The Qing army used artillery and bombarded the Ming army's position for a quarter of an hour, and found that the position was empty (everyone was in the trenches, so naturally they couldn't see it), thinking that the Ming army was scared away, so they dispatched 20,000 cavalry troops to prepare to storm the chariot battalion in the rear. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Hongfei's chariot battalion, as the second echelon, the Qing army's artillery could not reach it at all, and could only be attacked with cavalry, and then Azig even planned to order the whole army to move forward, advance the artillery to the strike range of the Ming army's chariot battalion, and eat away at the Ming army on the opposite side step by step.

However, as soon as the cavalry started running, a large number of troops suddenly appeared in the "horse trap" opposite, and Azig even saw no less than fifty Franc guns with tripods through the telescope.

For the Fran machine, Azig once heard Duoduo mention that in the battle of Yangzhou South Gate, the 500 Qi family army relied on this kind of Fran machine gun to suppress Bolo's 15,000 cavalry battalion.

Because Azig then went south, he didn't know that the battle of Yangzhou was not done by the Qi army, and the previous battle of Fengtai Mountain was carried out at night, although Kong Youde mentioned that the Ming army had a powerful and extremely fast rate of fire.

But Azig didn't care too much, and thought that it was dark at that time, and Kong Youde's cavalry was timid, so he found a reason to shirk it.

However, now it seems that in the battle of Fengtai Mountain, most of the people who blocked the cavalry charge were this new type of "Fran machine gun", and the army in front of him was likely to be the "Qi Family Army".

However, the cavalry had already rushed up, and now the order was withdrawn, it was too late.........

At this time, the Ming army in the "trap pit" on the opposite side also launched a counterattack, not only that, but the Ming artillery unit that had only fired five artillery pieces before also opened fire on all fronts this time.

On this three-kilometer front, more than 500 large and small artillery pieces fired in a salvo, which really made the Qing army feel the landslide and the ground crack for the first time.

In fact, the early Qing Dynasty also admired artillery very much, even in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, light firearms such as firearms were completely banned, but high-power weapons such as Hongyi cannons have always accompanied the Qing army for more than 200 years.

However, the Qing army, which admired artillery, lost to the Ming army in the number of artillery for the first time.

The artillery of the Qing army has a long range of equipment, and there are as many as 400 powerful Hongyi cannons.

Li Hongfei's Suzhou New Army was not as wealthy as the Qing army, with only about 50 Hongyi cannons, and only about 200 medium-sized or large Fulong artillery.

But the quality was not enough, so he used quantity to make up, and Li Hongfei found another way to equip the artillery team with a large number of tiger squat guns.

Tiger squat cannon, the most common in Qi Jiguang's army in the past, this cannon is 2 feet long, 7 iron hoops are added around the body, the head of the cannon is erected by two iron claws, and there are iron stumbling, the total weight is 36 catties (one person can carry it), it looks like a tiger and a tiger, and it is majestic.

Before firing, the cannon body must be fixed on the ground with a large iron nail, each launch can be loaded with 5 yuan heavy small lead, or 100 small stones, with a large lead bullet weighing 30 taels, or a large stone bullet to press the top, when firing the large and small bullets fly out together, the roar is like thunder, the lethality and radiation range are very large, especially suitable for field warfare, bombardment of the dense combat formation of the Japanese Invaders, effectively suppress its crazy offensive.

In the later anti-Japanese war, Qi Jiguang's army was equipped with 3 tiger squat cannons for every 500 people.

Even the Japanese who advocated the spirit of bushido could not withstand the intensive bombardment of this artillery, and Li Hongfei did not believe that the cavalry of the Qing army was really not afraid of death!

In Li Hongfei's view, the Tiger Squat Cannon is a front-loading gun, which can be fired at a large elevation angle and can be equipped with a large number of lower-level troops, which is also similar to today's mortars.

It didn't matter if the range was short, Li Hongfei didn't plan to engage in an artillery battle with the Qing army, as long as he could suppress the enemy army in front of the formation.

So the artillery team was mounted in echelons, and the tiger squat artillery even crossed the tank battalion and was directly equipped in the trenches, such a distance, even if it could only hit five or six hundred meters away, it could cover more than two hundred meters of the forward position.

The charging Qing cavalry suffered a round of fierce cleaning by artillery fire, killing and wounding more than 1,000 people on the spot, but the artillery attack also stopped there, and the cavalry speed had already rushed up, and with the current artillery loading speed, it was too late to fire the second round.

In the past, when the cavalry attacked the artillery array, they used this kind of tactic in one go, and it was tried and tested repeatedly.

However, the "tried-and-test" cavalry charge was really "unpleasant" this time, and finally rushed through the coverage area of the artillery, approaching the front line of about 150 meters, but the Ming army in the "horse pit" launched an attack.

The kind of Fran machine gun with a tripod is simply a cavalryman's nightmare, one shot down, thirty meters wide in front, basically no dead ends.

"Spread out again!" A cavalry general shouted loudly.

In order to avoid the dense firepower of the firecrackers, the cavalry has been scattered as much as possible, but the entire plain is only three kilometers wide, and 20,000 cavalry, where can they be dispersed?

Thirty meters wide, at least five or six cavalry, under the one shot of the Fran machine, at least three or four can be knocked down, whether it is a man or a horse, in this high-speed galloping horse, the Manchu cavalry will be crippled if not dead.

