Chapter 209: Returning with a Feather
Amin is a person who is not willing to fail, after the dawn, 30,000 Qing soldiers surrounded the Namhan Mountain Fortress again, but today Amin has changed his tricks, he has arranged the heavy troops at the north gate, and the remaining three city gates only leave a symbol of the surname of the containment troops.
In the morning, the Qing army's attack began, led by thousands of infantry soldiers, who slowly pressed towards the north gate under the cover of more than two hundred shield carts.
This kind of thick-skinned shield cart has always been the most hated by the defenders of the city, and Pang Gang is naturally no exception.
After putting down the clairvoyant mirror, Pang Gang asked the captain of the personal soldiers beside him with a calm face: "Cheng Kai, have all those artillery pieces been installed?" ”
"My lord, the artillery was installed last night, but it may take about an hour for the artillery transferred from the other gates to reach the north gate." Cheng Kai replied calmly on the side.
"Hmph, the daylilies are cold in an hour." Pang Gang shook his head: "Leave him alone, order all artillery to fire immediately." ”
"Boom, boom, boom" With an order, the twelve Franc machine guns deployed at the north gate immediately began to roar, and one by one the iron pellets crossed a beautiful arc and flew to a place hundreds of steps ahead.
"Bang bang!"
An iron pellet weighing several catties was driven by black powder and struck on a shield cart made of thick logs like an adult's arm, and the shield cart that originally seemed to be solid made a loud noise, and then dozens of logs splashed everywhere under the impact of the iron pellet, and several Qing soldiers next to them fell to the ground after being hit by the flying logs, and as soon as the shield cart fell apart, dozens of Qing soldiers who were originally hiding behind were immediately revealed.
"Well played! Keep launching! Seeing the results of the first round of shelling, although Pang Gang was very relieved, he also felt a little helpless about the artillery of this era.
The shells of this era were either solid or scattered, although there were also flowering shells, but the cost was high, and the technology was relatively rough, so it was too early to apply them on a large scale.
Under the desperate advance of the Qing soldiers, the dense Qing soldiers rushed over with shields and the threat of artillery, and many of them also carried ladders and followed the shield cart to charge with those vests and infantry armor.
Looking at the Qing soldiers in front of them, Li Liang and his wife, who were watching the battle in the city tower, were so frightened that their faces were colorless.
Li Wei held Concubine Xian's hand tightly and asked in horror: "Ai Ai Concubine, why are there so many Qing soldiers, can General Pang be able to hold it?" ”
Although Concubine Xian was also frightened, she was a little stronger than Li Liang, and she comforted: "Your Highness, don't worry, General Pang is Xuezhu's husband, and he will definitely have a way to defend the city." ”
Seeing the dense Qing soldiers rushing up, Pang Gang silently calculated the distance between the two sides, and waited until the Qing soldiers advanced to about two hundred steps away from the city before he ordered loudly: "Riflemen prepare, target, Qing troops carrying ladders, shoot freely!" ”
"Bang Bang Bang"
As the order was given, the gunfire on the city wall began to resound, and as soon as the guns rang out, the tartars carrying the ladder were unlucky, and under the aim of more than 1,500 riflemen, the auxiliaries carrying the ladder were shot and fell to the ground, and a howl sounded on the battlefield.
"Hit, hit me hard! Don't let those cloud-resistant Tartars get close to the walls! In a corner of the northern city wall, Li Yuan brandished a Mini rifle while ordering the riflemen to continue firing, and in front of them lay the bodies of hundreds of Qing army auxiliaries.
"Brothers, work hard, as long as you finish beating the Tartars, you will definitely not be less rewarded with silver!" Li Yuan encouraged the sergeants and encouraged everyone constantly.
Just when the Qing army risked artillery fire to attack the city wall, Amin who was standing behind and watching the battle was also grim, although he had seen the power of the Mini rifle yesterday, but when the Ming army relied on the strong city wall to hide behind the battlements and shoot calmly, the power they could exert was increased geometrically. In the continuous and crisp sound of gunfire, the warriors who were besieging the city fell to the ground one after another.
Seeing this, Shuo Tuo on the side hurriedly reported: "Erbeile, the firearms of the Ming army are too sharp, our shields can't resist it at all, and our warriors have suffered too many casualties, so let's order them to withdraw first." ”
Amin gritted his teeth, shook his head and said, "No, the attack can't be stopped, if you withdraw the troops now, the blood of the warriors will be shed in vain, no matter what, you have to try to attack once." Command the archers to follow, and be sure to cover the warriors as they climb the walls. ”
"Scum!" When Shuoto saw that Amin had made up his mind, he stopped dissuading him.
The Qing army paid the price of nearly 2,000 men to rush under the city wall, but when they began to erect the ladders, they found that only a few dozen of the original hundreds of ladders could be transported under the city walls, and the rest of the ladders were left behind with the death of those auxiliaries.
