What would it be like for thousands of shotguns to bombard a poorly moved infantry position?

The Qing army and the Xishan army on the tidal flats on the banks of the Fuliang River will tell you.

Eight river galleys, armed with eight to twelve guns, lined up along the Fura River, and then the more than seventy cannons opened fire in two.

Since it was a tidal flat, the effect of solid shells was not good, and the enemy did not have artillery. Wilson made a very bold decision!

He told the galleys to get as close as possible to the two sides of the river fighting, swap for shotguns, and then get close and blast!

One, two, two, and two, tens of thousands of projectiles emitted a whining sound that made people's scalps tingle, as if it was the sound of a ghost's soul!

This is not an arrow shot from a bow, but a cannonball shot from artillery, as long as it is next to each other, no matter what armor you wear, it will inevitably break your bones and tendons.

For a while, the soldiers who were still fighting on the tidal flats just now burst open one by one as if they had placed bags of water filled with red liquid, and bright red blood and other things were sprinkled all over the tidal flats by the river.

The feet of a Xishan army were still stuck in the mud of the tidal flats, but the upper body was completely gone, and it was frothed by the dense shrapnel.

Moreover, after this shotgun hit the person in front, it even had the strength to penetrate the human body and continue to hit the person behind.

On the tidal flats, where almost 30,000 people fought intensively, the fleet on the Fura River shelled only three or four rounds, and almost a third of its men were killed.

Almost all the Xishan Army and the Qing Army collapsed on the spot, and countless people howled unconsciously, running for their lives all over the mudflats.

Some of them are like marmots, digging up the mudflats with their hands, as if they want to dig a hole to hide.

The dead, the undead, all kinds of strange human bodies are everywhere, blood flows into rivers, minced meat flies all over the ground, and all kinds of inhuman screams come and go!

A Qing army and the Xishan army, the two were still fighting for their lives just now, and now all that is left is the howl full of fear on each other, the Qing army has no hand, and the Xishan army is gone below the thigh.

There is no horror in hell on earth, and even the gunners on the ship have a look of unbearability.

But Ye Kai, his heart was already as hard as iron, and he also knew that this opportunity should not be missed.

It is necessary to quickly eat the 30,000 people that Chen Guangyao brought with him in the tidal flats, and if he eats them, then Ruan Hui's available troops will only be more than 40,000.

Because although he has an army of 100,000 people, it is impossible to bring all of them over, at least the logistics supply will not be able to keep up, and Nguyen Hue can take 80,000 people to the north, even if it is very remarkable, it may even be less.

After eating these 30,000 people, and then returning to the division to attack the unprepared Ruan Hui, plus the volunteers he recruited in Bac Ha, and the 3,000 people in the hands of Ruan Wenxun who was brought over, that is, almost 21,000 against Ruan Hui's 33,400, the difference in strength is not much, Ruan Hui will definitely plant a big heel in his own hands.

The deep sound of beeles, and the voices of officers at all levels commanding soldiers, came far and wide. Gaston appeared with the first regiment!

The first was Huang Laosi's fourth battalion, and they spared a circle from a distance and surrounded the Xishan army on the tidal flats.

Braver than the Englishman Jean. Huang Laosi, who was still older than Wilson, only lined up in two thin horizontal columns, gambling that the Xishan Army had long since lost much will to fight.

Before the infantry could come up, a dozen bronze cannons opened fire!

Shotguns were fired from battleships in the river, bronze cannons were bombarded by the river, and the panicked Xishan Army, led by a few high-ranking officers, rushed towards the shore.

Their best way out now was to break through the infantry defense line led by Huang Laosi and escape in the direction of Thang Long City.

"Boom!" The rising smoke obscured the vision, the sound of the platoon guns was even louder than the cannons, and after sixty or seventy meters, the Xishan army fell down like a large piece of wheat, and Huang Laosi was now besieging the rear army that Chen Guangyao left behind just in case.

However, although it was just in case, they never thought that Ye Kai's army would appear here, and the rear army as a reserve was completely unprepared.

They were first subjected to a burst of light infantry fire, and as soon as they organized a charge, they were subjected to a volley of guns, followed by a barrage of bombs thrown by grenadiers.

The rear army of more than 2,000 Xishan troops collapsed at once, and they happened to encounter Chen Guangyao and others who rushed towards this side from the side of the tidal flats, and they collided with each other at once, and they looked chaotic everywhere.

