Chapter 161: Houjin Elimination Battle (4)

At this moment, the artillery brigade has been transferred to the high ground with the large force.

The general who commanded this army was Sun Chuanting, who was originally a civilian official, but seeing that it was now in troubled times, he also threw his pen into Rong. After entering the army, it turned out that he had a great talent in using artillery, even surpassing the two abilities of military strategy and infantry command. Of course, it's not that it's bad, Sun Chuanting, a famous general at the end of the Ming Dynasty, can't fight, that's definitely a joke, it's just that his artillery talent is much higher than others.

Now, 5,000 artillery men were under his command, moving towards the high ground under the cover of the musketeers.

At this moment, there were bursts of shouts and killings from the side of the hills, but in a moment, the figures of more than 20 enemy cavalry were revealed and killed towards them. Because it was downhill and the other party was riding a horse, the distance between the two sides was quickly shortened in a very short time.

"Guy!" Sun Chuanting was not afraid, but silently raised the revolver in his hand.

Compared with him, the other dozen or so artillery pieces turned their muzzles for the first time and pointed directly at the more than 20 horsemen after the Golden Tartars.

"Bomb dropping!" When he saw the muzzle of the cannon turning towards them, Dai Shan immediately took out the grenade on his waist.

Both sides opened fire almost at the same time.

On the Ming army's side, they directly lit the fuse and directly shot out the steel balls in more than a dozen artillery; Houjin directly threw more than 20 grenades. In terms of power, the range and power of the grenade are a little more powerful, but the distance between the two sides is still so far away, and the actual damage that can be caused is not very large. But the artillery is a real long-range weapon, and firing marbles at this distance can already directly cause damage in a large area.

As a result, Dai Shan and the twenty cavalry behind him were instantly sieved, and Dai Shan's grenades caused the destruction of three artillery pieces to some extent, but for the whole it did not reach the level of breaking the muscles and bones.

Seeing the Houjin cavalry who were unwilling to die, Sun Chuanting was also relieved, and said secretly: Fortunately, in order to prevent such a situation, ten artillery pieces were pre-installed!

"Are you alright?" Man Gui was late, but in fact, he was less than twenty seconds late.

"There were no injuries, but there were still some casualties." Sun Chuanting said calmly, but there was a trace of dissatisfaction with Man Gui in his words.

"I'm sorry, but ten of them sacrificed their lives to blow up a passageway, causing the rest of them to break through in the midst of our surrounding." Man Gui had long been familiar with the Ming officialdom, but he instantly heard the dissatisfaction in Sun Chuanting's words.

"Forget it, let's not talk about that. Covering my ascent to the high ground, the defense on the right side of our army seems to be a little overwhelmed! Sun Chuanting didn't mean to continue to investigate, in fact, after checking the situation on the battlefield, it was not suitable for him to quarrel for the hour at this moment.

Besides, he also believed that these twenty people were able to break through as Man Gui said, and since it was not Man Gui's subjective fault, there was no need to pursue it.

Man Gui saw that Sun Chuanting had no intention of pursuing it, so he obediently acted as a guard, but in the remaining ten minutes, there was indeed no enemy behind him again, and in fact, Wu Sangui's people had completely filled this loophole.

But just as the group reached the high ground, an enemy unit broke through and killed them.

"Reload, the first series of shotshots! The second sequence is loaded with flower shells, and the enemy forces in front of them shoot freely! Sun Chuanting was not a vegetarian either, so he immediately gave an order.

The first sequence is a replica of the Napoleonic gun, which uses smokeless gunpowder, and the power of flat fire is farther than that of ordinary firearms, and it fires scattered bullets, and the strike range will not be weak; The second sequence is the mortar, which is actually an improved version of the Daming Tiger squat gun, which can hit the enemy in an arc.

The artillerymen may not have studied it specifically and did not know what ballistics is, but with experience, they quickly adjusted the muzzle of the gun, and even made a prediction, and then the first round of shooting began.

In the first round of shooting, before the Jin army itself reached the effective shooting range, it was directly shot through by the steel balls in the sky, and more than 50% of the soldiers in front of him almost all died in this attack. The second series of shells also arrived, perhaps relying on experience to aim, and the shells were scattered, but at least more than 50% fell into the enemy's position, killing 45% of the soldiers.

