The tide of guns collided with the tens of thousands of Dzungar cavalry that came in round by round......

The elite red-clothed machinery, which has generally reached the level of four rounds a minute, indifferently launches, loads, and fires, and the Junggar cavalry frenzy is overwhelming, and it is replaced by a delicate literati, I am afraid that words and phrases such as "iron cavalry rolling the Western Regions" will subconsciously erupt out, but for the red-clothed soldiers of the Yulin and Longxiang armies, the tall figures of men and horses, and the hideous face of the enemy, not only do not have any sense of oppression, but are more convenient targets to aim.

While the red clothes pushed out the death scythe formed by the convergence of thousands of projectiles, the Dzungars also reciprocated with the rain of projectiles and arrows, yes, arrows. Although most of the Dzungars have switched to muskets, there are not a few warriors with bows and arrows in front of this battlefield that has squeezed all the strength of the Dzungars.

But most of these arrows only served as a dubbing effect for the battlefield, and the crisp sound of clanging on the red-clad steel armor in the front row made the sound of the battlefield less explosive and monotonous. A few arrows were able to reach the red coat's arms, body, and even the door, but many more were hit by bullets that could not be seen at all, and their bodies fell to the ground.

The red clothes in the queue kept falling, but compared to the entire queue, it was like a wall of debris and dust, and it did not affect the integrity of the array in the slightest. Instead, the rushing cavalry frenzy fell one by one under the gunfire like a wave shattering in front of a reef.

The front of the battlefield was divided into two divisions' infantry arrays, and the front of each division was divided into the fronts of several battalions. There are corresponding gaps between divisions and battalions and even between the wings, but these gaps are by no means gaps that the Dzungar cavalry has the courage to attack.

One artillery cannon came out of a gap more than 10 or 20 zhang wide, surpassed the infantry array line, and fired projectiles ranging from four or eight catties at a covering angle of 180 degrees, weaving a line of death as far as one or two hundred zhang.

It was close to three shots in a minute, and the four-pound cannon, which was almost equivalent to a musket, was regarded as a death by the Dzungars. Take the artillery position as a dot, within the fan of twenty or thirty zhang. The terrible death of the centaurs, which can only be described as a mess of meat, is a clear warning. No one dared to approach the front-line artillery positions in red, they preferred to storm the platoon line, so that at least a whole corpse would be left.

But the Dzungars who knew this way fell one by one. The Dzungars who poured in the rear were steamed by the noise of the battlefield, and there was no shortage of people who were dazed and pressed towards the artillery positions.

Boom......

A four-pound cannonball grazed a Dzungar cavalryman, as if it only rubbed against the horse's neck, but the war horse was like a lightning strike, neighing and whining in place, the human body on the horse's back was thrown high, and a leg broken from the knee flew higher. Tumbling away in mid-air.

There was no need to look at the tragedy that this shell had caused in the rear, a cavalryman who was marching side by side with the victim subconsciously reined in the reins, less than ten feet ahead, the red-clothed artilleryman was quickly loading one cannon, and the other was being pushed in his direction, and at that moment, he felt that his felt hat and scalp had flown into the air.

He swallowed his saliva and struggled to raise the musket in his hand. Calculate how high the odds are of hitting a person, and how high the probability of the cannon being dumb after hitting. The calculation was far beyond the load on his brain, his eyes were out of focus, and his Adam's apple made a gratling noise.

A red-clad officer beside the cannon raised his hammer, which finally woke him up, and just as his calculation suddenly changed to whether to be killed by the cannon or to be blown to pieces by the artillery, the officer waved the hammer diagonally and motioned for him to dodge.

"Immortal ......"

