A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 263 Fighting Firepower
With a sound of "snap", a gunner from Dubiao Camp pulled the trigger, and the heavy Lumi gun in his hand shot out a sharp flame, and the projectile that was almost the same as the bird gun shot out quickly.

Although the Lumi gunslinger quickly lowered his head after shooting to avoid the sharp arrows that rushed towards him, from the corner of his eye, he still saw a long bloody arrow spurting from the chest of a Tartar archer opposite, and flew out.

The armor-piercing ability of the Lumi blunderbuss is really not covered. Although the Tartar archer was wearing an armor inlaid with iron cotton, his body was pierced by him. There are two holes in the front and back, and the hole in the back is bigger than the front. .Lumi musketeer secretly cheered, hiding behind the earthen wall and reloading nervously.

If it is an excellent bird gunner or Lumi gunner in the Ming army, in fact, their fire gun reloading steps are no different from those of the Shunxiang army.The Lumi musketeer was dressed in armor inlaid with iron wool, and carried a gunpowder pot full of propellant powder on his back, and another gunpowder pot full of fire door priming powder.

Finally, he carried a lead bag full of projectiles.Whether it is the fire door primer or the shooting powder, they are all made of copper tubes. Each tube is filled with exactly one gun's powder, and the average is equal. The only thing lacking is that they can be combined into a fixed paper tube ammunition.

He skillfully took out a tube of propellant gunpowder from his gunpowder tank, poured the gunpowder into the gunpowder, and it was also granular gunpowder.When pouring the gunpowder, Lumi gunners are used to it naturally. They use their thumb and forefinger to surround the muzzle of the gunpowder to prevent the gunpowder from spilling out.

Afterwards, the Lumi gunner quickly took out the stick and stuffed it a few times into the gunpowder to solidify the gunpowder.He also took a lead shot from the lead bag, wrapped it in tissue paper, and sent it to the bottom of the gun with a stick.Finally, the Lumi gunner took out a tube of priming powder from his gunpowder tank filled with fire gate priming powder, but it was finer particles of gunpowder, poured it into the fire gate pool, and put the lid on.

Lumi gunslinger moved quickly, and it didn't take him much time to complete this series of dazzling movements.After everything was finished, he tapped the fire eye, blew on the matchlock, and tiptoedly put the Lumi gun on the earth wall.

He calmed down, closed his left eye lightly, looked at the rear sight of the firecracker with his right eye, pointed at the star in front, and aimed at a Tartar archer.As the gunners of the Supervising Biao Battalion, everyone is not convinced by the achievements of the Shunxiang Army. They want to prove that the Supervising Biao Battalion is the most elite fighter in the Xuanda Army.

At this time, the Tartar archer that Lu Mi's musketeer aimed at was extremely short and stocky, with a beard and a blue cotton armor trimmed with red borders, he was obviously a Tartar sergeant with a blue flag.He exhaled thick white air, and after shooting several arrows, it seemed that the arrows he shot again were already weak.

In this cold winter weather, physical strength is exhausted, especially when bowing and archery, the strength of the whole body is exhausted very quickly.This is also one of the advantages of firecrackers over bows and arrows. It requires less physical strength, and only needs the strength to pull the trigger.

After carefully aiming for a while, Gunslinger Lumi pulled the trigger resolutely, and with a "snap", the projectile penetrated the right chest of the Tartar archer, throwing him obliquely.

The inlaid blue flag archers deserved to be unlucky too. Originally, after his group of archers shot a few arrows, they could retreat and replace with the other groups of archers waiting behind them.Unexpectedly, after shooting six or seven arrows in a row, the archer was still unsatisfied, and wanted to shoot the last arrow, and finally ruined his life.

The projectiles coming rapidly penetrated his body and came out from his back. The archer with the inlaid blue flag stepped back several times, and finally fell on the low wall behind him, and slowly slid down, leaving a oozing bloodstain.He opened his eyes wide, and his eyes were full of unbelievable expressions. He wanted to say something, but finally opened his mouth, said nothing, and just died silently like this.

The Lumi gunslinger knocked down a Qing army archer again, attracting a crazy rain of revenge arrows.The gunners of the Ming army on the opposite side, especially dozens of them, are really a terrifying existence.Many of our own warriors have died under their blunderbuss. They all pierced through two eyes, and their entire body was penetrated by them. What kind of blunderbuss is that, so powerful?

After Lu Mi shot the gun, he shrank back under the earthen wall for a long time without showing his head, but his hands were busy again.A self-made gunner next to him gave him a thumbs up, and the two smiled at each other, but both were wearing iron masks, so they couldn't see the expression on the other's face clearly.

