Anti-Qing: Starting from the Reincarnation of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 256 Cavalry and artillery coordination
  In this way, the Qing army chased the Ming army to an open space in the southwest of the battlefield, and entered the preset battlefield set by the Ming army in advance.

Wen Chao, the commander of the artillery regiment, saw this scene coming and gave the order decisively.

"The Tatar cavalry has entered the preset battlefield, and the artillery group is firing!"

"Three rounds of rapid fire, let go!"

As the flag was waved and the sharp and penetrating copper whistle sounded, the Ming army's gunners lit the fuse rope.

The next moment, a thunderous shelling sounded on the battlefield.

boom!Boom!

The Ming army's heavy artillery group aimed at the Qing army's cavalry entering the predetermined battlefield and began to deliver firepower.

Boom!Boom!
  Smoke filled the air, and the heavy artillery's barrel and the artillery carriage suddenly fell back. Sparks were spitting out from the muzzle, and the shells flew horizontally, shooting straight towards the Qing cavalry.

The loaders of the Ming army pushed the artillery carriage back to its original position in an orderly manner, and began to clean the barrel, then reload the artillery and ignite it.

Under the gaze of countless people, artillery shells carried terrifying kinetic energy, piercing the sky and pouring directly into the Qing army's array.

As the shells rolled and rotated, many Qing soldiers and soldiers were torn to pieces together with their horses.

The air was filled with blood mist, and pieces of meat were flying everywhere.

One after another, artillery shells came over and smashed into the Qing army's array. Wherever the projectiles passed, corpses lay everywhere and blood flowed into rivers.

In just a blink of an eye, the Qing army's cavalry array was torn to pieces by the Ming army's heavy artillery.

A shell flew past Chi Zheng's body and smashed a soldier next to him into a puddle of minced meat.

Blood sprayed everywhere, and the smelly blood directly covered Chi Zheng's face.

Chi Zheng opened his mouth, his mouth and nose were filled with the disgusting smell of blood, and the expression on his face couldn't help but freeze for a while.

But before he could make a decision, he heard a whistling sound breaking through the air.

It's like the devil is whispering!

Rockets pierced the air one after another, like meteors piercing the sky, landing towards the Qing army.

Rockets landed one after another, and the next moment, explosions sounded.

Boom!Boom!
  There were clouds of gunpowder smoke rising from the ground, the smoke was filled with dust, and the fire was rising.

Large gaps were opened in the Qing army's cavalry array by rockets.

In an instant, there were screams and wails.

The sound of rockets piercing the air and the roar of heavy artillery never stopped.

The cavalry lures the enemy, and the artillery group kills the enemy. The Ming army's current cavalry and artillery are also quite methodical in their coordination.

After the Ming army's heavy artillery bombardment and rockets washed away the ground, the horse under Chi Zheng was finally frightened and began to kick involuntarily.

Chi Zheng tried his best to control the horse, but the horse under him was as stubborn as Seth'a and did not obey orders at all.

He just kept thrashing about, as if he had some deep hatred for his master Chi Zheng.

At this moment, a rocket trailed a long tail flame and landed on the ground in front of Chi Zheng.

The warhead of the rocket was firmly inserted into the soft soil, and white smoke was still rising from the tail of the projectile.

Seeing this scene, the original anxious expression on Chi Zheng's face was instantly distorted with horror.

He knew that this thing would explode.

Once it explodes, an area of ​​more than ten meters will be blown into white ground...

But before Chi Zheng calmed down the war horse, he rode away.

Only a loud bang was heard, the fuse inside the rocket burned out, and an explosion occurred.

Air waves mixed with firelight and fragments rushed towards him. Before Chi Zheng had time to react, he and his horse flew into the sky together.

When he landed again, his arms were arms and his legs were legs!

It was quite sudden!
  When Chi Zheng was overturned by the air wave of the rocket explosion, the large banner beside him also broke immediately.

When the Qing cavalry saw this scene, they were all panicked to the extreme.

"The flag is broken, the flag is broken!"

"Where is Chi Junmen? Nothing will happen to him from Junmen, right?! It's over! It's all over!"

"We are defeated, run away, everyone, run away, the Qing Dynasty is defeated!"

"..."

Chi Zheng died, the flag was broken, the Qing cavalry completely lost their command, and their morale collapsed.

Immediately, some Qing soldiers began to drop their weapons, draw their horses and try to escape.

But at this moment, the Ming army's artillery fire suddenly stopped, and the rumble of horse hooves echoed throughout the battlefield.

