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Chapter 117 Repairing Fushun Pass (11)

The swordsman raised his shields to cover the heads of the gunners, musketeers and crossbowmen.

The light arrows shot by the Later Jin army covered the sky and the sun. The rain of arrows was like dark clouds falling, and countless arrows fell into the chariot formation. Despite the shields blocking them, many Ming soldiers were still hit by arrows and fell down screaming.

"Switch the shotgun!" Xiong Tingbi roared.

The two general guns were replaced with shotguns. The gunmen poured the gunpowder in, then pushed the wooden board to the bottom, compacted the gunpowder, poured it into the sand, and then stuffed a bag of mud-baked paper bags into the mud and pushed it onto the wooden board. This was the only way to load the shotguns.

Why do you need both sand and mud to fire a shotgun? It is to ensure sealing, otherwise the shotgun will not have any power when it is fired; in addition, when the gun is loaded in this way, the shotgun will not pour out when it is downward.

Gao Shi said in confidence: I need a fixed-mounted shotgun or a shrapnel shotgun is needed.

Fixed shotgun is to make a round frame with bamboo, then wrap iron beads in a cardboard case, and combine it with a fixed charge package. The filling speed can be much higher. The shroudgun is even more powerful. The outside is iron sheet. After being fired, it flies for a distance. The outer layer of iron sheet explodes under the pressure of gunpowder gas, and the iron beads inside fly out to kill the enemy.

However, the General Cannon, the Destroyer Cannon and the Medium Flame Cannon did not fire after being replaced with the shotgun, but waited patiently.

The shield chariot of the Later Jin army advanced within fifty steps. At this time, the firepower of the Ming army became even stronger. The light Franchise and the turtle dove guns sprayed out flame tongues. These firearms were much more powerful than bird guns. The bullets hit an ordinary shield chariot, which was a hole for the opposite end. The projectiles could directly kill the coated auxiliary soldiers behind the shield chariot. The crushed wood chips could also cause secondary damage. Unless they were excellent shield chariots, they could block the light Franchise and the turtle dove guns. The ordinary shield chariot of the Later Jin army

The three-inch thick wooden boards were covered with wet cotton cloth. Long-range weapons such as the Ming army's bird guns, three-eyed guns and crossbows could not be penetrated at all, but the Franchise and the Turtle Dove gun could be penetrated; while the Houjin's exquisite shield car was two layers of three-inch wooden boards with a layer of iron sheet in the middle, and cowhide was covered with wet cotton cloth. This exquisite shield car was simply a earthen tank, and neither the turtle Dove guns nor the light Franchise machine could be penetrated. However, the number of the exquisite shield car of the Later Jin army was also very rare.

In Xiong Tingbi's army, two hundred light Franchise machines and seven hundred turtle dove guns and cannons were fired, and the projectiles pierced holes on the ordinary shield chariot of the Later Jin army. The back of the shield chariot was full of flesh and blood, and the cart's coats fell down one after another.

The undead Baoyi Aha pushed the riddled shield cart and continued to move forward, step by step approaching the Ming army's chariot formation.

The Later Jin army had already suffered heavy losses before they could approach Xiong Tingbi's car formation, but most of the losses were worthless coats, and the wild boar skin didn't feel sorry for these coats at all. Anyway, they were all a qian man, and it didn't matter if they died.

As long as the shield cart advances another twenty steps, the elite archers of the Later Jin can shoot archers on the Ming army. At a close distance of twenty steps, the archers of the Later Jin can shoot heavy arrows from the shooting hole into the chariot array. According to the old slave's judgment, the archers will shoot with faces, and then the long-range soldiers of the Ming army behind the chariot array will not be able to withstand it. The dead soldiers wearing three thick armor climbed up and broke through a little. As long as they enter hand-to-hand combat, the Ming army will collapse on the entire line.

