Chapter 470: Artillery Battle

"Next, continue to rush?" Man Dahai was shocked by Dolgon's words, and it took a moment to come to his senses, he was also a ruthless character, just now he was suddenly lost by the cannon of the Kuizhou army, once he recovered, he turned back to the true nature of the general, and clenched his fists and shouted: "Huh! ”

He hurriedly went backwards and gave orders to several Jurchen generals and Mongol generals, and several of them took orders.

The huge Jurchen main array, like a meticulous machine, was running at high speed, waving flags, and the heralds were speeding back and forth, spreading strict and urgent military orders to all directions, and every soldier who received the order immediately moved and rushed to the battlefield according to Dolgon's intentions.

Two torrents of armor of various colors quickly gathered on the two wings, and people shouted and neighed.

Wang Huan stood on the Guan Tower, taking in all this, his eyelids jumped, pursed his closed lips, leaned forward straight, pressed his hands on the stone battlement, squinted his eyes and didn't know what he was thinking.

A breeze blew, blowing away a few clouds in the sky, the scorching sun at the end of summer was unobstructed, and the earth was sunning, and it seemed that it must be a good weather today.

Under the same sunshine, the people on both sides are in different moods, under the nervous mood, on one side is the pervasiveness of surprise and anger, and on the other side is the enthusiasm of the blood.

"Get up your spirits, wait for the Qing soldiers to eat enough, and it's our turn!" Li Tingyu, who was in the front military formation, saw a note handed by Wang Huan's personal guard from behind, and shouted loudly, like a bell and drum: "Whoever has no eggs dares to lose Lao Tzu's face, Lao Tzu will screw off his head and use it as a night pot!" ”

The soldiers around him were all his cronies, and when he heard this, he immediately laughed: "General, then you can only pee in your crotch at night!" ”

"Yes, where is there any eggless cowards in the Kuizhou Army?"

Li Tingyu didn't care, these soldiers had been with him for a long time, and they had never dropped their chains, and they didn't have much sense of proportion when joking, so he danced the mountain-destroying crossbow in his hand in the air and shouted: "It's okay!" When you win the battle, the grandfather will reward it, and Lao Tzu will give each of you a golden night pot, so that you rabbit cubs are not even willing to pee at night! ”

The brisk atmosphere rippled in the sun, and the soldiers laughed and shouted, "You can hear me, general, you can't break your word!" ”

"Broken promise? Is Lao Tzu the kind of person who doesn't keep his word? Li Tingyu's eyes were staring at the movements of the Qing army on both sides, and he said: "Pay attention later, if you want to die, you have to kill a Tartar back, don't lose the face of the Kuizhou army." ”

Then, with a flash in his eyes, he raised his voice sharply and shouted: "Front, raise your shield!" ”

The front row of white-armored soldiers slammed the big shield in their hands upward, and shouted angrily in unison: "Get up!" "Raise your shield in your hand.

Li Tingyu pointed the crossbow forward again and shouted: "Attack!" ”

The horn trumpeter next to him puffed out his cheeks, and the suona hand played the suona playfully.

In the low trumpet and loud suona, the atmosphere was condensed, and no one in the Kuizhou army spoke, silent as a mountain and ethereal.

The infantry formation of 5,000 people, stepping on the same step point, striding forward, the sound of uniform footsteps is like a thousand people, "bang bang bang" is terrifying, the speed is not fast, and it can even be described as slow, but it is so slow that people are afraid.

The cavalry of the Qing army on both flanks had lost their fighting spirit, and more than 1,000 people who rushed in front were killed and wounded, and there were not a few who tripped and fell to the ground by dead men and horses and were trampled by horses' hooves, while the people behind were startled by the sound of cannons and explosions, and they were in chaos.

In short, the first cavalry assault of Ye Chen and Guozhu, although it did not retreat, was no threat.

Yan Mingde's Shenwei cannon had already turned the gun position, and aimed the muzzle of the black hole at the Han army and the Han Eight Banners in front of the Qing army.

Li Guoying and other Han generals were inexplicably surprised, because the distance was close, their ears were still "rumbling", as if hundreds of elephants were running in their ears, and the strong wind of thunder and explosion could blow all the way to their faces, looking at the wall of flames and smoke, devouring the fierce Mongolian cavalry and Jurchen cavalry, their legs trembled a little.

Looking back, the heavy artillery battalion of the Qing Dynasty is still moving like a snail behind, and it seems unrealistic to rely on them to fight against the Ming army.

Li Guoying sent someone to ask Ma Guangyuan in the back for instructions, is it a little back, the Ming army's firearms are fierce, and when the heavy artillery battalion comes up, they will rush up together?

Ma Guangyuan replied with two words: "Guard!" ”

Guarded? Wait here and let people be fools and bombard? Li Guoying scolded on the spot, swearing and scolding, and he was not afraid that Ma Guangyuan would hear it, anyway, everyone would not live long. At this time, he regretted the joy of seeing the Ming army out of the city at first, maybe the Ming army retreated in the pass, which was worth celebrating.

And Ma Guangyuan was actually helpless, Dolgon's order was not changed, and he did not dare to retreat. Moreover, he is very confident in the combat strength of the Qing army, as long as he is beaten by the artillery of the Ming army, this battle is still more likely to be won by the Qing Dynasty.

