The muskets produced by the Zhoushan workshop are imitation Dutch muskets.
They use machine tool drilling technology for barrels.
Coupled with the Ordnance Department's strict requirements for craftsmen, the production quality is extremely high. , the shooting range of the musket is one hundred and fifty steps, but the effective range is only fifty steps.
If you want to ensure the shooting accuracy, it is best to put the enemy within thirty steps, because the muskets these days are just like this.
Round projectiles have no rifling, resulting in extremely low shooting accuracy.
Therefore, when Western armies fight, they often line up in neat formations and fire at each other very close to each other.
This is the so-called queuing and shooting tactic, which makes up for the lack of accuracy with dense projectiles.
The same is true for the tactics of the Guards Battalion, which also requires intensive musket fire to kill the enemy.
However, the Guards Battalion also has a large number of artillery, which can be used to attack the enemy when the enemy is far away.
The range of the Fran machine artillery is up to two miles.
Chen Yan is surrounded by soldiers who specialize in observing the distance between the enemy and the enemy.
Every once in a while, they will report to Chen Yan the distance between the enemy and ourselves.
"The enemy is two miles away from us" Chen Yan was unmoved.
"The enemy is only one mile away from us" At this time, he had completely entered the firing range of the Fran machine artillery, but Chen Yan still did not speak.
"The enemy is only half a mile away from us" When he heard this, Chen Yan waved his arm heavily.
"France fires" the orderer quickly passed on his order.
In the forward artillery array, artillery commander Chen Daniu looked back and saw the flag representing the order waving, and decisively ordered to fire.
"Boom, boom, boom" was accompanied by loud noises, and gunpowder smoke filled the sky over the artillery position.
Without even looking at the effect of the shooting, the gunners quickly withdrew the sub-gun, fed another sub-gun filled with gunpowder into the mother cannon, and then loaded the projectile.
Because it has a musket loaded with gunpowder, the Franco machine gun fires much faster than ordinary artillery.
Before the smoke cleared, the artillery fired again one after another.
Zheng Zhibao commanded the army to quickly approach the rebels.
Two thousand elite servants were followed by a large group of infantry.
Riding on the horse and looking to both sides, Wang Zhiren and Fang Guoan were also leading people towards the rebel positions.
Less than half of the rebels disembarked, and it was at a time when their foothold was not yet firm, so they were attacked halfway across the ship.
Anyone who knew a little bit about the art of war knew this.
As we get closer and closer to the rebel formation, we can see the artillery placed in front of the rebel formation and the dense firecrackers behind it.
The rebels' equipment is really well-equipped.
No wonder Chen Yue was able to defeat Zhang Xianzhong's hundreds of thousands of rebels.
But what can a mere two or three thousand soldiers do?
Zheng Zhibao's men are also equipped with some fire blunderbuss, but the accuracy of fire blunderbuss shooting is really poor, the shooting speed is extremely slow, and there is the danger of exploding the barrel.
In comparison, the soldiers prefer to use bows and arrows.
Zheng Zhibao directed the soldiers to approach slowly, carefully controlling the speed and maintaining the soldiers' physical strength.
The best time to rush over was when the two sides were close enough.
The rebel generals who commanded the two to three thousand troops were very stable.
The two sides were already very close and did not fire artillery.
This made Zheng Zhibao feel worried.
But so what, we have nearly 50,000 troops on our side.
Fang Guoan and Wang Zhiren are commanding their armies to attack from both sides.
Even with so many people, they can drown the two to three thousand rebels.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
When they were only more than half a mile away from the rebel array, the rebel artillery finally opened fire.
Dozens of projectiles flew into our array, plowing blood lines in the array.
Miserable screams rang out one after another, and the array appeared.
There was a slight commotion.
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Zheng Zhibao did not look back.
He knew that this level of shelling would at most cause some panic to his side but would not cause many casualties.
"Put up your shield and continue the attack" Zheng Zhibao shouted sternly, leading the shield soldiers, speeding up suddenly, and quickly drove towards the rebels.
At this moment, the continuous sound of artillery sounded, and the rebel's Crouching Tiger Artillery finally opened fire.
Hundreds of Crouching Tiger Artillery fired at the same time, and barrages rained down on the Zheng's army.
The shield soldier at the front felt as if the shield he was holding had been hit hard, and a powerful impact came.
He was busy holding the shield with his shoulders, and many shield soldiers gave up and dropped their shields, making tragic noises.
He screamed, but his shield was penetrated by projectiles, and countless lead pieces were embedded in his body.
The Tiger Crouching Cannon was a curved fire cannon.
More projectiles passed over the soldiers in front holding shields and fell from the air into the Zheng family's army.
Screams were heard one after another, and countless soldiers fell to the ground.
