At the same time as the two twelve-pounder mountain howitzers were fired, twelve twelve-pounder mortars and twenty eight-pounder mortars were also fired in turn, and the solid shells rose into the air, and there were not many accurate landings inside and outside the cottage. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoAfter several rounds of test firing, the gunners grasped the law, and after adjusting the muzzle angle and charge, another round of shells smashed through, this time the accuracy was much improved, most of the shells were smashed in the tamping village, smashing the wooden fence and collapsing the house.

The gunners loaded the flowering shells into the corrected mortars and lit the fuses of the shells and the fuses of the fire doors, respectively. With the explosion of a row of gunpowder gases, the rows of shells smashed into the cottage like meteors in the sky.

Although it was only a flowering shell filled with ordinary black gunpowder, it could not hold a large number, and the mortar reloading speed was much faster than that of howitzers, and the dense shells fell one after another like hailstones, and the mortars that had been corrected many times hit very accurately, and at least half of the shells smashed in the stockade.

After about a quarter of an hour (a quarter of an hour in the Oriental system is half an hour) of artillery bombardment, the Ming army fired more than 500 shells, smashed the tamping village beyond recognition, the fire in the cottage was full of smoke billowing into the sky, the wall and the gate collapsed, placed on the low wall of the hill, ready to be used to block the attackers of the rolling wood and stones, wolf tooth beats, yaksha beats, bed crossbows and other weapons to defend the city were also blown into pieces, the Miao Tu soldiers in the cottage were suppressed by the artillery so that they could not raise their heads at all.

"Attack!" Wang Jinzhong pulled out the Miao knife and pointed at the cottage.

The small flag in the hands of the soldiers waved, and the hand-to-hand soldiers of the Ming army charged forward in a formation of three people. The smoothbore gunners in the rear were still advancing in a dense formation; The stragglers at the rear, detouring from both flanks, attacked sporadically.

Because of the use of grenades, hand-to-hand combatants no longer attack in a dense formation, because too dense will affect the rear row of bombs, and it is easy to accidentally injure their own side. In a group of three, the dense formation of the other party was dispersed as soon as the grenade exploded, and the group of three happened to be a variety of weapons to kill the enemy.

If it was to deal with cavalry on the plain terrain, the Ming army only needed to discharge a thin four-column hollow square array, with a row of hand-to-hand combatants at the front, shields to protect musketeers, and part-time bombardiers; The back three rows of musketeers with bayonets, part-time pikemen, can also throw bombs at close range; In the middle of the hollow phalanx are artillery, skirmishers, rockets, etc., such a formation, no matter how many cavalry charge, can make them have no return.

In the crowd of stragglers on both wings, white smoke continued to rise, rifled guns spewed fire, and a group of Miao Tubing archers who ventured to climb the ruins of the walled wall were hit by arrows one after another, falling one after another.

There are still Miao Tu soldiers archers who shoot arrows, and the feather arrows pierce the hand-to-hand soldiers at the front, which are blocked by the strong armor, and cannot be shot through at all. Nowadays, the armor of the hand-to-hand fighters of the Ming army has developed to the extreme, and the hand-to-hand soldiers are wearing plate armor made of rough steel forging, helmets are also steel, and steel masks, the whole person is like an iron can, and can ignore all bows and arrows and sharp weapon damage. Of course, when you encounter a firearm or a blunt weapon, you still can't resist it.

The hand-to-hand combatants ignored the bows and arrows of the Miao Tubing soldiers and buried their heads in the charge. The musketeers in the back fired rows of bullets, and the Miao Tu soldiers who shot arrows on the walled wall sprayed blood mist one after another.

Miao Tubing aimed his bow and arrow at the Ming musketeers, and after killing and wounding a large number of archers, he shot a few feathered arrows that hit the musketeers, but failed to hurt the Ming musketeers. The mountain soldiers and musketeers all wore rattan armor, and although their defensive ability was not as good as the steel armor, they were not inferior to the original iron armor, and the feather arrows could not penetrate the rattan armor at all.

After the hand-to-hand combat soldiers of the Ming army rushed closer, the Miao Tubing guarding the cottage smashed stones, causing several casualties among the hand-to-hand soldiers. But the grenade thrown by the hand-to-hand soldier blew up the defense line of the Miao Tubing in one fell swoop.

"Kill!" Crowds of Ming troops poured into the village.

However, in half a day, the tamping Wu village, which is known as a husband and a man, fell into the hands of the Ming army, and more than 500 Miao soldiers and more than 1,200 temporarily recruited Miao people were wiped out, of which more than 400 were killed and more than 1,300 were captured. The Ming army only paid the price of three killed, five seriously wounded, and twenty-four lightly wounded.

The reason why there were 24 minor injuries, but so few serious injuries and casualties was because of the armor protection on the Ming army, most of the slightly wounded were musketeers, their forearms and calves without armor protection were wounded by bows and arrows, and some people were cut or stabbed in the lower arms and calves when they rushed closer.

At the same time that the Ming army was attacking the village of Tamwu, the mountain scouts, night scouts and mountain sharpshooters of the Ming army were also wandering around, and from time to time there were small-scale contact battles with the scouts of the Miao soil soldiers.

The scouts, night guards and mountain sharpshooters of the mountain army, in fact, are equivalent to the special forces of later generations, with the local Ba people as guides for them, these mountain special forces have been reconnoitred in advance, found out the road, with the help of various climbing tools in their hands, with the ability to walk like flying in the mountains since childhood, flexibly walk through the mountains and cliffs, with the colorful clothes on the body camouflage, the use of sophisticated weapons, the elusive attack Miao Tubing scouts.

At a long distance, the mountain special forces of the Ming army can kill the enemy at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces with a rifled gun with a scope in their hands, and some powerful sharpshooters can even kill the opponent at a distance of two hundred steps!

The distance is a little closer, the rear-loading rifled Thunderbolt short gun in the hands of the mountain special forces of the Ming Army, because the barrel is longer than the Thunderbolt short gun in the hands of officers and personal soldiers, and the firing range is also longer, and it can accurately kill the enemy at a distance of fifty steps, so the range has reached the range of the smoothbore gun, and the reliability of the firing needle type Thunderbolt short gun is far more than the original unreliable electric switch, and basically there will be no blind fire.

As for the problem of air leakage and the problem that the firing pin is easy to break, the problem of air leakage still cannot be solved, even if the metal cartridge revolver of later generations still has the problem of air leakage; With the development of smelting technology, the firing pin is made of the best steel, which is relatively not easy to break.

A little closer, there are grenades in the hands of the mountain special forces to use.

In addition to the advantages of weapons, each of these mountain special forces is a master of fighting, a master of setting traps, and it can be said that they can be easily killed in seconds against ordinary Miao soil soldiers.

Originally, Peng Ding wanted to use the Miao Tubing who had been divided into pieces to attack the logistics transportation and supply lines of the Ming army, and use the mountainous terrain to block and harass the Ming army, but because of the existence of mountain special forces, it became very difficult for the Miao Tubing to attack and harass the operation. The local Ba people who had already thrown themselves into the Ming army spontaneously took on the tasks of protecting the logistics and transportation lines of the Ming army, leading the way for the Ming army, and being responsible for exploring the road in the mountains and forests, so that Peng Ding had no chance at all.