"Swoosh swish swish swish" countless fire dragons suddenly shot out from the Ming army formation, swept across the top of the Later Jin army shield chariot with a harsh whistling sound, drawing an arc, and scrambling into the Later Jin army crowd.

It was a swarm of rockets, but the launch of the swarm of rockets not only did not surprise Lao Nu, but instead sneered: "Minggou is at the end of his strength, so this large firework is also taken out to scare people?"

The swarms of rockets were ridiculed by the Later Jin army as large fireworks. Even the Ming army itself had a bad review of this weapon because the accuracy of this weapon was extremely poor, with an error of 100 to 200 steps, not even a mile, and it was very likely that after being launched, they turned around and flew back to the user's own head.

But the wild boar skin quickly couldn't laugh because the accuracy of the rockets was not as bad as he imagined, but they fought very accurately. Most of the rockets fell into the crowd of the Later Jin army. The rockets with flames were stabbed on people. The power of the gunpowder-powered rockets was far better than that of the bow and arrow. The Later Jin soldiers wearing multiple thick armor were shot through armor. More people were pushed to the ground by the rockets, and then nailed to the ground. Some were even taken back by the rockets. Some rockets pierced into the formation of the Later Jin heavy cavalry on both wings. The rockets spitting flames hit the heavy cavalry, and directly took the people off the horse's back and flew backwards backwards. Some heavy cavalry even entered the horse and were shot to death.

These swarms of rockets are not the shoddy and counterfeit products that the Later Jin army saw in the past, but the sophisticated rockets. This is because Emperor Wanli loved Xiong Tingbi very much. As long as Xiong Tingbi spoke up, Wanli would provide him as much as possible. These sophisticated swarms of rockets can be said to be quite powerful, but they require a lot of manpower and material resources. The cost is very expensive. The price of a rocket is much more expensive than a pound of shells and launching medicine. A pound of shells can kill several people, but a rocket can only kill one person.

Therefore, this kind of firearm actually took a detour. The Rockets really showed their skills at the end of the 18th century. The Congrif Rocket, which was born in that year, was a kind of rocket-driven flowering bomb that could fall into the crowd and explode. The British used this weapon to defeat Napoleon's French army. Later, in the Battle of Baliqiao, the Congrif rocket was used to launch at Senggelinqin's cavalry. The explosion caused a frightening group of war horses and led to the defeat of the Qing army.

Xiong Tingbi's rockets do not have the function of explosion. A rocket can only kill one soldier at most, or even multiple rockets can kill a Jurchen soldier. Fortunately, there are many rockets, and dense rockets descend from the sky and can always hit the target.

The rockets fell in this round and stabbed the Jianzhou soldiers of the Later Jin Dynasty, as if they were stabbed in wild boar skin.

"Ama, Xiong Manzi's firearm is powerful, but it doesn't matter. Our people have already attacked! As long as our people rushed up and fought with the barbarians, our army will win." Abatai stepped forward and said.

There were only twenty steps left between the two sides. The Hou Jin archers strode forward and used the shield to shoot heavy rain arrows at the Ming army formation in front. Many of the archers shot from the Hou Jin archers drilled into the shooting holes of the car wall. The Ming army hiding behind the shooting holes were in trouble. Some people were caught in the eyes, while others were caught in the face, and their screams were endless.

The coated musketeers of the Later Jin army also advanced forward, and fired violently at the Ming army's chariot. The projectiles hit the car wall, causing wood chips to fly. Many projectiles drilled through the shooting holes and killed the Ming army behind.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the coated musketeers suppressing the Ming army musketeers, the Later Jin archers stepped forward. The front row of them squatted down their waists, and their feet separated in a figure-eight shape, shooting directly at close range within ten steps. The latter rows pointed the arrows diagonally towards the sky and shot from a long distance.

The vibration of the bowstring sounded like a piece, and the arrows roared like rain, covering the sky densely.

The Ming army covered it with shields, but many musketeers and crossbowmen still fell down with arrows.
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