Section 17 Concerted Operations (Chapter 17 of the Lifting of the Ban)
The generals of the Qing army who were drilling under the cart gritted their teeth and looked at the black crow and crow chariot, constantly ravaging their positions, and the screams of their soldiers were faintly heard in the gap between the explosions. He turned his face, which had been blackened by the blast, and shouted at the soldiers with bloodshot eyes.
"Command to attack, the two wings of chariots immediately advance here, tell them that the Ming army is all artillery wagons, and they can't do anything if they are mixed together."
With the order of the Qing army generals, the chariots on both sides of the Qing army's battle line that had long been ready to go swarmed out. A hundred chariots rushed out from each side and rushed straight towards the artillery carriages that the Ming army was firing.
Three hundred meters is not a very long distance, let alone a chariot running on frozen hard ground with ten people pedaling. However, in the face of the incessant roaring cannon, that is a different matter.
The Ming army's artillery carriages, arranged into tails, front and back, faced with the chariots rushing over by the Qing army, and in the face of the "Bolo rockets" that they kept radiating, began to retreat. There were even a few combat vehicles that were burned under the fire of the dense "Bolo rockets" launched by the Qing army. The shells and raw silk packets they were carrying were ignited by the "rockets" and exploded violently.
In the process of chasing and fleeing the chariots of the Qing army and the chariots of the Ming army, the generals of the Qing army suddenly thought of something.
"These cunning 'victorious warriors' aren't playing some tricks to lure the enemy deeper!" I was shocked, and my brain spun around twice. The general order: "Call them back quickly." ”
As soon as his words fell, another fifty artillery carriages hidden behind began to fire intensively. The explosion broke out in the group of Qing army tanks that formed the shock group. Among some of the chariots, the oil bladders on the "chain fuel bombs" and the "Bolo rockets" on the roof of the vehicles were ignited by artillery fire, and the fire began to spread on the ground.
Li Xingbang kept in mind what the instructor of the Shenzhou Military Academy said, "On the battlefield, the principle of using firepower is to concentrate, concentrate, and concentrate again, and concentrate on one point to break through!" ”
The use of artillery trucks of the "Shengwu Army" followed this principle. One hundred artillery carriages out of a thousand chariots were concentrated for use, and at this time, as the enemy pursuers retreated in confusion after being hit, the one hundred artillery carriages of the Shengwu army began to exert their might. A large number of shells fell one after another in the chaotic formation of the Qing army that had been hit and retreated.
Looking at the chariot that was on fire a few hundred meters away, the Qing army general almost gritted his mouth full of steel teeth, and his fingers tightly clasped the saber under his ribs. From the beginning of the descent to the interception of the enemy's material convoy, to the sneak attack on the enemy's "Suzhou Defense Line", his chariot was undamaged and only suffered a few casualties. It is hateful that the "Shengwu Army" on the opposite side used such a vicious strategy to lose nearly 30 of his chariots at one time.
Of course, there are still immortals in the bloody battles above the battle array, so this small loss is not enough to make him angry like this. Taking advantage of the fire in the distance, he used a clairvoyant mirror to see those Ming soldiers dragging away the burning chariot that was in the way and throwing it elsewhere. As the road cleared, the chariots of the Shengwu army moved again.
Obviously, Li Xingbang is not satisfied with such a harvest. In this assault, there were fifty infantry fighting vehicles in the front row, and fifty artillery carriages armed with Tiger squat guns in the back. This kind of cannon is not fast, and it cannot be compared with the 60mm mortars equipped by the Shenzhou Army in terms of range and power. But the power of the covering fire of fifty artillery carriages could not be withstood by the rigid defensive formation of the Qing army.
The front row of chariots marched forward in a sparse stormtroop formation, and the fifty cannons in the back fired non-stop, suppressing the Qing positions, mainly at the exit of the chariots on both sides of their defensive line, so that they could hardly react and could no longer use the chariots to effectively counterattack.
Most of the Qing army's sneak attack troops, the deer barricades and the transport vehicles used to block the road were ignited by the explosion of artillery shells. At this time, no one came out to put out the fire, and in the face of the shells that still kept falling, fighting the fire and returning fire were almost like suicide. No one dared to get out of their hiding place at this time.
With the approach of the Ming army's offensive chariot, the strong light emitted by the searchlight on the car has illuminated the position of the Qing army, and the counterattack at this time has become a luxury thing.
With the launch of the "Flying Crossbow" and "Slingshot Grenade" launchers. Although these little ones are much less powerful than cannonballs, they are better than dense. The firing of 50 "Tiger Squat Cannons" and 20 "Slingshot Grenade Launchers" on 20 chariots, resulting in almost endless explosions and the "tuk-tuk" sound of crossbow arrows hitting the armor of the chariots, unmistakably told the soldiers of the Qing army one by one: "Don't look up, don't get out of your hiding place, you will die." ”
Under the intensive shelling, no one came out to resist, and all the soldiers of the Qing army, including their leading generals, drilled into all places where they could hide from the artillery fire. Speaking of which, it is already a very commendable thing that the soldiers of the Qing army did not disperse under the pressure of such artillery fire like those miscellaneous Ming troops on the "Suzhou Defense Line".
The Qing soldiers braved the artillery fire and desperately fought back with their firearms or bows and arrows, but their defenses were difficult to achieve under such an attack, and finally they were approached by the twenty chariots in the front row of the Ming army. As expected, strings of fireballs flew out of the Ming army's vehicle formation, not to mention the "chain fire oil bomb" that was in the limelight in the battle between the two armies.
With the ominous sound of crockpots smashing, large flames rose above the Qing army's defensive line. The Qing soldiers who were burned screamed and endured the torment of burning in this cold and windy night. Or rolling desperately underground, and finally dying under the help of his companions. Of course, there were also some brave soldiers, shouting and rushing towards the chariots of the Ming army with flames all over their bodies.
In the face of the rain of short arrows from the "Flying Divine Crossbow", most of them will be shot to the ground halfway through, turning into a flaming flame.
Li Xingbang held a telescope behind him, looking at all this, he understood that he had used the right method. First, the raw silk fixed firing kit can ensure rapid launch, and second, the flowering bomb can strike at the psychology and morale of the Qing army and kill a large number of personnel at the same time.
The generals of the Qing army, who hid in the transport vehicles full of soil for command, also failed to escape the attack of a large number of "chain oil bombs" of the Ming army, and the Qing army, which was buried in the sea of fire, without the main general, was in chaos.