"Damn it!" One of the leading Niu Lu cursed secretly and shouted loudly: "The warriors of the Qing Dynasty, follow me to the city wall to kill the enemy." ”
After saying that, Niu Lu pinned the long knife in his hand to his waist, and the shield in his hand was the first to start climbing upward, he just climbed two steps, but found that several black things the size of a fist fell from his head, and after falling to the ground, not only white smoke but also made a "snort" sound.
"Huh! What is this. ”
"Boom Boom"
Before the Niu Lu could figure out what was going on, the black stuff suddenly exploded. Countless pieces of iron and the shock wave from the explosion knocked Niu Lu and a dozen Qing soldiers around him to the ground.
Sudden explosions rang out one after another, blasting hundreds of people who were about to climb the city walls.
"What the hell is going on, what kind of weapon are those deceitful Ming dogs using?" Amin, who was stunned from behind, couldn't help but be furious.
In fact, this kind of black explosives is the grenade that later generations are familiar with, but the grenade used by the Ming army at this time is the most primitive one, that is, it is made of two to three millimeters thick iron sheet into a cylinder, and then inserted into the fuse, ignited with an open flame and thrown out as a grenade to let it explode, to put it bluntly, it is a cannon battle, the only difference from ordinary artillery is that the artillery battle made by Qingzhou is not wrapped in colored paper but replaced with iron sheet, because the sound he makes is particularly huge, Therefore, there are no sergeants who call it earth-shaking thunder.
This primitive grenade is simple to make and convenient for mass production, Pang Gang had ordered Lingshanwei's military workshop to produce tens of thousands of them some time ago, and now they have all been brought to North Korea by Pang Gang. Moreover, some black-bellied Pang Gang specially ordered the blacksmith to draw a series of crossing lines on the bomb body when casting these shells, which is more conducive to the uniform dispersion of shrapnel after the explosion.
With a dull explosion sounded, the Qing soldiers who were landing in the city were blown up, and countless Qing soldiers were blown up, although the Qing soldiers were covered with heavy armor, but the flying shnelage still mercilessly passed through their armor, resolutely piercing their fragile **, and some unlucky soldiers were blown off their legs, so they had to lie on the ground and wail loudly.
Da Zhuang put a fuse that shook the sky and thunder next to the torch and lit it, and then threw it out casually, only to hear a loud "boom", and several Qing soldiers who were desperately rushing forward with shields were blown aside after the explosion.
"Haha!" Seeing the Qing soldiers who were blown up and their flesh and blood were lying on the ground and wailing continuously, Da Zhuang felt an indescribable joy in his heart, and he still had to rise, and he took out two earth-shaking thunderbolts from the box under his feet, put them on the torch and lit them and then went down.
Seeing this, a hundred households beside Da Zhuang grabbed Da Zhuang and persuaded: "My lord, you can't throw it anymore, there aren't many sky-shaking thunders we brought, and if we continue like this, the sky-shaking thunder will soon run out!" ”
"Uh, look at my pig brain!" Da Zhuang patted his head, and hurriedly shouted to the sergeant: "Okay, don't do it, this thing is reserved for life-saving use, save some use, and use a gun for Lao Tzu." ”
Due to the stubborn resistance of the riflemen, very few Qing soldiers could climb the city wall, and even those who could barely climb the city wall would be hacked to death by the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers who had an absolute advantage in numbers. And the Korean soldiers, who hated the Qing soldiers to the core, also stripped the corpses of the Qing soldiers who had been killed and threw them off the city walls. Seeing that the companions who climbed the city wall were killed and still suffered this kind of insult, the Qing soldiers who were besieging the city were so angry that they lost their minds and squeezed into a pile and climbed up frantically under the city wall, but their actions were clearly seen by the condescending Ming army, and whenever they saw the Qing soldiers crowded into a pile, they would endure one or several earth-shattering thunders in time to blow them up into a blur.
Seeing that the attack was blocked, Amin's brows furrowed into a Sichuan character, the same city wall, and the difficulty of the attack increased exponentially after changing the handles of different defenders. Before the warriors of the Qing Dynasty could even start climbing the city wall, they suffered thousands of casualties, a staggering casualty figure that even the always brutal Amin felt a little unbearable.
Shuoto couldn't stand it anymore, and he stepped forward again to admonish: "Erbeyler, we can't fight like this anymore, even if we can defeat Namhansan Fortress like this, our blood will be drained." It doesn't matter whether you can capture this city or not, these warriors are the foundation of our Qing Dynasty! ”
"Hey" Amin sighed and closed his eyes in pain, his original intention in launching this battle today was only to consume the ammunition of the Ming army, but he didn't expect that in the end it was the lives of the Qing warriors who were consumed, if it went on like this, I am afraid that the ammunition of the Ming army has been exhausted, he does not know, but the army under the city will definitely be lost.
"Retreat!" Amin waved his hand weakly, he knew that he was going to be sad in the next day
(To be continued)