Chapter 253: Death in progress

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In the Jiannu army's formation, there were stumps and broken arms everywhere, and in the bloody road that the shells rushed through, there were dead people who were beaten to pieces, and there were also wounded who wailed incessantly.

The wounded Jiannu who were hit by the shells, although they did not die for a while, obviously did not live long. But their miserable howl seriously affected the morale of Jiannu.

"Keep going." Dai Shan glanced back with some horror, and a cannonball had just rushed past him. On the spot, the five personal soldiers around him were bombarded into 'meat paste', and the artillery fire of the Ming army was so strong that it was beyond their imagination.

That's two miles away!

If you are attacking the city of the Ming Dynasty, it is naturally very normal to encounter such artillery, but those cannons are very bulky, and it is difficult to march with those cannons. Moreover, it is impossible for the cannonballs fired from the city to shoot out a line of damage in parallel, at most it is a ricochet.

"Command the Governor of the Army, and order the Banners to speed up and move on." Dai Shan gritted his teeth, stretched out his hand and waved forward, shouting hard. Die and die! Anyway, under the artillery, it will die quickly.

With such an idea, Dai Shan can be regarded as a free man.

He knew that this battle could only advance and not retreat, and this was the last chance for their Dajin Kingdom to turn the tables. The strength of the Ming army in Liaodong is getting stronger and stronger, and the firearms are becoming more and more sharp, if they cannot win a battle and annihilate a large number of Ming troops in one go, then they will not be able to recover the decline at all.

If he doesn't fight now, he won't be spared by returning the boar skin.

So Dai Shan could only grit his teeth, anyway, he was riding a horse, and maybe he could still run if he couldn't beat him, as long as he didn't get too unlucky and was hit by a cannonball.

Under the bombardment, there was a burst of confusion. It was quickly quelled. A large number of Jiannu continued to line up in a dense formation, speeding forward.

The Jiannu soldiers all quickened their pace, almost to the speed of walking out of 1.5 meters in a second, and their formation was about to be chaotic no matter how fast it was.

But even so, it would take them ten minutes to get close to the Ming army.

That's ten minutes!

A second round of shelling came again a minute later, this time with even more heavy damage. Another 144 ten-pound shells whizzed. Rampage again, breaking through a bloody path in the Jiannu army formation.

The Jiannu soldiers were panicked again, dodging around like headless flies, causing even more chaos than the first time.

All the Jiannu soldiers saw the terrifying lethality of those shells, and many of these Jiannu soldiers were uneducated, or even most of them were uneducated. Many of them were newly captured Haixi Jurchens, and they didn't know what artillery was at all.

Not to mention that their dodging may not be useful. Because when the shells come in, they simply have no way to prevent it.

If you say howitzers. There may still be sounds when the shells are landing. But they were faced with cannons, and the shells flew at a relatively low altitude, and they could not hear the sound until they got closer, and it was basically too late by then. If you can hit them, you can't dodge, and if you can't beat them, there's no need to dodge.

However, most of the Jiannu soldiers did not know this truth, and when they saw the cannonballs coming, they did not know that they would lie down on the ground and avoid the cannonballs, because no one had taught them this at all.

It is absolutely impossible for wild boar skins to popularize this common sense in the army. When the shell hits, it lies on the ground, so how can it fight?

In this era, there was no automatic rifle, submachine gun, machine gun firepower. The skirmish tactic is to fight the streets. If you want to win the war, you must adopt a dense formation.

The chaos greatly affected the speed of the Jiannu soldiers, and the Jiannu of the Overseers were also frightened by the cannonballs. Immediately afterwards, he directly pulled out a knife and slashed at the Jiannu soldiers who were running around, completely ignoring what it meant to lead by example.

When the Overseer's Jiannu reluctantly suppressed the chaos and restored order. Jian Minion began to move on.

After another minute, there was another roar from the artillery positions of the Ming army.

144 field guns opened fire one after another, and the shells hit the Jiannu army again in waves, and the lethality became stronger again, a parallel flying shell. After directly penetrating thirty-five people in the Jiannu army formation, it turned into a ricochet, and two more people were stoned to death while bouncing on the ground.

At the moment of this shelling, Jiannu at the front was not stupid, and as soon as he saw the white gunpowder smoke rising from the artillery position of the Ming army in the distance, he immediately lay on the ground.

The fact that the wild boar skin is not taught does not mean that some Jiannu soldiers can't think of this method. Some people have better brains, they themselves are at the front, and after two shelling periods, they can figure out how the shells are killed. They threw themselves on the ground, and it worked.

But the Jiannu in the back were miserable, and they didn't have time to lie on the ground. This kind of behavior suddenly made Jiannu's formation even more chaotic.

Dai Shan was really dumbfounded this time, he really didn't know how to continue to command.

Moving on? Send them to death!

Before he even reached the side of the Ming army, he was already beaten like this, and there was no way to continue fighting. Dai Shan finally recognized the fact that their Dajin Kingdom was no longer able to confront the Ming army after this battle. With its sharp artillery, the Ming army was able to play them to death.

"The Great Khan has an order, keep going." At this moment, a group of cavalry came running quickly, and these cavalry quickly dispersed, and everyone held high the command flag and shouted orders around the military array. This order also reached Dai Shan's hand, Dai Shan glanced back with some despair, and shouted helplessly: "Keep going!" ”

This is the rhythm of sending to death.

The wild boar skin behind looked at the Ming army formation filled with gunpowder smoke with an expressionless face, and in the gunsmoke, the Ming army's formation loomed.

Despite the expressionlessness on his face, the boarskin's face twitched slightly involuntarily.

He didn't know that this was sending people to death.

But he has no more choices, this battle cannot be won, his prestige will inevitably plummet, and once he retreats to a cold place, the Dajin Kingdom, which has been winning before, is suddenly defeated, then the result is fragmentation, and there may even be internal strife.

Rather than that, then they can only send a wave of heads.

But the wild boar skin did not give up, he let the 60,000 infantry army go to the back of the death, but also intended to do the last fight, pinning his hope on the Ming army to defeat his 60,000 infantry army will not be able to help but pursue vigorously, thus causing chaos in the formation, he led 30,000 cavalry to fish in troubled waters, the Ming army rushed to the ground, and completed a gorgeous turn.

In this way, even the internal strength that has hidden dangers is consumed, and there is also a decent defeat. Even, there are still some dreams in the heart of the wild boar skin, that is, after ending the commander of the Ming army, causing chaos in the front and rear of the Ming army, and then repeating the process of the battle of Salhu, the Ming army will be broken one by one. (To be continued......)