The battlefield was filled with the smell of gunsmoke, and people's ears were filled with either passionate roars, or all kinds of howls and wails.
The sound of drums joined in, and the soldiers in the front row of the Han army's riflemen began to shoot forward in four stages.
The so-called push-type four-stage fire means that the soldiers of the first platoon stand in place after firing to clear the barrel and reload and reload, and the soldiers in the second row, who have long been charged and reloaded, move forward to take the place of firing and fire, and row after row rolls forward in the same way as substitute shots.
The array of riflemen with a horizontal length of more than a kilometer, the sound of gunfire after gunfire, there was no smoke, and the Han army used smokeless gunpowder.
The first to charge into range of the Han riflemen were the Persian light cavalry, who kept their bodies as low as possible with scimitars and a small round shield, which was blocked in front of them.
Some lucky Persian light cavalry used small round shields to block the projectiles fired by the Han army, and they could clearly feel the impact of the projectiles hitting the small round shield, and they were glad that the small round shield in their hands could block the guns.
The Persian hussars who were hit by the projectile felt that they had been bitten on their bodies, and the strength of their bodies was dissipating at a very fast speed, and they could not control their bodies, and then they fell off their horses.
More projectiles hit the war horse, after all, compared to the knight who leans down on the horse's back and has a small round shield protection, the body of the war horse will be larger, the projectile is not only aimed at people, but also at all targets that block the trajectory, and the larger war horse is naturally more likely to be hit.
The real battlefield, whether it is archery or bullets, will not be the knight on horseback who keeps dumplings like falling, but the war horse is unharmed, in fact, in the real war, archery and shooting are rushing to shoot horses, that is, the so-called "shoot people first shoot horses".
The mounts of the Persian light cavalry were blindfolded and deaf, they were more than 2,000 horsemen to launch a charge, straight towards the Han riflemen array, at first they were bombarded by the Han artillery units, fell nearly 200 horses, entered the range of 400 meters were covered by the crossbow arrows of the cold weapons on the left and right flanks of the Han army, and fell more than 300 horsemen, and when they reached 130 meters, they were baptized by the platoon of guns.
A short period of one hundred and thirty meters, if there were no obstacles, the speed of the cavalry was only eight or nine seconds, but the Persian cavalry constantly had to face the rows of rejecting horses, and also faced the wreckage of their own charioteers before, not to mention the rows of guns every second or so.
"Resist the gun" In those positions where the Persian light cavalry charged, the rolling four-way fire stopped, and the riflemen in the front row began to form a "forest of thorns" with flintlock muskets equipped with bayonets, and they were to face the charge of at least five or six hundred Persian light cavalry.
Those riflemen who were not threatened, they made a small turn under the restraint of the officer, changed to shoot in rotation on the spot, and continued to fire at the Persian light cavalry in an oblique manner.
"Steady" The riflemen who were about to be charged by the Persian light cavalry were not fearless, but they had long been disciplined, even though they knew that they might be killed and wanted to dodge, but they remained motionless and continued to take a defensive stance.
The military has never had any freedom to speak of, and some have just annihilated individual freedom, and have been repeatedly demanded to obey, obey, and obey again Whether an army is elite or not has nothing to do with how strong an individual's combat effectiveness is, it does not rely on individual force.
The soldier loses his personal "consciousness" and is resolutely trodden through even if there is a sea of swords and fires in front of him, and he is a strong army in the true sense.
"Grenade" In addition to a flintlock pistol and the corresponding gunpowder and projectiles, the riflemen were equipped with five grenades with wooden handles.
They were ordered to throw wooden-handled grenades when the Persian light cavalry was about forty meters in, and the riflemen in the second row were ordered to throw wooden-handled grenades.
Grenades with wooden handles were thrown, and they caused a series of explosions, and the explosions closer to the Persian light cavalry were directly lifted off by men and horses.
However, the collision still happened, and the 12-meter-long flintlock pistols with a total length of 1.85 meters did not look like a six-meter-long spear at all, and the Persian light cavalry with good riding skills was able to control the war horse to cross the forest of bayonets, and even the men and horses trampled heavily on the frightened Han soldiers below.
