The damage caused by the shotgun made the Qing army's front end slightly confused.
Many of the more than 60,000 Qing troops charging into the battle were infantry and horse soldiers wearing heavy armor. They wore one or even two layers of heavy armor. However, the armor that the Qing troops were proud of had no defense against shotguns.
ability, this had a huge impact on the morale of the Qing army.
However, the shotgun fire from 300 meters away had limited lethality and only killed a few hundred people. The officers of the Qing army whipped the stagnant soldiers for a while, and then the team returned to normal.
The Qing army had to cross four trenches on a wooden bridge with poor workmanship and limited load capacity. A horse often weighed more than a thousand kilograms. It was obvious that the wooden bridge could not hold up when riding a horse. Therefore, the Qing army rushed into the battle on foot, but they would not be frightened by the horses.
Cause big confusion.
In fact, the Qing army also had artillery. Dorgon brought more than fifty red cannons this time. However, the number of artillery of the Qing army was far less than that of Li Zhi, so they could not take advantage of the bombardment. Moreover, these artillery were the absolute treasure of the Qing army.
How many years did it take to accumulate these assets, and the siege of the city relied on these cannons. If they fired against Li Zhi's artillery, the Qing army's artillery would be knocked out by Li Zhi's cannon in a short time. Dorgon was reluctant to part with it.
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More than 60,000 Qing troops accelerated their march and rushed towards the Ming army's stronghold a few hundred meters away.
When they reached the first trench, Li Zhi's cannon opened fire again.
More than 10,000 iron pellets flew towards the Qing army again, overwhelming the sky. The pellets made a whirring sound as they flew through the air. The sound of more than 10,000 projectiles piercing the air merged together and turned into a roaring noise. Projectiles
It only took a blink of an eye to pierce into the Qing army's formation, piercing into the flesh and blood under the armor.
The armor was broken immediately, and any part of the Qing soldier's body that the projectile hit would pierce two holes. After the projectile penetrated a body, it would continue to pierce the back, killing the second Qing soldier in the back row.
Facing the power of steel and gunpowder, the human body is as fragile as a layer of paper.
This time, the shooting range of the shotgun was closer, and the hit rate of the shotgun shot increased. Nearly a thousand soldiers in the front row fell down screaming. Screams and groans came from the mouths of the wounded in front of the formation, which began to corrode the morale of the Qing army.
Blood, mutilated limbs and minced meat were everywhere. At first glance, everything was blood red. The front line of the Qing army seemed like a pig-killing factory.
The Qing army was hit hard again, and some of them couldn't react. How could the Ming army's artillery fire so fast? Didn't it take a long time to fire once? With this rate of fire, wouldn't it mean that the Qing army could still fire one round before the Qing army rushed to the formation?
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The soldiers in the front row turned pale as if they saw the Ming army's artillery firing another round and killing themselves.
However, there is no retreat in this battle. There are thousands of Baiya La in the Qing army. If you escape, you will definitely die. In the roaring army of tens of thousands, the human adrenal glands will secrete exciting hormones, which makes the known
Death became less terrifying. The Qing soldiers in the front row gritted their teeth and rushed upward, as if they had forgotten their personal life and death. They waved their swords and walked onto the wooden bridge over the first trench and crossed the first trench.
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There were too many Qing troops. The front of Li Zhi's stronghold was only more than 700 meters. The more than 60,000 Qing troops could not deploy at all. If they marched together, they would be crowded together and cause chaos. The Qing troops could not rush forward together, and the troops and horses were divided.
There were two lines. One line was composed of 20,000 people in the front row, led by five Jia Lazhangjings. The other group was composed of more than 40,000 people in the back line, waiting at the edge of the trench, ready to support the two groups in front.
Thousands of people.
But Dorgon believed that the 20,000 soldiers and horses in the front could defeat Li Zhi's troops without the need for more than 40,000 people in the back. The trench had been covered with a wooden bridge, and the front was flat. Li Zhi's soldiers and horses
With only 10,000 people, how could they be a match for 20,000 Manchu and Mongolian warriors?
The moment the front row of the Qing army crossed the wooden bridge, six hundred rifles from the front of the Huben Division opened fire on the front row of the Qing army.
At a distance of two hundred meters, six hundred rifles spit out six hundred bullets and attacked the Qing soldiers whose hands were covered with Han blood. As soon as the six hundred bullets were fired, the Qing army's front was like wheat that had been cut with a sickle.
A large piece fell. At this distance, the conical bullet could not penetrate the two-layer armor of the horse soldiers, but it was fatal to the infantry soldiers, Mongolian soldiers and auxiliary soldiers.
In one salvo, at least three hundred Tatars were killed and wounded.
The soldiers who were shot covered their wounds and screamed loudly. But soon the strength disappeared from them, and they fell into a pool of blood, gradually losing their voice.
The Qing army plucked up their courage and continued to rush towards the Ming army's formation.
After walking another dozen or so steps, another hail of bullets poured towards the Qing army's formation.
The blood flowers were like fireworks blooming during the New Year. One after another they bloomed on the Qing soldiers, splashing the salty and hot blood several meters away, splashing on the bodies and faces of other Tatars around them. There were still people in the front row.
The living Tatars were all covered in blood, as if they had just walked out of hell.
More than three hundred Tatars were knocked to the ground again.
The shot Tatars rolled and twitched on the ground, but no one paid attention to them. The 60,000-strong army formed a collective momentum of going forward, stimulating the fighting will of the soldiers in front of the formation, ignoring the hundreds of individuals who died tragically.
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The cavalry soldiers who were not killed by the bullets had the highest morale. They believed that the Hu Ben Division's fire cannons could not defeat them, so they charged with howls.
The Tatars crossed the second trench. There were only more than a hundred wooden bridges on the second trench, which did not cover the entire trench. The Tatar team was huddled here, and only part of it rushed over the wooden bridge.
People crowded at the end of the wooden bridge.
The lack of wooden bridges on the trenches caused the Tatar team's overall charging speed to slow down by several percent.
A third rifle volley came.
The screams sounded again, and the soldiers in the front row fell one after another as if their names were being called.
A cavalry soldier wearing double armor rushed forward with the strength of his heavy armor, but was hit in the head by a bullet. Half of his head was broken by the bullet, and the blood and brain matter bloomed into a blood flower and splashed to the side.
One of the carabid had a look on his face. The carabid touched his face in surprise, only to see blood red on his hand.
Just as the rifle fire stopped, the Tatars took another dozen steps forward, and the third round of artillery and the fourth round of rifle fire were fired at the same time.
The rain of bullets that covered the sky was like a net, a huge net that could kill at the touch of it. It dominated the entire battlefield in an instant. Artillery shells and rifle bullets were fired into the Tatar crowd one after another, causing a rain of blood.
The storm. The artillery shells hit anything, whether it was the human torso, thighs or arms, and they immediately penetrated. Minced meat and blood burst out everywhere. The Tatars who were lucky enough not to be hit before the formation seemed to be bathed in red.
The rain of blood covered their bodies with blood. They had no idea whether the flesh and blood on their bodies was their own or someone else's. They cried out in fear in the rain of blood, fearing that they would collapse in the next second due to the sudden severe pain.
This burst of shelling finally frightened the Qing troops. The Qing troops in the front row slowed down and did not dare to rush forward with their heads down.
