The Tartars' auxiliaries and followers collapsed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although they had the greed for battle exploits and the determination to fight hard, in front of them were the iron-blooded Tiger Ben Division riflemen, not the weak other Ming troops. In the face of cannons and rifles, how can flesh and blood bargain? After being bombarded by artillery and fired by platoon guns, the auxiliaries and followers understood the strength of the enemy, lost the confidence to win the battle victory, and scattered.

They turned into routs and fled from both sides of the Elector Regiment and the Bandar Regiment. They were originally a rabble in a hurry, driven by greed for a short moment, and then returned to their weak nature.

They retreated like the waters of the low tide, exposing the reef behind the waters.

Behind them, the infantry armor of the Five Thousand Eight Banners of Manchuria appeared in Li Zhi's field of vision. Five thousand horse armors were draped in iron sheet cotton armor, holding a walking bow, and rushed forward quickly.

That was Yue Tuo's last force, and this time, Yue Tuo could be said to have staked all his old books. If this 5,000-strong infantry armor is defeated, Yue Tuo will be completely lost.

This infantry soldier is armed with a bow and arrow, ready to shoot at the Tiger Warrior.

The Manchurians were good at foot combat, and when they dismounted to fight, they were better at both hand-to-hand combat and archery than when they were on horseback. The Manchurian foot bow is divided into six force bows, eight force bows and ten force bows according to the size of the bow force, and one force is almost ten catties of pulling force. Elite Swing Horns and some vests can manipulate the Ten Force Bow, while most foot armor uses the Eight Force Bow.

At this time, the five thousand step armor used was basically all eight-force bows. The Eight Forces Bow can threaten the enemy at a distance of sixty paces, or ninety meters.

The 5,000 infantry armor rushed to the 90 meters away from the Tiger Division, and the 2,000 people in the front row raised their bows and arrows and threw a round of bows and arrows at the Xuanfeng Regiment.

The two thousand arrows were like a torrential rain, and they were thrown towards the Selector Regiment and the Swinging Band.

Throwing from 90 meters away is still a bit far for the Eight Forces Bow, the accuracy is limited, and the momentum of the bow and arrow that hits the Tiger Master is too old to break the armor. The soldiers of the Elector Regiment wore chain mail, but they were not afraid of bows and arrows thrown from sixty paces away. Unless they were shot in the head, the arrows could not hurt the soldiers of the Selective Regiment. But the unarmoured bands were wounded, and more than a hundred of them were shot with bows and arrows, and they retreated screaming.

More than 30 people were shot directly in the heart and other vital points and died in front of the battle.

Li Zhi looked at the soldiers of the Swinging Gang who were hit by the arrows, and frowned. Every soldier of the Tiger Division is precious and cannot be sacrificed casually. Because the soldiers were not equipped with armor in this battle, the soldiers suffered a lot of casualties. After the battle, Li Zhi made up his mind to equip each soldier with a pair of iron armor to protect against the rain of Tartar arrows.

Two seconds after the Tartar finished shooting the bow and arrow, the Tiger Division soldiers in the back row loaded their bullets, stood on the firing position and began to shoot.

A thousand rifles were aimed at the Tartar archers, ninety meters away, and platoon after platoon opened fire, spewing sparks and bullets.

Compared with the eight-force bow, which requires more than eighty pounds of effort to pull the bowstring of the eight-force bow and shoot at the enemy, the rifleman's shooting is much easier, and he only needs to hold a rifle weighing a few pounds and press the trigger to fire. Also a skilled marksman, the Minnie rifleman at a distance of 90 meters has a much higher hit rate than the archer.

"Kill slaves!"

The rifle shoots at a distance of ninety meters, hitting almost stationary archers, with amazing accuracy. A thousand bullets whistled towards the Tartars not far away, and in an instant, a large number of Qing soldiers were brought down. Row after row, blood splattered from the Tartar warriors who bent their bows and arrows in the front row, and they fell down screaming, leaking out some of the warriors in the back row.

