The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 226 Counter Shots
75 steps.

The sound of the Chinese army's drums suddenly dissipated, and the sound of beeping gold rose into the sky.

As soon as the sound of gold ringing sounded, the formation stopped immediately. With a distance of more than 70 steps, most of the firecrackers of the Ming army basically did not have much damage over this distance.

With the cover of the shield car, there is no need to be afraid of the Franji and Tiger Crouching Cannons in the Ming army.

Erhe looked ahead, and at a distance of 75 steps, the situation between the formations of the Ming army in front was already clearly visible.

He was wearing an ordinary blue Ming army rivet cloth face armor, and around him were a group of archers wearing the same armor as him.

Erhe was in the third row of light armored archers, and their team followed closely behind the auxiliary soldiers and followers.

In the rear are the heavy armored soldiers in the army, that is, dead soldiers, with three layers of heavy armor, tiger guns, smooth knives, and heavy soldiers.

The line of dead soldiers in the back row was less than three bodies away from them, and their armor leaves collided with each other as they marched, making crisp ding ding sounds. They held shields in one hand and knives in the other, and they were already ready to fall into battle.

At the end of the array is the guard barracks wearing bright armor and helmets, riding horses and carrying guns. They are the white armor soldiers in the original army.

After Huang Taiji reformed the military system, they were separately organized into a battalion, usually led by Jiala Ezhen of Ben Jiala himself.

They take on the role of vanguards and go into battle at the most important moment to give the enemy a fatal blow.

This point is similar to that of the servants in the Ming army.

The same is to choose a striker, and the same is to defend against the enemy in danger.

Sele is wearing a dark blue satin embroidered cloud cotton armor, a lacquered blue iron helmet on his head, and a tiger spear in his hand. He lives in front of the cavalry in the guard barracks.

Because of his family background and his ability to command, Chasuka climbed to the position of Jiala Ezhen step by step by relying on his military exploits.

But Sele is different. He relied on the tiger gun in his hand and the smooth knife in his waist to break through the city first, fall into the battle and select the front. Jiala Ezhen was killed abruptly with one knife and one gun, and he was even given the title of "Batulu".

The heavy casualties in the front line not only did not make Sele feel a little bit afraid, but instead made Sele irritated.

For so many years, which time have they not been invincible in their confrontation with the Ming army?
When are they not invincible?
When did they pay such a heavy price? !
Seile's eyes were full of violence, his expression was extremely cold, and he heard a familiar shout.

"Chuan soldiers..."

That shout made him extremely disgusted, extremely disgusted, and reminded him of the scene he didn't want to recall.

During the battle of Hunhe, the shouts of the soldiers with white spears were the same as what he heard now.

Se Le's expression was gloomy, and he was full of evil spirits. He glanced past the guards in front of him and glanced at the Ming army's line.

The leading skirmishers had approached more than 40 steps away and continued to harass, but the Ming army still didn't have a musketeer firing ahead of time.

However, between the gaps between the Ming army's musketeers, there is a small cannon that looks like a tiger crouching cannon placed at every other place.

And after that, there were still many armored soldiers of the Ming army wearing bright helmets and armors. These armored soldiers held bows and arrows and shot repeatedly, shooting at the scattered soldiers in front of them.

The archers and archers of the Ming army were excellent, and the stragglers who were suppressed had no choice but to retreat, and even lost a lot of soldiers.

You know, those who can serve as skirmishers are basically archers with excellent shooting skills in the army, but they actually suffered a lot in the stage of shooting.

Although Se Le has always looked down on the Ming army, but seeing such a situation, he can't help but feel vigilant.

The armor of the Ming army in front of him is bright, complete with arm guards, top helmet, and armor, all of which look quite sturdy.

The infantry archers of the Ming army were excellent at archery. They wore heavy armor and also carried heavy bows. They should be servants of the Ming army.

It's just that these servants of the Ming army seem to be more skilled in fighting than the servants of many generals in Liao Town.

The most skilled fighters of the Ming army should be the frontier troops of the towns. These Ming troops obviously came from the southwest, but why are they so powerful? When did the Ming army produce such elite soldiers?
What is even more strange is that the blunderbuss soldiers in the front line of the Ming army were close to each other, almost shoulder to shoulder with each other, hand to hand, and blunderbuss to blunderbuss.

Not only Sele was puzzled, but Erhe, who was in the front line, was puzzled. Although he used a bow, it was not because he had never used a bird gun.

The blunderbusses of the Ming army were all triggered by matchlocks, and they had to stand at intervals when shooting. Otherwise, if they made a mistake or were not careful, they might ignite the gunpowder carried by their teammates and cause riots.

On the battlefield, especially during the confrontation, such a situation will undoubtedly have a great impact on one's own army.

