Chapter 386: Sea of ??Fire vs Sea of ??People
The Quasi-Tao stood in front of the formation and ordered Luo Yangxing: "Give you an hour, send more people up, you must climb the platform! The pension can be doubled. Don't be afraid of death, be sure to drive Mingdog into the sea!"
"Zhe!" Luo Yangxing knelt on the ground and beat more than a thousand times. Although he was the so-called Tianjin Admiral, a first-rank official, and a rank of the border officials, and the quartet was just a leader of the Eight Banners and a third-rank official. On the surface, Luo Yangxing's rank was three levels higher than the quartet, but he knew it in his mind that the quartet was a member of the Eight Banners with a strong root, and he was the real Tianjin Admiral.
"Remember, be sure to take it down at any cost! The court has some pensions!" Junta roared.
"General, don't worry, one hour is enough! At worst, I can fill in my more than 100 pounds!" Luo Yangxing replied on his knees.
"Go!" Qunta waved. Originally, Luo Yangxing could not call himself a slave, but he didn't pay attention at this time. His idea was to take down the Ming army fortress opposite as soon as possible.
The Green Camp Army once again launched an attack on the Ming army's positions. More than 200 heads that had just been cut off were still hung on wooden stakes, dripping blood, shocking these Green Camp soldiers and the Koreans. They knew that they could only fight to the death, otherwise those heads would end up! If they fell on the road to charge, the court would give them pensions, and this time the pensions were doubled, and they could get ten taels of silver if they died. If they were returned and were chopped off by the Eight Banners masters, they would die in vain and not have a single piece of copper.
The Qing army and the Koreans in the Green Camp shouted and rushed towards the Ming army's position.
The Ming army launched another artillery bombardment. The first thing they fired was twelve pounds of field artillery, taking away more than a thousand green camp soldiers and Koreans; then six pounds of field artillery fired, taking away more than a thousand green camp soldiers and Koreans; then there was a brief pause. When the Qing army rushed to more than 150 steps, rows of fire guns sounded in the Ming army castle.
With the sound of white smoke rising from the castle, each sound of guns came, a Qing army officer, archer, bird gunman, and turtledog gunman fell down. The Ming army's muskets were very accurate, specializing in attacking the officers and ranged soldiers behind the Qing army, and turned a blind eye to the hand-to-hand combat soldiers holding shields in front of them.
Fortunately, the sound of the Ming army's muskets was sparse and they only fired intermittently, but their muskets were very accurate. In the Qing army's formation, officers, archers, and musketmen were shot to more than 500 people by the Ming army's muskets fired from a long distance.
The Qing army had not come to the scene yet. In fact, there were two new types of muskets in the hands of the Ming army. One was a musket that was accurately fired from a long distance; the other was a musket that could be quickly reloaded at close range. Both muskets did not require a fuse rope.
When the Qing army continued to rush forward, Zhao Peng gave an order: "Howitzer, open fire!"
Twenty twelve-pound howitzers spit out flames, and the shells smashed into the Qing army formation. The shrapnel burst into mid-air, turning into countless shrapnel, and scattered into the dense Qing army formation.
The Qing soldiers who rushed to the forefront of the castle were only about a hundred steps left, like a fence wall blown by the strong wind, fell down a large area in one go, and scarlet rose in the crowd, screams one after another.
But no Qing soldier dared to retreat, and everyone was rushing forward desperately.
"Although Minggou shotgun is powerful, it takes time for them to load! If you rush forward, we will win!" A Qing army in the green camp waved his sword and shouted at the top of his lungs.
At this moment, a "bang" sounded a musket, and a blood sword spurted on the head of the grassroots officer of the Green Camp, without even making a scream, fell backwards.
Several musket shooting sounded in the Ming army castle a hundred steps away, and several people fell from the Qing army.
A distance of 100 steps was soon able to rush in front of him. Soon, the Qing army entered within seventy steps.
