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Chapter 395: Musket vs Bow and Arrow

It has to be said that the level of the Eight Banners of Manchuria is quite high. He can shoot heavy arrows within fifty steps and accurately shoot arrows into the fortress of the Ming army from the shooting hole, causing considerable casualties of the Ming army. Some of the Eight Banners archers shot light arrows, crossing the heads of the Ming army's iron armored soldiers, and the arrows pierced into the flintlock riflemen crowd behind the iron armored soldiers, causing certain casualties of the Ming army.

The Ming army's auxiliary soldiers did not have any armor on their bodies. As long as they were shot by bows and arrows, they would either die or be injured. Especially the arrows drilled into the shooting hole. The auxiliary soldiers who could not dodge were all caught in the face, and the probability of being killed was extremely high.

The flintlock spearmen hiding behind the iron armored soldiers, with a sharp-top, wide-brimmed iron hat on their heads. When they encounter arrows shooting at their faces, they just need to lower their heads slightly to block the light arrow with the brim of the hat. The flintlock spearmen also has a piece of armor on their body, which is difficult to penetrate even if the light arrow hits the body. Only when the unprotected limbs are injured will they be injured.

Due to Zhao Peng's medical technology, the survival rate of flintlock gunmen with injured limbs can be said to be almost 100%. Although the Qing soldiers' arrows were soaked in feces and made "poisonous arrows", such "poisonous arrows" mainly cause wound infection. With Zhao Peng's medical technology, the wounds of the wounds were disinfected, applied medicine, and then bandaged with disinfected gauze and bandages, and the wounded soldiers could recover.

Once the injured soldier recovers from his injury, he will become a veteran who has passed the war.

The projectiles shot by the Ming army's musketeers, whether they were shot by the clamps shot by the fortress or the projectiles shot by the flintlock gun behind the iron armored soldiers, would immediately lose their combat effectiveness as long as they hit the Qing army. Moreover, with the medical technology of the Qing Dynasty, the wounded soldiers were almost unable to solve. Even if they did not die for a while, they would die of lead-shooting poisoning and wound infection in a few days.

What's more, the Ming army also had extremely powerful rifled gunmen, that is, scattered soldiers. The scattered soldiers hid far away and fired cold guns, and specifically shot the Eight Banners archers of the Qing army. Their hiding positions could hit the Qing army, but the Qing army's archers could not shoot them. It can be said that the scattered soldiers were an exchange of zero casualties against the Qing army archers.

Skies are specialized in long-range troops. Even if they encounter the opponent's cannons, they will have the power to fight. Because the solid cannons of those days were poor in accuracy, the formation of the skies was evacuated, and the solid cannons of the opponent's solid cannons were difficult to hit the skies; and the range of the shotgun was too close, and the ordinary shotguns only had a range of about fifty steps, and the range of the shrunks, flowering bullets, etc. was about one hundred and fifty steps. The rifled rifled guns of the skies could kill enemy gunners from three hundred steps away.

The only nemesis of the straitors is the cavalry, because the straitor's rifled rifle reloading speed is too slow to deal with the high-speed charge of the intensive cavalry, and it cannot be defeated or escaped. However, at this time, the straitors hid in the fortress, and the Qing cavalry was useless.

"Bang" Chen Xinyuan pulled the trigger. He saw with his own eyes a blood flower spewed out from the helmet of a Qing army archer wearing a lightning rod helmet in his scope and fell backwards.

Chen Xinyuan withdrew from the shooting hole and gave the position of the shooting hole to his comrades. He stood behind himself, pulled out an iron pass from under the barrel of the rifled rifle, and extended it into the barrel to clean the inner chamber.

The requirements for rifled rifles are much more demanding than smoothbore rifles. In order to prevent gunpowder residues and lead-on-block debris from causing damage to the rifle, the barrel of the gun must be cleaned after each firing, otherwise the next bullet may be led.

After cleaning the barrel of the gun, Chen Xinyuan took out a small bamboo tube from the bullet belt at his waist, opened the lid, and poured the particles of gunpowder inside into the muzzle.

