Chapter 556: The Death of the Boar Skin
"Another box of grenades!"
Liu Xinyu, who hit the last grenade on his body, shouted behind him.
The grenade exploded in a torrent of silver ahead.
But this kind of small grenade has limited power, at most it is just interference, and the lethality to those half-armored Datong soldiers is very small, but they are trampled under the feet of their companions immediately after being blown down, and in this maximum crowding, no one cares about others. Behind them are tens of thousands of people crowding forward, and in front of them is just a gap of about ten feet, in this torrent all everyone can do is to desperately squeeze forward, even if there is death in front, because it is impossible to stop and it is impossible to turn around and escape......
Behind them were cavalry.
The cavalry in the same half-body armor formed a formation in the explosion of mortar shells, driving the infantry in front as the vanguard.
Ancient sieges were like that.
The cavalry drove the infantry, and the infantry filled with their lives.
All those battles that break through the city wall are all in this mode, there is no trickery in this kind of battle, that is, to use human lives to pile forward, our Qing Dynasty is willing to use human lives to attack the city and seize the land, but they are not using their own human lives.
On the contrary, Li Dingguo, who was reluctant to use his life, could only hate Xinhui City.
This kind of combat striker is destined to die.
But their dead bodies will pave a way for the subsequent attack.
At this time, more and more Datong troops had jumped into the city through the gap, and although the most critical passage was blocked by Yang Xin, the scope of what he could block alone was limited.
But the death squads that followed him, like him, were barricaded behind the breach, fighting with the influx of enemies with long knives and knives, and from time to time smoke rose from the fire of flintlock musketeers in their midst. But among the Datong troops who also flocked to the city, there were also people who continued to draw out short guns and shoot, and even some of the Datong troops began to climb towards the top of the city walls on both sides.
But it doesn't work.
Because there were also flintlock teams of the defenders shooting at them on the walls.
There are also mine-shooters like Liu Xinyu.
Immediately after that, a box of grenades was sent by the soldiers behind him, and after completing the loading, he aimed ahead again and pulled the trigger, and the grenade swept over the head of the flintlock and fell into the gap of the enemy troops.
"Get out of the way!"
Liu Xinyu suddenly roared behind him.
He turned his head in astonishment, and then saw a soldier rushing towards him with a Molotov cocktail.
The flintlock musketeers were so frightened that they dodged.
This new weapon is terrifying, it is terrifying for the enemy and his own side, Liu Xinyu watched in amazement as the soldier swept by him, and then the Datong army that was climbing in front rushed up, and one of them raised his gun to hit the soldier, but at the same time, the latter's Molotov cocktail flew out and landed at their feet at once.
The flames of gasoline rose instantly.
Several soldiers of the Datong Army, who were the first to enter the city, were immediately surrounded by flames, and then fled backwards with screams and instincts.
The soldiers of the Datong Army in the back screamed in horror......
Liu Xinyu's blood rushed to his head in an instant.
He threw away the mine gun, picked up the box of grenades and rushed forward, and in the bullets and shells of the enemy troops outside the city, he was as brave as the man just now, and even jumped past the fallen latter, threw himself next to a soldier of the Datong Army who was still screaming, took off his shoes that had begun to burn and threw them into the box, and in the light of the fire that the grenade was ignited, he threw the whole box of grenades forward.
Then he threw himself on the ground.
At the same time, the shell hit the battlement next to him.
Splashes of broken bricks swept behind him.
The next moment a dense explosion sounded behind him as well.
In the smoke of gunpowder, he crawled forward without looking back, and quickly crawled to the side of the soldier just now, dragging him forward before he was dead, but at the same time, a bullet suddenly hit him in the back.
He screamed and looked up.
Outside, the smoke rises in the middle of the tower of Dabao'en Temple......
"There's an enemy on the tower!"
He shouted at the flintlock musketeers before he fell unconscious.
There are gunmen on the tower of Dabao'en Temple.
The officer commanding on the opposite side immediately saw the fire and smoke there, and it was obvious that the Datong army had made good use of this commanding height, but such a distance could not be a turtledove, it could only be the latest rifled gun, and even for a rifled gun, this distance was a bit far.
At the same time, bullets flew out there again.
The two soldiers in the flintlock squad immediately fell......
"Bombardment!"
The officer yelled.
The muzzle of a three-pound cannon beside him immediately rose at the maximum angle.
"Battalion commander, that's the emperor's family."
An officer cautiously reminded him.
"That's the Zhu family, not the Yang family, let's take care of the Yang family, shoot the gun!"
The battalion commander said unceremoniously.
The three-pound cannon immediately spewed flames, and the whistling and flying shells instantly hit the gunsmoke, and the gunfire that was still shooting disappeared immediately.
"Remember, we are members of the Yang family, our good life is given by the Yang family, we only listen to the lord, the lord listens to the emperor of the Zhu family, we also listen to the emperor of the Zhu family, the lord does not listen to the emperor of the Zhu family, then we still care about his Zhu family's fart, isn't it just a tower? What if it collapses? ”
The battalion commander said.
The surrounding soldiers nodded in agreement.
Obviously, they didn't have much respect for the Emperor of the Zhu family.
"These traitors!"
