Chapter 683: The Capture of the Kur Fortress (1)
After breaking through the first line of stone wall defense, a large number of Qing troops soon poured in through the gate hole and entered the fortress within the line, and Dolgon followed.
"Slave worship, fortunately not disgraced!" Ao Bai knelt down on one knee at Dolgon, who was on his horse.
"Okay, Ao Bai is worthy of being the first warrior of the Qing Dynasty, with a reward of 1,000 taels of gold, 10 beauties, and 500 cattle, sheep and livestock!" Dorgon laughed.
"Thank you, Regent!" Ao Bai thanked him expressionlessly.
Ao Bai was originally Huang Taiji's henchman, and after Huang Taiji's death, he was a staunch royalist faction and had been against Dolgon, but the Ming Dynasty was in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and the Manchus were in danger and moved westward when they were in trouble. The Manchus who had just moved west could not withstand any infighting, and Dolgon's strategy could be seen by Aobai, and in just a few years, Dolgon took the Manchus who had just moved west to lay a land that was not less than the original Manchuria, and Aobai had already been happy and sincere to Dolgon, even no less than the original Huang Taiji.
At this moment, Ao Bai has put aside any superfluous thoughts, and wholeheartedly helps Dolgon fight the world and help the Manchus prosper in this land.
Ao Bai didn't say a word, and went to the front line to supervise the battle.
Dolgon nodded with satisfaction, his expression was slightly moved, there is no doubt that this Ao Bai is used well, and it is definitely a rare fierce general.
The sixty cannons outside the fortress were quickly dismantled and transported to the first stone wall captured, and Dolgon had to arrange the cannons on the stone wall more than ten meters high, and shelled the second and third stone walls from the first stone wall. In this way, because it is in a parallel high place, the trajectory of the cannonballs will change, and you can even see where the Persian soldiers come to bombard the second and third stone walls, unlike when the first stone wall is bombarded, it can only be bombarded from the bottom up, limited by the trickery of the cannonballs, it can only be bombarded above the stone wall, and the Persian soldiers are not easily injured in the stone wall.
All in all, sixty cannons, arranged condescendingly on the first stone wall, raised the threat to the Persians by at least three times.
The Qing army's move to transport artillery onto the first stone wall of capture could not be concealed from the Persians inside the second and third stone walls, and the Persian soldiers who witnessed it told the news to the commander-in-chief, General Ahmadan.
"What!" General Madan's face turned white in an instant, and his face was even like ashes.
He didn't even think of this just now, the threat to them from the Qing artillery arranged high on the first stone wall must have increased several times or more, which was fatal.
The first stone wall fell so quickly, if the second and third stone walls were under such a threat, they would definitely not be able to support it for long, and once the Kur fortress completely fell, there would only be one Yazd left in the barrier of the imperial capital, and this was okay.
"Where's our cannon!" General Madan suddenly thought of something and shouted loudly.
"Back to the general, our cannons are all on the stone wall!" The Persian general replied.
"Quick, immediately bombard the Qing army artillery with artillery, all Qing army artillery must be destroyed!" General Ah Madan ordered.
"Yes, General!" The Persian general immediately ran to give the order.
In fact, the three stone walls of the Kur fortress are equipped with cannons, but they are all iron cannons produced by Persia themselves, the firing range is only a few hundred meters, and the rate of fire is too long, which is too backward for the Qing army, at the beginning of the war, the twenty Persian cannons on the first stone wall were destroyed by the Qing cannons even without firing, yes, the Persians subconsciously ignored that they also had cannons.
The second and third stone wall defenses were also equipped with twenty cannons each.
The twenty cannons on the third stone wall defense may not be within range, but the cannons on the second stone wall defense are only three hundred meters away from the first stone wall, which is still within range.
"Fire!"
"Boom! Rumble! Boom" Twenty Persian cannons on the second stone wall defense opened fire, firing twenty shells, including solid iron balls and flowering shells with great power.
The Persian iron cannon was not very accurate, only three shots hit the stone wall, and the rest were all hit elsewhere, and some directly hit the first stone wall outside the fortress.
