Chapter 844 Combination Fist Strike
The arrows fired by the light cavalry with Manguda tactics only annoyed the Eight Banners soldiers. In fact, it was not fatal. What was really fatal was the Ming army warships that kept firing on the rivers on both sides. Every round of artillery shells roared, a large area of heavy Qing cavalry fell down. In front of the shells, three layers of thick armor were like paper. Whether it was shells that hit the human body directly or shells that bounced from the ground, as long as they were hit, they would be either killed or injured. Even if they were wiped, they would be seriously injured without any cure. What's more serious is that the gunships on both wings formed crossfire, and the Eight Banners soldiers in the middle were trapped in the middle, and the casualties were severely injured.
There were many archers of the Eight Banners who were not afraid of death and rushed to the shore and shot arrows at the Ming army warships on the river. However, there was a female wall marble along the warships, and the bows and arrows were shot on the warships. The sailors on the ship suffered minimal losses. The red cannons, Folang machines, turtledove-footed guns and other cannons extended from the shooting hole of the warships, but the Qing army archers fell one after another, and the mortar shells that rose into the air fell into the Qing army's crowd. The flames flashed and the explosion was a piece.
Those who have played the second and third years of the Empire Age will know that fighting soldiers and ships is simply a waste of death.
The fleet on the river no longer attacked the heavy cavalry of the Qing army, but instead concentrated firepower to repair Qing army archers, artillery shells, shotguns, and turtledove-footed gun bullets, hitting the crowd of archers in the Eight Banners like rain, causing countless corpses to fall down by the river.
"I hate the rivers in the south and ships!" Nikan roared in pain.
If it were not for warships parked on the river, but for the Ming army's chariot formation, the Qing army had a solution. In Liaodong, the Qing army broke the Ming army's chariot formation with Mongolians and coated slaves as cannon fodder, rushed in front, attracting the Ming army's firearms, and then the Man Eight Banners heavy armored infantry rushed up, overturned the chariots, and went up to kill. As long as the Man Eight Banners heavy infantry was approached, the Ming army would be defeated as soon as they entered the hand-to-hand combat. After the Ming army was defeated, the Qing army would chase them with cavalry, and the battle ended smoothly.
But at this time there was a river separated by a river. The river was not very wide, which was about thirty feet wide. But a small river about thirty feet wide could block the Qing army. Who could rush up and fight with the navy?
Compared with long-range firepower, how could the Qing army's bows and arrows beat artillery and heavy muskets with female marble protection?
It was useless to shoot the rockets. The navy's work on setting fires was naturally very good. The sails had already descended. The rockets shot by the Qing soldiers were stuck on the board. Someone immediately brought a bucket to put out the fire. A rocket shot the falling sail. Several sailors immediately came forward with buckets and poured water on them.
The rockets fired by the Qing army did not work, but were killed by the Ming army.
"Hurry up, leave the shore and don't fight with the Minggou warship!" Nikan shouted anxiously.
Warships are the best platform for firearms. No infantry or cavalry can get close to hand-to-hand combat. There is no need to worry about the disadvantage of slow loading of firearms in this era. Firearm hands can attack targets on the shore unscrupulously. As long as the opponent does not have a navy, warships do not have to worry about being threatened.
The Qing army heavy cavalry chased Cao Bianjiao's light cavalry. After all, the Qing army heavy cavalry's war horses were not as good as the Huai army heavy cavalry's Persh horses. Most of the Qing army heavy cavalry used Mongolian horses. The short Mongolian horses were wearing heavy horse armor and carried heavy cavalry in heavy armor. After running for a while, the horsepower was exhausted.
Shuoerhe stared at the blood-red eyes, looking at the Ming army light cavalry gradually moving away in front of him, he thought to himself: Damn barbarians use good horses, all of them are tall and big horses! They are all sweaty and bloody horses. The barbarians are really rich! Unfortunately, these barbarians just ruin good horses. If such a good horse is used to equipment for heavy cavalry, we really can't beat them. It's a pity that you actually equipped the light cavalry with such good sweaty and bloody horses. Wouldn't it be a waste of resources?
In Shuoerhe's eyes, the Don hippo is already a very tall and tall horse. Moreover, the Don hippo is almost a single color, with only a maroon horse, and there is almost no other color. These single-colored war horses made Shuoerhe mistakenly think it was a sweat-blooded horse.
The speed of the Eight Banners cavalry slowed down and their horsepower was exhausted. The Eight Banners soldiers dismounted and took off their arches from their backs. Some people took out tiger guns and stood in front to prevent the Ming army's light cavalry from killing them and returning the horse rifle.
Shuoerhe was very relieved of his Manchu warriors. Even if the horsepower was exhausted and the heavy cavalry of the Manchu Eight Banners were dismounted, they were the best heavy infantry, spearmen and archers. The light cavalry of the Ming army definitely did not have the courage to rush up, and rush up would be to die.
But at this moment, Shuoerhe heard another sound of horse hooves, and a large number of black cavalry appeared in his eyes, slowly moving towards them.
"The Minggou Cavalry is here! Form a formation to defend!" Shuoerhe shouted.
This time, the heavy cavalry came. When they saw those heavy cavalry, Shuoer and Zhu were shocked: the light cavalry riding the "sweat-blooded BMW" just now were already very tall and majestic. What kind of horse were they riding for the heavy cavalry this time? It was simply a giant beast! The heavy cavalry war horses only had two colors, one was blue-gray and the other black, with very long mane and long hair on the horse's hooves. The horses were extremely tall, more than one person tall!
On both wings of the heavy cavalry, there were some Ming cavalry riding "sweat-blooded BMWs", which were the dragon cavalry that had just shot at him with four rows of muskets. However, this time, some cavalry riding tall horses were mixed into the formation of the dracos, but the bodies of people and horses were covered with yellow grass cloth. The cavalry also looked musket cavalry, but the outfits on them were too strange. The military uniforms were grass yellow, the same color as the dead grass on the ground.
Before Shuoerhe could react, the musket cavalry on both sides of the Ming army's heavy cavalry galloped over the horse. The musket cavalry in grassy uniforms stopped 150 steps away, raised the muskets on the horse's back, and aimed at the Eight Banners soldiers holding tiger guns on the Qing army.
"Boom boom boom" The sound of the roaring muskets sounded, and fire was emitted from the formation of the Ming army's musket cavalry, and white smoke filled with permeation.
"The distance is so far, Minggou fired his gun. Can they hit it?" Shuoer and laughed. Before, when they were outside the pass, the Ming army's firearms and soldiers fired their guns from afar. As a result, they were wasted ammunition and did not even have the chance to fire again. The Qing cavalry had already rushed to the front, and the Ming army's firearms and soldiers had not yet been loaded.
But Shuoerhe's smile quickly solidified on his face, because the more than 500 musket cavalry fired their guns at 150 steps, while the eight-banner warriors on his side sprayed blood mist one after another and fell down one after another.
"What a great musket! It can hit us at 150 steps!" Shuoerhe was shocked.
At this time, the other Ming army's musket cavalry were still running, but their speed gradually slowed down. They stopped until they reached seventy steps away. Four thousand musket cavalry picked up the muskets on the back of the horse and aimed at the Qing army.
The sound of the roaring guns sounded at the same time, and the momentum was comparable to the roar of the red cannons. The Eight Banners Warriors on the Qing army fell one by one.
What's even more terrifying is that the heavy cavalry riding huge war horses of the Ming army had begun to accelerate, and thousands of heavy cavalry were arranged in neat and dense formations and rushed towards the Qing army.
Chapter completed!