Chapter 256 Xu Yong's Death
One hundred and twenty twelve-pound field guns, one round of shotgun bombardment, each gun sprayed out at least two hundred lead bullets, and one hundred and twenty cannons sprayed out 30,000 lead bullets, sweeping over the Zuo family cavalry.
In this round of shotgun swept across, the Zuo Family cavalry fell down thousands of people; before this was over, seven hundred light Franchise machines also opened fire at the same time. The sub-gun of each light Franchise was filled with dozens of lead bullets. In a round of volleys, more than 30,000 shotguns were sprayed out. The Zuo Family cavalry, who had just been swept by the twelve-pound cannon, was swept away by the light Franchise aircraft.
At the same time, the six-pound field cannon has been loaded. Two hundred six-pound field cannons spewed out flames, and more than 30,000 shotguns were sprayed out, sweeping over the cavalry formation of the Zuo Family Army once again.
In fact, with the cooperation of infantry, cannons can completely deal with cavalry. The reason why the artillery of the Ming army was unable to deal with the cavalry of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners Army was because the quality of the artillery in the Ming army was not as high as possible, and the gunners often did not dare to load gunpowder according to sufficient amounts, resulting in the weakening of the power of the cannons; the second reason was that the Ming army did not dare to wait until the enemy approached before firing the cannons, so the shotgun lost its effect.
Back then, the range of cannon shotgun was only about fifty steps. If the distance was too far, the cannon would be fired, and the shotgun would be useless.
Less than half of the remaining cavalry of the Zuo Family Army were left. Seeing the casualties of his cavalry, Xu Yong was shocked and angry, and his heart was so distressed that his heart twitched, almost vomiting blood. These soldiers were all old cavalry who had followed him for many years. Unexpectedly, before they could play a role, just the opponent's cannon, they lost more than half of their cavalry.
However, Xu Yong was still familiar with the performance of the cannon. He knew that the Ming army gunners would never have the chance to load and fire again, and there was only fifty steps left. The cavalry arrived in one sprint.
"Storm up and destroy the cannon of Eagle Claws!" Xu Yong shouted, waved his saber and rushed into the Ming army formation with the remaining cavalry.
The spearmen who had just squatted on the ground stood up one after another, pointing the cavalry of the Zuo family army in their hands. But at this time, Xu Yong didn't care about everything. If he didn't rush in and waited for the opponent to load shells, his cavalry would have to be beaten in vain. What's more, the formation of the spearmen of the opponent seemed to be relatively weak, with only three layers of spearmen. He would definitely break through the formation of the new army by losing a group of cavalry.
Xu Yong put his heart on his mind and took out a black cloth from his waist and tied it to the horse's eyes. The cavalry of the Zuo family army behind them also followed suit and covered the horse's eyes with black cloth. Because the horse is a spiritual animal, he would never dare to rush forward when he saw the spear formation. At this time, the cavalry needed to cover the horse's eyes to drive the horse to forcibly attack the spear formation.
As long as they break through the spear formation and destroy the cannons of the Ming New Army, these cavalry will be considered to have completed their mission.
However, when the cavalry of the Zuo family rushed in, they heard a painful neighing sound of war horses. The row of cavalry in front fell to the ground, and the cavalry in front trampled on the ground.
The cavalry in front fell down, which was equivalent to using their flesh and blood to spread a passage for the cavalry behind.
"Kill the Eagle Claws!" He needed to wave his sabre, take the remaining cavalry, step over the corpses of his own cavalry, and rushed towards the Ming army's spearmen who were close to him.
At this moment, the cavalry in front suddenly fell down another large area, as if they were hit by an invisible net.
Xu Yong slowed down his horse speed and then realized that there was a circle of iron wire in front of the Ming army's spearmen formation! The iron wire was pulled on Luzhai, with about five layers of iron wire up and down. There seemed to be thorns on the iron wire. The cavalry and his men and horses hit the iron wire and hung them on the iron wire at once.
Although another group of cavalry was damaged, it also broke the wire array opposite.
Xu Yong led the cavalry and rushed in from the passage paved with flesh and blood of his cavalry. The cavalry rushed in the front bumped into the first row of spearmen's rifle that was inserted diagonally on the ground, and the man was overturned. With the sound of a spear breaking, the horse fell down, and the rifles broke one after another, and a gap appeared in front of the spearmen formation.
