298 Charge to the Dead

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Eighty paces is not too far, but it is beyond the range of the archers in the Tartar army, and even the best archers in the Tartars cannot shoot eighty paces.

In this way, the Tartar archers, who were hiding behind the shield cart and preparing to shoot, were out of luck this time, and Alenha had to order the infantry to charge.

As Alenha's order was given, the Tartar soldiers behind the shield cart did not hesitate at all, and they all let out a shout and rushed forward with a wild scream.

In the face of such a charge, these Tartar soldiers did not have the slightest fear, and rushed forward with a roar, which was the advantage of the victorious army.

Over the years, the prestige of the Tartar soldiers for their invincibility in field warfare has become well known.

Although these servants are not real Tartars, they are all clothed minions, but they also feel this glory.

Therefore, these clothed minions fought fiercely, and they did not lose to the real Tartars in the slightest.

It's just that their equipment is slightly poor, and their actual combat ability is not as good as that of real Tartars, and they are usually used as cannon fodder.

Looking at the Tartar soldiers who rushed up under the black pressure, Liu Chong's palms couldn't help but ooze a layer of sweat.

At this time, Liu Chong was indeed a little nervous in his heart, and he couldn't help but think of the memories of their bloody battle against the Tartars, and how many brothers fell under the butcher's knife of the Tartars.

He survived, and the bravery and ferocity of the Tartar also left him with indelible memories.

He has been looking forward to revenge, and now that the opportunity has come, he will not give up no matter what, he knows that Li Zixiao values him, he wants revenge, and he will not live up to Li Zixiao's trust in him.

After Liu Zhong gave the order to prepare the first batch of birdmen, he never gave a new order.

And the White Dragon Army's bird gunners are all veterans who have undergone strict training, have been on the battlefield, and have seen blood, and have strict military discipline.

Even in the face of the murderous charge of the Tartars on the opposite side, they did not even blink their eyes, and while keeping the fire rope on the bird gun in their hands intact, they aimed their guns at the front and waited for the order to fire.

At this time, a strange scene appeared on the battlefield.

On one side was the charging Tartar soldiers, making an earth-shattering shouting of killing, while opposite them, in the entire White Dragon Army area, was strangely silent.

The Tartar soldiers had already rushed into a distance of seventy paces, but the Ming army in front of them still did not move, and this kind of quietness was extremely strange in the eyes of the Tartar soldiers.

In the eyes of the Tartar soldiers who were used to dealing with the Ming army, they originally looked down on the firearms used by the Ming army.

During the war, not to mention the cumbersome and troublesome firearms of the Ming army, more importantly, they were unreliable, and they could not be fired from time to time.

Fighting a war is to fight with the enemy, and the firearm in your hand is a weapon, and it is also regarded by the soldiers as their own lives.

When the weapons in your hands are unreliable, how can this battle be fought!

Therefore, in the eyes of the Tartars, they would rather trust the bows and arrows in their hands and long knives than use those unreliable firearms.

Moreover, the firearms used by the Ming army at this time were not small in lethality, but their power was effective within dozens of steps.

Moreover, over the years, the Tartar army has gained a lot of experience in dealing with the Ming army in repeated battles.

The Ming army used bird guns, and they used iron-clad shields and oil-soaked rattan cards to block the front and cover the infantry charge.

Under normal circumstances, at a distance of fifty paces, a shield covered with iron sheets and a rattan card soaked in oil can effectively resist the shot of the Ming army's bird guns and lead bullets.

Moreover, these Tartar soldiers are all wearing heavy armor, especially the real Tartar infantry soldiers, who are basically wearing double layers of heavy armor.

In the face of the Tartar infantry soldiers wearing double heavy armor, it is estimated that the Ming army's bird guns will not be able to break the double armor on their bodies until they are twenty paces.

Twenty paces was a distance that could be ignored for the Tartars, who could walk through it with their legs raised.

Once the Tartar soldiers rushed into the Ming army's formation, the bird guns in the hands of the Ming army were not as good as a burning stick, and they would not even have a chance to resist.

The quality of the firearms of the Ming army was very poor, it was easy to explode, and there was also a problem with the quality of the Ming army.

Before the Tartars could get into range, they couldn't help but fire indiscriminately, and before anyone could get into range, the firearms had already been fired.

The consequence of such indiscriminate firing was that the power of the Ming army's firearms could not be fully utilized in field battles, which was also one of the reasons why the Tartar soldiers always defeated the Ming army in field battles.

