The horn sounded, and the 20,000 cavalrymen of the Eight Banners and 50,000 Mongolian cavalry formed a square formation and rushed towards the Ming army.
They were shouting and yelling, completely ignoring the hundred strange cars puffing out black smoke in front of them. The Mongolians were already very familiar with sidecars.
They have been fighting the Ming army for two hundred years. They have seen all kinds of tanks. Although today's one is larger and still smoking, it is not that big of a deal.
They also blew the whistle, which scared the horses quite a bit. But they were very good at controlling horses, so they didn't take it too seriously.
Dorgon's heart was full of worries, because the man opposite him had been transferred to another place.
Although, this time, they were said to be militiamen recruited temporarily in Tianjin. However, these unseen behemoths with deafening whistles did not look like they were easy to deal with.
He quietly instructed the cavalrymen of the two white flags to stay on the edge and not to enter the middle position. Slowly slow down their horses.
If something goes wrong, turn right immediately to disengage.
Duduo's death shocked him greatly. If these were really militiamen, how could they have defeated the fortified city of Tianjin in three hours?
There are 30,000 troops in Tianjin, among which there are three Jia La under the two white flags. There are also more than 10,000 Han troops who surrendered, a small number of 50,000.
Those who were just chopping melons and vegetables were gone. He didn't believe that a famous general like Yang Fan, who had been fighting for a long time, would dare to recruit some civilians to fight against the main force of the Eight Banners.
The speed of both sides was very fast. They collided with each other in the blink of an eye. The distance was one kilometer, and with both sides sprinting with all their strength, they met in a few minutes.
Zheng Xin is a car commander. There is a group of ten soldiers on this steam engine armored truck.
There are three people in the cab, a driver, a commander, and a co-pilot. There is a hatch on the top of the cab, which can be opened for the commander to observe the surrounding situation.
Through the steel shutters, you can see the ferocious faces of the cavalry outside.
The carriage is equipped with a curved roof with a thickness of three millimeters, and there are five shooting holes on each side. There are seven infantrymen in the carriage, all equipped with old sleeves and grenades.
Gehar yelled: "Horqin warriors, ignore these vehicles, rush over and hack to death the infantry behind them..."
His words stopped abruptly. When he rushed past the gap of more than ten meters between the two cars, his head flew up.
His subordinates screamed in horror. No one could see clearly how Yan's head flew up.
The war horse neighed and rushed over carrying the headless corpse. However, his subordinates were not surprised for long.
Then one by one they were cut in half by the unknown substance between the two cars.
Zheng Xin roared: "Pump the gas pedal, speed up and knock them over with the shovel."
This car also has a clutch, accelerator, and brakes. Although it's called a throttle, it's actually a valve that increases steam.
The truck suddenly accelerated.
Because after cutting off a dozen Mongolian cavalry, the thin steel wire had broken. At this time, it was impossible to continue cutting.
This is when the shovel comes into play.
The roaring steam engine, emitting surging power, 150 horsepower, plus a weight of 3.5 tons is no joke.
The huge sliding shovel directly knocked away the cavalrymen and horses in front. More than a dozen cavalrymen, including men and horses, flew over the cab.
Then it rolled over on the roof of the car and fell to the back of the car. Under such a beating, both the man and the horse were half dead.
He suffered extensive fractures all over his body, and there was no hope of saving him.
It was even worse when it rushed from the side. The two-meter-long guillotines riveted to the carriage on both sides slashed sharply.
There was another bloody storm. People and horses were chopped into pieces.
The huge momentum of the car did not stop because it hit the cavalry in front. All the cavalry who were hit were thrown away. It did not hinder the wheels at all.
Huang Taiji was dumbfounded. His yellow umbrella was standing on a high place. He could see the entire battlefield.
These cars rushing at high speed were like red-hot knives cutting through butter. They cut a deep groove into the entire Qing cavalry formation like cutting into pieces of tofu.
No man or horse could resist wherever he passed. In about five minutes, the cavalry formation was penetrated.
However, these cars did not slow down and continued to rush towards the infantry formation behind them.
Not only did it not slow down, but it also increased the injection of fuel oil. Opened the valve to the maximum injection level, and the flames in the boiler immediately exploded as fiercely as if they were burning.
The people on the carriage were dumbfounded. They watched the cavalrymen being cut into pieces by a hundred knife-like strange carriages. Now they were coming towards them.
Zheng Xin yelled: "Hit the side of their truck, don't hit the front."
This is a tactic that has been arranged during training and training. It is a tactic specifically used to deal with the carriages.
The armored car ran along the side wheels of a truck and hit it with a shovel.
Because the shovel is beak-shaped, the huge impact force directly pushed the pallet truck up from the side.
The cart was immediately shattered by the impact, flew up and fell to the ground on one side. The slave pushing the cart along with the long shaft on one side was smashed to pieces with a shovel.
The car drove past. The carriage, carrying the three musketeers and archers on board, flew to the side with the car upside down.
It hit another cart next to it hard. It directly hit all the people on the cart and the person pushing the cart underneath.
At the same time, one cart after another was shoveled from the side and fell to the ground scattering flowers.
Most of the carriage was smashed into pieces. The car swayed from side to side and rushed straight towards the infantry phalanx.
These infantrymen were dumbfounded. Such a huge creature rushed over with a shovel. How could the dense infantry escape?
This time, groups of carabid were smashed to pieces by shovels, and body parts flew all over the sky.
The triple armor was in vain. He had no resistance at all in front of the car shovel rushing towards him at high speed.
Huang Taiji and Daishan stared at the infantry soldiers of the Eight Banners, being shoveled by cars and shovels flying all over the sky.
Zheng Xin turned the steering wheel left and right with a smirk on his face, and other cars also noticed and started to turn S-turns.
The infantrymen of the Eight Banners were frightened and ran away screaming in all directions to avoid the car. The car drivers excitedly drove the S-curve and chased them with shovels.
The little girl was very excited when she saw it. She opened the small window to watch, and at the same time excitedly punched Yang Fan with her small fists.
"Sir, master, I'm going to drive an armored car. It's so cool, it's so cool."
By this time, all the Jiannu cavalry and infantry were overwhelmed by armored vehicles and were completely routed.
Either they were smashed to pieces with shovels, or they were killed by bullets fired from the side.
The speed of the tank is relatively slow. However, the terrain of the capital becomes lower and lower as you go south. You can see very clearly to the south.
"Attention all tanks, immediately use machine guns and machine guns to shoot at the approaching cavalry." Yang Fan took a sip of warm coffee and gave the order to the radio.
