The shells fired in turn continued to fall in the formation of the Qing infantry, starting from a mile away, until the Qing infantry entered the village a hundred paces away, the Qing infantry did not know how many shells they ate during the march, and the square team passed through, there were broken limbs everywhere, and the musket parts and various weapon fragments that were smashed by the shells were scattered all over the ground.

The artillery fire of the Ming army was much more fierce than that of the Qing army, and the reason why it was suppressed at the beginning was that the Qing army's artillery position was fixed, the Ming army advanced, and the Qing army beat a preemptive strike. Now after the Ming army opened fire, the Qing army tasted the bitterness.

However, when the Qing infantry entered the small village, the threat of the Ming army's artillery fire to the Qing infantry was significantly reduced. A number of trenches were dug in the village, and there were buildings to block the Ming artillery shells. Although all the houses in the village were blown into ruins after several rounds of shelling, the ruins still had a strong shielding effect.

The Huguang New Army entered the village, stretched out muskets from behind the ruins, and aimed them at the Ming infantry phalanx, which was steadily advancing. The Qing musketeers pulled the trigger one after another, the guns roared, the white smoke filled the air, and many of the Ming troops on the march fell.

A puff of white smoke rose from the Ming army's large array, and twelve mortar shells rose into the air, falling on the village and exploding, a large number of houses collapsed in the firelight, and many Qing musketeers and archers who climbed onto the roof to shoot fell. The Qing soldiers hiding in the trenches suffered little loss, and continued to fire fiercely outside.

The auxiliaries came up with shield carts and blocked the front of the infantry, blocking the dense barrage of bullets and feathered arrows. But the shield cart could not defend itself against the artillery, and the cannonballs fired from the village hit the shield cart, and the bombed shield cart was instantly torn apart, and the broken wooden planks were like shrapnel, knocking down the auxiliaries behind the shield cart.

The Qing soldiers in the village desperately shot arrows, and the projectile arrows were shot into the Ming infantry formation.

Seeing the fall of the brothers around him, the Ming army did not stop advancing, but steadily advanced to the beat of drums.

The gunners lifted the eight-pounder light mortar up and spit out fire at the Qing trench a hundred paces away. The flowering shells landed accurately in the trench, and the Qing soldiers who were shooting arrows suffered many casualties. The sharpshooters behind the Ming infantry phalanx also began to shoot, row after row of feather arrows flew into the sky, and penetrated into the trench where the Qing army was hiding.

"Fire!" The musketeers at all levels roared loudly.

The Ming musketeers, who had walked fifty paces away under the rain of bullets, finally exerted their might, and the dense gunfire rang out, and puffs of white smoke rose from the large array. Rows of bullets burrowed into the Qing army's position, causing a mist of blood.

"Rush!" The attacking piggy yelled.

The pikemen and sword and shield men launched a short charge, but at a distance of only fifty paces, the Ming army trotted forward, and the ranks were not in the slightest confusion, and rushed to the position of the Qing army in one breath.

"Kill!" The Qing soldiers in the trench also raised various weapons, jumped out of the trench, and launched a counter-charge against the Ming army's hand-to-hand combatants. The soldiers on both sides collided fiercely. The spears of the pikemen in formation danced, and many Qing soldiers who tried to approach were stabbed into a hornet's nest in the blink of an eye.

The Qing saber and shield bearers jumped out, and they bent on their waists and slammed their shields into the spear array. The Qing saber and shield bearers who rushed to the front were all a group of tall and strong people in the Huguang New Army, although they were not as good as Zhou Peigong's ironclad army, but they were all good at one in a hundred. The Qing saber and shield hand is wearing cotton armor, and there is a rattan armor outside, holding a rattan card. Several spears stabbed over, and when they were hit by these tall and fierce Qing soldiers with their shields, they unloaded their strength. Then the knife in his hand slashed at the Ming spearmen.

was rushed to the close, but the pikemen seemed inflexible, and they couldn't resist the swordsmen of the Huguang New Army to cut and kill. In the blink of an eye, many pikemen were cut down by these fierce Qing soldiers.

Several Qing saber and shield bearers were hooked by the halberd soldiers mixed in the formation of the Ming army's pikemen, and with a strong pull, the shields were pulled apart. Then another halberd came up, hooked the Qing soldier's calf, and flipped the Qing soldier to the ground. Seven or eight spears and poisonous snakes stabbed out as quickly as letters, stabbing on the calves, arms, and faces of the Qing soldiers, resulting in these Qing soldiers.

However, when encountering the most elite Huguangxin saber and shield men of the Qing army, the Ming spearmen suffered heavy casualties, and were cut down by fifty Qing saber and shield men.

In contrast, the sword and shield hands of the Ming army and the sword and shield hands of the Qing army collided, and the combat effectiveness of the two sides was equal. But the amazing combat effectiveness of these Huguang New Army did surprise the Ming army very much, you must know that the Qiongzhou Army is the elite of the elite, in the past battles, the Green Battalion Qing Army is vulnerable, even the Eight Banners are inferior in front of them, who knows that here actually encountered a group of Qing soldiers as fierce as the Qiongzhou Army!

The Ming musketeers fired freely in the back and killed many fierce Qing soldiers of the Huguang New Army, but the Qing musketeers also used the same method to hide behind and shoot cold guns, causing many casualties among the Ming saber and shield soldiers.

"Long knife soldiers, attack!" Wu Pig's Egg roared.

The long knife soldiers are the elite hand-to-hand combat arms of the Qiongzhou army, they are wearing thick armor and holding long knives to cut horses, which can not only break the cavalry of the Eight Banners, but also break the hoplites. Originally, the long knife soldiers were on the critical moment, but now the red-eyed Wu Zhudan ordered the long knife soldiers to fight to deal with the fierce Huguang new army in front of him.

