The march of the 1st Ming Dynasty Division attracted a large number of people to watch.
Twelve steam armored vehicles puffed out black smoke in the queue, and their 16-meter-long bodies were surrounded by iron plates.
An artillery piece is arranged at the front and rear of the top, with more than a dozen shooting holes on both sides.
The entire steam armored vehicle was like a giant beast, squirming on the land.
The armored vehicle was too bulky, and the on-board steam engine was not powerful enough. The speed was only 20 kilometers per hour.
I don’t know which unit started the process. The soldiers sang "Three Disciplines and Eight Attentions" and distributed the compressed biscuits, candy bars, chocolates, etc. they carried with them to the onlookers.
The originally fearful eyes of the people gradually turned into curiosity and some gratitude.
"Grandpa, it's so sweet. You can eat it too."
Li Erdan's son had dark chocolate stuck to his lips, and he stuffed the cube in his mouth into his mouth.
There were children laughing all around.
"Master Wang, it's Master Wang!"
"Da Ming is back!"
Along the way, there were fans of the mountain and tsunami, including some government officials.
The soldiers in uniforms mixed with the crowd, raised their hands high, and shouted "Long live the Ming Dynasty".
The discerning officials of the Qing Dynasty arranged for people to secretly contact the Ming army and prepare to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.
After all, the Qing Dynasty would never be able to catch up with such an elite army.
Anyway, be a minister of the dragon early.
But there are also those who are not afraid of death, such as Elzhen, who is guarding Zhengbai Banner in Suzhou and Hangzhou.
When he learned that the Ming army had a long but thin marching column, he realized that his opportunity had come.
In his opinion, the Eight Banners Cavalry could break through such a thin team with just one charge.
As for the intelligence from the "Da Ming Bao", he admitted that the Ming army's weapons were indeed powerful.
But the Eight Banners Cavalry is not a fool either.
The Eight Banners are invincible!
If the Ming army formed a formation, he would not dare to charge.
But the Ming army made such a big "mistake" during the march, which was giving him the opportunity to make meritorious deeds.
"Hurry up and gather your troops! Follow me to kill the enemy!"
An hour later, there were 2,000 Eight Banners cavalrymen registered in the Suzhou and Hangzhou areas, and the actual number was 800.
Erzhen had half of his salary, and there were still 200 people. He was really getting fat and couldn't put on the iron armor.
There was no other way, Erzhen could only take this group of Eight Banners young master soldiers and start his journey.
He even wrote a letter of success before setting off:
Elzhen of Zhengbai Banner led 2,000 men to defeat the Ming army on the river bank. Erlang bravely killed the enemy and suffered more than 1,500 casualties. He had to pay a huge sum of money to his family...
This good news will be sent northward around Jinling and 800 miles to the Forbidden City.
With the dream of "eight hundred cavalry defeating a hundred thousand Ming army", Elezhen plunged into the waist of the 1st Division.
"Discover the Qing cavalry!"
At this time, the Ming army's telescope equipment arrived in the company.
Before Erzhen reached the fighting distance, he was stared at by several telescopes.
The company within them deployed quickly.
The two companies in the outer formation broke away from the formation and set up two positions outside the marching column.
"Quickly, the heavy machine gun squad sets up the heavy machine gun!"
"It's too late to dig trenches. Send someone to borrow a few more mortars from the queue!"
Company commander Sun Zhong led his men, selected a piece of flat land, and quickly arranged the firepower configuration.
He just wanted to attract the Qing cavalry to hit him on the flat ground.
No matter how fast the cavalry is, they cannot be faster than the bullets of the heavy machine guns.
To be on the safe side, several mortar squads were borrowed from the regiment.
800 meters away.
Elezhen saw about 200 Ming troops from a distance, squatting on two flat areas.
I immediately thought of the scene in the "Da Ming Pao" about the night battle with the British army, and I had a bad premonition.
