The officers and soldiers can penetrate the cotton armor of the pond horses at more than a hundred steps!
The Tang horses were Zhang Xianzhong's elite. Many of them had been with Zhang Xianzhong for several years and had experienced the Anqing War in Chongzhen's ten years. When they were hit hard at this time, they remembered that fiasco. Killing the enemy at such a distance
The Ming Dynasty has no other fire gun! This is the army that defeated Zhang Xianzhong in Anqing in the tenth year of Chongzhen? It was a miserable defeat in that battle.
When the officers and soldiers fired a salvo, more than twenty bandits fell off their horses and became obstacles, tripping up the two horses behind them that were charging into the formation at high speed. The bandits who were not tripped could not rush forward in a straight line.
These obstacles must be navigated carefully.
The hearts of the charging pond horses trembled and they became frightened. They slowed down their charging horses one by one, fearing that they would rush to the front and take bullets.
The speed of the bandits charging into the formation was suddenly greatly reduced.
The middle-aged man leading the team saw the team slowing down and shouted loudly, encouraging the team to sprint forward.
But he didn't know that he was too conspicuous and a rifle was already aimed at him.
These bandits are used to fighting hand-to-hand with officers and soldiers with cold weapons, and are not used to war in the era of hot weapons. They don't know that in the era of hot weapons, as long as they are discovered by the enemy within the range, they will be killed. The bandit captain is still there
He loudly urged the cowardly pond horses to rush into the battle, but they didn't know that they had already exposed too much.
The elite members of the Selection Group cleaned the barrel of the gun with a purge, then took out the fixed bullet from the ammunition bag, opened the fire door, bit off the top of the fixed bullet, poured a little gunpowder into the fire door, and then closed the fire door.
Pour the remaining gunpowder in the fixed bullet into the muzzle of the gun, pound it with a purge bar, then put the fixed bullet into the muzzle, and pound it with a purge bar.
The cavalrymen completed a series of actions very skillfully. It only took more than ten seconds to finish reloading, and once again raised their rifles towards the bandit in front.
The first thing they targeted was the yelling bandit leader.
"Snapped!"
"Snapped!"
Two gunshots rang out, and Lieutenant Liu, who was still shouting to encourage his morale, was shot in the chest and lower abdomen at the same time. His lungs and intestines were turned into a paste by the bullets. The minced meat spattered, and blood gushed out like spring water.
. He covered the wound with his hand in surprise, but could not cover the blood that burst out. The blood was like water flowing out of a water pipe, spurting on the horse and flowing to the ground.
The strength in his body disappeared quickly, and the severe pain hit him overwhelmingly. His face became paler and whiter. He could no longer maintain his balance on the horse, and fell under the horse with a thud.
Seeing that the leader was shot and killed, the other bandits turned pale.
This army is so powerful that it actually took the life of the captain here dozens of steps away. Without the leader, how can we fight this battle? Should we rush or flee now?
While the bandits were hesitating, all forty rifles on the other side opened fire.
Sixty steps away, the bullets seemed to have eyes, and they pierced into the bodies of the thieves in the front row one after another. The bravest thieves who rushed to the front seemed to have been named, and a flower blossomed on their bodies.
Flowers of blood fell under the horse one by one.
A war horse was hit in the neck by a bullet. The servant stood up in severe pain and threw the stray horse on the ground, half to death. The war horse jumped on the spot several times, disrupting the situation.
It stopped the charging pace of four or five pond horses behind it, but could not overcome the huge wound inside its neck. It neighed a few times and fell to the ground helplessly.
More than thirty pond horses were shot by bullets. They lost the strength to hold on to the reins and fell to the ground screaming. The cotton armor on their bodies had no defensive effect, and a hole was created when the cone-shaped bullets penetrated it.
The thieves were panicked.
These Tang horses are not iron-blooded warriors, they are bandits who bully the weak and fear the strong. The policy they pursue is to gain advantage and not escape. How could they dare to confront such an elite enemy head-on? Nearly sixty Tang horses died before they could charge forward.
Ma, how many more people will die if we charge forward? Winning or losing is no longer important, the key is whether you can save your life.
The pond horses were in chaos fifty steps away from the cavalry of the Selected Front Regiment. Some people drove the horses to escape to both sides, some wanted to turn around and flee back, and some were still rushing forward. Horses collided with horses. Those who still had fighting spirit
Tang Ma yelled at Tang Ma who was trying to escape, and the whole team became a mess.
The soldiers of the Selective Regiment stuffed their rifles into the holsters on their saddles, pulled out their loaded handguns and rushed forward.
Seeing the soldiers of the Selection Regiment in steel armor rushing over, many Tang horses subconsciously galloped away. This forty officer army was so elite and full of murderous intent that they killed nearly sixty Tang horses in the blink of an eye.
Ma. You will definitely get no favors by fighting with them. You can only save your life by running away.
If the more than a hundred pond horses that are still alive unite as one and continue to charge forward with guns blazing, maybe they can win? But this is not the way of thinking of the bandits. What they consider is not winning or losing, but whether they can save their own lives.
Obviously, in order to defeat this elite army, it is unknown how many Tangma lives must be sacrificed.
Fifteen steps away, the charging soldiers of the Selective Regiment fired at the Tang horses with muskets.
Amidst the deafening gunfire, forty well-made handguns fired bullets at the dozens of Tangma who were the bravest and did not escape. The destructive power of the handguns was not as great as that of rifles, but at a distance of more than ten steps, even
This slightly weaker damage is also devastating.
Bullets burst out from the rifled barrel, spinning at high speed and shooting towards the thieves who were just twenty meters away. The bullets shot into the chests of the thieves, entered their heads, and shot into them.
throat, tearing all the human organs and tissues it encounters into pieces and turning them into bloody paste.
In just one moment, more than twenty pond horses were knocked to the ground by handguns.
The Tang horses who still had the courage in the end were defeated by this short-range shooting. The shadow of Anqing's defeat in the tenth year of Chongzhen once again shrouded the minds of these Tang horses. They fell on their horses one by one and turned around to go back to the original route.
Run wildly.
The soldiers of the Selection Group drew their sabers, but they could not find a stray bandit Tang Ma who dared to fight with them. More than a hundred Tang Ma threw the corpses of their accomplices on the ground and fled towards Luzhou City.
The soldiers of the Selective Regiment laughed loudly and raised their sabers high to celebrate their victory.
Feng Yi turned the horse's head and said to the soldiers: "Catch him alive! Take the injured Tang Ma back for interrogation!"
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In the Zhizhou Yamen in Luzhou City, Zhang Xianzhong stepped on a Tangma chief who was kneeling and crying, and cursed loudly: "What a thief, you two hundred people were beaten like this by forty officers and soldiers? Even the school captain was beaten."
died?"
The chief on the ground cried and exchanged words with each other, shouting loudly: "Commander, those forty officers and soldiers are not ordinary officers and soldiers, I am afraid they are the terrible officers and soldiers we encountered in Anqing in the tenth year of Chongzhen." (Unfinished)
