The cannon is an 18-pound mortar that travels with the troops. This cannon tube is squeezed from a steel tube. If it does not include a base, it weighs less than forty kilograms, which is nearly half lighter than its prototype, 24-pound caliber m1852 mortar. Yesterday, it made Jiannu understand what a bloody storm is.

Now, facing the impact of Jiannu’s cavalry, Chen Wudi also prepared a feast for them!

A feast of iron and fire!

Compared with field guns, the advantage of the 18-jin mortar cannon is that it is easy to shoot. When the cannon is placed on a flat ground, the recoil will be transmitted to the bottom plate through the short and thick gun ears located at the tail of the gun barrel. However, the simple structure will also cause inconvenience. Because there is no gun wheel, if the gun's firing direction or moves the position, it must be lifted by strong gunners.

However, compared to its advantages, these are not worth mentioning. Its firing rate is fast enough, not only light, it can march with the troops, but more importantly, its ballistic bending can bombard the enemy from the hollow array. Just like now, this flat-fired field gun does not have the functions.

With Chen Wudi's order, the gunners who had been carrying the cannons for a long time finally started to move. After a long time of patience, they moved extremely quickly, but in just a few breaths, they were ready. Although it was not easy to use a mortar to accurately hit the target, even experienced artillery soldiers would find it difficult to do this. However, they could still accurately send the shells to the right distance.

They had already aimed ahead, and all they needed was to wait for the enemy to reach the "trap". With a command, dozens of mortars fired dozens of grenades toward both wings. Although their accuracy was not high, a larger caliber meant more charge, which to some extent made up for the defect in accuracy.

"The Ming Dog Killed by Heaven..."

Almost when dozens of flames were sprayed out from the Ming army's formation, Abatai cursed in his heart. He even admired the Ming army general for a time. He could really tolerate it and not fired the cannon when he rushed to the formation!

"Nee..." The eighteen-pound grenade was dragging a somewhat dull breathing sound and flew into the sky from the ground. Although the deafening shouts and horse hooves echoed on the battlefield, everyone could clearly hear its roar. His roar was dull. Several pounds of gunpowder allowed the heavy shells to fly out at an initial speed of more than 200 meters. It dragged white smoke and slid out a curved arc in the air, and then smashed into the galloping and continued to expand the horse's herd. A Qing cavalry was running, and its head hit the iron ball, smashed like a watermelon, and then it jumped away in the air. Although the speed was slow, it still splashed several blood mists in the horse team.

The running war horse was directly hit by a grenade. With the broken bones and flesh, the war horse suddenly fell to the ground. The shell first fell to the ground, and then bounced slightly, swept over the hoof of another war horse. The hoof of the war horse immediately became shattered and fell to the ground immediately.

Although only a few attack shells hit the target, the real threat was the next few seconds.

With a loud bang, the shells that fell on the ground exploded. The shells exploded under the belly of the war horses, overturning the nearby war horses and cavalry to the ground at the same time. Immediately, one attack shell after another exploded one after another... Although the timing of these shells was not accurate, the bombs that exploded one after another still blew up the Jiannu cavalry who were charging. Dozens of smoke quickly emerged from the horses and rose into the air. The violent explosion and thousands of fragments roared at the nearby war horses. The injured war horses immediately raised their front hooves and fell to the ground in a wail, throwing the Jiannu on their backs to the ground.

However, the explosion of shells did not stop Jiannu's charge. Although the artillery in the square array launched several times in a short period of time, the charge horses rushed to them soon.

"kill……"

At the moment of charge, the Jiannu flag soldiers on the horse's back did not try to slow down, but instead used the impact of the war horse to stab the spear forward with great force. Although at the moment of impact, facing the wall formation formed by the sabers, the war horses still instinctively wanted to escape those unknown risks. However, before turning the horse, they still stabbed the spear into the iron wall of the Ming army. The Ming army officers and soldiers who formed the swords only felt the stinging pain from their chests and abdomen, and then fell heavily.

The Jiannu cavalry had already mastered a set of ways to deal with the Ming army's hollow gun array, which was to charge with cavalry and break through the wall with guns. Although the dense hollow gun array seemed impossible to be conquered by cavalry, the collision of cavalry that left the gun at one blow still caused the Ming army to suffer a heavy price.

However, the Ming army in the formation did not get beaten against the Qing army's cavalry and spear charge. Although the Huben Camp was a heavy Iron Man rifle, their weapons were not only slashing horses, but also the musketeers of the Sixth General. In the formation, under the protection of the iron wall, they pulled the trigger towards the Jiannu cavalry.

Amidst the deafening gunfire, Jiannu's cavalry were constantly knocked down in front of the formation, but the cavalry from the two wings continued to attack the Ming army with their cavalry. They just took a single blow and the spear tip pierced the Ming army's armor. The moment they knocked off their guns and left, they abandoned their guns and left, sometimes, they would be hit by the horses behind and hit the gun formation formed by the Ming army with horses. They were pierced by the sharp knife tips. When the horse fell to the ground, the cavalry even picked up the tip of the knife, struggling and screaming.

The Ming army's counterattack was extremely resolute. Despite facing the repeated attacks of thousands of Jiannu cavalry, the Ming army in the formation continued to attack them with muskets. A scorching lead bullet penetrated the Qing army's armor and knocked them down from the war horses. In the wave-like attack of the cavalry, the once strong square formation as iron wall was being weakened bit by bit. When the soldiers were pierced by the cavalry's gun and fell down, although the comrades in the back row would immediately face them and stand in his position, the soldiers fell one by one. As the number of casualties increased, the square formation had reached a shaky point.

"Boom! Boom!..." At the same time, the Qing army's artillery team was also bombarding the iron wall with red cannons. The former Great Wall was on the verge of disintegration in the wave-like attack of the Qing army.

Seeing that the military formation was on the verge of disintegration, Chen Wudi, who was in the center of the military formation, looked in the direction of Zhong Shan, and then his eyes became determined. He silently picked up the sabre in his hand.
Chapter completed!