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Just when the Qing archers in front of them were in confusion, there was a desolate horn sound from behind, and the Qing soldiers understood that it was an order for the archers to retreat, and the archers who had been frightened turned around and ran backwards almost instantly at the sound of the horn, and some of them even had bows and arrows in their hands still on the ground.

"Woo woo"

Another horn sounded, after the archers retreated, they immediately revealed the figures of the pikemen behind them, these pikemen in heavy armor immediately tilted their spears upwards after hearing the sound of the horn, and the dense spears and halberds shone dazzlingly in the sun, and the Qing army pikemen in heavy armor rushed towards the front of the horsetail army with a shout.

At this time, if you look down from the sky, you can see countless groups of dense formations, and the pikemen in heavy armor are rushing towards the horsetail formation with spears in their spears. As the saying goes, an inch is long and an inch is strong, and this sentence is the most reasonable saying when the two armies are in battle. Some of these pikemen were armed with ten-foot-long spears for breaking formations, and some were eight-foot-long tiger head guns. The tips of their spears were shining, and the rows of spears were dazzling and dazzling, flashing with dazzling light. These heavily armored infantry soldiers are wearing double or even triple armor one by one, which can be described as thick armor, and ordinary weapons cannot cause damage to them at all, plus these people are stout, everyone is charging while opening their mouths and letting out a breathtaking roar, so desperately rushing, it seems to be sandwiched with an unstoppable momentum. The fierce and vicious appearance is enough to make the average timid person frightened.

The platoon guns in front of the Mawei Army were fired, and the soldiers who had originally finished the first round returned to the first row at this time, benefiting from the convenience of ordering gunpowder. The soldiers only need to tear open the gunpowder packet and load the gunpowder and mini bullets into the chamber in order, then use the pestle to solidify, and finally put a little gunpowder into the powder magazine to complete the loading, the whole process only takes more than ten seconds.

The reloaded riflemen raised their rifles in unison, and the dense muzzles of their guns were aimed at the rushing heavy spear soldiers, and they could already clearly see the hideous faces of the pikemen.

"Put!"

A burst of shouts rang out at the same time, followed by a deafening sound of rifle fire.

"Bang Bang Bang"

"Bang Bang Bang"

"Bang Bang Bang"

Immediately afterward, a large cloud of gunpowder smoke rose into the air. A large number of Qing army heavy armored pikemen with spears and halberds rolled to the ground as if they had been hit by heavy hammers at the same time. The distance of 100 meters is also the range where the Mini rifle can exert its maximum power, and at this distance the Mini bullet can easily break through their heavy armor, even if any lucky Qing soldier is not hit by the Mini bullet and does not penetrate his triple armor. But the huge impact of the rifle bullets was enough to shatter their bodies behind the armor.

The heavily armored pikemen who had been hit hard for the first time fell in large numbers, but the heavy armoured soldiers behind them still did not stop their charge. These elites of the Qing army, who were accustomed to fighting, knew that if they stopped charging at this time. That's the stupidest thing.

"Kill"

The remaining heavy armoured soldiers still hissed and roared as they might, rushing forward. At this time, they were only seventy or eighty meters away from the soldiers in front of the Mawei Army, and many of them had a hideous and cruel smile on their faces, and they longed to pierce the spear in their hands into the chest of the Mawei Army in front of them, break his belly, and then cut off the enemy's head.

In the face of the swarming Qing troops, the next row of soldiers who had taken over the position of the robe in front looked at these Qing soldiers with cold eyes, and the hands holding the rifles were still steady, and they did not hesitate to pull the trigger in their hands under the command of their respective officers.

"Bang Bang Bang"

"Bang Bang Bang"

"Bang Bang Bang"

The sound of gunpowder being stimulated in the chamber of the gun was endless. The sparks emitted by the flint ignited the factors in the powder magazine, which in turn ignited the gunpowder in the chamber. Streams of flickering fire lit up, then turned into bursts of smoke from the muzzles of the guns, and finally converged into a deafening volley of rifle fire.

