Chapter 45: Stealing Chickens Can't Be Done
This kind of suicide attack made Jiannu's offensive a halt, widening the distance between him and the refugees running in front, and he didn't react for a long time, and the Niu Lu Zhangjing and Jia Lazhangjing behind the Jiannu army finally suppressed the soldiers under their command, and reorganized the team under the supervision of the Jiannu Tartars behind, and once again formed a formation and rushed towards the three gates.
But at this time, most of the refugees took advantage of this time, and most of them poured into the gate from three places under the organization of the large and medium generals who were covering them, and it was unrealistic for them to mix in with the refugees and seize the gate, but Dolgon didn't care about this! As long as the gate is not closed, he will not order the troops to be collected, and continue to force the Han troops of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion in front of him to attack the gate.
The Jiannu soldiers, who had lost the cover of the refugees, were exposed in front of the defenders of the city like a woman who had been stripped of their clothes, looking at the robes of those dead soldiers, one by one they died heroically and abnormally in front of their eyes, the defenders could be said to be all red-eyed, Yan Chongxi and Lu Xiangsheng also closed their eyes, silently mourned for those dead soldiers in their hearts for a moment, and then immediately opened their eyes angrily, and shouted one after another: "Fire!" Kill slaves! ”
The roar of the defenders of "Kill the slave ......" suddenly echoed like a shocking echo along the Shanhai Pass again, and for a while, the cannons were fired on the city, and the smoke of gunpowder immediately rose up, almost enveloping the entire Great Wall.
The generals of the Dazhong army, who have long been unable to bear it, have fewer scruples at this time, where will they be merciful! In the roar of the officers, the musketeers immediately leaned against the wall and raised their guns, and one by one they aimed at the Jiannu soldiers under the city with their self-generated firearms, and after a short aim, they immediately began to pull the trigger one after another.
And after they had opened fire, they did not even look down to check the effectiveness of their shots, but immediately withdrew their hands and handed them to the brethren behind them, and then took another loaded musket from their hands, and once again set it up on the wall, aimed it at the city and aimed it again......
In this way, the Jiannu army that rushed to the city within a hundred steps was like being slaughtered by dogs and sheep, and one after another was knocked to the ground, just like mowing grass, and the most serious casualties were the officers in the Jiannu army, and the people who were responsible for firing were the accurate shooting people among the large and medium arms gunners, and some of them could even be called marksmen, these people were about 100 paces, hitting a target the size of a human body was not a problem at all, and those marksmen could even hit the enemy's face door accurately at about 100 paces. Among them, the sharpshooters were ordered to pick out those Niu Lu Zhangjing and Jia Lazhangjing in the Jiannu army, and under the concentrated fire, as long as these Jiannu officers entered the effective range, there was almost no possibility of survival.
Xiao Tianjian disdains to follow the example of the Western war and not fight the enemy's officers! He is well aware of the importance of officers in an army, so the first thing to take care of in a battle is those enemy officers, and if you defeat the enemy officers, then the enemy army will become a plate of loose sand, and it will be much easier to clean up.
Now this trick is also used on Jiannu, and the Jiannu army that rushed in front of it was a big mess, and the attack that had just been organized was immediately dispersed, and it was not only the gunners who were firing, but the gunners in the city were by no means idle, whether it was the gunners of the Dazhong Army, or the gunners of the officers and soldiers who stayed in this area, they didn't need the officers to explain, so they filled the large bags of scattered bullets in their respective artillery, and aimed at the Jiannu army under the city One cannon after another, even if it was the most useless bowl, It can also be loaded with dozens of projectiles, the tiger squat cannon can be loaded with up to 100 projectiles, although the firing rate is very low, but there is a cannon is a cannon, and it is swept away like a torrential rain, several cannons are fired at the same time, and the power of hundreds of firearms on the top of the gun at the same time is swept away.
Just now, when the Jiannu army was driving away and slaughtering the refugees, they were still showing off their might, but at this time, they became the targets of slaughter, and the entire line of the Great Wall was like a giant dragon that breathed fire all over its body, and all kinds of cannonballs and shells were sprinkled on their heads like a storm, and like a fire whip in the hands of the giant god, they were repeatedly whipped on them, and each blow could knock over a piece of Jiannu soldiers.
Although they also tried hard to counterattack, they were from bottom to top, and the firearms in their hands were not as sharp as the Dazhong Army, whether it was range or power, these tattered bird guns and three-eyed guns in their hands could not suppress the Dazhong Army in the city at all, so they suffered a big loss as soon as they fought, and the casualties were very heavy.
Dolgon scolded like thunder, seeing the soldiers of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion and the Mongolian soldiers who attacked the city retreated like a tide, and immediately recruited the three Han army banner owners who led the troops, Li Shutai, Liu Zhiyuan, and Wu Shoujin, and reprimanded them loudly, don't look at these three people are also Gushan Ezhen (flag owners) But the Han army flag and the Manchu army flag are not equal status at all, when they face Dolgon, the Rui prince, one by one, like a pug with a tail between them, The scolded dog's blood sprinkler didn't dare to put a fart.
After Dolgon scolded him, he ordered the three of them to immediately go to supervise the battle in person, no matter how many people died, they must also capture the pass and break through the city, otherwise he would not be blamed for being polite.
The three lackeys rushed to the front of the army, and without saying a word, they first cut down a few Niu Lu Zhangjing and Jia La Zhangjing who had fled from their respective subordinates, and immediately promoted a group of subordinates on the spot, supplemented the Niu Lu Zhangjing and Jia La Zhangjing who were killed, and once again issued a death order, ordering their Han soldiers to continue to attack the city.
At this time, the refugees who were driven to be human shields were basically about to enter the pass, and some of the soldiers and generals of the remaining large and medium armies who were responsible for covering them did not seem to be in a hurry to enter the pass, and closed the gate, but they were applauding at the gate, and they also ran out to the battlefield and cut off the heads of many Jiannu soldiers one after another, and easily ended up some of the wounded who were left by the Jiannu army, and they were extremely ruthless, even if they were mending knives, they did not make up the knife at the critical point of these Jiannu soldiers, but picked out the places that were not close to cut and poke, Let these Jiannu wounded people suffer even more pain, and they will continue to bleed to death, making it clear that they want to torture them.
Then they dragged piles of Jiannu heads, returned to the gate, hung these heads, and by the way, they also caught the wounded and sick of the 100 Jiannu on the abandoned battlefield, tied them to the top of the wall, lined up, and showed them to face the wall below.
The Jiannu troops outside the angry pass also scolded, but they had no choice but to bombard from afar, trying to stop the arrogant actions of these large Chinese troops, but these large Chinese troops were small in number and did not move in dense formations, even if they fired artillery from a distance, they could not control them.