The Qing army was beaten by riflemen and fell into confusion.

Obviously, the bow and arrow shooting on the side of the Qing army was not as efficient as the rifle shooting efficiency of the Ming army. If you want to improve the accuracy of your bow and arrows, you need to rush closer. But the Tartars knew that the further they went, the more intense the Ming army's firepower became.

The Ming army still has more than 10,000 people, and the Qing army, which is still in a fighting state, has only more than 4,000 people left, and this battle is obviously going to be lost. The infantry did not want to be cannon fodder, and when they panicked, some people wanted to flee behind.

In the Chinese army behind the Tartar, Yue Tuo, who was standing on a small earthen bag to observe the battle situation, saw that the infantry armor showed signs of rout, and his heart tightened, and he subconsciously bent his waist. These archery armor were Yue Tuo's last hope. The Qing army finally rushed within range of the bow and arrow, and Yue Tuo hoped that the rain of arrows from the Manchu warriors would crush Li Zhi's troops. Compared with rifles that fire once every 20 seconds, the ultimate rate of fire of a bow and arrow can reach 5 or 6 seconds per shot, which has an advantage in rate of fire.

Of course, to really gain an advantage, hit percentage is also a key factor. Then the infantry armor is required to force within fifty meters of the Tiger Ben Division to shoot directly at close range.

Yue Tuo gritted his teeth, his hands tightly clasped together, praying for the blessing of his ancestors, and blessed his infantry to be able to hold on.

Yue Tuo was praying, and Beledudu, who was behind the infantry with five hundred fangs, ensured the discipline of the infantry with his actions. Five hundred swinging tooth lamas rode on horses, and under the command of Du Du, they slashed and killed more than 20 infantry armor that fled backwards, and forced more than 4,000 infantry armor forward.

The infantry had no choice, and it was death to retreat, so they could only rush. The infantry's minds were blank, feeling that life no longer belonged to them, and they rushed forward ten meters, and then shot a rain of arrows at the Tiger Ben Division eighty meters away.

Two hundred unarmoured soldiers were hit by the arrow, and they fell to the ground screaming, criing out over the wounds of the arrows. More than twenty soldiers of the Elective Regiment were shot through the chain mail by the arrows of the Tartars, hit the vital point, and also withdrew from the battle ranks.

But soon, it was the turn of the soldiers of the Election Regiment and the Swinging Regiment to fight back.

The soldiers of the Tiger Division can complete a reload and fire in twenty seconds, and in a three-row rotation formation, they can shoot once in seven seconds. A few seconds after the Tartars fired a rain of arrows, nearly 1,000 soldiers in the back row of the Xuanfeng Regiment and the Dangkou Regiment stood in their firing positions and opened fire on the Tartars.

"Kill slaves!"

"Kill slaves!!"

More than 900 rifles fired in a volley, spewing angry bullets at the Tartar infantry at a distance of eighty meters. Like a storm of death, the bullet swept through the gap in the battlefield and fired into the body of the front-row infantry armor. The thin iron-inlaid cotton armor on the infantry armor could not stop the bullet at all, and the bullet that was hindered by the cotton armor shattered and rolled irregularly, which would cause more serious damage to the Tartar who was shot.

It was like a hurricane in front of the Tartars, and the infantry fell to the ground with a thud.

Of the five thousand infantry armor that rushed into the formation, there were only more than three thousand left in the blink of an eye.

The Tartars couldn't stand such casualties anymore, this battle was lost no matter how you looked at it, no one wanted to continue to commit suicide in front of the battle, and the infantry began to flee.

The last 5,000 infantry armor of the Qing army was also defeated.

First, dozens of people fled, and they fled to the east and west without hesitation. Then the actions of these dozens of people drove the infantry armor next to them, and hundreds of people began to flee, and finally the entire infantry armor camp collapsed and dispersed. The infantry scurried with their heads in their hands, avoiding the swinging teeth of the rear row, and routed from both sides of the array. (To be continued.) )