Chapter 208 The Golden Chaser After Repelling (Part 2)
The Ming cavalry had never left the chariot formation too far, and restrained the Korqin light cavalry. Moreover, the Later Jin Dynasty used cavalry to chariot formations, which was not a solution. To deal with infantry formed chariot formations, infantry also needed to deal with them.
The white-rod soldiers' hook and sickle spear soldiers stood on a large cart. These Sichuan chieftain soldiers were wearing vine armor, which could be immune to long-range attacks by Later Jin archers, and were not afraid of weapons such as swords and guns. Unless the Later Jin army could get close to each other and hit them with heavy weapons. If the heavy weapons hit the vine armor, they would not destroy the vine armor, which would also cause people to be seriously injured. But first of all, the Later Jin army must be able to get close to Zhang Yong, with 500 self-produced musketeers and Gao Shixin's 200 turtle dove gunners. It would be difficult for the Later Jin soldiers to approach the white-rod soldiers.
The first circle in the chariot formation was the Qi family army ready to go. The Qi family army fighting in the north actually did not use the Mandarin duck formation. The Mandarin duck formation was used to deal with Japanese pirates in the south. The Qi family army in the north mainly used firearms, light Franchise machines, turtledove guns, three-eyed guns, rockets and other firearms, with spearmen in front of them.
When the Later Jin army was still a hundred steps away from the Ming army's vehicle formation, Qi Jin yelled: "Rocket, launch!"
The soldiers of the Qi family, holding a swarm of rockets in their hands, walked out of the vehicle formation, placed the wooden tube filled with rockets on the ground, and aimed at the direction where the Later Jin army came.
The soldiers of the Qi family, holding a torch, lit the fuse. When the fuse disappeared into the wooden tube, they saw the fire rays soaring into the sky, and a harsh whistling sounded. Countless swarms of rockets swarmed out and flew towards the formation of the heavy infantry in the Houjin step by step forward.
The heavy infantry in the rear gold in front immediately raised their shields to block the rockets shot.
Rockets pierced one after another on the iron shields of the Later Jin soldiers, and the arrow hit the iron shield. Under the powerful impact force, the iron shields were sunken. Some of the Later Jin soldiers had five or six rockets in the iron shields, and were hit by the powerful impact force and flew backwards. Some rockets fell from the sky and pierced on the Later Jin soldiers. The powerful force shot through the three thick armors on the Later Jin soldiers.
If a human-powered bow and arrow is difficult to penetrate the triple thick armor of the Later Jin army, but the rockets fired by gunpowder are much more powerful than those fired by human-powered bow and arrows. Even if they cannot shoot through, they can cause serious internal injuries to the person who is caught.
The swarms used by the Qi family army were much better than the swarms used by other Ming army. Although the accuracy was still not high, the spread range was narrow, and there would be no such thing as the rockets being launched and turned around in the air and shot back into their own formation. These rockets were made by craftsmen from Jiangnan. The Qi family army brought it himself, and the quality was much better than the swarms built by the Ming Dynasty's Ministry of Works.
In a blink of an eye, more than 10,000 excellent rockets plunged into the Hou Jin crowd, and only screams were heard. Countless Later Jin soldiers were flipping on the ground, and some people rolled back and even their shields.
After firing a swarm of rockets, the soldiers of the Qi family immediately turned around and retreated into the vehicle formation. At the same time, a light Franc machine mounted on the vehicle opened fire. Four-two shells crashed into the dense formation of the Later Jin army. The shells hit the iron shield of the Later Jin soldiers in front, and penetrated the shields immediately. The shells continued to hit the Later Jin soldiers behind, smashing the people to pieces.
Some shields did not penetrate a hole, but they were severely sunken. The Later Jin soldiers holding the shield either fell backwards, or their arms were subjected to a strong impact, and their arms were broken, and the shield could not be held. Then a row of shells flew over, smashing the Later Jin soldiers to pieces.
Zhang Yong's 500 factory guards have not fired. Although their self-generated muskets have a range of more than 100 steps, their effective range is only 70 steps. To achieve maximum lethality, the enemy must be placed within 50 steps to fire. If it is too far, the accuracy of the smoothbore gun can be said to be almost equal to zero.
