However, the Haw Par Army's attacking force had a smooth journey here, and that was the end of it......

The distance between the two armies was shortened to fifty paces in a short time. On the Tartar line, there were still no heads.

However, hundreds of arrows emitting cold light flew out from behind the defensive line.

After drawing beautiful parabolas in the air, they flew towards their location at an increasing speed.

Although most of the sudden arrows missed, dozens of tigers and leopards were still hit by the arrows and fell to the ground with screams, killed or wounded.

And just when the first round of arrows had not yet finished killing the Tiger and Leopard Army, the second round of arrows had already flown out of the Tartar defense line again and flew towards the location of the Tiger and Leopard Army.

At the same time, the Tartar musketeers, who had been hiding behind the line as shrunken turtles, also popped out their heads, raised their muskets, and fired the lead bullets that had been loaded in the chamber with their own speed.

Although at this moment, at least thirty Tartar musketeers were killed with lead bullets on the back of the covering troops of the Haw Par Army.

However, at a firing distance of fifty paces, the hundreds of lead bullets they fired at the same time brought more damage to the Haw Par Army than their own losses.

No, plus the casualties caused by the arrows.

In just the blink of an eye, the two companies of more than 300 tigers and leopards lost almost 100 people......

In the face of this unexpected counterattack, in the face of the sudden heavy losses of the soldiers under his command.

The commander of the first battalion, who attacked with the attacking troops, was shocked, but he did not lose his mind.

Taking advantage of the moment when the Tartar musketeers reloaded, he decisively ordered......

"Quick. Out of range of the Tartar Bow and Arrow. Spread out. Dodge the Tartar musketeers' counterattacks...... Mortars, all light mortars are set up, immediately shell the Tartar line, blow up all the Tartars hiding behind the line......"

With a distance of more than ten paces, the Haw Par Army can exit the range of bows and arrows.

Therefore, when the new round of Tartar arrows flew out of the defense line again, the target area of the arrows was not to take away the corpses. There is not a single living Haw Par Army in sight.

Not only that, the Haw Par Army musketeers, who had withdrawn from the range of the bow and arrow, quickly lay on the ground, dodging the new round of fire from the Tartars, and at the same time, they also gave way to the firing range, allowing the three musket companies of the second battalion covering behind them to clean them up.

Of course, it was not these musketeers who could really inflict a devastating blow on the Tartars behind the line, but mortars that could perform curved fire.

Eighteen light mortars on the shoulders of the artillerymen were erected for the first time.

Subsequently. The dull sound of mortar shelling sounded right behind the musketeers.

Eighteen flowering bullets with a screeching sound. In the blink of an eye, he crossed everyone's heads and smashed into the Tartar defense line dozens of paces away.

Soon, the Tartars' already dilapidated defensive line was once again overwhelmed by artillery fire.

Under such heavy artillery fire, even a musket made of fine iron could be blown into parts, not to mention the flesh and blood of the Tartars.

So, as soon as the fire of eighteen light mortars began, the fire of the Tartars' counterattack stopped.

As a light mortar with a short range and designed to support infantry. Its shooting accuracy, is definitely a top priority.

After all, very often, these light mortars are fought in conjunction with the attacking forces.

So, at a range of a hundred paces, the firing error of a light mortar is definitely no more than five steps.

As a result, there was such a scene on the battlefield......

There are a lot of flowering bombs that land, and it seems to be raining. However, all of these flowering shells were concentrated on the Tartar line, and very few fell outside the line.

Unlike the medium and heavy mortars that have just been shelled, a radius of 20 paces around the defensive line may become the landing point of its flowering shells, and if the killing range of the flowering shells is added, in order to avoid accidental injury, the attacking troops of the Haw Par Army must avoid the shelling area at least 30 paces away. The light mortar in front of you only needs to avoid ten or even five steps.

So, two hundred musketeers, who were covered by light mortars, quickly got up from the ground.

Under the cover of raining bullets, get as close as possible to the Tartar line, and use grenades together to kill and injure the Tartars hiding behind the line.

However, as soon as their operation began, the Tartars seemed to have found out.

In order to avoid a devastating blow to the defensive line, the Tartars had to expose ten redcoat cannons in advance.

The cannon rang out, and ten flowering shells with a screeching sound quickly rushed out of the barrel. After crossing the battlefield in a short time, it smashed steadily on the artillery position of the Haw Par Army.

It was clear that the Tartars wanted to use this counterattack to relieve the pressure on the defenders on the defensive line, so as to achieve the ultimate goal of preventing the attacking forces of the Haw Par Army from approaching the defensive line further and destroying the defensive line with grenades.

After the explosion of ten flowering shells one after another, three mortars were directly blown into scrap metal on the two light mortar positions.

Under such circumstances, in order to avoid casualties, hundreds of gunners could only carry mortars and flowering shells to transfer, and suspended the suppression of fire on the Tartar line......

In this way, the Tartars, who had been pressed by artillery fire and couldn't lift their heads, could finally ease their strength.

Muskets and bows were raised to hold the attacking forces of the Haw Par Army closer to the line.

There is no doubt that the purpose of the Tartars to expose ten red-coated cannons in advance was achieved.

Because, the attacking force of the Tiger and Par Army, which was counterattacked by the Tartars again, quickly retreated after losing less than ten people.

However, the early exposure of the ten red-coated cannons also let the Haw Par Army know their true strength.

Therefore, as soon as the sound of the ten red-coated cannons sounded, Wang Bo, the commander of the 1st Division, who had just taken over the command of the attack, ordered very decisively: "Heavy artillery battalion, immediately counterattack and eat the Tartar artillery unit......"

"After the end of the artillery counterattack, the first battalion went on the offensive and, with grenades and light mortars, completely destroyed the Tartar line of defense, occupied it"

Eighteen cannons against ten redcoat cannons, both in terms of the number of artillery fire and the power of artillery fire, are far superior to a large number of cannons.

So, the eighteen cannons fired only five rounds of flowering shells, and the ten redcoat cannons that the Tartars had given high hopes for were blown into piles of scrap metal.

In the eyes of the Tartars, the loss of the red-coated cannon means that they have lost their only chance to stop the Tiger and Par Army. In this case, if they continue to block here, there is only one way to annihilate the entire army.

So, when more than a dozen light mortars fired flowering shells at them again.

The remaining Tartars of the defensive line collapsed after only two rounds of artillery fire.

When hiding behind the defensive line, the Haw Par Musketeers could not help them. But when they start to break down and run for their lives. They were completely exposed to the Haw Par Army, making them the best targets for the musketeers.

The last one was to take over the two thousand Tartar elites, and in the end, there were less than two hundred of them...... (To be continued......)