Chapter 22 Face to Face
It was not until the Xingtian army was close to the distance of 100 steps of the Taron team that Liu Yaoben clenched his hand into a fist in the army and raised it high, and the messenger immediately roared, "All of them are there, stand up!"
The marching drummer knocked out two strengthening sounds on the drum, and the sound of the drum stopped abruptly, and the Xingtian army troops who were more than a thousand armed to their teeth also stopped at the same time. When they stood still, they fell heavily at the same time and made a bang.
Liu Yao glanced coldly at the formation of the Ta's soldiers on the opposite side, with a cold smile on the corners of his mouth. Although he had to admit that the Tas soldiers were the strongest soldiers he had ever seen, and the other party's performance was quite good, compared with the soldiers of the Iron Bone Battalion under his command, even the scum was not counted, so he was not He was always confident that he could easily defeat the enemy who was blocking the way, so he didn't say anything. He ordered in a low voice, "The firearms come out of the line, shoot alternately to advance, and cover the knife hand! Destroy them for me!"
The messenger answered the order loudly and roared to convey the order. A team of knife players immediately responded and rushed out of the team to the front of the team, and a large number of firemen also came out and quickly lined up behind the knife players.
The knife player crossed the shield in front of him, put his shoulder against the shield, and shouted in a low voice, "Kill!"
The firearms are quickly arranged in three rows behind the knife player. There are 100 firearms in each column, and there are exactly 300 firearms in each of the three columns. At the same time, there are 150 firearms left on both sides of the team, covering the left and right sides of the team. As for the people behind are the Xing Tianjun, so they don't have to leave the firearms in the back. The firepower is nearly one. Half of the time came to the front of the team.
"Prepare for shooting between marches! Under the shoulder!" The officer in charge of directing the fireman roared.
With a crash, the three hundred fire soldiers removed the self-fired fire on their shoulders. The left hand raised high on the body, and the right hand clenched the shoulder brace, pulled down the machine bracket with a click, and put the index finger on the guard ring of the trigger, and their self-made fire was already loaded in advance. After that, it is in a state that can be shot at any time.
"Start... Let's go!" After the officer saw that the firemen had completed the preparations, he gave a sharp order.
After the stopped team array was converted, even if the march was resumed again and the shield was held in front of the knife card, the large array was pushed flat again.
The atmosphere between the two armies suddenly became tense and even depressing. All the Taritan soldiers began to be nervous, silently calculating the distance between Xing Tianjun and them.
The distance between the two armies was gradually shortened under the promotion of the Iron Bone Battalion. When it entered the 70th step, the Tatron side was a little unsed, because they had never seen this way of attack. If it had been the Ming army, I'm afraid that the birds would have been in a mess, but this Some enemies have never changed their movements, just holding their "birds" and continuing to push towards them step by step, as if there is no tendency to stop at all.
There is no doubt that the Taritan soldiers are good at shooting. They are not only good at shooting, but also like to use heavy arrows with stronger armor-piercing armor. This kind of heavy arrow is much heavier than the arrows used by the general Ming army, but it also affects their range.
The fifty-step projectile should be the farthest effective arrow distance of their bow, but Xing Tianjun seemed to be ignorant and continued to advance.
When the Jia La Zhangjing saw that Xing Tianjun had entered 70 steps away, he didn't seem to stop the idea of moving forward, so he was really overwhelmed by Xing Tianjun's murderous atmosphere and didn't dare to wait any longer. He shouted, "Arrows"
A large number of darter archers struggled to hook the bow string with the wrench finger on their thumb, squeaked open the bow in their hands, and struggled to raise their left arm to the air. Then they began to release their thumbs. They only heard the sound of a bow string sounded among the barbarian soldiers, and immediately hundreds of sharp arrows were fired. After going out, he fell to the array of Xing Tianjun one after another.
It was at this time that the commander in the front of the Iron Bone Battalion shouted, "Rit!"
The whole phalanx then stopped. The knife hands squatted down together, held up the shield, and formed a shield wall in front of the queue, just revealing the upper body of the firemen.
Hundreds of bows and arrows of tar fell one after another, and more than half of the arrows fell in front of the Xingtian Army. Almost the shield of the knife hand was inserted on the hard land. Some arrows were also scattered into the Xingtian Army and nailed to the generals of the Xingtian Army.
And the generals of the Xingtian Army did not seem to see these falling arrows. They stood in the array without moving at all. At most, they lowered their heads and blocked the arrows shot at their faces with helmets to avoid being directly shot into their faces and causing great damage. As for other arrows, they fell on their bodies. Because the military order of the Xing Tianjun is like this, it is not allowed to dodge and disrupt the formation in the battle. Although it seems to be a little stupid, this is very important for the battle of the Xing Tianjun. Everyone who joins the army has to go through this strict training. Now everyone has gone deep into the bone marrow and instinctively obeys the order.
