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1043 Tentative Attack

But unexpectedly, the other party stopped again after retreating less than two hundred steps. After the whole person turned, under the command of the officers, the square formation on the left made a huge move!

They actually rotated counterclockwise 45 degrees in place! They suddenly faced the square array with the Qing soldiers attacking from afar! The other square array quickly moved closer to the left side. They stopped when they were less than 50 steps apart.

In this way, among the two square arrays, the right square array remains normal, while the left square array becomes a side-placed square.

This series of actions made Dorgon feel chilled! This transformation of formation is really too difficult! It is impossible for a veteran who has not been trained to do it! Especially this kind of formation change is completed calmly in the process of the enemy's attack! This makes Dorgon's evaluation of Liu Pei a higher level.

At this time, the Qing army's horses had already started running. They originally wanted to attack the enemy's firepower dead corner, but they didn't expect that the other party would solve the problem by simply changing the formation. However, they had already started moving, so they could only continue to gallop in the established direction.

At this time, the artillery on the village wall also started! This time, Liu Pei brought 90 Napoleon artillery and 20 large-caliber mortars. Among them, 20 artillery and 5 artillery were left on the Jinan city wall. The others were all in the camp. So the first time the artillery fired, 70 scorching iron balls hit the Qing army's team!

The dense Pi Island caused huge chaos in the Qing army's team in the blink of an eye! The broken war horses, the torn human bodies were densely spread on the ground! Nearing and screaming mixed together! The scene was very chaotic! However, the Qing soldiers bypassed the dead and injured companions, and the bodies of the war horses continued to pounce forward!

This is the scene that the gunners on the village wall most want to see! So after the first time, the artillery was divided into two groups for taking turns to shoot. This was conducive to maintaining the sustainability of the firepower and causing greater psychological pressure to the Qing army.

The Qing army soldiers quickly advanced within two miles. The artillery commander changed the types of artillery shells by himself without Liu Pei’s orders and began to use flowering shells! This caused huge casualties to the Qing army!

35 flowering bullets were in batches, and they took turns to fall into the cavalry group and exploded frequently! Each time there were explosions, several cavalrymen fell to the ground. When there were many, more than ten cavalry or war horses were severely damaged!

In this way, Liu Pei only used five rounds of cannons to make the first wave of gun tips extremely chaotic! In the blink of an eye, the 4,000 people lost hundreds of people, and had to spread to the left and right sides, retreat back and reorganize the formation.

But the second wave of the second wave had already rushed to the front square with the help of their cover! When they pulled out their bows and arrows to prepare for archery, the first round of flowering bullets exploded beside them!

Although these Qing soldiers had already seen the result of the group of troops in front of them, they were mentally prepared. However, they were still shocked by the lethality of the shells! After all, seeing them in person and experience them in person are different!

The war horses used to the sound of cannons were not used to the sound of explosions sounding beside them! They were confused by the explosions, and they couldn't help but neigh and jump! The entire team was in chaos!

However, the second wave of cavalry still stubbornly advanced within a hundred steps! But what we welcomed was not flowers and applause, but dense and hot lead bullets!

Within a distance of 100 steps, the lethality of the muskets increased. Therefore, a large number of Qing cavalry were dismissed. The remaining Qing troops were not willing to be outdone and used their horsepower to shoot the feather arrows in their hands!

So the dense feather arrows rose into the air and flew towards the square formation on the left. The sword, shield and spear soldiers and spearmen in the square formation were already ready to defend themselves. In other words, they had to bow their heads desperately, tighten their bodies, and wait for the feather arrows to fall.

But the musketeers were not good, and they had to fight back against the rain of arrows! So they could only use their helmets and shoulder armor to resist the rain of arrows. Before the rain of arrows fell, the musketeers fired a second row of volleys.

Then, dense rain of arrows fell on them! The jingle of steel colliding with steel came one after another! Since the Qing army used heavy arrows to break armor and the arrows were very heavy, sometimes they would really penetrate the armor and shoot on people! So when this round of arrow rain fell, five people on the square formation were shot down. But this probability was relative to that in the square formation.

The soldiers were simply too low, so this did not affect the third round of musket shooting.

The Qing cavalry shot arrows while moving to the left. At the same time, they continued to shoot arrows into the formation with horsepower. It seemed that they had a flaw when they turned!

A large number of soldiers reduce their speed when turning, making the turning location a fixed shooting location! Musketeers will gain rewards by shooting at the turning location.

The officer Mirui, who led the team, seized this point and began to direct the soldiers to shoot there! Soon, he turned back and clicked and piled up a small corpse hill with human corpses and horse corpses!

During the whole process, Liu Pei's soldiers suffered little losses. Because the Qing army in the first two waves suffered huge chaos under the bombardment of artillery and muskets! The combat power was not exerted at all!

However, from the approaching of the third group of Qing soldiers, the real test came! Because the first two groups of Qing soldiers used their bodies as their targets to attract all the attention of the artillery, the third group of Qing soldiers approached the phalanx within 70 steps without any losses! They could calmly aim at their opponents and shoot dense feather arrows, causing considerable damage!

Dozens of soldiers fell under the first batch of feather arrows! Basically, they were all shot arrows in the face! Although some feather arrows did not have the armor on the bow, they were also stuck on the armor, making the soldiers who were shot look weird!

But the musketeers were not in chaos due to their companions' casualties. Instead, they worked harder to speed up their loading speed and responded to the enemy with more violent shooting!

Moreover, the commanding troops of the two square formations mobilized more musket soldiers from the queues close to the direction of the camp to replenish them to the front line, making them shoot six times in one minute, or even seven times! But compared to the Qing army's arrow rain, the lethality is much greater!
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