The Qing troops in the front row were frightened, but the Qing troops in the back row still had morale. There were more than 60,000 Qing troops in this battle, and thousands of casualties were bearable. The Baylors would never allow the soldiers in the front row to retreat.
Seeing that the Qing soldiers in the front row were afraid of moving forward, Bai Yala, who was guarding the formation, rushed forward and shot dozens of arrows at the stopped soldiers.
The bow used to swing Ya La was usually a ten-power bow, and the arrows were accurate and hard. The bow flew dozens of meters through the air and shot into the back of the Qing soldiers in front, and the Qing soldiers immediately screamed in agony.
Bai Ya La does not allow the soldiers in the front row to desert! If the Qing soldiers rush to the front and die, they will die in honor. If they escape behind and are shot to death by Bai Ya La, it will be meaningless. One person is escorted by Bai Ya La.
If they were shot to death, the whole family would not be able to hold their heads up in the future. Seeing this scene, the Qing soldiers in the front row did not dare to hesitate anymore, gritted their teeth and ran forward again.
The Qing army sprinted forward and crossed the third trench.
At a distance of about 110 meters, the soldiers who fired the first round of the Tiger Division had loaded their bullets again in the back row, stood in the front row, and fired the fifth round.
The soldiers of the Huben Division did not fire volleys with 600 people at the same time. The front of the battlefield was too wide to unify the firing time. The Tigers Division basically fired volleys in units of thirty-one platoons.
Division Huben fired bullets platoon after platoon, and the Tatars in the front row were hit hard again.
At a distance of one hundred and ten meters, even the Tatar vest soldiers wearing iron-plated cotton armor and chain mail couldn't withstand the cone-shaped bullets. The cotton armor was penetrated, and the inner iron plates were penetrated.
Chain mail armor was also penetrated. When the bullet penetrated the armor, it shattered and turned irregularly, causing larger wounds when it penetrated the flesh.
Hundreds of horse-armored soldiers in the front row were leading the charge, but they were suddenly shot through by bullets. These horse-armored soldiers thought that the Ming army's fire cannons could not do anything to them, but at this time they were beaten squarely. None of them dared
He looked at the huge wounds on his body with confidence, but he could not cover up the blood that flowed out. The blood that flowed out stained the armor red, causing the horse soldiers to fall down one after another.
The Tatars rushed forward a dozen more steps and were hit by another sixth round of rifle fire.
The soldiers in the second row on the front loaded their bullets, stood in the shooting position, aimed at the Tatars, and fired volleys one after another.
The distance is very close, and the Tatars are charging forward again. The formation is dense, and the Tiger Ben division's shooting accuracy is very high. Missed bullets will even hit the Tatars behind and next to them, and very few bullets will miss. Six hundred soldiers
After one volley was fired, four to five hundred Tatars were knocked to the ground.
The Tatars suffered heavy casualties, but they still fought to the death and continued to push forward.
Withstanding the deadly bullets of the Ming army, the Tatars finally rushed through the fourth trench and rushed to the wooden thorn.
The large piece of wood thorns shocked the Tatars who rushed here.
The Ming army used deception!
The group of auxiliary soldiers who had just discovered the wooden thorn were all wiped out by the Huben Division. No one went back to tell the Qing army that there was a wooden thorn in front of them. At this time, the large Qing army rushed in front of the wooden thorn and saw clearly the short half-foot-long wooden thorn.
Only after seeing the tall wooden thorns did we realize how indestructible the Ming army's stronghold was. This wooden thorn area was completely impassable.
Thousands of warriors were sacrificed and they rushed to the front of the Ming army's formation, but were unable to advance because of the Ming army's fortifications. The Tatars who rushed into the formation felt like they were about to cry without tears. Even the bravest Tatars suddenly felt despair.
Dozens of Mongolian Tatars and infantry soldiers rushed into the wooden thorn formation, and the soles of their shoes were immediately pierced by the wooden thorns, and they fell on the pile of wooden thorns. Even if they were wearing cotton armor or cotton armor inlaid with iron sheets, these clear soldiers
The soldiers were also stabbed by wooden thorns. They struggled to find a place to stay among the wooden thorns and slowly escaped back.
