With the sound of guns, the raindrops of lead bullets dragged a sharp whistling in the air from the two phalanxes to the opposite side, and the first row of the soldiers of Kong Youde suddenly flew flesh and blood, and a large number of the soldiers who were hit fell down screaming, and many pits appeared on the originally neat front. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIn contrast, the losses of the Ming army were much smaller, and the maximum effective killing range of the bird guns used by the Kong German army was only eighty or ninety paces, which was quite reluctant to deal with targets a hundred paces away, not to mention that the arms and guns were all wearing cotton armor and helmets, and even their faces were tightly covered by iron masks.

"Second row! Advance! The officers in the Ming army's musketeers shouted loudly again, and the firecrackers in the second row quickly replaced their comrades in the first row who had completed the fire, and aimed the bird's guns in their hands at the Qing army. To the beat of the drums, the entire phalanx took a few steps forward.

At the same time, the second row of firearms of the Qing army on the opposite side also stumbled to replace the first row, and a trace of panic had begun to appear in the action. It can be seen that the round of shooting just now has dealt a big blow to them.

"Put!" The officer of the Ming army gave the order to open fire again.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ......" a deafening sound and a thick white smoke drifted through the air again. This time, the Qing gunners were slower than the last, and most of them were knocked to the ground before they could pull the trigger, and the nearby clearing was splattered with minced flesh and blood. Only a small number of people opened fire on the Ming army.

But in this round of shooting, Kong Youde's musketeers actually used dozens of guns. These long-range and powerful firearms posed a considerable threat to the Ming army, and a total of twenty or thirty musketeers were hit.

Pang Yue even saw with his own eyes that a large-caliber buckshot pierced the head of one of the musketeers in the first row, and then hit another person behind him, and the red and white liquid stained the faces of the people around him.

However, the entire formation of the Ming army's firecrackers was not affected, and the soldiers were still carrying out various actions under the orders of the officers, seemingly turning a blind eye to the bloody scenes around them.

Seeing this scene, Pang Yue couldn't help but think of the usual training scene of the officers and soldiers of the firecrackle team: when the officers and soldiers of the firecracker team were loading ammunition, the auxiliary soldiers would fill pig urine bubbles filled with pig and sheep blood one by one or directly throw all kinds of bloody animal entrails towards the heads of the firecrackers. As the number of training sessions continues to increase. When the officers and men faced the splashing blood and smelled the pungent fishy smell, they had gradually become calm and calm from the initial panic and retching. Although this training method comes at the expense of food, it is fortunate that it has finally worked today.

"Forward!" Seeing that the Ming army was taking advantage of the range advantage to suppress and beat his own firearms, Kong Youde hurriedly took advantage of the gap between the replacement of the Ming army's firearms in the front and rear rows, and shouted and issued an order to advance.

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"I didn't expect the firearms battle array under the command of Ding Wubo to be so sharp!" Dao Zhangkuang, the superintendent who was watching the battle from the tower of the north gate of Changsha, saw that Kong Youde's bird hands were knocked down in pieces. I couldn't help but sigh with round eyes.

"Oops. My mother, so densely arranged, isn't it for people to be targeted? Liu Chengyin was also dumbfounded, "But there is not the slightest confusion in that formation." Are the soldiers in Huguang Town still raised by their parents? ”

Except for Zhang Kuang and Liu Chengyin, the rest of the officials and generals on the city tower also had incredible expressions on their faces. Even Wang Yuncai, who had seen the power of the firearms battle array in Huguang Town last time, and other generals of Changde Town were surprised, after all, the last time they used firearms to deal with the Qing soldiers who did not have firearms, but this time they were shooting firearms with the Qing army.

He Tengjiao is not exempt from vulgarity, although he did not express his own opinions. But the surprise in his eyes and the hand that stopped on his chest as he touched his beard revealed the shock in his heart.

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"Bang! Bang! Bang! ……”

The sound of guns shook the sky, the smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and the firearms of the two armies were still firing at each other. After paying many lives, Kong Youde's bird soldiers finally included the front row of Ming troops into the maximum range. As a result, the number of people shot by the Ming army increased a lot compared to before.

After each round of fierce gunfire from the Qing army's array, dozens of nearly 100 Ming soldiers fell, killed or wounded, causing gaps to appear on the front line. But what followed was a more violent retaliation by the Ming army, and a denser formation created a more intensive firepower, and a storm of shrapnel swept the opposing Qing troops to a large area.

When the first platoon finished firing. The officers on both sides will be hoarse and urge the second platoon of firearms to replace their comrades in the front row and try to fire before the enemy is attacked, because as long as their own actions can be faster than the enemy for even a moment, the result of the shot will be worlds apart.

There was little skill at all in this line-up shooting, given that the two armies were roughly the same in terms of equipment and terrain. It's all about the skillfulness and willpower of both sides. The balance of battle will be tilted in favor of whichever side moves faster and which side can withstand the blow better and hold out longer.

