After decades of war baptism, whether it is the Qing army or the Ming court border army, the combat experience is very rich, but according to their understanding, the Ming army's firearms are effective at most at a distance of fifty or sixty paces, as long as they stop at seventy paces away, and then let the crossbowmen behind the shield shoot arrows to cover the impact of others, and then as soon as the melee combat is realized, the battle can be over.

It's just that when they didn't expect it, the shield formation had just entered a hundred steps, and the Ming army on the opposite side suddenly launched an attack, and they didn't expect that the Ming army's firepower was so fast.

If it weren't for the weak thinking inertia of the Ming army in the hearts of the Qing army, the people behind didn't react, and hundreds of people were killed and injured in an instant, I'm afraid that this Qing army that was originally advancing would have been in chaos because of the casualties in front.

Not only that, the artillery shooting had just ended, and on top of the shield in front of the Ming army, rows of muskets began to be exposed, and the muzzles of hundreds of black holes were daunting.

After several loud military trumpets sounded, a dense burst of musket fire broke out on the Ming army's position.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang......"

A column of white smoke rose with a loud sound, the orange-red fire was connected together, more than 1,500 muskets were fired at the same time, and hundreds of lead bullets snatched out of the muzzle, extremely easily, it pierced the thin cotton armor on the green battalion soldiers, dozens of Qing army musketeers in front of the formation, and hundreds of Qing soldiers in the formation, fell to the ground with a wail at the same time, and blood arrows erupted from their bodies.

After such two heavy attacks, the Qing army's formation, which was originally advancing, immediately stopped, and hundreds of wounded Qing soldiers who fell to the ground wept and wailed on the ground, constantly struggling, and the ground was full of blood.

Soon, Sun Hu commanded more than 1,500 musketeers in the third and fourth platoons to launch a volley, and in the explosion of "bang bang bang", not only the Qing army in front of the shield front, but also the Qing army behind the shield front was like a grass blown down by the wind, and a large number of them fell in an instant.

After the shield front, most of the Qing army's crossbowmen who were originally preparing to shoot arrows to cover the advance of the army were killed on the spot because the soldiers holding shields in front had fallen during the first round of artillery bombardment, and were directly hit by lead bullets in this round of musket volleys, and many of them were even killed directly on the spot.

Suffering such a heavy blow, the entire Qing army was in a panic for a while.

At this time, not to mention chain mail, even chain mail and cotton armor are difficult to block the attack of lead bullets, and cheap lead bullets can easily break through expensive armor under the impetus of gunpowder.

The front of the Qing army was full of hoarse wails, many of them were hit by lead bullets, and the green battalion soldiers who staggered and fell down had hideous faces, constantly squirming and rolling on the ground, struggling in pain.

This sudden blow of fear caused a commotion in the entire formation.

Nikan, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others looked at everything in front of them, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment - when did the firearms of the Ming army become so powerful?

But after all, these people are all veterans of a hundred battles, and they quickly reacted, and Nikan immediately ordered his subordinate Bayala to lead the Eight Banners soldiers forward to press the formation, driving those green battalion soldiers who were in chaos to continue to step forward and attack the Ming army front. Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming also immediately sent elite soldiers to help in the battle.

For Nikan, these green battalion soldiers were originally meat shields to block guns and cannons, even if they suffered heavy casualties, he would also care a little bit, anyway, it would be the same if he died more or less, but they were some Han minions, and after the victory, he would just take some captivity.

And as Bayala led the Eight Banners into battle in person, nearly a thousand Eight Banners cavalry also quickly mobilized, and the originally chaotic Qing army was in the forefront, and after Bayala in silver-white armor cut dozens of wounded and howling green battalion soldiers, it quickly returned to normal.

It's just that after such a heavy blow, the green battalion soldiers, who originally didn't have much fear in the face of the Ming army, have already fallen to the ground one by one. After all, they are all human beings, and they are all afraid of death.

In the Qing army's formation, the war drums sounded again, and the shield soldiers in the rear quickly filled the gap in the front line, and the rows of shields of various materials continued to move forward.

However, this time, Xue Lao Er waited until the Qing army advanced to a distance of about eighty paces before ordering the army to start attacking. Because after this round of firearms strikes, Wu Xingye had to personally lead the cavalry to attack and completely defeat the Qing army that landed on the south bank.

The Qing army's military formation soon advanced to a distance of sixty paces, although the queue was already a little chaotic, but the formation could still be basically maintained, there were many Eight Banner cavalry on the left and right flanks, and Bayala was supervising the battle, these brutal Manchurian soldiers were extremely terrifying to the Green Battalion soldiers.

At this time, the Qing army, which had seen the range and power of the Ming army's firearms, had given up the conventional tactics of stopping at a long distance and then striking the Ming army with arrows.

"Artillery ready!"

As soon as the shield front of the Qing army pushed past the mark of sixty steps, Sun Hu's shout was immediately heard!

"Tiger squat cannon ready! Four-pounder gun ready! Musketeers ready! ”

As soon as the flag order was issued, bursts of shouts rang out from the firearms battalion at the front of the military formation.

"Fire!"

"Boom! Rumble! Boom ......"

The roar of the gunpowder explosion sounded again, like the Grim Reaper cheering. In the thick white smoke, the orange-red fire flashed, and those green battalion soldiers of the Qing army were at a loss.

Hundreds of lead projectiles rushed out of the muzzles, and then sprinkled into the Qing army's formation like rain, and those shields that looked extremely strong were instantly pierced and shattered by all kinds of projectiles of different sizes, and fell down with the green battalion soldiers holding shields behind them.

Then, just like just now, after forty artillery pieces were fired at the same time, the next three rows of musketeers were not to be outdone, and fired in turns, so that the green battalion soldiers without shield cover fell hundreds of people in an instant, and the entire Qing army formation was once again in chaos, together with the corpses that had just fallen to the ground, and blood flowed like a river.

Moreover, after this heavy blow, the entire shield defense line of the Qing army has been completely destroyed, and even the green battalion soldiers who did not die were also splashed with blood.

Looking at the soldiers who were struggling in pain in a pool of blood, the sharp explosion in their ears undoubtedly intensified the panic of these green battalion soldiers, causing the entire army formation to begin to retreat, and even some of the green battalion soldiers turned around and fled directly despite the intimidation of the Eight Banners.

After all, these are just soldiers of the Ming army who have recently surrendered to the Qing army, where is the will to fight as strong as the Eight Banners? They could only follow the Qing army to bully the southern soldiers and fight some tailwind battles.