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Section 53 Volley (Part 2)

The musketman located beside Wu Yuewang heard the order and immediately pulled the trigger. With a roar, a white smoke rose in front of him, covering the musketman's vision, making him no longer see the face of the enemy that was already close. Almost as the soldier pulled the trigger, his companions around him also heard the order. The soldier also aimed at the forehead of another Qing army with the musket... One after another, after the gunshots, the Ming army musketman, who was fully focused, began to shoot reflexively. From the position where Deng Ming was, the smoke of guns sprayed out from the muskets standing in front row almost at the same time, and rushed violently towards the faces of the soldiers on the Qing army's front line. In an instant, the front line was covered with smoke, completely isolated from the two armies.

The Ming army's several volleys were far less tight than this time. Although they were also volleys just now, and there were only one hundred muskets, Deng Ming could hear that it was a series of crackling sounds, but because the interval was too short, it sounded like a continuous sound; the volleys of this volley were still separated, but the Ming soldiers, who were highly focused, fired at the first moment when they heard the shouts of Wu Yuewang, and the others also fired immediately after hearing the gunshots. Although the reaction speed was slightly different, they almost reached their respective limits. Deng Ming felt that the difference between the first and the last sound of the hundred gunshots might be half a second.

In such a short time, the sound of a hundred muskets gathered together like a thunderbolt, and the sudden burst of gunpowder that had erupted before was like a lightning sign in front of thunder. When the white smoke rose, the thunderbolt suddenly came. Deng Ming felt the mount under his crotch take a step back uneasyly. Although the horse, who had followed Deng Ming many times, did not make any big moves, he still sniffed gently. According to its owner's understanding, it was expressing his amazement.

The mounts of the three wall guards around Deng Ming shook their heads and tails at this time, exchanging opinions between them while humans were nervously watching the battlefield. These war horses were all very careful guys, and several were considered to be nervous. However, every time they followed humans to the battlefield, these war horses would be serious. They all knew that their masters didn't like them whispering on the battlefield.

These war horses have seen gunfire many times. When they were in Chengdu, humans used this sound to constantly scare and train them. War horses were very scared when they heard gunfire at first, but after hearing it too much, they would not take it seriously and no longer panic.

However, today's battle made the horses feel a little different. Such dense gunfire made them feel different from the past. And based on the experience of these horses, they thought that humans in metal armor would soon roar and fight together - under normal circumstances, when the opposite side rushed up, this would always be the result. Then they would be prepared until the humans on their backs shouted and kicked their abdomen, and then they would rush out, and according to their usual training, keep going with their companions, and step the enemies in front into the mud... At night, the drunk owner would hold a large ball of fresh straw to comfort themselves, most of which would also be filled with carrots, and sometimes an apple. The horses knew that the owner would smile at that time, and would constantly caress the hair on their necks while they lowered their heads to eat.

All war horses know that although humans are not good-looking, they are fierce animals. Humans like to wave sharp and dangerous metal sticks to each other. In order to fight this danger, they also put metal pieces on themselves and their horses. When they fight, they kill similar people instead of driving away similar people. They also snatched the blood-soaked territory there, but they don't often go there to find something to eat, and sometimes they never go there again - horses can't understand this. If it weren't for snatching food on the battlefield, then why would they fight?

Not only does the horse know this, but other animals also know it. If the horse stays honestly, the wolf will circulate around with malicious intentions. Once the horse rides on the horse, the wolf will escape as far as it can. At that time, the horse is no longer afraid of the wolf, but becomes a hundred times more courageous. When the person riding on the back waving the sharp iron weapon, the horse is no longer afraid of the person with the same iron weapon in hand, are they still afraid of the wolf?

The smoke in front of him dispersed, and the war horses opened their eyes wide and looked ahead. There were a row of humans lying on the ground. The people wearing small iron pieces that had just rushed over were all dead.

...

The green soldiers in the central government, who rushed to the front, were all officers and veterans with the strongest armor and the strongest morale. The soldiers of this battalion were arranged in the middle because Sun Sic saw their combat effectiveness and knew that there were many excellent veterans in the green camp in this battalion. When the situation was unfavorable and the morale of the army was sluggish, the veterans in the battalion took the lead in charge. They knew that if they could not escape the slaughter, and if they were wearing heavy armor and fought to the death, they might have the possibility of defeating the enemy and earning meritorious service.

Almost all these officers and veterans who took the lead in charge were killed on the spot. Their helmets were easily penetrated by lead bullets, and broken bones and blood were spewed out from the gaps that exploded on the back of their heads. Including the deputy general of the Green Camp who commanded the battalion, who was also hit by a lead bullet, was killed on the spot.

"Back, back!"

