Text: Volume 10, Chapter 4, Section 4 Artillery Battle

In the face of the monstrous anger of 250,000 soldiers of the Hanwei army and the soldiers of the 150,000 soldiers of the Dangkou battalion, Dolgon could no longer suppress the fear in his heart, and hurriedly ordered the 100 large and small cannons on the head of the city to open fire, and bombarded the Hanwei army behind the retaining wall outside the city.

In an instant, the fire on the south wall of Shenyang City was lit and roared, and the movement of a hundred large and small artillery salvos was shocking, and under the thick smoke, the blazing cannons flew out with a roar, and smashed towards the large array of the Han Wei army two miles away.

Immediately afterwards, I only heard the roar of artillery on the east wall of Shenyang City, and the Qing army stationed on the east city wall also opened fire, and the violent roar echoed the loud noise on the south city wall, and the momentum was very huge.

However, as the cannons fell, the large array of the Hanwei army and the large array of the Dangkou camp suffered very few casualties, and not many cannons really fell in the army, even if a very few cannons fell in the army, they were almost all blocked by the shield carts and giant shields prepared by the soldiers in advance.

In this way, although the artillery movement on the head of the Qing army is not small, but after a roar, the casualties of the Ming army officers and soldiers are probably less than 1,000, and this casualty is simply insignificant in the 400,000 Ming army array!

At this time, the large array composed of the soldiers of the Hanwei Army and the soldiers of the Dangkou Battalion was two miles away from the Shenyang city wall, and among the 200 artillery pieces of the Qing army, only dozens of general cannons could reach. However, the cannons from the artillery flew so far that they were almost at the farthest range of the artillery, and they were already at the end of the crossbow, and the lethality to the officers and men of the Ming army was already negligible.

What's more, there was a horse retaining wall in front of the Ming army soldiers that had not completely collapsed, and that section of the broken horse retaining wall turned out to be a perfect protective wall for the Ming army soldiers and soldiers, and stopped a lot of cannons for the Ming army soldiers and soldiers.

Dolgon on the southern wall turned pale with anger when he saw this, and regretted it very much. Although he eliminated all the Han people in the city and put an end to the possibility of Shenyang City disintegrating from the inside, he also completely angered Liu Yunwei and the 400,000 Ming soldiers under his command. The horse barrier, which was originally designed to block the advance of the Ming army, turned out to be the "shield" of the Ming army, and it really lifted a stone and shot himself in the foot!

Seeing that the artillery on the head of the city could not cause substantial damage to the Ming army, Dolgon could only order the shelling to stop with great reluctance, and the whole army was ready to fight, and the Ming army was brought closer before continuing to fire.

At the same time, in order to prevent the Ming army's huge artillery array from killing and injuring a large number of troops defending the city, Dolgon specially ordered all the melee troops stationed at the head of the city to go down to the city, preparing to dodge the shelling by themselves, leaving only the archers, gunners and the rest of the troops responsible for burning cauldrons and carrying rolling wood and stones.

Moreover, since the strength of the Qing army at the head of the city was greatly reduced, these remaining Qing troops did not have to be crowded together, but could be spread out more widely, which could also greatly reduce the casualties of the Qing soldiers in the shelling.

After arranging these, Dolgon also ordered the mobilization of 15,000 troops from the west and north walls of Shenyang City as support forces, and after receiving his own will, the support forces of the west city wall immediately rushed to the south wall to participate in the battle, and the support forces of the north city wall immediately rushed to the east wall to participate in the battle.

Dolgon knew very well that even if he was well arranged, under the unparalleled artillery fire of the Ming army, the defending army would definitely suffer heavy casualties, so timely support was necessary.

Suddenly, before Dorgon could catch his breath, he heard a rapid swan whistle from outside the city, followed by the rousing war drums in the Hanwei army. At the same time, the same war drums were heard from the east of Shenyang, accompanied by the sound of huge and neat steps, which made people feel deep despair.

The Ming army began to attack the city!

At this time, Liu Yunwei led 250,000 Hanwei soldiers to slowly advance towards the southern city wall of Shenyang City, just like a huge fortress, advancing like a wall!

At the front of the Hanwei Army's large array were carefully built shield carts, all of which were made of huge wooden planks up to ten inches thick, and were inlaid with iron sheets on the outside, which were very sturdy, and there were hundreds of them!

Behind these hundreds of shield carts was the huge artillery group led by Edward, the artillery battalion of the Hanwei Army's pacesetter battalion. Among the artillery groups, there are 270 cannons of the Great Buddha Lang, 360 Huzun Run, 360 artillery trucks, a total of 990 artillery pieces of various types!

And these artillery, both in quantity and quality, as well as the elite degree of the gunners, are not comparable to those old antique artillery and captured gunners of the Qing army!

Behind the artillery group is a phalanx group composed of the seven major war barracks and pacesetter battalions of the Hanwei Army. From a distance, the large array of the Han Wei army was overwhelming and unstoppable, containing a momentum of destruction and destruction, which made the Qing soldiers on the city tremble.

At the same time, the 150,000 soldiers of the Dangkou battalion who were approaching the eastern city wall of Shenyang City were also in great formation.

Under the leadership of Li Dingguo, Li Laiheng, and Ai Nengqi, the soldiers of the Dangkou Battalion also adopted the same tactics as the Hanwei Army.

