Wu Jie led his soldiers, facing the arrows of the officers and soldiers, and kept pressing forward with a steady pace.
Soldiers in the team continued to be killed or wounded by arrows, and the soldiers at the rear immediately filled the vacancies in the team.
General Jiang Sheng saw the yellow-clothed thief in front of him, suffering constant casualties under the attack of arrows.
However, they did not collapse and kept pressing on them.
He could all see the faces of the soldiers in the front row of the yellow-robed thieves.
He probably will never forget that childish yet determined little face in his life.
The military discipline of this thief in yellow is so good that none of his servants can do it.
When Wu Jie saw the enemy, he was already a hundred meters away from them, reaching the best range of the flintlock.
He immediately gave the order.
"Fire."
The soldier standing in the first row pulled the trigger, and the lead bullet in the flintlock gun was immediately shot out.
A hail of bullets formed and flew towards the officers and soldiers.
For a flintlock gun without rifling, the lead bullet will fly out of the barrel and will not fly in a straight line.
It is simply impossible to hit wherever you point like a bow and arrow.
But the large-scale musketeers formed a hail of bullets.
However, it can kill enemy soldiers in a wide range within the effective range of the musket.
After the soldiers in the first row fired, they immediately ducked and walked to the back of the team.
They quickly loaded their flintlock muskets as they followed the column.
They first cleaned the musket barrel with a brush, and then stuffed the silk-wrapped gunpowder bag into the barrel with a purge strip.
Then put the lead bullet wrapped in oil-soaked linen cloth and stuff it into the bottom of the barrel with a straight strip.
Give it a couple of hard blows to compact the contents of the barrel.
The soldier poured the granules of gunpowder in the bamboo tube into the fire door of the flintlock gun.
The whole process takes a little more than a minute for the soldiers to load their ammunition.
The specific time required depends on the psychological quality and proficiency of each soldier.
The soldier raised his flintlock gun again and opened the hammer of the flintlock gun.
At this time, the fifth row of soldiers had finished shooting and entered the rear of the team to reload.
The original first row of soldiers is now the second row of soldiers.
They waited until the soldiers in the front row finished firing and then immediately responded.
Su Xiong stood at the head of Baoji County and could see the movements of the army.
The soldiers fired one after another, and a thick plume of gunpowder smoke appeared above the military formation.
The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty at the front of the army were shot and fell to the ground.
Just one round of musketeer fire killed and injured more than a thousand Ming officers and soldiers.
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Jiang Sheng saw the musketeers in yellow clothes opening fire and the soldiers in the front row falling down one after another. He knew that he could not sit still and wait for death.
We must take advantage of the opportunity for the musketeers in yellow to reload their bullets and defeat them.
Immediately ordered the whole army to charge.
Under the leadership of the servants, the military household began to charge towards the thieves in yellow.
What greeted them was waves of lead bullets.
The charging servants all fell on the way to attack.
Jiang Sheng saw that the attack was frustrated, and the thief in yellow used multi-stage fire.
The muskets never stopped and kept firing.
The musketeers of the thief in yellow directly defeated his elite crossbowmen.
At this moment, Su Li was at the gate of the city and had already organized his team.
They surrounded the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers from the right.
The musketeers defeated the officers and soldiers on the right who had almost no servants in just one attack.
When Su Li saw the officers and soldiers running away, he immediately gave the order.
"Fix bayonets and prepare grenades."
The soldiers all removed the bayonet from the barrel and stuck it in the muzzle of the gun through the bayonet.
The flintlock became a short spear.
The neat team immediately dispersed, taking classes as a unit.
Ignoring the fleeing Ming officers and soldiers, they directly attacked the central army of Ming officers and soldiers.
Su Xiong saw at the top of the city that the flanks of the officers and soldiers had collapsed.
He immediately asked the guards to light the signal flare for the general attack.
The signal flare took off and suddenly exploded, and huge red fireworks appeared above Baoji County.
When Su Shan saw this signal flare, he knew it was the signal flare for the general offensive.
He immediately threw his troops into the battlefield, cut into the battlefield from the rear of the officers and soldiers, and surrounded most of the officers and soldiers.
As Su Shan entered the battlefield, the Ming army was still struggling to support itself.
They immediately couldn't bear the casualties and began to desert.
