The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 72 Rolling
"My lord, why don't we use this cannon to bombard the Ming army?" One of Zhao Ju's confidantes pointed at the cannon on the ground.

Zhao Ju frowned and shook his head, not to mention whether the cavalry around him would use cannons, but the most important thing was that he hadn't seen any ram sticks, cannon brushes, etc.Obviously these things have been taken away by the Ming army.

In fact, he didn't notice that one of the most important things was missing - the squib.To be on the safe side, the Dragon Guard artillery manual stipulates that this thing must be carried by the lighter.

All of a sudden, Zhao Ju heard the sound of horse hooves coming from the side and rear. He reined in his horse and turned his head to look, only to see a group of Dragon Guard hussars rushing forward in a neat formation.

In the process of raiding the artillery position just now, nearly half of his troops were killed or injured, but they encountered the slippery artillery of the Dragon Guards, so they had nothing to gain.

At this time, facing the superior number of Ming cavalry, he had no intention of fighting at all, and immediately urged his horse to flee, followed by the hussars.

Seeing that the enemy cavalry was forced to retreat, Chen Pengfei immediately led the artillerymen around and returned to their positions.

The infantry line of the Dragon Guards and the infantry phalanx of the Qing Army were both rushing forward, and the distance between them narrowed rapidly.

The distance between the two sides was less than a hundred steps, but neither of them fired their guns.

Ninety steps apart, still no shot.

Ke Yongsheng, who was in the distance, saw this scene and was so nervous that he was sweating profusely.He knew that he had met his opponent this time, a terrifying opponent.

Due to the small gap between the lead bullet and the barrel of the smoothbore gun, the fired bullet does not fly straight, and the bullet does not rotate, so the farther the distance is, the worse the accuracy will be.

Therefore, when the two armies are at war, whoever shoots first will suffer.Shooting at a distance will not cause much damage to the enemy, and the enemy will quickly approach the salvo while you are reloading, causing a large number of casualties in an instant.

It's just theory. In a life-and-death battlefield, when a normal person sees an enemy with a musket approaching, his first reaction is to shoot him first.

If you want to refrain from shooting, you must undergo rigorous training, supplemented by iron-like discipline.

It is a hundred times harder not to shoot than to shoot!
Eighty steps apart!
Seventy steps apart!
All of a sudden, the infantry of the Dragon Guards under the command of the officer roared in unison: "Kill!"

Thousands of people yelled the word "Kill" with almost the same voice, soaring into the sky, and the sound wave seemed to pass through the Qing army's phalanx, and the astonishing momentum instantly made some timid soldiers tremble.

Finally, someone pulled it out with a hand, and there was a bang, and white smoke came out of the muzzle.

The sound seemed to wake up the gunners around him, and someone immediately fired guns, and soon, the Qing army's position was full of noise.

Ke Yongsheng stared blankly at the Ming army who was still marching forward in an orderly formation, with only two words on his trembling lips, "It's over..."

At a distance of [-] steps, only the [-] heavy-duty blunderbusses of the Qing army could cause damage to the Dragon Guards.

Moreover, due to the five-row deep arrangement of the Morris phalanx, there are no more than eighty heavy-duty blunderbusses that can be fired each time.For these eighty guns, due to the distance, most of the lead bullets flew to nowhere.

As for the Lumi blunderbuss with three coins, they couldn't penetrate the cotton armor of the Ming infantry at seventy paces away.

At the moment when the sound of the guns sounded, the infantry line of the Dragon Guards rushed forward.

At the same time, the gunners in the first row of the Qing army retreated, and the gunners in the second row stepped forward.

The heavy-duty blunderbuss bought by Ke Yongsheng is actually a Spanish heavy musket. Although the firepower is fierce, but because it weighs more than 20 kilograms, it needs to be supported by a wooden frame to fire, and the operation is extremely troublesome.

As soon as the gunners in the second row of the Qing army put the wooden frame in place, the Ming army had rushed to about fifty paces, and the whole army shouted in unison: "Let go!"

It is completely different from the Qing army's row-by-row method of firing guns. The Longwei Army shoots three rows at the same time.

All of a sudden, there was a flash of fire, accompanied by the sound of the sky falling and the earth cracking.

Originally, the gap between the queues of the Dragon Guards was half smaller than that of the Qing army, and they were all gunners. In addition, the whole army fired at the same time, and in an instant, almost all the gunners on the Qing army's side who had just set up their guns were overturned.

Ke Yongsheng stared wide-eyed—the entire Ming army fired in salvo!Then it will take a long time for their follow-up reloading. If the wolf gunners rush up to fight melee at this time...

Zhu Yanghua, who was in charge of commanding the phalanx of the Qing army, also discovered this, and was overjoyed, and immediately ordered the wolf soldiers to charge.

It should be said that Ke Yongsheng's private soldiers were well trained. They suffered heavy casualties from the salvo just now, but they persevered and did not collapse.

At this time, when they heard the command to charge and the war supervisor was threatening with a knife behind them, they hesitated for a while, but still howled and swarmed forward.

On the other hand, the Dragon Guards issued the command "quick reload".

The soldiers stuffed the fixed-load ammunition into the barrel of their guns, knocked on the ground a few times, and then raised their guns to shoot. The whole process took only ten seconds.

At this time, the wolf gunmen of the Qing army had just run more than 30 steps.

There was a burst of firecrackers, and at a distance of less than twenty steps, nearly [-] flintlocks almost never missed a shot.The wolf hand who had just run halfway overturned halfway in an instant!
The rest of the wolves were stunned, and the number of people around them suddenly decreased by half, and the originally dense formation became sparse at this moment.

The firepower of the Ming army on the opposite side is simply too terrifying!The seemingly thin three rows of dark green fronts are like the threshold of hell, anyone who gets close will die!
No one dared to continue forward, and as the first person dropped the weapon in his hand and turned to run away, the defeat immediately infected all the Qing soldiers, and the large group of people turned around and ran desperately.

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