The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 478 "Line up and shoot"

Immediately, the infantrymen of the Dragon Guards shouted in unison: "Let go!"

But their voices were drowned out by the roar of the hunting rifles.

At this time, only forty or fifty of Luck Dehun's more than a thousand chariots were left at the southernmost end, and more than 6000 Mini bombs got into the Qing army's battle formation in an instant.

Although the distance was more than a hundred steps, the high-speed spinning bullets still easily broke through the padded armor of the Jianlu infantry, then passed through their bodies, and then came out from the back with a large amount of flesh and blood.

Even though Jianlu's spearmen wore scale armor on top of their cotton armor, they still couldn't resist the terrifying power of rifled guns.Although the lethality of the bullets was reduced by [-]% after piercing through the scale armor and cotton armor, the remaining momentum was enough to kill the captive soldiers.

It was the first time that the rifled blunderbuss was used on such a large scale on the battlefield. Its power even shocked the Dragon Guards themselves—this time the volley shot killed at least eight or nine hundred soldiers!

In the middle of the mighty Jianlu infantry battle formation, a nearly two-mile-long "sag" suddenly appeared, and the recessed part was filled with corpses and blood, and went straight into the blood pool of purgatory.

Even the murderous Jianzhou captive soldiers couldn't help but feel their legs go weak when they saw this situation.

They have seen ferocious enemies before, and they have also experienced the death of tens of thousands of people in battle, but when the enemy's guns fired, the people in the front row on their side were neatly "erased". I told them before that no one would believe me.Immediately, almost all Jianlu soldiers had a general thought in their minds - this is not a war, it is simply the king of Hades asking for his life!

Since Jianlu believed that his heavy-duty guns had a longer range than the Ming army, under the extreme tension at this time, a large number of soldiers immediately raised their guns to fight back.Of course, the lethality of the flintlocks in their hands is almost negligible at a distance of more than a hundred steps.

When Babutai saw that the Ming army opened fire at such a distance, he thought it was the old problem of the Ming army's random firing of guns.He was about to open his mouth to taunt, but when he turned his head, he saw countless casualties under his command, and was immediately speechless in shock.

Since a large number of Qing army chariots were destroyed before, their wreckage blocked the advance of the Qing army, which made the formation messy.At this time, some captive soldiers stood still in panic and fired guns, and some were frightened, but more than half of them continued to move forward according to the military order, and the entire infantry battle array suddenly became chaotic.

However, the Dragon Guards were not polite, and finished loading quickly with their hands and feet, and then fired another round of salvo.The captive soldiers on the opposite side of them walked out more than ten feet tremblingly just now, but immediately the torrential rain of Minnie bombs swept away thousands of people!Among the captive soldiers walking in the front, those who were lucky enough not to be hit couldn't hide the fear in their hearts, and immediately yelled and turned their heads and fled.

Babutai, who was supervising the battle at the back, looked gloomy, and hurriedly ordered the guards beside him to step forward and suppress him.He turned his head and saw that the Ming army seemed to have the strongest firepower in the middle, and the formation on both sides of him was still barely orderly, and he hurriedly ordered the two wings to quickly engage the enemy.

The infantry line on both sides of the Dragon Guards is mainly composed of more than 1 Polu battalion soldiers. Most of them still use flintlocks, and there are only more than 3000 rifled guns.

In order to keep the firepower unified, Zhu Linmi, Zhen Zhen and others discussed and decided to use all the more than 3000 people as hunters.

Therefore, although the two wings of the Ming army were not as impressive as the Longwei army's volley in the middle, they have not been idle.The soldiers holding the Type 600 Jaeger guns were all in the last row of the line, constantly "sniping" the enemy, a little here and a little there, but they killed as many as [-] people in total, and most of them were officers in eye-catching clothes. .

The phalanx of Jianlu, which still maintained its organizational system, was urged by Babutai to ignore the formation, and ran for another twenty or thirty steps. The barrel rests at the fork at the end of the lance.

It's just that they were in the process of preparing in a hurry, but the soldiers of the Polu camp on the opposite side opened fire first with their dexterous six-coin guns.Nearly [-] flintlock guns exploded at once, and the captive soldiers who had just started aiming suddenly staggered, and hundreds of musketeers and spearmen in the front line were killed by the bombs.

The combat experience and drill level of these Jianzhou soldiers are not low. In such a chaotic situation, they can still barely follow the officer's password to fire.Soon, a large amount of gunpowder smoke rose from the positions of the Qing army on both sides of the battle, and many soldiers from the Polu camp fell to the ground with a muffled sound.

However, nearly half of the spearmen were mixed in the Qing army's phalanx, and their combat effectiveness in the confrontation was zero.

On the other hand, the Ming army, although the absolute number is small, has more than [-]% more firecrackers than the Jianlu. Coupled with the terrifying firepower of a large number of rifled rifles, it is an overwhelming advantage to use firecrackers to shoot against each other.

However, there are still 6000 soldiers in the Jianlu infantry battle formation, and it takes a process to defeat them all at once. The soldiers who were not killed in the back row just now, under the strict orders of the officers, have more and more soldiers. Many people began to shoot back with guns.

In this way, the battle formations of the two sides began to fire guns at each other at a distance of sixty or seventy steps, and each of them kept getting shot and fell down, while the living people still gritted their teeth and repeated the process of reloading, aiming, and shooting until they were also shot. Get hit or crush your opponent.

It is not unreasonable for this cruel way of fighting to be called "queuing and shooting" by later generations. The comparison is who has stronger firepower and who has a stronger will to fight. The party that shakes first will lose!
However, after the shooting lasted seven or eight rounds, some people in the Qing army began to jump and scold their mothers-the firecrackers in their hands got stuck!
The sky-high price of spring steel that Zhu Linmi sold to Cai Shiying came into effect.These so-called "fine steels" were originally brittle and hard high-carbon steels, but he added sulfur to make them even more brittle. At this time, after continuous and repeated bending, metal fatigue finally occurred and broke on the spot.

In fact, this kind of situation happened as early as when Luck Dehun's troops fought with the Shandong Rebels, but the intensity of that battle was too low, only twenty or thirty guns had problems, and Luck Dehun only regarded it as an isolated phenomenon.

But right now the armies of both sides are shooting at each other at extremely high speed, and the situation of broken springs has begun to appear on a large scale.Once the spring of the flintlock is broken, it cannot be fired, and the gunner can only stare blankly.

At the same time, voices such as "the blunderbuss is stuck", "it seems that the reed is broken", "my blunderbuss can't be used" kept appearing in the Qing army's formation, making the captive soldiers who could still use the blunderbuss also begin to doubt themselves. weapons come.Immediately, in order to "test" whether the firecracker was intact, many people repeatedly pulled the hammer for an empty test, which actually caused the spring that could be used a few times to break in advance.

"Damn it! I'm broken too!"

"There is really a problem with the gun!"

"This is a fart!"

With more and more curses raised, more gunners of the Qing army reluctantly joined the ranks of "inspection"...

(End of this chapter)