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Chapter 393 Flower Bullets Against Eight Banners

The twelve-pound field cannons loaded with shotgun can no longer attack the shield car. Zhao Peng could only let the gunners of the twelve-pound field cannons wait, and let the sixty-four-pound mortar cannons aim at the Eight Banners formation behind the Qing army formation to fire flowering artillery shells.

Only four dull roars were heard, four 64-pound mortars spit out flames, and huge shells rose into the air, like four burning meteors, smashing down hard at the back of the Qing army formation.

"Minggou is firing!" Seeing four huge meteorite-like shells falling into their formation, the Eight Banners soldiers behind the Green Camp soldiers were in chaos. No matter how brave and invincible the Eight Banners soldiers were, they were just flesh and blood. They knew that once they were hit by these huge shells, they would be crushed to pieces.

Therefore, the fearful Eight Banners soldiers were so scared that they dispersed, trying to avoid the attack of the Ming army's mortar cannon.

However, the mortar shells, which looked very slow in the naked eye, actually flew far faster than human reactions. The formation of the Eight Banners soldiers was very dense and crowded. When they saw the shells falling towards their heads, they began to dodge, but it was too late.

The whistling shells fell into the formation of the Eight Banners soldiers. A fire flashed, and a deafening explosion sounded. Four huge sixty-four-pound shells exploded violently. The twenty kilograms of new gunpowder loaded in the sixty-four-pound shells expanded violently, releasing great energy in a short period of time. The air waves swept, debris and steel balls flew everywhere, and exploded out blank spaces among the dense Eight Banners soldiers.

These four flowering artillery shells were extremely powerful, and the formation of the Eight Banners Army was very dense. The four shells exploded, knocking down at least 200 people! After the explosion, a circle centered on the landing of the four shells, countless wailing soldiers and twitching corpses were everywhere. Although there were more injured than the dead, with the medical technology of this era, most of the injured were beyond help.

Seeing four shells falling into the Eight Banners soldiers and exploded, Duoduo's heart twitched suddenly. Seeing the shells exploded, Duoduo only felt his heart bleeding. These four shells would have taken the lives of the elite Eight Banners.

After a while, more than a dozen wounded soldiers were carried to Duoduo.

Duoduo walked to an Eight Banners soldier who screamed heart-wrenchingly, and saw the soldier lying on a stretcher. The thick cotton armor on his body had already turned into a horse's nest. There were still a few pieces of debris that had not penetrated the cotton armor and were tied to the cotton armor.

The two soldiers untied the wounded soldier's bloody cotton armor, and saw that the inner chain mail was penetrated, with countless holes on it. The Eight Banners soldiers took off the wounded's chain mail and found a big hole in the abdomen and all their intestines flowed outside.

"There is no need to save him." Duoduo turned around and pulled out the golden knife, wiped the wounded soldier's neck with one knife, helping him relieve his pain.

Duoduo looked at other wounded soldiers. Although they were not as serious as the one just now, they were covered with wounds, and they were all over their bodies like Ma Feng nests. They were lying on a stretcher and wailing in pain. Although with the medical technology of the Qing army, they might be able to temporarily save their lives, but the Qing army did not know how to deal with the wound. Perhaps the wounds in the future would kill them. Whether they could survive depends entirely on luck.

"Come on, treat as much as possible." Duoduo said helplessly.

The wounded soldiers were carried down. Duoduo stood on the watchtower and picked up the telescope to observe the movements of the Mingjun castle ahead.

At this time, the Qing army had advanced within a hundred steps. At this moment, the six-pound cannon loaded with solid shells aimed at the Qing army shield chariot formation that was close to the point, and fired again.

With a roar of cannons, the six-pound field cannons fired at close range spit out a row of flames, and sixty cannons fired volleys. At such a close distance, all the shells hit, and sixty shield cars were beaten into pieces.

The shells that crushed the shield cart continued to plunge into the Qing army crowd, crushing the Goryeo sticks of countless carts. The shield plates that crushed the shells swept across hundreds of Goryeo soldiers like shrapnel, knocking them down in a pool of blood.