After the shelling stopped, the Ming army that was retreating suddenly turned around and launched a cavalry charge towards the Qing cavalry whose morale had collapsed.

Yes, this is also part of the cavalry and artillery coordination tactics!

After the artillery fire destroyed the enemy's will to fight, the cavalry entered again to finish the battle and expand the results.

"Kill!"

"Kill the Tartars and restore Ming Dynasty!"

"Drive out the Tartars, restore China, divide the fields, and restore the Ming Dynasty!"

"Brothers, follow me!"

"..."

Pan Dazhu took the lead in the front line and led a cavalry charge against the Qing army.

When the Ming army saw how brave their general was, their morale was greatly boosted. They waved their swords and guns and rushed forward, shouting to kill.

The moment the two sides fought, in just the blink of an eye, a large hole was torn open in the Qing cavalry array.

The Ming cavalry swarmed into the Qing cavalry formation, passing through, surrounding, and charging, constantly expanding their results.

More and more Qing cavalry collapsed and began to turn around and run away!

The rumbling sound of horse hooves became a continuous sound, and the Ming army galloped, chasing the Qing army's defeated troops and expanding the results of the battle.

The situation on the battlefield just now was that the Ming army was running and the Qing army was chasing.

But now, in just a moment, the situation has changed.

It was the Qing army's turn to escape, and the Ming army pursued them.

It's just a pity that the Ming army faked defeat when they fled. They were luring the enemy deeper and luring the Qing army into the predetermined battlefield set by the Ming army.

But when the Qing army fled, it was really defeated!

The kind of defeat that falls like a mountain!

……

The cavalry exchange between the two sides seemed to take a long time.

However, due to the high mobility of the cavalry, its actual use time is very short.

The cavalry confrontation between the two sides has already decided the winner. The Ming army has begun to pursue the horse and expand the victory. However, on the front battlefield, the distance between the formations of the two sides is still several hundred meters.

Not yet a formal confrontation!

Liu Mingyou looked away from the battlefield, nodded approvingly and said.

"The artillery and cavalry cooperated well, which gave our army a good start!"

Zhang Hu on the side also laughed loudly.

"Brother Liu is right."

"Now that the cavalry and artillery have made a good start, we can't afford to be disappointed."

Liu Mingyou nodded and said.

"Send an order to our army's artillery unit, asking them to immediately adjust their firing units and project firepower on the Qing infantry array in front of them." "In addition, each company is ready to fire volleys of guns to give those damned Look at how powerful the Tatars are."

Liu Mingyou's military order was issued, and Wen Chaoyuan quickly responded.

The Ming army's artillery is adjusting its firing elements based on the data reported by the observation balloons, and will soon be able to continue delivering firepower.

Liu Mingyou nodded with satisfaction after hearing this.

At the same time, the troops on both sides on the battlefield were making final adjustments to their formations.

The Ming army's thin three-row shooting array formed a sharp contrast with the Qing army's dozens of rows of traditional cold weapon arrays.

At first glance, it seems that it is the Ming army that is at a disadvantage, not the Qing army.

Finally, as time passed, the Ming army's artillery finally completed all preparations before firing.

After the flag was waved, the Ming army's artillery began to fire.

"Distance 125 meters, direction [-], first calibration shot, let go!"

boom!Boom!

There was a sporadic sound of shelling.

Each of the Ming army's artillery pieces of different calibers had a battery to fire and fire for calibration.

In the blink of an eye, clouds of smoke rose from the ground.

Several artillery shells pierced the sky and shot toward the Qing army's array.

A cannonball drew an arc in the air and hit the ground with a thud, raising a cloud of smoke and dust.

After the cannonball hit the ground, its kinetic energy did not decrease, it bounced up, and continued to roll and spin forward.

Then it poured directly into the Qing army's array, plowing ravines of flesh and blood in the Qing army's array.

Several artillery shells were fired one after another, and most of them achieved results. Only two shells failed to hit the Qing army's array due to insufficient charge, and fell to the ground motionless.

Seeing this, the Ming army sentry on the observation balloon quickly wrote the bombardment data on a piece of paper, stuffed the note into a leather bag, tied the leather bag with a rope, and threw it from the observation balloon.

The person responsible for the response picked up the skin bag, opened it, took out the note, and sent it in the direction of the artillery array.

Soon, the Ming army's artillery group got the concrete effect of the shelling.

Of course, since this is a field battle, almost everything that can be seen by hot air balloons can also be seen by telescopes.

The role played by the observation balloon is, at best, to use multiple data sources on the artillery group as a reference.

The effect is similar to taking off your pants and farting!
  better than nothing.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Ming army did not expect that the Qing army would leave the city and fight in the field with the Ming army.

