With Liu Zhaoji, the governor of the left capital, he led the remnants to retreat into Yangzhou City, and started street battles with the Qing army, and most of Yangzhou City fell into the hands of the Qing army. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhu Yousong, the king of Fu, also knew that nothing could be done, and after consulting with the three cabinet ministers, he decided to formally surrender to the Qing army.

The resistance inside the city became sporadic, but the fighting outside the south gate became more and more intense.

Again and again, he was slapped in the face by the Ming army's firearms troops, and Bolo was already angry in his heart.

He now has an army of 50,000 and 15,000 cavalry, but he has been defeated and retreated by hundreds of Ming troops.........

Well, these hundreds of Ming troops are not simple, they not only have repeating firearms in their hands, but also dozens of rapid-fire Fran guns, and the Qing army has no artillery, so it is indeed not an opponent.

But you, less than 2,000, the Ming army that broke through from the city, don't have such firepower!

Can't kill the Ming army that landed, can't you kill the Ming army that broke through?

In order to boost the morale of the army and to be ashamed, Bolo decided to personally lead all the cavalry battalions and launched an attack on Guo Sheng's breakthrough troops.

"It's not good, Master Guo is in danger! Command the fleet and unleash the dragon out of the water! Zhang Chao ordered loudly.

He discovered the intentions of the Qing army, but the new army in Suzhou that landed at this time was still two miles away from Guo Sheng's breakthrough force, and it was blocked by a large number of Qing cavalry in the middle, and the weapons carried by the Suzhou infantry had a range of only 180 meters (Furlong machine gun), which could not be effectively supported at all.

In desperation, Zhang Chao could only use the only long-range weapon on the merchant ship, the fire dragon out of the water.

In the middle of the 16th century, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese invented a new type of rocket, called "Fire Dragon Out of the Water", which is an amphibious rocket in ancient China, and is also the ancestor of the second stage rocket.

"Fire Dragon Out of the Water" It uses coarse bamboo as the bullet body, about five feet (1.66 meters) long, with a wood carved dragon head mounted on the head, under the dragon head, on both sides of the dragon's tail, each containing a powder barrel weighing half a catty.

The four rocket fuses are gathered together and connected with the rocket fuze in the belly of the fire dragon, during the water battle, facing the enemy ship, three or four feet away from the water, ignite the four powder cartridges installed on the dragon's body, this is the first stage of the rocket, it can push the fire dragon to fly two or three miles away, and when the first stage rocket is burned, it will automatically ignite the rocket in the dragon's belly, which is the second stage rocket.

When the second stage of the rocket burns, dozens of sub-rockets are ejected from the dragon's mouth.

The sub-rocket is also equipped with a cartridge, which can reach the target directly under the thrust of the cartridge and detonate the explosives in the cartridge again, causing the enemy ship to burn.

At that time, this kind of weapon was absolutely unique in the world, and it can be described as the most sophisticated anti-ship weapon in ancient times.

At this time, the fleet was nearly three miles away from Guo Sheng's location, which could not only effectively attack the Qing army, but also not worry about accidental injury, which was the best and only effective means of support at present.

Zhang Chao was making preparations for launching the "Fire Dragon Out of the Water", and the Qing army's cavalry battalion had already surrounded Guo Sheng's breakthrough troops.

While urging the war horses and circling around Guo Sheng's troops, the Qing army shot arrows, wanting to weaken the living force of this Ming army layer by layer.

This is the usual combat method of the Qing army, to deal with the enemy army with a consolidated formation, they will use an arc movement method, layer by layer to clean up the enemy's living forces, until the enemy completely collapses, and then take advantage of the situation to rush up and quickly strangle.

The disadvantage of this is that it takes a long time, but the advantage is that it is steady and steady, so that you can change tactics at any time.

Bolo was still too careful, more than 10,000 cavalry, dealing with less than 2,000 infantry, actually used the most conventional and conservative tactics, it can be seen that he is still wary of the Ming army's "shaking gun".

