Chapter 138: Tentative Attack (3)
"Hit! Haha, hit! The Buddha blesses, the Bodhisattva blesses, and the Taishang Laojun blesses...... Why haven't they returned yet? ”
Seeing the three-pounder cannon constantly smashing shells into the queue of the Qing army, Wang Zhixian couldn't help but shout and jump with excitement, but although the three-pounder cannons brought a lot of damage to Jianxin, Jianxian was still firm, and kept approaching, Wang Zhixian became nervous again. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Lord Wang, although these cannons have hit, the damage is still limited, and this kind of damage is not enough to make Jian Yan retreat." Guo Huaiyi explained on the side. At the same time, Guo Huaiyi also gave a thumbs up to those builders opposite in his heart. Although the guys on the other side are all enemies, they can continue to advance under such artillery bombardment, and they really deserve to be the strongest army in the world.
"If I change the officers and soldiers of my Ming Dynasty, in the face of such an artillery bombardment by these children of the factory protection team, can they still insist like this?" Guo Huaiyi asked himself in his heart, and then shook his head again. Not to mention the guards in Fujian, they are just serfs called soldiers. If there were no broadswords behind the Warlords, I'm afraid that as long as they heard the sound of cannons, these guards would have run away without a single person, right? Even if it's ...... Even if it is.
Guo Huaiyi suddenly thought, if it was a soldier of the Zheng family, would he be able to continue to advance like these Jianqi in front of him in the face of such an artillery bombardment? He really wanted to give himself an affirmative answer, but he finally shook his head, the ordinary soldiers of the Zheng family were indeed more brave than the Weisuo army, but they were still not comparable to the Jianxuan in front of him.
"Except for the factory protection team, I'm afraid no one can do it like this, right?"
The Manchu army continued to approach, which surprised Lucien a little: "Their formation is still very good." It seems that these barbarians still have some courage, which is no less than the armies of many small European countries. ”
However, he was not too worried about this, because he had as many as thirty six-pounder guns in his hands to join the fire if necessary. Even in Europe, there was rarely such a density of firepower, and Lucien felt that if these artillery pieces were added to the attack, the barbarian attack should end there.
At this time, the shield cart of the Qing soldiers had already approached the rejection of the horse, and it was only a few dozen steps away from the first trench.
Zheng Sanfa sat in the trench with his flintlock pistol in his arms, with his back to the direction of the Qing soldiers, whooshing, swishing, and constantly flying over his head. Zheng Sanfa wanted to stand up and take a look, but this was not allowed by discipline. At this time, he saw a herald running over and said something to the captain Li Xiangyang, and then Li Xiangyang stood up all of a sudden, and ordered in a slightly trembling voice: "Everyone stand up and start checking the equipment!" ”
Zheng Sanfa stood up and checked the equipment again: the gun had been loaded, and the bullets and gunpowder had been placed where they should be. The bayonet was also hung from the waist.
"Turn right, run into position, and get ready to shoot." Li Xiangyang saw that everyone had quickly checked the equipment, and then ordered, so this team of factory guards quickly turned to the right neatly, and then entered the trench at the front along the traffic trench.
Zheng Sanfa set his flintlock pistol on the ground in front of the trench, squinted one eye, and aimed at a shield cart that was continuing to approach.
The shield car of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zheng Sen also obtained the real thing through some means. And various destructive experiments have been carried out on it, as well as its imitations. The results of the experiment proved that at a normal distance, the flintlock pistol in the hands of the factory guard team should be able to easily penetrate these things, even the bird gun (arquebus) equipped by the Ming army, as long as the quality is qualified (of course, this is very little), and qualified gunpowder is used (this is less, my Ming gunpowder cut corners to a mess, and the power is generally smaller than that of Western gunpowder), and the weight of the charge is also enough (this is simply impossible, because there are too many substandard products, and the full charge will explode, and in order to avoid exploding, I never use a 100% charge) can also penetrate these shield carts at the right distance.
In fact, the shield car is not a high-tech thing, the Europeans had similar things back then, but this thing was quickly eliminated in the age of firearms, and one of the important reasons is that this thing cannot withstand the shooting of muskets. As for my Ming musket, although according to some Ming fans, my Ming Ming's technology is the first in the world, but my Ming musket is really a pit goods.
Now the distance between the two sides has reached about thirty paces, and Li Xiangyang's order suddenly sounded in Zheng Sanfa's ears: "Fire!" ”
Zheng Sanfa immediately fired at the shield cart. A puff of cyan smoke erupted from the barrel of his gun, obscuring his vision. However, Zheng Sanfa did not have time to observe the results of his shooting, and according to his previous training, he immediately turned around, half-knelt down, and began to reload the flintlock pistol.
