After all, the Thunderbolt Fire Box is not a real machine gun, whether it is accuracy, range, penetration or rate of fire, it is far inferior to the later machine guns, and the reloading speed is also very slow after the fight, and it is of course impossible to rely on this weapon to block the charge of the Eight Banners Cavalry.

Dekzik watched the Manchurian warriors around him fall under this firearm one by one, and his heart was so distressed that he was about to bleed, and more than 200 people were killed and injured before he could rush in front of him, and every one of them here was a real Manchurian warrior! Manchuria had a small population and could not afford such losses. But fortunately, the cars that spat out the tongue of fire stopped spraying flames for about thirty breaths.

"The barbarian's firearms are out of ammunition! Manchurian warriors, kill! Dekzik yelled with his sword.

The horses rushed towards the position of the wagon, but could not reach the wagon, and one after another the horses let out a cry of sorrow, knelt down with their front hooves, and lifted the knight on horseback.

After the heavily armored Eight Banners cavalry fell off their horses, the armor on their bodies made them unable to climb up, and some of the war horses that had no time to bypass stepped directly on the Eight Banners soldiers and trampled them to death. Then the cavalrymen didn't know what they had collided with, and they fell down one by one.

"Get off the horse!" Derkzik shouted anxiously.

The ground must have been tampered with, and the horses fell down without knowing what they had touched.

The heavily armored Eight Bannermen dismounted, and Dekzik found something with four thorns from the grass, which was scattered on the ground, and three thorns supported the ground, always with one thorn facing the sky. This kind of thing hides in the grass, and if the war horse collides with it and is punctured, it will tear off the cavalry on horseback.

A few steps further, I saw that there were many wires in the grass, and there were spikes on the wires, as long as the war horse collided with it, it must have been seriously injured, and the cavalry on horseback would fall badly.

"Horse nails, and barbed wire! Vile! Dekzik yelled angrily.

But Dekzik didn't want to think about it, when Huang Taiji dealt with the Mongols, he also used the trick of Zama nails. When Huang Taiji attacked the Chahar Mongols, he scattered Zama nails all over the steppe, causing a large number of Mongol cavalry to fall off their horses. Lin Dan Khan was pursued and killed by the Houjin army all the way and lost Monan.

Now the Ming army took out the Zama nail to deal with the Manchurian cavalry, and it was to return Huang Taiji's method to them.

"Even if we don't ride horses, we're the best warriors!" Dekzik waved his knife and pointed forward, "Sons, follow me and kill all the barbarians on the other side!" ”

After the Eight Banners dismounted, they were also very strong heavy infantry.

The Qing army shot from a distance with a rifle, and the Eight Banners in front of them cleared the ground of the horse nails and wires, howling and charging towards the Ming formation. Rows of random arrows fell, and some of the Ming soldiers who were pulling the fire van to retreat couldn't dodge, and were shot by feather arrows, screaming and falling.

"Brothers, go up!" Wu Zhudan raised his sixty-two-pound long knife and roared angrily.

One in a hundred, strong, heavily armoured, and armed with a long knife, the long knife soldier shouted and launched a counter-charge against the Qing army. Many of the long knife soldiers wore grenades around their waists.

The arrows fired by the Eight Banners pierced the long knife soldiers, making a clanging sound. Feathered arrows could not penetrate the well-crafted armor of the swordsmen, nor could they pierce the iron masks on their faces. With the exception of a few who were shot and wounded in the lower legs and forearms without protection, the rest of the longsword soldiers were unharmed.

The long knife soldiers who charged against the chaotic arrows slaughtered the Eight Banners like a whirlwind, and rows of smoke-emitting grenades were thrown.

The grenade exploded in the crowd of the Qing army, the smoke of gunpowder rose, and the shrapnel and iron beads flew horizontally, whether it was an ordinary Manchu Eight Banner soldiers or the most elite white armor soldiers, they were hit by shrapnel and iron balls, and the thick armor on their bodies could not protect them, and they were also beaten into a hornet's nest and fell in a pool of blood.

"Kill!" Wu Zhudan, with four personal soldiers, pierced into the crowd of Eight Banners like an arrow.

A white-armored soldier swung his mace and smashed it at him, and the two were so close that Wu Zhudan could see the man's hideous face, and even his bad breath could be smelled.

"Die!" Wu Zhudan burst into tears, and the sixty-two catties of big knives were slashed down.

The white-armored soldier wearing two layers of cotton armor and one layer of iron armor could not withstand the blow of the sixty-two pound heavy knife, and with one knife, two layers of cotton armor and one layer of iron armor were cut, and the white-armored soldier was cut in two with a knife, and blood splattered on the body of Wu Zhudan.

The four personal soldiers around Wu Zhudan were all equipped with thirty-six pounds of heavy knives, and wherever the heavy broadswords went, the Eight Banners soldiers wearing thick armor could not withstand the blows of this heavy weapon.

