Cannons with a range of more than two miles, mortars of different calibers......

As if in a race, with his fastest rate of fire, he fired shells at the Tartar Horsemen in front of the position, which were getting closer and closer to him.

In the air like rain, the explosion of flowering bombs kept falling. The dense Tartar iron horsemen, the first attempt of the Dao, the powerful power of the artillery fire.

Because, on the battlefield completely enveloped by the sound of shell explosions, the explosion of each round of flowering shells can blow a huge gap in the middle of the Tartar iron horse.

Although this gap was filled by the cavalry that followed in a short time.

However, at the beginning, they were still in a neat cavalry charging formation, and at this moment, they had been blown up by flowering shells, and they fell directly into a situation where the soldiers could not find the generals, and the soldiers could not find the soldiers.

More importantly, a large number of war horses and soldiers' corpses that fell on the charging road invisibly became a roadblock that hindered the high-speed charge of the subsequent cavalry, and at a certain distance, hindered the charging speed of the Tartar iron cavalry.

The slower the Tartars' charge speed, which means that they will take longer and longer to withstand the flowering shells......

On the main position of the Houjin Army, looking at the elite cavalry sent out, they fell to the ground one after another. The face of the commander of the Houjin army was directly angry and worried...... All kinds of complicated expressions are shrouded......

The attack has continued until now, although the 8,000 iron cavalry sent by himself has lost almost 2,000 people. However, the commander-in-chief of the Houjin Army, who clenched his fists, did not give the order to retreat because of this.

He's gambling...... Bet that the cavalry troops sent out by themselves still have the ability to charge less than two hundred paces away.

As long as the remaining cavalry rushes through this distance, even if it costs another two thousand soldiers. Even the loss of 3,000 soldiers. For the commander of the Houjin Army. All are very worthwhile and cost-effective......

In his eyes, whether it is the border army of the Ming Dynasty or the tiger and leopard army he is currently facing, they all have one thing in common, that is, the Han people, they are all an army composed of Han people.

Everyone knows that the firearms of the Han army are very powerful. However, in close combat. The Han Chinese will become a little sheep without any danger......

Therefore, the commander of the Houjin Army, who held this conventional idea, was very sure that as long as the iron cavalry he sent out rushed into the tiger and leopard army formation, even if there were only two or three thousand iron cavalry. You can also gallop freely in the Tiger and Leopard Army formation and kill the enemy...... Completely disrupted the positions of the Haw Par Army. When the time comes, as long as you send the remaining troops and take advantage of the situation to cover up and enter the army formation of the Tiger and Leopard Army, you will have the advantage of troops. Sure to win......

However, while the commander of the Houjin Army underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Haw Par Army. also overestimated the combat effectiveness of the iron cavalry under his command.

In his previous battles with the Ming border army, no matter how great the price paid by the Houjin Iron Cavalry to rush into the opponent's military formation, it could not exceed thirty percent of the total strength. Under such circumstances, the iron cavalry under his command can still directly enter the opponent's army formation with high morale and an unstoppable momentum......

But when the losses of the attacking troops on the offensive road reached fifty percent. No matter how elite the troops are, they will be demoralized because of heavy casualties.

On the battlefield, no matter how strong the combat effectiveness of a unit is, no matter how good the equipment is...... Once you lose morale, you lose the courage to continue fighting. Then this army with strong combat effectiveness will become a group of Mianyang......

Of course, that's not the worst outcome.

When an army without faith suffers a staggering seventy percent of its losses. What awaits this force is not as simple as low morale, but a direct battlefield collapse.

In the current attack, the price to be paid by the Tartar Iron Cavalry is obviously more than fifty percent, and even seventy percent is possible. Because, so far, the loss of this iron has reached as much as thirty percent.

In front of them were the attacks of two sharp firearms, muskets and grenades.

Not only that, but their follow-up units still continue to endure attacks and casualties from flowering shells of various calibers......

Soon, the Tartar Iron Horse, in a chaotic manner, rushed into the range of muskets.

A field infantry division, with three or four thousand new flintlock muskets, even if the most conventional three-stage shooting is used, there are more than 1,000 lead bullets fired in each round.

You know, more than 1,000 buckshots were fired head-on. At an effective range, it is possible to stop only if the target is hit. That is, the Tartar cavalry who rushed in the front row, regardless of the order, would be hit as soon as they came within range of the muskets.

Therefore, when the first round of lead bullets flew out of the chamber with a whistling sound, the hundreds of Tartar cavalry who rushed to the front were directly stripped from the Tartar attacking army by lead bullets, as if they were undressing.

Then, with a desperate scream before dying, he fell to the ground and formed a row of barricades.

The Tartar cavalry that followed closely behind subconsciously crossed the corpse of the war horse in front of them, and before they had time to rush forward five steps, the second round of more than a thousand lead bullets had already flown towards them with a whistling sound.

Hundreds of Tartar riders fell to the ground with screams......

When three or four thousand musketeers fired a round of lead bullets. On the charging road, which was no more than ten paces long, no less than three hundred war horse corpses had fallen......

The corpses of these horses are intertwined together, forming an obstacle area that the horses cannot jump over.

In this case, the only way for the Tartar to cross this obstacle area, which could trip the horses at any time, was to slow down further, except to make a detour.

On the battlefield where bullets are raining down, changing the direction of the charge can definitely be called a taboo for cavalry charges.

Therefore, the Tartar cavalry, who rushed towards the Tiger and Par Army, subconsciously chose to slow down the charge and continue to charge forward.

However, flintlock muskets were not artillery.

The time it takes for an artillery to shoot one round of shells, a skilled musketeer, two rounds of buckshot, there are absolutely no problems.

In addition, the musket also has a three-stage shooting, and the sound of the musket shooting like a popping bean is no longer a round of sounding, but dense, and constantly ringing in the ears.

It has always been an unstoppable Houjin Iron Horseman, and in front of the dense lead bullets shot by the Tiger and Leopard Army, it was like a punch on cotton, without the slightest power.

Not only that, but under the crazy harvesting of round after round of buckshot, their losses have become bigger and bigger......

The closer you get to the musket formation, the more lethal the lead bullets will be, and the greater the losses of the Tartars.

The loss is greater, and the corpses that fall to the ground will be more.

The barricades in front of the subsequent Tartar cavalry will also become higher and higher and larger in range due to the increasing number of Tartar and horse corpses...... (To be continued......)