Chapter 462: Duoduo
The Tartar cavalry came and ran as fast as a gust of wind. By www.biquge.info time the soldiers of the Tiger Division had reloaded their bullets, they had already run more than a hundred meters away. Li Zhi's soldiers were unwilling to let them go, and aimed and fired, killing more than a thousand slow-running Tartars.
The last of the Dordor's cavalry was also routed, and the entire Tartar army on the eastern flank was routed, leaving no more force to fight.
In the military department of the Tartars, Duoduo, the prince of Yu in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was already like ashes. Unexpectedly, this battle was won first and then lost, and in the end it was lost so badly. The 40,000 troops on the eastern flank had all been routed, including the 30,000 musketeers who had suffered heavy losses. This battle is like this, how many cattle does the emperor want to take away from him? As the owner of the white flag, can't you do it?
Young Duoduo's eyes were glazed, and he looked at the thousands of cavalry that had been defeated, speechless.
Du Du sighed and said, "Prince Yu, let's withdraw too?" ”
Duoduo still looked at the battlefield in a daze, his face was pale, and his whole person seemed to be petrified.
Du Du didn't dare to say more, so he could only accompany Duoduo to stand on the battlefield and wait for Duoduo to come back to his senses.
Li Zhi looked at the fleeing Qing cavalry and raised his binoculars. He searched the battlefield with his binoculars, only to see the huge gold-woven dragon behind Duoduo. The big pole dragged its long hem in the air and waved in the wind, looking quite majestic.
Li Zhi took a closer look with a telescope and saw Duoduo wearing gilded armor under the woven gold dragon. In the telescope, Dordor looked to be only twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with a high nose and big ears, and a two-petaled beard on his lips. As if he was very frustrated with the situation of the war, this high-ranking Manchu official stood on the battlefield in a daze, without saying a word.
In order to keep abreast of the military situation, Li Zhi took a few captured Manchu Tartars in the army. Li Zhi found a lightly injured Manchu Niu Lu Zhangjing, showed him the binoculars, and asked, "Who is under that golden dragon silk?" ”
This Niu Lu Zhangjing saw the collapse of the 40,000 army on the eastern flank of the Manchu Qing Dynasty with his own eyes, and at this time he was even more afraid of Li Zhi's strong soldiers and horses, for fear that Li Zhi would be unhappy and kill him. He used the telescope in surprise to see Duoduo's appearance clearly, returned the telescope to Li Zhi, and said, "That's Duoduo, the prince of Yu." ”
It turned out to be Prince Dodor, the fifteenth son of the wild boar Pinurhachi, and the leader of the great Tartars. Li Zhi pondered for a moment, and shouted loudly at Xue Sanku, the acting head of the Election Regiment: "Xue Sanku! I want your artillery to gather fire to bombard that Manchu Tartar under the Golden Dragon! ”
Xue Sanku held the telescope and looked at the Weaving Gold Dragon Silk in the distance, and said with a smile: "Uncle, although that Daxu is four miles away from us, exceeding the direct firing range of heavy artillery, if we use the elevation angle to throw the shells, we can still hit those Tartars." ”
Li Zhi thought for a while and said, "Blow them up with flowering bombs." ”
The flowering bomb made by Li Zhi is an early flowering bomb, and due to technical limitations, the combustion speed of the fuse made of black powder is not 100% fixed. In order to prevent the shell from exploding in the barrel and causing it to explode and bor, Li Zhi made the fuse of the shell longer, so it often took a while for the shell to explode after it landed.
Such shells, if used in a dispersed manner, would have made it easy for the infantry to dodge the shells once they had landed. But if all seventy shells were fired into a certain area, the effect would be better. Although 70 cannons are aimed at one place, 70 shells will kill people in a single area repeatedly, causing the shells to kill a lot less efficiently. However, seventy shells exploding at the same time in a dense area will make a small group of enemies in the target area have nowhere to hide, causing casualties.
Li Zhi saw that Duoduo was standing on the battlefield and did not retreat, so he used his brains to blow up the Manchu Yu prince.
Xue Sanku shouted the order and went down to operate the artillery. It didn't take long for seventy eighteen-pounder guns to turn their muzzles. The artillerymen used guns and other tools to calculate the amount of gunpowder, adjusted the elevation angle of the cannon, and aimed the cannon at a target four miles away.
Four miles away, Duoduo, the prince of Manchu Yu, did not know that danger was coming, and stood on the battlefield in frustration.
A swan sounded, and seventy modified heavy guns rang out the flintlock ignition in unison. The huge recoil force was pressed hard against the ground through the gun carriage, shaking the nearby ground violently. Amid the deafening sound of artillery fire, 70 shells burst out of the guns and rushed towards the target four miles away.
Seventy shells drew seventy arcs in the air and smashed into a range of several tens of meters near the Weaving Gold Dragon. Most of the shells missed and moved away from Dord's guards, causing no damage. About a dozen shells crashed into Dordor guards, killing five or six of them, and stopped not far from Dordor
Du Du had seen flowering bombs, and he was bombed in the camp of Beacon Post for an afternoon, and he was almost killed by flowering bombs. At this time, seeing more than a dozen shells falling nearby, Du Du immediately rushed up and knocked Duoduo down, shouting loudly: "The shells will explode!" Get down! ”
Seeing more than a dozen flowering catapults shot into the ranks, Duoduo's guards fled in all directions, forming a formation. Duoduo lay on the ground in a panic, not daring to come out. After waiting for six or seven seconds, more than a dozen shells in the vicinity exploded one after another. The shock wave of the cannonball exploded huge sparks and shot out the iron projectiles in the cannonball.
Hearing a loud rumble in their ears, Duoduo and Dudu buried their heads and did not dare to get up. According to Du Du's experience, the interval between Li Zhi's two rounds of artillery fire was relatively long. After waiting for more than ten seconds, Du Du confirmed that all the falling shells had exploded and were safe, and then raised his head from the ground.
Du Du shouted loudly: "Prince Yu, it's dangerous here, get on the horse and retreat!" ”
Duoduo saw that Du Du looked up, so he followed suit. He nodded, got up and ran to his horse. But after only a dozen steps, he suddenly heard a screaming sound breaking through the air, and seventy more shells came towards him.
Duoduo and Dudu secretly said that it was not good, and quickly threw themselves on the ground to avoid the shells.
This time, Li Zhi's artillery adjusted the angle of fire according to the previous shot, and the accuracy was much better. At least forty shells landed on Dord's side, smashing into the ground.
Dodor saw a flowering bullet land beside him, but two steps away, crashing into the ground. Duoduo's heart tightened, and he immediately jumped up and ran to the other side. After running five or six paces, Duoduo ran to his horse and let out a long breath.
Duoduo secretly said that he had to lie on the ground to be safe, and quickly fell to the ground.
But as soon as he lay down, he saw that behind the war horse, only two paces away, a gray flowering bullet was firmly sinking into the ground. The fuse of the shell was apparently running out, and black smoke was constantly emitting out.
Dodor's eyes widened, and he was about to roll off into the distance when the flowering bomb exploded.