Historically, the Oara people have been enslaved by the Khalkha and Chahar people.
They became strong, and it did not take long to drive out the suppression of the Khan of Khalkha and the descendants of the Chahar people. However, they were already very powerful at this time.
After the death of Ye
), killed Shuolei Ubash, the great-grandson of Gessen Zhazhaer (the eighth grandson of Dayan Khan and a descendant of Chahar).
This symbolizes the re-emergence of Oirat Mongolia.
Six years later, in 1629, Shuolei Ubashi's son Ombu Erdeni was defeated again, and the Mongolian forces descended from Chahar were completely driven out of the Tianshan grassland.
At this time, the situation in the Tianshan Mountains was that the 4 Oirat tribes were jointly led by two leaders, Bai Bagas and Hara Hula. The Koshote tribe was nomadic in the Urumqi area, the Junggar tribe was nomadic in the Ili River Basin, and the Durbot tribe was nomadic in Er'er.
They are nomadic in the Qisi River Basin, and the Torgut tribe is nomadic in the Talbahatai area.
Today, Yang Fan's army is going to attack Tingzhou (Urumqi), which means raiding the home of the Heshuote Department. It would be strange if they don't fight tooth and nail.
It is precisely because of driving away the foreign forces that the Heshuote people have been fighting hard for the past three years. This is because they have seen the four large Mongolian groups around the desert, except for the fact that they have all declined.
Their ambitions are also growing.
This is how the nomads are. Once they become strong and drive away the old masters who enslaved them, they can sweep across the grasslands in a short time.
The same was true for the Turks back then. They were originally Rouran slaves, that is, blacksmiths.
The word Turk first appeared in Chinese history books in 516 AD.
The tribe settled in Jinshan from Gaochang Beishan and became the iron-smelting slaves of Rouran Kingdom.
Then after they appeared, they quickly unified the eastern half of the Eurasian steppe, that is, the part of the alpine plateau grassland east of the Altai Mountains. Then they unified Central Asia, and later split into the East Turks and the West Turks.
Yang Fan did not expect Orchitukhan to be so far-sighted. Not many years after independence, he introduced a large number of advanced muskets from the Ottomans. He also invited the Ottomans to help with training.
Looking at the musketeers coming from the opposite side, they were in an orderly formation and their steps were well-organized.
It is obvious that Orqitu Khan is very caring, and he can also accept new things and new weapons.
However, after the 18th battalion of the First Division of the Infantry Corps opened fire, the sudden blow made them panic.
At a distance of 500 Kubu, the other side actually opened fire.
Although Yang Fan's smoothbore gun can shoot flatly at this distance, its hit rate is only a quarter of the normal shooting distance.
However, due to improvements in ammunition, the use of nail bullets can increase the accuracy four times.
This is equivalent to making up for the hit rate at this distance.
Bei secretly calculated the number of people knocked down. At this distance, the hit rate was nearly 40%, which surprised Bei.
People in the first row fell to the ground one after another. There were many gaps in the array line.
Those behind can only take a step forward to fill the gap.
The Ming army formed three horizontal lines and fired three consecutive sections. As a result, the 4,500-meter-wide frontal array of the Hoshuote people, and the 1,500 meters in the middle, became like a dog gnawing, with many jagged edges.
"The second row comes forward, fill the gap, hurry up." the officers were shouting.
"Great Khan, you must speed up your pace and engage the enemy as soon as possible. Their muskets are very strange. I don't know why, but they can hit us at such a long distance." Bey made suggestions to the Great Khan.
"Okay, I listen to you, let them move faster, and the cavalry will supervise them." Orqitu Khan ordered.
The Heshuote cavalry stepped forward slowly and came behind the musketeers' array line.
They lowered their four-and-a-half-meter rifles and pointed them diagonally at the backs of the musketeers in front.
The horn sounded, which was an order to speed up the pace.
These people were not stupid. They were all recruited into the musketeers because they were weak and not as skilled as cavalry in bowing and horses. They knew that if they cowered forward, they would be stabbed to death by the cavalry behind them, so they accelerated their pace.
Led by the officers, they shouldered their muskets and began to run. But they did not dare to run too fast because they had to maintain their formation.
