Chapter 136 Reversing the Future (5)
At such a distance, the Lumi gun equipped by the new army did not fail to attack the Northern Expedition Army's battle formation, but the energy attenuated after the bullet came out of the barrel. With the range and power of the Lumi gun, it no longer had the ability to break armor at this distance. It can kill the Northern Expedition Army in slightest, and it can even be said to be almost completely ignored.
It is natural that it will not work if you keep being beaten passively. The new army was forced by the range of the Northern Expedition Army's muskets and could no longer stand on the front line, so they had to advance together, so they rely on their legs to provide enough shooting distance for the muskets.
The new army moved forward, and the Northern Expedition Army did not keep shooting continuously, but continued to move forward after reloading, as if the round of shooting just now was to force the new army to leave the established front and accelerate the convergence with it.
The new army slightly adjusted its formation, and the front row was replaced by all musketeers. While strode forward, there were also gun groups pushing the three-pound cannons from that gate to follow the battle formation.
Without the sound of fire from muskets, the battlefield was immediately occupied by the footsteps of the two armies advancing, which was low and depressing.
The two sides moved forward step by step, starting from a distance of 1230 meters, 100 meters, 90 meters, 80 meters, 70 meters, and came out a little while. Until this distance, the Northern Expedition Army stood still again, and then the heavy rain-like shooting sounded again.
But at this moment, it was no longer the volley like that just now, but divided the musketeers into three rows and took turns to launch continuous shooting towards the new army's battle formation.
Seventy meters, this distance is much higher than the shooting round just now, and the armor-breaking effect is also better.
At this moment, even if any new army musketeers who were shot by armored musketeers in the same half-body armor as imitated by the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang used to equip musketeers, it would be difficult for them to withstand the shooting of such firearms. Even if they could withstand the shooting, their huge kinetic energy would make the new army musketeers protected by half-body armor feel as if they were hammered by a hammer. They would cover the wounded area tightly and could not recover for a while.
The interval between gunfire sounds is very small, and soldiers on the New Army will be shot and fall to the ground almost every minute. However, for Lumi Gun, shooting armorless soldiers is very rich, but it is impossible to penetrate iron armor.
The disadvantage of range forced the new army to continue to advance in this continuous shooting. Every time they shot, the new army in the queue would fall to the ground. The officers at the bottom were already drawing their swords in their hands, scolding and whipping to greet the new army soldiers anytime and anywhere.
Thanks to the rigorous training brought by Liu Cheng from the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, under the whip and military law for a long time, the more fear the new army is, the more subconsciously obeys the orders. This army is no longer the feudal army of the past, but has evolved into a semi-feudal and semi-modern army.
Among them, the Imperial Guards, who have been trained for the longest time and have experienced great wars, were like walking corpses. Their brains seemed to have no ability to think independently and were only controlled by orders. The surrounding situation was already deaf, driven by whips and military laws. At first glance, it seemed that the Qing Dynasty, which was semi-feudal and semi-slavery, had really trained a modern army.
The tactics of Sweden, a powerful European army country, were supplemented by the training and practice of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Under the harsh military law and the continuous cultivation and brainwashing of a sense of crisis, the new army broke through the limitations of the political system and achieved tenacity that even the new army in the Beiyang was unable to reach in later generations.
Without the soil of modern nation-states and without a modern system, all this is just an anomaly and cannot be replicated at all.
Even the Imperial Guards at this moment are two completely different armies than other new armies. When this sense of crisis disappears, the Qing court cannot make this modern army completely rooted in the soil of semi-feudal and semi-slavery with a whip. However, at this moment, even if the new army is just a one-time product, the threats in it cannot be underestimated at all.
The Northern Expedition Army continued to shoot, and the central and left wings of the new army carried the shooting forward. Starting from 70 meters, they advanced twenty meters in a distance. No less than three thousand soldiers on these two lines were shot and injured by the Northern Expedition Army. However, after entering this distance, the power of the Lumi gun was enough to break through the normal armor. After adjusting the queue for a little, the new army launched a counterattack against the Northern Expedition Army without hesitation.
The three rows of musketeers were arranged as they were when they fought against Wu Sangui. At the command of the officer, the long-suppressed volley shots immediately rang out.
The sound of the Lumi guns were intertwined, and the shooting of the Northern Expedition Army in the distance was immediately paused.
However, the half-body armor of the Northern Expedition Army was different from the heavy armor of the New Army. Instead, it adopted the structure of plate armor, and was cold-forged with a whole piece of iron plate and then processed.
