Ming Empire

Chapter 62 Shooting, Shooting

The five thousand sergeants of the first battalion, under the two wings of the cavalry led by the deputy commander Zhao Tai, quickly formed an array outside the north gate of Datong.

The soldiers of the first battalion have undergone rigorous training during this period, and their organizational discipline has improved a lot. They have basically achieved the loosening of orders and prohibitions, and their overall coordination ability is not comparable to that of ordinary troops.All the soldiers of the first battalion were equipped with muskets improved by Cao Yue, with a longer range.They can be said to be fully clothed, and there are grenades and daggers in melee.

After personally inspecting the training results of the first battalion, Cao Yue can say with great confidence that the first battalion is now the "No. [-] Army in the World".

This battle will be the famous battle of the first battalion. There are less than [-] Jiannu troops, and they are preparing to launch an active attack. Cao Yue believes that as long as Jiannu dares to keep charging, at most one hour later, under the city of Datong, It becomes a slaughterhouse.

These nearly ten thousand horses will become the target of the first battalion.

The Jiannu who attacked the city of Datong were all cavalry. While the soldiers watching the battle on the top of the city waited in fear, they formed their positions and were ready to attack.Under Geng Zhongming's personal order, the first attack queue of 2000 people has been set up.

Following the order of the former army commander, the 2000 people urged their horses and began to charge.

Because there is ice and snow everywhere, in order to prevent the horses from slipping, whether it is the Jiannu army or the Ming cavalry, they all tied non-slip cloth strips or other things on the horseshoes of the horses, but even this will affect the speed of the horses. Charge in the ice and snow, the speed is definitely not as fast as usual.Cao Yue also thought of this point, so he was full of confidence in winning today's battle.

The impact speed of the horse slowed down, and the musketeers had a better chance to fire one or two more rounds of ammunition. One or two rounds of muskets were quite lethal.

In the field of vision, Jiannu's cavalry began to speed up, and Cao Yue personally gave the order to fire the artillery.

Following Cao Yue's order, dozens of various artillery placed on the top of the city were fired in a certain order.

With the deafening sound, in the black smoke after another, flowering bullets and solid lead bullets fell towards Jiannu's stormtroopers one after another.In the "rumbling" explosion of the flower bomb, some unlucky Jiannu and their horses were blown into the air.Where the solid bullets slid past, the Jiannu who bumped into them turned into fleshy flesh amidst the screams, and the solid bullets plowed a bloody "passage".

Jiannu had long expected that the Ming army's cannons on the top of the city would bombard them, so they charged in a sparse formation, and the distance between sergeants was relatively long, so as to minimize the damage caused by the artillery bombardment. After all, today's artillery fire density is not high.When they rush to the front of the enemy formation, they gather together a little bit, so that they can re-form a dense formation and inflict great damage on the opponent.

After a round of artillery fire, the Ming army in charge of the artillery flute on the top of the city was busy cleaning the barrel, cooling the barrel, and preparing to fire again.

Taking advantage of the gap between the artillery fire, Jiannu's queue began to gather, and their speed also began to increase.

The place where the slaves were originally formed was only two or three miles away from Datong City. The impact speed of the cavalry was not slow after all. Before the second round of artillery had time to shoot, they had rushed to less than one mile from the position of the first battalion. The place.

"Team one, get ready!" Cao Jie, who was quite nervous, roared out the order in a trembling voice.

This was the first time he commanded troops to fight against the enemy alone. Fortunately, Cao Yue was on the top of the city behind him, giving him confidence.However, he was still very nervous. In the severe cold weather, there was sweat on his forehead.

Today's muskets have a range of about one hundred to 150 steps, about 150 to 200 meters.This distance is far better than bows and arrows, and also surpasses ordinary crossbows. This is the advantage of firearms, and it is also the main reason why Cao Yue believes that although firearms are not advanced, they still outperform bows and arrows.

Soon, Jiannu's first wave of attacking troops were about to enter the range of muskets. Cao Jie exhausted all his strength and shouted the command "shoot".

Following Cao Jie's order, a puff of black smoke rose from the formation of the Ming army, and almost at the same time, there was a deafening explosion of gunpowder.The first group of [-] sergeants fired the ammunition in their guns almost at the same time after Cao Jie gave the order.

After firing, they retreated very decisively to the end, and then the sergeants of the second team, armed with muskets, stepped forward immediately and aimed their guns.

Nearly half of the more than a thousand sergeants in the first team had followed Cao Yue to participate in the attack on Shengjing. Their psychological quality was far better than that of ordinary sergeants, and their shooting skills were also better. Cao Yue just hoped that they could do well. demonstration.

Following the shooting of the first team of sergeants, the fast-running Jiannu cavalry fell down in a large area. Countless tragic cries and the mournful cry of war horses resounded under the city of Datong. The bright red blood and the ice, snow and mud under their feet Mixed together, a mess.

"Second team, shoot!" Cao Jie's order roared again, this time his voice was no longer trembling, but extremely high-pitched.

The death and bloodiness of the enemy greatly stimulated the soldiers and strongly stimulated their animal nature. There is nothing more exciting than harvesting the death of the enemy from a long distance with a musket in hand.

"Third team, shoot!"

"Fourth team, shoot!"

"Fifth team, shoot!"

"First team, shoot!"

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Cao Jie's voice quickly became hoarse. Because he inhaled too much black smoke, he couldn't help coughing violently, choking his tears and nose.But he didn't feel any sadness, and his heart was filled with incomparable excitement.

Facing the orderly firing of our Ming army's muskets, the Jiannu sergeants who came rushing fell in pieces besides the bow and arrow shooting. After three rounds of [-] batches of musket fire, Jiannu's four-round charge All were disintegrated, and at least [-] Jiannu and their horses fell to a place about [-] to [-] steps away from the first battalion. Without the opportunity to continue fighting, their lives cannot be extended after today.

Such a result left Cao Jie stunned and excited.

Cao Yue on the top of the city saw all of this through a telescope through the thick smoke. Such a result did not surprise him much.Although matchlock guns are backward, their failure rate is lower than that of flintlock guns in such severe cold weather. As long as the firearms do not fail and the matchlock can be ignited, the shooting can be successful.The nearly [-] rounds of ammunition fired by the dense formation of [-] sergeants in each team is bound to cause great damage to Jiannu, and the musket shooting is almost uninterrupted. Although Jiannu's cavalry attacks are continuous, the musket fire is continuous. The Jiannu were not given a chance at all, and they couldn't even rush into the range of the bow and arrow.

Seeing that Jiannu's attack was completely disintegrated, and there were no more established Jiannu cavalry to attack, Cao Yue on the top of the city gave the order to encircle and suppress very decisively.Following Cao Yue's order, under the command of Zhao Tai, the cavalry who originally guarded the two wings of the first battalion bypassed the battlefield full of casualties and killed the remaining Jiannu.

The other generals who were on standby from the other gates also rushed out from the city gate after hearing the charge horn, and rushed towards the remnants of Jianu.

(End of this chapter)