Chapter 237: The City Wall
After destroying the pheasant moat on the city wall, Li Zhi let the well fence lean up. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The info soldiers pushed the wheels of the well fence and pushed the well fence a hundred meters away from the city wall.
The Tartars defending the city saw that the well fence was coming up, and knew that if they didn't fight back, the city wall would be occupied by the tiger division, so they rushed up. More than 200 unwilling Tartar auxiliaries rushed to the city wall and tried to shoot arrows. But a hundred meters was too far for the Tartars' arrows to shoot. And they rushed to the city wall to shoot arrows, and they were undoubtedly the best targets for riflemen from a hundred meters away.
Originally, the Tartars came up to shoot arrows only to deter the Tiger Master, but they didn't expect the Tiger Master's fire gun to shoot so far. They couldn't stop it, but they lost their lives.
Only a crackling gun was heard, and the riflemen on the well railing took aim at the Tartar archers and opened fire. Hundreds of riflemen took turns firing, and hundreds of bullets flew towards the walls and into the bodies of the Tartars. Most of these Tartars defending the city were auxiliaries and miscellaneous soldiers, and they did not wear armor and could not protect themselves from the bullets of the infantry of the Tiger Division. The Tartars' skin was torn open by bullets, their fragile body parts were stirred into a pool of blood, and two hundred Tartars fell one after another on the unsheltered walls, turning into bloodied corpses.
Only more than thirty Tartars were fatal and were not hit by the round-firing riflemen. They jumped off the city wall in a panic, and they saved their lives.
The Tartars no longer dared to walk up the southern wall. The city wall to the south of Tunpu has been completely suppressed by the Tiger Ben Division.
The soldiers of the Tiger Division gradually filled in the traps outside the city, and the well railings leaned towards the city wall little by little. The well fence is eight meters high, which is more than five meters above the city wall. When the well fence is close to the wall, the riflemen on the well can shoot at the Tartar soldiers behind the wall. The well fence leaned up little by little, and the soldiers on the well fence kept shooting the Tartar auxiliaries hiding behind the city walls.
Now the well fence is shooting condescendingly, and it is not safe even behind the city walls. The Tartars could only hide behind the buildings in the bunker, and from time to time they would rush out and shoot an arrow or two.
But compared to rifles with an accuracy of 8 or 90 percent within 70 meters, their bow shooting accuracy is much worse. Moreover, the shooting ports on the well fence were equipped with wooden guardrails above and below, and the Tartar bows and arrows could not hurt the soldiers on the well fence at all unless they were fired into the shooting port accurately. After a few minutes of firing at each other, only a few of the soldiers on the well fence were shot by the Tartar bows and arrows, but more than a hundred of the stubborn Tartar auxiliaries were killed.
But there were still more than 200 Tartar infantry standing against the root of the city wall, unwilling to leave, and wanted to defend the southern wall. The morale of these Tartar infantry was very tough, and at this time they were stopped by the city wall, in the dead end of the well fence, and the riflemen on the well fence could not take them.
To deal with these Tartar infantry armor who will not retreat, the only way to deal with them is to rely on hand-to-hand combat. The cavalry of the 2,000 Elective Frontier Regiment with handcuffs jumped off their horses, loaded their handguns, and walked towards the city wall with ladders on their shoulders. They calmly placed the ladder on the city wall, held it steady, and waited for the trumpets of the Chinese army.
Li Zhi and the other 200 ladders of the selection regiment were all put in place, so that the Chinese army blew the horn. Under the command of the sound of the trumpet, the cavalry of the two thousand Xuanfeng regiments attacked at the same time and took the lead in rushing to the city wall. As soon as they climbed the city wall, they aimed their handcuffs at the stone steps of the upper and lower city walls in the tun fort.
Sure enough, seeing that the soldiers of the Tiger Division on this side had climbed the city wall, the Tartar infantry standing at the foot of the city wall howled and rushed up to the city wall.
Not only that, but the Tartar auxiliaries hiding on the east and west walls of the Tunpu also made a noise, howling and rushing towards the southern city wall, trying to drive down the soldiers of the Xuanfeng Regiment who had attacked the city wall.
The Tartar shooters, who were hiding behind the buildings, also jumped out and shot arrows at the walls.
Although most of these Tartars defending the city were auxiliaries and miscellaneous soldiers, they followed the large army to defeat many Ming troops over the years, and they had a condescending sense of superiority over the Ming army. At this time, although the southern city wall was suppressed by the well fence, although the firepower of the Ming army was incredibly strong, they still did not think that the Ming army could defeat them, and they still had the morale to impact the Ming army that attacked the southern city wall.
However, the cavalrymen of the Elector Regiment were not vegetarians, and they opened fire with their handcuffs at the Tartars that were charging up the stone steps. There are only four stone steps on the 250-meter-long southern wall that lead to the wall. The stone steps are just over two meters wide and can only pass three people at a time. Walking on these two stone steps, the tartar became the best target for the handcuff. The soldiers of the Election Regiment who climbed the city wall opened fire on the stone steps, and more than a thousand handcuffs were fired one after another, turning the Tartar infantry armor that rushed up the stone steps into a hornet's nest.
The Tartars' infantry men howled and rushed up the stone steps, and were killed. Then the one behind rushed up and was killed again. Rush again, get killed again. Frightened, he ran away and was killed again. In the end, three or four layers of corpses were piled up inside and outside the stone steps, and the more than 200 Tartar infantry armor hiding behind the dead corners of the city wall were all killed.
As for the Tartar auxiliaries rushing over the eastern and western city walls, the selection regiment was handed over to the riflemen on the well railing. The width of the wall was narrow, just over three meters wide, and the Tartars rushed from the wall to a front, with a maximum of four or five people. More than 200 rifles on the eight well railings outside the city wall were aimed at the narrow three-meter pouring ammunition, and again and again the Tartar auxiliaries rushing in front were smashed into a sieve.
The Tartars, who were hiding behind the buildings below the walls, saw that the Elector Regiment had rushed up the walls and tried to jump out and shoot arrows. But the riflemen on the well fence had been waiting for them to come out for a long time. Often, as soon as the Tartar emerges, it is aimed and shot by several rifles. After a few rounds, the Tartars' bows and arrows were greatly disadvantaged.
Moreover, the Selector Regiment wore chain mail, and the bows and arrows fired from under the city walls could not hurt them unless they hit the vital point.
The bows of the Qing army auxiliaries were not strong bows, and their armor-piercing ability was very low. Soldiers of the Elector Regiment will not be seriously injured unless they are shot in the face or in the vital senses. After two or three rounds of firing, the Tartars managed to shoot down more than two dozen soldiers of the Election Regiment, but they were killed and wounded more than a hundred archers. At this time, the soldiers of the Election Regiment on the city wall also put away their handcuffs, raised their rifles on their backs and aimed them at the buildings below the city. The Tartar shooters were pointed at thousands of rifles and no longer dared to come out and shoot arrows.
Although the morale of the Tartars was high, their counterattack was repulsed by the soldiers of the Tiger Division.
The Tartars were slammed into a strange feeling. Where did this Ming army come from, and why is its combat effectiveness so strong?
The leader of the Tartars in the tunbao was a Jialazhangjing, who stood on the north city wall at this time, and watched in shock as his soldiers died one by one under the handcuffs and guns of the Ming army, and his stomach was incredible. How can this Ming army have so many bird guns and cannons? The Ming army has such a strong combat effectiveness? Is this still the Ming Army? (To be continued.) )