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Chapter 865 Flintlock Shooting

The coalition infantry formation is completely different from the Liang army, and it is still a traditional dense formation.

This dense formation can withstand the impact of cavalry and has strong defense, but with the development of firearms, it has undoubtedly become obsolete.

Such many soldiers were crowded together, and the cannons were not needed to be aimed. If one shot hit, the enemy troops in the entire straight line would be torn to pieces by shells.

The coalition cavalry was killed and injured and was chased by the Liang cavalry. After the Liang artillery team was not threatened, they directly advanced one and a half miles away from the enemy formation.

The Liang army's field bronze cannon had a range of about two miles. The cannon array roared, and gunpowder filled with smoke. The iron bullets weighing five or six kilograms roared and shot straight into the military formation.

Wu Sangui was commanding the front army and suddenly noticed a loud bang in the Liang army's artillery formation. A black shell rushed out of white smoke and flew towards him diagonally.

Wu Sangui's heart was trembling. Even though he was the most powerful general in the Northern Ming Dynasty, his whole body was numb. Before he could react, he heard a "bang" beside him. The guards holding the shield were hit by the shells, and the shield was broken. The iron bullet passed by his chest, tearing the guards' bodies to pieces, and the broken limbs flew around him. A blood mist splattered all over Wu Sangui and the war horses.

The iron bullet has remained strong and it has hit several people in a row. All the people who were hit are broken and killed on the spot.

Wu Sangui was shocked, and his personal courage was not worth mentioning in front of the cannon.

Wu Sangui quickly pulled out his horse and retreated to the command position. A large number of guards held shields and guarded in front of him, but they still felt insecure.

Liang's army fired a volley of artillery fires, and the shells were like ox plowing the ground, which drove the coalition forces into spaces. The army formation seemed to be plowed over. Any place plowed by the shells was dazzling red, with broken limbs and colorful internal organs.

The soldiers in the coalition army were splattered with blood mist on their faces, and they were indefinitely frightened. Looking at the soldiers whose arms and legs were broken by shells, blood flowed, and fell to the ground to cover their broken limbs, making a shrill scream.

Many new recruits from the coalition army looked at the broken limbs and broken arms, and their stomachs twitched. Listening to the screams of the injured soldiers, the morale of the army was immediately shaken.

"Ah!!!" screamed.

The Eight Banners soldiers who were supervising the battle stepped forward, and a white light flashed, killing the severely wounded who was screaming.

Unlike the Liang army, the coalition forces did not have medical soldiers, and the soldiers in the army could only rescue officers and their own wounded soldiers, and were basically powerless to do anything to the seriously injured.

These people cannot be saved, and the howling will affect the morale of the army. The Eight Banners soldiers stepped forward and killed the seriously injured. They were so scared that they were not cut off that they were quickly gritted their teeth and did not dare to make a sound.

At this time, the Qing army quickly dragged the wounded and the bodies backwards, and the officer immediately shouted and asked the reserve team to fill the vacant space.

However, as soon as the coalition troops were in full swing, Liang's artillery fired again, and the shells were plowing the ground, and again they smashed holes into the coalition forces. Blood mist rose up in the military forces, and a desolate howling sounded again.

Under the Qing army's flag, Duoduo saw this scene and his eyes were round and thrust.

When the cavalry was defeated, he could only count on the large formation of more than 100,000 infantry troops to give the Liang army a head-on attack.

As long as he can block the Liang army and wait for Mandahai to defeat Sun Chuanting and capture Dawenkou, he can retreat to Jinan, and advance to wait for Mandahai's 100,000 troops to pass through Dawenkou, and then launch a counterattack, and perhaps defeat Gao Huan.

At this time, he watched the Liang army artillery team keep bombarding the military formation and couldn't help but roar: "Where is the artillery? Why not fight back!"

Suksaha cried with a sad face, and said helplessly: "Prince, our cannons cannot reach them!"

In order to retreat quickly, the coalition forces were destroyed and abandoned, and the artillery carried in the army was mainly Franchise.

This kind of gun fires fast, but it has poor air tightness and a relatively close range, so it cannot hit Liang's bronze gun formation at all.

"Not reach!" Duoduo was shaking immediately, and his heart was so sad and angry that he collapsed.

In the original trajectory, two hundred years later, on the southeast coast, a Qing army general was humiliated and killed on the fort in the face of the strong ships and powerful artillery of the Western Barbarians.

While the Liang army was bombarding the enemy formation, the Liang army lined the infantry, and had already taken neat steps, entering a mile in front of the coalition formation like a wall.

At this time, as the ups and downs pierced the jungle and continued to move forward, the coalition's artillery finally launched a counterattack.

