A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 231 Who Is The Rabbit?
Under the full impact of the cavalry, it doesn't take long to cover a distance of one mile.

Qingqi was approaching menacingly, all he could see in front of him were rolling horse heads, and there were knights on horses wearing all red or inlaid red armor.Their arrogant and bloodthirsty expressions can be seen more clearly, and only the sound of hooves can be heard in the world.

Right in front of the chariot formation, Zhao Xuan was in charge of commanding the artillery team there. He was a professional in artillery, and when the artillery should be fired, Wang Dou had already delegated the command right before the battle to him.

In the obstacle formation formed by unicycle chariots or carriages in this area, every few chariots have a cannon sandwiched between them. Fifteen cannons.All the artillerymen were nervously waiting for Zhao Xuan's order.The power of the Tartar cavalry's impact made many people's faces change color. Looking at the horses rushing forward, the artillerymen felt that the barbed caltrops scattered in front of the artillery were too little, and the range of the caltrops was too narrow.

Zhao Xuan clenched his fists desperately, but did not give the order to fire for a long time.The rangefinder beside him nervously reported to him the distance that Qingqi had rushed: "...450 steps...250 steps...[-] steps...[-] steps...[-] steps..."

Zhao Xuan suddenly ordered: "Fire!"

There was a whistling of shells, and the Qing cavalry who were charging saw bright flashes of fire flashing across the formation of Ming army chariots in front of them, a large puff of white smoke rose from there, and then they saw fiery iron balls spinning towards them. Come on.

The shells fired by the medium-sized Buddha Wolf machine artillery are slightly larger than an adult's fist. No matter whether it hits a man or a horse, the high-speed rotating iron ball will tear it into a huge blood hole, and there is no reason to survive.What's even more frightening is that the shells that came quickly bounced and rolled on the hard ground, and they were hit. Most of them survived, but the injuries were terrible.

Ten iron balls came head-on, and the cavalry of the Qing army was densely packed. Although there were several horse positions separated from the front, back, left, and right, they couldn't stand the crowd, and three shells hit the Qing army's horse directly.

A cannonball directly smashed the head of a Qing army assigned to Bashku. His body covered in three layers of heavy armor was still riding on the galloping horse, and his headless neck shot out large streams of gunpowder like a fountain. blood flower.His body twisted desperately, and after a while, the headless body crashed into the surrounding dust.

An iron ball directly punched a huge blood hole in the body of a galloping horse. The horse neighed, and a horse stumbled, throwing the knight on its back several meters away.Before the knight could stand up, he was knocked down by a horse rushing up behind him, and was then trampled into a pulp by the rolling cavalry.

When a large group of cavalry charge into battle, especially when their horses are galloping wildly, what they are most afraid of is falling off their horses. In order to control their horses, the knights behind them will not show mercy to their subordinates. Ninety-nine percent of them were trampled into meat.

This overturned and fallen horse also caused a mess, that is, several horses behind him were tripped and broken by the horse, and several knights were thrown out immediately, or their bones were broken, or their hands and feet were broken. Struggling to stand up, he was knocked down by the horse behind him.

There was also an iron ball, which rushed in front of a vest of the Qing army. The vest had quick hands and eyes, and gave way like lightning. The iron ball missed a vital part, but directly smashed one of his right arms.The vest didn't feel it yet, and after riding steadily on the horse and running for dozens of steps, he realized that the right side was empty. He watched in disbelief that the broken arm was continuously gushing blood, and incomparable pain welled up in the vest. One black, roll to the right and into the ground.

The rest of the cannonballs, after galloping to the ground, vigorously rolled and jumped on the hard ground, jumped left and right, cracked and fractured, and several horse legs were swept off by them, or jumped directly into the horse's belly and human body, causing There was a sound of horse neighing and people screaming.

There was an unlucky infantry, a shell jumped sharply, and directly brushed his right side across the face. The infantry's nose was knocked off, the right cheekbone was shattered, and half of the lip and teeth were lost.The step armor subconsciously touched his face and let out an inhuman scream.

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Zhao Xuan was the only one who watched the results of the firing. The gunners of each artillery, after the first round of firing, ignored watching and immediately nervously unloaded the sub-guns and refilled the pre-loaded gunpowder.Zhao Xuan kept yelling orders, directing the aimers of ten medium-sized Buddha Wolf machine guns to adjust the range of the elevation angle.

The Franco cannons adjusted their elevation angles with wooden sleepers of different thicknesses. Under Zhao Xuan's order, ten medium-sized Folang machine cannons filled with sub-guns neatly lowered their elevation angles, and the black muzzles were aimed at the rolling Qing cavalry.

Zhao Xuan shouted again: "Fire!"

The flag bearer jerked downwards, and there was a loud bang, and the gun mounts of each artillery jumped back involuntarily, a large burst of fire and smoke rose, and ten shells larger than fists roared towards the cavalry group of the Qing army. go in.

Standing on the Yuanrong chariot several meters high, Wang Dou watched the ten fiery iron balls whizzing away from his own army and smashed hard into the Qing cavalry group. Falling to the ground, people called horses neighing, arousing a lot of chaos.

Wang Dou nodded secretly. Under Zhao Xuan's training, these gunners were much more accurate.Moreover, the salvo bombardment of these artillery was greatly enhanced.

More importantly, the firing speed is much faster. The fast-running cavalry in the field can run over ten meters in one second. Those Qing cavalry rushed from more than 300 meters to more than 100 meters. times, each shot takes less than ten seconds, which is very fast.

