Chapter 229: Cavalry Attack
In a big car behind Yang Feng, Zheng Tuniang and his maid line-in-law were nervously staring at a high-definition large-screen monitor in front of them, and the two could clearly see the row of cavalry on the screen marching in columns, all of whom were wearing red armor, holding bows and knives, hook and sickle guns, palladium, sticks and other weapons, and were rushing towards the large array of the Jiangning army.
The line girl controlled the remote control plane in the sky and kept following the head of this cavalry, from the high-definition camera under the remote control plane, you can clearly see the hideous expressions on the faces of those cavalry, they are like a group of beasts coming out of the wilderness are moving towards the goal.
When they saw this scene on the screen, Zheng Toniang and Xianniang were frightened and turned pale, they grew up by the Qinhuai River since they were children, where had they ever seen such a boundless cavalry attack, coupled with the fierce and hideous expressions of the Tartars and the murderous aura that was almost like a substance, it was rare for them to insist on operating the drone to reconnoiter and alert Yang Feng.
"Tu Niang, Line Niang, the two of you will reconnoiter around, reconnoiter within a radius of twenty miles, see if there is any other enemy situation, and report to me immediately if there is a situation." Yang Feng's voice came from the walkie-talkie.
"Understood!" After the line girl and Zheng Toniang glanced at each other, the line girl wiped her wet little hand on the placket of her clothes, and controlled the drone to fly around......
After giving the order to Zheng Tuniang and the line mother, Yang Feng issued an order for the rear of the whole army to prepare for battle.
"The whole army is lined up, the artillery turns!" Qiu Disheng, who received the order, hurriedly ordered all the artillery battalions to start turning.
"Attention all twelve-pounder guns...... The target distance is 1800 meters, the elevation angle is 10 degrees, the azimuth is 25465 7555, the maximum charge, the flowering shell is ready! ”
After receiving the order, the gunners of the thirty twelve-pounder guns of the artillery battalion hurriedly cleared the chambers, stuffed the most numerous packets of medicine into the chambers, and then stuffed the flowering shells into them.
"The blossom bomb is ready!"
"Ignition...... Put! ”
"Boom, boom, boom......"
A series of explosions rang out, and the 30 12-pounder Napoleon guns of the largest caliber of the Jiangning Army let out a deafening roar, and thick white smoke erupted in large strands, covering the artillery positions in front.
At present, the Houjin cavalry led by Yue Tuo is about two kilometers away from the Jiangning army's main array, and only twelve pounder cannons can reach this distance.
The distance of two kilometers for more than 400 meters per second of the shell only takes four to five minutes to arrive, the Houjin cavalry who are riding their horses forward did not hear the sound of cannons two kilometers away, they launched the charge just to concentrate on controlling the war horse to maintain the formation, no one dares to be distracted at this time, you must know that this is a charge formation launched by tens of thousands of people, if a person accidentally collides with the person next to him or falls off the horse, the consequence is to be trampled into flesh by the war horse behind.
"Woo ......"
With a heavy whistling sound, thirty cannonballs fell one after another in the formation of the Tartar cavalry charge, and a violent explosion broke out, and the huge kinetic energy carried dozens of iron beads and shrapnel to burst out in all directions.
The flying iron balls and shrenchnel hit several surrounding war horses, and the war horses that were galloping at a speed of tens of kilometers per hour let out a long mournful roar and fell to the ground, throwing the knights on horseback out, these knights were thrown to the ground and did not even have time to struggle, and the horses galloping behind them stepped on their bodies without mercy.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
The continuous sound of explosions continued to sound in the attacking team, although thirty shells were nothing in the charging camp of 10,000 people, but the damage it caused was not to be underestimated, first of all, the explosion of the shells caused great fright to the war horses.
Although the horse may seem docile, it is a sensitive animal. Because the horse's vision is far less sensitive than the sense of smell and hearing, so once there is a strong explosion sound and too high a sound will have a great impact on it, people who are familiar with the horse's nature know that if there is a loud sound next to the horse, otherwise the war horse will become manic because of fright, and now dozens of shells are exploding almost at the same time, and the explosion sound is not just huge.
"Terrible ......"
As the explosion continued to sound, all the surrounding war horses were blown up, and many war horses suddenly stood upright on the way to the march, and even knelt on the ground, so that the knights on horseback were naturally thrown out, and for a while, chaos began to appear in the entire offensive formation.
"Quick...... Distance...... 1200 m ...... The bearing does not change......"
"Blossom bomb...... Put! ”
The gunners in the artillery camp also went berserk, at this time they almost used their speed to the extreme, originally they could only fire two shells a minute, but now they reached an astonishing speed of four rounds per minute, this speed is very amazing, has reached the level of the best gunners of the French army in another time and space.
Yue Tuo, dressed in military uniform, rode on a group of tall yellow war horses, surrounded by hundreds of the most elite Bayala soldiers of the Red Banner, who was directing the charge of the army, and he was a little unable to react for a while when he saw the sudden explosion.
