When Fang Yuanxin at the rear was surprised, his cavalry continued to charge. Although some cavalry had been hit and fell off their horses one after another, the high-speed impact of the cavalry could not be adjusted in a short time, and the inertia of the cavalry's impact was very large.
The second is that the previous distance was still relatively far. Even with the accuracy of the Mini rifle, the hit rate was still not high, so the casualties they suffered were still limited.
However, at this time, the infantrymen of Linzi Ziran's Qingshan Patrol Battalion had already begun to fire their second round of shooting!
When they fired one after another, the first wave of about a hundred forward attack groups of the Guang'an cavalry had already passed a distance of 300 meters. At this distance, the Qingshan Patrol Battalion equipped with 18mm
The hit rate of Mini rifles modified from Fukumoto muskets began to increase dramatically.
As the white smoke rose, the cavalry on the opposite side began to fall in droves!
After the intensive gunfire, the more than one hundred cavalrymen fell down, and another twenty more cavalrymen fell!
Hundreds of Mini rifles from the Qingshan Patrol Battalion were engaged in fire interception. It was not special to be able to produce this effect.
At this time, the first wave of cavalry can be said to have lost more than forty cavalry. Even with the inertia of the cavalry's charge, these surviving cavalry still felt fear.
Everyone started to hesitate!
Cavalrymen are also human beings, and they are also afraid of death.
Especially this kind of situation where they were not even close yet but already suffered heavy casualties made them even more frightened.
The most important thing is that they still don't know why they suddenly suffered such a heavy casualty. They were still about 300 meters away, and the other party didn't fire any artillery. They just relied on musketry to intercept them, causing them heavy casualties.
Why can their muskets shoot so far and so accurately?
Now they would no longer doubt that the soldiers of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion were equipped with multiple rifled guns at the same time, loaded them in advance before the battle, and then took them out during the battle.
Because the Qingshan Patrol Camp opposite has obvious shooting intervals, it does not mean continuous shooting in a short period of time, but there are obvious time intervals among multiple rounds of shooting.
And this time interval is no more, no less, just over twenty seconds.
Anyone with a little bit of military knowledge knows that the time between 20 and 30 seconds is exactly the time it takes for a musketeer to reload.
More importantly, even though they were still hundreds of meters away, white smoke enveloped the battlefield and the visibility was poor, but they could still clearly see the loading action of the opponent's Qingshan Patrol Battalion after the first round of shooting.
This means that the Qingshan Patrol Battalion opposite does not have multiple rifled guns, but only one.
But their rifled guns can be reloaded in a short time.
How can this be?
Many questions slowly turned into fear. When the first wave of cavalry hesitated, their pace would inevitably slow down. However, the officers in the rear did not issue an order to retreat, so they had to hold on.
The scalp continues to rush upward.
Naturally, the loss of dozens of cavalrymen in the vanguard would not allow Fang Yuanxin to order a retreat.
The more than a hundred cavalry at the front are just forward troops. To put it nicely, they are used as arrows to launch the attack first, but to put it badly, they are cannon fodder troops for the subsequent second and third wave of cavalry attacks.
Strive for opportunities.
Although the loss of thirty or forty cavalry was a bit excessive, for a strengthened cavalry regiment, this loss was affordable.
At the same time, Lin Ziran in the car formation also frowned.
The opponent's cavalry is still charging. The first wave of cavalry is almost 200 meters away. What's even worse is that the opponent's second wave of cavalry has also crossed a distance of 300 meters. Even the third wave of cavalry is only three meters away.
Just a hundred and fifty meters away.
The opponent's three waves of cavalry were only a few dozen meters apart.
In fact, if the terrain had not been restricted, Fang Yuanxin would not have adopted this multi-wave attack method at all, but would have had the cavalry troops rush forward in one wave.
With the high speed of the cavalry, it wouldn't take much time to rush forward. Even if they were slightly killed by the enemy's infantry firepower, it wouldn't do any harm.
Seeing the opponent's second and third wave of cavalry rushing up, Lin Ziran turned around and looked at the high-definition cavalry.
The artillery unit led by this person was busy loading two five-pound field guns.
In fact, these two five-pound field guns had been set up urgently and fired two rounds of howitzer attacks to support the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment.
Now it is their third round of emergency reloading, but the artillerymen of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion have only been trained in the past two months, but the reloading speed is still a bit average.
Coupled with the tense battle situation, the artillerymen also made many mistakes, which ultimately affected the reloading time of the artillery.
At this time, Gao Qing saw that the reloading was complete, and after taking aim himself, he did not shout any commands and just fired.
With a bang, the five-pound field gun released its muzzle flash, and the trajectory of a five-pound shrapnel was suppressed very low, but even at the low level, it flew directly over the first wave of Guang'an cavalry, but
It landed on top of the second wave of cavalry.
The shrapnel exploded in mid-air. Many steel balls and shrapnel from the shell flew in all directions, completely covering the area below, killing and injuring the Guang'an cavalry.
With just one shrapnel, the second wave of Guang'an cavalry in the charge lost nearly ten cavalrymen.
Immediately afterwards, the second shrapnel also fell on the heads of the second wave of Guang'an cavalry, knocking down at least five Guang'an cavalry.
The artillery tried their best to intercept the Guang'an cavalry, but it still could not play a decisive role.
In this kind of battle, there are always only two possibilities that can stop the cavalry attack.
One is for one's own cavalry to countercharge and use cavalry against cavalry. This is also the most effective method. Unfortunately, the cavalry under Lin Ziran's hands are really not up to the task. It is better to act as reconnaissance cavalry and let them charge intensively.
That's no different than asking them to die.
The other is to form infantry formations or rely on fortifications to fight.
This is the same as what Qingshan Patrol Camp is doing now.
But can they be stopped?
Lin Ziran didn't know.
But the only thing he knew was that they had no way out now.
The safety of the baggage troops is not the focus. At this critical moment, Lin Ziran doesn't care about the safety of the baggage troops at all.
The real point is that the cavalry are about to charge forward. If they can't stop them, they will be doomed.
"Hold on, don't panic!"
"Keep reloading!"
"We have a car formation, they can't rush over!"
As the Guang'an Cavalry got closer and closer, the soldiers of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion continued to fire. As the gunfire sounded, the first wave of Guang'an Cavalry in front fell one after another.
Looking at this scene, Fang Yuanxin frowned deeply!