After the six-pound field artillery smashed the shield chariot in front of the Qing army, the Qing army, which was originally hiding behind the shield chariot, was exposed to the Ming army's firepower. At this moment, the Ming army's fortress was like a sudden erupting volcano, and countless shooting holes spit out flames.

At a distance of seventy steps, each round of intensive shooting of the flintlock rifle can knock down a large number of Qing soldiers. After the shooting, the new Ming army soldiers immediately exited the shooting hole. The soldiers behind came up, extended the flintlock rifle from the shooting hole, aimed at the Qing army and pulled the trigger, and then the soldiers who had finished shooting immediately retreated and exited the fortress to load bullets.

When every round of gunfire sounded, a group of Qing soldiers fell in front of the formation. The three-stage strikes of the flintlock rifle did not stop for a moment. The continuous bullets were poured on the Qing army like rainstorms, knocking the Qing soldiers who rushed up one by one in front of the formation.

The Qing army in front fell down, and the Qing army behind rushed up again. Under the continuous shooting of the flintlock rifle, the Qing army was like a huge onion, peeled layer by layer, and all the rows in front fell down, and another row behind rushed up.

Just as the Qing army continued to advance a few steps in the rain of bullets, the Ming army's twelve-pound field guns finally showed their might again. The twelve-pound field gunners who had already loaded with shotguns were waiting for a long time, but they had no chance to fire. When the shield car in front of the Qing army was smashed to pieces, the field gunners aimed at the target and ignited the artillery.

"Boom boom boom" Twenty twelve-pound field guns spit out flames almost at the same time. Countless shotguns were spitting out like rainstorms, forming a fan-shaped killing surface of three hundred steps wide and one hundred steps long in front of the muzzle. Wherever the shotgun went, a scarlet blood mist rose from the Qing army crowd, which had advanced to the fifty steps away, was swept away, and the Qing army formation closest to the fort was repelled to seventy steps away.

In fact, it was not that the Qing soldiers retreated to seventy steps, but that the Qing army within seventy steps was swept away by shotguns.

As the front formation of the Qing army was swept away, the pressure of the musketeers in the fortress was reduced sharply, and they could load and shoot in an orderly manner. At the same time, a large number of auxiliary soldiers equipped with turtledove guns and bird guns also began to hide everywhere and shoot at the Qing army from a high place.

Although the bird gun has not high accuracy, it still has certain accuracy in shooting targets within fifty steps. Zhao Peng did not ask the auxiliary soldiers to attack very accurately. The Qing army's formation was so dense that the auxiliary soldiers could hit the target almost with their eyes closed. Scattered auxiliary soldiers hid in the dark and aimed at the Korean cannon fodder in front of the Qing army to open fire.

The guns kept sounding, and from time to time, there were Koreans screaming and falling down.

"Bang" Kong Jie pulled the trigger, and a Korean man was shot and fell down forty steps. Kong Jie quickly retreated, pulled out the knife from his waist, and carved a bar on the buttstock of the bird gun. Two "六" characters have been carved on his bird gun, which means that he had killed ten Qing soldiers and just shot another guy, so there was another word behind the two "六".

In fact, Kong Jie was aiming at another Korean man, but after pulling the trigger, the fuse was pressed into the medicine pool, and the bird gun fired, but the unlucky guy just now fell.

This is the accuracy of the bird gun. If you aim at one shot, the other one may hit. In fact, this new bird gun is already very sophisticated, much better than the bird guns supervised by the Ming Dynasty’s Ministry of Works. In the past, those bird guns in the Ministry of Works did not dare to load ammunition, otherwise it would be easy to explode.

These new bird guns are absolutely reliable in quality, the inner chamber is very smooth, ensuring accuracy, and the barrel wall is very thick, and using sufficient fixed-loading bullets, there will be no accidents of explosions. Soldiers can aim at the targets and shoot calmly, without worrying about their own casualties due to explosions.
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