Chapter 392: Breaking Several Formations in a Row
The Qing army that rushed forward suffered more than 30% casualties, so they could not bear it and retreated. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Seeing that the time was almost up, Wang Xinyu gave an order: "Li Rui, you lead the whole army to press up!" Break through the Tartar positions from the front! Piggy Egg, you lead the bombardier to go around from the side! ā
The frontal attack of the Ming musketeers had already loaded the gunpowder and projectiles, received the order, immediately advanced with the whole team, approached to the Qing army trench 50 steps away, more than 4,000 muskets fired at the same time, making a deafening roar, more than 4,000 projectiles swept over the Qing army trench like a whirlwind, rolling up a burst of flesh and blood fragments.
After the Ming army fired a volley of bullets, they immediately ran forward, and at the same time took out a grenade from their waists, pulled the string, and threw it into the trenches of the Qing army.
"Not good! Minggou threw palm thunder again! Guo Weifan only felt that his head was buzzing, and his brain was blank.
The incessant sound of "boom" explosions exploded in the trenches, and the flesh and blood of the Qing soldiers hiding in the trenches flew everywhere and were blown up.
The battle has already reached this point, even if the British lobster soldiers come, they can't withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of grenades, let alone these Qing soldiers. When the grenade of the Ming army fell into the trench of the Qing army and exploded, the Qing soldiers who were not dead let out a sound of crying father and mother, dropped the trench, turned around and ran.
Wu Zhudan, who broke through on the flank, took 2,000 sword soldiers and detoured up to the flank of the Qing army. Before the swordsman approached, the grenade in his hand slashed his head and beckoned over.
The situation was completely one-sided, and the position was full of fleeing Qing soldiers and pursuing Ming troops. Every Qing soldier only hated his father and mother for giving birth to two less legs for him, and ran wildly with his legs unsheathed. Some of them couldn't run, so they knelt on the ground, holding their heads in their hands, ready to surrender. Others simply threw themselves on the ground and remained motionless, and if there was a corpse nearby, they wiped a handful of blood from the corpse and smeared it on their faces.
Guo Weifan, who was bent on making meritorious contributions, was completely unable to control the situation, and there were fleeing Qing soldiers everywhere. No matter how he shouted, and even personally slashed and killed a few defeated Qing soldiers, he still couldn't control the situation, and even his own personal soldiers escaped completely.
"That's it! Last time, Prince An wanted to kill someone, but it was Taishi Ao who saved the villain's life. Now the villain wears the crime and makes meritorious service, not only has he failed to make meritorious service, but he has added one degree to the crime! It's better to repay the Ao Taishi with death! Guo Weifan sighed a few times, pulled out his waist knife, and prepared to wipe it off his neck.
At this moment, only a gunshot was heard, and the knife in Guo Weifan's hand fell to the ground. He clutched his injured arm and let out a pig-killing scream.
"Caught a Tartar general!" The Ming soldiers surrounded him. Someone had already pinned Guo Weifan to the ground, twisted his two arms behind him, and made him motionless, and then a hemp rope as thick as a thumb was put on him.
At the same time that the Ming army in the middle conquered the frontal position of the Qing army, the Ming army attacking on the west road launched a fierce attack on the Qing army's position from the riverside around Daoshi Lake.
The main force for the attack on the western road was the Ming army adapted from the original Fujian army, and the main force was Ma Jiuyu. Accompanying the Min army in the attack were the Ming army's inland water division fleet on the river, as well as the Japanese mercenary regiment specially used to fight tough battles.
On the river, the smoke of gunpowder was filled with the sound of artillery rumbling, and the side of the vehicles, ships, and inland gunboats faced the shore, all the gun doors were opened, and the naval guns spit out balls of fire, like a lightning bolt sweeping across the river, and the whistling shells smashed their heads and faces on the Qing army's positions on the shore, raising smoke and dust.
The firepower of the battleships is still very strong, more than a hundred warships of all kinds can shoot more than a thousand shells in one round! Although the sailors fired solid shells when shooting at the shore, more than 60,000 solid shells could be fired in half an hour's shelling, and so many shells could still smash the Qing army's position.
After about half an hour of shelling, the Ming infantry began to attack the Qing positions.
"Kill!" Sakai Tadanao drew his katana and pointed at the Qing army's position, which had been shattered by shells.
"Kill!" Kuroda Masao led twelve samurai and more than a hundred ashigaru under his command and rushed towards the Qing army's position with a shout.
The strength of the Japanese mercenary group is still quite strong, more than 100 Japanese mercenaries rushed to the Qing army's position, the front line is thirteen samurai, including Kuroda Masao, and the back is fifty pikemen and fifty musketeers, forming an attack formation that cuts straight into the Qing army's formation.
The ashigaru of the mercenary regiment was not equipped with grenades, but the regular samurai were equipped with grenades.
Kuroda Masao and twelve samurai took out a grenade from their waists, pulled the string, and threw it at the place where the Qing army was most crowded, and more than a dozen explosions sounded, and the entire Qing soldiers fell in the firelight.
The samurai wielded their swords and fought their way into the crowd of Qing troops. Except for Kuroda Masao, who was promoted because of his military exploits, the rest of the samurai are veterans who have been training killing techniques since childhood, even Kuroda Masao himself, is already a veteran of a hundred battles, he took twelve samurai, and rushed to kill in the crowd of Qing troops.
The ashigaru pikemen and musketeers followed the samurai, the pikemen advancing like a bulldozer, their spears harvesting lives, and the musketeers behind them pumping out firepower.
The position of the Qing army has been completely broken through, the Qing soldiers who have been defeated have scattered and fled, the Fujian army and the mercenaries of the Japanese State are in hot pursuit, and the Qing soldiers are constantly being caught up, either killed or surrendering on their knees.
The offensive of the Ming army on the three routes was like a tide, and the Qing army's defense line, known as the impregnable Qing army, was under the strong offensive of the Ming army, all the defense lines were collapsing, and the Qing army was defeated and retreated. The fierce fighting began in the morning and lasted until evening, and after a whole day of fierce fighting, the Qing army's defensive line retreated five miles.
However, when the Ming army attacked, it was not completely smooth. In the area of Wulongquan, when the Ming army sent stragglers to shoot the Qing musketeers from a long distance, the Qing army used the Eight Banners cavalry to charge the stragglers of the Ming army.
The stragglers armed with rifled guns are most afraid of cavalry, the number of rifled guns is small, the gunners are difficult to train, and the loading is slow, and they cannot block the cavalry attack at all. Finding that the cavalry of the Qing army was killing him, the Ming stragglers could only give up the attack, turn around and move closer to their own infantry array, relying on the infantry in the formation to obtain protection.
The Eight Banners stared at the Ming infantry from a distance, constantly circling around the periphery, trying to find an opportunity to charge. However, soon the cavalry of the Ming army arrived and dispersed the cavalry of the Eight Banners.
After the Ming army seized the position, it used auxiliaries to repair the Qing army's position that had just been captured, relied on the original fortifications of the Qing army to build a defensive line, built barracks between trenches and trenches, and arranged temporary batteries to prepare for the next attack.