Although the performance of the Qing army's cannon is also like a rifle, it is far inferior to that of the Ming army, but it is only in the weight and accuracy of the cannon itself, at least the range is not much worse, and it has a certain counterattack ability.

However, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was not strong enough to produce many cannons in just a few years, and excluding the losses in the early stage, there were less than 400 such cannons deployed in the vicinity of Baghdad City for defense, and there were not many shells.

The Qing army was more of those old-style cannons that imitated the Daming Shenwu cannon, which used black powder, fired slowly, had a short range, and was not very powerful. There are thousands of such cannons.

But now except for a small number of those deployed in front of the ravines outside the city, the others have not reached the firing range at all, and those deployed in front of the ravines can only shoot one shot at most, and they are immediately aimed and destroyed by the Ming artillery before they have time to reload the shells, and they have no effect.

In addition to artillery and heavy machine guns, some mortars also joined the bombardment.

Compared to this type of trench, the curved bombardment of mortars is more effective.

One after another Qing soldiers were blown out of the trenches, and with the strafing of heavy machine guns, the Qing soldiers in the trenches were almost equivalent to hiding in the trenches and staring at the Ming soldiers, but they could not inflict any casualties on the Ming army.

The shelling lasted about half an hour, and the Ming infantry still attacked with rifles.

As the Ming soldiers approached, the Ming artillery began to extend the artillery bombardment, avoiding the front area of the infantry attack and avoiding injuring the attacking own soldiers.

The Qing soldiers in the trench had already been killed and injured by the Ming artillery, and they hid in the trench in fear, and the will soldiers were on the verge of collapse, and they did not dare to stand up and resist at all, even if someone stood up to resist, as long as they showed their heads, they would immediately be shot through the head.

And even if you keep hiding and don't stand up, you will be killed by a grenade from the Ming soldiers who attacked the vicinity.

The Ming army's offensive momentum was like a bamboo, little by little to break through the kilometer defense trench group, only ten minutes, the kilometer trench group was captured by the Ming army more than 300 meters, like this, in another half an hour, the Ming army can completely capture the kilometer trench defense belt, kill to the edge of the moat in Baghdad.

"Rubbish!" Dolgon hid himself on the walls of Baghdad to watch the battle, and when he saw the steady advance of the Ming army with almost no losses, his face was very ugly, and he scolded the generals stationed in the trenches as waste.

In the end, when the Ming army broke through 500 meters, the Qing army in the last 500 meters of trenches began to escape from the trenches and fled towards the city of Baghdad behind them.

"Bang Bang Bang ---"

---However, the moment they escaped from the trench, the Ming army's rifle bullets and machine gun bullets came, killing them in large numbers, but in order to survive, no one wanted to stay in the trench.

With the defeat of the Qing army in the last 500 meters of trenches, the Ming army advanced towards the city of Baghdad.

Dolgon's face was so angry that he watched the defeated soldiers flee through the city gate into the city, and watched the Ming army effortlessly capture the last 500 meters of trenches and really kill the city of Baghdad.

The defense of the kilometer trench group has fallen, and the next thing is the battle of Baghdad, and whether or not you can hold Baghdad is the key to victory or defeat in this decisive battle.

"Regent, the Ming army is about to attack the city of Baghdad, please avoid the edge of the Ming army!" A white flag general pleaded with Dolgon.

Dolgon nodded, followed the white flag general down the wall, and retreated to the rear of the city to command.

Before the Ming army really attacked the city of Baghdad, he could still hide on the city wall to watch the battle, but once the Ming army really began to attack the city of Baghdad on a large scale, the city wall must be the place where the Ming army's artillery fire was the focus of the bombardment, and it was too dangerous to continue to hide on the city wall to watch the battle.

By the time the Ming army reached the city walls, the Qing army had already blown up the bridge across the moat and closed the gates of Baghdad.

The artillery and mortars of the Ming army moved forward and began to carry out a fierce bombardment of the city of Baghdad.

"Boom, boom, boom---" shells fell into the city of Baghdad one after another, focusing on bombarding the walls of Baghdad, and every moment Qing soldiers were blown off the walls and turned into bloody corpses.

The city of Baghdad was on fire.

Baghdad City is one of the largest cities in the Middle East, with a population of as many as 300,000, before the war, Dolgon had evacuated the people in the city, and was fully taken over by Qing soldiers, at this time there were 200,000 Qing soldiers in the city, and more Qing soldiers were deployed in the three directions of Baghdad City, left and right and rear, and entered Baghdad City at any time to support.

The walls of Baghdad are very thick, if it is not directly blown up with a large number of explosives, it is difficult to collapse in a short time by artillery bombardment alone, after all, the walls of Baghdad are mixed with a lot of cement that Dolgon does not know from what channel, and there are wide and deep moats to obstruct it, and the battle of Baghdad will not be as smooth as Murqala, Yazd, and Isfahan.

However, the Ming army was not in a hurry, and the Manchus concentrated the last of their forces in the area of Baghdad, as long as this battle was won again, the Manchus would no longer have the strength to resist, and they could be destroyed in an instant.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom---" shells were sent into Baghdad as if they didn't want money, and the Ming army seemed to have endless shells, and they were not afraid of attrition at all.

For a day or two, the artillery fire of the Ming army was almost non-stop, and the city of Baghdad had already been bombed into ruins, the walls were dilapidated and partially collapsed, and even some parts of the moat were almost filled in by the collapsed walls.

However, the Ming army did not immediately send infantry to attack, and continued to bombard the city of Baghdad.

After two days and two nights of bombardment, dozens of shells poured into the city, several times more than the number of Qing troops in the city, and more than 100,000 Qing soldiers in the city were killed by the bombing alone.

The artillery fire of the Ming army was so fierce that the entire city of Baghdad was shaking, and there were rumbling explosions everywhere, and the slightest carelessness would have been killed.

It's just that it was blown up, and the corpse could be blown up a second, third, or even more time, and in the end it was only blown up into a pile of minced meat flying everywhere, which was too miserable, and the so-called dead corpse was nothing more than that.

As the bombardment continued, the shaking of the city of Baghdad did not stop for a moment, and the Qing soldiers in the city were numb, many of them had not closed their eyes for two days and two nights, their expressions were full of fear and numbness, their faces were gray, and their bodies trembled.

Not to mention the morale of such Qing soldiers, their will has already completely collapsed, this time, let alone resisting the Ming army, I am afraid that as long as the Ming army enters the city, these Qing soldiers can immediately kneel on the ground and surrender to the Ming army.

It's not that there are no Qing soldiers who have thought of escaping from Baghdad, but unfortunately, except for the frontal attack of the Ming army, there are heavy troops on the remaining three sides, and once anyone escapes from the city without an order, they will be killed on the spot by the deserters who defect from the battlefield.

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