The Dzungar cavalry, who had collapsed, held the reins in despair and leaned to the other side, while the commander of the artillery position of the battalion was relieved. He didn't have time to reload the shortshot, and he also felt that it was not worth killing a single person in one shot. …,

About five seconds later, the Dzungar cavalryman who had been released by him turned over and fell off his horse under a volley of guns, but the sentry commander had forgotten about this man, and his eyes were only the surging cavalry crowd, and he excitedly shouted: "Fight diagonally!" At least five or six in a string! ”

The front-line artillery positions were lined with direct-fire small artillery. Behind them, the short and thick flying cannons, under the cover of the infantry array, were constantly spraying flowering shells into the air, and the artillery officers were also excitedly shouting: "Hang high!" At least ten in one shot! ”

Behind the cavalry frenzy, the flames and thunder that continued to explode fulfilled their expectations.

The gap between the two armies of Yulin and Longxiang is the largest, the two armies converge in this battle, although the Yulin army is under the command of Peng Shihan as the commander, and Fang Tangheng is the deputy commander, but the two armies are not subordinate to each other after all, and there is a gap of more than 100 zhang in the middle.

If you can't climb high and look far away, and then rely on high-powered telescopes to penetrate the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield for detailed observation, and at the same time have a sufficient understanding of the characteristics of the gun line, this gap is actually difficult to find. The auxiliary arrays of the two armies covered the area, but the reason for the gap was not only because the troops were weak, but also because it was difficult to command under command, and the actions were incompatible with the entire front of the battlefield.

After nearly half an hour of three-dimensional fire from guns and artillery, the Dzungars finally found this gap with the unique sense of battlefield in the blood of the Mongols.

This is also a credit to Da Celing, when he saw the red-clothed skillful change of formation, he realized that it was not advisable to attack head-on, and decisively led his clan to change direction, constantly attacking all fronts, hoping to find weak points.

When he saw the red clothes in front of him shrinking to the left and right, vacating a gap of nearly a hundred zhang, he couldn't help but clench his fists and shout, Opportunity! This is the chance for the Immortal Heaven to descend, and I'm afraid it's the only chance......

Thousands of cavalry led by him poured in from this gap, and after passing the red wall of guns, a thin line appeared in front of them, and the red clothes in the rear marching in columns. Compared with the thick and mountain-like formation that the Dzungar people are familiar with, this situation is simply like a Han woman who has stripped naked, so fragrant and tender.

Rewind left and right or go straight into the depths?

Da Celing is so happy that it is difficult to choose......

But this day is destined to be the day when the Immortal Heaven will show all the hope to the Dzungar people, and then smash it one by one.

The red-clothed clothes that contracted left and right quickly formed a horizontal formation on both sides, forming an angle with the frontal horizontal formation in front of them, shattering the attempts of the Dzungars to sweep left and right. The gap is a hundred feet, it seems to be wide, but for the Dzungar cavalry, there is no room for a hundred horses on the front, these thousands of cavalry. And the follow-up brigade did not have room to speed up to the left and right.

The rows of guns on both sides continued, and the Da Ce Ling Division, which rushed into the gap, fell into a pincer attack, peeling off layer by layer like fresh bamboo shoots.

If you can't move from side to side, just face forward......

Da Celing was forced to make a choice. But when the group of centaurs who were rushing down the ditch were about to speed up, the disappearance revealed in front of them stopped them again.

A dozen or so strange-looking things were neatly arranged, tightly blocking the front, and the two wheels set up a dozen or so iron pipes together, and the mouth of the pipe was facing them directly.

"I'm grass! Zhao Heizi told me that the artillery maintenance team is this!? In order to squeeze into the battlefield, this guy is really pervasive! ”

Behind the battlefield. Although there were hot air balloons to view the battlefield, a lookout platform was set up more than 10 feet high for senior commanders at the rank of general and above to grasp the battle situation. Hot air ballooning is a new thing, after all, and there have been many accidents before, so senior commanders will not take the risk of diving into a hot air balloon.

Peng Shihan and Fang Tang Hengzheng were holding a high-powered telescope to pay attention to the battle situation in the central gap, but they suddenly heard such a shout, and the hair on their bodies almost exploded. …,

Wu Motou!?

