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Part One: Penghu Storm Chapter 557: Firearms Showdown!  !

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    The Tiger Guards are finally here!

    The flying war flags outside Beijing seem to be announcing to everyone:

    The time has come to avenge the Ming Dynasty and Chongzhen!

    The young general Li Dingguo commanded this Ming army. He never thought that King Wu Lie would entrust this glorious task to him.

    But he didn¡¯t flinch at all. In his opinion, this was a test for himself and also his best opportunity.  Your name will be engraved in history forever with this battle!

    Artillery is being delivered one by one, and the army is gathering as quickly as possible according to its own organization.  When all the troops arrive at their designated positions, the general attack on Beijing will begin.

    But Gao Yigong, who is stationed outside the capital, is not an ordinary person.  He has always been by Li Zicheng's side and has experienced numerous battles, large and small.

    He knows very well that once the enemy is assembled, it will turn into a fierce battle, and the best way now is to take the initiative.

    Li Dingguo also accurately judged the other party's intentions.

    It was necessary to block the enemy's first attack while he was still on his own footing. As for the person who could take on this task, Li Dingguo thought of Ahu first.

    Li Dingguo knew that Ahu and himself had conflicts, but he didn't care too much.

    As long as he can win, he can let go of all conflicts.  Fortunately for him, Ah Hu had the same idea as him.

    Although Ah Hu is very dissatisfied with Li Dingguo acting as the commander-in-chief of this siege, for now, how to capture the capital as soon as possible is the first priority.

    Brother-in-law, he is still waiting for me at Shanhaiguan!

    In the middle, Li Dingguo arranged Major Shi Weide's regiment, and on the left was the Tiger Guards commanded by A Hu, who was ready to attack at any time.

    And those artillery pieces that were the first to arrive on the battlefield also opened their terrifying bloody mouths!

    Gao Yigong has completed the assembly, and what surprised the Huben Guards the most was that there were artillery among the bandits, and there were even firearms troops armed with blunderbuss!

    This point made the soldiers of the Huben Guards wonder. Where did the bandits get these weapons?

    The Tiger Guards fired first!

    ¡°Boom¡ªboom¡ªboom¡ªboom¡ª¡± After several loud roars, the Tiger Guards took the lead and launched an artillery attack on the opponent.

    Although only six artillery pieces were fired this time, all the artillery pieces of Huben Guards were equipped with crosshairs, and the rebel army's artillery force was also very dense. After the six shells were fired, not all of them hit the target, and two shells continued to hit the target.  Hit three or four rebel soldiers.  One of them actually hit an artillery piece. Although it had a cast-iron body, the artillery was still dented and it was obviously no longer usable.

    The soldiers of Huben Guard also cheered in unison, congratulating their companions on the results of the first bombardment.

    The artillery and muskets of the rebel army were all captured from the Ming army, and the gunners and musketeers were all surrendered Ming troops. These people were originally veterans and losers, and they would fall down when the wind blew.

    It¡¯s just that I always won battles with the bandit army in the past, and I could show off my power when fighting with the wind, and I had a little bit of courage to move forward. But I didn¡¯t expect that I encountered a tough opponent here today. I and I haven¡¯t entered the shooting range yet.  , the enemy took action first, although only a dozen soldiers were killed and one cannon was destroyed.  But they also frightened the courage of this group of rebel soldiers and they did not dare to move forward.

    " However, they also know that Gao Yigong's military discipline is very strict. If he retreats at this time, the supervising team behind him will never show mercy, so retreating now is a death.  We can only bite the bullet and keep moving forward.

    However, the Huben Guards' artillery fire came one after another. As they advanced, they continued to hit the rebel firearms units. Although the gains from each blow were not large, they saw that their opponents had no power to fight back, so they just saw the rebel army.  The uneasiness he felt when launching the cannon gradually disappeared.  Li Dingguo, who was watching the battle, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

    The current situation of the battle also made Gao Yigong frown. It seemed that he had overestimated the firearms force, so his confidence had also dropped significantly.

