Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Every cavalryman of the Qing army sprinted howled like a beast. They raised their weapons flat and high, and kicked their horses recklessly.It doesn't matter whether the horse will be scrapped after the war.

If you make a ranking list of the weapons at this time, and choose a weapon that scares the Qing army the most, the first place will undoubtedly be firearms.The soldiers of the Qing army were not very afraid of face-to-hand combat, but their firearms were unstoppable, and they could be fired from a distance, making people die aggrieved without knowing it.This made the Qing soldiers intolerable.

But now, the Ming army on the opposite side has so many cannons alone, and there are so many gunners lined up in front of the formation, so these Qing soldiers who rushed to the formation already knew that they would soon face a hail of bullets, so they I have to speed up, speed up, and speed up again, and I want to rush through this death zone earlier.

But the artillery of the Runing Army first cleared up these fanatical minds.More than a dozen shells flew into the cavalry formation, knocking down sixty or seventy cavalry at once.The dense cavalry array of the Qing army can indeed increase the impact force, but it also increases the lethality of the shells.

However, the torrent of the Qing army immediately submerged the men and horses who fell on the ground, and the cavalry formed closely again, gradually filling the gap made by the shells just now.

This time the Runing Army fired fewer artillery pieces than last time.Because the front of the Qing army's cavalry array is very wide, one-third of the artillery of the Runing army is loaded with shotgun shells, ready to exert their power when the Qing army charges into the formation at close range.

Before the Qing army rushed into the hundred steps, the artillery of the Runing army fired two rounds.At this time, the gunners of the Runing Army lined up five rows in front and back. They were all very calm, constantly blowing their matchlocks, waiting for the command of the commander of firearms.

And the firearms commander standing between the gunners was equally calm, he was always estimating the distance.Wait until the cavalry of the Qing army are about 150 steps apart.The commander of firearms finally gave a loud order:

"Check the gun!"

"The first row is up!"

"Five rows of bursts, get ready—!"

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The orders were passed on one by one, and the gunners followed the orders step by step.Seeing that the Qing cavalry had finally rushed into the hundred paces, the Commander of Firearms immediately waved his command saber forward and shouted: "Fire!"

"Boom!" Immediately, a cloud of smoke filled the front of the phalanx of the Runing Army.

The cavalry of the Qing army who rushed in the first row knew the power of the firecrackers, and they all shrank their bodies behind the horses as much as possible, trying to avoid the firecrackers' shots.However, the heavy-duty firearms of the Runing Army were quite powerful, and immediately let the Qing army see what firearms are.

The cavalry of the Qing army who rushed to the front seemed to be hit hard by a sledgehammer. Those who hit the people were not bad, at most they were all over.But the one that hit the horse made the horse lose control.The horses that were shot were all jumping around.The array is messed up.

The horses that were shot either stood up in pain, or knelt forward, but the inertia in the wild gallop was so great that the horses made such movements.Often people and horses roll to the ground.In this process, the person is already bloody from being thrown, but it is too late to get up.It will be trampled directly by the iron hoof behind it and turn into meat paste.

After the first row of firecrackers finished firing.The gunners in the front row immediately gave way to the left.Run to the back along the passage between the two rows of gunners.And the second row of gunners fired again.Then came the third row, the fourth row...

When the firecrackers were fired, it seemed as if there was a wall, which kept the Qing cavalry at a distance of ninety steps.On this line, more and more men and horses of the Qing army were lying down, and these corpses were gradually piled up, blocking the subsequent charge of the Qing cavalry.

Abate, who was watching the battle from behind, had his eyelids twitching.He never expected to face such fierce firepower.Seeing those white-armored soldiers of the Qing army in front of them continue to fall to the ground, Abatai felt a little bit pained. These are the elites of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty!

But when Abatai just wanted to open his mouth to let the Qing army stop charging.The sound of firecrackers firing in the Runing Army formation suddenly stopped.Abatai was immediately ecstatic, and he didn't care whether his cry would be heard by the Qing army in front, and shouted to the front: "Ming dog can only shoot once, take this opportunity to rush!"

But before the words fell, as if to slap Abatai, the gunfire of the Runing Army sounded again.

It turned out that this was a pause after the gunners of the Runing Army finished five rounds of bursts, but Abate misunderstood that they would stop firing.But this misunderstanding made Abatai dumbfounded, and in vain delayed the order to stop the rushing Qing army.

However, taking advantage of the pause of the Runing army's rounds of fire, the Qing army rushed to seventy steps.But as the firecrackers fired again, another wall of death was formed seventy paces away.The white-armored soldiers of the Qing army who charged in the front row were indeed brave and suffered such huge casualties, and they were still charging forward one after another.

"Tell them to stop!" Abate finally came to his senses.By this time, the Runing Army's firecrackers had already fired four sets of twenty rounds.The corpses everywhere have split the Qing army that was rushing into battle.Some of them lost their minds and were still rushing forward; while the other part was already frightened, so they reined in and dared not move forward.

At this time, the Runing Army also ended their bursts of fire.After all, the formation of the Qing army cavalry was too wide, and they formed an arc to charge towards the middle.The Qing army cavalry on the front has been basically cleaned up, but on both sides, there are always some fish that slip through the net.Therefore, the gunners ran to the back of the phalanx, and the phalanx also burst into flames, preparing for the collision of the Qing army.

So the remaining Qing cavalry rushed to the phalanx shouting. "Bang bang bang!" There was a dull shelling sound, and the artillery fired shotguns, and then "swish, swish!", the swarm of bees on the chariot also started to fire.

The remaining cavalry of the Qing army fell to the ground one after another. Under continuous shooting, only a dozen Qing cavalry could rush to the front of the Runing army phalanx.Facing the forest of guns erected in front of the phalanx, these dozen or so cavalry Qing soldiers were already crazy.They all gripped the horse's belly fiercely, and drove the spurs on the heel of the riding boots into the horse's belly.As soon as the horses were in pain, they all rushed towards the gun forest.

But this kind of collision in twos and threes couldn't shake the phalanx at all, "Puff!" After a few sounds, the dozen or so Qing cavalry soldiers and their horses hung on the gun forest one after another, and the phalanx of the Runing Army was only slightly The ground shook a few times.

There was silence in the formation of the Qing army, and seven or eight hundred cavalry did not come back just for one charge.Hanging in front of the phalanx of the Runing Army, the corpses of a dozen riders and horses seemed to be mocking, mocking the Qing army's overreach. (To be continued..)