Chapter 269: Defeated
At this time, if you look down from the sky, you can see countless groups lined up in dense formations, and the pikemen in heavy armor are rushing towards the Ming army formation with 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. These pikemen were all elite soldiers with blue flags, some of them were armed with ten-foot-long spears for breaking the formation, 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 Eight Banner disciples are wearing double or even triple armor one by one, which can be described as thick armor, and ordinary weapons can't hurt them at all, plus these people are stout, everyone opened their mouths wide while charging and let out a heart-stopping roar, so desperately rushing, it seems to be sandwiched with an unstoppable momentum, and the fierce and vicious appearance is enough to make ordinary timid people frightened.
The Ming army's three-round platoon guns were fired, and the musketeers who had originally finished the first round returned to the first row at this time, thanks to the convenience of fixed gunpowder, the soldiers only needed to tear open the gunpowder bag and load the gunpowder and lead bullets into the chamber in order, and then use the pestle to solidify, and finally put a little gunpowder into the powder magazine to complete the loading, and the whole process only took about 20 breaths.
The reloaded musketeers raised their muskets in unison, and the dense muzzles of their guns were aimed at the rushing heavy-armored spear clearers, who 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 firing gun.
Immediately after that, a large cloud of gunpowder smoke rose into the air, and 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 seventy or eighty paces is also the range where the Mini-style firecracker can exert the greatest power, and the 0.577-inch caliber Mini bullet can break through their heavy armor very lightly, even if any lucky Qing soldier is not hit by the lead bullet to penetrate his triple armor, but the huge impact of the firebolt projectile is enough to break the tendons and bones of their bodies behind the armor.
The heavy armor pikemen who were hit hard for the first time fell in large numbers, but the heavy armor soldiers behind still did not stop their charge, and these elites with blue flags who were used to fighting knew it. It would be the stupidest thing to do if you stopped charging at this point.
"Kill ......"
The rest of the heavy armor soldiers still let out a hissing roar and rushed towards the front, at this time they were only sixty or seventy steps away from the musketeers in front of the Ming 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 Ming army in front of them, break open his belly, and cut off their heads as before.
In the face of the swarming Qing army, the second row of firecrackers who had taken over the position of the robe in front looked at these bandits who broke through the pass with cold eyes, and the hands holding the firecrackers were still steady, and they did not hesitate to pull the trigger in their hands under the command of their respective officers.
"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, and then ignited the gunpowder in the chamber, and the glittering fires immediately lit up, and then turned into a series of violent smoke from the muzzle of the gun, and finally merged into a deafening volley of fire.
There was a mist of blood coming out of the heavily armored Qing soldiers, and at such a distance of fifty or sixty paces, there was no armor that could not be broken for the Minnie 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 two rounds of shooting. The heavily armored pikemen in front of them had become empty, and the few remaining men were stunned by the sudden blow, such sharp firearms and lethality that these veterans who prided themselves on a quiet battlefield had never seen.
But the Qing soldiers were worthy of being one of the most elite troops in this land during this period, even if they were so heavily killed. But the heavily armored pikemen behind still rushed forward, but by this time their faces had become extremely crazy, a Qing soldier whose left arm had been broken by lead bullets. He couldn't hold the spear in his hand anymore, 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, Yue Yang, who was standing in the center of the big array and watching the battle, muttered: "Damn, it's really crazy enough, and some of the little devils in 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 Yue Yang's words fell, behind the firecrackers, the gunners of the artillery battalion also pushed more than sixty small catapults behind the phalanx at this time, and there were three gunners standing next to each trebuchet. One gunner put a 10,000-strong enemy as big as two fists on the launch pad of the catapult, and another gunner held a torch and lit the fire rope of the 10,000-strong enemy, and then pulled the frame of the catapult, and with a wave of the swing arm of the catapult, the 10,000-strong enemy weighing three catties rose into the air, crossed a semicircular arc and flew to the front, landing fifty or sixty steps in front of the Ming army's formation.
Most of the 10,000 enemies did not explode immediately when they landed on the ground, and they rolled on the ground twice before they made a loud explosion.
In addition to the black powder, each of the 10,000 enemies was filled with 20 to 30 small and irregular iron balls, and when the 10,000 enemies exploded, these iron beads rose into the air and crashed into the objects around them.
