When Fang Yuanxin in the rear was surprised, his cavalry continued to charge, although there were already cavalry who had been hit and dropped off their horses one after another, but because the high-speed impact of the cavalry could not be adjusted in a short time, the inertia of the cavalry impact was very large.

The second is that the previous distance is still relatively long, even with the accuracy of the Mini rifle, the hit rate is still not high, so the casualties they suffered are still limited.

However, at this time, the infantry of Lin's natural Qingshan Patrol Battalion had already begun to shoot the second round one after another!

By the time they fired one after another, the first wave of the Guang'an cavalry, a group of about 100 or so forwards, had already rushed through a distance of 300 meters, and at this distance, the hit rate of the Mini rifles equipped by the Qingshan Patrol Battalion and converted from the 18 mm caliber Fuyuan musket began to increase dramatically.

As the white smoke rose, the cavalry on the opposite side began to fall en masse!

After the dense gunfire, the more than 100 cavalry actually fell more than 20 horsemen!

The hundreds of Minnie rifles of the Aoyama Patrol Battalion were intercepted by fire, and it was not unusual to be able to hit this effect.

At this time, the first wave of cavalry can be said to have lost more than forty cavalry, even if it has the inertia of the cavalry to tell the charge, but these surviving cavalry also feel fear.

One by one, they began to hesitate!

Cavalrymen are also human beings, and they are also afraid of death.

In particular, this connection has not yet come close, but the situation of heavy casualties is even more terrifying for them.

The most important thing is that they still don't know why they suddenly suffered such a dense number of casualties, even though there are still about 300 meters away, the other side did not open fire, but they were killed and wounded by the interception of muskets.

Why were their muskets able to shoot so far and so accurately?

Now they no longer suspect that the soldiers of the Castle Peak Patrol Battalion were equipped with multiple rifled guns at the same time, which were loaded in advance before the battle, and then taken out to fight during the battle.

Because the Aoyama Patrol Battalion on the opposite side has a clear firing interval, not to say that there is a short period of continuous shooting, but there is a clear time interval in multiple rounds of firing.

And this time interval is no more, no less, just over twenty seconds.

Anyone with a modicum of military common sense knows that between twenty and thirty seconds is exactly what it takes for the musketeer to reload.

What's more, even if there are still hundreds of meters away, there is white smoke covering the battlefield that causes their vision to deteriorate, but they can still clearly see the loading action of the opponent's Qingshan Patrol Battalion after the first round of shooting.

That is to say, the Aoyama Patrol Battalion on the opposite side did not have multiple rifled guns, but only one.

However, their rifled guns can be reloaded for a short period of time.

How is this possible?

Many doubts slowly turned into fear, and when the first wave of cavalry hesitated, their pace inevitably slowed down, but the officers in the rear did not give the order to retreat, so they had to bite the bullet and continue to charge upward.

The loss of dozens of cavalry in the vanguard naturally would not let Fang Yuanxin order a retreat.

The more than 100 cavalry at the front are just forward troops, and the better thing to say is to let them take the lead in attacking as arrows, but to put it badly, this is the cannon fodder troops, to fight for opportunities for the second and third waves of cavalry attacks in the future.

Although the loss of thirty or forty cavalry was a bit much, it was a loss that was affordable for a reinforced cavalry regiment.

At the same time, Lin Ziran in the car array also frowned.

The opponent's cavalry is still charging, the first wave of cavalry is already close to a distance of two hundred meters, and what is even worse is that the second wave of cavalry of the other side has also crossed a distance of three hundred meters, and even the third wave of cavalry is only three hundred and fifty meters away.

The three waves of cavalry on the other side were only a few dozen meters apart from each other.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the terrain was restricted, Fang Yuanxin would not have used this multi-wave attack method at all, but would have let the cavalry troops directly rush up in waves.

With the high speed of the cavalry, it did not take much time to rush directly, and even if it was slightly killed by the enemy's infantry fire, it was harmless.

Seeing that the second and third waves of the opponent's cavalry also rushed up, Lin Ziran turned his head to look at Gao Gaocai.

The artillery unit led by this man was hurriedly loading two five-pound field guns.

In fact, the two five-pound field guns had been urgently erected before, and two rounds of howitzer shelling were fired to support the side of the Sixth Heavy Artillery Regiment.

Now it is their third round of emergency reloading, but the artillery of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion has only been trained for two months, but the reloading speed is still a little average.

Coupled with the tense situation of the battle, the artillerymen also made a lot of mistakes, which ultimately affected the loading time of the artillery.

At this time, HD only saw that the loading was completed, and after aiming in person, he didn't shout any password, and just fired the gun.

With a bang, the five-catty field gun freed up the muzzle flame, and the trajectory of a five-catty grenade was pressed very low, but even if it was low, it flew directly over the first wave of Guang'an cavalry, and only landed on the top of the second wave of cavalry.

I saw that this grenade exploded in mid-air, and many steel balls and shrapnel in the shell flew in all directions, directly enveloping an area below, killing and injuring the Guang'an cavalry.

With just one grenade shot, the second wave of Guang'an cavalry in the charge lost nearly ten cavalry.

Immediately afterwards, the second grenade also fell on the head of the second wave of Guang'an cavalry, causing at least five Guang'an cavalry to fall.

The artillery had tried their best to intercept the Guang'an cavalry, but it still did not play a decisive role.

In this kind of battle, there are always only two possibilities that can stop the cavalry charge.

One is to carry out a counter-charge with their own cavalry, and use cavalry against cavalry, which is also the most effective way, but unfortunately, the cavalry under Lin Ziran really can't take the table, it's okay to act as a scout, let them charge intensively, that's no different from letting them go to death.

The other is to fight in infantry formations or relying on fortifications.

This is the same as what the Aoyama Patrol Battalion is doing now.

But will they be able to stop them?

Lin Ziran didn't know.

But the only thing he knew was that now there was no way back for them.

The safety of the baggage troops is not the focus, and now at this critical moment, Lin Ziran does not care about the safety of the baggage at all.

The real point is that the cavalry is about to rush up, and if they can't stop it, they will be doomed themselves.

"Steady, don't panic!"

"Keep reloading!"

"We have a car formation, and they can't rush up!"

As the Guang'an cavalry got closer and closer, the soldiers of the Qingshan Patrol Battalion continued to shoot, and as the guns rang out, the first wave of Guang'an cavalry in front also fell one after another.

Looking at this scene, Fang Yuanxin's brows furrowed thickly!

The casualties are too great!