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Chapter 98 The fate of the cannon fodder

Carrying a bucket of black gunpowder and crossing mountains and ridges with his subordinates, after returning to Moguyu Valley, Wei Zheng had not recovered from the surprise of huge harvests, Zhou Shuyuan, who was staying in Moguyu Valley, hurried over.

After seeing Wei Zheng, he shouted: "General, this time, we have overshot..."

"The Tartars stationed outside Moguyu did not retreat but advanced, and began to show signs of launching a large-scale attack on us..."

Wei Zheng frowned and asked with confusion, "Attack... Without artillery, how can the Tartars break our explosive pack...Don't Dorgon know that such an attack will not achieve any effect except for death?"

After saying that, Wei Zheng continued to ask: "Military advisor, is it possible that the Tartars were bluffing to cover their next retreat..."

Zhou Shuyuan shook his head and replied: "It's absolutely impossible to be a bluff..."

"More than 5,000 Tartars and infantry followers gathered in front of our front-line positions... If it were bluffing, the Tartars would never send so many people to act for us..."

"In addition, there are a large number of shield cars and heavy shields attacking with the Tartars... In short, the Tartars' current actions are all preparing for the offensive, and they are definitely not bluffs."

Hearing this, Wei Zheng also became nervous and ordered loudly: "Why are you still stunned? Go up to the city wall immediately. In addition, he ordered the musket battalion and artillery battalion to enter the position immediately and prepare for battle. Tell the brothers of the two battalions that we had seized tens of thousands of kilograms of gunpowder from the Tatars. As long as the Tatars dare to attack, they would fight me with great strength..."

"In addition, the few people who stayed in Moguyu in the Weapon Floor were notified to take out a thousand kilograms of explosives from the seized gunpowder to make ten kilograms of explosives packs in case of emergency..."

After saying that, Wei Zheng quickly walked towards the city wall...

Just in this moment, the huge infantry phalanx that followed the first three hundred Tartar archers was formed under Dorgon's personal command.

When Wei Zheng rushed up the city wall and raised his telescope, he pushed the shield cart and the infantry phalanx holding the shield, like a black cloud, slowly pressing towards the front line of Mushroom Valley.

"General, Dorgon had more than a thousand people at one move, and there were thousands of people behind him. The military advisor was right. Dorgon was really angry by our artillery troops attacking him. He was ready to attack Moguyu at any cost and destroy us..." Wang Feng, who had a solemn expression, said to himself.

Wei Zheng put down his telescope and said with a murderous look on his face: "No matter whether Dorgon is angry or not, as long as he dares to attack our Tiger and Leopard Army, our Tiger and Leopard Army will repel it..."

"Besides, now we have enough gunpowder in our hands and we have brought back a lot of heavy Flang machines. As long as Dorgon dares to come, we will let him come and go without a return, and try the power of our Tiger and Leopard Army..."

Soon, the distance between the two armies was shortened to 150 steps.

When Wei Zheng raised his telescope again, nine explosions like thunder suddenly rang out on the front line of positions and reached Wei Zheng's ears.

Under Wei Zheng's gaze, the moment when the nine regiments of orange-red fireballs mixed with a large amount of black smoke rose on the position, nine solid shells flew out of the black cannon chamber and flew towards the Tartar shield chariot at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Although the collision sound of the shell hitting the target could not be reached Wei Zheng's ear, the scene of the Tartar shield chariot being split into pieces when the shell hit the shell was clearly visible through the telescope and seen in Wei Zheng's eyes.

"Okay... the artillery is good..." Wei Zheng, holding the telescope, couldn't help but cheer.

Zhou Shuyuan, who was standing behind the side, spoke: "General, this is the first round of shells fired by the medium-sized Folang artillery team of the artillery battalion. If we replace the heavy Folang we just seized, we can easily destroy the shield chariots blocking the Tartars from the front of us two hundred steps away."

Wei Zheng nodded and ordered decisively: "Since that's the case, let the brothers fight like this..."

"In addition, we ordered the cavalry battalion to help the Huzun artillery team send all the newly seized Folang aircraft to the second and third-line positions for arrangement. Since these artillery fell into our hands, we must let it work..."

The violent sound of cannons continued to sound on the battlefield, and the shields and chariots blocking the Tatars were smashed to pieces one after another.

On the surface, the Tartars have been in a passive state of being beaten, but in fact they are not.

On the one hand, the power of solid shells is limited, and after destroying the shield car, it is difficult to cause too much secondary damage to the enemies behind them.

On the other hand, in the entire attacking phalanx, the infantry and soldiers were standing in front of them. No matter how many deaths were, the Tartars would not be heartbroken.

Therefore, when facing the attack, the expression on the face of the infantry and the soldiers changed.

He continued to hold the longbow and yelled to urge the infantry officers in front to speed up the attack.

With one hundred steps, the light Folang machine also joined the battle.

Eighty steps, the muskets made by the Tiger and Leopard Army themselves have joined the war...

At this moment, the Tartar archers, who were immediately following the infantry, moved.

Raise the longbow high, pull the arrow and pull the string, and release the bowstring...

A slight trembling sound of bowstrings sounded, and more than three hundred arrows left the strings, drew a beautiful arc in the air, and rushed towards the tiger and leopard army on the ground at an increasingly rapid speed.

Under the test of combat, the Tiger and Leopard Army, which became more and more familiar with the Tartars' attack methods, did not take the arrows whistling down from the Tartars at all.

Hold the shield high, except for a few arrows passing through the gaps in the shield and piercing into the ground or the bodies of the tiger and leopard soldiers, all the remaining arrows are nailed to the shield.

At this time, the infantry and soldiers who stood in front of the Tartars were in trouble.

As the two armies get closer, the hit rate of shells becomes higher and higher. Of course, the power of shells becomes greater and greater.

The shield wall blocking in front of the infantry officers has become full of gaps at this moment.

Not only that, as the shelling continued, the gap became larger and larger.

Of course, the Musketeer would not let go of such a good opportunity.

"Bapapapa..." The messy and crisp guns kept ringing on the battlefield, and the hot lead bullets were like the god of death, constantly harvesting the infantry and soldiers behind the gap.

Soon, the intensive attack formation composed of infantry and soldiers was hit by lead bullets and several gaps were made. The infantry and soldiers within the gap either turned into corpses or fell to the ground and wailed, waiting for death to come to them.

After fifty steps, more than three hundred Tartars fell on the attacking road one after another.
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