The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 352 The Rifled Gun Shooter (recommendation ticket requested)

Casualties on both sides are constantly rising!

But generally speaking, the Ming army defending the city suffered much fewer casualties than the Qing army.

One is because of the condescending position of the Ming army, and the other is because of the fortifications on the bastion.

Although the Qing army moved several small cannons to the trenches outside the fortress, the shells of those small cannons were all solid bullets or shotgun shells.

They all rely on kinetic energy to kill the enemy!

Due to the existence of the wall stacks, the head of the fortress formed an anti-curved surface, so solid bullets and shotgun bullets could cause little casualties to the Ming army.

Unless it happened that the Ming army poked its head out, aimed down and shot, and was hit by a shell, it would not be so easy for the Qing army's artillery to inflict damage on the Ming army.

What can really cause a lot of damage to the Ming army defending the city is not the artillery of the Qing army, but the archers of the Qing army.

Every time a musketeer from the Ming army sticks out his head and shoots at the Qing army below the city.

The rain of arrows from the Qing army came almost exactly!
The archers of the Qing army were quite precise in their shooting skills, and almost no arrows would miss.

It caused huge damage to the Ming army!
Especially those Manchurian soldiers who used heavy arrows, the arrows they shot could not be resisted even if the soldiers of the Ming army were wearing armor.

The two sides fired fiercely, the sound of musket shooting, and the sound of bowstring trembling sounded one after another.

The battle situation fell into a stalemate, but judging from the exchange ratio, the Ming army did not suffer.

Every time, the Qing army suffered a large number of casualties, while the Ming army suffered very few casualties!
After all, the defense of the bastion is no joke!

The reason why the Ming army was able to attack the bastions of the Dutch and Spaniards so smoothly.

It depends not only on trenching, but also on the firepower coverage of flowering bullets.

Every time the Ming army attacked, they first used flowering bombs to carry out saturation bombing to suppress the enemy's firepower, and only then did infantry enter the city.

Although the Qing army could learn the siege routines of the Ming army, they couldn't get the flowering ammunition that the Ming army used to suppress it with firepower.

Therefore, their imitation can only imitate a four-faced image!
Digging trenches did indeed reduce the casualties of the Qing army during the offensive, but it was still impossible to capture a bastion.

Shi Lang let out a breath of foul air slowly, and then spoke.

"Ming's siege method is really good. During the attack, the casualties suffered by our soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty have been significantly reduced."

"But that's not enough!"

Those who were sent to the front to shoot against the Ming army were all elite archers of the Qing army.

Now, those archers are being consumed at a terrifying speed!

Broken corpses, or Qing army archers with broken arms and legs, were carried down every moment.

Among them, the Eight Banners soldiers who were taken care of by the Ming army's rifled guns, and the Eight Banners soldiers who used Manchurian bows were even more casualties.

Duolong looked at the corpses of the Manchurian soldiers being carried down continuously, with an ugly expression.

The musketeers of the Ming army were worthless, and a farmer could easily be on the battlefield after a month or two of training.

But the archers of the Qing army are not so easy to train!
It takes at least two or three years to cultivate a qualified archer.

Not to mention that the casualty ratio between the two sides has almost reached an astonishing ten to one, twenty to one.

Even if it was a one-for-one exchange, the Qing army would suffer a blood loss!
Musketeers are known as the cheapest army, not without reason.

"Admiral Shi, we can't continue fighting like this!"

"Let's wait for the miners from Jiangnan to come over, and then prepare to dig tunnels to blow up the city!"

Doron said.

If the fight continues like this, even if the Qing army can gnaw down Zhoushan, the elite of the Jiangnan Qing army in their hands will be wiped out.

Shi Lang also nodded, and said in a polite manner.

"Okay, order people to withdraw!"

The ear-piercing sound of gold ringing resounded across the battlefield, and the Qing army withdrew from the front line like a tide.

The war is temporarily suspended!

Except that the navy of the Ming army wandered back to harass the Qing army from time to time, the war entered a confrontation stage.

……

The confrontation between the two sides has lasted for more than ten days.

During this period of time, the archers of the Qing army ran outside the fort from time to time to shoot cold arrows.

The riflemen of the Ming army also hid in the dark, and would pull the trigger whenever the Qing army appeared outside the city.

The confrontation between you and me!
Inside and outside the fortress, the sound of bowstrings vibrating and crisp gunshots can be heard from time to time.

Facing the riflemen of the Ming army, the archers of the Qing army could not take much advantage.

Zhao Xiaosi crawled on the crenel, aiming his gun outside.

He was a rifleman in the Ming Army, and he was the best hunter in the village before joining the Anti-Qing Rebel Army in Zhoushan.

Relying on his sensitive eyes!

After the Restoration Army took over Zhoushan and reorganized the rebel army in Zhoushan.

Zhao Xiaosi was valued and trained as a rifled shooter.

After receiving a period of intensive training, he successfully became a rifleman of the Ming army.

Trying to adjust his breathing rate, he stared at the area he was in charge of outside the city without blinking.

Suddenly, he saw a bush shaking, and a little light flashed, which was the reflection of the foam nails on the cotton armor of the Qing army.

Zhao Xiaosi took a deep breath, adjusted his breathing, and judged the influence of wind direction and speed on shooting accuracy based on his own experience.

A moment later, a Qing army archer carefully poked his head out from the bushes, bent his bow and set an arrow, intending to shoot cold arrows in the direction of the fortress.

It's just that this Qing army archer has just poked his head out!
Snapped!
A gunshot sounded, and the cotton armor on the Qing army archer failed to block the bullets fired by the rifled gun.

In just an instant, a cloud of blood burst out from the chest of the Qing army archer.

The corpse fell to the ground, and after twitching slightly for a while, there was no more movement.

Zhao Xiaosi took out a small knife and made a notch on the butt of his favorite gun.

It means that he killed another Qing prisoner!
At this time, there were already eight notches of the same length on the butt of his gun.

After doing this, he got up from the ground, ready to reload his musket and prepare for the next snipe.

The shooting accuracy of the rifled gun is not bad, but it is only a muzzle-loading gun.

When loading, you need to get up from the ground to complete a complete set of loading actions.

Zhao Xiaosi took out the cleaning rod from under the gun body, cleaned the chamber, and then took out the cardboard fixed ammunition.

Bite open the package with his teeth, pour the granulated gunpowder into the chamber, and then stuff a Minie bullet into the chamber.

Finally, press it with a cleaning rod...

Suddenly, Zhao Xiaosi felt a chill in his back, as if he was being watched by some ferocious beast, his body subconsciously fell back and fell to the ground.

With a bang, an armor-piercing arrow commonly used by white-armored soldiers of the Qing army flew past his cheek!

With a bang, the armor-piercing arrow left a bloody gash on his face and shot at the wall of the fortress.

After the arrow sparked with the wall, the arrow was deeply embedded in the wall.

Zhao Xiaosi was lying on the ground, panting heavily, and the backlash came up like a tidal wave.

Just... just a little bit, he was going to die here!

The next moment, with a crisp snap, a rifleman of the Ming army not far from Zhao Xiaosi pulled the trigger.

The Qing army archer outside the fort who shot cold arrows at Zhao Xiaosi was instantly killed!
The man lay on the ground without getting up, but moved towards the side wall bit by bit.

After reaching the wall, he got up and leaned against the wall, looked towards Zhao Xiaosi, and asked.

"Little Four, are you okay!"

Zhao Xiaosi nodded and said.

"It's okay, I still want to avenge my parents and kill a few more Tartars, how could I die here!"

(End of this chapter)