1697 Fierce
So when they happily crossed the chest wall, they saw a scene like Shura hell!
There were no corpses within the circular explosion range. It was because the explosive pack tore all the human bodies here into pieces! Only those Qing soldiers who were slightly far away were penetrated by the gravel and lead bombs in the explosive pack, or were shocked to death by the shock wave!
The ground at the heart of the explosion had been sunk, and blood was gathering in the sank! The source of these blood was the Qing soldiers who had been beaten to pieces! A little further away were those who fell to the ground, ignoring their lives and death! But it seemed that their bodies were still intact, just lying on the ground without moving! But if they got closer, they could see these people bleeding from seven holes, and their death was very strange!
The scene was so miserable, because the Qing army was so dense! They had never experienced similar battles and had no experience at all! So the explosive pack fell to the ground and exploded, causing the biggest casualties!
After the Shandong soldiers crossed the chest wall, they found that there were still some Qing soldiers still alive, but they were already shocked and didn't know what to do! Because something they didn't understand happened in front of them, and the lethality produced by the huge explosion was something they had never experienced before! More than two thousand people died in front of them. Even the bravest people in this scene would be scared to death! What's more, ordinary Qing soldiers who had never experienced the firearm war!
So when they saw Shandong soldiers coming with bayonets, some of them surrendered simply, and some of them were overly frightened and tried to resist like crazy. As a result, they were either beaten into a sieve by the musket or stabbed into a sieve by the bayonet! Only those who escaped in panic from the beginning were considered to be born!
After a huge fright, the captured Qing soldiers were so obedient! Under the monitoring of the bayonet, they quickly dismantled the two chest walls and allowed the cannon truck to pass smoothly!
At this time, the morale of Shandong soldiers had reached an extremely high level! Because they did not expect that their families still had such powerful weapons in their hands! So even if the artillery that the Qing army counterattacked killed and injured some people, they continued to move forward quickly without caring!
The Qing army seemed to be frightened by such powerful weapons! When other Qing soldiers who had not been blown up by explosives found that they might have been killed, they immediately broke away from their chest wall and fled back. In this way, the second chest wall was easily taken down!
Before they figured out how to resist this weapon, they didn't dare to send people to the battlefield easily. So they could only use the remaining artillery to keep firing, trying to suppress the Shandong soldiers. However, their artillery was not large enough and the firing rate was slow. Although they caused certain losses to the Shandong soldiers, they could not stop the opponent's attack at all!
After seizing the first two chest walls, Shandong soldiers approached the third chest wall. This inverted chest wall was built close to the village wall, and it seemed that the purpose was to protect the village wall. However, this was meaningless to the conscience-free cannon. It is estimated that just one round of artillery bombing would blow up a big hole in the Qing army's village wall!
At this moment, I don’t know if the Qing army commander finally woke up. The gate of Xidaying opened wide and a large number of cavalry rushed out from inside! These cavalry quickly gathered outside the city, and then rushed straight towards the right-hand gun chariot team!
It can be seen that they wanted to concentrate their strength to repel one opponent and then find a way to deal with the other side. Their idea was good, but they might not be able to do it! Because when these cavalry gathered outside the camp, the soldiers on the cannon carts were adjusting the angle of the unconscientious cannon and were waiting for them to rush up!
When the Qing cavalry shouted loudly and rushed up with weapons, the distance measuring soldiers kept reporting the distance. When the officer felt that the distance was almost the same, he immediately ordered the soldiers to ignite the conscience-free cannon!
After a series of dull sounds, everyone's eyes fell into the distance with the explosive packs rolling in the air! They saw the explosive packs hit the cavalry group! They even saw an explosive pack hitting a cavalry, knocking him and his men and horses to the ground!
Then there was a series of huge explosions, and the smoke and smoke rose up wrapped all the Qing cavalry, and they couldn't see clearly what was going on!
A moment later, the strong wind blew, and within a roughly rectangular area, more than 4,000 Qing cavalry and war horses were killed! Both the bodies of the people and the horses were broken into pieces!
Thousands of Qing soldiers behind them tried to hold back the war horses in horror, but the war horses were frightened by the loud noises and jumped continuously and could not control them at all!
You know, although these war horses have long been familiar with the various sounds on the battlefield, they have heard this huge explosion sound for the first time! Many war horses even deafened their ears!
Taking this opportunity, the assault troops in front of the artillery car were already running forward when they were fired without conscience. By the time the explosion was over, they had already run for most of the distance and now they just rushed to the front!
Then they fired fiercely at the Qing army in the chaos! Rows of lead bullets knocked the cavalry and horses to the ground! The musket soldiers only fired three rounds of volleys, and the entire Qing army team collapsed!
The cavalry who could control the war horses turned their heads and fled backwards. Those who could not control the war horses simply jumped off their horses and ran back on foot! In this way, the Qing army left more than 2,000 people and completely retreated!
After the Qing army retreated, the team advanced again. The side vans on both sides also started again with the team. On the edges of the attack arrows, soldiers pushed a large number of modified side vans. The soldiers all advanced and defended with the vehicles.
These box trucks are all equipped with cannons. Moreover, the cannons are specially made, relatively short and thick. They cannot fire solid shells, and they specialize in shooting shotguns!
The number of shotguns fired at one time is two and a half times that of ordinary cannons! And it is farther than the infantry carrying cannons, and can shoot at least 80 steps away! This is close to the range of fire guns and bows, and it is definitely a nightmare for the Qing army to shoot! It’s just that this kind of cannon is more troublesome to load and has a slow firing rate, otherwise these cannons alone can flatten the Qing army’s camp!
The Shandong soldiers on the right were delayed due to the appearance of the Qing cavalry, but the one on the left was advancing quickly! They approached the wall of the village and the cannon trucks put down their pickets to fix the vehicles and prepared to launch!
Chapter completed!