I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Wu Jun only rested for a day, and the siege began the next day.

As soon as the forty red-clothed cannons were launched, Li Chengdong and Zhang Yingyuan on the city wall almost vomited blood. This is too bullying, isn't it? It takes so many cannons to beat a small county like yourself?

"Brother Li, you can't let their artillery go on like this. Send cavalry to kill all those artillerymen."

Zhang Yingyuan suggested that their army also had 5,000 cavalry, who could undertake the task of assaulting artillery positions.

"Their artillery is protected by a flintlock troop, and rushing over is basically a sheep into the tiger's mouth."

Li Chengdong shook his head. Obviously, the opponent's general was a qualified commander. He didn't make some low-level mistakes and protected the artillery positions well.

Tactically unable to win by surprise, and equipment is suppressed, this kind of battle is really too difficult to fight.

"You have to give it a try. If these artillerymen are allowed to blast down, the city wall will not last for an hour. Without the city wall, we have no chance of winning."

Zhang Yingyuan couldn't see that the opponent's artillery was protected, but even so, he wanted to try it.

Maybe the Wu army was slow to respond, and their cavalry could smoothly charge in front of the artillery.

After all, those artillerymen were not far from the city wall, only about three miles. It only takes two minutes for the horses to charge at high speed.

"Then give it a try."

Li Chengdong has no better way. If he doesn't take some countermeasures and let those red-clothed cannons continue to bombard, the morale of the army will be greatly affected.

The most taboo thing in battle is to be beaten unilaterally and not be able to counterattack.

The gate on the east side was opened, and 5,000 cavalrymen rushed out, charging towards the artillery positions of the Wu army.

Wu Jun's commander found out the other party's intention at the first time through the telescope.

"Array."

With a loud shout, the five thousand flintlock troops stood in front of the artillery positions and formed several large hollow phalanxes.

"Change shells, solid bullets, target cavalry."

"The cavalry is ready to counter-charge."

Throughout the battlefield, various orders were issued in an orderly manner. The soldiers at the bottom actually didn't know what was going on, they couldn't see the situation of the entire battlefield, and they only knew how to obey the commander's orders.

"boom."

The first to attack was the artillery, who had the farthest attack.

Large iron balls flew into the advancing cavalry formations, causing various tragedies.

The iron ball had powerful kinetic energy, smashing and killing anyone. After falling to the ground, these iron balls did not stop immediately, but bounced and rolled on the ground, hitting more horses.

The horse itself is charging at high speed, with powerful kinetic energy. In this case, if the iron ball is encountered, 100% of the horse's leg will be broken and fractured, and no one will be spared.

The only good news for the Qing army was that the artillery had a very slow rate of fire, basically only one round before they could rush to the front.

In other words, they only need to take forty shots.

Not all of the forty shells were able to hit the target. Only twenty or so shells could effectively kill the Qing army. The other shells did not know where they went.

The smoothbore gun is not accurate, and the level of artillery is poor. These are the reasons.

However, even more than 20 shells fell into the Qing army's cavalry formation, causing great damage and at least 100 people of the Qing army were reimbursed.

Subsequently, the Qing army entered the range of the flintlock guns, and the flintlock troops also opened fire.

Their rate of fire was only enough for two shots, and the cavalry had already rushed in front of them.

However, in just these two rounds of shooting, at least nearly five hundred cavalry were killed.

This kind of killing efficiency is very terrifying, and I don't know how many times higher than the traditional cavalry hand-to-hand combat. The traditional cavalry hedging looks powerful, but because of the limited contact surface, not many people can be killed in a single charge.

Just like now, they are suffering from long-range blows that do not need to be touched, and the surface of the blows is very large.

When the cavalrymen saw that the Paoze fell one by one, they were already terrified.

Changed to infantry, at this time they may have turned around and fled directly.

However, they are cavalry. Once the cavalry charges, there is no turning back, they can only charge to the end.

The rest of the cavalry rushed to the hollow square, except for a few horses who couldn't dodge and bumped into it, most of the remaining horses bypassed these bright bayonets and chose to pass by.

How to crack the hollow phalanx is a major problem for the cavalry. Perhaps the only way to break through is by arming the horses and then blindfolding them.

And this method, Li Chengdong and the others have not thought of it yet.

So, their cavalry fell into the trap again.

Except for a few cavalrymen next to Wu Jun, who could use long sabres to cause some damage to Wu Jun, all the remaining cavalry became living targets.

One by one, the cavalry fell off their horses, and then they were trampled into flesh mud by the horses behind them, which was horrible to watch.

The cavalry who rushed through the hollow phalanx found that there were still two rows of spearmen in front of the artillery position, completely desperate. Without the fighting spirit, they can only choose to go around and try to escape.

If you rush hard, you can of course break through these spearmen and kill some artillerymen.

However, they also absolutely die.

The consciousness of these soldiers is not high enough to sacrifice their lives for the sake of the Qing Dynasty

Righteousness, so one by one chose to detour to escape.

At this time, the Wu Jun cavalry who had been prepared for a long time also launched a charge, charging towards the Qing Jun cavalry who had been frightened, and it was another massacre.

The sadness of the cavalry is that it is difficult to find an opportunity to surrender.

It is too easy for an infantry to surrender. Throwing away their weapons and kneeling on the ground, the enemy can immediately understand what they mean, and generally they will not kill again.

As for the cavalry, there is no place to kneel for them on the horse, and there is no iconic surrender action for them to do.

Even if they threw their weapons away, the enemy feared that they would flee too fast, and opted for simpler kills.

When the cavalry of the Qing army, which had been repeatedly ravaged, left the battlefield, there were only less than 800 cavalry left, and the damage rate exceeded 80%.

This troop is completely abolished. At this time, let alone let them fight again, it is not bad to be able to keep calm and not go crazy.

On the city wall of Wuhu County, Li Chengdong and others did not have binoculars, so they could only vaguely see the battlefield situation in the distance.

They estimated the loss through the shadow area of ​​the cavalry, and all of them suddenly opened their mouths and couldn't say a word.

This special round of charge is almost completely reimbursed. This is an extremely flexible cavalry, not a clumsy infantry. This kind of war damage is completely incomprehensible.

The sound of the cannon sounded again, and Wu Jun's cannon was replaced by howitzer shells and fell on the city wall.

Li Chengdong and the others were wrong. Liu Hansan and the others never thought of destroying their city walls at all. They just wanted to destroy the Qing army through mass killings.

The howitzer is much better than solid bullets in terms of killing.

Every time a howitzer successfully exploded on the city wall, dozens of Qing troops would lose their combat effectiveness.

"General, let's go down. It's too dangerous to stay on the city wall, and the enemy's bombardment is too powerful."

Zhang Yingyuan saw a howitzer explode not far away, and more than 20 Qing soldiers instantly fell down on the city wall and cried. That kind of tragic situation, he saw that he was flustered.

If you accidentally get a shot, you won't even have a chance to dodge.