In order to charge, the Qing soldiers who lined up in a dense formation encountered such an explosion, but they suffered, and two 10,000-strong enemies exploded almost at the same place at the same time, and in a large stream of gunpowder smoke rising into the air and a deafening explosion, a large group of Qing heavy armor soldiers around the explosion point were blown up and rolled to the ground, and dozens of Qing army heavy armor soldiers who were rushing forward with spears and halberds were even shocked by the violent explosion shock wave and flew out. In the face of thunderbolt-like blows and heavy casualties, the remaining Qing soldiers could no longer hold back the fear in their hearts, they threw away their weapons and fled back screaming.
After several rounds of continuous gun strikes and two rounds of bombardment by 10,000 enemies, the 2,000 archers of the Qing army were almost killed and wounded, and the rest had to be withdrawn, followed by more than 2,000 heavy armored soldiers also killed most of them, while the casualties of the Ming army were negligible.
The remaining hundreds of people could no longer suppress the fear in their hearts, no matter how tenacious their nerves were, they could not bear such heavy casualties, the Qing soldiers screamed and began to flee backwards, these people had only one thought in their hearts, to get out of here, to leave 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 did not change, and they were soon beaten into a sieve by the fast-firing lead bullets.
At this time, Wu Sangui, He Kegang and Hu Dawei, who had already come to support, led more than 8,000 cavalry to the two wings of the Yingzhou military formation, and they could see the situation clearly after the Qing army retreated.
The three of them were stunned by the scene in front of them, Hu Dawei is an old man in Xuanda Town, he has been in the army for decades, and he has never fought any battles? There were no less than dozens of battles with the Qing soldiers, and Liaodong, where Wu Sangui and He Kegang were located, was the first line of resistance against the Qing soldiers, and they were even more old in dealing with the Qing soldiers, but the situation in front of them was something they had never seen before. When did the Qing soldiers become so vulnerable? You must know that just now, the Qing soldiers launched an attack at the same time with seven or eight thousand people, not to mention the eight thousand soldiers and horses in Yueyang, if it is replaced by other Ming troops, even if they are thirty or forty thousand horses, if they are not careful, they are in danger of being defeated, but now? Is this true?
He Kegang couldn't help but groan and exclaimed, "Am I dreaming? Or have all the tartars become scrap? Is this still the Tartar I know? ”
Wu Sangui on the side is a person who can leave a name in history, and his psychological quality is still quite strong. Looking at the Qing soldiers in front of him who were fleeing in all directions, Wu Sangui took a deep breath and said, "It's not that the Tartars have become waste, but that the firearms of the Yingzhou army are too powerful." No matter what happens to these Tartar soldiers, I only know that if I don't take this opportunity to chase and kill them, I'm afraid I won't have the face to return to Liaodong. ”
Wu Sangui's words woke up the other two. Oh, yes...... If you let go of this opportunity to kill the Tartars in front of you, you will be damned, if you don't take advantage of it, you will be a bastard, and there will be no store in this village.
Thinking of this, the three of them glanced at each other, and they all saw a raging flame in each other's eyes.
Soon, the three of them almost unanimously drew their weapons and shouted, "Rush! ”
The horn of pursuit sounded, and more than 7,000 cavalrymen wearing red armor chased after the retreating Qing army like a red torrent......
Looking at the warriors in the banner who retreated like a tide in front of them, Abatai under the golden weaving in the Qing army's array was lost for a while. He couldn't believe that his heavily armored warrior and strong archer in the blue flag were not at all the opponent of the Ming army that he had always looked down on when he faced off with the Ming army. Those firearms that he had disdained in the past were so powerful, he could see clearly with a clairvoyant mirror in the battle just now, and the battle just now could not be called a frontal battle, it was a complete one-sided slaughter. Although Yue Tuo, Dolgon, and Duoduo had already reported to Huang Taiji and the Manchu Qing high-level that Yueyang's pure firearms force was powerful, he didn't expect it to be so powerful that his own troops couldn't even get close to each other.
Standing under the big curtain, Abatai muttered to himself, "Why is this happening...... Why ......" (To be continued......