Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Battle of Shanhaiguan 5

"The first row raised the gun...... Aim...... Put! The officers in charge of the command at the front all roared angrily, and issued a series of orders one after another.

The first row of musketeers immediately followed the command, immediately raised the flintlock pistols and laid them flat, the shoulder rest pressed their right shoulders, adjusted their breathing slightly, and quickly locked on to a target on the opposite side through the gap and crosshair above the muskets, and after hearing the hysterical roar of the officers, these first-row musketeers immediately gently pulled the trigger with their index fingers.

Through years of development, the flintlock pistol of the Dazhong Army at this time with a large number of craftsmen becoming proficient, coupled with the craftsmen continue to carry out small improvements, has been thoroughly matured, the flintlock device not only produces the quality of the reed stabilized, and the manufacturing accuracy has also improved a lot, the original trigger is not easy to pull, low firing rate and other problems, now has been basically solved, especially the reduction of the strength of the trigger pull, so that the impact of the fire hand is also reduced a lot, Coupled with the promotion of semi-mechanized drilling technology and the improvement of the quality of the barrel, this flintlock pistol of the Dazhong Army is not only more and more powerful, but also more and more accurate.

After the first row of gunners pulled the trigger, the battlefield immediately resounded with the roar of firearms, because the gunfire was so dense that it was no longer audible like gunfire, and many gunshots were mixed together, and only a series of roars could be heard.

When the slave soldiers on the side of the Jiannu Army were still busy loading, they squinted and saw with the corner of their eyes that the musketeers of the Dazhong Army had completed the loading, and raised the "bird guns" in the roar of the generals, so many slave soldiers became even more panicked, and some of them even trembled so much that they couldn't even stuff their canes into the guns.

Think about it, knowing that the other party's bird gun is about to fire, but they can't dodge or dodge, they can only stand here stiffly, waiting to be shot, what is the difference between this and waiting to be tortured? Even the most daring people can't be nervous, let alone these Han soldiers who are afraid of death?

So seeing that it was too late to complete the loading, the opponent's Dazhong army had already raised the bird guns, and a row of black holes pointed at them, these slave soldiers standing in the front row were a little panicked, several slave soldiers really couldn't bear this sense of fear, and the water gate was opened, and they immediately peed their pants, exuding a commotion smell, and the slave soldiers were so frightened that they actually cried, but they didn't dare to run, because there were pro-soldiers behind them who were supervising the war, and they were staring at them with knives, who turned their heads, What awaits them is a sharp blade.

As the gunfire of the Dazhong Army rang out in pieces, the front of the Dazhong Army's array immediately erupted a cloud of gunpowder smoke and beams of flames, and the front row of Jiannu's array immediately rose up a blood mist, seventy steps for the flintlock pistols of the Dazhong Army, it was enough for them to be powerful, and then look at the front row of Jiannu's slave soldiers, suddenly let out a miserable sound, and one after another like cutting rice fell down on their backs to the sky, and some people fell to the ground without saying a word.

The armor on their bodies, in the face of the flying projectiles, did not play an effective protective role at all, after the bullets of the large army tore them apart, continued to tear the bodies of the slave soldiers, after hitting the body, and then their internal organs were stirred, after some of the slave soldiers fell, they let out a scream like killing pigs, which made people's scalp tingle after hearing it.

Frightened by some slave soldiers behind, with a shake of his hand, even the bird gun in his hand fell to the ground, King Sanshun watched the battle from behind, and everyone pulled out a bunch of black lines on their faces, and secretly said in their hearts: The Dazhong Army is really powerful! They reload too fast! How did they do it? Why don't their birds use arquebuses? ……

But at this time, no one could answer these questions for them, they only saw that after the first row of musketeers of the Great Chinese Army on the opposite side fired, they didn't even look at the battlefield at all, turned around and immediately retreated, so that the gunners in the back row walked to the front of the formation, and once again raised their "bird guns" in rows amid the roar of the officers of the Great Chinese Army.

The generals commanded by Jiannu in front were also panicked at this time, now it is a real battle, which is completely different from their usual drills, at least this bloody scene is enough to make people collapse, just as soon as they made contact, they gave them a dismount, seeing that the opponent's second column had stepped forward and was ready to fire, but they were still making a commotion here.

So some generals panicked, and they didn't bother to check whether the slave soldiers around them had completed the loading and were ready to fire, so because they couldn't bear the pressure, they began to shout and shout: "Fire"

Those soldiers who were already frightened, where did they care about so much! As long as the loading was completed and the slave soldiers who lit the fire rope began to raise their bird guns in their hands in a chaotic manner, and began to hold fire towards the large Chinese army array on the opposite side.

Even some slave soldiers with three-eyed guns raised their three-eyed guns in a chaotic manner and began to fire at the large Chinese army array seventy paces away.

However, in their nervousness, they forgot how far the effective range of their three-eyed guns was, and the effective range of thirty paces was weaker, and if they wanted to shoot the soldiers of the Dazhong army who were wearing solid cuirass seventy paces away, unless they could directly hit the face of the Dazhong gunner, they might not even be able to inflict injuries.