The remaining 5% were also quickly killed by the scout detachment led by Man Gui, in fact, even if they were alive, they were stunned by the aftermath of the cannon at this moment, and they were shot at the first time without resisting.

"The first sequence, loaded with flower shells, the first round of test firing from the enemy position in front of us! The second sequence, the first round of test firing from the enemy positions in the northwest! Seeing that the enemy had been resolved, Sun Chuanting gave the order for shelling.

The soldiers quickly refilled the gunpowder and ammunition, and began to adjust the angles.

"The gunpowder purchased by this pseudo-Qin is really amazing, not only is there no gunpowder smoke, but there is not even any residual dregs, and it can be reloaded directly after a shot, and the firing speed is equivalent to an increase of 20%!" Sun Chuanting looked at the soldiers who were busy and said to Man Gui beside him.

"It's a pity that I don't have the technology to produce this kind of gunpowder. I only know that one of the raw materials used is cotton, but I don't know how to make cotton into a viscous colloid. Man Gui also knew some of the inside story, and suddenly said with emotion.

"Alas, we are the ancestors of making gunpowder, but today's gunpowder is used in ornamental things such as fireworks. No one has studied how to increase the power of gunpowder, or develop more powerful gunpowder...... In the end, I am not as good as a local warlord! Sun Chuanting was a little depressed.

At this moment, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or other forces, they do not regard the Qin State as a country, but only as a warlord force. Therefore, even if Zhang Hongbin announced the founding of the country, in fact, it was still not recognized by anyone, and he only used the pseudo-Qin, or the Zhang warlords as a metaphor for the Great Qin. This kind of treatment can actually be counted on the Houjin, but now that Chongzhen admits that the Houjin is a country and launched a national war with it, then the international status of the Houjin is equivalent to being higher than that of Daqin.

Zhang Hongbin may not care about such a world status, after all, a country's power is built by itself, not by others. Even the American imperialists of later generations were originally just British colonies and exiles for British criminals, so when it comes to American imperialism, it is synonymous with hooligans and hillbillies, and is looked down upon by European countries. In such an environment, the US imperialists can grow step by step into a giant in later generations, so why can't Zhang Hongbin?

He will destroy the Ming Dynasty now, and by the way, he will occupy the Korean Peninsula, the Southeast Peninsula and the Japanese Islands, who else in the world dares to say that he is not orthodox?

Besides, Zhang Hongbin is also a serious 800 Chinese Miao descendant, a real son of the Han family, what is the regime established by the Chinese nation that is not the regime of the Chinese nation? !

"This needs to be accumulated slowly, in fact, our weapons have advanced first, and have surpassed the local forces. The most important thing is to take advantage of the fact that our technology is higher than some people, take the lead in expanding our territory and expand the access to resources, which is the problem we need to pay attention to at this stage. Man Gui said comfortingly.

"Yes...... Hehe, Houjin retreated! Sun Chuanting nodded, then looked at the battlefield and finally smiled.

Seeing that Da Ming had already gained a firm foothold on the high ground, he began to condescendingly shell them. At the same time, Wu Sangui's troops also began to try their best to penetrate into their camp to deal with their artillery, and the whole battle situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to their Houjin. Considering the gap between body armor and advanced gunpowder, even if Huang Taiji wanted to continue fighting, he had no way to fight.

Seeing Houjin retreating, Lu Xiangsheng naturally would not let go of this opportunity to beat the water dogs, chased and beat him fiercely, and actually captured all of Houjin's cannons for him. Although it is not advanced, it can be placed on top of the city as a defense, so I simply laughed at it.

Huang Taiji and the others retreated to a place thirty miles north of Dalinghe City at this moment, and only then did they begin to count the manpower.

The 50,000-strong army suddenly lost more than 27,000 and no artillery, and Jin Liguo had never been so broken. They also killed more than 8,000 soldiers of the Ming Dynasty on the battlefield, but compared to the previous casualty rate of 30 to 1, how can this result be satisfactory?

Zhang Hongbin...... Your ally is really incompetent! Huang Taiji returned to the tent and threw his hat directly on the ground.

In terms of gunpowder and armor, Houjin was weaker than Daming, and the source of the two hardly needed to think seriously to know where they came from. Therefore, what Huang Taiji hates most at the moment is not the military general of the Ming Dynasty, but Zhang Hongbin who is far away in Chang'an, Shaanxi.