Chapter 366: Hand-to-hand combat
Originally, the Shenshu Battalion, the Jinyi Guard, and the Standard Battalion were all going to the front line to supervise the battle.
Huang Han thought that this was too insulting to the soldiers who were ready to shed their blood for the country, so he ordered Liu Zaiqi to publicize it throughout the army.
The Shenshu Battalion, the Jinyi Guard, and the Governor Standard Battalion did not come to supervise the battle, but to pay attention to the battlefield and accurately transmit the battle situation, in order to record the merits of the soldiers who fought bravely to kill the enemy, so as not to have the phenomenon of fighting for merit or pulling the skin when taking Jinzhou.
This is the art of language, and the same action has the effect of making the soldiers feel warm, making the soldiers feel that the officers are always watching how they bravely kill the enemy, which boosts morale.
When the appointed time came, Liu Zhilun launched an attack order, the Chinese army's red flag was waving and the drums were thunderous, and the soldiers of the Ming army who were ready to go shouted in unison: "Tiger!" Tiger! Tiger! Then they all took their places and went to the city wall of Jinzhou to kill.
The Jiannu officials in Jinzhou City had long been aware of today's abnormality, and they realized that the deadline was approaching, and they gritted their teeth one by one and prepared to pull a few cushions on their backs.
The earth-shattering drums, the earth-shaking cannons, and the shouts swallowing mountains and rivers played the prelude to the attack on Jinzhou, and the city of Jinzhou seemed to be a flat boat in the stormy waves.
The red flow of people poured into the gray-brown Golden State City, and the crackling sound was chaotic, "Whoosh! Sou! Sou! In the sound of breaking the air, more than 2,000 feather arrows flew towards the head of Jinzhou City through a graceful arc......
Mao Chenglu, who was wearing heavy armor lined with cotton armor, was full of pride, and he brandished a short-handled mountain axe and shouted: "Brothers, when did my Dongjiang soldiers launch such a sharp siege battle? What is the way to build a slave? Our army will win, and the time has come for us to gain the first great merit and glory to our ancestors. ”
Chen Shi and Mao Youshun and the following two or three thousand soldiers all roared: "Kill the head of Jinzhou City and fight for a wife and son, brothers don't wait for the right time, rush!" ”
The artillery bombardment of the Ming army stopped, and then the shouts went from far to near, and Nahai, who personally commanded the Tibetan soldier cave under the wall of the West Gate, gave an order:
"Whether you can hold on to Jinzhou and wait for the reinforcements of the Great Khan depends on today's battle, sons, if you win, you will have a fate, and if you lose, we will all die without a corpse! Convey the officer's order to the first group of defenders to quickly board the city and set up defenses. ”
This is completely true, Jiannu cares most about leaving a whole corpse, and the Ming army needs to cut off the head to calculate military merits, but if the Houjin army loses the battle, there will definitely be no one's corpse that can be complete.
More than 1,000 Jiannu who landed in the city to defend the city shouted under the leadership of two Niu Lu Ezhen, "Brothers, fight with Nikan!" Kill! "Get ready as fast as you can.
Just when the Ming army reached the ice of the moat, thousands of Jiannu appeared at the head of Jinzhou City, and the enemy had nearly a thousand feather arrows directly at the Ming army, and two or three hundred arquebuses crackled.
The soldiers and civilians under the city suddenly fell one or two hundred people, but no one was frightened, the movements under their feet were even faster, Mao Chenglu did not raise a shield, he held the mountain axe tightly with one hand, raised his iron arm to protect his face, and strode forward.
Liu Dashou waved his hand, and the medical soldiers equipped with helmets and cotton armor and the requisitioned stretcher team members immediately began to run, Liu Dashou would not go to the front line to personally transport the wounded, because he was the highest-ranking medical officer, he had to command the overall situation, and he also had to operate on seriously injured people.
