Zhu Yunzhen did not let the soldiers lie down like later generations.
Although he had also trained in this tactic during his training at the military academy.
But now, facing the menacing Japanese pirates and rebels, Zhu Yunxi adopted the simplest method.
Line up and shoot tactics.
This tactic was ridiculed by many in later generations.
One by one, they lined up and stood there, as if they were living targets, allowing the enemy to attack.
However, such a "stupid" tactic has been popular for more than two hundred years, which shows that it also has its own uniqueness.
It's impossible that for more than two hundred years, the generals and soldiers of various countries were fools and couldn't see the disadvantages of this tactic, right?
It was precisely because this tactic was suitable for the weapons and equipment at the time that it was widely adopted.
Zhu Yunzhen is a usurpist. He has the experience of later generations, so of course he can use it as he likes.
The new troops lined up in neat rows, ready to fight.
Below Jiaxing City is an endless plain.
It is now past the autumn harvest season, and the crops in the fields have been harvested.
There is no obstruction in the field of view, which is very suitable for gun shooting.
The army of Japanese pirates and rebels are approaching step by step.
When they saw a few hundred soldiers and horses under the city in front of them, and they did not enter the city to escape, the leading Japanese pirate let out a howl.
These people are not afraid of us?
Why didn't you panic and run away?
You know, since the Japanese pirates landed at the seaside, they have encountered almost no decent resistance.
The soldiers of the Ming army who had not been on the battlefield for a long time were completely unable to fight against the ferocious Japanese pirates.
This is no wonder the Ming army.
The military households of the Ming army were actually a pseudo-professional army.
Their first occupation is actually farmers.
Being a soldier is just incidental and amateur.
After the pacification of the Southeast, none of the new generation of military men who grew up had ever been on the battlefield.
What I usually do most is not military training, but farm work.
The Japanese pirates were just the opposite. Affected by the war in Japan, the Japanese pirates who fled to the sea were all true professional warriors.
Most of them are the elite among the elite, and only then can they escape thousands of miles on the sea.
When a professional samurai meets an amateur military household, the outcome can be imagined.
Professional and amateur play, in any professional field, has always been a one-sided defeat.
As a result, the Japanese pirates became more and more arrogant and looked down upon the Ming army more and more.
At this time, the Japanese pirates were enraged when they saw that the Ming army did not run away but tried to resist when they saw them.
In the past, their number was small, and the Ming army even fled.
But now, they brought Zhang Shicheng's old men, private salt dealers, and many traitors who defected to them. There were tens of thousands of them, coming like an overwhelming force. How dare this Ming army resist?
"Kill, kill them!"
The leader of the Japanese pirates, Saburo Okada, pointed forward with his sword.
In an instant, the Japanese pirates behind them all let out strange screams of fear, like the chirping of birds, and rushed towards the new army.
Generally speaking, when facing the enemy, the Japanese pirates would drive away the traitors who had defected to them and take the lead.
If you want to die, let them die.
The lives of these people are worthless. Since they have become servants of Japanese pirates, they must be willing to die.
Otherwise, why leave them?
Might as well just kill him.
But today, the Japanese pirates were the first to launch an attack.
In the eyes of Saburo Okada, the Ming army under the city should be desperate.
The Ming army in the city saw their troops coming and was unwilling to open the city gate to let them in.
They have nowhere to escape.
Such an army is very tragic.
It seemed that the soldiers were not afraid of life and death, but in fact the soldiers were frightened.
They were prepared to die, but did not have the courage to fight.
Okada Saburo decided to let the servant army following them see the terrifying combat power of the Japanese warriors and massacre the Ming army in front of them.
Therefore, he let the Japanese pirates take the lead in the charge instead of the servant army.
Zhu Yunzhen watched quietly.
The Japanese pirates are getting closer and closer.
One hundred steps, seventy steps, sixty steps...
The tactics of the Japanese pirates were different from those of the Ming army.
They also used bows and arrows, but they usually did not launch an attack with a volley of arrows, followed by a phalanx of infantry.
It's not that they don't have bows and arrows, but their bows and arrows are very different from those of the Ming Dynasty.
Although the average height of the Japanese pirates is less than one and a half meters, they are pitifully short, but the bows on their backs are more than two meters long.
It is easy not to shoot arrows, but the arrows shot are extremely powerful, and those who hit them will almost die.
But the advantage of the arrows shot by this kind of bow is that it has strong armor-piercing ability and can penetrate iron armor.
But the disadvantage is that the range is very long, so it cannot form a rain of arrows.
No matter what kind of bow shoots an arrow, it is incomparable with the bullets shot by a gun.
The kinetic energy of an arrow shot by a heavy bow weighing more than 100 kilograms is only about 100 joules.
The kinetic energy of later modern rifles was as high as more than 2,000 joules.
Even a matchlock gun has 700 joules of kinetic energy.
Although the flintlock muskets equipped by the new army were not as good as the modern rifles of later generations, they were far stronger than the matchlocks.
As for breech-loading guns that shoot fixed-loading ammunition, they are even stronger.
Many people only know that the shooting range of bows and arrows is about a hundred steps, and with a favorable wind, it can go further.
Then it was thought that the gun's range was only four hundred paces (400 meters).
In fact, if the gun, like the rain of arrows, shoots diagonally into the sky to reach its maximum range, then the maximum range of a rifle with an effective range of 400 steps can reach more than 5,000 meters.
At this distance, it is still lethal.
It's just that there is no accuracy at all, it can only hit randomly.
For modern armies that pursue precise shooting, this is not cost-effective, and the opponent will also have protection, so it is usually not used.
But this also shows the terror of firearms.