In such a dense crowd, a picric acid bomb can take at least two or three lives, and basically two lead bullets can take one life.

Even if it is a modern national army, it can't bear such losses, not to mention that the Xishan Army is still a feudal army.

Suddenly, the Xishan Army, which was still under some commands, was completely chaotic, even if Chen Guangyao asked his own soldiers to kill seven or eight people in a row, he could not make the soldiers who were in fear obey the command.

In the end, the commander of the Xishan Army simply took off the eye-catching armor on his body, and mixed in the chaotic crowd with several of his family's personal guards, and fled for his life in a hurry.

They first retreated to the edge of the tidal flat, and even tried to grab the pontoon bridge of the Qing army, but after being scattered by the artillery, they ran to the end of the tidal flat, the hillside where the cannons were originally erected.

But this didn't help, the cannons on the hillside had already been demolished by the Qing army, even if they were condescending, they couldn't withstand the attack of Ye Kai's army, which was in high morale.

Countless Xishan troops ran in all directions wailing, and countless fell from the mountains and drowned in the Fuliang River!

This one-sided massacre attack lasted for almost an hour and a half, until the scouts came to report that Chen Kuan Yew had not yet taken the Qing army's Nguyen Hue, and personally supervised the 30,000 troops that had almost reached the Phu Liang River, Ye Kai began to shrink his forces, and Chen Kuan Yew and others found a gap to break through from the hillside at the end of the tidal flat.

It's time for the hussars and Cossacks to show their skills!

Ye Kai didn't care about Chen Guangyao and the others who fled for their lives, but faced Valentin. Rogolov and Simon. Kosciuszko gave the order, and the two were now fighting for the position of commander of the cavalry battalion, so they were very obedient to the command.

Ye Kai now has about 170 hussars, about 240 Cossacks, and more than 100 children of the Ye family who help train these two people, of course, the riding skills and combat effectiveness of the children of the Ye family cannot be compared with these guys who grow on horseback.

Vietnam is located in the tropics, and cavalry is not used much, because horses are inherently more delicate animals, far less solid than human skin.

So even if Ye Kai has a high-quality cavalry in his hands, it is generally only used in spring and winter, and in summer, don't even think about it, it is estimated that the horse will suffer from heat stroke if he doesn't run a few steps, but it just happens to be winter now, and the cavalry can still be used.

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Ruan Hui on the back of an elephant was in a hurry, and dozens of elephants behind him were also carrying hundreds or even thousands of pounds of cannon barrels.

These things are extremely difficult for humans to transport, and they are not very heavy for large elephants.

Nguyen Hue, who is familiar with military affairs, has long known the weakness of war elephants, that is, in today's increasingly hot weapons, timid elephants are easily frightened, but they are used to transport key materials, such as artillery, it is very suitable.

Tran Kuan Yew has not sent a herald to report until now, and even the roaring sound of artillery can be heard in the distance, which makes Nguyen Huy, who was originally going to sit in Thang Long and appease the North Vietnamese tyrants who originally supported the Le Dynasty, unable to sit still.

He didn't care about chasing Li Weiqi's younger brother Li Weiqi who fled, so he only left 5,000 people to defend the city, and he took the remaining 30,000 or so people, so he rushed to the Fuliang River in a hurry.

As for being attacked, Nguyen Hue was not too worried, although the local tyrants in the land of North Vietnam did not like him very much, but they still did not have the courage to directly send troops to attack him.

The North Vietnamese who had this idea had already been cleaned up in his war to defeat North Thanh, Nguyen Van Quanh, and Vo Van Nhan, and the only thing he was worried about now was that Tran Kuan Yao would not be able to eat the Qing army on the banks of the Phu Ray River.

From the perspective of the hearts of the Vietnamese, the combat effectiveness of the 'Northern Kou' is still very strong, and every time they provoke them, even if they stand cheaply in the early stage, they will be beaten in the later stage.

Throughout thousands of years of history, except for Tran Quoc Jun, the king of Xingdao, no other Vietnamese have taken much advantage in the war with the Central Plains Dynasty.

Judging from the performance of Sun Shiyi's Qing army after leaving Nanguan, although the number of this Qing army was small, the combat effectiveness was still good back then, and Ruan Hui was a little worried that Chen Guangyao, who was pursuing lightly, would suffer!