After receiving the order, other officers immediately directed the soldiers to arrange the muskets, aim and shoot! In the blink of an eye, the horizontal team completed four rounds of volleys! These four rounds of volleys caused little casualties to the Japanese, but they caused a burst of chaos and made their formation even slower!
When the front line finished shooting and began to reload, the line behind them passed them and continued forward. There was a slight confusion as the two teams overlapped. But after they separated, things returned to normal. After taking ten steps forward and under the command of the officer, they stood still again, and then fired four volleys forward, making the Japanese team even more chaotic!
At this time, Liu Haojia turned back to the servant beside him and said: "Remember one more thing, when approaching the enemy, you should march in column, and then expand again when you reach the predetermined position."
This tactic of column advancement was a very standard tactic in the musket era, but Liu Haojia was not familiar with musket tactics after all, so he forgot about it. It wasn't until I saw the chaos in my team that I finally thought about it.
When our own troops advance in columns towards the enemy's position, it is very helpful to reduce casualties under artillery fire. Because the area facing the enemy is only two people wide, the chance of being hit is very small. Moreover, Liu Haojia will definitely have to face troops with artillery in the future, so using horizontal formations to advance is simply a target for artillery!
Of course, there are also very special situations, that is, a miraculous cannonball hits from the front, and one cannonball can kill an entire company! However, the probability of this happening is negligible.
After the housekeeper took notes, Liu Haojia raised his telescope and looked at the front of the position. This is the case with many things, and the problem will never be discovered until it is actually used. Now the servant has written down four or five issues in his little notebook, among which the column march just discovered is an important issue.
At this time, the group of soldiers who were loading on the spot had finished loading and started to move forward. When approaching the soldiers in the front, Huang Guojun directed half of the soldiers in the horizontal line to bend on the right wing before crossing the front line. His action seemed to Liu Haojia to be the prototype of a column, so he immediately asked the name of the phalanx commander and kept it in mind, and will use it as one of the key training targets in the future.
However, Huang Guojun didn't know that he had good luck at this time. He quickly directed the soldiers who were lagging behind to run up and catch up. After advancing ten steps, a pirate formed again and fired a volley at the opponent.
At this time, they were about seventy steps away from the Japanese, and the lethality of the fire blunderbuss was already fully demonstrated. But those Japanese soldiers still treated the Ming army in the old way.
That is to say, they tried to get the soldiers in the front row to line up in a horizontal line. The first row squatted down and used their long spears to move out the horses. The soldiers in the second row cooperated with the first row of soldiers to stretch out their spears to stop the opponents, and then took the opportunity to attack the opponent. The formation was gradually organized from behind and advanced row by row. .
But what they faced were pure firearms. The two human walls, one high and one low, simply provided double targets. Therefore, under these four rounds of volleys, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties!
The Japanese soldiers watched helplessly as the people around them were knocked to the ground by lead bullets. It would be okay if they died, but the living people would let out wailing screams that made their hearts tremble! Especially after their faces were splashed with blood, the Japanese soldiers were already fighting!
They have never fought this kind of battle. In less than half an hour from the beginning of the battle to now, the situation of victory and defeat has been extremely reversed! The only reason why they haven't collapsed now is that the Teppanyaki Ashigaru and Archery Teams on both wings have moved closer and are ready to attack!
The soldiers of the archery team had the lowest load, so they were the first to arrive at the battle line and took the lead in launching a counterattack after hastily forming the team. They raised a big bow as tall as one person and fired the first round of feather arrows! However, due to the officer's improper command, this round of arrows was not neat and the landing points were uneven, but some of the arrows still fell into the shouts.
However, the lethality of Japanese bows and arrows is really poor! Most of the arrows that hit the target were bounced off the helmets and breastplates. As for the arrows that hit the limbs, they did not penetrate deep into the flesh. The soldiers casually pulled them out and threw them away, and then continued to move forward.
Seeing that his comrade was injured and was shot with a round of feather arrows, the Fire Gun Soldier became angry! Ever since they entered the Wu'an Army, they only beat people without being beaten! Although
It is said that the Japanese's bows and arrows are really bad, and no one is killed within a distance of sixty or seventy steps, but this is what they say!
So the fire gun soldiers immediately stood down and counterattacked cleanly with four rounds of Japanese arrows! The lethality of the fire gun at a distance of about 60 steps is quite huge! So after four rounds of volleys, the first row of the archery team was completely emptied, the second row was uneven, and a large number of people in the third row were shot down! The archery team was actually shot through!
Under this blow, the archery teams on both wings collapsed! From the time they rushed to the front of the formation to the time they collapsed, they only fired seven rounds of feather arrows, causing negligible casualties!
Seeing that the archery team was defeated, the fire gun soldiers on both wings did not leave. Because they saw the Teppanyaki Ashigaru charging towards them, they were ready to defeat these people! The central line commanded by Huang Guojun faced a mixture of samurai spears and ashigaru, so they had no intention of stopping. Instead, they got closer to the opponent 50 steps before firing the first round of volley!
After firing four rounds of rapid volleys, Huang Guojun directed the second horizontal team to step forward and fired four rounds of volleys, directly clearing the first three rows of soldiers, and even the last few rows were hit with gaps! So as soon as the last round of warriors started, the soldiers on the opposite side dispersed! The main force that the Shimadzu family was proud of was completely defeated in eight rounds of salvos!
This is not to say that the Shimadzu family's soldiers are too bad. You know, the Shimadzu family is famous among Japanese daimyo for their ability to fight! Otherwise they wouldn't have been able to almost unify Kyushu! And the reason why it is like this is because they have never fought this kind of war!
Everyone uses iron cannons. Why can your iron cannons hit so far and so accurately? Our iron cannon is like a slingshot? There was someone in the Iron Cannon Ashigaru who could swear that he clearly saw his own Iron Cannon hit the opponent's chest, but the guy just made a buttock and stood up again!
How can you block the blow of an iron cannon while wearing a breastplate? So far, there has never been anything in the three Japanese islands that cannot be penetrated by iron cannons! And as soon as the opponent's firecrackers are fired, someone will fall down, and this battle is unwinnable!
