After finishing speaking, the order to open the cannon roared out of the mouth of the military department Shangshu.

Then, the sharp whistling of shells began to sound on the battlefield.

Compared with the gunners on the Tartar artillery positions who had not been trained for a long time, these gunners from the border army were undoubtedly much more powerful.

Of the 100 flowering shells, nearly half of them were directly smashed on the Tartar artillery positions or next to the artillery positions......

In the explosion of these flowering shells, the four red-coated cannons were directly blown to the ground, and the long barrels were also bent or directly blown into twists.

Of course, this is only a small part of the results achieved by dozens of flowering shells.

Compared with directly blowing up the redcoat cannon, the flowering shell has almost no defense on the battlefield, and the lethality of the Tartar gunner is obviously much greater.

On the artillery position of Nuoda, wherever the artillery shells of the officers and soldiers went, without exception, there would be a burst of miserable screams.

At this time, if the commander-in-chief of this artillery is Wei Zheng, he will definitely order the gunners to withdraw from the battlefield without hesitation. Take advantage of the gap between the opposing gunner's reloading, abandon the red-coat cannon and keep the precious gunner.

Because, in Wei Zheng's eyes, a skilled gunner who has been trained for a long time is much more valuable than a redcoat cannon. The redcoat cannon is gone, and it can be cast by itself right away. In this way, it only takes a very short time for him to form a new artillery team, and the combat effectiveness of the artillery team will not be worse than before.

If there are no skilled gunners, it means that it will take a year, if not years, to retrain a group of equally skilled gunners.

But. That's the case. Even if he kept the redcoat cannon. In the absence of skilled gunners, their own artillery team will also be in name only, unable to form combat effectiveness and conduct battles.

However, the commander of the artillery team that was shelled was not Wei Zheng, but Tartar......

In the eyes of these Tartars, they think exactly the opposite. As for the reason, it's very simple. That is, the Houjin Tartar does not have enough ability to build a redcoat cannon. In the eyes of the Tartars, these red-coated cannons in front of them are treasures, treasures that are much more important than the gunners.

So, at the very first moment of shelling, the gunners on the Tartar artillery positions reacted with shock. When they reacted from the shock, the second round of flowering bullets fired by the officers and soldiers had already reached their heads.

At the same time, the surviving officers in the artillery corps, like angry lions, command the remaining subordinates around them. Transfer artillery.

But artillery weighing thousands of pounds. Is it so easy to transfer.

Just when the Tartars were disregarding the transfer of the red-coated cannons, the officers and soldiers in Beijing were not idle. Round after round of flowering shells, as if they didn't want money, they desperately smashed into the Tartar artillery positions outside the city.

When the shelling ended, the sound of artillery stopped, and the smoke that enveloped the battlefield slowly dissipated. A very bloody and tragic picture appeared directly in front of both the enemy and the enemy.

The artillery position, which gathered fifty cannons in red, except for thirteen in which was located on the edge of the position, was successfully transferred. The remaining artillery, all destroyed.

Of course, on the artillery position of Nuoda, in addition to the barrels of the red-coated cannons that were blown into various shapes, as far as the eye can see, there are at most all kinds of corpses that have been blown up by flowering shells, and stumps and broken arms can be seen everywhere......

Just when the Tartar commander looked at the artillery position with a stunned face and couldn't say a word for a long time. There were many wounds on his body that were blown up by flowering shells, and the commander of the artillery team with a black face ran in front of the main general like a lost dog.

Then, as if he had been wronged, he knelt directly in front of the main general and cried: "General, it's over, the artillery team is over...... Of the fifty red-coated cannons, only thirteen were left. There are more than 500 gunners, and there are less than 50 people who can continue to fight...... General, you must avenge the minions, avenge the brothers who died as slaves, if it weren't for the minions desperately rescuing these red-coated cannons, the entire artillery team would have been wiped out, they all ......died for the Houjin Kingdom, and they all died for the Houjin Kingdom."

After listening to the cry of the commander-in-chief of the artillery team in front of him, the anger that he was about to vent on him just now disappeared completely.

Because, what the commander-in-chief of the artillery team in front of him said is not wrong at all, what they are doing now is for the sake of the Houjin country. According to the military regulations of the Houjin Army, not only can they not be punished, but also rewarded.

In this case, the commander of the Houjin Army can only transfer the target of venting to the officials and soldiers in the city.

After waving his hand to the commander of the artillery team in front of him, he said with a gloomy face: "Your cousin, the general has seen it...... Ben promises that he will use the defenders' heads to avenge you. ”

After speaking, he ordered directly to the front subordinates: "Artillery team, temporarily withdraw from the battle...... The musketeers, immediately launched a feint attack on the city walls. A thousand cavalry troops, following closely behind the musketeers, threw arrows at the walls. The artillery of the Han people is indeed powerful, but the warriors of the Jin Kingdom after me are not vegetarians. Today, the general is going to use the cavalry that the warriors are good at to kill and injure them in large numbers, so that the Han people in the city will be frightened and afraid when they see me......"