The artillery of the coalition forces roared, and the shells slashed the air, smashing the open ground between the two armies, splashing the mud.

In the first round of counterattack, the coalition forces failed to shoot the Liang army. The coalition quickly changed their sub-guns and continued to shoot.

Li Pingyuan lined up behind the infantry, watching the smoke rising in front of the coalition forces, and the cannons rushed out of the smoke and dust and hit the Liang army's front. However, the depth of the Liang army was very shallow, and the artillery shells penetrated the military formation, and at most they could only hit three or four Liang troops, causing no huge damage.

At this time, the Liang army lined the infantry, braved the enemy's artillery fire and continued to move forward. Rows of guns and piercings rose and fell regularly as the soldiers stepped forward. More than 20,000 musketeers were almost in line with the same movements, moving forward neatly.

The coalition forces saw the thin smoke, the walls of people opposite, and the flags were flying above their heads, slowly pressing down.

The Liang army's artillery attacks, coupled with the ever-closing line infantry, caused the coalition army's infantry formation to stir up again.

"The musketsman stepped forward and stood up!" Wu Sangui's roar sounded in front of him.

The bird gunners of the Northern Ming Army and the Green Camp soldiers rushed forward, and amid the call from the officers, they lit the fuse one after another, raised the bird guns, and nearly 10,000 black muzzles aimed at Liang Jun pressing up from the front.

The bird guns of the coalition forces were also from the Ming Dynasty. They could shoot dead and injure the enemy within seventy or eighty steps, and could easily break armor by about thirty steps.

At this time, the Liang army's line-based infantry entered eighty steps with the sound of drum beats.

A horn sounded in the coalition army, and Wu Sangui shouted: "Rise up the gun and shoot!"

"Bang bang bang" coalition musketeers immediately shot together.

In an instant, the smoke of gunpowder filled the coalition front and the bullets roared. Soldiers continued to fall to the ground in the Liang army front, but the Liang army soldiers continued to move forward while stepping on the drum beats.

After the first row of the coalition forces fired, they quickly retreated and loaded. The second row of soldiers stepped forward, checked the fuse, and shot again. The projectile hit Liang Jun's body and splashed cotton.

Because the armor-breaking distance was not reached, the Liang army suffered limited casualties.

At this time, the Liang army lined up the infantry and finally advanced within fifty steps.

This distance is exactly the distance from Liang Jun’s new flintlock rifle to break through armor.

With a sound of suona, the bench and drums hit each other twice, Li Pingyuan shouted, "The whole army stopped! Set aside!"

"Stand firm!" The officers of each battalion repeated the orders, and the infantry on the entire front line stepped on the ground with his right foot, and the front line was temporarily prohibited from moving.

The coalition forces opposite saw Liang's stop through the smoke in front of the formation and knew that Liang's army was about to shoot volleys. The officers shouted, "Hurry! Shoot them to death!"

At this time, the coalition bird gunners were busy checking the fuse and were just about to lift the gun.

"Aim! Shoot!" Li Pingyuan issued an order with the greatest voice as the front stopped.

The convex gunmen on both wings of the front first lit the convex like an enemy, fixed it, then lift the gun and aim it, ready to shoot.

There were six thousand flintlock gunmen in the middle of the front line, and two thousand flintlock gunmen in the first row, but they directly raised the musket and pulled the trigger.

With a "click", the hammer hit the steel sickle of the fire gate, and a piece of sparks were emitted. There was a loud bang in the chamber, and a ball of gun smoke rose. The gun body shook backwards, and the muzzle of the flintlock spewed out the orange-red gun flames forward, and the projectiles roared out the white smoke.

On the battlefield, two thousand flintlock rifles were fired volleys, and the gun flames were flashing like a brilliant galaxy.

The Liang army front, accompanied by the thunderous gunfire, balls of white smoke connected into a smoke wall, quickly extending to the two wings, and finally forming a white long dragon.

The sound of gunfire sounded, and the projectiles passed through the ground like a storm. As soon as the coalition bird gunman fixed the fuse and raised the bird gun to aim, countless bullets rushed into the coalition army's queue with a scream.

"Puff puff puff"

"Ahhhhh"

The projectile was shot in roughly, tearing the coalition's cotton armor, and a fluff of blood rose up on the chest. The projectile rolled into the body, stirring up all the internal organs of the coalition.

In an instant, a heart-wrenching scream sounded on the coalition front, and countless Northern Ming and Qing dynasties fell down in rows along the line.

Under the shooting of the flintlock rifle, a coalition in the middle fell like a strong wind blew across the wheat field.

Duoduo and Wu Sangui in the coalition army were shocked when they saw this scene and their eyes were raised and their faces changed drastically.
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