The hand grenade of the Democratic Alliance Army, after many actual combat tests, has a stable fragmentation killing radius between 6 and 7 meters, while the effective killing radius of the cannon is 15 to 20 meters, and no one can escape death within this range.

"Good!" On the head of the city, Tang Caifang slammed the battlements, his face was full of excitement, this is a piece of explosion!

"!" Monk Greenqin scolded fiercely, but only a dozen seconds later, there was a loud bang in front of his house, this time when the fire burst out, there was also a piece of explosion on the side, it was obvious that the charge was detonated, and after two cannons, it didn't take long for the third cannon to be in the middle of a Hongyi cannon!

"Sizzle~~" Mianyu gasped: "Why is the rate of fire of the artillery of the Democratic Alliance Army so fast?" He also hit accurately and far, his two cannons are enough to be worth all our general's cannons, the monk and the king, this king is worried that the artillery has not yet been pushed to the position, and it will be all destroyed by him, so it is better to send cavalry, and directly use the cavalry to crush him in one fell swoop. ”

Monk Greenqin hesitated for a moment, glanced to the left, the forward of nearly 20,000 troops on the left was close to the position of the Democratic Alliance, and then ran forward for a hundred feet to shoot, thousands of guns at a time, round by round of non-stop volleys, if he couldn't die, he couldn't lift his head, and then captured the position, two breads, and the Democratic Alliance army would be defeated!

Suddenly, Monk Lingqin waved his hand firmly: "No! This king doesn't believe that he can keep fighting, isn't he afraid of blowing up? At most, seven or eight cannons, he always has to stop, besides, Lord Hui, please see, there is about to fight over there, and the Jianrui Battalion, the Two-Wing Forward Battalion and the Eight Banners Guard Battalion in front of us are all the elite of the elite. All of them are accurate in marksmanship, enough to break through the positions of the Democratic Alliance, if they send cavalry at this time. Instead, they will rush to their own people, and wait, the cavalry can only play a role when it is critical! ”

"Hmm~~" Mianyu stroked her beard and nodded.

But to their disappointment, the artillery fire of the NLD army did not stop at all, and after firing five artillery pieces, they immediately poured water to cool down. Switched to another cannonball, the cannon always rumbled. I saw that the Hongyi cannon in my army was overturned one by one, and my heart was dripping blood!

Don't underestimate the difference in firing range is only a few hundred meters, slow artillery faces rapid-fire artillery, and the range of these hundreds of meters is enough to determine life and death. At that time, the field artillery had fully absorbed the advantages of the West, and it was all mounted on wheels, so it was not possible to hit with gunpowder shells, but it was necessary to deploy the artillery mount first, otherwise a cannon would blast out, and the huge anti-shock force would be enough to crush the wheels into pieces, and it would take time to unfold the artillery carriage, and even if it was deployed, it would take time to reload the charge. So, even if the artillery could reach the predetermined gun position safely, it would have a few minutes to stand still. They can't fire, they can only be overturned one by one as a live target!

However, the artillery of the Qing army is mainly small artillery!

Since Kangxi, due to the expulsion of Tsarist Russia in the north and the occupation of Heilongjiang in the southeast, there is no rivalry around, and there is basically no need for heavy artillery. So the yield is minimal, on the contrary. The peasant uprisings of the whole Qing Dynasty continued, and the characteristics of the peasant army were that they came and went like the wind, mobile battles, and the peasant army could not catch up with the peasant army with Hongyi cannons for a lifetime, and the Tusi in the Yunnan-Guizhou-Xiangshan Mountains in the south continued to rebel, and the mountain roads in these areas were rugged, and the Hongyi artillery was difficult to pass through, so the development and production of light artillery was extremely vigorous.

Such as cupola cannon, nine sections of ten copper cannons, iron core copper cannons, victorious copper cannons, iron cannons, sub-mother cannons, Yanwei cannons, strange cannons, dragon cannons, palace letter cannons, lifting cannons, return cannons, a certain big god cannon, there are more than a dozen models, the rest of the imperial golden dragon cannon, muddy copper cannon, mountain splitting cannon, etc., are hundreds of pounds of light artillery, have come out.

This kind of artillery is easy to carry and easy to train, and it is very popular with the Eight Banners Army and the Green Battalion, which have degraded their combat effectiveness, and of course, they must also be greatly reduced in terms of range and power, and the general firing range is two or three hundred meters.

Although the Sino-British war made the Qing court realize its own shortcomings and vigorously develop heavy artillery, it was limited by modern scientific knowledge and iron-control technology, and the progress in technology was not very large, and the number was limited, and most of them were allocated to coastal defense, passes and node cities, and field warfare was still dominated by light artillery.

Take this time as an example, there are more than 40,000 people in the Shengbao Army and the Seng Greenqin Army, nearly 500 artillery pieces, but there are only more than 20 Hongyi heavy artillery.

"Bang bang bang~~" Suddenly, the gunshots rang out, and Mianyu couldn't help but exclaim: "Okay, there's a fight over there!" ”

But as soon as this good word blurted out, his face immediately became extremely stiff, and the blocking position of the Democratic Alliance Army was indeed fighting, but it was different from the expected mutual shooting between the two sides, but the Democratic Alliance Army was shooting unilaterally.

A puff of gunpowder smoke erupted from the muzzle of the gun, dense and fast, separated by a hundred and fifty zhang away from their own soldiers, one after another was shot and fell to the ground, through the guò telescope can be seen clearly, there are many people with dazed faces, stunned in place, obviously do not understand what is going on, after all, it is a hundred and fifty zhang away from the gun, if you occasionally hit one or two, you can barely understand it as a fluke, but the reality is that it falls in rows and rows!

