Liu Haojia said: "Before putting the armor on those dummies, a thick layer of lime was applied on the dummy's body and inside the armor! If there is white smoke where the bullet was hit, it means the armor is penetrated!"
Qi Jiguang nodded with emotion, and then said: "Your Majesty! You have seen clearly just now that there are white smoke rising from those iron armors. This shows that the fire blunderbuss can break through the armor at eighty steps, which is much stronger than the bird blunderbuss. Now! If a gun can break the armor at fifty steps, it depends on luck!"
Emperor Wanli smiled when he heard this and said: "This firearm is really sharp! If we put more layers of soldiers and let them take turns to shoot, wouldn't the enemy not even be able to get close?"
Liu Haojia immediately said: "Your Majesty's wisdom is truly God-given! This kind of tactics has been trained and you can see it during the drill later!"
Emperor Wanli felt very proud of being flattered by Liu Haojia, so he turned around and continued watching the show! At this time, the fire rifle soldiers had advanced to a place sixty steps away from the target and stood still.
This is when Liu Haojia said loudly: "Your Majesty! This distance is the most suitable for fire gun soldiers to fight the enemy! Because at this distance, although the enemy's feather arrows can hit us, their power has become smaller, and the casualties caused by We can withstand it! At this time, our fire cannon is the most powerful, and those who hit it will die immediately!"
Everyone, including Wanli Di, became nervous when they heard this. Even Emperor Wanli held a telescope and leaned forward to look forward, as if he could see more clearly!
Just then, after hearing the officer's order, the first row of soldiers immediately fired their guns! Then I saw a large amount of white smoke coming out of the target. It seemed that the hit rate was not low! Qi Jiguang estimated that the hit rate was at least 80%!
Then came the second row, and the third row finished shooting! After firing three rows of firecrackers, the soldiers did not stop. The soldiers who walked back to the first row took aim and shot again! For a time, the three rows of soldiers seemed to be rotating endlessly, and the sound of firecrackers was endless! The dense lead bullets hit the target and sent up bursts of white smoke, leaving everyone stunned! They all thought that under this kind of continuous shooting, I'm afraid not many people would be able to get close!
At this time, Qi Jiguang explained: "Your Majesty has seen the benefits of the three-stage attack, but at the same time, he must also see the weakness of the rotation of soldiers! That is, as long as one person is like clouds and flowing water, but one person makes a mistake, the flowing water will immediately stop. If it is turned on, it may also affect the surrounding companions! Therefore, this three-stage strike elite soldier cannot be used!"
Emperor Wanli didn't know if he understood, but he just kept throwing pillows! But it can be seen that he is extremely excited at this time, his face is flushed, and there is even sweat on his forehead! As for other people, they were even more surprised by the speed of shooting of this kind of fire gun, and they all felt that no one could get closer at this speed of fire! I'm afraid he was almost dead before he reached the formation!
At this time, Qi Jiguang stopped counting his fingers and said, "Mr. Liu, the rate of fire of this new type of fire gun is really impressive. There is a round of fire almost every twenty breaths! If the opponent is an infantry, I'm afraid he can't get within thirty steps. ! But if the opponent is a Tatar, I’m afraid the rate of fire is still not enough!”
The reason why Qi Jiguang said this is because the Mongolian Tatars on the grassland have always been the old enemies of the Ming Dynasty, and any war must be related to the Tatars! So after hearing Qi Jiguang's words, some people wanted to take this opportunity to refute Liu Hao's family, saying: "What's the use of these troops if they can't deal with the Tatars? It's better to restore the old system!"
Liu Haojia didn't even look at who said it, and said directly: "Master Qi is right to worry! But this is just a shooting exercise. When the actual exercise happens later, you will see that even the Tatar cavalry can't rush into the formation. forward!"
Qi Jiguang hurriedly said: "Mr. Liu, you must not take it lightly! The Tatars on the grassland are excellent horsemen, coming and going like the wind, and the arrows they shoot with the help of horse power are fast and dense. I am afraid these soldiers will suffer heavy losses." !”
But he didn't expect that Liu Haojia just smiled and said: "Master Qi, please excuse me! I'll ask Master Qi to take a look when the exercise is held! Okay, Your Majesty, gentlemen, the soldiers have brought the dummy over. Now you can take a look!”
Everyone saw that there were indeed soldiers carrying the dummies coming over, so they walked down under the leadership of the excited Emperor Wanli and started pointing around the dummies! In particular, Qi Jiguang no longer cared about the nobles and military bases at this time, and relied on his physical strength to grab a good position first!
The position he occupied happened to be that the dummy on his left hand was wearing iron armor, and the dummy on his right hand was wearing leather armor! He first looked at the dummy wearing iron armor, and he discovered something incredible at just one glance! The dummy's unarmored face had been beaten to pieces by a lead bullet!
He stretched out his hand to poke the bullet hole and found that the lead bullet penetrated more than an inch into the wood! He then tapped the dummy with his fingers and found that the dummy was made of extremely hard wood, so he felt even more powerful about the fire cannon!
Looking further down, the entire armor was already in terrible shape! Wherever the lead bullets hit, all the armor pieces flew away, and the cowhide underneath was torn open, revealing the lead bullets embedded in the wood! Some armor pieces were even directly embedded in the wood together with the lead bullets, and he had to use a lot of force to pull them out!
As for the other lead bullets embedded in the wood, only a small tail was exposed, which could not be pulled out at all. Looking at the dummy, there are almost a dozen bullet holes all over its body. If it had been in the battle, it would have been dead long ago!
After looking at the iron armor, he looked at the dummy wearing leather armor, and he felt even more frightened! Because the iron armor can still be seen, but the leather armor is already as rotten as rags, with holes all over it! And after he tried it with his fingers, he found that the lead bullet was embedded deeper into the wood! Then he knew that if a real person put on this leather armor, he would be hit hard by a lead bullet even if he didn't die!
Seeing this, Qi Jiguang couldn't help but sigh that this new type of fire gun was really sharp, but he didn't know how effective it would be in actual combat? You must know that he has countless ways to deal with the fire gun soldiers who form an army alone! He is not afraid of those fire gun soldiers with spear soldiers and sword and shield soldiers as cover. He still has a way to deal with them! I think what Liu Haojia relied on was the formation of soldiers and the artillery! But he is still confident that he can handle it!
At this time, Liu Haojia greeted and said: "Your Majesty, and all the gentlemen, we have finished watching the demonstration of firecrackers, and now we are going to demonstrate artillery! Because shooting is dangerous, your Majesty and you are invited to come to the general station to watch! "
