Chapter 189: Clown-Like Tung Oil Rattan Armor

"Quick! Come forward!"

Amid the shouts and curses of the leaders of each family and the army, the rattan shield bearers were gathered and lined up at the front of the team.

By the time the rattan shield bearers lined up, the Keelung army had already entered a distance of about eighty steps.

Holding the rattan shield in their left hands and the long sword in their right hands, the rattan shield bearers tried their best to shrink their necks and hide their heads, bend down, and hide their bodies behind the rattan shield.

It is said that this rattan shield can withstand shotgun bullets fifty steps away, but they don't know if it is true, after all, they have not tried it themselves. For the sake of their own lives, it is better to be a little timid.

Who knows if there will be bullets flying to places that the rattan shield cannot cover, and then their bodies exposed outside will be miserable!

Based on the same idea, the leaders of the five families also gathered more than ten rattan shield bearers in front of them, holding up the rattan shield to block the possible flying bullets.

"Fifth brother, do you think our rattan shield can really block the musket bullets from the opposite side?" The young master of the Bai family hid behind the rattan shield, his voice trembling slightly, his eyes erratic.

"Of course there is no problem! Our rattan shields, you don't know yet. They are all made of old rattan that is more than a few years old. First, soak them in tung oil. After soaking for a few months, take them out and let them air dry in a cool place. Then send them to soak again. Repeat this several times, and they will be the same as the rattan armor soldiers in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Zhuge Liang had no way to deal with them back then. Now it is a piece of cake to use them to block musket bullets!" Deng Wulang shouted loudly, appearing to be full of confidence, but his body began to tremble unnaturally.

He was full of confidence in the official army's muskets, but it was hard to say about the pirates on the opposite side.

As he spoke, the musketeers of the Keelung Army were less than seventy steps away from the rattan shield soldiers lined up at the front of the queue!

Five hundred musketeers were arranged in five rows, with a row of one hundred people in each row five steps apart.

Seeing the musketeers approaching, the hands of the rattan shield bearers, who were holding the shields and long swords tightly, became sweaty, and they were so scared that they could hardly hold the weapons in their hands.

"Buddha bless! Ancestors bless!" The rattan shield bearers kept praying in their hearts, and they had completely lost their previous fighting and killing spirit.

At sixty steps, the musketeers on the opposite side still walked forward in unison, as if they were going to their own fish pond to catch a fish and go home to cook dinner. They were relaxed and even a little quiet.

Fifty steps, this is the best distance that the rattan shield bearers know to block the bullets of the muskets. Once this distance is broken, the rattan shields in their hands are not sure that they can block the bullets fired by the muskets!

However, even at this distance, the musketeers on the opposite side still walked forward slowly at the whistle of the team officer!

"Why haven't the muskets on the opposite side fired yet! How long are they going to wait?!" Some of the rattan shield bearers in the militia team have begun to tremble in their legs, and the urge to urinate between their crotches is getting stronger and stronger!

Forty steps, according to the method of identifying distance that people are familiar with, at this moment, the facial features of people, the joints of their hands, and the weapons in their hands can be clearly distinguished from each other, and even the tassels of the spears in the hands of the spearmen can be distinguished with the naked eye!

This is already within the power range of the fire gun that can break armor!

In the militia team, not only the ordinary soldiers began to feel uneasy, but even the leaders who were the direct descendants of the five families began to feel a little uneasy!

"What are these barbarians going to do?!" Seeing this, Deng Jia Wulang was furious.

He was waiting for the other side to fire a round, and then the rattan armor soldiers rushed forward to kill. Now the other side did not move, which made him very annoyed and at a loss.

"If it's closer, there will be no chance of a comeback!" Thinking of this, looking at the musketeers coming like a mountain in front of him, Deng Wulang couldn't help but look around, subconsciously looking for a way to escape.

Seeing the enemy army coming silently like the sea, but with great pressure, the rattan shield soldiers standing in the front row tried to bite their lips with their teeth, letting the severe pain relieve their pressure and fear. Some people even had blood flowing down the corners of their mouths.

Now taking a step back would not be killed by the enemy, but by their own people.

"Even if I die, I will die here!" The rattan shield soldiers were very conscious and did not move, for fear of disrupting the formation and causing chaos.

Finally, a long and shrill whistle sounded in the Keelung army!

"Fire!"

Under the command of the battalion officer, the musketeers in the first row stopped in unison, raised their muskets, aimed, and then pulled the trigger!

In an instant, smoke rose in the queue and quickly condensed into a ball. The fire sprayed from the muzzle mixed with deadly bullets rushed towards the rattan shield soldiers on the opposite side!

It can be said that at a distance of less than 40 steps, relying on the advantages of the Keelung flintlock rifle, no protective gear in the world can withstand it.

The rattan shields of the five major families were like plastic toys, ruthlessly torn and broken by the bullets fired.

Accompanied by dozens of dull "hums", the rattan shield holders dropped the rattan shields in their hands and rolled on the ground screaming.

The first round of shooting swept down dozens of rattan shield holders from the five major families!

The bullets penetrated the rattan shields and rushed into their bodies. The huge impact force stirred their limbs and internal organs into a pulp!

The rattan shield holders began to vomit black blood clots unconsciously from the corners of their mouths, and fell to the ground one by one. At such a close distance, the bullets had already smashed all the bones and internal organs in their bodies!

There were rattan shield holders who were hit in the limbs, looking at the broken hands in front of them and the legs that kept bleeding, and fell to the ground and kept wailing and rolling.

"I'm dying!"

"I want to go home, and my mother-in-law is waiting for me at home!"

Fire and water are merciless, and the battlefield is even more cruel!

There was no commanding voice. The musketeers who had just stopped shooting began to load ammunition step by step. Then the musketeers in the second row passed by them, walked five steps forward, and raised their muskets again!

In this short distance of thirty steps, the power of the fire gun was better exerted!

Entering the era of hot weapons, any armor cover in the era of cold weapons is useless. What's more, in the group training in front of me, only a few of their leaders and leaders were wearing armor. Most of them only had a pair of cotton trousers and jackets. In the hot rain of bullets, it was almost the same as having nothing on!

The bullets shot out are a bloody hole or a life in the body of the five major families.

In the past, he was brave and fearless in team training, but now he is as pitiful and helpless as a bereaved dog!

Two rounds of firecracker shooting lasted only two and a half minutes, and most of the rattan players at the front were already dead or injured.

The tung oil rattans, which were regarded as life-saving tools at the beginning, were randomly discarded on the ground. Each rattan had one or two huge holes. On the edges of the holes, rattans ignited by the heat of the projectiles popped up. Waves of blue smoke.

The blood flowing from the hole in Tengjia was quickly absorbed by the red earth, and a strong smell of blood filled the air.

How terrible!