Chapter 176: Rockets Strike

The knifemen pulled open one of the rings on the lumps, and then threw smoking lumps. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, these iron bumps are grenades, and the Qiongzhou Army has improved the grenades, adopting the ignition method of rubbing the glass powder with copper wires, and the bombardier does not need to carry the tinder canister, as long as he pulls the ring, he can throw the grenade.

"Is it a pirate bottle?" Seeing the smoke flying, the Qing soldiers were stunned.

The Qing army and the Fujian army and the Qiongzhou army fought many times before, and there were many times when such a thing happened: after the two sides approached, the Ming army suddenly threw a bunch of smoking bottles, and then those bottles exploded in the crowd of the Qing army, killing and wounding a large number of people. Later, the Qing soldiers also knew that that kind of thing was called the national surname bottle by the Ming army.

However, in the eyes of the Qing army, the so-called national surname is the pseudo-Ming national surname, so they call the national surname bottle Haikou bottle.

Seeing the overwhelming "Haikou Bottle" smashed over, the Qing soldiers subconsciously dodged. However, back then, the battle formation was dense, and there was nowhere to hide, and their dodging actions also caused confusion in the formation.

The "Boom Boom" grenade exploded in the crowd of Qing troops, and the body of the projectile cast of pig iron burst under the action of gunpowder gas, spraying countless fragments and flying happily in the crowd of Qing troops. Bloody and screaming screamed, and groups of Qing soldiers fell in the light of fire and explosions.

The lethal effect caused by the explosion is secondary, and the most important thing is to shock the Qing army and destroy the formation.

When the war formation was chaotic, it was slaughtered.

"Kill!" The sword soldiers rushed into the crowd of the Qing army in a formation of three people, like a blood-devouring tiger that had been hungry for several days, rampaging through the ranks of the Qing army, and everywhere they went, there was flesh and blood flying.

The formation of the Qing army has been chaotic, and the Qing soldiers who have resisted have to face the slashing of three knives at the same time, and can parry one, and there are two knives to cut at him, and the three knives take different routes, some attack the neck, some capture the plate, and some attack the waist, and the three Ming sabers in formation are like one person.

This three-person sword formation was invented by Wang Yuyou, who is not only a military advisor, but also a martial arts practitioner, and he created this new formation for the invention of grenades. first broke the formation with grenades, and then the three of them rushed to kill, and the Qing army in front of them was thrown out of order.

The Ming saber and shield bearers and pikemen in the back also followed.

The spears in the formation were stabbed out one after another, and the Qing soldiers in the chaos were harvested one by one by the spears that were swallowed.

It was the sword and shield hand that could break the spear formation, but the sword and shield hand of the Qing army had already been defeated by the Ming army sword soldiers. The Qing sabers and shieldmen who turned around and fled crowded with each other, squeezing the pikemen and archers behind them, so that the Qing soldiers behind them could not exert their might.

The Ming musketeers and archers followed behind, firing freely at the Qing army, constantly exporting firepower, causing greater confusion in the Qing army.

"Don't quit! The Retreater, Slash! "The officers of the Qing army led the battle team to cut off the heads of the defeated Qing army one after another.

However, the number of defeated soldiers was too large, and the overseers could not hold back the bullets at all. After a while, the defeated Qing army enveloped the officers and the overseers and fled to the rear. At this time, no one wanted to turn back, and every Qing soldier wanted to escape from the battlefield as soon as possible, and run faster than his companions.

Seeing that the Qing army's formation was chaotic, the Ming cavalry on both wings also came out, drove the Qing soldiers to the middle, let the Qing army trample on each other, and then used the Qing army's defeated soldiers to rush their own rear formations, squeezing the back formation out of shape.

"The cavalry is moving! Only by charging and killing the cavalry can defeat turn defeat into victory! Li Shutai pointed to the battlefield in front of him, "The main force of Minggou is in the middle, and they have transferred the cavalry on both wings to protect the infantry to pursue our infantry in the middle, so that their two wings will lose protection, and we will take the opportunity to attack the two wings of Minggou with cavalry, and we can turn defeat into victory!" ”

Geng Jimao was a little strange: "Such an obvious flaw, didn't Minggou notice it?" Do they have traps and deliberately lure our cavalry over? ”

"It's not like there are traps, the old man has observed, after the Ming Dog came out of the camp, he didn't see them set up tripwires and thistles on both wings, and they didn't have time to dig traps and trenches before. At this time, the wings were empty, and I think it was their cavalry who made a meritorious contribution and put both wings of the infantry on us! Li said.

Li Shuotai's personal soldiers sent a signal, and Zhu Mala, the commander of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army, who had been waiting on both flanks of the Ming army, saw the flag signal, immediately got on his horse, pulled out his saber and pointed forward: "Sons, follow me to kill Han dogs!" ”

"Kill the dog!" Lush roared and got on his horse.

"Kill!" Five thousand Manchu and Mongolian cavalry launched an assault on the flank of the Ming army's formation two miles away. The speed of the war horse gradually increased, and after jogging for half a mile, the speed increased to the maximum, and rushed towards the Ming army one and a half miles away at high speed.

Seeing that the cavalry of the Qing army wanted to take advantage, Wang Xinyu laughed: "Haha! Dog Tartar, come well! Your grandfather deliberately sold a flaw, and you guys came? Then let you have no return! ”

Forty swarm of bee fire vans, twenty thunderbolt fire vans, and twenty single-barrel rocket launchers lined up, aiming at the Qing cavalry, showing their hideous fangs, and just waiting for the Qing cavalry to rush up, they opened their bloody mouths and devoured them mercilessly.

