Although "Yidou Valley" was shaken by the loud noise of the Shen Jiajun's turtledove guns, he had already been a thief for ten years and had already looked down on life and death.
Instinct told him that at this point, the horse would not be able to turn back when the horse was in the middle of the road, and he would have to rush to the end.
"The army's fire blunderbuss is very slow to reload. Hurry up! The faster you charge, the safer it will be!"
The cavalry around him were all old Shaanxi thieves who followed Liu Xiyao from his hometown. After a brief panic, they found that few of their comrades had fallen from their horses, which aroused their fierceness and charge.
More determined.
"It seems that this cavalry is an elite army of thieves. The armor rate should be high. It took shotguns to kill so many people." Zuo Zixiong opposite put down his binoculars and his palms were slightly sweaty, but it was not because of fear, just nervousness.
A normal physiological reaction intertwined with excitement.
I just took a quick glance and found that after a volley of shots, only about a dozen cavalrymen fell off their horses, and a few more horses were wounded and killed.
Two hundred and forty turtledove guns were fired in a volley with shotguns. In total, they could effectively hit more than thirty targets, which was only one-eighth. This number was obviously much lower than in the previous test. Zuo Zixiong quickly
It is judged that these cavalry have a relatively high armor coverage rate.
This judgment is indeed correct.
Among third-rate thieves like Liu Xiyao, only officers above the rank of sentry commander in ordinary troops have iron-clad cotton armor. In the direct line of the old battalion, it may be spread to grassroots officers.
When it comes to the most trusted cavalry unit, the company commander is equipped with equipment. The cavalrymen on the opposite side, who are more than a thousand people, can actually collect three to four hundred pairs of iron-clad cotton armor, which is Liu Xiyao's hometown.
It takes less than thirty seconds for the armored cavalry to cross one hundred and twenty steps (160 meters) in formation. The time required for the infantry is twice as slow, about fifty seconds.
So just six or seven seconds later, the cavalry rushed within a hundred steps in front of the formation when they were attacked by another round of bullets. This time, the cavalry was attacked by a Rumi gun with a charge of four coins.
When they heard the sound of gunfire, the cavalrymen in Yidou Valley panicked again, apparently frightened by the density of firepower from the army.
The killing effect of this round is actually lower than that of the previous round, mainly because the firepower of Lumi gun is much weaker than that of Ikaruga gun.
Less than ten of the bandit cavalry died, and almost a dozen others fell off their horses. The panic and formation confusion caused was far worse than the first wave. It took Yi Dougu a few seconds to reorganize his formation.
, and even had to chop to death two old brothers who turned around and became deserters to stabilize their morale.
This delay at least provided time for Zuo Zixiong to fire one more row of shots.
At eighty steps, the third round of gunshots was fired again, and this time the rebels were not so afraid. They had already reacted: the officers and soldiers used the stacking method, and the guns used were different each time. Only the first time just now
The gun that shoots is the most powerful.
Unfortunately, with the fourth round of volley fired by the officers and soldiers fifty steps away, the newly restored courage of the bandit cavalry was quickly knocked back to the bottom - by the batch of turtle dove guns that had just fired from a hundred and twenty steps away.
, the ammunition has been reloaded.
"Bang, bang, bang—" The loud noise roared again, completely making Yi Dougu start to doubt his life.
"This is impossible! How can the army reload so quickly? How long does it take for the cavalry to charge seventy steps and he can fire again?"
This idea just flashed through Yi Dougu's mind, and he didn't have time to think about it at all.
The moment he saw the fire, he had already relied on his instinctive sense of danger to hide in the stirrup, lowering his body as much as possible to hide within the shielding range of the war horse.
At the same moment, he only felt that the thigh exposed on the outside of the war horse seemed to have been stung by something, and it went straight through it with a chill. Before the pain could be felt, he heard the sound of a gunshot first -
The flight speed of the bullet when it first comes out of the barrel is far faster than the speed of sound. Unfortunately, the time difference is less than 0.2 seconds at a distance of fifty steps. Human nerves can hardly react, so the sense of touch and hearing hit almost at the same time.
