Valley Emperor

If the Ming army could not resist the mid-to-long-range interception firepower of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, then the crossing of the river could basically be declared a failure. It's hard to beat.

With the sound of gunshots, the Ming soldiers who were crossing the river immediately felt the threat of death.

Even at this distance, the hit rate of muskets is not high, but so many muskets fire at the same time, there is still a considerable hit probability.

When the gunshots rang, many Ming soldiers were already hit, and many were directly overturned by the impact of the bullets. on their bodies.

At this time, many generals of the Ming army shouted loudly: "Quick, put up your shields!"

In order to cross the river, the Ming army will naturally take relevant precautions when they know that the weapons of the pseudo-Tang thieves are sharp.

And this shield is one of them!

The shields they prepared were not the small round shields that ordinary sword and shield soldiers used to carry with one hand, but a large shield that was half a person high.

Moreover, although the main body of the shield is made of thick wood, some wooden shields have iron sheets nailed to the front, and some wooden shields are nailed with a layer of wet quilts or cotton-padded clothes in front of them.

In order to guard against the fire guns of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, these Ming troops obviously used their minds.

Wet and compacted cotton can prevent lead bullets. This is something that the Ming army knew for a long time. The many cotton armors of the Ming army are to guard against firearms.

Putting these big shields in front of the raft is enough to provide the Ming soldiers on the raft with a defensive effect that is not sufficient, but somewhat useful.

Seeing the large shields erected on the bow of the Ming army, Zeng Ziwen on the side immediately said to Li Xuan: "Your Majesty, the pseudo-ming bandit army has erected a shield on the bow. I am afraid that lead will not be effective at this distance, so it is better to put it away. Fight again at 80 meters?"

Zeng Ziwen could see and speak. Li Xuan was not blind, so he naturally saw it. He saw that the Ming army had erected a large shield on the bow, and the shield was extremely thick at a glance. The distance will definitely greatly reduce the threat of lead bullets.

He immediately nodded and said, "Yes!"

As the messenger conveyed the order in a timely manner, the musketeers of each team stopped shooting at the same time, but although they stopped shooting, they continued to reload, and the arquebus was still lit to prepare for the next round of shooting. .

The Ming army continued to approach. If the distance of 20 meters was just walking or running, it would not take a long time. However, the Ming army used a raft to cross the river, and a distance of several tens of meters would take a lot of time.

When the Ming army crossed the 20-meter distance and was only 80 meters away from the new Tang army on the shore, Li Xuan once again ordered the musket team to re-enter the shooting.

And this time, not only the musketeers but also the archers were shooting.

At a distance of 80 meters, it is an effective range for bows and arrows. Even if the penetrating power of bows and arrows at this distance is insufficient, the hit rate is not high, but not everyone wears armor in the Ming army, and the penetration power is insufficient. The problem is not a problem at all.

As for the hit rate, this bow is shot in a semi-projective method within 80 meters, and the arrows under this curve pursue coverage.

The Ming army had nowhere to hide on the river, and it was so dense that under the arrow rain, there would always be arrows from the Ming army.

As the archers began to shoot arrows, the casualties of the Ming army rose rapidly!

Seeing that the archer's results were good, but Li Xuan did not let the archer speed up the shooting, but continued to let the archer maintain the current slow rate of fire.

Because archers have limited explosive power in a short period of time, in other words, their physical strength that can be used to shoot arrows in a short period of time is limited. Generally speaking, a standard archer in a battle, continuous and fast After shooting more than ten arrows, its physical strength will be exhausted.

In order to preserve the physical strength of the archers for the intensive and rapid arrow rain coverage shooting when the Ming army just landed, Li Xuan was not willing to let the archers exhaust their physical strength now.

It took a long time to shoot an arrow, and although the impact on physical strength was somewhat, it was still within the controllable range.

In a battle, as a general, there are too many things to consider, because every detail on the battlefield can determine success or failure.

So before this battle, Li Xuan was thinking about what would happen when the Ming army crossed the river almost every day, and how to deal with it.

From what distance to start long-range harassment blocking, from what distance to go all out, and to the physical exhaustion of the soldiers, Li Xuan all needs to be considered, and he has made corresponding preparations.

And now, it is time to prove that his preparations are not sufficient and that his preparations are correct.

Archers continued to shoot at a speed that was not fast, or even slow, while musketeers did not have this physical limitation.

Loading the musket, and then pulling the trigger to fire it will not use much physical strength.

