The sound of fried beans continued, and a burst of smoke would always come out, covering the firearms with a fog-like whiteness.

In the fog, there were officers who kept shouting orders.

"Rotation—"

"Raise the gun—"

"Shoot!"

With the continuous sound of fried beans, the Huns in the charge, some of them were suddenly drilled into a hole in their bodies when they ran forward, and a red blood flower splashed out of the hole.

The Huns who were shot were full of astonishment, they didn't quite understand what was going on, they only felt as if they were pushed by some huge force, and then the strength of the whole body disappeared, the running action was stiff, and the feet were also staggering, and then the body fell forward heavily to the ground, and the eyes and consciousness were pulled into the darkness.

Not all of them were shot to the vital point, some people were shot and did not die immediately, they may have been shot in the limbs or non-vital troops, and they exaggerated and screamed as they peeled off the clothes that had been torn by lead bullets, and the wounds they saw seemed to be pierced by some kind of hot thing, and the flesh at the wound was a bit like it was burned, and the blood in the hole kept gushing out.

The Imperial Army's firearms were constantly firing in the rotation of positions, and they were like a snowball, rolling and making the sound of fried beans, and new smoke was always rising as they moved to one place.

The flintlock pistols were inaccurate, relying on the diffuse of the array line, and the lead bullets they fired would become a fan-shaped posture and float around, and only a few of the correct trajectory would hit the target, and more often it would fly into the sky, or burrow headlong into the turf not far away.

In the "crackling" movement, the flintlock musketeers in the smoke could not actually see the front clearly, but they really didn't need to observe the situation in front of them, all they needed to do was follow the command and constantly rotate positions. Then the gun is raised, the gun is reloaded, and the firing position is re-entered...... And so on until the officer did not give the order to shoot.

It must be mentioned that the Huns in the charge were already confused, they really didn't understand what had happened to them, they just heard the sound of "crackling", and then the surrounding companions screamed one after another with blood flowers on their bodies, and some even died without even shouting out the screams.

"Retreat...... Fall back! ”

Of the more than 800 Huns, only about 600 were still breathing, and they had already rushed to a position about fifty meters away from the firearms soldiers. But at least two hundred fell within three minutes.

The Rong people, who were watching from a distance, were a little stupid when they saw what happened to the Huns. These Rong people didn't understand what the situation was, what they saw was that the Huns were about to rush over for hand-to-hand combat, and then there was a burst of "crackling" sounds, and the Huns in the charge charged as if they had hit a wall of air, and then several people fell to the ground.

The more than 2,000 mustaches who had been cowering in the distance subconsciously shrank back a distance, and many of them let out a roar, and the sound seemed to be full of all kinds of fear.

"Oh my God! What's going on, what's going on!? ”

"How can it smoke? In addition, why did the Huns fall, they did not get an arrow. Absolutely no arrows! ”

"Witchcraft? Is it witchcraft? ”

Because I don't understand, I'm guessing.,Now this year, as long as it's incomprehensible, I'll pull it on ghosts or witchcraft.,And then scare yourself.,Scare the already little courage even less courage.。

The Huns who were still alive turned around and ran back, the sound of fried beans behind them did not stop immediately, and in the continuous "crackling" sound, many Huns were shot and fell out and threw themselves to the ground.

"Knock knock-"

The drums sounded, and the firearms stopped firing when the Huns ran a hundred meters away. In the middle of the procession, an officer was repeating the command, shouting "Trot forward!" ”。 The firearms on the flanks trotted slowly to the sound of military orders.

The Huns broke away to more than 200 meters, and they looked left and right, and less than half of the original 800 or so people were left in less than ten minutes. The Huns who were still alive were terrified, they came from the steppe, death on the steppe was not too unusual, there was a war between their tribes. During the snow disaster, they will freeze to death and starve to death, and the difficult natural environment makes them have a tenacious character and the savagery that dares to challenge, but it is a bit scary to not know how to die.

"How the hell did they kill our people?"

"Like a round ball, I pulled out a black ball from Lepa's wound!"

"Retreat, keep retreating!"

The Huns saw that the imperial army began to advance slowly. They began to retreat again. When retreating, some people kept turning their heads to look behind, and what they saw was that many people who had been shot and did not die were stabbed into the body by the imperial soldiers with a sharp tube in front of the "stick".