"Archers and musketeers shoot at each other, others rush over" Seeing his men falling down one after another, Zheng Zhibao was extremely angry even though less than half of the soldiers were shot.
He shouted loudly with red eyes and wanted to beat his horse and lead the team to fight in person, but he was held tightly by the soldiers around him.
Taking off the reins, the two soldiers quickly dragged him off the horse, because riding on the horse would make him a target for rebel shooting.
Fujian does not produce horses to begin with, and the Zheng family mainly relies on naval forces.
Except for the general who can travel on horseback, all of them are infantry.
Following Zheng Zhibao's order, two thousand servants, led by deputy general Zheng Zhibao, quickly rushed towards the rebels on the opposite side.
The servants usually have good food and drink, and are paid several times that of ordinary soldiers.
They naturally have to contribute on the battlefield.
As long as they can break out a hole among the rebels, the large group of people behind them can follow them.
The two or three thousand rebels The army is completely finished.
Taking advantage of the pause of the Tiger Crouching Cannon, braving the continuous fire of Fran machine artillery, two thousand servants were flying, getting closer and closer to the rebels, and then they saw the row of rebel horses in front of them blocking their advance.
Of course, this simple row of horses does not constitute an obstacle, as long as they are lifted up and turned sideways.
However, when the servants at the front went to move the wooden horse, the rebel firecrackers opened fire.
"Bang, bang, bang", five hundred muskets fired at the same time, and the dense bullets shot directly into Zheng Zhibao's retainers.
Juma was only thirty steps away from the main musket formation.
The dense rain of bullets fired simultaneously at such a close distance was enough to make up for the accuracy. shortcomings.
With just one round of fire, at least 200 people from the servant team who were charging at the front fell, with more than 10% casualties.
"Charge over, the reloading of the fireguns is very slow," the deputy general who led the servants howled, pointing hard at the rebel array in front that was obscured by the thick smoke.
Everyone knows how slow the reloading of firecrackers is.
This time is enough for the entire army to enter the rebel array.
However, when these servants had just moved away from the horse, the smoke covering the rebels was blown away by the river wind.
Then the servants were shocked to find another row of firecrackers pointing at them, and then there was a continuous sound of gunshots.
This time, more than 300 servants were shot to the ground.
After two rounds of shooting, nearly 30% of the servants died under the gunfire.
Even though many servants were wearing thick leather armor, they were still easily penetrated by the projectiles.
Everyone was confused, not knowing whether to continue moving forward or turn around and run away, and the commander, Ding's lieutenant, stopped giving orders because just now a projectile penetrated his chest.
"Bang bang bang" the third round of gunshots sounded, and the surviving servants turned around and fled, and then came the fourth round.
Hundreds of servants were shot in the back and fell on the way to escape.
Volleyball shooting, four-stage shooting, the projectiles fired are continuous with almost no gaps.
Under such a dense barrage, the attacking army has to endure huge casualties.
Even armor and shields can penetrate at a distance of thirty steps.
Toru, even the bravest and strongest servant of the Zheng family cannot withstand this kind of blow.
For most of the Ming Dynasty's army, they would collapse when casualties approached 10%.
They had to withstand three rounds of volley fire before escaping.
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Zheng Zhibao's retainers were already rare elite soldiers.
As fast as they rushed, they retreated quickly.
When the large group of people behind Zheng Jiajun continued to advance under the command of Zheng Zhibao, the servant team in front had already turned around and fled back, and ran straight into his own large group of people, causing a sudden commotion.
"What's going on?
Kill me!"
Zheng Zhibao, who was pulled off his horse, had no idea what was happening and jumped on his feet and yelled loudly.
"Fifth General, the servant in front is defeated, let's run away quickly," the servant next to him shouted.
"Why are you running away?
There are so many of us.
Even if one person spits, he can drown the rebels."
Zheng Zhibao became furious and reached out to pull out the sword from his waist.
"Stop them all.
Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed without mercy."
Facing the furious Zheng Zhibao, the servants around him who stayed to protect him could only obey the order with a grimace.
They picked up their swords and guns one by one and lined up to stop the defeated soldiers.
"Musketeers lined up to advance in pursuit."
Looking at the retreating Zheng Jiajun, Chen Yan gave the order to pursue in a deep voice.
"General, the other two armies are coming from both sides."
The guard beside him reminded in a low voice, but it was Fang Guoan and Wang Zhiren who came out of other cities and were coming from the left and right directions.
They were far away from our formation.
Less than a mile away.
"Give the order, have the artillery fire on both sides to block the attack.
The armored soldiers will protect the two wings of the musketeers.
The musketeers will continue to chase and fire.
We must completely defeat the Zheng's army in front," Chen Yan said sternly.
Only by quickly defeating the enemy in front of you can you free up your hands to deal with the two enemy soldiers on the left and right.