A small hole had been punched through the outside of his thigh by a lead bullet. If the bullet hadn't penetrated directly, he would have been disabled even if he didn't die. Then his horse neighed sadly and rolled over, apparently falling down.
When he was hiding in the stirrups just now, the war horse helped him block more projectiles.
The lethality of this round of turtle dove guns was truly terrifying, killing and injuring at least eighty people, and one of them could be killed with almost three shots.
The shotgun fire at medium and short range is full, so brutal.
If you switch to a single-point bullet, no matter how high the accuracy of the firearm itself is, it won't be able to achieve it - don't believe this evil. Anyone who has fought against a chicken knows that when dealing with a moving target enemy 60 meters away, even if you are given a 98K, it will be impossible to hit it.
Even if you take five shots, you may not be able to hit the target.
The number of warheads and firepower density are the real options.
The wailing finally resounded among the rebel cavalry, and their morale was completely exhausted. If no one knew in the chaos that Yi Dou Gu had fallen, they might have collapsed.
Fortunately, these people have been in the army for many years, and they know that retreating at this time will only "suffer twice the punishment" and receive more rounds of bullets in vain. Otherwise, it is not surprising that the military morale will collapse.
"He is indeed a tough gangster with many years of experience. He still has a clear mind at this time and knows that the only way to survive is to move forward."
Zuo Zixiong didn't dare to be too bold, so he ordered the Lumi gunmen in the second row to quickly fire one last round of grabs, and then they all retreated from the corridor and let the spearmen line up to attack.
After Rumi fired his gun, the rebel cavalry was still thirty steps away. Theoretically, they could fire another shot, but that would leave the musketeers with no time to retreat and the pikemen with no time to reinforce the formation corridor. Overall, it was absolutely impossible.
The gain will outweigh the loss.
Perhaps only when the bayonet is invented and the musketeers can fight back the cavalry with the bayonet on the ground without retreating, can this regret be completely made up for.
Zuo Zixiong decisively gave up the last shot in exchange for more room for the spear formation.
The rebel cavalry, which numbered over a thousand, was directly killed and injured by five rounds of attacks, with more than 200 people being killed. Only about 800 were left, and they crashed into the spear formation.
"Kill!" After one and a half months of training, the soldiers of the Huangzhou Regiment also burst out with the courage to follow the crowd. They mechanically stabbed the spears in their hands numbly, and many people's minds went blank.
"Our army's gunmen have killed so many traitors! Our army will win!"
It's not that they are not afraid in their minds, but they are just a herd mentality inspired by the passionate clamor, and feel that they are on the side of the strong and the winner. This kind of confidence is extremely important for recruits.
In just a few dozen seconds, the enemy's blood was dripping, and the corpses and horses fell along the way, all of which strengthened this mentality.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!" He stabbed hard with both arms again and again, turning a blind eye to the gushing blood, but instead aroused the excitement of beating a drowned dog.
Almost all the first platoon of the rebel cavalry crashed into the gun formation and were either killed or injured. Although they also knocked over the No. 100 spearmen on the opposite side, they did not shake the regiment's training line at all.
When the spearmen in the first row fell, they were immediately replaced by the back row. They may be new recruits, but as long as they know that they are on the side of the winner, that is enough.
Chinese people, since ancient times, have always liked to follow the crowd, seek strength, and go with the flow.
This is especially true for recruits who are not determined, so they must perform a grand show of weakening and unilaterally killing the enemy before engaging in melee combat.
Once the recruits truly believe that they are fighting against the odds and bullying the weak, their potential will be no less than that of elite veterans.
The real gap between new and old veterans can only be revealed when fighting against the wind.
Dozens of rebel cavalrymen fell down, or fell off their horses and fell into foot combat.
The "mounted infantry" led by Liu Xiong in the rear row were about to rush to the battlefield to reinforce Yidou Valley's cavalry.
