Chapter 399: Trap
The dense Chongzhen 19-style flintlock guns and bullets caught the Qing army firearms battalion under Wu Sangui off guard.
The officers and men of the Qing Army's Firearms Battalion did not expect to be shot by the Guards firearms at a distance of two hundred paces.
Wu Sangui was also shocked.
At this time, the first platoon of the Qing army's firearms battalion had already been in chaos, because there were too many bullets, some Qing soldiers ran back without thinking, and some could still consciously fire a shot, but the bullets only fell within 50 steps in front of the first infantry battalion of the Guards, and they were unscathed against the guards.
Wu Sangui's overseers rushed to chop down the Qing troops of the firearms battalion who were trying to escape.
The Qing army's firearms had to retreat again, but they didn't dare to move forward, and the Qing soldiers who looked at the wailing on the ground were a little panicked, and they didn't dare to take another step forward anyway.
Wu Sangui made a look, and the Qing army of the supervising team directly took arrows and shot all the wounded Qing soldiers who were wailing on the ground, so that the entire Qing army camp quieted down.
And Wu Sangui's face was also sinking like water, he didn't expect that the range of the Guards' muskets had reached such a point.
"Order, cavalry attack, disrupt the enemy formation, and then the firearms continue to advance!"
Wu Sangui gave an order.
At that time.
The drums sounded, and the heralds of the Qing army rushed towards the cavalry waving colorful flags.
The cavalry of the Qing army immediately rode their horses and whips towards the left and right flanks of the defensive position of the First Corps of the Third Army of the Guards.
These Qing cavalry are all the elite commanders of the Liao soldiers in the past, with the shadow of the Guanning iron cavalry in the past, all of them are extremely strong, the battle armor is black and shiny, the face is black and yellow like oil, and the money rat tail on the head looks very mismatched, but the roaring sound is very similar to the wild boar skin.
These elite cavalry under the command of Wu Sangui were the army smashed out by the Ming Dynasty with three rings, and they spent a lot of money, and the equipment was the best configuration at that time, but such an army did not save the Han family in the year of Jiashen, but now they are willing to be Tartar lackeys, and now they have no sense of guilt in the face of their compatriots, and they all seem to be eating people coldly.
These Qing cavalry were very experienced, and they also knew that the guards must have set up a lot of roadblocks, and they also knew how to evade firearms, so they slyly galloped scattered on the snow one by one, and from time to time they put cold arrows and three-eyed guns to test the enemy situation in front of them.
After seeing only the vast snow in front of them and the entrance to the cave that did not seem to have moved, these cavalry slowly gathered and began to attack the generals with confidence.
Squeak!
The crisp sound of the wooden strip breaking, and a Qing cavalryman sat down on his horse and fell into the trap in an instant.
Poof!
The sharp tip of the wood pierced the horse's belly directly, and even the Qing cavalry with the war horse was strung up.
Blood suddenly sprinkled onto the snow-covered earth, and the snow particles splattered, stirring up a snow-colored mist.
The same scene was also played out on other cavalry, and countless Qing cavalry narrowly entered the trap pit, and even if they were not stabbed to death by a wooden stake, they were also broken by their feet and spine.
The First Corps of the Third Army of the Guards Army did not bring more defensive equipment along the way, not even more food, in order to occupy important places easily and quickly, but now in order to block the Qing army, they still adopted the method of using local materials, using the nearby bushes and sharp rocks and the snow all over the ground to make a trap.
The Qing cavalry, which rushed to the front, fell into the trap.
And the Qing army that followed closely behind was also tripped out directly because they couldn't stop, and even the people and horses fell heavily to the ground.
However, the Qing cavalry behind still shifted their direction and leaped over, trying to cross the trap and enter the trench of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the Guards.
However, at this time, the 1st Infantry Battalion of the Guards Army had already been commanded by the commander Tong Zhi Mao Lifu and the commander Zhang Zhiwu with the two auxiliary infantry, that is, 2,000 infantry, to the left and right sides, picked up the Chongzhen 19-style flintlock pistol and began to shoot.
