The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 477

Zhao Shichao led Chen Tai around for a while, and quickly withdrew into the Ming army formation.

After the latter turned back, he was stunned by the sight of his own artillery formation-nearly 700 gunners were killed and injured, and the survivors were too scared to hide in the infantry formation, let alone continue to fire at the enemy.

But Gan Xindana's six hundred hunters came like the wind and left like smoke.Before the troops of the Qing Army Brigade could react, they had "finished their work" and left on horseback.

Li Zhongxing chased after him for a few steps, seeing that he was approaching the range of the Ming army's firepower, he had no choice but to return angrily.

The Jianlu cannon failed to fire, and the Longwei Army artillery battalion immediately had no worries. Under the command of Chen Xiongfei, they set up a formation and began to "harvest" the front-line chariots of the Jianlu army.

A total of 55 six- to twelve-pound guns poured shells into the Qing army formation like raindrops, stretching for six or seven miles, and it was not easy to miss the densely packed vehicles.

Jianlu's chariot was smashed to pieces like flowers in the rain.Iron balls of different sizes came out of the cart, carrying debris of wood and iron filings that collapsed at high speed, and took the lives of a large number of Qing soldiers pushing the cart behind.

The artillerymen of the Dragon Guards Army were made entirely of silver, and they had live ammunition shooting training almost every day. Whether it was shooting accuracy or loading speed, they were definitely the strongest in East Asia.

For a while, the cannons of the Ming army continued to roar at an extremely fast speed, and they had to stop for a while until the barrel overheated.Although there are only more than 50 cannons, their firepower is by no means weaker than that of Jianlu's more than a hundred heavy cannons!

Chen Xiongfei was watching the enemy's situation with his binoculars. Once he felt that the Qing army's chariots in front of the formation were almost packed, he immediately ordered all the cannons to put away their gun mounts, and the horses moved sideways for three hundred steps, and then took up their posture again. Bombard the enemy.

Luck Dehun raised his eyes from the rear and looked into the distance, his heart was about to bleed!

He went out with Emperor Taizong and his father many times, and saw the Ming army or the invaders use cannons against the chariots many times, but he had never seen such ferocious firepower—not only the firing rate was extremely fast, but also the accuracy was terrifying.

My army has only advanced less than half a mile, and nearly 4000% of the chariots have been destroyed by artillery. It is estimated that at least [-] soldiers were bombarded to death behind the chariots!
He originally intended to crush the Ming army with absolute superiority, but now the two armies have not yet fought, and he has already suffered a big loss.If it goes on like this, the dead can still accept it, but they can't fight back after being bombarded, and their morale will soon be exhausted.

A terrible idea suddenly popped up in his mind, maybe Boluo didn't make a mistake that led to the defeat of Fujian's army, but the enemy was too strong...

Leket hurriedly waved away distracting thoughts, gritted his molars and said to the herald officer: "Let Babutai speed up and meet the enemy as soon as possible!
"Also, let Chen Tai and Da Su lead the cavalry to form an formation. After the infantry engages in the battle, they will be surrounded by two wings at the same time. My [-] army will go out on all three sides, and let's see how these Nanmans can take care of both the head and the tail!"

"Whoo!"

With the swing of the military order flag in Lu Kede's army, Babutai immediately ordered people to beat the drums, and the drums continued to speed up from slow to slow.

At this moment, there was still about a mile away from the Ming army, but the soldiers of the Qing army had no choice but to trot when they heard the order drum.In order to increase the speed of the heavy cart, the Manchurian flag soldiers also had to put down their airs and stepped forward to help push the cart together.

On the two wings of the Qing army's infantry, two groups of Xiaoqi with 6000 or [-] horses each opened a distance from the front army, and formed a horizontal attacking formation of [-] cavalry.

"General, the twelve-pound shells are exhausted." An officer saluted Chen Xiongfei and said anxiously, "There are not many nine-pound shells left."

Chen Xiongfei pointed to the right side of the Jianlu Army formation, which was no longer covered by chariots, "Change the twelve-pound guns for shotguns, and go north to bombard the captive infantry.

"This distance is almost the same, let the Fran cannon be ready."

"Yes!"

Shotguns have limited damage to chariots, but are extremely useful against infantry.With the power of a [-]-pound gun, although shotgun ammunition cannot reach a distance of one mile, it can barely reach a distance of [-] to [-] feet.

When the main force of Babutai's troops rushed forward again, they suddenly heard the sound of artillery on the north side, which had been quiet for a long time.

He turned his head and looked, but instead of a "blood line" being blasted out as usual, a large number of soldiers were torn to pieces by something, and those in the later row fell to the ground, rolling and screaming.

He knew that the Ming army was using shotguns, but because [-]% of the chariots on the right side of his army had been destroyed, he could only bite the bullet and use human lives to fill them.

The soldiers of Jianlu's right formation were miserable, and soon began to hide behind the chariot on the left, and the entire army formation suddenly collapsed.

But soon, the nightmare of the captive soldiers on the left also came—they had already entered the firing range of Fran's machine gun.

In fact, as early as [-] paces away, the Fran cannon with the rubber sealing ring was able to shoot at the enemy, but Chen Xiongfei was afraid that the effect of destroying the car would not be good, so he waited for a while before ordering to shoot.

In an instant, a total of more than 50 Franc cannons of the Dragon Guards and the Polu Battalion began to spew flames.

These cannons can only fire shells less than a catty, and their momentum is far inferior to other Hongyi cannons. However, their rate of fire is outrageously fast!

The gunners of the Ming army skillfully put a sealing ring at the interface between the barrel and the gun, then inserted the gun and fired it.There is no need to fill gunpowder, no pestle, no shells, so that the whole process takes less than ten seconds, and at the same time the next gun is ready at the side.

Immediately before Jianlu formation, a large hail of iron balls appeared.The muffled sound of the shells hitting the wagon was so intense that it was hard to breathe.

Although these iron balls are not heavy, they are still genuine shells, no matter how strong the wagon is, it is absolutely impossible to block their powerful impact.

For a while, the chariots on the left side of Jianlu's army were destroyed one after another at an extremely fast speed, which was even better than the previous bombardment with red cannons.

Moreover, the Fran cannon is very light in weight, and it moves much faster than the Hongyi cannon. Even five or six soldiers can push it away, saving even horses, and only pick places with many people and vehicles to stop and blast.

By the time Babutai drove the main force of the Jianlu infantry and approached more than a hundred steps in front of the Ming army's formation, more than 50 of his chariots had been destroyed by these more than [-] "machine guns"!More than [-] captive soldiers died behind the chariot.

Fortunately, most of the dead were Lu Shiyang's green battalion soldiers, and the main force of Zhenghongqi was not injured!Babutai's eyes were bloodshot, and he said fiercely in his heart, more than 30 steps forward, he can use the firecracker to hit the enemy, let you southern barbarians taste the taste of the newly equipped flintlock in the firearms battalion!

At the same time, the infantry of the Ming army gambled in the line, and Yu Xin pointed forward with the sword in his hand, and said to the messenger beside him: "Command, the whole army will shoot continuously!"

"Yes!"

Immediately, more than [-] Dragon Guard infantrymen raised their Type II Jaeger-by-guns in unison, and at the same time followed their respective officers and shouted: "Aim!"

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