Not only that, in order to reduce the casualties in the shooting with the Qing army, Li Zhi equipped all the soldiers with helmets when he left Fanjiazhuang this time. Li Zhi has seized more than 20,000 helmets over the years, enough to give each soldier one helmet.
The only way for the Qing army to kill the Ming army was to shoot the Ming army in the face fifty steps away. This required too much shooting skills.
The ability to pierce a poplar with a hundred steps is just a legend. When shooting with a bow and arrow at fifty paces, even if there is a gust of wind, the arrow will miss the target by a lot. Even if an archer practices for a lifetime, he will not be able to accurately hit a small target at such a distance.
Even a select basketball star who has practiced for more than ten years cannot accurately shoot from the midfield of a basketball court fourteen meters away, let alone an ordinary soldier shooting an arrow from more than seventy meters away with tens of kilograms of tension?
But now apart from shooting arrows, the Tatars had no other way to harm the Ming army in the stronghold. Three thousand Qing troops gritted their teeth and stood between the ditch and the wooden spurs, bending their bows and shooting arrows at the Huben division under the canopy.
The bows and arrows fired from the back row were all blocked by the canopy. Only the more than a thousand arrows fired directly from the front row could threaten the Huben division. However, it was difficult to shoot at the faces of the Ming army from more than 70 meters away. More than a thousand arrows were fired at them.
, only dozens of bows and arrows hit the target.
The Tatar auxiliaries and followers have no ability to threaten the Huben division fifty steps away. The Tatars standing in the front row shooting arrows are infantry and horse soldiers. These Qing army archers can shoot an arrow in about five seconds.
The soldiers of the Tiger Division under the awning also fired a salvo in about five seconds.
Compared with the inability of the Tatar archers, the Tiger Division's shooting was much more lethal. Soldiers of the Tiger Division shot at the Tatar archers from more than 70 meters away, as if they were shooting at a stationary target, with an astonishing hit rate. Six hundred rifles
Platoon after platoon fired volleys, killing nearly 500 Qing soldiers in one volley.
The Tatars fired three rounds of arrows at the Huben Division in disarray, killing only two hundred soldiers of the Huben Division. However, they were fired upon by Huben Division soldiers for three rounds with rifles. After three rounds of volleys, the Tatars had more than a thousand steps.
Armor and vest fell in front of the wooden thorn formation. These were the elites of the Qing army.
Blood continued to flow from the wounds caused by the bullets, filling the battlefield with a strong saltpeter smell with a pungent smell of blood.
A Jia Lazhangjing rushed to the front to encourage the archers, but was shot by the rifleman who aimed at him in the bridge of the nose. The rotating bullet shattered the officer's nose bone, penetrated into his skull and wreaked havoc, ending immediately
His life. Jia La Zhang Jing was like a lifeless wooden stake, falling silently into the wooden thorns.
The death of this senior officer caused chaos. Some archers were defeated by the massacre-like battle. They couldn't stand it anymore and retreated behind them screaming.
But Bagala, who was guarding the formation, did not let the archers retreat, and shot back the fleeing soldiers with bows and arrows. The Tatars who were shot back were unable to advance or retreat, and had no fighting spirit. They closed their eyes and shot at the Ming army's awning indiscriminately.
The casualties were too great, and the front of the Tatar formation was like a chaotic Shura hell.
The corpses of the Tatars were spread across a large area in front of the formation more than 700 meters wide, lying dead on the ground in various postures. If the Tatars in the back row wanted to shoot arrows, they had to step on the corpses of the dead Tatars in front to get closer to the Tiger Master.
Some of the seriously injured and half-dead Tatars fell to the ground. No one paid attention to them, and they were even stepped on by the archers in the back row. Those who were stepped on made weak screams, and the crackling of gunshots continued.
On the battlefield, no one could hear him.
Some corpses had stopped bleeding from the wounds, but when they were stepped on by the archers behind them, blood spurted out from the wounds again. There was blood everywhere on the ground, and the smell of blood became stronger and stronger, making it nauseating.
