After the cavalry of the Eight Banners rushed out of the drawbridge, the artillery of the Chu army stopped firing, waiting for the companions to complete the loading, in the face of the scattered cavalry, one or two cannons could not play much role, only a salvo could exert the greatest power.

Combined with the experience of later generations, Wang Kefan personally guided the development of the salvo tactics of the Chu army's artillery, in which multiple artillery pieces fired together to hit the same target. The first rejecting rifle is the target position set in advance, with the middle of the rejecting rifle as a reference, it was calculated and numbered at the time of the first test firing, and when the Qing army entered the target position, all the artillery aimed at the numbered target and fired, which greatly simplified the fire control procedure.

It is for this reason that the artillery of the Chu army was able to adjust its target in a matter of minutes, and it hit so accurately!

This type of shelling does not carry out traditional test firing, and the first shell of each gun is an effective fire.

Although Wang Kefan has never been an artilleryman, he still knows the basic theory: for artillery, the first wave of artillery bombardment is the most powerful, and the Chu artillery canceled the test firing, which can ensure the suddenness of the fire strike and achieve the greatest results. In this way, the accuracy of a single gun will be reduced, but the problem of too concentrated impact points will be avoided, because the different errors of each gun will form an overall coverage of the barrage around the target!

According to Wang Kefan's order, the Chu artillery used a five-second countdown before the salvo, so the cannon sound sounded almost at the same time, and the entire artillery position was immediately shrouded in white smoke, and the results of this round of salvo could not be seen.

However, the Ming troops in other positions saw it very clearly, and nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers cheered together!

The first rejecting rifle was the reference, more than a dozen shells flew in this direction, and more than 400 cavalrymen of the Eight Banners were blocking in front of the rejecting rifle, and they were immediately smashed by the cannonballs.

Barrage!

Solid shells are different from flowering shells. It was impossible to form a real barrage effect, but the shells of the Chu army became scattered due to errors, and they turned into a barrage!

This is the power of a salvo, even if it is a solid bullet that cannot explode, as long as a dozen shells are connected together, the lethality is extremely amazing!

The cavalry of the Qing army dared to charge the artillery position, that is, relying on the flexible maneuver of the war horse, hundreds of cavalry scattered, and the cannon could not hurt a few people, but more than a dozen shells flew together. They suddenly find that there is no way to hide.

"Bang!"

A war horse was hit head-on by a three-pound cannonball, and the strong horse's chest suddenly collapsed inward, and the cannonball tore through the horse's body and drilled out from the side of the abdomen, and the horse's body was split into several halves, and broken bones and flesh rose to the sky. The Eight Banners on horseback were bounced high into the air.

The shell was still alive and hit another Eight Banners cavalryman. Smash half of his body straight away. Falling backwards on the horse's back, but his legs are still in the stirrups, looking like an eerie rag doll.

At this time, the Eight Banners soldier who was ejected fell to the ground, blood kept coming out of his mouth, and he wanted to call for help but couldn't make a sound. There was a broken bone of a war horse stuck in his chest, and he didn't think he would live long.

Solid shells don't explode, so there's no such thing as a kill radius, but that's because shells don't explode. Kinetic energy can be maintained for long distances, and after landing, it will still bounce again, causing second and third kills. More than a dozen shells plowed more than a dozen flesh alleys in the Qing army's camp, and the change of direction after the catapult landed made the Eight Banners unable to defend themselves, and suffered heavy casualties.

Na Aliha Chao Hazhangjing was experienced, and when he saw more than a dozen cannons of the Ming army firing together, he jumped off his horse at the first time and squatted on the ground to avoid this shelling.

But the heavy casualties of his subordinates made him so shocked and angry that he was so distressed that he almost vomited blood.

After fighting in Liaodong for more than 20 years, he was very familiar with artillery, and was often bombarded by the Ming army with artillery in his early years, and later often bombarded the Ming army with artillery, and he had rich experience in attack and defense, and was convinced that the cavalry charge was a powerful means to crack the artillery, so he would take hundreds of Aliha Chaoha soldiers to the artillery position of the Ming army.

He thought of the situations that he might encounter during the charge, intercepted by the infantry of the Ming army, intercepted by the cavalry of the Ming army, intercepted by the archers and firecrackers of the Ming army, and ...... he had countermeasures for various situations, but he didn't expect to be attacked head-on by the Ming artillery!

How did the Ming army do it?!

After fighting for half a lifetime, I have never seen a cannon used as a bird's gun, and the effect of firing a volley of guns at close range completely exceeds the experience of Aliha Chao Hazhangjing.

Even the Heavenly Blessing Soldiers and Heavenly Aid Soldiers, who are the best at using artillery, don't have this ability!

"There are high-ranking people in the army of the Southern Barbarians!" Aliha Chao Hazhangjing can be sure that the basic skills of the Ming army's artillery are very ordinary, which is obviously a lot worse than the Tianyou soldiers and the Tianzhu soldiers, and they can exert the power of the cannon to this kind of process, they must have adopted an advanced tactic!

As a result, the Qing army suffered heavy losses.

