The three families of bandits made up their minds and decided to use their cavalry and knights to break out of the formation. The horns of the bandits' central army sounded loudly, "Shoot down to the sky." Li Wanqing led 4,500 knights on horseback and left the center of the army, together with the cavalry in front.
The teams converged. After the Xiaoqi and the 7,500 cavalry troops merged, they formed an assault team with a total of 12,000 cavalry, led by She Taotian himself.
Twelve thousand cavalry rushed towards Li Zhi's army, raising a cloud of smoke and dust. Tens of thousands of horse hooves hit the ground, making people feel that the earth was shaking slightly.
When the rogue cavalry attacked the Huben Division one mile away, the eighty cannons of the Huben Division opened fire. Although the cavalry were on horseback, the bouncing cannonballs could still kill the cavalrymen. Once they were hit by the bouncing cannonballs, they would be killed.
Death means injury.
The neck of a horse soldier's horse was hit by a cannonball. The shell actually broke the horse's neck and knocked it open, and then hit the horseman's stomach behind the horse's neck, directly punching through the horseman's stomach.
The horse army didn't even make a sound, and even the man and the horse fell down together and lost their breath.
A cannonball bounced on the ground and knocked down the chest of an army horse. The shell directly hit the body of the army horse, smashing the internal organs of the army horse into pieces. The army horses immediately rolled over and fell to the ground.
He fell to the ground and threw the bandit Xiaoqi on his back, almost to death.
A cavalryman nearby did not stop his horse and stepped over the fallen knight's body. The horse's hoof stepped hard on the fallen knight's chest, immediately breaking two of his ribs.
Eighty rounds of artillery shells drew eighty curves of death in the cavalry ranks, killing and injuring two hundred rogue cavalrymen.
The horses and bodies of two hundred dead and wounded cavalrymen who fell to the ground turned into obstacles on the ground, causing chaos. More than twenty cavalrymen did not have time to get around these obstacles. Their horses stumbled, and both men and horses fell onto these obstacles.
Front.
However, the bandits' cavalry had long known that they would be bombarded and were mentally prepared. After sacrificing more than two hundred of their comrades, they were still in a stable mood. They calmly walked around the corpses on the ground, patted their horses and rushed towards the official formation.
At a distance of 400 meters or 300 meters, 12,000 cavalry began to charge, charging towards the Huben Division at full speed.
At a distance of two hundred and fifty meters, the shotgun opened fire, and the field artillery fired a deadly barrage at the charging cavalry. The barrage shot out by the shotgun was like a man-eating monster, covering the entire battlefield.
A cavalry soldier was riding into the battle, but was suddenly hit by a shotgun pellet in the right chest. The pellet pierced the cavalryman's lungs like a sharp sword and flew out from his back. The shotgun pellet pierced his chest.
He beat him to death on his right chest, then stabbed a horse soldier behind him, beating the horse soldier's stomach to pieces.
A knight commander wearing armor and riding a tall war horse rushed to the front of the camp, shouting loudly and rushing towards the ranks of the officers and soldiers. A shotgun pellet flew straight and hit the head of his war horse, knocking the horse's head off.
It penetrated him, then crashed into his chest, smashing his stomach. He spat out blood and fell to both sides with his horse, never getting up again.
A volley of shotguns claimed the lives of more than 600 cavalrymen in the blink of an eye.
The front of the bandit cavalry team was once again overturned. More than 600 cavalrymen who fell to the ground stumbled and fell, injuring many cavalrymen. With great difficulty, they rushed to the Huben Division 250 meters away. The bandit cavalry had already lost nearly eight people.
Hundreds of men and horses.
Some of the horses of the Rogue Horse Army were originally pack horses. At this time, they were frightened by the loud sound of the cannon fire. These pack horses did not dare to rush forward and fled in a panic.
At least more than 700 pack horses were frightened and fled, leading the bandit cavalry on horseback from the battlefield. When these pack horses fled back, they bumped into other army horses and knocked the entire formation of the bandit cavalry into a mess.
However, the bandits' cavalry gradually stabilized. Li Wanqing hid behind the cavalry group and led fifty old camp guards to supervise the battle. He roared loudly to encourage the morale of the cavalry, allowing the cavalry to continue regardless of casualties and losses.
