Chapter 144: Sniper Company Strikes

As soon as they stepped over the corpses of the soldiers in front of them and came to a distance of 500 meters from the Zhou family's army, they were also hit by the explosion of a mine.

The people who were directly hit by the mine flipped up on their horses, and the horses that were not blown up also fled in all directions in a panic.

The scene was in chaos, but the explosions did not frighten the cavalry behind, and they rushed forward as if they were not killed.

Although the mine is the nemesis of the cavalry, if the cavalry does not want to die, and the life and the mine are exchanged, then the role of the mine is only so much, after all, there are too many cavalry of the Qing army, after killing more than 15,000 Qing soldiers, the 15,000 Qing soldiers behind have rushed to more than 200 meters of the Zhou army.

At this time, the machine guns and Gatling and other weapons of the Zhou family army began to roar, and the mortars of the artillery battalion also joined the shelling.

They had escaped the mines, but they couldn't escape the bullets and shells, and with these two heavy weapons, they couldn't even think they could rush through.

Soon more than 10,000 cavalrymen died under the threat of Gatling and mortars, and the remaining 5,000 cavalrymen who were further back hurriedly fled as if they had seen a ghost.

When Dolgon saw this scene in the back, he suddenly became angry, these Zhou family troops really had some ability, and they actually annihilated more than 20,000 of their cavalry in such a moment.

It seems that a different method has to be done, so that Zichong will not be enough for them to kill no matter how many soldiers and horses he has.

Thinking of this, Dolgon hurriedly ordered Abatai, Daishan, Shuotuo, and Duoduo to lead 20,000 soldiers and horses to attack from all directions of the Zhou army.

He took advantage of the distraction of the Zhou family army to make a key assault, and he would definitely be able to break through the defense line of the Zhou family army in one fell swoop.

After the plan was arranged, Abatai, Daishan, Shuotuo, and Duoduo each led an army of 20,000 to rush in four different directions to the Zhou army.

Seeing this scene with a telescope from a distance, Liu Hu frowned, but he didn't expect this Dolgon to have something, and he knew that there was no way to surround the front, so he came up with a method to surround him on all sides.

This method is still quite unfavorable for the Zhou army, after all, the Zhou army only has 30,000 soldiers and horses, and if it is dispersed, the firepower of the Zhou army will be greatly affected.

Liu Hu had no choice but to order Li Huaping, Ou Jiahua, Jin Shenghuan, and Wang Yuncheng to lead a brigade of soldiers to intercept the Qing army.

Liu Hu's main force still had to defend here, because Dorgon's army of more than 70,000 was still eyeing the front.

At the same time, the sniper company also followed each brigade, and now while the Qing army did not know about the existence of the sniper company, it shot more Qing generals and officers.

Li Huaping led a brigade of Zhou Jiajun to intercept the 20,000 Qing troops led by Abatai, because Abatai and Zhou's army had fought, so they knew the Zhou army very well.

Abatai asked the Qing soldiers not to charge intensively, but to choose a group of three to advance slowly, this method was a headache for Li Huaping, the Qing soldiers This offensive method made it difficult for the Zhou soldiers to shoot, wasting a lot of bullets.

Li Huaping had no choice but to let the snipers of the sniper company look for an opportunity to kill those generals and officers, without these generals and officers, the soldiers of the Qing army would be scattered and there was nothing to worry about.

Arraku was a Niu Lu Ezhen, he was commanding his soldiers to charge forward at this time, and some soldiers who did not dare to charge were slashed by him with a scimitar, so frightened that other soldiers no longer dared to retreat, and they all gritted their teeth and rushed forward.

Arlaku was very satisfied when he saw this scene, his subordinates were still very brave, if his soldiers could be the first to rush to the camp of the Zhou family's army, he would definitely be appreciated by Gushan Ezhen, and it was not impossible to be promoted to a Jiala Ezhen when the time came.

Just as he was thinking about good things, suddenly a bullet mercilessly burrowed into his brain, making his beautiful fantasies disappear forever.

Arraku fell with blood on his face, and his men looked horrified at the sight.

The same scene kept happening in Abatai's camp, and Abatai didn't notice it at first, until he noticed that fewer and fewer soldiers were rushing forward, and he realized that his Niulu Ezhen and Jialae Ezhen seemed to be getting fewer and fewer.

Abatai has never encountered this situation, and in the era of cold weapons, soldiers rushed forward to kill, and officers were only responsible for supervising the battle in the back, so officers rarely died.

But now the sudden death of a large number of junior officers has alerted Abatai, Zhou Jiajun has always been mysterious in his mind, the last time in the battle outside Jinan, Zhou Jiajun did not have so many weapons, and now Zhou's weapons are endless, it is simply terrible.

Intuition told him that the large number of deaths of these junior officers must have something to do with the Zhou family's army, so Abatai asked the junior officers to pay attention to concealment, and Niu Lu, who rushed in front, carefully concealed when he heard this.

But in the eyes of snipers, this concealment of theirs makes no difference at all.

There were still a large number of Niu Lu Ezhen who were shot, and this situation frightened Niu Lu Ezhen, who was not shot, so scared that he didn't dare to step forward anymore, and the Qing soldiers also stopped attacking and took refuge for the time being.

The same scene happened in three other places, they were all shot by snipers after a large number of officers, and had to stop, after all, knowing that someone was going to shoot them, and they still ran to the front, isn't that self-defeating.

Seeing that Abatai, Daishan, Shuoto, and Duoduo had been gone for so long and had no reaction, Dorgon guessed that something must have happened to them, and there was no way, only his side to attack.

While complaining that the four Abatai were useless and had no effect on the diversion at all, Dorgon gave the last 40,000 cavalry the order to charge.

This time the 40,000 cavalry charge was no longer a dense charge, but scattered, this charge did cause a lot of trouble to the soldiers of the Zhou family, because there were too many cavalry and scattered, so the soldiers of the Zhou army could not shoot so wide.

Soon a part of the cavalry rushed to a place 100 meters away from the Zhou army, and just as these cavalry were shouting and preparing to rush to the position of the Zhou army, their horses suddenly all fell down.

The first 100 meters of the Zhou army's position were all horse pits, which made the cavalry who rushed to the front fall to the ground, and the Zhou soldiers unceremoniously shot those cavalry to death.

Seeing this, the cavalry behind hurriedly ran back, but in such a short half an hour's charge, more than 10,000 cavalry were damaged, which made Dolgon very annoyed, and he didn't even touch the clothes of the Zhou family's army, and he lost more than 30,000 cavalry, which was simply a great shame.

This also made Dolgon realize that his previous omnipotent cavalry seemed to be of no use in front of the prepared Zhou army.

So Dolgon immediately changed his strategy and let the infantry advance slowly, and the Qing army still had 5,000 arquebus soldiers, which could allow the infantry to cover and come close to fight with the Zhou army.