The shells exploded, the rubble flew out, some Qing soldiers were killed and wounded, and several Qing soldiers were directly hit by solid bullets.
However, the Qing artillery on the stone wall did not destroy a single one in this round of artillery bombardment.
The Persian artillerymen on the second stone wall quickly cleared the chambers and loaded them with gunpowder and shells, of course, no matter how hard they tried, they could not have had nearly sixty breaths of time.
"Regent, the Persian cannons are firing a salvo, our army's artillery has not yet been prepared, for the comfort of the regent, please also ask the regent to move outside the fortress immediately!" Zihar said to Dorgon.
"It's okay, the Persians' cannons are not very powerful, and the quasi-head is even lower, so they can't blow up this king!" Dorgon said calmly.
It's not that Dolgon is arrogant, he has the most elite warriors of the Eight Banners around him, and with the Persian cannon, even if all the twenty cannons are aimed at Dolgon, there are at most three or four that can explode next to Dolgon, there are so many personal guards, plus he pays attention to himself, it is indeed extremely difficult for the Persian cannon to hurt him.
"Yes, Lord Regent!" Zihar didn't dare to say anything and stepped aside, but his eyes were fixed on the Persian cannon on the second stone wall, ready to protect Dorgon.
"Boom! Rumble! Boom" Persian artillery fired another round of shelling, and this time, a full five shells hit the first stone wall.
Bang! Boom!
An assembled Qing army cannon was hit by a solid bullet, and the entire cannon body was directly knocked down from the stone wall and completely damaged, while several gunners of the Dragon Breaker Army were killed and wounded.
After a brief startle among the gunners of the Qing army, the speed of assembling the cannon suddenly increased a lot.
Soon, before the third salvo of Persian artillery, more than a dozen Qing cannons had been assembled, and the other Qing cannons were still assembled because they were transported to the stone wall later, but a dozen Qing cannons were enough for the Qing army to counterattack.
"Reload! Fire! ”
"Boom, boom, boom" more than a dozen Qing artillery guns fiercely counterattacked the twenty Persian cannons on the second stone wall.
The cannon exploded on the stone wall up to more than ten meters, and all the artillery of the Qing army used were flowering shells that imitated the Ming technology, which was much more powerful than the flowering shells made by the Persians, and most of the shells directly hit the second stone wall, and the three Persian cannons were blown down the stone wall on the spot, killing and wounding nearly 30 Persian soldiers.
The remaining Persian artillery also immediately began the third round of shelling, this time a flowering shell hit several Qing soldiers who were assembling a cannon, blowing up three Qing soldiers on the spot, but unfortunately, did not destroy the Qing artillery.
"Hmph, that's the end of your chance!" The Qing army general who commanded the artillery shot sneered.
"Fire!"
"Boom Boom"
Next, while the Persian cannon was being loaded for a long time, the artillery of the Dudu Qing army roared violently.
Under the retaliation of the Qing gunners, the speed of artillery firing was greatly increased, and it was almost impossible to carry out a round of artillery fire in no more than twenty breaths.
The shells continued to explode on the second stone wall guarded by the Persians, not only killing and wounding a large number of Persian soldiers on it, but also destroying more than ten Persian cannons, and by the time the Persians reloaded for the fourth time, only four of the original twenty Persian cannons remained. However, the number of cannons assembled by the Qing army increased to forty.
"Boom! Rumble! The four remaining Persian cannons were fired again, and perhaps for the last.
None of the four shells hit the first stone wall occupied by the Qing army, three hit directly outside the fortress, and one exploded directly inside the fortress.
Two Qing soldiers were wounded.
The general of the artillery battalion of the Qing army looked indifferent, and seeing that the shells were reloaded again, the general of the artillery battalion loudly ordered the artillery to be fired.
"Fire!"
"Boom, boom" This time, forty Qing artillery pieces roared together.
"Ahh Ahh
Next, the Qing army did not spare the other twenty Persian cannons on the third stone wall.
After a few rounds of shelling, even the Persian cannons on the third stone wall were destroyed.