"Boom..."
The artillery soldier who had just finished loading the cannon lit the fuse again, and a loud sound followed by a long tail in the open land.
The Qing soldiers, who were stunned by a single volley of artillery shells, were already showing signs of retreating. Now, under the cry of the bandit suppressing army, the signs were even more uncontrollable.
With the sound of the salvo of artillery fired by the bandit suppressing army, the Qing army within forty battles outside the artillery muzzle was almost wiped out again.
The Qing soldiers who dared to continue advancing were already lying on the ground, either wailing or unable to make a sound.
A strong wind blew from the river again. The river wind took away the smoke that filled the battlefield and cleared the field of vision.
Now, the Qing soldiers who had not yet fallen while attacking in front could clearly see the artillery of the bandit-suppressing army right in front of the Qing soldiers.
"Bang..."
The sound of artillery fire was followed by another volley of musketry.
"puff…"
"puff…"
"puff…"
The few Qing soldiers who were still standing under the shelling of artillery shells were knocked to the ground one by one by the musketeers behind the artillery.
At such a distance, this rifled flintlock gun loaded with Mini bullets was almost accurate.
At this time, there was almost no one within fifty feet in front of the artillery, artillery and musketeers of the bandit suppressing army. There were only corpses left strewn across the field, and wailing everywhere.
The entire battle area can accommodate a head-on battle of two thousand people. The Qing army advanced in three square formations. However, the Chinese army, which had the largest number of troops, made the bandit suppressors afraid to move forward and fled in retreat. The Qing army's two flanking phalanxes on the left and right were all frightened when they saw this.
As the Qing army retreated, the shouts of the bandit suppressing army rang out again.
"The Qing army is defeated, charge!"
The green battalions of the Chinese army had reached their limit. After the second artillery shell attack and the volley of musketeers, they no longer had the courage to stand in front of the bandit suppressing army again.
Now all the hope of the Qing army depends on whether the soldiers and horses on the two flanks can resist.
"Go ahead..."
There were constant shouts throughout the battlefield. This was a test for the Qing army and a test for the bandit suppressing army.
The spearmen and sword and shield soldiers of the bandit suppressing army rushed past the musketeers and artillery soldiers and charged away.
At this time, the morale of the Qing soldiers in the middle was completely lost and they had lost their resistance. The bandit-suppressing army attacking the middle of the Qing army was as powerful as a hot knife cutting through butter.
Although the Qing troops on both sides had not yet come into contact with the bandit-suppressing troops, they saw the retreat in the middle, which had a serious blow to their morale.
The distance between the Qing troops on both sides and the opposing bandit suppressing troops has narrowed to forty feet.
If it were a normal battle, if the soldiers of both sides approached this position, the archers would shoot at each other.
However, the Qing army was prepared to charge to destroy the musket array of the bandits from the beginning, so they did not bring archers. The bandit suppressing army did have some archers, but they were all assigned to defend the city. Therefore, the combatants on both sides did not have long-range weapons.
The distance of forty feet can be said to be far or close. It only takes a normal person two or three minutes to walk.
At this time, the Qing soldiers on both sides who had not been hit by muskets and artillery had abandoned the heavy wooden shields in their hands and began to accelerate forward.
The bandit suppressing troops on both sides showed off their military training as the Qing troops approached. At this moment, the spearmen in the front row of the bandit suppressing army began to line up and set up their guns, holding their tall shields in front of them and waiting for the Qing soldiers to attack.
"There are still a few muskets. If there were more, the soldiers and horses on both sides would not have to fight so close." Zhang Rui said while looking at the situation of the soldiers and horses on both sides.
"Yes, it's all our fault because we were too hasty. Otherwise, we wouldn't be afraid of the Qing court even if we had tens of thousands of muskets." Wang Kaiyuan replied
"Indeed. However, although guns are good, we should not rely too much on them. The real trick is to dare to fight hand-to-hand on the battlefield. If you dare not face the enemy and risk your life to fight, you will lose even if you have aircraft and cannons." Zhang Rui turned to face Wang Kaiyuan seriously. said.
"Airplanes and cannons?" Wang Kaiyuan agreed very much with Zhang Rui's statement, but he couldn't help but repeat the words Zhang Rui said again.
He knew about cannons, but he didn't understand what airplanes were. But it sounds very powerful.
"The battle is about to begin." Zhang Rui didn't expect that Wang Kaiyuan would immediately notice that he accidentally used a modern word, so he could only pretend not to hear and deliberately changed the subject.
"Yes!" Wang Kaiyuan listened to Zhang Rui's words and was immediately attracted by the battlefield.
If this battle fails, I will have no chance to talk about "aircraft and artillery" anymore.
Considering that a large number of new recruits in the bandit suppression army lacked fighting willpower and lack of training, the troops in the front row to meet the enemy were all led by veterans of the bandit suppression army.
After a battle and seeing blood, the new soldier slowly turned into a veteran.
The soldiers and horses on the flanks were getting closer and closer. A large number of Qing soldiers who came with only swords looked at the shield that was more than half a foot high and didn't know how to kill the enemy.
Now, the Qing soldiers approaching the battle could only try to break through the spear formation of the bandit suppressing army with manpower.
"Pikemen obey orders and stab."
Rows of spears appeared on the shield, and the approaching Green Camp soldiers who could not dodge or block them with their swords were all stabbed to the ground.
This is destined to be a difficult line of defense. It is almost impossible for the attacking Qing soldiers to bypass the spear formation and engage the sword and shield soldiers behind the spear soldiers.
"receive…"
"prick…"
Following the orders issued by the veterans of the bandit suppression army, the green battalion soldiers of the Qing army continued to fall to the ground.
The pikemen fighting in the front row found that everything seemed so simple in this battle? Just like the usual training, just thrust and withdraw.
The attacking Qing soldiers kept wailing and screaming, and the blood drenched the shield in front of the pikemen.
Facing the spear formations on both sides of the bandit suppressing army, it was a disaster for the Qing troops without any support from artillery, muskets, and bows and arrows. They didn't even have a piece of armor, and could only watch helplessly as the bandit-suppressing troops massacred themselves, but they had absolutely no strategy to defeat the enemy.
What was hateful was more than that. They could clearly see that many of the pikemen who faced them were wearing leather or iron armor.
How to fight this? There is no way to fight this.
After several people gathered together, the Qing soldiers made no progress except for casualties.
The Qing army is very good, but no one is stupid if they can't chew the bones in the face of danger.
Although there are soldiers supervising the battle behind the Qing soldiers, if they come forward, they will die. After a few rounds, they will either die or die. No matter how passionate and stressed people are, they can’t stand it.
Many Qing soldiers thought of the retreat in the middle, so they all retreated and did not dare to step forward.
However, as the Qing troops failed to move forward, the bandit-suppressing army's spear array began to move forward.
The gap that had just been squeezed back by the front row of clearing troops was made up by the advancing bandit suppressing troops.
At this time, it was the turn of the bandit suppressing army to start moving forward to kill the enemy.
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