"Two shifts, two shifts, two shifts..."

Amidst the sound that sounded like chanting a curse, the numb North Korean musketeers all clutched their muskets that had been loaded with bullets. They stood shoulder to shoulder stiffly in the cold wind, watching as they got closer and closer to them.

The enemy, waiting for the order to level their muskets...

This was the scene on the Ming army's side when the first "queuing to shoot" battle took place in the battles of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The actual situation is that simple. The North Korean musketeers can't do anything too complicated this time... After all, they have only trained for two months, and they can only line up in line amidst the shouts and curses of officers and non-commissioned officers. Then mechanically,

Rigidly and subconsciously completing a series of actions such as reloading and shooting.

A considerable number of them will also put the stabbing strip in the barrel of the gun and shoot it out, and then they will be unable to load ammunition. Others will load the ammunition into the barrel repeatedly and forget to fire the gun. It is really effective.

There are probably only half of the warriors fighting.

However, just these half of the people who can fight effectively plus a flintlock gun that seems to be shoddy are enough to form a very cost-effective "modern army".

Compared with the medieval army, the biggest advantage of this modern army is actually its extremely high cost performance.

Medieval armies could rely on small but capable "heavenly soldiers", such as the Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, the military generals Jia Ding, Chuang, and Xianjia's veteran soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty. In the West, there were also the Turkish Guards and the Egyptian Mamluks.

Wait. If this "heavenly soldier" encounters an ordinary opponent, it is possible to beat one to ten, and usually it can produce a very disparate exchange ratio.

But in the era of carrying flintlock muskets and queuing up to kill, it is difficult for such "celestial soldiers" to appear... At least when two armies that also use flintlock muskets meet, it is difficult to achieve the "celestial soldiers effect"

Yes, even in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham that was so popularized by later generations (a classic battle in which lobster soldiers fired volleys within 18 meters), 4,800 elite English soldiers faced 4,000 French rabble (mainly militiamen, and a thousand Indians)

, the lobster soldiers who were determined to die despite the French gunfire were also killed by more than six hundred people!

If the number of Frenchmen were doubled, the lobster soldiers would definitely be defeated!

In the "queue to shoot" battle that began on the evening of November 15th, the fourth year of the reign of King Ming of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army had a total of eight unsatisfied battalions (400 grenadiers less), with a total of

More than seven thousand people.

The Qing army invested 20 unsatisfied staff and leaders, with a total of more than 16,000 people. At first glance, the Qing army had a great advantage in terms of numbers!

However, the Qing army did not have that many flintlock muskets that could be used for queuing up and shooting. A Qing army commander only had four assistants for queuing up and shooting. Each assistant usually only had 80 flintlock muskets.

The leader only has 320 flintlock muskets, and the 20 corps leaders are more than 6,000 flintlock muskets... There is no way, the production cannot keep up!

The Ming army had more flintlock muskets, and they had "freedom of flintlock muskets." A leader of the Ming army was usually equipped with 160 flintlock muskets, and one of their battalions only had four that could be used for shooting.

The leaders who lined up to be shot. So there were a total of 640 flintlock muskets, and the eight battalions had more than 5,000 that could be used to fight the fusiliers and grenadiers who were lined up to be shot.

However, Liu Yan had previously sent out some grenadiers to sneak attack the Qing army, so now there are only more than 4,700 fusiliers and grenadiers left.

In addition, the long gunners of the Ming army have received flintlock training, and the direct leaders of each battalion are also equipped with a large number of flintlocks.

Therefore, although the number of the Qing army doubled, the number of flintlock guns and gunners (officers and soldiers who were proficient in using guns) possessed by both sides was actually about the same.

Although the Qing army's fusiliers had better shooting skills, the quality of the fusiliers they used was far inferior to those used by the Ming army...

Therefore, this "queue to shoot" battle was actually evenly matched, but on the evening of the 15th, neither warring party knew this.

