Chapter 419: The Rain Stops (Part 2)
This commander of the Qing army is also a disciple vigorously cultivated by His Royal Highness Yiren, not to mention his martial arts, but what is even more rare is that he is familiar with military books, has excellent command ability, and his mind is extremely resolute.
He watched the battle for a long time, but he had the intention to let his cavalry charge, even if he paid a huge price to break the ranks of warriors outside the low wall, but the corpse soldiers were all elm pimples, and they would never get out of the way for the cavalry to charge, not to mention, once the cavalry arrived, it was possible to turn around and attack the cavalry.
Therefore, the commander was in a hurry outside, but for a while he could not think about it.
Not to mention that the commanders of the Qing army were worried, the situation on the battlefield has always developed in the direction of favoring the Huaxia Army.
With the help of the warriors, the position of the Huaxia army began to become stable, and it did not waver at all under the continuous charge of the corpse soldiers, and in turn took the opportunity to destroy the corpse soldiers.
The team of white-armored soldiers, who were originally black, did not know when they started, but they gradually became sparse.
Since the beginning of the battle, the artillery of the Huaxia Army has poured more than 50,000 rounds of flowering shells on the heads of the corpse soldiers, and there are not a few corpse soldiers killed by grenades and rifles.
At this time, the weather gradually became favorable to the Huaxia army, and the rain that was still pouring actually became smaller, from heavy rain to light rain, and from small rain to moisturizing and silent rain, and finally stopped.
The first to feel the rain stop were the musketeers shooting at the wall of love.
"The rain seems to have stopped. A soldier aimed at the corpse soldier and shot one after another, and then suddenly felt something abnormal, and said something suspicious.
"This rain has stopped, the rain has stopped...", his comrades-in-arms also reacted and shouted in unison.
"The rain has stopped, the rain has stopped!" First the musketeers on the low wall, then the warriors of the special combat team, the artillerymen of the rear batteries, and the officers of the command headquarters suddenly reacted and shouted loudly.
For a long time, this pouring rain was like a big stone, which made the soldiers of the Huaxia Army very uncomfortable, and it stopped at this time, and finally let everyone see the dawn of victory.
For a moment, cheers resounded in the sky.
The corpse soldiers outside the camp did not understand the excitement of the human race, and they continued to attack the position of the Huaxia Army according to the original rhythm, but unfortunately the initiative of this battle had been changed.
Without the interference of heavy rain, the firepower output of the Huaxia Army immediately increased by three percent, and more importantly, the morale was greatly increased, and all the soldiers confirmed that the victory of this battle would definitely belong to them, and the Huaxia Army would definitely win.
Although the white-armored soldiers outside the camp were still charging, the threat they could give to the Huaxia army was getting smaller and smaller, and the casualties they could cause were even smaller.
After another half an hour or so of fighting, the ranks of the corpse soldiers were obviously sparse, far less than the scene of Wuyang and Wuyang in the earliest days, and once the scale advantage could not be formed, the number of halberd soldiers in front and behind was even smaller, and it was easier to be shot by the musketeers on the low wall.
In the end, more than 200,000 corpse soldiers were almost wiped out in front of the Huaxia army array, and only less than 5,000 corpse soldiers remained, which were collected by the monks of the Inhuman Hall sent by the cavalry team of the Qing army.
Of course, the Huaxia Army also suffered huge losses in this battle, with more than 5,000 casualties of more than 2,500, nearly half.
However, this did not prevent the officers and soldiers of the Huaxia Army from looking at the cavalry in front with contempt and making insulting gestures such as cutting their throats.
The commander of the cavalry of the Qing army was furious, and he had the intention to lead 50,000 cavalry to charge and take down the small camp in front of him.
There are less than 3,000 people on the Huaxia army's side who can still fight, and the external positions have all been destroyed, and if the cavalry wants to charge, they can directly attack in front of the low wall and rush to the halberd soldiers.
Although the cavalry is not good at attacking fortifications, more than 50,000 cavalry attack more than 3,000 infantry, and the ratio of troops reaches more than ten to one, which is worth attacking in any other situation.
It's just that the cavalry commander looked at the corpses of hundreds of thousands of corpses outside the camp (this is a twisting mouth), and somehow felt a chill in his heart, and the order to charge could not be given.
Just when the two sides were at a stalemate, the spoiler finally came.
It turned out that Li Xian was trapped here, and Wang Xiaoming, Qiao Daqing and others in Putian City got the news, and they were taken aback at that time, so Qiao Daqing led 5,000 marines to support.
It's just that the heralds on Li Xian's side arrived in Putian, and Qiao Daqing's side set off as a whole army, and marched all the way over, it took several hours before and after, and when the advance troops arrived, it was already close to the end of the battlefield.
When the first regiment arrived at the battlefield, it was surprised to find that there were more than 50,000 cavalry patrolling and hundreds of thousands of corpses lying outside the camp of its own army.
The cavalry of the Qing army was hesitant to attack the Huaxia Army, which had a strong position to rely on, but when they saw that the army was coming to support, they breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to attack the newly arrived marines.
The commander of the Qing army thought that the cavalry should be captured when dealing with infantry in the field, but he did not expect that this army was well-trained and well-equipped, and it was not a fuel-efficient lamp.
This regiment of the Marine Corps discharged three hollow phalanxes, and all the soldiers held muskets in unison, calmly responding to the cavalry charge, and the phalanxes supported each other, and the cavalry rushed seven or eight times, but could not break through the phalanx.
In fact, this is also normal, in this era, after the popularization of firearms and the continuous improvement of the level of military theory, the ability of infantry to resist cavalry has been greatly improved, and it is by no means a situation in which infantry slaughters cavalry almost one-sidedly in the era of cold weapons.
Decades ago, when the French Emperor Napoleon attacked Russia, the two sides fought a big battle, and the Russian infantry encountered the strongest French cuirassiers, so they discharged a hollow phalanx to respond, and they could resist forty or fifty cavalry attacks in one day, leaving a great reputation.
In terms of the level of training and equipment of the cavalry, the Eight Banners cavalry cultivated by the Inhuman Hall may not be much different from the French cuirass, but the combat effectiveness of the marines of the Huaxia Army is definitely far superior to that of the Russian infantry.
Not to mention anything else, in terms of equipment level alone, the Russian infantry was only equipped with front-loading smoothbore guns, while the regular army of the Chinese Army had fully popularized the rear-loading rifled guns, eliminated backward smoothbore guns, and the level of training and actual combat was also above the Russian army at that time.
The commander of the Qing army commanded the cavalry to storm the infantry phalanx many times, but they all ended in failure, and he couldn't help but change color slightly, and finally understood the helplessness of the corpse soldiers when they attacked the position of the Huaxia army before.
One regiment of the Marines in the vanguard engaged the cavalry, and the troops behind came one after another, and they all lined up in a phalanx against the cavalry.