Chapter 246: Iron Cavalry Charge
Fu Shan and Hai Liyang rushed out directly with the three thousand cavalry of the headquarters, and the horse's hooves stepped on the ground with a lot of mud chips, making people feel that the ground was vibrating slightly.
Ning Yu had already turned around with the people, looking at the galloping war horses in front of them, although everyone was ready, but when facing the impact of the war horses at this time, the sight of pressing like a mountain still made people feel tight.
"When this horse army charged, it was indeed a great spectacle in the world...... Ordinary soldiers are really hard to stop. ”
Cheng Ming had a hint of amazement on his face, he had fought before, but he had never seen such a scene. However, it is also because he was born in Huguang, and there are few horse troops in the green camp, so scenes like this large-scale charge of the horse army are really rare.
Ning Yu smiled, pointed to the hundred rockets that had been placed in front of the third division, and sighed softly: "It's only about two or three thousand horses, if you use hundreds of rockets, it's a bit of a waste." ”
He Yuanyi said with a smile: "Although the power of the rocket is great, the accuracy is poor, a hundred may not be needed, and eighty is still needed." It is better to wait for the cavalry to enter within three miles, and fire thirty pieces first, and then wait for it to rush into two miles, and then the accuracy can be greatly enhanced, and then fifty more can be fired, if the governor can make up for the fire with mortars, then these three thousand horsemen are not to worry. ”
"Hehe, the thunder camel has taught a person."
Ning Yu said with a smile, and then passed down the order, dragging about twenty mortars over, these mortars were lined up in turn, but they could already cover most of the area in front of the formation, and when the artillery array was almost arranged, the cavalry of the Qing army had begun to approach the defense line of the third division.
Fu Shan rode forward, but he was looking at the Fu Han army in front of him, still only lined up in a thin horizontal formation, which made him a little disdainful on his face. Not to mention this thin horizontal formation, even the phalanx is difficult to please in front of the cavalry, and as long as you rush in at that time, it will also lay the victory.
Seeing that the Qing army horse team had entered a distance of one and a half miles, He Yuanyi really gave the order to launch, the gunners held the long rocket with their hands, and then lit the fuse with torches, and after a burst of burning, a full thirty rockets shot straight into the air, and then flew to the front of the Qing army horse team.
"Whoosh-bang!"
"Whoosh-whoosh-bang!"
A series of explosions and ignited fires made the Qing army's horse team completely chaotic, and some frightened horses ran wildly, throwing off the Eight Banners on horseback and stepping into a pulp.
Just 30 rockets caused more than 200 casualties in the Qing army's horse team, which is also because the Qing army's horse team is too concentrated, and every rocket explosion will take the lives of several people.
Fu Shan was directly stunned by this series of explosions, he really didn't understand what those weapons were just now, but he also understood in his heart that now the distance of the cavalry was only a short two miles, as long as he held on a little longer, he could jump into the crowd and start killing on a large scale.
However, in the last short two miles, it became a death trench that the Qing army horse team could no longer surpass.
"Whoosh-whoosh-bang!"
Seeing that the Qing army had rushed into a distance of one mile, He Yuanyi once again ordered to ignite the fuse, and a full fifty rockets, with the cry of death, were planted directly into the Qing army's horse team, followed by an earth-shattering explosion, causing heavy casualties in the camp of the Qing army.
A large number of Qing army horses were planted directly on the ground, and they could not get up again, this time because of the closer distance, so the accuracy was also higher, almost every rocket played the greatest role, the broken iron produced after the explosion, high-speed rotation into the human body or the body of the horse, a large amount of blood spurted out like a burst, looking like hell.
The fragments of a rocket directly nailed Hailiyang, the red flag of the Xiaocai battalion, to the spot, and his horse stood alone in place, making a mournful cry from time to time, but no one could come to take a look, because almost all the horse teams near Hailiyang had fallen to the ground.
The traditional tactics of the Qing army in the face of rockets, there is almost no power to fight back, they just endure, continue to endure the forward attack, just after this time after the rocket, nearly five hundred horsemen died on the road of the charge, the corpses almost blocked the road ahead.
This scene made Fu Shan's eyes red, when did their Eight Banners Cavalry Battalion have suffered such heavy casualties? But seeing that the soldiers of the Fu Han Army were in front, if they gave up at this time, the dead Eight Banners soldiers would really die in vain.
"Two Hundred Steps.....
As the impact distance of the remaining Qing army's horse team became closer and closer, the mortar artillery on the side of the Fu Han army also began to send a large number of flowering shells into the Qing army's horse team.
"Boom-rumble-"
There were only twenty mortars in front of the Fu Han army, but these twenty mortars fired all flowering shells, and a large number of fragmented shrapnel was poured into the crowd, and the rich bloody gas shrouded everyone, mixed with the smell of gunsmoke, making people want to nauseate when they smelled it.
The Qing army's horse team was completely out of formation, with a series of fire strikes, many people had begun to retreat, only a small part of the cavalry continued to move forward, they grabbed the spears hanging from the saddles, and began to fantasize about stabbing the spears into the body of the Fu Han army, but the reality was extremely cruel.
A full three rows of soldiers of the Fu Han Army held the flintlock pistols in their hands, and after a burst of gunfire, hundreds of cavalry and horses were directly knocked down, and they looked helplessly at the Fu Han army gathered in front of them, and in the end they still had no way to rush in.
"Bang-"
Fu Shan was shot in the chest, his face was solemn, he didn't seem to feel the pain in his chest, but still maintained a charging posture, and rode a horse and took dozens of steps, but only a few dozen steps later, Fu Shan rolled off the horse, his eyes were full of unwillingness and despair, a large amount of blood foam overflowed at the corner of his mouth, and then he lost his breath.
He was not the first of the Eight Banners to die in this battle, nor was he the last of the Eight Banners to die. However, his death announced the failure of the horse team charging this time, and also announced the arrival of the defeat of the Qing army.
"Withdraw—" A heart-rending roar came from the Qing army's horse team, they all grabbed the reins, turned their horses' heads and began to run backwards, a series of gunfire and cannon sounds came from behind, once again taking the lives of many Qing soldiers.
With the arrival of the sunset, the faint afterglow shone on the corpses piled up by the Qing army, and the white smoke composed of gunpowder smoke still did not dissipate, which would doom the Qing army to have a bad night.