Chapter 375 374 Metal Storm

Chapter 375 374 Metal Storm

"Boom boom boom"

With the start of the fourth round of shotgun fire, the lethality of the Ming army's artillery was fully revealed at this time.

"Ah, ah, ah"

Continuous screams came from the cavalry queue, and cavalry and horses were constantly lying on the ground, wailing and wailing.

And this time the blow came not only from those Fran cannons, "Bang, bang, bang, bang."

In the roar of the team officer, more than 200 soldiers in the first row fired their blunderbuss, then turned around and walked back from one side. The Ming soldiers in the second row stood on the first row, put down their blunderbuss and pointed at them. Aim for the cavalryman in front to pull the trigger.

Thousands of cavalrymen fell to the sound of cannons and cannons.

The impact formation of three thousand people had been shattered by several blows. The remaining knights no longer had the courage to continue rushing forward, even if the faces of the Ming soldiers had clearly appeared in front of them. , but what made them even more frightened were the black iron pipes.

No one knew whether the thing sprayed out from inside would hit them at the next moment, but in their eyes, it seemed like countless tubes were aimed at them.

They were timid.

Facing the Ming army's continuous firearm attacks, I don't know who finally couldn't bear the pressure and took the lead in riding back.

"It's safe to stay away from here."

This is what the survivors thought, and the instinct to survive quickly infected everyone like a plague.

The Mongolian households behind the formation were also frightened by the firepower of the Ming army. They did not expect that the three thousand Ming army on the opposite side were actually equipped with so many firearms, and the power of the intensive firing of iron rods was so powerful.

In his opinion, even the Ming army fortresses he had attacked did not seem to have so many firearms.

The queue of 3,000 men seemed to have lost 20 to 30% of its troops before they joined the formation. Fortunately, he did not send any of his own men or the Great Khan's men. At any rate, he got close to the Ming army's formation, but his expression changed the next moment.

The cavalry who had withstood several rounds of attacks actually ran back, and all the previous losses were wasted.

At this time, the faces of Mongolian Qianhu were very ugly, and they wanted to go up and chop off the heads of these people.

This is a very bad start. If the attack encounters a setback later, even the elite men under his command will imitate these guys. Perhaps only the Royal Guards will persevere.

However, that guard cannot be thrown into the battlefield easily. The Ming army on the opposite side has shown strong combat power and cannot be ignored.

"This is the person you brought, huh, trash."

Mongolian Wanhu just said fiercely to Qiu Fu beside him.

In fact, Qiu Fu was confused at this time. Whose subordinates were the Ming army in front of him? How could they have so many firearms?

Firearms are not expensive, but training a skilled firearms force is very expensive because it requires a large amount of gunpowder.

At the rear of the Ming army's formation, Liu Han also stared at the scene in front of him in stunned silence.

The infantry of the Ming army could repel the charging cavalry formation in the field. This was not a turtle shell huddled together to form a military formation, but a scattered combat formation.

The most important thing is that when the Ming army's infantry formations attack the cavalry, they are often compressed together, making them the best target for the opponent's cavalry archers. They will surround the infantry and throw rain of arrows into the queue, which is difficult to prevent. of.

But what is the situation in front of me? The troops are fully deployed, relying on the power of firearms to repel the cavalry attack. Although the people rushing up this time do not look like Mongolians, they are still serious cavalry charges. Both sides have equal strength.

Liu Han unconsciously reached out and rubbed his chin, thinking about whether he should also recruit such a team to test its power?

As a general, who doesn't want to have a team of men who can fight? This is not only the foundation for a stable life, but also the capital for promotion and promotion.

Even if his official career is coming to an end, won’t he still have sons and grandsons?

This kind of military training method can be passed down from generation to generation in the family.

As for firearms, go to the Military Preparation Road to see if there are any. If not, you can collect some of the firearms sent to the military fort.

But we can't take too much. The soldiers below don't have firearms, so the battle will be more difficult. We still have to go to the capital's military department and the arsenal department.

No wonder the imperial court has built so many firearms over the years. It seems that they are more powerful when used in large quantities, but those people have darker hearts and want a lot of money.

However, from what I saw today, it seems to be worth the price.

Liu Han's mind was spinning at this time, and he was already planning to organize a similar force to try when he went back.

Immediately, he looked at the wheelbarrows again.

This thing is not bad. There is a shield in the front, and firearms and ammunition can be placed on the car, as well as food and grass. It is better than recruiting civilians.

This Yu Dayou is really quite capable, and the things he produces are really good.

