While the Zhenglan Banner cavalry entered the battlefield, Yang Fan's cavalry also filed out of Checheng.
At this time, in the center of the battlefield were Yang Fan's three militia infantry regiments. The three large square formations were clustered and pushed forward.
Han Junqi hurriedly loaded the gun. By the time it was loaded, the militiamen had already rushed to a distance of five meters. Then Han Junqi opened fire.
Bang bang bang! A burst of gunpowder smoke filled the air, and firelight flashed.
The fire gate guns equipped with the Han army flags were fired one after another, and the lead bullets reached the maximum power of the fire gate guns at such a close range.
The overall quality of these firearms is poor.
During the Nurhaci era, firearms were basically captured.
After Huang Taiji came to power in 1626, he began to fumble to make firearms and gunpowder on his own. This year is 1628, and so far, the ones that Hou Jinneng has imitated are basically fire gate guns.
The equipment of the Han military flag was basically captured from the Ming army during the Nurhaci era.
According to the official records of the Ming Dynasty, in the three years from the forty-sixth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1618) to the first year of Tianqi (1621), the Ministry of Industry allocated a total of general artillery, flannel machines, and divine weapons to the Ming army on the Liaodong front line. Guns, blunderbuss and other firearms, totaling more than 42,000 pieces.
With the great defeat of Liaodong during the subsequent Tianqi years, apart from some of the firearms that were lost during the battles between the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a considerable number of firearms were captured and reused by the Qing army.
The firearms that were fired one after another were very complicated and had everything.
Not only are the sizes and calibers different, but the range and power are also very different.
There are junk guns like magic guns, and there are also other weird-shaped handguns.
Han Qingyuan's team, holding long halberds, rushed in front of the firearmsman of the Han Army Flag, just in time for the firearmsman to finish loading and fire for the second time.
Han Qingyuan was a squad leader, in charge of thirty soldiers. He had received officer training. He saw a variety of firearms on the opposite side. Two people were holding copper-handled blunderbuss, and four others were holding short general blunderbuss. When I arrived at the bamboo section, I settled down with six blunderbuss and six flying blunderbuss.
They knew that since they had rushed here, they could only rush forward despite the fire cannon fire.
Under the dense smoke and line of fire, the militiamen were shot one after another. This distance was the most accurate and most powerful distance for the fire gate gun.
Many militiamen felt as if their front plate armor had been hit with a hammer. Their forward momentum was halted.
But then I felt that the plate armor had not been penetrated because there was no discomfort in my body.
Moreover, the overall curvature and stiffening structure of the front part of the plate armor maintains good strength. The force of the shot is dispersed to the front half of the body by the large aluminum alloy plate, but it feels like there is a backward thrust on the upper body as a whole. There is no Serious problem.
However, a soldier next to Han Qingyuan was hit and flew backwards, then fell to the ground with a thud.
Han Qingyuan looked carefully and found that these cunning Han military flags had a No. 3 general cannon hidden in the array of firecrackers.
What is a general cannon? The caliber ratio of this thing is usually about ten. It is a short-barreled artillery made of casting or forging of wrought iron.
The caliber is generally between millimeters and the length is between centimeters. It is a field gun with a handle. It is generally used on a loaded vehicle.
According to the weight, they are divided into several types: first general, second general, third general, etc.
The Three Generals generally have handles that can be carried around.
The characteristic of this type of artillery is that there are 5 to 19 iron hoops on the outside of the barrel to enhance the strength. There is a medicine chamber with a bulging belly in front of the gun tail.
The unlucky guy next to him was hit by the Third General.
Because this kind of gun is not cast, it is light in weight. The No. 3 general gun is generally about 95 kilograms.
The wrought iron is first beaten into four-petal iron tiles, then cold forged on a steel column, beaten into a circle with a hammer, and then an iron ring is added to an iron ring, and the gun body is completely made by cold forging
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Finally, a red-hot iron hoop is put on it. After cooling, the iron hoop automatically shrinks, forming inward pressure on the barrel. This is the original self-shrinking barrel.
This kind of cold-forged small general gun has a very thin tube wall, but because it is forged without bubbles and cracks, it is stronger.
In addition, the gun body is short and the weight is very low. It is very easy to hide in a group of musketeers.
Of course, this was also a tactic that the Ming army liked to use.
Cold-forged cannons, whether from the Ming Dynasty or Europe at the same time, could not have a very large caliber, usually only fifty or sixty millimeters. After all, a hammer is not a forging hammer.
However, the projectiles used in this caliber weigh more than half a kilogram. There is no problem in knocking away a person wearing plate armor.
Immediately afterwards, not far away, there was a boom, and another large general cannon fired.
In addition to loading a one-pound cast-iron spherical solid bullet, the Hanjunjunqi, a general cannon hidden in the military formation, also loaded a hundred iron fragments behind the solid bullet.
This shot directly opened a bloody alley among the militiamen, and five or six people were shattered. The subsequent shotguns swept out, spreading to a width of 30 meters, and knocked a large number of people backwards.
The firearmsman's last salvo did not achieve much results. The fire door gun was still blocked by the aluminum alloy plate armor at close range. Yang Fan was very satisfied. Although he spent a lot of money on materials, it was worth the money.
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But these hidden light artillery worked, and there were many casualties among those hit.
Even the shotgun shells did not penetrate the armor and caused many fractures and internal injuries.
After all, light artillery is also an artillery piece, not a matchlock gun or a fire door gun.
But despite the casualties caused by the artillery, the militiamen were already upon the musketeers.
Following the officer's whistle, the militiamen straightened their halberds, shouted chants, and thrust forward.
Except for the heavy armored infantry who died in the front, these people in the Han Army Flag were all wearing cotton armor.
Cotton armor is made of 7 kilograms of cotton. Put it in a jacket with cloth and sew it tightly in rows with thick threads (to prevent the cotton from wandering around and for fixation). Soak it in water, take it out and spread it on the floor. Use your feet to keep it firm.
Expand to a certain degree and dry in the sun.
Cotton cannot be washed, as it will lose its fluffiness and warmth after washing.
But the cotton armor must be soaked in water and then flattened, so that after it is dried again, the cotton will be very tight and tough, and will not absorb water.
Cotton armor is very effective for defending against fire guns, especially fire door guns. However, if you want to defend against muskets with long barrels and high muzzle velocity projectiles such as bird cannons and matchlocks, it is best to wear iron armor inside the cotton armor.
However, cotton armor is effective against fire guns, but it is very poor against spears.
When the halberd stabbed at them, they had no ability to resist at all. They were pierced by the halberd, and they were stabbed down one after another.
The halberdiers rushed up and massacred the musketeers in a one-sided manner.
Those in the first few rows didn't even have time to escape before they were stabbed to the ground one by one with halberds.
The fire gunmen behind them all threw away the fire guns in their hands and drew out their sabers to fight.
At this time, the array of halberds had the upper hand against the long knives and waist knives of short weapons. Rows of halberd bearers shouted and thrust forward.
Every time the queue took a step forward, they would stab each other collectively. Each time, a group of people would be stabbed to death.
Watching, after the Han army flag was defeated by the first phalanx of 3,000 armored heavy infantry, the second phalanx of firecrackers was pierced by the militiamen.
Han Qingyuan led his team and kept thrusting. As he thrust, he suddenly found that the front was empty.
There is no one left.
But in the distance, three phalanxes lined up in front of many large and small vehicle-mounted general cannons, second general cannons, and Frankie cannons. A heavy infantryman wearing blue long armor, the large phalanxes were watching eagerly.
them.
Before he could react, he heard the captain yelling: "Everyone, get down, get down."