"It's time to let go!"

Wang Changfu and Liang Xing glanced at each other, and both of them nodded heavily.

Then Wang Changfu ordered the general flag to dance, and then saw that the bureaus began to respond to the flag.

Li Shouxin, Lu Dafu and others all saw the flag of the bureau hundred flags, Li Shouxin's flag captain flag fell suddenly, and Lu Dafu, Zhang Chunniu and others also saw their flag captain make a clear command with a flag gun!

There was a rattling sound all over the front, and it was the sound of all the birds on their shoulders.

All the Birdmen were staggered, they were placed on the left and right flanks, which was also the inherent arrangement of the large phalanx, and there was also a row of Birdsmen before the pikemen phalanx in the middle, but not as dense as the left and right wings.

Zhang Chunniu first lit the fire rope held on the head of his bird's head, the spark fell from the fire door, and then the primer in the medicine pool ignited, he felt a violent shock of the gun tube, then a deafening sound, and then white smoke rose from the fire door and the gun tube.

After he had time to look to the left and right, the entire array was filled with flickering firelight and a violent firing sound!

Hardly anyone can hear anything else!

There seem to be people chanting on the opposite side, as if many people are shouting for the Ming army to send firearms and tell people to dodge, but this round of firing is at a distance of about sixty paces, a round of salvo, nearly 800 projectiles are fired in a salvo, and the most dense places of cavalry are hit, and there are many Beiyu who clearly see the firelight flickering and projectiles flying in their eyes, but he is in the cavalry group, and when he gallops on horseback, there is no way to dodge!

"Hit!" A bird-sturgeon was nervously reloading, but couldn't help but look at the target he had just chosen.

Maybe he was lucky, this gun actually hit, and the northern captives didn't know where they were hit, and they were already staggering and fell from their horses.

There are a lot of people who were hit, the Mongols on both wings wanted to force the array of the Ming army to confuse it, they were very close, according to the experience of fighting with the Ming army here in Datong, the Ming army battalion soldiers had very few archers, poor archery, and few firearms, not as many and sophisticated as the Ming army in Jizhen, Datong and Yansui to the Ming army in Gansu relied on cavalry, and the performance of the infantry was unsatisfactory.

Under the dense formation, there are too many people who were shot in the first round!

A large number of herdsmen have blood blooming on their chests or bodies, and the lead bullet causes violent kinetic energy in their bodies, tearing muscles, hitting internal organs, pulling any muscle tissue that may be pulled, or breaking bones, or breaking heads, at least about three hundred people were directly knocked off their horses in this round, and at least two or three hundred war horses were hit, and the war horses fell or fell, which would only make the knight on the seat fall to the ground, either seriously injured, or be killed on the spot!

There were only more than 6,000 cavalry in total, and under the first round of volleys, almost about 10% were killed or seriously wounded!

Such heavy losses made the Mongolian cavalry become chaotic, and the soldiers and the nobles under the command had no way to restrain the people.

Gun crews on the left and right flanks, fire together!

Sun Yao also understood Wang Changfu's command idea at this time, if the artillery is not effective, it will be the same when it hits, if it is very effective, firing at a distance of five or six hundred paces from the effective killing of the four-pounder cannon will only make the cavalry of the northern captives greatly confused, and then scatter and flee, it is likely that one round or two rounds of artillery will disrupt the cavalry, and then the bird gun will not be able to fire a salvo, and the effective damage to the northern captives will be weakened a lot.

He also remembered Zhang Han's speech to the officers at the mobilization meeting in advance, asking everyone to give the northern captives the greatest damage, it is difficult for the infantry to completely annihilate the cavalry, but they can drag the other party on the battlefield and kill and injure as many enemies as possible!

"We must ask the northern captives to keep in mind the lesson of this time, and to eliminate the Su Sac and the Bu Sac, at least to cripple them, so that in the shortest possible time, we and Yusheng can eliminate all the forces that dare to covet us in the north, which will be of great help to the future development!"

During the last military meeting, Zhang Han said this and that, and everyone at the moment, of course, is also doing what Zhang Han said.

While Sun Yao was thinking about it, Tang Wangzong also ordered the fire to be lit.

After several decades, the ignition of artillery is to first put the powder bag, then load the shell, and then insert the powder bag, put the ignition tube, and then use the hook of the ignition rope to hook the safety bolt in the ignition tube, the gunner retreats to a safe position and uses the rope to pull the ignition hydrant, ignite the powder bag, and push the shell forward, and advance until the cannon is ejected, this method of ignition and firing is the most advanced.

However, it is still common in European countries to use the plugging kit, and then use the beak-shaped ignition rod to ignite the beak part, and use a spark instead of an open flame to reach into the fire door, burn the medicine pack, and propel the cannonball.

