Chapter 90: Casualties
The Qing army was under the rain of bullets, rushed to a distance of eighty paces and began to fire in formation, but after a round of guns, the Fu Han army only fell a few people. Instead, some arrows shot by some green camp archers knocked down about 20 people, but there were only a few hundred of them.
The soldiers of the Fu Han Army took out the gunpowder wrapped in a separate small paper packet, directly bit the paper shell, poured the gunpowder into the medicine pool, and then loaded the bullet into the barrel, with the officer's order, another round of gun shooting, more than 100 lead sprayed out, creating a sea of blood in front of the crowd dozens of steps away, the whole process is smooth, it can be said that the time for the Qing army to fight a round of guns is enough for Chu to fight three rounds.
Wang Wenhuan held the clairvoyant mirror, and saw the Qing soldiers in front of the battle, falling like cutting wheat, his hands were a little trembling, and he finally understood why this Chu reversed the battle and won the battle.
The reason is that the gun used by Chu Shun is really much stronger than the Qing army's bird gun, not only can it hit far, but it also doesn't need to light the fire rope, you only need to load the gunpowder and bullets into it, and you can shoot!
It's so rebellious!
It's just that after two rounds of guns, the Qing soldiers have fallen more than 100 corpses, and the casualties of the Fu Han army are only more than ten people, and the heavy casualties make the Qing army's green battalion soldiers frightened, and they retreated like this.
Dong Ce was a little dumbfounded, although he knew that the Qing army was all tofu scum, but he felt that the green battalion soldiers this time were not as good as the previous superintendent, if it weren't for the Qing army behind him, he would have wanted to charge directly.
Seeing that the green battalion soldiers were scattered like this, Wang Wenhuan's face was a little unpleasant, and the face of Jingzhou General Hengrui was even more angry, and he said angrily: "This group of courageless Han people is really unreliable!" ”
This map cannon angered the other Han people present, and Wang Wenhuan's face was not good-looking, so he had no choice but to say: "Lord Hengrui, send a knife to the player." ”
This is also to tell Hengrui euphemistically that there is no way to win by the shotspears, so he can only go to hand-to-hand combat. In the current composition of the green battalion of the Qing army, it is divided into shotguns, knives, spears, cavalry and gunners, but in the Huguang Water and Land Admiral Battalion, there are less than 1,000 sword players who can really go to the battlefield.
This is also because the entire green battalion of the Qing army is also divided into soldiers and defenders, and less than half of the soldiers who can really go to the front line, in this half, the number of sword players is not so much.
Hengrui's face was gloomy, but the battle behind him still had to rely on the Han people to fight, and it was not good to be too harsh, so he had to respond. However, before sending people, it is necessary to gather the Qing army that had been scattered before.
After gathering and dispersing the Qing army, Wang Wenhuan was a little dumbfounded, and the 1,500 Qing troops sent up had only more than 900 people left, except for those who folded on the battlefield at the beginning, the rest took advantage of the chaos to escape. In other words, a tentative attack caused the current Qing army to lose more than 500 people.
Wang Wenhuan had no choice but to gather the sword players, ready to rush once, and crush the hundreds of Han troops on the opposite side through hand-to-hand combat. Of course, before fighting, it is necessary to motivate people's hearts.
"The first to ascend, a reward of fifty taels of silver, cut off a head of Chu Rebellion, a reward of ten taels of silver!"
This time, the morale of the Qing soldiers was boosted, and the garrisons of the two sword battalions pulled their braids back of their heads and shouted vigorously, and the remaining thousand generals also drove the Qing soldiers and soldiers to rush towards the formation of the Fu Han army.
This is also thanks to the fact that from the very beginning, the Fu Han army seized this easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack Xiantao Town, otherwise in the plain, only one wave of charges would be enough to drown these five hundred people.
Dong Ce saw that the Qing army was moving, and couldn't help but sneer, "This dog Tartar is ready to fight hard, then let's prepare some good food for them!" The four companies are ready. At that moment, more than 100 people from the fourth company pressed into the fourth column with grenades, each holding a grenade in his hand and one hanging from his waist.
More than 1,000 Qing troops, armed with swords and shields, launched an attack in the direction of the Fu Han army, and after a while, they rushed through half a mile, and they were only two hundred steps away from the Fu Han army. The Fu Han army and the Qing army could see the bloodthirsty taste in each other's eyes, and this time it was not so easy to deal with.
Rushing up, as long as they rush up, how can these hundreds of Fu Han troops withstand it? Wang Wenhuan clenched his fists, and his face was a little excited.
Two hundred steps,
One hundred steps,
Eighty steps,
"Fire!" With the roar of a company commander of the Fu Han Army, more than 100 flintlock pistols in the first column pulled the trigger at the same time, creating a heavy blood mist in the crowd, but in addition to knocking down dozens of people, there was no more gain, which made the remaining Qing troops also cheer up and continue to attack forward.
After the three rows of gunfire, because the queue of the Qing army was very dense, this time more than 200 people fell, and the casualties of these people only made the Qing soldiers pause slightly, and then under the leadership of their respective thousand generals, they quickly approached the Fu Han army, they involuntarily clenched the knife in their hands, imagining the feeling of bloodthirstiness.
It's just that the Qing army didn't pay attention to it, at a distance of thirty steps in front of the array of the Fu Han army, there was a row of dense barbed wire, which was difficult to see in the distance, but it could be seen clearly at a close distance, although it was only three thin wires twisted, but these barbed wires still had barbs on the top, and it was not easy to provoke at first glance.
The Qing soldiers rushed to the front and couldn't help but be stunned when they saw the barbed wire, and many people took knives to cut the wire, but they could only cut a rough and shallow mark, and there was no way to cut it in a short time. But the Fu Han army was just around the corner, and the morale they had mustered because of the silver was running out rapidly.
"Grenadier forward!" Dong Ce's face remained calm, but his hands trembled slightly, because he knew the power of the grenade very well, and today was the day when it was in full swing.
The grenadiers, who had also practiced grenades before, were familiar with the weapon, a coarse iron grenade with a wooden handle underneath, filled with broken porcelain and gravel, and they lit the fuse with one hand and a fire breaker in the other, and then threw it forward with all their might.
One by one, the grenades threw down the Qing army, smashing many people with blood, but before the Qing army had time to react, the fuses of these grenades burned out and burst open, and the broken porcelain and gravel inside were like the sharpest arrows, wantonly destroying everything around them, and blasting the dense Qing army array into waves of flesh and blood, like the waves rolled by the waves, surging in the white smoke.
Before everyone could react, the second wave of grenades was thrown again, and the black pressure constituted the most terrifying scene of this era.