The Ming army fired continuously and poured bullets at the Tatars, but the Qing army had no way out. If they wanted to go through the wooden thorns, they had to dig out the soil and spread a layer of soil half a foot high on the ground.
But under the aim of the Ming army's cannons, how many people had to die before these wooden thorns could be covered with soil? This was an impossible task.
Then some Tatars lost their fighting spirit and turned around to flee back the way they came.
At the center of the Qing army a few hundred meters away, the Baylors were anxious when they saw the charging team stopped. After sacrificing so many warriors, they managed to reach fifty steps away from the Ming army. How could they stop?
Hauge looked at the Qing soldiers who stopped in front with his mouth open, and was so surprised that he could not speak. Apparently, the warriors encountered Li Zhi's fortifications and could not rush forward.
This Li Zhi is cheating!
Abate's face turned pale and he said: "General, there seems to be a trap ahead, and the warriors cannot rush forward."
Dorgon covered his nose with his hand, feeling as if his heart was being stabbed.
After sacrificing so many warriors, Dorgon felt like he was frightened by Li Zhi. Originally, he made such a big sacrifice to rush forward and annihilate Li Zhi's troops, but this Li Zhi was deceitful and even arranged a long distance in front of the formation.
There were clearly hidden traps everywhere. Not only that, the cannons that had only been fired for a long time when the wooden bridge was being laid were now bombarded continuously. If he had known that Li Zhi had left so many backup forces, Dorgon would never have
Let the warriors rush forward and die.
But now that everything is done and thousands of warriors have died, can we just withdraw like this?
Unable to advance fifty steps away from the enemy, the Qing soldiers had no choice but to use arrows to attack the enemy. However, Li Zhi's soldiers and horses hid behind the earthen wall, so they had no advantage over the Qing soldiers.
But when he was building the wooden bridge, he had already abandoned 7,000 auxiliary soldiers and followers in front of the formation. At this time, another 4,000 Qing soldiers died in the charge of the formation. Ergon was already jealous of the defeat and was absolutely unwilling to admit defeat. He was afraid
Shout: "Blow the horn and let the warriors hold on!"
In front of the formation, dozens of Qing soldiers who took the lead in escaping were shot to death by Bai Yala who was escorting the formation. The Qing soldiers heard the clarion call to continue charging and did not dare to retreat. They could only grit their teeth and bear the muzzle of the Ming army's cannons.
Next. In such a situation, they could only shoot with bows and arrows. With pale faces, the Qing soldiers took out the bows and arrows on their backs and began to shoot at the Ming army gunners behind the wall.
This is an unfair confrontation.
Most of the horse soldiers and infantry soldiers use eight-power bows. Fifty steps, or seventy-five meters, is the ultimate range of these Qing soldiers. They cannot shoot accurately at this distance. And the auxiliary soldiers and followers of the Qing soldiers
It’s even more shabby. They usually use six-power bows, and the arrows they shoot have basically no lethality at fifty paces. Most of the bows and arrows of the Mongolian Tatars are similar to eight-power bows. They can shoot at the limit at fifty paces, and their accuracy is very poor.
And it cannot break armor.
But Division Tiger Ben was hiding behind the awning and the earthen wall to shoot. The earthen wall was almost as high as a man's shoulder, completely protecting the body and torso of the Tiger Division soldier, leaving only his head and shoulders exposed. Not only that, Ming Ming
There was a canopy above the soldiers' heads, and most of the bows and arrows fired were blocked by the canopy.
Moreover, 2,000 of the 2,400 soldiers on the front are soldiers of the Selected Front Regiment, wearing chainmail armor. Fifty steps away, only Baiyala's Shili Bow can shoot through the chainmail armor. And Baiyala are all behind.
In the formation, the eight-force bow of the vests and infantry in front of the formation is completely powerless against the chain mail.
