Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 381
The Chongzhen [-]-style flintlock gun has a hexagonal alloy barrel and nitrocellulose, and its firing power is two to three times that of black powder. Therefore, the effective damage of the bullet has already exceeded two hundred paces, and the most powerful heavy arrow of the Qing army cavalry is also But a hundred steps.

In addition, after the Chongzhen 30-style flintlock gun shortened the bullet firing interval from about [-] seconds to about ten seconds, under two rounds of continuous shooting, even the strongest Ba Yala of the Qing army could not fire a bullet in the same time. Guards infantry fired the same number of bullets.

Therefore, these two thousand-strong Qing cavalry were directly defeated, and many of them were overturned before they had time to take the arrow.

The Qing army cavalry was terrified and retreated in a hurry. At this time, the Guards cavalry also killed them. The powerful Guards cavalry could use alloy steel knives to directly cut these Qing army cavalry, including men and horses, into two halves.

Don't think that the current guard cavalry is still a group of frail scholars three years ago. At this time, after three years of training and high nutritional supplements, they are already full of steel and iron, and they are in an area like Shandong where pasta is the main food. Stationed all the year round, without nephrite jade and fragrance, after years of hammering, he has already recovered the blood of a man of the Han family.

Fighting against these cavalry of the Qing army who have been deprived of wine and sex in recent years is no longer inferior, and even more sturdy, and most of them used to be scholars, and their intelligence is not bad. There are all kinds of vicious tricks to kill people or just attack the vital points.

At this time, the infantry on the left and right sides of the Guards had two rows of infantry behind them running quickly behind the remaining cavalry of the Qing army who were about to retreat.

Another daily training subject of the Guards infantry is fifty-mile cross-country training, so they never run slowly and have excellent endurance. They quickly organized two lines of defense in the rear. All the cavalry of the Qing army were shot and killed.

In addition, the two cavalry of the Qing army were all wiped out under the joint strangling of the cavalry and infantry of the Guards, and only a sporadic one or two cavalry escaped from the encirclement.

Tan Tai didn't know what happened to his iron cavalry in front. At this time, he was riding a horse and followed the infantry slowly, and at this time, the cavalry who came running around told Tan Tai the news.

"What, all the cavalry were wiped out!"

Perhaps Tan Tai was as surprised as Seng Gelinqin in the late Qing Dynasty when his iron cavalry was defeated by the British army.

He didn't know that the infantry of the Guards at this time had begun to improve to the level of equipment from the middle of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century, and their tactics were no longer compared with the Qing army, which was still a classical army.

At this time, Tan Tai was still very shocked, and smashed the teacup with his eyes wide open.

He had never imagined that the five thousand cavalry were wiped out in an instant. In his impression, the worst thing for the cavalry was to retreat in a big defeat. There was no reason why they would be wiped out.

Because the mobility of the cavalry is the greatest advantage in warfare, even if the infantry of the Ming army had sharp muskets, it would not be so powerful.

But Tan Tai didn't know how powerful the muskets of the Ming Guards were.

If it weren't for Liu Qian's fear that among the 20 infantry under Tan Tai's command, the [-] firearms soldiers and the casualty ratio would have directly killed six infantry battalions.

"The cavalry is gone, but fortunately the morale of the infantry has not been disturbed. Look at the military gate, whether we should continue to march or retreat."

At this moment, Tong Tulai asked about Tan Tai from the sidelines, and Bai Guangen, the admiral of the green battalion, the deputy commander of the Han army Xianghuangqi, and other Han generals of the Qing army looked at Tan Tai.

Tan Taiyi gritted his teeth: "I can't retreat any more. If I retreat again, I will lose my heart. And if I didn't go south this time, according to the king regent's intention, it was meant to attract the main force of the Ming army. It doesn't matter even if it loses! The Ming army has firearms." , we also have firearms, order the battalions to speed up!"

The Qing army rushed forward like locusts.

Looking at it from a distance, it looked like a group of wild dogs crazily killing towards the camp of the Guards.

But at this time, the artillery of the Guards had also begun to show off.

The deputy commander of the Corps has been waiting for this time to show off his power without using artillery.

More than [-] cannons, according to their different ranges, fired shells whistling away at different positions in the charging Qing army. In a short while, there were Qing troops in the front, middle and back of the Qing army camp being overturned or smashed into pieces.

Tan Tai personally led [-] cavalry to act as a supervisory team to supervise the battle behind, and those who retreated would be killed immediately.

At that time, the Qing army could only grit their teeth and continue to charge.

But when the firearms soldiers of the Qing army reached two hundred steps in front of the Guards camp and were about to stop to reload and shoot, the six infantry battalions of the Guards had raised their flintlock guns in a fan shape and fired first.

The Chongzhen [-]-style flintlock gun can effectively kill more than [-] steps, and the reloading speed is very fast.

The Qing army still mainly used matchlock guns. The Chongzhen [-]-style flintlock gun imitating the Ming Dynasty was not fully equipped because of non-standard standards and frequent failures. Type [-]'s launch speed, bullet explosion power and range.

Therefore, tens of thousands of Qing soldiers were shot before they had time to shoot, and these Qing soldiers started to run back frantically in a panic.

At that time, the guard cavalry had already killed the past.

A total of [-] iron cavalry from the two battalions of the guards came to kill the generals like a flood of beasts. They all had steel knives in their hands and crowned gowns, like dragons. kill.

In a hurry, the Qing army dropped their firearms and ran back desperately.

What's more, he ran back without even bothering to put on his hat.

Many Qing army firearms were abandoned before the first shot was fired.

There were also some so-called elites who wanted to resist, but were split in half by the cavalry, and blood was spilled on the spot.

rumble!

rumble!

The [-] infantrymen of the Guards came with heavy steps, holding the Chongzhen [-]-style flintlock guns, and all of them shot out the bayonets on the guns.

kill!

kill!

kill!

The sound of the guard infantry shouting to kill shocked the Qing army even more courageous, and followed the guard cavalry to harvest the surviving Qing army officers and soldiers.

Even if officers and soldiers of the Qing army escaped the attack of the guard cavalry, they would be directly assassinated by the infantry.

Seeing this, Tan Tai immediately ordered the supervising cavalry to charge up, and hacked and killed all the Qing troops who had retreated in chaos.

At that time, the [-]-step zone between the Ming army and the Qing army had become a Shura field, and it was all bloody.

On Tan Tai's side, he did not let the Qing army behind him move forward. Instead, he set up a spear array on the spot and aimed at the cavalry of the Guards.

The cavalry of the guards did not move forward, they naturally knew how powerful the three-round fire of the firearms soldiers was.

However, at this time, the artillery of the Guards had already moved to the front, and nearly a thousand shells roared towards them.

Since the grinding machines and tool steel knives owned by the Ming Dynasty ordnance, the production of bearings and gears is no longer a problem, and the artillery and cannon vehicles of the Ming Dynasty are also equipped with these structures, which can be easily turned and transported, and there is no need to worry about transportation because there is no shock absorption system This caused the gun carriage to fall apart.

This is different from the red-clothed cannons of the Qing army. The red-clothed cannons of the Qing army required many mules to transport them, and even had to be reinstalled when they arrived on the battlefield.

Less gossip.

Nearly a thousand artillery shells directly tore open several gaps in Tan Tai's Qing army's firearms camp, and even Tan Tai himself was almost knocked to the ground by the iron bullets.

The Qing army's firearms camp was in chaos.

And taking advantage of this moment, the cavalry of the Guards immediately charged over, causing the Qing army's firearms soldiers to flee in a panic again.

(End of this chapter)