Chapter two hundred and sixteen tenacity
Artillery is the most powerful weapon of human beings at this stage.
At this time, the two types of artillery that appeared on the battlefield outside Winchester, England were the two branches of the most powerful weapons that have developed to this day.
Count Robert Dudley's troops had six three-pound eagle cannons built from Greenwich Arsenal, with smooth-bore front and small four-wheeled cannon stands. The total cannon weighs 700 kilograms and has a maximum range of four miles. It is well-made and has a balance of lightness and power. It is the most suitable field cannon in England to take out of the city to fight.
Ying Ming's troops were equipped with 36, 400 kilograms of Fran cannons, using a two-wheeled cannon car, and were equipped with a smooth bore afterwards, with a limited range.
There are reasons why Francois was popular in the Ming Dynasty. One is the most advantageous in water battles and the other is the raid of Mongolian light cavalry in the northern border, which is even more advantageous.
This is also the reason why Chen Mu wanted to sell General Zhenshuo to Qi Jiguang, but was not adopted - General Zhenshuo is indeed extremely powerful, but what can he do when he gets it in the northern border? Can he be sure to hit the naked man on a horse-carrying horse that is like the wind, or do he use it to bombard the yurt?
However, Francs do have great disadvantages in the battlefield of such artillery bombing.
The troops of both sides lined up across nearly two miles, and the sound of artillery fired, and a piece of gunpowder exploded above the two armies.
The old smoke was just penetrated by the bombardment of the shells, and the new smoke had risen with the bombardment of the shells.
The infantry on both sides did not line up with guns like the infantry two or three hundred years later. They still had the armor and shields of ancient warriors. They steadily placed the big tiger-painted cards and heraldic shields in almost the same form in front of the two armies, trying to prevent the firepower of the shells from pouring out.
It can only be tried to stop it. Once the shells bombed by the Eagle Cannon hit, they will be killed by the card. Then several Miao Luoqui warriors quickly followed in the footsteps.
Thirty-six Franco cannons sprayed out overwhelming sparse pieces, like heavy rain, and the shield could not stop for a lifetime. Every round of artillery fire had large numbers of soldiers covering their faces and falling to the ground.
The successive casualties caused the soldiers to collapse in the square formation. Some even saw the death and injuries of comrades, leaving their weapons and squatting on the ground, burying their heads between their knees, crying loudly.
Even if they could still stand, everyone had a chilling look on their faces. Many soldiers on both sides simply closed their eyes and stood up straight, like a sculpture.
They were all stubborn, the generals of both sides were very stubborn, and the soldiers of both sides were even more stubborn.
They all held their breath.
The eagle cannon fired three rounds, and the Fran machine cannon fired two rounds of six sub-guns. In large numbers, they still stood firmly here.
Ying Ming on the hill in the distance put down his telescope. The sound of war drums made his eardrums hurt. He turned to his side and clenched his fists and cursed at his servants: "But a group of despicable people, why can the mob last for so long?"
In his eyes, Robert's troops were indeed a group of thieves and robbers. In his discriminatory understanding, there were no normal people in this land, including wealthy and unkind merchants, nobles who were in corpses and beggars, thieves, robbers, prostitutes, and prostitutes.
Even if there is, the normal person must be west of Winchester.
But now this army from east Winchester shows extremely strong tenacity, which makes Ying Ming look at it.
He was surprised, but not panicked, because he saw that the army had very low combat qualities, and they were standing there with courage and a spirit of not fear of death.
Although this courage inspired by being only 200 miles away from the country made them show extraordinary resilience, it does not make up for their poor qualities of aiming when firing cannons and not aiming when firing guns.
If courage could determine the victory or defeat of the war, it would not be the turn of the Eastern Military Palace in Asia to decide. The Aztecs who were fighting in the capital would have driven the Spaniards long ago.
In fact, Ying Ming was even more surprised that his troops would still be able to abide by the orders, neither advancing nor retreating.
Although the English had only six guns in number, and it did not seem as scary as the Franco machine cannon was hit by a scattered ball, the actual three-wheeled shells swept away at least eighty of his subordinates, and they were absolutely powerful.
If Robert had thirty-two eagle cannons, it would have probably knocked out half of his battalion soldiers.
What's more, Ying Ming is in a position where he can clearly sense whether each enemy gun hits or not, but for soldiers in the military formation - almost every gun is no different from hitting.
Ying Ming saw Prie camp bent on the move and wanted to disintegrate, but his Makino camp firmly took root in front of the formation and kept moving, holding down all the floating morale.
This is related to the long-term hatred education of the Eastern Military Palace. The Makino people did not compare with the Eastern Military Army. At most, they just regarded the Eastern Military as role models.
But each of them wanted to compare with the Europeans. Even though they had not suffered a real large-scale invasion by the Europeans, they learned about the experience of Aztec through the mouths of the Ming people.
In their opinion, this battle has a great revenge element.
If the enemy on the opposite side who was obviously under greater intensity was still standing there, they would never take a step back and would never show any timidity.
This is actually the terrible root of the official of the Oriental Military Office and the Makio Camping in the Oriental Military Office.
I went to the Dongyang Military Palace to become an official. Since the first day I boarded the boat, I never thought that I would live another good life in the future.
The Iroquois people were even more straightforward. Before they became Miao Luoquois, they were born to water the tree of peace with blood, and they never thought about living for a long time.
Becoming Miao Luoquê gave them too many steel knives and crossbows and combat formations and military systems to not fall behind in the world. More importantly, they allowed these people born for fighting to understand the world and know why they fought.
Facing the flying shells, you are nervous and afraid. This is human nature, and it is numb if you are not afraid.
Registered sailors in England were praying to the gods, and Miaoroquois warriors in Makiya camping were praying.
But the registered sailors prayed that the shells should not be hit on them.
What Miao Luoquyu and others prayed was that the flesh and blood would allow the tree of peace to take root and sprout on this land after the shells hit them.
Ying Ming was impatient. The distance between the Fran machine gun was still far away. The lethality of the Sanzi was not enough. It was not a big problem for him to continue to expend gunpowder, but it was a headache to break the gun. He was an immature gunmaker.
What can really solve the problem is the rockets and the magical mechanism arrows.
If a set of twenty-four-unit magical arrows cannot solve the problem, then another one will be used.
When the second rocket took off and successfully killed several horses on the edge of the opposite army formation in the telescope, the enemy finally came to his senses and blew the bagpipes of the high ground, rows of soldiers began to pull distance to the Ming army.
The first one was the musketeers carrying long muskets and hats. They all carried Dutch-made with racks and marched forward arrogantly.
The knights who formed a high-headed and large horses also erected long spears and launched an attack on the Ming army's front from the flank.
Their goal was to destroy the artillery troops that the Ming army gathered on both wings of Makina Camp.
Chapter completed!