Chapter 845: Topographical Advantage
More than 100 powerful red-coated cannons were fired at dozens of mortars, and in Aobai's view, it was like a group of lightly armed children who were far inferior to their own in number.
However, even with such a disparity in strength, more than a hundred red-coated cannons were defeated, and they were defeated very completely, almost losing their combat effectiveness.
For this result, everyone up and down the Tartars, including Aobai, did not expect.
However, it is too late to say anything.
Because, the loss of combat effectiveness of the heavy artillery directly told Ao Bai that if he paid such a huge price and could not take the mountain in front of him, then he would really be finished.
Therefore, at the moment when the shelling ended, Ao Bai gave the order to attack without thinking about it.
After it was over, Ao Bai, who had never believed in strength, began to pray silently in his heart for the first time that the Tiger and Leopard Army on the mountain must have suffered heavy losses in the shelling just now, and his attacking troops would definitely be able to attack the mountain and destroy all the Tiger and Leopard Army on the mountain.
However, let it down.
The Tartar attacking troops, with a total strength of 8,000 men, had just stepped out of their starting positions when more than twenty flowering shells with a screaming roar fell from the sky and fell among them.
The flowering bomb exploded, and more than 20 clouds of black smoke quickly rose from the dense Tartar attack troops...... Countless Tartars, who didn't even see the figure of the Tiger and Leopard Army, were blown to the ground at the moment when the flowering bomb exploded, and their life and death were unknown.
However, after all, the Tartars' forces were too many, and more than 20 gaps had just been blown out by flowering shells in the middle of the dense formation, and they were filled by the follow-up troops at the first time. Then, in the shouts and curses of officers at all levels. Continue to rush towards the top of the mountain.
Until the artillery fired the tenth round of flowering shells. When nearly a thousand Tartars were wiped out in a row.
Dense. The Tartars, like a swarm of ants, finally rushed halfway up the mountain, into the range of the Haw Par Muskets.
The artillery fire of the two armies hit each other, and more than a thousand musketeers, even with the cover of the trenches, still suffered heavy losses.
At this moment, the whole regiment can continue to fight with muskets, not even 800 people.
If it is on flat ground. In the face of attacks from the Tartars from all directions, these eight hundred musketeers would definitely not be able to hold out for long.
However, this is not flat land, it is a mountain, a hill that is very beneficial to the Haw Par Army.
With the advantage of height, the Tartar that goes into the range of the musket can be easily shot by the Haw Par Army Musket.
And the buckshot shot by the Tartar is too selective, and there is no way to shoot the condescending Tartar because of the distance.
As for grenades, not to mention.
The condescending Haw Par Army can easily throw a grenade fifty paces away. And the Tartars who threw grenades at the top of the mountain. To be able to throw a grenade thirty steps away, thank God.
So. Although the strength of the Haw Par Musketeers was very small, the faces of these 800 musketeers did not show the nervous expressions before the battle, but were very relaxed.
Because, condescendingly, they all know that after the battle starts, as long as there is no accident, the Tartars who rush to the mountainside will only be passively beaten, whether it is with a musket or a grenade, they will not be able to hurt themselves in the slightest.
In battle, all you need to do is to shoot as many buckshot bullets as you can at the Tartar as fast as you can.
The gunshots rang out, and the Tartars who rushed to the front, without exception, fell to the ground without the slightest accident as long as they were hit by lead bullets.
However, under Aobai's death order, even though they knew that it was death to keep going, these Tartars did not hesitate to continue to attack with lead bullets flying towards them.
Of course, if the Hawpanthers still have a sufficient number of musketeers, with the continuous firepower of muskets. Tartars who don't have the slightest ability to fight back, even if there are many people, it is difficult to move forward.
However, the Mountain Tiger and Leopard Army did not.
Therefore, although the Tartars, who were attacking with lead bullets, suffered heavy casualties, their defense line still advanced towards the hill little by little.
After losing more than a thousand people in a row, these Tartars finally rushed to a position less than a hundred paces from the top of the mountain.
The more than 3,000 Tartar musketeers, who were closely behind the sword and shield men and did not receive too many blows from the Haw Par Army musketeers, quickly picked up their muskets and began to counterattack.
As more and more Tartar musketeers began to join the counterattack, even though they suffered from the terrain, the dense lead bullets still caused a lot of casualties to the mountain tiger and leopard musketeers.
Just when everyone thought that this attack of the Tartars was going to be slowly divided between the two musketeers in the battle between the two armies.
The mountain tiger and leopard musketeers suddenly made a decision that surprised everyone on the battlefield and did not know why.
Eight hundred musketeers, except for two or three hundred men who continued to block the Tartar sword and shield men, the other musketeers, as if they had been trained, quickly retreated.
Slowly, the Tartar musketeers on the mountainside who were suppressing the fire on the Haw Par Musketeers could not see these people.
Not only that, the Haw Par musketeers who were left behind did not reload after firing the lead bullet in the chamber. Under the gaze of the Tartar musketeers, he quickly lay on the ground and disappeared in front of the Tartar musketeers.
Obviously, the Tartars who defended the hill made good use of the terrain of the hill.
Of course, this is only one aspect.
Taking advantage of the terrain, so that the Tartar musketeers could not see themselves if they did not continue to advance, the two or three hundred musketeers who were left behind, after lying on the ground, directly gave up the muskets, took out grenades and fire folds, and prepared to use the grenades to destroy the Tartars that attacked within the range of the grenade.
The Haw Par Army's use of the terrain to make changes in tactics soon forced the Tartars to follow suit.
The Tartar musketeers, who had lost their shooting targets, had to follow closely behind the sword and shield guards and continue to advance towards the hill in order to continue to cover the sword and shield guards.
When the retreating more than 500 Haw Par musketeers finally entered their field of vision again and began to shoot a new round of lead bullets at the sword and shield men.
The Tartar musketeers seemed to ignore the more than 200 tigers and leopards who had just suddenly fallen to the ground and had given up their muskets.
And it was their neglect that made them pay with their lives in this attack.
Because, at this moment, they are not even forty steps away from the mountain. Condescendingly, Pineapple can easily throw a grenade into their musket array without any effort at all, killing and injuring them.
More than 3,000 Tartar musketeers, with a vengeful rage, began to shoot lead bullets at the Hawpanthers who had reappeared in front of them, and fired suppressive shots.
More than 200 Haw Par soldiers who remained in place and were lying on the ground had already lit the grenade ropes in their hands. (To be continued......)