    The company withstood three or four rounds of shelling by Huben Guards. The rebel firearms unit lost almost fifty or sixty people, and two artillery pieces were destroyed. At this time, they were basically within 300 steps of Huben Guards' position.  It is the strike range of Tiger Guard's No. 3 Folan cannon, and the artillery on the northern line has been deployed in place, so Tiger Guard's strike intensity has also been significantly increased, with sixteen artillery firing at once.  The lethality has naturally increased a lot, and when the distance is closer, the hit??has also improved a lot.  In the first round, sixteen artillery pieces were fired together and destroyed two of the rebel artillery pieces.  Moreover, many gunners and gunmen were injured and killed.  If the rebels advance a further distance, the No. 2 Franco machine gun can switch to using shotgun shells to attack.

    Facing the increasingly fierce attacks, the bandit army did not dare to move forward.

    And at this distance, some artillery can almost hit it, so the bandit army also stopped one after another. Regardless of whether it has enough shooting range or not, every artillery also starts to load cannonballs.  Prepare to fire back.  The artillery stopped, and the gunmen naturally did not dare to move forward.  Because if you advance any further, you will not only be killed by the opponent, but you will also become a target for your own artillery.  They could only stop to reload and prepare to shoot.

    The chaotic scene of the rebel army also fully demonstrates that it is not only the artillery and blunderbuss that can become a firearms unit. The use of firearms also requires rigorous training and matching tactics.

    After withstanding another round of artillery strikes from the Tiger Guards, most of the rebel artillery pieces were finally filled with ammunition, and they could finally fire and launch a counterattack against the Tiger Guards.

    "Boom-boom-boom-boom-" A series of shelling sounds finally sounded from the rebel army's position. The gunmen raised their guns one after another, regardless of what they were doing, "Bang bang bang bang bang"  Just a flurry of shots.

    More than 30 artillery pieces, plus two thousand muskets, were fired together, creating a huge momentum in a short time.

    Gao Yigong, who was watching the battle from a distance, frowned a little. It was finally his turn to use his artillery, and this time he could let the Tiger Guards compensate for the taste of the artillery.  But Gao Yigong soon discovered that something was wrong, and was stunned into silence.

    After the rebel army's artillery bombardment began, it was impossible to say that the Tiger Guards were not nervous. Even the three most senior officers, Li Dingguo, Shi Weide, and Ah Hu, shrank in their hearts, thinking that after this round of bombardment, they would be given a side.  How much damage was caused?

    But he soon discovered that the truth was not as bad as he had imagined. Most of the artillery shells fired by the rebels landed almost a hundred steps away from Huben's position. Only a dozen or so shells landed on Huben's position.  Within a distance of ten or twenty steps in front of the guard's position, not one of them hit the Tiger Guard's position.

    Although the artillery shell can still bounce forward on the ground based on inertia after it lands, the impact force has been greatly reduced, and at this time the benefits of the trench are revealed.  The soldier only had to push his head and hide behind the homespun bag, and he was basically fine.  The shells either flew over their heads or hit the homespun bags. At most, they were shocked, and most of the remaining momentum was absorbed by the homespun bags.  Unless it happens to fall into the trench, it will basically not be lethal to the Tiger Guards.  As for the firecrackers, they were not worth mentioning. They were more than three hundred steps away. Unless they were rifles from the 19th century, there was no threat at all.  Therefore, this round of shelling by the rebels only killed two soldiers of the Huben Guards.  What's more, it triggered a burst of ridicule from Huben Guards.

    After seeing the huge contrast in the results of the artillery fire between the two sides, Li Dingguo, Shi Weide, and Ah Hu finally felt relieved. It seemed that the rebel artillery was indeed not in good shape and could not hit their own positions at all.

    And from the Huben Guard position, there was another earth-shattering sound of artillery fire, as if to show the rebels that this is how artillery should be used.

    After the cannonballs fell, there was another scream in the rebel artillery array. Another artillery was hit by the cannonball, causing it to roll over several times and overwhelm the two gunners.

