Chapter 13: The Wall Collapses
At the same time, the Tartar centurion was leading a few of his cronies, looking at each other and surrounding the mud heart left by the burst of the lead shell, and said with a puzzled expression: "When will this Ming man's cannonball turn around and mix the cannonball with dirt?" ā
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With a loud 'boom', the scorching tin-core lead shell bullet burst out of the muzzle of the cannon under the impetus of gunpowder, drew a wonderful arc in the air, and crashed into the Mongolian Tartar group that was busy behind the mound.
When the shell landed, there was a crisp "pop", the lead shell burst in response, and the hot tin liquid splashed out.
Although the Mongolian Tatars had already taken precautions, they never expected that this shell was still wrapped in tin. There was no time to dodge for a while, and he was splashed with hot tin, and with the smell of burnt flesh and skin, the Tartar array suddenly wailed.
One of the Tartars stood near the bullet point, and was splashed in the face by the hot tin, burning all the flesh and skin of his face, leaving behind a bloody face that resembled a skeleton. As the Tartar covered his face and fell to the ground in pain, he let out a terrible roar from his mouth, and after a few struggles, he passed out.
The Mongols had never seen such a cannonball before, and when they saw the misery of their companions, a sense of fear quickly spread. The Tartars, who had been full of energy, immediately stopped building the earth and looked at the air uneasily, lest any new shells fall.
"What are you doing in a daze!" Shadow roared loudly, and seeing that his men still didn't move, he waved the horsewhip in his hand in anger and lashed at his subordinates. Fearing the might of Shadow, the crowd helped their wounded companions down for treatment, and began to re-engage in the construction of the earthen fort, but they still looked up from time to time with palpitations, and the speed of the earth building slowed down greatly.
Hearing the screams behind the mound, the soldiers in the city all applauded, and then Ding Shoutie said excitedly: "The general's artillery is beautiful, let's continue to burn these dog tartars." As he spoke, he eagerly raised the iron tongs in his hand.
Ziren looked at the only six remaining sandwich bullets, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Shoutie, these Tartars will look good later." After that, I called Lei Zhenwei and others to advise.
At this time, the Tartar centurion also came up to Shadow Ke and asked with a puzzled expression, "Commander, why does Mingren's cannonball still contain molten iron?" ā
"You talk a lot!" After scolding secretly, Shadow couldn't understand this, and just wanted to open his mouth to knock the centurion back, when another cannon rang out from the city.
This sandwich bullet has left a shadow in the hearts of the Mongols, hearing the sound of the cannon, the Tartar immediately got up to dodge, who knew that this shell did not explode after landing, but bounced on the ground a few times, and after breaking the calf of a Mongolian Tartar who had no time to dodge, he stopped jumping.
"I see!" After the centurion shouted, he explained with excitement on his face: "Mingren must have run out of shells, and the projectiles made temporarily did not wait for the inner core to cool, so they were launched, so everyone don't need to panic." ā
Before the words could be heard, another cannonball fell in the air and smashed into the centurion's head, shattering his yellow croaker head while the lead shell cracked, splashing around with hot tin water, once again reminding the Tartars of a miserable scream.
Ziren stood at the head of the city at this time, smiled slightly and said to the generals beside him: "The number of this tin-hearted lead shell bullet is limited after all, and only by using this method of combining fiction and reality can we continue to disturb the enemy's military morale and delay the speed of the Tartar fort building." While speaking, let Lei Zhenwei continue to command the soldiers to fire artillery to harass the enemy.
This is a sudden feeling of something strange under his feet, looking down at the city wall, only a crack the thickness of a thumb appeared on the city wall, Ziren thought for a moment, called Ding Shoutie, Tie Weineng and ordered: "The city wall of Pingyu Fort has been in disrepair for a long time, and the city wall has been cracked by successive cannons in the past few days. Just in case, the two of you go and take out 30% of the lead material brought with the army, melt it into lead water, pour it into the crack and repair it. There was a surplus mixed with gold juice, and the Tartars poured the dogs to death during the siege. ā
After receiving the order, the two immediately went down to the city to do it.
Ziren knew that this earthen fort would be erected sooner or later, and began to direct the soldiers to carry rolling logs, stones, rockets and other defensive equipment to the city. And with a quilt nailed to the outside of the wooden plank, some erected arrow boards were made. At this time, Sun Shoujing, who was stationed in Xicheng, ran over with someone, and Ziren saw that he was wrapped in gauze on his head and just wanted to ask a question, but he was the first to speak.
It turned out that Sun Shoujing saw the fortress building and siege of the city by the Tartars outside the city, and he felt a little helpless. Seeing that the earthen fort was getting higher and higher, the morale of his subordinates gradually lowered. In order to boost morale, Sun Shoujing wanted to personally use the bow and shoot and kill several Tartars behind the mound, but as soon as he walked out of the curtain, he was targeted by the Tartar archers, and several sharp arrows flew straight to the door.
Fortunately, Sun Shoujing retreated in time, and the helmet with his headband helped him block the sharp arrows of the Tartar, which saved his life. Sun Shoujing was helpless, and specially came to Ziren to discuss what strategy he could have against the enemy.
Now that the Tartars are numerous, Ziren has no other way to slow down the speed of the Tartars building forts. While they were thinking about it, a loud noise suddenly came from the east of the city, and then everyone felt a shock under their feet.
Ziren was already injured on his feet, and after finally stopping his body, he saw the thunder and iron bullets that were guarding in the east of the city running over, and said with a disgraced face: "The general is not good, the Tartar previously released rockets to harass in the east of the city, but the kid Jinguan did not set up the curtain tightly, and was ignited by the rocket The gunpowder placed on the city, not to mention, killed many of his soldiers, and also blew up the city wall into a gap of about ten steps. Brother Daqi asked me to come and ask for help! ā
"It's broken!" Ziren shouted, knowing that this city wall was a barrier for everyone to resist the Tartars, and once it collapsed, the Mongols would definitely continue to fight from here, thinking of this, he said loudly: "The soldiers will quickly follow me to the rescue, and Lei Zhenwei will continue to stay here with the Firearms Division." ā
Sun Shoujing also knew that the big thing was not good, and while leading the soldiers and horses to rush to reinforcements with Ziren, he sent people to Xicheng and Nancheng to transfer people.
Seeing the collapse of the northern city, the brain-haired department that was building an earthen fort outside the city was stunned for a moment, and then the brain-haired brother 'Gongtu' was the first to react, and shouted loudly: "Warriors on the grassland, there is a gap in the city wall that the Ming people rely on to survive, kill it with me!" ā
Immediately after receiving the order, the Mongol Tartars turned on their horses and slew at the gap left by the collapse of the wall. Although Jin Guan and Zhou Daqi began to gather soldiers to defend here, they were hit by a rain of arrows from the Mongols before they formed a formation, and the soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, and their feet were in chaos.
Zhou Daqi knew that he couldn't let the Tartars rush into the city, "Kill!" With a shout, he raised his spear and headed for the speeding Tartars. Seeing this, the soldiers of Changning Fort didn't care about the untidy formation, and followed closely to meet the Tartars to kill. (To be continued.) )