Chapter 126: Purgatory

In the early morning mist, Yinchu sat on a war horse, holding a horse whip and shouting orders to speed up with a commanding posture, and in the barracks beside him, those Qing troops gathered under the banners of their respective generals in a chaotic manner, and the whole camp was completely like a bazaar, and all kinds of shouts were noisy. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At this moment, a strange whistling suddenly swept by.

Before people could come to their senses, a cannonball exploded in the crowd, and then countless bright fireworks were sprinkled like countless dazzling meteors, and all the places that were stained by this fireworks quickly burst into flames, and the Qing soldiers who were burned immediately let out a scream of pain, and the companions who were gathering around them were immediately frightened and scattered.

These days, they have suffered all the pain of this kind of demon fire that cannot be extinguished, but can burn all the way to the bones, and whoever is touched will die quickly, and no one dares to save them.

However, in the blink of an eye, countless of the same whistling sounded overhead, countless of the same cannonballs exploded in the barracks, and countless unlucky Qing troops who were gathering were caught in the footsteps of the previous ones by this demon fire, and even soon even the entire military camp was on fire everywhere, and some of the war horses stained by the white phosphorus flames were even more painful and galloped wildly, which aggravated the chaos of the scene, and many Qing troops who were not stained with phosphorus fire were also trampled under the horses' hooves.

This hasn't even left the barracks, and a lot of people have died first.

"Quick, destroy the camp and get out!"

Leerjin shouted anxiously.

Needless to say, those frightened Qing troops had already done this, they broke through the fortifications outside the barracks like a frightened herd of beasts, and all rushed out of the barracks as fast as possible, of course, some who did not have time to rush out had to stay there forever.

Fortunately, the artillery of the Ming army also stopped firing at this time.

However, the Qing army camp turned into a sea of fire, and even many cannons were not rescued, and violent explosions of gunpowder continued to occur in the raging flames.

"Let's go, kill the demon man!"

Yin Zhen looked at the sea of fire behind him, and didn't say anything, but shouted with a wave of his waist knife very firmly.

The chaotic Qing army walked to the battlefield with full of grief and indignation, and on the Ming artillery position six miles away from them, thirty-six fifteen-pound rifled long guns lined up, that is, the European standard twenty-pounder cannon, and forty seven-and-a-half-pound rifled guns, that is, European ten-pounder field guns, were readjusting the elevation angle of the artillery according to the flags issued from the hot air balloons overhead, and then quickly loaded the silk firing kits and shells, and then the gunner pulled the gun rope. A round-headed cylindrical cannonball suddenly roared out with the flames sprayed from the muzzle, quickly piercing the air, and in a blink of an eye it reached the top of the head of the Qing army, and at this time, the fuse in the fuse came to an end, and the gunpowder inside was instantly detonated, and the steel balls and shrapnel contained in the shell smashed down like a raging storm.

Then there was a mourning among the Qing army.

Well, the tactics of the Ming army are to start with the Qing army's camp, on the long road they have reached the battlefield, keep shelling, and then see how long those green battalions and brave battalions can last, if they can't hold out on the battlefield and collapse, then the Ming army can attack on all fronts, if the Qing army can really hold out there, it's not a big deal, there are more good things waiting for them.

In fact, deserters have indeed begun to appear in the Qing army.

The brave battalions of the king of Qin in various places have long wanted to run, in fact, they have not stopped running during this time, the problem of desertion has always been very serious in the Qing army, and now when I see that the decisive battle is approaching, I see that the Ming army's artillery is ferocious, and it is a miracle that it can still hold on.

"Flee the battle!"

Yin Zhen personally hacked to death an escaped Yong battalion, and roared with a hideous face, next to him, Kang Mazi's guard camp was lined up, and the long-handled machete in his hand flew over, constantly cutting down the Yong camp who tried to escape, and the rest of the latter had to turn around and continue to run to the battlefield.

"This won't work, the four-mile road normally has to walk for more than a quarter of an hour, and even if we go to the battlefield, our military morale will be chaotic."

The fourth elder brother said worriedly.

Speaking of the casualties caused by the Ming army's artillery shells, there are actually not many casualties, like this kind of continuous shelling is generally a round a minute, otherwise the cannon chamber is overheated and easy to explode, the Qing army walked four miles in the process of the Ming army at most 2,000 shells, these shells smashed in the hundreds of thousands of Qing troops, at best, the starting waves. But this thing is too damaging to morale, and the mental pressure of not being able to fight back and having to move forward is enough to destroy a normal army, even the elite of the Eight Banners is terrified at this time.

Even if such an army goes to the battlefield, the volcanic eruption-like guns of the Ming army will still collapse.

"Order the cavalry to attack, 30,000 elite cavalry is enough to rush away the thief army."

Le Erjin said.

Immediately afterwards, the Qing army herald quickly notified Zuo Yi.

"The generals will listen to the order and go with the king to kill the thief!"

After receiving the order, Eza, who led the cavalry, waved his waist knife and shouted, and then the cavalry composed of 30,000 eight banners, green battalions, Mongolians, and huimin behind him began to accelerate forward, and at the same time on the hot air balloon in the sky, the Ming army scouts also found out, and the information was quickly transmitted to Gao Huai's headquarters, but it was obvious that Gao Huai didn't care too much, and the artillery that was bombarding the Qing infantry was not adjusted at all, and it was still ravaging the Qing infantry according to the rhythm and destroying their morale at the same time.

