0966 Shelling
For these war horses, the roar of artillery will only sound in the distance. But I didn’t expect that there would be a huge sound around me today. This is so scary! So after being frightened, the war horses that jumped everywhere, and the collision between each other made the entire team a mess!
Chibeta was anxious when he saw the appearance in front of him and immediately shouted to the people around him: "Go up and tell them to run! Run! Don't stand there and be beaten!"
Chibeta was thinking of a solution here, but the artillerymen were not idle. Except for the gunman responsible for aiming, everyone was doing their own things without raising their heads. Clear the chamber! Load gunpowder! Load the shells! Launch! Then repeat again!
Rounds of artillery shells flew over. Before the Qing army could react, the artillery soldiers had already shot three rounds of artillery at them! The explosion of Qing soldiers turned over and over, killing and injured!
However, these Qing troops were indeed people fighting old wars! Before Chi Beta's order was delivered, they had already spontaneously responded. The people on the outside accelerated to run outward, making room for the people behind. The people who had not yet started in the back row were actually slowly stepping back.
The cavalry kept stabbing the horses with spurs, slapped, touching the head and neck of the war horses, and trying hard to calm the war horses. The efforts of the Qing soldiers achieved results, the chaos stopped spreading, and the formation actually had a sense of unfolding.
Chibeta looked at him and breathed a sigh of relief, but in the end he shot another three-round volley, turning their efforts into vanish!
The reason why the fourth round of artillery was delayed for a moment was because the artillery was re-adjusting the firing angle. I had to re-target the target without three shots. Once the adjustment was completed, the volley of artillery would once again come to the heads of the Qing soldiers, turning the people they hit again!
But at this time, the Qing army had already set off and ran quickly. Although war horses and cavalry were blown up from time to time, the Qing soldiers who had already distanced them did reduce their losses a lot!
Thousands of war horses ran, and the horse's hooves brought countless smoke and dust! As soon as these cavalry started to run, the confidence of the Qing soldiers gradually returned. Although they were still in chaos, their confidence in themselves and their confidence in defeating the Ming army has been long-standing and has been deeply rooted!
So they launched a charge with confidence with the attack of artillery.
Their tactics are very simple, they are to quickly approach the front of Liu Pei's square formation, quickly split into two teams at more than 400 steps, and rotate around Liu Pei's square formation. They keep shooting feather arrows. This is the riding and shooting that the Qing army is proud of!
At the same time, just when the Qing army was in normal circumstances and chaos behind, Liu Pei actually signaled the cavalry troops led by Yang Jingfa to attack!
The slow activation of the Ming cavalry scared Chibeta to death! Now the Qing army's cavalry is in chaos. If the Ming cavalry is in trouble, they may be defeated. So Chibeta immediately shook the flag and ordered Halagu to intercept the opponent's cavalry.
Halagu also understood Chibeta's meaning. He also saw the unlucky appearance of the main force of the Qing army. He knew that at this time, he could not let the opponent approach his main force at any time! Otherwise, if the cavalry in the chaos was hit sideways, it would be easy to collapse! So Halagu immediately ordered his cavalry to rush forward with the fastest speed to intercept the opponent's cavalry!
Yang Jingfa fully understood Liu Pei's thoughts. He knew that Liu Pei had no idea of letting him hit the opponent's main force at all. Because Liu Pei said it clearly in advance that the target of the cavalry was the two thousand Qing cavalry on the opposite side. Before they completely decided the victory or defeat, the battle on the main battlefield had nothing to do with them.
After Yang Jingfa was created, he played a trick! When he set off, he slightly adjusted his direction and made a side attack. This was to force Haragu on the opposite side to launch it with all his strength in advance.
War horses are very delicate animals. If they remove the saddles and other things on their bodies and let them run freely, they will run very quickly and elegantly! But when they carry a full set of saddles and a fully armed knight, it will not be so easy to run!
The cavalry usually move slowly first and then trot. Only when the horse's physical activity is turned on will it accelerate. However, Haragu, opposite Yang Jingfa, was afraid that the main force would be hit by a side attack, so he attacked the horse with all his strength as soon as he came up! In this case, the horse's physical strength would not last long!
So with Liu Pei's deliberate arrangement, the two battlefields were started almost at the same time!
Since the main force of the Qing army was the first to be dispatched, they first got closer to Liu Pei's square formation. Their plan was to divide two teams to both sides at about 400 meters.
However, Liu Pei, who had long studied the Qing army, issued a series of orders before their formation changed.
After receiving the order, the 30 artillery fired quickly and retreated to the square array. As soon as they retreated to the square array, they immediately began to fix the artillery and began to adjust the elevation angle of the artillery. These work took time and could not play a role for a period of time. However, the large-caliber mortar that had been waiting for a long time was fired first!
The effective range of these large-caliber mortars is only seven or eight hundred meters, and the accuracy is very poor. However, if they are asked to control the landing point to be about five hundred meters, they will be much more sure.
With the dull sound of cannons, ten huge flowering bullets swayed into the air, and then suddenly hit the ground like they were out of control! Then a series of huge explosions sounded!
This large-caliber flowering bullet is different from the Napoleon Cannon. Whether it is the charge or the number of internal projectiles, it is four times that of the Napoleon Cannon Cannon! So their lethality is naturally four times!
Ordinary flowering bullets exploded in the cavalry group, and at most seven or eight cavalry could be blown down at a time. The large-caliber flowering bullets fired by the mortar cannon are different! Every time there is an explosion, there is absolutely no living thing within two meters of radius! The bombarded person will either be pierced through the body by the projectile or be shaken through the internal organs by the huge shock wave, and the wounded will slowly die in pain.
With the explosion of the flowering bullet locked, each flowering bullet will create a huge gap among the advancing cavalry! The dead bodies piled up and tripped a group of cavalry again. The broken-legged war horses kept neighing, and the injured cavalry let out a burst of wailing! The charge momentum of the Qing cavalry was instantly disrupted! The Qing cavalry had to slow down the horse speed and bypass the flesh and blood slaughterhouse in front! The speed of the entire team involuntarily slowed down!
This round of attacks from the flowering bullets caused the Qing army to soar to more than hundreds of people!
Chapter completed!