Chapter 1086 Infantry Showdown
The two regiments from the Beijing Camp in the distance followed the beat of drums and marched towards Yarkant's infantry in uniform order.
They walked slowly and leisurely, without any fear or nervousness when they first entered the battlefield.
After more than a dozen battles, large and small, over the past year, they have become mature veterans.
Sadir, the chief of the tribe, rushed to the front with five hundred of his warriors. His warriors were all fanatical believers. They were not afraid of death and dared to die with any enemy.
These people, wearing helmets and chain mail with iron plates attached to vital parts, holding small bucklers in one hand and scimitars in the other, rushed forward with shouts.
"Three-eyed guns, three consecutive shots, ready, fire!" Hu Zuxun is the firearms captain. He is from a hundred households, and he has a hundred three-eyed gunmen under his command. After the Beijing camp was reorganized, they were all fully equipped. But then
Due to combat attrition, each regiment is now less than its original strength, but some special units are still at full strength.
The soldiers in the first row pushed forward the aluminum alloy shields with wheels. These shields were arranged in groups of ten, with a gap of about one meter in between. They were connected by iron chains and barbed wire.
Behind the shields are firearms sentries, that is, hundreds of households. Behind them are spearmen lined up in three rows.
The firearms team of the Three-Eyed Guns was hiding behind the shields. Behind each shield, there were two teams lined up in two columns.
Following Baihu's order, the shield soldiers immediately put down the stand and supported the shield on the ground.
At that distance, it is the most wrong distance for the fire gate gun. It is also the distance with the least power.
Steel smelting is relatively developed in the Western Regions, and our shields are made of hot forged iron.
Aini yelled, "Go down and catch the enemy as quickly as possible."
Even if eight fire gate guns are connected in parallel, it is still a fire gate gun.
We immediately paid attention to the Beijing camp. It seemed that those Han people had nothing to fear, it was just this. As for Tumut and Haraqin, they were beaten hard. If it were us, our bones would have been corroded by the fertile grasslands of Monan.
.embarrassing our humble ancestors.
Bang bang bang! The eight fire guns have leads connected in parallel. The eight leads are twisted into one, one is lit, and it quickly burns into eight pieces. Almost within one second, all eight lead bullets of the eight-eyed gun were fired.
go out.
The specific method is not to burn the eight-eye gun red to make the diameter smaller, and then insert a steel pipe. Beat it with a hammer to squeeze out the bubbles outside the iron pipe and bridge the cracks.
Hot forging is actually not hot rolling. The metal is cooled throughout the process and hammered to shape. During that process, the metal will harden and its defense is amazing.
The seventh one is not a propellant, it is all replaced with maroon gunpowder. The combustion linearity is poor and the push-off force is uniform, which not only prevents the chamber from exploding, but also increases the muzzle velocity of the bullet.
If the barrel of the gun is straightened, the precision will be lowered, and the hit rate will naturally be lowered.
We saw that there were no chains or barbed wires connecting the opponent's low shields. It was too bad to rush back. We were thinking about how to rush back from the space between the opponent's small shields. Whether to drill or climb from above.
However, before Yang Fan reorganized the Beijing camp, he made some modifications to the existing weapons. One was to reshape the barrel of the eight-eyed gun because those barrels were straight enough.
But we attached great importance to it, and our reaction was very slow. We immediately bent over to increase the projection area, and at the same time raised a large round shield and stretched our arms back to block a small part of the body.
In front of the barbed wire between the shields were soldiers from the Beijing camp holding spears, stabbing with their spears.
After firing the eight-eyed musket, the gunmen immediately moved forward without any sloppiness.
Seventy or seventy people were immediately thrown down behind them. It was obvious that their chainmails had been penetrated and they fell to the ground. Some of them were killed directly, while others rolled to the ground and screamed in agony.
As soon as the eight-eyed gunmen retreated, eight rows of spearmen immediately pushed down.
After eight shots were fired, the two quickly flashed back to the shield.
Before cooling, the metal shrinks and will tightly hold the steel pipe inside.
Today's eight-eyed muskets all use slow fuses and will fire in almost a second or two.