"If you are wounded, you don't die, you shoot a man and a horse first! Pick up the legs, feet, shoulders, abdomen! â
The junior officers of the 1st Infantry Battalion shouted.
The soldiers' flintlock pistols unconsciously obeyed the officer's orders, and shot the Qing cavalry and war horses that still insisted on charging to the ground one by one.
At that time, the horses were torn and screaming, and the cavalry were wailing, desperately dragging their bloody legs back.
Wang Fuzhi and the remaining 3,000 infantry continued to defend the firearms battalion under Wu Sangui's command in the front.
During the first shooting, in order to shock the Qing army's firearms, he did not let the officers and soldiers shoot.
Although it is said that the enemy's leg and foot shooting can increase the enemy's wounded and increase the burden on the enemy, after all, adding one wounded will require several soldiers to take care of it, which can effectively reduce the enemy's combat strength, but the first shooting with a prolific shot requires high shooting accuracy for officers and soldiers, and once the shooting begins, the enemy camp will definitely be chaotic, and accurate shooting will reduce the number of people shot and kill, thereby reducing the deterrent effect on the enemy.
Therefore, the 1st Infantry Battalion of the Guards Army did not pay so much attention to the first time when it fired intensively, striving for maximum damage to the enemy for the first time.
However, when Wu Sangui ordered the firearms battalion to advance again, the 1st Infantry Battalion of the Guards Army did not concentrate on using dense firepower to deal with it, but spread out the 3,000 infantry to strive to increase the control surface of the infantry.
Wu Sangui also saw that when his cavalry participated in the charge, the infantry in front of the Guards was significantly reduced, and in order to reduce the casualties of the firearms battalion, he made all the 40,000 infantry under his command disperse the distance and form a larger attack to move towards the front position of the Guards.
The infantry of the Guards began to shoot according to Wang Fuzhi's order, prostrate in the trench and use the three-point and first-line crosshairs on the Chongzhen 19-style flintlock pistol to critically shoot the grassroots officers and veterans of the 40,000 infantry of the Qing army to the ground.
Once these grassroots officers and veterans are shot and wounded on the ground, the soldiers and comrades-in-arms under their command cannot be ignored, and these people are also the backbone of the Qing army, and a large number of killing and injuring these grassroots officers and veterans can destroy the Qing army's will to fight faster.
One by one, the junior officers and veterans of the Qing army fell to the ground, and in the space between 200 and 150 paces, the entire Qing army camp slowed down from time to time, because the wounded were always carried out.
Of course, the Qing army also had its own way of dealing with it, and the veterans and officers retreated behind the recruits, and they also walked in front of the recruits to be human shields.
However, the Guards had long expected this.
The Guards didn't know if the Qing army had alloy steel shields made by the Ming Dynasty, but they also had to guard against Qing military shields against bullets.
Therefore, the 1st Corps of the 3rd Army of the Guards Army had already set up bunkers, fences and ravines made of wooden stakes in an area of 200 paces.
But the guards did not expect that the Qing army did not bring shields, perhaps because the Qing army already knew that ordinary shields could not block the lead bullets of flintlock pistols, so they did not use shields to protect themselves in front.
However, now the Qing army used recruits as human shields, but the guards' bunker fences and ravines played a role.
As soon as they encountered the fence in front, the recruits of the Qing army had to raise their feet to go over, and the veterans and junior officers in the back also had to raise their feet.
With this raise of the foot, the infantry of the Guards immediately seized the opportunity to wound the veterans and junior officers in the back.
The recruits in front were frightened by the wails of the veterans behind, and accidentally fell into the pit dug next to the fence.
There are also wooden stakes and sharp stones in the tunnels, the Qing Dynasty is poor, many recruits do not even have cotton armor, the flesh collides with the wooden stakes and stone tips, naturally the same as the sharp blade stabbing the abdomen, puff
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