"Boom boom boom..."
With a loud roar, twenty or thirty artillery shells whizzed past two loose rows of Yin family warriors... but did not hit, and these Yin family warriors seemed not to know that they were As if he had become the enemy's bombardment target, he still walked calmly and moved forward unhurriedly.
Seeing this scene, all the Spaniards showed expressions of disbelief.
What medicine did these Incas take? It's so relaxing to be bombarded! Is this the Holy Spear appearing, or are these Inca people just fools?
"Boom boom boom!"
The shelling continues!
Another volley from the three-pounder was fired, but as usual it was still a missed shot... Well, the distance was still quite far! The accuracy of the 3-pound smoothbore gun is just that.
However, as long as these Incas get closer, they will know the power of Spanish cannons!
But just when these Incas reached the left front and 700 yards of the Spanish Royal Army's artillery group, they suddenly stopped advancing.
Then more than half of the Incas squatted down and stopped moving forward. The remaining Incas carrying flintlock guns held their guns, bent down, and approached the Spanish artillery group in a looser formation.
What is this for?
Even an experienced veteran like the Duke of Lorraine is now confused by the Inca's mysterious operations. So he did not immediately order the cavalry and fusiliers to attack the crouching Incas. Instead, he raised his telescope and wanted to see what happened.
It was now about five o'clock in the morning, almost six o'clock in the morning, and the sky was almost bright, so the Duke of Lorraine could see very clearly through the telescope.
He found that the Incas who were advancing in a squatting position stopped advancing when they reached about 400 yards in front of the Spanish Royal Army's artillery group. Instead, they raised their muskets and started shooting from a kneeling position.
"What?" The Duke of Lorraine was startled and said to himself, "Muskets versus cannons...Are they crazy? Don't they know there are shotguns?"
At this moment, the situation on the frontline changed again.
The crouching Inca musketeers were already firing. The muzzles of about two hundred muskets flashed out one after another!
"The distance is so far... At this distance, even a rifled gun is not easy to hit!" When the Duke of Lorraine said this, more than twenty artillerymen on the Spanish artillery position had been hit. One by one, they fell to the ground trembling as if they had been electrocuted!
Some of them were not killed immediately, but had corks penetrated into their bodies or broke the bones in their arms and thighs... It was a heart-piercing pain!
In pain, they fell to the ground, rolled and screamed, loudly shouting the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
"Why are the shots so accurate?" Duke Lorraine gasped when he saw the losses of his own artillery.
However, until this moment, he still didn't think those Incas who were squatting and shooting could be very powerful... weren't they just snipers? The Spanish Imperial Army also had snipers. Although their marksmanship is not as good as theirs, and their effective range is not that far, there are many of them! As long as more skirmishers are sent up to shoot at them, they should all be driven away quickly.
In addition, loading the rifled guns used by snipers is very troublesome. They usually have to retreat after one shot, and it is impossible to reload on the front line. They probably should retreat before the Spanish sharpshooters come up.
Thinking of this, it pointed its telescope at the Inca snipers who had stood up. But I saw these snipers loading bullets...and they moved very quickly, and they were loaded in a short time!
Judging from the speed of loading and the tools they used (no hammers), it seemed that what they were holding was not a rifled gun, but a musket!
How can this be?
Before the Duke of Lorraine could react, the Incas who had finished loading had already raised their muskets, aimed at the Spanish artillery and opened fire again!
The distance was still four hundred yards, and the hit rate was less than 10%. After a burst of crisp gunfire, seventeen or eight Spanish gunners were knocked down!
"How is this possible?" Duke Lorraine was a little confused.
How could the musketeers kill the artillerymen like this? How could a rifled gun reload so fast? What can make it difficult for them to use muskets instead of rifled guns?
But is this accuracy too high?
"Boom boom..."