This method is not as airtight as the first one, and the gunner has to be very close, and there is a fear of life when the chamber is blown up.

In fact, many gunners died in accidents in which artillery bores were blown up, which is an unavoidable thing.

The third is to use a rope to insert it into the fire door, directly ignite the rope and ignite the medicine bag with an open flame, this method is clumsy and inefficient, after the 16th century, the Europeans have abandoned this ignition method, and China has been using it until the 19th century.

"Very well, boys, you are doing a good job."

When I saw that the medicine bag was inserted and filled, and the gunner ignited the bird's beak very quickly and quickly, the gunsmith and artillery teacher from Portugal taught Severn, Joao also applauded loudly after the artillery array, and he applauded more than a dozen Tessians, all Portuguese or Spaniards, and a few Dutch, all of whom were sent by Zhang Han to invite from Macao, and there was a large cannon factory in Macao, specializing in casting cannons. At the same time, hundreds of artillery and infantry instructors were hired, all of whom were Portuguese, and some Portuguese directly participated in the Ming army to form a pure musketeer unit, but they were later lost in Kong Youde's mutiny.

Joao stood beside Sun Yao, a Portuguese gunsmith with a sven appearance and an engineer's temperament, who has a history of more than 20 years in China and speaks Chinese very fluently, but it is still difficult to communicate with Sun Yao and others, and the reason is very simple...... Joao learned the Cantonese vernacular, and the Shanxi dialect here is simply the language of both countries.

Fortunately, Joao also knew the Chinese language, and everyone began to communicate with each other, Joao learned the pronunciation here, and after a few months, in addition to casting these bronze cannons, Joao and others had no problem communicating with people here in language.

Europe in this era is also an era of pioneering and enterprising, and judging from the performance of João and others, it is no wonder that Europeans have been leading the world trend for hundreds of years.

The four-pounder finally fired.

The artillery group in front of him used the second ignition method, after inserting the medicine bag, splashed into the spark with the head of the beak rod, the medicine bag ignited rapidly, the huge kinetic energy made the cannon body retreat with a huge shock, and the muzzle of the cannon sprayed out a strong fire that could not be compared with the bird gun, and then there was a huge sound when several guns were fired, because the sound was too loud, not only the archers around couldn't help but look over, but even the Beiyu brigade on the opposite side couldn't help but look over here.

"The Ming army has fired artillery." A Beilu of about sixty, with a frosty face, has experienced many battles with the Ming army, at this time, his face is full of horror and shouted, he has never seen such a powerful artillery, even after forty years of war!

The four-pounder cannon has finally fired!

The three-pound iron bullet quickly shot out of the muzzle in the firelight spray, and the four guns fired at the same time, almost in no particular order, and the four iron bullets drew a beautiful arc in the air, and flew together into the Beiyu cavalry three hundred paces away.

This was also decided by Wang Changfu and Liang Xing and other supreme commanders in advance, if you want to maximize the damage, you have to cause serious chaos to the enemy cavalry, and even if you are in chaos on the battlefield, you can't form a whole team, and when the cavalry is in chaos, there is no way to advance easily, and there is no way to quickly retreat, in order to achieve such an effect, delayed artillery firing is the best way.

Now there are more than 3,000 enemy cavalry on the left flank, divided into a dozen units of two or three hundred people, some cavalry gallop to the center, some do not move in place, some try to retreat to the left rear, and some want to continue to gallop to the left, under the power of the first round of salvo birds, the cavalry is already in chaos, but they have no way to complete the whole team for a while, in the left rear is the torrential river meandering, the northern cavalry avoids the river and also restricts their own movements, in front of them is the area of the workshop like Sobao, A few miles away, you can also see with the naked eye that there are figures moving above the factory building, if the defeated cavalry goes that way, they will only be limited by the river and the people in the factory area, they have no way to escape there, the only way is to retreat, but at this time the artillery fired, three hundred paces away, the iron bullets flew by, it was after cutting into the cavalry of the northern captives, separating these cavalry from their own rear formation.

An iron bullet slashed, like a sharp blade, cut the calf of a cavalryman without hindrance, brought his entire leg down, and then smashed the head of a war horse without hesitation, blood and shattering, brain splattering, and then smashed into the chest of a northern captive, instantly hitting the chest of the northern captive, almost the entire battlefield could hear the crackling sound of all the ribs of the northern captive being broken and smashed, and then the iron bullet fell to the ground, splashed smoke and dust, and then bounced up, hitting the shield of a northern captive, Cut off the arm of the northern captive directly, and then smashed it on the arm of another person, breaking half of his body, and then slowed down castration, and smashed directly to the ground again, this time after jumping on the ground, the iron bullet finally settled down, and it was no longer fierce-

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