To be honest, if it were an army of a thousand men, they would probably collapse completely after being shelled like this, turn around and run away.
But on this battlefield, not only were there 1,200 murderous formation supervisors behind them, but also because there were so many surrendered troops, those in front were trembling with fear from the shelling and wanted to turn around and escape, but the people behind kept pressing up, making them
You can only follow the formation and charge forward. Otherwise, if you take a step slower, you may be directly squeezed to the ground by the large group of soldiers behind you, and then trampled to pieces.
After a round of shelling, the Nanming Artillery Guardsman excitedly urged the artillerymen to speed up the cleaning of the gun barrels, filling of charges, and shells.
There is no doubt that in his eyes, these cannons are much more powerful than the cannons he has seen before.
The key is to hit it right!
Not to mention the low power of the squatting tiger cannons used by the Ming army in the past, the shells they fired were still floating, and they were not accurate at all.
However, due to proficiency, the artillery went silent after one round of firing.
At this time, the surrendered officers who were mixed in the team in front seemed to have been given a shot of blood, shouting loudly: "Brothers, don't be afraid, let's charge!"
"Yes! Let's charge! As long as we charge fast enough, their artillery can't hit us!"
Indeed, for most soldiers who have been exposed to artillery, artillery is a powerful, scary weapon with a very slow firing speed.
As long as we run fast enough, those artillery pieces may not be able to continue firing when we rush in front of us.
Apparently they confused the rate of fire of the Napoleon cannon with that of the older artillery.
So when they began to charge and rushed until they were less than 200 meters apart, and when both sides could vaguely see the patterns on the flags on the opposite side, they saw flashes of light from the muzzles of the artillery on both sides of the opposite side.
With the flash of fire, a blink of an eye, bloody roads opened up by artillery shells appeared in the charging team.
However, although many soldiers who surrendered felt that they had been cheated, at this distance, even if they wanted to retreat, the price they paid before would not allow them to retreat.
If you gather your strength and charge a certain distance, you may be able to knock down the enemy!
With this idea in mind, the soldiers who were already out of breath from exhaustion during the sprint once again boosted their morale, and their feet seemed to become lighter and less tired.
But at this moment, the voice of the time travel instructor Lu Xiaomi rang out: "Everyone is here! The first row is kneeling! Release!"
Bang bang bang bang...
Although it was not neat, when the gunshots started to sound, the boulder that the two instructors were hanging in mid-air fell to the ground in an instant.
No way, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was really too famous. Not to mention the theory of the three braves, it has become the practice of the Ming army to run faster than anyone else when they lose a battle.
Under such circumstances, even though they have been taught step by step for two months, the time-traveling officers are still worried that if they are not careful, these new troops will collapse.
But after the first round of gunfire was fired, the New Army soldiers had no time to imagine defeat. They could only continue to reload amidst the scoldings of the officers, following actions that were about to become mechanical operations.
Bullet, shoot, load, shoot...
Perhaps the psychological pressure was too great before, so that after being released, these new army soldiers, who were just new recruits in the eyes of the time traveler, used three consecutive shots when the enemy charged from 200 meters to less than 20 meters, hitting a total of
Twelve rounds of high rate of fire!
Although there are only less than 700 rifles firing in each round.
But the Thunderbolt 1646 rifle is not comparable to those matchlock guns and flintlock guns today.
The huge kinetic energy and caliber, coupled with the paper-cased bullets, give it powerful lethality.
Therefore, when the last round of shooting was almost done to the enemy's head, and the enemy soldiers who had been frightened to collapse and turned to run away, those Nanming officers subconsciously ordered the soldiers to fix their bayonets and pursue them.
In fact, after twelve rounds of shooting, at least 7,000 surrendered soldiers survived. After all, it often happens that a few bullets hit a person.
But those soldiers who surrendered had completely lost their fighting spirit and morale at this time. They were like a group of frightened ducks, running around, and some even turned around and rushed towards the supervisory team in the distance. They were beaten one by one by those supervisory team.
Shoot.
After the entire battle, after counting, the number of captured surrendered soldiers alone exceeded 3,000.
There were more than 4,000 war dead, and these were all those with relatively complete corpses. As for those whose arms and legs were missing to a certain extent and the complete corpses could not be identified, there was no way to count them.
The entire battlefield, especially the area in front of the infantry formation of the Nanming New Army, was completely covered with corpses and blood.
The other Nanming troops who were sent to help collect the corpses were carrying heavy corpses, and their feet made wailing sounds from time to time.
This scene made them all feel as if they had fallen into hell.
These so-called new armies are too scary, right?
Only 2,000 people easily defeated 12,000 Qing troops?
Although those Qing troops were surrendered, they were already very scary.
Compared with the shock on the part of the Nanming side, on the Qing side, Dorobelle Lekdehun thought of sending reinforcements from his Eight Banners troops at the moment when the surrendering army faced collapse.
But as soon as he saw the bodies crushed by artillery shells on the battlefield, he canceled this plan.
Although at that time, if we had sent out the 1,200 Eight Banners soldiers and made a desperate move, we might have been able to win.
But facing the enemy's artillery, the Eight Banners soldiers would probably suffer heavy losses.
He also knew that it would not be a good thing to send troops again when the enemy was already showing momentum.
What's more, compared to those surrendered troops, each Eight Banners soldier is precious. If the loss is large, your future will be worrying.
Especially when the Qing army was about to take over the world, if he was withdrawn from the battle sequence, it could be said that there was almost no hope of being crowned king.
Well, no one knows that Dorobele Lekedhun has the ambition to be crowned king.
However, when the remnant troops were gathered after the war, the losses in this battle were still beyond the imagination of Dorobele Lekdehun.
There were a total of 12,000 soldiers. Excluding those who were killed, captured, and killed by the supervising team, less than 3,000 were able to escape back to the camp and be gathered up!
This is not surprising. At least one or two thousand surrendered troops took advantage of the chaos and ran away.
However, in order to prevent the Supervisory Army from being attacked, Dorobele Lekedhun did not order the pursuit of those surrendering troops who escaped.
However, after this wave, the troops in Dorobele Lekedhun's hands suddenly became tight.