Li Zhi's troops lined up in the central army and formed a circular formation. There were more than 3,200 people on each of the four sides, all arranged in three columns, in a tight formation. The front and two sides were each equipped with forty cannons.
There are slightly fewer artillery pieces on the back, equipped with twenty-nine. The artillery equipped on the back are all small cannons, and the 69 heavy artillery are mainly arranged on the front, with some on both sides.
As the Qing army got closer and closer, Li Zhi rode up to the Huben Division and shouted: "Soldiers, the Tatars are right in front of us. Over the years, the Tatars have robbed our property, killed our people, and raped our Han family."
Daughter. Drive the poor people to the bitter cold land of Liaodong to be slaves like cattle and horses!"
Li Zhi faced Master Huben and shouted loudly: "Can you bear the Tatars entering the customs, abolishing Chinese clothes, and wearing left-over garments?"
The soldiers shouted: "No!"
Li Zhi shouted: "Can you allow future generations to kneel before the Tatars and worship the Tatars as their masters?"
"cannot!"
Li Zhi shouted again: "Can you bear the Tatars proclaiming themselves emperor and our children and grandchildren having their hair cut off and becoming slaves, working as cattle and horses?"
The soldiers roared: "No!"
Li Zhi shouted loudly: "The court is incompetent and the civil servants are despicable! The Ming Dynasty is on the verge of collapse! What should we do for the sake of our children and grandchildren?"
The soldiers shouted in unison: "Kill the slaves!"
"Kill the slaves!"
"Kill the slaves!"
The slave-killing roars of the soldiers of the Huben Division resounded through the sky, as if they were filling the heavens and the earth.
Li Zhi waved his hand: "Fire!"
The commander of the forty artillery guns on the front pulled the match rope and ignited the heavy artillery. With a deafening bang, forty shells were fired towards the Qing army three miles away. After flying in the air for three miles, the shells plunged into the dense Qing army.
In the cavalry group.
In an instant, blood and flesh splattered, and the Manchu and Qing cavalrymen were smashed and penetrated. One by one, they fell down and dismounted.
The shell penetrated several layers of people and horses, then fell to the ground, and the fuse gradually burned to the end.
The cavalry hurriedly reined in their horses and turned around to avoid the bombs on the ground. But when the cavalry charges in groups, it is different from the infantry. It is extremely difficult for the cavalry to turn around. If they go to the side, they will bump into other cavalry next to them. The cavalry tried their best and could only go forward.
There was no way to completely avoid the explosion range of the shells by squeezing a few meters aside.
Only forty loud booms were heard, and iron projectiles flew everywhere, killing the nearby Qing cavalry like a god of death.
The cavalry formation of the Qing army was arranged with double-layered heavy-armored cavalry soldiers rushing at the front. At this time, all the cavalry soldiers exposed around the artillery shells were cavalry soldiers. The double-layered heavy armor of these cavalry soldiers could help the Qing army resist rifles fired from long distances.
Bullets, but could not prevent the iron pellets fired from the artillery shells. Only screams were heard, and three or four bloody arrows were often shot out of the Qing cavalry near the artillery shells, and they fell to the ground.
Their horses were undoubtedly shot and fell to the ground, neighing and twitching.
Centered on the location where the shell exploded, within a few steps there was a mess. The fallen horses turned into an obstacle, forcing the cavalry behind them to stop and take a detour. The heavy armor was screaming and rolling on the ground.
The knights severely corroded the morale of the other cavalry behind them, turning the cavalry's detour into chaos.
From Li Zhi's point of view, he could see that there were forty places inside the Qing army that suddenly stopped. It was like dozens of whirlpools suddenly appeared in the middle of the surging tide, causing the momentum of the entire charging team to stagnate.
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But soon, the horses and knights on the ground were dead and stopped struggling. The cavalry behind them simply jumped over them, and even stepped on them, trampling them into a ball of flesh.
The Qing army did not rush far when it was bombarded again. When the Qing army's forward was two miles away from the Huben Division, another forty shells were fired at the Qing army that was rushing into the formation at high speed. Forty lines were shot out of the Qing army's queue.
In Flesh and Blood Alley, another forty shells exploded.
A piece of flesh and blood flew everywhere, and countless blood foam exploded from the wounded Qing soldiers. The blood foam flying in the air was like a stained area, making the Qing soldiers rushing over from it all dyed blood red.
However, the Qing army was still charging into the formation at high speed. At a distance of one mile, the Qing army was bombarded head-on again.
Huang Taiji stood on his six-drive chariot, observing the fighting in front with a telescope, his face turned pale. This was the first time that Huang Taiji observed the power of Li Zhi's cannon at close range. Seeing it with his own eyes, it was even more shocking.
.Every time one of the explosive shells exploded, seven or eight cavalrymen screamed and fell to the ground. It was really not something that human power could withstand.
No wonder the fifteenth brother Duduo was killed by this explosive bomb.
Huang Taiji looked at Fan Wencheng beside him and asked: "Fan Wencheng, do you know of any way to deal with this cannon?"
Fan Wencheng knelt down and shouted: "Your Majesty, in my humble opinion, there is no other way to deal with this cannon than to build the same cannon and blast it."
Huang Taiji nodded and said: "However, in this decisive battle, our Qing warriors can only use their flesh and blood to attack Li Zhi's cannon!"
However, Huang Taiji only saw the beginning. When the 50,000 Qing cavalry rushed three hundred meters in front of Huben Division, Li Zhi's cannon no longer used explosive shells, but fired shotgun shells.
Each heavy artillery had 300 rounds of shotshells. Forty heavy artillery fired more than 10,000 iron pellets across the front, turning the 300 meters in front of the formation into a death zone. Those pellets seemed to be more than 10,000
The sharp arrows shot out, carrying the huge kinetic energy of the black powder explosion, and effortlessly penetrated the bodies of the first level of cavalry, and continued to thrust into the bodies of the second level of cavalry, killing all these Liaodong Tatars on their horses.
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Huang Taiji could see clearly in the telescope that the two rows of Qing troops in front of the charge cavalry seemed to have hit the waves on the embankment and were all shattered. The first two rows of Qing troops all fell down, flipped over on their backs, covered their bodies and screamed.
The flesh and blood that came screamed in agony.
Huang Taiji saw in the telescope that a Jia Lazhangjing was shot through the nose by an iron pellet. The pellet penetrated his skull with huge kinetic energy, and penetrated from the back of his head with white brain matter and red blood. Biao
He looked at the other Qing soldiers behind him.
A vigorous war horse was shot to death by a shot pellet, and fell to the ground at high speed with a neighing sound. Niulu Zhangjing on the horse was caught in the stirrup, and was brought heavily to the ground by the war horse, and fell hard on the March soil. The one behind him
The war horse did not dodge, but stepped on Niu Luzhangjing's chest with a hoof, trampling him to death immediately.
Huang Taiji grabbed the telescope hard and felt very sorry for the warriors of the Qing Dynasty. When faced with the ordinary Ming army, which one of these warriors was not a powerful force one against two? But in front of Li Zhi's cannon, these horse-armored soldiers seemed to be the cheapest.
They were thrown down in pieces like cannon fodder, cut off piece by piece like winter wheat in April.
Huang Taiji frowned and said nothing, holding the barrel of the telescope tightly with both hands, his palms full of sweat. (To be continued...)
