The sled soldiers rushed to a stop two hundred paces away from the Jin merchant caravan, and a hundred gunners removed the thick wooden planks from the sleigh, laid them on the snow, and lifted the mortars down and erected them on the thick wooden planks, aiming the muzzles of the Jin merchants' chariots. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The mortar artillery arranged the artillery positions, and the sleds of the musketeers and sub-gunners around them formed a circle to protect the mortar from the Qing cavalry from rushing out of the car formation.

After setting up the mortar, the Ming gunners were busy measuring the distance with various instruments, and some people used small flags to measure the wind direction and speed, and prepared before loading ammunition. Once the data was obtained, the gunners filled the chamber with gunpowder, loaded it with solid shells, and inserted a fuse into the fire door.

"Ready, launch!" Xiao Gongchen roared.

The gunners stepped forward one after another to light the fuse, and when the fuse was shortened into the fire door, fireballs erupted from the muzzles of the guns in the sky, and fifty solid shells rose into the air and roared towards the car formation two hundred paces away.

The black solid cannonball rose to its highest point and pulled a beautiful arc in the air, smashing into the Jin Shang's car formation. Although the accuracy of the mortar artillery is not too high, most of the shells still smashed into the middle of the vehicle formation when bombarding a target as large as the car formation.

The cannonballs smashed into the car board, smashing sawdust everywhere; The cannonball hit the hapless Qing soldiers, and they smashed people to pieces in one fell swoop. Fan Yubin saw with his own eyes that a Qing soldier's whole body was smashed into the snow, blood seeped out, and a human-shaped red mark appeared on the white snow.

"Swap out the bullets!" Xiao Gongchen gave the order.

After all, the effect of solid shells in the snow is very poor, the shells cannot bounce when they land, they cannot cause two or three damages, and they are only effective when they can hit the target for the first time.

The gunners inserted the cork fuse into the flowering shell and cut the length of the fuse based on the time it had just been fired to the ground. After trimming the fuse of the shell, the gunners fine-tuned the charge and slightly changed the charge according to the effect of the shot.

Since the muzzle elevation angle of the mortar could not be adjusted, the control of the firing range and the position of the shell landing completely depended on the amount of gunpowder loaded, so the mortar did not use a fixed charge pack. However, the gunpowder is placed in a bamboo tube, and the gunpowder in each bamboo tube is half a catty. How much gunpowder you need to fill, take out the bamboo tube and pour it in.

After loading the gunpowder, the gunners put the shells into the muzzles, first lighting the fuse on the shell from the muzzle, and then the fuse on the fire door from behind.

A row of gunpowder gases exploded violently, the muzzles of the guns spewed fire, rows of shells rose into the air like fire rain meteors, and the fuse burned in the air and emitted a dazzling light.

The cannonballs with bright light were like meteor showers, and they accurately smashed into the Jin merchant car formation.

Thick smoke and flames rose in the "boom boom" car formation, flowering shells exploded in the crowd of car formations, air waves raged, debris flew sideways, the explosion of air waves raised snowflakes in the sky, and pieces of Qing soldiers and civilians flew flesh and blood in the white blood flowers, and they all let out heart-rending screams.

The power of the mortar cannon firing the flowering shells was not trivial, and after a round of shelling, the Jin merchants' car formation was blown open a gap, and countless Qing soldiers and people who lacked arms and legs fell in pools of blood, letting out a painful howl, and some of the carts were blown to pieces, and the charcoal, grain, and salt on the carts were scattered all over the ground.

"Reload the shells! Conduct a second round of launches! Xiao Gongchen ordered again.

There are several Franc machines in the Qing army's car formation, and those cannons will pose a serious threat to the attacking Ming army, and only by completely destroying the Qing army's car formation can the sled soldiers attack.

The familiar scene of the bloody battle on the Hunhe River forty-five years ago was staged again on the Horqin grassland. At that time, the car formation of the Qi family army blocked the attack of the Eight Banners, and later the Eight Banners used artillery to bombard the car formation. Today's scene seems familiar, but this time it became the Qing army using a car formation, and the Ming army using artillery to bombard.

About a minute later, the second round of shelling began.

Rows of cannonballs smashed into the Qing army's car formation like fire rain meteors, and white snowflakes flew all over the sky, blooming bright red in the patches of white.

The carts that were hit by the bullet flipped to the side in the sound of the explosion, and some of the cars were directly scattered, the wheels flew out, and the planks turned into countless fragments, killing and injuring the Qing soldiers hiding behind like shrapnel.

The Ming army began the third, fourth, and fifth rounds of shelling. In more than 10 minutes, 50 mortar guns fired a total of 250 shells, blowing up the Qing army's vehicle formation to pieces.

The feeling of being able to be beaten and unable to fight back was very embarrassing, and a leader of the Eight Banners jumped up: "Sons! The Rakshasas bombarded us with artillery, and we can't be shelled here for nothing! If you want to live, rush out with me! Kill all the Rakshasas in front! ”

The chariot formation was pushed away, and more than 1,000 cavalrymen of the Eight Banners brandished their whips, desperately whipped their horses' buttocks, brandished their swords, and launched a decisive charge. More than 1,000 Eight Banner Iron Horsemen, like an avalanche on the snow, rushed to the Ming army's sleigh array.

