Lord of Ming Dynasty

He nodded towards the orderly next to him, and the orderly immediately raised the command saber in his hand and swung it down vigorously. Then, like a chain reaction, the orderlies in the distance waved down the command saber one by one, and then—the cannon rang.

The artillery under the protection of the phalanx on both wings opened fire one after another. At a distance of 200 meters, even a six-pound gun could easily penetrate the enemy's lineup.

The opponent's cannon also fired.

The shells of both sides reached the opponent's lineup almost at the same time.

It's just that the Huaxia Army's lineup is relatively scattered and the formation is relatively sparse, so there are many fewer casualties. After the soldiers, helplessly, steaming on the ground, turning, turning stopped.

More than 60 shells caused damage to more than 100 people in the Huaxia Army.

For the Huaxia Army, which has only close to 6000 people, this is already a great injury. The Huaxia Army team was in a panic, but recovered immediately.

And Schroeder still maintains this dense formation. Although the Huaxia Army only has more than 30 shells, the flying distance is too far.

Their shells did not bounce on the ground, but flew straight into the Spaniard's formation, directly causing huge damage to the Spaniard's formation from three directions, left, center and right.

Like a piercing spear, it directly pierced through the chests of four or five soldiers, and then slammed heavily on the ground where the panicked soldiers dodged out of the ground and bounced up again, cutting off the heads of two soldiers and piercing the chest of one soldier. The arm took away the lives of several soldiers before hitting the ground again and bouncing up again, this time directly piercing the loose formation behind, smashing the soldiers and their arquebus into parts, and again It bounced on the ground, flew obliquely to other places, hit the artillery position, and after smashing a cannon mount, it stopped unwillingly.

Thirty cannonballs, each one performed so well, the soldiers taken away, the soldiers killed and injured, were more than double the artillery shells of the Allied Artillery in Portugal, at least one took away more than 20 to [-] Spanish soldiers s life.

Disturbed the densely formed Spanish phalanx.

After dozens of cavalry from the British cavalry in the back tried their best to press down, and the roar of the Spanish officer, it took about 1 minute to successfully press down and stabilize the troops. This time, the Spanish troops lost more than 300 soldiers. More than double it.

"Boom, boom, boom," the snare drum began to become more rhythmic, which is the rhythm of the attack.

Chapter 4: Row of Guns 2

But at 200 meters, the coalition forces have to go forward for more than 80 meters, and can only shoot at a distance of 120 meters. Although they cannot guarantee that the bullets of the matchlock guns can hit the enemy at a distance of 120 meters, but in terms of luck, they can always be shot. If they hit a few enemies, they fight for luck. As for killing the enemies, the winner can only be decided at a distance of 30 meters. If one side cannot support the huge casualties, the morale will be low, the fear of death, and the formation will collapse. The other side wins.

The phalanx moves forward as a whole.

One by one, carrying matchlock guns, they marched forward at a rhythmic pace.

The Huaxia Army, on the other hand, didn't seem to know this rhythm, so they just stood there and waited.

As if willing to be a target.

Boom, boom, boom, the Huaxia Army's artillery rang in less than a minute.

Schroeder froze for a moment, no, how could the Huaxia Army do this, this was not rehearsed in advance, he knew that there were also Portuguese and Dutch in the Huaxia Army's army, and their new army was also controlled by these instructors. After teaching, he thought that the Huaxia Army would learn Western combat methods and fight with a gentleman-like confrontation.

In the distance, the governor's heart sank. As a western country dominated by businessmen, they deeply know that the advancement of technology is the key to success or failure. He understands that this is not because the Chinese army is not a gentleman, but because the Chinese army's artillery is at least At the reset, the artillery on the west had surpassed them on loading, and the other side fired their cannons first.

This time the opponent hit the Dutch phalanx.

Boom, boom, boom, more than [-] cannons fired the momentum of more than [-] cannons. The sound was as loud as tens of thousands of horses galloping past, and the ground shook endlessly.

This side just took a step, and the Portuguese coalition forces who walked less than 30 meters became hesitant, yes, what's going on, is this **** still a cannon?

You don't need to shoot so fast, you have to get the fastest 5 minutes to reload, 6 minutes to fire, don't your cannons need to be reset?

Don't your cannons need corrective fire?

You have to calculate the opponent's position, distance, and charge amount. What if you charge too little and hit your own people? What if you charge too much and miss the enemy?

But the opponent is so capricious, they fired in less than 2 minutes, even if they trot, they only ran 30 meters, so don't be so anxious.

"Crash-"

"Ah—, my leg—,"

"Hey, whose intestines are these, why did they come over my head? Hmm—" dizzy.

Governor Yiyi looked at his phalanx, as if it had been trampled by dozens of elephants, staggering, its unbearable level, the degree of panic, was even more messy than the Spaniard phalanx that was hit just now, this is even more How do I fight?

This team is not good.

After a minute of panic in the Dutch phalanx, an officer finally stood up and cleaned up the situation. After another minute of rectification, several phalanxes were surprised, puzzled, and angry, and finally moved on.