    Liang Dong, who was in charge of the rebel artillery, gritted his teeth and retreated in his heart. He looked back and found that the supervising team was following him, only more than two hundred steps away. It turned out that Gao Yigong had seen him in the formation.  This time, the Huben Guards' artillery can only hit about 500 steps at the longest. It is estimated that some long-range artillery has not been brought. Although I am still a little worried, the Huben Guards are not holding back, so I dare not go forward in person.  , but still pushed the supervising team to the front to supervise the battle from a close distance.

    Liang Tongcai's heart naturally felt cold. If he ran away at this time, he would probably be killed by the supervising team within a few steps. It seemed that he had no choice but to hold on.  So he urged the gunners to reload, and didn't bother to pay attention to the gunners, because they would definitely not be able to hit them.

    At this moment, I saw a horse galloping from behind. The knight on horseback shouted loudly: "General Liang, the general has an order. He ordered the artillery to advance another hundred steps and the gunmen to advance two hundred steps. No  Violation."

    Liang Dong was stunned for a moment and was about to speak when he heard two loud noises, "Boom - Boom -", followed by a series of screams.

    It turns out that the gunners of the two cannons wanted the cannons to fire farther, so the amount of gunpowder they filled was also increased. As a result, the gunpowder exceeded the target.The gun barrel exploded and affected the surrounding soldiers. Fifty or sixty people died in one fell swoop.  Many people were also injured.

    The soldier who delivered the order was also frightened and hurriedly said: "General Liang, follow the order immediately!"

    As he said that, he quickly turned his horse's head and ran towards the return road.  At this time, some soldiers really couldn't bear it, and turned around and ran away, regardless of the supervising team behind them.

    Liang Dong only knew the military law when he arrived and did not dare to escape easily. He just lay on the ground and tried his best to avoid the shelling of the Tiger Guards. Then he looked back to observe the consequences of the fleeing soldiers before deciding on his own plan.

    However, the outcome of the escaping soldiers completely dispelled Liang Dongcai's illusions. As soon as they escaped to the supervising team, the soldiers of the supervising team were not polite and killed them on the spot. They also chopped off the heads and placed them in front of the formation.  Warn others.  The supervising team killed more than thirty soldiers in one go, which really frightened the other fleeing soldiers. Seeing that there was no hope of retreating, they could only stop one after another, and then turned around helplessly and returned to the artillery position.

    But after such a delay, the Huben Guards launched four or five rounds of artillery fire in succession. Although the rebel soldiers had learned the lesson and lay down on the ground to avoid the artillery fire, the casualties were not large, but the artillery fire was  Unable to evade, several more doors were destroyed by the Tiger Guards.

    From the beginning of the war to the present, nearly forty artillery pieces have been destroyed by the Tiger Guards.  The casualties also exceeded two hundred.

    Liang Dongcai had no choice but to order the artillery to move forward a hundred steps, then re-establish the artillery position and fire at the Huben Guards.  At the same time, he ordered the gunmen to rush in front of the artillery, approach the Tiger Guards' position, and launch an attack on the Tiger Guards.

    At this point, the soldiers of the rebel army have no choice. Escape is a dead end, and staying here can only be beaten and resisted, which is still a dead end.  It's better to get closer and exchange fire with the Tiger Guards within the range of your own artillery. Maybe there is still a glimmer of hope.  Therefore, they all obeyed Liang Tongcai's order, pushed the artillery, carried the gunpowder box, and continued to advance forward despite the fire from the Tiger Guards.

    The fire gunmen moved faster because they had less burden, and if they wanted to reach their firing range, they had to get within fifty steps of the Tiger Guards' position, so the rebels quickly separated the distance.  One after another, one quickly and one slowly, they are approaching the Tiger Guards' position.

    But this poses a problem for the Tiger Guards, because now the rebel army is divided into two, one in front and one in the back. So which part should the artillery target be?  If you continue to attack the artillery, you will let the gunner in front get closer to the position. If you attack the gunman, the artillery will inevitably cause more damage to itself after it enters a longer range.  This is quite a dilemma.

