"Haha...why are you so stupid?" the Qing army who was asked laughed loudly.
"puff…"
The flesh on the arm of a green soldier in front of the two chatting people was beaten until blood flew out, and the blood spattered on the faces of the two. The bullet continued to pass through the gap between the two and hit the arm of another Qing soldier.
Only then did the two injured Qing soldiers react, covering their arms and sitting on the ground, shouting.
"This...this...what happened just now? Did you really invite a god to take over?" Qing Bing, who had laughed loudly just now, began to be frightened, and his voice started to tremble a little.
As soon as Li Shiyao heard the sound of gunfire, he felt that something was in trouble. At this time, he also began to be afraid. This time, 14,000 people were still defeated, and he didn't know how to face this result.
"Bang..."
"Bang..."
Before Li Shiyao could react, the gunfire from the third platoon had finished. According to what Li Shiyao knew, the fourth ring would start soon.
At this time, the battlefield was filled with smoke.
"Flag officer, send the flag and tell all the soldiers not to rest anymore. Sound the drum and charge forward." Li Shiyao quickly ordered loudly to the flag officer beside him.
Li Shiyao had no choice but to give such an order. Although the Qing army had many people, how many of them could withstand such consumption? Li Shiyao really didn't dare to think about it, so he could only try to charge collectively while there were many people to see if he could break through the distance in front.
"Bang..."
"Bang..."
"Dong dong dong..."
After the fifth volley, the drums of the Qing army began to beat loudly.
The drums of charge sounded at the beginning, and many generals of the Qing army were confused. However, the military order was such that they could not hesitate.
When they heard the rapid drumbeat of the Qing army, the bandit suppressing army stopped. Shoot on the spot.
When the Qing army charged, the number of people killed and injured by the bandit suppressing troops reached 1,450. If these people were a small Qing army, the battle would have been over long ago. But more than a thousand casualties were not enough to make them retreat in the face of more than 14,000 people.
"Go ahead..."
The three square formations of the Qing army, with more than 10,000 troops, roared and charged. This shout was so loud that it was earth-shattering.
The rapid and loud drumbeats could no longer cover up the shouts and footsteps of the charge.
It takes a normal person about two minutes to run 400 meters, but most people need to take a breath and rest after finishing the run.
Charging on the battlefield is different from running in competitions. Generally, the distance is shortened to within 50 meters before charging begins, in order to maintain physical strength for fighting again.
Therefore, the generals of the Qing army were all surprised when they heard the drum call for charging so early. Charge at such a long distance, run with all your strength and still fight? They are not allowed to lie down in front of the enemy and have them bleed one by one.
It is also true that the Qing soldiers are charging loudly, but their running speed is only slightly faster than walking.
This speed can be considered a quick walk at best, not a run. After all, the distance is too far, everyone knows it, and those who rush ahead will die first.
A person's normal walking is about 60 to 80 meters per minute. If you walk quickly, it will be faster, but it will not exceed 150 meters.
It took them nearly three minutes to walk the 400-meter road, but when they rushed to a distance of less than 15 feet from the bandit suppressing army, the Qing army rushing in front got scared and retreated.
The characteristic of black powder is its large smoke, and even granular gunpowder with a well-proportioned and improved ratio is still unavoidable.
The continuous firing of muskets by the bandit suppressing troops caused a cloud of gunpowder smoke in front of them, blurring their vision. The Qing army rushing over could not see where the enemy was, but the Qing army rushing in front almost changed over and over again.
This distance of 400 meters allowed the bandit suppressing army to fire eight volleys of gunfire, and at least 2,000 to 3,000 people fell. The casualties everywhere made it difficult for the Qing troops behind to even walk.
There were indeed a lot fewer casualties among the Qing soldiers beyond the range of the bandit suppression team's musketeers, but that didn't stop them from being scared when they saw this scene.
"Bang..."
When the bandit suppressing army fired its fourteenth volley, a Qing soldier could no longer bear the psychological pressure, dropped the knife in his hand and ran back. He was still shouting: "Ah... run away!"
Originally, the military quality of these green soldiers of the Qing army was not high, that is, they only relied on their large number of people to survive until now.
Now that I see the people in front of me lying on the ground with flesh and blood flying everywhere, how can I make them endure it?
If it was someone who could see the enemy clearly, or the Qing troops could try rushing in again. But he couldn't see anything clearly in front of him. People around him kept dying after every gunshot.
In this way, no one is willing to rush forward. No one knows whether he will be killed or injured next moment. It's only safe to hide behind it.
The Qing troops who rushed in front began to run back one after another, and those behind were naturally not stupid either.
As the Qing soldiers in front ran back one after another, the Qing army formed a retreat.
Although some generals were shouting and rushing forward, it was all in vain.
Looking at the corpses and wounded everywhere, no Green Camp soldier was willing to maintain his strength and stay in this place of death. They were all running back with all their strength. The retreat became more violent.
The Qing soldiers who were behind were not shot, but the people in front were trying their best to run back, and they had no reason to come back.
Especially when they saw the wounded people lying on the ground who were constantly wailing and shouting, they were even more unwilling to rush forward.
"Bang..."
When the bandit suppressing army reached the sixteenth volley of fire, the Qing army completely retreated, and even the shouting generals ran back one after another. The casualties all over the ground shocked them, and the wailing all over the place also made them frightened. .
"We haven't even come into contact with the rebels yet, and this is already the case. How far ahead is there? I can't even think about it!"
The supervising soldiers behind did not stop at all, nor did they dare to stop. They did stop the Qing soldiers' retreat at the beginning, but they also saw the wailing all over the place.
If only a small part of them retreated, they could indeed kill a few people to establish their authority and block the retreat. But thousands of people began to retreat. How dare they seek death there?
It was unbelievable that when the green soldiers ran past them and gave them a knife if they were unhappy, they had no place to cry. Otherwise, when the people in front finish running, it will be them who take the bullets.
So when the war supervising soldiers saw this, they no longer had any chance to observe military discipline. Holding the knife in his hand, he started running, even faster than the retreating Green Camp soldiers.
The general situation is such that they don't want to take bullets.
"Dong, dong, dong..."
The drums of the Qing army are still beating
This time, Li Shiyao did not order Ming Jin to withdraw his troops because it was no longer necessary.
The Qing army's three square formations and the charge of more than 10,000 people still couldn't break Zhang Rui's thin man.
Everything was beyond the scope of Li Shiyao's understanding, and his confidence in encirclement and suppression had been completely destroyed by Zhang Rui.
Looking at the retreating Qing army on the hillside, Li Shiyao felt as if he was suffering from a delusion. He kept chanting:
"This rebel musket is so powerful, how can we fight this battle? How else can we fight this?"
