Chapter 1051: Fire Cover

readx; Zhu Youzhen's worries finally became a reality. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Although the Qing army's Hongyi cannon was extremely accurate, the range was there, and finally one shot hit the city wall, knocking down a large part of the city wall, causing nearly twenty Ming soldiers on the city wall to fall from the city.

Zhu Youzhen hurriedly ordered people to rescue the Ming army who was crushed under the city bricks, but he couldn't bear it anymore and trotted all the way to the city.

At this time, the Han army banner under the city had suffered heavy casualties, but when he suddenly saw that a large piece of the city was collapsed, he immediately came to his senses as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and began to attack desperately. The car, which had been blocked by the fire for a while, also began to move slowly; The Mongolian Eight Banners behind the Han Army Banner also sent a small team of cavalry to break through dozens of steps away from the city wall under the strict order of Mang Gurtai, and struggled to release arrows at the head of the city. For a time, the defensive pressure of the Ming army increased greatly!

At this time, Zhu Youzhen realized the rapid changes of the war. He and other generals had repeatedly discussed and formulated several sets of battle plans, and felt that it was completely possible for troops to block and water to cover up. Unexpectedly, the Qing army actually pulled artillery, which was completely unexpected by Zhu Youzhen, and of course he did not prepare any corresponding combat plan.

But now there is no time to review, Zhu Youzhen hurriedly glanced at the city, and then said to Xie Sheng and Meng Gong, who were commanding the battle: "It's not a way to go on like this, you two come here, let's quickly discuss a way to solve it!" ”

At this time, Yuan Keli also ran up, and the four of them entered the city tower to hold an emergency meeting. The enemy situation is clear: the biggest threat to the enemy army now is the six Hongyi cannons. As long as the cannons are knocked out, the Qing army still has nothing to do, because they only have those six cannons. But the cannon was three miles away, and although the artillery had been aiming and firing, it had not hit so far, because the error was too great.

Xie Sheng thought for a moment and said, "There are only two countermeasures now. One is to continue to fight the Tartars until their cannons are destroyed. But it will definitely take a long time, and during this time, the city walls will definitely be hit, which will be very detrimental to our army, so it is the next policy! ”

"What about the best policy?" Zhu Youzhen asked anxiously.

"Get out of town!" Xie Sheng resolutely said, "Although the number of enemy troops engaged in the attack is large, most of them are infantry troops, not the main force of the Tartars, and their artillery is even more inaccurate. If we take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness and suddenly rush out with an infantry formation to cover the advance of three long-range guns to about one hundred and fifty paces, the accuracy can be greatly improved. As long as there are two volleys at most, the final general will be sure to knock out the Tartar's cannon, otherwise he will be willing to be a military order! ”

"Thisβ€”" Zhu Yu hesitated when he boarded up. In fact, as soon as he heard Xie Sheng's words, he knew that this was the only feasible plan; But this plan is also very risky, because there are tens of thousands of enemy troops outside! If there are too few soldiers, it will definitely not work, and it will not be able to complete the task of covering the artillery; But the more you go out, the chance of being hit by enemy artillery will increase dramatically, which is really a dilemma...

At this time, the Ming army was in a commotion again, and it turned out that the latest artillery shell from the Qing army almost hit the city wall. Zhu Youzhen must make a decision, because the city wall is the biggest barrier that the Ming army relies on to hold, and if he doesn't do anything, the morale of the defenders will fall into a trough!

Yuan Keli interjected at this time: "When the two armies fight, there is no perfect strategy. The minister thought that what General Xie said was feasible, but His Majesty had already broken it! ”

"Bang!"

Zhu Youzhen finally slammed his fist on the table and said: "Just use the second plan to win, and you must destroy the enemy artillery as soon as possible!" How many troops are you going to use to get out of the city? ”

"It doesn't take too much, just one hundred and fifty shield soldiers, and three hundred bird guns." Xie Sheng said confidently, "As long as there is sufficient fire cover in the city and the Tartars are suppressed for a short time, the task will soon be able to be withdrawn." ”

"The last general personally led the troops out of the city!" Meng Gong jumped up and yelled.

Zhu Youzhen gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! Meng Gong led the assault team, and Xie Sheng was responsible for directing the fire cover at the head of the city, and acted immediately! ”

The second general immediately took the order and left. After a short time, except for the three Hongyi cannons that continued to aim at the target and fired, all the free guns and rapid-fire guns were lined up at the head of the city, and the ammunition was filled; Bird-gunners and archers also took their positions at the risk of being hit by shells.

Xie Sheng raised his sword high and shouted: "All the troops obey the order: use maximum firepower to shoot at the enemy within 200 steps in front of Yongding Gate and within 50 zhang wide. Put! ”

"Knock knock!" The free cannon and rapid-fire cannon were the first to speak, but this time they were full of firepower, and dozens of reddish iron bullets immediately roared out of the cannon chamber and blasted towards the Qing army's chariot at a distance of about 200 paces.

Originally, the Qing army had invested 20 wagons in this attack, but so far 10 have been destroyed. The remaining ten vehicles were hesitant at first, but later found that the target of the Ming army's Hongyi artillery was not them, and the other artillery did not fire for a long time, and they thought that it might be that the Ming army was short of ammunition, so they began to advance again. In order to speed up, these ten cars are almost in unison, occupying about fifty zhang of space.

At this moment, the large and small artillery at the head of the city opened fire at the same time! Although it cannot be said to be "ten thousand artillery bombardments", it is definitely the first time in the eastern battlefield of this era. The gunners of the Ming army had long been uncomfortable, and before this round of salvos, they concentrated their whole energy on adjusting the angle of the artillery. Therefore, these dozens of solid iron bullets were extremely accurate, and there were many of them, and they all bombarded the trucks, and the ten cars were smashed when they boarded!

The Qing army was shocked by this sudden bombardment, and before they came to their senses, the city was already full of gunfire, and thousands of arrows were fired! At this time, it was no longer possible to distinguish the "bang" sound of individual bird guns, because the dense gunfire like bursting beans had already sounded into a field, and the rain of bullets was sprinkled on the enemy like a scoop!

At the same time, countless sharp arrows also fell towards the Qing army like a vast net, which was also mixed with thousands of rockets like fire dragons! It turned out that in order to provide sufficient fire cover, Xie Sheng's engineer ordered all the cluster rockets to be released at once. The flight speed of the rocket is much faster than that of ordinary arrows, and the sound of breaking the sky is even more sharp, and you don't even need to really shoot the ** of the Qing soldiers, only the terrifying howling sound has made the Qing soldiers completely frightened!

In the face of the sudden "big outburst" of the Ming army, it is impossible for anyone with normal intelligence to stop in place and wait for death. The flag soldiers of the Han army, who were originally hiding behind the car, suddenly had no cover, and at this time, what "advance but no retreat" and "violator beheaded" were all bullshit to them, because if they didn't run away, they would immediately be shot into a hedgehog by the rain of arrows, beaten into a sieve by the rain of bullets, and bombarded into a pulp by cannonballs!

And the Mongols, who dared to break through to within dozens of paces just now, ran faster than the Han army banner!

At this moment, the thick door of Yongding Gate suddenly opened!

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