The second group of common people, under the slaughtering knives of the Qing army, broke down and shouted, begging for mercy and came towards the formation of the Liberation Army.
This time the Liberation Army no longer needed orders from the headquarters, and the rumble of artillery resounded throughout the wilderness!
Each field gun poured out its firepower to its heart's content!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
It seemed that the only sound left in the world was the roar of heavy artillery.
As Zhu Hongyu's chest rose and fell violently, anger was brewing in his chest.
Originally, he planned to fight a blocking battle along the coast of Leizhou to inflict heavy damage on the Qing army and ensure the safety of the coastal fortress in Leizhou, so he led his troops to evacuate.
However, as the Qing army drove civilians to the battlefield to be used as cannon fodder, and massacred unarmed civilians on the battlefield.
Zhu Hongyu changed his mind.
If he doesn't withdraw, he will annihilate this Qing cavalry team of about 10,000 people!
Then kill them all as a deterrent!
Prevent similar things from happening in the future!
Even if the main force of the Liberation Army would suffer heavy losses in order to achieve this goal, he would still do it!
Seeing the tragic scene on the battlefield, Zhu Hongyu turned his head and gave instructions.
"Send an order and send a communication ship back to Qiongzhou immediately to convey Gu's transfer order!"
"Mobilize all the troops in Qiongzhou and prepare to fight on the Leizhou Peninsula. I want to completely annihilate the Qing cavalry in front of me!"
"Let the staff come up with a practical battle plan!"
After Zhu Hongyu finished speaking, no one showed any objection. Everyone could feel the determination in Zhu Hongyu's words.
Everyone agreed in unison.
Then everyone started busy with their own affairs, the staff began to discuss the battle plan, and Zhu Hongyu's secretary began to issue orders.
The small headquarters was busy for a while!
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The scene on the battlefield became more and more tragic!
The artillery of the Liberation Army continued to roar, and the shells flew across the battlefield. Under the attack of the shells, the living lives turned into minced meat all over the ground.
As the civilians got closer and closer to the Liberation Army's defense line, the Liberation Army's forts even began to use shotguns.
The sound of shelling began to become dull, and dense barrages swept across everything.
The casualties of those people who were expelled by the Qing army suddenly increased greatly!
The front line almost turned into a Shura hell.
Under the blockade of shotguns, the people who were driven forward seemed to have hit an invisible wall.
One side of the wall is a clean ground, and the other side is countless stumps and broken arms!
However, under the pressure of the Qing cavalry, these people kept pushing forward with their own lives.
The Qing cavalry followed these people and advanced towards the defense line of the Liberation Army!
These inhuman beasts laughed unscrupulously at the scene of rivers of blood on the battlefield.
Boom! Boom!
A loud noise shook the field, but this time it was not the artillery of the Liberation Army that was firing.
But it thundered!
Silver snakes danced wildly in the sky, and the dark clouds became thicker and thicker.
Snap!
A drop of water fell on the ground and instantly merged with the blood on the ground.
There were ripples on a small pool of blood.
The next moment, a hazy drizzle began to fall in the sky.
And the rain seems to be gradually expanding!
When Shang Zhixiao saw this scene, he couldn't help but raise his head and scream.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
"It's raining, it's raining, the thieves' firearms can't be used!"
"Hahaha, God helps me, God helps me!"
"..."
The joy on Shang Zhixiao's face was barely concealed at all.
He didn't know anything about flintlock guns. In his mind, as long as it rained, the firearms would definitely be useless.
Once the Ming army lost its advantage in firearms, how could it still be a match for the Qing cavalry?
"Instruct the frontline cavalry to launch a general attack in the direction of the Ming thieves!"
Shang Zhixiao gave an order, and the Qing army's flag order changed.
The cavalry of the Qing army began to respond. They drew their sabers and lances from their waists and prepared to attack the defense line of the Liberation Army.
When it rains, not only the firearms cannot be used, but the bowstrings of the bows and arrows are soaked, and they also cannot be used!
If the cavalry of the Qing army wanted to fight, they could only use sabers!
The cavalrymen galloped out, stabbing with swords and spears. The common people who were forced to go to the battlefield dispersed in a hurry, making way for the Qing cavalry to charge.
However, what these Qing cavalry did not expect was that the Liberation Army had set up rainproof shelters for the defense line in advance.
Moreover, the Liberation Army used flintlock muskets!
Although in a heavy downpour, there is no difference between a flintlock and a matchlock, both will turn into fire sticks.
But it’s not raining much now!
Even if there is no rainproof shelter, the muskets of the Liberation Army can still be used.
The cavalry of the Qing army came roaring in the rain!
The sound of thousands of cavalry trampling the ground with their hoofs was very frightening, and the artillery of the Liberation Army opened fire with all its strength.
Boom! Boom!
The hot shells passed by in the rain, and the traces of water mist were very obvious.
The cannonball hits the ground and then continues to bounce!
But it is very obvious that because the ground has been wet by rain, the soil has become soft.
The kinetic energy of the solid cannonball is absorbed by the soft soil, and its power is greatly reduced.
The threat to the Qing army is much smaller!
However, the Liberation Army's forts did not use many solid bullets, and most of them were shotgun shells and explosive shells.
The shotguns swept across everything, and the Qing troops who rushed at the front fell to the ground in pieces, including men and horses!
Explosive bombs continued to fall, but due to the rain, the explosion rate dropped a lot.
Nearly one-third of the artillery shells turned into duds!
But the remaining bombs exploded smoothly, causing soft soil mixed with fragments to fly everywhere.
The Qing army left corpses one after another in front of the array of the Liberation Army!
However, the Qing cavalry advanced very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, they entered a range of three hundred meters.
It happens to be the effective range of the Liberation Army’s rockets!
Rest, rest, rest, rest...
The roar of sharp arrows piercing the sky rang out from the sky and the earth, and rockets kept falling one after another.
The picture is beautiful and shocking, but the result is quite cruel!
A salvo of rockets cleared a large area of the Qing army's array.
The cavalrymen of the Qing army stared dumbfounded at the scene that happened on the battlefield, and all of them opened their mouths in shock.
The Ming thief's firearms are really sharp!
Moreover, isn’t it raining now? Why can the Ming thief’s firearms still be used?
However, because the Qing cavalry advanced too fast, the Liberation Army's rockets only fired one round, and the Qing army rushed within a hundred meters of the defense line.
The Liberation Army in the first trench began to retreat, climbed out of the trench, and retreated towards the second trench.
Along the long defense line, the soldiers of the Liberation Army retreated in a very scattered manner!
Seeing this, the Qing cavalry seemed to have seen an opportunity.
If the soldiers of the Liberation Army retreated in such a chaotic manner, wouldn't it be a unilateral massacre when they kill them?
Shang Zhixiao also burst into bursts of proud laughter.
"Haha, this Ming thief is nothing more than that. Without a musket, he won't be able to fight!"
However, before Shang Zhixiao and the Qing army could be happy, something unexpected happened.
The Qing cavalry at the front leaped high, preparing to cross the parapet blocking the road, and then let his saber drink the blood of the Liberation Army.
It's a pity that he miscalculated the width of the Liberation Army's trenches.
The war horse failed to land on the ground and fell into a wide trench, landing on the rain shelter erected by the Liberation Army.
The awning collapsed!
The war horse's forelimbs and neck were broken instantly!
This Qing cavalryman was also thrown off his horse, hit his head against the earth wall on the other side of the trench, and died instantly.
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