But after all, it is more than 60 steps away. When these arrows fall, it is already the end of the strong crossbow. Although they are shot on the soldiers and generals of Xingtian, they can't do much harm to the Xingtian army. When they go to war this time, each soldier is equipped with excellent armor, and these losses are even if they fall. On the armor, they can no longer exert their power. At most, they can shoot into the body from the cracks in the armor, but they can't go too deep.
Only a few unlucky soldiers were about to hit the arrow and fell down. However, as long as they were not seriously injured, they would soon be treated by the battalion's traditional Chinese medicine guards. Most of them could not die. The rest of the arrows were either hung on the armor of the soldiers of the Xingtian army, or they simply fell to the ground.
Looking at such a result, the tarmen all felt discouraged. They actually shot arrows in advance because they couldn't calm down. As a result, this round of launch basically did not cause any damage to the enemy, which made their morale suffer a big blow.
But before they could prepare for the second round of launch, the first row of firemen of Xing Tianjun had already put down the self-fired fire indifferently and aimed at the Tatstian soldiers opposite them.
Sixty steps, if it is a bird used in the Ming army, there is basically not much threat for armored Tatar soldiers. If you hit the cotton armor, it is difficult to penetrate the cotton armor of the Tats. At most, it can kill and injure some armorless Tats or auxiliary soldiers. See The enemy flattened the bullets at this distance, and the Tataritan soldiers also wanted to breathe a sigh of relief. After all, there are still shielded armor in front of them to cover these bullets, which should not be a threat to them.
But they were wrong again this time. After hearing the sound of a burst of beans, the shield-holding armored soldiers in the front of them suddenly screamed, and one after another, they looked up to the sky or fell to the ground.
At this time, the Tatars were afraid to find that what they had just thought was really wrong. The "birds" in the hands of the enemy opposite were not as bad as they thought. Instead, the bullets shot were full of power. At a distance of 60 steps, they actually pierced the skinned wooden shields in their hands. These bullets that penetrated the wooden shield continued to hit the Tatars behind the shield directly, and even tore open their armor and penetrated into their bodies. No matter how tough they were, they were still flesh and blood. They could do nothing but screaming and falling down.
It was only a round of volley shooting. The shield wall in front of the Tartan queue was quite neat, and it suddenly turned into the old woman's gums, with cracks everywhere. Such a dense formation did not even need Xing Tianjun's fireman to aim too seriously, and almost bullets would not fail, even if there were 20 or 30 Tarts. The Zibujia soldier was blowd to the ground.
"In the second row! Aim...fire!" After the officer glanced at the ignition effect of the first row of firemen, the corners of his satisfied mouth slightly raised, but immediately began to give new orders.
The firemen who opened the fire did not look at their shooting effect at all, and immediately began to clear the reload in place. They took out the paper shell bullet in the waist leather box, bit open the packaged wax paper, and quickly put the gunpowder and projectile into the mouth...
Just after the first row of firearms fired, the second row of firearms that had already been loaded immediately passed them and went in front of them and raised the firearms. At this time, the sound of firearms had been continuous. The firearms were divided into three rows and pushed forward, hitting a row of bombs at the opposite Tatsmen, while the Tats. Suddenly, more tari screams sounded in the team.
The 60-step distance is a piece of cake for Xing Tianjun's reloading self-fire. Although it can't accurately aim and shoot the enemy, the penetration of the projectile has greatly exceeded the bird gun in the Ming army. It is much heavier than the bird bullet, and the kinetic energy is quite powerful, even if it is the best to break. There is no problem with the iron armor, not to mention the iron-cotton armor on these tsartic soldiers?
Therefore, the powerful Tatar soldiers suffered a lot. First, the shield-holding armored soldiers in the front row were knocked to the ground one by one, and then the archers in the back also became victims.
The archers are already poorly equipped with armor. Even if they are wearing cotton armor, they are not lined with iron pieces inside. If they deal with the long-range Ming army's bird shot, it is estimated that they can still block the bird's lead bullets, but Wanwan can't stop the Xing Tianjun's bullets.
When an archer was in a hurry to open his bow and prepare to launch an arrow to counterattack, a bullet hit his brain directly. The eight-petal iron helmet like a lightning rod flew up, and his head was directly opened like a rotten watermelon by this bullet. The pulp suddenly collapsed everywhere, and a piece of Tianling's bone also flew high. With a pause, it was covered with blood and flesh on the face of a Tartar soldier behind, which scared the Tartar soldier almost went crazy on the spot, and the bow in his hand fell to the ground.
An archer's stomach was hit by a bullet and directly opened it for him. His intestines flowed out of the huge wound. The pain made him lose his bow and fell to the ground. He screamed miserably and hurriedly wanted to stuff his intestines into his rotten belly with his hands, but he only struggled for a while. He kicked his leg and swallowed his last breath.
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