It is difficult to shoot a moving cavalry at a distance of 400 meters. Although many soldiers of the Tiger Army are equipped with scopes on their rifles, it is quite difficult for the scope to capture a moving enemy. If the cavalry is not
If you rush straight towards the shooter, it will easily slip through the scope. However, it is too difficult to move the crosshair to follow the target, and the hit rate will drop to 10% or 20%.
But for the five thousand rifles at this time, the target was not a particular cavalryman. Faced with the densely packed bandit horse army rushing into formation, the target was actually the entire bandit queue.
If it misses the target in front, it will hit the cavalry on the left, right, or behind. As long as the bullet does not go too far up or down, it will definitely hit someone or a horse.
As soon as the 5,000 rifles opened fire, more than 2,000 thieves and horsemen were immediately hit. The front row of the 30,000 thieves and horsemen seemed to have hit an invisible wall and fell under the horses.
Some horses were shot, neighing and falling to the ground, rolling and twitching, posing a great obstacle to the cavalry charging behind.
Countless blood spurted out and mixed with the rain all over the ground, dyeing the ground blood red all of a sudden.
The bandit's cavalry was suddenly stunned.
At this time, the leader of these 100,000 thieves was Li Zicheng's number one general Liu Zongmin. In fact, this big thief was quite brave, and he rushed into the middle of the horse army with two broadswords.
This Liu Zongmin is an old thief who has experienced countless battles, and has seen countless types of firecrackers used by the army. However, he has never seen a firecracker that can fire in the rain. The shooting of the Tiger Army made this intruder general
Suddenly I was stunned and stunned.
If the Huben army can fight in the rain, how can the 30,000-horse army charge forward?
However, Liu Zongmin does not believe in evil.
In fact, Liu Zongmin knew that if the bullets were loaded early and the rifle was kept wrapped in oil paper, the firecracker could fire a shot in the rain. In the past, some officers and soldiers protected the firecrackers in this way, and then they would use it when encountering thieves.
Come up and shoot.
But that can only take one shot.
Seeing the thousands of horsemen who were killed, Liu Zongmin felt a little resentful that he had lost money in gambling. If he escaped because of a single shot from the Tiger Army, then the Tiger Army could attack Suizhou City with arrogance.
Then King Chuang had to mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops to surround this official army, and he no longer had the strength to go north to attack Shanxi.
Liu Zongmin secretly thought that he could not get into the way of the Tiger and Ben troops. He suddenly grabbed the conch horn from the trumpeter beside him and blew the charge horn loudly.
The invading cavalry troops continued to charge forward.
In fact, the ground these cavalry troops stepped on was a wheat field after harvesting wheat, which was very soft. After it started to rain, the intruders rushed over from two miles away. The ground had been watered by rain for a while and was a little muddy. The infantry advanced in such mud.
It's very slow, even the cavalry's speed has been greatly reduced.
When they rushed to a distance of 300 meters, Liu Zongmin's cavalry received a second blow.
The distance was closer, and the musketeers' hit rate obviously went up to a higher level. This time, more cavalry were knocked down by the bloodthirsty conical bullets, and fell screaming in the muddy wheat field.
In just two rounds of shooting, the riflemen of the Huben Army killed one-sixth, or even close to one-fifth, of the intruder cavalry.
And this is still at a distance of three hundred meters, only riflemen with scopes are firing. In fact, there are two thousand riflemen without scopes on the front facing the intruders, waiting for the enemy to enter the two hundred meters.
meters range.
The rain was pouring down, but the soldiers of the Tiger Army were not affected. They loaded their ammunition skillfully and prepared to attack the self-righteous cavalry of the invading army again.
Liu Zongmin looked at Hu Benjun with wide eyes, unable to react.
Why can the gunpowder of the army be used in the drizzle? Isn't the gunpowder of the army afraid of water? Liu Zongmin didn't have a telescope and couldn't see clearly the movements of the army 300 meters away. In fact, Liu Zongmin even shot the flintlock rifle of the Hu Ben army.
I don’t know what it looks like. The fire blunderbuss in his concept is still the matchlock bird blunderbuss of the army.
As long as it is a blunderbuss, it should be afraid of water.
Liu Zongmin did not believe in evil, so he was ready to gamble again.
The horn sounded again, and Liu Zongmin urged the bandits to continue charging.
But the morale of the rebel soldiers has been shattered. How can they organize a decent charge? Although the morale of the intruders is much higher than before, they are still traitors. Thousands of people have been killed, and some of the cavalry in front have begun to panic.
They fled to both sides and even fled to the back. The captains raised their sabers and roared loudly, trying to regain their formation, but to no avail.
In the rain, the wet cavalry were crowded together in the muddy wheat field. Some people walked forward and some fled backward. Thick mud stuck to the hooves of the military horses, making it impossible for the entire team to move forward.
The crackling gunfire sounded again.
The intruders and cavalry who were crowded in front like a traffic jam suddenly fell on their backs, and an unknown number of people fell off their horses. The soldiers of the intruders finally understood one thing: this terrible army can shoot cannons unlimited times in the rain.
Chuangjun collapsed.
More than 20,000 cavalrymen who were still alive broke into a rout and fled far away. The cavalrymen struggled to escape in the mud, but it was very difficult.
Behind them, the Tiger Army, which had adapted to the light rain, was still shooting.
Before the intruders could escape from the firing range of the Tigers and Ben's troops, several thousand more people fell to the rifles. By the time they got to the back, the cavalrymen of the intruders had been so frightened that they fled away, abandoning their helmets and armor.
Liu Zongmin did not expect that the cavalry he led was so vulnerable. He felt that he could not explain it to King Chuang and the generals. He roared angrily among the deserters, but it did not help at all. As the fleeing cavalry ran farther and farther, Liu Zongmin was exposed
In the scope of a sniper rifle.
Many people saw this big thief wearing a phoenix-winged helmet and fish-scale armor. Dozens of riflemen shot at Liu Zongmin almost at the same time. More than a dozen blood flowers suddenly bloomed from Liu Zongmin's body, and he fell to the mud without saying a word.
on the land.
Liu Zongmin, the top general of the Breaking Army, died in a meaningless battle.
Liu Zongmin's death in battle made the rebels even more panicked. The 70,000 infantrymen further away broke into a rout without engaging in combat, and fled in embarrassment in the hinterland of the Central Plains.
Perhaps facing other officers and soldiers, the Chuang Army, whose combat effectiveness has increased, still has the strength to fight. But in front of the Huben Army, the Chuang Army is just a group of targets.
Even on a rainy day, the result is the same.
The 6,000 cavalrymen of the Selected Front Division originally dismounted and fought on foot, standing in a circular formation with rifles raised to meet the enemy. But at this time, the intruder army collapsed, so they mounted their horses and rushed out to chase the intruder army. At this time, ten
Wan Chuang's army has become a lamb to be slaughtered, and the cavalry of the Selection Division can pursue and kill them as much as they want.
Li Xing laughed heartily as he looked at the defeated Chuang army.
"Brother's method is to be superb."
Li Laosi said with a smile: "Now the intruders will send at least 200,000 troops to confront us. The total force available to the intruders is only more than 300,000, and the remaining hundreds of thousands cannot go north to attack Shanxi.
.”
Li Xing smiled and said: "When eldest brother finishes taking care of North Korea, he will definitely take Henan.
