Volume 2 The South Chapter 318 The Battle (54...
"Launch!"
Bai Wenlu's telescope had already been pinched out of the water by his hands, and when he finally saw the Qing army enter the best range, he did not hesitate, waved his right hand, and gave a loud order.
"Launch!"
The artillery commanders of the artillery group raised the small flags in their hands one by one and waved them hard!
"Launch!"
The gunner put the torch in his hand on the fuse, watched the fuses burn on the barrels of the four guns, and then everyone saw the fire flickering at the muzzle, and although they blocked the ear holes with their hands, they heard a deafening sound of shelling!
The four guns moved backwards at the same time, the huge recoil force made the cannon body unstable, and the shells had formed a huge screeching sound in the air, and they were flying away at a rapid pace according to the set target.
"No, that's not right...... This is a red-coat cannon! ”
Yue Le, who was in the forward battalion general's array, suddenly had a strong sense of crisis, and this sense of crisis made him subconsciously stop, and the guards beside him looked at him with inquiring eyes.
When the scream sounded and obviously flew to his side, Yue Le suddenly came to his senses, and in an instant, he felt that the blood vessels in his whole body were condensed!
"Get down, get down!"
At this time, all the soldiers of the forward battalion saw that their Zhenguo Gong Zhang Jing was already full of panic, and it seemed that even the hair on his whole body stood upside down, but when he saw Yue Le jump, the whole person was lying in a hollow.
Many people were still ignorant, but they heard the howling sound getting louder and sharper, and then they saw several cannonballs much larger than fists flying in, and one after another fell into the Qing army's formation.
The first cannonball instantly pierced through a dozen or so heavily armored pikemen, and no matter how thick the iron armor was, it was in vain in front of this cannonball, the cannonball first cut off a few heads, and then smashed several Qing soldiers all over the body, and finally hit the arm of a protector wearing mercury armor, and after sending the whole arm flying, the steaming cannonball finally lost power and landed at the feet of a stunned vest.
Screams rang out one after another, and in the entire array of heavily armored pikemen, each shell could collect a few or a dozen lives in such a dense queue.
Even those who are bruised are hardly able to save their lives after the war.
In this era, there is no cure for the dirt on the shells, such as fire, medicine, sulfur, and iron embroidery, and while the lucky few can escape death, most of the wounded will die in extreme pain within a few days or weeks.
The screaming has not stopped, the members of the artillery crew of the Pingyu army are very good, the four cannons rarely pause, one shell after another fell in the Qing army formation, the entire Qing army's array has risen several zhang high by mud and mud fog and blood mist mixed with a column of smoke, such a degree of blow, almost no army in the era of cold weapons can withstand it.
A little behind the military formation, Bolo's banner had been put down, the first round of cannonballs was only a few dozen steps away from Bolo, he watched a cannonball take the lives of more than a dozen loyal and brave subordinates, these armor triple iron armor, martial arts are very strong, and the will to fight is also very firm The elite died extremely unjustly, they didn't even see the face of the enemy, they just struggled to die in pain.
"There are at least twenty red-coated cannons, no, thirty!"
Surrounded by his subordinates, he took a few hundred steps back, until he felt that the shells had extended forward, and Bolo felt a little calmer.
As a Baylor who has been fighting for more than ten years, during the Battle of Ningjin, the young Bolo had seen with his own eyes the power of those red-coated cannons at the head of Ningyuan City, and the cannons of the Ming army weighing 5,000 to 7,000 catties could still be seen clearly at the head of the city.
It is precisely because the Qing army saw the power of the Ming army's artillery that it spared no stone in casting artillery.
When the king of Sanshun threw himself into Liaodong, he was driven away by the Ming army and lost his family's dogs, the whole division even had more than 10,000 old and young women and children, and the main force was less than 4,000 strong, it was such a remnant division, because there were many craftsmen who knew how to cast cannons and use firearms, Huang Taiji greeted dozens of miles, hugged Kong Youde and greeted him, and was crowned the king, although Huang Taiji was in the Qianjin City Horse, deliberately invited to buy people's hearts, but Kong Youde and other Han army teams have a large number of cannon casting craftsmen, which is also the most important reason.
The current Qing army also has a lot of artillery, among which there are quite a few powerful heavy firearms, but because it is difficult to carry, so it is only in the Han army of the Sanshun King who accompanied Duoduo's army, and the other Qing army is still an army dominated by cold weapons.
In this way, in the face of the Ming army's artillery superiority, all the Qing army could do was to speed up its pace and move forward desperately.
Watching one cannonball after another fall on those heavily armored pikemen, Bolo felt his heart break.
With so many loyal and brave soldiers, hundreds of people could defeat the Wan Ming army and harvest thousands of lives, but at this time, they were killed in vain by the artillery of the Ming army.
There is no need to imagine that Bolo can also know what kind of expression his father is behind him.
