Gu Qingshan looked at the scene on the battlefield and felt uneasy. In his opinion, the battlefield should look like this:
The Qing army's cavalry sent people to lure and fire, but the Ming army's musketeers lost their control in fear and fired in a panic. The main force of the Qing army's cavalry took advantage of the gap between the Ming army's musketeers to reload their ammunition and rushed forward to shoot.
Then the Ming army collapsed, and the Qing army chased and killed them!
Then the Qing Dynasty won the victory, the Eight Banners were invincible, and the Ming thieves fled in panic!
However, what happened on the battlefield now was completely beyond his expectation.
In the past, the tactics of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, which had been tried and tested, were useless now!
The Ming thieves faced the lure of the Qing cavalry, but they were completely unmoved and did not panic at all.
Instead, the Qing cavalry who went to lure them were shot down by the Ming army's muskets, and suffered heavy losses!
This really shouldn’t be the case!
Just when Gu Qingshan was worried, the small cannons of the Ming army on the battlefield also began to roar!
Cannonballs were fired at the Qing cavalry one after another. Qing cavalrymen were constantly hit by the cannonballs and fell off their horses.
At this moment, the main cavalry force of the Qing army suddenly gathered together, but they did not charge into the formation, but passed by the side of the Ming army's infantry square.
During this process, a Qing cavalryman bent his bow and shot arrows one after another.
Mount and shoot to your heart's content towards the Ming army's infantry phalanx!
Collapse! Collapse!
The bowstrings trembled continuously, and arrows fell like raindrops as densely as the Ming army's array.
Ding-ding-ding-ding!
Puff! Puff!
The hard bows used by the Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing Army had strong armor-breaking capabilities, coupled with the strength brought by the momentum of the war horses.
Although the Ming army was armored, the number of casualties kept rising!
Every time the Qing cavalry passed by, someone in the Ming army would be hit by an arrow and fall to the ground!
However, at the moment when the Qing army bent their bows and mounted fire, the Ming army was actually fighting back.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Neat muskets exploded, and lead bullets flew everywhere as smoke filled the air.
The Qing cavalry who were riding close to the hollow square formation of the Ming army fell off their horses in large numbers under the fire of the Ming army's muskets.
Gu Qingshan followed the current and rushed to the front of the Ming army's hollow square formation. He was about to draw his bow and shoot the arrow in his hand.
I felt a sharp pain in my chest, and my ears began to buzz.
His chest seemed to have been hit hard by some wild beast. At this moment, he felt that his sternum was about to break, and then there was a heartbreaking pain.
With a pop, he fell from the horse, his vision went dark, and he completely lost consciousness!
The next second, countless war horses stepped over his body.
In just a moment, he turned into a puddle of meat.
Outside the hollow square formation of the Ming army, the Qing army rode around and fired, firing arrows and lead bullets. People on both sides kept falling to the ground.
A life-for-life fight!
The grenadiers in the hollow phalanx of the Ming Army lit the grenades in their hands one after another, and then threw the grenades out.
Hand grenades fell on the Qing army's formation one after another, and explosions sounded one after another.
Debris and fire swept everything!
In the cavalry array of the Qing army, there were blank spaces.
Some Qing cavalry reined in their horses and crashed into the Ming army's hollow square formation, hoping to break the formation.
However, what greeted them was the spear tips shining with cold light.
The war horse collided with the spear, and the impact exploded instantly!
In the blink of an eye, the spear-wielding Ming soldier's mouth burst open and blood flowed out. What's more, his whole body was knocked out and he vomited blood in mid-air. It looked like he was dead.
However, the spear also penetrated the body of the war horse, and even pierced the cavalry and the war horse on the horse.
Before the Qing army had time to break through, the next moment soldiers from the Ming army came forward to fill the gap in the array that was hit by the Qing cavalry.
Countless spears once again formed a spear forest!
Both sides continue to fight for lives!
The Ming army's small artillery roared incessantly, and countless shotguns fired, smashing a large area of Qing army cavalry into sieves.
The roar of muskets and artillery resounded throughout the battlefield!
Soldiers on both sides were shouting and shouting to kill, and slogans resounded throughout the battlefield.
The Ming army's rocket launcher was finally set up.
Ignite, launch, all in one go!
Phew! Phew! Phew! Phew!
There were bursts of piercing screams, and rockets rose into the air one after another, falling towards the Qing cavalry.
Each rocket dragged its tail flame into the sky and drew a beautiful parabola in the sky.
Then, he fell to the ground!
The fuse at the end of the rocket burned out, and then exploded instantly.
Rumbling explosions sounded one after another!
The smell of gunpowder smoke spread quickly, and the rocket charge was terrifying. The moment it exploded, it seemed as if the ground was shaking.
The earth and rocks on the ground surged like waves, and a Qing cavalryman and his horse were lifted into the sky by the shock wave generated by the explosion.
Then his body was torn apart by countless fragments!
Amidst the rumbling explosions, the Qing army's seemingly chaotic, but actually very organized, cavalry array turned into a seemingly chaotic, but actually very messy cavalry array.
As the casualties continued to increase, this Qing cavalry also began to want to retreat.
The Ming army's artillery and firepower projection caused a great psychological shadow on them.
The Qing army faded away like the tide and attacked halfway, which naturally turned into a complete joke.
Two thousand Qing cavalry left the city and found nothing except hundreds of corpses left on the battlefield outside the city.
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On Shang Zhijie, Jin Guangzu and others saw the cavalry defeated and retreated hastily.
None of them looked good-looking, and Shang Zhijie's legs were so weak that he had to be supported by someone to barely stand.
"Mr. Governor, what should we do now?"
"The army was defeated when they left the city. The morale between our Qing Heavenly Soldiers and the Puppet Ming Thief Army has been ebbing and flowing. I am afraid that even the city of Guangzhou cannot be defended!"
Jin Guangzu also said with an ugly expression.
"I didn't expect that this Ming thief's firearm would be so sharp!"
Zeng Qizhao opened his mouth to appease Shang Zhijie.
"Don't worry, Your Highness, our army has thousands of green battalions in Guangzhou City, and more than ten thousand brave men!"
"In addition, the people living in Guangzhou City are all our fundamental bannermen of the Qing Dynasty. In an emergency, even women, children, the elderly and the weak can go into battle to kill the enemy."
"As long as we in Guangzhou are united as one and persist until the prince leads his troops to return for reinforcements, there will be no problem!"
Shang Zhijie's pale face turned slightly red.
Jin Guangzu on the side also reminded him.
"Perhaps His Highness the Crown Prince should visit the soldiers who have just withdrawn from the city and ask them what they think of the invading Ming army."
"Try to know yourself and your enemy as much as possible, so that you can be victorious in every battle!"
Shang Zhijie nodded again. At this time, his two legs, which were as soft as his little brother, finally regained some strength.
Even if you don't need anyone's help, you won't fall!
Accompanied by Jin Guangzu and Zeng Qizhao, Shang Zhijie descended from the city wall and then went to inspect the Eight Banners Cavalry barracks.