Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 407
"Fire!"

Following the command of the artillery battalion commander, the five Franc cannons on the left let out deafening roars in turn.

More than a thousand coats, including [-] Qing army archers, who were rushed by the Qing army from the back camp to dismantle the Ming army's rejection horse, received a blow to the head before they got close to the rejection horse.

Five projectiles fell successively among the densely packed coats and the crowd of Qing army archers.

Due to the dense population, the killing effect of the projectiles was very obvious. The five projectiles respectively plowed five blood paths. More than forty coaters and archers were either dead or injured. The howling sound made it sound extraordinarily scary.

Before the Qing army could react, the Fran cannon, which had quickly replaced the guns, fired again, and five more bullets made five bloody paths among the heartbroken coated crowd. Yi fell to the ground dead or injured.

Under such tremendous psychological pressure, the packers who were facing collapse began to hide around or flee backwards, while the Qing army on the periphery urged their horses to shoot and drive them to continue to move closer to the rejected horses.

Amidst the continuous loud noises of the Frang machine, Zhou Yuji gave an order, and five hundred sword and shield fighters stepped forward to the left flank, preparing to provide cover for the spearmen when necessary, and guard against the heavy arrows of the Qing army archers.

The Flang machine gun used by the Ming army is a smoothbore gun made of iron. The whole gun is composed of three parts: the barrel, the belly of the gun, and the sub-cannon. Load it into the belly of the gun and ignite the sub-gun fire door to shoot.

The Franc machine gun adopts the structure of a mother gun and a child gun. The mother gun is the barrel, and the child guns are actually small fire guns. Each mother gun is equipped with four to nine child guns. Each child gun is loaded with ammunition in advance for use.

When fighting, first put a sub-gun into the bullet chamber of the mother gun. After firing, withdraw the empty sub-gun and replace it with another one. Since the sub-gun can be replaced in turn, the time for temporarily loading ammunition is reduced, and the shooting is greatly improved. Therefore, it is also called "child-mother cannon".

The Frang machine gun is also equipped with a sight, which increases the range and improves the accuracy. Obviously, the Fran machine has initially possessed the basic characteristics of modern artillery.

However, due to the casting level and technical level at that time, the Franc machine gun also had a fatal weakness: the gap between the sub-cannon and the belly of the gun had a large tolerance, which caused the leakage of gunpowder gas, so it did not have the long range of the Hongyi cannon.

Under the uninterrupted attack of the five Franc machine guns on the left, the coaters, who suffered heavy casualties, no longer cared about the anger and slashing of the Qing army, and fled in all directions like a swarm. Dozens of them even headed towards the trench. The Ming army ran desperately, but they all fell to the ground and died under the precise shooting of the Qing army's archers.

Under the attack of the Frang machine gun, nearly [-]% of the [-] coated soldiers were killed or injured, and more than [-] Qing army archers were killed or injured by the projectiles.

With the fleeing of the packers, the Qing army's first operation to demolish the Juma failed.

"Walking around Yu Bei Le, I'm afraid it won't work like this! Mingren's cannons are too powerful! If the group of coats gets closer, the casualties will be even worse! Those refusal horses can't be destroyed!"

The Mongolian Eight Banners Melezhang Jinggeran, who rushed to Abatai's side on horseback, said helplessly.

"Ben Baylor has seen it a long time ago! This group of damned Nikans are as cowardly as mice! Someone, pass on my words, and kill all the Nikans who escaped first on the spot! Geri Leng, you have a good way to break A wise man's refusal?"

After giving the order with a sullen face, Abate turned his head and asked Gerilan.

"Baylor, I came up with a good idea. Baylor can order his men to find some long ropes, and let us Mongolian knights use the best method of lassoing the horses, using the ropes to hold the horses and drag them away. Although it is a bit troublesome, it must be It works!"

"Good idea! What a good idea! However, in order to prevent the bombardment of Ming people's cannons, it is good to only send a few people to ride over at a time, so that even if Ming people fire cannons, we will not be able to hit us, go quickly!"

Gerileng's method made Abatai smile. He hurriedly ordered his men to go down to the back camp to find the ropes and send them to the right-wing cavalry.

Half an hour later, dozens of long ropes found from the rear camp were delivered. Dozens of Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry who were eager to try took the long ropes. The horse rushed away.

Under the watchful eyes of the Ming Army brigade, several Mongolian cavalry galloped towards them. At a distance of more than ten steps away from the horse, several Mongolian cavalry slowed down their horses at the same time, and then raised the rope and spun it quickly on their heads. After a few laps, he raised his hand and threw it out.

Since only a few cavalry rushed to the front of the formation, the artillery battalion commander of the Ming army couldn't figure out what the Qing army was going to do. Only then did we know what the hell the Qing army was doing.

But even knowing it would be of no use at all. Cannons are used to bombard dense targets, but there is nothing they can do about such moving individuals.

In this way, under the watchful eyes of the Ming Army's brigade, dozens of cavalrymen from the Eight Banners of Mongolia galloped back and forth, dragging away all the rejecting horses on the left wing of the Ming Army in less than half an hour.

Looking at the Ming army's long spear phalanx in the distance, Ge Rilen gave an order while secretly complacent.

The first group of [-] cavalry stepped out from the brigade. Under the call of the leader Niu Luzhangjing, the [-] cavalry formed a loose cone and began to beat their horses and run. The second group of [-] cavalry It is to get off the horse and wait in place after going out, waiting for the order to launch the second wave of charge at any time.

Fearing the damage from the Ming army's artillery, the Qing army's archers did not follow. They could only watch from a distance as the cavalry gradually accelerated and rushed forward. Ming army.

Following Zhou Yuji's order, the soldiers raised a black flag and waved it back and forth a few times. After the left-wing Ming army spearmen turned to the left, they quickly formed four dense phalanxes of 500 people. The front row of spearmen inserted the tails of their guns into the ground. Then he stepped on it with his feet, bent over, grasped the barrel of the gun with both hands, and pointed the bright gun head obliquely forward.

The spearmen in the back row put their spears on the shoulders of the front row and protruded forward, and the entire phalanx suddenly became like a hedgehog.

Just when the horse speed of the first five hundred cavalry of the Qing army was about to pick up speed, a loud noise like a thunderbolt shook the whole field, and the two red cannons on the left side of the city fired again, and two projectiles rushed from the top of the city. Qing cavalry two miles away.

Although they had already taken precautions against the cannons of the Ming army and adopted a loose formation to charge the cavalry of the Qing army, they still failed to escape the coverage of the projectiles. The two projectiles that landed one after another were astonishingly powerful. Direct tearing or killing, the knights on the horse were thrown out of the galloping horses because of the inconvenience of moving around due to the inconvenience of wearing armor. In the lightest cases, the bones and tendons were broken, and in the severe case, the head and neck were broken and died immediately.

However, after the Hongyi cannon is fired, the heavy cannon body will deflect and move due to the huge recoil force. When firing again, more than a dozen people must work together to reset the cannon body before reloading and firing. Therefore, although the power is huge, the firing interval needs to be The time of hundreds of breaths, so it is only suitable for the defense of the city.

The cavalry of the Qing army did not panic because of the loss of several people. Instead, they raised the speed of their horses to the extreme. The effort of breathing will crash into the phalanx.

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