"Quick, get closer!"

Chen Kai, deputy commander of the 19th Infantry Brigade of the Ming Army, who had just graduated from the Military Academy, shouted as he looked at the surging Qing cavalry.

At the moment, he was a little caught off guard.

In fact, the Ming army generally despised the Qing army to the point of disdain, after all, whether it is the Eight Banners or the Green Battalion regimental training or even those Tusi soldiers, they have basically fought all over, except for the Sichuan Tusi soldiers do have some combat effectiveness, and then the green battalion of Zhenxiao is also quite tenacious, and the others are all rubbish that they trample under their feet, and it is the norm to flee from the wind, and it is brave to be able to see the Ming army banner and run again, and it is simply respectable to dare to fight in front of the Ming army.

Take the initiative to attack?

That's almost non-existent!

After fighting for all these years, except for the Zhenxiao soldiers and the Chuanbian Tusi soldiers who initially took the initiative to attack, there was no longer a matter of the Qing army taking the initiative to attack, and the first two had only one time, mainly because they didn't know the situation when they first went to the battlefield, and they were honest after knowing the horror of the Ming army's firepower.

In Chen Kai's opinion, don't explain the army, just a decent army, even if you change it to a big sword and spear, you can rub these wastes.

This Yang Silong has already proven.

It's impossible for such an army not to be despised, so at this moment, the outbreak of the same decisive charge in Yishan caused chaos in the Ming army. Of course, this was only a small accident for an army with a soul, and it would not really make a difference, and all the soldiers lined up as fast as they could, as fast as they could, as the battalion commanders and sentry commanders shouted.

With their backs to the Beacon River, they don't need to engage in any hollow phalanxes.

In fact, in the era of rifled guns, the hollow phalanx was no longer so necessary, this thing was completely forced out by the tragic efficiency of the smoothbore gun, the extension of the rifle range made it difficult for the cavalry to turn to the flank to attack, and the effective range of more than 900 meters made it not easy for the cavalry to circle around, so that the infantry had enough time to adjust the line. So by the time of the Civil War, no one used the hollow phalanx anymore, and the infantry met the cavalry basically a skirmish line plus an infantry line, and of course, there were artillery shells, in which case the cavalry could still break the very tenacious will of the infantry, because at least half of the cavalry had to fall during the charge.

And the same significant increase in accuracy and rate of fire, coupled with the soaring firing rate of the fire cap, also made the formation of the Ming army become the most common two horizontal columns in the Civil War, three columns have been completely surplus, and the first column has to kneel down to fire, which also affects the ammunition loading, two columns are enough.

In this way, the two infantry battalions lined up in a slightly arcing line against the surging cavalry, and then raised their rifles without bayonets.

"One hundred and fifty feet away."

Chen Kai looked at the scale on the telescope and shouted.

The same shout was shouted from the mouth of the battalion commander and the sentry commander, and all the soldiers in the line raised their gauges as fast as they could, aiming at the Qing cavalry.

"Fire!"

The next moment the shouts of the officers rang out again.

1,600 soldiers who were waiting for the battle pulled the trigger at the same time, and they reloaded without the slightest hesitation after the gunshot, and the whole cartridge was stuffed directly into the muzzle of the nitrated paper shell, of course, these nitrified paper shells are not very safe, and the residue is too much to clean up frequently, and it should be poured into it normally, but there is no need to trouble at this time, in fact, the Ming soldiers never do that, and they generally can't shoot a few shots in the battle with the Qing army. They then loaded the bullet and smashed it in, then pulled the hammer and put on the fire cap, the fastest one did not take ten seconds to pull the trigger again, and the slow one was only a dozen seconds, in fact, the highest record of the Ming soldiers was seven rounds per minute, three rounds were considered passing, and four or five rounds were normal, so when those officers reported the distance for the second time, almost all the soldiers fired a second shot.

"Kill, rush, rush!"

Among the charging Qing cavalry, Yishan and Duolonga roared like madness.

Bullets whizzed among them, and soldiers continued to scream and fall, trampled into flesh in the galloping of thousands of horses, and those war horses that were shot also fell down with a sad cry, wailing in the trampling of their companions, but the desire to escape made these Eight Banners soldiers still desperately urge their war horses to move forward in the soft and muddy land.

At the same time, the Ming soldiers a hundred zhang away from them calmly adjusted their rulers one after another, and continued to aim at them and pull the trigger.

The hit rate of bullets is getting higher and higher.

More and more Qing cavalry fell in a wild run.

Yishan and Duolonga were still desperately shouting and promising all kinds of benefits, and in less than a minute, the reward was increased to one thousand taels, and those cavalrymen also whipped their war horses like crazy, but no matter how they whipped, their war horses, which had been stunted since childhood and had just eaten a full meal for a year, could not run ten meters per second in this muddy rice field, but in fact it was good to run five meters per second. This was originally an Andalusian horse of the Mongolian horse instead of the Napoleonic cavalry, not to mention that when the Eight Banners bought their own horses, they bought those with obvious genetic defects and little food, so it would be hell if such horses could run fast, that is to say, at this moment they advanced 100 meters, and the fastest of the Ming army could play two rounds, and they still had a distance of 300 meters, and their war horses were getting slower and slower, and the bullets of the Ming army were getting more and more accurate......