So the musketeers kept firing at their normal rapid rate!

Moreover, this kind of shooting did not maintain a salvo or round shot, but a free shot. Anyway, the Ming army could not come over for a while, and the musketeers still had enough time to adjust.

So it's better to use free fire, which allows those soldiers who reload fast to fire more bullets.

The battle continued, and the casualties of the Ming army continued to increase, but to be honest, the casualties of the Ming army have been extremely limited since the launch of the cannon by the new Tang army.

Adding up from the beginning to the end, the number of casualties will not exceed 100, and you must know that this is the situation where the new army of the Tang Dynasty has been shooting for almost half an hour, and the musketeers and archers have also played several rounds.

The number of casualties of these 100 people is quite small for a Ming army of 3,000 people, and more importantly, the casualties of more than 100 people are relatively evenly distributed among the various Ming armies. All ordinary cannon fodder.

Instead of ordinary frontal combat, the casualties are the core main force who rushes to the front and fights the bravest!

If it is an ordinary Ming army of 10,000 people, um, it is talking about the ordinary local Ming army in the inland, not the frontier army or the recruitment of soldiers to resist the Japanese on the coast, just the ordinary guard army, there may be two or three thousand people in it. After relatively complete training, most of the rest are temporarily pulled over to make up the number.

As for the real main force, that is, the core who dares to rush to fight, it is estimated that there are only five or six hundred people, basically all the generals' family members and personal soldiers.

So you can see that an army has only a few hundred casualties, and the casualty ratio is no more than four or five percent, the army will collapse, but sometimes the same army, you can also see that after half of their casualties , but also maintain the establishment or even turn defeat into victory.

There is only one difference between the two, that is, the former are all core backbones, while the latter are cannon fodder.

And now, most of the 100 people killed and wounded by the Ming army crossing the river were cannon fodder, so this did not affect the Ming army's continued crossing of the river at all!

On the contrary, they are getting closer and closer to the shore!

Just when they were about to approach the shore, a thick smoke mingled with flames suddenly rose from the bow of one of the ships. At the same time, the new army of the Tang Dynasty, who had never suffered casualties before, fell instantly. several people.

This scene made Li Xuan and others on the hillside slightly discolored!

That is the artillery of the Ming army!

"Is this the artillery of the Puppet Ming Bandit Army? It doesn't look good!" Although Li Xuan's face changed a little, he quickly regained his calm, and he still maintained his usual calm appearance.

From his demeanor and his tone, one could feel Li Xuan's contempt for the Ming army's artillery, and this contempt was also felt by other generals of the new Tang army.

Especially Zeng Ziwen, who was beside him, heard Li Xuan's words, and the slight shock caused by the firing of the Ming army artillery just now disappeared instantly.

That's right, the artillery of the Puppet Thief Army can only have a range of tens of meters, and its power is far less than that of its own artillery.

In such a situation, it is indeed possible to say the last sentence: the artillery of the pseudo-ming bandit army is nothing more than this!

Immediately Zeng Ziwen said, "Your Majesty's words are very true, no matter the range or power of the bowl-mouth guns of the Puppet Ming Bandit Army, they are far from the Italian guns of our Great Tang Heavenly Soldiers, so there is nothing to be afraid of!"

Li Xuan nodded slightly, showing a look of approval: "Well, even if the artillery of the phony is not as good as the artillery of my Tang Dynasty, it is a threat to some extent, and the order goes on, and the focus is on the artillery of the phony!"

Li Xuan's words are right~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Even if the artillery of the Ming army is garbage, but if a shrapnel is fired within a distance of a few dozen meters, the damage caused will not be small. If there is a chance Naturally, it is necessary to destroy the artillery of the Ming army early.

After the messenger passed the order in a semaphore, the newly appointed officer of the First Musket Team behind the parapet, a young captain who was a little over-the-top raised his command knife: "All of them, target, enemy artillery in front!"

Under his order, the soldiers who were still free-firing before stopped free-firing, but after completing their preparations, they aimed their guns at a ferry about 60 meters ahead. There was a door on the bow. The artillery, a few soldiers of the Ming Army are loading it.

"preparation!"

"shooting!"

Nearly a hundred muskets were shooting at a ship, and at a distance of about 60 meters, its power could be imagined.

Hundreds of lead bullets were hit on the ferry almost instantly, and the small ferry saw sawdust flying. At the same time as the screams sounded, blood also flowed all over the ferry.