Chapter 1401: The Battle of Huling City (1)
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In fact, in the face of this kind of heavy iron armor, Yue Xiaolin was also stunned at the beginning.
But he quickly recalled that Wu Zheng had encountered this kind of ironclad soldier when he recovered Wuxi and Changzhou.
Wu Zheng's response at that time was to stab the iron armor soldier in the neck at close range in the way of "ground knife" for the first time, where the helmet and the iron armor were jointed, and there was an irremediable gap, the reason was very simple, if there was really no gap, wouldn't it be a zombie?
I can't turn my head, I can't move my arms, how can I walk, climb the wall, and fight?
When attacking Changzhou for the second time, Wu Zheng's response was to use the hundred collar iron armor offered by the people of Jiangyin to govern his body in the way of others, and to fight hard against the city wall, and directly hit it and shook it.
This kind of actual combat example is basically familiar to the cadets of military academies.
Yue Xiaolin is naturally no exception.
Therefore, he ordered the ironclad soldiers to be put on the city wall, wanting to repeat the old events of Wu Zheng's time.
In fact, the situation at this time was much more favorable than when Wu Zheng fought against the ironclad soldiers for the first time.
At that time, Li Haiwei did not have regular gun stabbing, and he used knives and broadswords to kill the enemy.
It is even more difficult to pierce and cut the throat of an enemy with only the tip of a knife.
Although the spears of the Northern Expeditionary Army are also heavy, they are long and much thinner than knives.
More importantly, almost all the soldiers of today's Northern Expeditionary Army have passed through the furnace of military schools, and their will to fight and initiative are much stronger.
As the ironclad soldiers approached step by step, and the enemy infantry below the city had not yet reached the city, hundreds of defenders quickly fell forward, and then crawled towards the ironclad soldiers.
This is extremely difficult for these ironclad soldiers, and suddenly lost the target in front of them, this action of bowing their heads is really too difficult, and the iron armor under their necks covers and restricts their sight.
But Yue Xiaolin is not an immortal, and he also made a mistake, which is almost irreparable.
The ironclad soldiers are indeed cumbersome, but they can bow their heads, no matter how bad they are, and take a step back, they can still see the movements of the defenders.
At the same time, this bowing of the head invisibly dissolved Yue Xiaolin's hindsight, that is to say, because of the bowing of the head, the gap between the original helmet and the iron armor was covered.
The defenders turned around and threw their heads upwards with their bayonets, all of which were blocked.
The two sides were close at hand, and a defender in front of him accidentally fell down in a panic, and was trampled on the chest and abdomen by the heavy feet of the ironclad soldiers, screaming on the spot, vomiting blood, this kind of miserable scream, the most demoralized.
Time is pressing, as long as half a pillar of incense time, as soon as the enemy infantry pours into the city, it is a river of spring water flowing eastward.
Yue Xiaolin was in a hurry and fired a shot.
This shot is crooked.
Maybe it was providence, Yue Xiaolin's shot in a hurry hit the head of an ironclad soldier.
The ironclad has a helmet on his head, and because he bows his head, the holes in his eyes are no longer targeted, so what's the use of hitting?
In fact, the defenders were blinded. Useful, very useful.
The Ironclad Soldiers are selected and have an extremely strong physique.
Even if they were hit head-on by the musket, they could resist the past, but that didn't mean they weren't injured, maybe behind the mask, there was a mouth full of blood.
But their heads can't resist, the round projectile, although it can't penetrate the helmet like the pointed bullets of later generations, but it will make the human head in the iron helmet, as if it was smashed by a giant hammer, this is not something that normal people can resist, even if they are not stunned on the spot, the huge reverberation in the iron helmet can also paralyze people.
The defenders have never had such an experience, and in their opinion, the larger the target, the higher the degree of hit, and the military school also teaches so.
Because it is impossible to train every recruit to be a sharpshooter, and on the battlefield, aim at the enemy's head, that is simply a waste of bullets.
So, it was the huge body that was aimed at, but the relatively small head was neglected, in fact, even on the battlefield of later generations, except for the sniper, of course.
And Yue Xiaolin's shot, with a "bang", directly knocked down this ironclad soldier.
After the ironclad soldier was hit, he didn't even say a word, he flipped backwards, and smashed on the solid brick floor of the city wall like a puppet stone statue, making a dull loud noise, and at this moment, both sides were stunned.
After a short period of stunned, Yue Xiaolin quickly sobered up and immediately ordered, "Hit the enemy's head!" ”
It is said that stupid people should take care of it, but Yue Xiaolin is not stupid, not only is he not stupid, but he also reacts quickly.
In this way, it is difficult to win!
He inadvertently hit the right one, which was not his shot crooked, but ordered the ironclad soldiers to go up the city wall.
It is precisely because the enemy is on the city wall that the two sides are close at hand, and the head with an iron helmet is still a small target?
The flint musket with the bayonet, which was almost more than eight feet, almost fired against the enemy, and the difficulty of this hit was quickly reduced to a minimum.
The slowness of the ironclad soldier is not that the person is unresponsive, but that after the armor is on, he becomes sluggish.
They can't turn around quickly, except for backwards and forwards, if they want to turn by twisting their bodies, they can't do it, which is like a car turning in later generations, and you can make up for it.
As a result, there was a "bang" like a broken gong...... Boom...... While...... After the sound of "", on the city wall, there were no longer standing ironclad soldiers, and all of them smashed to the ground.
Yue Xiaolin immediately shouted: "The battlements meet the enemy!" ”
This sound is definitely the wisest order in this battle.
In fact, at the time of this shout, the hands of the enemy's infantry were already exposed on the battlements.
There was no time to reload, and the defenders directly stabbed the enemy with their guns, and suddenly countless Qing soldiers screamed and fell down, like dumplings.
But at this time, the rain of arrows from the city came .......
Wounded a thousand enemies, and eight hundred self-inflicted.
Yue Xiaolin didn't have time to feel heartache, so he immediately ordered the cannon to be fired.
Naturally, it was the tiger squat cannon, this time, the Qing infantry and archers in front of them were in trouble, they did not have the cover of the ironclad soldiers, and were directly exposed to the power of the tiger squat cannon.
The shrapnel of the tiger squat cannon can't hurt the ironclad soldiers, but for ordinary soldiers, it is as casual as cutting leeks.
Jishiha finally ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.
In the first battle, the two sides ended in a near draw.
Of course, this is from the standpoint of the Qing army, but in fact, the defenders suffered more than 200 casualties, and the Qing army suffered more than 600 casualties, including 300 ironclad soldiers who were wiped out by the entire army.
It stands to reason that this battlefield situation has explained everything, once the ironclad soldiers cannot withstand the muskets and artillery of the Northern Expeditionary Army as scheduled, then, unless it is to fill the lives of people, otherwise, as long as the defenders have enough ammunition, it will be a predictable massacre.
They all say that if you don't die, you won't die.
The starting point of Jishiha and Rhambai is still to stay at the supremacy of personal interests.
For them, it is unacceptable to let a Han boy hover over their heads.