He wanted to withdraw, but these Eight Banners young soldiers had long forgotten the essentials of cavalry combat.
The charge began 800 meters away.
"Oh~ la la la~~"
"My Qing Dynasty cavalry is absolutely invincible!"
"Come on!"
They didn't care about horse power at all, and the fat meat raised in the prosperous land was weighed down on the skinny horses.
He wielded a three-eyed blunderbuss from 200 years ago and charged with a scimitar hanging from his waist.
500 meters.
400 meters.
300 meters.
When the Qing cavalry entered the 200-meter red line in the combat regulations, Sun Zhongren took the lead and fired the first shot.
The company received the signal to fire and opened fire.
The "whip" of the heavy machine gun swept towards the Qing army, and the 1799-style rifle fired rapidly.
The Qing army felt like they had hit a wall. The soldiers who hit the "wall" suddenly fell off their horses without exception.
Some cavalrymen were hit in the spine by heavy machine gun bullets. The broken bullets and bone fragments mashed their internal organs into a ball. Blood mist appeared on their bodies, and they were thrown off their horses limply.
What's more, some people were directly cut off at the waist, and their intestines flew out.
There was a "boom".
Erzhen felt like he was flying up, and there was a sharp pain in his neck, and then he didn't know anything.
In just two minutes, 800 Eight Banners cavalry were reduced to pieces of meat.
They never crossed the 200-meter red line until their death.
"Call it done."
Sun Zhongren was not surprised by the outcome of the war.
How terrifying the crossfire of heavy machine guns is has been verified by the British army in Sydney.
As His Majesty the Great Emperor Wude of the Ming Dynasty said:
From the moment the heavy machine guns appeared on the battlefield, the prairie people began to sing and dance again.
This small battle with less than a thousand people was nothing to Ming Dynasty.
But for the Qing army in the Suzhou and Hangzhou areas, it was a big deal.
Because the "most capable" Eight Banners soldiers in Suzhou and Hangzhou are gone.
My Qing Dynasty's unparalleled cavalry and shooting actually failed?
Although this was a smoke bomb released by the Manchu and Qing court in order to suppress scientific development.
But the people below believed it.
From some generals with insufficient power to ordinary people, they have no doubt that "the Manchus and Qing Dynasties are unparalleled in cavalry and shooting".
So, when the people nearby saw such a tragic scene, they rushed to tell each other.
In Suzhou City, the Eight Banners men lying in the Manchu inner city exploded immediately.
Some climbed up from the mother-in-law's belly, some pulled out from behind the male actor, and some squeezed out from under the strong man...
They all called the slaves to pack up their belongings and prepare to run away.
For a time, the entire Suzhou-Hangzhou area was in chaos.
The streets were crowded with carriages leaving the city.
"Everyone in front of you, get out of here, haven't you seen that my grandpa is a banner man?"
"Your grandpa is a banner man, but my family is not? My family is still a three-banner man!"
"What's going on in front? Why is the city gate closed?"
"What, the city gate is closed?"
A group of banner men and their slaves crowded under the city gate and found a group of green soldiers closing the city gate and setting up muskets on the gate tower.
Many bannermen who walked up the city wall on the military route were ready to ask for an explanation, but they were pushed down by the green soldiers.
Several fell to death on the spot.
"It's the opposite!"
"You slaves are going to rebel!"
"Come on, all of them, and kill these blind things!"
The coated slaves drew out their long knives or carried hoes to attack the city gate tower.
The Manchu hierarchical system has been implemented for more than a hundred years.
The bannermen are first-class people, the Mongols are second-class people, and the rest of the messy barbarian relatives are third-class people.
As for the Han people, they are the lowest class.
It almost became a replica of the caste system in India.
These banner men thought that these Han banner soldiers were just sealing off the city to prevent the Ming Dynasty from attacking.
Only a few people need to be killed to get them to open the city gate.
These Han slaves will definitely not fight back.
However, bursts of gunfire rang out.
