Chapter 975: Immortal Xialing (3)

Zheng Zhibao was preparing, and similarly, Xu Peiming was also making urgent preparations, and groups of musketeers began to assemble towards the right flank position, occupying favorable terrain on the right flank, and soon formed a goose marching formation, also five horizontal teams, and the musketeers stood alternately.

However, the goose-shaped array is Xu Peiming's originality, others are straight teams, only he uses the goose-shaped array, as a firearms expert, he knows very well that in this era, almost all cavalry charges are to discharge dense columns to launch a surprise attack on the enemy, with a strong assault directly into the opponent's formation, the opponent's position is cut into two sections.

In the case of frontal defense, the musketeers only hit the cavalry in front of them, and only the position of the goose-shaped formation can maximize the impact surface of the firepower!

Frontal position, today's infantry has launched four assaults towards the frontal position, even if the infantry is rushing in the rapid, it is simply unable to impact the front of the musket battalion, the rapid rifle fire, the infantry of Fuzhou Town is embarrassed, complaining, in just two quarters of an hour, the battlefield has been full of dead bodies and seriously injured soldiers of Fuzhou Town, everywhere is the howl and groaning of wounded soldiers, Tagawa Nanazaemon jumped straight to his feet, but there is no use, the opponent's musket is too powerful, extremely powerful, They didn't give themselves a chance to charge at all, and when they reached a distance of 100 paces, the firepower was even more intensive, and one by one the infantry lay on the ground, not daring to raise their heads at all, for fear of being hit by bullets and directly taking their lives.

Tagawa Nanazaemon anxiously waited for his third uncle to launch another cavalry raid, such a powerful defensive firepower, only relying on the speed of the cavalry to be able to break through the defense.

"Order, cavalry dispatch, sortie!"

Zheng Zhibao let out an angry roar from the position, and the cavalry launched a surprise attack on the flank position of the Beijing camp again!

This time, a roundabout attack, an all-out surprise attack, and an attack on the flank, at least, now the cavalry will not be bombarded by artillery, and can always maintain a strong assault speed, as long as it can rush in front of the enemy, the Beijing battalion will definitely collapse, and it will definitely not be able to stop its own cavalry.

Sure enough, the cavalry assaulted from their position in one breath to a distance of less than five hundred paces from the flank position of the Beijing camp, and did not encounter any artillery fire, and the cavalry's courage suddenly grew, less than five hundred paces away, such a distance, that is, the blink of an eye! This time, it will definitely be able to hit the hinterland of the flank position of the Beijing camp and turn the Beijing camp upside down!

Kill!

The cavalry assaulted again, this time, it had entered a distance of less than three hundred steps from the front of the flank position, and still no one shot again, even Dong Yu, who commanded the cavalry assault, was excited, two or three hundred steps, no longer afraid, such a distance, can no longer stop our cavalry!

Kill! ——

"Bang ......"

Moving forward again, this time, the brethren of the musket battalion were no longer left behind, and the five musket battalions began to shoot from two sides, taking turns to shoot, this time not only arquebuses, but also five hundred flintlock muskets, the firing speed of the arquebus took more than ninety seconds per shot, but the flintlock muskets were not used at all, and three shots could be completed in two minutes, at most forty seconds, which was more than twice as fast as the arquebus, and there was no need to worry about extinguishing the fire twist in a panic.

Now 2,000 arquebusiers, plus 500 flintlock musketeers, were completely lined up and fired from three directions of the cavalry, and the blow to the cavalry was much stronger and more dense than it had been during the first assault!

Now that the cavalry has assaulted to a distance of about two hundred meters, and the strikers have even entered the effective range of two hundred paces, if they don't fire at this time, when will they wait?

Bullets poured towards the cavalry like a rainstorm pear blossom, the cavalry in front of him who maintained a dense charge formation was unlucky, one by one the cavalry was hit by bullets, fell off the war horse, and then was directly trampled into a pulp by the war horse behind, the cavalry had no time to dodge, and the cavalry behind was too late to avoid, so he could only step on it stiffly, and in the blink of an eye, it was already unrecognizable.

Fierce, extremely tragic, it is the last two or three hundred steps, which is the death of the cavalry! As long as it enters a hundred paces distance, the dense bullets will make the cavalry pay a heavy price, in the blink of an eye, a few minutes have passed, five musket battalions, towards the battlefield, inclined 20,000 rounds of bullets, even if it is such a battle, it is difficult to ensure the accuracy of shooting, in the dense charge of the cavalry, it will still bring huge casualties to the cavalry, after all, the cavalry of Fuzhou Town is not a Manchurian cavalry that is not afraid of death, even if it is a Manchurian cavalry, under the powerful firepower, in the end, there is only one way to collapse, Not to mention the very different Fuzhou town cavalry.

Even a quarter of an hour, they were not able to hold on, the cavalry of Fuzhou Town threw down three or four hundred corpses, retreated again in a hurry, there was no way, the firepower was too fierce, one by one the dead bodies were lying in front of their eyes, and the blood was constantly shooting, which had completely crushed the cavalry's fighting spirit, and they were no longer willing to launch a surprise attack against the defensive front of the musket battalion, but they did not expect that on the flank position, the musket defense of the Beijing camp was stronger than the frontal position!

The cavalry that failed in the assault retreated frantically to the rear, but now the cavalry had already hit a distance of 100 paces, and now they were running backwards, and they also had to encounter the fire of muskets, knowing that they had run 400 paces away in a hurry, before they were completely safe, and the whole cavalry was about to be defeated, and all of them were like mourners, and some had even become demented under the fright of the bullets.

Almost front and rear, the infantry led by Tagawa Nanazaemon could not withstand the long-term blow, and retreated, it was too miserable, the musket battalion of the Beijing camp opposite, as if the bullets were endless, shot desperately, and didn't care how many bullets were fired at all, in less than two hours, at least 2,000 shells had been fired on the Beijing position, more than 200,000 bullets! It brought huge casualties to the town of Fuzhou, not a few hundred, but two or three thousand casualties!

"Father, no, I really can't stand it, the firearms in the Beijing camp are too powerful, we can't impact the front of the Beijing camp at all, a hundred steps away, it's almost a moat, as long as you get there, whether it's cavalry or infantry, you will definitely die!"

Tagawa Nanazaemon was about to cry, just in the middle of the battle, his war horse was hit by a stray bullet, and he was directly thrown off the horse by the war horse, and almost broke his arm, and he is still in shock!

(End of chapter)