Before Mang Yitu could figure out what was going on, the "soaring in the clouds and riding on the mist" body flew past him carrying a stream of hot wind. Then his ears suddenly became "lively", with rumbling explosions and the screams of horses and riders. Smoke and fire also continued to emerge from his front, back, left and right, making his vision blurry.
It turned out that the dozen Ming soldiers who died were throwing cable-type grenade hammers!
The wooden tube fuse of this kind of hand grenade hammer has a cable-type ignition device, which uses the principle of yellow phosphorus matches. It is very easy to light a fire. As long as you pull out the match rope, it will definitely catch fire, and it will not be easy to extinguish.
The disadvantage is that it is not very safe and is more likely to spontaneously ignite. The fuse must therefore be carefully stored and assembled on the hammer before use.
However, this kind of unsafe cable-type fuse is the same as sugar gunpowder that is susceptible to moisture. The raw materials are relatively easy to obtain, and the production process is relatively simple for Zhu Heji, so it can be mass-produced and equipped with troops.
Because the ignition performance of the cable-type fuze is very good, and the match rope soaked with sugar powder burns relatively stably. Therefore, the explosion rate of these dozens of grenade hammers is also relatively high. Among the sixty or seventy hammers, at least fifty have successfully exploded!
Fifty grenade hammers exploded into a sea of fire in front of the charging wave of the Qing Eight Banners soldiers. The fierce Eight Banners soldiers charged into the formation as if they had been hit hard on the head, and chaos suddenly broke out. Many Eight Banners soldiers and their horses who rushed ahead were hit by shrapnel and fell to the ground screaming. The Eight Banners soldiers behind them all slowed down to get out of the way. Those who couldn't get out of the way would be tripped by the horses and people who were still struggling after falling to the ground, and suffered a bloody fall. The Eight Banners soldiers' offensive suddenly stalled. Only those Knights of the Eight Banners Soldiers who were not hit by shrapnel and avoided the fallen horse knights in time could continue to advance, but the charging formation had become very fragmented and the speed had slowed down greatly.
Mang Yitu could be considered a lucky slave. He was still trying to identify the direction in the white smoke while carefully controlling his horse. I don’t know what’s going on, but the smoke has no intention of dissipating. It’s getting thicker and thicker. You can tell at a glance that something is strange, so you must be careful and careful. During this period of caution, the power of the cavalry charge was completely gone.
What is important in cavalry assault is a person who has no hesitation and courage to move forward... Even if he is stabbed by the enemy's spear and "kills a bunch of people", he still has to use the huge impact caused by the galloping horse to hold his hand. Enemies with spears are knocked away.
In a sense, cavalry assault is a way of preparing to die with the opponent.
But now there was another explosion, another "traffic accident", and now there was smoke from an unknown source, causing the Eight Banners soldiers who were supposed to rush to "slow down" and "drive carefully". If they can maintain a dense formation, they can exert their collective strength and smash their opponents to pieces. But where do they still have formations now?
Finally, some Eight Banners soldiers had carefully rushed out of the fog - the fog was caused by more than twenty sugar-coated smoke bombs. The dead soldiers of the Ming army who retreated after throwing their grenades also left behind two smoke-generating hands. The result was that the Eight Banners soldiers' charging route was filled with smoke.
If the people charging now are the Eight Banners soldiers of Huang Taiji, Dorgon's generation or earlier, it doesn't matter whether you smoke or not, they will rush over with a hard scalp.
But Mang Yitu's men are all Eight Banners soldiers who have a single family and a courtyard in Beijing's second ring road!
What is this worth? Could you be more careful? How could you rush into the smoke in a daze? What if there is a rifle stuck inside?
The Eight Banners soldiers who rushed out cautiously, almost as if they were walking out of the fog, immediately encountered a new round of blows - the precise shooting of turtle dove foot muskets!
In fact, the sharpshooters of the Ming Army who were using muskets to attack the cavalry were almost stunned by the attack of the Eight Banners cavalry just now - the charge of the cavalry in the courtyard "within the second ring" was also very scary!
But just when they were about to be stunned, dozens of grenade hammers exploded into a sea of volcanic fog.
By the time those terrifying Eight Banners soldiers broke out of the sea of volcanic fog, their true colors were revealed. All of them looked like they were "driving carefully", and they didn't look like cavalry charging, but like pen-posters and imperial guards who rode to the Forbidden City early in the morning to "check in for work"...
