No. 042 First Battle (1)
Four of the Qing soldiers held rattan signs, and after covering the front, up, left, and right directions, a loud Qing soldier squatting inside shouted at the top of his voice: "The Qing soldiers have arrived, Wuzhou has been surrounded, and the puppet Ming emperor has not opened the door quickly and surrendered!" My military gate said that as long as you take the initiative to surrender, you can keep your wealth and worry-free, if you don't surrender, you will be killed on the spot after the city is broken! ”
It turned out that it was persuasion to surrender, Zhu Youlang smiled contemptuously, waved his hand to summon Jiao Lian, and said with a smile: "Jumping beam clown, the general will chase him away!" ”
Jiao Lian received the order, and after observing the distance between the two sides with his eyes, he ordered his soldiers to take a two-stone iron-tire recurve bow, pull the bowstring, put on the feather arrows, and shoot towards the Qing soldiers who persuaded them to surrender. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The feather arrow was shot out, like light and electricity, carrying a thousand powers, 'Bang! I had to shoot on the rattan card of the Qing soldier who led the Qing soldiers, and the Qing soldiers couldn't resist the strength, and retreated again and again, and finally sat down on the ground, and the shield array was immediately broken, exposing the Qing soldiers who persuaded them to surrender.
Without waiting for the rattan soldier on his side to fill the gap, Jiao Lian's second arrow, which was as fast as lightning, arrived, and with a 'swish', he passed through his throat with the persuasion hand, and the persuasion hand screamed miserably, and he fell to the ground and died. Before the other rattan soldiers could react, the third arrow arrived. With a 'bang', one of the rattan soldiers was shot through the leg and let out a terrifying howl, and the remaining rattan soldiers couldn't help but be terrified when they saw this, and they didn't dare to stay where they were any longer, so they turned around and got on their horses, turned around and ran.
The Ming troops at the head of the city laughed in unison, and the morale that had just fallen rose again.
After Jiao Lian collected the arrows, Zhu Youlang praised loudly: "The general is really a miracle shot, these three arrows have greatly boosted the morale of our army!" ”
As soon as the words fell, there was a loud noise in Xicheng, followed by several intermittent earth-shattering loud noises. A few cannons entered the city, stone bullets jumped, through the wall aisle, wooden beams flew horizontally, smoke and dust were blowing, the earthquake was like an earthquake, standing at the head of the city, you can still hear the heart-rending shouts of the people in the city. The entire city of Wuzhou was trembling slightly.
"Oh no, the Tartars are testing their guns!"
Seeing the power of the cannon, the Ming soldiers at the head of the city were shocked.
After asking the emperor whether he wanted to test the artillery to return fire, Zhu Youlang visually inspected the position of the Qing army, nodded and said, "Don't use the Hongyi cannon, use the old cannon to fight back." ”
"The Tartars are cunning, the position is far away from the city wall, and you can't hit it with old cannons!" Zhai Shiyun frowned and replied.
"I know, sir, don't worry." Zhu Youlang smiled mysteriously and said: "I already have a temple in my heart, so let's use the old cannon to test the cannon, it doesn't matter if I hit the enemy army or not." ”
The holy order was difficult to disobey, and Zhai Shiyun received the order suspiciously and commanded the gunners to test the artillery.
A moment later, several old-fashioned Francophone guns roared one after another, but the stone projectiles that fell under the city had little strength, and one or two miles away, they lost their attack power after a few bounces, and at this time they were still five or six miles away from the Qing army's position, and even the Qing army's hair was not injured after a few shots.
The Qing army under the city saw that the Ming army was also trying to fire back, and there was some commotion, and when they saw that the artillery did not even touch their own positions in the end, they couldn't help but laugh loudly, and there was a foul language.
Li Chengdong, who stood on the Chinese army's chariot, also laughed, he is a veteran of the battlefield who has been tested by the smoke of war for a long time, when he chose the position, he skillfully listed the formation outside the longest range of the artillery, he is very familiar with the process of the old partners of the Ming army, the power of the artillery, is also very familiar, in the past wars with the Ming army, he can often seize the fleeting fighter plane, take advantage of the gap between the defenders to reload ammunition and wait for the opportunity to attack.