Five hundred long knife soldiers shouted and rushed into the crowd of Qing troops, and the twenty-eight pound long knives slashed, and the Eight Banners fell in pieces like harvested rice.

There were also many long knife soldiers who were hit by heavy weapons such as axes, maces, and hammers of the Eight Banners, and the thick iron armor on their bodies could not block the blows of those heavy weapons. Just as their heavy knives hit the Qing soldiers, the long knife soldiers who were hit by the heavy weapons spat blood from their mouths and fell down screaming.

The dragoons on both wings also arrived, and the dragoons dismounted one after another, and the long-barreled flintlock pistols in their hands roared, and the projectiles pierced the armor of the Eight Banners, knocking them down one by one.

In the end, the Eight Banners could not resist the combined attack of the longsword soldiers and dragoons, and were driven back.

When the Eight Banners were repelled on the flank, a bloody fierce battle had already broken out on the front.

The Ming and Qing armies engaged in a fierce artillery battle, and the gunners on both sides gritted their teeth and desperately fired shells at each other until the barrels were hot or they were killed by the opponent's artillery. Within half an hour, the two sides did not know how many shells had been fired at each other, and the barrels of the various four-pounder and six-pounder guns had already burned and had to suspend firing.

The mortar shells on both sides were still firing sporadically, and the mortar shells were constantly falling, and the flowering shells brought panic and shock, and the gunners on both sides were very afraid of the flowering shells, and if they happened to hit the powder keg, there would be no bones left.

The intensity of the artillery battle decreased, and the infantry of both sides was about to make contact.

The roar of muskets rang out from the positions, and musketeers on both sides fired at each other. The Qing army was protected in the trenches and occupied a certain advantage. But the Ming musketeers lined up in dense formations, firing, reloading, and firing again as they advanced. The gunfire continued, and many of the Qing soldiers hiding in the trenches were shot.

The Ming musketeers began firing from a distance of fifty paces, and every five or so steps forward was a round of gunfire. The position was filled with choking white smoke, and the soldiers on both sides could not see the target clearly, and could only see the people around them constantly falling. The sound of gunfire and the screams of the bulleted soldiers were mixed, and with each round of shooting, a large number of people fell on both sides.

On the 500-step long front, with a thunderous roar, white walls of smoke rose one after another, and in the blink of an eye, they connected with each other, quickly forming a long white dragon.

The distance between the two sides entered within fifteen paces, and the last round of fire from the Ming army was a salvo, thousands of muskets roared at the same time, and the battlefield was filled with white smoke. The musketeers, who had finished firing, picked up their flintlock muskets with their bayonets loaded, shouted and charged.

"Rush!" The musketeers charged.

Countless fiery figures rushed forward, and the bayonets that flashed with cold light formed a dense forest of bayonets.

The sword and shield men in the formation of the musketeers also rushed forward, and the sword and shield men reached for the grenades from their waists.

The distance was so close that the musketeers of the Huguang New Army did not have time to reload. They were not armed with bayonets, so they threw away their muskets, drew their swords from their waists, and prepared for close combat. The hand-to-hand soldiers of the Huguang New Army also came up, spearmen, sword and shield soldiers, formed a formation, ready to meet the charge of the Ming army.

The Ming saber and shield hands rushed out, and before the people reached the Qing army, the grenades in their hands were thrown out one after another.

"What's that?" Seeing the smoke-emitting grenades fall into their formation, even these well-trained Huguang recruits felt a wave of fear.

Before the new sergeants could understand, grenades exploded one after another, the flames flickered, shrapnel flew sideways, billowing white smoke rose from the dense Qing formation, and countless Qing soldiers spewed blood mist and fell down screaming.

"Kill!" Gong Xiaoda pulled out a Miao knife and led the musketeers to kill the Qing army.

The Ming saber and shield men were the last to come, originally behind the musketeers, but when they charged, they overtook the musketeers. After throwing a grenade, the sword and shield bearers followed into the crowd of Qing troops.

Facing the forest of Qing spears in front of them, the sword and shield hand struck with his shield and slashed the Qing soldiers with his sword. At the cost of sacrificing the lives of several sword and shield men, the formation of the pikemen of the Huguang New Army was torn open by the sword and shield men. The sword and shield hand was close, the short knife slashed, and the spearmen of the Qing army were slashed like local chickens and dogs.

The Qing army also came up with a sword and shield hand, and collided with the sword and shield hand of the Ming army.

Both sides are armoured hand-to-hand combatants, and in close combat, it is all about training, physical strength and courage. The soldiers on both sides collided together, and there was a burst of slashing, and many people on both sides fell.

The Ming army's halberd soldiers also joined the battle group, and the Ming army's hand-to-hand combat soldiers were arranged in a large mandarin duck array, and the halberd soldiers and large axe soldiers could support the sword and shield men in time.

