Unlike archers, if you don’t have more than one year of training, you can’t say it’s accurate at all. The training cycle is too long and you can’t wait. Moreover, the materials are not easy to find and it’s not easy to manufacture. Not to mention the three-eyed gun, the effective range is only about twenty steps, which is too short, and it’s troublesome to ignite. Take a handful of incense to poke the fire eye, and it sounds when it is poked. If it is not poked, it will be chopped over by the enemy. It’s simply a useless rib.

It is this kind of garbage firearm that was used by many Ming and even border troops as the main equipment, which is really sad!

One hundred and fifty steps, one hundred and forty steps, one hundred and thirty steps, one hundred and twenty steps, one hundred and ten steps, one hundred steps...

As the arrays of both sides continued to approach, the Qing army's front army had gradually entered the effective range of the turtledove gun.

Zhu Youlang waved his order flag and called the army to stop and ordered the preparation of an attack.

"Gongsheng Camp" general Zhang Jiayu was ordered to wave the order flag: "The first row of gunners are ready, ignite the fire-release!"

Originally, the firing of a musket requires nearly ten steps such as charge, fire suppression, loading, fuse, and ignition. It would be nice to have a shot of thirty breaths after completing the entire loading process. However, the soldiers of Gongsheng Camp had obviously considered this and had done all the steps before ignition in advance. In this way, if only the last ignition process is left, the speed would be faster.

After just two or three breaths, bang! bang! bang! bang!…

More than 400 turtledog guns fired at the same time. After a smog of smoke rose, more than 100 Dongjiang soldiers on the Qing army were immediately placed by the lead bullets shot from the turtledog gun. There was a wailing sound. The turtledog gun could penetrate iron armor within eighty or ninety steps, and the leather armor and cotton armor were penetrated by a hundred steps. As long as the Dongjiang soldiers who were hit were not wearing iron armor, almost most of them were shot and killed on the spot, and those who were not beaten to death were screaming!

Geng Zhongming was both shocked and angry!

He never expected that the Ming army actually had turtle dove guns! There were so many!

As early as the early years of Chongzhen, Xiong Wencan transported a batch of firearms to Beijing, including hundreds of such muskets, more than a hundred of which were assigned to the right assistant censor and the governor of Denglai, Sun Yuanhua, for firearms expert Sun Yuanhua to study and imitate.

Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde and others were also military generals under Sun Yuanhua. During the time of Guan Cao, I was fortunate to see the power of this heavy fire gun after being fired. Not to mention bird guns, the effective killing distance is not comparable to that of them, even the melee killing weapon tiger squat cannons is much worse than them. The effective killing distance of the qualified tiger squat cannons is only about seventy steps, and the inferior quality does not even have sixty steps.

Unexpectedly, I saw the legendary turtledove gun here again!

In the fifth year of Chongzhen, Kong Youde led Geng Zhongming and others to rebel against the Tartars and captured Dengzhou. Governor Sun Yuanhua was killed after his defeat. The research and imitation of the turtle dove gun was interrupted. So far, except for Macau, only some skilled craftsmen in Foshan Guards in the country can also cast such powerful heavy muskets.

Although Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde and others have always been jealous of this powerful firearm, they have no ability to imitate and can only fantasize in their minds.

The soldiers of the "Gongsheng Camp" did not care about the reaction of the Qing army opposite. After the first row was cast, the second row stepped forward and the brackets were arranged. There were also all the turtle dove guns, with more than 400 doors. As the flag of the gang general Zhang Jiayu waved, there were a series of "bang, bang, bang..." fire sounds, and white smoke suddenly filled.

The turtledove gun soldiers and Spanish light convex rope gun soldiers had three rows, and they fired alternately, with more than 400 people in each row. Under the command of the military academy's flag, the horizontal formations changed from sparse to tighten, forming a dense long formation. Relatively speaking, the lethality also increased a lot.

As the gunshots rang out, more than a hundred Dongjiang soldiers fell to the ground in the Qing army's array and wailed endlessly.

Because the original firearms such as the mezzanine are equipped with smooth-bore front, the long-distance hit rate is very low. Even if the turtle dove gun is still very strong outside eighty or ninety steps, the accurate head is nothing to say. Only many muskets are concentrated together and dense volleys can have a greater killing effect on enemy troops. Even so, the overall hit rate is still not very high. More than 400 turtle dove guns can kill hundreds of Qing soldiers on the other side, and the effect is already very good.

In a short period of time, although the turtledove gun only shot two rounds, it had caused three or four hundred casualties to the Dongjiang soldiers!

Geng Zhongming stared at the Ming army array ahead with a pale face, almost vengeful!

These Dongjiang soldiers are the real essence of the entire army and are also the absolute main force in infantry warfare, but because of the small number of people, there are less than 10,000 infantry and cavalry.

So it is not that the extremely critical moment. Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi and others are generally reluctant to use it. Once the damage is serious, it will really damage the vitality. This power cannot be replenished in a short period of time. You can only rely on continuous killing, survival of the fittest, and time to slowly accumulate and cultivate.

According to the past situation, in a war, as long as the main troops and horses were not seriously damaged, and when the money and food were replenished, a large recruitment banner would be erected, tens of thousands of people would be gathered in a short time, and the reputation would be great.

So no matter how many wars you have experienced, as long as your direct lineage does not disperse, it is not difficult to make a comeback.

In the previous artillery and cavalry wars, more than 600 Dongjiang soldiers had died under the artillery and cavalry of the Ming army. For Geng Zhongming, who had only about 8,000 direct troops, it could be considered a trauma.

Unexpectedly, at the beginning of the musket shooting, his side suddenly lost hundreds of elite soldiers. Geng Zhongming was almost crying and his fingernails were pinched into the flesh without realizing it!

The remaining Dongjiang soldiers were shot twice in a row, and their minds were in a mess. Unexpectedly, the Ming Gouzi's muskets could shoot so far. Seeing the tragic situation of the robes around them, they were even more shocked. Seeing that they could not protect their lives, they could no longer suppress their fear. They did not care about the military orders of the battalion officers and the bird guns and tiger squatting cannons in their hands, and could not hit the Ming army opposite. Subconsciously, there was a pounding sound and counterattacked in the direction of the Ming army opposite.

Unfortunately, because of the distance, the lead bullets of the bird gun and the cannon of the tiger squat cannon have basically no major damage effect after about a hundred steps.

What's more, the musketeers of the Ming army's vanguard "Gongsheng Camp" were all wearing iron armor, iron boots, and all eight-petal hats and iron-pointed helmets, and were completely unafraid of flying lead bullets.

The Qing soldiers fought for a long time, and it looked very lively, but they almost didn't kill a few people. They were easily blocked by iron armor. Only six or seven soldiers of the "Gongsheng Camp" were unlucky. Unfortunately, they were shot and injured, and were hit by a few cannons of tiger squat cannons that fell into the array.
Chapter completed!