Although he had known for a long time that the Huben Division could penetrate the double-layer armor of the Han army flag at eighty paces, seeing the massacre-like scene in front of him, Prince Yu Duoduo couldn't help but turn pale.
This massacre was so cruel. How many soldiers had to die before the gunmen of the Qing army could rush forward and start shooting? It took the emperor two or three years and the efforts of the whole country to train such 30,000 Han soldiers. Don't let all
Fold it here.
Duduo held the reins tightly with both hands, and his hands were shaking slightly uncontrollably.
Hold on, the Han army flag must hold on, rush in front of Li Zhi's soldiers and horses and shoot at Huben Division.
The firepower of the Huben Division was too strong. After entering the rifle range of the Huben Division, the casualties skyrocketed. The Qing army no longer waited for the slow-moving Hongyi artillery to come up and shoot. They began to charge forward at the fastest speed, trying to rush forward to the kill of the "Jianwei Gun".
Fight back at a distance.
But they only advanced fifteen steps, and the front lines of the two armies were sixty-five steps away. The soldiers of the Huben Division opened fire again.
The rain of bullets swept through the Qing troops in the front row like a hurricane, overturning all the soldiers blocking the front. Heart-rending screams were shouted from the mouths of hundreds of soldiers at the same time, and then all the soldiers collapsed.
One by one, they fell to the ground, rolling and twitching. Blood splashed into the air like water, falling into a shower of blood, showering on the Qing soldiers who had been shot and fell to the ground or who were lucky enough not to be shot.
Kong Youde saw a leader of the Han army, Qian Zong, shouting to boost morale. This was a tall, dignified Qian Zong. His presence had boosted the morale of the surrounding soldiers a lot. But he was roaring and charging forward.
, but was suddenly hit in the head by a bullet. Red blood and white brain matter burst out from the wound, splashing all over the other soldiers around him.
President Qian was not the only one who died. Kong Youde saw at least four commanders fall down in this round of volleys from the Huben Division.
There were corpses of Qing soldiers everywhere on the ground. The blood flowing out of the corpses formed a stream and continued to flow to the lower areas. The Qing soldiers behind were almost covered in blood, stepping on the corpses of the Qing soldiers in front.
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Although Hong Chengchou stood several miles away, he could smell the overwhelming smell of blood on the battlefield. However, he was very excited because the firepower of the Huben Division was beyond his expectation. The Qing army stopped firing the Hongyi artillery.
Finally, the battle turned into a one-sided massacre. The Tatars in the front row fell one by one.
The Tatar's fire blunderbuss seemed to be inferior to Master Hu Ben's firearms. Li Zhi's fire blunderbuss had already fired at the eighty paces, but the Tatars had not yet fired their muskets when they were more than sixty paces away, and continued to rush forward despite the hail of bullets. Obviously
A closer distance is needed to unleash the lethality of the firecracker.
Hong Chengchou knew that once the Qing army rushed forward and fired at the Huben Division, the Huben Division might pay a heavy price. After all, the Qing army's gunmen were a team of 30,000 people. If 30,000 people and more than 10,000 people were to shoot at each other, the outcome would be
It can be very painful.
How this battle will turn out depends on how much casualties the gunmen of the Qing Army can withstand, and whether they can persist until the moment of firing against the Tiger Division.
Hong Chengchou looked at the battlefield ahead and was very nervous. He prayed that the Qing army's gunmen would collapse soon so that the Ming army could win the battle.
One mile behind the Qing troops on the front line, Kong Youde, who was commanding the front line, had a pale face. The casualties in front were too heavy.
Kong Youde knew that the soldiers of the Huben Division were wearing full-body armor, but he didn't know how far his "Jianwei Gun" could penetrate Li Zhi's full-body plate armor. In order to find out the opportunity to fire, his method was to move forward every time
After ten steps, let twenty Han soldiers shoot once to see the effect of the shooting.
Sixty steps away, twenty Qing gunners stopped to take aim and opened fire at the Huben Division.
At this distance, the "Jianwei Gun" was able to accurately aim and kill unarmored targets. However, it was still too far to penetrate Li Zhi's full plate armor. The round lead bullet hit the armor of the soldiers of the Huben Division.
It made a large dent in the armor, but it failed to penetrate the armor and kill the soldiers.
The twenty Qing troops who were firing to test the kill stopped, but the other Qing troops around them did not stop and continued to charge forward quickly. After rushing to fifty steps, another twenty Qing troops opened fire at the Huben Division. This time, the Qing troops fired at the Huben Division.
The bullets of the Qing army made bigger dents in the armor of Huben division. But still, the Qing army still did not penetrate the whole body armor.
Kong Youde looked at the battle ahead, and his heart trembled. He had never imagined that Li Zhi's steel armor had such outstanding defensive power. Jianwei's gun could not penetrate the steel armor in fifty steps, and if he continued to advance, Li Zhi would continue to kill and injure soldiers.
Kong Youde clenched his fists, and his palms were covered with fine sweat. He began to worry about the morale of the Han army, as the casualties were too high. Whether the Han army could hold on until it opened fire to kill the Huben division had become a question. If it could not charge
When they went up to shoot, the thousands of Han soldiers who had already been shot by Huben Division died in vain.
If the Han army's flag was defeated by Huben's division, the decisive battle would have been lost. During the retreat, Li Zhi did not know how many of the defeated troops would be killed and wounded.
However, as long as the Han Army Flag could withstand the casualties and charge forward, reach armor-breaking distance and engage the Huben Division in firing, Kong Youde felt that he could win the battle. After all, the Han Army Flag had between 20,000 and 30,000 soldiers.
Kong Youde stared at the front of the formation, feeling very nervous. He prayed that the Han army flag could rush up. As long as it rushed to the armor-breaking distance of Jianwei's gun, the more than 20,000 fire gun soldiers would be able to defeat Li Zhi's more than 10,000 tiger soldiers.
defeat.
In the Qing army's central formation in the distance, Duduo and Dudu looked at each other with some disappointment in their eyes.
Unexpectedly, the emperor's fire rifle soldiers could not kill Li Zhi's soldiers at fifty steps. How close do they have to rush to kill them? If you rush forward under the gunfire, you will leave behind a large number of corpses every time you take a step forward, which will have a negative impact on morale.
The blow was too great.
Such a death charge was a test of the tenacity of the army. Duduo looked at the battle situation and was so nervous that beads of sweat broke out on his head.
But all eggs cannot be put in the same basket. Duduo still suppressed his emotions and waved his hand and said: "Let the 10,000 horse troops follow the Han army at the front. Once the Han army is defeated, the horse army will immediately launch a charge."
The flag commander waved the flag and passed Duduo's order to the horse army in front.
When the two armies were fifty steps away, the 1,100 riflemen in front of the Huben Division opened fire again.
The rain of bullets swept across the Qing army and the Han army flag. At such a close distance, the bullets almost never missed. The problem that affected the lethality of the volley shot was that more than two soldiers aimed at the same Qing soldier and killed them repeatedly.
Almost all the more than 600 Qing soldiers on the front of the battlefield were shot and fell in front of the formation.
Li Zhi stood in the middle of the formation, frowning as he looked at the Qing troops getting closer and closer.
The firearms weapon that Huang Taiji spent more than two years training is indeed very tough.