First, ordinary military households fled, and then when they saw that the casualties were too great, even the servants could not support them, and deserters began to appear.
Jiang Sheng saw that most of his servants were injured and killed, and there were also deserters.
But now it has become impossible for him to withdraw the army from the battlefield.
He knew that the situation was over, so he took advantage of the fact that the army of thieves in yellow hadn't completely closed up.
He could only run out with his own soldiers.
General Jiang Sheng took the lead in escaping. The morale of the servant soldiers who were still struggling to support them immediately collapsed.
Most of the servants fled with him.
A small number of them could not escape and simply dropped their weapons and surrendered.
Wu Jie, Su Li, and Su Shan simply met to discuss the division of labor.
Su Li is responsible for chasing down deserters.
Wu Jie's army was seriously injured and he was responsible for managing prisoners on the battlefield and rescuing injured soldiers.
Su Shan maintained his military formation and moved towards the Weihe River defense line to prevent the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers from supporting him.
Su Li immediately sent troops to chase the deserters.
The officers and soldiers who were able to escape were in relatively good physical condition, so they could not be allowed to return to the Ming army camp.
Suhe's army could eat three meals a day, and their lunch was vegetables fried in lard.
Every three days, soldiers were given a piece of meat.
Except for the servants and servants, the other military households had difficulty getting two meals a day.
The ordinary military officers and soldiers were completely out of physical strength and were quickly overtaken by the soldiers.
These military households had no resistance and were all captured.
The servant soldiers were wearing heavy armor and had no chance to take off their armor while escaping.
They relied on their physical strength to run more than a mile.
Then Su Li led his soldiers to catch up.
The servant soldiers were surrounded.
Some servants and soldiers wanted to resist, but they were knocked unconscious by their companions.
"Don't shoot, we surrender."
The servant soldiers saw the thief in yellow holding a gun and a grenade, looking at him eagerly.
Immediately shouted that they wanted to surrender.
In addition to Jiang Sheng and his soldiers, more than 130 people rode back to the camp on horseback.
The other officers and soldiers were captured and taken prisoner.
Su Xiong received the battle report and they won a great victory this time.
In the evening, all three brigades returned to Baoji County.
They are counting the results of this victory.
There were more than 560 casualties, but more than 17,000 officers and soldiers were almost wiped out.
The officers and soldiers captured more than 13,000 people.
Wu Jie lamented: "Commander Su said this tactic is called queuing to shoot.
The officers and soldiers really seemed to be lining up, waiting for us to shoot them."
Su Xiong's eyes were serious and he said: "Don't be kidding, line up and shoot. This is a battle between two armies of musketeers, so that can be called queuing up and shooting."
We are using weapons to suppress, using hot weapons to attack cold weapons, and there is a difference in weapons.
I don’t know how brutal it would be to actually line up and be shot.
The soldiers must have a good rest today. Everyone has seen the power of muskets.
Tomorrow we will face the main force of Ming soldiers."
It was completely dark, and red and green signal flares rose over Baoji County.
The flares were fired according to a specific rhythm, which was repeated three times.
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Su He saw the signal flares over Baoji County.
This is a long-distance communication method he designed based on Morse code and Pinyin.
When weather conditions are good, simple messages can be sent.
The message conveyed this time was: "Annihilate the entire Ming army."
Li Fengming also saw the signal over Baoji County.
He asked doubtfully: "According to the information we received, the Ming army attacked Baoji County, and they are one of the three main frontier armies.
Jiang Sheng, the commander-in-chief of Yansui, led the army, which basically accounted for a quarter of the army.
There was no movement at all in the official camp today. They were so close and no troops were sent to support them.
This is really incredible, I didn’t expect that we would win so easily.”
Su He was not surprised and said with a smile: "This is a normal phenomenon for the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.
Through the intelligence we collected, the Shanxi Ming Army went to Qinwang last year.
However, the civil servants did not even provide them with food on site and sent them to several surrounding cities many times.
Finally, the hungry and tired soldiers were dispatched to attack Jiannu.
An army of officers and soldiers who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty was destroyed."
Su He looked in the direction of the Ming Dynasty military camp and slowly read out a sentence.
"Retreating and advancing are as swift as the wind.
Outflank them in a roundabout way, as fast as a forest.
Burning, killing, looting, invasion like fire.
The friendly troops are in trouble and remain as motionless as a mountain."
