First of all, all the horses of the bandits were in chaos. How could those horses withstand such a violent explosion? Even the bravest horses would be frightened by such an explosion, not to mention that most of the horses that broke into the bandits were just ordinary horses.
Especially the cavalry who were tens of meters away from the explosive mushroom cloud were stunned by the heat wave of the explosion. How dare those military horses gallop forward? They didn't even dare to run into the center of the explosion that was filled with the smell of gunpowder. The horses subconsciously headed towards
No one was running away and they didn't obey orders at all.
An unknown number of the 120,000 cavalrymen were killed, and those who were still alive were reduced to a mess, showing irregular Brownian motion on a battlefield several miles long and wide.
Not to mention that they can continue to attack the Huben Army, the current Chuang Army cannot even maintain the most basic formation.
If rocket launcher cluster bombing is a technology that only appeared in the 19th century, or even the 20th century, then the cavalry of the breakout army was bombarded by the technology of hundreds of years later with an army of the 17th century. On the battlefield, the weapons were a generation ahead.
The difference is already unbearable, let alone such a gap of hundreds of years?
He Donggui, who was next to Li Laosi, was shocked by the effect of the rocket bombing. His face turned red and white, then turned white and red again. He suddenly grabbed Li Laosi's shoulders in excitement, opened his eyes and said loudly: "Sir, sir,
This rocket is so powerful!”
Li Laosi nodded, his eyes also shining.
Li Laosi really didn't expect the rocket car to be so effective. It only took one round to achieve such an effect. If all sixteen rounds of rockets were blasted out, how would the intruder be blown up?
Li Laosi felt that this battle was going to be won, and that it would be a big win.
Li Laosi was still excited, the rocket car was bursting with flames, and the second wave of rockets was shot out.
The rockets are fired at a target two miles away, with an error radius of seven to eighty meters. Within this error radius, the rockets are randomly distributed. Coupled with the random aiming of the rocket vehicle soldiers, the impact points of the rockets are very scattered.
The rocket soldiers aimed their bombing at the center of the rebel army. In fact, they could not aim accurately and could only hit roughly the vicinity of the target.
But the problem is that in order to overwhelm the Hu and Ben Army's musketry array, the cavalry of the Chuang Army formed a dense charge formation of 120,000 people. Therefore, without exception, the rockets exploded in the most densely populated areas of the rebels.
The death toll from these rockets is staggering.
In Hao Yaoqi's desperate eyes, the second wave of rockets set off a storm of steel and gunpowder. Huge sparks exploded among the embarrassment of the intruder cavalry, scattering pieces of iron that represented death.
Sprinkling in all directions. The red flames turned into balls, then rose upwards and turned into black and red mushroom clouds.
By the time the mushroom cloud formed by the second wave of rockets dissipated, the bandits' ranks were already littered with corpses. The ground was covered with broken limbs that flew out from nowhere, and there were charred corpses everywhere.
The scene under the mushroom cloud was like hell.
There were flames everywhere, and the cotton-padded clothes on the soldier's corpse were ignited by the explosion sparks and burned violently. The soldier whose hand was broken off was crying while rolling the corpse on the ground, looking for his own among the severed limbs of the robe and the army horse.
Broken arm. The wounded soldier whose leg was blown off was groaning and twitching on the ground, but he couldn't control the blood spurting from the severed limb.
The bodies of people and horses cut to death by broken pieces of iron had huge wounds, and blood spurted out. In just a few seconds, pools of blood were formed on the ground. The bodies that were shocked to death by the shock wave had their skin torn and bruised.
Their heads and bodies were covered with burnt black and blood-red injuries, and it was impossible to tell which wound had taken their lives.
When the roar of the explosion subsided, the battlefield was dominated by the horns and screams of the wounded soldiers. Those shrill screams were so loud that one could easily understand the catastrophe that had just been suffered by this army.
Seen from the air, a thousand rockets are like digging a thousand holes with a diameter of 20 meters in an array of soldiers several miles long and wide. The soldiers in these thousand holes were either blown up
His body was shattered to pieces, or he was cut to death by pieces of iron in his body.
The cavalrymen beside these thousand holes were running away in confusion one by one, completely disorganized.
Hao Yaoqi could no longer control his horse. The horse could no longer calm down in the face of firepower that far exceeded this era. He stood up and threw Hao Yaoqi off the horse. The horse also knew that the rocket was coming from the east.
The one flying towards him dropped Hao Yaoqi and fled towards the south.
Hao Yaoqi fell to the ground, his whole body seemed to be broken, and he did not recover for a long time.
Hao Yaoqi was lying on the ground, feeling helpless. After fighting with the army for more than ten years, Hao Yaoqi felt so powerless for the first time. Where is this fighting? This is completely one-sided bombing. Tianjin people
Using weapons that Hao Yaoqi had never seen before to massacre the Chuang army like this, what's the use of the Chuang army having 120,000 cavalry?
In the face of this completely overwhelming weapon, numerical superiority is meaningless.
When Hao Yaoqi slowed down and was finally able to get up, he looked up and saw Liu Fangliang roaring loudly on the battlefield.
Liu Fangliang didn't know what kind of medicine he had taken, but he still had fighting spirit despite repeated bombings. He scolded the drum and bugler around him with his riding crop, and asked the panicked drum and bugler to blow the Chinese army's horn.
A long horn sounded, encouraging the intruder cavalry who were blown to pieces.
Liu Fangliang shouted loudly: "The rockets of the Tianjin people have been blown up. It is impossible for them to still have such expensive rockets. Stand up for me and prepare to line up for the battle!"
Hao Yaoqi was stunned and looked east.
Although two rounds of rockets killed many people, the casualties were still acceptable for the intruders. For 120,000 people, killing more than 10,000 people would not lead to an absolute collapse. More than 100,000 people
The numerical advantage against 10,000 people was too obvious. If Liu Fangliang could regain the fighting spirit of the bombed cavalry, there would still be something to be done.
If the Tianjin people could only blow up two rounds, then the hundreds of thousands of cavalrymen of the Chuang Army might still be able to win this battle.
Hao Yaoqi suddenly ran towards a panicked cavalryman on the left and dragged the cavalryman off his horse. Then he got on the cavalryman's horse and shouted loudly to the left and right: "There is no advance or retreat in this battle. Don't do it."
panic!"
Amidst the sound of horns, the invaders who had been bombed twice gradually regained some order, gathered again, and prepared to rush towards the Tiger Army.
In the Huben Army's command car, Li Laosi looked at the Chuang Army in the distance and shook his head.
At this time, Li Laosi understood the power of the rocket car and had no doubts about winning the war. The rocket soldiers did not continue the third round of bombing just now because they thought that the intruder army had been destroyed and did not want to waste ammunition.
The cost of a heavy-duty rocket can easily reach dozens of taels of silver, and firing a thousand rockets in one round can cost tens of thousands of taels of silver. If it is not necessary, it is better not to fire these rockets indiscriminately.
Of course, compared with the income from capturing the entire Henan Province, the cost of tens of thousands of taels or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver is still acceptable. Since the intruder has not collapsed yet, Li Laosi waved his hand and shouted: "Shoot again!"
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The loud Conch blew two short and two long launch orders. The aiming hand next to the rocket car turned the rocker arm to adjust the angle of the gun car, and the igniter behind lit the rocket fuse.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Another thousand rockets rushed out of the artillery cart, screaming and spinning, and fired at the bandit soldiers who had finally gathered.
