The Qing army placed 3,000 cavalry soldiers at the front of the 50,000 cavalry, followed by other infantry and auxiliary troops. The cavalry soldiers wore two layers of heavy armor, and the rifles of the Huben Division could only shoot at about 120 meters.
Chuan. Huang Taiji's purpose of doing this is to reduce the casualties during the charge and prevent the entire army from collapsing due to excessive casualties.
Although rifles could not penetrate, cannon shot could easily penetrate these heavy armors. When the Qing army's forward was about 150 meters away from the Huben division's front, the forty heavy artillery in the front opened fire again.
More than 10,000 rounds of shotshells were like a thick fog, spraying out from the muzzles of forty cannons and flying quickly towards the Tatar cavalry soldiers in front. As soon as the thick fog met the flesh and blood, it immediately burst out.
Countless blood mist came out. The Tatars in the front row immediately sprayed blood everywhere. The blood filled the air one hundred and fifty meters in front of the formation, dyeing all objects a few meters in front and behind them red.
The smell of blood is getting stronger and stronger, as if it is frozen in the air.
The two rows of Tatar cavalry in front were like reeds blown down by the strong wind. They screamed and fell off their horses. No one was spared.
Huang Taiji's chariot was very high. From Huang Taiji's perspective, it looked like the front layer of the 50,000 cavalry army had been completely cut off.
Such a charge was too brutal. Those elite horse-armor soldiers were spread out like dirt to fill the holes, and then fell one by one. You must know that these horse-armor soldiers are all elite soldiers of the Qing Dynasty.
Do you know how many places you have fought with Huang Taiji and how many powerful enemies you have defeated? When has there ever been such a tragic collective death?
Huang Taiji frowned even more tightly and clutched the monocular telescope in his hand.
Fan Wencheng looked at the tragic front line, gritted his teeth, and said, "Your Majesty, wait until my Qing soldiers and horses rush forward, rush to the front of the formation, and break into the formation. This battle will be won!"
Inside the Huben Division's turning formation, Li Zhi looked at the over 40,000 Tatars charging towards him and knew that the front of the turning formation could not be defended. There were too many enemies, and they were all cavalry, and they were charging very fast.
Fast. Moreover, in order to reduce casualties, the Qing army aimed at 50,000 men and charged directly at the front of the 600-meter-long revolving formation, which could easily overwhelm the front of the revolving formation.
This was the first time Li Zhi had to prepare for a frontal breakthrough. He put down his telescope and shouted: "Change the formation!"
The Chinese military command flag was fluttering, and the soldiers on both sides of the formation ran quickly and changed their positions on both sides.
Huang Taiji in the distance immediately saw the change in Li Zhi's formation, but he couldn't understand it. In his opinion, the soldiers on both sides of Huben Division's formation suddenly ran back collectively, not knowing what they were going to do.
However, it was too late to think carefully about the changes in the Tiger Division at this time. Battles in the era of hot weapons often decided the winner within a few minutes. After the soldiers of the Tiger Division on both sides withdrew, the three rows of riflemen on the front looked even thinner.
, Huang Taiji believed that his 50,000 cavalry army would be able to overwhelm this thin rifle array.
The cavalry soldiers in front lost countless lives under the rounds of artillery bombardment. They finally rushed to the front of Huben Division 120 meters and began to challenge Li Zhi's three-row rifle array.
"Kill the slaves!"
Amidst the roars of killing slaves, the riflemen in the first row in front opened fire. The flames from the muzzles of a thousand rifles emerged from the 600-meter-long front almost at the same time, forming a line of fire.
The crackle of gunshots rang out and merged into a loud rumble. A thousand bullets were like a hail of bullets, screaming towards the Tatar cavalry in the front row.
The two or three rows of cavalry in front of the Tatars were exposed to the rain of bullets and had nowhere to hide. There was a large gap between the cavalry and the cavalry, and the two rows of cavalry at the back would be attacked just like the front row of cavalry.
Even the horse's head cannot help these cavalrymen block bullets. Although the horse's head is very high when the horse is standing still, once the horse sprints, it will extend its head forward and hang down, leaving the entire upper body of the cavalryman completely exposed to the rain of bullets.
before.
The iron-plated cotton armor was penetrated by bullets, the chainmail armor was penetrated by bullets, and the leather jacket under the chainmail armor was also penetrated. The skin was pierced by the rotating bullets like fragile paper, destroying the body organs under the skin.
Exposed naked. Kidneys, liver, stomach, lungs, heart, these important human organs were extremely fragile in front of the mini bomb, and were turned into a ball of blood.
The heavy-armored soldiers in the front row seemed to have been named, spraying blood mist and blood arrows from their bodies. The Tatars who were shot one by one let out heart-rending screams, fell on the horse unwillingly, and then plopped.
fell to the ground.
I don't know how many Tatar corpses it would take to fill the short distance of 120 meters.
Huang Taiji watched the warriors in front of him fall down row by row, his face getting paler and paler.
As soon as the cavalry in front fell, the cavalry behind immediately made up for it, and then they seemed to have hit an invisible wall, and fell down one by one with screams. The air was filled with blood mist sprayed from the wounded soldiers.
, dyeing all the soldiers in the front row blood red.
The cavalry in front fell to the ground, and the cavalry behind had no time to take a detour to avoid it. No matter whether the wounded soldiers on the ground were dead or alive, the cavalry behind them would just ride on their horses and trample them over. The sound of bones being crushed by horses' hooves was heard.
The screams of the wounded soldiers were covered up. But soon, these wounded soldiers could no longer make a sound.
Life is like the most worthless thing, consumed in hundreds and hundreds of rifle bullets. Those young Manchus who were still high-spirited in the morning and stood majestically beside Huang Taiji, those who once fought in and out of Ming Dynasty, North Korea and Mongolia
The warriors turned into corpses one after another in the blink of an eye.
This scene cannot be described in terms of blood. This was a brutal massacre.
Li Zhi's riflemen showed no mercy in front of tens of thousands of cavalry. They stood up in rows, aimed and shot, then squatted down to reload, and then stood up to shoot again! Every time the Qing army took a step forward, they would leave behind countless
's corpse.
But after all, the Qing army had 50,000 soldiers.
If the Qing army had only 10,000 or 20,000 people, it would have collapsed in the face of such heavy casualties. However, this time Huang Taiji invested 50,000 people in front of Li Zhi. No matter how many people died in the front, there would be people to replace them in the back. Although
The cavalry behind them were no longer heavy armored horse soldiers, but light armored infantry, but these Tatars still rode their horses and rushed towards the Tiger Division at high speed.
On the cruel front, the distance between the two sides gradually narrowed to 70 meters, 50 meters, and 30 meters.
Finally, the Qing cavalry waved their spears and used the power of rolling horse hooves to rush to the front of Huben Division's formation.
Lei San, the platoon leader of the Polu Regiment, stood in the front row with his bayonet raised, facing the Qing cavalry rushing up like a tide, and shouted with all his strength:
"Kill the slaves!"
As if hearing Lei San's roar, not a single soldier of the Tiger Division on the entire front retreated. They all raised their bayonets and shouted in unison:
