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

Chapter 369 Battle of Sand River 3
A severed arm fell from the sky and landed beside Kong Youde, blood splashing on his body.Kong Youde kicked it away, looked at the scattered corpses all around, his face turned pale.Look at Li Jiuzheng again, this thug's war horse is struggling like crazy, but his limbs are stiff, his eyes are slack, and he is almost thrown off by the war horse!The four eyes met, and each of them saw the horror in the other's heart: Hell, what kind of cannons are the officers and soldiers equipped with, they are so insane!
These two big figures who have seen the big scene are so horrified, let alone those rebels who have never seen the world. The people and horses screamed in a mess, and the unconscionable cannons fired a round, causing them huge damage. At the same time as the casualties, it also caused a great shock to their psychology. The whole army was horrified, and their morale plummeted!
Li Jiuzheng managed to control the horse, and roared at Liushen Wuzhu's artillerymen: "What are you still doing? Fire! Hurry up and shoot down their artillery, or we will all die!" He rushed from the phalanx of officers and soldiers Gunyan judged that the artillery position of the officers and soldiers was no more than 300 meters away from them. With the quality of his artillery, he could destroy it as easily as a roll call.

What responded to Marshal Li was the weird bang, bang bang bang, and the artillerymen of the officers and soldiers fired again, and their reloading speed was actually faster than the well-trained artillerymen of the rebel army!In fact, there is nothing surprising about this, the unconscionable gun is too simple, there is no need to adjust the firing range, no need to clean the barrel, and the propellant and explosive packs are pre-installed, just stuff them in, of course it will be fast.A large cloud of gunpowder smoke rushed up with flames, and a 25-jin explosive package flew over like a hailstorm, smashing into the midst of the rebels' desperate cries, and then there was an almost continuous explosion point The strong light from the explosion dazzled the eyes of the rebels, and the earth-shattering explosion made the ground tremble violently. Many rebels couldn't stand at all and fell down!This time, the bombing was more accurate. The explosives were aimed at crowded places, and a large number of rebels flew into the air in the flash of the explosion. With the explosion point as the center, the radius of more than ten meters was clean and smooth, not even a human hair I couldn't find them, but within a radius of 1000 meters, they were lying on the ground in disorder, either missing arms or legs, or bleeding from the seven orifices, which was horrible.Seeing that the enemy troops were blown up and flying all over the sky, the Heluo new army's morale was greatly boosted. The horizontal swordsmen slapped the shield with their horizontal knives, and the spearmen slapped the breastplate with their guns, making a neat and dull beating sound. He let out a deep howl that made the hairs of the rebels stand on end: "Wind! Wind! Wind!" Amidst the devil's howling and terrifying howls, [-] or [-] archers strode forward, pointing their crossbows at the front line of the rebels.

Kong Youde stared at the fast-advancing black wave, and his voice became a little hoarse: "The gunners come out and shoot them down!"

The artillery has been bombed to a mess, and he can't take care of himself. Kong Youde can only pray that his musketeers can perform miracles and disrupt the officers and soldiers' positions with long-range fire before close combat, otherwise the battle will be very difficult to fight.

The musketeers were also in disarray, and several explosive packets fell among them, causing them huge casualties.Kong Youde yelled several times before calling the souls of these musketeers back. He stepped forward a few steps with force, leveled his muskets and aimed, waiting for the officers and soldiers to enter their best shooting range.

The best range of their muskets is 30 meters, but they usually fire at 50 meters, because 30 meters is too close, and before they fire a second shot, the enemy's melee soldiers' knives will hit them.After receiving such a heavy blow, they can still hold their breath, and they didn't pull the trigger as soon as they saw the officers and soldiers. These musketeers are fine.

But it is a pity that the range of the powerful crossbow of the Heluo New Army is 220 steps, and the effective range is [-] steps!
The musketeers of the Tianxiong Army still advanced silently, but the archers of the Heluo New Army stood still.At this time, a cannon of the rebels suddenly fired, and a shot ball weighing three catties flew over, directly hitting an archer in the first row, tearing him apart, and then bounced off the ground, hitting a shooter in the second row. The head of an archer, the whole head together with the helmet was shattered, and then fell to the ground, rolling over the ground. There was a crisp sound from the leg of an archer in the third row, and the whole leg was cut off. Cannon, let Heluo new army two dead and one seriously injured.This cannon also completely enraged the Heluo New Army. The first row slashed the commander's saber sharply, and shouted: "Let go!"

