Whether it was their own cannons or catapults, they all encountered devastating blows from the Ming army's long-range cannons as soon as they appeared. The Tartars seemed to have completely given up and gave up their long-range weapons.
Same.
The entire front seemed to have received the order at the same time. Waves of cavalry all over the mountains and plains rushed towards the Ming Army's line from the opposite side, and the opposite sides of the Ming Army's left and right wings were almost the same as the front of the Eastern Route Army.
, encountered huge pressure, so much so that they were originally supposed to cover the main force in the middle on the flanks, but now they were facing the enemy's impact and had no time to cope with the main force.
Holding your own front is the best response to the main force.
The Ming army's artillery no longer covered their faces with their pipas half-hiding. They began to spit out their long-suppressed anger at the cavalry all over the mountains and plains. The cannonballs passed over the heads of their own camps and fell into the middle of the enemy.
, depending on the distance of the firing range, these shells successively created alleys of flesh and blood in the crowd.
Viewed from the hills, the fierce artillery fire of the Ming army indeed caused great damage to the Hou Jin army. However, with the current size of the Hou Jin army and the number of people charging, the losses caused by the artillery were not enough to bring down the Hou Jin army.
Jin Dajun is heading towards failure.
Even if every shell did not miss and took away a few or even a dozen lives, such a ratio is really insignificant on such a battlefield.
The army of Hou Jin could withstand such losses.
What really caused huge damage to these Tartar cavalry who rushed forward on horseback were the fire muskets, which were indispensable in almost every battle formation. After a large number of flintlock muskets were equipped with Liaodong Dusi, the matchlock gun has basically withdrawn.
As a result, the rate of fire of the Ming army's muskets far exceeded the imagination of the opposing Tartars.
And the experience they gained from fighting other Ming armies in the past suddenly lost its effect on this battlefield.
When the Ming army's cannons sound and charge, as long as they rush through the cannon coverage area and approach the Ming army, no matter it is the Ming army's archers or firecrackers, they will have at most one or two more attacks after the first attack.
If they have the opportunity, the long swords and spears of these elite Eight Banners cavalry will appear in front of them. The war horses under their crotches carry huge impact and can completely break through the Ming army's battle formation. The long swords in their hands
And the war spear takes away the lives of the enemy when it flies past the enemy's side.
Especially those so-called fire gun soldiers. Many of them were still tinkering with the extremely heavy fire guns in their hands when the sharp long knives were cutting them down. They would not even have the chance to fire a second fire gun.
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This is also the reason why the Ming army in Liaodong strongly dislikes fire blunderbuss. The Ming Dynasty produced more than 100,000 fire blunderbuss and bird blunderbuss in a year. However, among the Ming army in Liaodong, there was almost no one that could be built to a large scale.
The Fire Gun Troops are the only Guan Ning Cavalry that uses three-eyed Fire Guns as their main weapons. They are attracted to the Three-Eyed Fire Guns not because they can fire fast enough and are more powerful, but because these Three-Eyed Fire Guns can be preloaded.
Good ammunition. When facing the enemy, you can take a preemptive strike by firing three rounds of firecrackers at them. After firing, you can use the heavy firecrackers as short iron rods.
As for reloading, don't even think about it. In a life-and-death fight, who will give them a chance to reload? With this time, it's not a good idea to bring a few more loaded three-eyed muskets.
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Jiang Wan's fire rifle soldiers taught the Tartar army a hard lesson, as they still had not come out of their own experience.
How fast the Liaodong Dusi's fire gun soldiers can fire the fire gun depends purely on how fast they can load the bombs. As for the reloading process, Tieshan City's research and development has already produced a certain amount of oil-paper medicine packets.
The gunpowder has been weighed and packaged in advance. After the last projectile is fired, the soldiers only need to take out the gunpowder package from the ammunition bag they carry with them, load it with projectiles, and then pull the trigger directly for the second bullet.
Just went out.
The improved gunpowder brought by Zhao Yuan has also reduced the amount of gunpowder burning residue to an extent that was unimaginable before. It used to be necessary to use a purge to clean the barrel of the gun after firing, but now it can fire five, eight, or even
Only clean it once every ten rounds.
Theoretically, the barrel of a blunderbuss can be fired at least fifty times before it becomes useless. With luck, it can even be fired seventy or eighty times.
In the face of such firearms that are far ahead of this era, what army can withstand dozens of consecutive hits from a well-equipped firecracker.
No!
At least, Jiang Wan felt that the Hou Jin army in front of him was absolutely unbearable.
He stood under the flying flag and saw that his army was like a solid embankment, bearing the impact of waves of surging tides. These tides hit the embankment with all their strength, trying to destroy the embankment.
I broke through and tried to smash the embankment, but in the end, it turned into piles of foam and flowed down the embankment.
Huge clouds of white mist rose up from the battlefield. These white mist curled up in the air, then condensed together, and dispersed and landed again amidst the sound of wind breathing in the air.
The white mist is trying hard to stretch its body, as if it wants to cover the two groups of people below who are fighting for life and death in its arms. However, the wider the area it covers, the thinner it becomes, even if
The crowd below is still rising, white mist is rising in waves, replenishing it with blood and flesh, but if you want to cover this huge battlefield below, it is obvious that this white mist requires greater and more efforts.
Jiang Wan's eyes looked through the gaps in the white mist. The places farther away had become somewhat blurred in the white mist, and the various huge noises on the battlefield also blocked his hearing.
For a moment, he even felt that he was in the clouds, like a god overlooking all the living beings on the battlefield. As long as he had a thought, thousands of people on the battlefield would follow him.
Ideas change their lives.
He thought of the countless Boxer warriors in front of the Eight-Power Allied Forces, of the Japanese who had fallen under the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War and had a good life but were seeking death in various ways. He thought of facing the German army in the Battle of the Somme.
The 60,000 British troops died unjustly at the gunpoint.
Do these people lack courage? Do they not have enough weapons?
Of course not, it's just that when their weapons were far behind that era, their courage and the backward weapons in their hands not only failed to bring them victory, but also caused them to lose their lives faster.
While human beings are studying how to kill their own kind more efficiently, they are also promoting the development of the entire civilization. In this sense, today's battle at Gushan Castle may not only be Jiang Wan's victory, but also the victory of the entire civilization.