Firearms had relatively limited lethality during the Song and Ming dynasties.

However, by the middle and late Ming Dynasty, firearms had made great progress, and their terrible lethality had been highlighted.

However, the Ming Dynasty was still the era of cold weapons.

That's right, even though the Ming army was equipped with a lot of muskets, it was still in the era of cold weapons.

What did the real era of hot weapons begin?

bayonet!

It is to install a bayonet on the musket as the beginning.

Why?

In the traditional era of cold weapons, swords were mainly one of the tools to kill enemies.

But after the bayonet appears, the knife becomes an auxiliary.

Think about it, what does the main tool for killing enemies in the past become an auxiliary tool?

This means that firearms occupy a major position.

Even if the Ming army in the late Ming Dynasty was equipped with 100,000 muskets, it was still not considered a hot weapon era, because there were millions of troops on the books in the late Ming Dynasty.

From the early Ming Dynasty to the late Ming Dynasty, firearms can only be auxiliary, and the main force on the battlefield is cold weapons.

However, the new army here has changed.

Time travelers have changed a lot.

At least the Beijing Guards have become a serious army of thermal weapons, with flintlocks equipped with bayonets, absolutely new tactics, and even discipline and military and political affairs.

At first, the guards on the Chengdu city tower found that the Shenwu Guards did not wear armor and did not have archers, and each of them carried a bayonet. They found it very strange.

At least, the guards on the Chengdu city tower have never seen such a war.

And when the cannon came up, I was stunned.

The first time I saw a cannon with such terrible power.

Everyone was lying on the city tower in a mess.

The cannon has a small range of killing, but its lethality is extremely terrifying.

Although not many people died, they scared everyone and their morale was also depressed.

Sun Chuanting sat in the head coach's position and was thinking. It was difficult to use five red cannons to open the thick gate of Chengdu City.

If you want to blow open the thick city wall, you won’t even think about it.

1. Use artillery to intimidate them and shake their morale.

2. If you surround three sides without attacking, you will cut off all the food you entered the city.

This is Sun Chuanting's strategy. Usually, in ancient times, this routine is basically the same as artillery.

Sun Chuanting also planned to do this.

However, the situation changed soon.

It surprised Sun Chuanting and even shocked.

In the end, it turned into ecstasy.

The gate of Chengdu City is opened.

The first one to come out was an infantry wearing armor. They held long swords and lined up after coming out.

The leader was Liu Changsheng. He was wearing a thick armor. His height was calculated according to new measures, which was 1.85 meters tall.

And he has fat heads and ears, and at first glance he is the kind of cruel person who can beat five people by one person.

"Sir, the enemy has left the city!" He Renlong hurried over.

Sun Chuanting had already stood up, and obviously he saw it too.

He stood on the coaching platform, looked over with a telescope, and saw that the Chengdu City Guards three miles away had indeed left the city, and there were still many.

First there were teams of infantrymen, then archers.

Finally, there were a cavalry of hundreds of people, and the cavalry were arranged on both sides.

This is the standard way of playing in the era of cold weapons.

Infantry is in front, forming a defensive barrier, archers are pressing the formation with bows and arrows behind, and the cavalry is ready to surround the enemy's side at any time.

The infantry actually dispatched more than 10,000 people one after another.

During this process, the archers on the city tower initially pressed the formation for the infantry below.

After the first batch of infantry were arranged, the infantry behind began to arrange one after another.

He Renlong said: "Sir, should we take advantage of their arrangement to make a comeback?"

"No!"

“Why?”

"Don't forget that everyone is not wearing armor now."

For maximum flexibility, the musketeers of the new army basically bid farewell to the armor.

Of course, the new army also had infantry, and they were heavy infantry, which imitated the infantry armor of the Song Dynasty.

It’s just that due to the urgent military situation, Sun Chuanting brought a light-loaded musketeer.

How effective is armor in the era of cold weapons?

Let me put it this way, if one of the people with similar combat power is worn, one can kill five of them.

The armor is definitely not something that is shot through by an arrow like in TV series.

Basically, the arrows shot over the armor and fell to the ground after a few cracklings. Moreover, the swords and swords were cut on it, leaving only traces, and it was absolutely impossible to cut them away with one knife.

Therefore, the Shenwu Guard, who was not wearing armor, rushed over now and undoubtedly became a living target for archers on the city tower.

What?

Use cannons to cover?

You think you are fighting World War II!

The five artillery cannons cannot be well covered, not to mention that the Red Cannon needs to be cooled in the middle of the way.

He Renlong was anxious, such a good opportunity.

He said, "I would have brought more infantry soldiers if I had known!"

Sun Chuanting said calmly: "Don't worry, being anxious will make you lose your judgment!"

"Isn't they willing to leave the city? "

"Yes! There is no need for us to go over while they are lined up. When he is lined up, we can still beat them all over the ground for teeth!"

Maybe He Renlong thought that just now was indeed a very good fighter, so he forgot that the Shenwu Guard was an army with very strong combat power!

If you hit the front, you can also beat those guys.

"Go! I'll send my order, and the entire army will be arranged in an array, and the hollow square arrays are arranged on the left and right wings, and the rest are arranged in line arrays! The gunners gather in the middle and aim at the enemy for deterrence!"

"yes!"

The sound of the horn of the Shenwu Guard sounded.

Soon the line array was arranged.

This line array is a dense line array. The first row squats, the second row squats, the third row slightly lowers the body, the fourth row is higher than the third row, and the fifth row stands straight.

There are about 200 people per row.

This kind of organizational structure can be formed, which requires a major premise: iron-like military discipline.

Linear arrays basically test the willpower of the army.

More than half an hour later, Liu Changsheng saw the Shenwu Guards lined up and saw what they were holding, and he didn't feel a little strange.

After all, there are very few firearms in the people.

Liu Changsheng: Huh? What are they doing?

No matter what, kill them first!

Liu Changsheng, if you fight by yourself, you can definitely win a lot of people, but leading troops to fight is not just about courage.

Leading troops to fight wars requires organizational studies, group psychology, management, etc.

Otherwise, just like Liu Changsheng, when the team was arranged, he drew his knife and shouted loudly: "Strike!"

As soon as the coach shouted and attacked, the vanguard troops began to rush, and the ones behind also began to rush.

The result is that the team is scattered and has no cohesion.

But after all, there are many people, more than 10,000 people came out, filling all the open space at the gate of Chengdu City.

At first glance, there is still a momentum of charge.

The officer of Shenwu Guard said calmly: "Fire the cannon!"

Boom boom boom boom...

The five artillery guns roared angryly, and the iron cannons burst out from the barrel, drawing sharp lines and smashing towards Liu Changsheng's large army.

After passing the front troops, there were a few muffled bangs, and the iron cannon hit the dense crowd, as if it had hit the tofu.

The iron cannon bounced several times in the crowd, and the minced meat and bone slag splashed, and five blood marks that were ten meters long were plowed out from the dense crowd, which was shocking.

Of course, the vanguard forces did not sense it.

In other words, a large army of more than 10,000 people had no sense of the death of thirty or forty people.
Chapter completed!