Chapter Seventy-Three: The Bloody Battle at the Head of the City (2)
Under this round of sudden artillery bombardment by the Ming army, the Jiannu were caught off guard and suffered heavy losses, they really did not expect that the Ming army would use artillery at such a distance regardless of their own casualties. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
But at this time, after all, most of the people who climbed the city were Manchurian Jiannu, who were much stronger than the green battalion soldiers in terms of ferocity and reaction speed, although they were beaten to the flesh and blood for a while, but they quickly recovered from the panic, and rushed towards the Ming army that had retreated to both ends of the city, and those Jiannu who were ready to open the city gate also began to pour onto the road.
"Boom!" "Boom!" …… At this moment, on the second city wall, the exterminator cannon and tiger squat cannon of Ganzhou Town opened fire again. Of course, it is impossible for artillery to be reloaded so fast. As early as before the first round of shelling, the artillery team of Ganzhou Town divided all the exterminators and tiger squat guns into two groups to achieve continuous firing. At this moment, the Jiannu who thought they were safe miscalculated again, and fell down a large number of pieces screaming.
As soon as the cannon fell, the Ming musketeers on the second city wall also opened fire with flintlock muskets. For a while, the continuous gunshots rushed straight into people's eardrums, and the blood flowers bloomed extraordinarily gorgeously. Because the terrain of the second wall was higher than that of the first wall, the Jiannu who were in a pile and had no cover became the best target for the Ming army's musketeers, who did not need to aim at all, and they could not use their advantages to effectively fight back with bows and arrows. Although many of the Jiannu were experienced in a hundred battles, they could only be temporarily reduced to the meat of the case and slaughtered by the Ming army, and they had no power to fight back. Some of the Jiannu soldiers tried to fight back with bows and arrows, but found that they didn't work at all.
Panic, grievance, anger...... All kinds of feelings intertwined in the hearts of the slaves, causing them to let out a hysterical roar, like a beast falling into a pit. After so many battles, when did they suffer from this kind of pain when they could not fight back? Once "invincible", but now it has fallen into such a field, this huge gap is really maddening!
At the same time, most of the Jiannu soldiers who tried to rush down the road to open the city gate were not spared, and they were killed on the road. Many unwilling Jiannu continued to rush downward, but under the intensive fire of the musketeers in Ganzhou Town, almost no one could rush down the city, and the fallen corpses were covered with layers of the entire horse road. Even if a few Jiannu rushed down, they didn't expect that there was still an ambush in the Ming army in the city gate, and they were wiped out by the Ming army with only one face.
Under the strong sense of depression, almost all of the Jiannu fell into madness, let out bursts of beast-like roars, wrapped in a little cold light, and rushed towards the Ming army at both ends of the city wall, as if they would not stop until they tore the Ming army to pieces.
The soldiers of Ganzhou Town on the first city wall retreated along both sides, naturally not because they were afraid of Jiannu, but in order to turn more Jiannu into targets for robes on the second city wall. Now that this goal has been achieved, they did not retreat, but with iron shields in front and pikemen and archers behind, they resisted the already insane Jiannu to the death.
For a while, the hand-to-hand combat, the cold light flashed, and the flying blood rain was accompanied by bursts of shouts, which was particularly moving. The combat effectiveness of Jiannu under the madness should not be underestimated, and the huge momentum was like a flood flowing down from the high mountains to smash the shield wall of the Ming army.
This can be said to be the first time since the opening of Ganzhou Town that it fought face-to-face with Manchurian Jiannu. Compared with the experienced Jiannu, the soldiers of the Gangfeng Battalion are mostly some recruits, although they have experienced several battles, the battlefield experience is still relatively lacking, and facing the extremely vicious Jiannu at such a close distance, everyone is somewhat nervous.
At this time, the effect of the soldiers' usual hard training also appeared. In addition to paying attention to strengthening individual tactical movements, the usual training in Ganzhou Town pays more attention to collective cooperation, although moves such as slashing and stabbing seem simple, but after being transformed into the common actions of the whole collective, the power will increase explosively. In this way, the whole team is like a fighting machine, and when the machine is fully activated, those negative emotions such as panic will quickly be replaced by calm and even excitement. …,
"Kill!! - "In the midst of the loud cheers, the soldiers of Ganzhou Town sent out their spears through the gaps in their shields as they usually did during training, and a little cold light brought a call from hell to the screaming Jiannu.
With a series of frightening crisp sounds and splashes of blood, the imposing and vengeful Jiannu were suddenly stabbed over, and went to see the shaman with an extremely unwilling expression. At the same time, the archers after the pikemen also began to rain arrows at the Jiannu, greatly increasing the killing effect.
The Jiannu in front continued to come down, and the follow-up Jiannu still rushed towards the Ming army with a fierce momentum and stepped on the corpses of their companions, but they were still counterattacked by the thunderous counterattack of the Ming soldiers, and it was difficult to advance half a step further despite all their strength.
After a few rounds, a few doubts gradually surfaced on the originally hideous faces of the Jiannu: What kind of Ming army is this? Why are they still able to deal with it calmly after fighting so bravely? Why didn't they break up like the rest of the Ming army?
As time passed, the situation of the Jiannu became more and more dire. Originally, they were still excited that they had made it to the south gate of the town, but soon they realized that they had been completely wrong. The road at both ends of the first city wall has been completely blocked by the Ming army, but the Ming musketeers on the second city wall have been shooting at this side unscrupulously, and the dense and unwieldy Jiannu who can't be used for half a day makes the Ming musketeers almost close their eyes to hit. At this time, Jiannu's artillery was useless, and if you insisted on firing, it would be a trivial matter if you couldn't hit the Ming army, and it would be counterproductive to hit your own people.
What is it like that the invincible Manchurian Jiannu was pressed in the middle and slaughtered by the musketeers? Oh, like minced meat in a burger! The Jiannu probably didn't expect that they would die so aggrieved, right? On the second city wall, Pang Yue sneered a few times, and said silently in his heart: Although Manchurian Jiannu fought fiercely, after all, the number of people was limited and the replenishment was slow, and this way of fighting was the best way to damage their vitality. If Jiannu has been refusing to retreat, he is completely willing to accompany him.
Under the city, Tulai's face became more and more grim, although he couldn't fully see the specific situation in the city, but he could also know from the various Jiannu banners that did not move for a long time: his people were completely suppressed by the Ming army. Moreover, the earth-shattering cannon sound, the continuous screams, and the corpses of Jiannu who fell from the city from time to time made it even more difficult for him to calm down: these are all warriors who are good at fighting in the flag! It's not comparable to the cannon fodder of the Green Battalion that can be replenished at any time. If it is all gone, the foundation on which it stands will be shaken. Yes, the battle is like this, is it possible that the Ming army in the city is not three-headed and six-armed? !
"Lord Turai! Let the last general take the camp of Bayala up! Seeing that Jiannu, who had ascended to the top of the city, he could not open the situation for a long time, so he came to Turai to ask for war.
There are a total of four or five hundred soldiers, all of whom are strictly selected and good at fighting, and they belong to the standing army in the banner, and their combat effectiveness is stronger than that of ordinary Manchurian bannermen. This is also the capital that Durde has always been proud of, and he firmly believes that as long as he takes the Bayara battalion up, he will definitely be able to tear apart the defense line of the Ming army.
After staring at the city for a while, Turai finally nodded and said in a deep voice: "Okay, it's just that Minggou's firearms are very good, you have to be careful!" ”
"Huh!" Dürde took the order with a look of excitement.