Chapter 1068: Shrapnel Flies Sideways

readx; This is not the first time that the Qing army has been shelled by the Ming army. In the more than 10 years of war, the Qing army also found some ways to deal with this kind www.biquge.info of firearm with great lethality.

First of all, it is necessary to spread out as much as possible and not to be grouped together. Secondly, it is necessary to charge quickly while the artillery is fired. Third, and the most critical point to save your life, that is, when you see a shell coming, you must dodge horizontally, because the killing range of a solid bullet is a straight line, as long as you miss a little horizontally, you will not be harmed. Of course, if you really don't have time to dodge, then you can only try your luck, after all, the iron ball is not very big, and the probability of hitting it directly on the head is still relatively low.

The same is true of this charge, when they saw the fire flashing on the Ming army's position, the Qing army knew that the opposite side must be firing, and subconsciously changed direction and ran diagonally forward. Because in galloping, it is impossible to move sideways, and a little oblique can also play a role in evading.

Unexpectedly, after the Ming army's shells fell into the Qing army's formation, they did not bounce backwards in a straight line as before, but exploded directly! Don't talk about hiding sideways, it's useless to fly into the sky, as long as it's within the killing range, you still don't run!

After a few loud bangs, what burst out from the explosion point was not only a powerful wave of qi, but mixed with countless sharp pieces of iron, and the dozens of war horses that the Qing army led the charge were all swept to the ground, and for a time there were fragments and severed limbs everywhere, and their appearance was unbearable!

The Qing army general Ilshen was almost stunned by the hellish scene in front of him, he really couldn't understand how that solid iron ball could explode and cause such serious casualties. But on the battlefield, he didn't have much to think about, after the shelling, the Ming army's position fell into a brief silence; Ilshen also knew that this was his only chance, and if he could not rush into the enemy line before the Ming artillery fired again, and continue to bombard like this, if there were a few more shells, all the 500 men under his command would have to be reimbursed. Therefore, he raised his saber and shouted: "Warriors, the Han people have no time to open fire anymore, rush over and kill them all!" ”

The remaining more than 400 cavalry really rushed harder, and at the same time, when they were about 100 paces away from the Ming army's position, they began to fire their bows and arrows at the opposite side. The Ming army on the opposite side also returned fire with bird guns, and some Qing soldiers were shot and fell off their horses, but the momentum of the Qing army did not decrease, and they rushed to forty or fifty steps away from the Ming army in the blink of an eye. As long as you run a few steps further, whether it is a trench or a sandbag piled in front of the trench, the war horse can easily jump over, and the back is simple, the cavalry slashes and kills the infantry, which is the favorite "game" of the Qing army.

Ilshen was really brave, and at this time he took the lead, wanting to be the first to rush into the Ming army. But when he was running well, he suddenly let out a miserable neigh, and then, as if he had hit a wall, he fell to the ground and knocked Ilshen over.

Immediately afterwards, the cavalry around him also turned on their backs, and they actually fell into a long row, completely blocking the way of the cavalry behind. Some war horses rushed too fast, and they collided directly with it, and ended up with the same result; The rest of the cavalry reined in desperately before they barely stopped. But before they could understand what was going on, the Ming army's birds on the opposite side came in rows, stirring up clouds of blood mist.

The cavalry charge pays attention to a momentum. If the momentum is frustrated, then failure is inevitable. The Qing army had charged well, but suddenly stopped, and had to shoot at the Ming army on the spot. However, the Ming army was standing in a trench, covered by sandbags in front of them, and was basically not afraid of arrows that came straight at them; However, the Qing army has no cover, it is completely a live target, this is the strength of attacking the enemy with its own shortcomings, how can it not suffer losses. In just over a minute, dozens of cavalrymen were shot and fell off their horses.

And at this time, Ilshen, who was held down by the war horse, finally climbed out from below with difficulty. Looking at the mount, covered in blood and dying, he finally understood why the war horse had suddenly fallen. It turned out that his war horse had crashed into a long wall of barbed wire!

The wire wall was fastened with a row of wooden stakes about a foot apart, deeply inserted into the ground, and the back was also held up with oblique wooden stakes, so that even the charging horses could not knock them off. Between every two wooden stakes, pull three thick wires upper, middle and lower; On top of the thick iron wire, there are several thin iron wires wrapped around every two or three inches, twisted into an iron flower. When his horse hit the wire wall, he was immediately pierced by the iron thorns, and of course he would fall down.

And this wire wall was set up by the Ming army after nightfall, because the distance was very far, the Qing army did not notice it at all. And in the night, whether it is a stake or a wire, it is not very conspicuous, so the Qing army will collide unprepared.

What's worse is that this wire wall can only stop the Qing army's charge, but it can't stop the Ming army's shooting. Rows of buckshot shot through the gap in the wire, striking unhindered, so that Ilshen did not even dare to stand up, but could only crawl on the ground and run back.

Finally crawling out of the pile of corpses, Ilshen had just taken a war horse that his subordinates had given him, and the Ming army position was flickering again, and then a violent explosion bloomed again in the Qing army's formation. Originally, more than half of the 500 cavalry had been killed and wounded, and this explosion lay down a large area, and Ilshen was also slashed by a piece of shrapnel in front of his eyes, only to feel a cold nose, and then there was a hot pain. How dare he fall in love with the war, and he will be defeated when he pulls the horse. The remnants of the Qing soldiers saw that the main was about to retreat, and who remained here to die, and they also ran away with their heads in their arms.

The battle started quickly and ended even faster, and it only took about ten minutes to get full. However, when Ilshen returned to the camp after his defeat, as soon as the Derge class was counted, the five hundred cavalry only came back more than 100 people, and the remaining 300 or so were all confessed!

If you look at Ilshen, the fun is even greater. It turned out that the shrapnel was impartial, and it just cut off his nose, and a large black hole appeared on Ilsen's face, and he was bleeding profusely. Because Derge was far away, he couldn't see how the Qing soldiers were defeated in the night, so he couldn't help but be angry and afraid, and he didn't care about calling the military doctor to bandage Ilshen, and yelled at him repeatedly: "How could you be defeated so badly, why did you stop when you rushed fifty steps away from the enemy?!" ”

Ilshen hurriedly replied with pain, but when he said it, he snorted and chirped, and Derger couldn't understand what he was saying, so he slapped him in the face in a fit of rage. After the fight, I remembered that it was not that Ilshen did not speak well, but because he had no nose and could not speak, so it was difficult to understand.

After a series of humming and gesturing by Ilshen, Derg finally understood the reason for his defeat. I couldn't help but shudder and said: "One shot can kill and injure dozens of my warriors in the Qing Dynasty, and neither of them will be spared?" Is this artillery, or is it a demon? ”

But before the Dergers could figure out how to deal with it, the sentry came again and said, "Lord Belle, the Han people are moving this way again!" ”

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