Daming Liaodong Fushun City

The small city of Fushun has become a hell on earth at this time, and there are corpses all over the city walls and five miles around the city. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Countless barbarian warriors let out wolf-like howls, mites scimitars in their mouths, and relied on rudimentary ladders to climb the walls of Fushun.

Not far from the city wall, the eight thousand barbarian cavalry galloped around Fushun City like a black whirlwind, constantly opening their bows and arrows, shooting deadly arrows. With each shot, they tried to balance themselves on the bumpy horseback, so that the dense array of arrows could suppress the firearms of the defenders of Fushun City and help their companions climb the city walls.

"As long as I can climb the city wall and fight hand-to-hand, my barbarian warriors alone can deal with seven or eight Han soldiers, and then I will win! As long as you break through Fushun City, kill He Kegang! In the distance, the big wolf fluttered in the wind, and he himself whispered with a fierce light in his eyes.

Worthy of being the big leader of the barbarians, born to be a hero, after making up his mind to attack Fushun City, the Qibi Wolf directly relied on the powerful forces of the Dajin tribe to kill the two small tribal chieftains and powerful figures overnight, and all the warriors were merged into the Dajin tribe. At the same time, with the land and population of these two small tribes, the Wolf successfully bought the leader of the other large tribe, the Hada Tribe, and with the support of the leader of the Hada Tribe, the Wolf successfully suppressed the leaders of all the coalition forces, and gathered the main force of the barbarians to launch an attack on Fushun City.

At the risk of being killed by the firecracker, the Celestial Wolf ventured close to Fushun City to observe for a few days, and found that although Fushun City's cover against arrows could block arrows in the front, it could not effectively defend against projectile arrows. So he decisively gathered 30,000 barbarian warriors, all of them were heavily armoured, and prepared siege equipment to climb the city wall, and directly climbed the city to fight.

Then the wolf of Qibi was divided into five teams by concentrating 40,000 warriors who were good at shooting warriors in the barbarian coalition army, and each team was equipped with five good horses, and took turns shooting arrows to suppress the Han defenders of Fushun City.

He Kegang's pressure increased sharply, although Fushun City had 80,000 defenders, but there were not enough firearms, at least 30,000 soldiers were still using cold weapons such as broadswords and spears, plus the bunkers were not well repaired, and they suffered huge losses as soon as the battle began. Nearly 800 soldiers were killed by random arrows, and more than 300 were injured, He Kegang immediately changed his tactics when he saw that the situation was not right, and sent a large number of soldiers to protect the musketeers and artillerymen with shields, while quickly reinforcing the bunkers.

He Kegang himself summoned all the officers and guards who were proficient in martial arts to form a "firefighting team" and wandered between the four walls of Fushun City.

"Kill!" An officer wearing Mingguang armor and a lion swallowing helmet on his head, tall and mighty, with muscles all over his body, and holding a long knife, roared angrily, and the big knife slashed straight up and down. The barbarian soldiers on the opposite side didn't have time to escape, so they had to meet them with a roar of rage and a scimitar in both hands.

"Click!" The officer's broadsword directly cut the scimitar in half, and the barbarian soldier was cut in half from head to crotch without abating, and blood and internal organs sprayed everywhere, spraying the officer directly into a bloody man.

"Haha, happy! Brothers, kill the barbarians! Haha laughed and wiped the blood from his face, and the officer roared, leading the assembled soldiers to kill the barbarian soldiers who climbed up to the top of the city. Under his leadership, the defenders of the city walls were emboldened, and one by one they took up any bricks, sticks, boards, spears, and waist knives that could be used as weapons, and screamed and pounced on the barbarians who rushed up to the city.

"Ahh How can these Han lambs be so strong? Why aren't you afraid of death at all? A tall barbarian centurion pulled a knife and cut the throat of the big Han soldier in front of him, and immediately seven or eight big Han soldiers rushed up, and the centurion suddenly had a look of disbelief on his face, and had to continue to slash and kill.

The centurion had participated in that invasion, and he still remembers the scene at that time: wherever the barbarians went, no one could stop them, and the soldiers of the Han Dynasty either cowered in the city and watched the barbarian warriors slaughter the Han people and plunder the property. Even the barbarian warriors slaughtered the women of the Han Dynasty under the city walls, and the soldiers of the Han Dynasty only dared to stay in the city, and no one dared to fight without firing a single arrow. Either dare to go out of the battle as soon as they encounter the barbarian iron horse, one by one they are frightened and trembling, and after a few daring people are shot by the barbarian iron horse, they immediately scatter in a hurry, scattering and fleeing like a flock, and the head of the barbarian iron horse who is chasing after them is cut off with a knife.

But what's going on today? One by one, these Han soldiers rushed up without fear of death, stabbing with spears, slashing with knives, smashing with stones, biting with teeth, and doing their best to kill the barbarian warriors by all possible means. Let this experienced centurion also feel a burst of fear, is this still a Han soldier?

"Die!" Dodging a shot to his throat, the scimitar blade slashed through the opponent's neck along the barrel of the gun, and the centurion suddenly felt a froze as he pulled it back. When I looked up, the Han soldier who had his throat cut by himself actually pressed his scimitar to his neck with both hands, allowing the blade to cut his neck like a spring of blood, and his eyes stared at him like a tiger staring at its prey.

His stomach felt cold, and the centurion was shocked to find that two spears had pierced his stomach before he had time to draw his knife for defense. A flash of knife light, he felt a chill in his neck, the strength of his whole body was instantly drained, the blood in his throat gushed like a spring, and he fell to the ground and died.