The Western Regions are mostly protected, and the general is Wu Ya. I actually ran to the battlefield in person!?

In an instant, the two lieutenant generals did not have time to defend Zhao Hanxiang, the commander-in-chief of the artillery of the Red Lei Army. There was a thought churning in my heart, the devil, you are too shameless, didn't you say let us command? As a result, I still couldn't let go, so I hurried over from Hami, which was more than a thousand miles away!

"Let's see, how much drama can Zhao Heizi's fresh gadgets sing......"

"Don't expect too much, it's just a thing to beat the side drum, although the cannon is light, but the shells are very troublesome, and they can't be transported separately......"

"yes. The accuracy is too poor, even if it is not a gun, it is said that this project is still the next of several masters of Nanjing Lihua Company. ”

"There's always a use for it, whether it's a mule or a horse, and now it's going to be clear now?"

"The first array line is Zhuang Yiyi and Xu Shidao's division? Well done. ”

The next voice made Peng Fang and the others even more desperate, and it was not only Wu Devil who came...... Lieutenant generals Wang Tanghe, He Mengfeng, Pei Mingji. Major Generals Chen Tingzhi, Pang Songzhen, Li Songshen, plus Chen Songyue who was on the battlefield at the moment, except for the Grand Protector of Tangnu Wulianghai, who commanded the Mongolian cavalry to fight against the Rakshasas in the Kobdo area, Lieutenant General Zhang Hanwan and Major General Liu Cheng, all the senior generals above the major general level in the entire Northwest Theater were present.

The resounding of the murmur made the two of them have even more headaches, well, the generals of Japan, Korea, Siam, Annam and other client countries also followed, and they were talking excitedly.

"Oh, we're just here to watch the battle, and we won't interfere with your command!"

Wu Ya, the Demon Governor who had already sunned and was red, and his whole person exuded a murderous aura, shrugged his shoulders at Peng Fang and the others, said so casually, and then his tone changed again.

"The Rakshasa people haven't moved yet, they are really calm, don't be in a hurry with the Dragoons."

On the side, Wang Tanghe, the old chief officer of the dragoon army, said coldly: "Chen Xiaozi dares to be frizzy, see if I don't peel his skin!" ”

Peng Shihan and Fang Tangheng glanced at each other, and said in their hearts, this is called not interfering with us?

Of course, the huge observation group led by Wu Ya would not really interfere with Peng Fang's tactical command, but their existence itself was a huge pressure. Peng Fang and the others could only keep a bitter face, examining their deployment over and over again, for fear that something would go wrong.

At this moment, a swishing and dense whistling sound sounded, attracting everyone's attention and allowing Peng Fang and the two to be temporarily relieved.

Artillery boss Zhao Hanxiang made an official appearance of the smuggled goods stuffed into the Western Regions battlefield in the name of the "artillery maintenance team." This appearance shocked both the enemy and us.

Flames of firelight erupted from the iron pipes on the small frames, pulling a clearly visible parabola into the Dzungar cavalry group that had broken through the gap.

It was not much different from subconscious expectations, and the fluffy fireworks exploded at the height of two or three feet to the height of a person's head, but this was not a salute flower, but countless tiny projectiles. The generals on the high platform in the rear didn't see much of the scene, but the observers on the hot air balloon saw one after another fireworks blooming, followed by flowers of blood mist blooming against the backdrop of fireworks.

"Hold it down! Hold it down! The angle is just right! ”

Behind the row of "cannons" that were constantly spraying death salutes, the leaders of the craftsmen, who were more like craftsmen than the officers, shouted loudly. Eight iron pipes were arranged in two rows on a rudimentary two-wheeled cart, and soldiers on each side were pressing the handles to keep the cart stable. Make sure that the angle of fire of the iron pipe is always the same.

