Chapter 259 Blood River

"Fifth brother, look at the Tatars, they are really ferocious."

Qian Yue had a pair of eyes exposed under his chin, looking at the yellow dust billowing and the overwhelming Tatar cavalry coming, he couldn't help but smile at Zheng Wudao.

Zheng Wu shook his head: "I think it's because he is fierce in appearance and soft in heart."

Qian Yue laughed, looked up and said, "I wonder where my lord is now."

Zheng Wu had no expression on his face. Seeing that the Tatar cavalry had entered within 800 steps, he shook his head and said, "The Tatars are coming."

He nodded slightly to the herald beside him.

The heralds immediately dispersed, waved their flags, and shouted: "The captain has an order, prepare the artillery array!"

More than 10,000 war horses trampled the ground, and each breath was three to five feet. The ground shook violently. The artillery array seemed to be placed on a huge machine that was vibrating endlessly. The gunner who operated the cannon had to exert force to suppress the lightweight squatting tiger cannon.

The small cannon has the advantages of a small cannon, being lightweight and highly maneuverable. But despite its portability, it is difficult to guarantee accuracy in situations like this.

But it doesn't matter, there are enemy troops everywhere, and they won't hit the sky.

Eight hundred steps!

The flag was waved, the fire was lit, and the sound of burning gunpowder was heard.

"fire!"

The thunderous sound of cannons was deafening, a large cloud of smoke rose, and thousands of cannons pulled out long white waves in the air with flames, crashing into the Tatar cavalry formation!

A Bajala white-armored soldier brandished a mace and roared wildly, but it suddenly stopped. A cannonball passed by, and half of the body flew up. One, two, crushed and killed seven or eight people before landing. It bounced up again, killing and injuring three or four horses, before rolling down to the dust and becoming still.

The Tatars have tactics for dealing with artillery. After years of fighting with the Ming army, the Tatar cavalry have corresponding means of dealing with them, which is a loose formation.

But this round of shelling shattered the Tatars' illusions - they had always charged into formation collectively and would not disperse until they were within 500 steps. Because after the Ming army's artillery exceeded this distance, not only the accuracy was greatly reduced, but also the power plummeted. It was difficult to pose a threat beyond 500 steps.

One step is five feet, five hundred steps is two thousand five hundred feet, two hundred and fifty feet, about seven hundred and fifty meters. This is a very long distance. At least for this era, it is difficult to guarantee the power of artillery beyond this distance.

Huge artillery such as the Red Coat Cannon can even hit several miles or even ten miles away, but it has no accuracy at all.

The lethality of artillery is used in medium-range defense or offensive battles. Generally speaking, it is rarely used in field battles. Because once the two sides engage in a head-on battle, the distance of several hundred steps will pass in the blink of an eye.

But Ying Yi's squatting tiger cannon was an eye-opener for the Tatars.

An eight-hundred-step salvo was able to guarantee a certain range of accuracy. A thousand cannons, just this one salvo, completely penetrated the dense cavalry formation, causing at least three thousand casualties!

This is unprecedented.

The greatest ability of artillery in this era is deterrence.

But Ying Yi has many guns.

A school captain has 12,000 men and is equipped with more than 500 squatting tiger cannons. Any one unit has the heavy firepower of more than a hundred new squatting tiger cannons.

This new and lightweight Tiger Crouching Cannon not only has very powerful performance, but is also extremely convenient to manufacture.

This is the first large-scale cluster bombardment since the birth of the new Tiger Crouching Cannon.

Even when they faced Hou Xun's 70,000 Baoding troops, they had never used so many artillery pieces.

The first round of shelling was fired, and the gunners were extremely skilled in brushing the barrels and filling the shells. In less than ten breaths, the second round of shelling came again!

The performance of the new Tiger Crouching Cannon can be seen - the procedure of cooling the barrel is omitted - Jinyuan Alloy has strong endurance.

In old-fashioned artillery, after firing a round, the barrel remnants must be cleaned and the barrel must be cooled. The materials made of it are not up to standard, and once the barrel overheats, it will explode. Therefore, gunnery is a high-risk profession with one's head hung on one's waist.

But in Ying Yi's case, this procedure is simply omitted.

Ten breaths, ten seconds, is a round of bombardment. When the Tatar cavalry entered the 300th step, they withstood three rounds of shelling.

Thirty seconds, five hundred steps. It can be seen how quickly the cavalry charges into the formation.

But the damage caused to this Tatar cavalry by three rounds of shelling could not be erased. The first round of shelling killed at least 3,000 cavalry, and then the Tatars reacted in horror and immediately dispersed. The subsequent two rounds of shelling may have only caused a total of 700 to 800 casualties.

But even so, the nearly 15,000 Tatar cavalry already seemed much sparse within 300 steps.

At this time, Zheng Wuling waved his flag again.

The pikemen who were armed to the teeth stepped forward with their guns drawn, and the gunmen followed and covered the artillery array. The spearmen quickly formed a formation, with the tails of their spears deeply inserted into the soil, and the heads of their spears pointing diagonally forward. The soldiers held their rifles under their arms, their whole bodies attached to the barrels of their spears, and their feet firmly on the ground, waiting for the coming impact.

Two hundred steps.

The gun soldiers are in full force!

A three-eyed gun made of Jinyuan alloy, the effective range is within 200 steps. The charging speed of the Tatars has now reached its maximum, and they can advance thirteen or four steps in one breath.

Bang bang bang! ! !

Two captains, now seven divisions, each with a full battalion of gunslingers, 750 people. There are 5,250 gunmen in the seven divisions. More than five thousand gunmen were hidden behind the gun array, row after row, shooting countless guns in a three-stage shooting method.

Like pear blossoms in a rainstorm, suddenly, the Tatar cavalry fell in pieces.

One piece of tartar fell down, revealing the other piece behind it. Another piece fell down, and another piece behind it was revealed.

Abatai is already sweating profusely!

"Impossible! What kind of firearm has such power! It's impossible!"

He screamed in his heart, was frightened, and even wanted to pull out his horse and run away!

The soldiers around him fell one after another. In order to cover him, they were beaten to pieces by cannons and muskets, causing heavy casualties. On the left and right, rows of elite cavalry fell down. The usually invincible cavalry were as helpless as tofu.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

He roared unconsciously, mustering up his last bit of courage, "It's close, it's close!"

"kill!"

Suddenly, the scattered cavalry collided with the spear array armed to the teeth. The extremely sharp and strong gold-yuan alloy spear withstood the impact of the cavalry, and in an instant, the man and his horse were turned upside down!

The sound of the sharp spearhead entering the flesh was a popping sound. The ferocious faces of both sides were clearly visible to each other at this moment.

In the sound of clanking metal, maces, flying axes, chain hammers, spears, broadswords, swords and swords filled the sky with blood!

The full-body armor cast from Jinyuan alloy revealed its extremely superior performance at this moment.

The spearmen only need to pay attention to the weapons that are aimed at the eyes, and just draw and retract the guns in a mechanized manner!

Handfuls of blood were sprinkled down, and immediately, a river of flesh and blood was formed along the gun array!

At this time, the gun array behind the gun array showed its power again!

This time it was no longer a volley, but a free attack. The musketeers hid behind the spearmen, fired muskets from the gaps, and shot down the ferocious Tatars one after another!

Zheng Wu showed a smile on his face and shouted: "The cavalry attacks and gives the Tatars the final blow!"

The cavalrymen, who were wandering on both wings, finally stepped onto the stage.