The caution of the Qing army put Guo Sheng in danger, if the other party really swarmed up, it would be good to say, as long as he could entangle the other party and reduce the mobility of the cavalry, Guo Sheng would be able to abandon the more than 1,000 infantry and use the revolver to quickly open up a way out.

In terms of escape, in a short distance, his special combat team is not necessarily worse than the cavalry.

But this Qing army chose to fight steadily.......

Just when Guo Sheng was about to give it a go and lead the whole army to take the initiative to charge towards the opponent's cavalry, not far from the river, hundreds of fiery red points of light suddenly flew out, directly illuminating the almost black sky again.

The points of light quickly approached this side, and when they flew over the Xiaocai camp, these points of light disintegrated again, turning into ten, ten into hundred..........

A few hundred points of light quickly decompose into thousands of points.

Guo Sheng also recognized the flying thing, and shouted excitedly: "It's the fire dragon out of the water!" Brothers, listen to my orders and get ready to charge! ”

As soon as Guo Sheng's voice fell, the "fire dragon out of the water" after completing the decomposition also rushed into the camp of the Qing army's cavalry battalion.

First there was a baptism of "rain of fire", followed by an explosion of cartridge on the rocket.

One, two.........

When thousands of explosions came together, no other sounds could be heard in the entire area..........

In terms of the principle of killing, rocket weapons are divided into two types: poison arrow type and delayed fuze explosion type.

Poison arrows have been killing since ancient times, and the killing kinetic energy lost due to too long distance can be compensated for by poison, and the enemy will be killed after being hit by the arrow.

The time-delay fuze explosion type is similar to today's fireworks "Jumping Monkey", the charge in the rocket is divided into two parts: propellant and explosive charge, which can kill and injure the enemy twice after the enemy is hit by the arrow.

The Suzhou New Army is equipped with this kind of time-delay fuze explosion rocket.

The explosion of gunpowder can instantly break the arrow, and if the flying rocket is inserted into the enemy, the broken arrow will quickly expand the wound and cause greater trauma.

If it falls to the ground, it may be blown up again, forming a secondary killing effect.

Not only that, although the war horses of the Qing army were trained to interfere with firearms, such a huge and continuous explosion sound, even the most well-trained war horses would be greatly frightened.

After being frightened, the war horses do not care whether they are on the battlefield or not, and the consequences of more than 15,000 war horses blowing up the herd, especially in the middle of the army, are incalculable.

Guo Sheng's troops bore the brunt of the attack, because they were the closest, and they were soon ravaged by the rampaging war horses, and in just one stick of incense, more than five hundred were killed and wounded.

This is not the most serious, after all, Guo Sheng and their team only have so many people, and the population base is there, even if they are all wiped out, there are not many people.

The Qing army was stationed here with more than 30,000 people, and most of the horses were still hanging with their comrades-in-arms.

So no matter if a person kills a horse or a horse kills someone, if one is counted as one, the one who dies is the Qing army.

Moreover, the commander of the Qing army, Bolo, died at the first moment of the indiscriminate attack of the "fire dragon out of the water", and the Qing army was even more chaotic under the leaderless group of dragons.

Bolo's death is a good proof of a truth, human beings are all equally vulnerable under the blow of thermal weapons, and in the battle of thermal weapons, the commander should still stay in the rear honestly, and forcibly pretend to be forced, and there is a price to pay.

As for the Suzhou New Army, which launched this wave of devastating blows, as soon as they found out that the war horses were frightened, they opened fire with all their power to prevent the war horses from charging and causing unnecessary damage.

Even so, a few crazy horses rushed into the formation, injuring several people.

It seems that the infantry and cavalry, with the firepower of the new army in Suzhou today (and the firepower of the reinforced battalion), still cannot achieve perfect defense.

But it's hard to say, after all, people and horses have different vitality, and people are always timid and afraid of death...........