Chapter 366: The situation is worrying
"The wooden wall has fallen!"
Seeing that the wooden fence was forcibly dragged down by the Manchurian cavalry, the Xia infantry behind the wooden fence hurriedly retreated, and quickly formed an anti-cavalry hollow phalanx behind the gap under the orders of their respective commanders.
At the same time, the Suzaku Left Brigade, which remained in the camp and did not go out of the camp together, also rushed to the gap in batches under Su Ci's order, intending to form an impregnable defensive line behind the gap.
However, the Manchurian cavalry did not intend to continue to rush into the camp, they looked at the Xia infantry who quickly formed a phalanx after the gap, and only sighed that they were really elite soldiers, so they slapped their horses and wandered outside the camp, and hit the camp with bows and arrows on horseback.
From time to time, the Xia soldiers were killed by arrows, but the infantry in formation were also returning fire with Type 2 rifles, and the sound of gunfire was shocking, and from time to time cavalry was shot and fell from their horses.
Fierce battles broke out in the Xia army camp, and outside the camp, the third town led by Su Dingyuan finally gradually met the enemy with the main force of the Qing army.
Inspired by the Shunzhi Emperor, the morale of the Qing army was high, and they poured into the Xia army behind the array, with the Han army banner and Han Chinese clothing in front, the Manchurian infantry and the Sauron battalion in the rear, and the Manchurian cavalry and Mongolian cavalry on the flanks, pressing towards the thin line of the Xia army.
Seeing that the momentum of the Qing army was like a rainbow, Su Dingyuan regretted for a while why he took advantage of the situation to pursue the enemy outside the camp, but now there was no chance to regret it, he could only calmly command the command to fight.
After the Qing army launched an attack, the infantry artillery deployed in front of the army formation took the lead in firing, and in the rumbling cannon, dozens of shells flew to the Qing army formation with a roar, and did not explode after falling into the crowd, but directly plowed out a bloody road, regardless of whether the body armor was fine or not, and regardless of the status, all those who were hit by solid bullets were only smashed into a puddle of minced meat.
Seeing the miserable death of his comrades-in-arms beside him, even though the morale was like a rainbow under the encouragement of the emperor just now, many soldiers have calmed down, and fear has risen in their hearts again.
Fortunately, the Qing artillery did not watch the play in the back, and they also launched a timely counterattack, and the artillery of both sides immediately entered the artillery battle, and the shells flew over each other on the battlefield, or fell into the crowd, or smashed on the ground where no one was around.
Although the casualties caused by each fall into the Qing army's formation did not have much impact on the large number of Qing troops, the morale of the soldiers at the bottom of the Qing army still changed.
If Emperor Shunzhi or those Qing army lords could intuitively see the morale of the infantry as in the game, they would see that the morale had dropped from the high fighting spirit just now, and the morale of the Xia army, which would also be shelled from time to time, would remain unchanged throughout the whole process.
Soon, the front army of the Qing army entered the best range of the Xia army's two-type rifle, and the Xia army in the front row began to shoot at the Qing army cracklingly.
However, the Xia army's firepower was extremely ferocious, and it almost never stopped the whole time after the Qing army entered the best firing range, and the Qing army had to withstand a round of fire every few steps forward, and the huge casualties directly caused the morale of the Han infantry in front of them to quickly fall to the bottom.
Soon, the Han infantry could not bear the huge casualties, screamed and fled backwards, in just less than fifty meters, the Qing army left thousands of corpses, the Manchurian soldiers behind had already expected that they would be defeated, raised their sabers and slashed the fleeing soldiers, ordered them to turn around and continue to charge.
The Han infantry was suddenly slashed and killed, they faced the fierce Manchurian soldiers, and then looked at the Xia army formation behind them where the smoke had not yet dispersed, gritted their teeth, and turned around and rushed towards the Xia army formation.
Just as they rushed within fifty meters, the infantry guns deployed in the middle of the infantry opened fire in vain, and the already loaded shotguns fanned out in a roar, instantly knocking over the Qing infantry within range.
With this shot, the Qing army's infantry collapsed again, and no matter how the Manchurian soldiers behind him, who were similar to the Warlords, slashed and slashed, they did not dare to turn back.
Yue Le saw that the Han infantry had successfully forced out the Xia army's shotguns, and immediately ordered the Manchurian soldiers to give up slashing the Han and let those Han people retreat to the flank, and the Manchurian soldiers took advantage of the Xia army's loading ammunition to drag the Xia army into close combat.
At the same time, he also ordered the Eight Banners cavalry and the Mongol cavalry, which had not launched an attack on the left and right sides, to launch a flank of the Xia army
The charge, with the intention of a two-pronged approach, directly routed the Xia infantry on this plain.
Yue Le secretly swore in his heart that he would definitely make the arrogant Xia Jun pay the price in Liaoyang North and give them an extremely deep impression.
Yue Le's military order was quickly issued, and the Manchurian leaders in front hurriedly ordered the defeated Han people to flee to the left and right flanks in broken Chinese, kill those who attacked the army formation, and kill many of the rout soldiers who continued to attack the army formation, and the rest of the rout soldiers saw this, and hurriedly ran to the left and right flanks according to the content of their shouts.
Immediately, the Manchurian soldiers and the Sauron battalion strode forward and charged at the Xia army front that was still shooting, and they also knew that the shield could not block the projectile shot by the Xia army, so they directly dropped the clumsy and useless shield and connected the rifle projectile with their flesh.
The Imperial Banner, the most elite banner army in the three banners, they are also the banner army with the highest will to fight, and the interests of the Aixin Jueluo family are directly related to them, so these banner troops completely ignore the casualties and rush towards the Xia army in bursts of shouts and killings.
It was also the first time that the Xia army encountered an army that could continue to charge regardless of casualties, and they felt great surprise for a while, but the action of shooting in their hands did not stop, and it was not until the Qing army rushed into a range of twenty meters that the Xia army finally stopped shooting.
They raised their rifles loaded with bayonets at the shouts of their respective officers, looked at each other, and then roared against the enemy to the sound of dense snare drums and bugles.
The two armies soon collided head-on, the bayonet saw blood, the war knife saw red, after the two sides collided head-on, hundreds of people fell on the long front suddenly, the Xia army stabbed the enemy with a bayonet, or smashed the enemy's head with the butt of a gun, the Qing army was slashed with a knife, both sides did not have a shield to protect themselves, only to see whose armor could save their lives.
Fortunately, even if the Xia army was fully equipped with Type II rifles, they still did not eliminate the bulky armor, which made them not fall behind in hand-to-hand combat.
In close combat, the Xia army gradually felt struggling, in addition to the well-equipped Manchurian soldiers, there were also relatively simple weapons and equipment, but more brave and good at fighting Sauron soldiers, the Xia army in close combat with the Manchurian Eight Banners may still be able to fight back and forth, but after the battle with the Sauron soldiers, the casualties increased, and the shocking casualties made the Xia army's battle line shaken for the first time.
At this time, the flanks of the Xia army also began to exchange fire with the Qing cavalry, and in the face of the large charge of the Qing cavalry, the Xia infantry had to form an anti-cavalry hollow phalanx to resist the enemy.