Such thoughts flashed through Dong Ke's mind, but in fact he did the same.

Compared to Cheng Yan's retreat from the port, there was no artillery fire in the army at all, but Dong Ke led the army. Although there were only 4,000 troops, the army carried dozens of tiger squatting cannons.

As the most common and most common auxiliary cannon in the army, the performance of the tiger squat cannon is quite good.

As the improved tiger squat cannon, the power of the original one is naturally increased by several centuries. Although dozens of tiger squat cannons are not many, if placed in front of the formation, one round of fire will not be able to withstand the flesh and blood body.

With Dong Ke's order, a team of soldiers immediately showed a group of soldiers carrying a cannon.

These cannons look like tigers, so they are called tiger squat cannons. In fact, tiger squat cannons appeared during the Qi Jiguang period and were most common among the Qi family army.

Chu Yi had a deep memory of the name of the tiger squat cannon, so he ordered the craftsmen of the Ministry of Works to improve it based on many artillery artillery in the Ming Dynasty and personally named it the tiger squat cannon.

A large number of tiger squat cannons were created and then distributed to the Ming army. The most obvious one was that among the more than 100,000 troops conquering Japan, the new tiger squat cannons were equipped with more than a thousand gates.

According to the proportion of Qi Jiguang equipped the tiger squat cannons in the army later, almost every 500 people was equipped with three cannons. Chu Yi almost doubled the equipment on this basis, so the 4,000 soldiers and horses led by Dong Ke were almost equipped with fifty or sixty tiger squat cannons.

Dozens of tiger squatting cannons were placed in a row before the army, which was naturally quite spectacular.

Through the Thousand Mile Mile Mile, the every move of the Ming army naturally came to Governor George and Earl Harry's eyes. When the cannons were pushed out, the two couldn't help but be stunned.

Governor George and others are naturally familiar with artillery. During this period, artillery was already equipped in the West in the army, and artillery battles are the most common way of combat.

But in their impression, the bigger the artillery, the better. But when they saw the cannon that looked like it weighed dozens of pounds, George and Harry couldn't help but wonder, could this be considered an artillery?

Anyway, in Governor George and others' impression, if divided according to the specifications of artillery, these seemingly small firearms are not enough to be included in the category of cannons.

The two of them were naturally a little confused about the firepower of the tiger squat cannon. After all, this was the first time they had seen this type of cannon. They said that the cannon was not big enough, but they were much larger than the fire gun.

As for ordering the military formation to stop, George and Harry had no such thoughts at all. Advance in the artillery fire was the most common way of combat in the confrontation between the two Western countries.

After all, the artillery during this period was almost all solid bullets, so the lethality of the shells was not that great. The biggest function of the cannon was to form a psychological deterrence to the army. After all, after anyone watched a big iron ball roll over, the bloody corpse on the ground was so dazzling.

If you really want to talk about the lethality of artillery, it is much worse than arrows and muskets.

"On the shield!"

Although Dong Ke didn't believe the words of the fleeing soldiers, as a general of the army, even if he didn't believe it in his heart, he had to be prepared. As the saying goes, there is no danger.

When he saw the distance between the two sides closer, about 200 meters, Dong Ke gave the order and saw large shields standing up one by one.

After assembling all the shields in the army, one by one was seen blocking the army.

Thousands of Scottish longbowmen were pulling their bows and arrows together, and a wave of arrows washed away, and suddenly there were crackling sounds and screams of soldiers being shot.

It has to be said that the lethality of this Scottish longbow is indeed very amazing. Even though Dong Ke has made some defenses, the penetration rate of those arrows is extremely amazing. Almost all of the shields are directly pierced by those arrows.

Many soldiers were still injured by the wave of arrow rain even though they hid behind the shield. Fortunately, they had precautions, so even if this wave of arrow rain caused a certain amount of damage, they reduced the losses to a minimum.

Dong Ke waved the spear in his hand to push an arrow away, feeling the power coming from the spear. Dong Ke understood a little why these arrows could break through the defense of many shields.

In fact, because these arrows are long enough, when they are shot down from the air, the potential energy is extremely large, and the lethality caused by the conversion into kinetic energy is naturally great.

Dong Ke may not understand the principle of potential energy converting kinetic energy, but as a general, he is very clear about how to shoot arrows to maximize the power of arrows.

"Arrowman, fight back!"

