The battlefield was filled with the smell of gunsmoke. People's ears were either excited roars or all kinds of screams and wails.
A burst of drum sound joined in, and the front soldiers of the riflemen of the Han army began to push forward four segment shooting.
The so-called push four stage firing means that after firing, a row of soldiers stand in place to clean the barrel and reload and load ammunition. The second row of soldiers who have already loaded and loaded ammunition open fire in place of the firing position, rolling forward as a substitute firing row after row.
There was a rifle array with a length of more than kilometers. There were bursts of gunshots. There was no smoke. The Han Army used smokeless gunpowder.
The first to rush into the range of the Chinese riflemen was the Persian light cavalry. They held a machete and a small round shield to keep their bodies as low as possible. The small round shield was blocked in front.
Some lucky Persian light cavalry used a small round shield to block the bullets fired by the Han army. They could clearly feel the impact of the projectile on the small round shield. They were glad that the small round shield in their hand could block the gun.
The Persian light cavalry hit by the bullet felt that they had been bitten, and their strength dissipated at a very fast speed. They could not help softening their bodies, and then fell off their horses.
More bullets hit the horse. After all, compared with the knight who leaned down on the horse and had a small round shield protection, the horse's body will be larger. The bullets are not only facing people, but also facing all the targets blocking the trajectory. The larger horse naturally has a higher chance of being hit.
In a real battlefield, whether it's archery or bullets, it won't be the knight on the horse who keeps falling down dumplings, but the war horse is unharmed. In fact, in a real war, archery and shooting are running to shoot the horse, which is the so-called "shooting people first, shooting the horse".
The mounts of the Persian light cavalry were blindfolded and deaf. They rode more than 2000 to launch a charge and directly impacted the rifle array of the Han army. At first, they were bombarded by the artillery of the Han Army, fell down nearly 200 horses, and entered the range of 400 meters, which was covered by the crossbows and arrows of the cold weapons on the left and right wings of the Han Army, and fell down more than 300 horses, At 130 meters, he was baptized by a platoon of guns.
For a short 130 meters, if there were no obstacles, it would be only eight or nine seconds at the speed of the cavalry, but the Persian cavalry had to face the rows of resisting horses and the wreckage of their own chariots, not to mention a row of guns every second.
"Get the gun!"
In those positions where the Persian light cavalry charged, the rolling four segment shooting stopped, and the riflemen in the front row began to form a "forest of thorns" with flint guns equipped with bayonets. They had to face the collision of at least 500 or 600 Persian light cavalry.
Those riflemen who did not encounter threat made a small turn under the constraints of officers, changed into in-situ rotation shooting, and continued to fire on Persian light cavalry in an inclined way.
"Steady!"
The riflemen who are about to be collided by Persian light cavalry are not fearless, but they have been stressed on discipline for a long time. Even if they know that they may be killed, they want to avoid it in their hearts, but they keep on their defensive posture.
The army has never had any freedom to speak of. Some of them are devoid of personal freedom and are repeatedly asked to obey, obey and obey again!
Whether an army is elite or not has nothing to do with how strong an individual's combat effectiveness is. It does not rely on personal force. Soldiers lose their personal "consciousness" and get orders. Even if there is a sea of knife and fire ahead, they will firmly wade in the past, which is a strong army in the real sense.
"Throw a bullet!"
In addition to being equipped with a flint gun and corresponding gunpowder and bullets, Riflemen are equipped with five wooden handle grenades.
When the Persian light cavalry rushed about 40 meters, the riflemen in the second row followed the order to throw wooden handle grenades.
The wooden handle grenades were thrown out one after another. They triggered a coordinated and dense explosion. The explosion closer to the Persian light cavalry directly lifted people and horses.
However, the collision occurred. The 12 type flint gun with a total length of 1.85 meters was not like a 6-meter long spear at all. The Persian light cavalry with good riding skills could control the horses to cross the bayonet forest, and even people and horses trampled down heavily towards the frightened Han soldiers below.
