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Chapter 460 Rate of Fire

After being hit five times by solid bullets, two times by shotguns, and three times by riflemen, the Qing army had suffered heavy casualties, with more than 4,000 casualties. However, this army had not yet collapsed and was still charging forward.

If this army of more than 20,000 gunmen were allowed to rush to the front of the formation and engage in firefights with Division Huben, Division Huben would pay a heavy price.

Li Zhi believed that the morale of this Qing army was already shaky. I am afraid that the only thing supporting this army was the numerical advantage of the Qing army. It was the confidence in victory brought by this numerical advantage. As long as this confidence was broken, it would be inevitable.

This army can be defeated.

The Qing army rushed to the thirty-fifth step. Twenty Qing soldiers quickly stuffed the ignition powder into the fire door and shot tentatively at Li Zhi's Huben division.

Although the Qing army's gunfire used round projectiles, its armor-breaking efficiency was not as good as Li Zhi's conical bullets. However, the Jianwei gun used by the Qing army had a larger caliber than Li Zhi's rifle. At a distance of fifty meters, the Qing army's rifle and

Li Zhi's rifle can also break through Master Hu Ben's full body armor.

The Qing army's exploratory attack succeeded.

Twenty rifles fired, but because the ignition powder was loaded in a hurry, only six rifles fired. The bullets hit the soldiers of the Huben Division, screams came from the formation of the Huben Division, and five soldiers of the Huben Division fell in a pool of blood.

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Seeing this scene, Kong Youde's face turned pale and red. The Han army flag dropped more than 4,000 corpses, and finally rushed into the killing range. Now they can shoot with Li Zhi's soldiers and horses!

Kong Youde shouted loudly: "Blow the conch horn and start shooting!"

The desolate conch horn sounded, and the Qing army stopped charging. They stood fifty meters away opposite Huben Division with their blazing guns, and began to reload the fire gate with ignition powder in preparation for shooting.

After running for so long, the ignition powder has fallen out and needs to be reloaded.

Hearing the conch trumpet blown by Kong Youde's command post, Duduo and Dudu looked at each other, eyes full of surprise.

After charging for so long, the Qing army finally rushed into the killing range. Next, the more than 20,000 Qing army gunners who were still alive would shoot at Li Zhi's riflemen. Although the Qing army was attacked by Li Zhi's riflemen on the way to the formation.

Thousands of people were killed by artillery fire, but the current number was still nearly twice that of the riflemen of the Huben Division. Duduo had reason to believe that the Qing army could win.

Duduo's face was very excited. He wiped the sweat from his head and said loudly: "Okay! This battle will defeat Li Zhi's troops."

Du Du said: "Prince Yu, as long as you defeat Li Zhi, you will not be able to let the Qing Dynasty's cavalry gallop inside and outside the pass?"

Duduo laughed loudly, as if he had seen the great situation after Li Zhi was wiped out.

When Hong Chengchou heard Kong Youde's conch horn, his heart sank.

He had just seen the Qing army's gunmen successfully kill the soldiers of the Huben Division. Apparently, the Qing army's gunmen had rushed to a distance that could break armor and were about to start shooting at Li Zhi's soldiers and horses.

Unexpectedly, the Qing army could withstand such heavy casualties and rush to Li Zhi's formation.

The Qing army had more than 20,000 people, and Li Zhi's army only had 13,500 gunners. In such a shooting, Li Zhi seemed to be at a huge disadvantage. No matter how sophisticated Li Zhi's rifle was, it was a

How can a fire blunderbuss shoot an enemy twice as big as oneself?

Hong Chengchou's face turned pale and he became very worried about Li Zhi's troops.

Li Zhi stood in the middle of the formation, but he was not as worried as Hong Chengchou. Li Zhi knew that the morale of the Qing army was at the end of its strength.

More than 4,000 people died, and the Qing army's formation loss rate was as high as 15%. The bravest gunmen who rushed to the front have all been killed. Those in front of the formation now are all those who were originally walking in the middle.

These Qing soldiers witnessed the death scene of the front row soldiers, which was like a massacre. They were already trembling with fear. It would be an exaggeration to say that they were frightened.

The Qing army was already at the end of its strength, and with just one more heavy blow, the morale of the Qing army, which had already collapsed to the limit, could be defeated.

What we have to do now is not to let the Qing army see any hope of victory.

Li Zhi was stunned and shouted loudly: "Fire with shotguns!"

Forty 18-pound heavy cannons had been loaded with shotshells. As soon as the horn sounded, the forty cannons fired deadly shotshells at the Qing troops rushing into the formation. The distance was too close, and the front row faced the muzzle of the cannon.

The Qing soldiers were suddenly beaten into a hornet's nest, their flesh and blood mangled. Blood and minced meat seemed to explode from these beaten bodies that were not human.

The shotgun pellets shot through these flesh and blood targets with huge kinetic energy, and continued to pierce the back, shooting through two or three layers of the body before stopping. This close-range shotgun shot was even more cruel and bloody.

The shotguns killed at least three-quarters of the Qing soldiers in the front row. The Qing army's front line, which was about to start shooting, suddenly became chaotic. The soldiers in the back row looked at the tragic situation of the soldiers in the front row being shot, and their faces changed.

They turned white and did not dare to step forward. The screams and harmonies corroded the morale of the Han army like a plague.

The Qing soldiers in the back row finally calmed down and raised their guns to shoot at the Huben Division in front. The soldiers in the first row of the Huben Division had already fired a volley in front of them.

When Li Zhi faced the Qing army this time, he set up a three-row mass formation, with each soldier occupying only half a meter of battlefield width. For such a mass formation, it is more appropriate to form three rows. If four rows are formed to shoot, the soldiers in front will

The time taken to target the enemy will actually slightly reduce the shooting efficiency of the entire team.

Li Zhi now uses nitrocellulose without residue as propellant. There is no need to clean the barrel of the gun. Even a three-row firing is enough to complete a salvo within five seconds.

The rate of fire of a bullet in fifteen seconds is much higher than the rate of fire of the Qing army. The Qing army used black powder matchlock guns. They had to clean the gun chamber, adjust the position of the matchlock, blow on the matchlock, and test the matchlock. It could be fired in 25 seconds.

One shot makes you elite.

The Qing army did not know the rate of fire of Li Zhi's rifle. Their confidence in victory was based on the idea that the rate of fire of the Huben Division was similar to theirs.

Seeing that all three columns of Li Zhi's guns had been fired, the Qing troops thought it was a safe time. They thought it would take at least ten seconds before the first column of Ming troops that had just finished firing could fire again.

However, the Tiger Division's rifle fired at this impossible safe time.

When the riflemen of the first line of the Huben Division fired again fifteen seconds after the last shot, the morale of the Qing army and the Han banner seemed to have been hit hard with a hammer weighing several dozen kilograms.

The rifles of the Ming army could actually fire once every fifteen seconds!

The Huben Division fires once every fifteen seconds and can fire four bullets per minute. The Qing Army and the Han Army Flag II fire once every thirty seconds and can only fire two bullets a minute. Its combat effectiveness is almost half that of the Huben Division. Moreover, the Huben Division still has

Dozens of large-caliber heavy artillery fired shotgun shells, and the overall lethality was far more than twice that of the Qing and Han banners.

The Han Banner's numerical advantage was reduced to nothing in the face of the high-rate weapons of the Huben Division.

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