When the cannons and thunder sounded, Ling Zongjun also trembled. He was also behind the parapet where the death warriors launched their attack, and he was surrounded by soldiers and officers in brocade uniforms who were risking their lives. Everyone of them is the mortal enemy of the Shang family... If they don't hate each other that much, they can't be death soldiers!
Fortunately, Shang Kexi was able to offend people so much during these years in Guangdong, but at the same time he was unable to "kill people to the fullest extent". It would be peaceful if Guangdong was really killed like Sichuan. But there are still millions of people in Guangdong, half of whom are still feuding with the Shang family.
And their hatred for the Shang family, under the guidance of the "Killing Confucianism" in the army, was easily transferred to the Qing court and Emperor Kangxi... The death warriors who were extremely hateful heard the roar. , all invariably straightened up from behind the parapet and looked forward. Ling Zongjun is also one of them.
The big explosion occurred in the center of the Qing army's formation a hundred or two hundred steps away, and the center blossomed!
He also took out a red flag and held it high.
Seeing him raising his command flag, the eighteen three-pound cannons arranged on both sides of him suddenly let out a thunderous sound. The smoke filled the air and the flames spewed out. In the blink of an eye, eighteen solid lead bullets were blasted out of the barrel. , flying straight towards the Qingyao occupying a trench on the opposite side.
The Qingyao in the trench was also frightened by the sudden big explosion... That was the Fire and Thunder Formation, one of the spiritual pillars of the entire army!
Why did it explode like this?
Just when they all turned back to look in the direction of the fire array, the solid bullets fired by the eighteen three-pound cannons flew over their heads. Although they could not hit them, they were still startled and they rushed towards the fire array. It's a trench of dead bodies huddled inside.
At the same time, more than a dozen mortars deployed at the front of the Ming army began to fire super-caliber smoke grenades round by round. All the dozen grenades with white smoke fell into the formations of the two armies. The smoke turned In an instant, the entire front was enveloped. Ling Zongjun could see the situation of the Qing army's position opposite at first, but it gradually became blurry after a while.
He shouted loudly: "Kill the demons and restore the Ming Dynasty!"
"Kill the demons and restore the Ming Dynasty..."
Thousands of people shouted with him, and then there was a rapid drumbeat.
"Boom boom boom..."
Amidst the smoke, there was a roar of artillery. Ling Zongjun knew that this was the Qing army's general artillery firing indiscriminately - the Ming army's chorus of shouts just now was to induce the opponent to fire. Since reloading the general's cannon takes some time, now is the time to launch a desperate charge.
Ling Zongjun still held the red flag in his hand. He climbed out of the parapet, pointed the flag forward, and shouted loudly: "Attack your mother...kill her!"
"Attack your mother...kill her!"
The death warriors who followed him all shouted together, and then first the officers jumped out from behind the parapet, and then the soldiers.
They did not form a strict formation, but rushed forward in skirmish formation, each holding a shield in one hand and a cable-type grenade in the other.
The cable-type grenade does not require a fire breaker to ignite, so it can be used with one hand. You only need to bite the cable with your teeth and pull it before throwing.
Therefore, the left hand of these daredevils can be freed to raise a round shield that can protect their head and face.
Don't underestimate this small improvement. This improvement, combined with super-caliber smoke bombs and hundreds of soldiers who are not afraid of death, is enough to eliminate the enemies who are fighting in formation from the battlefield.
The Qing army on the opposite side still maintained the habit of fighting in formation and then fighting. After realizing that the Ming army on the opposite side had launched an attack, the officers drove the infantry out of the trench and formed an infantry formation on the outside of the trench - shotguns in front, bows and arrows behind, and finally pikemen to hold the formation.
But before they could form a team, Ming army warriors holding shields rushed out of the smoke.
They didn't rush out in groups, but in scattered groups... Seeing these "stragglers", the clear demons who were still forming a team were stunned.