Seeing that the artillery of the Ming army was still the same as before, he completely relieved himself and ordered the position to be moved forward one mile again, preparing to fill the trench and attack the city.
Seeing that the time had come, Zhu Youlang immediately issued an order to order Pang Tianshou to move the six new-style Hongyi cannons borrowed from Macao to the city to replace the old-style artillery.
The power of the new artillery is already very clear, not only has a long range, but also has strong lethality, and the operation is not complicated, and it is relatively simple. Fang deliberately showed weakness, just for the sake of this moment.
The movement of the Ming army at the head of the city was always concerned by the Qing army under the city, and some careful Qing troops found that the cannons on the south gate tower were not the previous ones, but they didn't think much about it, thinking that they knew the longest range of the Ming artillery, so they were not worried, and they did not respond to the situation to the commander of the Chinese army in time.
In accordance with the general's orders, they slowly pushed forward the position, with the rattan soldiers in front, the spearmen in the center, and the musketeers and crossbowmen behind, advancing in unison.
However, the development of events was often unexpected, and soon the city's artillery fired a few iron bullets, and in a few ups and downs, they fell into the Qing army's formation, followed by a continuous and terrible screams and groans, and hundreds of Qing soldiers could not dodge and were stoned to death and crushed.
Why is the artillery range of the Ming army suddenly so far away?! This few shells that exceeded the longest-range range of ordinary cannons stunned all the Qing troops in the city at once.
But the Portuguese artillery on the city was not stunned, they took advantage of the gap that the enemy had not yet reacted under the command of Jiang Rong, stepped up the loading of ammunition, aimed at the Qing army position four miles away and sent out the six shells in the cannon chamber again, the Qing army was immediately knocked down, where the shells passed, a piece of stumps and broken arms, flesh and blood flying, the Qing army under the city was personally experienced the power of a new Western artillery, they loudly scolded the Ming army defending the city for lack of morality, yin them, and then kept retreating, the formation suddenly dispersed.
Li Chengdong, who commanded the army on the chariot of the Chinese army, saw this scene, and almost fainted with anger, seeing that hundreds of elite soldiers were sent to the west by the city's artillery because of his carelessness, without even touching the edge of the city wall, he was so angry that he was about to go crazy, and roared and ordered to retreat quickly.
Take advantage of his illness and ask for his life.
Zhu Youlang saw that the Qing army's formation was in chaos, and knew that the opportunity was rare, so he hurriedly summoned Jiao Lian and said: "The Tartar army formation is in chaos, and the opportunity cannot be lost, Aiqing quickly sent five hundred iron horsemen out of the city to raid and kill the Tartars!" ”
Jiao Lian received the order.
Zhu Youlang said arrogantly: "When Aiqing goes out of the city to kill the enemy, I personally beat the drums for the warriors!" ”
After Jiao Lian got off the city, turned over his horse, and ordered five hundred headquarters to ride in person, after his eyes swept over everyone's faces one by one, he raised his chest, waved his fist over his head, blushed, and said loudly: "Prepare to go out of the city and kill the Tartars!" ”
"Kill the Tartars! Kill the Tartars! The five hundred pro-horsemen shouted in unison, majestic and deafening.
Five hundred cavalry entered the south gate of the urn city in order, and the main city gate behind them slowly closed, and the whole army waited for the order to attack.
"Open the gates!"
The gate of the urn city slowly opened, and the moat and the outer moat suspension bridge were lowered in turn.
"All the army is ready!"
Jiao Lian held a long knife in his hand and took the lead, followed by Bai Gui, Ma Zhiji, and Tang Wenyao.
"Kill!"
At the head of the city, Zhu Youlang walked to the war drums, personally vibrated his clothes and beat the drums to cooperate, and the rumbling drums were inspiring.
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