The two regiments from the Beijing Camp in the distance followed the beating 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 men, 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 him. 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 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.
In this way, even if the opposing cavalry collides, these large wheeled shields cannot be knocked down. There are also one-foot-long steel nails on the shield surface that is tilted back, specially designed to deal with war horses and cavalry.
At the same time, the shield soldier also locks the bottom plate to lock the wheels to prevent the shield from moving forward and backward.
At this time, Ye Erqiang's infantry had already rushed to a distance of ten meters.
They saw that there were chains and barbed wire connecting the opponent's tall shields. It was not easy to rush in. They were thinking about how to rush in from the space between the opponent's big shields. Whether to drill or climb from below.
At this time, two Ming soldiers suddenly appeared from two adjacent shields. They held long poles under their armpits, held a three-eyed gun in one hand, and lit the fuse with the other hand.
Today's three-eyed muskets all use fast leads and will fire in almost a second or two.
Bang bang bang! The three fire guns have leads connected in parallel. Three leads are twisted into one, one is lit, and it burns into three quickly. In less than a second apart, all three lead bullets of the three-eyed gun were fired.
This distance is the most accurate distance for the fire gate gun. It is also the most powerful distance.
The two men missed the three-eyed gun, immediately dodged left and right, and retreated to the protection of the shields on both sides.
Six lead bullets flew towards the dense Yarkand army, knocking down three people directly.
In fact, when they saw the three-eyed gun, they immediately raised their shields.
Yarkand's small round shields are mainly used on horses because of their small protective area. They can also be carried on the back to resist enemy bows and arrows during retreat. These small round shields are made of a layer of two millimeters of iron and are reinforced inside.
Lined with rawhide, it can block bows and arrows without any problem.
However, after Yang Fan reorganized the Beijing camp, he made improvements to the existing weapons. One was to reshape the barrel of the three-eyed gun because these barrels were not straight enough.
Yang Fan took the simplest method. The caliber of muskets in this era was relatively large. Moreover, the caliber of each musket was different, some were thicker and some were thinner. Lead bullets could not be used universally, so they had to cast their own molds.
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By inserting the barrel, the caliber is unified. And a steel pipe produced by Xincheng Iron Works is directly inserted. The caliber is still sufficient.
The specific method is to burn the three-eye gun red to increase the diameter, then insert a steel pipe and beat it with a hammer to squeeze out the bubbles in the iron pipe and bridge the cracks.
After cooling, the metal shrinks and will tightly hold the steel pipe inside.
The barrel is straight, the precision is high, and the accuracy is naturally improved.
The second is the propellant, all of which were replaced with maroon gunpowder. The combustion linearity is good and the propulsion force is uniform, which not only prevents the chamber from exploding, but also increases the initial velocity of the bullet.
The third is to switch to 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 somewhat insufficient.
After seeing the three-eyed gun, they also knew what they were buying. After all, matchlock guns are also common in Central Asia. They looked down upon these Ming army's Beijing camps. They heard that they were the emperor's personal troops who defended the capital.
It turned out that the equipment was actually a fire door gun that they had eliminated long ago.
Even if three fire gate guns are connected in parallel, you are still a fire gate gun.
The range is short and the accuracy is extremely poor.
They immediately despised the Jing camp. It seemed that these Han people had nothing to fear, but that was all. As for Tumut and Haraqin, they must have been rotten by the fertile grasslands of Monan.
The great ancestors were disgraced.
It’s not like they sleep with a machete on their head in Central Asia, a land of four wars.
But they looked down upon him and reacted very quickly. They immediately bent down to reduce the projection area, raised a small buckler at the same time, and stretched their arms forward to block most of the body.
Iron smelting is relatively developed in the Western Regions, and their shields are made of cold forged iron.
Cold forging is actually cold rolling. The metal is not heated throughout the process and is shaped by external force. During this process, the metal will harden and its defense power is amazing.
They were confident that the warped, cold wrought iron on their shields could block the portal guns. After all, lead bullets were too soft.
However, the actual situation surprised them. Gunshots sounded like exploding beans. All the shields were penetrated as long as they were hit.
Two millimeters of cold wrought iron skin did not play any role.
The lead bullet hits the small round shield with a curved surface, and the soft lead immediately adheres to the shield in a cake shape. Because of the high temperature during launch, the lead is softer and cannot penetrate the shield. However, the inside of these soft lead is wrapped with steel balls.
The result was that the steel core penetrated the cold wrought iron and continued to penetrate the rawhide. Then it hit the torso of the Yarkand warrior. The chain armor had no resistance in front of the steel core bullet that penetrated the shield and was easily destroyed.
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Some rolled to the ground and screamed.
Aini yelled, "Charge forward and engage the enemy as soon as possible."
However, after shooting from the front, the two three-eyed gunmen quickly hid behind their shields. Two more people appeared behind them, and they appeared immediately after lighting the fuse. The time connection was very tight.
Bang bang bang! Another three consecutive shots. More than 40 Yarkant people fell again.
After three shots were fired, the two quickly flashed back behind the shields.
Then the three-eyed gunmen in the third row, fourth row, and fifth row also opened fire.
After five rounds of shooting, the momentum of the Yarkand people's attack suddenly stalled. Nearly 300 people were knocked to the ground by the three-eyed gun. Some were dead, and some were still struggling.
After firing the three-eyed musket, these gunmen immediately retreated without any hesitation.
During the training, all those who chirped were served with military sticks. At this time, they fired fast, rotated quickly, and retreated faster than rabbits. Such numbness was all the result of the military sticks.
As soon as the three-eyed gunslinger retreated, three rows of spearmen immediately charged forward.
At this time, the Yarkand people had already rushed to the front of the shield after suffering huge casualties.
Battalion Commander Jiang Zhong shouted, "Assassinate with spearmen."
The shield soldier opened the shooting port on the shield, and the pike soldier immediately thrust his spear out of the shield's shooting port. These ten-centimeter square holes were not only convenient for shooting with muskets, but also allowed to poke out with a spear.
Behind the barbed wire between the shields were also soldiers from the Beijing camp holding spears, stabbing with their spears.
The Yarkand officers and soldiers who rushed to the shield were immediately hit. These spears were four and a half meters long and immediately stabbed the enemy soldiers in the first row to death in front of the shield.
