Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 242 The Story of the Tianxiong Army Suppressing Bandits 4
Seeing the Musketeers striding forward in formation, Lao Huihui and King Huntian both smiled bitterly.This Ming army general was really resolute and resolute. He started fighting as soon as a good formation was formed, even the routine scolding of the formation and recruiting troops were avoided.King Hun Tian looked at the Ming army walking straight towards his arrow array, and was very puzzled: "What kind of medicine are sold in the gourds of the officers and soldiers? Do you want us to shoot at them when they are walking straight up like this?"

Old Hui's eyes fell on the mountain-like forest of guns behind the musketeers, with a serious expression on his face: "I'm afraid they want to use the musketeers to disrupt our position, and then the pikemen will take the opportunity to rush over!"

Huntian King sneered: "Go ahead and dream, with their sluggish appearance, before they come to us, they have already been shot by our archers!" Squinting his eyes to estimate the distance, the musketeer When they were only fifty paces away, he called, "Shoot the arrow!"

Before the words fell, an arrow was shot out with a whoosh, and the rogue, whose hands were trembling with nervousness, was like an athlete who heard the starting gun, scrambling to let go of the bow-drawing hand, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!A wave of arrows poured towards the Tianxiong Army's Rocketeers. It was dense, but very chaotic... No way, the current bandits are more likely to arm the refugees. Their organization and discipline are very poor, and they are expected to do it. It is impossible to prohibit them by order --- if they can be prohibited by order, they will not be rogues.Arrows rained down one after another, hitting the musketeers' helmets and armor. There was a clanging sound, and there was a slight muffled sound from among the musketeers. As soon as they fired, some gunmen fell down, most of them were shot in the hands and feet. Limbs and limbs are not protected by iron armor, so they are more likely to be injured.But these musketeers are really tough, even if they were injured, they didn't grunt. The gap in the queue was immediately filled, and the silent fire continued to move forward.

Old Hui frowned.This is too abnormal, the general Ming army suffered such a round of shooting, even if they don't collapse, they should be yelling and falling into chaos. These red-clothed Ming troops...do they really not hurt at all?Hun Tianwang clenched his fists nervously, gritted his teeth and said: "Come again, come again, I want to see how many times you can stand the shots! Let it go!"

Without his command, all the archers were frantically shooting arrows with all their might, and the rain of arrows continued.But if you take a closer look, you will find that riding bows, horn bows and hunting bows are hardly a threat to these musketeers protected by iron armor. The step bow can barely penetrate the iron armor of the Tianxiong army within forty steps, but the arrows No, the arrow is not made of enough materials, it is too light, and correspondingly, its power is greatly reduced.No way, most of their equipment came from the Ming army that they defeated. We all know how bad the Ming army's equipment is.These flustered archers didn't care about so much, and used their fastest speed to pour the arrows in the quiver over without money. The Tianxiong army's arrows fell like rain, and the ground was densely packed The arrow seemed to suddenly grow a leafless reed.Arrows from musketeers continued to fall, but the terrifying red phalanx was still advancing unhurriedly. Every time they took a step forward, the fear in the rogue's heart increased, and their hands and feet became more and more flustered. Under control!Someone broke the bowstring in a hurry, someone shot the arrow in his hand two or three times, and was still screaming wildly, and someone stood there stiffly holding the bow and watching the musketeer approaching, forgetting Where are you.Someone brought a firecracker to aim at the Ming army. Before the match was lit, the surrounding archers hid away with a huff. When this thing fired, the chance of killing its own people was far greater than the chance of killing the enemy. If you want to be tall, whoever dares to stand by the side will have bad luck!
Hun Tianwang stared wide-eyed, gestured with his arms and called, "He...they have already fallen by more than 100, right? Why didn't they respond at all?"

Lao Huihui also found it unbelievable. With so many arrows passing by, the Tianxiong Army's musketeers didn't react at all. There were no screams, no curses, no cries. The ones in front fell down, and the ones behind them made up for it. If they hadn't really seen it, When their wounded soldiers fell to the ground, he would really have thought that his archers had shot so many arrows and they had no effect at all!Well, you can't even see the blood. The Tianxiong army wears red battle jackets. No matter how much blood they shed, they can't be seen. They seem to be immortal. These details may seem useless at first glance, but they put psychological pressure on the rogue bandits on the battlefield. But it is unspeakable. When the musketeers approached thirty steps, few archers fired arrows. They fell into complete chaos and scrambled to retreat and try to stay away from these musketeers.But the spears standing behind them made them unable to retreat. The bandits lined up their spears too closely. If they retreated hastily, they would definitely be killed on the spear points themselves.King Huntian roared: "Don't retreat! Keep shooting! Keep shooting!" But the archers no longer listened to the order. They pushed their spears away at random, drilled back, and made a mess of the array they had finally set up. King Huntian was furious. I wanted to vomit blood, so I choked and pulled out my long knife, preparing to chop up a few cowards to scare the monkeys.

Unfortunately, it's too late!
With the sound of a drum, the formation of the Tianxiong Army stopped moving. Qi Hu raised the command flag in his hand, and those who were walking in front of the queue pulled out a beautiful flower from the Qi family knife in the hands of the general manager, pointed at the bandits, and shouted in unison: " aim!"

