Chapter 62: The Battle of Chongming Island (4)

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However, the arrangement of guns pays attention to the intensive killing effect, and most of the soldiers are concentrated together, and once they are hit, the losses are also very serious.

The most odious thing is that the Qing army used the tactic of rattan soldiers, which seriously affected the fairness of the shooting.

"We have to break their rattan soldiers, otherwise we will always be in a situation of being beaten passively." Qi Zhifeng's staff reminded him.

"It's a pity that the chariot battalion still needs time to line up, otherwise how can the little rattan soldiers be presumptuous!" Someone sighed.

The firearms soldiers used the standing pile fighting method, but the opposite side also used the standing pile fighting method to fight back, and shamelessly used the rattan soldier tactics, which made the generals of the Qi family army angry, and they couldn't wait to launch the chariot battalion now and give the enemy a more shameless way to play.

"Send out the trapping camp, give me fifty meters close to the enemy, throw grenades, and blow up their rattan soldiers!" Qi Zhifeng commanded.

Originally, he didn't want to take out the killer weapon of grenades too early, according to his idea, wait for the other party to send a large army to charge, rush to about 30 meters in front, and then tens of thousands of grenades explode together, so as to have a strong shock and killing effect.

But now, our own army has lost one or two hundred people in a short period of time, and everyone is a new soldier, so there are too many losses in the first battle, and it is easy to cause a complete collapse.

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Qi Zhifeng had to show his killer weapon in advance.

Fifty meters is the regular distance for throwing grenades, and as for sixty or seventy meters, there are people who can do it, but the number is very small.

The two hundred soldiers of the trapped camp, about ten meters apart from each other, pulled out a long line of skirmishers, rushed out of the mandarin duck formation with their waists, and slowly approached the enemy camp.

Inevitably injured by mistake, Qi Zhifeng even ordered the whole army to stop shooting.

Anyway, the shooting effect is not obvious, so it is better to take advantage of this gap to reload ammunition, or concentrate on dodging the arrows that come from you.

The Qi family's army moved abnormally, and the cavalry battalion on the opposite side naturally found it, and also sent a small number of archers to deal with these soldiers who rushed up to the camp.

In order to maintain the intensity of fire and the stability of the shot, the musketeers had to stay in place and have limited space to move, which caused them to suffer a lot of losses.

The trapping camp is different, there are not many personnel in the first place, and the formation is extremely loose, and it is a waste to send a large number of shooters to block the attack.

"Don't fall for it! Quickly inform the generals in front that these people are here to consume arrows, put them thirty meters in front of the formation and shoot them! Bolo soon discovered that it was "greasy".

The arrow is not as fast as the fire gun, its flight speed is slower, the trajectory is obvious, fifty meters away, the soldiers in the camp, it is easy to avoid the arrows that come from the flying arrows, and within thirty meters it is different, the archer of the cavalry battalion can shoot a running rabbit within thirty meters, no matter how you dodge, it will not help.

The soldiers who rushed out of the camp did not carry any "weapons" in order to facilitate movement, and Bolo took it for granted that the other party was "consuming" his own arrows and shooting arm strength, so he decisively let people give up this group of small fish and shrimp, and put the focus of shooting on the enemy's main force.

"Sure enough, the shooting on the opposite side has stopped, it should be that they want to retreat, pass my order, once the enemy retreats, the Xiaocai battalion will immediately take advantage of the situation to cover and kill!" Bolo thinks he has seen through the enemy's reality.

In my heart, I secretly admired the army in front of me, even if it was a retreat, it knew how to "set up a suspicious formation".

The Xiao cavalry battalion is not the Qi family's army, they not only carry bows and arrows, but also straddle the sword at their waists, taking into account both close and long combat, as long as the opposite side is chaotic, a distance of 100 meters, a charge can be reached.

Cavalry, even without war horses, was no weaker than infantry in charge.

Just when Bolo thought that he was holding the victory, the situation in front of him took a sharp turn for the worse, and he originally thought that the opposite side was just to retreat, and sent a small group of harassing troops, but it was this small group of "harassment" troops that gave him a head start!

The soldiers trapped in the camp, due to the harassment of the archers, the speed of their advance increased exponentially, and they soon came to a distance of about fifty meters in front of the Qing army.

At this point, the soldiers trapped in the camp stopped advancing, took out black, stick-like things from their waists, unscrewed the cover below, pulled the rope behind the lid, and then threw the smoke-emitting "wooden sticks" into the camp of the rattan soldiers..........

"Boom!"

Bursts of explosions suddenly came from the battlefield of the Qing army.

"What's going on, didn't you say that there are no Hongyi cannons here?" Bolo had just given the order and did not notice the situation on the battlefield.

Bolo felt that things were not going well today, and the information he received earlier showed that there were not many Ming troops in this area, and there were almost no extra Hongyi cannons in the entire Chongming Island, except for a few important ports and the deployment of shore defense.

This is one of the reasons why Bolo chose to land from here.

As a result, as soon as the first troops landed on the island, they were attacked by mines, and before the matter of the mines could be solved, the defenders of Chongming Island quickly took position.

Even if it's just an accident, or the other party is really well-trained, what is the matter with the "Hongyi Cannon" that appears today?

Looking at this posture, I am afraid that without more than 500 cannons, this effect will not be able to be achieved at all, and the mobilization of 500 cannons will not have more than half a day of preparation time, who can do it?

This is simply a well-arranged bureau, and at this time Bolo has to wonder if those defective Ming troops have given him false information.

"Lord Qi Beile, those loud noises just now were not the Hongyi cannons, but the two hundred Ming troops, the bombing thunder thrown from their hands, what they were is still unknown." A general who always pays attention to the battle on the front line hastened to explain.

"Could it be that the Ming army really developed a palm mine?" Bolo muttered to himself, and then ordered loudly: "The whole army attack, no matter what the cost, you must grab this weapon!" ”

Although the Ming army attaches great importance to the secrecy of the grenade, it still can't help but betray the traitor, Guo Sheng brought the grenade to Yangzhou earlier, when he demonstrated it to Shi Kefa, it was seen by someone with a heart, but the specific data of the grenade, as well as the name, did not pass out, the Qing army only knew that Nan Mingxin had developed a secret weapon called "palm thunder", which soldiers could throw with their hands, and its power was comparable to that of the Hongyi cannon............

PS: I put forward a little mistake of my own, that is, the ancient calculation of distance was measured by steps or rulers, but for the sake of reading experience, I directly chose the meter as the distance unit, and I hope you don't mind.