"Attention, the skirmishers are shooting freely from a hundred paces away! The brigade stops advancing! Wait until the Tartars crumble, then move forward in formation, enter eighty paces, and the musketeers start shooting! Enter thirty steps, and everyone throws bombs! "Grassroots officers at all levels of the Ming army explained the precautions to the soldiers. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Ming army lined up in a neat formation and walked step by step towards the fragmented Qing army's position.

Jin Fu shouted: "Brothers, Minggou is here!" Get ready to attack! ”

However, facing the Ming army, it is not the business of the Eight Banners New Army, there is a green battalion new army in front of it, and the most important task of Jin Fu and their Eight Banners New Army is to press the formation in the back, so as not to defect to the enemy or turn around and flee. If it weren't for them, the Eight Banners soldiers, I'm afraid that the demoralized Green Battalion would have run out long ago.

The morale of the Qing army, which had endured the shelling for half an hour, was indeed very low. The shelling of just half an hour was very short for the attacking Ming army. However, the Qing soldiers who were huddled in the position and were bombed have endured hellish torture for half an hour. Now that the Ming army came up and was ready to attack with infantry, the Qing soldiers showed their heads from the trenches in twos and threes, stretched out their muskets, and prepared to fire.

The Ming army was still more than 200 steps away from the Qing army's position, and the Qing soldiers pulled the trigger of the musket in their hands. For a time, the Qing army's position was filled with white smoke and gunfire.

Originally, the green battalion Qing soldiers were adapted after the surrender of the earliest Ming army, and they carried forward the fine tradition of the previous Ming Dynasty, when the enemy was still very far away, they used firearms to shoot, and it didn't matter whether they could hit the target or not, anyway, it was good to listen to the excitement. And at this time, compared to the Ming army's firearms against the charge of the Houjin Army's Eight Banner Cavalry, they were not in any danger, because the Eight Banners would rush up on horseback, but the Ming army on the opposite side would not rush up so quickly.

The muskets of the Qing soldiers were very lively, but they did not even hurt a single hair of the Ming army.

"Minggou's attack has been blocked!" Thunderous cheers rang out from the Qing army's position.

Indeed, the Ming army's advance stopped, and it stopped advancing one hundred and fifty steps away from the Qing army's position, and it seemed as if they were afraid of the Qing army's firepower and did not dare to rush forward to die.

In fact, Wang Xinyu ordered the advance to be halted in order to avoid unnecessary casualties. After all, the attacking Ming army was infantry, and it was impossible to charge as quickly as cavalry. The Qing army fired indiscriminately at such a distance, and if the Ming army continued to advance and entered within fifty paces, it would inevitably suffer considerable losses. Therefore, Wang Xinyu decided to use rifled gunners to shoot first, and after disrupting the musketeers of the Qing army, he would let his own musketeers press up and shoot with platoon guns.

A group of Ming infantry wearing bright red uniforms stopped advancing, and more than 300 Ming stragglers in green uniforms came out of the rear with rifled guns in their hands, interspersed in the positions, and approached the Qing trenches.

The skirmishers approached to about 100 paces and 20 paces, a distance that the Qing army's smoothbore guns could not hit, but rifled guns could accurately hit the target.

"Bang bang bang" The guns in the hands of the Ming army skirmishers rang out, and the rifled guns with extremely high accuracy exerted great power in the hands of the strictly trained skirmishers, and almost every time the gunshot sounded, there was a Qing army musketeer who was shooting outside with his head out, and was hit by a conical bullet flying at high speed.

There was a huge difference in the intensity of gunfire on both sides, with at least more than 4,000 muskets firing on the Qing army's side, while only more than 300 muskets were firing on the Ming army's side. However, the proportion of losses on both sides was also disproportionate, and with the roar of rifled guns in the hands of the Ming army, there were always people on the Qing army's positions who were shot and fell. And the Qing army put a row of guns indiscriminately, and even the shadow of the Ming army's stragglers was not hit.

Since Mini shells had not yet been born, rifled guns did not have a fast rate of fire, with each skirmish needing an average of about a minute to shoot a bullet. However, the most important thing is that the accuracy is high, and more than 300 rifled gunners, without completing a single loading, can carry out a round of shooting, at least 50 to 80 Qing soldiers.

The guns on both sides roared, firing at each other for half an hour, each rifled gunner fired at least thirty bullets, and the Qing army had fallen by more than a thousand people! However, the more than 300 stragglers of the Ming army did not suffer any casualties.

Guo Weifan, who was almost beheaded by Yue Le, was saved by Aobai, and was sent to the battlefield to atone for his crimes, saw the fame, he found that his green battalion soldiers had suffered heavy losses, but the Ming army was unscathed, and he knew that it would be a loss to shoot like this again, so he ordered the sword players to dispatch and charge the Ming army's stragglers.

"Kill the dog!" More than 2,000 Qing saber players jumped up from their positions, holding shields and machetes, shouting and shouting, and charged at more than 300 Ming stragglers.

The stragglers were not meant to be used for close combat, but when they saw groups of Qing infantry rushing up, more than 300 Ming stragglers fired bullets from their breeches, and began to retreat, handing over the task of dealing with Qing saber players to the infantry.

"Fire!" Gong Xiaoda, who was in charge of commanding the artillery, gave an order.

The twenty cannons arranged on the two flanks of the Ming army's position emitted a thunderous sound, and the solid shells formed a cross fire from two sides, and the shells smashed into the crowd of charging Qing troops, pulling out a line of blood. Wherever the shells passed, the stumps of the Qing soldiers flew sideways, and more than 100 people were immediately torn to pieces by the shells.

"Ready!" The infantry who were on standby raised their muskets, and the muzzles of the black holes were aimed at the rushing crowd of Qing troops. All the soldiers held their breath and waited for the Qing army to approach.

"Fire!" When the Qing soldiers rushed within fifty paces, the grassroots officers of the Ming army gave an order.

In the formation of the Ming army dressed in red, there were puffs of white gunsmoke, and the firelight erupted from the diffuse white smoke, and rows of bullets drilled into the crowd of the Qing army, knocking down the Qing soldiers at the front.

The Ming musketeers finished firing a volley, did not reload the bullets, but took out the grenade from his waist, pulled the string and stayed in his hand for a few seconds, and then raised his hand to throw the grenade.

"Boom, boom, boom" rows of grenades smashed into the crowd of Qing soldiers and exploded. In the firelight, white smoke rose in the curling air.

The Ming musketeers picked up their muskets, which had already been loaded with bayonets, and prepared to meet the onslaught of the Qing army. However, after they waited until the smoke of the grenade explosion dissipated, they found that the Qing soldiers in front of them had receded like the tide of the ebbing tide, and the imaginary hand-to-hand combat did not take place.

It turned out that more than 2,000 charging Qing troops were smashed by artillery for a while, and they were about to rush to the front, but they were blown up by grenades for a while, and the losses of more than 2,000 Qing troops exceeded 30%. The Qing army at that time could not afford to lose 30%.