But right now, these gunmen of the Ming army are doing the opposite, they are arranged extremely closely, and they seem not to worry about this problem at all.

Erhe's heart trembled slightly. He didn't know the specific situation inside the Ming army, but he knew very well that the Ming army's actions would never be due to the ignorance of the generals.

This Ming army revealed a strange atmosphere from top to bottom, from marching to formation, from artillery to firecrackers, everything was extremely strange and felt weird.

Bright helmets are like snow, and patches of red tassels are like blood.

Erhe looked over the gap between the armored soldiers on the front side, and looked at a piece of red tassels fluttering on the opposite side, feeling a palpitation inexplicably.

But the army array was moving forward, and the soldiers were closely spaced from each other, shoulder to shoulder, body to body, just swarming in together.

It is difficult to change hands in the gap left, so how can you accommodate left and right movements?

On the battlefield, there is no room for hesitation and longing, let alone hesitation.

When the sound of golden bells sounded, all the people stood still, without shouting orders or military orders.

Erhe was already drawing his bow, and the light soldiers standing beside him also drew their bows and set their arrows.

With a distance of 75 steps, heavy arrows cannot be used for projectiles, and Erhe used a sharp-headed light arrow.

The effect of light arrows on piercing armor and killing is incomparable to that of heavy arrows, but they can shoot farther.

Erhe will clamp the arrow tail to the tiger's mouth of his right hand, hold the bowstring with his thumb wearing a finger puller, press his index finger and middle finger on the thumb at the same time, and lift the bow slightly with his left hand.

Then with a slight force on his right hand, the bowstring was slowly pulled away by Erhe smoothly.

All the light armored archers around were also like Erhe, drawing their bows and setting arrows, and opening their bows to gain momentum.

Numerous arrows pointed obliquely in the air, and the string reached the full moon, and the creaking sound of the deformation of the bamboo body of the compound bow suddenly sounded in the front of the Qing army.

"Ugh——"

When the conch sounded, Erhe let go of the thumb that was holding the arrow. The bow string vibrated, and the bowstring made of animal tendons quickly slid across the smooth finger after being loosened.

The string moves with the arrow, and the bow body quickly returns to straight, driving the bowstring to continue forward, and the power accumulated on the bamboo tire and bowstring is released instantly.

Accompanied by the vibrating sound of the bowstring, the arrow that Erhe had held in his hand flew out rapidly.

At the same time, a group of light armored archers around Erhe also shot arrows in their hands.

The vibrating sound of the bowstring swept across the front line of the Qing army like a hurricane.

Arrows shot up densely, almost at the same time.

There were thousands of archers in the front line of the Qing army, and thousands of arrows gathered together, like a huge swarm of bees, flapping their wings and roaring out, and galloped towards the Ming army's line on the opposite side.

Countless arrows pierced the air and merged into a sound like the wind blowing through the forest, soaring straight into the sky.

In order to shoot arrows capable of killing damage, one must take a stance and rely on the strength of the feet and the waist.

Archers are difficult to train, and it is impossible to shoot dense arrows while marching.
There is a world of difference between the Qing army and the rogue bandits. The Qing army is the sky, and the rogue bandits are the earth.

The rogues rushed into the formation within this distance, and the front line was already in disarray. As for the salvo of bows and arrows, it was even more impossible.

Chen Wang was guarded by a group of armored cavalry in the most central position. Being in the formation, he also saw the rain of arrows attacking like locusts.

The sense of oppression brought by the rapid shooting of arrows is almost suffocating. Being in the back line is like this, which shows the pressure faced by the soldiers in the front line.

The arrow shot up quickly, crossed the dark sky, and shot towards the formation of the Hanzhong army.

When it flew over the highest point and began to dive towards the Hanzhong Army's position, there was a sudden sound of gongs and drums in the Hanzhong Army's formation.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

In the gap between the Hanzhong army's blunderbuss formations, the four five-jin cannons that were waiting in full formation also let out a thunderous roar at this time.

The huge recoil pushes the cannon back rapidly, thick gunpowder smoke has already risen, and the huge sound of the cannon almost overwhelms all the sounds in the field.

"Bombardment!!!"

When the Qing army was in front of the battle, someone yelled, and everyone's hearts were raised.

The distance of seventy steps was so short that almost none of the four cannons missed.

Two cannonballs hit the shield car, which was so strong that it could easily withstand the bird gun, and the shield car that resisted the Fran's machine gun was completely vulnerable to the shell weighing five catties, and it was broken into pieces in an instant.

The shells broke through the shield car, and even plowed another bloody moat in the formation behind it.

