Late Ming Dynasty: Conquering the world starting from riding and cutting

The words are rough and the reasoning is not rough!

Now the five tribes are ready to take action.

Seeing the morale of the more than a thousand regiments around him greatly increased, Deng Wulang happily showed his yellow front teeth and made great achievements now.

The group training of the five major families is not like that of the Keelung Army. New recruits receive queue training from the beginning when they enter the camp. They first train in fighting skills, and then cooperate with each other as a team.

Even the team that attacked the Keelung Army just now also took advantage of the refugees. It happened to choose a moment when the Keelung Army had the smallest number of people and the largest number of refugees to attack the advancing team. Only then did they succeed, and then rearrange their formations, too. It took a long time to sort it out, giving the Keelung Army some time to breathe, rest, and tidy up.

Amidst the sound of trumpets, five hundred gunmen were in the lead, and were guarded by three hundred pikemen on both sides. After that, refugees like a silent tide wrapped around more than a hundred carts. At the side and rear of the team, there were guards. Zhou personally led a team of three hundred sword and shield soldiers to suppress the position.

Although 80% of the team of nearly ten thousand people were a refugee organization, they were still full of anger and hatred and rushed towards the group training of the five families!

In the moments before the two sides fought, the musketeers got a gap to cool down the barrels of their muskets. They methodically poured water from the kettles around their waists and poured it on the cotton cloth to wipe the barrels.

The damp cotton made a slight hissing sound from the heat on the barrel.

It takes roughly three to five years to train a qualified archer, but three months is the longest training period for a musketeer.

This is why firearms were used on a large scale in the late Ming Dynasty. Although the firearms of the Ming Dynasty were pretty good, they were nothing compared to Keelung.

He was full of confidence when he was shot by a gunman in front of the battle!

There were no archers or artillery in the formations of the five families on the opposite side. They probably felt that the artillery was too heavy to be used in this field battle, so they left a lot of bronze cannons in the village. As the regiment trainers came out to rob, there were only dozens of fire guns, which were used by the personal soldiers around the leaders.

Seeing that the troops on the opposite side were like mountains and seas, although they were not so roaring and violent, the silence and silence still put great pressure on people. Several leaders led their horses towards the formation in unison, for fear that they would be in danger.

Walking into the formation, he kept ordering: "The fire gunmen come forward to us and teach them a lesson!"

In the eyes of the children of the five major families, their own fire guns are invincible in the world. They were bought at a high price from the overseas Frankies, with one gun costing 30 taels of silver.

If Weizhou on the opposite side knew this price, they would definitely curse. These landowners are really rich. The cost of their own Keelung 1627 flintlock guns is only 7 taels and 3 yuan. The most important thing is that they are flintlock guns.

The flintlock gun is a product of more than one era that is superior to the matchlock gun. No wonder Li Zicheng likes to ransack homes when he rebels in the future. These wealthy families have a lot of money!

In a hurry, dozens of firecrackers rushed to the front of the formation and fired firecrackers at the Keelung Army team dozens of steps away. As the triggers fell, their matchlocks also fired at the opposite side with great dedication. Projectiles were fired.

To put it bluntly, the quality of the firecrackers in the hands of these regiment trainers is much better than the firecrackers in the hands of the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers. At the very least, every firecracker can be fired. Rather than being like the blunderbuss in the hands of the Ming army, most of them are inaudible.

Moreover, the Ming Army made many mistakes and accidents with its firearms in combat. Many firearms were prone to exploding due to quality issues during battle. In addition, because of the expensive gunpowder, many Ming Army troops were reluctant to use them for training on weekdays.

As a result, the soldiers' psychological quality was not up to standard during actual combat, and they could not keep their composure and could not help but fire before the enemy troops entered the effective range. Before the enemy entered the optimal shooting range, the ammunition loaded in the gun was already used up, and it could not stop the enemy at all.

It's just a pity that the regiments of the five major families made the same mistake as the Ming army. They couldn't wait to open fire without waiting for the Keelung army to enter the effective range.

I don't know if they were arrogant, but before the smoke dissipated, bursts of laughter erupted from the position, as if they had only to fight out to declare victory.

The result was also very clear. The flying projectiles moved feebly through the ranks of the Keelung Army, only occasionally hitting a few bodies and making a few muffled groans.

Seeing the bursts of smoke and fire coming out of the five team training teams, along with the scattered sound of firecrackers, Weizhou couldn't help but smile up to the sky. It seemed that these guys didn't know how to use the firearms in their hands correctly!

The Keelung Army is not the little bandits in the countryside who have never seen the world and run away after hearing a few thunders.

Since you don't know how, let me teach you how to use firearms to defeat the enemy!

However, the tuition is a little more expensive, and it costs lives!

"Give me the call! Order the musketeers from the front team to press forward and teach them how to use fire blunderbuss!"

Hearing the attack horn blown by the trumpet, the musketeers lined up in five lines and began to march slowly south. They were not worried about their own life or death at all. They had just fired a round of muskets from the opposite side. Know the enemy's trump card.

The battle between masters only takes place in a split second, and if the enemy's trump card is so weak, then there is nothing to be afraid of!

As the musketeers slowly advanced, the entire team also began to slowly move forward. The spearmen on both wings who were guarding the musketeers at the front opened a slope diagonally, waiting for the musketeers to use gunpowder and projectiles to open a gap in the group of dog thieves on the opposite side, and then quickly rushed forward and harvested with their spears. Human life!

Seeing the enemy's large group of troops moving forward slowly, but moving towards him with great determination, Deng Wulang began to feel a little uneasy.

On the horse, he looked at the fire gun troops in front of the formation and yelled loudly: "Fire the gun! Why not fire the gun!"

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"Fifth brother! After firing the firegun, you have to recharge the gunpowder and matchlock. It's very slow!" The leader of his personal soldiers explained to him the difficulty of the musketeers.

"But these pirate musketeers are coming up!"

The eldest son of the Bai family is also the person who leads his own team training. Seeing the uniform and neat team heading towards him like a moving mountain, he couldn't help but feel a little frightened and trembled.

"Goro, it's too late, it's too late!"

"Tianpai players! Rattan players come forward!" Deng Wulang suddenly shouted loudly.

"Let the Tengpai players step forward and line up. When they have fired the first round of fire cannons and reloaded the gunpowder lead bullets, the Tengpai players will step forward and chop them to death with a machete!"

Speaking of the armies in Lingnan and Lingxi areas, we have to mention a kind of weapon and equipment, rattan armor.

Marquis Wu suffered a big loss from this piece of equipment during his southern expedition. This piece of equipment was also a weapon used in both places since ancient times.

Nearly one-third of the people in the five group training companies use such shields. They are all made from old vines in the mountains, which are processed into rattan plates and given to sword and shield soldiers for use. Compared with the rattan plates of the officers and soldiers in the Lingnan area, the rattan plates of the five major families are more sophisticated. It needs to be soaked in oil many times and then dried for a year before it can take shape, not to mention its toughness.

Deng Wulang once personally tested that such a shield can effectively resist arrow projectiles at a distance of fifty steps.

As for within fifty steps, that is not the advantage of the musketeers!

I have my shield at hand so I can come forward and mingle with you. After I hold you back, people from various villages and towns behind me will rush out to cheer me on. Why worry that your belongings are not mine? !