Chapter 701: Fierce Battle (2)
In the rear of the Ottoman army, this time it was the turn of Gatjevic to frown, and his face was gloomy.
"I can't imagine that the Manchurians really came with cannons, and their cannons can follow the cavalry to gallop and fight with all their might, incredible!" Gatyivich said.
Although he knew that the Qing army's artillery was powerful, but rumors were rumors after all, and now that he saw the power of the Qing army's artillery, Gatyivich still had to be surprised, and even to his surprise, in his cognition, I am afraid that the most advanced artillery in European countries is not as good as the Qing army's artillery.
"Damn, it's obviously a group of savages on the grassland, why can there be such an advanced cannon!" Getjevic's face was gloomy, and he couldn't think of a reason for it for a while.
No matter how strange Gatjevic is, the big war is still going on, and victory is a must.
"Let's fire our cannons too! Bombard them hard! Gitjevic ordered rather exasperatedly.
Not only did Dorgon bring cannons, but the Ottoman army also brought more than forty cannons.
"Boom Boom"
After a while, more than 40 artillery pieces of the Ottoman Empire also opened fire on the dense places of the Qing army, and in a round of shelling, many Qing cavalry were blown up, which immediately caused certain losses to the Qing army.
Of course, most of the Ottoman cannons fired solid iron balls, and the iron balls were not large, and the range was extremely close, the farthest range was less than seven hundred meters, and it could not even cover the entire battlefield.
There is no way, although the Ottoman Empire can also make some cannons, but in any case it is impossible to be more powerful than European countries, and as the enemy of European countries, it is impossible for the Ottoman Empire to get the advanced cannons of European countries, so their most powerful cannons can only be made by themselves, and the technology of the Ottoman Empire does not need to be compared with European countries at all, and now even the most advanced cannons of European countries are not necessarily more powerful than the imitation Shenwu field artillery equipped by the Qing army at this time, Therefore, the more than 40 cannons of the Ottoman Empire seem to be powerful, but the actual power is not even one-third of the 39 cannons of the Qing army.
However, although the Ottoman artillery is far inferior to the Qing artillery, it still poses a great threat to the Qing army, and the 12,000 Dragon Breakers who have not yet fought with the Ottoman army have killed and injured many people because of the bombardment of the Ottoman artillery.
Soon, 37,000 servant cavalry and 5,000 Eight-Banner Iron Cavalry had completely bypassed the range of the Ottoman Iron Shield Army and killed the 80,000 Ottoman Legion behind.
The 80,000 Ottoman regiments were not protected by iron shields, and they were completely killed by the Qing cavalry at once.
The 5,000 Ottoman muskets formed an army formation of its own.
"Fire!"
"Bang bang bang" began with a platoon of Ottoman musketeers firing at the Qing cavalry.
However, since the Qing cavalry seemed to be deliberately avoiding the 5,000 Ottoman muskets, this round of Ottoman musketeers did not kill or injure many Qing cavalry.
The Qing army itself had a musket team, and the Manchurians had to move west because they were defeated under the firearms army of the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing cavalry who knew that the musket team had a certain restraint on the cavalry was not necessary, and of course it would not be able to kill the Ottoman musket team, and the Ottoman musket team had its own flintlock pistol of the dragon army to deal with.
Soon, 12,000 Dragon Breakers broke through the bombardment of Ottoman artillery and joined the battlefield.
"Attack!" The general of the Qing army's Dragon Breaker Army roared, and led the Dragon Breaker Army directly to the direction of the Ottoman musket team.
The 5,000 Ottoman muskets also seemed to have found an opponent and killed the Qing army head-on.
The two musket teams on both sides got closer and closer, and finally, due to the range of the flintlock muskets, the Ottoman muskets took the lead in entering the range of the Qing army's dragon-breaking army.
"Fire!" The generals of the Qing army, the Dragon Breaker, obviously saw that the range of the Ottoman muskets was inferior to his own, and did not hesitate to order the first fire.
"Bang bang bang" A platoon of guns fired by the Qing army.
