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Chapter 117 The Power of Musketeers

Although everyone was on the battlefield for the first time and was very scared, no one flinched or collapsed.

Seeing the black cavalry coming, even Chen Yi, the commander of the Five Thousand Musketeers, swallowed nervously.

"Let the artillery aim at the enemy."

Chen Yi said, giving orders to the people around him.

Under Chen Yi's order, dozens of short-barreled land artillery with wheels began to aim at the enemy.

"Fire in the direction the cavalry came from."

Chen Yi gave the order again.

At this time, the Xianbei cavalry was still thousands of meters away from the musketeer phalanx, and it was Ke Bineng's general A Dugen who led the ten thousand cavalry.

From the Xianbei people's point of view, if the Youzhou people hid within the city walls, they really had nothing to do with them. Now that the Youzhou people ran out of the city, it seemed to them that they were giving away their heads.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and when the Xianbei cavalry rushed to about 800 meters from the Youzhou army formation, a sound that sounded like a devil's roar to everyone's ears sounded again.

Boom boom boom boom boom!

In the musketeer formation, dozens of cannons fired.

The distance of 800 meters has not yet reached the distance of the cavalry charge, but the artillery can easily attack the Xianbei cavalry who are far away.

At the moment when the artillery fired, the shells passed over the musketeers' heads, shot into the Xianbei cavalry formation in a parabola, and then exploded, making a loud noise.

Although the formation of the cavalry was not very tight and the shell explosion did not kill many people, the loud noise startled many horses. For a while, there was a commotion in the cavalry formation.

War horses in this era have never heard the sound of shells exploding, and it is normal to be frightened.

In the later age of firearms, cavalry horses needed a long time to adapt to the sound of artillery, otherwise they would be chaotic on the battlefield.

But now, the Xianbei cavalry encountered such a situation.

Many war horses were frightened and went mad when they heard the artillery, and some even knocked the cavalry off their horses, and then were brutally trampled to death by the galloping horses.

Seeing this scene, many of the [-] Youzhou musketeers not far away felt less afraid.

The power of the artillery brought them great courage and confidence.

Although the artillery made the Xianbei cavalry chaotic, the tens of thousands of Xianbei cavalry had already formed a charging momentum, and the overall formation was still rapidly approaching the formation of the Youzhou Musketeers.

The distance of a few hundred meters is only enough for the artillery to fire three rounds of artillery, and the large cavalry has already rushed to within 200 meters of the musketeers.

This distance also reached the range of the flintlock guns, and immediately, the phalanx formed by five thousand musketeers opened fire.

"First row, shoot!"

"Second row, shoot!"

"Third row, shoot!"

"Fourth row, shoot!"

The firing speed of the flintlock gun is much faster than that of the matchlock gun, about 20 to 30 seconds, and skilled shooters can reach 15 seconds.

Obviously, the Youzhou musketeers have not been able to achieve such a fast firing rate.

In order to keep the firepower of the musketeers continuous, the musket phalanx adopted a four-stage shooting method.

The formation of five thousand Musketeers is small, but they are arranged very densely, so that they can deal the greatest blow to the enemy within a certain range.

As the Musketeers opened fire, immediately, the cavalry who rushed to the front more than 100 meters away fell off their horses one after another.

Regardless of whether it is a person or a war horse, as long as they are shot by muskets, they are basically either dead or injured.

Amidst the continuous sound of muskets, the frontal cavalry was immediately blocked by dense firepower.

However, the tens of thousands of cavalry did not just attack from the front, many cavalry had already circled to the sides.

However, whether it is the front or the side, or even the rear, there are four rows of musketeers on standby at any time.

Soon, the Musketeers on both sides also opened fire.

As thousands of muskets fired, soon, the position was filled with smoke formed by the burning gunpowder.

Fortunately, this effect made many Musketeers calm down.

They loaded the gunpowder pellets themselves, and then pulled the trigger forward.

Tens of meters away in front of the musketeers, a mountain of corpses had already formed at this time. These were the corpses of cavalrymen and war horses shot to death by musket bullets.

Their presence also blocked the charge of the cavalry behind, so that the cavalry behind had to slow down their horse speed.

This also allows many Musketeers to calmly aim at the figure of the cavalry and shoot accurately.

This battle lasted less than ten minutes. During these ten minutes, corpses were already piled up around the musket formation.

At least thousands of cavalry fell on this land.

Nearly half of the tens of thousands of cavalry were wiped out almost at once, and the remaining more than 5000 cavalry were also frightened.

In the end, they escaped far from the attack range of the Musketeers.

too frightening.

too frightening.

Xianbei people have never seen such a terrible enemy.

In just ten minutes, they lost nearly half of their troops, but they didn't even enter the enemy's body.

This is also the reason why many people can't see it and retreat immediately, or else they may not be able to attack the enemy even if the entire army is wiped out.

Many people think that with the speed of cavalry, pure musketeers cannot defend, after all, the speed of cavalry is too fast.

But the intensive four-stage shooting can kill many cavalry and horses in the front row in the first place.

The corpses of these cavalry and war horses will form a sprinting obstacle in front of the cavalry, thus affecting the sprint speed of the cavalry behind.

And as the Musketeers shot and killed more and more cavalry, the corpses would pile up more and more, and the blocking effect of obstacles would become greater and greater.

Finally, the corpses on the ground will make the approaching cavalry become sluggish. If the cavalry continues to attack, they will only be shot and killed by the musketeers calmly.

Thousands of cavalry were lost all at once, and the Xianbei general Adugen's face was very ugly, his heart was bleeding. Originally, the population of Xianbei people was not large, but now that they lost so many at once, he didn't know how to compare with Ke I can explain.

At the same time, when he looked in the direction of the five thousand Musketeers, he felt a lingering fear in his heart.

Just as the musketeers were fighting with the Xianbei cavalry, three thousand plate armored infantry were being besieged by Gongsun Kang's army.

"Kill!"

When Gongsun Kang's army surrounded the three thousand plate armor infantry, and the distance between the two sides was less than a hundred meters, the three thousand plate armor infantry moved, and they took the initiative to kill the Liaodong army.

Gongsun Kang never expected that the surrounded army would dare to take the initiative to attack, and he was caught off guard immediately.

Fortunately, there are many soldiers in Liaodong, with tens of thousands fighting against [-], Gongsun Kang doesn't think he will lose.

Under such circumstances, soldiers from both sides finally strangled together.

Ping Pong Pong.

Countless swords collided together, making a crisp sound of gold and iron.

Puff puff!
This is the sound of weapons piercing flesh.

(End of this chapter)