"Bang" "Bang" ......, a row of fires flashed from behind the earthen wall, and some of the Qing soldiers who rushed to the front were as if they had been hit head-on by a big hammer, first beat them, stopped there, and then fell to the ground as soon as their legs were weak. However, the loss was expected. More Qing soldiers also rushed over, and the front were some lightly armed infantry without armor, these soldiers were actually clothed slaves, and in this battle, their main task was to be cannon fodder, rushing to the front to attract firepower.

Although the reload time of the rearquebus is much faster than that of the arquebus, the firepower density is still not comparable to that of the later rearloading guns or even automatic firearms. Although the method of rotation fire was adopted, such firepower alone could not prevent the enemy from continuing to approach. If the artillery can join in, it can be intercepted layer by layer with grenades and shotguns, it can easily block them, but now the artillery is all carrying out counter-battery tasks, concentrating their firepower to attack the artillery of the Qing army, and they can't free up their hands for a while.

After throwing down hundreds of corpses, the Qing army approached the barbed wire fence in the belly of the snake. Someone in the back worked together to move a large wooden plank that was more than two zhang long and one zhang wide, and then the Qing soldiers erected the plank in front of the barbed wire. This action was quite conspicuous, so it immediately attracted the platoon of guns of the model army, and several coats carrying the planks were knocked to the ground, and the planks naturally toppled over. A group of Qing soldiers had also set up their muskets and fired a salvo at the earthen wall. This kind of counter-shooting, of course, was very unfavorable to the Qing army. This is not only because the muskets of the Qing army were far inferior to the model army in terms of performance. (In previous battles, the Qing army also received some model army flintlock pistols, and even rifled guns used by stragglers.) Soldiers of the Model Army were also captured. Huang Taiji specially issued an order to ask the Ministry of Industry to imitate it. Although they had heard from the captives that the barrel was drilled, the process of forging and drilling holes was still too difficult for the Manchus, especially when it came to rifling. In the end, the flintlock pistol imitated by the Manchu Qing Dynasty still used a rolled wrought iron barrel. It's just that in order to ensure the power, the thickness of the barrel was increased, so as to be comparable to the musket of the model army in terms of power, and of course the weight of the musket was much higher than that of the model army, so that it needed to be supported by a bracket when shooting. As for the rifled guns, of course, they are even more useless, but they have copied the Mini bullets, and the captured rifled guns are not worried about running out of bullets. All the more because the musketeers of the Model Army were hiding behind earthen walls, with only one head exposed, and the targets were much smaller, while the Qing soldiers were exposed in the open field.

But their salvo still had a somewhat suppressive effect. Take advantage of the time of their salvo. Some of the bannermen rushed forward and lifted the fallen planks back up, (at this time, Bao Yi or something would not rush up to do this by himself, and in the chaos of the battlefield, the Overseers did not have time to drive them to death with knives - with this time, the Model Army did not know how many people to kill.) Then he pushed the plank down in the direction of the barbed wire fence in the snake's belly.

The snake-bellied barbed wire is supported by the elasticity of the wire itself, and of course it cannot bear such a heavy plank. The planks fell, pushing down the barbed wire fence in the belly of the snake, and a passage appeared. Almost at the same time, several planks were pressed against the barbed wire in several other directions, and several gaps appeared in the first barbed wire at once. Qing soldiers immediately swarmed in from those gaps.

However, as a classic defensive facility, the biggest role of barbed wire is not necessarily to block the opponent, but to make the opponent have to concentrate manpower in a few areas, so that the defender's weapons can play the most effective.

At the same time that the Qing army opened the passage from the barbed wire, the artillery of the Model Army was suppressing the artillery of the Qing army with firepower. The Qing army quietly moved a lot of artillery, large and small, to a fairly close distance. This made the efficiency of their fire support quite a bit more efficient. But on the other hand, they were completely exposed to the fire of the Model Army. In this era, most artillery units did not have too strong counter-battery capabilities, because it was very difficult for solid shells to accurately hit the opponent's gun position. Instead of shooting at such a target, it is better to shoot directly at the enemy's marching column. But the Model Army is a special case, as they are armed with shrapnel that was ahead of their time. They can attack targets with area coverage. As soon as the artillery of the Qing army fired two rounds of artillery, the artillery of the model army had already aimed at the target, set the parameters, and covered the artillery positions of the Qing army with shrapnel shells.

However, the Qing army was not defenseless, and the Qing army had seen the model army's shrapnel. Naturally, we know that shrapnel is the biggest threat. So before dawn, they quietly dug a few pits next to the cannon to hide, and prepared a thick cover plate when they found the model army firing the cannon. They jumped into the pit without hesitation, no matter what they were doing, and at the same time put the cover on their heads.

