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

Chapter 505
How could this happen? Lin Jinsi on the top of the hill was stunned. He never expected that the Shenji Battalion with powerful firepower would be so unbearable in the face of the Tartars' bows and arrows.

In just a few rounds, he was shot by the Tartar soldiers. Like Fu Yingchong, he felt contempt for the rapid defeat of Bai Guangen's Jizhen soldiers. He came to the battle and learned about the Tartars' cavalry and archery. How terrible!
No matter how strong one's own firepower is, it is of no avail if the training before the battle is not enough. The Lumi blunderbuss, which can break through heavy armor with a hundred steps, cannot shoot their bows and arrows.

Not to mention the Frang cannon, it can't shoot a single shot for a long time.

Fortunately, there are two Jingbian troops in the formation, otherwise the army formation will be broken today.

Thinking of this, he turned his eyes to Lei Xianbin beside him for help.

Lei Xianbin still had a calm expression. Looking at the Tazi soldiers in front of the chariot formation, they seemed to be everywhere. The banners could not be seen at a glance, and the armor was dazzling.

Following the undulating terrain, countless Tartar soldiers with bows and arrows galloped wildly, with great momentum, faint and well-organized, not chaotic.

It can be seen that Dabo's armored soldiers of various banners dismounted and shot at the front of the chariot formation.

Their large waves of heavy armor also dismounted one after another, armed with long spears and halberds, watching eagerly, ready to form a formation and charge at any time.

He narrowed his eyes, the Tartar soldiers in front of him were ferocious and vicious, with outstanding combat skills, but to him, they were mediocre.

Looking at the gunners of the Shenji Battalion at the foot of the mountain, he shook his head inwardly, putting on airs, looking mighty and mighty, it would be impossible to fight.Their equipment, not to mention a large number of artillery carts, is the same color of Lumi guns, handed over to his subordinates, they have blocked the Tartars' cavalry a hundred paces away, and they still want to approach and shoot?
Of course, their armor is not sensitive, even the Tartars' riding bows can't stop them. I really don't know how their armor is like this.

Thinking of this, Lei Xianbin ordered the Jingbian Army of the two generals to line up on the hills to fight, and the sharpshooters in the department gathered the nine-headed bird and the eagle to raise their cannons, and used live ammunition to shoot and kill the Tartar officers in the distance. , deployed on the front and left wings of the chariot formation, waiting for an opportunity to fight.

At the same time, he said to Lin Jinsi: "General Lin, the mortars are ready to fire, and each of the magic arrow carts lowers their arrow windows, and shoots at the Dabo cavalry likewise."

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

A large group of Qing cavalry forced dozens of paces ahead of the Shenji battalion to shoot arrows. Seeing that the Ming army behind the artillery cart was in chaos and was about to break the formation, they all shot happily, but suddenly they saw that behind the artillery cart there was a Raindrops of iron lumps fell and rolled down the hills.

Some Qing soldiers who knew the goods shouted in horror: "The enemy of ten thousand people!"

Then the iron bumps exploded, thick smoke rose, and fragments flew. For a while, the Qing soldiers who approached the infantry were all bloody and bloody.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

Immediately following the tens of thousands of enemies, the fire, light and blunderbuss sounded behind the artillery carts, and a thick white mist rose. The two Jingbian troops in the formation fired a volley of [-] bird blunderbusses, and the Qing troops in the chaos Archer, fell a large piece.

Not to mention that these Qing soldiers only wear light armor, even if they are wearing heavy armor, how can they stop the Jingbian army's firecrackers at a distance of dozens of steps?

More than a hundred of them fell down on the spot, and the lead bullets hit their bodies. Due to the lack of penetration, they hit them hard like a big hammer. Stomach, more painful curled up on the ground, but could not make a sound.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Another wave of ten-thousand-thousand enemies was thrown out, and shortly thereafter, another volley of [-] bird guns fired, and more screams sounded in front of the Shenji camp, and many Qing soldiers shouted hoarsely: "Jingbian Army , it's the Jingbian army!"

"Boom!"

