Yu Xiaotian nodded slightly after seeing it, firstly, he was satisfied with the accuracy of the artillery bombardment, and secondly, he was satisfied with Chen Wencan, who commanded the troops on the opposite side.

The officers and troops continued to advance slowly, but Chen Wencan still did not give the order to start the assault, because he knew that at such a distance, manpower was limited, and once the assault was launched in advance, before the officers and troops rushed to the front of the enemy formation, they would already begin to lose their strength, and the charge would lose its impact force, and it was necessary to wait until it reached a distance of about 100 paces from the enemy army before launching an assault, even if it was a cavalry, it must be at a distance of 200 to 300 paces before it could gallop wildly, so as to ensure that it would not be exhausted and weakened when it rushed in front of the enemy formation.

On the position of the artillery company, when the artillery began to fire, it did not stop any longer, and launched a round of rapid fire, at a rate of two rounds per minute, began to shell at the officers and soldiers, at first they first slammed the dead soldiers of the officers and soldiers who were walking in front of the queue, and after several consecutive rounds, seeing that they were not defeated, they turned to the order of Li Dazui, raised the muzzle of the guns, and began to shell the main forces of the officers and troops who followed closely behind.

There are many rabble among the main force of the official army, and they can't be like those dead soldiers, in the face of the shelling, keep in formation, two rounds of shelling, the main force of the official army began to be a little chaotic, a few timid and afraid of death, have already turned around, and the girl ran backwards.

But Chen Wencan couldn't let the team disperse at this time, he put his own soldiers behind the formation, personally led his troops to suppress the formation, and when he saw someone turning around and trying to escape, he immediately ordered his soldiers to release arrows.

Some of the soldiers were archers, and their archery level was quite good, but after a round of shooting, more than a dozen officers and soldiers who wanted to flee were shot and killed on the spot.

"Whoever dares to escape from the battle, this is the end of your waiting! Go on, don't take the big camp today, never withdraw the troops! Chen Wencan roared.

Seeing that being a deserter was also a death, he suppressed the desire of many officers and soldiers to escape, and had to continue to push forward.

Thousands of people pressed at the same time, the momentum is still quite large, and it is inevitable that there will be some psychological pressure on the sea wolf troops, and some recruits who have never seen the battle have begun to be nervous at this time, and their bodies have become stiff, their hands are holding their weapons hard, and their foreheads are a little sweaty.

But for veterans, the pressure of this situation is nothing, because they know their strength very well and have seen battles, so they don't react.

When the officers and soldiers had advanced to a distance of about 200 meters in front of the Sea Wolf formation, Li Dazui suddenly shouted: "Ten steps forward in a row, three rows are arranged in a horizontal row!" Get ready to shoot! ”

One battalion and one company, in fact, is the first musket company that Yu Xiaotian first set up to use wolf tooth rifles, this company is the elite of the Seawolf Army, all equipped with rifled Minneflint rifles, which is what the sea wolf calls wolf tooth rifles, so that all the companies equipped with wolf tooth rifles, the entire Seawolf Army has only formed two companies, and the other company is deployed in the second battalion, this is the first time they show their faces in front of the battle.

In order to test the actual combat ability of the company that used all the wolf's tooth rifles, Li Dazui did not cherish the broom, so he directly took them out and put them in front of the battle.

After the first company was out of the column, it took only a short time to disperse in front of the formation, and arranged in three horizontal rows, each with seventy soldiers, and thirty grenadiers waiting in the rear.

After such a company was lined up, the horizontal column was only about fifty meters wide, and there was about two fists between each soldier.

"Reload!" The company commander pulled out the Yanling knife at his waist and raised it high above his head and roared loudly.

There was a loud bang, and the soldiers of the company quickly put the butt of the spear at their feet in the sound of the order, took out the ammunition from their waists with the muzzle facing up, loaded it into the chamber, and then pulled out the cane under the barrel, inserted it into the muzzle and gently pounded it a few times, tamped the projectile and gunpowder, inserted the cane and picked up the gun, poured the remaining bit of gunpowder in the bamboo tube into the fire door, covered the fire door, and opened the flintlock device with a click.

"Two hundred paces, aim!" The company commander shouted loudly again.

After the successful trial production of the wolf's tooth rifle, Yu Xiaotian asked for the gun again, and made a small improvement to the wolf's tooth rifle, that is, the original fixed door was modified into a pickable movable door, and a ruler was added to it, which could adjust the ruler of the door according to the distance, which greatly improved the accuracy of the wolf's tooth rifle, and also reduced the trouble of training, making it more convenient for soldiers to master the aiming and shooting skills of this gun.

Two hundred meters is the absolute effective range of the wolf's tooth rifle, although it cannot guarantee absolute accuracy shooting, but at this distance when using a salvo of concentrated fire, the accuracy can still be guaranteed, and in addition, there is no problem with the penetration of the projectile, which is very suitable for shooting at enemy cluster targets.