At the forefront of the army were also hundreds of finely crafted shield carts, followed by the artillery group of the Dangkou battalion. It's just that the artillery group of the Dangkou battalion is far less huge than that of the Hanwei army, although the artillery in it is also the big Buddha Lang machine gun, the tiger run and the god machine gun car, but the number of each type of artillery is one hundred and fifty, and the total number of various types of artillery is four hundred and fifty, which is about the average of the Hanwei army's artillery group.

But even so, it is far from what the Qing army in Shenyang City can bear!

What's more, behind the artillery group, there are also the soldiers of the Dangkou battalion who are as angry as the soldiers of the Han Wei Army, and there are 150,000 angry soldiers of the Han family!

The 250,000 soldiers of the Hanwei Army and the 150,000 soldiers of the Dangkou Battalion advanced quickly, and it did not take long to advance to a place more than a mile from the city wall and come to the bank of the moat.

At this point, Liu Yunwei and Li Dingguo issued an order for the artillery battalion to prepare to open artillery almost at the same time, and the gunners in the artillery group of the Hanwei Army and the Dangkou Battalion began to quickly load the artillery under the protection of their respective shield vehicles, preparing to bombard Shenyang City!

At this moment, Dolgon gave the order to shell again, and the two hundred artillery pieces on the head of Shenyang began to rage again.

At this time, the officers and men of the Hanwei Army and the Dangkou Battalion had already entered the effective range of the Qing army's artillery, and almost all the artillery of the Qing army could hit the large army formation. Dolgon looked at the cannons that were whistling and smashing into the Ming army's array, his eyes were full of bloodthirsty light, his face was abnormally ruddy, and he waved the war knife in his hand and roared wildly.

However, the next scene left Dorgon dumbfounded.

The cannons fired by the artillery of the Qing army hit the shield car in front of the Hanwei army and the Dangkou camp, and most of the small and medium-sized artillery cannons were directly blocked, and although the cannons of the small number of general cannons were powerful, they could only make a huge depression in the shield car at best, or break a corner of the shield car, and they could not kill or injure the Ming soldiers hiding behind the shield car.

After all, those shield cars are not the simple version of the goods made by the Qing army, but a heavy shield car made of several layers of thick wooden boards, and the baffle is also wrapped with iron sheets, which is very strong.

After a bombardment by the Qing army, there were no casualties among the soldiers of the Hanwei army and the Dangkou battalion, except for hundreds of soldiers who were injured by the flying wooden thorns flying everywhere.

Dolgon looked out unwillingly, and ordered the gunners at the head of the city to continue firing and not to stop. However, the artillery on the head of Shenyang City is far inferior to the artillery in the Ming army's formation, and under continuous firing, it will soon heat up, and if you continue to shoot, it will explode after a few shots!

Seeing the barrels getting hotter and hotter, the gunners finally couldn't suppress the fear in their hearts, and elected a man in charge of commanding the artillery array, and went to talk to Dolgon.

However, before the Armor could finish speaking, Dorgon beheaded him with a single sword, and then ordered the guards behind him to patrol the artillery array with bloody heads, and no one was allowed to stop the shelling.

Dolgon's heart was clear, although the artillery on the city could not cause substantial damage to the Ming army, but it could suppress the Ming army's artillery group. At least when the Ming army's shield car retreats and the Ming army's artillery group comes forward to shoot, it can weaken the combat power of the Ming army's artillery group to the greatest extent. Every time a Ming artillery piece is destroyed, maybe the chances of defending Shenyang City will be one point greater!

As for whether the artillery will blow up, and whether those Han flag gunners will be blown up, Dolgon didn't bother to pay attention!

Sure enough, after a while, I heard a series of loud noises coming from Shenyang City. In a short period of time, more than 20 crude artillery pieces were blown up on the south and east walls of Shenyang. Not only did these exploded artillery pieces fly into the air, killing many Qing soldiers and smashing many artillery pieces on the left when they fell, but also the huge shock wave and flames swept away thousands of Qing troops around, and most of the surrounding city defense equipment was destroyed, and the head of Shenyang City was suddenly in chaos.

Seeing this, the rest of the gunners said that they would not dare to shoot any more, and they were unwilling to return to the artillery position to fire no matter how the Qing soldiers who supervised the battle beat and slashed and killed. After all, if you choose between being blown up and hacked to death, most people will not hesitate to choose the latter, after all, you can end up with a whole corpse.

Seeing this, Dolgon was furious and immediately sent troops to suppress it, and Geng Zhongming, who was commanding on the eastern city wall, was also preparing to drive the gunners back to open fire.

Suddenly, there was a very sharp swan whistle from the Ming army outside the city, and then in the extremely frightened eyes of Dolgon and Geng Zhongming, hundreds of shield carts of the Han Wei army and the Dangkou battalion began to change formations, and under the vigorous push of the Ming army's soldiers, they began to retreat rapidly, and it didn't take long to reveal the Ming army's majestic and huge artillery group.

Seeing this, Dolgon almost crushed his steel teeth, and now was a great opportunity to open fire, but not a single cannon was fired at either the southern or eastern walls, and all the gunners were frightened by the repeated explosions just now, and they were all in a mess on the wall.

"It's over!"

Dorgon had time to sigh before fleeing from the walls with his guards.