At this time, the Ming army's castle was like a volcano erupting, with flames spitting out from the shooting holes, rows of projectiles drilled into the Qing army crowd, screaming endlessly, and pieces of Qing soldiers were knocked down by bullets.
The last seventy steps became the path of death for the Qing army. Every step forward, a large body would fall down. However, these Qing soldiers were stimulated by blood and silver. They fought to the death and rushed forward desperately, falling down one after another, and then fell down one after another in the raft.
Although the three-stage strike can maintain the sustainability of firepower, it cannot be maintained forever. One is that the number of bullets is limited, and each flintlock gunman has only fifty bullets on his body; the second point is that the barrel will heat up. The previous bird gun fired ten times, and the barrel will be too hot to be fired. Now the quality of the self-generated musket is much better, but if you shoot twenty times in a row, the barrel will be too hot to be recharged. You need to take a break to let the barrel cool down.
But it doesn't matter. In addition to the 7,000 flintlock gunmen, Zhao Peng also had 100,000 auxiliary soldiers. These auxiliary soldiers almost each had a bird gun, and some of them were equipped with more powerful turtledove guns. Although the castle was limited in area and could not accommodate so many auxiliary soldiers, at this time there were at least 50,000 auxiliary soldiers on the castle were ready for battle.
The theoretical range of the turtledog gun is one thousand steps, but the effective range is within a hundred steps, exceeding a hundred steps. The turtledog gun projectiles without rifles also flew randomly, and I don’t know where to fly.
All the flintlocked rifles retreated. On the one hand, they took a break for a while, and on the other hand, they also cooled the barrel. The auxiliary soldiers waiting behind entered the fortress in turn and used the bird guns and turtledove guns in their hands to shoot fiercely at the Qing army.
At this time, the distance between the two sides was less than fifty steps. Groups of Qing troops crossed the bodies of their companions and rushed up. At this moment, flames spurted out again from the fortress shooting hole, and the auxiliary soldiers entering the fortress opened fire and fired.
Although the auxiliary soldiers adopted the nine-stage strike method to maintain the sustainability of firepower, so that the bird gun could shoot continuously, these auxiliary soldiers were not as good as the combat soldiers. After all, the rigorously trained combat soldiers could maintain a perfect volley. More than two thousand people fired volleys, and the opponent heard only a roar. Under such firepower strike, they could harvest the opponent in pieces.
However, the auxiliary soldiers' volleys were a little uneven. The sound of bird guns shooting was like a bean explosion, rather than the war soldiers' flintlock guns and thousands of flintlock guns. There was only one roar, which was comparable to the red cannon.
Because the accuracy of the smoothbore gun is touching, it is necessary to maintain a volley to achieve the maximum killing effect. If each soldier has a bad time to fire the gun, it will not be able to form a neat volley, which will greatly reduce the shooting accuracy.
However, even if the auxiliary soldiers are in their hands, even if they are uneven shooting, the bird gun can still maintain relatively accurate accuracy at a distance of about forty steps.
Kong Jie had just pulled the trigger and the burning fuse pressed into the medicine pool. The bird gun in his hand made a roar, but he didn't have time to see his shooting effect, so he hurriedly pulled the bird gun barrel back from the shooting hole, left the fortress, and asked the bird gunman standing behind him to replenish his position.
After exiting the castle and standing in the open space, Kong Jie stood on the ground and took out a small bamboo tube from his body. He opened the lid and poured the particles of gunpowder into the gun barrel. He then took out a projectile from his body and stuffed it into the gun mouth. Then he pulled out a strip from under the gun barrel and inserted it into the gun mouth. He used the strip to push the projectile inside and pushed the projectile to the bottom.
Then put the bird gun flat, open the back of the medicine pool cover, and use the medicine pot on your body to face the medicine pool, squeeze in the medicine pot, then close the medicine pool cover, and then hang the fuse that had just been bounced back on the hook, which completes the loading.
Kong Jie, who had completed the loading, was behind an auxiliary soldier. After the auxiliary soldier got into the castle and shot out the projectile from the shooting hole, he followed him into the fortress.
Chapter completed!