The barbed wire array was broken. In Dodo's view, this was a sign of victory.
Because this is the only defensive fortification that the National Defense Force relies on, as long as it is crossed, it will be smooth sailing.
The Ninth Division is a pure infantry division. How can it fight against the elite Qing cavalry on this plain?
He had already seen Tunqi leading the cavalry starting to cross the barbed wire formation and was about to join the battlefield.
This made Dodo's blood boil with excitement and his heart was full of expectations.
In the Korean battlefield, Huang Taiji personally commanded it, but still failed to defeat the National Defense Forces.
If he now wins the battle against the National Defense Force, wouldn't it mean that... he has surpassed Huang Taiji and become the number one general of the Qing Dynasty?
If that happens, his reputation will reach the sky.
Since his brother Dorgon can become the regent, can he do it if he works hard?
Or maybe find an opportunity to kill that boy Fulin and replace him?
Dodo, who was still very young, began to think brightly and felt that his future had infinite possibilities.
He still doesn't know that he is actually a short-lived ghost, and his life is not as long as Dorgon's.
What he doesn't even know is that his life span may be even shorter in this time and space.
Seeing the Qing army rushing through the barbed wire formation, Yu Lichun had a smile on his face and an inexplicable expression.
"Tell the artillery to use new types of artillery shells and knock out all the Qing cavalry."
The order was quickly conveyed.
Xue Hongtu, commander of the heavy artillery regiment, was overjoyed.
Finally ready to use the new guy.
He walked out of the command post and shouted orders to everyone.
"Each artillery position obeys orders and replaces fragmentation bombs."
Under the command, all the artillerymen opened the new boxes on the side and took out new artillery shells one after another.
Scientific military development will inevitably promote scientific weapons progress.
In the eyes of the Qing army, exploding artillery shells were already terrifying, but the National Defense Forces never stopped research and development and continued to enrich their arsenal.
After years of battlefield practice, the National Defense Forces have discovered that simply exploding artillery shells are very effective against fortifications, but are less effective against active forces.
The emergence of shotguns has given certain inspiration to the artillery research and development department.
They made a batch of new artillery shells.
In this new type of artillery shell, the charge was reduced by half and replaced with a more powerful collodion explosive. The spare space inside the cartridge case is filled with various iron balls, steel balls, iron nails and other sundries.
Moreover, the cartridge case was also grilled to a certain extent when it was cast.
In this way, when the shell explodes, the fragile shell and the debris inside will turn into the most terrifying life harvester, sweeping all the space within forty to fifty meters crazily.
This kind of cannonball is used to hit city walls, trenches, and fortresses, but it has no effect. But killing people in an open space is very scary.
In previous battles, due to barbed wire barriers and the absence of Qing cavalry, the artillery still used traditional artillery shells to greet them.
Now that Duduo has sent out his treasured cavalry, the National Defense Force has also come up with its big killer weapon.
Tunqi, like Duoduo, believed that when the cavalry participated in the battle, the Qing army would win.
He kept urging the cavalry to cross through the gap in the barbed wire formation, and then quickly organized their formation on the opposite side.
During this process, the infantry of the Qing army was still attacking the defense line of the National Defense Forces to buy time for the cavalry and disrupt the formation of the National Defense Forces.
The newly arrived 38th Regiment killed batch after batch of Qing soldiers on the plain, making it impossible for them to get within a hundred meters.
The gun array has been rotated three times to ensure the continuity of firepower.
However, the number of the Qing army was too large. If it continued, sooner or later the Qing infantry would rush up.
During this process, although the artillery unit had completed loading, it did not fire immediately.
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They are waiting.
When more Qing cavalry crossed the barbed wire formation, there was no turning back.
Anyway, there are hot air balloons high in the sky monitoring them at all times to ensure that they don't miss the best opportunity.
This side of the barbed wire array was already within the coverage of the National Defense Force's artillery, but the cavalry did not encounter any blows during the assembly, which made Tunqi feel vaguely uneasy.
"Let the ones behind move faster. As long as we gather 10,000 cavalry, we will attack first."
Tunqi decided to change the pace and not wait until all the cavalry were assembled.
He is afraid of long nights and many dreams.
But just when the cavalry gathered nearly 10,000 people, the scouts in the hot air balloon discovered something unusual about the Qing army and immediately sent a signal to the rear.
Seeing the little red flag waving desperately, Yu Lichun sounded the alarm.
"Order the artillery regiment to open fire."
The heavy artillery regiment was waiting for the order.
Dozens of heavy artillery fired fierce roars at the same time, quickly covering up all the cries of killing on the battlefield.
The new artillery shells came out of their barrels, jumped up into the sky, and then spanned a distance of several thousand meters before slamming into the Qing cavalry array.
Obviously the sound of the shells exploding was much quieter than before, but the experience of the Qing cavalry was even more tragic.
Countless steel storms roared and swept around, and the steel as small as raindrops was far from being stopped by flesh and blood.
Whether it was a person wearing armor or a horse wearing armor, they all turned into bloody gourds under such a blow.
Almost in the blink of an eye, nearly two thousand Qing cavalry fell.
The souls of the dead in Tunqi appeared in great numbers, and they hurriedly shouted.
"Spread out! Spread out quickly! Charge forward, don't stay where you are."
However, in the aftermath of the explosion, everyone temporarily lost their hearing and could not hear his shouts at all.
Most people were frightened and didn't know what to do.
The frightened war horses went crazy and rushed back and forth in the array, creating even greater chaos.
However, all the cavalrymen who were still passing through the breach in the barbed wire fence were blocked, and they could not be diverted in a short time.
How could the Wehrmacht artillery miss such a good opportunity?
The second round of bombardment soon arrived.
It was another bloody massacre, and the number of Qing soldiers who fell was no less than in the first wave.
Tun Qi almost wanted to vomit blood, so he had to let the guards around him wave the flag and then rush out.
This move was indeed effective. When the cavalry who were still in fear saw their general charging, they didn't need to think too much and followed suit.
It's just that the formation that Tun Qi painstakingly organized has been completely messed up. Is such a cavalry charge really still powerful?
Compared with the chaos of the Qing army, the Wehrmacht's tactics were always orderly.
The observer on the hot air balloon accurately transmitted the data, allowing the heavy artillery regiment to complete the adjustment and hit the third wave of shells on the path of the cavalry charge.
The originally mighty Qing cavalry suddenly became sparse after three rounds of attacks.