Yishan, who had fallen behind the cavalry, exchanged glances with Dorona.

"Kill, kill a bandit and reward ten thousand taels!"

Yishan roared like a convulsion.

Then he and Dorona turned their horses and headed north towards the reeds in the distance, and the infantrymen behind them, who had already fallen some distance from the cavalry, stopped and looked at each other, and then the soldiers did not hesitate to turn around and run there as well. It is actually the modern Feilai Lake, of course, no one must have dug a lake at this time, but because the terrain is low-lying and mainly accommodates floods, it forms a large stretch of wetland, and the Ming army from the north is mainly blocking the north gate of Qingyuan, and there is also a large area of reed ponds and lotus swings and the like here, even if it is intercepted, it is difficult to arrive in a short time, it is obvious that this is an opportunity.

If it weren't for the decisive charge of the cavalry, these Ming troops would have stopped them, but now the Ming army has no time to take care of them.

As for the cavalry......

"Alas, they are all good men of our Eight Banners!"

Yishan took one last look at the charging cavalry and sighed.

At this time, the good men of the Eight Banners also began to turn around, less than half of the two thousand cavalry remained, and they turned around in confusion less than fifty zhang away from the Ming army, and some of the back could not be restrained and even collided with the front, but it didn't matter whether they could successfully turn around or not, their end was already doomed. They continue to charge, there will definitely be someone rushing to the Ming army line to cause some losses to the Ming army, but this distance and want to escape is purely self-defeating, just in the chaos of the Qing army, the opposite Ming army is still mechanically non-stop loading and shooting, the fastest even hit more than six rounds, and at this time more than 100 meters distance so that the hit rate of the bullet rose sharply, and the remaining thousand cavalry completely fell into the storm of bullets, and then fell in a pool of blood one by one.

The fighting again turned into a one-sided massacre.

Because of the continuous firing, the debris of the nitrified paper shells affected the rifling, and some soldiers even stopped to clean the chambers altogether......

Anyway, the battle is already coming to an end.

"Brigade deputy, these Tartars are running fast enough!"

Liu Lichuan, the commander of the first battalion, stood beside Chen Kai and looked at Yishan and the others who had run away and said.

"Then let them hurry up!"

Chen Kai said with a smile.

"Fire!"

He waved behind him.

At this time, the first battalion landed on the shore of the nine-pound howitzer just erected, this thing is actually a smoothbore, equivalent to the twelve-pound mountain howitzer commonly used by the Americans during the Civil War, but because it is a steel pipe, the weight is lighter, and the infantry battalion of the Ming Army, which is mainly based on the southern water network operation, is this, the barrel of the wheel artillery carriage and the barrel add up to only more than 300 catties, and any two soldiers can drag it in the rice field, and the three mules can be carried away after dismantling, even if they do not disassemble and find a few more soldiers, they can also lift it, This door was lifted straight down from the transport ship.

The captain of the artillery team, who did not catch up with the big battle, used a telescope to roughly observe the distance, and then the artillery was loaded with propellants and flowering shells, and with the flames sprayed from the muzzle, a flowering projectile whistled out and exploded in the rout of the Qing army, which was already like a duck.

Now it's even more duck-catching.

Some of the Qing soldiers even pushed each other and crowded each other, and some simply arched into the mud.

The Ming army, which had already finished the battle, laughed happily when they saw this scene.

"These bandits who kill a thousand knives!"

Yishan looked at the cavalry that had been wiped out by the whole army, listened to the faint laughter, wiped the cold sweat on his head and scolded hatefully, but the expression on his face was still very gratifying, because at this time he had arrived at Luedang, Aixin Jueluo. Ignoring the reed leaves, which could easily strain his skin, Yishan quickly burrowed into the swamp with the rout, and it was the height of summer, and the dense reeds completely obscured their figures.

"It's a pity it's not winter!"

Ye Feng, the commander of the First Army of the Ming Army, who was born in Java Chinese, stood next to a blooming lotus flower and said regretfully.

Anyway, it would be cool if you lit a fire in winter.

"General, we can release the water!"

The commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade beside him said with a smile.

"How?"

Ye Feng hurriedly asked.

"Just dig a hole on the riverside, the terrain here is low-lying, it was originally a buffer to protect the city wall during the flood, dig a hole on the riverside and let the water in, fill these reeds, our soldiers are waiting on the periphery, those Tartars can't stand it in it, we just wait to fight the wild ducks!" Fill it almost and then plug the hole again. ”

The commander of the third brigade, who grew up locally, said happily.

In fact, you don't have to fill the siege for half a month, Yishan and they can also get it, this bastard is just trying to have fun.

"Well, it's up to you!"

Ye Feng patted him on the shoulder and said.

"Let's go, let's go to Jiangkou!"

He then mounted his horse and said to the guards who accompanied him.