After receiving the order, other officers immediately ordered the soldiers to arrange the muskets, aim, and shoot! In the blink of an eye, the line completed four rounds of volleys! The casualties caused by these four rounds of volleys to the Japanese were not large, but they triggered
A burst of chaos made their formation even slower!
When the front line finished shooting and started to reload, the line behind them passed them and continued forward. Because the two teams overlapped, it caused a small chaos. However, after they separated, it returned to normal. They were in
After ten steps forward, he stood still again under the command of the officer, and then fired four volleys forward, making the Japanese team even more chaotic!
At this time, Liu Haojia turned around and said to the servant beside him: "Remember one more thing. When approaching the enemy, you should march in column, and then expand again when you reach the predetermined position."
This tactic of advancing in columns was a very standard tactic in the musket era, but Liu Haojia was not familiar with musket tactics after all, so he forgot about it. It was not until he saw the chaos in his team that he finally thought of it.
When our own troops advance in columns towards the enemy's position, it is very helpful to reduce casualties under artillery fire. Because the enemy is only two people wide, the chance of being hit is very small. And Liu Haojia will definitely face enemies with artillery in the future.
Troops, so using horizontal formations to advance is simply a target for artillery!
Of course, there are also very special situations, that is, a miraculous cannonball hits from the front, and one cannonball can kill an entire company! However, the probability of this happening is negligible.
After watching the servant write it down, Liu Haojia raised the telescope and looked in front of the position. Many things are like this, and the problem will never be discovered until it is actually used. Now the servant has written down four or five problems in his small notebook, among which he just discovered
The column march is an important issue.
At this time, the group of soldiers who were loading on the spot had finished loading and started to move forward. When approaching the soldiers in front, Huang Guojun directed half of the soldiers in the horizontal line to bend on the right wing before crossing the front line. His movement was noticed by Liu Haojia.
It seemed that the prototype of a column had already been formed, so he immediately asked for the name of the phalanx commander and memorized it, which he would use as one of his key training targets in the future.
However, Huang Guojun didn't know that he had gotten lucky at this time. He quickly directed the soldiers who were lagging behind to run up and catch up. After advancing ten steps, he formed a pirate group again and aimed at the opponent and fired a volley.
At this time, they were about seventy steps away from the Japanese, and the lethality of the fire guns was enough to show. However, the Japanese soldiers still treated the Ming army according to the old method.
That is to say, they tried to get the soldiers in the front row to line up in a horizontal line. The first row squatted down and used their long spears to hold out their horses. The second row of soldiers cooperated with the first row's bad horses and stretched out their spears to stop the opponent. Then they took this opportunity to attack the opponent.
Later, the formation was gradually organized and advanced row by row.
But what they faced was purely firearms. The two human walls, one high and one low, simply provided double targets. Therefore, under these four rounds of volleys, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties!
The Japanese soldiers watched helplessly as the people around them were knocked to the ground by lead bullets. It would be okay if they died, but the living people would let out wailing screams that made their hearts tremble! Especially their faces,
After their bodies were splashed with blood, those Japanese soldiers were already fighting in two groups!
They have never fought this kind of battle. In less than half an hour from the beginning of the battle to now, the situation of victory and defeat has been extremely reversed! The only reason why they have not collapsed now is the iron cannon ashigaru and bows and arrows on both wings.
The team has moved closer and is ready to attack!
The soldiers of the archery team had the lowest load, so they were the first to arrive at the battle line. After hastily forming the team, they took the lead in launching a counterattack. They raised a large bow as tall as a person and fired the first round of feather arrows! However, due to the officer’s improper command, this round of feather arrows
The arrows were not neat and the landing points were uneven, but some feathered arrows still fell into the shouting.
However, the lethality of the Japanese bows and arrows was really poor! Most of the arrows that hit the target were bounced away by the helmets and breastplates. As for the arrows that hit the limbs, they did not penetrate deep into the flesh, so they were easily pulled out and thrown away by the soldiers.
Then move on.
Seeing that his companions were injured and shot with a round of arrows by the fire gun soldiers, they were angry! Since they joined the Wu'an Army, they were the only ones who beat people without being beaten! Although the Japanese bows and arrows are really poor, in the six
No one died within a distance of seventy steps, but you can tell from this tone!
So the fire gun soldiers immediately stood down and counterattacked the Japanese's arrows with four rounds! The fire cannons were very lethal within a distance of about 60 steps! So after the four rounds of volley, the archers of the archery team were fired.
The first row was completely emptied, the second row was uneven, and a large number of people in the third row were shot down! The archery team was actually shot through!
Under such a blow, the archery teams on both wings collapsed! From the time they rushed to the front of the formation to the time they collapsed, they only fired seven rounds of arrows, and the casualties caused were negligible!
Seeing the archery team disintegrated, the fire gun soldiers on both wings did not leave. Because they saw the iron cannon ashigaru rushing over, they were ready to defeat these people! The central column commanded by Huang Guojun faced all the spears mixed with the samurai's spears.
Ashigaru, so they had no intention of stopping, but only fired the first round of volley after getting 50 steps closer to the opponent!
After firing four rounds of rapid volleys, Huang Guojun directed the second horizontal team to step forward and fired four rounds of volleys, directly clearing the first three rows of soldiers, and even the last few rows were hit with gaps! So wait until the end
As soon as a round of samurai fire started, the soldiers on the opposite side dispersed! The main force that the Shimadzu family was proud of was completely defeated in eight rounds of salvos!
This is not to say that the Shimadzu family's soldiers are too bad. You know, the Shimazu family is famous among Japanese daimyo for their ability to fight! Otherwise, they would not have been able to almost unify Kyushu! And it is really difficult to end up like this.
It's because they have never fought this kind of battle!
Everyone uses iron cannons, so why do your iron cannons hit so far and so accurately? Our iron cannons are like slingshots? Someone among the iron cannons in Ashigaru dared to swear that he clearly saw his own iron cannons hit.
The other person's chest, but the guy just made a buttock and stood up again!
How can you block the blow of an iron cannon while wearing a breastplate? So far, there has never been anything in the three Japanese islands that an iron cannon can't penetrate! And as long as the opponent's firecrackers are fired, someone will fall down. This battle is impossible.