Seeing the Qing army's siege towers and siege ladders, slowly approaching from the west and the north, Jin Tongwu, the main general of Zhenhai Fort, had a face as calm as iron. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In his heart, he suddenly had a strange feeling.

He thought of two years ago, he was still a general under Zhang Xianzhong, and his boss Li Dingguo, together with his boss Li Dingguo, crisscrossed all parts of Zhongzhou, fighting with the Ming army in various places, and now he and Li Dingguo, who has gone to Taiwan, are already a member of the Ming official army.

And those who attacked the fort in front of him, Shen Zhixiang, who was originally the Ming army of Dongjiang, now surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and became the mortal enemy of the Ming Dynasty, turning around and attacking the Ming Dynasty.

The original rogues now have to defend the Ming Dynasty to the death, protect the country and save the people; And the original official army now wants to attack the Ming Dynasty in order to pay the name to the new master.

The reverse angle washes the heart and becomes a positive angle, while the positive angle degenerates into a reverse angle.

The paradox of this history is really enough to make people lament.

The strength of Jin Tongwu's troops was 200 shield soldiers, 400 spearmen and 400 auxiliaries, totaling 1,000 troops. In addition to the auxiliaries, the real combat effectiveness among them is only 600 soldiers.

With this little strength alone, can it withstand the attack of the 7,000 Qing army?

Yes!

Absolutely!

Jin Tongwu is full of confidence in this point.

Because, although the area of Zhenhai Fort is small, it is inconvenient to store large weapons such as trebuchets and giant sky-shaking thunders, but it has nearly 30,000 single-handed mines.

This kind of hand-thrown thunder is an improved version of the earth-shaking thunder made of pig iron and filled with black powder, and it is also the secret weapon that Jin Tongwu is most confident in defeating the enemy.

Li Xiaojun's earliest research and development of the single soldier earth-shaking thunder, has not escaped the nest of the Ming Weapons Bureau, or designed as a large round iron ball with an iron shell of 15 catties and 12 catties of black powder inside. But soon, Li Xiao discovered that although this kind of sky-shaking thunder was powerful, it was too bulky, difficult to throw far, and too much physical consumption for the thrower.

Finally, after field testing, Li Xiao decided to halve the weight of this kind of earth-shaking thunder, and designed it into a standard specification of 8 catties of pig iron shell and 6 catties of black powder inside, so that the weight of a single soldier earth-shaking thunder is almost the same as the weight of a standard men's shot put, because it can be thrown with a wooden handle in his hand, and the trained adult male can throw more than 20 meters on the ground. An untrained average male can also throw up to about 15 meters.

And the improved version of the individual soldier Earthquake Thunder designed in this way, Li Xiao once used pigs to conduct field tests.

Seven or eight of these pigs, clad in leather and iron armor, were placed near and far, and all of them were tied on the spot with wooden poles to prevent escape. Then, Li Xiao asked people to put the prepared individual earth-shaking thunder in the central field, light the fire rope, and test the explosion effect.

After a deafening explosion sounded, the scene was rained with earth and rocks.

The scene is terrifying, the pig that is close to the body, drenched in blood, bleeding in the seven orifices, has already been shocked; Those who were a little farther away, dressed in armor, also drooped their heads, and their eyes were not alive with a snort; It is a pig half a foot away, and there are several blood holes on its body that have been cut out by the fragments of a single soldier's earth-shaking thunder, and the blood is flowing and screaming, although it can still live, it has obviously lost its ability to move.

It can be seen that the effective killing radius of this kind of individual earth-shaking thunder can reach about 5 meters, and the experimental effect is quite satisfactory.

So, Li Xiao gave this kind of improved and stereotyped version of the individual soldier Earthquake Thunder a more vivid name, hand-throwing thunder.

At present, in addition to the 600 soldiers scattered at the head of the city, Jin Tongwu has 400 auxiliary soldiers, and 400 sturdy men urgently drawn from the workers and farmers, and the total strength of the defense of the city head is 1,400 people.