The 100 archers in the first row yelled in unison, the sound was like a thunderbolt: "Let go!" At the same time, the triggers were pulled, and [-] thick and short crossbow arrows shot out violently, and the sound of piercing the air was as piercing as a knife scraping green. , Let the hairs of the rebels stand on end.Under the stunned gaze of the rebels, the strictly trained musketeers hissed in pain, clutching their chests pierced by crossbow bolts and falling down in rows.The crossbows of officers and soldiers shot farther than their muskets!This terrible fact was like a thunderbolt from the blue, which shocked the rebels' eyes, and they couldn't believe their eyes.But the reality is so cruel. Before the last musketeer who was hit by the arrow fell down, the terrible "thumping" sound came out from the crossbow formation of officers and soldiers. This sound knocked on the door of black and white impermanence The sound doesn't make any difference.The crossbow arrows swept across, screaming loudly, and the rebel spearmen and musketeers fell together in piles——their musketeers were just lined up in a thin row, and there was no concept of three-stage shooting, so the river The Luoxin army's archers pierced through the musketeers formation in the first round of shooting, and the spearmen standing behind were naturally out of luck.Affected by this blow, the musketeer finally couldn't take it anymore, let out a scream, and pulled the triggers at the same time. Immediately, the gunshots rang like beans, and the rebels' front line was full of smoke and flames, which was a spectacular sight.The musketeers of the Tianxiong Army who continued to march suffered many casualties. Many soldiers were hit by the lead bullets that pierced through the air and fell to the ground with a muffled grunt. However, there were very few people on the Heluo New Army who were shot and fell to the ground. There is no way, the distance is too far, nearly [-] meters, with the piss of a front-loading musket, even if you shoot a salvo, it is very difficult to hit a target so far away, and you can still be hit after such a distance , I can only say that your character is not good, so don't blame anyone.

The rebels responded with a third volley of powerful crossbows.The dense crossbow arrows penetrated the gunpowder smoke and pierced into the rebel array. Screams came one after another, and the rebels who were hit by the arrows fell like dominoes.At the same time, thunderous gunfire rang out from the right wing of the Heluo New Army. The musketeers of the Tianxiong Army had approached only thirty steps away from the rebels. The musketeers in the front row raised their guns and fired a volley at the officer's command. The muzzle of the gun pierced with blazing flames, and the sharp-pointed, concave-bottomed lead bullets that made the Houjin warriors become angry screamed out, carving out fountains of blood among the rebels.The accuracy and effective range of the Tianxiong Army's muskets are not as good as the powerful crossbows of the Heluo New Army, but in terms of lethality, no matter how powerful the crossbow is, it is inferior.After the first row finished fighting, they immediately retreated to reload. The second row came forward and fired a volley of guns. Blood mist exploded again in the rebel array, and the screams almost overwhelmed the gunfire.But the musketeers of the Tianxiong Army were like a group of cold killing machines, turning a deaf ear to the heart-rending screams and cries. The second row retreated after finishing the fight, and the third row raised their guns and fired a volley, and then The rebels defeated a large area!

Three salvos killed hundreds of rebels.The rebels also breathed a sigh of relief after being beaten out of their bodies. Thank God, they finally finished the fight. It will take at least a minute before they can shoot again, right?Finally, I can breathe a sigh of relief!
Unfortunately, they soon found out that they were wrong, terribly wrong.Less than ten seconds after the third row of musketeers finished shooting, there was another thunderous gunshot in the white smoke. Lead bullets came screaming, sweeping across the rebel array, trembling under the officer's yelling. Reluctantly, the rebel archers raised their strong bows and shot arrows and fell down screaming, casualties, and then a second round of volleys...Three rows of Tianxiong Army musketeers fired in turn, one volley every ten seconds , with a dense rain of bullets mercilessly flushing the formation of the rebels, sweeping them down row by row.

