The army's troops often drag their feet when marching, but this time they knew the rebels were ahead, so they didn't hold back, and soon the army appeared in front of the rebels.
The two armies faced each other from a distance.
hiss!
The deputy general who came to a high slope with Jiang Yingzhao took a breath.
He said: "General, look, the bandits have arranged probably hundreds of cannons in front of the formation."
In the early wars, artillery, as the main weapon, always appeared in front of the formation. This situation continued until the emergence of rifles and mini rounds, and the artillery was moved back.
At the same time, the war also changed from queuing to shoot to tactics of digging trenches and spreading out formations, and personal shooting skills were also fully utilized.
The Tiger Flag army in front of them still uses front-loading muskets. Although they have undergone some modifications, they are still basically muskets. They still need to rely on more people and more guns to achieve results.
"How could the traitors have so many cannons?" Jiang Yingzhao's face turned pale.
This time, in order to annihilate the main force of the rebels, he brought all the artillery in the army. Even if Mangui needed to attack Yongning City, none of them was left behind.
Even so, the cannons he brought were only a fraction of the cannons in front of him.
"General, are we still fighting?" the deputy general asked Jiang Yingzhao.
If you want to annihilate the bandit soldiers in front, you need to deal with the hundreds of cannons in front of you. You don't know how many people will be killed or injured to do it.
"Beat." Jiang Yingzhao said through gritted teeth.
He knew he had no way out.
Man Gui is likely to be defeated in Yongning City. If he cannot completely wipe out the main force of the thieves in front of him, he and Man Gui will definitely be accused by the court. And he and Man Gui have offended the army's commander Xing Youwei, and the army's supervisor has no Even if they get benefits, they will naturally not protect them, and the consequences can be imagined.
The lieutenant on the side glanced guiltily at the artillery formation of the thieves in front, and his Adam's apple squirmed uncontrollably.
"Send the order, let the cavalry charge into the formation first, and find a way to deal with the cannons of the traitors." Jiang Yingzhao ordered to the generals around him.
Before he came, he wanted to use cannons to bombard the rebels, but he didn't mention it now, because he knew that with the dozen or so cannons he brought, in front of the hundreds of cannons in front of the rebels, he could hardly Useless.
Since attacking Yongning City did not require much cavalry, most of the cavalry in the army were taken away by him to ambush the main force of thieves.
Although there is no need to ambush the rebels now, this cavalry can be used to rush into the formation, deal with the cannons in front of the formation, and gain conditions for the infantry in the rear to get closer to the formation.
He believed that as long as there was no threat from these cannons, the bandit soldiers in front of him could not be the opponent of Guan Ning's troops.
Thousands of cavalrymen broke away from the official ranks and rushed towards the artillery array in front.
"Fire!" Xu Bingyu, captain of the artillery team, waved the flag in his hand vigorously.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
The sharp copper whistle sounded three times in succession.
boom! boom! boom!
Cannons fired one after another at the cavalry approaching from the front.
Solid iron balls flew out one after another, and nearly one-third of them fell into the ranks of the cavalry in front.
The emotionless iron ball ruthlessly harvested lives one by one, leaving behind broken corpses everywhere.
Each solid iron ball was like an iron plow, plowing ditches of flesh and blood in the middle of the enemy's ranks.
boom! boom! boom!
Not long after the sound of the cannon fell, before it completely dissipated, a series of cannon fire sounded again.
What was fired just now was only part of the artillery array, and what was fired this time was the remaining part of the artillery.
The dense cannonballs fell into the enemy cavalry again, and at least half of the cannonballs did not miss.
The enemy cavalry team suffered damage again, and again lost dozens of lives.
The interval between the firing of each gun and the next one is the best opportunity to close the distance with the enemy. The people of the Tiger Flag Artillery Team know this, and Guan Ning's army also knows this.
After the sound of the artillery fire, he faced the dead and wounded enemy cavalry without any hesitation. He maintained his charging posture and continued to charge towards the artillery array of the 1st War Division in front.
Even the enemy cavalry general wanted to take this opportunity to rush to the front of the artillery array.
No matter how powerful the artillery is, once the cavalry rushes to the front, it will no longer threaten and have no power to fight back.
Wooowowow~
During the charge, the enemy cavalry kept making all kinds of strange screams, hoping to use the screams to disturb the gunner operating the cannon, causing the gunner to slow down the loading speed of the cannon in panic, or even load too much gunpowder in the panic. The cannon exploded.
However, these gunners were not moved at all. Each of them had very steady hands, performed their duties step by step, and skillfully reloaded each cannon.
boom! boom! boom!
The cannons were fired again.
This time, the accuracy was better than the previous two times, and almost 80% of the cannons landed among the enemy cavalry.
The face of the enemy's commander changed.
The gap between the two cannons of the bandits was faster than he imagined, and it was faster than the most skilled gunners in the army.
Not only that.
The gunners' accuracy was also better than that of the gunners he had seen in Liaodong. The first shot hit nearly half, and the second shot hit 80%.
The accuracy of the cannon became worse the further away. Although he led the cavalry to keep getting closer to the bandits' artillery array, they were still some distance away from the artillery array.
boom! boom! boom!
Before he could think about it, the cannon on the other side was also fired.
An iron ball flew directly in front of his eyes, causing him to break into a cold sweat.
Then there was only a scream. Not far away, one of his soldiers was hit by a cannon. He fell under his horse, and there was no sound from then on.
After the iron ball hit the ground, it bounced up again, hit a cavalryman behind, and directly tore the horse's neck, and the blood in the neck cavity suddenly spurted out.
The rider on the horse fell to the ground together with his horse.
The cavalry bounced up and down several times, taking a life every time.
The body of the rider who fell to the ground was trampled by the hoofs of the cavalry who caught up from behind. The horses trampled over it and turned into a pile of flesh.
Some of the horse corpses were too high for the cavalry behind them to avoid. They hit them with their horses and men, and the riders on the horses were thrown away.
However, even if the rider is not injured after landing, it will be difficult for him to stand up from the ground again.
Poof! Poof!
The official cavalry rushed into the farmland on both sides of the road.
Not long after the earth was civilized, it was when it was wet and soft. The people poured thawing water on their fields. The war horses stepped on the ground, and the whole hoof of the horse sank in, and the momentum of the charge suddenly slowed down.
Naturally, the artillery array of the First War Division would not slow down the artillery fire because the enemy cavalry encountered difficulties. Instead, because the enemy cavalry was trapped in the fields on both sides, it had more time to bombard the enemy.
Cannons were fired one after another, and more and more enemy cavalry were killed or wounded, especially those that fell into the mud, which were the main targets of the gunners' shelling.
