Chapter 753: Bombardment of Jiulongyu (2)
Zilharang is completely blinded, the first wave of artillery bombardment alone, there are at least seventy or eighty shells, which shows that on the peaks on both sides, at least sixty or seventy artillery pieces are deployed, I drop a day, even when his Western Route Army was at its peak, there were only more than fifty artillery pieces, where did this small Jiulongyu get so many artillery? Hell, now all the cavalry are crowded into such a small space, and there is nowhere to hide, so they can only watch as the cannonballs fall down and then be smashed into meatloaf!
No wonder, no wonder the Ming army in front of them had to deploy trees, carry stones, and block the road in front, where is this to defend the decisive battle, this is clearly to block their own cavalry here, so that they can't rush over at all!
"It's not good, there is an ambush, the whole army listens to the order, immediately retreat, retreat! Evacuate the valley first! ”
Zilharang roared hysterically.
However, the sound of artillery was deafening, the Qing army was in chaos, where could anyone still hear his orders? The cavalry of the Qing army scurried around like a swarm, dodging the shells falling from the sky, where to dodge? The first wave of shells just passed, and then the second wave of shells arrived, and it was another wave of shells, mercilessly smashing down!!
Yes......
Zilharang watched as the shells fell, and the cavalry was smashed into a blur of flesh and blood, and he had no power to fight back at all, and let out a terrible and desperate roar from his mouth, such a fierce artillery fire, don't last long, just one hour, it is enough for the Manchurian cavalry to suffer heavy casualties!
Zilharang kept shouting, commanding the cavalry to begin to retreat to the rear, but it was not so easy to retreat, with the sound of cannons, on the mountainside, one by one musketeers appeared, began to shoot wildly, the cannons were only eighty, but there were as many as three thousand muskets! Although the flintlock musket equipped by the Tianwei Army in the early stage had poor performance, but now it is condescending and unscrupulous in shooting, and there is no difference between it and the new musket!
Bullets rained down, waves of bullets flew, countless cavalrymen were shot and fell off their horses, and the screams shook the sky!
Finally, the cavalry of the Qing army finally reacted and ran! Nothing else, rush out of this ambush circle first!
However, it is not so easy to get out!
Before the Qing army ran three miles on the way to come, a cavalry appeared in the west-the elite cavalry of the Tianwei Army! In addition to the second town and the fourth town, the first, third, and fifth plus Tongzhou Town and a Guanning Iron Cavalry Army, tens of thousands of elite horsemen, waiting for work, have already been sealed off the road!
The cavalry that fled in a hurry was greeted by a dense stream of feathered arrows, followed by a cavalry rushing up and launching a ferocious assault on the Manchurian cavalry!
Now the cavalry of the Qing army fled outward, and the rear army naturally became the front army, and the last one was the Mongolian Eight Banners, in this era, the combat power of the Mongolian Eight Banners was far inferior to the time when Genghis Khan crisscrossed the Eurasian continent, and even slightly worse than the Guanning Iron Cavalry, especially the will to fight and military discipline, it was inserted too much, and now the Ming army fired ten thousand cannons, and the Mongolian cavalry had already been frightened, where had you seen such a formation?
The panicked Mongolian cavalry formation was scattered, and when they met the charging Tianwei army elite cavalry, they were scattered in an instant, and the Mongolian cavalry at the front fell into the dust one by one and died unexpectedly, under the heavy pressure of the Tianwei cavalry, the Mongolian cavalry could not organize a decent offensive at all, and a confrontation was completely defeated!
The Manchurian cavalry was beaten back to the valley by the Tianwei army, and the elite of the Red Banner and the Guanning Iron Cavalry, who were charging outside, were defenseless at all, who would have thought that there would suddenly be a strong cavalry outside, blocking the road to death? The Mongolian Eight Banners and the Zhenghong Banner collided fiercely, but the Zhenghongqi team was disrupted!
"Bastard! What's going on? Why did you run back again! ”
Zilharang angrily roared at the Ezhen of the Eight Banners of Mongolia.
"Lord, lord! Our retreat was cut off by the Ming army, and a lot of Ming cavalry launched a surprise attack on us, and we were defenseless and completely unable to parry! ”
Zilharang's heart was cold, what? was cut off by the elite cavalry of the Ming army? Isn't this fatal?
"Rubbish! They blocked our way, you won't go straight over, how many cavalry can the Ming army have? How many cavalry do we have? Give me a hard impact, you must break through the Ming army's blockade and kill it! ”
Zierharang roared angrily, he must rush out, if he doesn't rush out, then his 50,000 elites will be explained here, the muskets and artillery of the Ming army are too fierce, and the Manchurian cavalry can't parry it at all!
"Lord Wang, the Ming army is not just a little cavalry, there are tens of thousands of people, and the combat power is quite strong, our Mongolian Eight Banners can't kill it at all......"
Tens of thousands of cavalry!
Zilharang was a little desperate, maybe the elite cavalry of the Wan Ming Army was not his opponent, and he couldn't beat himself, but if he wanted to trap himself in the valley for a day, it was still not too difficult, and in one day, who knew how many casualties it would bring to himself?
I can't care so much, rush! Don't say that tens of thousands of Ming army elite cavalry, even if it is twenty or thirty thousand Ming army elite cavalry, they must rush over today, otherwise, this Jiulongyu is the burial place of 50,000 Qing army elites!
Zierharang personally commanded the army and began to charge towards the Tianwei Army Elite Cavalry in the west, but the combat power of the Tianwei Army's elite cavalry, even if it fought with the elite of the Eight Banners, did not fall behind, and now facing the weakest of the Eight Banners, the Positive Red Banner and the Mongolian Eight Banners, it would not be at a disadvantage.
Taking advantage of the panic of the Qing army, the elite cavalry of the Tianwei army continued to carry out assaults, repelling the Qing army's charges again and again, and the Qing army suffered heavy casualties, and half an hour passed in the blink of an eye!
In just half an hour, on the mountain ridge, twenty waves of artillery bombardment were launched, more than 1,000 shells, the hinterland of Jiulongyu was beaten into a mess, unrecognizable, and a shell brought heavy casualties to the Qing army, but the more serious casualties came from the muskets, which were also attacked, and the shells were only more than 1,000 methods, and 3,000 musketeers fired at least 70,000 or 80,000 rounds of ammunition at the Qing cavalry in the valley, and almost never stopped!
Heavy casualties, the Qing army has never encountered such huge casualties!
In half an hour, the casualties reached 8,000! There were corpses of Qing cavalry everywhere, and even the war horses were stoned to death, and they were directly trampled into pulp by the war horses behind! The Qing army suffered a serious blow, like a lost dog, and even the will to fight was destroyed by artillery!
(End of chapter)