Originally, with the performance of the wolf's tooth rifle, it could completely guarantee to effectively kill and injure the enemy's living targets within 300 meters, but for the sake of safety, Li Dazui still decided to fire a salvo at the enemy group at 200 paces.

The soldiers who received the order immediately adjusted the ruler to a position of 200 meters, then raised their guns and put the butt of their guns against their shoulders, steadily stabilized the barrel of their guns, and aimed their guns at the officers and soldiers who were advancing towards them.

Chen Wencan had been on the back of the horse behind the team to pay attention to the movement of the sea wolf in front of him, and when he saw that his dead soldiers were still about two hundred steps away from the other party, the sea wolf's subordinates began to line up and raised the "bird gun" for a moment, but immediately showed a look of disdain on his face.

As a military general, he is of course very familiar with the performance of the bird gun, and the bird gun of this era, even if it is the most sophisticated bird gun, the effective range will not exceed 70 steps, and often can only hit 50 steps, and it is still very difficult to accurately hit a target of the same size as a person.

But the sea wolves are 200 paces away, they start to raise their guns to aim, this is a joke, unless they don't shoot, otherwise it is impossible to hit their own people, if they really don't shoot, 200 steps to 70 steps, it will not be a short time, how long can they hold on to the birds?

Therefore, Chen Wencan believes that the sea wolf looks well-trained on the surface, but in fact it is also a rookie, and the official army has a virtue, seeing the enemy approaching, he just put the gun first, as for the ability to fight, first give himself the courage to speak, and then say, after they fire, it is very troublesome to reload the musket, as long as they take this opportunity to rush over, the musket in their hands will become a burning stick, even if they are lined up well, they will not worry about being dispersed by the dead soldiers they sent.

So when Chen Wencan saw this, he began to feel a little relieved, thinking that the sea wolf was actually not that powerful, and he could still win this battle.

Chen Wencan looked at it this way, and many of his subordinates also looked at it this way, and the generals who were originally panicked in their hearts also showed a knowing sneer at this time.

Even those who dared to die at the forefront saw the actions of the sea wolves on the opposite side at this time, and they didn't feel nervous at all, they might be afraid of those cannon shells, but for these muskets, they were not worried, after all, in order to make contributions to the First World War, Chen Wencan and his generals spared no expense this time, and put on all the cotton armor in the army.

These people have experience and know a little bit about the performance of the bird's gun, and in their opinion, as long as they are wearing cotton armor, they can be hit by the bird's gun in fifty steps. If it weren't for their bad luck, the guns wouldn't be able to penetrate their cotton armor, not to mention that at a distance of two hundred paces, it was impossible for the sea wolves to hit them.

Therefore, when they saw the sea wolf's men begin to line up and raise their guns, instead of feeling nervous, they relaxed a little, and even shouted loudly and arrogantly to cheer themselves up.

The Qian general who led the team, when he saw the sea wolf people raise their guns, he felt that the opportunity had come, although two hundred steps was a bit far, but as long as the opponent fired at this time, it created an opportunity for them, and they could rush over after the opponent finished firing, before they finished reloading, and scattered the opponent's formation.

So this Qian Zong immediately raised his waist knife and roared: "Charge me!" Kill! Killing one is enough, killing two earns one! Attack the camp, and there will be a heavy reward! Brothers, rush! ”

These daring people, after hearing the roar of this thousand generals, also let out a loud roar together, raised their weapons one after another, and began to rush forward with a roar.

Hundreds of officers and soldiers began to accelerate like a tide to the sea wolf's formation, at this time, the company commander, the corner of his mouth showed a cruel sneer, and roared: "Fire!" At the same time as the roar sounded, he swung the single knife in his hand forward, and the tip of the knife pointed directly at the officers and soldiers who rushed over.

The musketeers in the front row had already finished aiming at this time, and they just waited for the order to fire, and as soon as the command sounded, they immediately pulled the trigger.

Immediately in front of the sea wolf, there was a burst of muskets like popping beans, and the bodies of each musketeer shook slightly as they fired, and their shoulders flashed backwards to remove the recoil generated when the guns were fired.

Dozens of bullets suddenly flew out of the muzzle of the gun and fired at the officers and soldiers on the opposite side.

I saw that the sword players who were rushing to the front of the official army suddenly seemed to hit an invisible wall, and some fragments flew up from the shield in their hands, and transmitted a huge force to their arms.

Many people were taken aback, looked down to check, and suddenly saw holes appear on the shields in their hands, and then looked at their bodies, and a ball of blood red also rose.

How is it possible that these people don't trust their eyes at all? The shields in their hands were made of solid wood, and some of them were covered with a layer of raw cowhide, and some of them even had a layer of iron on their shields.

That's a distance of nearly 200 paces! What's more, they felt a sharp pain coming from their bodies, and it was obvious that these guns not only pierced the shields in their hands, but even the cotton armor they wore did not block the opponent's guns.

Some of them let out a miserable howl in pain, with disbelief and unwillingness, and fell to the ground.