The cavalry behind rushed into the gap and ran into the spearmen behind the refusing rifle, which pierced into the body of the war horse. The spear broke, and under the powerful impact force, a row of spearmen in front was knocked backwards, but a large number of human and horse corpses fell in front of the spearmen.
"Bang bang bang" The turtledove guns and Lumi guns behind the spearmen opened fire, and a large number of cavalry rushing up fell down.
The Lumi gunmen who had finished shooting the bullets did not retreat but advanced. They saw them take out a short knife from their waists and insert it into the muzzle. The Lumi gun gun suddenly turned into a short spear. The musketman waved his short spear and rushed up behind the spearmen. The short spear aimed at the rushing cavalry, causing the cavalry of the Zuo family to hit the spearhead themselves.
The cavalry collided with the infantry formation and knocked away the infantry in front, and the cavalry's sprinting speed also decreased.
A large group of axe gunmen holding axe guns and a turtledog gunmen holding axes advanced forward. The axes in their hands were slashed at the cavalry that had lost their speed, and chopped the Zuo family cavalry and their men and horses into two pieces that rushed into the infantry formation.
The restructured new army turtledog gunmen are actually part-time axe soldiers. They usually carry big axe and turtledog guns on their backs when they march. When shooting, the tail of the axe is stuck on the ground, with the axe facing up, and used as a gun stand. The turtledog guns are fired on the axe. After the shooting is completed, they can throw the turtledog guns and pull up the axe from the ground to join the hand-to-hand combat.
There were cavalry following the Zuo family cavalry, and the cavalry did not slow down. Whether it was axes or big axes, it was not easy to deal with cavalry that did not slow down because of the length. Therefore, the spearmen on both sides quickly filled up their positions, concentrated in the middle, forming dense spear formations, blocking the cavalry from the charge.
At this moment, seven hundred light Franco gunners carried the light Franco aircraft directly and pushed forward. They used the light Franco aircraft as a large-caliber musket to shoot at the left cavalry that rushed up.
At the same time, the armored grenadiers appeared. They held a new hair-pull-type sky-shaking thunder in their hands. After pulling the strings, they stayed in their hands for about two breaths, and then threw the sky-shaking thunder with blue smoke into the rear formation of the Zuo Family cavalry.
"Boom boom boom" A violent explosion occurred in the cavalry group of Zuo's family army. The thunder thunder held beside the war horses caused most of the war horses to frighten. The frightened war horses did not listen to the cavalry's orders, and rushed around the cavalry crowd on their own. What's even worse was that in order to attack the new army's spear formation, the cavalry all blinded the eyes of the war horses, and the frightened war horses were like headless flies, slamming into their own people.
The war horses collided with the war horses, and the cavalry on the horses were dropped one after another, and then they were chopped into two pieces by the axe and the turtledove gunman who rushed up.
Even Xu Yong's own war horse collided with his servants, and Xu Yong fell from the horse's back. Before he could get up from the ground, two turtle dove gunmen holding big axes rushed up, raised their axes and slashed Xu Yong into two pieces in the waist with an axe.
Xu Yong died like this. This later general of the Qing Dynasty, the prince Taibao, and the second-class man, Ashanihafan, was split into two pieces by the axe of the new army. He did not even have the chance to make achievements in the Qing Dynasty, and he died tragically at the hands of the Jinyiwei.
A turtledove gunman cut off Xu Yong's head with an axe, held his head in his hand, and shouted at the remaining cavalry of the Zuo family: "Xu Yong has been awarded the head! Surrender to avoid death!"
Some of the cavalry of the Zuo family dismounted and surrendered, while the remaining soldiers turned their horses and turned around and fled to their own positions.
More than 10,000 cavalrymen of the Zuo Family Army, the chief general Xu Yong was killed, and two-thirds of the cavalry were killed and injured. About 500 cavalry surrendered and captured, and less than 3,000 people fled back to Zuo Menggeng's main position. The remaining cavalry could no longer pose any danger to the new army, because at this time, Zhao Peng, who had already wiped out Li Guoying's troops, came with two thousand Jinyiwei's cavalry at night, and there were 10,000 new army infantry behind him, and they also rushed to reinforce his reinforcements.
Chapter completed!