Chapter 81 Drinking Horse Qiantang
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Just like a forest of spears blocking the cavalry, three thousand rifles stretched out from the battle line of the Ming army sprayed flames at the same time, and in the smoke of black powder, three thousand finger-thick lead bullets instantly swept across the battlefield at a speed of nearly 300 meters per second, and slammed into the Qing army with the kinetic energy given by speed.
The shield cart that had blocked the arquebus bullets of the Ming army more than half a century ago suddenly became a waste product, and the lead bullet on the top was like penetrating a layer of tissue paper, easily penetrating the barrier composed of cowhide, iron sheet and wooden planks, and then it was also like penetrating a layer of tissue paper, penetrating the two layers of heavy armor of cotton and iron on the Qing soldiers behind, and the unfinished strength penetrated their flesh and blood, rolling and raging in their bodies, taking away their lives in an instant.
Among the charging Qing troops, countless people fell to the ground as if they had suddenly lost their footing, and then their companions who could not restrain their feet stepped over them one after another.
The footsteps of the remaining Qing soldiers were stunned at the same time.
"Quick, they'll be able to shoot a bullet!"
Zhang Yuanyi shouted hoarsely.
The Ming soldiers standing in line opposite them were quickly taking out paper shell bullets in the rain, biting open the tail and carefully aiming at the muzzle, pouring the gunpowder and bullets inside into the chamber, pressing down the projectile with a small clearance with their thumbs to block the muzzle by the way to prevent rain from seeping in, and the other hand quickly pulled out the bullet stick to push the projectile to the end, and smashed it again by the way, and then pulled out the bullet stick and inserted it back under the barrel, and then quickly took out a copper fire cap and put it on, and the rest was to aim at the opposite Qing army and pull the trigger.
The second round of gunfire immediately made Zhang Yuanyi's eyes black for a while, and he realized that he had fallen into an elaborate trap.
But he still has a chance.
"Order the cavalry to attack!"
He roared like a red-eyed gambler, and the herald beside him hurriedly waved the order flag, and Qi Zhongzhi, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately waved his waist knife, and the three thousand Qing cavalry killed them like a flood of embankments.
At this time, the Qing infantry in front of them had begun to rout, because the Ming army in front of them had already fired the third round of bullets, speaking of which, the reason why these green battalion soldiers dared to run out and fight with the Ming army in the field was nothing more than relying on the illusion that the Ming army's firearms could not be used in rainy days to support, and the result was now ......
Why can't you use this?
The cannonball was obviously fighting harder than before, and the musket was obviously fighting more happily than before.
What rainy days should not be used?
Liars, all of them are a bunch of liars.
I watched my companions fall down, watched the flames that erupted densely on the opposite side, and looked at the cannon that roared from the door......
The green battalion is not supported by any spiritual beliefs, they are just for the one and a half taels of silver and three buckets of rice a month, and they will definitely not even get so much military pay to make ends meet, how can they have the courage to charge against bullets and shells, and it is their principle to turn around and run when they see that it is not good. In particular, the first thing that came to the mind of the heavy armored soldiers on the front line at the front was to abandon this thing and turn around and run away after understanding that the shield cart was purely for decoration. And the vast majority of the Qing troops behind them had not had time to turn around for various reasons, and the two immediately crowded together, and the officers in the crowd who brandished their waist knives and desperately tried to prevent the rout of the soldiers exacerbated this confusion.
Soon the entire Qing infantry was in chaos.
Their opponents, on the other hand, were still methodically loading, aiming, and pulling the trigger, repeating the movements they had long mastered like a machine, and next to those cannons, the gunners were also repeating similar steps, under the movements of these machines, one cannon after another, one rifle after another, constantly spraying flames outward to create killing.
The entire Qing army's charging team suddenly turned into a bloody slaughterhouse, with exploding flowering bullets, scattered bullets sprayed by four-and-a-half-pound cannons, and bullets fired by infantrymen, all of which ferociously harvested the lives of the Qing army.
"Actually, if they were braver, they might have rushed over!"
Looking at this scene, He Jin couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
The Ming army's front-line troops are too small, if the Qing army does not charge hard at any cost, even in order to maintain physical strength to control the speed, two or three minutes is enough to rush through this hundred zhang, and during this time, the Ming army will shoot about 20,000 bullets at most, and the artillery will also shoot five or six hundred shells at most, and the Qing army has at least 26,000 people, this firepower can not kill half of it, once they rush to the front, the result of the bayonet against the big knife and spear is difficult to predict.
"Have you ever heard of an army that has not collapsed with half of the dead and wounded?"
Yang Dashuai, who has been closing his eyes and recuperating, said.
It was at this time that the Qing cavalry joined the battlefield.
But at the same time, thousands of cavalry from the left of the Ming army also killed.
Cavalry against cavalry.
"Kill, kill the thief and receive the reward!"
