Chapter 144: Overwhelmed (First Update, Ask for Subscription)
The sound of horses' hooves as the thousands of horses rushed was like winter thunder, and it reached the ears of the officers and soldiers behind the armored vehicles from far and near, shaking their scalps and trembling in their hearts.
Even though they were all veterans who had been in the army for many years, and they didn't know how much blood they had on their hands, they were still trembling in their legs and stomachs when they faced a thousand cavalry with 3,000 infantry.
"My God, why is this the same as that day?"
Again, the nightmarish experience of a few days ago on the riverbank came to the hearts of many people, how the Tartar Iron Horsemen who rushed like demons rushed into their formation, and cut down the people around them one by one like chopping melons and vegetables.
The nightmare of the past made them tremble and make them tremble, but no one dared to retreat, Shen Bao, who was in the Chinese army, only said one word from the order to the whole team to now.
"The military law of the prince is strictly prohibited, you can do it yourself!"
A good sentence for yourself!
It was enough to dispel the trembling crowd from the idea of escaping.
The gun array on the north bank of the Huai River is still hanging there, and even in their dreams, they can smell the fishy stench coming from Shoulin, and they can hear the sound of bones cracking when their necks are cut off, all of which make their hearts tremble.
Nightmare!
It's just a dream, but the prince of the world's knife is real!
"Grandma is a bear, and if she dies, she will die......"
Holding the weapons in their hands tightly, the people who had made up their minds were suddenly relieved, they were talking loudly, or teasing each other loudly, but their waists were always straight, as if at this time, they were connected with the small hill behind them, becoming a majestic mountain.
"One general, two general musketeers ready!"
Shen Bao, who has been in the army for more than 20 years, is naturally familiar with marching and fighting, and when the cavalry of the Qing army attacked like rolling thunder, he immediately began to calmly set up the formation.
In the art of war, the so-called "chariot wins cavalry, riding better than foot" means that the infantry cannot resist the trampling of the cavalry, while the chariot can block the trampling of the cavalry and give full play to the advantage of firearms. So at the beginning he formed a wall with ironclad cars and musketeers behind them, but this was only the first step.
"The three generals and the four generals are on the left and right wings, ready to stop the enemy who dares to die from breaking the car wall......"
When he was adjusting the deployment of the five infantry in the battalion, the gunners between the car walls had already operated their guns to aim ahead, and the twenty-four nine-pound mountain howitzers were placed in the middle of the car wall.
The cavalry of the Qing army moved very quickly, and when there were still a thousand steps away, they had already taken out the bow and arrow from the bow bag, and after receiving the enemy, they would use the bow and arrow to shoot the Ming army behind the car formation, and on the battlefield in Liaodong, they had conquered the thin wall of the Ming army more than once, and now, they did not doubt it either.
"Ready!"
When the Qing army rode horses and attacked, the gunners stared nervously at the front between the chariots lined up by the curved saws and the gap between the chariots that were only more than three feet wide.
"General, it's time to fire!"
"Wait a minute!"
"General!"
"Wait a little longer......"
Facing the reminder of his subordinates, Shen Bao stubbornly insisted, no longer he needed a telescope, he stared at the Qing cavalry that was getting closer and closer, and the formation of those people was not dense.
A thousand paces, which is definitely the distance at which a cannon can be fired, but ...... Can't fire!
A thousand steps!
Eight hundred steps!
Just as the distance was getting closer and closer, Shen Bao shouted loudly again.
"100 steps to release...... Shoot, whoever dares to shoot in advance will be killed! ”
In the face of the sudden military life, Niu Jinxing, as the captain, only felt that his heart was beating to his throat, a hundred steps, this is too close!
Here it comes!
Here it comes!
They're here!
Six hundred steps!
Five hundred steps!
Just when Niu Jinxing felt that he could see Dongyu's nose and eyes, he heard a roar coming from behind him.
"Fire!"
Shen Leopard's roar was loud.
"Ahh
The nervous gunners, with their throats aching, suddenly regained their senses, and they hurriedly used the snake rods with their arquebuses to ignite the twists at the end of the cannons.
"Here......" The medicine twist quickly jumped into a ball of fireworks, and instantly drilled into the barrel of the cannon. Then, a puff of white smoke came out!
One second, two seconds......
At this time, the cavalry of the Qing army was closer!
Battle, who was in the lead, had even begun to put the arrow on the bowstring, only to wait for the arrow to shoot through the Ming army behind the car after approaching, and then ...... Sweep by!
400 steps......
300 steps......
Just when everyone's hearts were in their throats, suddenly, in the middle of the staggered car walls, suddenly spewed out a cloud of white smoke, white smoke and a ball of flames, "boom", dozens of cannon shots in succession, and instantly rushed forward with a hot current.
Niu Venus, who was behind the car wall, even felt the heat wave blown by the cold wind for a moment, and in a cloud of white smoke, a black shadow and red flames erupted from the muzzle.
After the black shadow flew out of twenty steps, it seemed to fall, and before Niu Jinxing could figure out what was going on, he saw that those charging cavalry were as if they had been swept around by a huge stick, and they were instantly put down by a hundred and ten horses, and those war horses were even more broken and flesh broken. As for people on horseback, the same is often the case.
Battle, who was about to draw his bow and shoot arrows, was instantly dumbfounded.
When dozens of clouds of smoke erupted from the wall of the car, he only saw a burst of black spots and then a whistling sound of "chirping" in his heart, not only did the war horse fall, but the iron armor on the soldiers' bodies was also pierced, and blood flowed down the bullet holes in the iron armor.
What's going on!
Battle was dumbfounded in an instant!
"How can Minggou's 100 bullets hit so far?"
Whether it is the Mongols or the Eight Banners, they are no strangers to the shotguns fired by various firearms of the Ming army, compared with solid bullets, the most commonly used shotguns of various light artillery of the Ming army are shotguns, and the pursuit of the effect of "crossing twenty zhang" at close range is enough to knock over the advancing enemy cavalry in an instant.
However, the effective range of that kind of shotgun is only a few dozen steps, which is why Battle will be proud when he sees the Ming army firing cannons.
But he didn't know that the shotguns used by this group of Ming gunners were different from the shotguns he had touched, and his bullet body was a closed iron cylinder container, containing as many as 268 rounds of iron bullets, and in order to hold his breath better, there was a two-inch thick felt between the back of the iron barrel and the propellant - this was borrowed from the shotgun shotgun shotgun of later generations.
Thanks to the good breath-holding effect of the thick felt, it has a range of an astonishing 300 meters. That's why this is still to load more shotguns, and not to use large-diameter heavy bullets, otherwise the range can be longer.
Three hundred steps!
More than 200 meters, this is to penetrate the Qing army's heavy armor deliberately compressed range, all of a sudden, the fierce Qing cavalry was stunned, even people and horses were beaten into a sieve.