The Later Jin army had already rushed into seventy steps. The archers behind them all spread their legs in eight characters, and they opened their bows and arrows, and the arrows were diagonally facing the sky. With the sound of trembling bowstrings, dense arrows flew into the sky, drawing an arc, and flew down above the Ming army's chariot formation.
The overwhelming light arrow fell down and pierced into the chariot formation. The guardrail of the car was immediately filled with dense arrows. The white pole soldiers and the Qi family army used their armor to block the light arrows. These light arrows could not penetrate them at all, and could only play a role of harassment. The Fran machine gunners who lacked armor protection were protected by the Qi family army's knife players.
The light arrows shot by the Later Jin army had almost no effect. Except for a few light arrows shot into the center of the chariot array and killed several sheep and several Korqin refugees, it did not work.
He Shixian, who was circling around the outside of the chariot formation, was ready to rush towards the infantry of the Later Jin Army with his cavalry, but was stopped by You Shigong: "General He, don't act rashly! We will only deal with the Korqin Tartars! Don't hit Jiannu's heavy infantry!"
If the Ming army's light cavalry rushed forward, let alone encountered the tiger spear of the Later Jin army, they would probably be shot from afar by the archers of the Later Jin army.
At this moment, the Korqin Light Cavalry rushed up again.
He Shixian led the cavalry and circled with the Korqin Light Cavalry. Both sides used bows to shoot arrows on each other, causing losses to each other.
The heavy infantry of the Later Jin army was close to only fifty steps away from the formation. There were countless caltrops hidden in the grass in front. As long as the heavy infantry of the Later Jin army took another step forward, the caltrops would pierce the soles of their feet. So the Later Jin army stopped moving forward and bent down to clear the caltrops on the grass.
"Let me!" Gao Shixin roared.
The personal soldiers beside him used all their strength to blew the horn flute in their hands, and a sharp voice rang through the sky.
An Embroidered Yiwei Baihu pointed forward in the hand of the embroidered Chunjian and shouted loudly: "Let's fire!"
One hundred and fifty factory guards suddenly poked their heads from behind the car wall, and a row of scorching fire flashed through the car array, and thick smoke rose at the same time.
The heavy armored infantry of the Later Jin, who was bent over to clear the caltrops, burst out of blood mist, and they shouted and rolled to the ground. Some archers following behind were also hit by the self-generated muskets. The armor on their bodies was not as good as the heavy armored dead soldiers. After being hit, they immediately had a big blood hole on their bodies, screaming and rolling on the grass.
Gao Shixin saw Niu Luezhen in the Later Jin army crowd at a glance. He pulled the arrow, and a heavy armor-breaking arrow flew out, accurately piercing into the throat of Niu Luezhen.
At the same time, the crossbowmen of the White Rod Soldiers also began to fire. Countless crossbowmen suppressed their hanging swords, and crossbow arrows roared and flew into the sky, piercing into the crowd of archers behind the heavy armored infantry of the Later Jin Dynasty.
The back gold archers had only a layer of cotton armor on their bodies, which could not stop the shooting of crossbow arrows at all. Only a row of screams could be heard, and a large number of back gold archers turned into hedgehog and fell down.
The deafening sound of the turtle dove gun sounded, and the heavy armored soldiers of the Later Jin who were cleaning up the caltrops fell down again.
The Qi family's Franc aircraft also opened fire again, and the iron eggs were loaded into the Later Jin army's crowd. The shields and weapons fragments flew up, and a large area of Later Jin soldiers immediately turned into bloody corpses.
The factory guards fired continuously, and the sound of guns continued to continue, and the sound of guns continued to stop for a moment. The self-generated muskets with three stages of shooting were adopted, and the firepower continued to stop without a single stop. The reloading speed of these self-generated muskets using fixed-loaded paper shell bullets was much faster than that of bird guns, and they were divided into three rows of shooting, which could be launched continuously.
The heavy armored infantry of the Later Jin army died one by one under the self-generated muskets of the factory guards. They could not even clean up the caltrops in front of the battle, so countless bodies were left behind.
Chapter completed!