The Frang machine on the cannon cart extinguished the cannon, and some of them spewed out a large burst of flames, many lead shot indiscriminately, and more Qing soldiers howled and rolled on the ground.

It turned out that after the blunderbuss soldiers shot and the pikemen threw them behind tens of thousands of enemies, the two commanding generals of the Jingbian Army ordered the gunners of the Shenji Battalion behind the artillery carts to reload and fire.

With the cover of the Jingbian army, the gunners also felt relieved, and hurriedly loaded shotguns and fired.Although there were not many cannons fired in the panic, the large stream of cannonballs still made the infantry soldiers in front of the car formation cry for their fathers and mothers.

"Tom, tom, tom!"

The shells roared, but they were fired from mortars on the hills. They lowered the muzzles and aimed at the large group of Qing cavalry gathered in front of the chariot formation.

The round flowering cannonballs fell on the ground and landed on the Qing cavalry. They exploded continuously, and the glaring and choking poisonous smoke filled the air. The Qing soldiers who inhaled it immediately coughed again and again and had a splitting headache.There were also those gray bombs, which exploded, and lime powder was shot indiscriminately. Many Qing soldiers covered their eyes and howled.

There was a hissing sound, and besides the smoke from the mortars on the hills, there were also gorgeous flames, and dense rockets roared, covering the Qingqi in front of the chariot formation overwhelmingly.

Most of these Qingqi were not far from the chariot formation at this time, and they gathered densely one by one, and a large area was immediately shot down by the roaring rockets.

In addition to the poisonous bombs from the Shenji Battalion, the gray bombs exploded from time to time, and they were in a state of chaos, no longer having the power of cavalry, shooting and infantry shooting.

"Boom!"

The sharpshooter of the Jingbian army on the hill turned the tripod of his nine-headed bird or eagle gun, aimed at some Qing soldiers outside the car formation and pulled the trigger. In the flames emitted by these large bird guns, there were some clear guns again and again. The army is dedicated, allocated to Shiku, and even Niu Luzhangjing was shot.

In particular, Niu Luzhang Jing of Zhenghuang Banner in Manchuria was hit in the head by a lead bullet weighing several ounces, and his head exploded like a rotten watermelon. Brain and blood splashed the people next to him.

There is also a Fende Pashiku with a blue flag, who was hit in the arm by a heavy lead bullet, and his right arm was directly interrupted by the blood mist.He stared blankly at his arm for a long time before howling miserably at the top of his lungs.

Seeing the situation turn around quickly, Li Jinsi breathed a sigh of relief, thinking: "Thanks to the presence of the Jingbian Army!"

……

"Wan Sheng!"

Jingbian army cavalry, Wu Sangui's servants, and two thousand Ningyuan cavalry rushed into the chaotic and loose formation of Qing cavalry.

The two sides collided savagely, spears against spears, sabers against sabers, there was no trick, it was all hard fighting.

In the intertwining of people and horses, the distance between death and life is instant, and people on both sides screamed and fell off their horses.

Obviously, the Qing cavalry lost even more. Their formation had long been disrupted by the Jingbian Army and other artillery rockets. How could a loose formation be an opponent of a well-organized formation?
And to be honest, the formation of Qing soldiers is not actually a formation of cavalry, but a formation of mounted infantry.In each team, the light armor is still on the wings or in front, and the heavy armor is on the back or in the middle. When the distance between the two sides is twenty or thirty steps, they will also shoot arrows, javelins, iron bones and other objects.

Although the cavalry of the Jingbian army suffered losses at the beginning, when the two sides collided, the cavalry of the Jingbian army broke through their formation like a branding iron, and knocked them all off their feet.

Even if they faced their heavy armor later, the Jingbian army formed a tighter formation, and every Qing cavalry had to face at least several lances or thick-backed sabers.Although the Qingqi also paid attention to the formation, compared with the Jingbian army, they paid more attention to personal bravery. Besides, their formation was also disrupted by the artillery, so how could they be opponents?
The blood was accompanied by a rain of blood, and all of a sudden, the front and center formations of Qingqi were penetrated by Jingbian army cavalry.