With the support of the "fire brigade", the barbarian soldiers who rushed to the city were quickly killed, and the repair and reinforcement of the bunkers went smoothly, and in less than an hour, the bunkers on the four walls of Fushun City were stabilized. He Kegang immediately made a decision, and immediately ordered the firearms, artillery, and 10,000 enemy troops to return to the battle, and strengthened the firepower, and even more fierce defenders stood on the battlements and threw 10,000 enemies at the barbarian soldiers who were crowded into a group of climbing under the city wall, directly blasting the latter's flesh and blood flying.

"Squat on the tiger cannon, and prepare the Shenwei cannon at the same time. Use the divine might of His Majesty the Emperor to blow up this group of barbarians who don't know whether to live or die! Seeing that the form of the city head was gradually stabilized, He Kegang began to launch a counterattack, and the first thing to deal with was the charging barbarians and the barbarian archers wandering around the city wall, and he decided to use the two new firearms developed by Meng Qiu at the same time.

The Tiger Squat Cannon is suitable for combat areas that hinder the mobility of the cannon, such as mountains, forests, and paddy fields.

The tiger squat cannon was created in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese plague was rampant in the mountainous areas of southeast China, in the struggle against the Japanese invaders, due to the vertical and horizontal ditches in the paddy fields, the terrain is complex, and the armorists created the tiger squat cannon according to the actual needs.

The head and tail of this cannon are 2 feet long, and 7 iron hoops are added around the body, and the gun head is erected by two iron claws, and there are iron stumbling, with a total weight of 36 pounds. It looks like a tiger is powerful and majestic. Before firing, the cannon body must be fixed on the ground with a large iron nail, each launch can be loaded with 100 small lead or small stones weighing 5 money, and the top is pressed with a large lead bullet or large stone bullet weighing 30 taels, and the large and small bullets fly out together when fired, the roar is like thunder, the lethality and radiation range are very large, especially suitable for field warfare, bombarding the dense combat formation of the Japanese and the Kou, and effectively suppressing its crazy offensive. Therefore, in the future Anti-Japanese War, Qi Jiguang's army was equipped with 3 tiger squat cannons for every 500 people.

After Meng Qiu was modified, he could extend the city wall through a special track and directly target the climbing barbarian bombardment.

The Hongyi cannon is a front-loading heavy smoothbore cannon made in Europe in the early 16th century, which was introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty and is also known as the red-coated cannon. In fact, at that time, the Ming Dynasty called all the front-loading smoothbore cannons imported from the West as Hongyi cannons, and Ming Dynasty officials often covered these cannons with red cloth, so they were falsely called "red clothes". According to research, only a small amount of Hongyi cannons imported by the Ming Dynasty at that time were imported from the Dutch East India Company, and later became hostile to the Dutch because of the Taiwan issue, most of which were traded with the Portuguese in Macao, and the Ming Dynasty was in huge demand at that time, and the Portuguese also sold British shipborne cannons to China as middlemen.

The Hongyi cannon does have its advantages in design, its barrel is long, the pipe wall is very thick, and it is gradually thickened from the muzzle to the tail of the gun, which conforms to the principle of high pressure from high to bottom when gunpowder is burned; There are cylindrical lugs on both sides of the center of gravity of the gun body, and the gun can adjust the firing angle with this axis and change the firing range according to the amount of gunpowder; It is equipped with a crosshair and a light gate, and the trajectory is calculated according to the parabola, which is very accurate. Most of the Hongyi cannons are about 3 meters long, with a caliber of 110-130 mm and a weight of more than 2 tons.

The most prominent advantage of the Hongyi cannon is its range, which is an important part of the performance of heavy artillery, even today. The maximum range of the Ming Dynasty's homemade iron fire gun did not exceed three li, and it was at the risk of exploding; And the general three-thousand-pound Hongyi cannon can easily hit seven or eight miles away, and the historical records can reach as far as ten miles! Ten miles is equivalent to more than five kilometers in modern times, which is quite far away, and there were doubts about this data, but the performance of the same type of artillery in the West proved that this data was accurate (at that time, Western European countries already had the concept of territorial waters, and the territorial waters at that time were determined by the range of coastal artillery, and the territorial sea at the end of the 16th century was three nautical miles, about 5.5 kilometers). The long-range Hongyi cannon combined with flowering shells became the strongest weapon against the Later Jin Tieqi at the end of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the tactics were: lure the cavalry of Houjin into the range of the Hongyi cannon at the head of the city, and then use the flowering shells to concentrate the fire, the effect was very significant, and even Nurhachi was killed. For a long time, the Houjin cavalry did not dare to attack strategic places such as Ningyuan, Jinzhou, and Shanhaiguan, which were equipped with Hongyi cannons.

The Hongyi cannon is a sharp weapon to deal with cavalry assaults, and Meng Qiu has also made appropriate modifications to increase the rate of fire and accuracy, specifically to deal with the barbarian iron cavalry. "Doesn't the barbarian iron rider come and go like the wind and be invincible? I want to see if it's their horse legs fast or my cannonballs fast, whether their scimitars are strong, or my cannonballs are strong, if you can't kill this group of bastards, I'll cut off the little JJ for him", Meng Qiu swore at the time, but the specific little JJ who cut it was didn't say a word.

What Meng Qiu didn't know was that there was now a person who was as depressed as if he had been cut off - the poor Qibi Heavenly Wolf, who fought for a whole day and lost more than 5,000 people, but he didn't even pick off a single brick......