Jin Tongwu provided these auxiliaries and newly transferred soldiers with 10 hand-thrown mines each. When the Qing army assembled siege equipment on Haiyang Island, Jin Tongwu had also conducted emergency training for these people, and now the average distance that each person can throw on flat ground is nearly 20 meters.

Jin Tongwu made a simple calculation, since it was thrown from the city head down the parabola, then the distance of the hand-thrown thunder could be increased to at least more than 30 meters. According to the ancient distance scale, one step should be 1.3 meters, and 30 meters is roughly 23 steps. Therefore, Jin Tongwu believed that when the enemy advanced to 25 steps from the foot of the mountain, it was the distance at which he could throw an attack.

Since the enemy army was attacking the west and north, Jin Tongwu arranged for the defensive forces on these two walls to be 100 shields, 100 spearmen, and 400 men for each wall with auxiliary troops and new recruits. To the east and south, only 100 spearmen were assigned to defend them.

Zhenhai Fort City circumference 2 miles, each city wall is only half a mile, so the soldiers guarding the fort will be the west and north two city walls to the full, just formed a dense defensive situation.

"All the officers and men of the army obey our orders, and when the enemy is close to 25 paces, they can throw hand and thunder, so as to achieve the maximum lethal effect. Don't attack without permission, do you understand! ”

"Got it!"

In the rumbling war drums, the Qing army marched more and more, they shouted slogans, carried siege ladders, pushed siege towers, and in a short time, they reached 25 steps away.

"Ignition rope!"

Jin Tongwu shouted, and immediately, the sound of burning ropes sounded all around.

Soon, the enemy was within 25 paces of the attackable range

"Cast!"

Jin Tongwu shouted violently, and took the lead in throwing the thunder in his right hand, which was soaked with sweat from the wooden handle, and threw it at the surging Qing army in a standard sideways throwing posture.

"Bang 。。。。。。"

800 hand-thrown mines were thrown, and about 600 hand-thrown mines exploded smoothly.

Violent explosions rang out violently, and the blinding yellow flames stretched into a web of death, powerful shockwaves and screaming fragments, with a devastating and violent force, tearing all those or things who dared to stop them to pieces. Looking down from the city walls, you can clearly see that the enemy troops who have entered the range of hand-thrown grenades suddenly turn into a rafflet rain of flesh and blood, and the fragments of the siege ladders and siege towers are flying in all directions in the thick of choking smoke.

Jin Tongwu was pleased to see that although the range of the dense single-handed thunderbolts was shorter, the damage caused to the enemy was no worse than the large earth-shaking thunder thrown by trebuchets.

In this wave of attacks by the Tiger Army, at least more than 260 Qing troops were killed. In addition, nearly 300 people were injured and lost their combat capability, and about six siege ladders and three siege towers were blown up, and the vanguard of the Qing army suffered heavy losses.

Seeing such a heavy loss, Shen Zhixiang's heart was full of anger.

"Mafuta, I'll fuck you!"

Shen Zhixiang, who was standing behind the formation, had a hideous and tense face, but he was scolding loudly in his heart.

Shen Zhixiang couldn't help but be angry, because of Li Xiaojun's wave of attacks, outside the two city walls in the northwest, all his own soldiers and horses were killed.

Because, in the battle arrangement of the main general Mafuta, the direction of the Qing army's attack was the northwest and northwest.

In the west, 2,000 people under the personal command of Shen Zhixiang were used as the main attacking force. To the north, 1,000 Shen Zhixiang's troops took the lead, followed by Ban Zhifu's 1,000 Han troops.

At the end of the two attacking formations were 3,000 Manchurian soldiers and horses under the command of Mafuta, as the last overseer and escort force.

The soldiers of Shen Zhixiang's army, under the sudden and fierce blow of the Tiger Army, collapsed in an instant, and the soldiers in the front cried, threw down the siege equipment, and turned around and fled backwards.

"Hmph, useless things, cowards who eat dry rice, were blown up by the Ming army!"