Buckshot wounds are terrifying, and even if they don't die immediately, they will die in agony with pus and pain.

The flintlock musketeers in the hands of the firearms soldiers are of the Imperial type, and the length of the whole gun is 1.6 meters, not counting the bayonet, plus the total length of the bayonet is 1.85 meters, and the gun weighs 28 pounds.

The bayonet is a tubular object, with an angular opening at the front, because it is a tubular bayonet, the wound that stabs into the person's body is round, and when it is pulled out, it will carry some flesh and blood, and the person who is stabbed is equivalent to being cut a hole in the body. This kind of wound is not like the wound of ordinary knives, swords, spears, and arrows, because the flesh is taken away when the tube is pierced in and pulled out, and there is almost no possibility of stopping the bleeding, and if you are stabbed in the body, you can only bleed to death.

The Rong people on the other side saw that the Huns were retreating lifelessly, and they stayed for a while and ran backwards. In the eyes of the Rong people, the brave Huns charged up and were half wiped out before they got close to the imperial army, and the imperial army did not know what means were used to kill and injure the Huns.

Some of the people who stayed outside the battlefield to watch, they had their own opinions.

Liu Bang didn't know so much, he only felt that the movement of the unit called the firearm soldier was really not small, and he also saw that once the flintlock soldier entered the firing state, round after round of shooting. It is basically difficult for the enemy to rush up and engage in hand-to-hand combat.

"It's a little different from the exercise, it's not live ammunition during the exercise, and you can't see that much lethality." Han Xin's eyes widened, and he said, "The only shortcoming is that the range is too close." ”

Cao Shen had not seen the exercises between the firearms and other arms, but he had just seen the firearms soldiers wielding their might. He "tsk" a few times and said, "Within a hundred meters is a forbidden area. The Flintlock Musketeer fires a direct shot of lead bullets that clear the way through oncoming enemies. ”

In fact, crossbowmen can also shoot directly, and the imperial soldiers who inherited the method of the Qin army's arrow formation, they can also achieve partial coverage when they line up the arrow array, and even the band shooting can form an endless archery scene.

"The effective range is one hundred and seventy meters, and the strongest killing range is about eighty meters." Han Xin thought for a moment and said sullenly, "Now I can't see where the advantage of the firearms soldier is. ”

Yu Fanjun said more simply: "What the flintlock pikemen can do, the crossbowmen can do, and even the crossbowmen must do better than the flintlock pikemen." ”

Not really! The crossbow has a firing range of up to more than three hundred meters. Coupled with the coordination of archers, a sufficient number of crossbowmen are as far as 300 meters and as close as 30 meters, and as long as there is no shortage of arrows in the arrow array, it is nothing more than a confrontation and blocking battle.

"The process and value of producing one crossbow arrow is equal to five ordinary arrows, and one ordinary arrow is equal to twenty lead bullets......" Han Xin touched his chin and said slowly: "In addition, the value of producing one set of crossbow can make three flintlock pistols. ”

Other people didn't know these things, and they all fell into thinking after listening to what Han Xin said.

The empire is not short of money and short of money. There is no shortage of money because of the fact that new precious metals are constantly being excavated, especially with the discovery of new super-large copper mines in Cochin. There is really no shortage of state money in the treasury of the empire. What is the lack of money? It's that the country's annual expenses are far more than the taxes collected, but they have heard some news that the empire is now losing nearly 20 million yuan a year, which is really a bit scary.

“…… In addition, several generals of the Empire, who agreed with His Majesty's line of thought. In particular, seeing the range and power of artillery, we firmly believe that firearms are the direction of development of the army in the future. Han Xin knew far more things than Liu Bang, Chen Yu, Cao Shen, and Yu Fanjun, and he didn't sell anything: "The Weapons Department has not given up on developing a new firearm, they are developing a firearm with a range of 25 meters, and that firearm is a rear-loading model." ”

Han Shin is talking about a rear-loading rifled gun. The Imperial Manufacturing Agency has actually made a sample gun, but Lu Zhe is not satisfied with it after reading it, mainly because it still shows the phenomenon of separation of charge and projectile, and the flintlock device is also extremely unstable.

