Chapter 107: The Fate of the Traitors
(Thanks to Gongsun Tang Shuyou for the reward)
The fire of Franco's cannons and muskets continued, and Jiannu's attack in the direction of the west gate was stubbornly resisted by the Ming army defending the city, but they attacked regardless of the cost, and finally achieved "results", and thousands of soldiers with slug shields still rushed to the bottom of the city.
At this time, the Francophone cannon in the city could no longer hit these Jiannu, they had already rushed past the latest firing range of the artillery, and Jiannu could also use bows and arrows to fight back at the Ming army on the city.
Of course, Jiannu would not let go of the opportunity to fight back, and Jiannu, who was hiding behind the shield, set up bows and arrows to shoot.
It's just that the accuracy of this shooting method is too poor, and the damage caused to the Ming army on the city is not great. In the first year of the Ming army, the artillery was still bombarding, and the targets of the artillery bombardment were the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Jurchen Eight Banners that followed the charge, and the shooting of muskets continued.
The muskets of the Ming army also did not shoot at the Jiannu who rushed to the city, which made the Jiannu who rushed to the city wall a little less stressed, but before they could set up the ladder, they threw down a bunch of black things from the city, which smashed on the shield and exploded after bouncing to the ground. This is a cluster grenade thrown by the Ming army. The power of a single grenade is not great, but the power of several bundles together is not ordinary.
The ladder that had been carried to the bottom of the city was blown up, the shield was also blown up, and Jiannu, who had escaped the fire of muskets and artillery, fell in pieces in the explosion of grenades. Soon, the arrows on the head of the city also shot down, and the grenades continued to be thrown down in piles, and most of the Jiannu, who were originally lucky to be lucky, were killed and injured on both sides of the moat.
Shang Kexi's favorite general, Ban Erfu, luckily escaped the fire of artillery and muskets, and led a group of personal soldiers to rush to the city, but the personal soldiers holding the oars and shields were soon blown up by a large area of grenades thrown from the city.
Ban Erfu was blown off a leg, and the two pro-soldiers immediately rushed up and raised the broken shield in their hands, but the grenade thrown down again exploded on their bodies, and the two pro-soldiers and the oars and shields in their hands were blown to pieces, and Ban Erfu was also blown up to a blur of flesh and blood, and he was killed.
Shang Kexi's two powerful generals, they slaughtered countless compatriots with their swords, and won the master's appreciation, but this time, the swords in their hands did not even have a chance to swing, and they did not even make contact with the opponent, and fell under the firearms of the Ming officials. They didn't blink to death, and whoever they were, never thought that their final outcome would be like this.
The dead are too sloppy to have a chance to play their riding and archery skills, and of course they don't blink to death.
However, any Jiannu would not have expected that under the leadership of Cao Yue, the development of firearms would be on the fast track, and the old combat mode would be eliminated by the times.
But now, they can only meet this bloody and brutal war in the same way.
Shang Kexi, under the escort of a group of personal guards armed with oars and shields, has been supervising the battle on the battlefield. Of course, he would not rush to the front, he and his guards had been hiding outside the range of the Franco's cannon, they believed that in this direction, there was no Ming army's red-coated cannon, as long as the Franco's cannon could not hit, it was a safe place.
Shang Kexi did not dare to rush to the front, for fear of being injured or killed by the artillery of the Ming army at the head of the city, but he did not dare to retreat too far behind, lest he be cut off by the angry Duoduo. Although he is the king of Zhishun, the gap between his status in the Jiannu country and the prince Duoduo is not one or two points, and the Jurchen is a Baylor or Beizi, and their status is far above them, so it can be said that they are just dog slaves with low status.
On the battlefield, if he didn't fight well, Duoduo could have killed him as a scapegoat, and no one would complain about him. After surrendering to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Shang Kexi had become a super slippery head, so after seeing with his own eyes Duoduo ordering the shooting of thousands of fleeing soldiers and horses, he no longer dared to fight, but vigorously ordered his men and horses to charge in the direction of Datong City.
Although Shang Kexi knew that when the Ming army's muskets could still be fired and the artillery was still bombarding, the Han army with blue flags under his leadership could only serve as cannon fodder and could not attack the head of Datong City, but he could only reluctantly order the sergeants to continue to die. This was the life of him and his soldiers, and from the day they decided to surrender to the Manchus, they had been unable to resist.
However, now Shang Kexi has some regrets, he knows best that the Ming army still has such combat effectiveness, he will never easily surrender to the Manchu Dynasty, he is because he saw that the Ming Mansion will fall, unable to resist the attack of Jiannu, and most of his family was captured and plundered by Jiannu, so he decided to surrender.
Shang Kexi originally had nearly 50,000 Han troops under his command, but later Dolgon forcibly asked for more than 10,000 men and horses to give to Geng Zhongming, who was almost wiped out, and now he has less than 40,000 horses. When the battle began, more than half of the men and horses were taken by Dolgon and attacked the east gate. Now Shang Kexi can command only more than 18,000 people, and the two rounds of attacks have almost been filled.
After two waves of impact, the two powerful generals should have died on the battlefield, and most of the nearly 10,000 horses and horses in the impact were also lost. This made Shang Kexi very heartbroken, without soldiers, he didn't even have the opportunity to be a dog for Jiannu. He was very aware of the importance of preserving strength, but he did not have the power to choose. He was very angry in his heart, but he had no choice but to order his men and horses to attack without their lives, and he hoped to attack Datong City by attacking regardless of casualties. As long as a part of the men and horses attack the head of Datong City, this battle will be easy to fight.
Just when Shang Kexi was furious and kept ordering the follow-up men and horses to continue to attack, the three red-coated cannons arranged at the head of the West Gate City opened fire. A cannonball hit Shang Kexi's vicinity, and a bunch of guards screamed again and again in the violent explosion, and were blown into the air, Shang Kexi was also swept off the war horse by the air current, and a sharp pain came, and he fell unconscious. One of his legs was cut off in half by shrapnel flying out at high speed, and the blood gushing out instantly stained the ground red.
The frightened guards rushed to the rescue, hurriedly bandaging Shang Kexi. One of the leaders of the soldiers immediately turned on his horse and ran back quickly, telling Dodor that Shang Kexi had been seriously injured and probably killed.
Most of the red-coated cannons in Datong City are arranged in the direction of the north gate, but the west gate and the east gate, which are very important, are also arranged with three and two respectively, because there are not many artillery, Zhao Liang wants to hit Jiannu by surprise, so he has not ordered to shoot with red-coated cannons. It was not until he saw that Jiannu had not only retreated, but had gathered more and more troops after suffering heavy losses, that he ordered the red-coated artillery to fire.
Unexpectedly, by mistake, Shang Kexi, a big traitor, was seriously injured, and Jiannu's front attackers lost their command!