The main general, Ma Futa, saw that Shen Zhixiang's troops were retreating one after another, and a trace of hideous color immediately flashed on his face, and then he drew his knife and shouted: "Pass my military order, whoever has a prison formation and retreats, don't count to kill!" ”

The Han army and Manchurian soldiers and horses who were in battle immediately rushed forward with a howl and slashed and killed Shen Zhixiang's soldiers and horses who were crying and fleeing.

Seeing those soldiers under his subordinates who had fled and were slashed and killed by the Han army and Manchurian soldiers like this, Shen Zhixiang's heart was as painful as a knife.

However, now he is silent.

Because he also knew that there was nothing he could do to prevent these soldiers from further rout, except for brutal killing.

Not long after, after slashing and killing more than 20 deserters from Shen Zhixiang's department, Shen Zhixiang's department stopped the momentum of rout and escape slightly, and all the Qing troops began to re-array.

"Listen to the front! Go on the offensive! ”

Mafuta's voice rang out loud and emotionless.

Shen Zhixiang shuddered violently.

At the same time, his soldiers subconsciously turned to him with eyes of help and pity.

Seeing a group of old brothers, looking at himself with such pitiful eyes, Shen Zhixiang's heart was extremely painful, his face was purple, and his eyes unconsciously burst into tears.

However, when Mafuta's sharp gaze on the side came, he waved his hand helplessly, signaling his subordinates to continue attacking.

The rumbling war drums sounded again, and Shen Zhixiang's soldiers reluctantly re-carried the siege ladder, pushed up the siege tower, and continued to attack.

"Brothers, don't be afraid of casualties, rush forward bravely, hurry to the foot of the mountain and take a ladder to lean against the tower, so that you can capture the castle in one go, Shen please!"

Behind the group of soldiers, Shen Zhixiang roared desperately to cheer them up.

The soldiers of Shen Zhixiang's department let out a loud roar in unison, and they all accelerated their pace of rushing forward.

When the enemy rushed to a distance of 25 paces, the hand-thrown thunder at the head of the city fell like hail.

"Don't stop! Keep rushing! ”

Shen Zhixiang roared vigorously towards the soldiers who had entered the attack range of the Tiger Army from a distance.

When the soldiers heard the roar of their commander, they shouted frantically and quickened their pace of rushing forward.

They were fortunate that after they had rushed forward seven or eight paces, the hand behind them threw thunder, and it exploded in succession.

Because it was outside the effective attack distance of the hand-thrown mine, Shen Zhixiang's troops suffered very little losses this time, only more than 20 people were killed by the flying fragments, and more than 30 people were slightly injured, but they still had combat effectiveness.

Soon, the Qing army rushed to the foot of the mountain, and immediately began to lean the long siege ladder to the city wall, and the siege tower had already reached the foot of the mountain, and the Qing army quickly climbed up the stairs in the siege tower.

Seeing that the troops had finally begun to officially attack the city, Shen Zhixiang's face was slightly happy.

Ban Zhi Fuma Futa and others, who were in the back of the battle, also had a sigh of relief on their faces.

Soon the smiles on their faces froze, though.

Because, when the Qing army began to roar and climb, the hand thunder at the head of the city fell like raindrops.

In the deafening explosion, the dazzling bright yellow fire flickered faintly in the white smoke, and at the foot of the steep and straight mountain, blood and flesh flew sideways, debris splashed, and the screams of the Qing army resounded.

Several siege ladders and siege towers were violently blown down, and the Qing army, which had not yet climbed half of the mountain, fell down screaming like ants falling from the sky, and fell into meatloaf.

At least nearly 400 Qing soldiers were killed alive, and nearly 500 others were seriously wounded.

Yuan Anbang, the deputy general of Shen Zhixiang's department, who was standing under the city and commanding, was also killed in the hand-thrown thunder attack of the Tiger Army.

