Chapter 382: The Battle of the Mountain Attack II

Puffs of white smoke erupted from the hillside, and the Ming stragglers wearing green military uniforms and holding rifled guns opened fire, the bullets were not dense, but the accuracy was very high, firing at a distance of 100 paces, almost a gun bite the flesh. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoEvery time a gunshot rang out, a red blood mist erupted from the body of a Qing soldier.

"Kill!" The Ming army, wearing big red mandarin duck battle jackets, shouted the slogan of shaking the sky and rushed up to the mountain.

White smoke curled on the hillside, gunfire was incessant, and the bullets of the Qing army rained down, mixed with stones and pikes, and smashed into the Ming army formation on the hillside.

As the distance closes, the power of the firearm is revealed, and at close range, the shield is no longer able to block the bullet.

There were screams, Sergeant Ariake fell from a bullet, someone was hit by a falling stone, someone was shot through the body by a shuttle dart, and someone was hit by a large log that rolled down. Despite the continuous casualties in the advance, the Ming army did not stop the pace of advance, but braved the rain of bullets and rolling wood and stones, and bravely rushed to the top of the mountain.

"Well played! Just kill Ming Dog! Seeing the Ming army constantly rolling down the hillside, Guo Weifan let out a shout of excitement.

The gunfire on the hillside suddenly intensified, and the smoothbore gunners who followed behind the Ming saber and shield men also opened fire, and rows of bullets rained down the hillside.

Compared with the rifled guns of the Ming army's skirmishers, the smoothbore guns used by the Ming army's smoothbore gunners in red clothes were much less accurate, but the smoothbore gunners were in a dense formation and had a large number of people, and those Qing soldiers who were shooting in the field kept being shot and fell. However, because more Qing soldiers pulled the trigger prematurely just now, when the Ming army entered the best range of smoothbore guns, the Qing soldiers were still hurriedly loading gunpowder and bullets, and at this time it was impossible to form an effective counterattack situation.

"Hurry up and reload! Minggou is coming up! Guo Weifan shouted anxiously.

But Guo Weifan didn't shout, but when he yelled, the Qing soldiers who were nervously loading their bullets became even more panicked.

A few Qing soldiers who had just finished loading picked up their muskets indiscriminately and pulled the trigger on the Ming soldiers who were about to rush to them. The Qing soldiers hurriedly pulled the trigger and quickly retracted to reload the bullets, but as soon as they loaded the gunpowder and bullets into the muzzle and went to draw the strip, they found that the strip had disappeared!

It turned out that the Qing soldiers were in a panic, and before they had time to pull out the throughbar, they hurriedly pulled the trigger, and as a result, the bullets were shot out along with the throughbar!

Without the bar, it was impossible to reload bullets, and the Qing soldiers could only stare dryly at the musket that had become a burning stick in their hands.

"Minggou is here!" Someone shouted.

The Ming saber and shield men had already approached to the point that there were only about twenty paces left from the Qing army, and the two sides were so close that even the facial expressions of the other party's facial features could be seen clearly. At this distance, the offensive and defensive battles of that year were a nightmare for the attackers, because the defenders could use the defending weapons such as rolling logs, wolf's fangs, yakshas, fire oil cans, and 10,000 enemies to attack the opponent, while the opponents attacking from the back only had bows and arrows and firecrackers to counterattack.

But for the Ming army equipped with grenades in their hands, it was different, because this distance happened to be the most suitable attack distance for grenades!

"Cast!" Deng Fan, the new general in charge of commanding the mountain attack, roared.

Deng Fan is a new officer who has just graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, and according to the regulations of the Ming Army, the new officers who have just graduated start from the small banner, and the best cadets can start from the general manager.

With Deng Fan's roar, more than a hundred sword players threw grenades in their hands at the same time.

The sword players of the eight teams and the musketeers of the six teams threw the grenades in their hands at the same time, and a total of more than 1,500 grenades smashed into the trenches of the Qing army at the same time. The overwhelming grenades, which looked like locusts flying in the sky, fell into the trenches of the Qing army, and a violent explosion sounded, making a roar like rolling thunder.

"Oops! Ming Dog's palm thunder! Hearing the explosions in the trenches, Guo Weifan felt bad.

The sound of explosions continued, the Qing army trenches were full of flames, shrapnel flew horizontally, the stumps of the Qing soldiers continued to fly into the sky in the explosion, the diffuse blood mist flew everywhere with the air waves, the Qing soldiers who were hit by shrapnel fell, and the Qing soldiers who were not injured by the explosion cried and turned their heads and ran.

"Kill the dog!" A large group of sword and shield men had poured into the trenches.

The Qing army's musketeers had lost their effectiveness at close range, and the cold weapons of the sword players and pikemen were blown up by the grenades of the Ming army, and they could not form a defensive formation at all. In the face of the rush of the Ming saber players, the Qing army, which could not form a formation, was slaughtered by the Ming army like pigs and dogs.

The sword players of the Ming army formed a small formation in groups of three. This kind of three-three formation, if it is in the era of pure cold weapons, the three-three formation appears to be not dense enough, and the formation has many flaws. However, in the era of semi-firearms, especially the Ming army with grenades, it was the best choice to blow up the opponent's position with grenades first, and then use the three-three formation to rush and kill. The Qing army, which had already collapsed, could not resist at all, but fled indiscriminately from the position.

There were a small number of Qing army officers who were not afraid of death, gathered their own people, and were preparing to form a formation to resist, but as soon as the Qing army's formation was formed, the Ming army's grenade fell on the place where their crowd was most dense and exploded.

"Hurry up and shoot!" Only then did Guo Weifan remember that his artillery had not yet been wielded, and he shouted anxiously.

Several Qing artillery pieces on the hill roared, and shells whistled out. However, the artillery of the Qing army was not filled with shotguns used at close range, but solid shells!

The solid shells fired at close range did not pose much threat to the Ming army's three-three formation. The three-three formation was originally relatively dispersed, and the solid shells of the Qing army failed to knock down several Ming troops.

If the Qing army's artillery was loaded with shotguns, it would cause heavy casualties to the approaching Ming army. However, there was no if on the battlefield, and the artillery of the Qing army was originally intended to be used at a long distance to shoot at the artillery of the Ming army. But I didn't expect the artillery fire of the Ming army to be so fierce, and it suppressed the artillery of the Qing army as soon as it came up. It was not until the Ming army approached that the Qing artillery had a chance to play, but they had no time to replace the solid shells in the barrel.

To replace a shotgun, the solid shell in the bore must be shot out before it is reloaded. This process took at least a minute or so, and the Qing army, which was in chaos, had no chance to reload the shells, and the Ming army had already rushed to the front.

"Bang Bang Bang" A row of musketeers of the Ming army who followed behind the knife player knocked over dozens of Qing gunners.