Wang Dou reckoned that when the first wave of the Qing army rushed to the front of the formation, his own artillery could fire at least one more time.Due to the improvement of the artillery mount, it can continue to bombard the follow-up troops of the Qing army after the melee, and even bombard the cavalry of the Qing army more than 100 steps away at close range, providing continuous fire support.

"Use the shotgun, the big Frang machine and the small Frang machine blast together!"

Zhao Xuan crossed his hips, satisfied with the results of the artillery fire in front of him. He estimated that at least dozens of people were killed or injured by the two rounds of fire.

Of course, there were several thousand Tartar cavalry, although the two rounds of shelling caused them some chaotic casualties, and their power to charge the battle was slightly weakened, but the cavalry charges were always spread out, with a distance of twenty steps from front to back and four steps from left to right. , The distance between the teams is even fifty steps, and twenty shells are still a little short for thousands of cavalry.Waves of Tartar cavalry were still rolling in, and the iron hooves stretched like a flood to the front of the Shunxiang army formation.

Under Zhao Xuan's order, the ten medium-sized artillery pieces of the Buddha Wolf machine were almost adjusted to the angle of direct fire, and at the same time, the fifteen small bronze cannons of the Buddha Wolf machine were also adjusted to the direct fire state.The strict training of the Shunxiang Army was reflected at this time. Although thousands of cavalry were rolling in, the movements of the gunners were still orderly.

Amidst the creaking sound, the 25 large and small artillery pieces of the Buddha Wolf machine loaded with shotguns were all laid flat neatly. Dozens of dark muzzles stared ferociously at the fine cavalry of the Qing army who rushed towards them.Not only that, but on both sides and the rear of the car array, five medium-sized Buddha wolf machine guns and ten small Buddha wolf machine bronze cannons on each side were also loaded with shotguns, and the muzzles were leveled.The Qing army did not rush towards them, and the long-range artillery shells could not be fired. The short-range shotguns fired flat, but they were steady.

At the same time, voices echoed one after another in the car formation: "The firecrackers are ready!"

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It seems that the thousands of cavalry of the Qing army who have vented thousands of miles have rushed a hundred steps away from the front of the chariot formation. Although the Ming army is so calm, it makes them a little strange, but this is no longer a problem. After the Ming army, waiting for them is the pleasure of slaughtering.

At this time, Wang Dou could already see their tactics, so he pretended to attack the front of the car formation. With the help of horsepower, their arrow rain could cover the entire range of their car formation.Then it passed by from the left and right sides, and shot arrows in circles around the car formation, which is an old tactic of thousands of years for the Hu people outside the Great Wall.

Wang Dou also saw hundreds of Qing army knights wearing red and red armor riding like flying in front of them. They are all very skilled in equestrianism. , it was agitated to the extreme with the wind.

After the Mongols surrendered to the Manchus, their undisciplined temperament did change a lot, and their riding skills were much better than those of the Manchus. Because of this, they were often used as cannon fodder for the battle.Watch them all draw their bows and arrows, and start shooting only after a few dozen steps.

Wang Dou snorted coldly: "Today, the armored soldiers of the Eight Banners Mongolian Zhenghong Banner and Inlaid Red Banner will be wiped out before their own army!"

"fire!"

Zhao Xuan's hoarse cry seemed to cover up even the hooves of thousands of cavalrymen.

"put!"

The flag bearer beside him raised his head suddenly, those Qingqi had already rushed a hundred paces away, it seemed that the whole ground shook, and there was a deafening sound of cannons, and the 25 Buddha Wolf machine-sized artillery loaded with shotguns in front of the car array collectively A large burst of sharp gunpowder smoke and flames spewed out.

These artillery guns are filled with lead pellets and iron sand as thick as a thumb or little finger, and some are small round stones. 25 artillery guns fired in salvo, and the iron pellets flying all over the sky covered the front of the entire vehicle array.

A group of men and horses neighed, like falling tassels, and the charging cavalry suddenly fell in a large wave outside the chariots of the Shunxiang army dozens of paces away, especially the Qing army knights in the front rows of the chariots were wiped out. .Wang Dou was excited to see that more than half of the armored cavalry of the Eight Banners Mongolian Zhenghong Banner and Bordered Red Banner rushing to the front had fallen. Abandoned.

Like a gust of wind sweeping through the leaves, 25 cannons fired a salvo of cannonballs, which was comparable to thousands of firecrackers shooting at close range, and the power was even more terrifying, densely packed with iron pellets as thick as a thumb or as thick as a little finger.Swept by these iron rains, regardless of whether they were people or horses, their bodies were covered with thick and thick blood holes.

Wang Dou saw the Qing army knights screaming and falling off their horses, or their bodies rolled off the horses without saying a word. The horses that had been shot were either rolling on the ground bloody and bloody, or neighing horribly. , with a huge wound, running around wildly, causing even greater chaos behind him.

"put!"

Ignoring the crying and shouting in front, the ruthless voices in the car formation continued. After the shelling, the hundreds of gunfire soldiers in the front row of the car formation pulled their triggers against the terrified Qing soldiers and horses rushing from behind.Another large cloud of smoke rose, and all the screams and cries of the Qing soldiers were instantly drowned in the chorus of firecrackers.

"put!"

A large group of Qing cavalry rushed towards the left and right sides of the chariot formation. Thirty Buddha Wolf machine guns on both sides of the chariot formation sprayed a large number of violent shotgun shells at them.

"put!"

The firecrackers on both sides were also unambiguous, and a large number of firecrackers sprayed the ammunition in their own guns to them.

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Waves of Qing soldiers fell down, screaming and rolling on the ground soaked in blood. Du Du, who was on the other side of the Qing army's formation, faintly saw the battle situation on the opposite side. Tigers attack rabbits..."

(End of this chapter)