At this time, the 3-pound regimental guns finally fired back, but not all of them fired. Only 21 or 2 of the more than 30 3-pound guns fired. The rest may not have been able to complete loading and reloading in time because the gunners suffered too heavy casualties. Shooting, right? But even if the twenty or so 3-pound cannons were fired, they would not have much accuracy - how accurate would it be to use solid bullets from smoothbore cannons to hit infantry scattered hundreds of yards away? Even if you are accurate, it won't work. Solid bullets don't explode. They rely on hitting people with a lump of iron. When encountering a dense team, you can still bump into a few. If you hit scattered enemies, even if you hit them, you will kill one of them. The power is similar to that of a rifled gun. Although the shotshells can hit a large area, the distance of 400 yards is too far, and the shotshells of the 3-pounder can't reach it.
After twenty or so 3-pound cannons were fired, one or two of the Incas on the opposite side seemed to be dead, but the remaining two hundred had already completed loading again in a hurry, and then all the rifled guns were raised. Standing up, the black muzzle of the gun was pointed at the Spanish artillery more than 400 yards away, followed by another burst of crackling gunfire, and then fifteen or six Spanish artillerymen lay flat!
At this time, the spirit of the Spanish artillery finally collapsed. They lost more than fifty people in a short period of time. The artillery positions were full of people who were dead or about to die. The sounds of screaming, crying, and praying could be heard. In one piece, the smell of blood and gunpowder smoke mixed together to form the most terrifying smell of death.
I don’t know who shouted first: "Devils! They are devils...Run!"
Then all the gunners who could still run away dropped their cannons and ran away, shouting: "Devil! Devil! The Incas are all devils..."
"Damn you, what a bunch of cowards!"
Seeing that his artillery position collapsed, the Duke of Lorraine couldn't help but cursed, but he also knew that it was impossible to shoot at the 3-pounder cannon with the Inca's possibly enchanted flintlock. Fortunately, he still has a lot of infantry and cavalry at his disposal!
"Cavalry! Let the cavalry on the front line charge!" The experienced Duke of Lorraine made a prompt decision and immediately gave the order for the cavalry to charge. In fact, part of his cavalry had been following those 3-pound cannons, waiting for the Inca cavalry to be overwhelmed by the cannons and rush out of the camp to fight back - he knew that the Incas were nomadic people and should logically fight back. Horseback riding and archery are the main tactics, but these people came to attack with skirmishers and snipers... Oh, there are also thousands and hundreds of archers squatting behind who don't know what to do? Let's just use the cavalry to deal with it all!
With the sound of a charge horn, the two battalions of Spanish "leather jacket" cavalry who had already formed their formation immediately drew their flintlock pistols and began to charge forward.
The so-called leather jacket cavalry is actually a kind of New Spanish cavalry wearing a thick deerskin coat that can defend against Indian bows and arrows, and holding a Moorish shield. It is mainly deployed in the north of New Spain to defend against those who are not very obedient. Nor could the safari Indian tribes be wiped out by the smallpox virus. The main members are all of mixed Indo-European descent. In order to get a chance to climb up, they became the vanguard of New Spain's invasion and expansion.
Because they had been fighting the safari Indians in the north for a long time, they were the Spanish imperial army that understood the Indian savages best. Although they have seen that the Incas are too "un-Indian", the habits they have developed over the years still make them use the old method of "printing" to "make money". That is to say, they stared at the soft arrows shot by the Indians, rushed forward to fire a round of flintlock pistols, and then rushed forward to engage in hand-to-hand combat with sabers or spears.
But the Yin family was not the Inca after all. When the Yin family snipers who had just finished shooting their bullets saw the cavalry approaching them, they all ran away without saying a word. The "archers" squatting behind them immediately stood up and formed two dense horizontal lines as quickly as possible. Then they trotted towards the running snipers, seemingly wanting to catch up with them. people. But in fact......
The experienced Duke of Lorraine didn't know what he actually wanted to do.
Although there are nearly two thousand Inca archers and their snipers in total, they are not equipped with long-handled weapons such as spears, and the small number of rifled guns does not seem to have bayonets... They are planning to use What about the opposing "leather jacket" cavalry? With machetes and bows and arrows?
However, those Inca warriors standing in two rows did not take off their bows and arrows or draw their scimitars. Do they want to face the cavalry attack with their bare hands?
