The sound of war drums began, the Ming army's flags changed, and several phalanxes on the wide front stopped advancing.
The phalanx that was directly attacked was the first to open fire, and the heavy muskets were used as the first choice. They began shooting as soon as the Jiannu dead soldiers approached within a hundred meters, and one lead bullet after another flew towards the enemy, carrying death.
Amidst the blood rain, the Jiannu soldiers kept falling to the ground, but their pace of attack did not slow down and they continued to charge forward madly.
Sixty meters, fifty meters, thirty meters... More than a dozen artillery shells flew up from behind the Ming army, swept across the battle formation, and hit the charging Jiannu.
Boom, boom, boom…” A series of explosions rang out one after another. In the rising flames and smoke, iron fragments flew everywhere, and the dead soldiers suffered more casualties in the fireworks.
Rushing out of the smoke of the explosion, the Later Jin soldiers discovered that the spearmen and sword and shieldmen in the first few rows of the Ming army were in a very strange posture and did not charge forward to fight.
Squatting, kneeling, and holding, the first row of spearmen took a kneeling position, while the second row of spearmen bent over and half-squatted;
The sword and shield soldiers had already stepped forward to close the gap between the ranks, also kneeling. The spearmen in the last row used the sword and shield soldiers' shoulders as spear rests, their sharp spears pointed forward.
This—should this be a stance for resisting a cavalry charge?! The Jiannu were a bit bewildered, but without much hesitation, they charged forward, swords and spears in hand.
The swan sound rang out and the gunshots roared, almost at the same time. The superposition of the sounds was like the roar of a musket.
A volley of lead bullets came towards them, with a range of twenty to thirty meters, and the killing power was astonishing. Under the barrage of musket fire, the Jiannu dead soldiers fell in a row in an instant.
After a volley, the musketeers put away their guns, took a step to the left, and then stepped back to reload; the second row of musketeers stepped forward, aimed their guns, and after the swan sound was heard, they pulled the trigger and fired another row of lead bullets.
The Jiannu soldiers who rushed to the front realized that the Ming army in the first few rows slowed down just to give the musketeers behind them a way out of their range.
The thunder bombs were fired again, exploding among the charging dead soldiers. This interception was very effective, causing the Jiannu dead soldiers' attack to pause, making it difficult to ensure continuity and the investment of manpower.
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