The boss of the ship responded very quickly, but it took time for the ship to pull up the anchor, hoist the sails, get the oarsmen in position and start rowing, etc. How could they remember the speeding up soldiers?
Seeing the soldiers of Deduo approaching rapidly, and the ship under his feet was just less than a hop away from the shore, Zhang Wanbang, a young but experienced Xuanda warrior, shouted decisively: "The soldiers are on abandoned horses! Form up on the edge of the bulwark, line up your guns three... prepare for the second attack!"
It turned out that what he had practiced the most recently was the three-stage attack, which was the three-platoon alternating queuing and shooting method developed by Gao Pragmatic, so he almost said it casually just now.
However, war sometimes cannot be forced to be rigid. In the current situation, he has only fifty personal cavalrymen in total. If they are divided into three rows, each row will have less than twenty people, and the power of the volley will be too much. It was too small, so he temporarily changed his words to a second attack.
In fact, even with the second stage attack, the number of people is still very insufficient, but there is no way. There are no weapons such as semi-automatic rifles, automatic rifles or even assault rifles these days. The reloading speed is too impressive, and the second stage attack can barely sustain the attack. One shot - wait - another shot with this rhythm.
And if they all fired one round, then waited for the group of people to load their own ammunition before firing the second round, the interval would be too long. After the Mongols rushed to the shore, even if they could not get on the boat, it would be enough to launch several rounds of fire. , within such a close distance, the Mongols can completely use armor-piercing arrows, not to mention those Jinghua boatmen who are not wearing armor, even their armored dismounted cavalry cannot withstand it. In that case, the casualties will become Completely out of control.
Zhang Wanbang's servants originally led the horses in the boat themselves. They ran to the place arranged by the boss of the boat to comfort the horses that did not like getting on the boat. At this time, Zhang Wanbang shouted, and they all tied up the horses and hurriedly fired their guns. The bags ran back to the bulwark at the edge of the deck and lined up. Some of the servants who were most proficient in firearms even started to prepare to load ammunition and charges while running.
Zhang Wanbang's previous positions were not high and he was often on the front line, so this time with only fifty people under his command, he simply took on multiple roles, not only as the "general commander" but also as the commander. , watching the two rows of people stand up, immediately shouted: "Load the ammunition and charge - the first row comes forward, target the Tatars on the shore, prepare for a volley! The second row is loaded and ready!"
At this time, the forwards of the Speculation Department were less than 200 steps away from them.
Even for infantry, it would not take long to walk two hundred steps, let alone cavalry under acceleration.
Zhang Wanbang's slightly narrowed eyes flashed with a cold light, and he slowly pulled out the waist knife without expression, raised it high above his head, suddenly pressed forward, and shouted angrily like spring thunder: "First Platoon—fire!”
boom! boom! boom! boom!
There was a series of gunshots as fast as fried beans, and the Duojun soldiers who had rushed less than fifty steps from the shore and were slowing down made the first batch of test products.
This was the first shooting battle in which the Wanli Type 1 lance was used as a pure rifle.
The losses of Duo's soldiers were not serious. Seven of them were shot on their horses and fell off their horses. Their lives were uncertain. Four horses were shot and fell to the ground and the knights fell off their horses.
Even if all those who fell were treated as dead in battle, the hit rate of this shooting was only more than 40%. When the shooting was fired, the opponent was only sixty or seventy steps away from the warship at most. Logically speaking, this is already an excellent shooting distance. , and because the Wanli Type 1 has four shallow straight rifling lines in the barrel, the hit rate at this distance is actually quite high.
However, Zhang Wanbang did not blame his servants for their ineffectiveness, because he knew that the main reason for the significant drop in shooting accuracy compared to training was the boat.
Although Jinghua's gunboat is indeed a big ship on the Liao River, the river will still cause the hull to undulate, and it is raining today. When it rains, there is wind. When the wind comes, it will cause the shooting accuracy to decrease. Secondly, It will also increase the ups and downs of the ship in the future.
Adding all the conditions together, it is extremely rare to still have a hit rate of more than 40%, and any further nitpicking is just nitpicking.
Zhang Wanbang is not a beginner on the battlefield. As a mid-level officer in the first batch of Wanli Type 1 troops, he is familiar enough with firearms and will not make such common sense mistakes.
Therefore, his expression remained unchanged, and he didn't even care about the brief panic of the Duojun soldiers on the opposite side after they were baptized by such "strong firepower" for the first time. He just continued to order coldly: "The first row retreated and loaded the ammunition. The second row came forward, aimed their guns, and prepared to fire!"
Unlike the Xin'ai and Chahar tribes who had already suffered the hardships of Wanli, this was the first time for the Chaohua cavalry to suffer such a "severe beating". During the second wave of firing, they rushed closer in panic. The frontmost group of people had even reached the shore, but Jinghua's gunboat only "drifted" about twenty steps toward the center of the river accordingly. Therefore, the distance between the two sides when firing this time was closer, actually no more than thirty steps. step.
Another burst of gunfire rang out, and the Duoyan cavalry fell fourteen people and five horses in response! The Ming army's shooting accuracy suddenly increased to 75%!
Chaohua Taiji himself rushed forward at the beginning, because he had never seen the power of Wanli Yi style before today. Ninety percent of his understanding of the firepower level of the Ming army came from the three-eyes popular among the northern frontier troops in the past. Guns, 10% come from the Longqing II type equipped at the turn of Longwan.
However, the total amount of equipment of the Longqing Type II was not very large, and at that time, "Western Huai" was more important than "Eastern". The prerequisite for the success of "Western Huai", according to Gao Gong, is that we must first have strong troops. , so Tumut did not dare to hope to force the Ming Dynasty to agree to open the border markets. Therefore, the change of the Longqing II style during that period was tilted toward Xuan Da Shanxi. It was not until later that Tumut became more and more honest and content to maintain the status quo. Due to the situation, horses, equipment and other materials were tilted to Ji Liao's side.
Furthermore, the small number of Longqing II muskets equipped by the Liaodong side were basically used by Li Chengliang to equip his own servants and the servants of other generals. Therefore, when Chaohua faced a small group of "Exploring Horses", he did not expect it at all. The other party will set up a musket array - not to mention it is still on a boat.
As a result, Zhang Wanbang's first round of volley almost "named" Chaohua Taiji. This was also the main reason why the Chaohua Department's forward cavalry had been in some confusion just now - they were afraid that Chaohua would be shot dead on the spot, so they hurriedly guarded him. He sent it into the rear formation.
At that time, Chaohua himself was in a state of shock and had no time to think about other things. It was not until the second round of volleys that he became furious. Why had the Ming army's firearms been updated again? Or is it that I have hit a brick wall and am the servant of an important person in front of me?
At this time, he suddenly remembered something: it was rumored that Jinghua was the largest firearms supplier in the Ming Dynasty, so Gao Pragmatic's personal bodyguards were always equipped with the best and latest firearms. But now the firearms on the opposite side are so sophisticated, and there are also Such a big ship, so could the person on this ship... be him?
Chaohua's eyes were bright and he shouted: "Shoot! Shoot armor-piercing arrows for me in the front line! Find a way to shoot rockets in the back line! I want to keep this ship!"
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