Clouds of blood mist appeared from the bodies of those Qing soldiers in heavy armor, and at this distance of about seventy meters, there was no armor that could not be broken for the Mini rifle, even if they wore more heavy armor, it was useless. And because it's closer, it's also easier to aim. A large number of Qing soldiers who were shot all fell to the ground, and those who died on the spot were fortunately, and those Qing soldiers who did not die covered their wounds one by one and howled heartbreakingly.

After a few rounds of shooting, the heavily armored pikemen who were originally densely lined up in front of them had become empty, and the few remaining people were also stunned by the sudden blow, such sharp firearms and lethality were something they had never seen before among the veterans of the Qing army who had fought for several years.

But this batch of Qing soldiers heavy armor soldiers is also worthy of being the elite of the elite, even if they were so killed, but the heavy armor pikemen behind still rushed up, but at this time their faces have become extremely crazy. A Qing soldier whose left arm was broken by Minnie's bullet could no longer hold the spear in his hand, but he still used his remaining right arm to draw the long knife at his waist and stumbled forward.

Looking at the Qing soldiers who were like crazy tigers, Geng Jingzhong, who was standing in the center of the big array and watching the battle, muttered in his mouth: "Damn, it's really crazy enough, and the little devils of later generations have a fight, but no matter how brave the enemy is, he can't stop the power of modern firearms, the more he comes, the more he will die!" ”

As soon as Geng Jingzhong's words fell, behind the soldiers, the projection unit in charge of the small catapults also pushed the small catapults used in the morning behind the phalanx, and three gunners stood next to each trebuchet. One gunner placed the boxy explosive bag on the launch pad of the catapult, and the other gunner lit the arcore of the explosive bag with a torch, and then pulled the catapult's bracket, swinging the arm of the catapult. The three-pound explosive bag flew into the air, flew in a semicircular arc, and landed sixty or seventy meters in front of the Mawei military formation.

The vast majority of the explosive packets did not explode immediately when they landed on the ground. Some of them hit a few Qing soldiers and immediately smashed them to the ground, and then the explosive package made a huge explosion.

In addition to the black powder, each bag was filled with twenty to thirty small, irregular iron balls, which, when exploded, rose into the air and crashed into the objects around them. The Qing heavy armor soldiers, who were lined up in a dense formation in order to charge, suffered such an explosion, and two explosive packs exploded almost at the same time in the same place. In the midst of a large puff of gunpowder smoke rising into the air and the deafening sound of explosions, a large group of Qing army heavy armored soldiers were blown up and rolled to the ground around the explosion site, and dozens of Qing army heavy armored soldiers who were rushing forward with spears and halberds were even shocked by the violent explosion shock wave and flew out. The originally dense formation became as if it had been gnawed by a dog in the sound of explosions one after another. Becoming pitted and unusually ugly, in the face of thunderbolt-like blows and heavy casualties, the remaining Qing soldiers could no longer hold back the fear in their hearts, and they threw away their weapons. Screaming and running back.

After several rounds of gun blows and two rounds of bombardment of explosive packs. In addition, Zhang Wenliang also commanded the artillery battalion to continue firing artillery, and the Qing army's attack troops, more than 2,000 archers and more than 2,000 heavy armored soldiers who followed and charged up were almost all wiped out, while the casualties of the Mawei Army were minimal.

The remaining hundreds of Qing soldiers could no longer suppress the fear in their hearts, no matter how tenacious their nerves were, they could not withstand such heavy casualties, and the elite of the Qing soldiers screamed and began to flee backwards, and these people had only one thought in their hearts, to get out of here. Get out of this terrible hell. But there were also some heavy armor soldiers who had been stimulated to ignore Qiē and still roared and rushed forward, but their ending still did not change. It was quickly smashed into a sieve by the swiftly fired Mini bullets.