The Ming flintlock musketeers and archers followed behind the musketeers, the muskets and bows suppressed the Qing musketeers, and the musketeers came out of the rear and slashed at the Qing hand-to-hand soldiers.

The long sword soldiers originally created by Zheng Chenggong are infinitely powerful, they are all the elite second only to the Iron Man Army, the armor on their bodies is excellent, and every one of them is carefully crafted. The long knife weighed twenty-eight pounds, was seven feet long, the blade was three feet long, and the handle was four feet long.

The long knife soldiers slaughtered into the crowd of the Huguang New Army, which can be described as crushing. Although the soldiers of the Huguang New Army were extremely fierce, when they encountered the long knife soldiers and were killed one by one, the Huguang New Army was also frightened, and the formation began to retreat.

A few Qing musketeers secretly fired cold guns and knocked down several long knife soldiers. But the Ming musketeers and archers kept an eye on them, and the musketeers were immediately shot.

More and more Ming troops poured into the small village, and the numerically superior Ming army was about to repel the Huguang new army, and when this small village was occupied, the Ming army flanked the Qing army's Eight Banners cavalry.

"Good fellows! Tartar infantry artillery ride mate! It's overwhelming, and there's really a set! Wang Xinyu felt that the performance of the Qing army in this battle was indeed shocking.

The Qing troops in the front team rode their horses and charged, and the Qing soldiers in the back dismounted and shot arrows with their bows.

The Ming army was a horizontal formation, the flanks were weak, the Qing army's Eight Banners cavalry rushed over, the Ming army's muskets on the flanks were insufficient, unable to form a salvo fire, only a few shots were fired, and the Qing cavalry was killed like a whirlwind.

The most fierce sword soldiers in close combat were transferred to deal with the new army of Huguang, and the thin pikemen formation was difficult to block the onslaught of the Qing army. The Qing soldiers in front rushed into the pikemen formation, and even the men and horses were stabbed to death, but the cavalry behind immediately rushed up and knocked several pikemen away.

"Change formation!" Li Rui roared.

The infantry formation of the Ming army changed, the people in front retreated, spread out to both sides, and the people behind supplemented it, forming a three-layer spear formation. The spears of the first row were placed on the ground, forming a repellent pistol while steadily retreating.

Several Eight Banner cavalry who rushed in front stepped on the horse nails arranged by the Ming army auxiliaries before they collided with the horse rejection guns, and a row of war horses made a mournful neighing sound, knelt down with their front hooves, raised their hind hooves high, and lifted the cavalry on horseback off their horses one after another. But the Qing cavalry behind was still rushing forward, they thought that as long as they broke the Ming army's spear array and let the Ming army disperse, it would be a one-sided slashing of the cavalry to the infantry.

The cavalry of the Eight Banners, who dismounted and shot arrows behind, continued to throw rows of arrows, and from time to time pikemen fell from arrows.

"Fire!" Gong Xiaoda yelled.

Twelve four-pounder guns turned their muzzles and aimed at the rear of the Qing army, and the shotgun formed a fan-shaped killing surface, shooting at the Qing archers a hundred paces away, and the Qing soldiers who dismounted and shot arrows fell down with a scream.

The fierce Eight Banners rushed towards the artillery position, rushed to within seventy paces, stretched out their bows and arrows, and a row of random arrows shot into the sky, piercing down like rain. Dozens of Ming gunners with feathered arrows pierced their bodies fell down screaming. The Eight Banners of the Qing Army continued to charge on foot and rushed towards the artillery positions of the Ming army.

The musketeers ran over and pulled the trigger on the Eight Banners, and with a volley of gunfire, dozens of people fell to the Eight Banners on foot.

The sword and shield soldiers appeared, forcibly blocking the heavy armor soldiers of the Eight Banners on foot. The people on both sides collided together, and the sword and shield soldiers used their broadswords to continuously slash the Eight Banner soldiers, and the mace and hammer in the hands of the Eight Banner soldiers also brought certain casualties to the sword and shield soldiers wearing thick armor.

The Eight Banners on horseback rode and killed them, knocking many pikemen away. However, the cavalry of the Qing army could not rush into the artillery formation of the Ming army, and there were pikemen, horses, and deer barricades in front of the Ming artillery, and there were horse nails on the ground in front of the artillery. The cavalry of the Qing army could only dismount and fight on foot. But even if they dismount and fight, these Eight Banners soldiers are still very fierce.

The Eight Banners of this era have been in the customs for more than ten years, and their combat effectiveness has declined a lot, but they have not yet degraded to the level of vulnerability during the Three Feudatories, and their combat effectiveness is not bad, and they have a battle with the infantry of the Ming Army.

Dragoons, heavy cavalry and flying cavalry artillery of the Ming army rushed to support. The galloping cavalry artillery quickly set up their guns, their shells were preloaded, and they fired as soon as they arrived at the position. The dragoons dismounted and fired with muskets. Immediately afterwards, the heavy cavalry of the array rushed towards the Eight Banners.

At this time, some of the Eight Banners were dismounted and fought on foot, and some were riding horses to rush into the Ming army formation. Caught off guard, he was first shot by a musket, and then shelled, with heavy casualties. When they looked up, they found that heavy cavalry with white light appeared on their side.

Before the Eight Banners could react, the heavy cavalry that had increased their speed crushed through them. After the heavy cavalry rushed through, more than 600 corpses of the Eight Banners were left on the ground. In addition, the previous battle with the infantry of the Ming army, as well as the sneak attack by dragoons and flying cavalry artillery, the Eight Banners suffered more than 1,000 casualties. (To be continued.) )