Chapter 1403 Yue Xiaolin picked up a big bargain
The grenade is reliable, although the grenade at this time is heavier, a little rougher, and it is not very elegant to hang on the waist when marching, and it is a little clumsy, but it is reliable, not like a musket to bully your own people.
The first grenade of more than two catties weighed almost twice the weight of the grenades of later generations, but the soldiers hung eight on their waists on both sides, and eight or nine catties on the left and right.
The defending soldiers in iron armor were reluctant to drop the grenade on their waists, in their eyes, this thing was life, a life talisman that would keep them alive until the end of the battle.
They had their comrades still hang their grenades on their chests and abdomen.
When Yue Xiaolin saw it, because the enemy was in front of him, it was too late to change, so he let it go.
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The Qing army would never care about the defenders shooting down.
Front-loading guns were not allowed to shoot downward at small angles, for the simple reason that they were afraid that an insufficiently refined projectile would fall out of the barrel.
Although there are not many such cases, they are explicitly forbidden by military schools.
The Qing army was old and knew that as long as they were close to the city wall, when they climbed up, the defenders would not be able to shoot, so they were very bold and rarely looked up, which also helped to climb quickly.
This time the enemy attacked the city, the ironclad soldiers and infantry were wrong, the infantry used a cloud ladder, the ironclad soldiers used a square ladder, and the ironclad soldiers were in front as a whole.
The moment the enemy ironclad approached the battlements, the show began.
Bump.
Strike!
What happens to the impact of iron armor of the same mass?
Yue Xiaolin could hardly have imagined beforehand.
The iron armor of the defenders of the city braved the rain of arrows like locusts under the city, and before they hit, they also did one thing, that is, they took off the grenade in their chest and abdomen, and threw it into the city without looking.
This is something that ordinary soldiers can't do, and in the sight of the thousands of elite archers under the city, every outcropping defender will be cared for by at least four or five arrows.
But when he put on the iron armor, there was no such danger, and he generously threw the grenade down, and Yue Xiaolin was dumbfounded.
And when the grenades under the city exploded, there were several timid defenders in iron armor, and their spontaneous impact began.
What happens if the same stone hits a stone?
Naturally, it is a rebound in the opposite direction, a reaction force.
I'm afraid that the defenders themselves don't think that this seemingly dangerous maneuver is actually the safest.
Grabbed one, rushed forward two steps, and with a "bang", the enemy screamed and leaned back from the quadrangle ladder to go up and down, while himself, "oh oh", took three or four steps back and stabilized.
With these bold leaders, the impact was out of control.
As soon as the enemy's iron armor hits the wall, someone will rush up and "bang" it.
Yue Xiaolin was shocked, and he couldn't close his mouth.
Some people rejoice and some people are worried,
When Jishiha and Lan Bai saw dozens of iron armor fall from the city like meteorites, they both wanted to die.
You must know that among the eight banners, there are a number of ironclad soldiers in each flag, more than three hundred in one flag, and one hundred at the least, and the eight banners of the Han Dynasty do not have this treatment, and even the cavalry does not wear iron armor, which is the same as Dolgon's creation of ironclad heavy cavalry, iron is hard currency in this era, expensive!
In addition to being frightened, Jishiha gave a wrong order - Mingjin withdrew his troops.
This order put the besieging Qing army in an extremely dangerous situation.
In fact, continuing the offensive at this time, the Qing army still had a chance.
This "bumper car" tactic cannot be replicated and continued, and the main reason for such an accurate impact is that the enemy iron armor is in the stage of ascending the city, and it cannot dodge, so it can only be hard-topped.
But behind the ironclad soldiers is the infantry, as soon as the infantry comes up, this "bumper car" method will end.
Let an ironclad soldier try to hit an infantry, and after a little dodge, he will be thrown off the wall by inertia.
It's a pity that Ji Xiha's flesh hurts, and it's no wonder that among the two yellow flags left by Dolgon, just two iron armors went to camp first, one of which has been gone, and if you want to lose another one, needless to say, you can't have a long face in front of Shen Zhiyuan, I'm afraid that you will have to do it by military law.
This sudden sound of gold made the besieging Qing army retreat like a tide.
Retreating, naturally, the archers run the fastest, they are already in the rear, the safest.
The second is the infantry, but the ironclad soldiers have already climbed the wall, and at this time at least half of them are in the point of not being able to go up or down, and they are sluggish to retreat.
The infantry auxiliary under the city was killed and injured by the grenades of the iron armor of hundreds of defenders before, and they were supposed to be supplemented by the infantry behind, but suddenly Mingjin, for a while, how could there be infantry to replenish?
In this way, the enemy's ironclad soldiers are abandoned.
Seeing this scene in the telescope, he realized that his order was wrong, and he immediately used an even more erroneous order to redeem the previous wrong order, Jishiha passed the flag order, ordering the besieging army to return the same way and rescue the ironclad soldiers.
In this way, the ending of the Qing army, which originally only had to pay the price of ironclad soldiers at most, was instantly rewritten.
In fact, Yue Xiaolin, who was in Jixiha when he suddenly withdrew his troops, did not realize the appearance of the fighter.
He was content to retreat smoothly.
And after seeing the enemy's ironclad soldiers isolated and abandoned, Yue Xiaolin gradually realized that this was a very good fighter to destroy the enemy's ironclad.
At this time, the enemy archers have retreated, and the defenders only need to throw grenades at the ironclad soldiers who can't go up and down, even if they can't be killed, blowing up their ladder can make them fall and be "paralyzed" for life.
But just when Yue Xiaolin was about to give the order to take action against the ironclad soldiers, Ji Xiha gave a second order, and the whole army returned to rescue the ironclad soldiers.
Is there a mistake with this command?
That's right.
Let's not talk about the righteousness of comrades to save each other, let's just say that if Ji Xiha really dares to throw down this iron armor and run away by himself, then it is estimated that he will not even survive tonight, and the people of the two yellow flags will bite him to death.
Although the order is correct, the soldiers are also the same soldiers, but this time and that time.
Before, the ironclad soldiers were in the front, the infantry was second, the archers were in the last, and the tiger squat cannons of the defenders did not pose much threat to the infantry and archers, so they were allowed to approach the city wall smoothly, and there was a battle on the city wall.
But at this time, the ironclad soldiers of the Qing army were still moving down on the half wall, who would cover the infantry and archers?
If it is said that Ji Xi Ha Mingjin only caused a certain amount of chaos before, and the situation was still controllable, then this time he ordered to return to help, which really stabbed a big fistula.
The Qing army reluctantly ran back to save their comrades, they have no opinion, but they can't change the order, how much effort is this, two completely different orders, you know, this back and forth is to use physical strength, isn't it good to use physical strength in fighting?
However, they had no chance to fight, and when they rushed to a distance of five or six hundred paces, the defenders' tiger squatting cannons were in full swing.
A round of salvo fire from the Baimen Tiger squatting cannon directly blinded these Qing troops who were only wearing light armor.
So the scene was extremely unbearable, the Qing army's reinforcement troops were like a nest of rats crossing the street frightened by thunder, scurrying around, there was no way, the Qing army had not been trained to resist artillery bombardment, besides, it couldn't resist.