"Rush up...... Rush them all up and kill them all! A guerrilla in the Qing army brandished a long knife in his hand and drove his soldiers to charge forward desperately.

"And the archers? Shoot me and put the guns that crush the rebels! The Qing generals who reacted quickly around him roared quickly and loudly. There was no need for him to roar, when he entered the distance of eighty meters, the heavy arrows of the Qing archers sparsely and sharply shot into the Mawei army's formation, and from time to time some soldiers were shot by the arrows and fell to the ground. The distance of 90 meters is actually the effective range of the crossbowman, and at that time, the bows and arrows of these Qing troops were all heavy arrows, so the distance was closer, but they could be fired at a position of 80 meters. Seeing that the bow and arrow worked, the remaining archers who were hiding behind the heavily armored soldiers had already flocked to the front more and more, so there were more and more horsetail warriors who fell to the ground with arrows.

"Hahaha...... Attack, attack! At a distance of two or three miles from the battlefield, many Qing generals with clairvoyant mirrors shouted excitedly, in their opinion, as long as their army pressed forward, these rebel musketeers who would only hide in the distance and shoot were a lamb to be slaughtered.

The joy of victory surged into their hearts, and even Le Erjin's originally gloomy face showed a hint of a smile, although he had lost two thousand cavalry just now, and had lost nearly ten thousand foot soldiers several times, as long as he could break through into the enemy's ranks, this qiē was worth it. Pressed down, Le Erjin was happiest not so much that he was about to defeat the rebels, but that he was about to get thousands of powerful guns and cannons. After this series of battles, he coveted the weapons in the hands of the Mawei Army. If he can have these firearms, then he can also form an elite firearms battalion, and then his troops will definitely be able to dominate the world.

Just as Le Erjin and many Qing generals were rejoicing at the impending victory, the captain of the throwing brigade of the Mawei Army was standing next to a row of catapults with a small red flag. Packets of boxy explosives were again placed on the catapult's projectile plates. The warrior next to him held a torch in one hand, and the other two held a rope in their hands.

"Dynamite pack, put!"

The red flag in the captain's hand fell violently again, this was the third time it had fallen, and every time he let out a loud roar of rage. As the order was given, the fire rope on the explosive bag was ignited, and the two soldiers holding the rope in their hands pulled it violently together, and the bags of explosives were sprayed out of the projectile plate.

"Huhuhuhu"

The explosive bag, which weighed more than three catties, was thrown into the air by the catapult, and after crossing an oval arc, it fell seventy or eighty meters away, and then fell heavily to the ground again. A lot of them were lucky enough to hit some unlucky guy on the head and bleed his head.

The Qing army had already tasted the power of the explosive pack, and when they saw the explosive bag falling around. He quickly fell to the ground in fright. It's just that the explosive bag exploded as violently as the sky collapsed, and the scattered small marbles were also the Hades who were urging his life, and many Qing soldiers saw the scene of the explosive bag exploding, and then there was no more.

"Boom Boom"

Countless violent explosions were accompanied by bursts of smoke, and those Qing soldiers who were rushing forward were killed in the violent explosion, and anyone who was within the impact range of the shock wave was shocked to death by bleeding to death. Even those who were not within the blaster's kill range were hit by small marbles that flew out in all directions. And those who survived were also shocked by the sudden huge explosion, and their ears buzzed, and the entire front was plunged into chaos.

The explosion of these three consecutive rounds of explosive packs caused more damage to the Qing soldiers than the shelling of the artillery battalion. Many of the Qing soldiers who were hit by this kind of blow for the first time were stunned, and many of them were moving around like headless flies, and even many Qing soldiers even knelt down on the spot and bowed to the sky to ask for forgiveness. The whole battlefield was in chaos.