The officers and men of the Huguang Town Torch Brigade have always persevered, and the officers and men who were shot and wounded were constantly dragged to the rear. But the rest of the people were still pouring bullets on the Qing army according to that complete process. It would be false to say that you are not nervous, after all, no matter how rigorous and realistic the usual training is, it cannot completely replace actual combat. Some of the soldiers' hands trembling slightly as they witnessed the tragic condition of their comrades and were splashed with flying flesh and blood. However, it is precisely because of the kind of rigorous training in peacetime, the conditioned reflex of obeying orders promoted by the corporal punishment system, and the belief in victory created by a series of achievements that the officers and men have been gritting their teeth and persevering, waiting for the moment when the enemy army will collapse first.

Kong Youde's bird soldiers were also desperately carrying it, but their faces were already showing obvious panic, and their movements were much more panicked than they were at the beginning. After so many battles, they have never encountered an army as incredible as the Ming army and the Ming army firearms unit opposite, there is no earth-shattering scream, no fierce screams, some are just uniform movements and disregard for blood, and it is this almost numbing disregard that makes people feel a chill from the heart. Gradually, Kong Youde also began to have a bad premonition.

After each round of fire, the entire phalanx would advance a few steps, as if it would be fun to fight against the chest of the Qing army, and this gradually approaching situation also made the Qing army even more panicked.

As the distance between the two armies narrowed, the sharp whistle of bowstrings and arrows breaking through the air sounded on both flanks of both armies. The soldiers in the front row on the left and right flanks of the two armies raised their shields, while the archers in the back raised their crossbows and threw arrows at the enemy troops on the opposite side. In the rain of arrows, soldiers on both sides fell from time to time. However, at this time, the bow and arrow were not yet in the best range, so the intensity of the bow and arrow was much weaker than that of the firearm in the center.

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Kong Youde's bird-fired soldiers finally couldn't support it, and after a few rounds of fire, their own heavy casualties, the indifference and pressing of the Ming army on the opposite side had crushed the last trace of defense in their psychology. At first, a few soldiers screamed and dropped their guns and squatted on the ground to vomit or retreat, but soon this negative sentiment spread to the entire battle formation, and almost all the officers and soldiers were squeezing and pushing each other backwards, and there was only one step left before the whole line collapsed.

Seeing that the firearms unit he was proud of had gone, Kong Youde was deeply saddened but had to accept this fact, and in order to prevent the complete collapse of the bird soldiers from rushing to the rear of the formation, he quickly ordered the bird soldiers in the front row to retreat to the rear of the formation. 、

After receiving Kong Youde's order, the panicked bird soldiers completely lost their will to fight, and fled like an avalanche along the passage of the back row of officers and soldiers to the rear of the formation. Fortunately, under Kong Youde's order, these defeated soldiers have not completely lost their minds, and there are still some fears of military discipline in their minds, so they did not rush to break up the formation in the back row, and only a few dazed defeated soldiers were scurried around and were cut down by the officers on the spot.

When Kong Youde's bird guns had fled, the sword and shield men who had just stepped forward were knocked down by the Ming army's firearms, and the shields raised could not save their lives. The Qing archers on both flanks also fired arrows at the Ming soldiers in front of the flank, and due to the distance, the effect was no different from tickling.

In a flash of light, Kong Youde changed his mind to charge the Ming army and ordered the whole army to withdraw to the west of the city. There is next to the Xiangjiang River, and there are a large number of warships equipped with artillery on the river to cover it, and the Ming army should not dare to get too close.

Kong Youde made such a decision not for no reason, although he is a military general, he is not the kind of reckless man without brains. A few days ago, when he was at Wanshou Bridge, he had only seen the characteristics of Huguang Town's proficiency in defense, but in this battle just now, he saw the rigor of its battle formation in the field. Although the Ming army only dispatched cavalry and firecrackers, Kong Youde, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, knew that the cold spear array and sword and shield array under the fiery red army flag were even more of a beast that ate people and did not spit out bones, although the two wings of the Ming army looked a little thin, but Kong Youde did not think that the more than 3,000 foot soldiers in his headquarters could withstand the thunderous blow of the Ming army before the armies on his two wings opened up the situation. Once the Chinese army is crushed, the two wings will also be swept away by the Ming army with superior forces. At that time, I am afraid that even the Manchurian soldiers with the blue flag will not be able to return to the sky, let alone the green battalion soldiers of Zhang Yingxiang's department on the right flank.

"The whole army retreats to the outside of Xiaoximen!" Kong Youde's order soon spread throughout the army. Zhang Yingxiang and other Green Battalion generals naturally had no objections, and they didn't have much confidence to fight in the first place. Even Lan Bai didn't raise any objections, but just glanced at the Ming military formation with hatred, after all, the shock brought to him by the battle just now and a few days ago was not small.

When the Ming army had not yet launched an attack, the Qing army quickly turned around and retreated west of the city with the cavalry guarding the two wings.

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