The cavalry of Oza divided into two ways in the acceleration, and the 10,000 horses led by Jiang Qi, the governor of Gansu, circled around the right flank of the Ming army, preparing to attack the Ming army from the flank, while the main force led by Oza went straight to the front of the Ming army.

The attack of 30,000 cavalry, that scene is really not lost in the Lord of the Rings Armageddon, dense like a tide across the shadows of the earth, 30,000 war horses galloped wildly, and 30,000 cavalry on war horses wielded sabers with spears and made strange screams. At this time, they already knew that it was useless to shoot in the charge immediately, and all the cavalry honestly retreated to the era of cold weapons, and also knew that in the face of the firepower of the Ming army, they didn't need anything except speed, and the vast majority of the cavalry simply threw away their armor. All the cavalry kept urging their horses to speed up in the wild gallop, and as long as they could rush through the middle deadly distance before the Ming army could fire enough shells and bullets, then they were the victors.

The Ming army still did not shell the cavalry, and still shelled the Qing infantry there at a rhythm of one round per minute.

The cannon fodder in the infantry of the Qing army is still running away, and as time goes by, more and more people have even begun to attack the Warlords, and successfully break through the barriers of the Royal Forest Army to escape.

And Jiang Qi led 10,000 cavalry, mainly Huimin, and also began to attack the flank of the Ming army, but at the same time, the soldiers of the first cavalry brigade opposite them raised their Zhangba spears one after another, and then began to accelerate forward in a dense formation.

Cavalry against cavalry.

However, the main force of the Qing cavalry in Oza was still dealt with by infantry.

The cavalry of the high-speed charge continued to advance, and soon rushed to the west bank of the Tang River, less than a kilometer away from the Ming army battle line on the east bank, this small river was still in the dry period, the width of the empty river beach was less than 100 zhang, but there was less than 10 zhang wide river water in the middle, and the sand and water of the river beach made the speed of the cavalry drop suddenly.

Of course, Oza didn't care about this, it was not yet within the range of the Ming army's muskets, and as soon as he crossed the river beach, his cavalry would immediately accelerate back to the limit.

"Hurry, rush, the rise and fall of the Qing Dynasty, in one fell swoop!"

Prince Eza, who had regained the title of Duoduo, brandished his sword and roared, and countless cavalry beside him shouted at the same time.

But at this moment, among the front-line infantry of the Ming army, the cloth on a hundred square cars was lifted, revealing the strange weapons inside, twenty-four iron pipes in groups of six, divided into four layers and closely arranged, all the iron pipes were almost as thick as the mouth of a bowl, like cannons aimed at the empty beach of the Tang River, behind these iron cannon pipes, one soldier with torches came to the fuse.

Well, this is the gift that Yang Wang Ye prepared for the cavalry of the Qing army.

Light MLRS, 100 MLRS, 2,400 barrels, 2,400 rockets with a power equivalent to a 40-pound gun, and then ......

A salvo goes out in less than a minute.

"Fire!"

Just when the fastest cavalry under Ozha had rushed out of the Tang River beach, the commander of the Ming army's multiple rocket artillery battalion waved his saber and shouted, and at the same time, the herald beside him suddenly waved the flag, and all the artillery with torches lit the fuse almost at the same time, and then the first group of shells roared out with a long tail flame, and in the blink of an eye the second group of shells followed, then the third group, and the fourth group......

"What the hell?"

Ozha, who had just stepped on the riverbank, looked blankly at the dense fire that suddenly rose in the sky, and the next moment his world was in flames.

The powerful rockets, with a terrible whistling sound, smashed into the cavalry of the Qing army all the time, and without exception were all white phosphorus shells, and the entire river beach of the Tang River almost instantly, it became a sea of fire of death, and the white phosphorus sparks flying everywhere covered the entire river beach, and almost covered all the 20,000 Qing cavalry, and all the soldiers and war horses were shrouded in the rain of fire.

This kind of thing is not a steel ball bullet, even if the small steel ball and shrapnel hit the Qing soldiers and war horses, as long as it is not fatal, a little braver can endure it, and those war horses are even more so, but this thing is different, as long as there is a spark stuck to the body, then both the soldier and the war horse have to collapse under the burning that hurts into the bone marrow.

Especially those war horses.

2,400 white phosphorus rockets were all poured on the beach of the Tang River in less than a minute.

Oza's 20,000 cavalry were all finished in an instant.

Almost all the war horses were carrying the phosphorus fire burning on their bodies, screaming and ignoring the orders of their masters, scurrying around like crazy, and then infecting the flames to more war horses, the war horses covered in hair were very easy to burn, those Qing cavalry desperately tried to control their war horses in the flames, but any of their efforts became a joke in the four or five hundred degrees of flame burning, and there was not a single war horse on the entire river beach that was not in the collision with each other, not in the burning of the flames.

This is their purgatory, and the purgatory of their cavalry on their backs. (To be continued.) )