Chapter 376: One-sided slaughter
After the formation, everyone tensed their nerves, holding fire guns in their hands, shoulder to shoulder.
Even if he is as bold as Li Dingguo, at this time, watching the mighty cavalry in the distance rushing towards him, he can't help but feel a sense of tightness in his heart.
The majesty of this cavalry in the wilderness was, at least for this age, devastating.
The teaching team has always been good at night battles, and although they have repeatedly won big victories in night battles, it is now a real head-to-head duel.
For the first time, they felt the power of cavalry.
It's just that......
In just an instant, courage returned to Li Dingguo's body.
Now he is actually lucky, because he is far from hunger, and he no longer worries about the separation of his wife and the destruction of his family.
He even began to have some savings, and his parents at home also had their own land, and he ...... Staying in Donglin Military Academy was almost the happiest day of his life.
And now...... When anyone wants to send him back to his original hell, he would rather die.
"Gun loaded!"
A clarion call.
Immediately after that, the bamboo whistle sounded.
All of them acted in an orderly manner.
In fact, the biggest advantage of the flintlock pistol over the current arquebus is not only the rate of fire and the convenience of the charge.
The most important thing is that arquebuses cannot allow soldiers to form a relatively close queue shoulder to shoulder, and there must be a certain gap between them to prevent being injured by the arquebus next door.
The flintlock pistol is killed with flint, which is safer, which also ensures that everyone is in a formation even if they are side by side.
This small improvement is actually a huge advantage for the firecracker queue.
Because of the firearms of this era, if you want to exert the maximum effect, you must ensure that there is a dense fire, if everyone stands too loosely and the distance between each other is too large, it is actually difficult to increase the lethality in an area.
The Emperor of the Apocalypse was looking at this side from a distance at this time, but he saw that the first teaching team was actually in a dense array.
For a moment, he was stunned.
"Brother Huang...... What's wrong? Zhu Youzhen also looked at the other end, and couldn't help but say worriedly.
"This Zhang Jingyi, doesn't he understand? With such a dense queue, something will happen, and once someone is injured, the queue will be chaotic. The Emperor of the Apocalypse said with a deep frown.
But at this time, it is obviously too late to stop it.
The opponent's horse team was already rushing to kill, and Wu Xiang was even more energetic at this time, looking at the two thin columns of men and horses hiding behind the car formation on the opposite side.
Wu Xiang couldn't help but show a disdainful sneer on his face, and shouted in his mouth: "Kill!" These people ...... I'm not good at using firearms at all, and I'm not able to hit this general! Those who enter the battle first will be rewarded. ”
Guan Ningjun has always been well rewarded.
Therefore, when this cavalry heard this, he was immediately full of morale.
Now that it is getting closer and closer, everyone is in good spirits and has launched the final sprint.
But the two columns of students of the teaching team did not move at all.
They formed two long rows of serpents.
A queue of more than 50 meters wide was formed.
By this time, the first column had already raised its firearms, and the guns were facing forward.
However, there is no aiming action.
Of course, the firearms of this era do not need to be aimed. Because you generally aim at the enemy Xiao Ming, then most of the probability of hitting the king next door is the old one.
Everybody didn't move.
When the vanguard of the cavalry finally reached within thirty paces.
This distance is already very close.
The faces of the enemies on the other side can almost be seen.
The two opposing sides looked at each other, each showing disdain.
Then......
The bamboo whistle finally sounded again.
So the students in the first column, as if subconsciously, immediately pulled the flint's bolt without hesitation.
The next moment, the flint smashed into the chamber of the gun.
The flint sputtered out of the spark with great speed.
The spark immediately ignited the gunpowder in the barrel.
Bang...... Bang......
Smoke fills the air.
A volley of firearms was fired.
Countless projectiles shot out of the chamber.
After intensive shooting.
The worst was the cavalry in the first column.
Suddenly...... More than two dozen people fell directly.
Someone was shot in the body and fell off his horse.
There are also war horses that were shot, and immediately drenched in blood, and then ...... The horse went berserk, overturned the man on the horse, and began to gallop.
This cavalry was originally with unparalleled might.
But at this time...... The formation couldn't help but be messed up.
In particular, the front team's war horse knelt down on the front foot, and after the later person turned over on his back, the cavalry of the rear team had no time to dodge, and collided with the front team, and the high-speed moving war horse collided, which was enough for the cavalry on the horse to directly break the bones.
Thereupon...... All of a sudden, there were many screams on the battlefield.
After the first shot was fired, the students of the first column quickly retreated, ignoring nothing else.
Immediately afterwards, the cadets of the second column came forward to substitute.
Another order to shoot.
Then another row of firebolts made a loud noise.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army was very skilled in the use of firearms and created a three-stage attack.
