prosperous age

Chapter 86
"One hundred steps to start continuous bombardment."

Wu Zhankui had already understood the tactics of this army, and saw that Wei Meng had lined up the musketeers in five rows on both sides of the pike formation, so he quickly ordered.

He has been with this army for more than a month. When he was practicing in Zhenjiang, he was surprised at the formation of the bird gunners on both sides of the pike phalanx. After learning more about the bird gunners After shooting obliquely, it took a long time to figure out what was going on.

But now that he was on the battlefield, he didn't have time to think about how effective such an arrangement would be, and everything would be revealed soon.

The Japanese pirates didn't move very fast, but when they reached about a hundred paces, their running posture became weird, swaying left and right from time to time, a bit like a convulsion.

This group of Japanese pirates didn't have many shields, but the charge formation was very loose, which must be very disadvantageous for the troops under them, which used blunderbuss as their main weapon.

In fact, Wu Zhankui already knew that ordinary shields did not have much defensive advantage against the blunderbuss, but the opponent also knew how to shake his body to avoid the bludgeoner's aiming, which surprised him a bit.

After the Japanese pirates entered a distance of a hundred paces, the small flag commanding the gunners in the front row had already waved the saber in his hand, and slashed forward fiercely, and then more than 20 bird guns were fired one after another.

"bang bang bang"

After the gunners in the first row fired their guns, they hurriedly turned around and walked through the crowd to stand behind the queue of gunners and began to reload the order. past location.

The small flag officer continued to wave the saber, and all the musketeers in the second row raised their guns and began to aim at the center. As the small flag saber fell, a series of "bang bang bang" sounded.

White smoke rose from the two wings of the Ming army's formation amidst the sound of blunderbusses, because the Japanese pirates who were rushing over from the opposite side also suffered casualties after the first shot, and people kept falling while running.

Among these people, only a few people could stumble and get up, but there were also a few people who lay completely motionless on the ground.

After the fifth row of musketeers shot the projectiles in their hands, the first row of musketeers had completed the loading work, and they had already stood in the first row of the team again, and started the second round of shooting again under the command of the small flag officer Saber.

In the entire formation of musketeers, the only thing that didn't move was the small flag directing the fire, standing there motionless, just waving and chopping the saber in his hand.

"It's still a bit slower than in training."

Wei Meng saw the musketeers firing continuously, and he also thought about it in his heart.

When the musketeers who retreated just now were reloading, many of them were still shaking. It was obviously the first time they were on the battlefield. For them, the movements they were already very familiar with during normal training were also affected.

"It's better than the spearman. The people in front are also trembling. I don't know if they can withstand the battle later."

Wu Zhankui could clearly see the performance of the soldiers in front of him while riding on his horse, so he was naturally aware of the changes in the soldiers in front of him.

"This gang of Japanese pirates is also ruthless enough. Twenty or thirty corpses have fallen down, and they are still rushing."

After continuous bombardment by gunners, about [-] of the Japanese pirates who were younger than [-] had been killed, and all of them lay down on the way to charge.

However, the death of the companions around them didn't seem to affect these desperadoes. Maybe they were used to seeing them when they were at sea, but there was nothing like what the elders said, that if two or three die out of ten, the army will easily collapse.

There are hundreds of Japanese pirates rushing forward desperately. As the distance approached, the soldiers of Qianhusuo of the Right Army also felt the threat of death. The shooting continued, but there was a little commotion between the shieldmen in the first row and the spearmen in the two rows behind.

"Xiao Liu, lead people up to repress them. No one is allowed to turn back, and I don't want to back down. Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed."

Wu Zhankui noticed the change in the army formation ahead, and immediately issued an order to the leader of his own soldiers. After the voice fell, a few full-body soldiers rushed out from behind and entered the army formation. The wavering soldiers used to be stabbed in the past, still shouting and cursing.

Those soldiers who were retreating slightly were slashed several times with the back of the knife. The severe pain seemed to temporarily make them forget their fear, and they stood there with weapons in their hands, but they didn't dare to do anything else. action.

The Japanese pirates were already [-] steps closer to the army formation. Not only the soldiers in front, but even Wu Zhankui and Wei Meng could clearly see the ferocious faces of the Japanese pirates rushing towards them.

The pirates at the front are the most vicious group of pirates, and they are the elite of this gang of pirates.

Naturally, Wu Zhankui and Wei Meng didn't know that the group of Japanese pirates who rushed to their army before was actually a group of stragglers led by dozens of real Japanese. As long as those real Japanese can be defeated, that group of Japanese pirates will be defeated.

And this team of pirates is a group of powerful subordinates around the leader of the pirates here, and they are also a group of desperadoes, and the methods of killing the enemy are naturally extremely brutal.

And the most ferocious group of people just ran among the Japanese pirates at the beginning of the charge, and it was only at this time that they gradually rushed to the front.

They are about to encounter the official army. They have experienced countless slashing confrontations, and they all know clearly that as long as the initial offensive is strong enough, the opponent's morale can be broken, and as long as the opponent's morale is broken, it will be easy Win the battle here.

This group of officers and soldiers is a bit powerful, and it is different from the few battlefields they have encountered before. They can unexpectedly be defeated when they rush to the front when the number of people is close.

Then I'm sorry, your head brothers want it.

Thinking of the upcoming slashing, cruel smiles appeared on the faces of many bloodthirsty robbers.

At this point the second round of shooting had ended, and the third round had just begun, but there was obviously no time to finish.

When there were still about twenty steps away from the army formation, the small flag commanding the phalanx of bird gunners put away their sabers and turned around. The bird gunners beside them turned around in unison amidst the sound of passwords, and then quickly trotted back to the rear of the army formation .

Wei Meng estimated in his heart that there were still about a hundred Japanese pirates, and the two and a half rounds of bird gun shooting only killed or injured dozens of people on the other side.

It's getting closer, it's getting closer, when the Japanese pirates approached the formation more than ten steps away, Wei Meng knew it was time to make a move.

"fire."

At this moment, Wei Meng suddenly shouted loudly, and a soldier beside him quickly waved the red flag in his hand. Several gunners who had been under tremendous pressure in front of the gun shield man hurriedly ignited the fuze after seeing the signal to fire the cannon. , and then quickly ran back to the formation.

Just a few steps after they entered their own army formation, they heard a series of cannon shots behind them.

"boom boom"

The seven-door bowl-mouth guns lined up in front of the formation were fired, and countless gravels were pushed out of the gun barrels by the explosive gunpowder in the medicine room, and flew forward in all directions.

(End of this chapter)