Chapter 885 captures Shizhai
At the head of the city, a group of Qing soldiers raised their bird guns, and the sound of "bang bang bang" sounded, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the rain of bullets was overwhelmingly shot towards the rushing Ming soldiers.
The arrows thrown from the sky and the oncoming rain of bullets were attacked in two directions, and the Ming soldiers raised their shields to block the heavy arrows falling overhead, and they could not block the oncoming projectiles, and vice versa, the attacks of the Qing army were intertwined into a huge net, and the Ming soldiers in the middle faced the same fate when they faced the first round of attacks.
The screams rang out in pieces, a soldier who stepped on the trench bridge, crossed the bridge on both sides of the trench, stepped on the bridge body on both sides of the trench, stepped on the up and down flashing soldiers with a shield to charge, a heavy arrow hung down, "Zheng", shot on the shield, the arrow was nailed into the shield, the wings on the tail of the arrow shook again and again, if it was not for the rattan card, this arrow would definitely break the armor and shoot the soldiers.
The arrows were still falling like raindrops, and the soldier didn't have time to pay attention to a few feathered arrows inserted in the shield, his eyes were fixed on the trench bridge under his feet, and he charged forward quickly, he saw that he was about to pass, full of sharpened wooden stakes and bamboo sticks, full of dangerous trenches, his face was showing a hint of joy, but a gun shot hit him in the front, right in his chest, the soldier's body under the impact of the projectile, immediately flew upside down, and then smashed heavily on the trench bridge, his body rolled down the trench, and was instantly pierced by wooden stakes and bamboo sticks.
Under the attack of the Qing army's arrows and guns, the Ming army could not scruple about comprehensiveness, and could not prevent the arrows from the guns, and could not prevent the arrows from the guns.
The first wave of temptation of the Ming army was in this situation, and it retreated in a hurry, and at this time the Ming army faced the same situation, but under closer inspection, there were some differences.
One of the soldiers, raising a shield and charging forward, a row of guns from the Qing army shot at him, hitting him with sparks flying everywhere, his body kept retreating, and he was about to fall, but he was held by the soldiers behind, and the soldiers were full of horror, because he felt a pain in his chest, thinking that he had been shot, but after a closer look, the plate armor on his chest was punched out of several egg-sized depressions, but there was no hole in the armor.
This discovery made the soldier and his comrade who held him look at each other, and a wave of confidence immediately surged into his heart, and the two of them simultaneously wielded their swords, raised their shields, roared wildly, and rushed towards the stone village as if they were possessed by a senior brother.
When the two thousand rattan players in front of them all rushed through the first trench in the dense rain of arrows and guns, the guns behind the Ming army finally pushed the cart and arrived in front of the trench.
"Quick! Swing away! In the team, Zhang Youde personally commanded and shouted urgently.
The soldiers hurriedly lined up the carts in a line to form a wall, and in the process of swinging out, nearly 100 feather arrows had been nailed to the wooden board, and the arrows of the Qing army kept shooting on it.
The artillery team of the Ming army immediately lifted the Franc machine gun onto the cart, and there was a hole with a thick bowl mouth on the baffle in front of the car, which just allowed the muzzle of the gun to stick out of the baffle.
The Franc cannon is different from the redcoat gun, the redcoat cannon is loaded from the muzzle, while the Franc machine is replaced from the back, which is equivalent to the breech gun, so the muzzle can be extended outward.
When the artillery team was preparing, the 3,000 gunners also quickly lined up, because there were 1,000 new guns, so they were actually lined up into two phalanxes with different trumpets and drums.
"General, get ready!" Zhang Youde stood in the middle of the two phalanxes, the two thousand bird guns on the right were still charging and igniting, and the one thousand self-fire guns on the left were ready.
Zhang Youde looked ahead, under the attack of the Qing army, the two thousand rattan players had already rushed through the third trench, and as they got closer and closer to the fort wall, the armor-piercing ability of the Qing army's firearms and bows and arrows became bigger and bigger.
"Shoot first!" Zhang Youde immediately shouted.
On the left side of the fort wall, a team of Qing soldiers shot and immediately retreated, and the second team immediately raised their guns to step forward, and at this time the Ming army was on the left side, behind the board wall, a sharp horn sounded, three hundred of their own guns, when the guns were about to be raised, the sound of "bang bang bang", accompanied by white smoke, the Qing soldiers on the fort wall, suddenly fell down.
The Qing soldiers in the city were in a panic immediately, the original dense formation was sparse, and the guns in the front row hurriedly put a gun and hurriedly retreated, and the Qing soldiers in the back row just stepped forward, and the Ming army was a pill and poured it on the city.
At this moment, the Qing army on the left side of the fort wall was suddenly in chaos, and the rate of fire of the Ming army's gunners made them feel a burst of panic, which made many green battalion soldiers make frequent mistakes when loading, and some did not even notice that the fire rope was extinguished.
At this time, the Ming army's three columns of self-made firecrackers, taking turns to shoot, they hid behind the wooden wall, a team finished shooting, a team, the action was skillful, but some people still maintained the habit of going to see the firerope, and only after seeing it did they react, and the self-generated guns did not need to be ignited.