On the Yuhua Platform in the distance, Shang Zhouzuo, who came to supervise the battle in person, looked at the gap in the tower of Dabao'en Temple and said hatefully
"Wait for Xuan Gong, you can't fight anymore, you have to find another way."
Zhang Mingzhen said with a frown.
His offensive failed.
Although the cannon fodder of those forwards continued to advance under the pressure of the cavalry, it was clear that they had begun to break out on both sides, the fighting spirit of the soldiers was on the verge of collapse, and the strong assault on the city walls had de facto failed, the strength of the defense was too strong to exceed the strength of their attack, and those grenades, Molotov cocktails had the upper hand in the defense.
"What else can I do, Hou Fu, you said you wanted a 10,000-jin cannon, we helped you make a 10,000-jin cannon, you said that the troops were insufficient, we will make up enough troops for you, and now you say that you can't fight like this, how do you let us face our father?
You spend all their money.
The gentry of the Taiping Mansion even melted the incense burner in order to cast a cannon for you.
Isn't it just some dead soldiers?
Since ancient times, which siege of the city has not been filled with human life? Didn't they all use tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of lives to pile up? Don't be afraid of more people dying, how many can you die? It's just a few thousand people, and what kind of big war is a siege without tens of thousands of deaths? If you have to use human lives, just fight like this, I don't believe it, the city walls are blasted open, and the 100,000 army can't rush in, if you stop at this time, won't the previous efforts be wasted? ”
Qian Qianyi on the other side said.
Shang Zhouzuo nodded in approval.
"Mu Zhaigong, I just think that if you continue to persecute it, the soldiers will easily change."
Zhang Mingzhen said.
"What has changed? Their parents, wives and children are in our hands, dare to surrender to the enemy and kill the whole family, and they can still get compensation when they die, they are traitors for the country, rebel for His Majesty the Emperor, and they are also glorious to their ancestors when they die! ”
Qian Qianyi said.
"Hou Fu, don't worry about it, just fight like this.
We have no other way, even if we stop, there is no other good way, it is useless to dig tunnels, then the Yang thief is full of cunning, he will not even think of this little thing, not to mention that you dig tunnels and blow up the city wall is also this kind of result.
All that remains is a siege.
But you must know that our enemy is not just Yang Xin.
As soon as the war in Liaodong ended, Sun Gelao's 100,000 iron cavalry went south. ”
Shang Zhouzuo said.
"Wait for Xuan Gong!"
Xiong Mingyu's shout sounded behind him.
Shang Zhouzuo hurriedly turned around, and then the latter came over with an official document.
"Wait for Xuan Gong, our time is running out, Sun Chuanting killed the old slave in Liaoyang, Lu Xiangsheng gathered 50,000 elites and suddenly counterattacked, and the 100,000 army of Jiannu was defeated in Liaoyang."
Xiong Mingyu said.
Shang Zhouzuo hurriedly took the official document.
"This old slave just died?"
He said stunned.
Well, Wild Boar Skin didn't miss his date with the Hongyi Cannon, although it was doubtful whether he was killed by the Hongyi Cannon in history, but this time he was really killed by Sun Chuanting's cannonball.
This official document was sent from the capital, and it was originally sent to Songjiang, but it was directly sent here by Lu Zhaoxiong in Fengyang. Half a month ago, the wild boar skin was unable to conquer for a long time, and he personally supervised the battle outside Liaoyang City, and was discovered by the observer on the hot air balloon sent to Liaodong by the apocalypse before, and Sun Chuanting mobilized sixteen nine-pound cannons to bombard his place.
A cannonball hit him right in the foot, bounced off and broke the bottom half.
This is what the Korean generals of the Eight Banners who surrendered after the defeat of Jiannu said, poor Dajin raised the wise Khan of the countries like those criminals who were beheaded in half, and screamed for half an hour before he breathed.
After he took his last breath, he built a slave civil strife.
Amin, Daishan and others fought or withdrew, and as for Hwang Tae-gil, who did not participate in this battle, he was left by wild boar skins to guard Korea.
A fugitive Eight Banners Korean officer reported the death of the wild boar skin to Lu Xiangsheng, and Lu Xiangsheng, who had already been ready to fight back, led Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Shenwu, Luo Yiyi and other 50,000 elites to suddenly launch an attack on Jiannu. At the same time, Sun Chuanting led the armies in Liaoyang City to kill, and Jiannu, who was already in civil strife, was completely defeated in the internal and external attacks of the Ming army.
Sun Chuanting's good news said that the city of Liaoyang was full of white bones, and a total of 20,000 heads and skulls were obtained, and 20,000 were surrendered by the Eight Banners of Korea and the Green Flag Army.
In this battle, the wild boar skin was actually more than 80,000 and claimed to be 200,000 troops out of the mountain, and only 40,000 escaped alive in the end, and he himself was not among them. Eight years ago, Yang Ho's more than 80,000 and less than 90,000 Ming troops defeated Salhu, and finally came back alive 40,000, and eight years later, the wild boar skin came out of the mountain with almost the same force, and finally returned alive with 40,000.
Eight years.
It's like a reincarnation.
However......
"Keep attacking, we are really running out of time."
Shang Zhouzuo, who had read this official document, raised his head and looked at Nanjing City, took a deep breath and said.
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