"Stand and don't move. We are all guns, what are we afraid of!"

Listening to the captains' shouts to the recruits, Huo Chong wanted to look back, but he refused to look back. Since the captains were still taking responsibility, there was no need to put meaningless pressure on them.

However, on the entire battlefield, Huo Chong's attention completely put down the artillery and the recruits in the rear team. Huo Chong didn't care much about the troops on the front line. Because Huo Chong believed that these troops that fought four or five battles could not defeat the front army built by the hollow square formation at the level of the Qing army.

Sure enough, the development of the battle situation was the same as Huo Chong's imagination. The Qing army's grenade gun lined up. Before these people could ignite the fire, the fire hat guns of the Han musketeers began to show their power.

The Qing army's grenade gun was also called a bird gun, which means it can hit birds. The barrel of this kind of musket was slender, but it has different lengths. The thousands of bird guns seized by Huo Chong ranged from more than one meter to two meters.

Huo Chong's musket originated from these bird guns. The barrel of a bird gun was cut into two iron pipes about 85 cm. The outside was wrapped with red-hot iron bars, and then the inner wall of the barrel was trimmed with a hydraulic boring machine and a quenched high-carbon steel tool.

Because the barrel became shorter, the difficulty of this kind of repair was much easier than that of the Qing Dynasty's barrels that were more than one meter long. That's why Huo Chong prepared for several years and seized more than 5,000 musket barrels were barely produced.

As for the others, it is much simpler. There is no shortage of wood suitable for making wooden butt stocks in China, and many things are small pieces. Since the barrel is double-layered and quite strong, the sleeve part of the sleeve bayonet can be made larger and thicker, that is, stronger.

Huo Chong had a clear conscience about the equipment of the Han army. The rest depends on the army's own performance.

As Huo Chong thought, the Qing Dynasty's bird guns were quite effective in scaring ordinary people. When shooting against real troops, the problem immediately revealed. When the distance was far, there was basically no accurate head.

Huo Chong's short-barrel rifle has a short barrel and theoretically insufficient range. However, in order to prevent the technology from flowing out, Huo Chong did not create conical bullets. However, he secretly ordered the core technicians to pull two rifles in the barrel of the gun. However, he still used a round warhead.

With just this confidential change, coupled with the reasonable internal processing of the barrel, the accurate head of the short barrel has increased significantly. The firing rate is more than ten times that of the Qing army.

The particles of gunpowder seized from the Qing army burned violently under the ignition of the fire cap, and the gunpowder gas pushed the warhead made of lead also seized from the Qing army. The Qing army was beaten to death and injured in rows.

On the other hand, the Qing army fell to the ground, but the rear row did not make up at all. The Qing army stood at a safer distance and fired at a more accurate distance. At least a few hundred shots were fired there, and Huo Chong didn't even get injured.

Huo Chong was extremely excited as the captains were all excited by the roar on the battlefield and the one-sided battles, and he pulled his throat to give orders to his subordinates. Because he didn't have enough rest, Huo Chong covered his mouth and yawned.

I don’t know who saw this action, but fortunately I wrote a diary. Anyway, in later film and television works, as long as this classic yawning action appears, it goes without saying that the Han army must be in absolute advantage.

The same is true in reality. The battle between the two sides is not on the same level at all. Huo Chong's army fought several consecutive victories of more than 1,000 people, and was not weaker than the Qing army on the other side to the battlefield.

It is precisely because neither side is a modern army that has been tempered and tempered, this little experience gap has shown a bonus effect of several times.

The Han army saw that the enemy was beaten to the ground, and their fighting will be even higher. The Qing army became more and more weak as they fought, and retreated more and more. Moreover, the gunpowder used by the Qing army's grenade gun was very smoke. At this time, the Qing army's position had been covered by a thick layer of white smoke, and only some shadows could be seen.

Just when Huo Chong felt that the Qing army might retreat, he heard a rumbling sound of horse hooves. The Henan general decisively sent cavalry to break the deadlock.

"Architecture!" Huo Chong ordered.

The artillery had fired a lot before, but they all "falsely". Because Huo Chong didn't want to use artillery to solve the Qing army, if the Qing army was killed from the beginning, it would be the most beautiful and efficient choice.

At this time, the route of the Qing cavalry attacking was just in the direction of the artillery's installation. The war horses spread their four hooves and ran out, and a three-pound shell was flying towards them.

Huo Chong didn't understand before that they were solid shells and would not explode. Three pounds of shells were actually no different from one pound of shells. After real experiments, Huo Chong understood what the problem was.

The current gun bore has insufficient pressure bearing capacity, so the thicker three-pound cannon can drive the shells farther. The kinetic energy of the three-pound shell is obviously three times that of the one-pound shell. With the range alone, the three-pound shells can fly further and have greater destructive power.

Sure enough, a shell hit the enemy, first smashed the head of an unlucky Qing army like a watermelon, and then smashed the unlucky Qing army next to the unlucky one. Just being hit by a three-pound cannon is enough to break the bones and tendons. The second Qing army is basically dead.

Each gun group has sixteen members, especially the leaders must have a junior high school level, that is, the fourth grade level of elementary school. At least you know what triangles and quadrilaterals are. Even if you have not yet learned trigonometric functions, you have heard similar courses. You know that the trajectory of the shell is an arc.

It was also very common when they set off the cannons. Huo Chong simply walked to the gun team quickly and watched them attack the Qing army.

Huo Chong was quite satisfied with the personnel responsible for observing and positioning of several of the gun teams. At least in this actual combat, their feeling was right.

Perhaps Huo Chong did not interfere with the commanders' work excessively. When Huo Chong saw that the Qing army had been brought down for thirty or forty people and all the cavalry fled to the distance, the sound of charge sounded here.

The infantry in the front row of the Han army pulled out the bayonet, put the bayonet on the thick muzzle, and followed the captains who were wielding broadswords and revolvers toward the Qing army's positions.

The Qing army had long been shattered by the firearms of the Han army and had no intention of persevering. At this time, the Han army launched a charge like a wolf or a tiger, and was still on the position at first.

When the Han army rushed to them, there was another round of volleys. The Qing army immediately collapsed and turned around and ran away. The Han army was vigorously stabbing the Qing army that was not running fast enough with bayonets, and drove the Qing army and threw all the weapons in their hands, and fled to the Qing army camp with no life.

Looking at this battle, Huo Chong felt relieved again. This was indeed the performance of the Qing army in the face of modern European and American troops.

Since the Qing Dynasty could not make progress in weapons, it was even more impossible to make development in industry. Huo Chong roughly understood his key direction in the future.
Chapter completed!