Monk Lingqin immediately changed color and said: "No wonder the Democratic Alliance army dares to be so big, it turns out that there is a musket in hand that is 150 zhang away, damn it, this is farther than our light artillery, where did he get it?" How can there be such an ungodly gun in the world? ”

Mianyu couldn't answer this question, but said urgently: "Monk Wangye, our artillery can't be pushed to the front of the battle at all, and the guns of the soldiers can only hit forty zhang, I'm afraid that more than half of it will be lost before it reaches the firing range, and cavalry must be used, only cavalry can break through the position of the Democratic Alliance!" ”

To tell the truth, Seng Lingqin was very reluctant to send out cavalry, because the cavalry were all Mongols, his hometown, and there were not many Mongolians left, the entire steppe, millions of miles in radius, there were less than two million left, according to the calculation of one-third of the male Ding Zhuang, at least half of them were monks and became lamas, and there were only 100,000 Ding Zhuang who could really reproduce, so the Mongols were extremely expensive, and every death was a huge loss!

I don't know how many people will die if the Mongolian cavalry is used to attack the gun array of the Democratic League, but Mianyu's request is reasonable, and there is no reason to refuse at all.

Monk Greenqin endured the heartache and gritted his teeth: "Order, all battalions immediately retreat, and the three kings of Zhelimu, Zhuo Suotu, and Zhaowuda will lead their troops to attack!" ”

The banner was then played, not to mention the miscellaneous soldiers who attacked the flank of the Democratic Alliance Army, even the battalions in the capital who were responsible for the main attack were also thinking of retreating, and they were beaten miserably in the face of more than 1,000 people, and they were facing more than 5,000 people!

Suddenly, tens of thousands of Qing troops retreated quickly, but people can spread their legs and run, and the artillery has to be pushed slowly, and the artillery of the Democratic Alliance Army is merciless, picking up Hongyi cannons to hit, in the rumbling artillery fire, the horn is also tight for a while, three cavalry teams, about 10,000 people gallop out of the village, and they do not line up, all of them are attacked by stragglers!

The sound of hooves shook the sky, and even the head of Linqing City a few miles away could feel a slight vibration, and the Taiping soldiers couldn't help but hold their breath.

Tang Caifang squeezed his fist fiercely: "The Qing army can only be majestic in front of us, and it will wilt when it encounters the Democratic Alliance army, I think even if the monk demon dispatches cavalry, it will be useless, the guns of the Democratic Alliance can hit one hundred and fifty zhang, how many horses can he rush over?" ”

Feng Mingyuan shook his head and said: "Don't be careless, the Mongolian cavalry is as fast as the wind, it's not a joke, once the position is broken through, the consequences are unimaginable, it's a pity, our remnants of the defeated army can't help, alas!" ”

Feng Mingyuan sighed heavily, his face was full of helplessness, and others also felt the same way, hating his own incompetence and could only be an audience.

In front of the position of the Democratic Alliance, Lu Dayou howled excitedly: "Grandma, the Qing demon has come out of the cavalry, okay, Lao Tzu likes to fight cavalry the most, brothers, prepare!" ”

At present, the main position is the 1st Division of the 2nd Army of the Democratic Alliance Army, and the three brigades are divided into three rows, standing loosely and staggeredly, all with slightly hunched backs and gun butts on their shoulders.

"Bang bang bang ~~" When the Mongolian cavalry entered the firing range, the first row fired, in this case basically no need to aim, and there was no need to deliberately hit the person, as long as the horse was hit, more than a thousand bullets were fired flat, the neighing of the horses came and went, and the rows rushed to the ground, throwing the knights out, and many were trampled to death by the galloping horses behind on the spot, and if they were lucky, they could not get up with broken tendons.

From the perspective of the watchtower, the front seems to have been flattened a small piece, and nearly five hundred horsemen have been lost, although it has been expected, the corners of Seng Lingqin's mouth are still twitching violently, and the dead are all his Mongolian warriors!

Immediately followed by the first burst of gunfire, the second salvo, and the third salvo, the battlefield was miserable, and there were corpses and corpses everywhere.

But in general, the rapid sprint speed of the war horse is seventeen meters per second, while the range of the Minnie gun is five hundred meters, that is, it only takes thirty seconds to break through the position of the Democratic Alliance, and the average speed at which the soldiers shoot is three rounds per minute, divided into three rows, and the bullets are loaded in advance, which means that only one more round can be fired.

When the fourth salvo was over, 10,000 cavalry, attrition of at least 2,000, Monk Greenqin's eyes were full of light, because no matter what, the Democratic Alliance army had no chance to fire the fifth shot, and at the cost of 2,000 Mongolian warriors, it was worth breaking through the position of the Democratic Alliance!

Mianyu and Shengbao in another large camp also clenched their fists tightly, as if they saw the scene of the people who were hit by the Democratic Alliance army turning over on their backs, and success or failure was fixed at this moment.

And the Taiping soldiers at the head of the city pinched their nails into their flesh, and they couldn't imagine that such a powerful gun couldn't stop the cavalry, alas, it was over, and even many people turned their faces to the side, and they couldn't bear to look at it anymore.

But no one noticed a detail, that is, after the second and third shots were released, the last two rows of Democratic Alliance soldiers did not put bullets on the guns, but at the same time as the first row and the fourth shot, they stepped forward together, touched the waist with the soldiers of the first row who had just finished putting the guns, took out a guy and bit it, and threw it forward! (To be continued)

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