There was an uproar, and five hundred muskets were pointed at the rogue. The rows of black muzzles made the rogue feel chills all over his body, and his heart shrank instantly to the size of a ping pong ball. Someone cried out: "I...I don't want to die!" Even King Huntian gave up his plan to kill the deserters and hid in the middle of the spear array.He comforted himself in his heart: "It doesn't matter, the guns used by the officers and soldiers are of poor quality, they will blow up as soon as they are shot, and the reloading is very slow. As long as we survive this round of shooting, we will be fine..."

The command flag in Qi Hu's hand waved down, and that one made a sharp slash with the general knife: "Shoot!"

Five hundred musketeers pulled the triggers at the same time, the matchlock was brought into the medicine room, the gunpowder was ignited, bang bang bang bang bang!The extremely dense gunshots exploded on the land of Youyan like thunder, deafening.Following the neat rows of fire and gunpowder smoke from the muzzles of the guns, five hundred pointed and concave-bottomed lead bullets roared out, shooting straight at the rogue bandits about forty meters away, carving a hole in their midst. A small fountain of blood.The new muskets that use pointed concave bottom lead bullets and granular gunpowder have a hit rate of less than 5.00% at fifty steps, but a hit rate of 20.00% to 20.00% within thirty steps. In this era, such The efficiency is already appalling.Of course, if Qi Hu is willing to pay some more casualties and fire within twenty or even fifteen steps, the hit rate will reach an astonishing 40.00% or more, and three volleys of guns can make the opponent bleed like a river.But out of concern for protecting the musketeers, he did not do so and opened fire at thirty paces.Even so, the effect was astonishing. The lead bullets effortlessly tore apart the bones and muscles of the bandits, rolled and exploded inside the body, forming shocking wounds. The three bandits who were hit were in clusters of three in a row and five in a row. He fell down, the screams almost overwhelmed the sound of gunshots, and the splattered blood turned the pale face of his accomplice red!
The Tianxiong army is indifferent to what happens to the rogues. Strict training has turned them into a sophisticated, cold killing machine. In their hearts, there is no sympathy and pity, only life and death!Under the general command, the first row retreated to reload, and the second row knelt down halfway forward, took aim, and fired another volley.After a volley of guns, the rogues were already in disarray, especially the archers in the front row, who were almost huddled together. This time, the volley of guns achieved better results. The lead bullets swept through, and the rogues fell in piles. The array was pierced, and through the smoke, one could see the shaking spear behind the archer.Lead bullets were wedged in through the gap, and even the rogues with spears fell one after another!

Without giving them any chance to breathe, the third row of musketeers stepped forward, and the gunfire sounded for the third time. Not many archers fell this time——because there were not many archers standing still The rogues with spears were overturned in a row, the Tianxiong army's side was filled with gunpowder smoke, and the rogues' side was also covered with a faint, seemingly invisible mist of blood.Three platoons of guns came over, and the casualties caused by the rogue archers to the Tianxiong Army have been paid back with interest, and the interest has been charged several times!

Bang bang bang bang!
The sound of gunfire continued, the first row of musketeers had already loaded their ammunition, replaced the third row, raised their guns and fired in volley, causing a large number of bandits to be killed and injured again.Then came the second row and the third row... There was an endless burst of gunshots like popping beans, and the rogue who was shot held the horrible wound on his body and let out a heart-piercing scream, like a fatally wounded beast. The desperate and extremely painful howls made the rogues who had not been shot shudder.Hun Tianwang's eyes were cracked, and he screamed wildly: "What's going on? How could the firecrackers of the officers and soldiers shoot so fast and so accurately!? Could it be that their barrels wouldn't get hot and explode!? "

The old man roared angrily: "Can't you see it? This officer and soldier is different from all the officers and soldiers we have encountered in the past! They are well-trained and well-equipped, and you still think about their firecrackers exploding? I'm afraid we all If they are all dead, their firecrackers will not explode!"

Hun Tianwang yelled back: "Then what should we do? We just stand here and let them be a target!?"

Lao Huihui gritted his teeth and said: "Charge up! Charge up! As long as we rush up, their firecrackers will lose their effect, and we can fight them face to face!"

Hun Tianwang agreed without thinking too much. He firmly believed that as long as he rushed in front of the musketeers, these musketeers would only be slaughtered. It was too uncomfortable to be shot while standing in line like this!He said with red eyes: "I will lead the people to charge forward, and your cavalry will attack their flanks. You must fight a bloody road, otherwise we will all die here!"

The old man said: "Okay, I'll go and let the cavalry go into battle!" He rode his horse and left.Huntian Wang swung his knife to kill several rogues who were trying to escape, and roared loudly: "What are you afraid of? Isn't it just the lead hit by a few fire sticks? The more you are afraid, the more it will look for you! Rush! Rush up!" Get rid of their gunners, or we'll all die here!"

Indeed, if you don't rush forward, everyone will only be targeted.Under the desperate situation, the rogue broke out with a fierce force from his bones, brandishing a big knife, holding a spear flat, and howling, rushed towards the phalanx of the Tianxiong army.Although they were dead and wounded at this time, the power of the battle of trapped beasts is not trivial. The musketeers fired three volleys of guns in a row, but only caused a small splash in this turbid tide, and they were swept away in a blink of an eye. The crowd was overwhelmed.Qi Hu sneered, waved the command flag, and the drummer beat a rapid drumbeat. The musketeers immediately retreated into the forest of guns. A big porcupine covered in spines!
At the same time, dust rose from behind the rogues.Qian Yu laughed loudly: "It can be regarded as coming!" Pulled out his saber and waved: "Follow me!"

(End of this chapter)