The number of Persian light cavalry who can control their horses to jump high is not large. Most of them hit the bayonet forest. The problem is that even if they hit the bayonet, they still break the type 12 rifle and dent the area by relying on the powerful collision kinetic energy.
Qin song didn't feel much about the collision on the battlefield. He knew that his tactics to deal with the cavalry were wrong. In the face of the cavalry, he should put on a "hollow array".
However, what is the correct tactics on the battlefield? Everything needs to be arranged to choose the tactics allowed under immediate conditions.
The Persians charged not only 2000 light cavalry, but also nearly 1000 archers and nearly 10000 infantry.
The Han Army faced first a wave of Persian light cavalry, then Persian bow cavalry, and finally Persian infantry. It didn't have much time to change the tactical formation, but only hard.
In addition to the Persian charge, there is a "slow" advancing Roman Legion behind. It seems that it is widely distributed. The number should be about 3000?
It was not just the rifle array that responded to the charge of the anti Han axis coalition forces. The long-range attack forces on the left and right wings were always outputting bows and arrows, and the Artillery Forces in the rear did not stop shooting.
In addition to long-range fire support, the Han cavalry on both wings also moved. They formed pincer shaped double arrows and killed the coalition forces on the anti Han axis.
The first force stopped the rifle array line of push four segment shooting. After a while, the two thousand Persian light cavalry fell on the battlefield except for the four or five hundred cavalry that charged and retreated halfway; More than 300 Chinese riflemen were killed and injured, more than 100 were killed on the spot, and the rest were seriously injured.
The rifle array of the Han army was not only impacted, but also faced the arrows of the Persian archers. Fortunately, the long-range support of its left and right wings was effective. Otherwise, the loss would be even greater, not just about 300 people.
After a short pause, the undead riflemen pushed forward again under the constraints of the officers, still rolling platoon shooting, and the attack target was replaced by the enemy on foot.
It was only less than ten minutes before the war began. Liu Shen was moved to the front row. He was standing in the front of the queue with a flint pistol in his hand. Around him, there were more than a dozen people in a semicircle, vowing to defend to the death.
Every time Liu Shen blew the whistle of fire, the flint pistol would be pointed forward.
Right in front of them are roaring Persian infantry. They seem to be mainly in gray uniforms, but they have messy armor, and their weapons are also diverse. After a row of volley, the Persian infantry running forward will fall to the ground.
The Persian archers have been forced to detour around their left and right wings. If they do not take care of their left and right wings, the two Han cavalry attacking in a pincer posture will "stab in the waist" into their attacking troops. Even if the attacking troops are not stopped by the waist, it will be equal to their attacking troops falling into three flanks, Only by trying to drive away the Han cavalry killed on the left and right sides can the offensive continue.
"It is worthy of being a firearm army!" Elbata was livid at the moment: "we have suffered more than 50% of the losses and are still moving forward. The rest will fall on that land forever."
Through the telescope, we can see that the Persian infantry who charged and approached within 100 meters of the Chinese riflemen fell down all the time, but the living people twisted their faces and still rushed forward one after another.
The Persians not only have to face the bullets and arrows that are shooting all the time, even if they rush within 30 meters of the riflemen, they have to withstand the wooden handle grenades thrown by the Chinese riflemen. As a result, their own side has fallen three or four thousand people, but they just shoot less than 30 Chinese soldiers with bows and arrows.
"It's really terrible!" The expression on marus's face was very tangled. He was really frightened: "there are firearms far and near. I haven't seen the kind of explosives near before."
The Han Empire has been developing throwing weapons for infantry. The earliest type was pottery. With the progress of research, it entered the era of wooden handle grenades. At the same time, an all metal "egg" grenade was also developed, but it was packed with wooden handle grenades.
Science and technology is one thing. As long as you open a door and have an "idea", there will be a research direction. If you don't research it, you just don't invest enough. Otherwise, if you study it again and again, products will appear sooner or later.
