The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 674 The Decisive Battle in Jiangnan ([-])

The Jianlu soldiers saw that the enemy was still more than a hundred steps away, and most of their bodies were still hiding behind the earthen wall. Therefore, no one cared about the Ming army's shooting. Order to shoot the enemy.

Unexpectedly, the blunderbuss of the Ming army, as if they had eyes, accurately flew over the edge of the earthen wall.The soldiers of the Qing army whose chests were protruding from the earth wall, and even their heads were only exposed, were pierced by the high-speed spinning bullets, and a large amount of crimson blood mist suddenly floated up on the defense line that was several kilometers long, and a lot of white brains were also mixed in during the period. , splattered everywhere.

In this round of volley alone, more than five hundred prisoners were killed on the spot!

The captive soldiers who were still poking their heads just now felt as if they fell into Abi Hell. They all stared wide-eyed in horror, looked at their companions who were either dead or still convulsing, their legs went limp and they fell to the ground under the earth wall. No one dared to glance over the wall.

Then the Ming army infantry line fired another round of suppressive shooting, but because almost no captive soldiers showed their faces, they only shot and killed more than a dozen people.

"Reload! Ten steps forward!"

Following Li Ying's order, the entire infantry line marched up ten steps in unison.

"aim!"

"put!"

"Reload! Ten steps forward!"

……

Sinenbuku saw the southerners on the opposite side approaching [-] steps ahead of his defense line, but his nearly ten thousand army was scared and shrank under the earthen wall, not daring to move.

There is no way, although he has nearly ten thousand horses, he is only equipped with less than [-] guns, of which [-] are old-style soldier bird guns.

However, even if the rifled guns of the Ming army faced their new flintlock guns, there was a generation gap, and they all had obvious advantages in terms of range, accuracy, and lethality.Therefore, when shooting at long distances, Jianlu has almost no power to fight back.

Just now, there were a few bold Zhenghuang Banner soldiers who tried to fight back with their guns, but almost all of them were killed by the miniature bullets as dense as hail, and the captive soldiers nearby were so frightened that they wished they could burrow into the ground.

Next, the Dragon Guards stood still eighty steps away from the enemy, and fired guns in turn to suppress fire.

At the same time, ten cannons were also dragged to the side of the Ministry of War, and fired at Jianlu's face.At such a short distance, even a six-pounder cannon can blast through the thin earth wall, and a twelve-pounder can even make a gap three or four feet wide with one shot.After several rounds of cannon came down, the Qing army's earthen wall collapsed more than a hundred feet, and six or seven hundred captive soldiers hiding behind were collapsed or crushed to death.

Seeing this, Sinabuku was very anxious. No matter how resilient the army was, if they were beaten all the time and couldn't fight back, they would lose morale and collapse in at least an hour.And looking at the earth wall, I'm afraid it won't last long.

Regardless of the danger, he personally led hundreds of guards to urge the horses to the front of the formation, drew his sword and shouted loudly to the officers of the troops, "Get up and fight! Anyone who dares to avoid the battle, beheaded immediately!"

As his confidant guards cut down more than a dozen generals who were huddled under the earthen wall, the Jianlu battle finally started to move.Under the persecution of the officers, a large number of soldiers poked their heads out tremblingly while taking advantage of the gap between the Ming army's loading, and each raised their bows and guns to shoot towards the opposite side.

The distance of eighty paces may not seem far, but the only weapons that the Qing army can pose a threat to the Dragon Guards are the two thousand ten-dollar flintlocks.

For a moment, there was a mess of gunfire behind the earthen wall, and someone in the infantry line of the Dragon Guards was shot and fell to the ground.

However, at such a long distance, the hit rate of the flintlock was completely unrecognizable. Immediately, twenty or thirty soldiers in the back row quickly filled the vacancies of the casualties.

The next moment, thousands of Dragon Guard soldiers shouted in unison, "Let go!"

A storm of gunshots hit the Qing army's defense line directly, and the captive soldiers who had just exposed their heads were suddenly followed by a bloody storm, and another 700 people were killed immediately.

The flanking Dragon Guard artillery batteries were unscathed under the protection of the gun mantlets.When they saw the Tartars appearing, they immediately switched to shotgun shooting.Less than a hundred paces away, these ten cannons shot out small iron balls all over the sky.

The Qing soldiers who had just been stunned by the infantry volley immediately screamed again, and almost no one survived within a range of nearly twenty feet in front of the cannon!
Sinenbuku turned pale with fright, nearly ten thousand Qing troops shot at each other, but the southern troops hit were almost negligible, but nearly a thousand of their own people were shot and killed!

"General, the barbarian's firearms are extremely powerful... Bah! We're going to fight the guns... Bah! It's a big loss!" The lieutenant beside him spat out the sand that was blown out of his mouth by the cannon, and cupped his hands, "Why don't we rush up and use the sword to spear the enemy? In short, we have many soldiers... Bah! Maybe there is still a glimmer of hope!"

Sinenbuku looked up and glanced at the sky, and it was still a hundred and eight thousand miles away from noon.He originally planned to rely on the earthen wall to drag the Ming army until noon and retreat northward, but judging from the current situation, he might not be able to hold out for even half an hour.

He gritted his teeth and nodded, "The order is that the guard camp and Pei Guozhen directly attack the front of the southerners, and Zhang Jie's troops surround the enemy's cannon on the left flank. As soon as the trumpet is fired, they will all come out!"

"Whoo!"

A moment later, a cannon rang not far from Sinabuku's side, and the Jianlu officer swung his knife to drive away the soldiers behind the earthen wall.The [-] Qing soldiers who were still alive stood up bravely, each armed with their own weapons, and looked at the neatly lined infantry line opposite them.

Zhang Jiayu watched the scene on the battlefield with a binoculars on a mound on the east side, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and said to the adjutant beside him: "The captives must do their best. Send the order, the infantry line will retreat and shoot, and the cavalry will cover."

"Yes!"

The next moment, the Qing army jumped out of the several miles long dirt wall like a tide, screaming strangely and rushing towards the Longwei army.

(End of this chapter)