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Chapter 91 Queue to be shot

Dozens of heavy shells roared with powerful kinetic energy, cut through the smoke of smoke and crashed into dense battle lines.

The artillery in this era is very powerful, and the shells are just iron lumps that cannot explode and have poor accuracy. However, if they hit the target a little, it is very cruel. No matter where the shells touch the body, they will be directly broken.

If you hit your hands and feet, you will break it directly, and if you hit your head, you will smash it directly. If you hit your chest, your whole body will be broken!

Moreover, after these solid shells penetrate a person, they will continue to rush backwards until a blood gourd can flow out before the kinetic energy is exhausted.

A small half of dozens of shells fell to the ground and bounced a few times before stopping. But the rest were all involved in the formation of musketeers. Each shell that fell into the battle line would carry a long list of soldiers' lives.

"Your nanny, nanny!!" Seeing the soldiers falling down in line and listening to the miserable wails of the wounded soldiers, Yan Fei's eyes were red!

Yan Fei has always been beating others with the sharpness of the firearm, but he didn't expect that he would be killed today!

Yan Fei, who was furious, went directly into the turret and pushed the gunner away, "Accelerate, rush over to me!"

The engine began to roar, and the thick and wide tracks rumbled over the numerous Qing soldiers' bodies on the ground and drilled out of the gradually dissipating smoke and fog. After a sudden enlightenment in front of him, Yan Fei saw through the periscope that had been launched in the Qing soldiers' queue opposite at some point.

At this time, a large group of artillery soldiers were busy clearing the chamber and resetting the fire. Near these artillery were rows of Qing soldiers holding firearms.

"Stop!" Yan Fei shouted and asked the T72 to stop. Yan Fei personally controlled the turret and aimed at a Qing army's red cannon hundreds of meters away, which was a front-mounted heavy smoothbore cannon.

The so-called red cannons were because the Ming Dynasty first purchased these heavy cannons from the Dutch. At that time, some of the Dutch people had red hair and were regarded as red barbarians by scholars from the Ming Dynasty. The cannons bought from the red barbarians were naturally called red barbarians.

Yan Fei, who was furious, did not care whether it was a red or a yellow or a blue one. After using the sighting system to lock it, he fired directly without hesitation.

The 125mm high-explosive grenade broke out like lightning, and roared over hundreds of meters and landed heavily near the red cannon.

If it were the artillery of this era, it would be great if it would be to kill a few unlucky artillery soldiers, but what Yan Fei fired was a killer weapon from the modern industrial era!

With the banging sound, the flames and gun smoke instantly enveloped the entire cannon position, including the people and cannons.

In the soaring soil, you can see a heavy gun barrel rolling into the sky. After it fell heavily in an arc and smashed into the Tianyou Army musketeers array beside it. Several unlucky guys were smashed into meat paste, and even their blue-gray intestines were squeezed out!

The dust fell, the smoke dissipated, and the fire subsided.

There was only a charred pit and various fragments left on the gun position, and more than a dozen gunners and the cannon weighing thousands of pounds were all gone.

"Come again!" Yan Fei slapped the periscope, and the automatic loading machine in the turret had quickly reloaded a high-explosive shell.

Yan Fei slowly turned the turret and pointed the muzzle at another Qing army cannon. After the target was locked, he opened fire directly!

When the T72 rushed over, it had already attracted the attention of the Qing soldiers. After all, people in this era would not know what a tank was. They subconsciously thought it was a giant beast. If it weren't for all soldiers and on the exciting battlefield, some people would have been frightened and ran away.

As Yan Fei used the main gun of the T72 to destroy one Qing army cannon after another, the frightened Tianyou Army rushed to adjust the artillery position and prepared to attack the T72 tank.

From a modern point of view, the front-mounted smoothbore gun is full of shortcomings. Its movement speed is slow, its accuracy is extremely low, the loading and cleaning is complicated, maintenance is difficult, etc. The most serious defect is that it is very troublesome to adjust the ballistics, and it requires moving a big guy weighing thousands of pounds again.

Yan Fei used a modern tank main gun with an automatic loading system, with a fast fire speed and high power and high accuracy. After locking a target, it can be destroyed by up to two rounds of attacks.

When the artillerymen of the Tianyou Army finally aimed the gun at Yan Fei's tank and prepared to shoot, more than 20 artillery pieces were bombarded by Yan Fei, and only the last four were left.

With a series of roars, four red cannons opened fire one after another. Almost all the Qing soldiers bet on the steel giant beast. Then they saw an incredible scene.

Three of the shells fired from the four cannons were lost. After all, the accuracy of the front-mounted smoothbore cannon was too bad. Only the shells fired from the cannon roared and hit the armor above the guide wheel on the right front of the T72!

"Boom!" After a violent metal impact, the T72 did not respond much. At most, there were traces in the place where it was hit. The shell was instantly shattered under the huge impact force!

The broken iron pieces flying all over the sky fell down and smashed on the tank. At the same time, Yan Fei blasted out another shell and blew a cannon from Tianyou Army into the sky.