    But Li Dingguo kept in mind what Ding Yunyi once taught him. He must make decisions quickly on the battlefield, never hesitate at all, and must trust his own judgment.

    Therefore, he ordered the artillery to continue attacking the rebel artillery. When the enemy came within 200 steps, they could use more lethal shotguns to attack them.  And let the musketeers get closer to the position, leaving them to their own musketeers to deal with.  That is to say: artillery against artillery, musket against musket.

    Because after seeing the results of the artillery battle, Li Dingguo firmly believed that the musketeers of the Huben Guards would also be able to defeat the musketeers of the rebel army.

    Because the Huben Guards' artillery did not target the rebel firecrackers, the rebel firecrackers temporarily gained a little safety time as they advanced. Amidst the roar of the artillery,  Gradually approaching the Huben Guards' position.

    At this time, there were more than 1,800 firecrackers in the bandit army, each carrying a variety of weapons, but they all advanced step by step from filled firecrackers.

    The Huben Guards musketeers had been prepared for a long time, and only waited for the rebels' musketeers to enter within a hundred steps of the Huben Guards' position, and then launched an attack on them first.

    After a series of volleys of gun fire, the rebel gun soldiers immediately fell down in a row. The fire gun soldiers in the back row became nervous and ignored many of them. Some pulled the triggers, some lit up the medicine, and all tried their best to attack the tiger guards.  Positional shooting.

    But it is a pity that most of the fire muskets used by the rebel army are three-eyed muskets. Although there are a small number of bird muskets, their quality is no better than those used by the Tiger Guards.

    Within a distance of about a hundred steps, it is impossible to have any effect.  He could only shoot randomly with "bang bang bang bang bang", and then he was busy loading ammunition.

    But the two sides fired at each other for a while, and the rebels gradually realized that something was wrong. Although the sound of the other side's gunfire was far less than that of their own, after each round of shooting, a row of people on their side would always fall down, and after they fired, the other side would always fall down.  There seemed to be no movement on the position, and it seemed that there were not many casualties.  But in practiceDuring the period when the two sides were firing at each other, the rebel gunmen were killed and injured more than 300 people. However, only a few soldiers of the Tiger Guards were killed by shells, and the gunmen were killed by fire.  Not a single soldier was killed by gunfire.

    After the bandits came to their senses, they realized that their efforts were all in vain. They had no choice but to brave the attack of the Tiger Guards and continue to move forward, hoping to enter the effective killing range of their fire guns.

    But after they advanced a certain distance, the Tiger Guards' muskets also began to fire, and they really entered the pace of three consecutive shots.  Therefore, although the sound of Hu Ben Guards' musket shooting was still not dense enough, the frequency of shooting increased greatly, almost without interruption. The bandits were only beaten up by howls of ghosts and wolves, and people fell down one after another.

    Although the bandit army also has a small number of muskets, they are all obtained from the Ming army. The quality itself is uneven, and even if the quality is good, it is not properly maintained and maintained, so the effect is naturally compromised.  The muskets used by Huben Guards themselves are carefully selected products of high quality. In addition, Huben Guards uses fixed-package granular gunpowder, which is more effective than the powdered gunpowder used by the rebels.  Therefore, the effective killing range of the Tiger Guard's bird blunderbuss against the rebel army is 80 steps, while the thief's fire blunderbuss can only hit fifty steps at most.

    This difference also caused a huge difference in the effectiveness of the exchange of fire between the two sides. In addition, more than ten bird cannons in the bandit army exploded, which not only exploded the soldiers using the bird cannons, but also injured many surrounding people.  companion.  As a result, other soldiers who used bird guns did not dare to use bird guns anymore. They threw away the bird guns one after another and picked up the three-eyed gun used by the dead soldier, and then they dared to use it with confidence.

    The three-eyed gun has a shorter range, so it poses no threat to the Tiger Guards.

    "No, Hu Benwei's muskets are not vegetarian. Round after round, they continuously hit the bandit army.

    This also made the bandits feel very depressed. Why were they all using fire blunderbuss? Hu Benwei's fire blunderbuss could hit so fast and so far, but his own couldn't reach it!
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