Especially the well-equipped cavalry like the Guan Ning Cavalry, their combat effectiveness is quite terrifying.
In the past, Guan Ning's cavalry could not defeat the Qing army, not because of their weak combat power, but because the people in charge of the army were unwilling to lose.
Ever since the Guan Ning cavalry was placed in the hands of the Qing army, its effect has been completely different.
Although the loss was not small, at least it was used, instead of being the first to flee for one's life every time there was a battle.
But what he never expected was that in this battle, which he felt was stable, the artillery force, which he felt was very strong, would be the first to be overwhelmed by the artillery fire pouring from the opponent.
Twenty 88 field guns slowly fired 400 shells in just ten minutes, reducing the Qing artillery position to rubble.
No way, in this era, explosive ammunition is so unreasonable, not to mention that the gunpowder barrels on the Qing army's artillery positions were piled randomly, with no safety awareness at all. In the first round of shelling, 30% of the gunpowder barrels were detonated.
Release its power directly on the spot.
However, after this burst of rapid fire, these 20 88 field guns were considered to have no combat effectiveness for the time being.
After all, just transporting these 20 88 field guns gave the Fourth Division a huge headache. As for the artillery shells, it was impossible to carry more.
After all, in this battle, the protagonist is still the infantry.
After all the artillery was destroyed, Dorobelek Dehun made a desperate move and ordered the entire army to attack, hoping to swamp the enemy with his numerical advantage.
He no longer wanted to live a life where his camp was bombarded every day.
More than 100,000 troops poured out of the camp, and the formation was truly thrilling.
These are no longer the newly surrendered troops. They have been following the Qing masters in the north and south for a long time. Many of them have already joined the banner and consider themselves to be the slaves of the Qing masters.
Under such influence, they also believed that they were the orthodox Qing army that had no rivals.
At the forefront were the infantry led by Wu Sangui's nephew, all of whom were wearing cotton armor and holding long spears.
Behind them are all sword and shield wielders, and behind them are an army of 10,000 firearms.
As for the 1,200 Eight Banners soldiers and 1,000 Guanning cavalry led by Dorobelekde, they are stationed in the rear. Once the enemy is defeated, they will take the opportunity to cover up and kill them.
After all, cavalry is always a valuable unit. The money and food required to raise one cavalry can almost support ten infantrymen. Dorobele Leked is not willing to lose these cavalry here easily.
What did Akito say? Steel should be used on the blade.
Dorobelluced was very satisfied with his ability to speak clearly.
What does it matter if the artillery is destroyed?
He still has more than 100,000 troops under his command!
But as the distance got closer, the gunshots from the Star Navy began to sound one by one.
Since the Star Navy is equipped with the Mauser G98, which uses metal-cased bullets, its accuracy and range are far superior to the Thunderbolt 1646.
Under such circumstances, there is absolutely no need to launch a salvo.
Actual combat proved that in the Battle of Chaozhou, the effect of volley fire was very poor, and the most important thing was a waste of bullets.
During post-war inspections, Star Navy officers discovered that many corpses had more than a dozen bullet holes or more.
This means too many bullets are wasted.
In future generations, killing an enemy with 10,000 bullets will not be considered a loss.
But here, due to the difficulty in processing metal shell bullets, even if ten bullets kill an enemy, let alone ten thousand bullets, it will cause physical pain to the officers.
After all, the current logistics and transportation efficiency of the Star Navy is relatively low, and the bullets carried by the soldiers are only about fifty rounds. Once they are used up, the combat effectiveness is equivalent to scrapping, and they need to wait for logistics to transport the bullets.
Under such circumstances, the officers had to order the soldiers to aim at the enemy as much as possible before shooting, so as not to waste bullets on a corpse.
As a result, when the Qing army continued to approach, many non-commissioned officers did not allow all their soldiers to fire. Instead, they divided the soldiers into several groups and fired in batches, so as to save bullets.
Therefore, at the beginning, not many people fell in the front row of the Qing army. They all fell one to the east and one to the west.
For the Qing army, these casualties were simply not worth mentioning.
But when the distance got closer to a certain level, the number of Star Marine soldiers who opened fire gradually increased, and the Qing army fell much faster.
When the distance was shortened to two hundred meters, the grenade launchers immediately joined the battle, and at this time, the officers also relaxed their requirements on the soldiers and allowed them to fire freely.
The firepower suddenly increased dozens of times, making the Qing troops fall down row by row like straw swept away by sticks.
Mauser G98 exerted its maximum power at this time.
In front of 3,000 Mauser G98s and dozens of grenades, more than 100,000 troops were unable to fight back. It was a complete massacre.
Only after more than 20,000 people fell, the Qing army completely collapsed, and those soldiers turned around and fled.
At this time, Dorobelle Leked resolutely asked the Eight Banners soldiers and Guan Ning's cavalry to attack.
At this point, even if he escapes with the remnants of his army, he will at least be imprisoned in the end.
The defeated general will be killed without hesitation.
Although those Guan Ning cavalry were reluctant to attack, they did not dare to raise objections in front of Dorobel Leked, and could only follow the Eight Banners soldiers and rush towards the enemy's flank.
The one who rushed to the front was Niulu Erzhenlege Shidan, who had the title of Baturu in the red flag. He was wearing double-layered iron armor and holding a cast-iron mace. His horse was also covered with a layer of iron armor.
Behind him were three white-armored soldiers and more than twenty red-armored soldiers.
These white-armored soldiers are the elite of the Eight Banners soldiers, with no more than a hundred people in each banner.
In other words, the total number of Eight Banners white-armored soldiers in the Qing court would not exceed 800.
To put it simply, among the Eight Banners, those who are over fifteen years old need to take an assessment.
Those who pass the test will be selected as foot armor and can be recruited to wear armor and participate in the Qing court's wars. Those who are excellent will be selected as horse armor and cavalry.
After that, they will be promoted according to the number of beheading levels. Those who can wear red armor after being beheaded at level 100 will be selected from the red armor to be bagara, that is, a white-armored soldier.
In other words, the red-armored soldiers are the elite of the Eight Banners. It is not easy to behead a hundred people. You must first survive on the battlefield.
The elite white-armored soldiers among the red-armored soldiers are even more powerful. They wear chain armor on the inside, cotton armor on the middle, and iron armor on the outside.
From the beginning of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, for more than fifty years of fighting, no white-armored soldiers were killed.
During the Battle of Songjin, Obai, who was famous in later generations, led five white-armored soldiers to capture a hilltop. Six of them rushed to the top of the mountain and fought with the Ming army. They wiped out more than 240 defenders without any casualties on their own side.
This shows how powerful the white-armored soldiers are.