......Just as the Mongol cavalry had crossed the infantry and was preparing to attack, a sharp whistle suddenly sounded in the musketeers' ranks, and then the spearmen in the first row all raised their rifles and aimed at the yellow dust and fog more than 300 meters ahead.

"Dut...... ......At this time, the generals on horseback had stopped walking back and forth, but stood honestly on both sides of the queue with binoculars. Their task, in addition to keeping the queue in order, was to observe and range, and then direct the musketeers to fire in unison. When one of the officers standing at the front blew a flute with his cheeks puffed out and waved the small red pennant in his hand, a puff of white smoke suddenly erupted in front of the first row of spearmen, followed by a crackling sound like fried beans.

Then, the gunners in this row put down the rifles they had fired, and while pulling out the strip to wipe the barrel, he turned and walked along the gap between the queues to the back, standing directly behind the soldiers in the third row, took out a small paper bag the thickness of a finger from the two leather boxes on his belt and stuffed it into the muzzle that was still smoking, and then wet a small piece of thin whale skin with saliva, and stuffed the lead pellet into the muzzle, and then stabbed it with the strip. When this was done, the musketeers slung their rifles over their shoulders and looked at the commanders on the left and right.

This set of processes lasted only more than ten seconds, and at this time, the second row of musketeers had already fired, and the process of the first row of musketeers just now was 100% replicated, and then the rifles in the hands of the soldiers in the third row were also fired, and then this set was repeated.

The musketeers, who had now been loaded, turned to the first row and raised their guns at the sound of the whistle. Try to keep it level. Wait for the red flag in the commander's hand to fall. Another puff of white smoke and explosions. The soldiers still didn't look back, and went to the back of the third row to reload. On average, in less than ten seconds, a hundred small projectiles whizzed out, and the three teams of spearmen rolled backwards as they fought, looking very much like the parade performance of later generations.

Due to the smoke of the black gunpowder, the musketeers could not see the specific situation in front of them clearly, and they could only vaguely see the figures in the distance. And they didn't aim at all, just pointed the muzzle of the gun roughly in the direction of the figure, not too high or too low. It's time to fire. As for how effective the shot was, that was not for the musketeers to consider, it was the commanders on their horses who were the real eyes.

So how effective is the shooting? I know it from Wang Shixian's red eyes. The cavalry led by Wang Dechen suffered heavy losses, and almost none of the more than 300 horses could rush to a distance of fifty meters from the enemy, and not many of them ran back, most of them were all knocked to the ground by something, and even if they were still alive, they were choked enough. Not only did the cavalry suffer a lot of damage, but even many of the infantry who were charging behind the cavalry suddenly fell to the ground. There was nothing on his body, only a small hole in the blood that flowed. Even in armor, you are not immune.

"Toot toot...... ......"At this moment, the flag in the hands of the commander of the musketeers on his horse changed again. It turned into a small green flag, and the rhythm of the brass whistle in its mouth changed.

The musketeers, who saw the flag and heard the sound, suddenly stopped retreating and began to shoot as they staggered. They didn't move fast, they still stopped, fired, reloaded, and then crossed their comrades who had already fired in the first two rows, stopped, and fired again.

Behind the musketeers, the marines who had been holding spears and preparing to deal with the cavalry at close range heard the whistle and saw the flag, threw away the spears in their hands, drew their short knives and crossbows, mounted their horses, divided into two columns on the left and right, and began to detour at high speed behind the enemy troops from both sides of the battlefield.

This is clearly to copy the enemy's back road, as long as the opponent dares to turn back and run, the horse's hooves and blades will soon fall on them. If you don't turn back and run, the intangibles that are flying in front of you are so terrible that you don't know what they are, and your companion will fall to the ground in blood. It's more heart-wrenching than being hacked to death with a knife, stabbed to death, or kicked to death by a horse's hooves.

At this time, it is superfluous to talk about what command and what tactics. Wang Dechen rushed up and did not come back, Wang Shixian's banner could not be found, and the hundreds of Mongolian infantry who could not go up and retreat were immediately chaotic. Some were holding shields and trying to rush into close combat, others were still looking for what the enemy's weapons were, and some were already running to the sides.

Three hundred musketeers and three hundred spearmen and cavalry faced more than 300 Mongol cavalry and more than 600 infantry in the wilderness, and the result was a complete victory for the musketeers. This may be the first time in history that a hot weapon has fought against a cold weapon, and the musketeers have demonstrated great lethality against an enemy that is almost twice their own size. This was not only due to the fact that Hong Tao had developed this high-rate flintlock musket gun, which was already close to the technology of the eighteenth century, but also to the ignorance of the enemy. Without knowing what weapon the other side was using, no commander could make a correct judgment.

