49 guns roared
After a moment of calm, the black muzzle of the artillery erupted into a glittering flame, and the huge explosion shook the dust on the ground, and the shock wave covered the entire artillery position with a gray fog. Then the deafening sound of shooting explosions reached the ears, as if it was the roar of a giant, and it reverberated into the sky for a long time, unable to be quelled.
"The angle is lowered by 0.2 degrees! Covering Attack, Shooting...... Get ready! With the officer's loud order, the flag soldiers once again quickly waved the flag in their hands, their movements were standardized and smooth, and each stroke was full of power and beauty.
The gunners who saw the flag simply adjusted the cannon, lifted the bolt to disperse the smoke and dust from the combustion inside, and then the loaders stuffed the shells that had been held aside into the cannon, and retreated to the side to wait for the gunners to continue the operation.
They are a high-tech class of troops in this era, so they don't need much courage and perseverance when facing the enemy, they just need to complete their tactical moves one after another as they did during training. And when they began their battle so calmly, they put more pressure on the enemy than any previous army.
Because when they standardized the operation and loaded the second shell with fire, and even before the first shell fell on the enemy's head, the speed of this pouring ammunition was absolutely beyond everyone's imagination.
"Oh my God, can they use that little time to shoot out a base of ammunition in their hands?" A Ming soldier stationed in Jinzhou City looked at the soldiers of the New Army who were loading ammunition again and again with the rhythm in the distance with such a high intensity of shelling, and under such a high-intensity shelling, these soldiers actually had time to kneel on one knee to rest their physical strength in the interval between shooting.
Another soldier looked farther away, where the wagons of the train that arrived with the artillery were parked, and boxes of shells were stored there, stacked neatly: "No wonder they brought so many shells, it seems that they have brought less, and they are really not enough......
Originally, when they saw that there were only more than 10,000 troops brought by Wang Jue, these soldiers of the 29th Army stationed in Jinzhou were still a little unimpressed, they thought that the small number of soldiers brought by Wang Jue was not enough to turn the tide of the war in Jinzhou. But now that they saw that the new army had significantly stronger suppressive power in terms of firepower, they knew that it was almost impossible for the rebels to take Jinzhou.
Such a well-trained army was definitely a powerful support for their own people, and to the ears of these friendly troops, the sound of such a dense and regular shelling was as beautiful as heaven.
And the opponents on the other side are not so wonderful now. At this moment, Todeltai, who was standing on the high ground and watching the shells fall on the heads of the attacking troops, was in an indescribable state of mind.
He took his cavalry, or almost all the cavalry of the Jin Kingdom, all the way to the city of Jinzhou, and they were tired and hard. But everything in front of them now proves that they have been running here for so many days just to let the army of the Ming Kingdom slaughter.
"Boom!" Another shell landed on the position, these shells were like ploughing, and the regularity was even a little dull, but this kind of rhythmic shelling made the famous Jin general Todeltay in front of him completely miscalculate. His hand pressed tightly against the command knife at his waist, as if to crush the hilt of the knife above.
Judging from experience, the Ming troops in Jinzhou City were able to fire such a dense artillery fire, as long as there should be more than 50,000 troops. It seems that the Ming Dynasty not only reacted quickly, the first large-scale reinforcements had already rushed to the front line, and it was impossible for the Jin State to achieve a quick victory and compress the Ming army in the narrow Jinzhou area.
The other side has a full force of 50,000 people, and all the cavalry around him now is only more than 30,000 people, how can it be possible to defeat the well-trained enemy army that is said to be defending? Besides, the troops he brought with him are now so sleepy that they can't even run at the speed they should have been able to run at the speed they should have been able to run out.
"Listening to the sound of artillery, the other side should have at least 300 cannons of various calibers, and most of them are ...... of more than 100 mm caliber" Todel Tai, who didn't believe his guess, looked at the adjutant beside him and asked in disbelief: "There is at least one army in Jinzhou City?" 3 divisions? ”
"General! I don't think the Ming army has so many troops, but there should still be two divisions......" The adjutant swallowed a mouthful of spit and then answered Todeltay's question. Before he spoke, he saw a soldier about a thousand meters away, hit by the artillery fire of the Ming army, the war horse was broken in two, and the blood was splattered miserably.
Soon, the field fortifications of the Ming army prevented the rebel cavalry from continuing the offensive. Machine guns and trenches have unrivaled defensive capabilities in this day and age, and the defenders are in a natural advantage. This is also one of the main reasons why the Jin State can survive behind the Jiliao defense line: if it weren't for the Ming Empire's several attacks and losses, Ye He Haolian, who was showing off his might in Jilin, would have been hanged at the gate of the Forbidden City.
"Jinzhou can no longer be taken, and we have lost at least 1,000 people in our attack here...... If you continue to fight, you will only increase the casualties, leaving the disabled soldiers, and the rest of the troops will retreat to Linghai. Todeltey heard his adjutant analyze the same way, and became even more convinced of his private judgment. If you attack a strongly fortified position, it is impossible for Jin to start a war with the Ming Dynasty, and it is the primary task to give up Jinzhou to preserve the existing strength, and if tens of thousands of troops are lost here, it will cut off the national fortune of Jin.
Todeltay was about to give the order to retreat when he saw an officer in the distance running in a panic, and even his steel helmet was gone. The other party's face was so smoky that it was hard to read, and he thought that he had experienced a lot of bad luck along the way. As he ran, he shouted at Todel Thai, "Oh no! Checkmate! Oh no! Checkmate! Something is wrong! ”
Feeling bad, afraid that the other party would shout something that should not be said, Todeltay, who had disturbed the morale of the army, wanted to speak out to stop the other party from continuing, but it was already too late. I only heard the other party running over while crying and mourning, and shouted: "General! An army of the Ming Empire has seized the baggage of the rearguard troops and is killing this side! ”