One round of artillery fire killed and injured more than 150 cavalrymen, which made Yue Tuo's eyes red immediately.
He has never encountered such a loss. He has been participating in the war since he was sixteen years old, and he is thirty-one years old this year. During the fifteen years of fighting, he has performed very well.
He rarely suffered defeats. Whether it was the crusade against the Haixi Jurchens or the attacks on the Eastern Mongolian tribes, he almost won all the victories. This was also the reason why Huang Taiji won over him in the early stage and suppressed him in the later stage. His achievements shocked the emperor.
In the last ten years of his life, Yue Tuo continued to achieve brilliant victories, but he also constantly stimulated Huang Taiji's sensitive nerves. The strength of the two red flags was higher than that of the two white flags, and he was more threatening than the Dorgon brothers.
Yue Tuo went from being a prince, to a county prince, and then to Baylor. He was always found trouble by Huang Taiji and was demoted to Beizi. It can be said that the more he got mixed up, the more he went back. If he hadn't contracted smallpox and died during the siege of Jinan in 1639, God knows,
Will he end up being demoted to a city gate officer like General Nian?
Although he felt sorry for the huge loss of the elite cavalry, he understood that at this time, he must not be soft-hearted. Once the cavalry group charges, it cannot stop. Even if it stops, it will be scattered by the people behind it. It will be chaos.
, I can’t retreat even if I want to.
"Come forward, they won't be able to fire many shots." Yue Tuo, who was in the second echelon, shouted loudly.
The horn sounded again, which was the order to continue the attack. Although all the cavalry were frightened by the shells just now, after the order was given, whoever dared to disobey the military order could only bite the bullet and continue to attack.
It only took Jiannu's heavy armored cavalry less than a minute to cover the distance of 500 meters.
Therefore, there are not many time windows for firing.
This is also the reason why Qin Liangyu fired at 500 meters.
Because the artillery is loaded in advance, when it enters the range, it fires one shot, then emergency reloads, fires one more shot, and then continues to reload. When the cavalry reaches the barbed wire fence, there is still a chance to fire another shot.
After three shots, the cavalry arrived in front of the barbed wire fence.
Now in front of the barbed wire, barbed wire connected with thin iron chains are scattered. Behind the barbed wire, there is a semicircular gun emplacement made of sandbags. Behind it are three rows of musketeers, totaling 3,000 people.
Some distance away from the musketeers is a second row of two thousand musketeers. Not far behind this line of musketeers is an array of three thousand cavalry. Qin Liangyu, his son, daughter-in-law, and generals are all here.
On both wings are two large formations of infantry and pikemen with 3,000 men on each side. They are arranged staggered in front and back to protect the two wings. This formation method is obviously based on artillery and muskets.
In less than thirty seconds, the cavalry had already reached its maximum speed. At this time, it was less than half a mile away from the artillery position. The artillerymen could already be clearly seen busy. They were loading the second artillery shell.
Immediately, the artillery captain issued the order to fire.
As the fuse burned out with crackling noises, there was another burst of cannon fire.
But this time it was no longer a projectile with the muzzle at a 45-degree angle, but a flat shot.
Because the cavalry is already too close. At a distance of more than 200 meters, they can take a direct aim.
Thirty eighteen-pound artillery shells roared out of the muzzle. After spewing flames and thick smoke from the muzzle, they roared out at a speed exceeding the speed of sound and flew directly towards the cavalry group in front of them.
This time, instead of hitting a few people after landing and then ricocheting to the ground, they opened a bloody alley. Qin Liangyu watched as the lead bullets hit the cavalry group. The cavalry in front of them, including their men and horses, were directly hit by the high-speed rotating lead balls.
It was broken into pieces, and the flesh and blood splattered.
Almost as soon as the eyes were dazzled, the military formation with a thickness of more than a dozen cavalry was penetrated. The cavalry group of the second faction could be seen directly from this alley.
It's like a wooden board with countless holes punched in it.
Yue Tuo's heart was greatly shaken, and a sense of crisis rose from his back down his spine. This was an intuition he had only developed after many years of military service. He hid in the stirrup and got into the horse's belly.
Almost at the same time, a shot put filled with flesh and blood roared past the horse. It beat his soldiers into pieces, and the remains of bones and flesh flew everywhere, covering the bodies of everyone around him.
Yue Tuo was so frightened that the shot ball whizzed past the saddle with the hot wind, causing his cheek to hurt. If he hadn't felt the danger approaching, this cannonball would have shattered him.
He got on his horse and shouted loudly: "Speed up, they don't have time to reload. This is the last round."
He looked at the distance of less than 200 meters and roared loudly. Now the horse's speed had reached its maximum speed and entered the final sprint. The 200 meters would be reached in an instant. These chieftain soldiers from Sichuan had no chance to finish loading the third round.
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However, he soon saw an incredible scene from the gap in the first array of the forward line. The artillerymen were not affected at all. It was as if they did not hear the cavalry's hoofbeats that shook the ground, and they were still dressing in an orderly manner.
bomb.
If this were soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, the artillerymen would have been so frightened that their livers and gallbladders would burst. They could still load the ammunition calmly and their legs would be weak. At this time, the artillerymen would have thrown away the cannons and ran back. The officers would have come out and hacked them to death.
Deserters, trying to save the collapsed situation.
However, what Yue Tuo couldn't understand was that these people acted as if they hadn't seen anything and were not panicking at all. They were just loading the ammunition in an orderly manner according to the steps.
Fifty meters away. Yue Tuo was determined, nothing could be changed, the other side couldn't do any tricks. They couldn't make a comeback.
Daishan touched his goatee, smiled and waved his hand, and the infantry with the red flag followed the cavalry like a tide and launched an attack. At this time, he could already see that when the cavalry rushed to this distance, the overall situation was decided and there would be no more trouble.
Things have changed.
At this moment, his first thought was to quickly ask Shuotuo and the others to follow up. What a great contribution to his son. It must be said that Daishan loves his second son so much since he married his little wife.
This is a common problem among men and is due to human nature.
When a man loves a woman, he will love his wife and the children she has given birth to. He will also despise the bored cousin, his dead ex-wife, and the children she gave birth to. After divorce, many men who remarry are far away from the children of their ex-wife.
Not as good as the children from his later wife.
At this time, all the benefits cannot go to Yue Tuo. In the future, he plans to hand it over to Shuo Tuo.
But at this moment, Yue Tuo, who was in the second echelon, suddenly saw the first wave of cavalry in front suddenly rolling to the ground in large numbers. The war horses fell to the ground, bouncing up, neighing, and jumping as if frightened.
The cavalryman was thrown off his horse.
The view in front was originally blocked, but it suddenly seemed to be cleared.