The best killing distance for the tiger squat cannon is about 100 meters. Compared with the Scottish longbow that can cause a certain lethality away from about 200 meters, if the tiger squat cannon is used at this time, I am afraid that it will not have any good results.

The tiger squat cannon cannot be used, but the archers in the army can take action.

Both archers, even if the range of the Scottish longbow is not close, the archers in the Ming army are not much different. Even if the different bows and arrows in the hands of both sides lead to a certain difference in range, when the Portuguese and the Netherlands coalition were gradually approaching, a wave of arrows flew out and covered the coalition formation opposite.

If this wave of arrow rain falls, it can at least shoot hundreds of people.

But at this moment, shields stood up one by one, covering the wave of arrow rain, and only caused some riots to the coalition forces.

A few more than a dozen casualties could not affect the overall situation at all, and even the formation of the square formation was not affected. All the coalition soldiers still moved forward step by step according to the drum beats.

The arrows poured down like a heavy rain. Dong Ke understood why the nearly 1,000 soldiers led by Cheng Yan collapsed in such a short time. It was really that the arrow rain was too lethal.

In just less than a stick of incense, at least thousands of arrows fell at a distance of 100 meters, causing great damage to the army. Almost hundreds of soldiers were shot and killed on the spot, and hundreds of soldiers were injured.

Finally, when the coalition forces entered the shooting range of the tiger squat cannon, Dong Ke heard a sudden shout: "Fire the cannon."

The gunners who were guarded by the shield hands desperately heard a military order and almost instinctively set up the tiger squat cannon and ignited the lead.

Boom, boom, boom.

As the gun smoke filled the formation, there was a piece of gun smoke in front of the army on both sides. The smoke from dozens of cannons covered a piece of gun smoke, but through the foggy smoke, you can see that the neatly arranged coalition army formation on the opposite side seemed to hit an invisible wall, and suddenly fell down.

At least hundreds of soldiers in the front row were as if they were struck by lightning, and blood was splashed on their bodies. Some people even had their bodies directly gravel and broken iron to make ferocious blood holes.

Governor George and Earl Harry, who had watched the army move forward steadily and even brought considerable damage to the Ming army opposite, were full of smiles on their faces.

Both sides were confident in their army and believed that their troops were better than those of the Ming Dynasty.

However, with the roars, Governor George and Earl Harry were stunned. The smile on their original faces were frozen, and the two looked at the amazing scene in the distance in disbelief.

Dozens of cannons spewed out flames like monsters, and gravels shot out from the sky, directly covering a space ahead.

With dozens of artillery artillery covering, it can be said that almost no soldier in the front row could escape the artillery fire.

So under the gaze of Governor George and others, at least three or five rows of soldiers fell down like harvesting wheat.

The coalition soldiers in the front two rows looked the most tragic. Almost everyone had more than a dozen blood holes on their bodies, and they almost died on the spot. As for the two or three rows of soldiers behind them, there were people from the front row blocking a large wave of artillery for them, several blood holes were also shot out on their bodies. These blood holes were not enough to be fatal, but it was very painful.

Blood was flowing all over his body, and the pain of not being able to survive and not being able to die made these coalition soldiers fall to the ground and roll and wail.

The coalition soldiers who have always been smooth sailing and have never suffered such a big loss in the foreign war were stunned when they saw this scene.

The psychological qualities of these soldiers are not very good. After all, the coalition forces have always been smooth sailing. The targets of foreign wars are just natives holding spears and short swords. No matter how many people are, they cannot be coalition forces holding muskets, Scottish longbows and even large ships and cannons.

If you have smooth sailing, you can naturally cultivate a courage to fight. As long as you keep going smoothly, you can indeed train a victorious army, but such an army may not be able to withstand a failure.

This is the case with the coalition forces at present. The soldiers saw hundreds of companions suffering heavy casualties, especially some soldiers who were bombarded with blood and almost turned into rotten meat. Many people had never seen such a tragic scene at all. To be precise, they had never seen such a tragic scene by themselves, so some soldiers actually vomited on the spot.

Such a scene would be very shocking if any army were used. However, if it were placed on the Ming soldiers who had been fighting for the rest of their lives, it might also bring great impact, but those soldiers might also be scared, but they would never stay there with a confused look on their faces, either turning around and running away or rushing to attack.
Chapter completed!