At this time, Liu Han had forgotten his opinion of Yu Dayou yesterday, and now he completely reversed it.

The Ming Army's central military formation was already shrouded in thick smoke. The acrid smell of smoke made many people feel uncomfortable, and coughs could be heard from time to time in the military formation.

In previous drills, there was no such high-intensity firing. The Fran machine gun almost finished shooting two rounds of cartridges. The gunman was pretty good and only fired one round. In the second round, the first row of soldiers completed the shooting action. The enemy on the opposite side ran out of the shooting range, leaving only corpses on the ground.

It seems that there are still injured people. Some people were lucky enough not to be trampled to death when the cavalry returned, and they were still struggling to move their injured bodies.

Perhaps knowing that it would be difficult to receive treatment even if he crawled back, the still moving body moved to one side of the battlefield, perhaps because he wanted to crawl out of the fighting area.

He could avoid being shot by the Ming army's firearms, but he had no confidence in avoiding the charge of the cavalry. If he continued to lie here, he would only be trampled to pieces by the galloping horses.

Yu Dayou was also shocked at this time. Although he had imagined such a scene of thousands of guns firing countless times, it was not until this moment that he realized that it seemed completely different from what he had imagined.

The power of the metal storm was finally demonstrated for the first time on the eastern land.

After repelling the first round of Tatar attack, Yu Dayou did not immediately order the Ming army to move forward. He was waiting for the opponent's second attack.

The distance between the two sides was not far away, but they still did not enter the maximum strike range of the solid bullets.

On the opposite side, there was finally action in the Anda army formation. With the sound of horns and the waving of many flags, two teams of Tatar cavalry came out of the formation. They passed by the Banshengcheng cavalry who retreated hastily and advanced. The horse's speed is continuously increased in the process.

The original relaxed expression on the faces of the Tatar soldiers had disappeared. They saw the power of the Ming army's fire strike just now, but they could not look back after the military order was issued, otherwise the consequences would be more uncomfortable than living.

"Solid bomb preparation."

During the brief exchange of Tatar attack sequences, the Ming army also returned to pre-war preparations. Naturally, the gunners did not change. It was just that the auxiliary soldiers of the Fran cannon were busy using small hooks to hook out the originally loaded shotguns and reload them. Replace it with solid bullets.

"emission."

As the team officer roared loudly.

"Boom boom boom"

A series of dense gunfire echoed across the grassland again.

The first cavalry dispatch of the Anda tribe was two thousand cavalry from two thousand households. They rushed towards the Ming army's central formation from the left and right sides.

The Ming army's response was exactly the same. The gunner slightly adjusted the muzzle pointing of the Franco machine gun, and then fired the shells.

Just when the two thousand men of the Anda tribe faced the Ming army's artillery fire, the horn sounded again in the Anda tribe's military camp. Soon, two thousand cavalrymen from the Anda tribe slowly stepped out of the military formation and began to accelerate.

In a short period of time, thousands of households in Mongolia have made their own decisions.

The Fran cannon has a slightly longer range, and it can't hit the Ming army even if it is thrown from a horse, so the only way is to get closer with a certain amount of casualties and shoot them down with bows and arrows.

Bows and horses are the pride of the grassland people. Even though the Ming army showed signs of abandoning bows and arrows and using firearms, the grassland people still scorned this.

The disadvantages of slow loading of the original firearms seem to be being changed by the new design, but this will still not change the prairie people's prejudice against firearms.

It was no different from before. After the Ming army's artillery sounded, the Tatar cavalry in front kept falling off their horses, but no one behind them stopped and continued to advance on their bodies.

Withstanding the bombardment of the Ming army's Franco machine guns, the Tatar cavalry finally rushed to a distance where they could throw their bows and arrows. They sat up straight, raised their arms at an angle of about 45 degrees and shot the arrows in their hands, and then immediately bowed again. Lying on the horse's back, preparing the second arrow, what greeted them on the opposite side was dense scattershot and rows of lead bullets.

It is impossible to predict the hit rate when shooting from a very long distance on a bumpy horseback.

Fortunately, the Ming army was gathered together. As long as they shot over and within that range, they would have a chance to cause damage. As for the shields on the chariots in front, they had almost no protective effect against arrows swooping down from above.

Amidst the masses of Anda's cavalry falling off their horses, there were also unlucky ones in the Ming army's formation who were concentrated by arrows falling from the sky, and casualties inevitably occurred.

However, those soldiers who fell to the ground wailing were quickly stuffed with a thick wooden stick into their mouths and then dragged away.

