Valley Emperor

Although Datang's new army musketeers target only the gun emplacements on the bow and those gunners.

But in fact, their bullets covered the entire ship, and even the rafts next to them were shrouded in, resulting in more results than expected.

It's not that they hit more enemies in the first place, but because the bullet hit rate of the muskets at this distance is so small, and the spread area is too large, they did all aim at the guns on the bow, but in fact the bullets The deviation is too large, and it is normal to prefer a few meters or even a dozen meters.

But this is also good, that is, it hit a lot of Ming soldiers who were not the original target. The ferry was the only ship of the Ming army, and there were also a few Ming army generals wearing armor, and it was bright from them. Judging from his armor, at a glance, you can tell that he is a middle and senior general, and the last time he started with a hundred households.

More than a hundred particle bullets swept through like a torrential rain, not to mention on the bow gun positions in the eye of the storm. Several Ming army gunners instantly had several blood holes, and the guns behind the artillery. At least half of a group of Ming army fell down, many of them were Ming army generals wearing iron armor. For a time, blood was flowing on the ferry.

Several people fell on the two rafts around.

This round of salvos fired at a distance of more than 60 meters hit at least more than 30 Ming troops, almost abolishing the entire ferry, and incidentally destroying several surrounding rafts. Got a half-dead.

The blood flowed on the ferry boat and on the raft, and then flowed into the river, making the clear river red, showing a kind of strange coquettishness. .

With the firing of the musket, the gun on Xie Ziwei's side finally fired the second shot.

When the power of the shotgun is in the middle and close range, the lethality is far greater than that of the solid bullet. At a distance of less than 100 meters, when the artillery fires the shotgun, it is equivalent to spewing a lot of iron nails. , iron slag, etc., its coverage can reach tens of meters.

It is very possible that a single shot will reimburse an infantry company.

This shot Xie Ziwei didn't hit the empty river so unlucky, but hit the river with two rafts.

The shields on the rafts used to resist lead bullets faced artillery fire. They were as fragile as paper, and had no use at all. After one shot, one of the rafts was completely unable to move, and the one with the shield in front The soldier was covered in blood, and the whole person was silent.

The soldiers of the Ming Army behind him were all knocked down. More than a dozen people died on the spot, and the rest were injured. Many people struggled and fell off the raft.

Even the raft itself may have been hit by shrapnel at several critical connections, and the raft gradually fell apart into a separate trunk.

Although the other raft next to it was not all hit, it also suffered heavy casualties, at least half of the people were reimbursed by this gun.

Seeing this scene, the corner of Xie Ziwei's mouth on the fort finally showed a smile!

The previous shot did not cause any casualties to the Ming army, which put him under a lot of pressure.

The rate of fire of the artillery is very slow, especially when the Ming army is getting closer and closer, his artillery does not have much time to intercept the enemy.

In this short time, every shot is precious!

Killing the Ming army crossing the river as much as possible can reduce the pressure on the infantry after they landed.

That's right, the war situation has developed to the present, and most people can see that it is impossible to intercept the Ming army on the river and prevent them from landing on the shore.

Because the Ming army was less than thirty meters away from the shore.

At this distance of 30 meters, the soldiers of the Datang New Army can no longer use the medium and long-range firepower to completely defeat the opponent!

So what they have to do now is to kill the Ming army as much as possible before they land.

However, even if the Ming army was about to go ashore, this was within the expectations of many senior generals of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

What they have to do is to prevent the enemy from crossing the river, which is different from preventing the Ming army from going ashore.

And Li Xuan never expected that when the Ming army crossed the river, only relying on musketeers, archers and a mere artillery piece to defeat the Ming army.

After all, the Ming army has 3,000 people!

The firing rates of their muskets and artillery are also limited. In the process of the Ming army crossing the river, the damage they can inflict on the Ming army is also limited, not to mention that most of the casualties of the Ming army at this time are cannon fodder.

This also means that the core backbone of the Ming army has not been hit hard!

In this regard, Li Xuan also has a complete set of solutions!

War is never an option. After option A, there will always be option B, option C, and even options D, F and more.

As a commander, when formulating a battle plan, there will always be a backup plan and a backup plan of the backup plan.

Seeing that the Ming army had almost landed on the shore, Li Xuan said to the messenger: "The messenger, implement the A-3 plan!"

After the messenger heard it, he immediately waved the flag in his hand. Naturally, he was not waving the flag to look good, but to pass the flag.

In this era of no radio communication, to achieve command on the battlefield, the most efficient and effective means is to command through semaphores.

