Smelting and Exploding the Heavens

Chapter 329
Fan Zhuoyuan said: "No need, just raise the flag and let the ship launch according to the calibrated angle. You judge the distance between the two sides and choose the launch time."

Liu Rong opened his mouth, looked at the enemy again, and said: "General, we have never trained the infantry in the front and the artillery in the rear to shoot over the shoulders. I am worried that the sound of the artillery from the rear will affect the morale of our army. .”

He is not afraid of affecting the morale of the army, he is afraid of bombarding his own people.

Fan Zhuoyuan said to himself: "You should have more confidence in your subordinates, as long as the shells don't fall into your own people, it will definitely not affect the morale of the army."

Liu Rong pursed his lips and stopped talking, judging the distance, and then fired a letter arrow into the air.

Zhou Xu, the commander of the artillery battalion among the four commanders, was directing the shelling on the ship. He smiled and told the left and right to get ready, and then said with a smile: "Liu Rong is the least courageous guy, and I really hate when I shoot him from behind, afraid that the shells will fall. on his head.

Of course, he has suffered this kind of loss before. When he was fighting the Tartars in the border town, the friendly artillery skills were not good enough, and the artillery was not good. Once he fired it, it fell on his own head. His eldest son was killed by the shell at that time Yes, don't mention it casually. "

After he lectured, the ship immediately opened fire, and dozens of heavy cannons blasted towards the thousands of White Lotus Sect troops rushing over!
Although half of the shells missed, more than [-] shells still fell into the crowd. The solid shells would not explode, but would bounce and jump on the ground, with an uncertain trajectory, rolling out of the bloody alley among the crowd.

During this period, the human body was directly hit, and it was immediately torn apart. Even if only the hands and feet were rubbed, the arms and legs would be broken immediately.

The crowd suddenly wailed, they had no formation, and their morale collapsed immediately after being fired at by such a volley, and they all turned around and ran back.

Seeing this, Zhou Xu sneered, and ordered to slightly increase the elevation angle of the heavy artillery, so that there was still time to fire another cannon after cleaning the barrel.

Although the hit rate of this shot was lower, it caused the White Lotus Sect forward to collapse even faster. He only hated his parents for losing his legs.

The leader of Bailian was originally an elder, who was good at fighting in the rivers and lakes, and he was the leader Fang Kaicheng's right-hand man. However, he was also very blind to commanding the battle formation, relying on a hundred households in the guard around him.

Bai Hu frowned and looked at Fan Zhuoyuan, and said, "General, this group of officers and soldiers have sharp weapons, and they must wait until they are out of range of the naval guns before they can attack."

The elder of the White Lotus Sect gave him a blank look, and he could see that too.

"Are these 800 people allowed to provoke?"

Baihu smiled wryly and said: "Although we also have firearms, there are not many people who can operate them, and the firearms that can go down to the ground are not reliable, and they are easy to blow up when used, just like those bird guns. Boom."

The elder dissatisfied: "Then what should we do now? Could it be that we are restrained by 800 people and dare not even attack the city?"

"I see that the soldiers are quite tired after attacking the city for several days. Let's lean against the city wall to the west. If this group of officers and soldiers want to bombard us, they have to move from the canal to the Yangtze River. It will take some effort. Let's see if the warship will give up. Let’s ignore these 800 people.”

The elders had no other choice but to follow suit.

Just as the whole army was moving to the west, an army of 500 soldiers suddenly came out from the west, marching in a horizontal formation.

The elder of the White Lotus Sect looked at this side in surprise and said: "There is no river in the west, and the battleship can't cover it. Maybe it can be broken with one blow?"

The hundred households looked at the 500 troops and said, "The front troops lined up in three rows, with 500 people in each row, and they all carried bird guns. How dare they use firearms. Without the cover of warships, the subordinates I thought I could send swordsmen and archers mixed with archers to fight forward, and when I got to the distance, I would be able to shoot them down with bows and arrows!"

