Chapter 1333： Brutal musket shooting

With 2,000 single-wheeled chariots in front of the line, Charlie, the Earl of Galden, understood that the cavalry assault plan was completely bankrupt. The 2,000 single-wheeled chariots that lined up in front of the formation became an insurmountable chasm for the cavalry.

In desperation, Count Charles had to shake his head towards his commander Munster, canceling the plan to dispatch cavalry to attack the enemy. However, Count Charles was not particularly disappointed. Because he has a second plan ...

Earl Charlie discovered that the wheeled chariot could withstand the impact of the cavalry after being fixed on the ground. However, in the face of the muskets, the soldiers behind the unicycle were difficult to stop. After all, there is no wallboard for unicycles that can block arrows and stray bullets.

In fact, the partial car that Qi Jiguang later engaged in was based on Yu Dayou's unicycle to prevent Mongolian cavalry from shooting. Yu Dayou ’s unicycle can certainly stop the Mongolian cavalry ’s charge, but it cannot stop the Mongolian cavalry ’s long-range shooting. Therefore, Qi Jiguang created a partial car with a wall blocking the arrow to prevent the charge and the shooting of the Mongolian cavalry. At the same time, soldiers can also hide behind the wallboard and use fire to shoot the enemy.

However, as the original Yu Dayou's single-wheeled chariot, it only had the effect of blocking the cavalry charge. In addition, some small tiger squatting guns and the like will be placed on the chariots of the Ming Dynasty as attack weapons. But Marin didn't do this, because the small tiger squatting gun is not as powerful as the musket.

In addition, installing a small tiger squat gun for a unicycle is actually not cost-effective. Because, after installing the tiger squatting gun, the unicycle can't be used for two purposes. If you need artillery support, you might as well go directly to a three-pound gun.

With the cover of a single-wheeled chariot, the army of Beihai no longer fears that it will be suddenly hit by the opponent's cavalry. Then, the army of Beihai successively came out of the destroyed city gate of Tucheng, and came to the array in an orderly manner.

The formation of the North Sea is familiar to Count Charles. It is nothing more than a spearman with a musketeer, the musketeer is centered, and the lanceman is guarded on both sides.

However, this regular arrangement of troops made Count Charles very puzzled-isn't it lacking gunpowder? Why use so many musketeers?

You know, in the previous siege battles, the Beihai army rarely used musketeers. If a large number of musketeers were used when defending the city before, it is estimated that the coalition forces of the princes of the Eight Kingdoms would be very heavy. Therefore, at that time, all eight princes concluded that the Beihai Kingdom had no gunpowder. However, looking at the current formation, it doesn't seem very similar ...

Where do they know that before Marin deliberately restrained and prevented the musketeers from taking part in the war too much, they were afraid of excessive firepower, which would frighten their opponents. If the opponent scared away, it would be bad. Therefore, the musketeer was not used much, but the opponent was fooled with inferior bows and arrows. Now that the war is officially on, there is no need to hide it.

Seeing that the North Sea army was about to be deployed, Charlie, Earl of Galden snorted sternly-whether you have gunpowder or not, let's just wait and see ...

As a result, Gelden's army, the spearmen in the front row suddenly let go to the sides, revealing the 600 firearms in the back ...

Geldenberg's matchlock guns are all original Spanish Muscat large muskets, which are heavy muskets. When shooting, a bracket is even needed. Because its power is too great. The 50-gram lead shot has great power, and the recoil when shooting is also very strong. Therefore, the bracket had to be placed.

In addition, the musketeers of Geldenberg are also arranged according to the standard of three-strike. That is to say, the 600 Geldenbosch Musketeers are divided into three rows with 200 people in each row, shooting in turn.

In fact, this time the coalition of the eight princes was not the only musketeer in Geldenberg. The other seven princely states also have some musketeers. It's just that there is no such high proportion of Geldenbo army.

For example, under the command of the two Dukes of Henry, each had two or three hundred musketeers. After all, because Marin ’s army of the North Sea State shines on the battlefield, and the Spanish defeated the invincible French with a matchlock, the German countries also introduced musketeers. However, the musketeers of these vassals do not seem to be of scale. Moreover, the musketeers were not used intensively, and they did not even form a three-stage strike formation. Those musketeers seem to be more like auxiliary support shooters and are more free. Of course, because it cannot be used intensively, its power has also been reduced a lot.

Charlie, Earl of Gelden, once suggested that these musketeers should be used together and included in the line of musketeers in Gelden. You know, the total number of musketeers in all countries is 1,300. If it is used intensively, the power is not small.

However, his proposal was rejected. Because the two Dukes of Henry believed that this would destroy the integrity of their respective armies. In fact, they look down on Charlie, Earl of Gelden ...

Earl Charlie was so depressed about the shortsightedness of the two Duke of Henry that he wanted to vomit blood, but he couldn't help it. After all, for now, the two Duke Henrys have more power than him, and in front of them, they have no say at all.

Seeing that the North Sea army had basically completed the formation, Count Charles nodded to Munster. Munster took notice and immediately rushed to the army of Geldenbo in front of the formation to conduct on-site command. As for the Earl of Gelden, he and seven other princes stood on the back of the high platform to watch ...