Aliha Chao Ha Zhangjing swept his eyes, the dead and wounded soldiers and war horses should be about seventy or eighty people, that is to say, more than 400 Aliha Chao Ha soldiers lost two percent, under normal circumstances, after this kind of battle loss ratio should be stopped immediately to avoid greater casualties.

But now is not the time to stop the charge!

No matter what advanced tactics the Ming army used, their artillery had just finished firing, and it took half a column of incense to reload, and at this time, when they rushed forward in time, the Ming army's artillery had no chance to fire again.

Rush!

Aliha Chao Hazhangjing turned on his horse, brandished the tiger tooth knife and whistled repeatedly, and led the remaining more than 300 Eight Banner cavalry to charge again.

There are no immortals in the battle, and the loss of nearly 100 men and horses is nothing, the key is that it was bombarded by the artillery of the Ming army this time, and it took a lot of time. However, Aliha Chao Hazhangjing found that the other units of the Ming army were very slow to react, and they did not come to support in time when the Eight Banners cavalry was overwhelmed by artillery.

This situation is normal, except for the elite soldiers of a hundred battles, most armies will make some low-level mistakes on the battlefield, as long as you catch this low-level mistake, you can defeat the enemy in one fell swoop!

Keep rushing!

Aliha Chao Hazhangjing believes that as long as he grits his teeth and rushes forward, he can still turn defeat into victory.

In front was a patch of wooden antlers, with some thistles sprinkled in the middle of the antlers, which were a very common barricade and an obstacle for charging cavalry. Fortunately, the antlers of the Ming army looked very rough and sparsely arranged, and with the excellent riding skills of the Aliha Chaoha soldiers, as long as you were careful, you could calmly pass through the antler formation.

"It was probably made overnight, and the southern barbarians are a little light." When Aliha Chao Hazhangjing was inspecting the enemy situation on the city wall, he discovered this flaw. The Ming army obviously underestimated the riding skills of the Aliha Chaoha soldiers, and the antler array was set up a little sloppy, if it was replaced by ordinary cavalry, the antler formation of Tongguò would definitely be a little troublesome, but for the Aliha Chaoha soldiers, it was a breeze.

Above!

When they received the order to charge again, they immediately got rid of the shadow of the shelling, and became more fierce and fierce, more than 300 people rushed to the antlers with a roar, to kill the artillery position of the Ming army at the first time, and to break the corpses of those Nanban who fired the cannon into thousands of pieces, and avenge the dead and wounded comrades.

Several antlers were connected together, and there were iron thistles scattered in the open space between the antlers, but Aliha Chaoha soldiers flexibly controlled the war horse, accurately found the foothold in various obstacles, and rushed into the antler formation like a light dancer dancing on the tip of a knife.

The last antlers are also the most dense, you need to dismount to move them away, more than twenty steps behind the antlers, there is also a row of musketeers of the Ming army, shooting at the Aliha Chaoha soldiers, but the Aliha Chaoha soldiers are not afraid, they are all wearing the cotton armor of special fire rifles, as long as they are not hit by the birds, they will not be seriously injured.

Aliha Chao Ha soldiers immediately returned fire with bows and arrows, more than a dozen people in front of them dismounted to move the antlers, as long as the last antlers were removed, they could rush up and kill those Ming soldiers at will, Aliha Chao Ha Zhangjing also loudly reminded his subordinates at the same time, do not rush to chase and kill those musketeers, first go to destroy the artillery of the Ming army.

The Ming army on the opposite side looked a little strange, seeing that the antlers were about to be removed at the end, they did not turn around and run away, but leaned over and lit something, and when more than two dozen fuses rattled and sparked, Ali Hachao Ha Zhangjing's face changed suddenly.

"Retreat! There are earth mines! ”

Mines are mines, the press-fired mines of the Ming Dynasty are not very reliable, but the mines with fuses have already appeared!

The soldiers reacted and wanted to turn their horses' heads and withdraw from the antlers, but when they came in, they had to exert a lot of effort and could not suddenly turn back.

You squeeze me, I squeeze you, the sound of the fuse is getting closer and closer, but the Aliha Chaoha soldiers did not withdraw a few, and they only found out at this time that the open space left in front of the last antlers was a trap set by the Ming army a long time ago!

Dismount!

There was only one way for the Aleha Chaoha soldiers, and they jumped off their horses and fled on foot to the outside of the antlers, but the fuse was faster than them, and sparks chased up from behind their butts, rushing into the antlers under their feet, and detonating the mines buried under the antlers!

"Boom, boom!"

Shrapnel is flying all over the sky, the smashed antlers have also become a weapon to hurt people, these mines are the latest products of the Chu Army Repair Institute, although they can only be exploded with a fuse, but they are filled with a large number of iron sand shrapnel, full of lethality, although the body of Aliha Chaoha soldiers is wearing armor, but the two legs and the soles of the feet are weak links, no matter how strong the boots can not stop the shrapnel, a large number of Qing soldiers were injured in the lower body, rolling around on the ground, a scream and wail.

More than 20 mines covered the open space in the middle of the antler array, and almost all of the nearly 100 Qing soldiers here were wounded, and more than a dozen were directly killed.

At this time, the musketeers of the Ming army fell into the well, fired another volley of guns at the Qing army, and then turned and retreated. (To be continued......)