Huang Han only had 120 mini guns in his hand, and 90 were arranged for the main attack to be fired by the musketeers with the best shooting results, and 10 of the other three guns were being fired.
The Minnie gunners did not fail in their mission, and basically eliminated an enemy with one shot, and the soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" who used smoothbore guns, whether they had bird guns or self-generated guns, they were all out of the way, and they approached a distance of fifty or sixty paces from the city wall and fired a three-part salvo without stopping.
All the guns in the car were dispatched, and there were more than 100 arranged in the direction of Ninghaimen, and the large projectiles of three taels played the momentum of the battle defense artillery at a distance of 100 paces, but unfortunately the loading speed was unsatisfactory.
The defenders of Jinzhou City were directly shot by firearms, thrown by feather arrows, and fell down one after another, this is simply a three-dimensional attack, even if there is strong armor on the body, it will not help, and the two layers of iron armor can not withstand the direct hit of the fire gun within fifty or sixty steps, and it is ten dead and lifeless to be hit by the gun.
Moreover, the Jiannu soldiers with two-layer armor were a minority after all, and most of the Jin soldiers who defended the city were Qiding, Yuding, and even Goryeo and Mongolian clothed minions.
At most, they only have a piece of leather armor and cotton armor, which can barely shoot feather arrows, and when they encounter lead bullets, they are basically fatal with one hit.
Although there were one or two thousand Houjin troops desperately resisted at the head of the city, but they could not stop the Ming army's tidal attack, and soon the shield cart crossed the moat to the root of the city wall, at this time at least a hundred ladders set up the city wall, and this number is still increasing.
Due to the repeated shelling of the western city wall section of Jinzhou, the city head prepared such as rolling wood and stones and other defensive materials have long been dispersed, and even the cauldron prepared to cook gold juice has been broken, and most of the Jiannu defending the city rely on archery to resist, and a small number of Jin troops are looking for stones and rolling wood to smash under the city.
However, due to the firepower coverage of the "Red Banner Army" and accurate shooting, the Houjin army, which rose up to resist, was beaten to the head of the city like cutting wheat.
Mao Chenglu led the soldiers of Dongjiang Town, who were eager to be honored first, to quickly climb the ladder and jump up to the top of the city, which made the musketeers of the "Red Banner Army" who were shooting alternately salvos under the city stop shooting.
Because the accuracy of the smoothbore gun was worrisome, the two armies could never let go of their guns when they were fighting together. The accuracy of the gun was insufficient and powerful, and the Ming army could not fire even more when it went to the city.
First, dozens of Dongjiang soldiers killed the head of the city and fought for the enemy's life, and then more people joined the battle group, and when the Houjin army could not support it, Nahai personally led a thousand new troops to suddenly kill.
He wondered, why couldn't the commonplace Ming army see it at this time? The red flow of people in front of you is like a wolf and a tiger?
Nahai arranged three echelons to focus on defending the West Gate, and he even personally commanded it.
It's just that I didn't expect that the Ming army would not be able to bear the first echelon of an assault, and the enemy would ascend to the city, so Nahai, who had to rest assured, personally appeared with the second echelon.
At the moment before the hand-to-hand encounter, the Houjin army's iron bones, throwing axes, throwing guns and other projectile weapons inflicted many casualties on the Ming army.
Mao Chenglu, who was swinging an axe and chopping fiercely, saw the Jiannu reinforcements coming up, and shouted: "Brothers, form a formation to resist, as long as we buy time, the brothers in the city will continue to come." ”
This is an indisputable fact, the Ming army knows that as long as they stand in the city, the follow-up troops will come up in the thousands, and they all burst out with hoarse roars, "Kill slaves, kill slaves, fight to the death and never retreat!" Brothers kill! ”
Chen sometimes laughed wildly: "Hahaha, the first great achievement has been obtained, brothers can't give up, persistence is victory!" Kill! ”
All the Ming troops who landed in the city were shouting: "Kill ......"