`Outside Yizhou City, on a plain called Qiangzigou, Li Xing led 20,000 Huben troops to fight against 80,000 Jiangbei troops.
One hundred thousand people were divided into two sides and faced off in front of a wall ditch five or six miles wide, covering the entire land. The soldiers of the Huben Army wore red close-fitting military uniforms, while the Jiangbei Army wore gray short-brown uniforms. The entire battlefield can be seen from a distance
Go, it's like a small patch of red against a large patch of gray.
There are a large number of artillery on both sides. From the beginning, both sides used cannons to bombard each other.
This time Li Xing brought 400 heavy artillery pieces, all of which used explosive shells. The distance between the two sides was still five miles, so Li Xing let the explosive shells be thrown towards the Jiangbei Army.
The explosive bombs roared across the sky, smashed into the huge formation of Jiangbei Army, and exploded one after another with huge sparks.
Jiangbei Army immediately began to fight back.
The artillery purchased by the Jiangbei Army from the Dutch is also a long cannon and can also be thrown very far. Basically, at a distance of five miles, the Jiangbei Army's artillery can control the landing point in a small area.
The Jiangbei Army had more artillery than Li Xing, and they thought they could defeat Li Zhi's cannon with solid bullets. Six hundred heavy artillery were pulled to the front of the formation, and Jiangbei's gunners loaded the cannons and began to fire at Huben.
Army artillery fire.
Black artillery shells shot towards Li Xing's artillery team like raindrops.
Li Xing's artillery team was bombarded and immediately fired back at Jiangbei Army's artillery.
However, the accuracy of throwing artillery shells at a distance of five miles is still limited. Both sides don't know how many rounds it will take to suppress the cannons on the other side. The artillery battle has no intention of stopping from the beginning, and the cannonballs are flying in the sky. It is deafening.
The sound of shelling was like continuous thunder, making people's ears hurt.
The falling artillery shells hit one or two artillery pieces from time to time, causing the unlucky cannon to be shot out of the battle. The Huben Army's explosive shells exploded randomly in the Jiangbei Army's formation, which naturally caused more damage. The Jiangbei Army's artillery shells were more
, although it is a projectile, sometimes it will hit the bodies of individual Tiger Soldiers and kill them.
The Huben Army, which rarely suffered battle losses, suffered considerable casualties.
However, there is no way around this. There are so many sophisticated cannons on the opposite side, and it will take time to take down the cannons on the opposite side. At this stage of cannon fire, casualties are bound to occur.
In order to reduce casualties, Li Xing asked other arms except artillery to form sparse formations.
Li Xing used a telescope to look at the Jiangbei Army's formation, and saw Wu Sangui and Zuo Liangyu placing their cannons at the front to fire, secretly thinking that this was the time that his elder brother had mentioned.
He waved his hand and shouted: "The sharpshooters attack!"
Two thousand five hundred sharpshooters led their horses and walked toward the artillery of the Jiangbei Army five miles away.
The target of these sharpshooters was the artillery of the Jiangbei Army. The artillery of the Jiangbei Army was not concentrated, but scattered throughout the front, so these sharpshooters scattered forward. However, in order not to arouse the vigilance of the Jiangbei Army soldiers, these sharpshooters
Instead of riding a horse and charging into battle, he led his horse and ran quickly.
As soon as the sharpshooter was dispatched, Wu Sangui on the opposite side immediately discovered it.
Wu Sangui raised the telescope that Li Zhi gave him and looked at the 2,500 Tiger and Ben Army soldiers strangely. These soldiers led their horses and scattered in all directions as soon as they walked out of the queue.
The firing angle of the Huben Army's artillery was quite flat. In order to prevent the soldiers holding horses from being accidentally injured from behind, the cannons of the Huben Army stopped firing for a time. After the soldiers holding horses walked more than a mile away, the cannons of the Huben Army fired again.
These Tianjin soldiers who came out with their horses not only did not maintain their formation, but also ran forward in a fan-like pattern. The more than two thousand people ran forward, the more they spread out, and in the end they were completely dispersed.
In this era, soldiers must maintain formation when picking up a station and maintain the front line with the strength of the queue. It is said that two fists are difficult to defeat with four legs. When scattered soldiers encounter enemies in a queue, they will fall into a passive situation of one person against several people.