"Boom, boom, bang, bang, bang"

The sound of gunfire rang out continuously in the Ming army's military formation. Although the military formation was once again shrouded in gunpowder smoke, the battle situation ahead could probably be seen clearly.

At this time, Liu Han had already seen the cavalry behind him pulling out the swords in his hands. He knew that these cavalry were not only armed to protect the firearmsmen, but also the force to maintain the military formation.

At this time, if someone ran back from the military formation, the cavalry in front of them would chop off his head without hesitation.

Liu Han could already feel the smell of gunpowder smoke in the air from his nostrils at this time, and he felt very uncomfortable.

He now regretted why he didn't bring a team of archers out.

He has already seen that although the firearms of the three thousand people are sharp, they are still a little weak after all. Especially when the Anta Department dispatched four thousand households at a time to rush in batches, although the firepower did not seem to be interrupted, they still fired continuously. , but after all it’s not violent enough.

If at this time, there is a queue of infantry archers behind the gunners, then they can make up for the lack of firepower.

The foot bow and the horse bow are different. The horse bow is a short bow and has a limited range. The Tatars rely on horse speed and projectile to shoot arrows into the Ming army formation.

The walking bow is longer, has more power, and can shoot farther. The key is that the shooting speed is much faster than the rotating blunderbuss.

Of course, arm strength will limit the number of arrows an archer can shoot in a battle, but at critical times, bows are more reliable.

By observing behind the formation, Liu Han still made this judgment in his mind at this time. He would add a team of archers to his newly formed army.

However, in front of him, Yu Dayou, who was behind the Chinese military firearms weaponry, also frowned slightly at this time. There were not enough birdgunners. If the number of birdgunners was doubled and there were two thousand birdguns, maybe the situation would be much better.

In the process of thinking, he saw the sky in front of him suddenly darken out of the corner of his eye. He waved the riding crop in his hand like a reflex, and then felt the riding whip touching something and passing him sideways.

I looked back slightly, and saw that it was an arrow thrust into the ground diagonally, with the tail still trembling slightly in the air.

I don’t know how long it took, but the sound of gunfire and the sound of people shouting and horses neighing throughout the prairie gradually disappeared.

The four thousand elite cavalrymen of Anda's tribe collapsed after paying the price of more than a thousand deaths.

They couldn't get close to the Ming army's formation. Once they got close, the dense scattered bullets would fly in and hit their bodies. Countless warriors had already confirmed with their corpses that the front was a death zone.

A little further away, some Tatars were also hit by the iron bullets of the Ming army, but they only felt severe pain. They may have suffered menstrual injuries and broken bones, but at least they could still sit on their horses without falling off.

In such a situation, once you fall off the horse, you will almost die.

Like the cavalrymen in Bansheng City before, they were frightened when facing death. They reined in their horses and turned around. Even if they withstood the blows of the Ming army's projectiles with their backs, at least they would not fall off their horses. As long as they went back, they might be saved. .

A gust of wind blew through, dispelling the smoke that enveloped the Ming army's formation.

While the military formations of both sides were still facing off, the originally empty ground was already filled with corpses of men and horses.

"Have the gunner load three solid rounds."

Yu Dayou gave an order to the soldiers beside him, and one of his own soldiers immediately went down to deliver the order.

Now there are still six complete Qianhu queues in Anda's department, three of which should be Anda Khan's royal guards, and their combat power should not be underestimated.

As for those thousands of households that were destroyed, even if they were reorganized, the soldiers who had long lost their courage were just sheep who panicked when they encountered danger. As long as one person was timid and chose to retreat, he would become their leader and there was nothing to fear.

hold on.

Yu Dayou thought in his heart.

He suffered more than a hundred losses, nearly a hundred of them were gunners, and only a dozen of the more unlucky chariot auxiliaries were injured by arrows.

In fact, the Fran machine gunners standing at the front of the Ming army were the safest presence in this battle. They hid behind the high shield wall and fired artillery.

Auxiliary soldiers were quickly added to the formation, and the Ming army's formation was complete again.

Although the proficiency of the auxiliary soldiers is slightly lower, they need to make up for the lack of quantity at this time, so they don't care much.

But Yu Dayou soon discovered that the Tatar army seemed to be motionless this time.

After the defeated army retreated, there was no movement from the other side.

It's not that Mongolian Wanhu doesn't want to continue the attack, it's that he is in a dilemma now. The combat effectiveness of this Ming army is a bit evil.