Because there are only 3,000 Han soldiers, their front is not wide.
Of the three militia regiments, only one went up to the top and fought fiercely with them with long weapons. The remaining two regiments followed the left and right flanks in a formation to prevent being surrounded and protect the flanks.
The militiamen's staggered assassinations between the two rows soon caused the Han army flag to fall in large pieces again.
The halberd thrust from the right side was completely defenseless.
Due to the limitation of the right arm joint, it cannot move too much to the right side. Moreover, the structure of the human eye and the natural habits caused by the well-developed organs on the right side make it very inconvenient to observe targets coming from the right side.
Whether they are cavalry or infantry, they are accustomed to slashing with their right hand to the left.
This resulted in many soldiers of the Han Army Banner blocking the spear points of the oncoming halberds in the fierce collision and blocking of weapons. However, if they were not careful, they would be attacked from the right by the second row of halberdier soldiers.
Stab.
Although these people in the Han Army Banner wore cloth armor, they even had chain mail and cotton armor inside. This is the so-called triple armor.
However, it is of no use against spears or halberds with reinforced spear points. They will be shot through the chest in an instant.
The stabbing in the neck also directly severed the artery.
The armor and stomach are mainly used to prevent loss and cuts on the battlefield.
Their weapons are mixed. In a melee, it will be very useful if they form a small team. But in such a large army formation, it will be difficult to take advantage of them.
The militiamen stood shoulder to shoulder, maintaining a maximum density formation.
Even if the miscellaneous weapons on the opposite side are arranged in the same formation, their weapons will be different in length and function, causing the battle in the middle to not be uniform, thus causing loopholes.
As long as the opposing formation does not have the close unity of the militiamen, there will be a situation where one person faces several halberds. No matter what, one person cannot cope with the assassination of multiple halberds.
Soon, the line of heavy infantry under the banner of the Han Army was rushed away.
One by one, phalanxes of hundreds of troops rushed into the battle line of the Han army flag.
The battle line of the Han army flag was cut into several sections like sausages.
At this time, following Li Yongfang's order, the Han army's firearms soldiers came up from behind.
The fire gun soldiers rushed forward in a group of two hundred people, carrying sharp guns and three-eyed guns, in an attempt to support the heavy armored infantry, which could no longer hold up.
"Let the field artillery battalion and machine gun battalion go up."
Yang Fan saw that Li Yongfang did not follow martial ethics and had promised to fight hand-to-hand, but now he was cheating on him. He asked the firearms troops to come up to support him.
He had no choice but to dispatch his own killer weapon.
As the whistle blew, a gunpowder-propelled grenade corps was formed in the center of each militia square formation of a hundred men.
They immediately opened fire on the firecrackers with the Han army's flag who rushed forward.
Rest, rest, rest!
Rockets flew up one after another, drawing parabola lines, and then hit the Han military flags clustered by the gunmen on the opposite side.
Flames rose into the sky, followed by a burst of flesh and blood, and a grenade fell, directly blowing up a large area. Except for the dead and injured people, the rest of the group lay on the ground in fear.
Their team was scattered in one round of attack. If such primitive firearms were not formed into a dense array, their lethality would plummet.
These people only rushed to a distance of about fifty meters when they were hit by grenades.
At this distance, the fire door gun doesn't have much lethality at all.
"Don't fire, rush closer and fire." The officers shouted at the top of their lungs.
It's a pity that it was useless. The discipline of the Han military flag was far inferior to that of the Eight Banners.
It's good that these soldiers didn't turn around and run away in fear. If it weren't for the White Fang soldiers riding behind to supervise the battle, they would have run away long ago.
During the war, white-toothed soldiers rode behind the infantry to supervise the battle. They removed the arrowheads and painted the arrow shafts with red paint. If they found someone cowering, they would shoot them with arrows. After the war, those with red spots on their bodies would be beheaded.
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Seeing the fierce firepower of the opponent, he was about to rush forward, and he was running very fast.
They couldn't understand why these militiamen could run at such speed while wearing such heavy plate armor.
These people must be more elite than the Great Khan's white-toothed soldiers. Otherwise, how could they run so fast?
They knew clearly how elite Bai Baiya's soldiers were.
Manchurian Batulu Obai once led five white-armored soldiers to capture a hilltop. These six men rushed to the top of the mountain and fought with the Ming army, wiping out more than 240 defenders without any casualties on their own side.
Even the most elite white-toothed soldiers of the Great Khan, wearing three layers of armor, were not as heavy as the armor on the opposite side, which was completely covered in plate armor.
Aren't they more powerful than White Fang's soldiers if they can run at this speed?
The firearmsmen of these Han military flags were so frightened that their hands and feet were numb, and they immediately opened fire.
With all three thousand heavy armored infantry dead and wounded, the militiamen rushed forward.
The front suddenly became clear, and large groups of firearms soldiers appeared in front of them.
The militiamen did not hesitate. They often fired muskets and knew what crap they were facing.
They knew exactly how this thing performed, and it was far worse than the continuous firing door gun they often used.
Everyone rushed forward with their halberds in hand. At this time, the speed of engaging the enemy is the guarantee of victory. Try to let them shoot as few shots as possible to minimize casualties.
After being bombarded by a round of gunpowder-propelled grenades in front, the scattered firearms soldiers, who had been kicked and beaten by the officers, regrouped and opened fire one after another.
A cloud of smoke filled the air. Countless guns were fired.
The gunpowder formula of Jiannu was much worse than that of Ming Dynasty. Their smoke was more dense.
Yang Fan observed the situation in front of him through the telescope.
Forty to fifty meters away, the lead bullets fired from the sharp gun and three-eyed blunderbuss were in front of us in an instant.
Puff puff!
There was a dense sound of bullets.
Although the portal gun will not move in a straight line when it exceeds ten meters, there is still no problem in designing a target as large as a 100-man phalanx.
About one-third of the lead bullets hit the militiamen wearing plate armor.
Zhao Dazhu was charging forward, but he felt as if someone had hit his beak helmet with a sledgehammer. He was not prepared, and his foot slipped, knocking him over and causing him to fall to the ground with a thud.
The people behind walked around him and continued on.
He felt as if the cervical bones in his neck were dislocated. Although he knew this was just an illusion. If the cervical bones were broken or misplaced, he would not be able to move his neck.
He touched the beak helmet and saw that the beak was flattened. He heard from the training instructor that this weapon should be a large-caliber fire portal gun with a larger charge.
The calibers of the fire gate guns of this era were all kinds of, and there was no unified standard for large and small ones, so they all came in all shapes and sizes.
Others were shot and only paused before continuing to rush forward.
The lead bullet is soft and has a relatively long distance. When it hits the plate armor, it sticks directly to it.
Seeing the poor results, the musketeers panicked. This thing was not very reliable in the first place.
They were all captured from the Ming Dynasty, and are particularly easy to explode. They are also very ineffective against heavy armor. How about they could have been captured by the Eight Banners in the first place?
They immediately began to reload hurriedly, and when they aimed at the militiamen, they found that the militiamen had already rushed five meters away.