The First World War of Ketang State! Hong Tao's musketeers fought for the first time, and achieved a similar brilliant record as Kong Pei in Xiangyang City, and it took only two and a half days to take down Tangzhou, an important strategic point on the front line of Song and Meng. In this battle, not only the city was taken, but also the defenders of Tangzhou were completely annihilated, more than 300 people were captured, and more than 500 people were killed and wounded. Wang Shixian, the commander of the Mongol Empire's Tangzhou, and his second son, Wang Dechen, died of a stray bullet, and their bodies were sent to Xiangyang overnight.

The observers of the Southern Song army who followed the musketeers were ecstatic, and before the battle was completely over, they sent people to Xiangyang and asked Meng Hui to send troops to occupy Tangzhou. At present, the two Mongol defenders of Dengzhou and Caizhou are involved by the Song army, and they cannot go out of the city to help, as long as they occupy Tangzhou, they can cut off the communication between Dengzhou and Caizhou, and then concentrate their forces to attack one point, and Dengzhou and Caizhou will not be able to keep it.

If Tangzhou, Dengzhou, and Caizhou were all occupied by the Southern Song army, then the Mongol army would have no support point on the Jinghu defense line, and would have to retreat to the Yellow River line in its entirety. This is equivalent to saying that the gain or loss of a city involves the offensive and defensive posture of hundreds of miles, and also involves the initiative of the war between Song and Mongolia.

Now the initiative is about to be taken by the Southern Song Dynasty, and when to fight and when to stop, it is no longer up to the Mongol Empire to decide. Without the two cities of Tangzhou and Dengzhou, the Mongol Empire will invade the south from the middle route, so let's first hoard heavy troops on the Yellow River defense line, and when will the Southern Song army kill it from the valley in the middle of the mountains. And the initiator of all this was only a small musket team, which numbered only three hundred if you did not count the Royal Marines, who played a supporting role.

"Your Majesty, the gods are also ...... Three hundred warriors broke through the enemy's formation, attacked the city and plundered the village like a bag to get something, and the divine soldiers were also! "The news of the victory of the musketeers in the first battle soon spread to Jinhe City, not much slower than the Southern Song court knew. With Cixi's intelligence network, the detailed battle report written by the generals of the musket team also reached Hong Tao's hands. After Wen Nan learned the news, he had nothing to say, so he could only stretch out his thumb, or two hands, and spoke highly of Hong Tao.

This Nima was not convinced, and sent a warship to Xiangyang for the first time, saving two cities, not to mention, and killing a bunch of Mongolian generals, even the Great Khan's own son was crippled, forcing the Mongolian army in the limelight to retreat more than 100 miles. This was the first time that musketeers were sent to battle, again in Xiangyang, and as a result, they completely annihilated twice as many Mongol troops as themselves in the field battle, and also captured a strategic place.

This time the Mongolian army is facing Meng Hui instead of Zhao Fan, the result will be even worse, it is estimated that Meng Hui is already besieging Dengzhou City at this time, so he will never let go of such a God-given opportunity. The only option for the Mongol army at present was to continue to retreat and give way to the Central Plains. Two sorties, two big victories related to the entire battle. Who dares to say that Hong Tao is a blind cat and lucky to meet a dead mouse, Wen Nan was the first to disagree, although he also thought so before.

"Don't be a god, a ghost, what did the Great Song Dynasty say? With such a powerful weapon, it's not too expensive to sell five Imperial Gold Coins, right? Don't buy 18,000 at once! Hong Tao didn't really believe that he was the god of war, nor was he overly optimistic about the musketeers as invincible gods, all of this did have a coincidental factor, and now he was more concerned about how much benefit he could get from these muskets.

This victory can only show that the flintlock pistol really works, and the performance is not bad, but it can never be said that the musket is a victory. The main reason why the Mongol army suffered a big loss was that they did not understand the combat methods and performance of muskets, and once they gradually became familiar with muskets, there would be battles in the future. Even if the musketeers could take advantage of it, it would not achieve the effect of total crushing.

After all, this is only a single branch of the army, and it also needs the cooperation of cavalry and spearmen, the commander needs to have a clear mind, the musketeers need to have strict training, and they also need to have a very efficient logistics support system, all of which are indispensable. Once you blindly believe in a certain weapon, the consequences are very serious, the war is fought by the whole system, and the more advanced the weapon, the more dependent on this system.

"Yes, yes, yes...... This time it's a drill...... I forgot, forgot. I immediately went to Lin'an to meet Zheng Xiang, and I guess he will come back when I go. According to what His Majesty said, five gold coins will never be reduced in price, and the bullets will be counted separately! Wen Nan was also happy to forget, he kept saying that he was very disappointed in the Great Song Dynasty, but his bones were the same as Hong Tao, and he couldn't help but be happy when he heard that the Great Song Dynasty had made progress.

(To be continued.) )