The most important thing is that this firearm has an extremely fast rate of fire, from the first round after entering the firing range, to the second round before the cavalry has even rushed into the formation.

Most of the Qing soldiers used Mongolian horses, which had strong endurance and were not too fast, and they could run 12 meters (equivalent to 43 kilometers per hour) in a second at full speed.

The rate of fire of the Furlan is six to eight rounds per minute (one round every ten seconds), and its effective range is 180 meters, which is enough to fire two volleys against cavalry at such a distance.

Li Hongfei placed three main regiments in the front-line position, each regiment is equipped with 60 Furlong guns and 180 Furlong guns, and the width of the defense is three kilometers, which is equivalent to every 16 meters apart, there is a Furlong gun, and under the alternating fire, it is enough to carry out four salvos on the 30-meter area in front during the period when the Qing cavalry charged.

Although it did not have the firepower density of the 500 people in Yangzhou at the beginning, with auxiliary weapons such as flintlock pistols and grenades, it was difficult for the Qing cavalry to cross this line of defense.

Under the stalemate, the artillery of the Ming army was reloaded, and a new round of salvo fire caused the Qing army to suffer heavy losses and had to withdraw regrettably.

"It turns out that this trap still has such an effect!" Azig found the use of trenches.

The Ming army's "horse trap" can not only avoid artillery bombardment, but even when the Ming army fights, because most of the body is hidden in the "pit" (too little exposed area), so that the Qing army's cavalry shooting accuracy is greatly reduced, so that the cavalry and archery advantage is gone.

However, this tuition fee was too expensive, and in less than a quarter of an hour of contact battle, the Qing army lost 3,000 cavalry, which was mainly the two artillery salvos of the Ming army, and the rapid fire ability of the Furlong machine.

In Azig's view, if these two things are not defeated, the Qing army will not be able to move an inch next.

"Order the artillery team to move forward two hundred steps (about 260 meters) to continuously suppress the forward artillery position of the Ming army, and Kong Youde, you lead 10,000 Han army Red Banner cavalry, as the forward, to attack the enemy camp. The white flag is all in the tower, leading 20,000 cavalry to respond, once the enemy is trapped, the whole army will be killed! "Azig changed tactics.

The Qing army's artillery had a range advantage, and suppressing the artillery with artillery was the best choice.

However, Azig was not stupid, and only ordered the artillery to advance about 260 meters, after all, the Ming army also had Hongyi artillery, and further on, the artillery unit was less than a kilometer away from the Ming army's "horse trap".

This "trap pit" is too weird, the cannonball hits the past, and it can't hurt the soldiers inside at all, who knows if the Ming army will hide the long-range artillery in it, in case the Ming army launches a long-range artillery bombardment of the Qing army's artillery array, this kind of dilemma can only be beaten, and there is no way to fight back, Azig is unwilling to try again.

What he wants to suppress now is the kind of tiger squat cannon with a short firing range, as long as this kind of tiger squat cannon is driven out of the front of the formation 500 meters, then after the two armies are stalemate, the tiger squat cannon will definitely not be able to exert its might.

Once the use of the tiger squat cannon is restricted, the power of the remaining more than 200 artillery pieces of the Ming army will be greatly reduced, and then the Han cavalry will be sent to charge the battle, consuming the firearms of the Ming army, just waiting for the two sides to be exhausted, Azig's inlaid white flag, will quickly enter from the rear, and take the forward position of the Ming army in one fell swoop.

Azig had a good idea, suppressing the artillery with artillery, reducing the firepower output of the Ming army, and letting the Han people act as death squads, consuming the weapons and ammunition of the Ming infantry, and finally sending his own descendant troops to attack with thunder and pick up ready-made.

However..........

"The artillery team of the Qing army is moving forward, and the maximum firing range has been visually measured, and it has covered the Tiger Squat Artillery area, and the Tiger Squat Artillery Regiment has all moved and advanced towards the forward position." The regimental commander in charge of the Tiger Squat Artillery Regiment quickly gave the order.

The military commanders in Suzhou not only know all kinds of weapon parameters well, but also have a very good set of calculations about the distance on the spot.

Therefore, when arranging the defensive line, these factors were fully taken into account, and the depth of the front-line trenches was designed to be 500 meters, so that the large and medium-sized artillery of the Ming army, even if they were erected behind the trenches, could effectively cover the area of two or three hundred meters in front of the position.

And if the Qing army dares to push the artillery to within a thousand meters in front of the formation, (the maximum range of the Qing army's artillery is only 1800 meters, and if you want to attack the artillery array in the rear of the Ming army, you must advance to a sufficient range range) Then the Ming army will push all the artillery into the trench and have a vigorous artillery battle with the Qing army.

The trenches and the flat duel, no matter how you count the Ming army, will not suffer.

Therefore, the artillery brigade of the Qing army had just been opened, and the Ming army knew their firing range.

Originally, he wanted to lure the Qing artillery team to shoot at close range, but Azig was not fooled, and just stayed at about 1,200 meters in the forward position, this distance, even if the heavy artillery of the Furlong machine was advanced to the forward position, it could not reach the other party, as for the Hongyi artillery, it was too cumbersome and not in the scope of consideration.