The area that Li Zhi left for the Tatars at more than 70 meters, which was barely suitable for shooting, was not so much an opportunity for the Tatars as it was a trap to trick the Tatars into increasing their casualties.
The exchange ratio of hundreds to dozens was too cruel, not to mention that those who died were all soldiers who were good at shooting and were warriors in the Qing army. The more the Qing army shot, the more heartless it became, and it was about to collapse.
At the last moment, Li Zhi's one hundred and forty cannons opened fire again.
The earthen fort where the Huben division's artillery is located is also protected at all levels: the lower part of the cannon is protected by a mound of earth, and a canopy is built on top. There is only a gap left to the outside to accommodate the muzzle, and the Tatar bows and arrows cannot shoot in. The artillery
The artilleryman calmly loaded the cannon with shotguns under the canopy, then pushed the cannon to the muzzle of the fort and opened fire on the Tatars who were standing densely more than 70 meters away.
The cannon made a huge roar and spit out tongues of flame from the muzzle. More than 10,000 projectiles roared towards the Tatars who were bending their bows and shooting arrows, tearing apart all the armor and bloody weapons they encountered, piercing the Tatars' bodies, and then
Then tear open the second flesh and blood body and armor behind it, and take away all the lives blocking the front.
More than a thousand Tatar archers who stood in front of the formation and shot arrows were beaten into pieces in an instant. Their flesh and blood flew everywhere, and they fell down without saying a word. Even if they were not hit in the torso, their hands and legs were shot, and their bones were damaged.
He was immediately broken by iron projectiles. Even his entire hands and feet were broken off, turning into severed limbs and flying out.
The soldiers who were still standing were all covered in blood, and they didn't know whether it was their own or someone else's.
The Qing army collapsed.
This is not war, this is massacre.
First, more than a hundred archers on the west side of the line collapsed, where they were hit the hardest by the shotgun blasts. Those broken soldiers were crushed by the shotgun blasts, and they fled to the back regardless, trying their best to squeeze through the gaps in the rear row of Tatars. This time
The flight of the defeated soldiers soon led to the entire front. The critical point of the Tatar collapse had already been broken by the shotgun volley. As soon as anyone escaped, the Tatars all fled together. More than a thousand people in the front row had been shot by shotguns.
After being beaten to death, the more than a thousand Tatars holding bows and arrows behind them did not dare to shoot any more. They all broke into a rout and fled behind the formation.
The defeat of these horse-armored and infantry soldiers led to the auxiliary troops and followers behind. The Tatars were frightened. No one dared to stand at attention in front of the fierce firepower of the Huben Division and be beaten. The front row collapsed, and the rear row also collapsed.
Thousands of people fled across the road.
The thousands of soldiers guarding the formation could no longer deter the fleeing Tatars, and the stigma of being a deserter could not stop these psychologically broken troops. There was only one thought left in their minds: survival.
The swords stopped the fleeing crowd, and the defeated soldiers simply attacked Bai Ya La together. Dozens of Bai Ya La in front were hacked to death by the rebel soldiers, and died senselessly in the crowded crowd.
The people in the back row did not dare to stop the defeated troops, so they could only follow the defeated troops and flee to the back.
On the Huben Division's position, Li Zhi's soldiers were still shooting and raining bullets on the fleeing Qing soldiers. Every time the fleeing Qing soldiers fled for tens of meters, they would leave behind hundreds of corpses. The fleeing Tatars
People kept falling down in the back row of the Tatars, and those in front became even more panicked, pushing and pulling, for fear of being squeezed into the back row by other Tatars and dying. More than 10,000 Tatars seemed to have encountered a natural enemy, like a goat.
The elk in the wildfire panicked and ran wild. They crowded and pushed on the wooden bridge, and some people kept falling into the ditch. The Tatars in the ditch cried out in panic, trying to climb up two meters.