Wu Yuewang shouted hard. The effect of the volley shot was better than he thought. The musketman shot the enemy close to him, which was a perfect bullet. However, the performance of the musket was a bit disappointing. Wu Yuewang shouted loudly for a long time to wake up the musketman and quickly retreated from the passage behind him.

As early as during normal training, Wu Yuewang noticed that the firearms were effective in curbing the enemy. The full-strength shooting of the armored soldiers by bows and arrows could not prevent the enemy from attacking; the crossbow was more effective, but if it did not hit the key point but was blocked by strong armor, it would only slow down or deform the enemy's movements.

When training musket soldiers, shooters will have obvious recoils when firing, because these muskets are of good quality and after loading a lot of medicine, the power of the back rushing is even more obvious. In the past, in actual combat using muskets, the enemy soldiers who were hit would be knocked back, and the effect of muskets to curb the enemy seems to be much more obvious than crossbow machines.

In today's volley, the attack of the musket stopped the armored charge of the entire central green camp. Unlike the unarmed soldiers, the charge of the armored soldiers was slower, but it was harder to be stopped by bows and arrows and crossbows - that is, a few arrows were caught in the body. As long as the arrows were not caught at the same time, the impact speed of the armored soldiers would not be significantly slowed down. However, after this volley, the soldiers of the green camp who were rushing quickly in the battalion were like a wild bison running angrily. With a gunshot, they suddenly hit the stone and lost all their speed.

The Qing army soldiers in the front row seemed to be collectively hitting an invisible transparent wall, and the sound of impact stopped. Several soldiers in the front row were shot and flew into the air when they were shot. Their forward momentum was suddenly blocked by the invisible wall, and they fell backwards, hitting their companions behind them, and pushing them backwards.

The attack of the Central Green Camp soldiers was completely stopped by a volley. After the musketeers retreated safely to the formation, the central army of the Ming army began to attack. The Qing army in the back row could not see the movement ahead, and only knew to follow the officers and veterans forward. They were all told that if they did not want to die in Sichuan and never could not return home, they would rush forward without hesitation and completely defeat the Ming army in front of them.

Therefore, the Shanxi soldiers did not care about their fatigue and used their last strength to launch this decisive charge. They were standing in the center just now and were always under the focus of the Ming army's musket soldiers. More than one-third of the dozen people who fell down each time they fired a volley, were from this green camp.

When the last deafening thunder sounded at close range, the soldiers in the back row saw a white look in front of them. The choking smoke rushed over from the gap between the front row companions, and something hit. They instinctively raised their hands to block their faces. When the smoke dissipated, the soldiers saw that their arms blocking their bodies were covered with blood from their front row companions and debris from their skulls.

Several green camp soldiers in the back row suddenly changed their faces and covered their wounds and shouted loudly. When the lead bullet broke the armor just now, the debris flew back, and some hit the cheeks of the green camp soldiers in the back row or other unprotected positions.

A slightly dragged down his arm, and he followed the general. Just before him, the general and the helmet of a soldier next to him exploded at the same time. Now the arm of the soldier's arm was covered with their brains; the other soldier's neck was hit, and the lead bullet that broke his cervical spine was deflected by the bones, and shot the hand of the soldier behind him, knocking his little finger away.

"Um..." The Qing army had no time to think, because a large group of cold light had already flashed in front of them, hundreds of Ming troops rushed over and launched a counterattack on the Qing army standing still.

After seeing the precious one hundred musketeers finally retreated safely to the formation, Deng Ming couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and said to himself: "After the war, we must call Wu Yuewang to scold him."

Deng Ming looked at the entire battlefield again. He guessed that the Qing soldiers deployed in the central government might be the most combat-capable battalion, because they rushed in front and had the fastest speed when the Qing army attacked the entire line. Now the offensive of the Qing soldiers, which was most resolute, had been completely stopped by the Ming army. On both sides of their side, the movements of other Qing soldiers were obviously much slower. The Green Camp soldiers on the left wing of the Qing army were exhausted before the war started. Because they knew that there was no way to survive without working, they were now using their strength to shout fiercely at the Ming army. Deng Ming was very familiar with this posture and had seen it at close range when he was Zhong Xiang. The movements of the Qing army's right wing were a little slower than their left wing, and they were constantly looking at the movements of the central main attacking troops. The hesitation in their hearts was evident.

Behind the 3,000 soldiers of the Shanxi Green Camp, some soldiers from the Ganzhou Green Camp were covering the north. Deng Ming, the banner of these Ganzhou Green Camp, was familiar, but the distance was too far, so I couldn't see clearly - these Ganzhou Green Camps looked like only a few hundred people, and it seemed that they did not charge together. When they were mobilized before the war, they were also informed by the Han Eight Banners together with the Shanzhou Green Camp: the thieves like to drink the hearts of officers and soldiers the most - but these Ganzhou Green Camps did not run up with Shanxi friendly troops to fight desperately.
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