"Poof! Burst! Poof" lead bullets swept through, and in no time the entire platoon of Ottoman musketeers fell.
The battle between the musket team and the strong team is actually very simple, only the range and loading speed are the fight, and in both cases, the Qing army undoubtedly has an absolute advantage. The Ottoman firearms technology is weaker than that of European countries, although the arquebus can be made to have a range similar to that of the European musket, but it is more cumbersome, not so dexterous, and the Qing army imitated the Ming production, and the flintlock pistol with high-quality steel is incomparable, not to mention the flintlock pistol can be hooked on the trigger, more flexible, in addition to the Qing army's paper shell bullet loading method, the speed of each round of shooting is almost twice that of the Ottoman musket team.
The soldiers of the "Bang Bang Bang" Ottoman Musket Team fell row by row under the blow of the Qing Army's Dragon Breaker Army flintlock pistols, extremely quickly.
It was as if they were being slaughtered in a queue, and the Ottoman musket soldiers behind them turned pale one by one, their movements were affected, and they were suddenly a little hurried, and they were even more powerless to resist under the blows of the Qing army's dragon-breaking army.
When more than half of the Ottoman muskets were killed and wounded, the Qing army's Dragon Breaker Army only suffered more than 1,000 casualties, including the casualties of artillery bombardment.
Soon, the 5,000 Ottoman muskets fell with the last platoon under the blows of the flintlock pistols of the Qing army, and finally the whole army was wiped out under the blows of the Qing army.
When Gatjevich got the news, his face darkened.
Now the battlefield has been extremely obvious, 40,000 Ottoman elite cavalry and 40,000 full eight banners to fight, there is no doubt that they have already fallen into the disadvantage, 40,000 iron shield legions and 60,000 Qing army servant cavalry battle, although the iron shield army array was blasted away by the servant cavalry into the formation, but the individual iron shield army soldiers combat effectiveness is still strong, casualties are far lower than the Qing army servant cavalry, even if the Qing army servant cavalry is more than 20,000 people, the Ottoman iron shield army still has an advantage. The last battlefield is naturally 80,000 Ottoman ** regiments and 5,000 musket teams against 37,000 Qing army servant cavalry and 5,000 Manchu Eight Banners and 12,000 Qing army dragon breaking army musket battalion.
Today, 40,000 elite cavalry has suffered nearly half of the casualties, and 40,000 Manchu Eight Banners have suffered less than 10,000 casualties, both in terms of numbers and combat effectiveness have steadily suppressed the remaining Ottoman cavalry, and in the second battlefield, the 5,000 musket team has been wiped out, and the Qing army has suffered less than 2,000 casualties in the Dragon Army, and the 80,000 Emperor ** Regiment and the Qing Army cavalry have also suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and the Qing cavalry casualties are only less than 4,000.
Of the three battlefields, the Qing army occupies the advantage of two, and the Ottoman army is the only one who is the ace Iron Shield Legion struggling to support the battlefield!
The "boom boom" shell exploded on the Ottoman artillery position, overturning five Ottoman cannons at once, killing and wounding dozens of Ottoman soldiers.
After the 39 cannons of the Qing army gradually blasted through the military formation of the ten Iron Shield Corps, they finally aimed their muzzles at the Ottoman cannons.
The Qing artillery also occupies an absolute advantage, in terms of range, the Qing artillery completely included the Ottoman artillery into the firing range, but the Ottoman artillery was limited by the range, unable to hit the Qing artillery position.
"Boom boom" Qing artillery continued to bombard, and soon more than half of the Ottoman artillery was destroyed, and if this continued, it was only a matter of time before the Ottoman artillery army was wiped out, and when the Qing army occupied the upper hand in the two battlefields, and there was artillery support, and the Ottoman army, which had lost the support of artillery, was in a more worrying situation.
The face of the commander of the Ottoman army, Getyivic, was even darker, and it was extremely gloomy.
What he also didn't expect was that the Qing army's artillery was so powerful, and the musket was so powerful.
Again, what is the reason why a barbarian from the steppe, who is obviously from the grassland, has a firearm that is more powerful than the empire.
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