Chapter 218: Bayonet hand-to-hand combat

The men and horses of Tulai's troops pushed the carts in front of the formation, and rushed towards the line of infantry of the Dragon Guard at the fastest speed.

However, due to the fact that Azig was anxious to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army, there were not many chariots prepared, and most of them were destroyed by artillery, so there were only about 20 left at this time, which could only provide shelter for seven or eight hundred people.

Before they could get to the back of the cart, the captives could only grit their teeth and charge against the dense lead bullets of the Ming army.

Although they were only seventy paces away, with the speed of the dragon guards' volleys, they would have to eat at least six or seven rounds of flintlock guns before they could get close.

However, the Qing army had one idea at this time - the Ming army had never been good at hand-to-hand combat, as long as it survived this last short distance, it would be a one-sided massacre.

"Swap bombs. Aim for the Kennu car! Chen Xiongfei immediately gave an order to the artillerymen.

And behind the infantry line of the Dragon Guard, the hunters also began to raise their guns and shoot.

In a battle of tens of thousands of people, no one cared about these 100 or so rounds of lead bullet. However, unlike the shooting of ordinary smoothbore guns, more than eighty percent of the more than 100 rounds of violently rotating bullets hit the target.

In an instant, more than 30 flag-bearers and more than a dozen junior officers were killed in the rushing Jianyu army.

As dozens of flags fell, more than a thousand captives were stunned in place - with the level of communication in this era, following the flags when a large number of men and horses attacked in groups was the only effective way to prevent them from running away. It was the soldiers who were told from their first day in the army to keep their flags on their toes.

At this point, the flag fell, and they immediately did not know what to do.

The Jianyu Flag Guards reacted quickly, and hurriedly separated one person to carry the flag and continue to move forward. But before they could go far, dozens more flag-bearers were accurately killed.

The loss of the banner, coupled with the fact that many low-level officers were shot and killed by the Dragon Guard hunters, more than a dozen Qing army phalanxes began to fall into chaos in a matter of moments. Some still rushed forward according to inertia, but many more stood in the same place, thinking about who to command.

The Dragon Guard, on the other hand, is like a sophisticated machine, constantly firing at the fastest speed, retreating, reloading, and firing again......

Every ten seconds or so, a row of lead bullets whistled out, shooting the people who rushed to the front and turned people on their backs. Under such continuous fire, the Qing army only rushed out of a distance of thirty or forty paces, leaving behind nearly a thousand corpses.

At the same time, more than a dozen phalanxes of the Broken Battalion finally moved to the Turai flank. With Gu Yanwu's order, more than 400 gunners in the front row began to shoot at the Bai Yin Dai Department covering the flank of Tulai.

Unlike the Turai Division, which was in charge of the main attack, Bai Yin Dai was only a cover mission, so the chariot was not equipped at all. And more than half of its army are followers, and the rest are mostly ordinary soldiers, and there are less than 400 elite infantry armor.

The so-called follow-up service is the slave status of the soldiers of the Eight Banners, and there are many Han Chinese. They are poorly equipped, and they are mostly responsible for cutting off the heads of the dead behind their masters on weekdays, and their combat effectiveness is very average.

With such a line-up, it was still possible to fight against the ordinary Ming army, but in the face of the broken battalion that used the Morris phalanx and was heavily equipped with advanced birds, they were not able to do so.

Sure enough, as soon as the two sides exchanged fire, Bai Yin Daibu fell behind.

This is also inevitable, the Qing army has less than 30% of the soldiers, and half of the soldiers in the broken battalion are guns. In addition, the Qing army's three-money bird gun and the six-money or even eleven-money bird gun of the broken camp cannot be compared.

As for the armor rate, only two percent of the ordinary Eight Banners soldiers have armor, and they have no armor at all. In comparison, although the broken battalion only has less than forty percent of the soldiers wearing armor, it is far stronger than these second-line captives.

With only five or six rounds of guns, Bai Yin Dai's formation was already chaotic. He turned around and saw that Turai's troops were fighting with the Ming army, so he simply followed Tulai's example, and ordered the infantry to rush to the camp to seek hand-to-hand combat.

Immediately, more than 4,000 sword-and-shield men and spearmen under his command raised their swords and rushed towards the camp with a shout.

Well-equipped elite infantry armor with high morale rushed to the front. In the past, when they fought with the Ming army, the cotton armor they wore could rarely be penetrated at a long distance, and when they reached within 30 steps, they began to release arrows, suppressing the Ming army's guns with a rain of arrows. When they arrived, the Ming army was powerless in the face of their steel knives.

Today, however, the situation is very different. Sixty paces away, the lead bullets from the camp easily pierced their cotton armor, and a large field of blood bloomed in front of the formation.

There were even eleven coins and heavy bird guns that shot through the Qing army's infantry soldiers, and even the soldiers behind them were also killed.

When it was easy to rush to the effective killing distance of the bow and arrow, Bai Yin Dai's only four hundred elite infantry armor would all be dead. The rest of the captives estimated that the distance was almost over, and hurriedly opened their bows and arrows.

At this moment, I saw Gu Yanwu's personal soldiers raising the order flag continuously, and with the sound of horses' hooves, a group of cavalry was killed after breaking the camp phalanx, and the person holding the spear at the head was Tie Dake.

With the terrifying impact of the lancers, coupled with the defenselessness of the captives, the cavalry of Tie Dake almost unhindered their way out of the men and horses of Bai Yin Dai. The light cavalry that followed closely behind slashed left and right with sabers to expand the victory.

By the time the cavalry galloped through the captives, the gunners of the captive camp had already finished loading, and they fired a salvo.

Thousands of rounds of lead bullets completely suppressed the captives, and soon some people began to shrink back. The masters of the flag soldiers in the rear team who met with the soldiers were killed one after another, and they did not hesitate to retreat......

After losing more than 1,500 infantry armor, the vanguard finally rushed to within ten paces of the Dragon Guard. Except for those who were still stunned by the loss of their commander, there were less than 3,000 infantry troops left in front of the Dragon Guard's formation. This is still because there are more than ten undestroyed vehicles to cover it, otherwise I am afraid that hundreds more people will die.

These captives rushed through the rain of bullets, and when they saw the Ming army in front of them, their eyes were red, and they imagined that these Ming troops were also as before, and they would collapse at the touch of hand-to-hand combat.

In this way, the adventure they had just taken was worth it, and when they cut off a few Nikan's heads, they would be rewarded with a lot of silver, and maybe they could be promoted to an official or something.

But suddenly, there was a chorus of shouts from the Dragon Guard, "Bayonet ready!" "Wake them up from their dreams.

Immediately, I saw that the Ming army on the opposite side lowered the fire gun with a brush, and pointed the two-foot-long short sword at the mouth of the gun straight forward.

Jian Yu was a little surprised, and subconsciously glanced at the single knife in his hand, could it be that the Ming army wanted to use the short sword hanging on the bird gun to fight hand-to-hand?

These southern barbarians are stupid, right? The captive soldier laughed in his heart, this thing looks awkward, how can it be an opponent of a single knife and a spear?

The Dragon Guard shouted again, "Charge!" ”

The Qing army was stunned for a moment - the Ming army took the initiative to charge for hand-to-hand combat?! It's not a dream, is it?

But in the next moment, nearly 3,000 Dragon Guard infantry swooped up like hungry tigers, and they moved in unison, stabbing at the opposite Jian Yu at the same time with the seemingly awkward bayonets in their hands.