Why did the infantry rush out alone?
If you are a cavalryman, you can take the lead. But what's the use of infantry's rushing method? Does one person still want to beat dozens or hundreds of us?
We are the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty!
The morale that was originally a little low due to the explosion of the fire and thunder formation actually recovered. Several Qingyao heads commanding the shotguns lost no time in shouting: "Aim and hit! Give me these idiots who don't know how to die." Sieve it!"
"okay!"
"Got the order!"
"嗻......"
The shotgun demons below were reloading ammunition quickly and loudly agreed. But before they could finish reloading, a dead soldier of the Ming Army with a scarred face rushing towards the front suddenly "bited" the grenade in his hand, then suddenly stopped, and at the same time threw out the grenade in his hand. Smoking grenade.
Under the dual effects of arm strength and run-up inertia, the grenade was thrown a full twenty to thirty steps away, and then suddenly landed in the Qingyao queue, hitting it without any bias. He hit Qing Yao's shoulder, causing the man to scream in pain: "Fire, fire, fire thunder..."
"boom!"
The deadly grenade has exploded...in the dense crowd! In an instant, a piece of Qingyao exploded.
The remaining Qingyao seemed to be stunned by the sudden explosion. Before they had time to react, more than a dozen Ming army death warriors rushed out of the smoke and threw deadly grenades in their hands.
More than a dozen grenades landed directly in the dense queue, and every roar could blast a large gap. In these gaps, there are lying human bodies everywhere, either dead or still letting out dying wails.
Dozens more grenades were thrown out by the death warriors, blasting out deadly fire in the array of Qing troops, blowing them to pieces in the blink of an eye.
At this moment, a louder shout came from behind the smoke that was about to dissipate!
"Kill the Qing demon and restore the Ming Dynasty! Kill the Qing demon and restore the Ming Dynasty..."
The sound seemed very neat, one after another, high-pitched and loud. It was obviously shouted by hundreds of thousands of people at the same time.
At this time, the smoke that filled the battlefield finally dissipated, and what appeared in front of the Qing army, which had been scattered by grenades, was six or seven dense square formations composed of hundreds of people each... Oh, for the exclusive possession of the cable-type For the Jinyi soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who used hand grenades, the phalanx was still very useful.
Because when dealing with enemies who have been scattered by bombs, well-organized melee soldiers are "invincible"! How could the scattered warriors fight hand-to-hand with the enemies who were advancing side by side like a wall?
In fact, the "hand-to-hand invincibility" of the line infantry era in history was based on the attacks of artillery, skirmishers (snipers), grenadiers, and musket shooting to break up the opponent's formation. . Otherwise, with a rifle with a bayonet and unarmored infantry, which is about as powerful as a short spear, it would be impossible to be "invincible"...
And at the same time that the "invincible" Jinyi pro-army infantry formation rushed through the ditch on Qingyao's body, crushing the Qingyao infantry formation that had been in chaos for a long time.
The "Rocket Army" is showing off its power again!
More than a dozen rockets, trailing long tail flames, emitted frightening screams and roars, soared into the sky, and swooped towards the gathering place of the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers behind the Qing army's position.
Why do rockets make strange screams and roars?
That's because Zhu Heji had people tie whistles to the shells of the rockets, so these dozen rockets flew while making scary sounds and pounced on the "fire and lightning protection" Eight Banners soldiers.
And these dozen roaring rockets are the signal for the launch of the general offensive!
Starting from Dinghu Mountain in the north and ending at Xijiang River in the south, on the several-mile-long front line, there was a loud sound of gunfire. Groups of regimented Ming army infantry, supported by artillery, sky mines, and under the cover of smoke bombs, They jumped out of the parapet where they had been hiding, shouted the slogan "Kill the demons of the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty", and rushed towards the Qing army's array.
At this time, the 30,000 Qing troops on the battlefield were entangled with the Ming army, which was only half their number, and could not retreat at all.
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