However, Jiannu's fire, or to a certain extent to the large army soldiers caused casualties, in the array, sparse and sparse large Chinese army of the fire gun snorted or screamed and fell to the ground, after all, although the caliber of the bird gun is not large, but the range is not too far, if it is used effectively, it can still cause fatal damage to people at a distance of seventy steps, some of the big Chinese army's fire gunners were immediately shot, and casualties began to appear.

But compared with the casualties they caused to the Jiannu side, the casualties on the side of the Dazhong army were obviously much lower, first of all, the slave soldiers fell a lot because of the first round of salvos, the slaves in the first row fell a lot, and in the panic, they raised their guns and didn't even have time to aim, so they followed the people next to them and began to hold the fire, as a result, their bird guns were either raised, or raised too low, and a lot of bird guns either hit the sky, or hit the ground in front of the two armies, so don't look at their lively fighting, but in essence, the hit rate is very low.

In addition, the cuirass that the Great Chinese Army is now popularly equipped with covers the vital position of the soldier's chest and abdomen, even if it hits accurately, because the projectile mass of the bird gun is small, it cannot effectively penetrate the thick breastplate of the Great Chinese Army, but it makes a loud explosion on it, and a pit appears on the breastplate.

As for the projectile of the three-eyed gun, it was a joke, and if you wanted to hit someone seventy steps away, it would have been a stroke of luck, and if you hit it on the breastplate again, you couldn't even hit the pit, and the bento fell to the ground with a bang.

Only if the projectile of the slave soldier bird directly hits the face of the Dazhong gunner, it is possible to cause fatal damage to the Dazhong gunner, even if it hits the limbs of the Dazhong soldier without iron armor protection, it can only injure them, but it cannot cause fatal damage to the Dazhong soldier.

Therefore, after the two sides opened fire, the superiority and inferiority of the weapons of the two sides were immediately judged, and the slave soldiers did not look at the excitement of the fight, but the proportion of casualties exchanged was very large.

Although the gunners were counterattacked, there was no confusion, and the gunners gritted their teeth and did not look around at all, so they immediately raised their guns and aimed at them step by step under the orders of the officers, and then opened fire en masse according to the order.

So in front of the two armies, all kinds of guns sounded one after another as if they were boiling, only to see that as long as there was a salvo on the side of the Dazhong Army, the slave soldiers in the Jiannu queue were overturned to the ground in rows like cutting rice, but on the side of the Dazhong Army, the fallen firecrackers were very limited, and some of the wounded did not even fall down after being injured, so they could retreat to the back of the array by themselves and find medical soldiers to bandage.

At this time, the Han soldiers on Jiannu's side were even more panicked, especially the slave soldiers in the back column, watching the brothers in front of them being overturned one after another like people killing chickens and dogs, and they were even more frightened by the damp heat in the crotch of their pants, and then they smelled a smell of urine.

Originally, according to the regulations, when they saw the front firecrackers fall, the firecrackers in the back would immediately fill in their positions and take their place, but some slaves were so frightened that they didn't dare to move forward, and even wanted to hide behind other people's backs, and according to the rules, after the front row of firecrackers fired, the back rows had to step forward, in the form of three blows, and kept firing, but after the fight, some of the soldiers in the back row were already scared and weak, and they didn't dare to step forward to take over the position of the front firecrackers, and after the front fired, The firecracker, who was lucky enough to save his life, was in a hurry to retreat and reload, but the people behind did not come up and did not get out of the way, and suddenly the array of Jiannu became a swarm of bees, and some people immediately scolded and squeezed towards the back in a panic.

As a result, the soldiers and generals of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion of Jiannu originally practiced the decent three-stage strike tactics during this time, but after the two sides fought, they began to quickly become chaotic, and the officers could no longer effectively command their subordinates to conduct salvo fire, and the army was so frightened that they didn't know what to do, and they just shouted and fired again and again, which made those slave soldiers and firefighters not know what to do, so the three-stage attack completely collapsed and became a mess of scattering.

In this era, musket technology is limited, accuracy is also limited, if you want to play the power of the arquebus, you can only rely on a salvo, a large number of projectiles fired at one time, it is possible to improve the hit rate, which is why the musketeers in this era are stupidly lined up in a horizontal row, and then face the enemy's shots, and fire together.

Before the invention of the rear-loading rifle, this tactic of lining up and firing a salvo was the king, and there was no need to think about shooting in a lying position, especially in the field, when it was impossible for both sides to build trenches, even more so, it was obvious that although Jiannu wanted to try his best to imitate the tactics of the Xingtian Army, but the quality of their soldiers and their training allowed them to only learn the skin, and they could still look decent during the exercise, but when they were really fighting, they faced the guns of the large Chinese army that came from row after row, The Wuzhen Chaoha camp under the command of King Sanshun immediately turned into a pot of porridge.

(Today, I would like to thank Changerwang and two friends for their tips!) )