The same is true for Zhu Yunzhen's new army.
"Load the gun, raise the gun, aim!" Zheng He's thick voice was giving orders.
Rows of new soldiers quickly loaded their ammunition and raised their guns.
The Japanese pirates didn't even shoot their bows and arrows, but rushed over with a knife.
In the eyes of the New Army soldiers, these guys are completely living targets.
Seeing the Japanese pirates rushing over with howls in their mouths, Zhu Yunxi breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, it was the first time to lead troops in combat and face a real battlefield. To say that I wasn't nervous would be a lie.
Although he is very confident, the new army's equipment will definitely be a dimensionality-reducing blow against the current Japanese pirates.
But the battlefield is changing rapidly, and accidents may occur at any time.
For example, if the Japanese pirates did not take the lead in attacking, but ordered the traitor servants to take the lead, the situation would be very unfavorable to them.
There are tens of thousands of people on the other side.
The New Army's fixed ammunition only has a total of 10,000 rounds.
The remaining four hundred flintlock muskets carried only tens of thousands of shots.
Even if the opponent stands still and serves as a target for the new army, it is still unknown whether they can all be killed.
Not to mention, there are always a lot of bullets missing on the battlefield.
Or shoot many rounds of bullets into a soldier.
According to later statistics, during World War II, the U.S. military required an average of 25,000 bullets to kill an enemy.
By the time of the Korean War, this number was an average of 50,000 rounds.
By the Vietnam War, it had increased to 200,000 rounds.
In the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there were an astonishing 250,000 rounds.
Of course, this is also because a large number of bullets are used for fire suppression, or because they are harassed and empty the magazine in panic, a large number of bullets are shot into the air, causing huge waste.
But it also shows that the consumption of bullets is astonishing.
However, in today's era, the opponent does not have guns, so there is no need to fight, dodge, or suppress fire. It is still possible to destroy an enemy with a few bullets.
The rest depends on how strong the opponent's will is and whether he will run away.
Fifty-five steps, fifty steps...
On the city wall above, Xu Dongjiang looked at this scene in horror.
He originally thought that after he refused His Majesty Taisun to enter the city, he would definitely let Jiang Yu take him to escape.
Escape quickly.
The remaining Xinjun and Jinyiwei were massacred by Japanese pirates and rebels.
In this way, His Highness Taisun suffered a defeat, but he did not die as a result. At most, he was a little frightened, and it was easier for him to report to the court.
Huang Zicheng's request was also realized.
This is the best situation.
Although Xu Dongjiang is bold, he is not crazy enough to want to kill all nine of his clans.
But His Highness Taisun didn't escape?
The Japanese pirates are already approaching. If we don't escape, it will be too late.
"Run away!" He stamped his feet fiercely, his face turning pale with fear.
This is because a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, but it is still young and ignorant!
If I had known that His Highness Taisun was so temperamental and would rather die than retreat, I should have let him into the city just now.
In this battle, His Highness Taisun may have died, and the goals of those in the court were achieved, but his nine clans would also have to be buried with him.
Xu Dongjiang knew very well that as long as the emperor's grandson died, those people would definitely pretend to be sadder than anyone else and support his majesty's desperate pursuit of responsibility.
Anyway, the purpose was achieved. Who cares about him, a member of the Jiaxing prefecture's nine ethnic groups?
But now, it's too late to say anything.
On the city wall.
The guarding soldiers looked at the new army below.
Everyone showed admiration on their faces.
Facing the Japanese pirates who were more ferocious than wild beasts, they were able to remain unmoved.
No one was afraid, no one fled.
He just stood there, holding a weird unknown object, pointing it at the Japanese pirates.
I regard death as home!
How could any soldier not admire such courage?
Even the most timid and cowardly person has a heroic dream in his heart.
I also admire those heroes who are not afraid of death.
The soldiers of the New Army are undoubtedly heroes at this moment.
Below, the Japanese pirates have rushed in front of the new army's queue.
Thirty steps!
They saw the bayonets on the front of the guns of the New Army soldiers.
Bright and bright.
But in the eyes of the Japanese pirates, it was a bit ridiculous.
Compared with a spear, it is too short. What kind of combat effectiveness can it have?
Twenty steps!
All it takes is one charge and he's right in front of him.
The New Army soldiers still stood there, motionless.
The gun was raised at arm's length, aiming straight ahead.
Since the opponent doesn't even shoot arrows but charges with a knife, let them get closer.
Seven steps away, the gun is fast.
Within seven steps, the gun was accurate and fast.
But now, the distance is only twenty steps.
The Japanese pirates became even more crazy.
In their opinion, these people were so frightened that they were neither willing to escape nor able to resist!
It must be.
The Japanese pirates had never seen guns. In this era, they only had fire blunderbuss.
In their eyes, the uniform movements of the New Army soldiers were extremely funny.
"Gah!"
"Gah!"
"Gah!"
The Japanese pirates made strange noises. In their opinion, they were about to have a feast of massacre.
The Japanese pirates seemed to have seen the screams of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, saw their heads being chopped off one by one, their limbs chopped off, their stomachs disemboweled, and blood splattering everywhere, and they became even more excited because of this.
The ferocious face and distorted expression were completely unlike human beings.
Ten steps.
"shot!"
Zheng He shouted loudly.
"Bang!" A deafening gunshot raised the already noisy battlefield to a new volume level.
next moment.
Before the Japanese pirates came back to their senses.
Almost between lightning and flint.
The New Army soldiers opened fire.
"Bang bang bang..."
Hundreds of guns, firing simultaneously.
Bullets roared out one after another, singing the song of killing!
(End of chapter)