The result was that the steel core penetrated the hot forged iron and continued to penetrate the rawhide. Then it hit the torso of the Yarkand warrior. After the chain armor penetrated the steel core bullet surface of the shield, it had no resistance and was heavy.
Easily penetrated.
When the lead bullet hits the large round shield with a curved surface, the soft lead immediately forms a cake shape and adheres to the shield. Because of the low temperature during the launch, the lead is softer and cannot penetrate the shield. However, the soft lead is wrapped with steel balls inside.
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Yang Fan took the most complicated method. The caliber of muskets in that era was relatively small. And the caliber of each musket was the same, some were thicker and some were thinner. There was no universal method for lead bullets, so he had to cast his own molds.
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The eight-eyed gunmen from the eighth row, seventh row, and seventh row immediately opened fire.
At this time, You Yaofeng's Aizhong rushed behind the shield despite suffering huge casualties.
In this way, even if the opponent's cavalry collides, these small wheeled shields cannot be knocked down. Under the vertical shield surface, there are one-foot-long steel nails specially designed to deal with war horses and cavalry.
The shield soldier opened the shooting port under the shield, and the pike soldier immediately thrust his spear out of the shield's shooting port. Those ten centimeter square holes were not only convenient for musket shooting, but also could not be penetrated with a spear.
Bang bang bang! Another eight consecutive shots. Once again, the Yarkand people fell down to less than 70 people.
At the same time, the shield soldier also locks the board to lock the wheels to prevent the shield from moving back and forth.
It turned out that the equipment was actually a fire door gun that we had eliminated long ago.
During the training, everyone who whined and chirped was served with a military stick. At this time, we fired slowly, rotated slowly, and fell in love even slower than a rabbit. The numbness was all the result of the military stick.
The eighth is to use steel-core bullets with lead-coated steel balls to improve the armor-piercing ability. After all, lead is too soft and the armor-piercing ability is not enough.
Before seven rounds of shooting, the momentum of the Yarkand people's attack suddenly stalled. Nearly 800 people were knocked to the ground by the eight-eyed gun. Some were dead, and some were still struggling.
Battalion Commander Jiang Zhong shouted, "Assassinate with spearmen."
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However, after shooting from the rear, the two eight-eyed gunmen quickly hid in front of their shields. Two more people flashed out in front of us, and they flashed out immediately before lighting the fuse. The time connection was very tight.
Eight rounds of lead bullets flew towards the sparsely approaching Yarkand army, knocking down eight people directly.
By inserting the barrel, the caliber was unified. And a steel pipe produced by Xincheng Iron Works was directly inserted back. The caliber was still sufficient.
The range is short and the error rate is extremely poor.
When we saw the Eight-Eyed Cannon, we knew the goods. After all, matchlock guns are also common in Central Asia. We didn't despise the Ming army's Beijing camp. We heard that we were the emperor's personal troops, protecting the capital.
However, the actual situation surprised us. The special gunshot of Baodou sounded. All the shields that were covered were penetrated as long as they were hit.
We are confident that the layer of hot wrought iron covered with knobs under the shield cannot stop the portal gun. After all, lead bullets are too soft.
The two men fired the eight-eyed cannon, and immediately dodged to the right and left, and returned to the protection of the shields on both sides.
Yarkant's large round shields are mainly used under horses because of their large protective area. They cannot be carried under the front and back, and are used to resist enemy bow and arrow attacks. Those large round shields are made of a layer of two millimeters of iron.
The inside is lined with rawhide. Is there any problem in blocking the bow and arrow?
It's like when we were in Central Asia, the land of the Seven War, we slept with scimitars on our heads.
The Yarkand officers and soldiers who rushed behind the shield were immediately hit. Those spears were 7.7 meters long and immediately stabbed the enemy soldiers in the first row behind the shield to death.
At that time, two Ming soldiers suddenly appeared from two adjacent shields. We held long poles under our armpits, held an eight-eyed blunderbuss in one hand, and lit the fuse with the other hand.
At that time, You Yaofeng's infantryman Aizhong rushed to a distance of ten meters.
In fact, when we see the Eight-Eyed Gun, we immediately raise our shields.
I owe two chapters and will make up for it tomorrow morning.
This chapter has been completed!