Chapter 76 (3) Battle of Tongzhou 5
Abatai looked at the subordinates who were constantly knocked over by the cannonballs of the Dazhong Army, and his heart was constantly twitching, you must know that their Jiannu population was not large, this kind of death is undoubtedly an unbearable death method for them, and they were bombarded without even touching the other party's side, and the death can be said to be worthless, but he has no better way, who let him not find out in advance that the Dazhong Army is coming, and transfer the cannons in his army to attack Tongzhou City? So at this time, there was only a part of standing up to the neck and being beaten, and the only few cannons he brought were ordered by him not to stop firing the artillery, and to speed up and keep firing the artillery, trying to suppress the artillery fire of the Dazhong Army, but such a counterattack was a drop in the bucket for the artillery fire of the Dazhong Army in absolute advantage, and it was impossible to suppress the artillery fire of the Dazhong Army at all, but a few cannons soon began to overheat, so frightened that the gunners did not dare to fill the gunpowder into the gun chamber anymore, and the angry Abatai scolded, and he didn't know who he wanted to scold, It scared the Han gunners under Shi Tingzhu so much that they were about to pee their pants.
This is not the worst, braving the shelling of the large Chinese army, Jiannu continued to advance forward, and after paying a lot of price, finally entered a distance of about two hundred steps, and the gunners of the large Chinese army began to change into bags of grapeshot into the barrel of the cannon with a wicked smile, and began to lower the muzzle of the cannon, aiming at the oncoming Jiannu array.
With the sound of several cannons, the Jiannu knife players who were holding the big shield in front of them suddenly shook violently, and many people immediately flew out upside down like paper kites, and in an instant, along with their bodies, as well as the big shields they carried, they all flew up like rags, and the big shields were torn to pieces by these grape bullets, and even the people who held the shields were torn apart, and there was no life after landing like rag dolls.
Grape bullet is a large shotshot, when shooting at close range, the power is great, and the surface is very wide, a sweep of a piece, even the flying projectile can penetrate two or three people in a row, the bulleted person has no luck, even if the arm and leg are shot, the arm and leg will be torn off immediately, the gunned soldiers are all miserable, and the stumps fly in a pool of blood.
This kind of artillery bombardment made the Jiannu army suddenly chaotic again, and almost collapsed on the spot, if it weren't for the Jiannu soldiers who supervised the battle behind and slashed the retreating slave soldiers, this time Jiannu's attack is estimated to end here.
Abatai and Hauge looked at the scene of flesh and blood flying in front of them, their hearts were like knives, but there was no way, in a hurry, they didn't even bring a few carts, they could only let the knife card move forward with a big shield, and it was helpless for them to suffer such damage, but they still didn't dare to order the collection of troops, in the case of the enemy's superior firepower, once they ordered the collection of troops, this battle would have been lost, so at the moment, although they saw that their soldiers under their command would suffer heavy casualties, they did not dare to order the collection of troops, can only let people fill in with their lives until they fill in the eyes of the big middle army and fight hard with the big middle army.
The distance of three or four hundred paces is simply a nightmare to hell for Jiannu, and countless Jiannu soldiers have fallen on the way forward, but fortunately they are Jiannu army, if it is replaced by the general Ming army, it is estimated that they have already collapsed at this time.
In this way, the Jiannu army had to let out a desperate howl under the death order of Abatai and Hauge, and continued to rush forward one after another, first by the cannon bombardment of the Dazhong Army, and finally attacked the 100 steps in front of the Dazhong Army's formation, and then began to be beaten by the Dazhong Army's platoon guns, at this time the Jiannu Army's knife players have lost a lot, and they can no longer effectively provide protection for the slave soldiers behind.
Although there are Han soldiers under the command of Shi Tingzhu on the Jiannu side, they also have some bird guns, but their bird guns can't hit so far, and seventy steps is already their farthest distance, so they can only continue to rush forward until they enter the seventy steps distance, and those of them who are firecrackers begin to release their guns against the large array of the Great Chinese Army, so that they also begin to cause casualties to the Great Chinese Army.
Those Jiannu soldiers, really was beaten out of the real fire, they retreated no way, can only rush forward, although they are all equipped with hard bows, but they can't reach the enemy, watching the comrades around them one after another by the Dazhong army overturned, but helpless, until they rushed to a distance of fifty or sixty steps, these Jiannu soldiers finally began to have the strength to fight back, one by one struggled to twist the waist and open the bow, and set up arrows towards the array of the Dazhong army.
It was not until this time that the Dazhong army began to gradually appear casualties, although the plate armor on their bodies was very protective, but after all, this kind of plate armor mainly only protected their chest and abdomen, limbs and faces without protection, and the bow and arrow of the Jiannu Tartar shot extremely accurately, and the fifty steps of Jiannu could directly shoot the face of the Dazhong army soldiers with arrows, so the forefront of the Dazhong gunners, then they were hit by arrows one after another, and began to fall to the ground, but this did not prevent the Dazhong gunners from continuing to fire, as long as the people in front of them fell, The musketeers in the back immediately stepped up and continued to fire with their guns.
And Jiannu's archers often only have one or two arrows of chance, and they will soon be knocked to the ground by the firecrackers of the Dazhong army, at this time the difference between the lethality of the bow and arrow and the lethality of the firearm is revealed, although the bows and arrows of Jiannu are heavy arrows, the power is not small, but when they shoot the cuirass of the generals of the Dazhong army, they often cannot effectively break the armor, but the flintlock pistol of the Dazhong army, the projectile is at a distance of fifty or sixty steps, but the armor-piercing ability is very strong, although some of the Jiannu's infantry soldiers are out of battle, they are covered with iron armor outside, The inside is also lined with a layer of cotton armor, but once it is hit, it is immediately pierced by the projectile, opening a large blood hole in their body, and this exchange is more frustrating than making Jiannu.
