Valley Emperor

On the hillside, standing in front of a giant drum behind Li Xuan, a drummer with naked upper body and muscles shining in the sun raised the mallet in his hand, took a deep breath, and slammed towards the giant drum in front of him. The drum smashed.

Boom, the drum sound suddenly sounded in the field, on the river, and in the sky, reaching the ears of every new army officer of the Tang Dynasty.

Boom, the drums sounded again!

At this time, the soldiers of each battalion and team in the Datang New Army are all ready to fight!

In particular, the officers of the three musket teams have already given their respective orders: "Prepare!"

Immediately, the musketeers of each musket team lit the arquebus, ready to shoot at the enemy at any time!

Behind the musketeers were nearly a hundred archers, who had already pulled the arrows out of their quivers in advance and stuck them on the ground.

This is done, on the one hand, to facilitate archery, and on the other hand, there is another reason that ordinary people do not know, but it is extremely vicious, that is, to increase the probability of infection by the enemy who is hit by the arrow.

Speaking of this, many people may ask, why are the arrows fired by archers not coated with poison in ancient wars?

This is because in ancient times, highly toxic drugs were difficult to extract and even more difficult to preserve, which led to a high cost problem. If it was just a common poison, it was not very useful.

So ancient archers usually didn't put poison on their bows and arrows!

But that doesn't mean they don't do anything, they don't smear poison, but often get gold juice on the arrows.

What is golden juice? Shit and pee too!

Shooting arrows with excrement and urine on the enemy will increase the chance of the enemy being infected after being hit by the arrow.

In addition, rusty arrows are also very popular with them, and inserting arrows into the soil also has this effect.

So don't believe that the archers of the ancient army used poison on a large scale, but don't think that the ancient archers were stupid enough to do nothing.

Human wisdom is infinite, especially in war, because both the enemy and the enemy will try their best to kill each other. If they cannot kill each other, then it is themselves who will die. There will always be constant innovation.

During the Thirty Years' War, flintlock guns replaced arquebuses on a large scale, making line tactics the mainstream of the battlefield.

During the Napoleonic Wars, artillery rose from an auxiliary arm to a main arm, and had a decisive impact on the outcome of the war.

In the American Revolutionary War, the high-precision Mini rifle replaced the musket and became the mainstream of the war, and skirmish tactics became the mainstream.

The Russo-Japanese War made machine guns shine, and by the time of the First World War, intensive charging had become a thing of the past.

World War II is also the hall of various technological innovations. The various new technologies developed for the war are simply dazzling. The technologies that everyone is familiar with today were actually born during World War II. TV, radar, ultraviolet Night vision goggles, and the famous nuclear bomb!

In addition, in the decades-long Cold War, although there was no hot war, both sides were preparing for the war, so technological innovation is also showing an outbreak.

Therefore, war is the source of all technological innovations!

After coming to this era, in order to win the war, Li Xuan also carried out many technological innovations within his ability.

A arquebus with a fixed powder, a front sight, and a bayonet with a socket.

Long-barreled, front-mounted smoothbore gun made of bronze.

A parapet defense system suitable for musket fire.

Even the innovation and modification of the entire organization and tactics are all in the service of the victory of the war.

And today, it's time to test whether what he's doing is working.

The Ming army has begun to cross the river. Looking from the west bank, the opposite is densely packed with rafts and Ming soldiers on the raft. They are struggling with their simple wooden oars, or even just a small wooden board, to push the raft. Go faster.

Corresponding to the dense Ming army are the same neat and dense array of new army soldiers of the Tang Dynasty behind the parapet.

The parapet is located at a distance of about 30 meters from the river. Originally, they wanted to build the parapet directly to the river, but where it was too close to the river, the soil was soft, and some of it was even mud or sand. It is too difficult to build a perfect parapet fortification, so the parapet can only be built at a distance of 30 meters.

But this does not mean that the 30 meters from the parapet to the river are empty, allowing the Ming army to land smoothly. Just simply erect some stakes.

Naturally, these wooden fortifications were not to kill the enemy, but to prevent the Ming army from forming a dense formation.

It's a pity that the time is too tight, otherwise Li Xuan plans to build a wooden fence directly near the river.

The crowd of soldiers lined up behind the parapet, and the musketeers had already loaded up and were waiting for the order to fire.

And the commanders of the musket team also secretly calculated the distance. Now the Ming army has not even come to the center of the river. The distance is too far, and the musket can't hit.

I can only watch Xie Ziwei's artillery fire intermittently first, but Xie Ziwei's artillery was very lethal when the Ming army was still on the beach, because the solid ball cannonballs could bounce continuously.

But when the Ming army went into the water and officially crossed the river, the cannonball of the solid ball was of little use, because when it hit the water, it would sink. Fall into the water.

This hit rate is too small. If it is a waste of artillery shells, it is better to use shotguns!

That's right, now Xie Ziwei and the others have already started shelling with shotguns, but the first shot was ineffective, it missed, and it just landed on the water without the Ming army raft~www.wuxiaspot.com~ angry Xie Ziwei yelled, wishing to take aim in person.

It is a pity that he has only learned artillery for two days, and it is not easy to decide the timing and type of ammunition according to the distance. It is still too difficult for him to load and aim by himself.

But then again, even if Xie Ziwei's artillery hit a boatload of the enemy, it still wouldn't affect the outcome of the battle.

As for the three thousand Ming army, there are more than 200 large and small rafts used to cross the river alone.

Relying on these rafts and boats, they were able to cross the river in one breath.

When the Ming army crossing the river crossed the center line, only 70 meters away from the shore, and only 100 meters away from the new army of the Tang Dynasty, the officers of the various musket teams had already ordered to shoot!

The sound of crackling sounded on the river surface, and a white smoke that spread over a hundred meters long floated above the parapet.

The shooting of the musketeers announced that the battle between the two sides had entered the most critical, and it can also be said to be the most intense stage!