Bey was prepared to walk to a Kubu distance and fire, but he found that both Orqitu Khan and the musketeers had reached the limit of their patience.
As they ran towards shooting distance, they were beaten six times.
More than two thousand people were killed or injured and fell on this stretch of road, which was only 150 meters long.
Maybe if I ran fast, I would be there in half a minute. But in order to maintain the formation, I ran for a full minute.
At this time, they finally came within shooting range.
Immediately, everyone refused to continue to risk being beaten to death and moved on. Not fighting back was not the style of the Heshuote people.
They are famous for not taking advantage, even if it is a loss.
Bey sighed. This former pasha of the Ottoman Imperial Guard knew that this was not the Imperial Guard. He did not have the authority to command the army or enforce military law. He was just an advisor.
Heshuote people who have only been trained for two years are already quite good at reaching the current level.
At this point, he was quite content.
His work was very effective and worthy of the high salary offered by Orqitu Khan.
He resigned because of a conflict with the Sudanese Queen Mother. It happened that the Heshuote people offered him a high salary, giving him three hundred kilograms of alluvial gold a year.
With the high salary, he brought his own personal team to work here.
During the Ottoman Empire for more than 800 years, the power of the Sultan was often controlled by his biological mother.
In Ottoman history, this period is generally called the period of the Feminist Sultans.
Many Ottoman sultans were mothers' babies, and their biological mothers had great influence on them.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty invented the system of setting his son to kill his mother, which continued for hundreds of years in the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Osman invented the system of raising one son and killing the other brothers, which lasted throughout the country.
As a result, the prince was the only heir. There were no brothers fighting for power, and no close relatives could rebel. Even if the subordinates planned to rebel, they could not find a second legal heir.
The prince's biological mothers saw the opportunity to covet the highest power. Because the mother is the child's first teacher, it has a great influence on her son's outlook on life.
They have the best chance to shape their son's character and behavior according to their own wishes.
They started nurturing her son from an early age, trying to raise Sudan as a mother's baby.
In fact, this country is quite strange. The Sultan does not fully control administrative power, nor does he fully control local power. The local governor often conflicts with him.
In addition to wearing the guise of a divine right to rule, he was actually a loner.
The only real power he has is military power, which he shares with the Grand Vizier (Prime Minister).
One hundred meters is equivalent to two kubu, which is the maximum effective range of the matchlock gun.
Bang bang bang!
A burst of smoke rose in the distance, and countless fire points formed a line.
As a former pasha of the Praetorian Guard, Bey knew about flintlock rifles.
But they were not interested in flintlock guns.
Because in the arid, Gobi, and desert environment of the Middle East, the wind and sand are strong and the smoke and dust are everywhere. It is very easy to cause the fusillary engine to malfunction, resulting in a high rate of blind fire. The use of flintlock guns in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Xinjiang has always been unreliable.
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Therefore, they insisted on using matchlock guns.
He knew that before Yang Fan's musketeers had such a high rate of fire, they could only be flintlock rifles. But the flintlock rifles he knew could not have such a high rate of fire.
This confused him very much.
That 150 meters is simply a road of death, which is very painful.
Well now, we are finally at shooting distance.
At this time, the 18 battalions of the First Division were loading ammunition. They had just finished firing the last round and were waiting to receive the loaded rifles.
A dense rain of bullets flew over. Yang Fan saw the shaking of the front row array lines, and the formation was shaking a bit.
He knew that many people in the first row had been shot.
Private Zhang Zeguo felt a pain in his chest and his vision went dark.
It felt like my sternum had been broken. My whole body fell backwards.
However, the brother behind him supported him forward with his hands.
He gasped for air, and the light gradually returned to his eyes. He hurriedly looked down and saw that there was a small hole in the front of his snow camouflage military coat, which was the hole pierced by the matchlock gun.
He was shocked that he had been hit.
He quickly dug his fingers into the small hole to test, and touched a deformed lead bullet.
He used his fingers to dig out the lead bullet cake that had hit the aluminum alloy plate armor.
He took it in front of him and looked at it. He found that the color of these lead bullets was very poor, had no metallic luster, was black-gray, flat and uneven, and contained a lot of fine sand.
He touched the plate armor again and found that there was a small pit on the breastplate, about half a centimeter deep.
No wonder it hurt so much just now. It must be like the military doctor said, the bone and soft tissue of the chest were bruised. Or some bone sheath was injured.
He let out a sigh of relief, it was just fine that it wasn't penetrated.
The huge impact probably made the flesh turn blue, but as long as it didn't penetrate, it would be fine.
Captain Zhao Sili felt that a small dot suddenly blurred on the transparent bulletproof visor of his helmet that had been pulled down.
The huge impact force caused his neck to jerk backwards, and it felt like he almost broke his neck bone.
He knew that the mask blocked the lead bullet and saved his life.
Otherwise, this 15mm lead bullet would smash his head like a watermelon.
Many soldiers in the first row who were knocked down felt as if they were not dead after being blinded. They could still move even if they tried, and it seemed that their bones were not broken. If their bones were broken, they would not be able to move.
They all got up on their own and staggered back to their fighting positions.
Because military law makes it very clear that if you can persist in fighting, you must continue to persist. Only when you lose your ability to fight can you fall down and wait for rescue. One of the options for meritorious service is to persist in fighting despite being injured.
The Yang family's military merit is divided into five levels. Being able to survive minor injuries is the fifth level.
They know that if they want to get ahead in the army, they must make meritorious deeds. Only by outstanding performance can they get the chance to be promoted. Because every six months, there will be an opportunity to recommend to the military academy. Each squadron will have about two lecturers.
Study in the martial arts hall, or go to the Jia Ding Regiment, Xinghe Regiment, or the Cavalry Instruction Regiment.
Most of the more than 100 people who were shot quickly got up and returned to their fighting positions.
They endured the pain, their faces turned pale, and their bodies were covered in cold sweat.
Although the lead bullets did not penetrate the plate armor, they caused some damage to the plate armor.
The breastplate is a whole piece of curved plate armor. The middle part is the thickest, with a thickness of more than three millimeters. It cannot be penetrated at all. Generally, the parts that are punctured are only a few to five millimeters from the edge. There are no edges in these places.
The thickness is also much thinner. The strength is far less than the front and center parts.
They stood up with their guns in hand, took out pills from a leather box on their belts, and swallowed them. They were painkillers and stimulants. They were specially prepared for the injured.