呯呯呯呯......

With a shrill whistle, the battlefield suddenly rang out with the sound of a deafening volley of muskets!

The 32 musket companies belonging to the 16 Ming infantry battalions were now all in three horizontal columns, the first two of which could fire at the same time. That is, more than 2,500 Hongxing three-year arquebuses fired a salvo, and the momentum was incredible!

According to the memories of the soldiers who participated in the battle, the earth trembled with a loud noise, and people's eardrums were about to burst, so after the salvo, many people could not hear anything for a while. Therefore, there was no way to hear the whistle and the officers' orders, so they had to abandon the salvo and start scrambling the guns - the tactic of lining up to shoot and shoot a salvo was good in theory, and it was also common in later generations and on television. But on the battlefields of the 17th century, it was still quite difficult to do.

Because of the excessive power of muskets at that time, the movement was very loud, and the smoke was also very large (due to the quality of the gunpowder), after one or two salvos, the arquebusiers would lose control due to deafness and smoke interference, and had to disrupt the guns...... But it's good to scramble the gun, it can kill people, and the rate of fire is quite fast.

After a salvo, the battlefield that was originally quite refreshing was covered in choking smoke in an instant. Before the Qing musketeers fifty paces away could react, they were swept down by the merciless bullets, and those who were shot trembled and fell to the ground, and the rest of the people were also in a panic, and the originally neat team became chaotic at once.

However, their confusion did not last long, and order was restored under the bullet pressure of Niu Lu Zhangjing and Dadan Zhangjing - because the Ming army did not put the opponent within twenty paces of the distance before firing, but fired fifty paces away, so the casualties of the Qing musketeers were not very large.

Of course, there is a reason why they fight like this. First, the generals of the infantry of the Ming army now do not know what "god-like red shirts firing within 20 or 30 meters" are; The second is that the musketeers of the Qing army generally did not run so close for you to fight - in this period, the standard tactic of arquebusiers was to place their guns at a greater distance, rather than attacking the enemy's position. Charging is usually the job of pikemen, and musketeers can't let pikemen get paid for nothing, right?

Therefore, the Qing musketeers who reacted also stopped advancing, and fired at the Ming musketeers at a distance of about 50 paces.

The muskets on both sides were dozens of paces apart, and you went back and forth. The losses, of course, were large for the Qing army - they had a small number of musketeers, just over a thousand men, and they had poor shooting skills, poor quality of muskets in their possession, and poor gunpowder. Just received a salvo, and more than a hundred people were knocked down on the spot!

However, the firepower of the Ming musketeers was not enough to defeat them, after all, the two sides were separated by dozens of paces, and after a salvo and a burst of random gunfire, the battlefield was full of smoke, and it was impossible to aim at all, so the Ming army was also fighting indiscriminately......

However, the firing between the two sides did not last long, and it was temporarily stopped because the barrels of the Qing musketeers were too hot to continue to output firepower.

On the side of the Qing army, the musketeers breathed a sigh of relief and went to rest, replaced by preoccupied archers.

On the side of the Ming army, the company commanders of the musket company found that the enemy's musketeers had retreated, so they vigorously blew the whistle of the ceasefire. The arquebuses of the Ming gunners also needed time to cool down, and the officers wanted to organize one or two more salvos.

The spectacle of scrambling a gun fifty paces away is not pretty, and it is far less frightening than a salvo......

The archers of the Qing army used Qing bows of five to seven forces, and the bows of eight and ten forces were not prepared for the small soldiers of the peasants and soldiers, and now the Bayala soldiers of Duoduo are at this level - the casualties of the Eight Banners of Old Manchuria in recent years have been too serious, and the "Baturu" is not so easy to replenish!

The archers of the Qing army on the top now are actually the old peasants who went out of the pass, and they only gave Duoduo as tartars for the sake of the banner, which is not comparable to the previous musketeers - the musketeers are professional soldiers under Duoduo, and they are generally old Manchurian or old Han soldiers, so they have a strong will to fight. These archers were not good, they had already been shelled when they followed the musketeers just now, and they saw their own musketeers being killed all over the place (in fact, not many dead, a hundred or dozens in all), and they also saw many half-dead musketeers covered in blood and carried down, and let out a series of terrible screams......

Seeing this scene, the archers of the Qing army regretted it a little - so what are you greedy for? Being a tenant is a hard job, but it's safe! Now for two or three hundred acres of land, they run to the battlefield for people to shoot with muskets...... It doesn't seem like a good deal!

However, there is no regret medicine in the world, and the old Manchuria who supervised the war did not allow them to regret it!

At this point, I can only shoot arrows head-on.

However, they can still stay as far away as possible from the enemy...... It's safe to stay away!

So at 60 paces away, the archers did not dare to move forward, and there were dead people in front of them!

But how could the Manchurian officer who led the team agree? They all shouted and cursed.

"His grandmother's, hurry up and give it to Lao Tzu!"

"Is this too far for the to shoot?"

"10 steps forward...... Take another 10 steps forward and disobey the order! ”

That is, 10 steps, and if you go further, these "old Manchurians" are also afraid!

When they were shouting here, the sound of drums suddenly sounded behind the Ming army battle formation opposite, and then the Ming officers and soldiers shouted in unison: "Emperor Taizu Gao is reincarnated...... Invincible! Forward! Forward! Forward ......"

Shouting the slogan "Forward, Forward", the Ming musketeers began to march forward in unison with "half battalions" (that is, two musket companies in the battalion) with bayonets on them. Step your left foot when you shout "Xiang" and your right foot when you shout "Forward", so the formation is very neat!

Obviously, the Ming army did not waste the five-year armistice at all, and their training level was really much higher than five years ago.

Seeing that the Ming army was pressing, Niu Lu Zhangjing and Dadan Zhangjing, who commanded the archers of the Qing army, did not force the people below to move forward, so hurry up and shoot arrows!

"Archery! Shoot fast arrows ......"

Tight Tight ......

The bowstring sounded, and the arrows flew...... But nine times out of ten, it's missed! Most of the remaining ones also shot on the cuirass of the helmets of the Ming musketeers, and did not shoot a few people lying down.

However, the musketeers of the Ming army did not go far, and began to shoot as if they had pushed forward twenty-three or four paces, first with a thunderous volley, and with one round sweeping down more than 200 archers of the Qing army, the latter fell into panic.

But after only one more volley, they began to scramble their guns again, and in a moment the battlefield was filled with smoke.

Yue Le, who was thirty paces behind the archers of the Qing army, saw this scene and suddenly shouted excitedly: "Beat the drum, beat the drum...... Charge the whole team! While the smoke of gunpowder has not dissipated, the southern barbarians were caught off guard! ”

It turned out that he had been waiting for the opportunity for the Ming army's formation to loosen!

Although the loosening of the Ming army's formation was not loosened by the Qing army's musketeers and archers...... But for Yue Le, it is also a rare opportunity.

The infantry of the Qing army under the command of Duoduo was mainly composed of pikemen and sword players, and musketeers and archers together accounted for only a quarter. There were also three-quarters of the manpower, nearly 9,000 sword players and spearmen, who had already moved thirty paces behind the archers of the Qing army under the command of Yue Le.

Just waiting for Yue Le's order!

They didn't care what formation, what cooperation, anyway, they just swarmed up, and more than 9,000 people rushed forward like a tide, facing the chaotic guns of the Ming army.

The musketeers of the Ming army seemed to be frightened by the sudden onslaught of the Qing army, and they didn't care about the guns, so they turned their heads and ran, but they rushed to their own spear array, and the spear array was also disrupted, and a large group of Ming troops retreated back like this......

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