The loading speed of fixed-load bullets is very fast, much faster than that of flintlock loose powder and matchlock guns.
The matchlock gun requires 46 steps to fire. If one step is missing or there is a problem, it will not be able to fire.
When the flintlock gun uses bulk gunpowder, the front-loaded flintlock gun needs to go through 12 steps to fire once. Compared with the matchlock gun, it not only greatly reduces the complexity, but also greatly shortens the firing time interval.
It takes at least a minute to fire a matchlock gun. On the battlefield, it may actually take one and a half minutes or even two minutes to fire a round. Due to tension and interference from various factors, the firing speed is greatly reduced.
In 1834, records from the British Army's tests of muzzle-loading guns using detonators showed that skilled soldiers could fire no more than three rounds per minute.
This is an achievement without combat pressure. In actual combat, due to various factors, it is good to be able to maintain two rounds per minute. But this is twice as high as a matchlock gun. The safety of the flintlock gun can make the array
At least twice as dense. This means that the firepower density is at least twice as high as that of a matchlock gun.
However, the accuracy of the flintlock gun is not as good as that of the matchlock gun. The reason is unknown. This is also the reason why the Qing Dynasty was reluctant to abandon the matchlock gun and replace it with a flintlock rifle. In fact, China independently invented the self-fire gun in the late Ming Dynasty.
The office made imperial flintlock guns for Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong.
The technology is very mature and there are no problems at all.
And Yang Fan's custom-loaded bullets further reduced the steps.
There are only six steps in total: take out the bullet, load it into the muzzle, push the rod down to the bottom, pierce the bullet's silk wrapper through the hole in the medicine tank, pull the hammer, and pull the trigger. Ten seconds is enough to complete the silk medicine bag.
There are no burning residues yet, so it doesn’t take about ten shots to clean the barrel.
Yang Fan's musketeers can easily fire five rounds per minute, while elite troops can fire six rounds per minute.
Taking into account various interference conditions on the battlefield, they can also fire at least four rounds.
When the Heshuotes trotted over and rushed towards them, the officers and soldiers of the First Division of the Infantry Corps kept firing.
Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!
The smoke from the muzzle spurted out, and the flames formed a red line. The lead bullets hit him all over the head and face.
A minute later, they finally ran to a hundred meters and entered the effective shooting range of the matchlock gun, but they were baptized by six rounds of bullets.
The middle section of 1,500 meters was hit by a dense hail of bullets.
One after another, people were shot, falling forward as they ran.
"It seems that I underestimated them. They were beaten six times by us, killing more than two thousand people, and no one fired back. This discipline is remarkable." Yang Fan said with a smile.
"Sir, the Heshuote people have been the leader of the Mongolian desert for more than a hundred years, so they do have something." Xiao Niangpi nodded in agreement.
"Master, they have tightened the queue. Look," Chen Xi waved his little hand and shouted anxiously.
It won't work without tightening, and it will be punctured in the middle.
There were only five rows in total, and six rounds were played in the middle, so many places were empty.
The horn sounded, and the infantry on both sides began to gather toward the center.
"Ready, fire!" Following the commander's order.
The battalions opened fire again.
The Heshuote people who were gathering in the center were beaten to the ground again.
At this time, they finally closed the gap in the middle. Everyone turned around in unison, raised their matchlock guns, and opened fire on the first row of Ming soldiers who had just finished a round and were waiting to reload.
Bang bang bang! The sound of the matchlock gun was dull and dilapidated. Their gunpowder had too many impurities and was produced in a manual workshop with uneven quality. It was far less crisp than Yang Fan's industrially produced maroon propellant. The smoke was also much larger.
The distance between them was shortened to half a meter, so that there was one person per meter. The density of firepower was greatly enhanced.
This is actually a bit risky, as the distance of half a meter is not safe. The sparks ejected from the shot may ignite the gunpowder and match ropes on the people next to you.
However, Bey's boldness also came from his confidence in training this army.
"Master, master, our people are going to carry the line, can they do it?" Lin Yueru also shouted excitedly.
Since the establishment of the infantry corps, this was the first time that the infantry fired directly at the opponent's array line.
From a distance of one hundred meters, the opponent's three-stage shooting finally arrived.