Chapter 441: It Must Be Demonic Arts
Ao Bai's life was really hard enough, he fainted to death in the stream, and when he was about to drown alive, Feng Sizhong ordered to stop the shelling, pack up the artillery and move the position.
Because the artillery of the Ming army now adopts the "flying artillery tactics", it pays attention to concentrated use and rapid movement, that is, the limited artillery is concentrated and put into the area where they are most needed through rapid mobility.
The left flank of the Qing army (which is also the right flank of the Ming army) where Ao Bai is located rushed faster than the right flank of the Qing army (the left flank of the Ming army), so Feng Sizhong's "flying cannon" was pulled to the right flank of the Ming army and fired.
After a round of shotguns and a burst of free fire, the left flank of the Qing army was already beaten to pieces, and at least a third of the shield carts were hit by shells from three-pounder guns!
Under the action of the huge thrust generated by the deflagration of gunpowder, the hard iron bullet can often directly shatter the wooden rod on the shield car! The fragments of wood swept towards the Eight Banners behind the shield cart along with the iron bullets that had not been exhausted, and the solid bullets were upgraded to shotguns.
The unfortunate Ao Bai was swept to the head by the fragments of the wooden cannon, although his helmet was hard enough, and the power of the wooden fragments was no match for the projectiles that came directly from the barrel of the cannon. But he still smashed him, the first warrior of Manchuria, unconscious......
Ao Bai is so awesome that he is dizzy, not to mention other people, it is a big piece in one sweep!
Behind the shield car, it suddenly became like a hell of Shura. Everywhere, there were eight banner warriors who were hit by the fragments of wooden blocks that flew in all directions, and most of them did not die immediately, because the power of the wooden blocks was not as powerful as the projectiles after all, but they still beat the warriors to the point that their heads were bleeding, and their tendons were broken!
There are also many people who have been hit by small pieces of wood with sharp angles, the texture is not hard at all, and with the blessing of high speed, they actually have the ability to pierce cotton armor and chain mail! The shards of wood wrapped in the fragments of armor and inserted into the human body one by one, even if they didn't hit anything, could make the strongest Manchurian warriors cry in pain - if the wounds were not treated cleanly, most of these warriors would eventually die of wound infection!
The sudden blow and heavy casualties made almost all the shield cars stop moving forward, and the Qing army was completely stunned.
How is this possible? Could it be that the gunners of the Ming army used some magic tricks?
Seeing that the shield carts of the Qing army stopped advancing, Feng Sizhong immediately ordered to stop advancing and shifted his position.
The shield carts on the right flank of the Qing army are still advancing!
And the transfer of the Ming artillery gave the Qing army behind the shield car a chance to breathe - although the infantry of the Ming army's model army would launch a round of attack, but there were still some problems with their current artillery and infantry coordination, so it gave the chaotic Qing army a chance to escape.
Ao Bai also picked up a life, his brother Mu Lima is a yellow flag of Jia La Ezhen, this time is also on the battlefield, not far behind Ao Bai, I saw my brother was "killed", so after the sound of artillery stopped, crying and rushed up to collect the body for his brother, the result was really for him, and fished out a head full of blood, unconscious, and drank a stomach of water The first warrior of Manchuria.
Ao Bai was "shot and killed", and Mulima took over the command as a matter of course. Because of his brother's death, he didn't have the heart to fight any further, so he gave the order to retreat, and he also ran to Dagunling with his brother's "corpse" on his back.
The shield car attack on the left flank of the Qing army was repulsed like this!
At the same time, on the right flank of the Qing army, the yellow flag of Jialazhangjing Yild was still trying to drive the troops to advance against the rain of bullets of the Ming army.
Because the artillery of the Ming army was concentrated on the left wing of the Qing army led by Aobai, the only thing used to delay the road of Yilde was the turtledove foot firecracker.
Directly in front of Ilde were three model regiments led by Wang Qiqin, the commander of the Chinese Division, two of the three regiments were not yet formed, and each took out a battalion to mix with the cavalry, and placed it in the back as a reserve - the combination of firecrackers and cavalry was a common usage in Europe during the Thirty Years' War, which was brought to the Ming Dynasty by Shi Ruien.
