Chapter 459: Rushing Up

Although he had long known that the Tiger Master could penetrate the double armor of the Han Army Banner in eighty steps, seeing the massacre-like scene in front of him, Prince Yu Duoduo couldn't help but turn white. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

This massacre was so brutal. How many soldiers would have to die before the Qing army's musketeers could rush to the front and start shooting? It took the emperor two or three years to gather the strength of the whole country to train such 30,000 Han soldiers, but don't fold them all here.

Duoduo clutched the reins with both hands, trembling uncontrollably.

Hold on, the Han army banner must hold on, rush to the front of Li Zhi's soldiers and horses and shoot at the tiger division.

The fire of the Tiger Ben Division was too fierce, and the casualties skyrocketed after entering the range of the Tiger Ben Division's rifles, and the Qing army no longer waited for the slow-moving Hongyi artillery to come up and shoot. They began to charge forward as fast as they could, trying to rush to the killing range of the "Jianwei Gun" and return fire.

But they advanced only fifteen paces, and the distance between the front lines of the two armies was sixty-five paces, and the soldiers of the Tiger Division opened fire again.

The rain of bullets swept over the Qing troops in the front row like a hurricane, overturning all the soldiers who were blocking the front. Heart-rending screams rang out from the mouths of hundreds of soldiers at once, and then they fell to the ground one by one, rolling and convulsing. The blood splattered into the air like water, turning into a rain of blood and falling on the Qing soldiers who fell to the ground or were lucky not to be shot.

Kong Youde saw a leading Han army general Qian Zong who was there shouting to boost morale, this is a tall and majestic Qian Zong, his presence has raised the morale of the soldiers around him a lot. But he was screaming and charging forward, when he was suddenly hit in the head by a bullet, and red blood and white brains flew out of the wound, splashing the other soldiers around him.

It was not only this Qian Zong who died, Kong Youde saw at least four generals fall down in this round of Tiger Master volleys.

The ground was littered with the corpses of the Qing army, and the blood that flowed from the corpses merged into a stream, which continued to flow downward. The Qing army in the back was almost dripping with blood, stepping on the corpses of the Qing army in front of them.

Although Hong Chengchou was standing a few miles away, he also smelled the smell of blood on the battlefield that could not be dissolved. However, his spirits were very high, because the Tiger Master's firepower was beyond his expectations. After the Qing army stopped firing from Hongyi artillery, the battle turned into a one-sided massacre. One by one, the Tartars in the front row fell.

The Tartar's firearms seem to be inferior to the Tiger Master's firearms. At eighty paces, Li Zhi's fire gun had already fired, but the Tartar had not fired at a distance of more than sixty steps, and was still rushing forward against the rain of bullets, obviously needing a closer distance to exert the lethality of the fire gun.

Hong Chengchou knew that once the Qing army rushed to the front and shot at the Tiger Division, the Tiger Division might pay a great price. After all, the Qing army was a team of 30,000 people. 30,000 people and more than 10,000 people shot at each other, and the end could be very tragic.

How this battle will be fought depends on how many casualties the gunners of the Qing army can bear, and whether they can hold out until the moment when they shoot at the Tiger Division.

Hong Chengchou looked at the battlefield in front of him and was very nervous. He prayed that the Qing army's musketeers would collapse as soon as possible, so that the Ming army would win the battle.

One mile behind the Qing army at the front, Kong Youde, who was commanding at the front, had a pale face, and the casualties in front were too heavy.

Kong Youde knew that the soldiers of the Tiger Division were wearing full-body armor, and he didn't know how far his "Jianwei Gong" could penetrate Li Zhi's full-body plate armor. In order to find out the timing of the fire, his method was to let twenty Han soldiers shoot once every ten steps forward to see the effect of the shot.

Sixty paces away, twenty Qing gunners stopped to take aim and opened fire on the Tiger Division.

At this distance, the "Jianwei Gun" is already able to accurately aim and kill unarmored targets. But to penetrate Li Zhi's full-body plate armor, this distance is still too far. The round buckshot smashed into the armor of the Tiger Warrior Division, making a small dent, but it failed to penetrate the armor and kill the soldier.

The twenty Qing soldiers who opened fire to test the killing stopped, but the other Qing troops around did not stop, and still charged forward quickly. Rushing to fifty paces, twenty more Qing soldiers opened fire on the Tiger Division. This time, the bullets of the Qing army made a bigger dent in the armor of the tiger division. But still, the Qing army still did not shoot through the whole body armor.

Kong Youde looked at the battle situation in front of him, and his heart trembled, he couldn't imagine that Li Zhi's steel armor defense was so outstanding. Jianwei couldn't penetrate the steel armor in fifty steps, and if he continued to advance, he would be killed and injured by Li Zhi.

Kong Youde clenched his fists, and his palms were covered with fine sweat. He began to worry about the morale of the Han army, and the casualties were too great. Whether the Han military banner can hold out until the opening of the gun to kill the tiger division has become a question. If they couldn't rush up and shoot, the thousands of Han soldiers who had already been shot by the Tiger Ben Division would have died in vain.

If the Han army banner was defeated by the Tiger Ben Division, the decisive battle would have been lost. On the way to escape, I don't know how many rout soldiers will be killed and injured by Li Zhi.

But as long as the Han army flag can withstand the casualties and rush forward, rush to the armor-breaking distance and shoot at the tiger division, Kong Youde feels that he can win this battle, after all, the Han army flag is 20,000 or 30,000 people.

Kong Youde looked at the front of the battle, and his heart was very nervous. He prayed that the Han army banner could rush up, as long as it rushed to the armor-breaking distance of Jianwei Gong, more than 20,000 firecrackers could defeat Li Zhi's more than 10,000 tiger soldiers.

In the middle of the Qing army's formation in the distance, Duoduo and Du Du glanced at each other, and there was some disappointment in their eyes.

I didn't expect that the emperor's firecrackers couldn't kill and injure Li Zhi's soldiers in fifty steps, how close did they have to rush to kill? Rushing forward in this way under artillery fire, leaving behind a large number of corpses with each step forward, the blow to morale was too great.

Such a death charge was too much of a test of the army's tenacity, and Duoduo looked at the battle situation and was so nervous that he was sweating fine on his head.

But all the eggs can't be put in the same basket, Duoduo still suppressed his emotions, waved his hand and said: "Let the 10,000 horse army follow the Han army at the front, once the Han army is broken, the horse army will immediately charge." ”

The banner commander waved the flag and passed Duoduo's orders to the horse army in front.

When the two armies were fifty paces apart, the 1,100 riflemen in front of the Tiger Division opened fire again.

The rain of bullets swept across the Qing and Han flags, and at such a close distance, the bullets almost did not miss. The problem that affects the lethality of a salvo is that two or more soldiers aim at the same soldier and kill repeatedly.

Almost all of the more than 600 Qing soldiers on the front of the battlefield were shot and fell in front of the battle.

Li Zhi stood in the middle of the Formation Formation, looking at the Qing army that was getting closer and closer, and frowned.

This firearms soldier that Huang Taiji has spent more than two years training is indeed very tenacious.