1635, everything is a pile of rotten meat under the cannon
"Hulik, how did you conduct reconnaissance? Drag him down and chop him down." Dar roared angrily.
With a cry for mercy and a final scream, the scout captain was doomed. The other scouts turned pale with fear. This mistake was not a small one. Seeing the thirty artillery fire in front of them, they all knew that this was going to be terrible.
The people of Maoming'an Division had 4,780 people killed by steel crossbows. They had already rushed to a place more than 30 meters away. As long as they gathered their strength, they could immediately engage the enemy.
They all know that the crossbow is one of the trump cards of the Han people.
A farmer can be trained to put down his hoe in three days.
But it takes fifteen years for the warriors on the grassland to grow up and become proficient in bow and horse. This is unfair! Ever since the Han people had this thing, they began to take advantage of the battlefield.
Because the crossbow has a much greater pulling force, its projectile and direct shooting range is generally fifty meters further than that of a large bow. It has greater advantages than a riding bow. The only disadvantage is that its rate of fire is not good.
Yang Fan has a rod-loaded rapid-fire steel crossbow, the same kind that shot down the Mongolian cavalry in Duolun City, but Yang Fan will not sell it.
What Qin Liangyu can buy is already the highest level that can be sold. It can only shoot three shots per minute.
The performance of the bow depends on the materials and craftsmanship used. Han Chinese, Mongolians, and Jiannu used angle bows, compound bows, and recurve bows. However, the materials are very different.
The Han people have the best material, because the best horn board is buffalo horn. Why? Because buffalo horn is delicate and has no lumps or hardened horny patches. The overall strength and flexibility are very good. On the grassland, there are only yellow horns.
There are lots of petrified patches and particles. Like boils on trees.
These boils are unusable and will cause the bow to burst under heavy tension. The best carcass for the bow is a kind of bamboo produced in the south of the Ming Dynasty. Whether it is buffalo horns or bamboo slices, exports to China have been strictly prohibited in all dynasties.
Outside the Great Wall.
The slaves were forced to use wood from the Northeast, which was the same material as the English longbow - Northeast yew. Small pieces of ox horns were used. The Mongols even used yak horns and bison horns.
Wait for replacement.
Since their materials were not good enough, they could only make the bows and arrows extremely large to make up for the shortcomings.
In this way, the large bows of the Mongols relied on brute force to draw more force than the small bows and Kaiyuan bows of the Ming Dynasty. Jiannu was even more extreme, making a Qing bow with the largest draw force in the history of the world at that time, and it was also huge in size.
Although the draw force of Ming Dynasty bows is not as good as that of Mongolia and Jiannu, its advantages are labor saving and high shooting speed. It has less tremor and is more accurate. An eight-force bow can be fully drawn with six or seven force because of its good material.
At this time, all the people from Maoming'an Division had already put their bows and arrows back into their quivers. Then they turned around and pulled out their scimitars, preparing to rush forward and fight in hand-to-hand combat.
They smiled ferociously and raised their scimitars, ignoring these skinny southern monkeys.
Hatuha's eyes were red with excitement, like those of a wild beast. With his bulk, his shadow could cover those thin southern soldiers.
However, they suddenly saw that everyone in front of them had disappeared. After a closer look, they found that they were all lying on the ground together.
What was this doing? It stunned the Mongols. Was this a surrender to death?
Then, they saw a row of black gun muzzles. The Mongols were confused at the time. They were actually particularly afraid of firearms. They had been frightened by the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years.
How come these cannons that transport food are equipped with cannons? Moreover, they are not small cannons such as Franchise machines, but heavy artillery.
Then, the last thing they saw was orange flames spurting from the muzzle.
Then they felt a blazing heat in their bodies. Countless small steel balls left the muzzle and formed a discus cloud, sweeping across their cluster array.
Darkhan's eyes twitched when he saw it. He was riding a horse, looking down from a high position, and clearly saw the sound of a cannon. As thick smoke and flames spurted out, a large piece of the entire team in front was missing. A semicircle
A gap appears.
The Mongolians in front were covered in blood and flesh. The penetrating power of these high-speed flying steel balls could not be withstood by their armor. Their breastplates were hit with pieces of armor flying everywhere, and blood, broken flesh, and broken bones were flying all over the sky.
The ones in the front row were basically shattered. Then the steel balls changed direction and continued to fly backwards. The people in the back row were once again punched with dense holes, and blood and minced meat spurted out backwards. Then they penetrated into the bodies of the people behind again.
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Darkhan was far away and had no time to command these people, but he believed that the Taijis of Maoming'an Department should know that it is not easy to load artillery.
At this time, the most correct choice is to ignore the casualties and rush forward in one go.
The bombardment of thirty artillery pieces suddenly destroyed the basically neat and dense formations and infantry arrays, as if they had been eaten by dogs, and they were all semi-circular sawtooths.
"Charge forward, don't stop, they need to charge and clean the gun barrel." A centurion shouted loudly. Then many centurions began to shout, driving the frightened Mongolian soldiers who were a little distracted and continued to charge forward.
If you hesitate at this time and wait for the enemy to load the next shell, their losses will be in vain.
The Mongols roared and charged forward again. They also understood that only by rushing forward and fighting hand-to-hand could they reverse the fate of being bombarded by heavy artillery.
"Blow the drum, ask the iron gunners to stand up and fire three times." Qin Liangyu ordered.
Dong Dong Dong! The cowhide war drums rumbled. All the people who were lying down stood up. The first few rows were half-crouching spearmen, a total of three rows. The densely packed spears stretched out. Behind them were three rows of iron
gunner.
These iron cannons captured in Japan are very well made. Japan in this era has begun to show signs of craftsmanship.
After all, their country is as narrow as a ditch and lacks all resources.
To put it bluntly, their craftsmanship and habit of striving for excellence are completely the product of poverty.
I wish I could eat three of the same fish. I even kept all kinds of ancient relics, all for this reason.
Bang bang bang! A burst of white smoke rose up, and more than 300 rounds of lead bullets were fired at the Maoming Anbu heavy infantry howling in front.
Puff puff puff! Their pierced armor was bleeding, and the armor pieces were scattered by lead bullets. Within twenty meters, the power of the matchlock gun was very powerful, and the pierced armor could not stop it at all. Jiannu's three-layer armor
It’s no use either.
More than 150 people fell to the ground in an instant. The people in front rolled down, causing those behind to stumble. They rushed too fast. There was chaos in the front.
"Come forward, they want to reload, hurry up, don't get beaten here like a fool." The officers shouted loudly.
However, before they finished shouting, the iron gunners in the first row who had finished shooting squatted down, revealing the 200th iron gunner who had raised his gun.