In terms of the thickness of the iron armor, both sides are the same, but the plate armor is different from the piercing armor, which requires the human body to bear some energy, and the geometric arc achieves the deviation of energy. The armor-breaking rate of the new army in this round of volley shooting is far inferior to that of the exercise. Moreover, the soldiers of the Northern Expedition Army who were hit but failed to be defeated are completely different from the New Army in the same situation, as if they were hit and were hit, and they did not affect the subsequent battle at all.
The smoke of gunpowder was filled with gunshots. According to the regulations of the Musketeers' Code, no one observed the results of the battle. They all immediately turned to the process of reloading after the shooting. The Northern Expedition Army, compared with the guys who learned the skills on the opposite side, strictly abide by the moral code. They were less busy and in a moment when casualties first appeared, but they also returned to normal in a flash.
In this era of war, killing firearms and hand-to-hand combat have become the most common scene on the European battlefield. At least in the Chinese battlefield at this moment, the same is true.
Next, the volleys of the New Army gradually changed to continuous shooting, and the same was true for the Northern Expedition Army. The two sides pushed up the small-caliber artillery without hesitation. The continuous shooting and artillery became the main theme of the eastern battlefield between the Central Army and the Qing Army's left wing and the Ming Army's right wing.
Every minute and every second, officers and soldiers will fall down. Both sides are waiting for the moment when their opponent's formation will shake in such a war of attrition. Such monotonous and dull shooting is precisely the tactic that can best exert the effectiveness of weapons in this era.
In this scene, the only hunters of the Northern Expedition Army seemed a little annoying. Through precise aiming at three points and one line, they positioned the targets of the shooting on the middle and lower-level officers and artillerymen of the new army. What's even more shameless is that these people have no style of shooting in a array, either squatting or lying down. They even use the corpses of war horses as cover, which is similar to their previous scattered line shooting.
The central army of both sides and the counterattacks on the Eastern Front battlefield were launched. Not long ago, when the Northern Expedition Army entered a distance of 120 meters, the western front battlefield that Oboi was paying attention to was a completely different scene.
The Northern Expedition Army entered a range of 120 meters. The Central Army and the Right-wing Northern Expedition Army stopped and fired, and waited for the new army to advance before moving forward to enter a distance that was more likely to cause actual damage. This was the tactics established before the war, but the Young Guard Division on the left wing did not do so, but continued to advance.
Infantry does not fight without formations, and the most feared thing about infantry combat formation is the occurrence of breakage, because once a break occurs, the opponent will be given the opportunity to divide and break each.
However, when the young guard division stopped shooting, he chose to continue to advance, and violated the taboo of military strategists. However, with the continued advancement of the Central Army and the Right-wing troops of the Northern Expedition Army, the bulge of the left wing was not very large, and it could barely be considered to be moving in unison. However, after the Northern Expedition Army stopped again to shoot at the New Army, the formation was widening more and more,
The shooting of the Central Army and the Northern Expedition Army on the Eastern Front battlefield sounded, and the New Army was forced to advance, and the Wuwei Right Army was afraid that the formation would break, so the same was true. As a result, the speed of closer distance between the two sides was greatly increased.
In this way, one was a new army that was discriminated against because it was originally led by the Han people, while the other was a strange army that was not equipped with a spear. The two aliens in their respective armies kept approaching. When the confrontation between the central army and the Eastern Front battlefield sounded, the distance between the two sides not only had reached the effective range of the Lumi gun, but was even only about forty meters left.
"Stand firm!"
Inheriting from the same Caodian, the soldiers of the Wuwei Right Army stood up in unison after hearing the officer's orders. Next, the order of "raising a gun" and "aiming" sounded one after another. With the last "shooting", the Wuwei Right Army's battle formation was filled with smoke, and the bullets swept across the front row of the Young Guard Division in just a flash of time, like raindrops.
Just a distance of 40 meters, Ding Junjie could already see the general appearance of the new army opposite. When the new army opposite stopped and raised the musket according to the order, Ding Junjie knew very well what the next scene would be, and his chest was immediately occupied by fear.
However, with the long-term training, like the new army trained in the same exercises, the more fear Ding Junjie was, the better obedience he would be to the orders, as if he was involuntarily. With the sound of a bang shooting, what he could see in his eyes was not only the smoke from the distance, but also the trajectory of bullets passing by, which deepened the fear in his heart.
"ah!"
The screams of being shot sounded, and Ding Junjie felt that his left shoulder was hit. From the corner of his eyes, he saw Li Youzhi, who was standing on his left in the queue, lying heavily on the ground.