With the addition of the Ming army's halberd soldiers and large axe soldiers, the sword and shield hands of the Qing army suffered a fatal blow. Halberds and axes were originally designed to be used by sword and shield holders, and halberds can hook off shields and slash. The power of the great axe is so great that the sword and shield hand can't stop it at all. Often, two halberders hooked the shield of a sword and shield bearer, and the other halberd stepped forward and stabbed the Qing soldier to death with a halberd. The same goes for the big axemen, who can hook, slash, and open shields.

The musketeers of the Ming army also joined the hand-to-hand combat group, and the musketeers with bayonets collided with the musketeers of the Qing army who threw away their muskets and used short knives.

Three Ming musketeers stood together and formed a combat group. The Qing soldiers who rushed up were hit by three people at the same time. The musketeers' bayonet thrust tactics were simple, but they worked quite well. Dealing with those Qing musketeers armed with short knives is basically a face-to-face solution to the opponent.

As for the other hand-to-hand soldiers of the Qing army, they will be handed over to their own hand-to-hand soldiers to deal with.

"Don't retreat!" Several garrison officers of the Huguang New Army waved steel knives and cut down several soldiers who turned around to flee one after another.

As long as a few people collapse, it may cause the collapse of the entire formation. For those soldiers who collapsed first, the Qing army officers must have slashed mercilessly.

"Attention, there are reinforcements from the Green Battalion over there, cut them off!" Luo Xiang gave a signal.

On the right flank of the middle front, more hand-to-hand soldiers of the Ming army emerged, with the ironclad soldiers in front, followed by sword and shield hands, and then the pikemen mixed with halberd soldiers.

For those ordinary green battalion soldiers who rushed to reinforce them, the Qiongzhou army did not pay attention to them at all. The Green Battalion is their defeated general, and the Qiongzhou Army has faced the Green Battalion several times, which time it was not a happy victory. Only the Eight Banners and the Huguang New Army can still fight with the Qiongzhou Army. Green Battalion, that's just a dish on a plate.

The archers of the Green Battalion shot random arrows, and the arrows were shot at the ironclad soldiers, which could not penetrate at all.

The ironclad soldiers of the Ming army stepped on neat steps, pressing up towards the green battalion soldiers step by step, and the Miao knife in the hands of the ironclad soldiers flashed with cold light.

On the flanks, the Eight Banners who were repelled by the Ming army's long sword soldiers and dragoons came over and tried to attack the ironclad soldiers. The cavalry can break the formation of the ironclad soldiers, although there are pikemen behind the ironclad soldiers, but as long as the cavalry is well controlled, it does not crash into the pikemen, and can use horsepower to destroy a group of ironclad soldiers with flying axes and riding spears.

But the heavy cavalry of the Ming army, which was protecting the flank of the ironclad soldiers, also appeared, and the heavy cavalry lined up in a neat formation and rushed towards the Eight Banners at a moderate speed.

"Let's go!" Derkzik shouted.

The heroes did not suffer immediate losses, and the Eight Banners knew that they could not collide with the heavy cavalry, so they retreated decisively, and at the same time harassed the infantry formation of the Ming army with bows and arrows.

Relying only on the heavy cavalry can not disperse the Manmeng Eight Banners, because the Eight Banners are still flexible, and the heavy cavalry does not have the cooperation of the Dragoons, as long as the Eight Banners go around in circles, the heavy cavalry of the Ming Army is like a tiger fighting flies, it is difficult to catch up with the Eight Banners, and they have been harassed by the bows and arrows of the Eight Banners, which will hurt morale. But the task of the heavy cavalry was only to protect the two wings, and when they saw the Eight Banners retreating, they did not chase after them, but just stared from afar, allowing the Qing army's feathered arrows to shoot at them.

The arrows were fired at the heavy cavalry, like tickling, and could not penetrate the plate armor at all.

"Bang bang" a few cannon sounds, and the flying cavalry artillery who arrived fired a few shells at the Eight Banners.

Dragoons not far away also rushed over, the dragoons armed with bows and arrows shot arrows from a distance, and the dragoons armed with muskets dismounted and shot arrows.

The Eight Banners were forced to retreat again, after all, the cavalry of the Ming army was not far from the infantry, and the Eight Banners did not dare to risk charging.

The Ming infantry on the right flank had already fought with the Qing army's green battalion soldiers, and the ironclad soldiers who opened the way in front crushed the Qing army's crowd, and no matter how the green battalion soldiers slashed and stabbed their guns, they could not penetrate the heavy armor on their bodies. Although the speed of the ironclad soldiers was slow and their movements were not flexible, the Qing soldiers were either killed or injured when they were slashed by them.

The ironclad soldiers broke through the formation of the Green Battalion, and the sword and shield men and pikemen behind them followed suit.

"Whether it is combat effectiveness or will to fight, the green battalion soldiers are still much worse than the Huguang New Army." Wang Xinyu, who was standing on the watchtower car and looking out with a telescope, said to himself. (To be continued.) )