The infantry formation of the Ming army has advanced 300 paces away, while the Qing army is 400 steps away from the artillery position of the Ming army, which is beyond the range of shrapnel shells, and the Ming army is in this attack position, and there is no fire box to follow up, and the only ones who can compete with the Eight Banners cavalry are solid shells and musketeers themselves. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Load solid shells and fire!" Gong Xiaoda gave an order.

The gunners of the twelve fastest three-pounder guns loaded solid shells, adjusted their muzzles, and aimed them at the Eight Banners cavalry of the Qing army, which was 400 paces away.

"Boom" two three-pounder guns spat out fireballs, and the shells swept over the infantry phalanx and smashed into the Eight Banners cavalry formation.

Two shells crashed into the cavalry of the Qing army, smashing out two alleys of flesh and blood, and the corpses of the men and horses, the severed limbs and broken weapons were knocked into the sky by the shells. Guarjia saw with his own eyes that a cavalryman of the Eight Banners in front of him watched the cannonball fly towards him, and the Eight Banners soldier subconsciously used his saber to block, but after the cannonball smashed his saber, it hit his body hard, and his upper body was beaten into a flying blood mist, leaving only two legs still on horseback. The warhorse, which had lost its master, galloped a few steps and then stopped.

These two shells knocked over five cavalrymen, three of whom were smashed to pieces with men and horses.

Immediately afterwards, two more shells crashed into the crowd of Qing troops, smashing the Eight Banners soldiers on their backs. Then two more shells fell into the crowd of Qing soldiers who dismounted and shot arrows, beating the nine Eight Banners soldiers who were shooting with light arrows into a blur of flesh and blood.

"Disperse!" Gualga screamed.

The cavalry of the Eight Banners waved their whips, and the formation quickly dispersed. The Eight Banners who dismounted and shot arrows also got on their horses one after another, whistled, and scattered in all directions.

The stragglers in the hollow array of the Ming infantry raised their guns, "bang bang bang" a burst of gunfire, the rifled guns with high precision spewed fire, more than 100 stragglers fired at the same time, the bullets drilled into the crowd of the Eight Banners, and more than a dozen Eight Banners Soldiers who galloped at the same time and could accurately shoot feather arrows were beaten into a hornet's nest.

These sharpshooters who can shoot armor-piercing heavy arrows on the back of a bumpy horse, who is not able to shoot a bow and arrow on a high-speed moving war horse after more than ten years of hard training. However, these Qing army archers have long been the target of the Ming army's stragglers, and more than a hundred stragglers have already targeted these Eight Banners cavalry archers, and each archer has at least ten rifled guns aimed at him. A volley of gunfire erupted from the horsemen, who spewed blood mist and fell from their horses.

Seeing that after years of hard training, the sharpshooter who could shoot a strong bow on horseback and pierce the yang in a hundred steps was killed by a small lead bullet like this, Gualjia only felt a cramp in his heart.

It is impossible to train such an archer without more than ten years of kung fu. And a rifled gunner, with only one year of training, has a range that is farther than the strongest bow and arrow, and the accuracy is high, and the bullets fly fast, so that people have nowhere to hide. was hit by a rifled bullet, and no matter how thick the heavy armor was on his body, he was also pierced by a small bullet. The high-speed spinning bullet drilled into the human body, leaving a small hole in the front, and the tissues in the body were all torn apart, leaving a huge wound in the body cavity, and the bullet pierced out from behind.

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen sharpshooters were all killed.

Among the more than 1,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners, there are only more than a dozen such marksmen. After these sharpshooters were shot by rifled gunners, the Eight Banners cavalry could not pose much threat to the Ming infantry phalanx, and could only harass them with light arrows from a distance.

The formation of the Ming army was as immobile as a mountain, and the light arrows fired by the Eight Banners from a long distance could not penetrate the armor of the Ming army, but many Eight Banners soldiers were shot by the Ming stragglers with rifled guns at a long distance after approaching. After being killed more than 30 Eight Banner soldiers, the rest of the Eight Banners soldiers no longer dared to approach and release arrows, but just stared at the Ming Army's hollow array from a distance.

"The Tartar cavalry is really annoying! They can't beat us, they just tease us from afar, waiting for us to show our flaws before attacking. But we couldn't catch up with them, so we could only watch them buzz around like pesky flies. Ma Shihong looked at the Qing cavalry swaying not far away, and said helplessly.

"To be honest, it is really not an easy thing to annihilate the enemy's cavalry. In addition to the cavalry, only a swarm of rockets can suppress the Tartar cavalry. "Gong Xiaodao.

Wang Xinyu recalled the Battle of Bali Bridge in later generations, which was not only the advantage of the British and French forces in weapons, but also because the tactics of Seng Lingqin were too poor, and he used cavalry to impact the formation of the British and French forces, which was a crushing defeat. In addition, the cavalry in the Anglo-French alliance also played a great role in annihilating so many Qing cavalry.

The Ming army that launched an attack on the first line of Chijia Village had no cavalry, and there was no swarm of rockets, and the terrain here was flat, so it was also a headache in the face of the continuous harassment of the Qing cavalry. The Eight Banners cavalry in this era, although their combat effectiveness is no longer comparable to that of the Eight Banners cavalry at the beginning of the customs, their combat effectiveness has not yet decayed to the level of the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and it is a slight headache to annihilate them.

"The formation of our infantry does not change, bombarding the Tartar cavalry with light artillery, and continuing to bombard the Tartar positions with heavy artillery!" Wang Yuyou issued a series of orders.

Historically, infantry and cavalry fought against each other, even in the era of simple cold weapons, such as the Song Dynasty, heavy armored pikemen, divine arm bows and bed crossbows combined to form an impermeable hedgehog formation, making it difficult for the Jin cavalry or Mongolian cavalry to attack, otherwise how could the weak Song Dynasty hold on for so many years.

However, the hedgehog array of the Song Dynasty still had weaknesses after all, their mobility was too poor, their arrows were limited, and their requirements for logistics and supplies were quite high. Later, the Mongol cavalry dealt with the Song army by harassing them with cavalry and shooting, and repeatedly engaged in fatigue battles to consume the Song army's physical strength and arrows, and waited until the Song army showed its flaws before launching a formal attack. And this kind of confrontation often lasts for a whole day, or even a few days and nights.

In the Ming Dynasty, entering the era of semi-firearms, the original half-firearms Ming army could completely fight against the Houjin cavalry. However, because of the various shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty, such as the poor quality of firearms and the poor quality of soldiers, the Houjin cavalry intimidated them and released all the firearms from afar, and when the Houjin cavalry rushed up, the firearms in the hands of the Ming army became burning sticks. In addition, the Ming army did not rescue each other at that time, the generals only cared about preserving their own strength, and deducting military salaries to support their own soldiers, as well as various shortcomings such as civil and military cheapness, and civilian officials suppressing military generals, so that when they were outside the customs, the Ming army and the Houjin confrontation were repeatedly defeated.

However, the current Qiongzhou army is different, Qiongzhou has a high degree of weaponization, advanced firearms, and a long range. Every time the Qing army harassed, it had to lose soldiers and horses, and if the two sides held each other for half a day, it was the Qing army that could not hold their breath in the end.