After arriving at the left wing of the Geldenbo army, Munster ordered loudly:

"Musketeer, light the matchlock!"

As a result, the musketeers in Geldenbog pulled out the thread from a bundle of lanyards on their shoulders and started to ignite. After igniting the matchlock, the musketeers blew the matchstick to make it fully burn and avoid extinguishing. Subsequently, the head of the arson line bypassed the musketeer's arm and was temporarily fixed on the musketeer's left arm.

Then Munster ordered loudly again:

"Start charging and loading!"

As the order was issued, the flaming gunmen of Geldenberg began to orderly fill the gunpowder, and then rammed it with iron rods. Afterwards, he learned the practice of the Musketeers of the North Sea, deer hide or linen cloth soaked in grease, wrapped with lead pellets slightly smaller than the caliber, pressed into the barrel of the gun, and pierced the bottom of the barrel with a steel rod to tamping ...

After the ammunition was loaded, the flaming gunmen of Geldenbog took the burning flaming rope head that was originally wound on the left arm, and clamped it over the fire door at the bottom of the flaming gun, and entered the state of being fired ... …

At the same time, the musketeers in the North Sea country opposite also began to load ammunition. However, the musketeers in the North Sea country are more closely aligned. After all, the musketeers in the North Sea country use clockwork muskets, and do n’t worry about the igniter igniting the comrade ’s gunpowder pack. Therefore, the musketeers in the North Sea can get closer to each other. The musketeers of Geldenbog, who used the matchlock guns, had to maintain a standard distance of 1 meter from their comrades because of the fear that the sparks of the matchsticks ignited the gunpowder packages on the side.

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Seeing that it was almost ready, Munster immediately sent someone to signal that the preparation was complete. The two Dukes of Henry also wanted to see the strength of the Geldenbosch Musketeers, so they nodded and agreed to attack.

Then, the drums of a battle sounded to remind the army of the North Sea country on the opposite side-we are about to attack ...

Afterwards, Munster shouted:

"In the first row, raise your gun and aim straight ahead!"

The first row of Geldenber Musketeers immediately placed the Muskete muskets in their hands on the stand standing in front of their eyes and aimed at the North Sea soldiers in front ...

"put!"

As Munster screamed, the musketeers in the front row of Geldenbog pulled the trigger, and the head of the fire rope above the fire door was pressed by the gun machine and sent into the fire door ...

Suddenly, bursts of eyes popped up, and then, a huge noise came from Gelden's army ...

"Bang-Bang-Bang-" With a dull loud noise, a round of lead shot was fired from the barrel of the Muskete musket, and went straight to the line of the North Sea army ...

Although the hit rate of the smoothbore gun is moving, the problem is that both sides have very dense linear arrays. Even if the musket's hit rate is low, it can always catch the opponent's horse ...

How great is the kinetic energy of a 50-gram lead bullet?

When two hundred 50-gram projectiles flew into the North Sea army, they immediately caused huge damage.

Although only twenty or thirty rounds of lead shots actually fell into the enemy's lineup, it caused extremely terrible damage ...

"boom--"

"Pooh—"

A lead bullet fired into the body of a Beihai State Musketeer in the front row. The lead, weighing 50 grams, immediately penetrated the leather armor of the unlucky Beihai Musketeer and entered his body.

After entering the body of the hapless musketeer, the huge lead projectile did not move straight forward, but carried out a tumbling movement in its body.

Suddenly, the musketeer's belly, the rolled lead bullet, forcibly tore a huge wound. Although the diameter of the Muskete matchlock gun is less than about 2.3 centimeters, the irregular tumbling of the lead bullet in its body actually caused a big wound in the bowl ...

Then the unlucky egg wailed with pain. The blood spewed out from the big wound in the bowl. The hitman quickly fell to the ground, and, it seems, could not be saved ...

Moreover, in this round of shooting, not only this bad luck, but two or thirty ... hundreds of yards, although the hit rate is low, but there are almost one-tenth of the hit-who is called the two formation Are they all so close? I can always catch some bad luck ...

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But ~ www.novelhall.com ~ The painful wailing of the companions did not shake the firm will of the gunmen in the North Sea. It is not the style of the Beihai army to just fight back. So, Marin ordered to kick off the war drum representing the attack signal ...

The drums were rumbling, and the commander of the Beihai State Musketeers in the front row also orderly ordered:

"Replacement (the rear musketeer fills the position of the dead musketeer), the first row, raise the gun!"

"Fire!"

"Bang—Bang—Bang—" A loud noise rang, and white smoke rose before it ...

Although the caliber of the clockwork flares of the North Sea State is not as good as that of the Mushket large muskets used by the Geldenbo state, the caliber is also close to 20 mm, and each bullet has about 30 grams. Therefore, the power of its lead bullets must not be underestimated.

Hundreds of lead bullets rolled and roared into the princes of the Eight Kingdoms opposite. Soon, dozens of soldiers from the coalition forces of the Eight Kingdoms also fell to the ground. Although the power is not as good as the 50-gram projectile of the Muskete musket, the 30-gram lead can't be underestimated and can roll in the body. Anyone who is hit by a bullet has a terrible wound and a **** arrow. For a time, the wailing of the shot-takers before the battle broke their hearts ...