That is, the team is divided into three rows, the first row is used to shoot, the second row and the third row are loaded with gunpowder, and then everyone takes turns to shoot to ensure that the guns and bullets in the queue can continuously shoot the former enemy.
Merely...... This time, the students took two strikes.
Because......
After Li Dingguo entered the rear team, he began to quickly reload gunpowder, because he did not have to load the arquebus, so one step was reduced.
He had experienced this way of loading gunpowder many times.
The most important thing in using a musket is to be well trained.
An undertrained army, no matter how powerful firearms it is, is actually useless.
If the same flintlock pistol is placed in the hands of the officials and soldiers in Liaodong, and it takes half of the incense to reload a round, then the students can reduce this time to thirty percent of it.
Not only that, in order to shorten the time as much as possible, except for the flintlock pistol, which has fewer steps than the arquebus, all the gunpowder is wrapped in pigskin in advance to ensure that the dose of gunpowder is the same for each packet.
What the students have to do is to directly take out the 'pills', tear them open with their mouths, and then quickly stuff the gunpowder into the musket, and then use a special iron bar to tamp the gunpowder, and finally load the projectile.
Thus, after the second column was fired.
The original first column had been quickly charged, and they quickly took the place of the second column.
Everyone raised their fiery guns.
"Bang ......"
Another burst of fire rang out like fried beans.
Endless firepower.
In this short thirty steps, there has never been a break.
It's suffocatingly fast.
In particular, the cooperation of the two columns of students was almost to the point of inseparability, and everyone knew what they were about to do in the next moment, and they moved forward almost reflexively, raising their guns, shooting, and then quickly retreating, giving up the firing position, charging, inserting the projectile, moving forward, raising the musket, and continuing to shoot.
This series of actions is almost uniform.
And these ......... They have gone through countless drills in the school field on weekdays, and they don't know that they have carried out tens of thousands of times.
Even in dreams, there are people who dream that they are reloading gunpowder.
The roaring cavalry thought that they had won the battle.
Especially when they saw the faces of these infantrymen clearly, a smug smile appeared on their faces.
But they obviously never imagined that these short thirty steps would be as long as ascending to the sky.
Round after round of shooting, the people who rushed to the front fell one by one.
The pace of progress began to slow down.
Immediately afterward, the rear team rushed up again, still unable to resist the dense firecrackers that shot out.
Someone else fell......
Everywhere there were wailing people.
Fallen men and horses have formed barricades.
Make it harder for the people in the back team to sprint.
Their speed slowed down, but the students of Donglin did not slow down.
They were still firing mechanically and with constant charges.
In just half a cup of tea, this whirlwind-like iron rider actually only rushed forward twenty steps, but it had already left two hundred corpses.
At this time...... The entire Guanning Iron Cavalry is still on the verge of collapse.
Even those who rushed to the front were already frightened at this time.
They knew very well that if they stepped over the horses and carts, they could rush into the formation and then slaughter the musketeers.
But...... Someone is starting to waver.
It's just that...... In the back team, there was the sound of horses' hooves.
That Li Ruzhen obviously saw the situation as well, and he immediately sensed that things were worse than he imagined.
So, he scolded Wu Xiang's wine bag and rice bag.
But he had to directly carry the knife and shouted: "Kill." ”
At the sound of an order, more than 1,000 iron horsemen rushed to kill.
If all the reserves are not put into it, Li Ruzhen certainly knows that the military horses of the vanguard will definitely collapse.
Maybe because of the new force, even Wu Xiang and these people, although they were cold, they still gritted their teeth and persevered desperately at this time.
The biggest problem right now...... Instead, he became his own person.
The countless corpses of men and horses on the ground were scattered horizontally and vertically, and in some places, the corpses were piled up like mountains, which blocked the cavalry's charge.
Not only that, but some of the people who fell to the ground did not die, so they crawled on the ground, wailing, and miserable.
There were also wounded horses scurrying around the battlefield.
There was a pungent smell of gunpowder smoke ahead, so many ownerless war horses did not rush towards the car formation of the Donglin Military Academy, but turned around and galloped backwards.
All of a sudden, it was someone on his back again.
Guan Ning Tieqi was stunned this time.
The reason why he is so embarrassed is more because of the underestimation of the enemy.
If they have enough time, they can use the long-range method first to cause some damage to the Donglin Military Academy.
It's just that at this point, even if you regret it, it's too late.
The mighty iron cavalry is still sprinting continuously.
Only this time, no one is against the opponent in front of him...... Underestimated.
"If I don't kill these people today, tomorrow none of us will want to live, and all of our families will be affected, kill me, and die together!" Wu Xiang roared angrily.
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