The Lumi Gunners are still satisfied with their results. They are a team of Lumi Gunners who supported Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu Town. Not to mention others, since yesterday afternoon alone, he has killed and wounded at least four Tartars. Bing, other brothers also gained a lot.

Their performance proved the excellent quality of the superintendents of the camp firearms.Excellent firearms have always required the cooperation of excellent soldiers to exert their maximum power.The soldiers in the Supervision Battalion are all proficient in handling firearms, coupled with excellent equipment, they naturally form a strong combat effectiveness.

During the two-day battle, the self-generated firecrackers of the Dubiao Battalion also showed their talents. They don’t need a matchlock, and they can fight in cold weather.Using this kind of firecracker is not cumbersome and makes people feel relaxed.

However, there are also problems. When pulling the trigger, the force required by the index finger is too high, which greatly affects the aiming and shooting of the firecracker.Moreover, after the flint is fired, the primer often fails to ignite, and the trigger needs to be pulled several times, which is really terrible.Many self-generated gunners cursed at themselves, planning to go back to camp after today's battle and exchange their guns for bird guns or Lumi guns.

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The Lumi musketeer knocked down a Qing army archer, which attracted a large rain of crazy revenge arrows.In fact, this rain of arrows, looking at the entire Xuanda camp's left-wing defense line, is just an insignificant part of the arrows in the sky.Even Lu Xiangsheng supported Yang Guozhu's two hundred musketeers, and the projectiles they fired were only a small part of the projectiles fired by the left-wing Ming army.

At this time, Yang Guozhu's defense line on the left wing was already exhausted by the Ming army's three-eyed musket bullets, rockets, etc. and the Qing army's bows and arrows.

At this time, the Qing army was raining arrows like crazy, and the Ming army was also red-eyed.In the afternoon, the Qing troops attacking the two wings had already pushed their layers of wooden shields closer to [-] or [-] steps away from the earthen wall.

At this distance, the heavy arrows of the Qing army can already break through the armor of the sergeants of Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei's Zhengbing camp.One by one the musketeers, the three-eyed musketeers, or the archers fell to the ground with their sharp arrows.The heavy arrows of the Qing army broke through their cotton armor, iron armor, or iron masks, and shot deep into their bodies.

The Qing army's Bobo offensive was very fierce, and they had a lot of archers gathered on both wings.If there were thousands of Qing archers attacking the front line of defense of the Shunxiang Army, the number of Qing troops attacking the two wings of the Xuanda camp reached more than [-].They split into batches, and the onslaught seemed never-ending.

At this point, Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei have put all the cold weapons in the battalion on. The cold weapons in their battalion, each team has archers, hook gunners, boring palladium hands and other sergeants.Every sergeant carries a bow and arrow.After these people were charged, the gunmen were able to catch their breath at noon, and had a little rest to eat.

With the deafening sound of three-eyed guns and the non-stop sound of rockets, the area around the earthen wall on Yang Guozhu's left wing was completely enveloped by extremely thick smoke.

The three-eyed guns of the soldiers in the battalion were mounted densely on the earthen wall, and the muzzles of each of them kept emitting fire, and the loud noise of "boom boom boom boom" continued.The three-eyed gun is famous for its sound, much louder than firecrackers, and the gunpowder smoke from the muzzle is also famous.

Moreover, the fire rate of the three-eyed blunderbuss is also very fast, and it will not lose to the bows and arrows of the Qing soldiers in the slightest. The fire coal is tapped a few times on the eyelet behind the blunderbuss, and several projectiles are blasted out one after another.Or the three-eyed gun shared by the medicine pot, as long as the fire coal is touched, the ammunition of the three gun barrels will be ejected at the same time.

At a distance of twenty or thirty steps, the three-eyed blunderbuss of the Ming army is also a huge threat to those Qing soldiers who have no armor to fill in the trenches. The incomparable firepower of the blunderbuss caused the Qing soldiers on the opposite side to fall to the ground one by one, bleeding like rivers.

Even if the Qing soldiers on the opposite side were not killed by the three-eyed bullets, regardless of the archers, the Ming army still used dense rockets.

When the rocket was fired, the sound of thunder exploded non-stop. In front of the earthen wall on Yang Guozhu's left wing, the whistling sound of the rocket seemed to have never stopped.Flying guns, flying knives, flying swords, a swarm of bees, a hundred tigers running together and other big rockets, always rushing towards the wooden shield of the Qing army dozens of steps ahead like a torrential rain.

Their wooden shields were shot like hedgehogs, and every time a wave of rockets sounded, all the Qing army archers who dared to show their heads or the auxiliary soldiers who threw mud were shot out.

(End of this chapter)