Rocket artillery, which got this name from birth, is a subject led by the Dongguan Machinery Bureau in the field of artillery in competition with the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau. Originally, it was only a directional exploration, but it was driven by competition. The Dongguan Machinery Bureau has made great efforts to create a standard weapon that can be widely accepted by the army and win large orders. …,

With the technical support of the most advanced ceremonial flower workshop in China, and with the help of the wisdom of the predecessors, the rocket artillery has developed from the original single-barreled type to the current multi-barreled type, and even derived the single-soldier shoulder-mounted type, and the now stereotyped eight-barreled type is almost the reproduction of the "swarm of bees" in the Ming Dynasty.

Zhao Hanxiang fought for the risk of violating military discipline. The purpose of changing the appearance of the rocket artillery unit into an "artillery maintenance team" is to win the opportunity of actual combat and prove the effectiveness of this weapon.

The accuracy of the rocket artillery is very poor, and it duplicates the range and effectiveness of the flying cannon, and at the same time, it is difficult for the army to locate because the effectiveness is not visible. Moreover, because of its reputation of "simple guns and troublesome ammunition", especially the transportation and storage of rockets is very problematic. The Army was very resistant.

Zhao Hanxiang, as the chief of artillery in the army, of course, had to verify the future of each type of artillery, but because Wu Ya was like a miserly old ghost, he protected the transportation resources of the Western Regions. This unit will not be able to participate in the war with the establishment of the Red Thunder Army, so it can only engage in this trick to hide from the world.

Judging from the sound and light effects at this time, at least the rocket artillery gave a great shock to the generals present, and even Wu Ya was muttering: "I won't rectify Zhao Heizi......

Each eight-in-one rocket launcher fires one rocket every three to five seconds, and twelve artillery wagons and ninety-six rockets rain out within half a minute. Ninety-six rounds are detonated with a fixed-time fuse, which is the same principle as the flowering projectile, except that there is an additional rocket at the propulsion end. Falling on the heads of the Dzungar people like hailstones, and then exploding a large cloud of fireworks, this scene can already be described by the word "indiscriminate bombardment".

After a ninety-six rounds, the artillerymen hurriedly stuffed new rockets into the barrels and connected the fuses. In less than half a minute, everything repeated again, and a new round of ninety-six combos began. The defects of the rocket artillery are highlighted, and the red clothes on both sides of the gap are not overlapping and moving backwards, so as not to suffer the disaster of the pond fish, you can know that although this rocket artillery can hit one or two hundred zhang away, compared with the flying cannon, the accuracy is too bad.

However, looking at the intensive bombardment of rocket artillery with an extremely high rate of fire, the generals in the stands were all doubting that the thousands of Dzungar cavalry who broke through the gap could still survive. In this regard, the utility and positioning of rocket artillery have already been recognized in the minds of the generals.

After breaking through the gap, the Dzungar cavalry, who had become the target of rocket artillery experiments, still had people alive, but at most there was one breath left, and Da Celing's last thought was that the sky shattered, the earth collapsed, and everything was swallowed up by the blooming fireworks, which were so brilliant that he even faintly saw Changshengtian stretching out his hand to him after the halo.

At 1:20 p.m., the right-hand man of the Dzungar Khan, the king of Dzungar Khan, the national hero of the Dzungar people resisting the Anglo-Chinese invasion, and the leader of one of the three major tribes of Dzungaria, was killed in battle.

The fledgling rocket artillery unit happily pushed the artillery cart out of the gap, trying to shoot the remaining shells in one go, but the front had already turned into a death passage, and the dense corpses of dead men and horses blocked the road, and the infantry array would not give way to them, so angry that the commander threw his hat and jumped to his feet and cursed.

Naturally, this detail could not enter the generals' field of vision, and even the scene where the rocket artillery showed its might just now was a thing of the past for them. From 1:30 a.m., the situation of the battle changed further.

The death of Da Celing and the continued failure of efforts to storm the front caused the Dzungar cavalry to move to the flanks of the battlefield.

"Is it okay?"

