The trumpet of the Qing army sounded, the flag was waved, and the order for a general attack was issued. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

To the rhythmic beat of the drums, 20,000 or 30,000 auxiliaries and followers shouted loudly, grabbed the edge of the wooden bridge, and lifted it together with all their might. The auxiliaries and followers went under the wooden bridge, held the wooden bridge, and moved towards the four trenches in unison.

More than a thousand wooden bridges were like more than a thousand armored vehicles, pressing towards the Tiger Division.

Those wooden bridges are all more than three meters wide, while the front of Li Zhi's fortress is only more than 700 meters, and with the gap between the wooden bridges, only more than 100 wooden bridges can be placed on one front. A thousand wooden bridges lined up in a long line, with eight or nine floors, looked mighty.

However, the wooden bridge walked very slowly, and it took more than ten minutes to reach the first trench.

Li Zhi did not let the cannon fire, and the Qing army was a little surprised and sped up their speed. The first row of wooden bridges in front of them put the wooden bridges on the first trench, and two hundred wooden bridges were erected on them, so that the first trench became a flat land.

The Qing soldiers who had paved the wooden bridge retreated with wooden shields.

Seeing that the first trench was paved with a wooden bridge, a jubilant sound sounded in the ranks of the Qing army in front of the Chinese army.

Hauge held his horsewhip and said, "I have ordered the general, and it won't be long before we can lay out the four trenches and rush up." ”

Dolgon was suspicious of why Li Zhi didn't fire, and he was a little anxious, and looked at Hauge without speaking.

After the first trench was laid, 800 wooden bridges crossed the first trench and were only 180 meters away from Li Zhi's cannon.

The reason why Li Zhi let the Qing army pave the first trench was because he was afraid that the Qing army would collapse and flee after the first round of shotguns. The range of the shotgun was 350 meters, and after the Qing army's wooden bridge entered 180 meters, it had to run the same distance to escape the range of the shotgun. In other words, the Qing army, which had passed through the first trench, was already in the middle of the range of the shotgun.

Li Zhi sneered and shouted loudly, "Shotgun! Fire! ”

One hundred and forty cannons were already ready to go, and at Li Zhi's order, more than 100 cannons were ignited in unison, and shotguns were fired at the 800 wooden bridges of the Qing army 180 meters away.

Fourteen thousand iron projectiles poured down on the Qing army's auxiliaries and followers like a torrential rain.

The wooden shield under the wooden bridge of the Qing army was thick enough to withstand rifle bullets. But in the face of the shotgun projectile, these wooden shields are useless. The shotgun flew from a hundred and eighty meters away and slammed into the wooden shield as if a can opener had met a sardine can, piercing the wooden shield without hindrance.

The click of the wood being pierced merged into a loud "boom". Each wooden shield was hit with at least a dozen projectiles. More than 100 wooden shields on the front of the wooden bridge in the first row were all destroyed. There were pieces of wood flying everywhere, and from a distance it looked like a cloud of mist emerging from a wooden bridge.

After the projectile pierced the wooden shield, it still had momentum, and continued to stab it in the back, and stabbed to death the four or five auxiliaries in the first and second rows under the wooden bridge before stopping.

Blood spurted out of the shotgun's body like water, like small fountains, splashing everywhere in the wooden shield. The air, which was still dry just now, was suddenly filled with a salty and wet smell of blood, which made people breathe short.

Without the protection of the wooden shield, not only the auxiliaries and followers in the front row were killed by shotguns, but the Qing soldiers in the back row were also immediately in danger. Without the protection of a wooden shield, the Tartars under the wooden bridge were naked under the riflemen's guns.

The riflemen did not hesitate to open fire. The Qing soldiers who were densely lined up on one hundred and eighty meters, holding the wooden bridge and moving slowly, were the best targets. Even if the bullet misses and misses the Qing soldiers in front, it will hit the Qing soldiers in the back. The six hundred soldiers in the first row pressed the trigger, and blood flowers bloomed from the bodies of the Qing army one after another.

Screams came out from under more than a hundred wooden bridges at the same time, as if they had been promised. The Qing soldiers who had been shot struggled on the ground, twitching and groaning. They covered the wounds of the bullets, hoping to stop the blood that was pouring out there. But the spinning Mini bullet had destroyed too much body tissue, and the body beneath the wound had turned into a bloody paste, and the blood was like a chirped spring, constantly flowing out of the wound.

The Qing soldiers under the first row of wooden bridges suffered heavy losses, and the heavy wooden bridge shock rifle array was undoubtedly killed, and they threw the wooden bridge to the ground in a panic, and fled behind them. But the tiger division in the fortress still did not let them go, and the six hundred soldiers in the second row quickly walked up to the firing position and shot at the fleeing Qing soldiers.

Gunshots rang out, and the fleeing Qing troops fell one after another as if they had been blown down by a strong wind, and hundreds more died in the gunfire.

In the middle of the Qing army, Baylor of Eight Banners Manchuria and Gushan Ezhen of Mongolia were speechless in shock when they saw the scene on the battlefield.

This Li Zhi is cheating!

When the ten wooden bridges were charging into battle just now, why didn't he use the loose cannon? Now a thousand wooden bridges have rushed to the halfway point, there is no way to advance, there is no way to retreat, but Li Zhi showed a scattered cannon at this time to bombard the wooden bridge of the Qing army.

What a sinister Nikan!

Abatai's face turned a little pale, and he muttered: "Oops, even if you retreat now, you will be bombarded by Sanzi several times..."

Du Du panicked again, grabbed Dolgon's sleeve and said, "Ordered general, quickly retreat!" Wait for the emperor to come up! The emperor is here, there must be a way! ”

Dolgon didn't expect this to be the battle, and closed his eyes a little weakly.

Haoge was so anxious that his face was bloody, and he turned his head and said loudly: "General under order, don't retreat!" If you retreat, you will have to suffer several rounds of shelling, and the soldiers will die in vain! Li Zhi's cannon can only hit once in a long time, and we can rush forward! ”

Hearing Hauge's words, Dorgon opened his eyes. Indeed, Li Zhi's cannon was very slow when the ten wooden bridges were charging the formation just now, and if the rate of fire was calculated, a thousand wooden bridges could rush to the fourth trench.

Dolgon gritted his teeth and said, "Blow the trumpet, let the auxiliaries charge!" ”

Li Zhi stood in front of the formation, heard the clarion call of the Qing army to charge the formation, and smiled.

The Qing army was not scared away, and continued to rush up.

Li Zhi's six-pounder gun had a limit rate of fire that could reach three or four rounds a minute. But that was without cooling the barrel and moving the gun carriage back into place. Ten shots at that extreme rate of fire, the barrel is completely red-hot and can no longer be fired. If you had to do a full set of steps, cool the barrel with a damp cloth, and aim with tools such as gun gauges, the six-pounder gun could only fire one shot a minute.

Of course, Li Zhi now does not need to aim at shotguns, even if the barrel is cooled, he can fire one shot in forty seconds. However, Li Zhi was unwilling to defeat all the wooden bridges of the Qing army, if all the wooden bridges were destroyed, the armored soldiers of the Qing army would not rush up.

Li Zhi shouted at Lu Hu, "Shoot slowly!" Don't crush the tartars! (To be continued.) )