It's surprise, it's anger, it's sadness, it's a deep sense of powerlessness.
When they were in Liaodong, they also had such a feeling when facing the fortified cities and artillery of the Ming army. But fortunately, the wise Tiancong Khan found a way to strike at the Mongols, detoured into the customs, and pulled the Ming army back and forth, at that time, although the Ming army still had the Jiancheng cannons of Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan, the threat to the Qing army had no substantive significance.
At that time, Bolo thought that he had forever gotten rid of the nightmarish memory of the Ming artillery, but today, all self-confidence has been shattered again, and the trembling and cowardice under the cannons of the fortified city back then, in this moment, returned to him!
Artillery is bombarding.
Crushing, blood, bursting, dying.
One by one, the Qing army was hit and scattered, and everywhere there were broken human bodies, blood spurting out everywhere, and howling and roaring everywhere.
Just now, Bolo was still glad that the distance of the Ming army's car and artillery battalion was not enough to launch an attack on the center, and he even had a plan, as soon as the central army formation was broken, he immediately sent hundreds of white armor horseback to the right flank battlefield to flank the right flank of the Ming army with the car and artillery battalion.
Although there were not many soldiers and horses on the right flank of the Ming army, but hundreds of white armor were dispatched to deal with the powerful Ming army vehicle and artillery battalion, and Bolo thought that this deal had been done.
But now he has understood that he is an out-and-out fool!
The Ming army obviously hid a hand, and these powerful jack cannons were kept for use when the elite of the Qing army attacked, which was unexpected and powerful.
In order to break the formation, the gun array of the Qing army is about 200 people in a column, arranged very densely, and the horses are also taken away, and the Ming army's formation is the most skilled method of the Qing army.
"Sun Chuanting, old thief!"
As a young commander with a lot of battlefield experience, he already knew in his heart that in today's battle, he would be more than lucky!
"Everyone, all rush forward with me, everyone, including the unarmored bannerman, everyone is holding a blade, today is not victorious, Shandong is not guaranteed, my eight banners are difficult to gain a foothold in the pass!"
When the matter came, the blood and courage of being the general of the Eight Banners also burst out, and under Bolo's strict order, the hundreds of people who were finally in the battle also rushed forward together, as the last fight, it was also a desperate gamble!
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Almost at the same time that Bolo was shocked and cursed, Sun Chuanting was also stunned in the back. He knew that the artillery battalion was not equipped with newly cast large-caliber artillery.
The Henan battlefield is the main battlefield, and the prince plans to completely eliminate Haoge in Henan, so that even if it attracts Duoduo to the south, it can at least relieve a lot of pressure.
The current situation that the entire grand strategy and the Pingyu army have just formed an army make the ambitions of the Ming army in the Shandong battlefield limited, and the most important thing is to really clean up the hearts of the people in Shandong.
At that time, the strategy of Ming Taizu's Northern Expedition, the crown prince Zhu Cihong also knew very well. First take Shandong, cut off its arms, then take Henan, seize its heart, and then isolate Tongguan, so that Guanshan is cut off, and then go north, while capturing Beijing, the troops will go out to the north and seize Shanxi, so that the whole of North China will fall into the bag, and the bottom is the war that sweeps the tail.
Fang Jin's current situation, all of them aggressively fighting an all-out war with the Qing army, seems to be beyond our strength, and it should seem feasible to seek the strategic initiative.
But Sun Chuanting did not expect that the crown prince actually secretly arranged a heavy artillery unit, which played a decisive role at this critical moment.
Originally, he should be unhappy, but when he saw the cannonballs hitting solid waves in the waves of the Qing army, seeing the Qing army's shock formation being messed up by the cannonballs, and seeing that the situation ahead was undergoing unbelievable changes...... Not only did the Pingyu army not lose in the confrontation with the Qing army, but on the contrary, it had the upper hand, and now it completely grasped the initiative on the battlefield with the sudden appearance of heavy artillery!
As long as the front line is held firmly below, and the left and right flanks advance at the same time, today's battle can achieve a great victory imaginable.
Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, tens of thousands of people have not won a field battle, even once!
With this excitement, although Sun Chuanting's commanding demeanor is maintained very well, he can't help but get excited, after this low-hanging fruit, the general trend of the whole world will have fundamental changes!
"Urge the Chinese army and move forward quickly. The old man himself beats the drum for you! "His Chinese army is still preparing, but Sun Chuanting can't bear it anymore, although his beard is white, but at this time he is extraordinarily excited, after this battle, his exploits will be enough to remain in China for eternity!
Now as long as the Chinese army is on top for a while, and the performance of the new army of the Pingyu army has a little resistance, the balance of victory is beckoning to him.
The car and artillery battalion on the right flank is coming, the cavalry and the infantry battalion are chasing the Mongols like rabbits, and the Ming army on the left flank has repelled the Han army array and is pursuing, and victory is indeed in sight.