For the artillerymen of the Tianyou Army, they no longer had the time and opportunity to fire again.

When the sea breeze finally blew away the smoke of gunfire, a large group of musketeers had already surged up. The sound of their neat steps on the ground hitting the hearts of every Qing soldier like a heavy hammer.

The Guanning Army on the left side of the battlefield slowly leaned over, and the square formations of thousands of people on the left turned to meet. After several rounds of volleys, the Guanning Army quickly retreated and moved towards Beishan. At this moment, Dorgon, who was in the main battlefield, had no intention of paying attention to the Guanning Army, because the main force of the Ming army in front of him had already come!

The Tianyou Army, which had more than 10,000 people, would not make any square formation. They could only gather together like ordinary swords, axes, spearmen, and spearmen to pull out a long queue. Their commanders, the famous Sanshun King, Kong Youde, King Zhishun King, Shang Kexi, and King Huaishun King Geng Zhongming, led their personal soldiers to sway back later.

The original foundation of the Tianyou Army was actually the firearm soldier trained by Portuguese instructors invited by Sun Yuanhua after the Jiaozhou rebellion. Later, after replenishing manpower and equipment one after another, it was only at this time that it had reached its scale.

This army was a pure firearm unit like Yan Fei's command, so Kong Youde and his friends knew much better about the strength of the Ming army opposite than Dorgon and others.

The Ming army opposite had a strict formation and neat pace, and they must have been elite soldiers who had been strictly trained. More importantly, when fighting with the Mongolian cavalry before, Kong Youde and the others had already reached the firearms in the hands of the Ming army that fired extremely fast and had a very special combat method that could exert their firepower advantages.

Not only did the Ming army's muskets hit very far, but they still didn't see any explosion after so many rounds! Is this the Ming army they are familiar with?

The Ming army in the 17th century was not the brainless waste in later film and television dramas. The mainstream equipment of the Ming army was firearms, with a large number of various muskets and cannons. It was an army that was transforming from cold weapons to hot weapons.

During the two battles of aiding North Korea to resist Toyotomi Hideyoshi during the Wanli period, the Ming army relied on powerful artillery and firearms and elite cavalry units to destroy the Japanese resistance, thus achieving a brilliant victory.

The Ming army in this era is the representative of advanced technology, while the Qing Dynasty truly reversed history and destroyed the biggest opportunity for China to dominate the world in a thousand years. If the Ming Dynasty could continue to move forward, the crown of the empire would fall on the head of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Ming army began to decline rapidly after Wanli, and a large number of firearms equipped with were super inferior products that cut corners. Every time they fought with the Qing Dynasty, there would be many explosions. Before they could fight with the Qing Dynasty, they would blow themselves to death and injured a large area. Can morale not be depressed in this case?

But the Ming army opposite said at least tens of thousands of muskets, but after firing for so long, there was no one blow. How could Kong Youde and the others not be shocked?

However, no matter how shocked it is, it is useless. He has already forced himself to do it and can only bite the bullet and continue to fight.

Yan Fei stood out from the turret with two boxes of 12.7mm caliber bullet boxes. The tank shells were used up, and he had no time to replenish them, so he just used a machine gun.

When the two sides gathered for 300 meters, Yan Fei pressed the HB machine gun. Then the musketeers in the front row also fired volleys.

The musketeers' tactics are still round-fires. After shooting in the front row, they start to load sideways. The rear row goes forward and then fires, so that they can maintain a strong firepower delivery.

Moreover, the muskets in the hands of these musketeers have excellent quality and detailed rifles, both in terms of range and accuracy, far exceed the Tianyou Army on the opposite side. What's more important is that they have a large number.

The 30,000 musketeers were constantly crushing like a giant dam. There were only more than 10,000 people in the Tianyou Army, and the firepower delivery was not at the same level when the two sides shot at each other.

Yan Fei held a long bullet chain with one hand and stabbed the HB machine gun with the other hand and opened fire at the Tianyou Army. The large-caliber bullet swept into the Tianyou Army's array like a whip, and everyone who was hit was lying down.

The more lethal force are the numerous musketeers. The advantage of numbers allows them to make up for the shortcomings of slow firing speed. Coupled with the suppression of range, the Tianyou Army was knocked down in pieces like lodging wheat.

Kong Youde, who was sweating profusely, shouted loudly to let the Tianyou Army move forward closer. After all, if it is too far, they are insufficient in range, power, and accuracy. This unilateral loss is unacceptable.

However, the Tianyou Army is not a cavalry. A distance of several hundred meters is as terrible as a natural barrier on such a battlefield where bullets are flying. Moreover, their queues are also in chaos due to movement, which not only cannot form effective volleys, but also greatly disturbs their counterattacks.

By the time Yan Fei began to replace the third ammunition box, the Tianyou Army had already collapsed and fled. However, the deafening roar of horse hooves sounded in the main formation of the Qing army.
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