Chapter 125: Layers of Fire Nets
Not to mention, the rich experience of actual combat has created the accurate judgment of the Tartar cavalry.
Thousands of buckshot came at the face and slammed into the back of the Tartar cavalry phalanx. Except for a few Tartars who were shot in the face, they fell off their horses with screams, and were then trampled into flesh by the horse's hooves by the follow-up cavalry. The other Tartar cavalrymen, who had been shot only lightly wounded, remained on their horses and continued to charge forward......
After the artillery of this era fired the first round of shotshots, it took a long time to reload before the second shot could be fired.
This is a well-known thing. The battle-hardened Tartar cavalry in front of him knew this very well.
Therefore, after the first round of scattered bullet baptism, the Tartar was as if he had been suddenly beaten with chicken blood, constantly urging the war horse under his crotch. I hope that I can grasp the time when the Haw Par Army reloads the artillery and charge as much distance as possible.
However, this idea of the Tartars fell through.
Just as they were desperately whipping their horses under their crotches, the roar of the second round of artillery, as if urging death, reached the ears of all the Tartars.
"How can this be, don't the artillery equipped by the Haw Par Army need to be loaded, how can it be fired so fast......"
At the moment when all kinds of exclamations sounded in the Tartar cavalry phalanx, 1,400 buckshot bullets fired by seven artillery pieces had already formed an impermeable fan-shaped bullet net in front of the Tartar cavalry phalanx.
What's more, after this blink of an eye, the Tartar cavalry rushed right into the scatterfire range of the heavy Franc artillery.
The screams of the Tartars, the neighing of the horses as they were wounded, the roar of the Tartar cavalry being shot and landing...... One after another sounded on the battlefield.
As far as the eye can see, in the dense Tartar cavalry formation, wherever the lead bullet goes, the Tartars on the war horses are like ripe wheat, and they have been cut to the ground by lead bullets.
Of course, this is not the final end for these cavalry.
Under the huge inertia generated by the cavalry charge, the Tartar cavalry that fell to the ground did not even have time to react, and was trampled into a pulp by the follow-up cavalry that rushed later, and not even a complete corpse could be left, which can be called a corpse without bones.
In the blink of an eye, more than fifty Tartar cavalry disappeared into the wave of their charge.
The shock of this round of shelling to the Tartars had not subsided, and when they were at the front, narrowly avoiding the shelling, and still had a happy expression on their faces, a string of roars that the Tartars least wanted to hear reached their ears again.
Round 3...... Round 4...... Round 5......
After the mighty Tartar cavalry finally advanced a hundred paces, the number of cavalry lost along the way was already more than five hundred.
However, on the battlefield filled with gunsmoke and dust, the Tartar generals, who attacked with their subordinates, could not see the heavy losses of their own troops. Of course, even if he knew that he had lost five hundred elites, he would not hesitate to command the cavalry to continue to charge.
Because, after deducting the loss of 500 people, he still has 2,500 people. Even if this rate of loss remained unchanged, by the time he rushed to the front of the Tiger and Par Army, he still had at least 1,500 cavalry under his command.
On the battlefield of close combat, the Tatar general was confident that the 1,500 elite cavalry was fully capable of killing more than 1,000 tigers and leopards and annihilating the entire army.
Therefore, the Tartar cavalry, which had lost a large section, did not stop on the battlefield for the slightest, and continued to attack forward in the face of a steady stream of lead bullets flying towards them.
Hundreds of Tartars fell to the ground with screams, and even if they didn't see it clearly, such a spectacular scene was enough to calm the slightly frightened hearts of the thousands of musketeers of the Haw Par Army.
Because, standing beside everyone, the commander-in-chief of the Haw Par Army, who is ready to advance and retreat with everyone, is now Jinyi Wei Qianhu Wei Zheng, and tells everyone with practical actions that Tartar is not as invincible as everyone imagined.
Not only that, but among the musketeers, veterans and officers who had gone through life and death with Wei Zheng. also took advantage of this opportunity to boost morale in front of his subordinates.
"Everybody saw it! Tartars do not have three heads and six arms, they also carry a head on two shoulders. A buckshot went over and killed them. If all the remaining thirty guns were fired, perhaps the Tartar cavalry in front of them would collapse without us having to do anything. ”
As soon as the officer finished speaking, Wei Zheng, who was standing in the middle of the ranks, took advantage of the gap between the artillery firing and shouted loudly: "Artillery battalion, push out all the remaining medium-sized Franc machines, and fire the ......cannon immediately."
On the small battlefield, there was no need for a guard conscription order, and seeing that the Tartar cavalry had already rushed to the artillery two hundred paces away, they had already pushed out thirty medium-sized Franc machines under the orders of their respective platoon commanders and captains, and lined up neatly behind the heavy Furlong fuselage.
Therefore, the moment the order was issued, ten of the thirty medium-sized Franc machines had already responded to the order of the Wei Zheng with the roaring sound of cannons.
Thirty artillery pieces suddenly joined the battlefield, and the density of lead bullets fired head-on at the Tartars also suddenly doubled at this moment. Under such circumstances, the casualties of the Tartar cavalry also began to rise in a straight line.
More and more Tartar cavalry, with unwilling faces, fell to the ground with a bang, and were trampled into pulp by the cavalry that galloped by.
Of course, such a blow is not the most tragic for the Tartars.
Under the combined attack of 50 artillery pieces, the Tartars, who had lost 500 cavalry again, finally rushed to a distance of 150 paces from the formation of the Tiger and Par Army, that is, the limit range of the new muskets of the Tiger and Leopard Army.
After the actual actions of the artillerymen, the encouragement of officers of all ranks, the panicked expressions on the faces of a thousand musketeers have been imperceptibly replaced by firmness. For the Tartars in front of them, who were getting closer and closer to them, everyone was not afraid, but showed a pair of eyes full of heat, as if looking at the prey, looking at the Tartar cavalry.
As soon as the Tartar cavalry phalanx rushed to the pole where the Tiger and Par Army had stood one hundred and fifty paces in front of the position, the three hundred musketeers of the 1st Battalion of the Musket Regiment quickly raised their muskets in their hands amid the roars of officers at all levels.
"The 1st Battalion of the Musket Regiment, ...... shots"
The moment the "pop pop ......" order quickly spread to the position, the sound of bean-like gunfire was on the front line of the position, and under the cover of the cannonball, it sounded one after another.
The musket is not a cannon, the scattered bullets fired by the cannon are scattered in all directions, and after more than a hundred steps of flight, it is very good to have a layer of lead bullets that can really kill the Tartars.
However, the lead bullets fired from muskets were different.
Because of its horizontal flight direction, even after more than a hundred steps of flight, it can still kill the Tartar.
Therefore, although the number of lead bullets fired by the three hundred musketeers was very limited, the fire she achieved was no less than the result of firing ten guns at the same time.
A round of 300 unused lead bullets swept past, and the dense Tartar cavalry phalanx seemed to have been stripped of a layer of skin, facing the side of the tiger and leopard army, and the Tartars located on the outermost side, almost none of them missed the net, and all of them were shot and fell off their horses.