Two miles away, one and a half miles away, one mile away, Li Zhi's eighty field guns opened fire. The black gunpowder exploded into high-temperature gas in the barrel, expanded, and violently pushed the shells out of the muzzle.
Flames and black smoke suddenly spurted out from the muzzle, and eighty cannonballs were fired at the more than 10,000 cavalrymen like eighty gods of death.
The cannonballs bounced and collided among the cavalry, killing and injuring a large number of thieves. Such rapid-fired cannonballs could cause thieves to fall to the ground with serious injuries even if they grazed the corners of their bodies. Those thieves whose torsos were hit by cannonballs would be seriously injured.
Immediately his bones were shattered and his flesh was broken, and he died on the horse.
Zhang Kewang's cavalry had already known that the artillery fire from this official army was fierce, so they were not too panicked after receiving a round of artillery fire. Zhang Kewang saw that Li Zhi's artillery was sharp, and shouted loudly in the cavalry group, asking the thieves to disperse and spread more loosely.
formation to prevent artillery from killing too many troops at once.
At a distance of four hundred meters, three hundred meters, and two hundred meters, the artillery completed reloading and sprayed deadly shotgun shells towards Sun Kewang's cavalry.
The canisters were fired at a distance of two hundred and fifty meters, and the barrage formed could cover an area fifty meters in front of the formation. Eighty cannons fired in a salvo, and the barrages overlapped and compounded, killing a large area of the assault force without any suspense.
The front row of rogue cavalry entered the barrage.
The bandits in the front row fell down like weeds that had been cut down, and the bandits behind were a little panicked. Especially some of the bandit "horse troops" rode poor military horses, and many of them could only be regarded as pack horses. When they heard this
The roar of artillery two hundred meters away lost control, and he turned around and fled back the way he came, causing chaos.
Sun Kewang saw that the momentum of the army was taken away by the artillery, so he asked the commander beside him to blow the horn again.
More than a dozen horns sounded behind the cavalry, which emboldened the somewhat frightened rogue cavalry. They regrouped and continued to rush towards Li Zhi's formation.
However, as soon as they gathered their momentum, they were attacked head-on by Li Zhi's riflemen.
The thieves concentrated their attack on the center, and the riflemen on both sides of Li Zhi's army quickly pressed towards the center, turning the entire formation into a crane-wing formation. Li Zhi's 7,500 riflemen surrounded him on three sides, shooting and attacking fiercely.
The rogue cavalry of the Central Army of Huben Division.
More than a thousand bullets were fired at the rogue cavalry, knocking down a large number of cavalrymen in the front row. In the first round of shooting, at least 800 rogue cavalry fell under their horses.
The fallen soldier stumbled over the cavalry behind him, causing chaos again.
The injured cavalry bypassed the obstacles on the ground and continued to charge into the formation. However, they only moved forward 20 meters when the volley from the Tiger Division in front came over again. In front of the cavalry formation, people were turned upside down again, and the formation was in chaos.
Got a piece.
Seeing their comrades lying on the ground and groaning, the thieves became a little frightened, and their pace of attack slowed down. No one dared to rush to the front to seek death.
Sun Kewang shouted loudly from behind the formation, asking the trumpeter to blow the charge horn again, so that the cavalrymen must have the courage to continue charging into the formation.
Hearing Sun Kewang's horn, the cavalry found their backbone and continued to charge forward.
But what awaited them was six rows of continuous rounds of fire. The soldiers in the front row who finished shooting stepped back from the right, and the soldiers in the back row stepped up, aimed, and fired. Li Zhi's soldiers only needed four seconds to complete one shot.
Shooting. The infantry fired volleys in company units, pressing the triggers steadily again and again, pouring ammunition at the cavalry on the battlefield. Li Zhi's soldiers, who had practiced a lot of target practice, shot at a distance of more than 100 meters as if they were shooting prisoners.
Same, with at least a 70% hit rate. The continuous sound of gunshots was like the death sentence, firmly dominating the two-mile-wide frontal battlefield.
