Chapter 163: Field Artillery Strikes

At the sound of the order, the hum of the bowstring being released, the clatter of the crossbow, the thud of the musket shooting, and the whirring of swarthy bombs across the air sounded almost simultaneously.

Thousands of arrows, countless projectiles, and hundreds of small bombs all fell into the dense crowd of Qing troops without accident.

With this dense formation, there is no need to aim at all. Every arrow will almost hit a Qing soldier, and some Qing soldiers are a little unlucky, and their whole bodies are instantly pierced into hedgehogs, and they hang up without saying a word. Such a dense rain of arrows suddenly created many vacancies in the dense formation of the Qing army.

Although the range of arquebuses and flintlock pistols is not good, and the accuracy is not very good, the power of such a close-range shot is definitely enough for the Qing army to drink. Countless projectiles were strongly sprayed out by the burning gunpowder, and a large area of Qing troops suddenly fell backwards with their faces covered with blood, and the howls of pain were like ghosts.

Even more powerful were the small bombs dropped by the grenadiers at close range. These bombs are made of pottery and iron, but without exception, they explode after landing, and countless small iron nails, thistles terrestris, and even pepper noodles and other fillers are all splashed around under the effect of gunpowder.

Every time a bomb fell, there was a large number of Qing troops who were unlucky and screamed. Some people covered their faces covered with iron nails and thistles, and some people covered their eyes that were smoked by pepper noodles and bumped around.

Moreover, the body of these small bombs themselves will also have great lethality to the surrounding creatures after being shattered, and even some broken porcelain pieces and broken iron sheets that fly at high speed because of the explosion will cut people's throats in an instant, cut people's trachea, and make people's necks spurt blood wildly and die quickly.

And these high-speed flying fragments will even directly cut through the armor of the Qing army and pierce their hearts.

Under the sudden attack of the Jiang army's various long-range weapons, the Qing army suffered heavy casualties in an instant, and the more than 10,000 former troops actually lost more than 30% in a short period of time.

This huge loss and fierce blow made the original turbulent offensive of the Qing army suddenly contained, and many Qing troops in the front army were blinded by this sudden and fierce blow.

Many people were horrified when they saw the tragic situation of their comrades around them, and the courage they had plucked up quickly passed away, and they began to turn around and run back. The people behind did not receive the order to retreat, and there were full eight banners behind them, so they could only continue to squeeze forward.

The two sides clashed, and some Qing soldiers even had red eyes, as long as someone stood in front of them, they directly drew their knives and cut them over.

This soon caused confusion, and it began to get worse.

The Jiang army behind him seized the opportunity and quickly slaughtered the Qing army that had broken into the array, and re-stabilized the defensive line.

The long-range attack troops were still projecting various long-range firepower into the Qing army's array, which caused the chaos of the Qing army to become more serious, and the little morale that the Qing army had just mustered up was rapidly passing away, sliding towards the brink of collapse.

Dolgon, who was watching the battle from the rear, saw that the originally good situation was suddenly reversed by the Jiang family's army, his face suddenly became gloomy, and he urgently ordered the Manba Banner to press, and continued to force the Han Eight Banners to turn around and charge.

Dolgon has been fighting for many years, and he deeply understands that if he allows the front army to rout at this time, let alone win this battle, even his own Chinese army will be disrupted by these routs, which will give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of.

The Manbaqi behind the formation received the order and scolded sharply, allowing the soldiers of the Han Baqi who turned around and fled back to charge again, and even directly mobilized archers to pour arrow rain on the Han Baqi in front.

And as long as there are soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty who are returned, there are soldiers of the Eight Banners who rush forward and cut off the heads with a knife.

Under this kind of strong suppression, the Qing army, which was in a dilemma, turned around and continued to charge again towards the Jiang army's large array.

It's just that after the thrill just now, those Jiang family army recruits who were originally a little afraid and timid seemed to have grown all of a sudden, their hands began to become calm, their eyes became firm, and their hearts became harder, guarding the defense line tightly, making the re-charge of these Qing troops who had already lost their courage futile again.

The pressure before and after turned the front and rear of the Qing army into a meat sandwich bun, and the formation that had been sparse because of the counterattack of the Jiang family army just now became dense again.

Jiang Chuan stood on top of the cloud car, looking at all this through the clairvoyant mirror, a cold smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, put down the clairvoyant mirror and said in a deep voice: "The artillery can move." ”

Li Han, the captain of the Shenji Battalion, who had been waiting to see the power of these field guns, had long been staring at the flag on the Chinese army's side, and when he saw that the flag was for him to open the cannon, he was extremely excited, and he felt hot all over, so he tore off his shirt and ran to the back of a field gun next to him, holding a torch and shouting: "Open the gun!" ”

Then he personally lit the arquebus at the end of the field gun in front of him with a torch.

Boom, boom, a hundred field guns rang out at the same time, and suddenly a cloud of white smoke filled the air, submerging the entire artillery position.

With a whistling sound, a hundred flowering bullets crossed a graceful parabola in the air and smashed into the dense crowd of the Qing army.

Boom, boom, the dense crowd of the Qing army burst into flames one after another, and the firelight flashed where a group of people turned on their backs.

Field artillery is inherently suitable for dealing with infantry, especially with this dense formation, there really is nothing more suitable than flowering shells.

The little courage left of the Qing army's front army was completely drowned out by these hundred flowering bullets in an instant.

Many people could no longer care about the arrows and butcher knives of the Eight Banners in the back, so they shouted and turned around and ran backwards.

There are also smarter ones who run to the left and right.

The entire Qing army completely collapsed at this time.

Of course, the artillery of the Jiang family army would not let them flee like this, and the second round of shells fell into the fleeing Qing army after a loud bang, and many broken arms and stumps flew all over the sky in the flash of fire.

These shells added even more confusion to the already chaotic Qing army, and many people threw down their weapons and scurried in all directions like headless flies.

At this time, when Jiang Chuan was about to order the infantry to pursue, he had not spoken beside him, but Hu Zongxian, who had a melancholy face, muttered: "It's time for the cavalry to drive the sheep into the pen." ”

Jiang Chuan's heart moved, and he instantly understood what he meant, and immediately ordered: "The cavalry on both wings will be dispatched to drive the Qing army to its own position." ”

Behind him, the flag soldiers quickly waved the flag, and at the same time, the war drums suddenly sounded.

The cavalry on the two wings that received the order immediately divided half of their men and horses, and surrounded the Qing army on both sides under the leadership of Di Qing and Ran Wu respectively.

(End of chapter)

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