up to shoot and firing a volley is good in theory, and it is also very common in later generations and on TV. But on the battlefield of the 17th century, it was quite difficult to do so.
Because the muskets at that time were overpowered, they made a lot of noise and smoke (due to the quality of the gunpowder). After one or two volleys, the arquebusiers would be deafened and disturbed by the smoke. The cause was out of control, so I had to mess with the gun... But the mess gun was pretty good, it could kill people, and the rate of fire was pretty fast.
After a round of volleys, the originally refreshing battlefield was instantly covered in choking smoke. Before the Qing army musketeers fifty steps away had time to react, they were mowed down by ruthless bullets. Those who were shot trembled and fell to the ground. The remaining people were also in a panic. The originally neat team There was chaos all of a sudden.
However, their chaos did not last long, and order was restored under the pressure of Niulu Zhangjing and Dadan Zhangjing - because the Ming army did not put the opponent within 20 steps away and then opened fire. It started fifty steps away, so the casualties among the Qing musketeers were not very large.
Of course there is a reason why they fight like this. First, the current Ming Army infantry generals don’t know what a “god-like red-shirted army who fires within twenty or thirty meters” is; second, the Qing Army’s musketeers generally won’t run so close for you to shoot—— During this period, the standard tactic of arquebusiers was to fire their guns from a longer distance rather than charging towards enemy positions. Charging is usually the job of the pikemen. The musketeers can't let the pikemen get their military pay in vain, right?
So the Qing army musketeers who reacted also stopped advancing, and started shooting at the Ming army's musketeers at a distance of about 50 steps. Of course, they were also firing randomly. Their formation had been messed up long ago, and they couldn't fire a salvo at all. .
The muskets on both sides started fighting each other just a few dozen steps apart. Of course, the Qing army suffered greater losses - they had a small number of musketeers, only more than a thousand, and their shooting skills were also poor. The quality of the muskets they held was also poor, and the gunpowder was also poor. He had just received a round of volley fire, and more than a hundred people were knocked down on the spot!
However, the firepower of the Ming army's musketeers was not enough to defeat them. After all, the two sides were dozens of steps apart, and after a salvo and a burst of gunfire, the battlefield was filled with smoke, making it impossible to aim, so the Ming army was also fighting randomly. ...
However, the exchange of fire between the two sides did not last long. It was temporarily stopped because the barrels of the Qing army musketeers were too hot and could not continue to output firepower.
On the Qing army's side, the musketeers breathed a sigh of relief and went to rest, and were replaced by archers who were worried.
On the Ming army's side, the company commanders of the musketeers found that the enemy's musketeers had retreated, and they all blew their ceasefire whistles. The matchlock guns of the Ming army gunners also needed time to cool down, and the officers wanted to organize one or two more volleys.
The scene of disrupting a gun fifty paces away is not a good look, and it is far less frightening than a salvo...
The archers of the Qing army all use Qing bows with five to seven power. Eight-power and ten-power bows are not prepared for the soldiers of Yinong Yibing. Now Duduo's Baya La soldiers are only at this level. ——The Eight Banners and Old Manchuria have suffered too many casualties in recent years, and it is not so easy for the "Batulu people" to make up for it!
The archers of the Qing army who are coming up now are actually old farmers who have left the pass. They worked as Tatars for Duduo in order to share the flag land. They can't compare with the musketeers before - the musketeers under Duduo are professional soldiers, and generally they are The old Manchu or the old Han army is doing it, so they have a strong will to fight. These archers are no good. They had already been shelled when they followed the musketeers. They also saw their musketeers being killed all over the place (actually not many died, a total of more than a hundred or so), and they also saw Many half-dead musketeers were carried down covered in blood and let out terrifying screams...
Seeing this scene, the archers of the Qing army felt a little regretful - so why are they so greedy? Being a tenant farmer is hard, but it's safe! Now just for two to three hundred acres of land, they go to the battlefield for people to shoot with muskets... It seems that this business is not a good deal!
But there is no regret medicine in the world, and Lao Manchu, who supervises the war, will not allow them to regret it!
At this point, I can only bite the bullet and shoot arrows.
But they can still stay as far away from the enemy as possible...it's safer to stay away!
Therefore, when they were 60 steps away, the archers did not dare to move forward. There were dead people in front of them!
But how could the Manchurian officer leading the team agree? They all yelled and cursed.
"It's his grandma's, hurry up and hit me!"
"His penis is too far, can he shoot?"
"Ten steps forward...Ten steps forward again. If you disobey orders, you will be beheaded!"
That's only 10 steps. If we go any further, they "old Manchus" will be scared too!
While they were shouting here, the sound of drums suddenly sounded from behind the Ming army's battle formation opposite, and then the Ming army officers and soldiers shouted in unison: "Emperor Taizu Gao is reincarnated... Invincible! Forward! Forward! Forward..."
Shouting the slogan "Forward, Forward", the musketeers of the Ming Army held up their bayonet-mounted matchlocks and began to march forward in units of "half battalions" (that is, two muskete companies in a battalion). . When shouting "to", step your left foot, and when shouting "forward", step your right foot, so the formation is kept very neat!
Obviously, the Ming army did not waste the five-year armistice period at all. Their training level was much higher than five years ago.
Seeing the Ming army pressing forward, Niulu Zhangjing and Dadan Zhangjing, who commanded the Qing army's archers, no longer forced the people below to move forward. They quickly shot arrows!
"Shoot an arrow! Shoot an arrow quickly..."
Stretch, stretch, stretch...
The bow strings sounded, and the arrowheads flew...but nine out of ten times they missed! Most of the remaining ones hit the helmets and breastplates of the Ming Army musketeers, but not a few people who were lying down.
However, the Ming army's musketeers didn't go very far. They pushed forward twenty-three or four steps and started shooting. First, there was a thunderous volley, and in one round, they mopped up more than two hundred Qing army archers. , causing the latter to fall into panic.
But their volley only lasted one more round before they began to mess with their guns again, and soon the battlefield was filled with smoke.
Yue Le, who was standing thirty steps behind the Qing archers to watch the battle, saw this scene and suddenly shouted excitedly: "Bang the drum, beat the drum quickly... The whole team charges! While the smoke has not cleared, Catch the Nanmanzi by surprise!"
It turns out that he had been waiting for the opportunity for the Ming army to loosen its formation!
Although the current loosening of the Ming army's formation was not caused by the Qing army's musketeers and archers... But for Yue Le, it was also a rare opportunity.
Niulu, the infantry force of the Qing army under Duduo, was mainly composed of spearmen and sword players, with musketeers and archers together accounting for only a quarter. There are still three-quarters of the manpower, nearly 9,000 sword players and spearmen, under the control of Yue Le, moved thirty steps behind the Qing archers.
Just waiting for Yue Le's order!
They didn't care what formation or coordination they had, they just swarmed forward. More than 9,000 people were like a tide, rushing forward despite the Ming army's random guns.
The Ming army's musketeers seemed to be frightened by the sudden and fierce attack of the Qing army. They didn't care about shooting randomly. They turned around and ran away. As a result, they rushed into their own spear formations and disrupted the spear formations. The large group of Ming troops retreated like this...
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