Among them, a third-class armor Lazhangjing who led the army to attack, in order to save his life, wore a set of iron armor on his body when he went out to fight, a set of cotton armor inside, and a set of chain mail inside, but when he screamed and pounced thirty steps in front of the Dazhong army formation, he still received a shot in the heart, this projectile broke through his three layers of armor at once, and a shot entered his chest. I couldn't believe it, and I touched the breach with my left hand, and when I raised my hand and saw that my hands were full of his own blood, I raised my head and screamed to the sky, and then fell down on my back like a rag bag.
Although the rotation of muskets in Dazhong can be said to be endless, once the enemy forces offset the casualties in numbers at any cost and launch an attack, before the invention of the machine gun, it is still impossible to completely contain such an offensive, and can only continue to shoot a group of slave soldiers, but more slave soldiers are still constantly approaching the front line of the Dazhong army.
Liu Yaoben silently calculated the distance between the slave army and their front, and it was not until Jiannu attacked about thirty steps of the Dazhong army's front that he sharply ordered to stop firing.
After hearing the order, the knife player and the spearman stepped forward without saying a word, and replaced the firecracker who had been busy for a while to the rear team, and the knife player shouted in unison, and then squatted down collectively, covering his body with the rattan card in his hand, and the spearmen in the back row immediately roared, and put the spear down neatly, clenched the spear tightly in his hand with both hands, and stared at the oncoming Jiannu soldiers in front of him one by one, and a bloodthirsty cold glow flashed in his eyes.
Since the pikemen went north during this time, there are basically not many opportunities for meritorious service, they practice every day, practice the art of stabbing, and their arms are practiced in a large circle, but often they can only watch the fire gunners knock over the enemy lightly, basically they rarely have the opportunity to go into battle, only when they are attacking the city, they have the opportunity to cooperate with the sword players to attack the city, this credit is always not able to catch up with those fire guns, so the pikemen and knife players often always hold their breath, want to show their strength.
Now their emperor Xiao Tianjian is watching them behind their backs, and today Jiannu is also competitive enough, and he was beaten like this, but he didn't completely beat them, but he still arched in front of them, and this time the spearmen and knife players were happy, and finally let them get a chance to show their strength.
So the pikemen and sword players replaced the gunners in front of them one by one, forming a forest of guns in front of the large array, and put down like waves and pointed directly at the oncoming Jiannu generals.
When these Jiannu soldiers saw that the Dazhong Army finally stopped firing the platoon guns, some of them almost cried excitedly, they were beaten too aggrieved in this battle, where is this war! It's like being killed for fun! And they didn't have much power to fight back, and now they finally saw that the terrible firecrackers of the Great Chinese Army began to stop letting go and retreated, this time they were happy, and they no longer had to worry about worrying that they would be knocked to the ground in the next moment, at least now they can have the strength to fight back, so these Jiannu who came here one by one began to roar and wave all kinds of weapons in their hands as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, under the leadership of their Niu Lu Zhangjing, began to crash into the front of the Great Chinese Army like a tide.
They have been fighting for so many years, except for the siege of the city, they have not been beaten so embarrassed in the field, what pride has almost just been swept into the garbage heap by the Dazhong army, many slave soldiers who thought they were very brave, just now they were shaken in their faith and only thought about escaping, if it weren't for the desperate supervision of Abatai and Haoge in the back, they would have followed the example of the Ming army to scatter, thinking about this made many still alive slave soldiers feel ashamed, they were really scared, Some of them even fought in two wars, and the crotch of their pants was soaked with urine, and now that the terrible Dazhong Arms Gunners have finally ceased fire, they have regained some morale, and they plan to break through the front line of this Dazhong army and regain the dignity and pride they have just lost.
Some Tartar soldiers took the opportunity to release two more arrows, and it was not difficult for them to get accurate at such a distance, but the pikemen who had just been replaced immediately fell a batch of arrows in response, but such casualties did not disrupt the guns of the Dazhong Army, and some people fell and immediately took their place and went up, always forming a row of staggered and dense guns in front of the formation, so that the Jiannu army crashed into their guns so straight and straight.
Seeing the Jiannu soldiers shouting and waving the weapons in their hands, they collided fiercely, and the captains and generals among the pikemen stared at them one by one, just before the Tartar soldiers collided and tried to push away their spears, these officers suddenly burst out with a roar from the dantian: "Kill the ......"
Almost all the pikemen in the front row twisted their waists and shook their arms, exerting their milky strength, bursting out their long-accumulated anger, and they made a stab together with their arms forward, and the whole gun forest stabbed forward like lightning, and a blood mist suddenly rose at the place where the two armies met, and there was a scream like an earth-shattering cry, which made people from afar feel a little numb in their scalps.
The action of the pikemen is very simple, it is a lightning-like stab, and then a slight twist of the gun immediately withdrew the gun, and the many Jiannu soldiers in front of them almost didn't have time to react, they were pierced by their spears, and these pikemen shot very ruthlessly, almost singled out the weakest throat of Jiannu, the spear flickered in front of Jiannu's eyes like a dragonfly, and many Jiannu soldiers immediately threw away the weapons in their hands, staring at the big eyes with a frightened look, Both hands covered the neck where a bloody hole was hissing and spurting blood, and the legs fell to the ground as soon as they became weak, and at this time, a row of spears flashed from the top of their heads again like a shuttle, and immediately another group of Jiannu covered their wounds and fell on the corpse of Jiannu in front of them, and some Jiannu could still hear the hissing sound of blood spurting from their wounds before they died.
(Today, I would like to thank the Baiyun brothers for their generous rewards!) )