He rushed towards the front of the Huben Division's formation, trying to destroy the thin six-layer formation of the Huben Division in one fell swoop.
What the rogue cavalry was going to attack was the six-stage shooting of the Tiger Division.
Li Wanqing didn't know how many volleys the Huben Division could fire. He guessed that it could only fire three times at most? It's impossible for every officer and soldier to be equipped with such sharp firearms, right?
The rogue cavalry rushed towards the fire gunners who were arrayed on six levels.
At a distance of 200 meters, the first platoon opened fire, firing 1,250 rounds at the cavalry charging at high speed 200 meters away.
The distance was a little further, and the target was cavalry in motion. The accuracy of the soldiers was not high, and they only killed more than 700 cavalry.
However, these 700 dead and wounded cavalry were almost all the cavalry in the first row in front of the rogue cavalry. The cavalry in front fell, and the cavalry behind had to rein in their horses and take a detour to avoid the dead soldiers and horses on the ground to avoid being obstructed.
Stumble over things.
The few seconds of reining in the horse and taking a detour gave the Tiger Division more opportunities to shoot calmly. The Liuzhou Cavalry and the horse army had just bypassed the obstacle and had not even taken a few steps in the direction of the Huben Division when the second salvo started again.
Already.
The second row of soldiers stood in the firing position and pressed the trigger.
There was another crackling sound, and pieces of smoke appeared in front of the Tiger Division's formation. One thousand two hundred and fifty guns spit out tongues of fire and shot at the bandits 180 meters away. The high-speed rotating mini bullets fired hard
It entered the thief's chest and body, rotated and broke through the thief's fragile skin, and messed up the internal organs under the skin.
In the second round of volley, more than 700 rogue cavalry were shot and wounded. The forward part of the rogue cavalry was like weeds swept by a lawn mower, and a large area fell down.
There were already stray bandits and cavalry soldiers who could not stand such a scene of death and wanted to escape in panic. But Li Wanqing did not let the bandits escape. He commanded and supervised the battle behind the cavalry and killed the fleeing cavalry.
An old battalion cavalryman with a beard on his face slashed to death a cavalryman who turned his horse and tried to escape, and frightened other cavalrymen who wanted to escape.
Li Wanqing howled loudly, encouraging the cavalry to continue charging.
The cavalry behind bypassed the fallen cavalry and continued to charge towards the Huben Division.
At a distance of 160 meters, the third row of soldiers stepped into the shooting position, and the third round of salvo began.
This is no longer a war, this is a massacre.
Another thousand, two hundred and fifty volleys were fired, and one thousand, two hundred and fifty rounds were fired like raindrops at the bandits more than a hundred meters away. Another eight hundred bandit cavalry screamed and fell off their horses.
Whether they are armored bandit cavalry or unarmored bandit cavalry, they are all fair in the face of miniguns and will be dealt with instantly. These elite bandits who have been fighting for many years are like newborns in the face of volleys.
Babies are just as fragile.
The screams of the dead and injured affected the morale of the bandit cavalry, causing them to slow down their charge.
Although Li Wanqing was in the back row commanding the elite old camp to supervise the battle, the rogue cavalry were still afraid of the massacre-like volleys of fire cannons in front of the formation. After finally rushing to a distance of 140 meters, the rogue cavalry had already left three thousand dead and wounded.
, the morale of the bandits has collapsed to the limit.
And what breaks this limit is another salvo.
Another thousand, two hundred and fifty volleys were fired, killing another eight hundred rogue cavalry in an instant. The army's firecrackers dominated the battlefield as if they were endless, and could shoot continuously. Keep moving forward.
Rushing is not a battle, it is purely suicide. Whether it is a rogue horse army or an elite knight, their tense nerves have been completely defeated by this mechanical but deadly volley of fire cannons.
In just one cup of tea, nearly 4,000 thieves and cavalrymen had fallen to the cannons of the army.
They no longer charged forward, but turned their horses one by one and rushed towards the rear of Li Wanqing's formation. Li Wanqing led fifty cavalrymen from the old camp and killed them desperately, but they could not stop the cavalrymen who were retreating like a tide.
Li Wanqing felt very upset when he saw the cavalrymen galloping away.
This time the strategy of encircling the official army failed.(.)
