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Chapter 504 The Battle of Haoshui Bridge (2)

The shield cart that was hit was shocked violently and was tilted on the side of the road. The shield carts looked intact from the outside, but wasn't there a small hole as big as a bowl in front? But the people standing behind the shield cart could feel the power of the projectile, breaking through the projectile of the shield cart, and pulling a bloodline behind the shield cart. A lot of coated Aha of the cart was knocked over, and the projectile of the shield was smashed, forming a flying chip of wood behind the shield, like shrapnel, sweeping over many of the supervising warfare.

Those fake Ahas were all urgently incorporated by the people who had just been plundered from the Ming Dynasty. No matter how many of those people died, Dorgon would not feel distressed. However, Dorgon felt a little painful after all, those old Ahas died. After all, those old Ahas were all citizens of the Qing Dynasty. Without Aha and the Han military flag, the Qing Dynasty would not even be able to enter the Central Plains, and it would be impossible to even enter the pass and rob.

The shield cars attacking both wings were originally shoddy simple shield cars, which were not as good as those exquisite shield cars with iron on the outside and cowhide in the middle. Those excellent shield cars could block the bombardment of the light-weight Folang machine and the Jiutou heavy musket, but these simple shield cars could not block the attack of these two weapons. There was no way. When the Qing army went on an expedition, the guard plates of the exquisite shield cars were brought out from Liaodong. This kind of guard plate was extremely expensive and heavy, and the number brought out was not large. Therefore, most shield cars were simple shield cars built on the spot. Those shield cars built on the spot by Baoyi Aha could not block the close-range shooting of the light-weight Folang machine and the Jiutou heavy musket.

The ten-headed bird heavy musket was divided into five groups, and fired continuously with five-stage strikes. The sound of the gun did not stop for a moment. The two light Flang machines fired continuously, and the sound of the cannons rumbling, constantly hitting the projectiles at the Qing army shield formation. The advantage of the Flang machine cannon is that the speed of firing is fast, otherwise Li Guodong would have been eliminated with a serious air leakage and insufficient power. He was only retained because of the advantages of fast firing speed.

The Qing army was beaten to seven shield cars in a row, and Aha behind the shield cars was beaten to death, screaming bitterly. But soon, the old Aha with a knife pulled the new Aha up, pushed the shield cars that the driver was shot dead, and continued to advance.

The shield cart advanced to the edge of the trench. Under the threat of the old Baoyi's steel knife, Xin Baoyi picked up the trench one by one, walked to the trench, and threw the trench full of soil into the trench.

The Ming army hiding in the sandbag castle was not polite, and they extended bird guns from the shooting holes and pulled the trigger.

"Bang bang bang" sounded a roaring gun, and orange-yellow flames spewed out from the shooting hole, and smoke filled the earthen castle. Dozens of projectiles pierced into Aha's crowd, and Aha, who was holding sandbags to fill the trench, fell one after another.

"Let it go!" The Han army flag bird gunner, the nine-headed bird heavy musket gunner and the Folang machine gunner who followed closely behind, aimed at the sandbag earthen castle and shot raindrops. The projectiles of various sizes hit the sandbag, penetrated the sack outside, and drilled into the sand. Then, there was no more. The energy of the projectile was absorbed by the sand. There was a soil layer behind the sandbag, which could not hurt the defenders stationed in the basin.

Unless the Qing soldiers' gun technique was extremely good, they could shoot bullets through the shooting hole, but that was almost impossible. The accuracy of the bird gun was originally very high. Even within thirty steps, they could only hit targets as big as the human body. It was impossible to shoot bullets into the shooting hole.

The Qing army's firepower suppression had no effect in front of the fortress, but instead attracted the Ming army's firepower revenge.

On the house behind the sandbag ridge, shooting holes were opened one by one, and countless gun barrels extended out of the shooting holes, aiming at the Qing army's Eight Banners firearms fifty steps away. Only a bean-like gun sound was heard, and countless flame tongues were sprayed out from the shooting holes. The Qing soldiers standing opposite the trench shooting at the Ming army's fortress were knocked into hornet's nests and fell down in various strange postures.

In the fortress and in the house, the bird gunner who fired bullets quickly retreated to load the bullets and gave the shooting hole to his comrades. The bird gunner who had loaded the bullets rushed up, shot the gun from the shooting hole, aimed at the Qing soldiers outside, pressed the trigger, and another round of gun sound. Then the bird gunner immediately retreated, began to load the bullets, and gave the shooting hole to his comrades.

In this way, the bird gunners in the fortress and in the houses kept firing, and the firepower did not stop for a moment.

For a moment, the trench was filled with corpses, including those who were coated with Aha and those who were Han flags, firearms and soldiers.

It is extremely difficult for the Qing army's Han Eight Banners firearms to hit the shooting hole. Unless they are lucky enough to burst, they can only shoot bullets into the shooting hole. However, the Ming army's bird gunners hiding in fortresses and buildings aimed at the dense crowd of the Qing army, and they almost didn't need to aim. As long as they aimed at the trigger, a large mass of blood mist emerged from a Han Eight Banners firearms, and they staggered and fell to the ground.

The Eight Banners of Meng whistled and galloped forward. When they entered the bastion twenty steps, the Eight Banners of Meng slinged out a light arrow, and then quickly turned their horses to leave.

Qing cavalry archers had no effect on the arrows covered by the fortress, and were simply wasting arrows. No matter how accurate the Mongolian archery skills were, it was difficult for the arrows to shoot through the shooting holes on the bumpy horse's back. Just as the Mongolian cavalry turned around and left, a row of roaring guns sounded again. The Korqin Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers who had no time to run away were shot off the horse one after another.

The archers of the Manchu Eight Banners who were originally following Baoyi Aha, Han Eight Banners and Mongolian Eight Banners did not dare to go up. They didn't know how likely they would shoot arrows into the shooting holes? When they approached the fortress of the Ming army, the Ming army's firearms could cause great damage to themselves.

Countless archers emerged from the roof, pulling their bows and arrows, and then feathered arrows fell from the sky and tied among the crowd of Baoyi Aha.

The Ming army archers used simple wooden bows. The cost of this kind of bow is very low and the strength is not high. However, when they aimed at the coat without any armor, they shot all the rows of coats in front into hedgehogs. Each arrow shot into the coat, and it was directly penetrated into the flesh. The ordinary clothes on Aha's body could not resist the light arrows at all.

The offensive on both wings of the Qing army was blocked and was unable to attack for a while.

On the front, the Qing army's shield chariot was violently bombarded by the Ming army's twelve-pound field artillery and six-pound field artillery during the advancement.

Two twelve-pound shells were set out from the entrance, and the shells rolled into the Qing army formation with gunpowders and hit the shield cart. The powerful twelve-pound shells immediately smashed the shield cart into a pile of scrap wood. The shells beat the Ahas in front into scattered blood and flesh, and then hit the second shield cart, which also smashed the shield cart into pieces. The shells fell to the ground, jumped up again, rushed around the crowd, sweeping over countless Qing soldiers. This shell destroyed four shield cars in a row, and then exhausted their kinetic energy and landed on the ground and stopped moving. The other shell also penetrated three shield cars.

The Ming army gunner who fired the shells immediately picked up a wet mop to clean the cannon chamber, then put the cannon pack into the fixed charge package, and then stuffed the cannonballs into the muzzle.

After being fired once, this twelve-pound field gun made of bronze does not need to be filled into the barrel to complete cooling, because it has good heat dissipation. After a round of shells, just use a wet mop to clean the barrel and reload the ammunition again.
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