The elder said: "The archers are all elites, so they can't be wasted casually. I think let those mud-legged people charge forward first, and the number of deaths counts. It can also drain the morale of this group of officers and soldiers. Look at it."

Of course Baihu has no objection, the more cannon fodder the better.

As he said that, he once again lured five or six thousand cannon fodder with food, and the training officer told these ragged refugees that as long as they could break through the army in front of them, everyone would be fed when they came back!
The refugees who were hungry and fighting for food, holding messy weapons or agricultural tools in their hands, were urged by the sword players and archers in the rear, howling and rushing towards the army in front of them.

Pang Xu was the commander-in-chief of this army. He frowned and looked at the chaotic refugee troops, and waved the flag to make the three rows of gunfire troops in front of them line up and shoot on the spot.

Although he himself sympathizes with these refugees, but in fact, on the battlefield, it is life and death, and there is no benevolence to speak of.

What's more, he has already seen through the binoculars that the elite of the enemy army has taken advantage of the chaos and mixed in among the refugees, and he is afraid that they will attack at a certain distance.

There are 500 firearms troops in the front row, everyone is wearing paper armor, and they also carry war halberds or broadswords when they go north. Like crossbowmen, they are not only responsible for long-range shooting, but also use cold weapons on their backs when necessary Joining close combat and fighting with the spear formation can prevent the enemy from rushing into the spear formation to wreak havoc.

At this time, this group of firearms troops who have experienced the battle against bandits, although their mouths are dry, their faces are dull, and their hearts are beating fast, but due to the extremely rigorous training on weekdays, their physical instincts still allow them to react the fastest action.

Following Dusi Xiaojun's drumming command, a drum sound was used to load the gunpowder and lead was inserted, a drum sound was used to tighten the cleaning rod, a drum sound was used to aim at the enemy's formation, and a loud drum sound was used to shoot from the front line!

Five hundred blunderbusses were fired at the refugee army a hundred paces away in front of them, and the dense barrage immediately burst into bursts of blood among the crowd, and the refugee army wailed and fell down more than a hundred people.

This is not enough to stop the charge of more than 5000 people, they are still howling forward.

But the middle drum sounded the second time, and the first row of soldiers passed through the gap in the queue and retreated to the last row, and immediately began the operation of clearing the guns and charging them.

The soldiers in the second row advanced in unison, and then aimed at the front at the same time, and another five hundred rounds of lead burst out.

Immediately after the second row of soldiers retreated and changed teams, let the third row advance, followed by a salvo.

The three rows of continuous firing continued, and each soldier could fire three bullets per minute during normal training. At this time, after experiencing the performance, the efficiency has declined due to various factors, but they can still fire two bullets per minute.

Although the frequency was low, the continuous firepower was guaranteed under the three rows of bursts. Blood sprayed one after another in the refugee army, and more and more people fell down.

The people in the front row were the first to collapse. They had already reached fifty paces, but the black muzzle of the gun in front of them became more and more terrifying, making everyone's nerves extremely tense.

Especially after the gunshot, if the person next to you falls down, it feels like playing Russian roulette. Although you know that the probability of being shot and killed is only one in six, but you can't help but think of the consequences of winning the lottery. Trembling all over.

People's hearts are broken like this. The people in the front row slow down first, hoping that the people in the back row can rush forward instead of themselves.

And the people in the back row were not stupid, they pushed the people in the front row forward, and naturally their speed became slower and slower, while the officers and soldiers in front fought more and more calmly, and their firing rate became faster and faster.

Finally, when the casualties in the front row exceeded 800 people, the entire front row was almost empty, and the more than [-] people immediately began to collapse, and everyone fled to the rear crying.

The elites of the White Lotus Cult who were mixed in the crowd and intending to supervise the battle could not be stopped. The leader saw that the distance to the officers and soldiers was less than fifty steps, so he made a decisive decision and roared with internal force, causing everyone to charge forward. The archers shot at the officers and soldiers, Disturb the formation of the gunners, and after the swordsman enters it, they will be able to defeat the officers and soldiers in one fell swoop.

(End of this chapter)