After drawing out two battalions, Wang Qi still had ten battalions at hand, with a total of 2,400 musketeers and 2,400 pikemen. After seeing the shield cart of the Qing army slowly approaching, Wang Qi ordered the turtledove's foot fire platoon attached to each fire gun company to be drawn out - the names of the model army at all levels were given by Zhu Cihong with reference to the names of the army in later generations, and below the army level were divisions, regiments, battalions, companies, platoons, and squads. Among them, there are more than 120 people in the firecracker company, and there are four platoons under its jurisdiction, one of which is equipped with turtledove-footed firearms, and the other three platoons are equipped with bird-to-bird guns.
Wang Qi's ten model battalions had a total of twenty firearms companies, and the number of turtledovefoot firearms was also twenty, and there were about 600 turtledove-footed firecrackers, all of whom were first-class marksmen.
600 turtledove-footed firecrackers were put on the front line by Wang Qi, divided into three columns, and aimed at the shield cart seventy or eighty paces away and fired in turns.
The heavy bullet of the turtledove's foot hammer weighing one or two or five coins was so powerful that the seemingly sturdy shield car could not resist it. However, the wooden rod on the shield cart was not shattered by one or two or five penny projectiles, but was only punched out one hole after another.
After penetrating the wooden rod, these projectiles still have a lot of kinetic energy, which is enough to kill and injure the clothed minions that push the shield cart.
The explosion sound is endless, and every salvo will cause some minions of the cart to be hit by the projectile, which is a projectile of one or two or five dollars! Even the wooden pole on the shield cart was pierced by a blow, let alone the human body? With or without armor, they are punched out of a bowl-sized hole in blood, and sometimes an even more terrifying hole is carved out of a person's back!
Under the salvo of turtledove's feet, the clothed minions who pushed the shield cart forward were also in chaos. Their casualties were not large, after all, they were all hiding behind the shield carts, and the Ming army's musketeers could not aim.
But the death of the coated minion who was hit is too terrifying!
And this scene is also beyond the imagination of the coated minions - when did the firearms of the Ming army have such power? Can you break the human body through the shield car?
What's going on? The big wooden tree didn't look broken, why did the bullet hit the people behind?
It can't be a witchcraft, right?
Thinking of witchcraft or something, the life-sparing clothed minions threw down the shield cart and ran back, and the Eight Banners who pressed the formation didn't know that "witchcraft is powerful". When he saw the clothed minions running away, he took out the lancet and the "big broom" and went up to slash and kill, forcing the dog minions to go back to push the cart again.
But on the other side, the salvo of turtledove's foot guns continued, and the coated minions who went back to push the cart killed a lot, and the rest of the people were also weak and couldn't push the shield cart. Some simply put their bodies into the water, and their heads were exposed, and they still had words in their mouths, and they didn't know what they were asking for.
Ilde saw that the shield carts had turned into snails, and he was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, but he was also reluctant to let the warriors of the Eight Banners True Manchuria rush hard - people's firearms couldn't even stop the shield carts, where could the real Manchuria be sent to death? So he sent the musketeers of the Eight Banners Han Army again.
The musketeers assigned to Ilder had already been on the battlefield once, and they had placed a flurry of muskets at a distance of more than a hundred paces, trying to lure the enemy into firing indiscriminately. It didn't work, and there was certainly no loss—there weren't two dozen three-pounder shotguns on their side.
Therefore, the more than 200 firearms that Ilde had on hand were still intact, and they could be sent back to death!
These firecrackers are knowledgeable and know that they are no match! They only have more than 200 fire guns, most of them are bird guns, and the other party's turtledove foot guns alone are five or six hundred, plus bird guns, there must be thousands!
But they did not dare to disobey the military order, so they stepped forward tremblingly, and did not dare to line up and shoot at each other, let alone fire within twenty or thirty paces of the fire of the turtledove's foot gun. It's just that he scattered and leaned on the shield car to shoot a long distance, and he didn't care if he could fight or not, anyway, there was a little movement, and he could handle the errand.