Chapter 252: The Unbelievable Death Trap (Third Update, Ask for Subscription)
It's a well-constructed death trap.
Not to mention the fishskin tartars that fell into the trap, even the people who built the trap didn't expect it to work so well.
Everyone was dumbfounded!
Sun Maocai and Xu Linshan, who were originally behind the chest wall of the trench and were always ready to avenge their families, were dumbfounded.
What kind of scenario is this?
In front of them, shells exploded from time to time, and the shells that exploded in the air were so loud that they could be heard from miles away. Although they couldn't see anything else, they could see the Jiannu lying down in the snow after the smoke had exploded, making screams that could be heard faintly even from a distance.
What's going on?
Raising his head and looking into the air, Sun Mao felt that he saw a cannonball like a bird, screaming and flying over their heads, and then at the moment when it was about to fall, it suddenly exploded, exploding a cloud of red and white smoke in the air, and then, hundreds of lead bullets fell like raindrops.
The bullets whizzed through the air, as if there were thousands of invisible blades waving in the air, enveloping those in front of them, and then many fell, in a pool of blood, and they let out a terrible wail in the pool of blood......
"My God, these Jiannu won't be killed by the artillery!"
Watching Jiannu keep falling, Sun Mao couldn't help but complain and dared to get up.
"If they finish killing, how can I take revenge?"
"If you let the artillery kill all of them, it's really not good, just take revenge on the girls of Jiannu, anyway, there are tens of thousands of ...... behind"
I don't know whose words made the entire defense line burst into laughter in a tense atmosphere. Zhu Guoqiang led his troops to attack Liaodong this time, burned and looted all the way from Shenyang, and captured more than 50,000 women. Some of them were distributed to the soldiers in the army, but now there are still more than 30,000 people left in the capital who have not been rewarded, so Qian Degong plans to refer to the old practice and reward the meritorious soldiers in the army, and it is okay to be a concubine and a maid.
Let's put it this way, as long as it is a military merit, it can be directly assigned to concubines and maids, according to later generations, this can also be regarded as promoting national integration, absolute positive energy.
"You kid, if you want those Jurchen girls, you have to make military achievements first! If the artillery is finished, we will still make a! When the time comes, you will still be the same as now, watching others shoot. ”
Despite the scolding of the commanders, the brothers laughed. Men's jokes are never inseparable from these things.
But Sun Maocai's heart was like a hammer. He is not interested in military exploits, as well as those Jurchen and Mongolian girls, and he has only one thought in his heart, which is to kill!
Kill the Ming army in front of you and avenge your dead family!
Maybe God heard his prayers, and in the clouds of gunpowder that exploded in the air, he saw that there were still many Jiannu marching towards the front of their position, and they were getting closer and closer, getting closer and closer, in fact, at this time, the artillery on the front should have attacked these Jiannu with shotguns. However, after Qian Degong, who supervised the battle on the front line, found several rounds of shelling and caused heavy casualties to Jiannu, he ordered the forward artillery not to shell.
"Leave a little for the musketeers, a little for the ...... Let them see the blood. ”
Soldiers don't see blood, they are always recruits!
Only soldiers who have seen blood can become veterans, although Qian Degong's command is known as an army of 100,000, but in fact, it is only 100,000 Ding Zhuang, if thousands of veterans are used as the backbone, plus trenches, barbed wire, and artillery, whether he can hold this place or not, he really has no bottom in his heart!
Gotta let these soldiers mature on the battlefield first!
The heavy infantry they relied on, the so-called Jurchens were less than 10,000 and invincible, on the one hand, because they were indeed very brave, and on the other hand, it was because they were really brave, and on the other hand, it was because they were wearing armor, especially because they captured the Weining Camp Iron Field, that is, Benxi in later generations, with the local high-quality iron ore and Han slaves, they created a large number of armor for them.
With such a thick armor that cannot be broken and arrows cannot penetrate, they can rush into the Ming army formation every time, slashing and killing wantonly, as if entering a no-man's land, this is the truth of "invincible". At this time, although they suffered extremely heavy losses, Guan Bao still led the remaining soldiers to kill towards the front line of the Ming army, although there was still a layer of barbed wire between them and the Ming army, but in his eyes, it was simply not worth mentioning.
"Kill the past, kill the Bright Dog!"
When Guan Bao shouted and drove those fishskin tartars to attack the trenches of the Ming army, the Ming troops behind the trenches who had been waiting for a long time finally waited for the moment of blood.
The Ming army in the trenches were all musketeers equipped with firing rifles, a battalion of musketeers, there were more than 4,000 people, although they were trenches under their feet, but the trenches were not the same as those of later generations, in order to allow the soldiers to fight in several rows and shoot alternately, the trenches could only be dug deeper and wider, which looked a bit similar to the anti-tank trenches of later generations.
