For the first time, the English longbow showed its fangs in front of an exotic visitor.

The monolithic bow was easy to make, powerful and, crucially, had a law in force in the land that required men to practice shooting daily, which gave England a large pool of recruits for archers.

Not everyone has a longbow, even if they are all longbows, the number of pounds is not the same, and the power is different, but the number of any kind of projection weapons in the military formation is very terrifying.

It is worth mentioning that this law was not repealed until 400 years later, which means that 99% of the men in England after 400 years are breaking the law.

The British, who have repeatedly fought against the major land powers in Europe, have never had a numerical advantage, and their war superiority began with a large number of longbowmen recruited for war purposes.

But this time they faced a different war, a different opponent.

Their main forces were not even wearing decent armor, and the longbowmen who had lined up in a prismatic line to project light infantry were already drawing their bows when they saw that the enemy had stopped a hundred paces away.

They tried to shoot a wave, and the arrows shot by the bow formation, which was both long and short, lost their strength at this distance, and most of the arrows thrown fell on the Miao shield held up by the Makino army, causing very limited damage.

In this era, many times military progress does not depend on intelligence.

Decades later, the military reform of Gustav II of Sweden, who used linear infantry tactics, was regarded as the father of modern warfare - of course, this has nothing to do with Asian military, not to mention whether the Ming Dynasty Shenji Battalion, Mu Ying, Zhang Fu or Oda Nobunaga of Japan all used linear tactics, and the best performing smoothbore guns and the earliest trench sniper tactics in the 16th century were born in the Ottoman Empire, why has Europe been useless?

Is Europe not wanting to use it? Or did they not think of it?

No, the French used all the tactics that muskets and artillery could use in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, but they found that they were not easy to use, why?

Because the French, unlike Sweden, have nitrate mines at home.

You don't have gunpowder, how can you play firearms tactics? Mobilize more than a dozen artillery pieces to capture a huge city in Italy in three days, use up all the kingdom's three-year gunpowder reserves, and rely too heavily on artillery units, how can the war be fought in the future?

Why can Ottoman play with cannons and Daming can play with cannons, because these two masters have big deserts in their homes.

Why can Spain, Portugal, and Japan play with muskets and iron cannons? Because the two of them traded with Ottoman merchants, they still wanted to touch the great desert of Africa at every turn; The other trades with Daming, and will also make, urine, and nitrate in his own home.

The French are a little bit worse, but they will at least scrape the church chairs.

What will England do now? First, he did not have a border with the Ottomans, the sea route was completely controlled by Spain, second, he did not have a border with the Ming Dynasty, and third, he had not yet learned to hang nitrate from church chairs, but England had a lot of stamina in another time and space, and when Charles I came to power in the seventeenth century, in the face of the growing gunpowder shortage, this lord immediately nationalized the toilets of the country.

Not only that, but also let the bishops from all over the country call everyone to pee in the church, which solved the urgent need.

However, old John's motherland was not at this time, so standing behind the military formation and listening to the whispers of the people in front of the military formation, it was explained that the army was holding a large shield and placing a row of Franc machine guns in front of the battle against the rain of arrows, and his heart was a little panicked.

The defender usually has a slight advantage, especially in the preset position, the defender is usually reluctant to leave the position, but the situation is different when the hand is short.

After the three battalions of Makino were combined with merchant gunners, there were 12 Franc cannons in front of each battalion, and the simple two-wheeled carriages were loaded with cleaning equipment, gunpowder boxes, shell boxes, and ammunition boxes.

The current swing of these artillery guns frightened the military formation.

At least the English nobles of Plymouth heard an interesting story about the artillery of the Ming army, which was in the process of the second war between the Ming and Western dynasties, and a knight of the Western Army relied on plate armor to wield a big sword and rushed into the Ming army's formation, slashing and injuring several Ming soldiers one after another, and no one could stop them.

As a result, he was turned over with a shot, and his head was gone.

However, some people say that this happened in France, no matter where it happened, anyway, one of the protagonists is the same, which is a deterrent to the aristocracy.

Therefore, the cannons were set up in front of the formation, and most of the nobles tried to stay away from the troops...... It's not that they are afraid, they dare to drive their horses to the front of the battle, they don't instigate people, mainly because they think that the artillery of the Ming army will be aimed at them at this distance, and they can avoid the accidental injury of the artillery to the troops by staying away from the troops.

They have all used cannons or seen others use cannons, and they know that this thing is difficult to aim at a person, as long as it is not close, it is not so fearful.

This idea was blown away when the artillery fired.

What came out of the chamber of the cannon was not a shell, it was a piece, a piece of scatter!

Thirty-six Furlong cannons were sent from left to right in the three battalions of the Makino Army, and the smoke of gunpowder rising from the muzzles of the guns erupted from the middle, leaving behind a sound that was both like tearing linen and like hail falling in the fortified besieged camp.

No one is aiming at those lone knights and nobles, the Oriental military government has plenty of experience in fighting with the plate armor heavy cavalry, although the plate armor heavy cavalry is superb, but this single arm is not enough to fight against the complete army, with a large number of infantry, projection forces can maximize the dominance of the heavy cavalry.

The infantry they were paired with were easier to kill, and the small number of plate hops had no way to turn the tide as long as the auxiliaries collapsed.

In the case of a besieging force lacking artillery but fortifications, the wide striking area of the Furlong cannon could not have caused a volley to hit the salient with an uncontrolled advance, or a depression caused by a large number of casualties and retreat.

A large number of scattered shots were sprayed at the rear of the enemy line, tearing the tents of the generals, or hitting the helmets and faces of the enemy behind them, wounding people, and the front-line infantry, which should have been seriously wounded and dying, but were lightly damaged by the protection of good fortifications.

However, the exposed catapults were finally overwhelmed, and the cannonballs on the flanks of the rear flanked the noose by chance, and the projection arm was torssed away and smashed heavily into the camp.

However, Ying Ming was not in a hurry, he just continued to wave the command flag and let the artillery continue to bombard, even if the damage was limited, it was better than the enemy not being able to reach him.

If the enemy never plans to leave the camp, the logistics will be enough to keep him here for a whole day.

On the battlefield with the sound of artillery fire, Ying Commander was very comfortable, and he even took out a small notebook and charcoal pencil to record the lack of gunpowder on horseback.

He believed that the enemy would realize the tragic reality that he would run out of gunpowder, and eventually abandon the fortified camp without walls to fight him.