A soldier who has experienced hundreds of battles has a murderous spirit in him.
In the central battlefield, 60,000 Qing infantrymen marched slowly and neatly, shouting kill every three steps, and the shoring energy on the blades could make recruits with poor psychological quality collapse.
It's a pity that their opponents are not new recruits, but veterans who have been killed in the mountains of corpses and blood. More than 50,000 soldiers of the Ming Army faced overwhelming enemy formations, but their faces did not change even though the mountains collapsed in front of them.
Ao paid homage to the pikemen at the front of his army's formation, who had already marched more than 200 steps to the Ming army's formation, and his heart sank. He was a veteran who was proficient in cavalry warfare. He knew that this distance was the best distance for the charge of war horses, so he prepared
Be mentally prepared and wait for the Ming cavalry to charge into the formation.
The Ming army on the opposite side showed no movement at all.
After walking one hundred and fifty steps, there was still no movement.
After a hundred steps, the Ming army still didn't move.
There were only fifty steps left, and Obai laughed happily, "They say that this fake Mingguang Emperor is good at using troops. Unexpectedly, he only knows how to use infantry, but not cavalry. He actually allowed our infantry to get so close without charging.
At this distance, the war horse cannot move quickly, so it has become a snack for our infantry? Hahaha!"
The imperial guard Wo He also smiled and said: "Commander, Ming Dog can only use infantry, so how can we defeat the Eight Banners in cavalry warfare? Since the puppet emperor knows nothing about cavalry warfare, you should lead the army to attack them quickly."
"Yeah," Obai nodded, but he did not order an immediate attack. The two armies were already very close. At this distance, no matter which side turned around and retreated, it would definitely collapse. Therefore, he was not worried at all that the Ming army would escape.
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As a veteran with extensive battlefield experience, Obai ordered the pikemen in front to stop, and also ordered the archers who were originally at the rear of the military formation to move forward.
Although the projectiles of the Qing army's bows and arrows did little damage to the armor-clad Ming army soldiers, they were able to kill a large number of Ming army horses. In this era, heavy cavalry had gradually withdrawn from the stage of history, and was replaced by more mobile light cavalry.
Weak defense against bows and arrows.
The difference between a famous general and a brave general is that a brave general will sacrifice everything to win, while a famous general will win at the minimum cost.
Oboi was not only a brave general, but also a famous general. He would first use bows and arrows to kill and injure a large number of Ming cavalry horses; then, when the Ming army was in chaos, he would order the infantry to attack. With this tactic, one's own side would suffer little casualties, but the results would be great.
Big.
"Put the gun up!"
Following the military order, the Qing gunmen in front stopped and raised their large guns diagonally.
"Archers move forward!"
Rows of archers moved from the back of the military formation to the front of the military formation. Originally there were gunmen and sword and shield men behind the pikemen, but the archers moved forward, making the dense Qing army formation even more crowded.
The fighter plane is coming!
On the chariot of the Ming army's central army, Zhu Hengjia, who was holding a telescope, discovered that the Qing army's rear formation was moving towards the front formation, and the entire army formation was densely arranged. He decisively ordered: "Send the order to the artillery camp, fire!"
The flags of the Chinese army were waving, and on the north wall of Qizhou, Jiang Bin, the commander of the vehicle and artillery battalion, who had been ready, saw the flags.
He ordered fiercely: "Fire!"
"Chirp ~ chirp ~ chirp ~"
One hundred and eighty red cannons shot out one hundred and eighty large iron balls weighing twenty kilograms. With huge inertia, they jumped and rolled. Regardless of whether they were people or carts, as long as they were hit, they would be immediately killed.
Crash.
The first round was made of iron bullets. The purpose was not to kill a large number of Qing troops, but to smash the enemy's carts and other roadblocks to clear the way for the cavalry.
Wang Erge aimed at the flag of a Qing general and lit the match.
"Whoosh!"