The Korean musketeers on the Ming army were all dreaming of "two squads of dreams", while the fusiliers of the Qing army thought they were some kind of heavenly soldiers.

Under the afterglow of dusk, the musketeers of the Eight Banners New Army, who thought they were heavenly soldiers, formed three firing columns and slowly approached the Ming army's square formation from the north, west and east. However, they did not have the guts to rely on the Ming army.

If they are too close, they are not lobster soldiers, and the Ming army also has sugar grenades! If they get too close, a wave of grenades will hit them, and the consequences are unimaginable!

Therefore, when the distance between the two sides was still more than forty steps, the Qing military commanders who directed the battle issued an order to stop advancing.

"Rifle level!"

Seeing that the Qing army had stopped advancing, the generals of the various battalions of the Ming army on the opposite side immediately roared... It would be better to open fire first!

The two rows of Korean soldiers who had long understood these three Chinese characters and the grenadiers who were queuing to be shot (they usually lined up in the back row) lowered their flintlocks without hesitation - in order to maximize their chances of success.

To exert his firepower, Liu Yan had no choice but to let his fusiliers and grenadiers form two rows of shooting formations, and at the same time let the pikemen pull out a sparse formation in the third row to supervise the battle and act as a substitute.

"Rifle...shoot!"

The lingering sounds of the commands of several battalion generals were still echoing, and rows of large and small fires and smoke suddenly flashed across the Ming Army's private line! The "Heavenly Soldiers" of the New Eight Banners on the opposite side shook as if they were suddenly struck by lightning.

A large area fell down. The screams could not be suppressed. People fell down everywhere on the Qing army's front... Under the volley of flintlock guns, there were really no heavenly soldiers!

However, the Qing army was still a bit ruthless at this time. After being shot, they immediately returned the favor. The commanders who led the team also pointed their waist knives forward and gave orders loudly, asking the musketeers below to fire quickly.

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When the fusiliers of the Qing army heard the order, they quickly lowered their muskets and fired at the Ming army's front line in front of them.

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Two shifts!”

"Load, load quickly..."

In front of the Ming army formation, I immediately remembered the urgent screams of the officers.

The musketeers who had not been shot heard the roar and quickly took out their fixed paper shells and started loading.

The Qing army did the same thing!

There are fixed-loading ammunition on both sides, and the soldiers on both sides are well versed in the action of loading ammunition. There are nervous soldiers on both sides who make mistakes...

When the Ming army finished loading first, they fired first. They raised their muskets again, leveled their muzzles, and fired another volley at the Qing army's front!

After a while, the Qing army responded in kind!

The fusiliers on both sides were firing back and forth with each other. The bullets poured out and flew in front of the formations of both sides. The fusiliers on both sides were like rice and wheat meeting a sickle, falling into pieces.

Thrown to the ground.

No one knows when the end will come, and they can't take even a step back... The Ming army has no way to retreat, and the Qing soldiers on the other side can't retreat either. Emperor Kangxi has given a death order, and this time

The battle must be won!

At the same time, gunpowder smoke was still filling the front of the formations of both sides, and the sky was getting darker and darker. After 10 or 20 rounds of gunfire from both sides, the gunpowder smoke and night finally obscured the soldiers on both sides.

Moreover, after continuous shooting, the barrels of their muskets were already hot and could not be used for the time being.

So the shooting had to be suspended, and the ministers, commanders, and deputy commanders who were supervising the battle at the rear of the Qing army had their ears buzzing from the muskets, and their heads were buzzing... One or two

After ten rounds of volley fire, the Korean recruits of the Ming Army did not collapse!

And the losses on my side seem to be huge!

Taking advantage of the break in the fighting, the wounded soldiers were carried down like running water, and their dying cries kept coming. The doctors in the army were dumbfounded when they saw this scene.

In all their years as military men, they have never seen so many casualties in such a short period of time!
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