When Zheng Sanfa began to load the lead bullet into the barrel and pressed it tightly with the bar, he heard a muffled cannon sound.
Zheng Sanfa knew that it was the sound of a six-pounder cannon, and they had practiced how to cooperate with this kind of artillery in defensive operations more than once before. The flintlock pistol can only be guaranteed to be very reliable after penetrating the shield car from a considerable distance. And this distance is already very close. It took time for the flintlock pistols to reload, which was enough time for the remaining Qing soldiers to storm the trenches.
Prior to this, Zheng Sen and others had also considered using the method of round fire to improve the continuity of firepower, so as to solve this problem, but they soon found that when they were shooting in rotation, because the density of fire in each round of fire was seriously reduced, it was impossible for such a round of fire to prevent the Eight Banners from rushing up.
So a new combination of firepower appeared, that is, a six-pounder gun's shotgun and flintlock guns were used in conjunction to carry out rotational fire. In this way, each round of firing ensures a sufficient density of firepower.
The shotgun fired from the six-pounder cannon can easily penetrate these shield carts at today's distance, and of course, the building gills behind the shield cart are not steel and iron bones, and they can't withstand such an attack.
After the cannon sounded, Zheng Sanfa even heard a cry of pain from that side, and it was obvious that someone was injured.
At this time, Zheng Sanfa and the other comrades-in-arms had already loaded their bullets, and their results were a little worse than usual, but they were still within the allowable range. Li Xiangyang gave the order to prepare to shoot again, and everyone stood up and pointed their guns in the direction where Jian Yan was.
The battle took place on the seaside, the beach was always a little windy, and it was the afternoon time, generally speaking, during the daytime, the wind direction of the seaside always blew inland from the sea, after the round of shooting of the six-pounder gun, Zheng Sanfa The fog of the battlefield formed when they fired for the first time had been blown away by the sea breeze, Zheng Sanfa saw that the shield car that he had shot just now was washed by the shotgun of the six-pounder gun, and it had completely scattered and fell dozens of steps away, and between the collapsed shield car and the trench, Especially in the position where the horse was rejected, there were also a lot of Qing soldiers who had fallen sideways, and these people were obviously knocked over by the shotgun of the six-pounder cannon just now.
However, Zheng Sanfa didn't care about looking at it too much, because there were still a lot of shield carts that had also been pushed up, and the Qing soldiers behind had already discovered the factory guards in the trenches, and began to continuously shoot heavy arrows, flying knives, and bones from behind the shield carts to this side.
However, these things can't pose much of a threat to Zheng Sanfa and them. Because they all wore cuirasses, and they also wore helmets with wide brims, which were perfect for dealing with those things that were thrown at them.
A throwing knife just fell on Li Xiangyang's head, but the thing knocked on his helmet and fell to the ground, which did not cause any harm to Li Xiangyang......
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On the other side, Bayan and several Manchu warriors had already fallen in a pool of blood, and when he took the lead in pulling out his knife, he immediately caused a panic among the refugees, but Bayan did not kill them, because it was just a waste of time. Even if he killed all the refugees here, it would not be possible to have any substantial impact on the defense of the Ming army. He felt that it was best for him to rush out of the trench and attack the Ming army, although the Ming army may have been prepared, but perhaps their swift attack could disrupt the Ming army's defenses.
Bayan took the steel knife in his mouth, and with a leap of the way up, he climbed to the upper edge of the trench, and then with a force of his arms, he jumped out of the trench, and then he saw several guns aimed at him.
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Hauge stood on a high place, looking at the battle in front of him, and there were constantly knights reporting the battle situation in front of him, and his position was not far from the front line, and he could see the fierceness of the battle on the front line very clearly.
"Order, let the brothers take it down." Hauge said, "Since the enemy has been prepared, it is impossible to capture much in this stronghold." The gains outweigh the losses. ”
The Manchus always had a problem, that is, the number of people was too small, and if they fought a war of attrition, it would be tantamount to defeat for them. What's more, now that Hauge is in the Left Army under the command of Dolgon, if the loss is too great in such a small stronghold, Hauge feels that Dolgon will probably make a fuss about this. Moreover, a cavalry has just reported that the county seat of Jinghai is already an empty city, and they have occupied Jinghai and found a lot of supplies from Jinghai. With these gains, this trip is not in vain.
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Lucien looked at the Qing army's flag gradually moving away, because he did not have cavalry troops in his hands, and the main force of the Qing army actually did not suffer great losses, so he did not dare to go out to pursue. When the Qing army withdrew, it was also constantly under artillery fire, and Lucien estimated that the Manchus left about 200 to 300 corpses here in this battle. However, he can't tell how many Eight Banners there are. But in any case, at least in this battle, he was the winning side.