Chapter Seventy-One: Defeated

Feng Junrui was also relieved when he saw the Ming army disperse.

He divided more than 100 cavalry to continue to drive the defeated army, and he led a large group of cavalry back to his own formation, just as he saw a group of men and horses dressed in dark green clothes on the north side, lined up in a neat queue to meet him.

Feng Junrui had not looked down on Wan Yuanji's ability to command troops before, and he had defeated the Ming army brigade in a few rounds of charges just now, and he had already shown contempt for the Ming army at this time.

When he adjusted the formation, he could already see that the Ming army was only about a battalion of people, and there was a thin long snake formation, which was even more amusing in his heart. I only feel that I am very wise to vote for the master of the Manchurians, and with the military ability shown by the Ming army today, I am afraid that it will be a matter of time before the country is destroyed.

When the Ming army reached a distance of about seventy paces, he ordered the guns to be released, and for this thin long snake formation, it only took two rows of guns to let go and then a fierce charge to easily defeat it.

There was a loud bang, and the flames jumped. But the Ming army on the opposite side was as if they hadn't heard or seen, and they still followed the drumbeat step by step, and the queue was neatly approaching forward.

By the time the two armies were only forty paces apart, the Qing army had already released two rounds of guns, but the Ming army was like an evil spirit, and even if a few soldiers were knocked down by the guns, they did not care about it.

That is, they do not return fire, nor do they charge hand-to-hand combat, but they keep moving forward.

Feng Junrui was a little funny, is this Ming army here to send him to death?

In fact, the Qing army only had more than 1,000 guns, and then used the method of three rows of rounds, with less than 400 guns each time. This sparse density of firepower, combined with the lack of power of the three-coin guns they used, posed little threat to the cotton armor-clad infantry of the Dragon Guard. Many of the soldiers were only knocked down by the impact of the buckshot but were not injured.

Feng Junrui didn't finish his thoughts, and the drumbeat on the opposite side suddenly stopped.

Immediately, he heard all the Ming soldiers chanting in unison: "Aim! ”

The thousands of soldiers in the long snake formation raised their fire guns in an extremely neat manner.

Feng Junrui's hand on Feng Junrui's side looked at this novel scene and even forgot about it.

The next moment, a dense and dazzling fire erupted from the side of the Ming army, accompanied by a deafening roar, the Qing army was as if hit by an invisible heavy fist, and the soldiers in the front row of the entire formation almost flew out upside down and smashed heavily on the bodies of the gunners in the back row.

The Qing army's position was silent for a second, and then the terrible screams sounded almost simultaneously. A salvo, more than 2,500 rounds of six-and-a-half-dollar buckshots, instantly took away more than half of the Qing army's rattan players, and there were more than 300 casualties!

Feng Junrui was excited, and he was busy drinking to make the gun fight back.

But his gunners were still trembling and blowing the fire rope, and the Ming army shouted neatly from the opposite side, "Aim! ”

Feng Junrui was almost stunned, the firepower that was so fierce just now should definitely be a salvo of the whole army.

But how could there be such a short interval between two salvos ?! Is it taking turns to release the guns? How could there be such a strong firepower when the guns were released in turn?

For a moment, he fell into a mental loop. Of course, no one could explain to him what it was like to have a flintlock with fixed ammunition now.

Until the roar of the flint gun woke Feng Junrui up.

Without the cover of the rattan players, the losses of the Qing army were even greater this time, and more than 400 people fell to the ground.

He looked up and saw that the Ming army had only fired two volleys, and his defensive line had completely collapsed.

Among the countless corpses, there were still many soldiers who had been shot and did not die, howling and rolling in pain.

The gunners who had been firing in a formation desperately retreated backwards, and the overseer had no effect even cutting down several people, and the soldiers had fled behind him, the main general.

"My lord, the Ming army is all guns, why not use cavalry to break it!"

The words of an officer beside him woke Feng Junrui up.

He wrapped the braid at the back of his head around his neck, gritted his teeth, and ordered all the cavalry to gather and form behind the footmen.

Song Chao was like a dream, and his whole person couldn't help trembling with excitement.

Fortunately, I have trained various combat skills into conditioned reflexes on weekdays, so there is no mistake. He subconsciously loaded the ammunition with both hands, and heard the commander order, "Defend against cavalry!" ”

He immediately shouted, "Defense cavalry!" Suddenly, the memory of fear came to my heartβ€”in a vicious battle in Chunhua, the bald cavalryman with a rat-tail pigtail on the back of his head pierced three of his robes with a single shot, and blood spurted out more than two feet away......

