Within thirty seconds, five rows of Hoshuote gunners took turns shooting each other.
Each time, a body flashed out to the right,
A safe distance of half a meter is deliberately left between people and the resulting gap is established.
Then he put down his musket and started shooting.
After finishing the shooting, quickly retreat to the original queue position and start loading to prepare for the next round of shooting.
The Rumi Gun, a matchlock gun with a four-and-a-half-foot long barrel, far exceeds the accuracy of the Minato Gun and the Japanese Iron Cannon due to its fine barrel.
Next, twelve thousand rounds of lead bullets were fired from a hundred meters away.
Bang bang bang!
In a very short period of time, a large number of people on the front line of the entire Ming army were shot.
For more than one-third of the people, blurry white spots appeared on the bulletproof glass visors of their helmets. These were the damage caused by lead bullets hitting them.
Bulletproof glass will not break, but a blurry spot will appear.
Lead bullets are relatively soft and will deform into a puddle like a puddle of bubble gum and stick to it.
But even if you pull it off with your hands, there will be a small blurry spot on the glass.
Many people groaned and staggered back after being beaten.
Some even rolled to the ground and were picked up by people behind them.
Yang Fan looked at his watch and saw that five rounds of shooting could be completed within half a minute. This was very well-trained.
There were two rounds in which the Ming army should have counterattacked, but they were hit by bullets one after another and were interrupted. They were unable to fight back.
"Those who are injured, don't hold on, go to the back. Don't affect the speed of counterattack." The officers were shouting.
Once a person is injured, especially a bone, his movements will inevitably slow down.
It will affect the firing and reloading speed of the first platoon. The officer asked them to go down automatically.
A large number of front-line soldiers who were shot were dragged to the back.
Some of them were shot in the chest, and some were shot in the limbs. Most of them were shot in the torso, because that's where the target has the largest projection and is easiest to hit.
And because it was a sideways shooting formation, many people were hit in the left arm.
However, the infantry army is a regular army and its training is very good.
After two years of fighting, the soldiers are all veterans and are very tenacious. Their reaction speed is extremely fast.
Yang Fan was more concerned about the casualties in this wave and the subsequent automatic replenishment capabilities of the array lines.
It can be seen here that he is satisfied with the quality of this unit so far. There is no panic or confusion at all. They are all commanding and acting in accordance with infantry drills.
He knew clearly that the Hoshuote people only had this chance to fire a salvo.
Because their matchlocks took two minutes to fire one shot. Yang Fan's musketeers, on the other hand, could fire five or even six rounds in a minute. With three horizontal lines, they could fire 12 to 18 rounds in a minute.
The difference in firing speed between the two sides is ten times, and the density difference is three times.
This resulted in that once Yang Fan's musketeers fired, their middle third of the array facing the Ming army would withstand a minimum of 2 (minutes)
Speed.) = 24 rounds of bullets.
The variable is the rate of fire. If six rounds are fired per minute, it will be a hail of 36 bullets.
There are only five rows of people, and each person will be shot 36 times.
Yang Fan's flintlock gun has a barrel made from a boring machine and industrially produced propellant of stable quality. At a distance of one hundred meters, the hit rate of the flintlock gun is as high as 60%.
Five people are not enough to fight no matter what.
This is a battle without suspense.
In the blink of an eye, the zigzag shape of the first line was completed.
"Ready, release!" Following the orders from the officers of each battalion, musketeers from 18 battalions of the infantry corps opened fire.
At a distance of 100 meters, the formation was in order, the flintlock guns were raised levelly, and the front sight and rear sight were aimed at the Heshuote who was busy loading ammunition.
Their matchlock requires 46 steps to fire, and it can't be fired without any one. However, Yang Fan's musketeer only needs six steps to fire one shot in less than ten seconds.
Under various interference conditions on the battlefield, the rate of fire can be stable at four rounds per minute at worst.
Bang bang bang!
A burst of smoke and dust erupted, and the red lines of fire once again connected into a large area. The 15mm steel-cored lead bullets spurted out, whizzing towards the Heshuote people.
Heshuote people are in the midst of intense operations.
Ayu'er Dai Qing is the leader of a Heshuote firearms unit. He has ten musketeers. At this time, he is punching the butt of the Rumi gun on the ground.
Hold the barrel of the gun with one hand and start cleaning the fuse hole and powder pool with the other hand.
This step is important because the residue produced by burning gunpowder often blocks the ignition hole, causing ignition failure.
He was very nervous because they had just fired five rounds of fire, knocking down a large area of the Ming army on the opposite side.
But he saw that most of the Ming troops stood up again after being dragged away.
Although there were some staggering steps and awkward movements, they soon regrouped behind them.
Very few people were actually dragged away for treatment. This surprised Ayuer Dai Qing.
When they came just now, this was not how the Ming army beat them.
Captain Tunropwang Bukhara's fiftieth captain was directly hit in the head by a lead bullet.
Centurion Cewang Alabustan was hit in the left arm by a lead bullet.
The lead bullet actually penetrated the feather armor and directly broke the arm. The centurion's hand was dangling and he could no longer lift it up.
Seeing that they are also wearing cotton clothes without armor, I don't know why the results are different.
Could it be that cotton can withstand musket fire better than leather robes and armor?
He knew that both the Han and Jurchens were equipped with cotton armor to defend against muskets. However, the effect should not be so good.
He nervously reloaded quickly while looking up at the situation on the other side.
He is an outlier in Mongolia, the desert. He believes in Nestorian Christianity.
He took some time off in his busy schedule, glanced sideways at Shangguan without paying attention, and secretly crossed himself on his chest.
In fact, some Mongolians have always believed in Nestorianism (a branch of Christianity). The Mongols are quite liberal in religion and have not persecuted the Nestorians.
Lord Bey hung twelve small bottles of various colors around his waist for each of them.
The small pot with a trapezoidal iron edge on his body is for primers, the leather box on the right is for projectiles, and the white vial is for propellants.
Because they were usually in groups of 12, they were nicknamed the "Twelve Apostles" by him.
The white vial contains the amount of medicine needed to fire one round, and one vial is just enough for one filling.
This can prevent soldiers from loading too much or too little propellant on the battlefield, causing shooting malfunctions and accidents. This is the cunning idea of the Turks.
Before the advent of fixed-loaded ammunition, the Turks relied on this method to defeat Austria and the Balkans, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania.
Don't underestimate this step of improvement, it ensures that each launch has the appropriate amount of charge.