The sled array is actually similar to the car formation, but the sled is heavier than the chariot, has higher protection, has thick baffles and shooting holes, and is the invincible chariot of that era!

A branch rifled gun protruded from the sled's firing hole and aimed at the incoming Eight Banners Iron Horsemen.

"Fire!" Xiao Gongchen roared.

A hundred sub-cannons erupted in flames, and shotguns were fanned out.

The shotgun landed on the snow, sending countless snowflakes flying. The Eight Banners Cavalry, who were charging towards the sleigh formation, seemed to have crashed into an invisible wall, and they turned over and fell off their horses in pieces, falling on the snow.

The rate of fire of the sub-cannon is very fast, after a round of shooting, the gunners open the tail bolt, hook the bolt with an iron hook, and then load the new bolt into it, cover the bolt cover, insert a primer tube into the fire door reserved on the bolt, and then aim the torch at the primer tube, and the sub-mother cannon will fire the deadly shotgun.

After the second round of shelling, the Qing army had rushed to a position about 100 paces away from the sleigh formation.

The more than 1,000 Eight Banner cavalry who had just launched the charge lost more than 300 people after being bombarded by two rounds of bombardment by the sub-mother artillery, and only about 800 Eight Banner soldiers were left to continue the charge.

"Bang bang bang" spewed fire from one sleigh after another, white smoke rose from the sleigh car, a hundred rifled guns fired precise and fierce and dense bullets, and the charging Eight Banners cavalry fell from their horses one after another like leaves swept away by the wind.

After the rifled gunner finished firing, he did not reload the bullets, but placed the gun in the compartment and pulled out the Thunderbolt from his waist.

The Eight Banners cavalry had already rushed to within seventy paces, and at this moment, the fire in the shooting hole of the carriage was again, and a row of gunshots like fried beans rang out, and the double-barreled long guns fired one after another, each gunner fired two bullets, and another group of Eight Banners soldiers fell off their horses.

The rifled guns and double-barreled guns caused more than 100 casualties among the Eight Banners.

The remaining more than 600 Eight Banner soldiers had rushed to fifty paces away, and the Qing soldiers took off their riding bows from their backs, took out feather arrows from their quivers, stretched out their bows and set up arrows, and prepared to shoot arrows. Just then, the gunshots rang out again. This time, the gunfire was very dense, and the lightning bolts that could be fired in bursts spewed fire from the shooting holes.

Although the white smoke obscured the vision of the Ming army, the target of the Qing army's charge was too large, and the dense bullets splashed over like water, and the Eight Banners cavalry were shot like rabbits in the snow.

The power of the rear-loading firing needle rifled Thunderbolt Short Gun was very powerful, and the dense bullets were fired, and many Eight Banner cavalry were killed even with men and horses. There were also some Eight Banners soldiers who performed the stunt of hiding in the stirrups, and although they themselves were not hit by bullets, the killed horses fell, and the Eight Banners soldiers were lifted off their horses.

Then came the Rakshasa muskets and the double-barreled short guns fired one after another, and at the same time, the sub-cannon fired a final round of shotguns.

In the blink of an eye, there were only more than 100 Eight Banner cavalry on the snow who were still charging on horseback, followed by more than 200 Eight Banner soldiers who had lost their horses and followed the cavalry on foot.

"Whoosh" rows of feathered arrows flew into the sky and shot in the sleigh array. Most of the feathered arrows were blocked by the sled boards, and a few arrows were stuck in the Ming soldiers, but they were also blocked by the thick cotton armor. Because it is a light arrow that is thrown, there is almost no energy to penetrate the cotton armor.

Only a few Ming soldiers were pierced by feather arrows on their forearms and calves without cotton armor protection, and even one was pierced by feather arrows just through the eye.

"Cast!" Xiao Gongchen yelled.

Rows of smoke-emitting grenades were thrown from the car formation, falling in the snow, and the explosions came one after another, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners who were about to rush to the front turned over on their backs and fell one after another in the sound of explosions.

A war horse slammed into the sleigh, causing it to shake. However, the sleigh weighing more than 1,000 pounds could not be shaken by the cavalry's charge, and the sled that was hit retreated a few meters, but the cavalry that hit the sled fell into the snow. The strong reaction force of the heavy object on the war horse made it impossible for the fallen Eight Banners to stand up for half a day.

One after another, the horses crashed into the sleigh, and the sleigh kept moving backwards, and the horses that hit the sleigh all made a mournful neighing sound and fell into the snow.

"Knife hand, up!" Xiao Gongchen roared.

The swordsmen behind the sleigh who were nestled with the horses jumped up one after another, brandishing their long-handled broadswords, and slashed at the Eight Banners who rushed into the sleigh formation.

The light of the knife flickered, and the Eight Banners soldiers who couldn't get up on the ground and the Eight Banners who had already stood up were all cut in two by the knife without exception, and the splattered blood was sprinkled on the snow, staining a large area of white snow red.

The Eight Banners who had lost their horses and charged on foot also rushed into the sleigh formation, waiting to be greeted by short guns for close-range shooting and hand-to-hand combat swords.

Although some of the Eight Banners were very brave and cut down the Ming army, they themselves were either killed by the short guns or cut in two by the broadsword. The one-sided slaughter ended in a blink of an eye, and in the end, the more than 200 Eight Banner soldiers who rushed to the sleigh formation were all killed in the snow, and not even a single one of them returned alive. (To be continued.) )