Chapter 873 Blood Flow

Colonel Sasha opened his eyes wide in disbelief and looked at the artillery positions on the left and right wings of the Ming army. Fire flashed and fired a precise volley at night, knocking the Cossacks in the charge upside down. He didn't believe everything he saw in front of him.

In a trance, the battle seemed to be not the Ming army from the East, but the most elite Swedish army in Europe.

As for the cannon shooting, the colonel could not believe that these artillery companies could actually complete such complex interruption shooting at night. And the dense sound of guns and the continuous continuous firepower represent the level of training of the enemy soldiers, which is far beyond his.

Imagine, is this the most elite Swedish troupe’s makeover, dyeing her skin yellow?

Colonel Sasha felt that everything he saw was ridiculous. Amid the rumbling cannons and the dense guns, the war horse under his crotch was sniffling uneasily. The mercenary officers who followed him to fight were shocked, and the three thousand knights were actually shocked.

I feel timid and I am afraid of fighting.

To the Cossacks, tonight must be a bloody night.

The front line, the Cossacks, who were covered in artillery fire in the flashing flames, suffered heavy casualties because they were too dense. The crowded rear team, the attack launch site, was hit by artillery shells from time to time. A bouncing shell hit a group of cavalry, bounced high.

When it landed, it smashed several cavalry again. It bounced twice in a row and exhausted its kinetic energy. It stopped a hundred meters away from the noble cavalry, and the terrifying blue smoke was also emitted. The scorched flesh and blood on the scorched shells were scorched by high temperature.

The grilling sounds.

"Col. I refuse to fight!"

"This is suicide, I'm asking for a retreat!"

The mercenary officers who went to fight were well-trained and did not flee on horseback, but instead requested a retreat with discipline.

At this time, the third artillery position set behind the Ming army's position opened fire, with a few dull roars. The terrifying eighteen-pound heavy artillery seemed to have found the firing angle, and added the blocking artillery bombardment. The sharp and sharp heavy artillery shells whistling.

Destroy the colonel's will to combat.

"retreat!"

Three thousand noble cavalry and mercenaries turned around and sold the Cossacks who were leading the battle and crossed the suspension bridge without looking back to the city. To make matters worse, the Ming cavalry wandering outside the battlefield were gathering in large numbers, and a large number of them were gathered.

The cavalry held up a torch and rushed towards the city gate with malicious intentions, and tried to rush up at night to seize the city gate.

"Close the city gate!"

"Suspension bridge, lift the suspension bridge!"

On the city wall, the panicked noble officers made a very stupid decision. The tall city gate was closed, and the suspension bridge that could accommodate more than a dozen horses slowly rose under the push of the winch, which actually cut off the Cossacks' escape.

Way of retreat.

Boom boom boom boom!

The city defense artillery fire was bombarded by fire dragons, and a large number of Ming army light cavalry rushed to the city gate in the artillery fire. When they saw that they could not get any advantage, they all beat horses and drove away.

Front, Ming army positions.

Blocking artillery at night is an indiscriminate strike. The shells do not have eyes, and the proficiency, experience and training of artillery soldiers are extremely demanding. With the artillery aiming level of this era, most of the shells are hit on the open space, and only a few shells fall on it.

The Cossacks gathered in large numbers, but this was already terrible. The unprepared Cossacks were knocked over by more than one hundred cannons with a caliber of more than six pounds.

The Cossacks' rear team, which suffered an indiscriminate blow, was destroyed by the cover shooting in just a quarter of an hour. The terrified cavalry fled in scattered and avoided shells carrying powerful kinetic energy and constantly bounced, while the front team

There were more than 8,000 squadrons, and they still launched waves of charges. They didn't know that their reinforcements had fled and their retreat had been cut off.

With the Ming army's artillery skills, being able to do this is the result of the gunner's well-trained training.

The front line, behind the chest wall, the flames flashed constantly in the smoke of gunpowder. The Ming army hid behind the chest wall with dense musket arrays, faithfully implementing the combat philosophy of Grand Governor Ma Cheng, and using dense firepower to cause major damage, crowded people.

People were approaching, and layers of muskets kept firing rounds of fire. The fired muskets were quickly passed to the back row, and the loaded muskets were handed to the front row, and there was another round of fire.

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This kind of fighting method will greatly harm the soldiers who are responsible for firing in the front row. Although most of the well-trained front row soldiers block their ears with cotton and wrap their palms with thick leather gloves, only the fingers that hook the trigger are exposed.

Most people still lose hearing, and their backs of ears, arms, and even their faces are burned by hot muskets. Only flintlock guns can be fired like this. This is the rotary muskets fired. The large-scale equipment of flintlock guns triggered.

military changes.

The flintlock rifle without fuse ignition can be arranged in a dense gun array during defense operations. The Ming army was like later European and American film and television works, and it was squeezed behind the chest wall and it was difficult to penetrate. People were stuck together, and even people were stacked.

People use dense firepower to fight against the night charge of nearly 10,000 cavalry.

Despite such dense firepower, the rear row is responsible for loading and the front row is responsible for firing. The terrifying rate of fire of four to six rounds of volleys in nearly one minute is still unable to organize nearly 10,000 cavalry to charge, and the interval between each round of shooting

Then some cavalrymen broke through the fire net and rushed into the deep trench in front of their chest wall. They tried their best to drive the horses out of the trench, waving their sabers, erecting guns, and raising their bows to rush.

The Ming army was suffering from the inability to accurately shoot artillery shells and could not hit the shells onto their own infantry indiscriminately. The cavalry attacked at night and fought against the infantry's guns based on bunkers. This situation continued until the battle before the invention of the heavy machine guns.

A destiny duel. More and more enemy cavalry rushed into the trench, even rising high and directly crossing the trench, hitting heavily on the chest wall.

Amid the dense sound of guns, the roar of the non-commissioned officers sounded: "Resist the horse!"

At the passage between the trenches, a large number of spear soldiers rushed out like a tide, forming a ten-row line. The spears like forests quickly stood up in front of the gun formation and turned into a steel-like jungle of spears. A rider hit the spears.

On the long spear of Lin-like spear, the neighing sounds of war horses are heard. This is the doubt that many amateur military scientists cannot solve in their hearts. The spear formation is headed in front of the gun formation to protect the gunman, and will not hit their own people.

"Release half an inch and put it!"

Behind the chest wall, Ming army gunmen raised their muzzles half an inch and fired guns to the sky. After a burst of bean-like guns, dense guns passed through the front row of friendly troops and shot farther away. The projectiles fell from the sky and carried more powerful ones.

Kinetic energy, with no dead corners in all directions, fell into several trenches where the Cossacks hid, like dense hail, surpassing shooting, which is a shooting method with stronger lethality than direct aiming. The era of the melee gun, as far as the era of infantry, surpassing shooting, and projectiles.

They are all very commonly used tactics by infantry.

Puchi, Puchi!
Chapter completed!