And Li Zixiao knew all these defects of the Ming army, so he spent two years and spent a lot of financial and material resources to make up for the defects of the Ming army during the war.

Without the flaws of the Ming army during the war, Li Zixiao asked himself, he was not afraid at all when he encountered the Tartar army in the wild.

And today is the time to test the results of his efforts in the past two years.

At this time, the charging Tartar soldiers still had the same thought in their hearts as they had encountered this situation in the past: "Rush quickly, rush over and close the distance with the enemy, and they will win." ”

These Tartar soldiers still rushed to a distance of sixty paces, and Liu Chong's right hand holding the waist knife trembled slightly.

This distance is a huge psychological test for the front row of birdboys.

At this distance, the sergeants in the front row could already see the hideous expressions of those Tartar soldiers.

But at this time, Liu Chong still did not give the order to fire, and those bird-gunners were engrossed in their attention one by one, and everyone still put their guns indiscriminately.

Because, at this distance, those Tartar soldiers who were holding a wooden shield wrapped in iron sheets and wearing heavy armor on their bodies had a very strong defense, and it was not easy for lead bullets to break through the armor.

At the same time, at this distance, the arrows of the Tartar archers could hardly do any damage to them, so Liu Zhong was not worried.

Li Zixiao once asked Tie Pingliang to create a group of bows and arrows of Tartar soldiers for experiments.

The range of the Tartar army's bows and arrows was not very high, only about seventy paces, and only when it reached forty or fifty paces could it pose a threat to the soldiers of the White Dragon Army wearing ordinary cotton armor.

If you want to shoot through the chain mail that the White Dragon Sergeant is commonly equipped with, you have to be close to thirty or forty paces to do so.

On weekdays, the Tartar army usually had to get fifty paces close to the enemy before they began to bend their bows and arrows, and this distance was sometimes even shorter.

However, the arrows of the bows and arrows of the Tartar soldiers, about six or seven inches long, were shaped like chisels, and they were shot very deeply, and it was difficult to take them out, and as long as they were shot at the vital point, few people would survive.

When those Tartar soldiers rushed to a distance of fifty paces, Liu Chong finally couldn't wait any longer, and opened his mouth to order: "First row of birds, fire!" ”

A trumpeter beside him, with all his strength, blew the whistle in his mouth, and a sharp sound suddenly pierced the sky and echoed in front of the two armies.

Bang Bang Bang ......

With the deafening sound of a salvo of birds, a whole line of two hundred bird-guns pulled the trigger together, standing at the front of the chariot.

The two hundred birdmen lined up in a long formation, some of them firing at the Tartars who rushed from the flanks on either side.

A series of fiery red flames came out, and the sound of fried beans sounded, and bursts of thick white smoke also rose into the air and drifted into the air.

As the sound of the bird's gun sounded, there was also a muffled sound on the opposite side, which was the sound of a lead projectile hitting an iron-clad shield.

Then he saw the Tartar soldiers rushing in front of him, pouring a piece like a piece of wheat that had been cut down.

Although these Tartars had already distanced themselves from each other under the orders of the officers when they charged, in order to prevent the birds from firing.

However, the thinking of cold weapon combat is still ingrained in their minds, and even if it is scattered, some soldiers still lean together, intentionally or unintentionally.

And strictly speaking, it was the first time that the foot soldiers of the Tartar Army had encountered such an organized volley of guns.

The shooting of the Ming Army Bird Gunners they encountered in the past was simply incomparable to the shooting of the two hundred White Dragon Army Bird Gunners at this time.

This time, the platoon gun shooting of the White Dragon Army Bird Gunners was also amazing for the Tartar soldiers.

The archers, dressed in light armor and without shields, and the Tartar auxiliaries who had no armor, almost simultaneously emitted a cloud of blood mist.

The Tartars who had been shot all let out a terrible cry and fell to the ground in pain.

There are also some who hit the vital point directly, and they didn't even have a chance to scream, so they fell headlong and died.

Within fifty steps, the White Dragon Army was equipped with a new type of bird gun at this time, which could directly penetrate the double heavy armor of the Tartar infantry soldiers, not to mention the others.

In this round of gun shooting, four or five Tartar infantry soldiers were shot, and at a distance of fifty paces, even if they were wearing double heavy armor, they would have been killed.

Only those Tartar soldiers who hid behind the iron-clad wooden shield could survive safely, and the lead bullets fired still couldn't break through the thick wooden shield covered with iron.