Otherwise, the Ming army would not release hot air balloons!

Because the original intention of the Ming army to release hot air balloons in this battle was to provide guidance for the Ming army's artillery group to launch bombardments into Hangzhou through hot air balloon observations.

The city of Hangzhou is high and deep. If the Ming army wanted to bombard important targets in the city, it would be difficult to do so without high-altitude guidance.

But now the Qing army took the initiative to leave the city, and the Ming army could see clearly with telescopes.

Therefore, the effect of hot air balloons is not that obvious!
  However, as the saying goes, it's time to come. Now that the hot air balloon has been released, we can't lower it again just because the Qing army has left the city, right?
  However, although for the Ming army, the role of the hot air balloon was infinitely reduced, for the Qing army on the opposite side, it was another matter.

People these days are very feudal and superstitious!

Seeing a big ball floating above the enemy's head, the Qing army would inevitably feel fear and fear before they understood the principle of the hot air balloon.

"Mother, what is that floating in the sky over there?"

"It's such a big ball. Could it be that the heavenly soldiers and generals sat on the ball and came down to help the Ming thief fight the war?"

"God bless, God bless..."

"..."

There was a moment of panic among the Qing army.

Because in the minds of people of this era, the only armies that can fly in the sky are heavenly soldiers and generals.

Even the iron-headed boy Seth couldn't help but gasped after seeing the hot air balloon floating above the Ming army's head.

"What exactly is that thing floating above Thief Ming's head? Is there a way to knock him down?"

Seth asked.

But when everyone around him heard this, they shook their heads and said that it was difficult to do.

At this distance and height, not to mention bows and arrows, even the artillery of the Qing army could not reach it!

"General, the Ming thieves have heavenly soldiers and generals to help them fight. This battle is critical. Why don't we retreat to Hangzhou City?"

Wu Changshi, the admiral of Zhejiang Province, suggested.

He was originally not optimistic about the prospect of Seth's field battle with the Ming army. Now after discovering the Ming army's hot air balloon, Wu Changshi did not want to fight the Ming thieves even more.

When Seth A heard this, his eyes widened and he yelled.

"Wu Junmen, what are you talking about?"

"If you dare to confuse the public and disturb the morale of the army with your evil words again, don't blame me, the general, for killing you!"

Although Seth'a also had no idea what a hot air balloon was, his stubborn nature was fully revealed.

No matter how scared I am, my mouth is still tough!
  Wu Changshi didn't dare to speak anymore after being scolded like this.

I'm afraid that Seth Ah Yi will really kill him!
  In that case, it would be too painful for him to die.

……

At the same time, as the Ming army's shelling became more and more intensive, the morale of the Qing army, which had been extremely low due to the Ming army's hot air balloons taking off, became even lower visible to the naked eye.

After several rounds of artillery fire, a gap was blown out of the Qing army's array.

Logically speaking, if there is a gap in the array, troops should be sent to fill it as soon as possible.

However, the Qing army did not!
  Instead of filling the gap, they were even scrambling to retreat backwards.

At this time, the Ming army's infantry array was almost [-] meters away from the Qing army.

Seeing this scene, Seth'a was angry at the timidity of the frontline soldiers and issued an order.

"Let the supervising team charge forward. Anyone who retreats without orders will be killed. Give this general a brutal kill."

"Restore our army array as soon as possible!"

Seth's order was issued, and the Qing army's supervisory team began to move forward to kill the defeated troops.

Finally, after the supervising team killed a large number of defeated troops, the Qing army's shaky array finally stabilized.

But at the same time, the Ming army also advanced to a hundred steps in front of the Qing army.

The lower-level officers of the Ming Army began to order the formation of the queue for the last time.

"Everyone is there, in whole team, ready to shoot!"

Harsh copper whistles sounded one after another, and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty began to put the loaded muskets on their shoulders and aim forward.

"The first salvo, let it go!"

The command flag was waved, and the next moment the sound of musket shooting sounded like exploding beans.

Snapped!clap clap!clap clap clap!

The sound of intensive musket shooting was heard.

A neat row of smoke screens instantly appeared on the front line where the two sides were fighting.

Projectiles flew wantonly in the air, and in the next moment, all the Qing soldiers in front of them fell down.

Heavy casualties!

The Qing army was horrified when they saw this scene. The shotgunners in the queue did not care whether the shotguns in their hands had enough range, so they directly pulled the trigger and launched a counterattack.

However, just after a burst of crackling sounds from the Qing army, only a few people in the front row of the Ming army were shot and fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)