Qi Zhongzhi waved the horn bow in his hand and shouted, the three hippos under the crotch took the lead, and the Qi character banner hunting in the hands of the soldiers behind him, the three thousand iron horsemen on both sides of the banner spread out their wings, with their commander as the core, and fiercely crashed into the Ming cavalry, and soon the two sides were only ten zhang apart, and the Qing cavalry pulled out their bows one by one and put on the arrows to aim at the target in the bumps of the war horse......
Their opponents, however, raised their pistols.
In the dense firing of thousands of horse guns, the Qing army that was charging fell to the ground in an instant, like a drop of water falling from a small tree after the rain, and then was trampled into mud by the war horses galloping behind.
Vice General Qi, who was in the lead, was just about to shoot the arrow in his hand, when he saw a fire shining opposite him, and before he could react, his left shoulder seemed to be punched hard, and the sharp pain immediately came, and his hand holding the bow immediately lost its strength. The brave Vice Admiral Qi casually glanced at the blood gushing out of his shoulder, quickly pulled out his waist knife with his right hand that could still move, and rushed towards a Ming cavalry less than ten zhang away in front of him with a loud roar.
Soon the distance between the two was close enough to see the slightly panicked face of the young Ming cavalry, Vice General Qi, who had grown up on horseback since childhood, waved his waist knife and twisted his body to slash over, but at this moment, he saw the left hand of the cavalryman raised, and the fire in his hand suddenly shone brightly.
The next moment, half of the poor Vice General Qi's face was gone.
The young cavalryman thrust his short gun into the holster beside him as fast as he could, and then pulled out a second short gun aimed at another Qing cavalryman not far away, and pulled the trigger until the latter fell off his horse, but at this time there were not many cavalry in the Qing army.
4,000 Ming cavalry against 3,000 Qing cavalry.
The latter was defeated.
Ten zhang away from the Ming cavalry's carbine volley, a salvo achieved a one-fifth hit rate.
Then everyone threw down their carbines as fast as they could, drew their short guns, and turned on the hammers.
So less than three feet away, the short gun fired another volley, and achieved a one-half hit rate.
When they pulled out the second short gun, the Qing cavalry who had not yet engaged in the battle behind them had already turned around and fled in fright, and Deputy General Qi was too far ahead.
As for the losses of the Ming cavalry, less than a hundred people were wounded, but none of them were killed, and none of the arrows hurriedly shot by the Qing cavalry at a distance of ten zhang really pierced the cuirass of the Ming army, and all the wounded were limbs, but from this point of view, the quality of the Qing cavalry at this time was far stronger than at the time of Bali Bridge.
"Ma, this battle was fought!"
Lu Yi, the commander of the cavalry brigade, said speechlessly as he looked at the more than 1,000 Qing cavalry who had escaped.
"A battalion on alert! The others come with me! ”
Immediately after he shouted, the cavalry, who were busy loading their guns, immediately turned their horses, and their target was the Qing infantry.
"I'm going to sleep, don't bother me without bad news!"
Yang Dashuai stood up and said.
In fact, there can be no bad news, before the Ming cavalry arrived, the infantry of the Qing army also began to rout on the whole line, as for their commander, the second-class Jing rebel Hou Zhang Yunyi, finally disappeared in the rout, and there was no one alive or dead, but considering the trampling on each other caused by the collapse of more than 20,000 people on the battlefield, many people are also like this, so he is likely to become a mess of those rotten meat.
In the end, less than 7,000 of this Qing army fled back to the barracks, and except for less than 10,000 killed, the rest all surrendered to the pursuing Ming army in flight.
And Xiong Jing, who stayed in the barracks, made his choice as quickly as possible after learning the news that Zhang Yunyi's army was almost wiped out......
Well, he didn't tell anyone, he took a few cronies to pack all the gold and silver he could draw, and then quietly disappeared into the vast sea of people, and there was no movement since, after he abandoned the army and fled, followed by other Qing army officers also fled. Because he didn't expect these guys to be so decisive, Yang Dashuai moved a little slowly, when he personally led the Ming army together with the second brigade to complete the encirclement of the Qing army camp, there was only a group of green battalion soldiers waiting to surrender, after seeing the banner of the Ming army, several veterans immediately followed the rules learned when they were prisoners last time, and hung out a white flag outside the barracks.
As for the Qing troops in the direction of Fenghua and Xikou, after learning the news, they also shrank back as quickly as possible.
Yang Dashuai, who solved the Qing army on the northern front, did not stop at all, and then personally led three brigades to march west along the Yao River, slapped a few stubborn regimental exercises to death, and then easily occupied Yuyao, and then continued to the west, and after fighting a few battles that were not considered battles with a few flies, he easily occupied Shangyu. As for the next Shaoxing and other places, they didn't even fight, and the local officials and gentry simply fled when they heard the news, and directly crossed the Qiantang River and hid in Hangzhou, and even a small number of Qing troops on the south bank of the Qiantang River retreated by themselves. Yang Dashuai rode his big white horse directly, and drove into Shaoxing with his subordinate soldiers in full formation, and when the early rice harvest began to be harvested in various parts of eastern Zhejiang, he could already drink the Qiantang River.