However, those Tartar soldiers holding iron wooden shields were numb in their shoulders and arms, and after the lead bullet hit the shield, the huge anti-shock force was also unbearable.

The main thing is that at this time, the round-tipped lead bullets used by the White Dragon Army Bird Gunners, after being shot, are far less penetrating than the pointed bullets, and it is impossible to break through the shield covered with iron sheets.

However, there are not many such iron-covered shields in the hands of the Tartar army, and most of them are ordinary wooden shields, after all, the Tartars themselves are very short of iron.

There were many unlucky Tartar soldiers, and after the lead bullet penetrated the wooden shield in their hands, the lead bullet still carried kinetic energy and hit their heavy armor.

Although the kinetic energy of these projectiles at this time was no longer able to penetrate the heavy armor they were wearing.

However, the kinetic energy carried by the projectile still entered their bodies through the heavy armor, shattering all the bones and internal organs in their bodies.

Although these Tartar soldiers did not die, they spat blood from their mouths one by one and fell to their knees.

The great pain made these Tartar soldiers can't help but scream loudly, even if these people don't die, they have basically lost their combat effectiveness.

At the same time, the lethality of this round-tipped buckshot is far better than that of those pointed bullets.

After this round-headed buckshot invades the human body, the destructive power is very terrifying.

Those Tartars who were hit by lead bullets, if they hit the vital point, they were lucky to die on the spot.

If those Tartar soldiers who were hit in the **** and abdomen and did not die for a while, then they would suffer.

The internal organs in their bodies, the moment they were shot, were smashed by a round-headed buckshot the size of a little thumb.

Such an injury, even if the gods come, it will be difficult to save it, but they will not die for a while, and they will have to experience the most painful torture before death.

In the first round of fire, dozens of Tartars who charged fell, and Li Zixiao had no mercy for the Tartar soldiers in front of him who were killed or wounded.

The same was true of Liu Chong in front, and even when he saw these Tartar soldiers being killed, the pleasure of revenge rose in his heart.

Liu Chong's face was expressionless, and he gave the order to continue firing, and the bird-gunners in the first row got up and retreated, and the bird-gunners in the second row, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately plugged in quickly.

The 'Pioneer Battalion' and the 'Trap Camp', the two battalions of birds, but there were 600 people, forming a three-stage attack.

"Bang ......"

Immediately after, gunfire rang out from the second row, and there was only a few seconds between the two rows.

In such a short period of time, the remaining Tartars who were not dead fifty paces away had not yet rushed a few steps.

Alenha, who was standing behind and following forward, saw with his own eyes a soldier wearing two layers of heavy armor and tartar infantry, covering his right chest, blood gushing out of his fingers.

This unlucky guy was obviously hit by lead bullet, and his body was relatively strong, and he even held on for a few seconds without falling.

This unlucky guy was still at a loss, as if he couldn't believe that the enemy's projectile could break through the double layer of heavy armor on his body, which was not the case with the Ming army he had encountered before.

After the first row of guns fired, the Tartars who charged on the opposite side fell again, and the pace of the Tartars' attack that was completely disrupted made them slow down and completely stagnate.

Bang Bang Bang ......

Then the third row of gunfire rang out again, and the shooting of the White Dragon Army seemed to have no end.

A charging Tartar soldier was shot, and his body on the ground was convulsing, blood running down his armor all over the ground.

Bang Bang Bang ......

The intense gunfire continued, and there was no intention of stopping at all.

Alenha, who led two hundred elite Tartar cavalry behind the formation and was ready to pounce at any time, his hands holding the reins at this time had already begun to tremble.

He didn't understand why the group of Ming soldiers he met today could shoot continuously with the bird guns in his hands, and they didn't stop until now.

The Tartar soldiers, who were originally like a tide, rushed towards the Ming army's position, like a wave, slapping on a solid rock, and became fragmented in an instant.

At this time, Zabek, who was even behind and was fighting in direct battle, was also stunned at this time.

He had just heard Alenha say that this Ming army firearms were powerful, but he had always scoffed at them.

He always thought that it was a lie made up by Alenha in order to shirk his guilt.

But at this time, he saw the White Dragon Army's bird gunner, and he didn't stop firing a volley of guns.

The charging Tartar soldiers fell in pieces, and no one could rush to the front of the White Dragon Army's car formation, and they were almost dead.

Zabek had a premonition that he had made a big mistake at this time, maybe he shouldn't have let Alenha attack rashly again, this is simply a charge to the death!