Amidst the crackling gunfire, the Qing cavalry fell down one after another. The morale of the Qing army, which had been high due to overwhelming the front of Huben Division, suddenly fell to a freezing point.
The war has once again returned to its starting point.
Although the Huben Division is a private army, it is a different kind of private army. There are no corrupt officers in the Huben Division, and there are smooth promotion channels for soldiers' military merit. The Huben Division has the most generous pension system, and not only does the soldiers who died in battle receive a salary higher than the average salary of the Ming Dynasty
With a standard pension, their families can also receive the honor of martyrs' families. Although these soldiers are afraid of death, they are not afraid of dying in battle.
The Qing army defeated the front of the Huben Division, but the Huben Division was tougher than the Qing army imagined. The other three fronts of the Huben Division were still intact, and they formed a zigzag formation to meet the Qing army.
Not only that, the six small formations also protected the defeated frontal soldiers.
Six small circular formations were placed on both sides of the original large circular formation, which could just cover the defeated soldiers and allow the soldiers in the front to retreat calmly from the middle of the large circular formation. The cavalry were positioned very high on the horses, and the soldiers of the Tiger Division
You can pass over the broken troops in the front row and shoot at the Qing cavalry in the back row. If the Qing army does not attack the small circular formation and instead pursues the broken troops, it will be fired by the concentrated fire of the six small circular formations on both sides.
It was simply impossible to pursue the defeated troops under the firepower of thousands of riflemen.
After chasing for a few hundred meters, even the three thousand riflemen at the back of the large loop formation would shoot at the Qing army. Therefore, the Qing army had no choice. If they wanted to expand their results, they must first break through the six loop formations on both sides.
But the six small zigzag formations were not so easy to break down. The morale of the Qing army could no longer support them from launching a forward charge like that just now.
In order to overwhelm the front of the Huben Division, the Qing soldiers were bombarded with explosive shells and cannons. After rushing into a distance of 120 meters, they were shot five times with rifles. The dead soldiers were shot three more times while clearing the caltrops in front of the formation.
In order to clear out those iron caltrops, the Qing army fought one after another and sacrificed two thousand lives.
Including the casualties from the assault on the bayonet formation, the Qing army had already sacrificed eight to nine thousand troops. Even for an army of fifty thousand, the casualties at this time had exceeded 15%.
The Qing army could no longer launch the decisive charge just now.
Hauge stood on horseback in the center of the Qing army's more than 40,000 cavalry, commanding the charge under the protection of hundreds of people. Seeing the situation in front of the formation, his eyes turned blood red.
Is this battle going to be lost? If this battle is lost, where will the Qing Dynasty go?
The morale of these Nikans is so high. When the front is overwhelmed, the soldiers on the side will not be crushed and collapse, but change their formations and continue fighting. Is this still the Ming army? Haug only knew the equipment of the Huben Division before.
Excellent, but I didn't know the morale of this unit was so strong.
The Qing troops in the front row fell one after another amidst the constant gunfire in the circular formation. If this continues, the Qing troops will collapse.
Haug grabbed the horn from the trumpeter beside him and blew the charge horn with all his strength.
Rush forward and compete with Nikan to see who collapses first.
Hearing the horn of Hauge's charge, the leader of the battle waved his saber at the hesitant cavalry, forcing the whole army to continue advancing. The drum of the Chinese army was violently beaten, and the army of more than 40,000 people cheered up again.
Rush towards the first two small zigzag formations.
Each side of the small zigzag formation was only fifty meters long, and 40,000 troops directly attacked both sides of the small formation.
There were more than a thousand soldiers on the front and sides of the two small formations. These soldiers were not afraid of the Tatars' deadly charge. They quickly squatted down to reload, stood up to aim, shoot, and then squatted down to reload. The bullets came in bursts.
Like a storm, it poured down on the charging Tatars, taking away lives one after another.
The distance of one hundred and fifty meters is the distance between victory and defeat. The corpses of the Tatars are piled up in front of the formation again. Every time they take a step forward, the Tatars will leave behind countless lives.
This war has turned into a bloody war of attrition. The competition is about whose morale is stronger and who can persist to the end.
Huang Taiji stood on the chariot, his face pale, and his hands holding the telescope were trembling slightly. He knew that this battle was lost.
There is no doubt that the morale of the Ming army is higher. From the red scarf army's military song that resounds in the sky, we know that the morale of the Ming army is as high as a rainbow in this battle. Even the ordinary Ming army is full of fighting spirit, let alone the elite Huben division.
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The casualties of the 50,000 Qing troops were close to 20%, and although the Huben Division was overwhelmed from the front, it only suffered 10% casualties.
The Huben Division has higher morale and lower casualties, and the battlefield situation is like a millstone strangling the Qing army. There is no doubt that the Huben Division will have the last laugh in this battle. Even if Hauge can defeat the two small parties in front
There are more small square formations behind them, and each small square formation requires clearing troops and countless corpses to pile up.
There is no chance of winning this battle.
In this decisive battle, I, the Qing Dynasty, lost.
Huang Taiji was thinking and coughing violently. He couldn't stop coughing and could only cover his mouth with his hands.
After finally breathing a sigh of relief, Huang Taiji took his hand off and saw blood on his hand.
On the battlefield, twenty-six heavy artillery pieces from two small circular formations opened fire. Nearly ten thousand shotgun pellets were fired at the Qing cavalry, which was already at the end of its war effort, killing hundreds of people in an instant.
With a bang, the Qing army collapsed.
At first, a mentally broken infantryman turned his horse's head and ran wildly towards the cavalry behind him. The cavalry behind him should have hacked the deserter to death, but no one did so. Everyone seemed to be fleeing from this one in an instant.
The Qing troops carried their bundles and all collapsed.
The Qing army had nearly 10,000 dead, with a casualty rate of nearly 20%. However, the Huben Division had great morale and showed no signs of defeat. Every Qing soldier rushing in front of the battle knew that this battle could not be won.
, if you rush forward again, you will only die.
The 40,000 Qing troops no longer charged at the rifle formation in front of them, which was like a death zone. Instead, they turned their horses and fled east and west, fleeing to places where bullets could not reach them, and to places where cannonballs could not reach them.
Run away from the soldiers of Huben Division.
The mighty 40,000-strong army was reduced to a rout and panicked.
The only ones who didn't escape were the mentally out-of-control Hauge and the two hundred people beside him. Hauge had just rushed to the front of the array to boost morale, but he didn't expect the army to collapse so quickly. He opened his mouth
With his mouth closed and his eyes red, he tried his best to kill the deserters around him, but he could not stop the retreat at all.
The routed troops retreated like a tide from the two hundred Pou Ya La. There were fewer and fewer Qing soldiers in front of them, and Hauge was actually allowed to be within the sight of the musketeers of the Huben Division.
When Hauge discovered this, it was already too late.
The Manchu aristocrats wearing gorgeous armor and surrounded by yaras were of course the best targets for the riflemen. There was a crackle of gunfire, and more than a hundred bullets were fired at Haug. Dozens of people around Haug
The figure looked like a scarecrow that had lost its soul, screaming and falling in a pool of blood.
Hauge woke up from a dream, turned his horse's head and was about to flee towards the road he came from.
But Haug could no longer run away. The change in the rate of fire brought by nitrocellulose could be described as a qualitative change. Just five seconds later, there was another gunshot and another bullet was fired at Haug. Haug was shot by three bullets.
He was hit in the back and in the back of the head by a bullet, and several bloody arrows were shot out of his body.
Huang Taiji's eldest son, Hauge, whom Huang Taiji hoped to pass the throne to, fell to the ground without saying a word.