There was hardly a whole team, and the cavalry of the Jingbian army once again made a quick half-circle in a strict formation, and continued to charge against the more chaotic Qing cavalry.

Behind them, Wu Sangui led his servants and Ningyuan cavalry followed in a panic.After rushing into the formation once, their formation disappeared, and after going around in circles, it became even more scattered. However, Wu Sangui and others were happy to follow behind and have a bargain.

With broken limbs and flesh and blood, horseshoes rolling, countless cavalry of the Jingbian army with red armor and red horses charged and killed the chaotic Qing cavalry repeatedly.

Like a nightmare, many Qingqi, watching their companions being stabbed off their horses by the Jingbian army, or fell off, the sound of the horse piercing the armor, piercing the flesh, and the howling of each person dying, all merged into one The cruel sound of the battlefield.

"dash forward!"

Seeing the cavalry of the Ming army charging back and forth at the Qing warriors in front, Azig was very anxious.

He led some white flags, bordered white flags, straight blue flags, bordered blue flags and other Bayalas, and some armored soldiers and infantry soldiers followed at the back of the cavalry formation.

When the artillery of the Jingbian Army and the artillery of the Shenji Battalion fired, the shells whizzed into the cavalry around him, causing a lot of damage to the fine cavalry around him.Some Ba Yala were even beaten to pieces, so he had to tell the cavalry around him to disperse.

Seeing the critical situation in the front line, Azig desperately wanted to rush up to respond, but under Wang Dou's order, the Shenwei General Cannon of the Shenji Battalion and dozens of Hongyi six-pound cannons of the Jingbian Army were already facing the enemy. The big banner on his side was bombarded, making it difficult to approach.

In particular, the artillery of the Jingbian Army used salvo tactics, and the killing effect was even more amazing.

Dozens of heavy iron balls landed in a similar area every time. Wherever they passed, blood mist erupted and severed limbs flew across.

A five-jin solid iron ball shot over, bounced high, and pierced through the head of a white-flag Ba Yala horse not far from Azig, and then flew past the knight's neck, smashing his neck. The belt broke with a click.

The cannonball didn't have any remaining momentum, it continued to jump up and forward, and hit a Ba Yala's chest and abdomen heavily.This Ba Yala was covered with three layers of heavy armor, but with the crackling sound of fractures, a large hole appeared directly between his chest and abdomen, and blood and internal organs flowed out at once.

The cannonball didn't stop, it rolled slowly on the ground, rolled onto a horse's leg, broke the horse's leg, and immediately the knight fell down.

Not only is this solid iron ball, but also the heavy iron balls that are constantly being shot, jumping up again and again, rolling and moving wildly, from time to time, you can hear the sound of crackling fractures, and the miserable howls of the Qing soldiers beside Azig Voice.

Azignikan, the official of the Zhengbai Banner, also had a pale face. He was proud of his military prowess, but he was also terrified in the face of artillery.

Beside him, a white flag Niu Luzhang Jing, his head was hit by a shell, and a lot of the brains and blood from the explosion of Niu Luzhangjing fell on him.

The cannonball continued to move forward, grazed the head and face of a vest, and wiped out his face.Not only that, but the cannonball finally hit a Ba Yala's arm, smashing his arm into pieces of bone and flesh.

No matter how brave I am, I am still a body of flesh and blood. How can I not be afraid of such an irresistible force?
He shouted at Azige: "Jun Wang Wuying, the Ming army's artillery is powerful, why don't you retreat?"

Azige roared: "I am a warrior of the Qing Dynasty. Even though I died and came back, the emperor is watching us from the mountain city. Anyone who dares to speak out and retreat will be killed..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard the roar of the Ming army's artillery, and another wave of artillery shells shot over. The people around Azig all looked at the direction of the artillery shells with pale faces.

Cannonballs whistled, and dozens of solid iron balls hit the head and face.

boom!
A shell bounced high and slammed into Azig, blood mist exploded, and a huge blood hole appeared in Azig's chest!
The cannonball came out through the body.

"No!"

In the roar of Azignican and others, Azig sat on the horse in a daze, his body swayed, and he fell off the horse dejectedly.

(End of this chapter)