Not only the Tianxiong Army, but the Heluo New Army also used the same method to bleed the rebels, and their firepower density was higher, firing a volley in six to seven seconds, and each archer used three arrows per minute. The rate of fire shoots deadly arrows at the opponent, the scale engraved on the watch mountain greatly improves the accuracy of their shooting, and the arrow bites the flesh.The rebel musketeers who dared to shoot at them have all been shot into sea urchins, and only the archers are left to use their arrows to wash their helmets and breastplates in vain. The whole battle has almost become Heluo A one-sided performance by the new army archers.It is still difficult for the heavy arrows of the Houjin Warriors to shoot through the helmets and breastplates of the Heluo New Army at a distance of 50 meters. Now the distance is 90 meters. The quality of the bows and arrows of the rebels is far inferior to that of the Houjin Warriors. That poor Arrow Rain only focused on winding the machine with neat movements, inserting the crossbow arrows into the arrow grooves, and then stepped forward under the command of the officer to level the crossbow machine. Eyes, mountain sights, and front sights were aligned at three points, and the plate was pulled. Machine salvo.Their crossbow has made a small improvement. A small pulley is installed at each end of the bowstring. It does not take too much effort to draw the crossbow, and the rate of fire is naturally faster. There were many dead and injured under the rain of arrows, moaning in pain, the rain of arrows swept across, corpses were layered on top of each other, and blood flowed all over the ground.

Kong Youde and Li Jiuzheng had been waiting for the officers and soldiers to stop firing their muskets and crossbows, and then fought hand to hand, but after a long time, the rain of arrows and bullets from the officers and soldiers did not show any sign of stopping. It's on the brink of collapse.Now they finally understand that the officers and soldiers just want to use this abnormal long-range firepower to defeat them in non-contact combat!

mean!

Shameless!
Dirty!

Cheap!

The rebels, who saw through the sinister intentions of the officers and soldiers, cursed fiercely with the most vicious and ugly words. How can there be such a war?It's abominable!You guys are so good at shooting, you have already shot half a stick of incense, and you still refuse to stop!When the army of the Han Dynasty was on an expedition to the Western Regions, the most frequent sentence in the "Historical Records" in describing the war process was "the Han army shot and defeated it", which means that the enemy army was shot by the Han army's crossbow before the hand-to-hand combat. The army is defeated, and it seems that the officers and soldiers also want to use their overwhelming long-range firepower to replicate the classic battle example of "the Han army was defeated by shooting".But the rebels didn't cooperate, only a fool can stand there and let others shoot!When Li Jiuzheng gave an order, the rebels howled in desperation, the battlefield on the left was full of sand and dust, and the sound of hooves thundered. Thousands of cavalry rushed forward, and the battlefield on the right was crowded with people. The Xiangtianxiong army musketeers rushed over!Since the long-range firepower is not as good as yours, let's fight hand-to-hand, [-] will fight [-], and the drowning will drown you!

Lei Shisheng yelled: "Three rows of salvo!" The Tianxiong Army musketeers squatted in the front row, half-kneeled in the middle row, and stood upright in the back row, and fired at the same time. It was extremely shocking, and the rebels almost fell over in bursts. Some unlucky ones were shot several times in a row, and they were dead before they fell to the ground. The soldiers who were all shot were still screaming, and countless pairs of big feet stepped on them, trampling them to death!After shooting out the bullets in the guns, the musketeers of the Tianxiong Army unanimously drew out their three-edged bayonets and fixed them. They all uttered a loud roar, and with the bayonets straightened, they slammed into the rebels head-on. , in just one encounter, hundreds of rebels were pierced to the point of their bayonets!

The Zhejiang Army, which had been watching the Heluo New Army and Tianxiong Army playing half sticks of incense for about 10 minutes, finally came to their senses. Wu Sheng roared loudly: "Charge! Charge! Charge!" He took the lead and charged with hundreds of servants. Go up, crash into the middle of the rebels and hack and kill.The morale of the Zhejiang army was as high as a rainbow. They all shouted and rushed forward with swords and guns, and fought in a melee with the rebels.People always have self-respect. If the friendly forces are as rotten as shit, the Zhejiang Army can of course run away confidently. But the problem is that the friendly forces have been suppressing the rebels. The Zhejiang Army must show some real skills no matter what, so as not to be beaten Our ancestors are in disgrace, let's fight, we all carry one head on two shoulders, no one has more than anyone else, you can make the rebels cry like ghosts, we can do the same!

(End of this chapter)