In this era, training a more skilled rifleman requires about two hundred rounds of live ammunition shooting.
Two hundred rounds of ammunition plus the barrel that needs to be replaced every 100 rounds due to barrel quality issues, plus the rifleman's salary, food and drink, almost a more skilled rifleman, currently requires 30 taels of silver
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This is because the bullets and rifles are self-made and the cost is low.
If it were the Ming army, a skilled fire gunner would need at least 100 taels of silver to be trained.
This is why the existing fire gunmen in the Ming Army are basically novices.
Those Qianhu masters were reluctant to throw their money at the gunman.
Artillery is even more expensive.
As a simple estimate, a skilled artilleryman requires at least one hundred and fifty taels of silver to be trained.
Again, this is because cannonballs and artillery can be made by oneself, and due to technical advantages, round solid cannonballs can be directly cast in batches in the dock area.
In short, the shooting skills of Sun Xuebin's artillerymen at this time were much better than those of the riflemen.
After another round of bombardment by eighteen artillery pieces, half of the more than thirty carts were directly smashed into parts, and many Ming soldiers pushing carts were directly turned into corpses.
There was no way, it was only a hundred meters away, and for the artillerymen who controlled the Napoleon cannon, they were almost holding it against their chests and firing.
If this can't hit directly, then the hundreds of rounds of artillery shells they consumed before will really be wasted.
However, it always takes time to refill the artillery. Taking advantage of the gap between the artillery reloading, the Ming troops rushed forward dozens of meters.
At this time, the Ming army rushing at the front was only 90 meters away from the parapet.
"Fire!"
"Fire!"
"Fire!"
.........
At this time, the crossing officers of each company and platoon immediately issued the order to fire.
Bang bang bang bang….
The parapet was immediately shrouded in thick smoke.
Hundreds of rounds of lead bullets, under the influence of the huge kinetic energy of gunpowder, rushed out of the gun chamber and viciously crashed into the chests of those Ming soldiers.
In the blink of an eye, sixty or seventy Ming soldiers fell down, and the carts blocking the front were shot into dust by bullets.
I have to say that those carts did have a good defensive effect.
If it weren't for these carts, the number of Ming soldiers who fell would have been more than sixty or seventy, at least more than a hundred.
After all, the distance is already quite close.
Under intensive volley fire, at this distance, with the power of the Thunderbolt 1646 rifle, it was easy to knock down hundreds of people.
After firing, the riflemen immediately retreated into the trench behind the breastworks and began to reload quickly.
Then, before the Ming army could run fifty meters, the eighteen Napoleon cannons arranged on both sides of the parapet opened fire again.
In fact, due to proficiency, the firing rate of the Napoleon cannons on both sides is not much slower than the Thunderbolt 1646 rifle.
After this round of artillery fire, almost all the carts were smashed into pieces, completely exposing the charging Ming army to the muzzle of the gun.
Since the distance between the Ming troops had been shortened to less than thirty meters, another round of shooting by the riflemen knocked down more than 300 Ming troops.
No way, this distance is too close.
This round of attacks directly and completely destroyed the morale of the Ming army.
As the first Ming army turned around and ran for his life, the rest of the Ming army seemed to be infected in an instant, and they all turned around and ran for their lives.
In the following battle, the riflemen no longer fired volleys, but instead aimed at the enemy and sniped as much as possible.
After all, these enemies who expose their backs should be the best targets.
Well, in fact, in the subsequent shooting, because multiple riflemen were targeting the same enemy, the shooting efficiency was actually not as good as the previous volley.
However, as the morale of the Ming army completely collapsed, the truck fleet arranged by Sun Xuebin finally came into use.
Four large trucks carrying eighty soldiers rushed out from the side, completely blocking the Ming army's retreat.
As the slogan "Kneel down and surrender without killing" sounded, those Ming soldiers could no longer muster the courage to resist, but obediently knelt on the ground.
This is normal. When fighting the Qing army in the past, there were also large numbers of soldiers who would flee if they could and surrender if they couldn't.
After all, after seeing his comrades fall at the gunpoint one by one, and being beaten by shells with missing arms and legs, even the courage inspired by the bounty of ten acres of land will be gone.
No way, wealth is important, but if you die, you will get nothing.
Besides, they saw with their own eyes that Lord Qianhu, who was in charge of the army, was captured.
Even Master Qianhu was captured, so the reward for the ten acres of land was gone.
As a result, even if the hero of Liangshan is reincarnated, it is impossible for him to have the slightest courage to resist.
Ming troops fell to their knees and surrendered one by one, while Sun Xuebin nodded his head in great excitement.
No way, this victory means that the human resources in the dock area will increase a lot.
You know, not only is Shilu Iron Mine in need of coolies, but even Hongji Coal Mine is constantly pressing for manpower.
Of course, there is no shortage of miners at Hongji Coal Mine.
After all, as long as there is food, thousands of people can be recruited to work as miners there.
What is really scarce in the coal mines are naturalized people!
No way, although there are quite a few of those Cochin people, the front-line managers and the people who travel through are not very willing to use Cochin people.
Therefore, even Ming army prisoners of war can still be used as long as their minds are transformed.
After all, outside, people of the same species can feel more at ease, at least the language barrier will be much smaller.
Besides, there are actually many craftsmen among these prisoners of war.
Sun Xuebin discovered this during the post-war inventory of the last battle at Beauty Ridge.
Many of these craftsmen can even repair firecrackers.
This is not surprising. The country in the Ming Dynasty was once so vast. It was impossible for the musket to be sent to the Ministry of Industry in the capital for repair as soon as it broke, right?
In that case, the transportation costs alone would be horribly high.
Therefore, every household has craftsmen who repair guns and repair bows and arrows.
Now that these craftsmen are in the hands of the dock area, they will naturally be able to exert different effects.
There is a shortage of technical personnel in the dock area right now.
Apart from anything else, as long as these craftsmen are assigned to various factories and study with technicians for a period of time, there will be no problem in operating at least some simple machines.
After gathering the prisoners of war and returning to the dock area, Sun Xuebin could not rest. He still had to rush to interrogate the officers among the Ming army prisoners of war.
The results of the interrogation made him understand why two thousand households were able to gather more than 2,000 soldiers.
It turned out that the troops were sent not only to guard the front and the two Qianhu Stations on the left, but also to pull up Zhanzhou to guard the Qianhu Station.