"What's going on, the sub-medicine launched by the Ming army actually exploded?" One of the baya raka ladrangings shouted in surprise.
"This is the flowering bomb of the Ming army." Yue Tuo's face was gloomy, "Although the flowering bomb is quite powerful, it is expensive and cumbersome to launch, and it is easy to explode, so the Ming army rarely launches, but I didn't expect to see it today, and the other party is still firing so intensively." ”
"Blossom bombs?" This Baya Lajia Lazhangjing was silent when he heard it, Daming's fire gun is notoriously rotten, but the artillery is different, even if this thing is a bad artillery, as long as the iron pellets of more than ten catties are fired and smashed into people, no matter how many pieces of armor you put on, they will still be smashed into pulp.
"Lord Belle, it's not okay to go on like this, the sound of those flowering bullets is too loud, our war horses are easily frightened, and now we have lost hundreds of warriors." At this time, another Jialazhangjing hurriedly rode his horse to report.
The muscles on Yue Tuo's face twisted, Zhenghongqi only had a total of forty-five Niu Lu, and the horse armor soldiers were even more precious, and now they had lost hundreds of people without even seeing the other party's figure, which was enough to make him feel painful, "The attack must not stop, order the warriors to speed up, and must use the fastest speed to break down the Ming army's large array." ”
"Whoa......
Under Yue Tuo's order, tens of thousands of cavalry composed of red flags and blue flag vests launched an attack on the large array of the Jiangning army, and when they rushed to a distance of one thousand meters from the Jiangning army, Napoleon's six-pounder cannon, which had been waiting for a long time, also began to roar. More than 100 artillery pieces fired at the same time, the power was not the same as that of the square, one after another shells fell and exploded, shrapnel flew sideways, a cavalry fierce cavalry kept falling off the horse, countless war horses let out a mournful roar in the explosion, and there were constantly war horses falling and horse armor soldiers falling off their horses.
At this time, the atmosphere of the entire artillery battalion was also tense and almost solidified, the porters took off their camouflage uniforms and carried the shells bare-chested, and the gunners were almost crazy, the shells were just fired out of the gun chamber, and immediately the gunners used a worm to remove the residual medicine and fragments in the chamber, and then used a sponge dipped in water to reach into the gun barrel to cool down, and then loaded the medicine bag and the shell, punctured the medicine bag to ignite the fuse of the shell and then pulled the fire rope, the whole action was almost in one go.
Under the almost frantic bombardment of the artillery battalion, Houjin's attack formation also began to be chaotic, and countless war horses were frightened by the explosion of cannonballs, so that the knights on horseback had to slow down to pacify the war horses under their crotch, so that the originally strict array became a little scattered.
The artillery battalion couldn't stop firing shells, and the sergeants in the hollow phalanx also looked at the Houjin cavalry gradually approaching in front with grim faces, and many of the sergeants turned a little pale, after all, no matter how well-equipped the Jiangning Army was, it was only a new army that had just been expanded for a few months, and it was no wonder that they were not nervous when they encountered such a battle formation. And in the various phalanxes, those pacification officers patrolled back and forth with more than a dozen sergeants of the overseer team, shouting loudly as they went.
"Steady, everybody, but wherever there is a shot in advance...... Chop! ”
"There are people who retreat without permission...... ...... slash"
"There are innocent people who disturb the morale of the army...... ...... slash"
"There are those who do not listen to orders...... ...... slash"
The word "beheading" resounded in the phalanx over and over again, and then saw the solemn expressions of the cold faces of the pacification officials, no one would doubt that they would do this, the military law of the Jiangning Army stipulates that the right of the pacification officer in wartime is very large, but anyone who violates the military order has the right to cut first and then play, so even the sergeants who are extremely afraid do not dare to do anything that violates the military regulations without authorization.
After paying a lot of casualties, Houjin's cavalry finally rushed to a distance of more than a hundred meters from the infantry phalanx, a distance that was almost a blink of an eye for the cavalry, but when they rushed to this distance, a sharp-eyed cavalryman suddenly shouted loudly, "It's not good, there's thistle terrestris ahead!" ”
The cavalryman wanted to turn his horse around, but unfortunately it was too late, his horse had already stepped on the dense iron thistles on the ground, and the sharp iron thorns pierced the horse's soles, and the horse let out a mournful cry and fell to the ground. The same was true of the cavalry behind, and in this way, one by one the war horses fell on the thistle.
"At this moment, I heard a loud shout from the opposite side, and the Tartar who understands Chinese understands this sentence, which means firing!"
"Bang ......"
The sergeants who had been waiting there for a long time pulled the trigger one after another, and hundreds of lead bullets shot out, although the hit rate at a distance of 100 meters was very low, but the target of the war horse was too big, and there were still many cavalrymen who were shot and fell off their horses.