Just when the Duke of Lorraine was confused, the "unarmed" Incas had already joined the Inca snipers. Only one of the Incas holding a red flag was seen waving the flag vigorously a few times, and then all the Incas The people stopped moving forward, and then reorganized the formation as quickly as possible, and finally formed a formation with the front row kneeling, and the rear row standing and holding long-gun snipers in the third row busy loading ammunition.
What is this for?
Not only could the Duke of Lorraine not understand, but even the Spanish "leather jacket" cavalry charging on horseback with flintlock pistols were a little confused - were these Inca fools?
But confusion does not affect their charge!
More than five hundred war horses lined up in two rows, and the scene of running wildly with their hooves spread was quite frightening. More than two thousand horse hooves hit the ground with a sound like rolling thunder. The tall war horses lined up side by side were like a wall of moving earth. The walls are about to be crushed by the enemies standing in front of them!
Under normal circumstances, the Indian warriors would almost collapse when they saw this scene - they didn't know how to deal with the cavalry holding muskets and launching a group charge, so they could only run away.
But those "Inca archers" were not afraid at all, and they did not run away. They just kept kneeling or standing, or loaded their weapons calmly. Suddenly, the red flag suddenly dropped flat. Then I saw the two rows of half-kneeling or standing "Inca archers" putting their right hands into the hem of their robes, and then pulled out a weird-looking pistol!
"Is this a pistol? Inca archers want to use pistols to deal with cavalry? But aren't archers supposed to use bows and arrows?" Just as a few questions popped up in the Duke of Lorraine's mind, he already saw a burst of flashing guns through the telescope. Mouth flames and smoke.
The pistol of the "Inca Archer" opened fire at a distance of seventy or eighty yards from the "Leather Jacket" cavalry... At this distance, even the long-barreled musket could hit, let alone Pistol. So the Duke of Lorraine, who saw the muzzle flash, not only was not nervous, but also laughed: "Hahaha..."
But his laughter stopped suddenly because he saw another flash of muzzle flash and smoke - those pistols were fired again without being loaded!
Is this a repeating pistol?
The Duke of Lorraine's question soon had an answer, because he saw the third muzzle flash flash, followed by the fourth, fifth, and sixth... about a month later. Eighteen hundred revolvers fired six rounds in a row, firing more than 10,000 cork bullets - these revolvers were not smoothbore pistols, but rifled pistols using cork bullets!
Although their barrels are relatively short and their effective range cannot be compared with long-barreled rifles, they are not comparable to smoothbore pistols that are difficult to hit a target ten paces away. At least they are not worse than ordinary flintlock smoothbore guns. . Therefore, the effect of these hundreds of thousands of cork bullets is comparable to that of tens of thousands of flintlock muskets!
The five hundred Spanish "leather jacket" cavalry were hit by more than 10,000 rounds of bullets!
When the smoke cleared from the battlefield, more than 90% of the cavalry were either knocked to the ground with their horses and men, or their men and horses were knocked down. They were beaten from cavalry to infantry. Some horses were still there, but The horse's back was empty. The dead people and horses spread over a large area, and some people and horses who were not completely dead let out bursts of heart-rending wails!
There are also thirty or forty "leather jacket" cavalry who probably accumulated great virtue in their previous lives. They have perfectly avoided all the bullets. Now they are both men and horses. But they also completely lost the courage to fight. They all turned around and ran away while shouting like crazy with their throats open: "Devil! The devil is coming! Jesus help... Jesus come and save us!" "
And the only answer to them was the sound of "bang bang bang" gunfire!
The "Inca snipers" who had just been busy reloading arrived on the front line again and began to use their accurate marksmanship to cover the retreat of the "archers" who did not shoot arrows but only fired - they had to go back and reload bullets!
The six-shooter revolver was fun to fire, but reloading took a while.
Seeing those cavalrymen who had finally escaped from the hands of the "devil" being knocked off their horses one by one from behind, an atmosphere of fear and depression spread among the Spanish Royal Army.
There really is a devil! And the devil is not only powerful, but also very cruel. Now the only way to defeat the devil is to ask Jesus to come down to earth, so everyone turned to look at the red archbishop holding the "holy spear" - now it's his turn to "ask Jesus, the heavenly brother"!
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