The man next to him tapped his arm, and he reacted and hurriedly pointed the bayonet diagonally upward.

A gentle breeze blew, carrying away most of the smoke that enveloped the battlefield.

Song Chao looked at the large piece of bloody corpse of the Qing army in front of him in surprise, and his eyes gradually widened to the boss - just now he only sent two guns on his side, and he actually killed so many Jianjun! It turned out that the volley that I practiced every day was so terrifying!

However, then a group of Qing cavalry wielded sabers and three-eyed guns, howling and pounced.

Feng Junrui had just rushed out of the hundred and ten steps, and before he could speed up, he saw a group of Dragon Guard cavalry in bright armor lined up in a neat herringbone charging formation and attacked the Qing cavalry.

He panicked for a while, and hurriedly ordered his men to turn around, keeping the horse's head facing the Ming cavalry. He saw that this cavalry should not have as many people as himself, and he had to desperately defeat the opponent's cavalry in order to redeem the defeat.

The cavalry sword in the hand of the Zhu family brother pointed forward and ordered in a loud voice: "Hurry forward!" ”

"Charge!"

Feng Junrui had just turned his horse's head around, and he was confronted by a cavalryman with steel armor wrapped in steel armor above his waist and rushing towards him.

Feng Junrui also crawled on the edge of the knife, and immediately shrank to avoid the long sword, and the saber in his hand slashed upward. But as soon as he heard the sound, he felt that the blade was not strong at all, and slid to the side against the opponent's steel armor.

Feng Junrui was shocked, and fled in the direction of the Shuangchen River.

Song Chao stared blankly at the hundreds of heavy cavalry of the Dragon Guard Army as if cutting tofu, rushing through the cavalry ranks of the Qing army, setting off a bloody flower along the way.

The hussars, who followed the heavy cavalry, galloped through the gap of the Qing army with short guns, and after firing, they threw away their guns, drew their swords and continued to slash.

There were still dozens of panicked Qing cavalry rushing straight towards Song Chao.

He stiffened his waist and said to himself: "Those guys in steel armor in the cavalry battalion are afraid of bayonets, it's okay, it's okay......"

The Qing soldiers in front of him, holding sabers and shaking the slender pigtails behind their heads, rushed to more than ten steps in front of him in an instant, but they were all blocked by the shining bayonets, so they had to turn their horses and run to the side, but there were bayonets along the way, and there was no gap to break through.

Soon, Song Chao heard his company commander's order, "Aim at the enemy's scattered cavalry!" ”

"Put!"

The sound of the gun sounded, and Song Chao was very sure that he hit one, and when Jiannu turned over and fell off the horse, a slender braid went straight to the sky.

At that moment, the nightmare brought to him by Chunhua's Jianyu cavalry completely turned into ashes, and it never appeared again.

Under the combined attack of the cavalry and infantry of the Dragon Guard, Feng Junrui's cavalry soon collapsed completely, in fact, Feng Guerrilla had fled into the Shuangchen River before this.

The Dragon Guard infantry heard the order, "Forward!" ”

The line formation as a whole moved forward more than ten steps.

"Aim!"

"Put!"

"Forward!"

Like an airtight human wall, he took more than ten steps forward with a single shot, and then shot again.

The dragon guard cavalry patrolled on both sides and drove back the Qing army who were planning to flee along the river.

Soon, the Qing army was squeezed down the Shuangchen River under the terrifying shooting of the flintlocks. At one time, there were countless people who were shot, swordsmen, and drowned.

Su Chengyu put away the binoculars and nodded, he was still quite satisfied with Long Weijun's debut. The firepower that surpassed the Qing army by several orders of magnitude quickly routed the enemy, and the Dragon Guard suffered almost no losses. The victory in the first battle is of great benefit to the Dragon Guard's confidence.

But Chen Xiongfei on the side was a little depressed, as soon as his artillery arrived, he saw the scene of the Qing army "dumplings", only to blame the infantry and cavalry for being too fierce, and did not even leave a chance for him to play.

Suddenly, a hussar galloped up and shouted, "Report! On the east side, a large Qing army is coming, three and a half miles away, and the number of people is eight thousand to ten thousand! ”

Chen Xiongfei immediately laughed when he heard this.