Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 235 Barbed Wire

"Boom boom boom..." The Qing army was only a few dozen feet away from the front of the new army. The artillery of the new army still did not stop, and the Qing army had lost more than one-third of the chariots.

When the distance was about [-] feet, the counterattack of the Qing army also started. I saw soldiers of the Qing army suddenly appearing from the chariot, and then started shooting with bird guns.

In the carriage, there is also a special person responsible for loading the shooter with projectiles, and then handing the shotguns loaded with projectiles to the shooter, so that the shooter can shoot faster.

"Bang bang bang..." One by one, the soldiers of the Qing army shot on the running chariot.

"Whoosh, whoosh..." Some Qing troops drew their bows and set up arrows and shot arrows.

Soldiers of the new army fell sparsely one by one. Most of these fallen soldiers did not die, but suffered some injuries.

Because the plate armor they wear is still very defensive. At this distance, as long as they don't hit an unprotected position, neither the bird gun nor the heavy arrow of the Qing army can break through its defense.

The vacancies left by the fallen soldiers were quickly filled, and the new soldiers in the first row had already raised their flintlock guns.

The commander stared fixedly at the approaching distance of the enemy until the nearest group of chariots approached a distance of about ten feet, and he gave an order, "Fire."

"Bang bang bang..." the soldier of the new army pulled the trigger without hesitation.

"Bang bang bang..." The bullets hit the shield of the chariot, which could not cause much damage, but some bullets hit the Qing army who stood up and shot from the chariot, and one of them fell down and fell down. .

After the first row of soldiers fired, they immediately withdrew to the third row, and the second row quickly changed into the first row. After giving an order, they pulled the trigger without hesitation.

Due to the protection of the car, the enemy suffered much fewer casualties than the previous attack, but the new army didn't care, and continued to shoot according to its own rhythm.

Finally, the Qing army was only three feet away from the front of the new army.

"Kill..." The Qing army hiding behind the chariot roared and rushed out immediately.

"Bang bang bang..." As soon as these people rushed out, they were cut off by a round of shooting from the new army.

But they were already at such a close distance, they were naturally unwilling to give up easily, they were divided into three teams, one team attacked from the front, and the other two teams attacked from the gap in the defense line.

However, those who attacked from the front first encountered a big problem. They found that what stood in front of them and was concealed by the new army's camouflage was not a civil structure, but a barbed iron bar.

These iron bars are wrapped around the wooden stakes, and they are wound in a spiral shape, they cannot be pushed, and the knives keep cutting.

If you rush up directly, the spikes on it look like hedgehogs, full of malice.

"Bang bang bang..." When the Qing army had nothing to do with the barbed wire, the soldiers of the new army shot at it close at hand, and the Qing army screamed and fell down.

Although some Qing troops also took the opportunity to shoot arrows and throw spears to inflict damage on the soldiers of the new army, but these scattered counterattacks were naturally not as ferocious as the close-range intensive harvesting of the new army.

The Qing army was naturally aware of this. No matter how fierce they were, they had to retreat temporarily under such a large asymmetric casualties. Many people took the initiative to retreat behind the chariot.

In this way, the first fierce attack of the Qing army was quickly extinguished.

However, the other two Qing troops rushed towards the gap in the defense line, but it was a blow to the head, because the new army finally used that kind of advanced firearms.

I do not know when, the new army has deployed several MG42 machine guns in the artillery positions, aiming at these so-called gaps in the defense line, forming a cross-fire network.

These Qing soldiers who rushed over fiercely undoubtedly hit the muzzle of the gun directly. At such a short distance, the human body is as fragile as paper under the terrifying tearing force of MG42.

Almost a bloody slaughter, a frenzied harvest.

In a short while, hundreds of people turned into a pile of minced meat, blood flowed like a river, and the two gaps were blocked by thousands of broken corpses of the Qing army.

No matter how crazy a person is, in the face of this one-sided massacre, they can only sigh and shy away.

The new army told them with facts that the gap was blocked, and the Qing army immediately gave up their plan to rush into the new army formation through the gap.

However, a new thing like barbed wire was still a natural moat that the Qing army could not overcome.

Even though the soldiers of the new army were just a few feet away, they couldn't reach the swords and spears in their hands, so they could only fight back with bows and arrows and blunderbusses.

However, with bows and arrows and bird guns, there is no way to counter the intensive shooting from the new army.

Even ordinary soldiers of the Qing army knew that the only way to defeat the new army was close combat, so that the new army could no longer use this formation and could only fight with knives in their hands.

However, this line of defense composed of thin iron wires blocked the way, and some Qing soldiers raised their swords and slashed frantically, but it was difficult to cut a passage in a short time.

And the soldiers of the new army are close at hand, and they will not be given time to slowly destroy the barbed wire.

In this way, the Qing army, which paid a great price and rushed fiercely, was blocked by a small barbed wire fence, and the attack was blocked.

Because of the distance, Boluo didn't even know what happened here, why his own people couldn't even climb up such a high defense line, and they were actually blocked there and couldn't get an inch.

However, he didn't care so much, and immediately sent out the [-] cavalry in his hands, hoping that the cavalry could open up the situation when the infantry attracted the attention of the new army.

He just saw that many new army soldiers were transferred from the right wing to the front. Obviously, the frontal attack also put some pressure on the new army.

"Rumble..." With the sound of horseshoes, three thousand cavalrymen of the Qing army dispersed and attacked the right wing of the new army's position.

"Boom boom boom..." The artillery on the right side of the new army opened fire, and the shells fell one after another, smashing the horses and the cavalry on their backs into a pulp.

Although some shells did not hit the target directly, they also fell beside the target. The frightened horse lost its balance and fell forward fiercely, and the cavalry on horseback were also violently thrown away.

The horse neighed continuously, but the other cavalry turned a deaf ear and continued to urge the horse forward.

Immediately afterwards, these cavalrymen experienced the bombardment of grape bullets and cannonballs, and finally approached the front of the new army several tens of feet away.

The cavalry was also divided into three groups, the main force attacked from the front, and the other two groups rushed towards the gap where the defense lines joined.

At this moment, a group of soldiers from the new army stepped forward and quickly pulled off the camouflaged thin wooden planks, revealing the real face of the barbed wire.

After these soldiers retreated, the first row of soldiers of the musketeers of the new army also raised their flintlocks and waited for the enemy cavalry to approach.

At a distance of about fifteen feet, the commander gave an order, "Fire..."

"Bang bang bang..." A group of people turned their backs on their backs. Of the Qing cavalry who rushed to the front, only a few cavalry escaped, and the rest turned on their backs.

Even if they were a little behind, many cavalrymen fell off their horses, or their horses were hit and overturned, because they didn't have companions in front of them to help them block the oncoming bullets.

(End of this chapter)