Chapter 469: Attacking the Mountain
After several flowering bombs crashed into the stone house, it was buried underneath the stone. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 But soon the shells exploded, and only a few loud bangs were heard, and the flowering shells under the stones exploded, sending the layers of rubble above them flying in all directions. The flying stones flew fast and slammed into the Qing soldiers who were dodging the shells behind.
Many of the Qing soldiers were injured by these stones, and fell to the ground rolling and groaning. Two of Gelrelu's own soldiers were cut on the face by the rubble, and they covered their faces and screamed loudly, the sound was heartbreaking.
Greroth was also hit by two stones, but he was wearing three layers of heavy armor and was not injured.
However, the stone houses in this place have been reduced to a pile of ruins, which can no longer be used to hide from shells.
Gelloch was chased by shells all the way, knowing that he had been targeted by the artillery of the Ming army. He was anxious to find a place to hide from the shells, Zhang Huang ran out with his own soldiers, and subconsciously fled to the top of the mountain.
The enemy tower on the top of the hill where Dorgon was located was so strong that it could not be hit by a flowering bullet. Greroch couldn't think about how Dorgon would punish himself if he fled back without permission, and his life was the most important thing at this time. The feeling of being targeted by twenty cannons was more terrible than Dorgon's punishment.
Along the way, Geloro found that the Qing troops who had just been driven to the edge of the high platform by himself had all hid in the corner, and all of them gave up the defense of the high platform. However, Greroch could no longer care about the soldiers, and he ran wildly on the winding path up the mountain, hoping to run back to the top as fast as possible.
Another rumbling cannon rang out, and sixty-nine heavy guns at the foot of the hill fired shells again. Twenty shells were fired at Grad relentlessly, and nineteen shells missed and scattered on various high platforms along the path. However, one shell landed firmly in Grero, hitting him in the back.
Grelu only felt a huge force hit his waist, and then his waist was cold, and his whole lower body lost his senses.
The soldiers around him could see clearly: Greroth's entire body was cut in two by a shell from the waist and separated from the top and bottom. The flesh and blood organs were sprayed everywhere, and the few pro-soldiers next to them were blood-red.
The overwhelming pain was the last thing Grelu felt, and he looked at the miserable condition in his waist with blood-red eyes, and collapsed on the path and died.
Greroth's own soldiers were terrified as they watched Greroth be smashed in two. But seeing the flowering bullet that fell under Gelreh, the soldiers did not dare to go up to rescue Gelrew's body.
After a few seconds, the flowering bomb exploded under the two corpses of Gelrerod, turning Gelreth's corpse into a mist of minced flesh and blood.
The surrounding Qing soldiers watched the tragic death of Gellu, and their faces turned pale. Melerzhangjing was killed by a shell, and the morale of the Qing troops who were shelled was even lower, and they simply did not have the confidence to hold this hill.
Cao Bianjiao and other generals did not see the scene of Li Zhi's bombardment of the Qing army at Bijia Gang, but at this time they used binoculars to observe Dabi Mountain, and saw the explosions and fires coming out of the mountain, and they were terrified. When they saw a Qing army official killed by a shell, they were even more shocked.
Li Zhi's artillery is too sharp, such a bombardment, where is the morale of the Qing army on the mountain?
Cao Bianjiao could clearly see through his telescope that all the Qing soldiers on the mountain had all hid in bunkers and behind the mountain to avoid shells, and no one was still guarding the edge of the high platform for defense. At this time, it can be said that attacking the mountain is as easy as a breeze.
The cannon fired at the mountain for two hours, and the Qing army was terrified, and Li Zhi began to organize soldiers to attack the mountain.
Dabi Mountain is full of ditches and high platforms, and although there is a winding path leading to the top of the mountain, it is not cost-effective to go around and face the fire of the Qing army on the entire hill. The only realistic way to attack the mountain was to climb it up the trench with a long ladder. Cao Bianjiao's soldiers and horses had already built many long ladders, and Li Zhi used them at this time.
Li Zhi's soldiers and horses rushed to the first high platform at the foot of Dabi Mountain, preparing to attack this high platform. Before the soldiers stormed the fortification, the artillery first covered the small high platform with artillery fire.
Not only were sixty-nine heavy guns bombarded, but eighty six-pounder light guns were also dragged up to suppress the fire. The six-pounder cannon had to be within a mile of the cannon to fire, so that it would come into the range of the Qing army's light Hongyi cannon on the top of the mountain. However, the Qing army's light artillery only fired two rounds before Li Zhi's heavy artillery was disposed of, and nothing hit.
All 149 artillery pieces were moved to a mile at the foot of Dabi Mountain, where they were aimed at the ground and carpet bombarded the high platform that the soldiers were preparing to climb using flowering shells and solid shells respectively. I saw that the projectile flowering and solid shells fell like raindrops, and sparks exploded on the first high platform.
After two rounds of fighting, the Qing army on this platform was killed, wounded, and fled, and no one dared to defend in danger.
The soldiers of the trap regiment climbed the first high platform without blood.
After climbing the first high platform, the soldiers aimed their rifles at the other high platforms higher on the mountain, and shot when they saw the Qing army outcropping. The Qing army was bombed by artillery and lost its courage, and it was a mess on the mountain, and if it were not surrounded by the Ming army, it would have abandoned the mountain and fled. After Li Zhi's soldiers and horses climbed the high platform, there were only sporadic Qing soldiers on the mountain to attack down, and most of the Qing troops lay on the ground to avoid the shells, not daring to take their heads.
The artillerymen aimed their shots at the next high platform that the soldiers were going to attack.
The artillery constantly poured shells in the direction of the soldiers' main attack, clearing the way for the soldiers to attack the fortifications. The soldiers in the back row used their rifles to shoot at the Qing soldiers who resisted on the mountain, breaking the will of the Qing soldiers to resist.
The attacking soldiers climbed the ladder with grenades and torches, and when they climbed to the outside of the high platform, two soldiers worked together to light the grenade and threw it into the high platform. Even a few Qing soldiers hiding behind an earthen wall on the edge of the high platform and preparing to resist stubbornly would be killed by these grenades.
The soldiers of the trapped regiment advanced up the hill layer by layer, with minimal casualties. The 6,000 Qing defenders on the mountain basically had only escaped, and they did not organize a decent counterattack at all. From the afternoon to the evening, the soldiers had already fought halfway up the mountain. If it weren't for the fact that it had already darkened, the trapping group would have been able to attack the top of the mountain directly.
The night of this era was pitch black, and the battle was extremely difficult. Therefore, after Li Zhi advanced halfway up the mountain in the evening, he no longer attacked upward.
I believe that if I attack one more day tomorrow, I will be able to take Dabi Mountain.
When it was darkest, Li Zhi had already fallen asleep in the tent, but suddenly heard a shout of killing. Li Zhi ran out of the camp and found that there was no fighting nearby, and the shouts of killing came from the north of Dabi Mountain.
After a long time, a herald of Hong Chengchou ran over.
The herald ran to Li Zhi and knelt down, and said, "Marquis Xingguo, Dolgon abandoned Dabi Mountain, led six thousand Tartars to break through from the north of the mountain, and fled in the direction of Jinzhou by night!" ”