On the contrary, if you defend on the spot, you will inevitably fall into a two-sided attack by Fang Guoan and Wang Zhiren.
If Zheng Zhibao can slow down and counterattack, no matter how powerful his own side is, No matter how strong it is, being surrounded on three sides is very troublesome.
Under Chen Yan's order, four rows of musketeers quickly pursued.
The musketeers in the front row loaded their muskets on the spot after firing their muskets.
The ones in the back quickly crossed their ranks and continued to shoot at Zheng Jiajun, and then the fourth row in the third row.
Platoon, wait for the fourth row's musket anti-aircraft defense, the first row has been loaded, continue to move forward quickly and cross the fourth row to launch an attack, and so on.
Because of the rout of the Zheng Jiajun's servants, the infantrymen behind them were also panicked.
Many people followed and fled, but Zheng Zhibao howled and led his men to stop them.
More than 10,000 people lost their way forward and retreated, and fell into chaos.
The continuous shooting of the musketeers brought them huge casualties.
Each round of shooting would cause hundreds of casualties to the soldiers.
Seeing their companions falling down one by one, many soldiers suddenly fell into great fear.
They did not dare to fight back with knives and guns at the musketeers.
Instead, they aimed their knives and guns at their companions who were blocking their escape.
He slashed and stabbed without hesitation, fighting his way out and escaping.
Zheng Zhibao was horrified to see that in a short period of time, his own army had completely collapsed.
Countless people were running like crazy.
Many people raised their weapons to kill their own people, and with the help of the hundreds of relatives around him, The soldiers can no longer stop the defeated soldiers from escaping alone.
"Fifth General, the situation is over, run away quickly," the head of the servants beside him begged.
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If they were to forcefully stop the retreat, all of these hundred or ten people would have to answer here.
The leader of the servants winked, and the two servants rushed over and hugged Zheng Zhibao tightly, snatched the long knife from his hand, pushed him onto the horse, hugged him and fled.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that if the three armies are not encircled and if they hold on for a while, the hundred or ten of them will be torn to pieces by the rout.
"Fang Guoan and Wang Zhiren are attacking the rebels.
As long as we hold on for a little longer, we will win the encirclement of the three armies," Zheng Zhibao shouted unwillingly.
The two armies of Fang Guoan and Wang Zhiren finally approached the battlefield.
Seeing the Zheng family's army being retreated steadily by three thousand rebels, they knew that now was the best time to defeat the rebels and meritorious service.
The rebels only focused on chasing Zheng Zhibao, but exposed their weakness directly in front of themselves.
Coincidentally, both of them sent their most elite servants to kill the rebels in both sides.
Chen Yan was already guarding them, and the artillery had turned its direction and fired rapidly at them.
Then came eight hundred armored soldiers, divided into two groups, blocking the flanks of the musketeers.
Artillery alone was naturally unable to stop tens of thousands of troops.
Risking artillery fire and suffering heavy casualties, the servants of the two armies had already reached both sides of Chen Yan's team and fought with the blocking armored soldiers.
The distance between the two sides was too close, and arrows landed in the middle of the artillery position from time to time.
The gunners quickly dropped their artillery and ran towards the main formation, forming a thin formation to block behind the musketeers.
This is already a chaotic battle, with tens of thousands of people on both sides involved, and the three thousand personal guard battalions have been trapped in a tight siege.
The defensive power of the armored soldiers was astonishing.
Hundreds of them lined up in a thin formation to withstand the fierce attack of Fang Guoan and Wang Zhiren's armies.
At this time, the importance of armor became highlighted.
Facing the enemy's attack, the armored soldier only slightly avoided the vital points on his face, then thrust his gun and stabbed fiercely with his knife without any regard.
When the enemy's weapon fell on the iron armor, it would leave a white mark at most, while one slash from one's own sword would turn out to be a corpse.
Plate armor made of cold steel, even sharp spears cannot break through the defense unless it is pierced into joints, legs and other places where plate armor cannot protect.
However, the number of armored soldiers was too small.
Facing the crazy attacks of the enemy, they often had to fight three against four one by one.
The thin array could not completely block the enemy.
Many enemies bypassed the gaps and got behind them.
Fortunately, the artillerymen who had abandoned their artillery returned to their formation in time, and under the command of commander Chen Daniu, they brandished their steel knives and killed all the enemy soldiers who broke into the formation.
"Grenade waiting" Chen Daniu shouted loudly.
The gunners reacted immediately, took out the grenades from the belts behind them, lit the match rope with the shaking stick, and when the match rope burned to a certain length, they threw out the grenades.
Dozens of grenades passed over the heads of the armored soldiers and fell into the enemy's array.
Then there were continuous explosions, blood and flesh flying everywhere, and the enemy troops fell into panic. s: It’s four thousand words, so I won’t split it into two chapters.
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