These are all local veterans who have fought old battles. Back then, when these people fought against Bavarian Hessian mercenaries, these people defeated their opponents several times. When they fought against Venetian merchants, the Venetians fled in despair. , although it is a mercenary group recruited by businessmen, their discipline and professionalism are still very high. With such a high number of casualties, they still formed the team calmly. keep going.

There are still 170 meters away from the enemy, and 150 meters away from the artillery at the enemy's front. If we advance another 30 meters, those special shooters in the army will be able to attack the enemy's artillery.

Although it is not enough to shoot one by one, it can at least cause trouble for the enemy's artillery,... God, don't let the enemy fire again, damn artillery, what are you doing, why don't you fire now?

Eight minutes passed, and the coalition phalanx finally reached a distance of 8 meters.

Just when the artillery of the Huaxia Army fired the third round of artillery shells, the artillery of the two armies finally opened fire. This time, they directly hit the enemy artillery. The artillerymen in the enemy's phalanx attacked the artillery in the enemy's phalanx together, and at least the enemy lost five artillery pieces, and dozens of artillerymen were killed or injured. Seeing this situation, the phalanx soldiers felt very relieved, and let you two rounds of artillery be faster than us , let you let us lose at least 100 comrades in arms and two cannons in three rounds of shelling.

However, what surprised them was that the enemy's artillery had nothing to do with it, and they didn't panic. Dozens of people ran out from behind the phalanx and dragged the wounded back. Cannonballs, push the gun carriage, load the cannonballs, do you want to be so desperate, just resist a little.

Under their watchful eyes, the artillerymen adjusted their muzzles one after another. After the small red flags were waved fiercely one after another, sharp whistles sounded, and the few cannons of the Huaxia Army spewed out evil flames.

Who joined the phalanx this time?

The Spanish phalanx with the largest number of people and the densest has been hit. The Dutch phalanx has the most armor and advanced weapons. It has been ravaged for two rounds. Who will be hit this time?

It should be the British who are unlucky. Who made them look like monkeys with powdered faces and bright red clothes?

The Portuguese thought so. The Spaniards killed the governor, the vanguard officer, and were beaten for a round. Their morale was extremely low, their formation was a bit messy, and their footsteps were not neat. They thought that we were no longer a threat to the Huaxia Army and would not fight we have.

The Dutch thought, We've been miserable enough, won't we be beaten again?

The Portuguese thought, we are not many in number, our quality is not high, and we don’t look very neat, so they probably won’t hit us, but who knows, damn barbaric orientals, they must have yellow poop in their brains, I’m afraid their brains Confused, they will definitely hit us one by one, 50.00% will hit us, 50.00% will hit the British, I bet 20 Spanish gold coins, they will definitely hit the British.

The British have no ideas, and even if they have ideas, they can’t stop their arrogant gentlemanly demeanor. They haven’t beaten us anyway, we’re here to beat soy sauce. Although we produced so many gray animals, you Portuguese also produced so many gray animals. Livestock?You also occupy such a large territory in India, and you were the first to fight the demise of the Mughal Dynasty.

You are the initiators of the war, you are the protagonists, we are the soy sauce fighters, we should fight you first.

But the result was surprising, and the Dutchman cried.

The artillerymen vented their anger on the Dutch who had just assembled their ranks, and another round of strikes, this round of strikes, there were solid shells, which were fired by six-pounders, and shot shells, which were fired by twelve-pounders.

There was a sudden chaos, the Dutch were knocked down in front of a large area, there were screams and cries, and several bloody paths were plowed in the middle, with limbs and arms broken along the road, and blood flowed like a river, which was unbearable to see. The governor at the back was also wiped by the shells. Although the shells had lost much power, the governor still vomited blood and fell off the horse. Flowing all over the face, buttocks, it's so hot.

The governor was injured, and the Dutch didn't know what to do. The team was completely chaotic. Schroeder roared with lingering fear, and sent someone to separate a squadron of 200 people to help the Dutch to reorganize the troops. Fortunately, the captain of the Dutch still recognized it. In this war, I didn't think about retreating, and hurriedly gathered the troops. I saw that the phalanx of 500 people in front was bombarded several times, and it shrank to more than [-] people. Platoon of soldiers.

The British Governor Macconger's legs were trembling on the horse, and he muttered to himself, "It's terrible. When can these barbarian cannons of the Easterners fire so fast?"So powerful?

He glanced at the officer leading the team in front, and thought anxiously, brother, don’t lead the team so fast, there is no need to be in such a hurry, why is it soy sauce, this is a war between the Portuguese and the Ming army, you Why are you so anxious, this is not fighting for the British Empire, you know that. .

Glancing at the four phalanxes in front, the Spaniards and Dutch phalanxes in the middle were severely damaged, and a large part of the phalanx was sunken. They and the Portuguese protruded a lot, especially them, because Strike, although the brother troops suffered heavy losses, they slowed down a little and hesitated a few times, but they were still much faster than the other three phalanxes.

Sure enough, when he was struggling ideologically, the artillery of the Huaxia Army turned to their side and aimed at their queue.

"Quick, quick, order the front to stop advancing, the queue to disperse, disperse, and prepare for battle." Mai Kongjie hurriedly said to the messenger.