.In this era, if the soldiers spread out, they would have no combat effectiveness at all and would be easily overwhelmed by the enemy in a queue.
The more than 2,000 Tigers and Ben troops on the opposite side were holding their horses but not riding them. They were completely scattered on the battlefield filled with artillery fire, which made Wu Sangui find it incredible.
Are you here to die?
Zuo Liangyu didn't have a telescope. He squinted at the sharpshooters of the Tiger Army, and felt a little confused as a monk Zhang Er. He watched the two thousand people spread out across the front of the battlefield that was five or six miles wide, and turned into one.
A thin layer of long strips, I don’t know what tactics Li Zhi’s Tiger Army used.
Could it be that Li Zhi's younger brother Li Xing is planning to use these 2,000 men to kill the 80,000 Jiangbei Army? If these two thousand men continue to advance, they may not be able to get close to the Jiangbei Army's line, and they will be shot dead on the battlefield by the Jiangbei Army's iron gunners.
superior.
Wu Sangui said doubtfully: "Should we send soldiers up to disperse these enemies?"
Zhang Shenyan stroked his beard and said: "No! Although the cannon is ejecting at this time, the angle is actually very low. If the soldiers rush to the front of the artillery to fight, they may be hit by their own cannonballs! If the soldiers are suddenly hit by their own cannonballs,
When the cannonball exploded, I thought I was really fooled by Li Zhi."
"Let's see how close these soldiers are! If they get to 200 steps, let the cannon shoot them with cannonballs."
What Zhang Shenyan said made sense. Wu Sangui and Zuo Liangyu pondered for a moment, but they couldn't find any reason to object.
In the confused eyes of Jiangbei Army, Li Zhi's sharpshooters walked 400 meters away from Jiangbei Army's line and fell to the ground one by one.
The squad leader, Boss Wei, was also selected as a sharpshooter this time. He lay down on the barren grass and aimed his rifle at the artillerymen on the opposite side. In the scope with four times magnification, the Jiangbei Army artillery target 400 meters away was quite large. Boss Wei
He pointed his rifle at a gunner who was giving orders.
"Woo~~"
At Li Xing's central military office, the conch horn blew suddenly.
Boss Wei held his breath and pressed the trigger. He only heard a snap in the barrel of the gun, and then all the surrounding rifles fired, and the crackling sound of shooting was heard on the long front.
In Boss Wei's scope, the gunner who was being targeted suddenly burst out with blood arrows in his chest, and fell down clutching his wound. Not only was the gunner shot down, but also a surveyor and an adjuster of the gun mount near the gunner.
The gun mount operator was also brought down. The sharpshooters fired bursts from a distance of 400 meters and achieved an astonishing hit rate with the help of the sights. Naturally, they would not miss important targets.
Seeing the artillerymen in front of the formation being shot dead in an instant, one or two thousand gunners and gunners, the generals of the Jiangbei Army woke up as if from a dream.
Li Zhi's rifle can hit 250 steps!
You must know that the Japanese iron cannons are said to be sophisticated, but they can only hit seventy steps. As the saying goes, a hundred steps can pierce a poplar. That is a myth, but it is only a hundred steps.
Taking someone's life on the 250th step, is this a divine soldier coming down to earth?
Zhang Shenyan could hardly believe this fact and was stunned for a long time without speaking.
Almost all the gunners and surveyors in the Jiangbei Army's artillery team were wiped out at once, and all the cannons suddenly went silent.
But the shooting of the sharpshooters continued. The sharpshooters of the Tiger Division used smokeless gunpowder without cleaning the barrel of the gun, and they were very skilled in loading. It only took 12 or 3 seconds to complete the reloading. The shooters aimed at the target and shot
The panicked Jiangbei Army artillery fired again.
Another crackling sound of gunfire rang out. The artillerymen of the Jiangbei Army were slaughtered again.
Jiangbei Army's 600 cannons, which originally numbered more than 7,000 artillerymen, were destroyed by half of Li Xing's sharpshooters in two rounds. The most important gunners, surveyors, gun mount operators and chargers were almost completely destroyed. The remaining
Almost all of the artillerymen were miscellaneous soldiers who towed artillery.
How could the still-living artillerymen dare to stay where they were and be beaten? They all ran away in panic.