Whether you are an elite thief knight or a less elite thief vest, it is all fair and square. In front of the Tiger Master's rifle, it is just a matter of one bullet.
Zhang Kewang's cavalry charge was like charging into a swamp. Every 20 meters, seven or eight hundred cavalrymen fell down, as if they were filling the swamp holes in front with their corpses. They wanted to fill those holes before they could
keep going.
I don’t know how many cavalry lives must be used as cannon fodder before these cavalry can reach the front of the official army and fight with the official army with swords.
The battlefield was filled with the bloody smell of flesh and blood torn apart by Mini bullets, which made people feel frightened.
After rushing to 110 meters, the bandits' cavalry had abandoned more than 4,000 corpses, and the bandits' psychology had collapsed. Such a charge was not a battle, it was simply a collective suicide. The cavalry in the front row panicked.
He slowed down his horse speed, hoping that the cavalry in the back row would rush forward to help block the bullets. The cavalry in the back row were also dangerous, so how could they dare to rush forward? They also slowed down one by one.
The bandit's cavalry was about to collapse.
Zhang Kewang was anxious and asked the trumpeter to blow the charge horn again.
But the horn had no effect. Within a few seconds after the cavalry slowed down their horses, more than a thousand rounds of bullets swept across the battlefield and knocked countless cavalry off their horses.
Zhang Kewang's cavalry collapsed.
No matter how much Zhang Kewang tried to boost morale, no one was willing to risk their lives to fill the musket formation. No matter how fierce the hundreds of veteran battalion elites who guarded the formation were, they were definitely not as terrifying as the musket formation in front of them.
"Run away!"
"Run away!"
"Run! Run for your life!"
The cavalry in the front row turned their horses and ran towards the road they came from. They shouted loudly as they ran away, encouraging other cavalry around them to flee together, so as not to make their defeated self the target of public criticism. Soon, the few hundred cavalry who first started to flee quickly quickly
He led thousands of cavalrymen, and then made more than 10,000 cavalrymen flee behind.
More than 10,000 people rushed to and fro like an ebbing tide.
No matter how ferocious the old camp guarding the formation was, it could not prevent the defeat of tens of thousands of people.
Even when the bandits were fleeing for their lives, the riflemen of the Huben Division still did not let go of the cavalry and kept shooting. The bandits who fled slowly fell off their horses one by one, and the cavalry who were still alive were frightened.
Abandoning flags and armour, they fled in all directions and were defeated.
Sun Kewang looked at the defeated Xiaoqi and Majun, filled with regret. Why did he take the limelight and take over the charge? Now he will be severely punished by his adoptive father when he goes back. Zhang Dingguo said that he should not send troops to charge, isn't he right?
What else can you do to suppress Zhang Dingguo in the future?
Full of regret, Zhang Kewang also turned his horse's head to flee to the rear. However, he was full of worries and turned his horse a little slower, accidentally exposing himself behind the fleeing cavalry.
Five or six rifles were pointed at the bandit leader in the elite old camp, and fatal bullets were fired. Zhang Kewang's body suddenly burst into blood, and four or five bloody holes were punched out.
Zhang Kewang looked at the bullet holes in his body in disbelief and fell to the ground with a thud.
The bandits' cavalry fled all the way to the east. They did not dare to stop when they reached Zhang Xianzhong's army, and they collapsed all the way outside the valley.
Liu Yuanbin, the eunuch who supervises the army, has been looking to the west anxiously. He cannot see the battle between Li Zhi and the rebel army through the soldiers and horses. Liu Yuanbin can only see the flags of the two armies. But looking at it, Liu Yuanbin only feels that the rebel army is the most vulnerable.
The flags in the west fell down one by one, seemingly suffering a big loss in front of Li Zhi's formation.
Liu Yuanbin's eyes lit up.
Next, he saw that the tall flag with Chinese characters behind the bandits also fell down. Then within a few seconds, all the flags of the bandits were lowered. Obviously, the bandits were defeated by Li Zhi.
Liu Yuanbin flushed with excitement, turned around and said loudly to Xiong Wencan: "Prime Minister! We understand! The traitors were defeated by Li Zhi!"