"The range of the new gun has been increased to 250 meters, and it will be equipped with a drum type of bullet. The accuracy of the new guns has also been improved considerably, and the most important thing is that the time from firing to reloading will not take more than ten seconds, which is equivalent to being able to shoot six shots in one minute. Han Xin had personally shot it, and he narrated it with a little pity: "It's easy to get stuck, so Your Majesty is quite dissatisfied." ”

Bullets of the drum model? In fact, it is a mini bullet, and the idea comes from some ideas for blowing arrows. The so-called Mini bullet is a projectile with gunpowder in the middle of the case and a trigger device behind it.

The empire has a lot of water conservancy equipment in the Yangtze River basin, which has been used to make money, because of Lu Zhe's interference, in fact, the most rudimentary machine tools have appeared, but the technical content can be said to be quite primitive, but the mechanism on the drawing metal and nailing has been studied. The study of machine tools is only the idea provided by Lu Zhe, and the rest is the matter of those craftsmen.

In addition, it must be said that the barrel of the flintlock pistol is also built by some machinery of the Yangtze River water conservancy, and the rifling mechanism that has appeared recently is also the most preliminary drilling technology.

Han Xin doesn't understand some machine knowledge, and other people estimate that machine knowledge is empty. Han Xin can still say something more or less, and the others can only shut up and listen.

Cao Shen listened in a daze and asked, "How long?" ”

"What, for how long...... Oh! Han Xin shook his head and said, "Who knows? His Majesty's meaning is not to innovate new gun models for the time being, but to simply continue to develop them until they think they can be finalized, and then mass-produced. ”

Since we know that firearms soldiers are the development trend of the army in the future, as long as they are soldiers, they will not care. They need to keep up with the trend of history and adapt to the new troops and tactics in the fastest time in order to seize the opportunity and get better opportunities for promotion.

Yu Fanjun looked at Cao Shen and asked, "After this firearms soldier arrived in Wusun, it came under your command?" ”

Cao Shen nodded directly and said, "Yes." ”

Yu Fanjun did not hide his envy, "hehe" smiled and said: "There will be no shortage of war in that place of Wusun, and there is only one school of firearms soldiers in the empire to put into the battlefield, and the new army will definitely have a place for you in the future."

According to the establishment of the imperial army, there will be two captains under the command of the general, that is, a general with real power can command an army of 10,000 soldiers. Cao Shen himself has a school of cavalry, plus a school of firearms, isn't that 10,000?

They were chatting here, but the battlefield was very lively.

The firearms soldiers kept trotting closer, and when they entered the range, there was a burst of "crackling" shooting, and as long as the Hu people were within the range, they were rolling and continuously shooting projectiles, always pressing the Hu people to keep retreating.

It was not that the Hu people did not try, gritting their teeth and charging in hand-to-hand combat, but each time they rushed to about fifty meters close to the firearms soldiers, and it was difficult to take a single step.

The hit rate of the flintlock pistol is quite unreliable, but fifty meters is precisely the place where the firepower of the array line lined up by the firearms is the densest, and if someone wants to approach, a person's body must meet at least three or four lead bullets fired from the barrel.

The Hu people did not have enough bows and arrows, and it was difficult for them to approach quickly on foot, and there were less than three thousand Hu people left waiting for about 4,000, and one thing happened without accident, that is, the Hu people who were still alive in the ghost crying wolf howl collapsed and scattered.

In the face of the collapse and scattering of the Hu people, the firearms soldiers shouted in unison, "Long live the empire!" slogan, and then launched a charge. They charged with flintlock pistols equipped with bayonets and advanced on the horizon row after row, in fact, such a scene was not much different from charging with spears, if it was really subdivided, it was just that flintlock pistols were not as long as four-meter spears.

Han Xin looked at Cao Shen and asked, "Let the cavalry of the Wehrmacht join?" ”

Cao Shen's response was very direct, and he ordered the soldiers next to him to blow the horn of the attack.

In the long sound of the horn, the Wehrmacht cavalry arranged around the battlefield moved, and they drove the horses under their seats like locusts to catch up with the fleeing Hu people, and then used their spears and swords to kill the Hu people who caught up with them one after another.

"Say, if you lose, you will all die, our imperial soldiers have always been talking and counting!" (To be continued.) )