Chapter 242: Xinhui Fights Back
Overwhelming rockets were fired into the camp of the Qing army, setting fire to the tents that had not yet had time to be dismantled, igniting the carts that had already been loaded with grain and grass, and setting fire to the tents that had been folded and loaded on the carts. Some of the arrows www.biquge.info the pen and some of the arrows hit the Qing soldiers who were scrambling to pack their luggage. Many people were hit by arrows and fell screaming.
"Enemy attack!" The Qing soldiers, who were preparing to withdraw their troops, were stunned by the sudden attack.
Lucker was shocked: "Why did the barbarian man come from the side?" How did they get out of the city? ”
Kong Sizhen said: "Lord Wang, it's all a slave's dereliction of duty!" We neglected the barbarian sailors! They definitely landed with a water division! ”
The Qing army camp was already in chaos, and the Qing army, which was preparing to retreat, was suddenly attacked by the Ming army, and all the Qing soldiers had no intention of fighting, and everyone only wanted to escape as soon as possible. For a time, the Qing army's camp was in chaos, and the original retreat turned into a rout.
Finding a batch of chaos in the Qing army camp, Shang Zhixin was overjoyed: Isn't this the credit of sending it to the door? So he drew his golden sword and shouted, "Brothers, go on! Kill all the dog tartars! ”
With the help of firelight, Shang Zhixin's soldiers were pleasantly surprised to find that many tents of the Qing army had been put away and placed on carts, and they were set on fire; The wooden fences in many places around the camp have been pulled down, and the carts are loaded with grain, grass and military supplies, and it is obvious that the Qing army is preparing to retreat.
Originally, it was intended to secretly withdraw the troops, but when they were attacked, it inevitably caused chaos.
"Explode!" Shang Zhixiao, who attacked from the other side, shouted.
Several pro-soldiers took gunpowder bags provided by the Qiongzhou army, placed them under the wooden fence, lit the fuse and quickly evacuated.
This kind of gunpowder bag is made of granular gunpowder, which is doped with a little xiaohua glycerin, which has a certain degree of fierceness, and then wrapped in thick kraft paper layer by layer, because it is sealed strongly, although the power is not as good as the explosive bag of later generations, but it is much stronger than the general gunpowder bag that can only burn but not explode in this era.
The "boom" gunpowder pack exploded violently, causing a large fire and the wooden fence to pieces.
The soldiers of the Pingnan Wangfu rushed into the camp, brandishing various weapons and beckoning to the heads of the Qing soldiers who were in a mess. In the fire-filled camp, the sound of shouting and killing shook the sky, and the Pingnan Wangfu army slashed and killed the Qing soldiers who were holding their heads and scurrying to their heart's content, and from time to time threw a grenade to the most densely populated place.
Although the Pingnan Wangfu Army was the cannon fodder of the Qiongzhou Army, Wang Xinyu also generously equipped some elite soldiers with grenades to strengthen their attack power.
"Shang Zhixiao Xiao'er has already attacked! Let's kill it! Don't fall behind that little one! Shang Zhixin brandished the golden sword, opened his voice and roared hoarsely.
Shang Zhixin's soldiers also blew open a section of wooden fence and poured into the Qing army camp, first throwing a row of grenades, and then brandishing broadswords and spears into the chaotic crowd of Qing soldiers. On the one hand, the army will be defeated, and on the other hand, it will be fought in formation, and the result can be imagined in the era of cold weapons.
The Qing soldiers were powerless to resist at all, and only a few people who were left behind occasionally turned their heads in order to save their lives, and they were chopped into meat puree as soon as they waved their weapons to resist a few times.
The sound of shouting and killing and the sound of knives and guns entering the flesh converged into one body, and the sound spread all over the world, which was enough to be heard clearly in Xinhui City not far away. There were so many corpses on the ground that every time they took a step forward, the soldiers of the Pingnan Royal Mansion had to step over two or three corpses before they could take a step forward. The fire in the camp ignited by torches and rockets was raging, the camp was almost completely stained red with flesh and blood, and the air was filled with a disgusting stench of blood and charred corpses.
For the Qing army, it was simply a disaster, and the Jingnan Wangfu army in Fujian followed into the Qing army camp, and the Jingnan Wangfu army, which was equipped with a large number of birds and bows and arrows, followed behind the Pingnan Wangfu army, constantly outputting long-range firepower and shooting the Qing soldiers fleeing in all directions. The sound of guns roared, smoke curled, and the Qing soldiers who turned their backs to the Ming army were beaten into a hornet's nest one after another.
The archers hoisted locust-like feathered arrows, crossed the crowd of Qing troops, and plunged into the crowd in front of them, creating even greater confusion for the chaotic Qing army.
In Xinhui City, the city gate suddenly opened, only to hear the earth-shaking shout, the cavalry with torches poured out of the city, and slowly rode forward to the Qing army camp not far away.
In order to save horsepower, the cavalry did not attack immediately after leaving the city, but dismounted, holding the reins in one hand and the torch in the other, leading the horse to advance step by step. Two miles, a quarter of an hour's walk. When they were about to arrive in front of the Qing army, the sky was already dark. In the camp of the Qing army, the flames were soaring, and the fire illuminated the morning fog and filled the choking white smoke.
"Throw the torch and get on the horse! Prepare for the impact! Wang Zihao roared.
A thousand ironclad cavalrymen stepped onto the Don hippos, which were also clad in iron armor and with anti-arrow curtains, and waved their whips, and the speed of the horses slowly increased.
