Chapter 461: Cavalry
The soldiers of the Han Army Banner are all veterans who have been practicing for two or three years, and they all know how the fire gun fights, and they all understand what the high rate of fire of the Tiger Warrior rifle means. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoIf there was still hope for victory before, if this hope before supported the Han army flag and endured casualties, now this hope has been shattered by the rate of fire of the Tiger Division's rifle.
In the crackling gunfire, the first column of soldiers fired a volley, and more than 600 people in front of the Qing army were once again completely wiped out. Blood arrows erupted from the wounds of wounded soldiers like fountains. The screams of more than 600 people converged into one, and it sounded like a "boom".
The Qing soldiers are in chaos, the casualties are so large, this battle can't be won, why do you continue to sacrifice?
The Han soldiers of the Han banner of the Qing army lost all their courage in just one moment.
The Qing troops in front were afraid of being shot to death by the soldiers of the Tiger Division again, so they turned and fled. The flight of these deserters soon led to the other musketeers, and in the end, the more than 20,000 musketeers collapsed with a bang, panicking.
Kong Youde saw the defeated firearms soldiers, and his face was like ashes.
Unexpectedly, 30,000 firecrackers rushed into battle, and before they could open their guns, Li Zhi killed 6,000, and the whole army collapsed. The fire soldiers built by the emperor himself easily defeated the 50,000 Ming army, but they were completely defeated by Li Zhi's tiger division.
The emperor used himself so heavily and made himself the commander of the Han army's banner firearms, but this battle was fought like this. When he goes back this time, the emperor will definitely not spare himself. His future in the Qing Kingdom was ruined.
This Li Zhi is really terrible. How could his firearms shoot so fast, overshadowing the firecrackers twice as many as the Han Army's banner. With Li Zhi here, how could the Qing Dynasty defeat the Ming Kingdom?
Kong Youde was full of resentment, and withdrew with the defeated firecrackers.
In the central military department of the Ming army, Hong Chengchou was shocked by the changes on the battlefield and his face was flushed.
Li Zhi defeated the Qing army's firecrackers, and the 30,000 firecrackers were killed by thousands, and they all collapsed! Does this mean that the battle on the eastern flank ended in a Ming victory? After Li Zhi's soldiers and horses defeated the Qing army, could they go to support the 70,000 Ming troops who were fighting the western flank?
However, Hong Chengchou suddenly saw that among the defeated Qing army, a cavalry that had already been guarding there was going up against the current and rushed towards Li Zhi's soldiers and horses.
Behind the defeated firecrackers, there are also killing moves.
The firecrackers ran a few steps behind, and did not dare to flee to the rear, but to both sides. Because in the middle of the rout, a 10,000-strong Eight Banners Manchurian cavalry came out and went up against the flow of the collapsed firecrackers. The slightest obstruction of the cavalry's path was immediately hacked to death by the cavalrymen armed with sabers.
In the middle of the firecrackers who fled on both sides, 5,000 horse armor soldiers and 5,000 infantry armor soldiers from Eight Banners Manchuria rushed up. By the time this cavalry broke out of the defeated group of soldiers, it was only fifty paces away from the battle line of the Tiger Division.
The Tartar cavalry urged their horses at full speed, and the speed of the horses was probably thirty kilometers per hour. This distance of fifty paces, the Tartar cavalry rushed up for ten seconds.
Li Zhi secretly said that Duoduo was so cunning, and he hid such a soldier and horse behind the fire soldiers just now. Now that the map is poor, 10,000 Tartar soldiers are charging from such a short distance, trying to crush the tiger division at once.
In the Chinese army of the Qing army, Duoduo stared at the 10,000 cavalry that rushed out, his eyes blood-red. After the defeat of the firecrackers, these 10,000 cavalry were the last trump card of Duoduo. Now that the firecrackers have advanced the battle line to the front of the Tiger Division, and the cavalry is stabbing out from such a distance, Li Zhi's soldiers are afraid that they can only fire one shot, and they will be rushed to the front of the formation by the cavalry.