A hand-thrown thunder exploded at his feet, and Yuan Anbang, the deputy general who had not yet reacted, turned into a rain of flesh and blood under the frightened gaze of the soldiers in the distance, completely ending his life in the world.

The Qing army, which was hit by the head, immediately collapsed.

However, when they frantically turned and fled, the tiger army at the head of the city, another group of whistling hand thunder, still caught up with them.

Nearly 200 Qing soldiers were killed or wounded.

"Withdraw! Evacuate! ”

Shen Zhixiang, whose face was as pale as paper, shouted loudly at the soldiers who had fled in a swarm.

Now, he only hopes that these brothers under his command can escape more.

Ma Futa, the main general of the supervising array behind, had an iron face and gritted his teeth, but at this time, he did not give another order to pursue and kill the rout.

Because, after a long time in battle, he already knew that at this point in the battle, the morale of Shen Zhixiang's troops, who had been bombed, was close to zero, and even if they were killed, it would be impossible to force them to attack again.

A man covered in blood stumbled in front of Shen Zhixiang, and then knelt on the ground and cried loudly.

This person is none other than Shen Zhixiang's confidant deputy general Wang Tingrui.

"General Shen, our army has been completely defeated, more than 800 soldiers of our army have been killed in the battle, and more than 1,000 people have been wounded, and the seeds of Dongjiang Town have almost been wiped out。。。。。。"

Shen Zhixiang's eyes were full of tears, his lips trembled, and he suddenly looked up to the sky and roared, his voice was extremely sad.

"Brothers, it's Shen who hurt you!"

I don't know if Shen Zhixiang's heart-wrenching words, the souls of the former soldiers of Dongjiang Town who were blown up to pieces, can hear it.

Seeing the defeat of the Qing army, the head of Zhenhai Fort resounded with continuous cheers.

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Kill the Tartars, go to heaven!"

"Kill the Tartars, get fame!"

Jin Tongwu, the defender of Ocean Island, looked happy, this battle of killing nearly a thousand enemies but not a single casualty at home was really cool! His face turned yellow from the rising gunsmoke, and he shouted at the Qing army in the distance below the city: "Rabbit cubs! Where is this, if you have the ability, come to attack the city again, you Jin Ye and I haven't killed enough! “

Seeing that Jin Tongwu was so proud on Zhenhai Fort, the main general Mafuta was extremely angry, he drew his bow and arrows angrily, and with a whoosh, shot towards Jin Tongwu.

It's just that the distance is too far, and it is shot from the back, and Mafuta's arrow bends down in the middle of the way, grabs the ground, and shoots at the lower end of the pheasant moat that Jin Tongwu is leaning on, splashing a small piece of dry and cracked cement.

"Haha, the dog's Tartar is poor!" Jin Tongwu laughed loudly: "Tartar, if you want to shoot your grandfather, it's really against you." If you have the ability, you will come to attack the city again, and grandpa will definitely accompany you to fight again! ”

After Jin Tongwu finished speaking, the city immediately burst into continuous unbridled laughter.

Mafuta stared at Jin Tongwu hatefully for a long time, his teeth gritted loudly, and after a long time, Fang finally gave the order for the whole army to retreat and return to the camp to rest.

So far, Li Xiaojun has won a complete victory in this battle.

The casualties of the Qing army were extremely heavy, with more than 1,500 people killed in the battle, including those who died of their wounds, and more than 500 wounded who lost their ability to fight. These dead or wounded in the battle were basically all soldiers of Shen Zhixiang's army.

In other words, after this battle, Shen has been disabled, and basically has no morale and combat power.

From the end of the battle to the end of the battle to the present, Shen Zhixiang has been sitting in the tent with a black face, not seeing anyone, like a puppet.

However, at this moment, a soldier under his command reported to him that on the southwest sea, more than a dozen large ships had suddenly been spotted, and they were speeding towards Ocean Island.

"Huh? Who's coming? ”

Hearing the news, Shen Zhixiang, who was sitting like a puppet, suddenly regained his mobility and jumped up from his chair. (To be continued.) )