There were not many Persian light cavalry who could control their horses to jump high, and more of them crashed into the bayonet forest, the problem was that even if they hit the bayonet, the result was still to break the Type 12 rifle, relying on the powerful impact kinetic energy, and the area was dented.
Qin Song didn't have much feeling about the collision that happened on the battlefield, he knew very well that his tactics against the cavalry were wrong, and he should put up a "hollow array" in the face of the cavalry.
However, there is no correct tactic on the battlefield, everything needs to be arranged under the premise of being able to choose the tactics that are allowed under the immediate conditions.
The Persians charged not only 2,000 light cavalry, but also nearly 1,000 archers and nearly 10,000 infantry.
The Han army faced a wave of Persian light cavalry, then Persian archers, and finally Persian infantry, and there would not be much time to change tactical formations, so they could only be hard-hitting.
In addition to the Persian charge, there were also Roman legions advancing "slowly", which seemed to be widely distributed, probably about 3,000 men It was not only the riflemen array that responded to the charge of the anti-Han axis, the long-range attack units on the left and right flanks were constantly outputting bows and crossbow arrows, and the artillery units in the rear did not stop firing.
In addition to long-range fire support, the Han cavalry on both flanks also moved, forming pincer-shaped double arrows and killing the charging anti-Han axis coalition forces.
The first force stopped the line of advancing four-stage riflemen, and after a burst of men turned on their backs, the two thousand Persian light cavalry fell on the battlefield except for the four or five hundred who charged back halfway; The Han riflemen suffered more than 300 casualties, of which more than 100 were killed on the spot, and the rest were seriously wounded.
The Han army's riflemen array line was not only being attacked, but actually facing the arrows of the Persian archers, and it was necessary to be thankful that the long-range support of their left and right flanks was effective, otherwise the losses would have been even greater, and they would have lost more than about 300 people.
After a brief pause, the undead riflemen moved forward again under the restraint of the officer, still in the rolling platoon fire method, and the target of the attack was changed to the enemy troops on foot.
It was only less than ten minutes after the start of the battle, and Liu Shen was moved to the front row, he was standing at the front of the queue, holding a flintlock pistol in his hand, but there were more than a dozen people around him in a semicircle, making a posture of swearing to defend to the death.
Every time Liu Shen blew the whistle to open fire, the flintlock pistol would also be pointed forward.
Directly in front of them were the roaring Persian infantry, who looked to be in gray uniforms, but with messy armor and a variety of weapons in their hands, and after a volley of fire, the Persian infantry running forward would fall to the ground in pieces.
The Persian archers have been forced to detour to the left and right flanks, if they do not take care of their left and right flanks, the two Han cavalry attacking in a pincer posture will "stick in the waist" and stab into their attacking troops, even if the attacking troops are not stopped and broken, it will be equivalent to their group of attacking troops falling into a three-sided attack, and only by trying to drive away the Han cavalry killed on the left and right can the offensive continue.
"It's worthy of a firearms unit," Elbata's face was full of iron at this moment: "We have suffered more than fifty percent of the losses and continue to advance, and the rest will fall on that land forever." ” Through the binoculars, you can see that the Persian infantry who launched a charge and approached within 100 meters of the Han riflemen, they had people falling at every moment, but those who were still alive were still rushing forward with a twisted face.
Not only did the Persians have to face the projectiles and arrows that are being fired all the time, even if they rush to within 30 meters of the riflemen, they have to endure the wooden-handled grenades thrown by the Han riflemen, and as a result, they have fallen three or four thousand people, but they only shoot less than thirty Han soldiers with bows and arrows.
"It's really terrible" The expression on Malus's face was very tangled, he was really frightened: "There are firearms near and far, and the kind of explosives that are closer have not been seen before." ” The Han Empire has been developing throwing weapons for infantry, the earliest of which was the use of clay pot types, and as the research progressed, it entered the era of wooden-handled grenades, and at the same time, an all-metal "egg" grenade was also developed, but it was equipped with wooden-handled grenades.
Science and technology is the same thing, as long as you open a door, there is an "idea" to have a research direction, not to research out but the cost of investment is not enough, otherwise repeated loss and research, sooner or later there will be a product.