Therefore, it can be said that most of the time, it is only ideas that limit the process of science and technology. How big people's brain imagination is, how many scientific and technological products will be produced. It doesn't appear just because the research cost is not enough.
Will choose wooden handle grenades, of course, metal grenades, which are expensive and difficult to make. The cost of manufacturing a metal type grenade is enough to manufacture three wooden handle grenades. Even the power of wooden handle grenades is less than that of metal grenades. For such weapons that need to be fully loaded and will consume a lot, it must be to select a large number of wooden handle grenades and a small number of metal grenades.
What marus is struggling with is that even if the Roman Legion forms a tortoise shell array, the shield can block the bullets and arrows of the Han Army, but can the new explosives that have not been seen be stopped?
The answer will soon be revealed. The Persian troops who attacked lost more than 70%. Finally, they couldn't hold on any longer. First, the first person turned around and ran away, and then formed an effect. The attack turned into a great rout.
"What a pity..." Qin song frowned at the retreating Persian army and said to the left and right: "it is not allowed to send cavalry to pursue, otherwise none of them would want to escape."
In fact, it is true that if the number of enemy troops is not so large, there is a large area of enemy troops not participating in the war behind, and a Roman army in formation is approaching, the Han army can really send cavalry to kill the retreating Persian troops.
The advancing Roman Legion, after they found that the Persians collapsed, sounded their trombone.
The Roman Legion was not very comfortable moving forward. Shells fell from time to time in the queue, and at least ten people fell each time. If their formation was dense enough, it would be more than ten people falling, but they pushed in the form of scattered soldiers just to reduce losses.
The psychological collapse of the Persians, they do not retreat to the left and right sides rationally, but turn around and run recklessly, which will inevitably have an impact on the advancing Roman Legion.
Not wanting to be thrown into chaos or even forced to retreat, the Roman Legion could only stop at a bad position and start to form their best tortoise shell array.
The so-called tortoise shell array is that Roman soldiers form a close formation side by side, and then use the tower shield to organize the shield wall except under their feet. They swept Europa with this method of warfare. No race can do anything with this method of warfare. Even when marching to the East, the tortoise shell array still has a strong effect. It is still an extremely effective method of warfare in the face of pattia and now Sasan.
Now, the Roman Legion has to face the Han Army, and it is the Han Army entering the firearms era.
However, before facing the Han Army, the Roman Legion forming the tortoise armor array had to undergo the collision of defeated friendly forces.
Under the impact of the Persian rout like a tide, the tortoise shell array organized by the Romans did not waver at all. Only when the shells fired from a distance hit, will there be a shield flying and smashing, and people fall down.
Marus could not hide his dissatisfaction when he looked at albata: "look what they're doing!"
Of course, balbata saw that the Roman soldiers whose "tortoise shells" were opened by shells were immediately "rolled up" by the rout soldiers. In an instant, the whole tortoise shell array collapsed, and the undead Roman soldiers were forced to roll back.
"The Han Army did not charge." Marus just expressed his dissatisfaction. He couldn't do anything else. He turned into a disappointed expression: "how could the Han Army resist the charge? They should charge."
If the Han army were a cold weapon force, it would indeed take advantage of the chaos of the enemy to launch an assault, work hard to disintegrate the enemy's offensive and enter the stage of counter attack.
However, the Central Military array of the Han army is riflemen. They will not give up their long-range firepower advantage and rush to do hand to hand combat. It is still very stable... Or rigid and rigid push action of rolling platoon.
On the left and right wings, the Han cavalry sent out earlier are chasing or cruising repeatedly with the Persian bow cavalry, and the rest of the troops are parallel to the firearm troops of the central array line.
Marus frowned and said uneasily, "the Han people are too stable."
Indeed, the Han Army did not show any impulse, so that the anti Han axis coalition really did not know where to start.