Wu Ya still couldn't help but ask Fang Tangheng, most of the Junggar cavalry had turned to the Long Xiang army on the left flank, compared to the Yulin army, Wu Ya would of course be worried about the Long Xiang army.

Fang Tangheng said: "The second front is the 106th Division, the commander is my old partner Cai Fei, and the 105th Division of the first front still cares about his junior." ”…,

There was no positive answer, but the name Cai Fei was like a guarantee, Wu Ya nodded: "Foshan Cai Fei, veteran, speaking of which, he is still a martial arts disciple of the noble concubine." ”

Cai Fei, who has received the rank of brigadier general, is not only a profound martial artist, he is a hero who led more than 1,000 remnants to break through in the battle of Yinding Temple last year. Fang Tang Heng was able to dig him into the Long Xiang Army to be the commander of the division, but he had invested enough.

More than 20 years ago, when Cai Fei, as a member of the Foshan soldiers, followed the emperor to suppress bandits in Guangdong, he and the Foshan soldiers were ridiculed as soft-footed shrimps. But in today's Yinghua red clothes, the Foshan soldiers are called "organ soldiers", a board and a glance, as meticulous as a clock, every year after the recruits leave the training camp, the Foshan soldiers are the objects that various units rush to want. As a senior general from Foshan, Cai Fei is even more famous for leading soldiers like clocks and 10,000 people.

Fang Tangheng put Cai Feishi on the second front, of course, he also hoped that he could withstand the greatest pressure.

The greatest pressure against the Dzungars did not come from the frontal battlefield, but from the side. When the Dzungars were unable to attack head-on and flocked to the flank, the second front had to take on the task of flanking defense. Such a task requires extremely high quality for the troops to march, deploy, and change formations.

The tide of mixed brown cavalry poured down to the left flank, and the small number of cavalry arranged on the left flank could only block for a moment, and after the cavalry, it was the end of the entire horizontal formation, and if it was broken through by the Dzungars, at least the first array of the left flank battlefield in charge of the Longxiang army would completely collapse.

Just when the independent cavalry wing of the military headquarters was blocking Dzungaria, Cai Fei's division moved, and the marching army column that was originally moving forward turned to the south on the side.

Thousands of Dzungar cavalry had already touched the flanks of the first front, but the first wing of the red coat had already been in place, and the Dzungars were confronted with another wall of red clothes.

This wall was not long, and it was not even a hundred feet, and the Dzungars continued to pour downward, but then another wing of red-clothed arrived, and then the previous red-clothed wall unfolded.

One after another, between the formation transformations, it is like a bright red epiphany blooming, and then precipitating into a solid human wall. The Dzungars kept searching for flanks, but in vain they could only find sections of the red wall that suddenly unfolded.

Then a volley of guns erupted violently and neatly with death smoke interrupted their courage to continue moving deeper.

Within twenty minutes, more than 10,000 Dzungar cavalry rolled to the left flank, but they were hit by Cai Feishi's skillful and precise maneuvers and formations, and the red-clothed flank was as far away as the end of the world to them.

"Xu Shidao's division is not bad, and the Dzungar people are afraid that they will no longer seek immortality now......"

Looking at the battlefield on the right flank, the Dzungars are also moving to the flank, but the right flank is covered by the Dragoons, and the Xu Shi Daoist of the second front is also reacting quickly, and the quality of the Yulin Army is even higher than that of the Longxiang Army, and the flank attacks of the Dzungars are also firmly blocked.

"It's time for them to ask the Rakshasas......"

Wang Tanghe had been silently aiming at the northwest direction of the battlefield, and when he spoke, everyone looked over with binoculars.

"Alright, this battle is almost over."

Wu Ya said this, but Wang Tanghe shook his head.

Wang Tang said in a deep voice: "For the Dragoons, this battle has just begun!" ”

Wu Ya smiled slightly, nodded and said, "That's right, our war with the Rakshasas is about to start." ”rq