Because the firing pistol did not need to be ignited with an arquebus, as in the case of a bird's gun, the soldiers stood in tight positions in the trenches. A century and a half later, the line warfare that was customary for the armies of the European armies in the Napoleonic era, although there were only three rows, but the power of the platoon firing was proven again and again in the following two centuries, and the musketeers, who now had epoch-making muskets as weapons, would certainly be able to show their skills in the field.
The only fly in the ointment is ...... They're all newbies! Just a bunch of recruits who have just learned how to load.
It's all birds!
Despite the distance of more than two hundred steps, Guan Bao grinned.
Guan Bao is no stranger to the bird gun, which is the most elite weapon of the Ming army, but ...... That's it!
You can't penetrate two layers of heavy armor at all!
Not only Guan Bao laughed, but also those bloodthirsty and murderous fishskin tartars, who seemed to have seen the end of this group of Ming troops.
Even if their cannons are sharp and a little weird, what can they do?
As long as you kill them in the long trench, they will be cut down like melons and vegetables, as if those bright dogs are not even wearing armor!
But just a few breaths of effort, Guan Bao and the heavy infantry under his command forced to a distance of about 100 meters, these heavy infantry is indeed very brave, even if half of the men and horses were bombarded by the grenade shells, they still rushed over without fear, the so-called bravery of the Jurchens, in fact, is the barbarism on them to the fullest.
Niu Venus, who was behind the trenches, was promoted to the general in this army expansion by fate, just staring at these Jiannu quietly, although some of the musketeers standing in three rows behind the wall seemed to be a little nervous, but there was a kind of expectation in the eyes of more people, and they were also not afraid of the first time they went into battle, not because of military law, but because of hatred!
At this time, there was silence behind the long trench, all the sergeants were in full array, and there was silence on the battlefield. At this moment, the charging Jiannu took out their bows and arrows from behind their waists and threw them with their bows.
"Sticking to the wall, sticking to the wall......"
Seeing this, Niu Jinsheng shouted loudly.
With the sound of strings, it seemed that a dark cloud flew above everyone's heads. The arrows with feathers stuck to their tails fell like raindrops in the air, and the soldiers who experienced the baptism of arrow rain for the first time tried to stick their bodies against the trench wall and use the dead spots formed by the trench wall to protect themselves.
Rain of arrows: "Poof! Burst! The ground fell, stuck in the open space of the trench, the arrow feathers swung back and forth unwillingly, although the soldiers pressed their bodies against the wall, there were still some soldiers who were hit by the arrows, and the sharp arrows penetrated their bodies in an instant, and the soldiers who fell with blood splashed revealed their eyes that could not be blinded.
The torrential blow was only a short moment, and it stopped, and Niu Jinxing, who was staring at the chest wall in front of him, immediately shouted when he found that Jiannu had entered the firing range.
"Ready—shoot!"
Just as the charging Jiannu was about to shoot another round of arrows to cover the others, they heard a deafening sound of guns in front of them.
"Idiot!"
Guan Bao scolded secretly in his heart, Ming Gou is really Ming Dog, and he can't hold his breath as in the past, not to mention letting go of the gun from such a distance, even fifty steps will definitely be able to penetrate two layers of heavy armor, let alone two hundred steps!
The reason why Ming Dog has been defeated repeatedly over the years, in the final analysis, is that he is still afraid of the Qing army, and every time he doesn't wait for them to approach, he shoots indiscriminately, and in the end, he can't even fight a few rounds, and he is torn through the defense line by the approaching Qing army.
Now the same is true of this Ming army!
"It's just our credit!"
However, just as the thought came to Guan Bao's heart, he saw in the afterglow that directly in front of him, a person was aiming at him with a bird's gun.
The mouth of the black hole was aimed at his chest.
That's it.
It was almost the moment this thought popped up in Guan Bao's heart. He suddenly felt as if he had been hit hard in his right chest, and a sharp pain came, and he couldn't help but scream.
He instinctively looked down, and saw that a finger-sized hole had been punched in the iron armor on his right chest, and the iron piece was twisted and deformed.
At the same time, the fishskin tartars charging around him were also suffering a blow that they had never suffered before, and after they were hit by bullets, they let out a series of screams, and many of them fell in the screams.
"How can these Ming army's birds fight so far?"
Guan Bao was obviously a little stunned, in his impression that the Ming Army wanted to penetrate the double layer of heavy armor, it was like a dream.
But now this group of Ming army's bird guns can penetrate the double armor on their bodies from a hundred paces away.
It's a bit of a bizarre.