The reason why rifled rifles do not use paper shells to load bullets, but adopt bamboo tube fixed gunpowder, is to minimize residue as much as possible. After the paper shell bullet is fired, more residue will be left in the barrel. This does not matter to smoothbore rifles, but for rifled rifles, it is a very fatal matter, so the paper shell does not use paper shells to load bullets, but the bamboo tube fixed launch medicine is activated.

After Chen Xinyuan poured the launching medicine in, he opened the bullet box on his body, took out a bullet wrapped in silk, stuffed it into the muzzle, and then pushed the bullet into the barrel with a strip of strips.

Because the rifle increased the friction, the bullet could not enter after pushing the ribbon a little. At this time, he took out a small mallet from his waist, beat the ribbon, and sent the bullet into the barrel.

After loading gunpowder and bullets, Chen Xinyuan took out a small pointed pot from his waist, opened the cover of the medicine pool, squeezed the lead medicine into the medicine pool, and then covered the cover. This completed the filling. He took out the pocket watch and took a look at the time. It took him a minute and a half to load it.

"Entertainment father, this gun is very accurate and powerful, but the loading speed is too slow. If it is an ordinary self-generated musket, I am sure to load five times in one minute." Chen Xinyuan turned his head and said to Zhao Peng standing next to him.

"The slow loading speed is a disadvantage of the self-generated poison gun, but it is also very accurate when it is shot far and it is shot very accurately. If you want to provide loading speed, unless there are new bullets." Zhao Peng said.

The way to increase the reloading speed of rifled rifles is the Minnie rifle. However, with current technology, it is impossible to create Minnie bullets. If the technical level is enough to produce Minnie bullets, then just put them on and load them.

After loading, Chen Xinyuan walked to the shooting hole, extended a rifled rifle from the shooting hole, and aimed at a Qing soldier three hundred steps away.

The rifled rifle was equipped with a four-fold scope, and the other party's face could be clearly seen from the scope. Chen Xinyuan held his breath and picked up the rifled rifle and aimed at the guy who looked like a cavalryman.

The outfit of the Knight School was very conspicuous. This guy was wearing a silver iron leaf armor on his yellow cotton armor and several flags were inserted on his back. You could tell at a glance that he was a low-level officer of the Eight Banners of the Qing army.

Chen Xinyuan did not aim at the iron armor on his body, but aimed at the face. He was worried that the soft bullet would not know whether it could penetrate the triple thick armor on the body of the cavalry.

If the smoothbore gun is shot at a close distance, there is no problem in breaking through the triple thick armor. However, if the rifled gun is shot at a long distance, not to mention Chen Xinyuan, even Zhao Peng is not sure that he can break through the Eight Banners soldiers wearing triple thick armor. The distance is already far, and the bullets fly three hundred steps away, under the air resistance, the kinetic energy has been lost considerably. The rifled gun's projectile is soft and its penetration is not necessarily stronger than that of the smoothbore gun.

Chen Xinyuan held his breath and pulled the trigger.

"Bang" the rifled rifle spewed out the flames. The bullet flew three hundred steps away and accurately hit the Qing army cavalry school's face. The bullet drilled into his cheekbones, penetrated his sinuses, and penetrated into his neck, and was stuck in the bones and did not go deeper.

The cavalryman screamed and fell backwards.

Although this shot failed to kill the cavalry school, it had already caused him to be seriously injured and lose his combat effectiveness.

The Manbaqi Knights School, who was shot, fell to the ground, covered his injured face with one hand, and made a heart-wrenching howl. Although he would not die for a while, after the lead bullet that penetrated his face and hit his bone tissue, the lead bullet was shattered, and the poisonous lead bullet remained in his sinuses and mouth. With the medical technology of the Qing army in this era, it would definitely not be able to save this guy.

The scattered soldiers kept firing and shooting, and from time to time, the Eight Banners' Arrowmen were shot and fell down. Almost every sound of the rifled gun sounded, and an Eight Banners' Arrowmen were shot and fell down.
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