Sun Long was exhausted, he personally dismounted and pushed the red-clothed cannon, and when he passed by some uneven ground, he hurriedly did not have enough skids, and even directly cut a few Han soldiers to use them as human flesh skids and stuffed them under the wheels, which can be said to be without effort.

Helplessly, the cannon was really heavy, and several bullocks were beaten to the point of foaming at the mouth, and they could only drag the heavy artillery slowly, seeing that the cavalry was beaten so that they could not find the north, but the red-coated cannon was far away from the target ground.

Sun Long gasped and looked at Chagu on the other side of the battlefield, Chagu's progress was similar to that here, and even a little behind. From such a distance, you can faintly see the shadow of Chagu waving a leather whip and scolding loudly, presumably, he is also angry and frightened.

If the errand is not done well, will the regent send someone to kill him, and then order the lieutenant general to take over, just like Huang Taiji did when he was in Liaodong?

Just thinking so, from afar, a prince wearing bright yellow armor really came.

Fortunately, he had come to deliver the message.

"The regent has an order!" This soldier said to Sun Long with an expressionless face: "Order the Wuzhen Chaoha artillery battalion to set up artillery on the spot, shell the Ming army, and cover the cavalry brigade!" Make no mistake! ”

At the end, he added: "The delayer is killed!" ”

Sun Long Ruoruo agreed and smiled bitterly.

Shoot on the spot? What a fart!

Seeing off the heralds, the lieutenant generals gathered around and asked Sun Long with a disgraced face: "How can you fight so far?" ”

"How? Add more gunpowder, replace them with smaller shells, and stuff them tightly with clothing. ”

"That's not going to work, you can't beat it."

"Then add more gunpowder." Sun Long gritted his teeth: "Add until you hit!" ”

The lieutenants were speechless, Sun Long was obviously driven crazy, and he did such a thing that violated common sense, but if he thought about it carefully, it seemed that there was no other way, he couldn't disobey the regent's order!

So the artillery battalion stopped, the gunners found some stones to cushion the bottom, hurriedly compacted the ground, shouted the trumpet to set up the cannon in the shortest time, and the carriage behind hurriedly brought the cannonballs and gunpowder, and everyone stepped forward together, ready with all hands and feet.

Sun Long looked ahead, and the Ming infantry formation was slowly moving forward in the sound of drums and trumpets, getting closer and closer to the front of the Qing army.

An ominous thought rose in his heart, with the style of the Ming army, this kind of infantry before the battle, if there is no artillery preparation, it seems that it should not be.

As soon as I thought of this, the sound of artillery arrived.

The copper cannons in the Ming army's artillery array opened fire, and in a few successive roars, several iron bullets flew over and smashed into the Qing army's front army array.

It is like a wild boar running into a wheat field, ploughing through layers of human walls like a few straight lines, unstoppably entering from one end and exiting from the other, leaving behind a place of flesh and blood.

The stumps of the dead and the screams of the wounded were everywhere, and the place where the iron bullets rolled through it was like a passage of flesh and blood, and no matter how strong a soldier could catch it.

The Han army's large array collapsed in an instant, and the people who were closest to the flesh passage and were not injured first shouted with white faces, running around them like insanity, bumping into the people around them, panic spread like a plague, infecting everyone, Li Guoying desperately drank the order, but to no avail.

Ma Guangyuan's Han Baqi was a little tougher, although he was also beaten stunned, but there was no chaos, he immediately swung his knife and bullet to suppress, killed a few people who fled head-on, and used violence to maintain the military formation.

The commotion of the front army made Sun Long's heart palpitate even more, he turned around, pushed away the gunner, snatched the large horn containing gunpowder, and doubled the amount with a trembling hand.

An old gunner's eyes straightened, and he said with trembling lips: "General, this, this is too much, too much." ”

"Multiple farts!" Sun Long roared rudely: "It's not enough! Can you fight without it? I can't beat the regent to look at your head! Look at your head! ”

The gunner did not dare to speak, stammered after eating, and retreated into the distance.

Sun Long's eyes were red, and he handed the torch to a gunner: "Oh, go and light the fire." ”

The gunner hesitated to answer, his eyes stared at the gunpowder in the fire door, and he couldn't take a step.

Sun Long slashed his hand, cut down the gunner, and summoned another gunner: "Oh, you go!" ”

The gunner's legs were weak, and he took the torch tremblingly, walked to the gun position, closed his eyes, and brought the torch closer to the gun.

Sun Long pulled his legs and ran far away before turning around.

"Boom!" The sound was like thunder, and its sound was like a meteorite falling to the ground.

Sun Long stood in place in a daze, like a mourner.

Blown up.

It was not surprising that the chamber was blown up, and the Qing Dynasty red-coated cannon, which is known as never blowing up, blew up.

Double the black powder was added, almost filling the amount of the cannon door, and the iron cannon forged by thousands of catties of fine iron was blown up alive, and the wreckage of the cannon body burst out everywhere, and the people, horses, and cattle within a range of several zhang were blown into broken dead ghosts, and its tragedy was more violent than the thunder of the Ming army.

With the loss of a valuable cannon just by exploding the bore, Dorgon was able to cut off his head.

(End of chapter)