Therefore, it can be said that most of the time it is only ideas that limit the progress of science and technology, and how big the imagination of the human brain is, how many scientific and technological products will be produced, and it does not appear because the research is not enough.
Wooden-handled grenades will be chosen, of course, metal-type grenades are expensive and difficult to make.
The cost of making a metal grenade is enough to make three wooden-handled grenades, even if the power of the wooden-handled grenade is smaller than that of a metal grenade, for this kind of weapon that needs to be fully equipped and will be consumed in large quantities, it is definitely necessary to choose a large number of wooden-handled grenades, and a small amount of metal grenades.
What Malus was struggling with was that even if the Roman legions formed a tortoiseshell formation, the shields could block the projectiles and arrows of the Han army, but the new explosives that had never been seen could be stopped The mystery will soon be revealed, that is, the attacking Persian troops lost more than seventy percent, and finally they could no longer hold on, first the first man turned and fled, and then the formation effect, the attack turned into a rout.
"It's a pity" Qin Song frowned and looked at the retreating Persian army, and said to the left and right: "The situation does not allow the cavalry to be sent to pursue, otherwise none of them will want to escape." ” In fact, if the number of enemy troops was not so large, there was still a large area of enemy troops in the rear who did not participate in the battle, and there was a Roman army approaching in formation, the Han army could really send cavalry to kill the retreating Persian rout.
The advancing Roman legions, after they found the Persians collapsing, blew their own trombone.
The Roman legions did not feel comfortable advancing, and from time to time shells fell in the ranks, each time at least ten men fell.
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If their formation was dense enough, there would have been more than ten men falling, but they advanced in skirmishers to reduce their losses.
The Persians, who were psychologically broken, either retreated to the left and right rationally, or turned around and ran regardless of the situation, would inevitably have an impact on the advancing Roman legions.
Not wanting to be overwhelmed by the rout, or even coerced into retreating, the Roman legions could only pause in a bad position and begin to form their best tortoiseshell formation.
The so-called tortoiseshell formation was a close formation of Roman soldiers shoulder to shoulder, and then used tower shields to organize the shield wall except for the feet.
They swept through Europa with such tactics, and no race had the slightest recourse with them.
It is to march to the east, and the tortoiseshell formation still has a strong effect, whether it is against Parthia or now Sassanid, it is still an extremely effective tactic.
Now, the Roman legions had to face the Han army, and it was the Han army that had entered the age of firearms.
However, before facing the Han army, the Roman legions that formed the tortoiseshell formation had to withstand the rout of friendly forces first.
Under the impact of the Persian rout, which was like a tidal wave, the tortoiseshell array organized by the Romans did not waver in the slightest, and only when the cannonballs fired from a distance hit it, it was a piece of shields flying and smashing, and people were also falling.
Malus's cheeks twitched as he saw it, and he couldn't hide his displeasure when he looked at Elbata: "Look what they're doing."
Of course, Barbata saw that the Roman soldiers who were bombarded by the cannonballs were immediately "rolled" up by the rout, and in an instant the entire tortoiseshell array collapsed, and the Roman soldiers who were not dead were forced to be swept up and retreat to the rear.
"The Han army did not charge."
Malus is just expressing his dissatisfaction, and he can't do anything else.
He turned into a disappointed expression: "How could the Han army hold back and not charge, they should charge." ” If the Han army was a cold-weapon army, it was indeed necessary to take advantage of the enemy's chaos to launch a charge, disintegrate the enemy's offensive in one go, and enter the counteroffensive stage.
However, the central army of the Han army was riflemen, so they would not give up their long-range firepower superiority, and rushed up to do hand-to-hand combat, which was still a very steady or rigid and rigid propulsive move of rolling the gun.
On the left and right flanks, the Han cavalry that had been dispatched earlier was repeatedly chasing or cruising with the Persian archers, while the rest of the troops were maintaining a parallel line with the firearms units in the central array.
Malus frowned and said very uneasily: "The Han people are too stable. ” Indeed, the Han army, which did not show the slightest impulse, made the anti-Han axis coalition really not know where to start
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