Mang Yitu had not yet rushed out of the "fog area" at this time. He was not afraid of death, but was walking around in the "fog area", urging the cavalry who were "driving carefully" to rush forward.
Just as he was urging, sporadic gunshots rang out!
Different from the tactic of queuing up and firing volleys that people in later generations liked to see, Zhu Heji's musketeers did not like to fire volleys, but preferred to shoot accurately - the turtle-dove foot musket has a heavy bullet, a large charge, and a long effective range, but the recoil It's also huge. It takes a long time of training to become a good musketeer, and these people are generally very good at marksmanship. As long as you practice target practice calmly, you can kill them one by one from thirty to fifty paces away. They look like living targets for the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers. Even if the target is a hundred steps away, there is still a certain chance that it can be sent to the road.
Therefore, precise shooting is the standard method of shooting the Turtle Dove Foot Musket, and this will test the psychological quality of the gunman.
If the person coming today is really a strong man from outside the Pass of the Banner Generation, most of the musketeers under Ling Zongjun will not be able to perform well. But once these N-generation "check-in Eight Banners" reveal their true colors, they are really not that scary.
Seeing that the musketeers below were all performing stably, and the Eight Banners soldiers who had rushed out of the smoke fell off their horses one after another, and dozens of them were eliminated in a blink of an eye, Ling Zongjun's deputy general Ling breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, rapid drum beats came from the left and right sides of Ling Zongjun.
"Vice General Ling, Qing Yao is going to charge at both sides of us, you look to the left, I'll go to the right!"
Liu Jinzhong's voice also seemed much more relaxed... The layout of the four sides of this quadrangle formation was exactly the same, and the tactics were exactly the same, so if one side could succeed, it wouldn't be a big problem to have three sides.
Ling Zongjun glanced at the front where the smoke was dissipating. There seemed to be a lot of Eight Banners soldiers, but they were already in disarray and were expected to retreat soon. So he agreed to Liu Jinzhong's arrangement and took a few soldiers to the left to take command.
But the changes on the battlefield are often unexpected.
Just when Ling Zongjun and Liu Jinzhong were about to happily watch their men once again use grenades, smoke grenades and muskets to deal with the Eight Banners soldiers, the Eight Banners soldiers who had been defeated in the main formation were suddenly beaten for some reason. As if, shouting "Your Majesty! Your Majesty!", he rushed forward.
Many of them also took out their bows and arrows, and fired arrows randomly while riding forward. Although in the panic, their arrowheads were not very accurate, none of Liu Jinzhong's men holding the spears were wearing armor. They only had a shield to block it, but it was not fully blocked, and many of them were quickly wounded and killed. people.
However, these Eight Banners soldiers did not always fight with the method of "hurting people with random arrows". Instead, they rushed to the Ming army's formation on horseback. They did not directly collide with the formation, but took off the carbine on their shoulders to try. Poke the shirtless soldiers holding their spears. Some of them were even more fierce. They simply got off their horses, brandished their spears, and came up to fight the Ming army on foot.
Judging by the way they turned over and dismounted and waved their guns, you could tell that they had practiced seriously!
At the same time, the left and right sides of the Qing army also rushed through the grenade hammer formation and smoke formation, and then bravely withstood the precise shooting of the muskets, stepped on the corpses of their companions, and rushed to the left and right sides of the Ming army formation. In front of the formation, they also fired a burst of arrows, and then they rushed forward and started a hand-to-hand grenade and hammer fight with the Ming army. There were still some musketeers behind the Ming army who stopped firing their muskets and moved into the Qing army's incoming formation. Throw the grenade hammer.
Although the Ming army's grenade hammers exploded in the crowd of Qing Eight Banners soldiers from time to time, creating a "gap" when they exploded, the Eight Banners soldiers who suddenly inspired the gang refused to retreat and forcibly destroyed the Ming army. into bloody hand-to-hand combat.
The reason why these Eight Banners soldiers were suddenly "possessed by their ancestors" was actually very simple. It was that high imitation Kang Mazi Fuquan came up with a yellow jacket!
"Kang Mazi" is already on the verge of battle, how can the people below do it without fighting?
While Kang Mazi was approaching the battle, the Eight Banners Infantry Armor of the Qing Army also pressed forward with a roar!
Fuquan really used all his strength this time - because he had just received the news that the real Mazi Kangxi was defeated in Hubei and suffered heavy losses. The Qing Dynasty could not afford to lose again, and if it lost again, the real Mazi and the fake Mazi would be "double". Lost!