This young man who likes to joke the most in the team fell down so easily, his legs mechanized, and even in the last scene of Yu Guangzhong, he couldn't see how he fell down, where he was shot, whether he fell to the ground due to injury, or died on the spot. At this moment, the only thing he could see was that Huang Dazhuang, behind Li Youzhi, stepped forward and made up for the empty space left by Li Youzhi without hesitation, that's all.
The casualties suddenly appeared before my eyes, and I suddenly realized the cruelty of the war, especially when I had already thought that the new army on the opposite side must be reloading behind the smoke. The more I felt panic he would feel when the next round of shooting.
But the body has been dominated by fear, and long-term training has left an indelible mark on his body and mind. The more feared he is, the more he will think of the horror of military law and whip, and the more his body will obey the orders of his superiors like a mechanical one. At this moment, not to mention running away, even if he stops, it is impossible.
"Young Guard Division, keep moving forward!"
The lower-level officers shouted one after another, and the others were still missing. They heard Huang Chengming's shouting not far from the right. The impression of the direct boss during the year-long training became deeper, and the body's execution of the commands instantly reached a level of habit.
The gap in the front row has been filled by the rear row, and the soldiers of the Young Guard Division continued to advance forward in a uniform pace. However, the Wuwei Right Army was behind the gunpowder, and the loading speed was not affected at all. After only a moment, the second round of shooting unfolded again as the gunpowder completely scattered, pulling the curtain of blood and gunpowder again.
"ah!"
The sound of being shot was heard, and there was another scream. After praying for a moment, the indescribable bullet did not fall on him, but directly killed the captain Huang Chengming, who was still encouraging the morale just now.
The first one immediately realized that the one who was hit was on his left, and the second one was not close to him, but he was the captain who had been with him all year round. Fear came, and this time he was out of the constraints of his direct superiors and his movements began to stiffen. But at this moment, far from waiting for his body to be completely out of control, Su Jingzhi, who was in front of Huang Chengming's left, shouted loudly, and was suppressed in an instant when he loosened.
"The captain was injured. I am the former Shish chief Su Jingzhi. According to the battlefield regulations, I will act as the captain. The young guard division, continue to move forward!"
Su Jingzhi's shouts sounded, and Ding Junjie could clearly feel the morale of the robes being revived. But in a flash, the artillery of the new army began the first round of shooting, and the black trajectory flew past. Huang Dazhuang, the most powerful man in the team, and the robes behind him, fell softly to the ground like two broken pockets, without even screaming.
The shells are no more than bullets, and the body cannot resist them. I don’t know when the next round of shelling will suddenly sound, but judging by the time and distance, maybe I can’t walk a few more steps, and the next round of shooting of the new army will be played again.
Several robes had fallen down beside him, and Ding Junjie felt even more fearful, because he had no idea whether a bullet or shell would hit him in the next second, like those robes, were killed in this northern land thousands of miles away from his hometown.
The voice, appearance and smile of the deceased father, the widow's eager expectation, the teacher's earnest teaching, the blind dates and friendships of classmates, and the shared hatred of the robes, the pictures kept coming in front of him, and they kept tearing his heart. Fortunately, in the next second, the sound of military music sounded, and confusion and contradictions immediately disappeared.
"You haven't seen the Han army, and the weak crowns are the enemy who are in charge of the long-standing chariot."
As the military music was played, Ding Junjie subconsciously followed the rhythm and hummed the catchy military song.
"Don't you see, Ban Dingyuan, the Jueyu Light Cavalry urged to fight against the clouds."
He hummed softly, but the familiar voices of the robes were heard in his ears. The singing became more and more loud and louder. It was originally a bit noisy, but as the military music continued, it became more and more neat and lined up, just like the steps under their feet, and it had a shocking resonance on the horizon.
The familiar melody dispelled fear, and all thoughts turned into courage to drive Ding Junjie and his robes forward bravely. The shooting of the right army of Wuwei sounded again, but the heart was filled with courage, and there were countless comrades in their hearts around them. Faith and collective power bless each other, black shells and silver lead shells, in this passionate battle song, have become completely considered nothing.
Singing the battle song, the young guard division strides forward. The soldiers in the front team are constantly falling down, but the soldiers in the back team are constantly filling in gaps without hesitation, and strive to ensure that the front line is intact.
After taking two steps forward forty meters, thirty meters, twenty meters, Ding Junjie could clearly see the whites of the eyes of the new soldiers who were continuing to load and the fear and shock filled with their eyebrows.
At this moment, the order was issued, and Ding Junjie and his robes immediately stood up, staring at the new soldiers just eighteen or nineteen meters opposite, as if they were laughing at these enemies. After fighting for so long for so long, they still stood here, standing in this place where they could kill them more quickly!
"Rise the gun!"
"aim!"
Chapter completed!