When he saw that the Qing cavalry was still seven hundred steps away, Gong Xiaoda shouted: "Ignition!" ”

Armed with torches, the Ming soldiers lit the fuse behind a swarm of bee vans, and then quickly ran away to avoid being injured by the tail flames fired by the rockets.

The fuse quickly shortened into the rocket, only a piercing scream was heard, and one after another the tail of the rocket spat out tongues of fire and flew towards the oncoming Qing cavalry.

The whistling rockets spread their wings and rushed out, like fire dragons, with tail flames several feet long and billowing white smoke, screaming, overwhelmingly facing the surging Qing cavalry.

"What's that?" Jumala's eyes widened, and the sky was full of meteor-like fiery dragons that dilated in his pupils.

Time seemed to stand still, and in the blink of an eye, the galloping herd of horses was covered by the overwhelming fire dragons. The rockets that landed exploded violently one after another, countless fireballs bloomed at the same time, and the air waves swept through the crowd of the Qing army with iron beads, and the horses of the Eight Banners Cavalry let out mournful neighing sounds, falling down continuously as if they had hit an invisible wall. The cavalry on horseback was hit by a torrential rain of iron beads, and two or three layers of thick armor could not save their lives.

Countless cavalrymen fell, and their bodies were pierced into hornet's nests by iron beads. Some of the cavalrymen were directly torn apart by the rockets that exploded next to them, and their heads were blown off.

One of the Eight Banners cavalry was directly shot through his body by a rocket, and his whole body turned into scattered fragments.

Jumala was already blinded, and the violent explosion made his ears deaf, and he only saw countless flames blooming, and the Qing cavalry near the center of the explosion was shattered to pieces, and his whole body was bloody. From time to time, the cavalry of the Qing army flew up with men and horses, and fell in all directions with splattered blood.

What's even more serious is that the rocket exploded in the middle of the herd, which shocked the Qing soldiers' war horses!

The scene of the First Battle of Bali Bridge took place in advance in this era, and the role of rockets was not only to kill and injure a large number of cavalry, but also to cause a group of war horses to startle and make the Qing cavalry collide with each other.

The already startled horses raised their front hooves and threw the cavalry off their horses. Some of the horses were scarred, and after suffering pain, they raised their hind hooves and threw the cavalry on horseback forward; Some of the war horses suddenly turned around and collided with the war horses on the side, and the Qing cavalry on both horses fell off their horses.

The cavalry behind was still rushing up, the formation was already completely confused, and the cavalry who landed was trampled into flesh by the horses' hooves. However, the cavalry that came up from behind failed to rush through, and another row of rockets fell, and the gushing flames swallowed up the Eight Banners cavalry.

Twenty single-barrel rocket launchers also began to wield, and the Ming soldiers launched a rocket, and then put another rocket on the launch stand, ignited it, and launched the rocket.

"Rush up! Don't give Minggou reload time! Seeing that the swarm of rockets did not strike again, Jumala yelled. I don't know how many Eight Banner soldiers can hear his shouting, and the violent explosion deaf the eardrums of many Qing soldiers.

Twenty Thunderbolt fire vans are aimed at the Qing soldiers, and the soldiers holding torches are ignited, and the soldiers who are responsible for steering the direction turn the targets on the fire vans, so that the guns are always aimed at the target.

The "Da Da Da" Thunderbolt Fire Box made a firing sound similar to that of machine guns in later generations, and each car was a hundred guns, and in the blink of an eye, all the dense bullets were spilled out and drilled into the remaining Qing army crowd.

Seeing that Lu Shi, who was about to rush to the Ming army, had just taken out his riding bow, and before he could open his bow and arrows, he was hit by a series of bullets on his body, turned into a hornet's nest, and flew upside down from his horse.

"Kill the dog!" Zhu Mala took the remaining more than 100 Eight Banner soldiers and rushed towards the Ming army without hesitation.

The six six-pounder guns, which had been loaded, turned their heads, and the muzzles of the guns spewed fire, and the shotguns drilled into the crowd of Qing troops. Jumala only felt as if he had been hit hard by a mace, and the whole person flew up.

"Bang bang bang" more than 100 Russian musketeers fired bullets, shooting down all the remaining more than 10 Qing soldiers.

Lush's side was a little better, after being bombarded by the Ming army's six-pounder cannon shotgun and fired by Russian musketeers, there were still more than a dozen cavalry left to rush into front of the Ming army.

"Whew!" More than 100 Russian musketeers, like enraged brown bears, picked up their long axes and rushed forward against the more than a dozen cavalrymen of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

The big axe was swung, and the cavalry was cut off the horse's leg before it collided with the Russian musketeers, and the Qing cavalry, which had lost control, flew up from the horse's back and fell to the ground.

Several Russian musketeers stepped forward, their axes fell, and the Eight Banners soldiers who fell to the ground were in different places, and the dirty blood spurting from the arteries spurted out from the broken neck, forming a fountain of blood.

Li Shutai was dumbfounded and watched as the 5,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers were wiped out in this way, and the damage inflicted on the opponent, in addition to injuring the two musketeers with bows and arrows, consumed the opponent's gunpowder and rockets.

"Lord Taiwan, we are defeated!" Geng Jimao reluctantly accepted this reality.

The fall of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners caused the Qing army to collapse completely. On the battlefield, there were Qing soldiers running and fleeing frantically, no one could suppress the defeated soldiers, and the Qing army officers were also fleeing for their lives. (To be continued.) )