Although the self-generated gun has the defects of dumb fire, in the face of the rate of fire, these defects can be completely compensated.
In the shelling of the fort wall for several days, most of the wall buttresses have been damaged, and the effect of blocking the rain of bullets is not as good as the simple wooden wall of the Ming army. A Qing soldier in the second row, seeing a Qing soldier in front of him, was hit by a gun shot before he could fire, and fell down the city, he couldn't help but sweat cold on his forehead, his hand trembled and poured gunpowder into the muzzle of the gun, and then tamped it with a whole strip to fill the gun ball.
The whistle of the commander of the firecracker at the head of the city sounded, the Qing army hurriedly stepped forward, the party raised the gun, the Ming army gunned the gun and fired first, the Qing soldiers around him screamed again and again, he was nervous, just wanted to retreat immediately after the gun, so he turned his head, hurriedly pulled the trigger, and immediately exploded with a "boom", the bird gun exploded, the iron sand splashed, the flesh and blood on his face were blurred, and he fell to the ground wailing and rolling.
At this time, the two thousand old guns on the right side of the Ming army and the Franc machine on the front line also began to fire at the stone fort, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the city, and the Qing soldiers in the city were immediately suppressed.
Seeing this, Hui Sai was immediately in a hurry, and hurriedly let the fort Fu Lang machine to fight back, several Qing gunners immediately aimed at the wooden wall of the Ming army, and a cannon blasted out, and the iron bullet roared over the head of the Ming army's rattan players, and went straight to the Ming army's gun.
Zhang Youde was commanding, he heard a sound of "bang", two zhang away on his right, the plank in front of a big car suddenly exploded, the iron bullet shot from the city, wrapped in countless sawdust, swept the Ming army's gun, a gunner was behind the guard, just after the gun was hit by the iron bullet, with a muffled sound, the body of the gunner was instantly torn into several pieces, scattered to the surroundings, a burst of blood mist sprayed, and the iron bullet remained unabated, directly penetrated the entire gun, standing on a line of three gunners, all smashed flesh and blood, killed on the spot.
Although the artillery on the fort returned fire, the Ming army was already in a situation, and it would not panic because a few shells fell into the formation.
Behind the wooden wall, the sound of artillery continued unconsciously, and the gunpowder smoke raised from the cannons and guns covered the Ming array, and the Qing army firepower on the fort was suppressed by the Ming army, especially under the blow of a thousand self-generated firearms on the left side, the Qing army gunners on the left fortress did not dare to show their heads at all.
The charging Ming army players soon found that the oncoming guns were sparse, and they only needed to defend against the feathered arrows falling overhead, and the soldiers immediately boosted their morale, raising their shields and quickly approaching the fort wall, especially the fort wall on the left.
A short ladder set up the fort wall, 2,000 players, like an ant colony, climbed the ladder, they climbed the ladder in one hand, held the shield in the other, and bit the seedling knife in their mouths, and struggled to climb up.
On the fortress wall, the Qing army began to use stones to roll wood, and a piece of soldiers were hit, screaming and falling down the city, but after all, the height of the fort wall is limited, only one zhang high, and the Ming army fell from the ladder, even if the siege ladder was overturned, it could not cause substantial damage to the Ming army.
In just a few moments, the Ming army on more than a dozen short ladders had rushed up to the fort wall on the left side and fought with the Qing army on the wall.
Seeing this, Zhang Youde immediately drew his knife and pointed obliquely, shouting, "Kill!" ”
The Ming army had stopped firing when the rattan players arrived in the city, and they listened to the order, immediately drew their swords, pushed through the wooden wall, and rushed to the fort.
Soon, more and more Ming soldiers were killed on the wall, and thousands of people fought fiercely on the fortress wall, and some people kept rolling and falling.
Several brave Ming soldiers even jumped off the fort wall directly and slaughtered the Qing archers hiding behind the fort wall.
Zhongwu Town, as the elite of the Ming army, at this time the combat power was revealed, especially among them there were more than 1,000 soldiers wearing plate armor, the Qing saber slashed on it and sparks flew everywhere, but it could not hurt the Ming army at all, but was directly cut down by a backhand, and the Qing army in the melee immediately panicked.
Huizhai saw more and more Ming troops rushing to the fort wall, many people had jumped down, like a tiger into the flock of sheep to slash and kill the Qing army archers, and the Qing army archers instinctively fled to the east that was not attacked by the Ming army, and he knew that it was over.
The Ming army mainly attacked the western fort wall, and the other three sides were not attacked, although they were safe, but they retreated to the other three sides, which undoubtedly made more space for the Ming army and allowed more Ming troops to rush into the fort.
Sure enough, the Ming army who jumped off the fortress wall cut down the Qing archers, and after several attacks, they finally killed the Qing army guarding the fort gate and opened the fort gate.
A burst of cheers sounded, and the Ming troops who were still outside instantly swarmed in, and at the gate of the fort, countless Ming soldiers wearing disc helmets rushed into the fort along the passage, and the Qing army guarding the fort had begun to disperse.
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