Chapter 360: The Battle of the River
"Chirp!" A cannonball, with a screeching sound that pierced the air, slammed into the Yalu River and headed straight for the crowd of captives.
"Boom!" The pre-battle determination of the moment of the Dengzhou army played a very accurate role, and this shell accurately hit the center of the river. As the explosion sounded, the five living Jurchens around the shell landing site were instantly injured and killed.
"All of them! Start firing! For Lao Tzu, blow all these captives into the ice hole. Zhang Yang waved his command knife and ordered.
"Chirp, tweet, tweet!" "Chirp, tweet, tweet!" With a series of piercing screams, the overwhelming small black dots flew towards the surface of the Yalu River in an endless manner.
"This ...... What is it? "Sanmako has an obvious dense phobia, looking at the cannonballs flying overhead in horror.
"Haha, it's a cannonball, it's a cannonball of the Ming army!" Xiao Jian was excited, and his voice suddenly became louder.
"You—you don't want to die!" San Mazi hurriedly rushed to Xiao Jian's side and reached out to cover his mouth.
San Mazi used to hear those captives bragging that the Ming army's shells could only hit one round. After this round, isn't it still a world full of bows and arrows?
What's more, there are still a lot of captives mixed in the crowd, and a few of them are bare-handed, what if they attract their attention and rush over to slash and kill?
San Mazi was very anxious, this Xiao Jian is also a person who has practiced martial arts, and he is still called "a lonely sword" in vain, how can he act so recklessly.
However, Sanmazi's worries are obviously unnecessary. The attention of the fully armored soldiers caught in the crowd was all attracted by the dense cannonballs in the sky. Some also looked back to find the direction where the shells fell.
"Boom, boom, boom!" "Boom, boom, boom!" "Countless shells landed precisely in the Yalu River, and then exploded, raising puffs of smoke on the surface of the river.
However, the winter north winds were so strong that the smoke lasted only a few breaths before it was blown away by the howling winds.
"Help, God!" "Ouch, it hurts me!" ”
When the smoke cleared, the ice around the place where the shells had landed was full of dead bodies and wounded soldiers. Some of the fully armored soldiers, whose limbs had been broken and their bodies were wounded, curled up pitifully, screaming and screaming in high sorrow.
"Well played! Blow up these shitty devils. Xiao Jian excitedly lowered his voice and said to San Mazi.
This Ming army in Yizhou is indeed worth their expectations. Just looking at this artillery, it fought quite well. Compared with the solid bullets of the Ming army that I heard before, it is obviously not much more powerful.
"It's amazing, but I don't know how long it will take to play the second round." San Mazi whispered back as he glanced around vigilantly.
"Chirp, tweet, tweet!" "Chirp, tweet, tweet!" "The artillery of the Dengju Army in Uiju apparently did not disappoint him. As soon as San Mazi's words fell, the second round of artillery salvo of the Dengzhou Army began again.
After the shells landed, more captives were blown over the ice, and many severed limbs flew high and then fell like pieces of flesh on the ice. The blood stained the hay on the ice, and the exposed white ice became patches of red.
"Boom, boom, boom!" As more and more shells exploded on the ice, the soldiers who walked on the ice of the Yalu River were almost swept away.
"Quick, get out! The artillery fire of the Ming army was too fierce! "The salvo of more than 400 mortars completely subverted Hauge's cognition, which was completely like thunder and fire in the sky, and it was not at all something that human beings could resist.
"Quick! Hit the gong! Let's withdraw it first! Dai Shan, as the coach, was also taken aback and had to order the front to retreat.
"When, when, when!" "When, when, when!" The gong of the full army soon sounded on the other side. The soldiers who had just walked on the northern ice of the Yalu River breathed a sigh of relief, they finally didn't have to go to the river to be bombed.
The captives on the other side of the river began to pour back like a flood.
However, the full captives who entered the river were miserable. As if they didn't want money, the artillery shells of the Dengzhou army rained down on the ice of the Yalu River, not only killing and injuring almost all the prisoners on the river, but also blowing up countless large holes in the ice.
Many of these ice caves with large foot basins were connected together, tearing huge openings in the hard ice, as if they would crack in the heart of the river in the blink of an eye.
"Run!" "Go back!" Some of the captives on the ice in the middle of the river screamed in terror and rushed desperately towards the north shore.
However, the artillery shells of the Dengzhou army still did not stop, and the powerful explosion kept chasing the footsteps of the captives. The entire river ice was almost swept away.
There were a few lucky people who had just escaped the bombardment of artillery fire, but accidentally fell into the icy water of the Yalu River. The armor, which was usually effective against knives and guns, turned into a deadly burden at this time, and they quickly sank into the water after a few flutters.
With the bombardment of the Dengzhou army, the Yalu River, which had been frozen out of thick ice by the harsh winter, had broken through the center of the river at this time, cracking a small river several meters wide, swallowing up all the dead and wounded soldiers on the ice.
At this time, it was completely impossible for the Manchurian army to cross the river again from this liduo in a short time.
"Big Belle! What about the people on the other side of the river? ”
Hauge sent seven or eight hundred captive armoured soldiers to mingle among the clothed minions who were cannon fodder, and now that they had crossed the river, there was no chance of retreating. If the Ming army on the opposite side of Yizhou went out of the city to fight, these people would only be killed.
"Old Fifteen, Three Baylor, you each send two teams of vests, from the upstream and downstream to bypass the river, and pick up the Dajin warriors who have crossed the river to come back!" Daishan decisively commanded to Duoduo and Manggultai.
At the moment of the great enemy, Duoduo and Mang Gultai did not hesitate, and ran to the location of their own troops to arrange them.
Half a moment later, two armies of 1,000 men of captives ran up and down on both sides, looking for a new solid ice to cross the river.
"Stop shelling! Blow the trumpet, open the gates, and let the cavalry out of the city! Long Dulu also noticed the changes on the battlefield and decisively ordered Chen Ming's cavalry to go out of the city.
"Da, da, da!" After the north gate of Yizhou was opened, Chen Ming led a cavalry of 3,000 people in Dengzhou to rush out of the city gate.
The target of their rush was none other than the more than 20,000 clothed minions who were still on the riverside and the captive soldiers who were in the midst of them.
"Rush! Rush over! Fence them up! Chen Ming commanded his officers loudly.
"Chief Officer Chen, what should I do if I am caught in the crowd?" Several of the officers beside him were in a quandary.
These hateful Manchu captives were mixed in with the Han people, and they used the Han people as a shield, and if they were to be destroyed, they would inevitably kill and injure many Han people.
"Tell the soldiers that anyone with a weapon can shoot! I'd rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go! Chen Ming commanded murderously.
Lord Wang said well, there are many of us Han people. Fight, you can also fight the captives to destroy the clan!