Every thirty-four people formed a horizontal row, with a total of three rows, and walked forward.
The flag bearer, trumpeter, drummer, captain's messenger, military medic and others formed two rows of five people each and marched sideways.
One battalion has five squadrons, which is five phalanxes. Eighteen battalions is ninety phalanxes.
Thirty phalanxes came down from the hillsides on both sides, and another thirty phalanxes came out from behind the ring fortification in the middle.
Yang Fan's Musketeer wears aluminum alloy plate armor inside his cotton coat.
At long distances, aluminum alloy plate armor can effectively block the opponent's lead bullets with the support of cotton coats on the outside and cotton clothes and trousers on the inside. This is because the lead bullets of the Heshuote people cannot be steel core bullets.
Yang Fan's smoothbore flintlock rifle is the highest technical level in the smoothbore era. It is equivalent to the level of the British Army during the Second Crow Period, or the final improved version of Napoleon's 1777 rifle.
This kind of gun was still being improved and equipped in Europe until the 1860s. Like the Brown Bess flintlock gun, it is a century-old ivy.
Its horizontal shooting can reach 260 meters. This is a very amazing level. After all, this is a smoothbore gun, not a rifled gun.
Bugles and drummers in the array line infantry play a vital role in military operations.
Bugles are mainly used to convey orders, report and identify ourselves and the enemy.
The drummer coordinates the actions and morale of the soldiers through changes in rhythm and tone.
The orderliness of the array is maintained entirely by the beat of the drummer.
The large formations of musketeers from both sides faced each other, and the battlefield was located in the wide middle area of the valley.
Soon, the musketeer lines from both sides began to approach.
Yang Fan's infantry has never fought in a real line formation. This is a lesson that must be made up for. No training can compare to a real fight with real swords and guns on the battlefield.
The battlefield is the best teacher.
It would be an extremely irresponsible act to send infantry who have not fought in line formations to veterans who have fought in line formations in Europe and West Asia.
Driving soldiers without adequate training onto the battlefield is a helpless move under extraordinary circumstances.
The two sides got closer and closer. This time, it was the first time for both sides to fight in line formation. The soldiers on both sides were very nervous. Everyone's mouth was dry and there was no saliva at all. They were so nervous that they could not hold their guns.
When they were 250 meters away, the Ming army's bugle sounded.
The Ming army quickly took a stand.
As the bugle sounded for the second time, all the soldiers leveled the rifles on their shoulders. The muzzles were pointed at the Heshuote musketeers who were walking in order 250 meters away to the beat of the military drum.
array lines.
Bey opened his mouth in surprise, 500 kubu! (Kubu is the Ottoman unit of length, equivalent to half a meter. About 250 meters away.)
Are these people from the East crazy? Nothing can be reached at this distance.
Their meaningless consumption of ammunition will only make the soldiers more panicked and defeated.
"What should we do? Stop too?" Orqitu Khan turned around and asked.
"You can't stop and keep walking. The effective range of our rifles is 200 kubu (100 meters), but the accuracy is not good. We must fire against the enemy's fire until we reach 100 kubu and fire uniformly. Only in this way can we fire one round
Fire volleys and kill the most enemies. Only by destroying their morale can you win. Shooting first can only lead to failure," Bey said.
"Let them continue to move forward, and those who retreat will be beheaded." Orqitu Khan said with narrowed eyes.
The cavalry immediately followed up and guarded the formation thirty meters behind. If anyone escaped, they would shoot him to death with their cavalry bows.
Orqitu Khan, like the Eight Banners, believed that the bravest warriors should be cavalry, using scimitars and riding bows to fight the enemy.
Those who dismount and fight should be people with poor riding and archery skills.
They are also superstitious about riding and shooting.
This led them to change the people with the weakest physical strength, riding skills, and shooting skills into musketeers. In other words, if you are not good at riding and shooting, just become musketeers and shoot in volley.
These people can become musketeers with simple training, because the threshold for using firearms is too low.
You can teach even a ten-year-old child. Let them shoot a musket for three months, and they will be able to fight. It won't take ten years of skill to master riding and archery.
These people could not be warriors, they were all people they looked down upon, or they were simply slaves.
If you don't have to supervise the team, they will definitely take the opportunity to escape.
Yang Fan used his telescope to see that their formation was much sparser than that of the first division.
Because the matchlock needs to keep the match burning at all times, it has an open flame on its body. They wrap bundles of match rope around their bodies to avoid running out of match rope.
Bulk gunpowder bottles were also hung around their waists; they were not using fixed ammunition.
Paper-packed ammunition only appeared in Europe at the end of this century. It was still seventy years away.
Because you are afraid that the match rope will ignite your waist, or the gunpowder in the waist of an adjacent teammate will explode, you must keep a safe distance.
In this way, each soldier must be at least one meter away.
If the width of a person is half a meter, their density is that there is one soldier per meter and a half.
Yang Fan, on the other hand, has a flintlock gun and no match rope, so he is not afraid of setting himself and his teammates on fire.
They can stand side by side in a row, and then shoot sideways. Yang Fan's musketeer array is three times as dense as theirs. In other words, Yang Fan has three people and three guns on his side, and he can shoot one opponent.
Heshuote's array is three times wider than Yang Fan's array.
But no matter how wide it is, it’s useless.
There are extra men and guns, but there is no one on the other side, so you can't hit anyone if you open fire.
As the bugle blew, the commanders of each squadron waved their arms and gave the firing signal.
The riflemen opened fire.
Bang bang bang! The first row of muskets fired.
Blue smoke spurted out from the muzzle of the gun, and the flames shone across the line of fire. A sheet of smoke filled the air, but this was the wind outlet and was quickly blown away by the strong wind.
Bey and the few other surviving Ottomans were shocked.
500 Kubu opened fire. The commander of the Ming army was really crazy. They really dared to fight.
After the first row finished shooting, they handed the rifles to the people in the second row without loading, and they exchanged rifles. Then the second row and the third row exchanged rifles. The people in the third row began to load.
Immediately, the people in the first row opened fire again, and a burst of fireworks burst out.
Then the people in the first row opened fire a third time.
250 meters away, among the Hoshuote musketeers who were walking, someone suddenly began to fall to the ground.
Although it was sparse, many people were hit.
Of course, since there is no rifling, the accuracy is ugly.
In 1811, the British conducted tests and found that the Brown Bess (Brown Bess flintlock) hit a human-shaped target 53% of the time at 100 yards (91.4 meters), and only 23% at 300 yards (274 meters).
The concept of effective range of guns at that time was different from that of modern times. At that time, the British army's definition of effective range of muskets was that the effective range for shooting at a single target was 100 yards, and the effective range for shooting at 300 yards was an effective rough shot.
Therefore, in the era of queuing and shooting, 300 yards was often the starting distance for shooting.
However, considering that one wave kills more people to reduce morale, the closer you go to release the volley, the more effective it is.
But Yang Fan's lead bullets are nail bullets.
That is to say, nail a nail with a tail fin on the butt of the shot put.
This kind of bullet is a fixed-load bullet wrapped in silk. Because the silk can be completely burned without leaving any residue, it can be inserted into the barrel of the gun as a whole. Use a purge to poke it all the way through.
The propellant surrounds most of the bullet, which is another modern concept of a buried bullet.
Nail bullets are four times more accurate than musket lead bullets!
Many modern shotguns are practical with nail bullets.
Because shotguns are generally smoothbore guns, their accuracy is impressive.
The laws of many countries prohibit the use of rifled rifles in shotguns, so it is necessary to work on bullets to improve accuracy.