A big iron ball hit the flag of the Qing army's front camp general Jia Lazhang Jingni Kan. Before Ni Kan could react, he was smashed by the projectile. The big iron ball, which had not yet dissipated its momentum, was caught in the dense Qing formation.
, jumping around, running rampant, killing seven or eight Qing soldiers, smashing a dump truck before stopping.
This cannonball explains very well why some people say that the red cannon can destroy thousands of miles with one shot.
"Good boy!"
The governor behind Wang Erge praised him and wrote in his merit book: "Gunner Wang Erge, killed one prisoner and leader."
Wang Erge, however, ignored his own results and quickly picked up the bucket next to the cannon, poured water into the barrel to extinguish the sparks; another gunner put a stick tied with a dry cloth in to wipe it dry; another gunner filled the cannon with water.
Add gunpowder and combustion aids, stuff the shells, and tamp them down.
Wang Erge pulled the ear of the cannon, readjusted the firing angle, and prepared to fire the second shot.
The whole procedure is quite cumbersome, so the rate of fire of the red cannon at this time is very slow. It takes two minutes for an unskilled person to fire one round. Fortunately, the gunners of the Ming army are all veterans who have experienced hundreds of battles and can do it in more than a minute.
One shot. It cannot deal with the fast-moving Qing cavalry, but it is enough to deal with the slow-moving Qing infantry.
In the second round, the Ming army fired sandstone bullets. The huge projectiles were shot into the Qing army's formation and burst into pieces. One shot could kill more than ten or even twenty people. The denser the formation, the more casualties.
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The huge roar made the commander-in-chief of the Qing army, Obai, a little confused. The two armies were so close. Wasn't the puppet emperor afraid of hurting his own people? He couldn't help but take a breath. The enemy in front of him was much more ruthless than he thought.
For the sake of victory, we don’t care about the lives of our own soldiers.
After all, he had been in battle for a long time. He was only stunned for a short time before he realized what he was doing. He ordered: "The whole army attacks!"
Although the Ming army had the help of artillery, their horses could not move fast at this distance. As long as they rushed up to meet the artillery fire, defeated the Ming army's cavalry, and then drove the defeated troops to attack the Ming army's infantry, the battle could still be won. It was a pity that the Qing army at this time had a dense military formation. After being bombarded, gunpowder smoke filled the air and the flags were in chaos. Obai's military order could not be conveyed for a while. By the time it was conveyed to the various ministries, the Ming army had fired two rounds, and the 3,080 flags had fallen.
In a pool of blood.
"Woo~woo~woo~"
The horn of attack sounded, and the Qing army mustered up their courage and attacked the Ming army in the face of artillery fire.
"Chirp ~ chirp ~ chirp ~"
The third round of artillery fire from the Ming army arrived, and this time more than a thousand sharp soldiers were shot down.
"Fire the gun!"
Seeing that the Qing army was only forty steps away from him, Sun Guangwei, the chief cavalry commander of the Ming army, ordered the cannons to be fired.
More than 10,000 three-eye muskets began to fire in volleys. This kind of muskets has a short range and is usually fired by cavalry on horseback. In this battle, Sun Guangwei, uncharacteristically, ordered his men to dismount, line up densely, and fire volleys with their muskets.
"Bah~bah~bah~"
Three shots per gun, more than 40,000 projectiles, were fired at the Qing troops who were just around the corner.
Because they were too close and the bullets rained heavily, the Qing army suffered greater casualties this time, directly shooting down more than 4,000 Qing troops. The Qing army's fierce general, the Jiala Zhangjing Sahar Company, known as Batulu, was killed.
He was shot several times and was shot to death on the way to the charge.
No matter how tough the troops are, if the casualties reach a certain level, they will easily collapse. The Qing troops in the front row collapsed and turned back.
"Get on your horse and kill with me!"
Sun Guangwei roared, stepped on the stirrup, and climbed onto his horse. A ray of sunlight hit his face, and he clearly felt that the sunlight was blood-colored.