As soon as the commander's order was given, two thousand musketeers who had completed their assembly rushed out.

In the face of such a quick reaction from the Tartars, Zhang Qianshu did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly ordered the defenders to fire all kinds of artillery on the city wall.

For a while, the battlefield, which had been quiet for less than half an hour, was once again shrouded in the roaring sound of artillery.

Round flowering shells, swarthy solid shells, scattered bullets...... As if he didn't want money, he flew out of the city.

However, to Zhang Qianshu's surprise, his heavy artillery bombardment did not bring much damage to the two thousand musketeers.

You must know that these two thousand musketeers are all from the Han Eight Banners, and almost all the officers at all levels of the Han Eight Banners are from the former Ming generals of Jin after surrender.

As the commander of the most elite army of the Ming Dynasty, they can be said to have long known the various tactics and tactics of the Ming official army. Under such circumstances, the musketeers they trained were of course very aware of how to defend themselves against the shelling of the imperial court officers on the battlefield.

Therefore, the two thousand musketeers who rushed to Beijing did not gather all their brains together as before. Instead, they were in teams of ten and a hundred in groups, and they rushed towards the city wall in a very scattered manner.

In this way, the artillery fixed on the city wall, it is difficult to adjust the direction of the muzzle, and it can only be fixed in one direction, causing some negligible casualties to the attacking troops outside the city.

In this way, the two thousand musketeers rushed all the way to a hundred paces outside the city, and lost less than three hundred men.

Faced with this situation, Zhang Qianshu showed a shocked expression on his face, and at the same time, he ordered loudly: "Musketeer, musketeer shoot immediately, and never let the Tartars get close to the city wall......"

As a result, the dense and dull sound of gunfire, like firecrackers, rang out on the city walls.

However, the distance of 100 paces is obviously more than the range of the muskets equipped by the imperial court. Although the lead bullets fired by the officers and soldiers were dense, they did not cause the slightest damage to the musketeers outside the city.

It wasn't until Han Baqi rushed to a distance of eighty paces that someone began to be hit by lead bullets and fell on the way to the charge.

But at this time, the musketeers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty could also use the muskets in their hands to shoot the officers and soldiers on the city wall. Because, Houjin Tartar also bought a lot of inferior quality Suifa muskets from the Haw Par Army.

However, in the case of geographical advantages, military superiority. For every soldier killed in the city's defenders, they were able to eliminate at least two Han Eight Banner musketeers.

When he saw that the situation on the battlefield was about to tilt towards the officers and soldiers step by step. A deafening sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded on the battlefield.

Two thousand Tartar cavalry, like a field charge, rushed towards the city walls.

"Could it be that the Tartars plan to storm the city walls with cavalry......" This was the first reaction of the defenders of the city in the face of this situation.

Therefore, the defenders of the city unknowingly aimed the wounds of their muskets at these menacing cavalry.

However, the buckshot they fired, without organization, to hit a fast-running cavalry, was obviously a very difficult thing. More importantly, these Tartar cavalry did not ram directly into their guns.

The Tartar cavalry, which scattered and charged at them overwhelmingly, was approaching the range of the yard bow in their hands. Start bending your bow and getting ready to shoot arrows.

As soon as he entered the range of the horse's bow, the arrows on the bowstring flew out of the string and flew towards the city.

As for the Tartar cavalry, with their superb horsemanship, they quickly broke away from the battlefield.

Because the qiē was so fast, before the defenders of the city could react, arrows with great force fell from the sky and flew towards them.

Just as the incessant screams began to ring out on the battlefield, the Tartar cavalry, who had just escaped the range of the officers' muskets, bent their bows and arrows again, turned their horses' heads, and prepared to shoot a second round of arrows at the city.

Ever since his hopeful fifty red-coated cannons were destroyed, the Tartar generals knew that it had become a dream to break through the city of Beijing with the strength they had.

In this case, the next attack has only two purposes.

vent the anger in his heart and show the Ming court the strong reality of the Houjin army.

As a result, the attack in front of him, which was used to consume the defenders' strength, lasted only half an hour, and then stopped.

In the eyes of the Tartar general, he has time to fight against the Ming court, and there is no need to work so hard.

However, even for half an hour, the Tartars inflicted losses on the defenders of almost a thousand men. As for these losses, more than seventy percent were caused by the Tartar cavalry with horse bows.

After that, the Jin army lost less than 600 people after a full battle. Moreover, among these six hundred people, most of them were Han Eight Banner musketeers who had not been trained for a long time.

Suffice it to say, if the defenders do not come up with a solution. Then the Jin army had enough troops and time to consume. As the capital of the Ming Dynasty, Beijing will fall into the hands of the Tartars sooner or later. (To be continued......)