Chapter 105: The Mantars attack the wall
Seeing that all the wounded people had been rescued back to Sicheng, Chen Yue also ordered a retreat, and it was not at all advantageous to shoot at the Mantars here, and five or six soldiers had already been shot wounded.
Abul looked coldly at the Ming army who had retreated to the castle, and waved his hand to order his men to stop shooting. Through the round of shooting just now, he has already distinguished the approximate combat strength of this group of Ming troops, there are no archers, only a dozen muskets, and the weapons and equipment are inferior to ordinary border troops, and observing their actions, although the formation is relatively strict, the soldiers' movements are stiff and clumsy, and they have never been on the battlefield at a glance. A soldier of the Ming Army with such combat power, a warrior of the Eight Banners can beat him eight!
In a head-to-head match, Abul believed that his cavalry would break through their ranks with a single charge, and then all that was left was to kill. Even if you dismount and fight on foot, your own one hundred and eight banner warriors are enough to defeat thousands of such an army!
Amutu retreated from the town with his men, and it was empty. Coming with the army in a rage, naturally unwilling to withdraw like this, since the Ming people hid in the castle in front of them, then capture it! Kill the generals, slaughter all the Ming, and rob all the wealth!
Although he only had a hundred cavalry, Abula still had the confidence to storm the castle, the castle was too small, and the wall was too low, and the wall was eight feet high, maybe he could jump on it with a slight leap while standing on a horse, and he could easily attack the castle with a little siege equipment!
As for the ditches in front of them, it was easier, and there was no need to make any effort to level them, just get some planks from the town and cover them.
With Abule's order, his Eight Banners soldiers rushed into the town, unloaded the door panels from house to house, and then carried them back here, covering the door panels on the ditch, and only using more than 20 door panels, paved a smooth road to the walled gate.
Dozens of cavalry rode their horses to the gate of the wall, raised their bows against the wall, and the next moment, the arrows rained down, so that the soldiers on the wall could not raise their heads.
"Ahh In the midst of the screams, one of the recruits fell on his back, a trembling feathered arrow stuck in his eye socket.
Listening to his terrible screams, all the soldiers on the wall of the wall were in their hearts, such a serious injury, maybe he couldn't wait for healing, he couldn't hold on.
The arrows of the Tartar were so accurate that the feathered arrows seemed to have eyes, and a soldier with his shield had just stretched out his head, and the arrows shot up through the gap between the shield and the wall, and plunged straight into his shoulder, so that no one dared to look down again.
The Ming army with a general banner on the wall of the wall was suppressed by dozens of archers from the Mantars, which made Chen Yue secretly frightened, and the Mantars were really fierce.
"No one is allowed to look down any further, pikemen are in groups of three, responsible for guarding a section of the battlement, and the sword and shield soldiers are covering, and if a full Tartar attack them, stab them down with spears!" Chen Yue passed the order.
"Inspector, let's shoot!" Gunner Chen Gouzi shouted impatiently.
"No, wait until they attack the city!" Chen Yue shook his head and said. During the siege, the most Mantars gathered under the city, and at that time the cannon could have the greatest effect. The reason why Chen Yue dared to defend the city was that there were not many people in the Tartars, and secondly, he had two tiger squat cannons, although the range of this thing was not far, but it could be loaded with a large number of stone bullets and lead bullets, and it would be a large piece when shot out, and the best effect on dealing with dense enemies!
The Ming army on the walled wall no longer shows its head, only Yang Zhengping pokes his head out from time to time to observe the movements of the Mantar, he is a master of art and bold, and the occasional feather arrow can easily dodge.
"The Tartars are about to hit the city gates!" Seeing four Manchu Tartar soldiers carrying a long log towards the gate of the village, Yang Zhengping hurriedly reminded.
"The person who goes up to a small flag will use a wooden stick against the gate of the village!" Chen Yue commanded.
More than a dozen soldiers put down their weapons and ran towards the gate of the village with wooden sticks.
"Knock, knock......" The huge impact sound came, and the gate of the village was shaking violently, but fortunately there were more than a dozen wooden sticks to resist it, so it was not knocked open.
However, this walled gate is only made of ordinary wood, without copper or iron, and is far from being as strong as the real city gate, and it may not be long before it will be torn apart by the impact.
Chen Yue lined up with two soldiers of the general flag in the walled gate, waiting for the moment when the walled gate was broken, and it was also the moment when the tiger squat cannon opened fire.
More thick sticks were brought over, and they were pressed against the back of the walled gate, and depending on the situation, it might take a longer time for the full tartars to collide.
Several bamboo ladders were found from the town by Amutu and others, the ladders are not high, and they are used by the villagers to repair the roofs, but in the face of the wall, which is only more than one zhang high, it is enough, as long as the two ladders are connected together with ropes, it is enough to build the wall.
Soon, the ladder was set up on the wall, and the white-armored soldier Actun, as the selector, was ordered to lead people to kill the wall first.
Acton climbed towards the wall with a steel knife in one hand and a ladder in the other, and several Eight Banners soldiers followed closely behind him.
"Attention, everyone, the Tartars are coming!" Yang Zhengping stretched out his hand and picked up a feather arrow that was shot at him, and reminded the soldiers on the wall. All the soldiers clutched their weapons tightly in their hands, their eyes fixed on the battlements in front of them.
Acton was the first to climb to the battlement, reaching out and putting his hand on the battlement.
"Kill!" Seeing the Mantar appear in front of him, several pikemen in charge of this section of the wall shouted and stabbed their spears out in unison. Acton slashed with his right hand, slashing off two spear heads, and then grabbed the last spear with his left hand.
Seeing that the spear was actually grabbed by the full tartar, the soldier hurriedly grabbed it, and Acton took the opportunity to leap forward and jump into the wall.
Stepping on the wall, Acton did not stop, brandished the steel knife, and killed the stunned Ming army in front of him, the steel knife slashed, splashing blood flowers, and in the blink of an eye, several Ming soldiers died under his knife.
As a white-armored elite who has been fighting for more than ten years, Acton is a truly battle-hardened warrior, how can he be matched by these recruits in front of him who have just trained for a month?
Seeing that the Mantars were killed on the wall, and several soldiers were murdered, Yang Zhengping couldn't help but be furious, and he came over with a spear, and the guns were full of flowers, and the beckons could not leave the eyes and throats of the Mantars.
Acton didn't expect the Ming army's marksmanship to leave like this, relying on the experience of countless battles on the battlefield to barely dodge a few shots, and hurriedly raised his arm to protect the door, wearing three layers of armor, except for the weakness of his face, he was not afraid of spears in other places.
After several shots, the gun pierced Mantar's body, but he couldn't break through the armor on his body, Yang Zhengping was very anxious, seeing that more Mantar was about to climb the wall, what should I do?