I don't know if this last trump card can crush Li Zhi's soldiers and horses.
Du Du said loudly: "Prince Yu, so close to the cavalry spur, Li Zhi's soldiers and horses must not be able to withstand this rush!" ā
Duoduo swallowed, glanced at Du Du, and did not speak.
However, the Tiger Master is not so easy to overcome.
Seeing the Tartars' war horses rushing over, the grassroots officers of the Tiger Ben Division immediately reacted. In the weekday training, the training to meet the cavalry in close range has been done countless times, and the platoon commanders did not need to wait for Li Zhi's order, so they subconsciously issued the correct order and put out a bayonet formation.
The two rows of soldiers in front of them quickly loaded their bayonets in front of their guns, and they crouched down and aimed the heads of their bayonets at the rushing Qing horses, and the butts at the end of the bayonets were pressed against the ground and stepped on with their feet. The soldiers of the third platoon quickly reloaded their rifles, ready to shoot the Tatar cavalry over the two layers of soldiers in front.
Li Zhi's soldiers used flintlock muskets, each soldier occupied only half a meter of the width of the battlefield, and at this time, the two rows of soldiers in front of him put their bayonets against the ground, and a forest of bayonets was suddenly formed. When a Tartar horse gallops, it takes about one and a half meters to the width of the battlefield. That is, every Tartar cavalry rushing to the front of the Tiger Division had to face six bayonet soldiers.
Those bayonets, which glowed with cold light, were not so easy to break.
The cavalry of the Tartars rushed to the front of the formation, and when they saw the dense array of bayonets, one by one stopped their horses and wandered in front of the formation.
There were also a few fierce Qing troops who rode into the bayonet formation. But where can a man withstand the greeting of six bayonets? The Tartar's horse was immediately stabbed to death with a knife. The Tartars on the horse could not withstand the thrusts of several bayonets, and were soon stabbed to death by the bayonets that stabbed in front and back, left and right.
When the other Tartars saw this formation, they only felt that their scalps were numb, where did they dare to jump in and die?
Seeing that they could not rush forward, some of the Tartars stopped their horses and shot at the soldiers of the Tiger Division. The soldiers of the Tiger Division bowed their heads and blocked the door with their helmets.
The Tartar's bow and arrows pierced the armor of the Tiger Division's soldiers. But where did the Tartar's bow shoot through full-body armor made of high-carbon steel? Their arrows are not as hard as the high-carbon steel of the full-body armor. Even if it is close to direct fire, the bow and arrow can only shoot one inch into the armor of the tiger master's body, and those who are slightly injured by the arrow will no longer be able to break the armor.
The Tiger Master's full-body armor is not close-fitting, and the plate armor is still some distance from the flesh. The arrow pierced an inch into the plate armor, and it probably only pierced half an inch into the flesh. Wounded soldiers can continue to fight with their wounds, although their wounds are painful.
The hundreds of cavalry in front of the formation fired a round of arrows, and only lightly wounded more than 400 infantry of the Tiger Division.
The Tartars tried to shoot a second round of bows, and the soldiers of the third column opened fire on them.
1,100 rifles were fired at the Tartar cavalry who were close at hand, and only screams were heard, and the Tartars, who were still on their horses, were shot off their horses one by one and fell to the ground screaming. Blood splattered in front of the bayonet array, and blood was sprayed everywhere like water as a rain of blood. The first two rows of Tiger Division soldiers were sprayed.
Seeing that the Tartars stopped in front of the formation to shoot arrows and lost their horse speed, the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Division in the second row no longer put up a bayonet formation, but stood up and loaded their ammunition, ready to shoot at the Tartars.
Only then did the hesitant Tartars understand the power of this bayonet array. Six or seven hundred armor soldiers were killed at once, and the Tartars were struck by lightning, and they did not dare to stay in front of the battle. They lost their fighting spirit, turned their horses' heads one by one, and galloped towards the road they had come.