But whether they believe in the gods or not, the doom of the Qing soldiers continues, and it is less than twenty seconds before the last round of explosions, and the next wave of blows is coming. As usual, another square bag of explosives fell from mid-air in an arc. The fire rope that was still burning after falling to the ground snorted, and then another burst of explosions rang out one after another, and the thick black smoke shrouded countless Qing soldiers inside.

"How so?" Not far away, Le Erjin clenched the horsewhip in his hand, his knuckles turned blue from too much force, and his whole face became distorted. "How so?" Watching the continuous explosions continue to devour the Qing army in front of him, Le Erjin knew that the most elite six or seven thousand Han troops under his command were also finished. At this time, the Qing troops in front were already shrouded in a burst of gunsmoke, and the explosion of explosive packs, the roar of artillery, and the sound of the neat rows of rifle guns had all enveloped those Qing soldiers. Even people who don't know anything about military affairs know it. The attacking Qing army is finished.

"Shoot keep shooting, don't stop!" On the left side of the phalanx. Luo Cheng kept yelling, in fact, the soldiers never stopped their movements, but he still habitually ordered.

"Bang Bang Bang"

"Bang Bang Bang"

"Bang Bang Bang"

The sound of gunfire rang for two quarters of an hour, after the gunfire completely stopped, it took another quarter of an hour to shroud the battlefield before the smoke slowly dissipated, at this time in front of everyone was a terrible scene, in the center of the battlefield densely packed corpses piled up layer upon layer, stumps and broken arms everywhere, countless Qing soldiers died tragically on the road of the charge, even some lucky people did not die lying on the ground moaning weakly.

Looking at the battlefield like Shura's hell, Le Erjin closed his eyes in pain, he lost this battle, Geng Jingzhong's horsetail army was really strong beyond his expectations. In the morning he had lost nearly 5,000 troops of the former army, and now in an afternoon, he had paid a full 2,000 cavalry plus almost 8,000 Manchu and Han elite infantry soldiers. Eight thousand elite foot soldiers were swallowed up like this, and the casualties of the other party were pitiful, only one or two hundred, and the soldiers were killed and wounded by arrows.

After the battle, only corpses could be seen everywhere on the battlefield, and the Qing army was left fleeing. Everyone was shocked by the big battle just now, including Geng Jingzhong. It turns out that the power of multi-arms cooperation is so great! Geng Jingzhong also couldn't help but sigh. Not to mention the rifle salvo of the infantry army, the salvo of thousands of rifles on several sides in turn, the power cannot catch up with the machine guns of later generations, which is shocking enough. The artillery of the artillery battalion fired a volley, and piles of flowering shells and grape shells rained down, and the damage caused to the Qing army was also terrifying.

In addition, he felt that the wisest decision was to remove the small catapult at the head of Jinling City and take it with the army, and the effect of the explosive bag projecting explosion at close range was not inferior to the salvo of the cannon, and even stronger. The explosives exploded in the ranks of the Qing army, not only killing and injuring the enemy, but also causing fear to the Qing army. And the most fearful thing on the battlefield is precisely the heart of fear, once the heart is afraid, then no matter how elite the army, no matter how elite the warriors can exert less than one-third of the original combat power.

The sound of artillery and explosions constantly resounded in the ears, coupled with the constant loud wails of the comrades around them who were hit by bullets or shells, or injured by the explosion of explosive packets, these voices were intertwined, so that these Qing troops no longer had a trace of morale. Looking around, most of the casualties on our side have been killed and wounded in just over two quarters of an hour. By the standards of the United States in later generations, the casualty rate reached one-third and was crippled, making it unfit to continue fighting; The casualty rate of more than six achievements is a complete loss of combat effectiveness. However, it has always been a little inapplicable to China, and there have been many times in history that the Chinese army has lost more than eighty or ninety percent of the battle, and it is still very tenacious. But the Qing army, seventy percent of the casualties were still unconscious, and when they were discovered, they were no longer tenacious and began to retreat in an all-round way. (To be continued......)

PS: Next chapter, Ouroboros Pursuit