The position on the top of the mountain where Li Xuan is located is naturally the place where the officers of the new Tang Army pay the most attention in normal battles, and even the messengers around the officers on the front line will always pay attention to Li Xuan's side in normal battles from beginning to end, so that they can immediately Received an order from Li Xuan.

The messenger beside Huang Xueren saw the semaphore of the messenger beside Li Xuan on the top of the mountain, and immediately said to Huang Xueren beside him: "Sir, Your Majesty's order, implement the A-3 plan!"

After listening, Huang Xueren nodded and murmured, "It's about time!"

Immediately, he said loudly: "The musket team continues to maintain fire suppression, and the spearmen are ready to engage"

Immediately, he said to dozens of other strong spearmen beside him: "Prepare to drop bombs!"

The dozens of strong spearmen around here belong to the third spear team, but in addition to one spear, there are several big iron bumps in front of them!

This lump of iron looks like a cannonball, but it's not that big. These cannonballs also have a kindling cord!

This is the first weapon that appeared in the new army of the Tang Dynasty: grenades!

In the first half of the year, Li Xuan ordered those craftsmen to do it. This thing is not difficult to do, but the new army of the Tang Dynasty has never been equipped with batches of equipment. Why? Because of the lack of gunpowder in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, the musket team and artillery lacked enough gunpowder, and there was not much gunpowder to make this grenade.

However, in order to deal with the Ming army crossing the river, Li Xuan temporarily asked the craftsmen from Xikou Village to rush out a batch of hand grenades, not many, only a hundred.

These grenades are two different things from the grenades of later generations. These grenades are just thin-skinned iron cans filled with gunpowder, iron nails and iron pieces, especially heavy, so they need very strong soldiers to be able to throw them 20 to 30 meters away. distance.

The detonation is done by a kindling cord, which means that it is lit and then thrown out. If you throw it too late, you will die.

These grenades were equipped by the third spear team of the 1st Infantry Battalion with relatively good physical fitness. In order to make the third spear team gather enough strong soldiers, Li Xuan also specially selected from several other spear teams. Part of the able-bodied spearmen joined the third spear team to replace soldiers.

Only in this way can the third spear team gather more than 40 soldiers who can throw grenades. Li Xuan did this because he naturally wanted to make the third spear team into a melee team capable of holding a spear, and at the same time. Grenadier unit capable of dropping bombs.

When the spears are completely replaced by muskets, these grenadiers will become a professional grenadier unit that uses muskets and throws bombs at the same time.

At that time, Li Xuan will make them the most elite infantry in this era!

Li Xuan's ideal grenadier should be strong, disciplined, courageous, and willing to sacrifice.

Because the grenadiers not only need to fight with muskets like the line infantry, but also need to get close and drop bombs.

If they are not strong enough, they cannot throw bombs, so this unit has very high requirements on height and physical fitness.

If they are not brave enough, then they dare not risk the enemy's firepower to advance to a distance of 20 to 30 meters to throw bombs. The biggest role of the grenadiers is not defense, but attack. If the enemy is also a grenadier, then both sides Just throw bombs at each other.

At most, the line infantry lined up to be shot, but the grenadiers lined up to throw bombs. When the bomb thrown by the enemy exploded beside them, they still needed to keep calm and throw the bomb out. This is for the courage and sacrifice of the soldiers. Spiritual and discipline requirements are extremely high.

If their discipline is not strict enough, they will throw bombs earlier or later. In the former case, the bombs will be picked up by the enemy and thrown back, and the latter will kill themselves and their comrades. If the bomb is thrown at a distance that is too far away, let alone the enemy will not be able to blow up, and it will not be of any use for a long time~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Therefore, an elite grenadier unit has physical strength and courage. , sacrifice, discipline these four are must have.

This is also why in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the grenadier unit has always been the elite unit of the armies of various countries, even if the grenadier unit was limited to weapon innovation and tactical changes later, it has disappeared on the battlefield, but the name of the grenadier However, it has been retained and has gradually become synonymous with elite infantry in the armies of Western countries.

Of course, the third spear team in the new Tang army is not yet a grenadier, not because they are equipped with spears, not because of their physical fitness, but because their courage, sacrifice and even discipline are not in line with superior.

During defensive operations, hiding behind the parapet and throwing bombs is different from throwing bombs at a distance of 20 to 30 meters away from the enemy in the face of enemy fire.

However, even if there are many unbearables, when the Ming army goes ashore, they will have to bear the baptism of the original grenade in the hands of the third spear team.

Huang Xueren couldn't help but be excited when he thought that after the dozens of grenades of his own side were thrown out, there might be a group of flesh and blood flowers in the crowd of the Ming army!