Chapter 266 Firearm Siege
For Tartar musketeers equipped with old-style mesh rope guns, the effective range of the musket is only seventy or eighty steps at most.
However, the Tiger and Leopard Army musketeers outside the city actually stood 150 steps away and shot him...
At such a long distance, can the lead bullets shot by the Tiger and Leopard Army musketeers hit the city wall?
Therefore, when the five thousand musketeers under Zhou Yuhong fired, all the Tartar musketeers showed a trace of contempt from the bottom of their hearts, and they poked their bodies out of the battlements, ready to see the jokes of the Tiger and Leopard Army musketeers.
These people were disappointed. Their every move on the city wall not only failed to achieve the purpose of watching jokes, but instead made themselves pay the price of their lives.
The whistling steel storm did not stop outside the city wall, but flew directly to the city wall with a sharp whistling sound.
"Shits...bang bang bang..."
With all kinds of sounds sounded on the battlefield, dense lead bullets, some hit the city walls and battlements, and made holes the size of bowls on the surface of the city walls. Some lead bullets directly followed the battlements on the walls and shot out the bodies of the Tartar musketeers standing at the battlements.
The lead bullets that were burned to the scorching heat penetrated the armor of the musketeers very easily and shot into their bodies.
In just a blink of an eye, more than three hundred Tartar musketeers fell down on the city wall that stretched for a mile.
Listening to the screams that kept ringing around him, the Tartar musketeers on the front line of the city wall were shocked, and everyone made the same move of squatting to avoid the lead bullets shot at him by the tiger and leopard army.
At this time, the five thousand musketeers gathered outside the city were like a huge chariot that kept shooting lead bullets forward, slowly pressing towards Zuoyun City step by step.
He was close to the end of the range of the Tartar musketeers before stopping.
However, dozens of explosive hands wearing metal armor and carrying explosive bags did not stop.
He quickly left the musket team, bowed his waist, and quickly touched the city wall while the Tartar muskets had not yet launched a counterattack.
Dozens of Tiger and Leopard Army soldiers suddenly appeared on the huge battlefield. Although they didn't know what the Tiger and Leopard Army wanted to do with these dozens of people, they were very clear about the Tartars who were standing by the city wall.
No matter what the purpose of these dozens of tiger and leopard troops is, they cannot let these people get close to the city wall.
So, the Tartar musketeers hiding behind the battlements had to poke their bodies out of the battlements again amid the roars of their respective generals, and pulled the trigger at the dozens of tiger and leopard troops who were getting closer and closer to the city wall.
After a string of gunfire like a burst of beans sounded, hundreds of lead bullets flew towards dozens of explosion hands with a whistling sound.
After several months of training, although the shooting accuracy of the Tartar musketeers was still acceptable, because of the shortcomings of their equipment, the whistling lead bullet had just flew to a distance of 70 or 80 steps, and it was no longer very powerful.
In addition, dozens of blasting hands were wearing thick iron armor.
Except for a few blasters who were directly hit by the door and fell on the attack road and screamed, the remaining blasters continued to rush towards the city wall as if they were not attacked.
The Tartar musketeers finally stopped being turtles, which might be a disaster for the blasters. However, for the thousands of Tiger and Leopard Musketeers who provide fire cover, it is definitely good news.
Because, the dispatch of Tartar musketeers means that the muskets in their hands can work again and kill Tartars...
Therefore, hundreds of Tartar musketeers had just shot out the lead bullets in the gun chamber, and the first row of Tiger and Leopard Musketeers who were a hundred steps away from the city wall also shot out the lead bullets at the city wall that was already covered by white smoke at the first time...
Because the burning of black gunpowder produces a large amount of white smoke, although the Tiger and Leopard Army musketeers cannot aim directly. However, they can make up for the problem of insufficient accuracy through the advantage of quantity.
More than a thousand lead bullets flew towards the city wall less than a mile long with a whistling sound. On average, a lead bullet can be divided into every foot.
Among these thousand lead bullets, even if only one lead bullet hits the target with ten lead bullets, more than one hundred Tartar musketeers were instantly hit by lead bullets and lost their combat effectiveness.
Therefore, after hundreds of Tartar musketeers shot out the lead bullets in the gun chamber, they had not had time to retreat. More than a thousand lead bullets shot out by the Tiger and Leopard Army had already arrived.
Then, a series of heart-wrenching screams began to ring in the line of the city wall.
More than 300 Tartar musketeers who had just poked out half of their body to fight back from the trunk, at least half of them fell in a pool of blood before they understood why, and their lives and deaths were unknown...
Facing the well-trained and responsive Tiger and Leopard Army musketeers, the Tartar musketeers once again showed a shocked expression on their faces.
Of course, a trace of fear slowly appeared on the faces of some Tartar musketeers.
Because, the colleagues who were lying in a pool of blood around them directly told them with screams that as long as they poke out of the battlement, the next person who was shot and turned into a corpse might be himself.
You should know that the five thousand musketeers trained by Dorgon were not real Tartar soldiers. Because all the young and strong Manchus of the Inlaid White Banner were drawn to join the cavalry, in order to ensure the size of the five thousand people, Dorgon had to draw people from the Han slaves under the Inlaid White Banner.
In addition, these musketeers do not need to fight close-range with the enemy on the battlefield, they only need to shoot and load them step by step, and do not require too much fighting courage.
Therefore, among the five thousand musketeers, three thousand were directly slaves of Han people as the Tatars.
Even the remaining two thousand real Tartars were old and weak who were eliminated by the Later Jin cavalry.
How can such an army not have fear and panic when facing death?
Facing the lead bullets flying over his head with howling sounds, listening to the screams that kept ringing beside him. The remaining musketeers on the city wall seemed to have been agreed upon, and at the same time stopped his already hesitant steps and no longer leaned towards the battlements to "send death".
Ordinary musketeers were afraid, but the generals who were drawn from the cavalry of the white flag were not afraid.
When they saw dozens of tiger and leopard troops wearing iron armor were not blocked by themselves, they were still rushing towards the city wall.
Pull out the shiny saber hanging around your waist directly.
With murderous aura on his face, he slashed at the Han musketeer who was looking scared in front of him.
When the Han musketeer in front of him fell into a pool of blood with fear on his face, the Tartar officer directly raised the sabre of the blade, which was still stained with blood debt, and shouted loudly: "Shoot at the enemy outside the city immediately... If you hesitate, he will be your fate..."
Chapter completed!