But Zuo Zixiong's turtle dove musketry team, which had just retreated, had also made preparations again. Although the muskets were not as good as bows and arrows, they could not perform parabolic fire.
But Shen Jiajun is a defensive town after all, and the advantage of the terrain makes up for this shortcoming.
On the earth fence and sentry tower on the north side of the battlefield, turtledove gunners soon began to look down from above and fired flatly at the rear row of the rebels over the heads of the two armies.
The natural dispersion of the shotgun can allow some of the falling projectiles to injure the enemy's rear a hundred or so steps away. This method of attack is the safest. Although at least half of the projectiles will be wasted, it will not inadvertently injure one's own people.
The rebel army can only deal with hand-to-hand combat on the contact surface between the two armies, but Shen Jiajun can hold it head-on, deal with it three-dimensionally, and have a long-lasting combat effectiveness.
It's not that Liu Xiyao didn't have firearms, it was just that the cavalry troops Liu Xiong brought today didn't have firearms. In a hurry, the rear row couldn't be squeezed up, so he had to use bows and arrows to shoot at Shen Jiajun, barely maintaining his morale, and it seemed that he was not being beaten unilaterally.
In a panic, some rebel cavalry officers improvised and tried to outflank and destroy Shen's army's formation.
However, the troops that rounded to the left had not taken a few steps before they were trapped by the muddy tidal flats on the Qishui shore. Their mobility was greatly reduced and they became a passive target for being beaten.
Some horses even stepped directly into the muddy quicksand pits, and their riders were thrown away, causing broken bones and tendons.
"Young Master, we can't continue fighting like this! These Shen family servants can't rush forward at all! The spearmen are so densely lined up, with rivers and earth fences on the left and right, the cavalry can't detour, and they will die in vain! We must have fallen into a trap.
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When Liu Xiong was looking at the enemy behind the formation, Yi Dougu was carried back by his close soldiers, crying and begging Liu Xiong to retreat immediately.
A small hole was punched shallowly in the side of Yi Dougu's thigh. Fortunately, the bullet went through and there was no risk of death.
Liu Xiong gritted his teeth. The casualties of the troops were indeed terrible. If they continued to fight, they would collapse immediately. His only hope was that the morale of the opponent would collapse first, but the opponent's morale was obviously far from collapse.
"How on earth did the officers and generals who led the troops boost their morale? Why were they not afraid to break up when our cavalry repeatedly attacked them!"
He hesitated like this, and the Rogue Cavalry finally collapsed on its own, without waiting for his order to retreat. Even if the elite elite of the old battalion was more stubborn, after 20 to 30% casualties, the enemy still showed no signs of loosening, and the collapse was completely normal.
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What's more, these troops had traveled all night and marched in a hurry to intercept them. So they took a gamble with the tone just now. They found that the morale of the officers and soldiers was high and they were not afraid of them at all. The rebel army lost their temper and completely collapsed.
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"Retreat! Run!" Liu Xiong was in a hurry and fled first on his horse. He retreated three or four arrows away, gathered the remaining soldiers, collected the pack animals, horses and donkeys, and fled straight to the upper reaches of Qishui River.
Zuo Zixiong was afraid of being deceived, so he did not dare to chase him out of the town immediately - once he left the town and reached the open ground, the left and right flanks would be outflanked by the enemy's cavalry. By then, could his one thousand spearmen and one thousand musketeers be able to
It is difficult to block the stubborn thieves from all directions.
For the sake of prudentness, he only asked the spearmen to quickly change their formations to get out of the corridor after the rebel army retreated fifty or sixty steps, and asked the firearms soldiers to come forward in batches and unleash a round of firepower before the two armies broke away from contact.
The 800 shots received during the escape took away the lives of at least another hundred thieves.
"No pursuit! The enemy is attacking at dawn. I don't know if there is a large group of ambushes in the distance. When the sky gets brighter, I will send out scouts to search other directions before making a decision! Let the soldiers rest and drink water first, and prepare for the morning meal.
Physical recovery!"
Zuo Zixiong gave orders in an orderly manner, calming his subordinates' urge to take credit.
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