Ming Zuo

Chapter 1447 The Lonely Age of Cold Weapons
The barbed wire array was broken, and in Duduo's view, this was a sign of victory.

Because this is the only fortification that the National Defense Forces rely on, as long as it is crossed, it will be flat.

The Ninth Division is a pure infantry division. How can it fight against the elite Qing cavalry on this great plain?

He had already seen Tun Qi leading the cavalry to cross the barbed wire formation and was about to join the battlefield.

This made Doduo couldn't help but feel a little excited, and his heart was full of expectations.

In the Korean battlefield, Huang Taiji personally commanded it, but he still couldn't beat the National Defense Forces.

If he wins the National Defense Army now, doesn't that mean...he has already surpassed Huang Taiji and became the number one general in the Manchu Qing Dynasty?

If so, his fame will reach the sky.

Since the elder brother Dorgon can become the regent, then he can work hard, can't he?

Or find a chance to kill that kid Fulin and replace him?
The still very young Duduo's thinking began to spread, and he only felt that his future had infinite possibilities.

He still doesn't know that he is actually a short-lived ghost, and he doesn't live as long as Dorgon.

He didn't even know that his lifespan might be shorter in this time and space.

Seeing the Qing army rushing through the barbed wire formation, Yu Lichun smiled with an inexplicable expression on his face.

"Tell the artillery to replace it with a new type of artillery shell, and destroy all the cavalry of the Qing army."

Orders were delivered quickly.

Xue Hongtu, head of the heavy artillery regiment, was overjoyed.

Finally got to use the new guy.

He walked out of the command post and shouted orders at everyone.

"Each artillery position obeys orders and replaces fragmentation shells."

Under the order, all the artillerymen opened the new boxes on the side one after another, and took out new-style shells from inside.

Scientific military development will inevitably promote the progress of scientific weapons.

In the eyes of the Qing army, shells that can explode are already terrifying, but the National Defense Forces have never stopped research and development, and have been enriching their arsenal.

After years of battlefield practice, the National Defense Forces have found that simply exploding shells are very effective against fortifications, but they are not as effective against living forces.

The appearance of the shotgun has given some inspiration to the artillery research and development department.

They made a batch of new shells.

In this new type of shell, the charge was reduced by half and replaced with a more powerful gunpowder.The spare space inside the cartridge case is filled with various iron balls, steel balls, iron nails and other sundries.

Moreover, when the cartridge case was cast, a certain grid was carried out.

In this way, when the shell explodes, the fragile shell and the sundries inside will turn into the most terrifying life harvester, sweeping all the spaces within four to 50 meters madly.

This kind of shell was used to hit the walls, trenches, and fortresses without any effect.But killing people in an open space is very scary.

In the previous battle, because there was barbed wire blocking and the cavalry of the Qing army did not enter the field, the artillery still greeted with traditional artillery shells.

Now that Duoduo has sent out the precious cavalry, the National Defense Forces have also come up with a big killer.

Tunqi, like Duoduo, believed that when the cavalry participated in the battle, it was when the Qing army won.

He kept urging the cavalry to quickly pass through the gap in the barbed wire formation, and then quickly rearranged the formation on the opposite side.

During this process, the infantry of the Qing army was still attacking the defense line of the Wehrmacht, so as to buy time for the cavalry and disrupt the formation of the Wehrmacht.

The newly arrived 38th regiment killed batch after batch of Qing soldiers on the plain, making it impossible for them to approach within a hundred meters.

The musket array has been rotated three times to ensure the continuity of firepower.

But the number of the Qing army is too many, if it continues, sooner or later they will be rushed up by the Qing army infantry.

During this process, although the artillery unit had completed loading, it did not fire immediately.

They are waiting.

Waiting for more cavalry of the Qing army to cross the barbed wire formation, and the moment when they can no longer turn back.

Anyway, there are hot air balloons in the sky watching at any time to ensure that they will not miss the best time.

The side of the barbed wire array was already within the coverage of the National Defense Army artillery, but the cavalry did not encounter any blows during the assembly process, which made Tun Qi feel faintly uneasy.

"Let the ones behind be quicker, as long as we gather [-] cavalry, we will attack first."

Tun Qi decided to change the rhythm, not waiting for all the cavalry to assemble.

He is afraid of long nights and dreams.

But when the cavalry gathered nearly [-], the scouts in the hot air balloon discovered the abnormality of the Qing army and immediately sent a signal to the rear.

Seeing the little red flag waving desperately, Yu Lichun rang the alarm.

"Order the artillery regiment to fire."

The heavy artillery regiment can be regarded as waiting for the order.

Dozens of heavy cannons roared fiercely at the same time, quickly covering up all the shouts of killing on the battlefield.

The new-style artillery shells came out of their chambers, leaped into the sky, spanned a distance of several thousand meters, and smashed into the formation of the Qing cavalry one after another.

Obviously, the sound of the shell explosion was much smaller than before, but what happened to the Qing cavalry was even more tragic.

Countless steel storms howled and swept around, and the steel as small as raindrops was far from being blocked by flesh and blood.

Whether it was a man in armor or a horse in armor, they all turned into blood gourds in such a blow.

Almost in the blink of an eye, nearly 2000 Qing cavalry fell.

The souls of the dead in Tunqi were terrified, and they hurriedly shouted.

"Spread out! Scatter quickly! Charge forward, don't stay where you are."

In the aftermath of Naihe's explosion, everyone lost their hearing for a short time, and couldn't hear his shout at all.

The vast majority of people were frightened, and they didn't know what to do.

And the frightened war horses went crazy, rushing back and forth in the formation, creating even greater chaos.

However, all the cavalry who were still passing through the gap 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 shelling is coming soon.

There was another bloody massacre, and the number of fallen Qing troops was no less than that of the first wave.

Tun Qi wanted to vomit blood, so he had no choice but to let the guards around him wave the flag, and then ran out.

This trick really worked. The cavalry who were still in fear saw the general charging, and they didn't need to think too much, they followed up one after another.

It's just that the formation organized by Tun Qi's painstaking efforts has been completely messed up. Is such a cavalry charge really powerful?
Compared with the chaos of the Qing army, the National Defense Army's tactics have always been orderly.

The observers 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 way of the cavalry charge.

The originally mighty cavalry of the Qing army suddenly became sparse after three rounds of attacks.

(End of this chapter)