On both wings, the king's [auxiliary] ministers' fine horsemen were also mounted. This fine cavalry is different from the iron cavalry, the so-called elite cavalry is also used by the Don hippopotamus, and the war horse is also covered with horse armor, but it is a relatively light rattan armor, and the front of the war horse is also covered with an arrow curtain, and the cavalry wears cotton armor and rattan armor, because the weight of the full set of armor is lighter, although the protective ability is not as good as the iron cavalry, but the elite cavalry is much faster than the iron cavalry in terms of endurance and speed.
At the front of the elite cavalry, there are the king's [auxiliary] ministers and fifty lance cavalry, the lance cavalry is the most elite cavalry in the elite cavalry, the use of expensive and priceless horse lance, even if it encounters pikemen, the lance cavalry can also hit the pikemen formation head-on, with the horse lance in their hands longer than the spear, can break through the formation of pikemen.
The lance rider is also a rattan armor, but it is the most sophisticated Guizhou rattan armor, and the protection of this rattan armor is not lost to the iron armor at all, but the weight is much lighter. Every lance rider, the war horse under the crotch is the most expensive Arabian horse, the horse lance is worth two thousand taels of silver, a full set of armor, a horse lance, a war horse, plus a rifled firing needle type thunderbolt short gun, the price of a lance rider has reached a high price of more than five thousand taels of silver!
The sound of horses' hooves rumbled, and Wang Zihao's heavily armed iron cavalry had already stepped into the Qing army camp. A thousand heavy cavalry, like a lawnmower, trampled through the crowd of the Qing army, plowing a bloody path at once. Everywhere I went, there were mutilated, even trampled corpses.
The heavy cavalry rushed back and forth, and the Qing soldiers who fled in all directions were either knocked out or trampled under the iron hooves. The heavy cavalry directly stepped on the cart that had fallen to the ground, stepped on the corpses of mules and horses, and collided with the running Qing soldiers.
Everywhere they passed, the Qing troops fell to the ground one after another, the horses' hooves stepped down, the intestines were rotten, and there was a blood splash.
A Qing soldier turned around and shot feather arrows at the steel monster that rushed over, but the bow and arrow shot at the iron knight, like a naughty child throwing a small stone at an iron plate, and the feather arrow hit the iron armor and was bounced away.
The Don hippopotamus' large body, great weight-bearing capacity, and good endurance allowed them to carry heavy cavalry and run as fast as light cavalry. The Asians of this era were shorter and weigher than the Europeans, and the Donhippopotamus was still good in speed and endurance with full armor. It's just that the heavy cavalry still can't run for a long time, and after charging back and forth a few times, the horsepower is exhausted, and then the heavy cavalry temporarily breaks the time, and it is the turn of the elite cavalry to play.
Wang [Fu] Chen's two thousand elite cavalry of the vine armor rushed in, although the protection and impact of the cavalry were not as good as the heavy armor iron cavalry, they could still easily defend against bows and arrows, and the impact speed of the vine armor elite cavalry was extremely fast, and the staying power was much better.
The speed and endurance of the elite cavalry were comparable to that of real light cavalry, and the two thousand elite cavalry rushed into the crowd of the Qing army, like a non-stop killing machine, constantly rushing back and forth.
The dragoons on both flanks dismounted and fired from a distance with muskets to assist the elite cavalry in charging into battle.
"Formation! Formation! Wang Yongnian shouted hoarsely, "Don't mess up!" Spearmen form a formation to stop the enemy! Otherwise, none of us will be able to escape! ”
Most of the Qing soldiers were scattered, and Wang Yongnian only gathered more than 500 elites, including 300 pikemen. After the infantry is defeated, they can't outrun the cavalry, they only know how to blindly escape, and the final result is the annihilation of the whole army. Wang Yongnian knew this very well, so he gathered three hundred pikemen and tried to form a formation to block it.
It's a pity that the first to rush up was not the rattan armor cavalry of Wang [Fu] Chen, but a group of dragoons.
The dragoons, riding Mongolian horses, rushed to a distance of about fifty paces in front of the Qing army, and then stopped their advance. The dragoons turned over and dismounted, took their muskets from their backs, and fired at the Qing army.
The muskets roared, and the Qing soldiers sprayed blood mist one after another, and a large piece fell immediately.
"Sword and shield in hand!" Wang Yongnian shouted.
More than 200 Qing saber and shield men rushed out, taking advantage of the opportunity that the Ming dragoons had no time to reload after a round of bullets, and rushed over. Who knew that the dragoons did not fall in love with the battle, but they got on their horses one after another, turned around and left, and did not give the Qing saber and shield bearers a chance to get close to them for hand-to-hand combat.
The dragoons withdrew some distance and dismounted again to reload. However, Wang [Fu] Chen did not give the dragoons another chance to grab their own credit, and he took fifty lance cavalry to directly attack the Qing army's pikemen.
There were only more than 100 pikemen left in the remnants of the Qing army, and under the pressure of Wang Yongnian's bullets, they formed a repelling horse and gun formation. Who knew that the cavalry of the Ming army was not afraid of the pikemen in formation, and directly rode their horses to rush towards the pikemen of the Qing army who had formed a formation to resist the horse and pistol.
The most elite cavalry of the vine armor accelerated and slowed down again before approaching the formation of the Qing army's pikemen, and the horse lances, which were longer than the infantry spears, pointed forward. Just before the lance cavalry was about to crash into the rejection rifle formation, all the horse lances stabbed out and crashed into the Qing soldiers.
The impact of the horse lance caused the Qing soldiers' pikemen to fly out one after another, and the horse lance also bent into a circle. Because of the strength of the horse, the cavalry completed the final slowdown and did not hit the repulsor pistol stuck in the ground.
The bent horse lance bounced straight under the action of elastic force, and the cavalry picked up the horse rejection rifle on the ground with his hand, and used the horse lance to pick up the horse rejection gun inserted in the ground and flew out one after another. Then the cavalry turned and left, ready to turn back and charge again. (To be continued.) )