This Qing is wrong

Chapter 95

When Shang Keai was still making the final mobilization of many senior generals of the Qing army, 500 pioneers and 500 forest cool people had already arrived at the outer edge of the Qing army camp, holding muskets.

Due to the slow walking speed of the pioneers and forest cool people, the Qing army brought up some sub-parent artillery and General Weiyuan artillery from behind.

Before the pioneers and the forest cool people opened fire, the shells landed around the area where the pioneers and the forest cool people were located.

The smoke and dust from the explosion soon enveloped the figures of the pioneers and the cool forest dwellers.

If it were an ordinary team, the momentum from the explosion alone would be enough to make them stagnate or even collapse.

But the pioneers and the cool forest people walked on the mud covered in smoke and dust with numb and heartless faces.

Even after reaching the maximum effective range of the flintlock, he still did not stop and continued to move forward.

In fact, the momentum caused by the artillery looks great, but because of the accuracy problem, the actual lethality caused is not great. Coupled with the slow shooting frequency, the losses of the pioneers and forest cool people can only be regarded as superficial.

Soon, the commander of the Qing army who was in charge of the frontline command discovered that for these puppets whose morale was constantly locked, the effect of artillery shooting was not generally bad. The smoke and dust caused the Qing army gunners' vision to become very bad.

There is simply no way to aim properly.

The military officers of the Qing army had no choice but to suppress the idea of ​​shooting by the bird gunmen and turtledove foot gunners under their command as much as possible, and put the enemy closer before firing.

There is no way to aim, so you can only rely on 'blind shooting'.

People who have never used firearms feel that the shooting accuracy of this thing is poor, and they think that primitive firearms do not need to be aimed at all.

In fact, muskets also need to be aimed.

There is a huge difference in shooting accuracy between an experienced musketeer and a farmer who has just picked up a musket for a few days.

Even on the European battlefield, skirmishers who specialized in using muskets appeared.

These skirmishers are the predecessors of the sniper branch!
The lack of accuracy is only relative to breech-loading guns. In fact, the accuracy of smooth-bore guns is no worse than that of crossbows.

It can even hit farther within the effective distance that can be aimed at.

However, in large-scale battles involving firearms, the battlefield is often filled with gunpowder. No matter how good your marksmanship is, the enemy's figure will be covered by the smoke, and you will have no way to aim. You can only shoot at close range...

What Shang Kei brought were all veterans of the Qing Army in Guangdong Province, including veterans of the Green Battalion and the Han Army Banner who were good at marksmanship.

Although these veterans only have bird guns or turtledove foot guns in their hands, their rich actual combat experience has long allowed them to reach the level of practice makes perfect, and each of them has their own set of aiming methods.

On the other hand, the pioneers and forest cool people on the opposite side belonged to the "new recruits" with extremely poor marksmanship in the "settings" of the enemy army in the system. In order to ensure the hit rate, they never stopped shooting, and they got closer and closer until they entered Within 30 steps, the pioneers and the forest cool people stopped sparsely!
On the opposite side, the sharp-eyed military officer of the Qing army took the opportunity to ring the gong or blow the suona to remind other friendly units to fire quickly!
So, when the pioneers and forest cool people stopped and raised their guns, the veterans of the Qing army, whose organization and discipline completely crushed them, pulled the trigger one after another.

A sheet of white smoke immediately enveloped the wooden fence around the Qing army camp!

These veterans of the Qing army were relying on wooden fences to shoot guns. Although the bulletproof ability of wooden fences is not good, there is at least a barrier, right?
After a row of guns, the number of pioneers and forest cool people who fell was more than ten times the number of people who were killed by shells along the way before!
The distance of thirty steps is too short for a musket, and the British lobster soldiers of the same period also lined up to shoot within this distance.

Even the Turtledove Foot Fire Gun with a relatively short range can shoot with [-]% power and accuracy!
You must know that because of the caliber problem, the airtightness of the turtledove footfire gun has not been as good as that of the bird gun, so the effective range is not comparable to the bird gun.

The reason why the turtledove foot fire blunderbuss became popular in the Nanming army is mainly because there were many heavily armored soldiers in the Qing army that the Nanming army fought against.
There is no such problem with the turtledove foot firecracker. Even if it is an elite soldier of the Qing army wearing three layers of heavy armor, the turtledove foot firecracker can punch a hole in you...

Most of the previous Brahmin war elephants were killed by turtledove-footed blunderbusses. At most, the blunderbusses could only injure war elephants. If you want to kill war elephants, you need a lot of lead bullets to hit the target.

But the Turtledove Foot Fire Gun does not have this defect, and all war elephants are all shot into the soul.

This is the reason why large-caliber heavy-duty matchlock guns are still very popular in Europe due to their shortcomings such as short range, slow loading, and inconvenient carrying.

It was not until the flintlock was completely popularized that the large-caliber heavy matchlock gun completely withdrew from the stage of history.

The airtightness of flintlock guns is far superior to that of arquebus guns, and it does not need an open flame to ignite. As long as the distance is close enough, the armor-piercing ability is no less than that of large-caliber heavy-duty arquebus guns.

Hulala fell a large area of ​​pioneers and forest cool people, and immediately let the Qing army musketeers burst into cheers.

Morale rose at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The gunners of the Qing army who finished shooting did not need to be driven by the military attache. They retreated spontaneously and began to load ammunition.

However, before the Qing army fired a second round of guns, the pioneers and forest cool people who were indifferent to their own casualties still fired scattered guns even though their movements seemed very clumsy.

To be precise, it is free shooting connected together.

Because of the uneven sequence of shooting, the Qing army did not fall down a large area at the same time like the systematic enemy army on the opposite side, but fell down one after another, which did not seem so scary.

In addition, the soldiers of the Qing army felt that they had the upper hand in the confrontation, and with the wooden fence as a support, they bravely picked up the guy and fired a second round of guns at the enemy within 30 steps.

With the sound of gunfire, the pioneers and the cool people of the forest fell down again!

At this moment, the pioneers and the forest cool people had only suffered two rounds of volleyball, and there were only more than 300 people left standing.

The loss is nothing short of tragic!

On the other hand, the Qing army, because the marksmanship of the pioneers and forest cool people is no different from that of the peasant musketeers, and the Qing army musketeers have wooden fences as barriers to rely on, and the number of wounded and dead is less than that of the pioneers and forest 2% of the Kumin's battle losses.

Even if the pioneers and forest cool people who were shot did not die immediately, because of the huge lethality of the lead bullets, they lay on the ground and lost the ability to continue shooting.

(End of this chapter)