The auxiliary soldiers in front of the fourth trench drew their swords from their waists and followed the Fende Bashiku to rush towards the Ming army's formation.
However, what greeted them was a salvo of six hundred rifles at a distance of eighty meters. The riflemen had been loading their ammunition for a long time, and they only waited for the Qing soldiers' wooden shields to be broken before firing bullets at the Qing soldiers. Two thousand
Before the Doqing soldiers could cross the wooden bridge they had built, they were hit by a hail of 600 bullets.
In an instant, hundreds of people were knocked to the ground, thrown to the ground like sandbags, or fell on the wooden bridge. Some seriously injured wounded groaned and rolled on the ground, fell from the wooden bridge, and fell two meters into the air.
In the deep trench, the organs that had been shredded by bullets were squeezed by the heavy fall again, turning into a ball of blood, leaving the wounded no longer alive.
Fende Bashiku, the leader, shouted loudly: "Come on! If you kill a Ming army, raise the flag!"
When the followers heard this, their eyes turned red, and they rushed to the base of the Ming army's stronghold following Fende Bashiku.
But their charge stopped after only advancing ten meters.
Just now, the Qing soldiers were busy building bridges and hiding behind wooden shields. They were so busy that they had no time to observe the battlefield ahead. Of course, the valley in Maligou was not a plain. The surface was rugged and uneven, and it was difficult to see clearly even from twenty meters away.
Looking at the situation on the ground in the distance, they did not see the wooden thorn that was only half a foot high in front of them.
When these auxiliary soldiers rushed seventy meters in front of the stronghold, they discovered that there was a large area of wooden thorns in front of them. The Qing soldiers could not walk in these wooden thorn areas at all.
Dozens of followers did not react, and rushed into the wooden thorn area with swords raised. Their feet were stabbed by wooden thorns, and they lost their position. They fell in pain among the wooden thorns. Those wooden thorns were all cut by swords.
It was so sharp that clothes and flesh could not withstand it. The servants were immediately stabbed open by wooden thorns, and they were bleeding.
Some of the followers rushed too hard and fell with such force that they were stabbed to death by wooden thorns.
Several auxiliary soldiers were also hit by the wooden thorns, but fortunately they were wearing cotton armor and were not stabbed to death by the wooden thorns. They fell on the wooden thorns and screamed a few times, then fled back in panic.
This road is blocked!
On the entire 70-meter-deep battlefield in front of the stronghold, a depth of 40 meters was covered with wooden thorns. These wooden thorn arrays covered a width of 750 meters in front of the stronghold, and there was only a passage more than ten meters wide that had no wooden thorns.
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The wooden thorns were buried so deep that it was impossible to pull them out. The Fende Bashiku gritted his teeth and shouted loudly: "Come in from a place where there are no wooden thorns."
Before he could finish speaking, another six hundred rifles were fired from the Ming army's stronghold. Six hundred rounds of bullets swept across the battlefield, hitting more than a thousand auxiliary soldiers and followers wearing thin or no armor.
Blood flowers were like cuckoos in spring, blooming one after another from the Qing soldiers. The Qing soldiers who were shot were bleeding from their wounds and fell to the ground one by one.
That Fende Bashiku was also hit by a bullet. At a distance of 80 meters, even though he was wearing three layers of heavy armor, his body was penetrated by the bullet. He was hit in the right lung. The bullet shattered the
Delicate organs, blood shot down the trachea to various tubes of the human body, and spurted out from his mouth and nose. He fell to the ground with a thud, and died.
Along with this Fende Bashiku, hundreds of Qing soldiers fell.
In the blink of an eye, this wooden bridge team of nearly 3,000 people was killed and most of them injured.
However, because there were more than 60,000 reinforcements behind them, these Qing soldiers did not collapse. With so many reinforcements behind them, the fate of the retreat was probably to be hacked to death by the Bao Yala who escorted the formation. The auxiliary soldiers and followers who were still alive had red eyes and howled.
Shouting, he rushed towards the passage without wooden thorns, preparing to attack the Ming army from there.
But the passage more than ten meters wide was too narrow. More than a thousand Qing soldiers crowded on the periphery of the passage. Only a dozen or so people could enter the passage. Most people could only crowd outside and wait to enter.
The two hundred soldiers in the front row had just rushed into the passage and ran twenty meters. When they were fifty meters away from the stronghold in front, they were greeted by another hail of bullets.
The front of Li Zhi's stronghold was more than 700 meters wide. The Qing soldiers who entered the passage were crowded on the passage. Soldiers who were too far away from the passage could not target them. But there were still more than a thousand Qing soldiers crowded outside the passage. These Qing soldiers
It occupies an area of more than 200 meters, so soldiers more than 200 meters on both sides of the passage can shoot at the Qing soldiers.
Four hundred rounds of bullets hit the three hundred people who rushed into the passage or tried to rush into the passage, immediately sending these charging Qing soldiers to the west. The bullets were like scissors for pruning leaves, clicking and harvesting life.
He then killed all the auxiliary soldiers and followers on the east and west sides of the Qing army.
Those Qing soldiers who were shot and fell to the ground were either dead, or twitching and struggling on the ground, becoming obstacles, making the Qing troops behind them rush slower. It is estimated that it would not take two rounds of volleys. These auxiliary soldiers rushing into the formation, and
All of them will be killed.
If hundreds of rifles were aimed at this narrow passage, the only outcome would be total annihilation.
This wave of Qing troops finally collapsed.
The front was blocked by wooden thorns, and the only passage was impossible to rush forward. They stayed in front of the formation just as targets for volleys of guns. In just a moment, 2,000 of the nearly 3,000-man team were killed, leaving only 900 people.
The Qing soldiers did not dare to charge any more and collapsed screaming.
But they who escaped were still within the shooting range of the Tiger Division. Behind them were more than two to three hundred rifles chasing them and shooting. From a distance of 70 meters to a distance of 200 meters from the canopy, the rifles could fire four or five rounds, clearing them.
The soldiers had no hope of escaping. The soldiers of the Tiger Division shot the fleeing Tatars in the back, legs and back of the head one by one, as if they were executing prisoners.
The fleeing Qing soldiers fell on the battlefield one after another. When the last fleeing auxiliary soldier was shot to death 150 meters away, the battlefield became quiet for a while.
In order to fill up the four trenches, the Qing army sacrificed 5,000 people. The last wave of Qing soldiers charged the formation, causing another 2,000 Qing soldiers to be killed or injured. In just one stick of incense, the Qing army had already advanced in Huben Division.
Seven thousand people were abandoned in front of the battle. The battlefield two hundred meters in front of the canopy was filled with corpses of Qing soldiers, like a slaughterhouse.
Blood flowed on the uneven valley floor and gathered in low-lying areas, forming pools of blood.
But only a few seconds later, the silence on the battlefield was broken by the roar of one hundred and forty artillery pieces. The main force of the Qing army rushed over from a mile away. The Qing army wanted to attack Li Zhi with more than 60,000 flesh and blood.
The formation of guns and artillery. The Qing army's main front row soldiers were three hundred meters away from Li Zhi's awning, and had already entered the range of the shotguns, and the shotguns opened fire.
Fourteen thousand rounds of projectiles were like a puff of smoke, fired at the more than 60,000 Qing troops, sweeping across a large area in the front row. Although most of the projectiles were shot away, there were still hundreds of projectiles that hit 300
The Qing army meters away.
The cotton armor and chain armor of the Qing soldiers had no resistance in the face of the iron bullets, and they were all shot through. Hundreds of people screamed or fell down silently, and died on the battlefield before they even got close to the trench.