The distance between the two sides was not far, and even taking into account the low velocity and curved trajectory of the shrapnel, the artillery of the Qing army had only two or three seconds to react. Therefore, although there were preparations, under the cover of the model army's shrapnel, many Qing troops who could not dodge were still killed and wounded.

According to the original idea of the Qing army, after the model army finished a round, the Qing army drilled out of the bulletproof hole and continued to fire at the target of the model army. However, the Qing army soon found that this idea could not be implemented at all, because in the absence of the supervision of the white armor supervising the battle, none of these artillerymen were willing to drill out of the anti-artillery hole, and the people who supervised the battle had to open the cover before they were willing to come out of the hole, and when the white armor who supervised the battle came out of the hole by himself, he called everyone out, and then, before he could prepare to fire, the cannonballs on the opposite side came again. In fact, at this time, there were only one or two cannons firing at them. Because the distance between the cannons of the Qing army was relatively large, the shells fired by one or two cannons were not enough to cover all the artillery positions of the Qing army, but the Qing army did not know who these two shells were fired at. Therefore, as soon as they saw smoke rising from the gun barrier opposite, they immediately abandoned everything and jumped into the gun hole. As a result, with only two cannons, the artillery of the Model Army basically suppressed all the artillery fire of the Qing army.

Naturally, the other artillery began to shift their fire, and they all aimed at the gaps in the barbed wire. At this time, the Qing army in these gaps was also facing another thing they did not expect - landmines.

With the fire pipe, mines are not a particularly high-tech thing. Children's shoes who have watched the domestic science and education film "Mine Warfare" know how simple the mine is. The militia of Zhaozhuang, find a few stonemasons, make a stone, dig a hole in it, and then stuff it with black. Fire. medicine, and then installed a fire hydrant to create a land mine. As for the power, as long as the gunpowder is stuffed too much, it can still make the Japanese devils sit on the Turkish plane. The mines in the hands of the model army even surpassed the Zhaozhuang militia in terms of technical level, and they at least used porcelain mines made in a standardized manner. The structure of the mine is no different from the land mine in Zhaozhuang, but the power is generally smaller, and generally speaking, stepping on it is just blowing off a leg. This is certainly not out of so-called humanitarian considerations, nor is it the same as those of later generations, the consideration is that a wounded man needs several soldiers to be sent down, and their wailing along the way can be a heavy blow to the morale of the other side. In this era, there is no such thing, for those injuries and illnesses that have broken their legs and have no combat effectiveness, the common practice is to directly give them a knife, instead of occupying manpower to send them down and letting them wail all the way, not to mention occupying any medical resources. Therefore, the mine reduction charge of the model army actually has only one purpose, and that is to reduce costs. After all, in the era when there was no synthetic ammonia, gunpowder was not cheap.

The Qing troops who rushed from the gap were immediately blown up by the mines, and one person turned on his back. The Qing soldiers who were blown up fell to the ground with their broken legs and wailed loudly, and the other Qing soldiers were frightened for a while, and they stopped their steps and did not dare to move forward. The Qing army behind didn't know what was going on, and they rushed towards the gap. For a while, the gap area was crowded with people.

"Rush forward! You can't stop here, stop here and die! A Zhang Jing shouted. But almost at this moment, a 12-pound iron ball flew straight towards here.

According to the tests of the Model Army, a solid shell fired from a 12-pounder gun should have penetrated an entire company of marching columns at this distance, and this shell now confirms this. This iron ball easily opened a bloody alley in the crowd, knocking the crowd through each other. On its route, there were severed arms and stumps everywhere, and at least thirty or forty corpses lay on the ground. At this moment, the artillery proved that it really deserves the title of "Lord of War".

As for the shouting Zhang Jing, the cannonball flew past his waist, the double armor was torn to pieces like a piece of paper, Zhang Jing was stopped and beaten into two pieces, and his upper body fell more than ten steps away from where he was standing.

At this time, the soldiers of the Model Army fired another volley at the side of the gap, and immediately knocked down dozens of people. The rest of the people were suddenly in a mess, some people desperately tried to rush forward, and then they were killed by the platoon gun, or stepped on a mine, broke their legs, fell to the ground and wailed, and some people were dizzy and wanted to run back, and then collided head-on with those who rushed inside, and then thought they were blocked together and were knocked down by shells or platoon guns. Others, simply lie down and pretend to be dead when people are unprepared, but this is not safe, because if you lie down in the wrong place, you will be trampled to death by people running around.

However, more planks were laid up, more worthless coats were driven in, and the Qing army, despite heavy casualties, still approached the earthen wall step by step.

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