The eighteen solid shells fired by the cannon took the lives of nearly a hundred Eight Banner cavalry, and the flesh-stained shells kept bouncing and crumbling, making traces on the ground. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The "boom" six howitzer shells also smashed into the Qing army's horses, because the length of the shell fuse was somewhat different in length, some shells exploded in mid-air, and some shells exploded after they landed. Six exploding shells burst open, releasing thousands of fragments and iron balls, which rained down on the Eight Banners cavalry. In an instant, dozens of Eight Banners soldiers were swept off their horses by bullet-like iron beads and fragments.

Even if the Eight Banners cavalry was wearing solid armor, it could not stop the cannonball shrapnel and iron beads from sweeping, and the shrapnel and iron beads pierced into the Eight Banners, and holes immediately appeared in the armor. Some of the Eight Banners were far away from the center of the explosion and were hit by shrapnel and iron balls, even if they could not penetrate the multi-layer armor on their bodies, but the powerful impact caused by shrapnel and iron balls also caused great damage to the cavalry. Some cavalry horses were swept over, and cavalry were swept away by fallen horses.

However, the casualties of more than 100 Eight Banner cavalry were only a drop in the bucket for the 3,000 Eight Banner cavalry.

"Kill the barbarian!" More than 2,800 cavalry of the Eight Banners brandished sabers, drove the war horses, and rushed towards the Ming army formation, and the speed of the war horses gradually increased.

The twenty-four three-pounder guns of the Ming army opened fire one after another, and the first six three-pounder guns to fire spewed fire, and a row of solid shells fell into the cavalry and horses of the Eight Banners, smashing over more than a dozen Qing soldiers. Then six three-pounder cannons spewed out flames, and another round of shells smashed into the horses of the Eight Banners cavalry.

While the fastest three-pounder cannon fired, the Ming army's twelve-pounder and twenty-four-pounder mortars roared, and the flowering cannonballs dragged the fuse and rose into the air, smashing into the Qing cavalry like meteors.

When Tu Hai saw the cannonball that fell like a meteor, he only felt a cramp in his heart, and he knew that it was a flowering shell.

The accuracy of the mortar cannon is not high, but the volume of the cavalry is large, and the three thousand cavalry charge, the distribution area is very broad, and the mortar shells fired in advance can be smashed into the middle of the Qing cavalry formation.

The shells landed and exploded one after another, and the Eight Banners turned on their backs in the blood mist, the war horses neighed sadly, and the cavalry who turned over and fell off their horses let out a dying scream.

"About 400 people have been lost! And two thousand six hundred! However, 2,600 iron horsemen rushed up, and they would be able to slaughter the 10,000 dogs in front of them! Tuhai said secretly.

Just when Tuhai was secretly speaking, the stragglers in the Ming army's hollow array opened fire, more than two hundred rifled guns spewed dazzling firelight, and the white smoke rose from the hollow array, and the high-speed rotating rifled gun bullets pierced into the crowd of the Eight Banners, easily tearing open the multiple armor on the Eight Banners, penetrating the soft muscle tissue, and twisting the internal organs. At least 40 Eight Banners soldiers were shot and fell off their horses.

"It's time to rush to the front!" Tu Hai saw that the Eight Banners had rushed to less than seventy steps away from the Ming army, and he was secretly happy in his heart. At this point, the speed of the cavalry is about to increase to the limit. Attacking the Ming formation without pikemen with heavily armored cavalry would be a one-sided slaughter in Tuhai's opinion.

"Fire!" The commander of the Ming musketeers gave an order.

Five thousand smoothbore guns roared at the same time, and a rainstorm of bullets shot at the crowd of Eight Banners cavalry who rushed sixty paces away. Earth-shattering gunshots rang out, and bullets swept away leaves like autumn winds, shooting down a large number of Eight Banner soldiers. At this time, more than 400 soldiers of the Eight Banners were shot and fell off their horses.

"There are more than 2,000 Eight Banner warriors! Minggou's firebolt has no chance to fire again! Tuhai shouted.

If Tu Hai had seen with his own eyes how the 3,000 musketeers of the Ming army broke the 1,000 cavalry of the Qing army on the position of Chijia Village, he would not have said such a thing. After all, at that time, communications were backward, and the Huguang battlefield was vast. After entering the era of firearms, the battlefield is no longer concentrated in one point as before, but distributed throughout the surface of the battle, especially the decisive battle of hundreds of thousands of troops, the Ming army attacking from three ways attacked the three positions of the Qing army respectively, and the battle situation in the distance can not be seen in the sea.

The musketeers didn't have a chance to fire again, but they had grenades, and the melee fighters carried grenades.

I only heard an order to "throw", and more than 4,000 Ming troops who were facing the Qing army threw grenades together.

The hollow array of the 5,000 Ming army had more than 1,200 people on one side, but according to the direction of the Qing army's impact, the formation could be adjusted at any time, and on the surface of the Qing army's cavalry impact, the Ming army concentrated 2,000 musketeers and 2,000 hand-to-hand combatants, and 4,000 grenades smashed over like hailstones.

The flames flickered, the explosions continued, and the Eight Banners soldiers who were about to rush to the front were blown up. The row of Eight Banners soldiers who rushed to the front had already crashed into the formation of the Ming army and knocked away a row of musketeers in front, but their war horses were also stabbed into blood gourds with bayonets, and even the men and horses fell to the ground.

The Eight Banners in front fell, and the Eight Banners cavalry in the back continued to rush up through the smoke of gunpowder. Dozens of Eight Banner soldiers suddenly pulled the reins, and the war horses rose into the air and leaped towards the Ming army's bayonet array.

It seems to be very spectacular, a row of war horses jumped up, trying to trample the Ming army formation with their horses' hooves. But the three rows of bayonets on the ground were not vegetarian, the horses that rose into the air were pierced through the abdomen by bayonets, and the cavalry on horseback fell down and were also strung into human flesh sugar gourds by bayonets.

Although the cavalry in front of them were stabbed to death with bayonets, the weight of more than 1,000 catties of men and horses, coupled with the momentum, still knocked more than 30 Ming musketeers away.

The Ming musketeers in the back immediately replenished, and the bayonets in their hands were aimed at the horses. In the center of the hollow array, the rifled guns in the hands of the Ming army's stragglers spewed fire one after another, overturning many cavalrymen who collided with them. However, many cavalry still rushed into the formation, waving sabers, and a row of Ming troops was cut down and knocked away by war horses.

"Out!" The hand-to-hand combat commander of the mountain army gave an order.

Before approaching the Qing cavalry, the mountain soldiers bent down one after another, shielded their bodies to avoid being slashed by the Qing soldiers' sabers, and rolled on the spot and used their axes to chop the legs of the Eight Banners.

A number of mountain soldiers were trampled into flesh by the horses' hooves, but before they were trampled to death, the axes in their hands had already cut the horse's legs, and the front hooves of the sore war horses were weak, and the hind hooves were raised high, throwing out the cavalry on horseback.

The formation of the Eight Bannermen was blocked by the bayonet formation of the musketeers, slowed down and lost momentum. The hand-to-hand combat soldiers of the Ming army pressed up in a dense formation, and the cavalry of the Qing army was constantly picked off their horses by bayonets, or pulled off their horses by rattan players, and chopped into pulp.