The other two shells passed the Qing army's shield chariot, one front and one rear, one left and one right, and rolled into the rear and center formations of the Qing army.

The roaring artillery shells rolled into the army formation, instantly stirring up pieces of stumped limbs and flesh,
A few kilograms of guns passed by, clouds of blood mist continued to surge, and countless fragments of armor and weapons flew in the air along with the rain of blood.

Erhe watched the artillery shells flying towards them, passing by from the right side, and finally broke the thigh of their Niu Lufen Pashku with the grisly sound of fractures.

A second before the minute, Shiku was still full of ferocity, calling for everyone to move forward.

But now he is no longer as ferocious as before. His entire left leg has been cut off by the shells fired in a hurry, and the pale broken bones are exposed from the dripping flesh and blood, and there are still some muscles left on it...

The severe pain caused Nade Pashiku to fall to the ground moaning in pain.

The guards who followed him were all pale, their eyes full of fear, everything happened in a blink of an eye, they didn't know what to do...

"Whoosh!" "Whoosh!" "Whoosh!"

The sound of piercing the air continued to hit, and a large amount of arrow rain poured down.

However, the damage caused by the arrows fired by the Qing army was negligible for the gunmen in the front line of the Hanzhong army.

The top helmets on their heads are not defective products sent by the guards in the past, but iron helmets made of fine iron by craftsmen from the Hanzhong Guards Military Bureau.

The armor they wear is not the remnants of those who cut corners in the past, but the high-quality cloth face armor studded with more than 300 nail leaves.

In addition, under the cloth face armor, there is also a cotton armor.

Covering arms, heart protection, skirt armor, leggings, everything is available, and none of them is bad.

It is said to be a gun soldier, but it is wearing two layers of armor.

Although these armors have been specially improved, so as not to have too much impact on loading as much as possible, they still look a bit nondescript.

The first batch of sea oath guns produced were basically not equipped with bayonets, so all the gunmen of the Hanzhong Army wore waist knives made of refined iron, and there were many blunt weapons such as iron bones hanging from their waists. They also had to undergo close combat training.

Zhou Changshou lowered his head, tightly grasped the firecracker in his hand, and lowered his helmet.

He did not dare to put his hand on the trigger without hearing the order from the Chinese army.

A crisp sound of iron striking reached Zhou Changshou's ears, and the sound came from the direction of his top helmet. An arrow hit his top helmet, but it failed to penetrate.

The light arrow shot in haste hit the round helmet and slid away to the other side.

Zhou Changshou's head tilted slightly due to the huge force, Zhou Changshou subconsciously wanted to support the helmet on the top, but he remembered the instructor's warning and the military stick during the training, so he forcibly endured the idea of ​​supporting the helmet.

Another arrow fell, this time the arrow landed in his chest, right in the middle of the breastplate.

The light arrow didn't even leave a deep mark on the breastplate before it fell to the ground.

The front line of the Hanzhong Army was almost completely covered by Jiannu's arrow rain, and under the invasion of the arrow rain, the formation of the Hanzhong Army sounded like rain hitting iron pieces.

Because of the distance, some of the arrows landed not far in front of the Hanzhong Army's blunderbuss formation.

The densely packed arrows landed on the grass, as if a pile of withered yellow weeds grew out of thin air.

Everything that happened in the front line was seen by Chasuka, and the Ming army set up an array, placed the artillery in the gap, and protected it.

The artillery mounts of the Ming army are extremely strange. There is a large wooden shield-like thing on the artillery body. The shield covers the figure of the artillery soldier behind him, so that he can operate the artillery calmly.

In order to stop the artillery of the Ming army, long-range shooting is simply not effective. The only thing that can be done is to push forward, force it to retreat, or capture it directly.

This kind of artillery of the Ming army has an extremely high rate of fire, and Chasuka has already seen it.

The light arrow attack did not cause much damage, and Zha Suka could see clearly that only a dozen soldiers fell in the front row of the Ming army, and the formation was still very complete.

On the other hand, they were in chaos under the bombardment of the Ming army's artillery, and the military spirit that had finally been gathered looked like it was about to collapse.

The soldiers of the Ming army fell down, but no one turned their heads to check, and no one shouted.

The soldiers standing in the back row did not fear, but stepped forward to refill the queue.

When did the Ming army have such courage and discipline? !
Everything in front of him almost overturned Chasuka's cognition.

Chasuka regretted it very much now. If he chose to retreat from the beginning, at most he would be bitten off by the Ming army.

But now, the cavalry of the Ming army are coming from all directions, once they break up, they will die...

"Ming snail, move forward! Forty steps of flat shooting!"

Chasuka became cruel.

When we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins. In the current situation, only by going forward indomitably can there be a glimmer of life

(End of this chapter)