Chapter 428: The Battle of Shenyang (15)

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The artillery array of the Ming army wantonly bombarded the city regardless of the existence of "friendly troops" on the city, and instantly blew the city head into a blur of flesh and blood, and the blood of Manchus, Han Chinese, Mongols, Koreans, and soldiers and civilians of all ethnic groups dyed the city wall red and blood-red.

In the sound of the cannon, the sack full of dirt was lifted high, bringing out large expanses of dirt in the air, drenching the people below into mud figures. Before the clay figurines could come to their senses, the blood of the people around them sprayed over, and the blood mixed with the mud accompanied by the choking smell of gunpowder made it difficult for the clay figurines to breathe instantly.

Ezhen Yilintai was frightened, and roared for the Han artillery to quickly return fire. In his roar, Sun Degong endured the huge pain in his shoulder, brandished the long knife in his hand and ordered the Han army who was dodging the cannon to get up and load the gunpowder quickly, but the frightened Han gunners were busy for a long time and did not fire the cannon. They were really frightened by the artillery of the Ming army, and they were also frightened by the banner soldiers who attacked the city, and they finally realized that the invincible Manchurian soldiers in the past seemed to have no way to reach the Ming army.

The gunners who didn't want to send the Manchurians to death in vain looked at Sun Degong's eyes and hesitated, Sun Degong scolded secretly, knowing that these Han soldiers had crooked thoughts, and without hesitation, they waved their knives and cut down the nearest guy, and the pro-troops around them also did the same, and waved their long knives to threaten the gunners.

The Ming army is still under the city, and the city has not been broken yet! The gunners who woke up did not dare to be delusional anymore, and they carried the gun body again, cleaned the gun body, tore the powder bag containing gunpowder and poured it into the bore, and then rammed it vigorously.

Ilyintai didn't expect these cannons to inflict huge casualties on the Ming army, he just wanted them to be able to fire and hit the morale of the other side. Even if it is just to listen to it, because if it is bombarded by the Ming army like this, the courage and sharpness of the Eight Banners will be completely blown away. No matter how fierce a warrior is, if he loses his courage and sharpness, he will be slaughtered like a weak sheep.

The fallen fangs and armored soldiers on the head of the city made Ilintai feel as distressed as if he had chopped meat, it was these warriors who had just fought bravely to defeat the rebels of Mang Gurtai, but now they fell in front of their eyes one by one, staring at themselves in pain, and their eyes were full of unwillingness.

"Fire! Fire! ”

Yilintai roared, and the wolf staggered towards the Han gunners who were still busy, seeing his fierce appearance, the gunners were so frightened that their hearts were beating, and they hurriedly lit the fire regardless of whether they were filled in or not.

In the loud sound of "boom, boom", two large iron balls shot out of the cannon chamber and smashed towards the Ming artillery array in the distance.

The sound of his own cannon made Elintai's heart flutter, but before he could open his mouth and roar, his body flew backwards heavily. In mid-air, he clearly saw an iron ball embedded in his body, and then shot through his body into the distant sky. Looking at the rising sun from the hollow in his chest, it was incomparably brighter.

A cannon that had not yet been filled with a cannon had exploded. This explosion made Yilintai the supreme general of the Eight Banners who had died since the beginning of the war, and he was buried with four Han gunners who had blown their heads unconscious.

Sun Degong suffered from the pond fish again, this time the injury was not too serious, but he was hit by the falling cannon body. Well, the injury is not serious, but it hurts a lot. It hurt so much that he didn't care about his face, and sat on the ground holding his feet and screaming

The Ming army learned the lesson of the previous salvo that caused the artillery to dissipate heat and fire intermittently, and began to fire in turns, and the barrel of the cannon could be fired more permanently when it had enough time to dissipate heat, killing and injuring more enemies and destroying the city walls.

The Jin army at the head of the city was already in chaos, and they were helpless in the face of such large-scale artillery bombardment by the Ming army, and the generals panicked and the banner soldiers also panicked, and they didn't know what to do. Yilintai's death also caused the morale of the Jin army to plummet, and many people smelled "something bad about it" from Yilintai's death - I am afraid that this city will not be able to be defended.

Talai and Sonny tried their best to stabilize their positions, and while sending people to Daishan to report the emergency, they continued to send additional flag soldiers to the city. In order to block the city walls that were blown up by the Ming army's cannonballs, the Ahabs braved the Ming army's cannons to transport the stones to the city's head under the coercion of the Jin soldiers, and behind each stone was the loss of a fresh life.

Before the war, the Jin army had prepared for the worst, and they also knew the power of the Ming army's artillery from the Han army that fled into the inner city, but they still didn't expect that the power of the Ming army's artillery array was so great, and they didn't expect that the Ming army would be so cost-effective in the first battle.

Everyone was looking forward to the Ming army's medicine running out soon, the senior generals thought so, and the ordinary flag soldiers also thought so, but the Ming army's artillery never stopped. The cannonballs hit the city so hard that they didn't dare to lift their heads.

The artillery bombardment of the Ming army not only caused serious casualties to the Jin army in the city, but also caused heavy losses to the Liaoyang banner soldiers who attacked the city and the Han people with blue flags under the city. After all, the city is so big that it is impossible for the artillery to be so accurate, so the cannonballs that fall under the city are not less than those on the city. The poor Han people cannon fodder escaped the killing of the golden soldiers in the city, but they were instantly killed by the friendly forces behind them.

Compared to those Liaoyang banner soldiers wearing two layers of cotton armor, the dead Han people should feel lucky, because they died quickly enough, there was no pain, and their consciousness could disappear in the shortest possible time. Close your eyes, what does this world have to do with the floods?

The tragic thing is that those flag soldiers, the two layers of armor on their bodies made many of them not die immediately after being hit by the cannon, after all, only a few were directly hit by the iron ball, and most of them were only injured by the exploding iron shell, and they couldn't die if they wanted to die for a while, so they could only cover the bloody wounds and wait for death there.

The tragic situation of his own subordinates in the city made Mang Gurtai's eyes full of anger, and he angrily beat his horse and rushed to the Ming army's formation, asking Shi Dayong why he couldn't wait for his people to withdraw before opening fire.

Dayong only gave him a cold look, and didn't even give him a reason to make Mang Gurtai deceive himself.

Dayong's disregard made Mang Gurtai lose his mind, he was a reckless man, and he never considered the consequences when he did things, otherwise he would not have made a fool of Da Linghe and drew a knife in front of Hong Tai.

Under the sneering expressions of the generals of the Ming army, Mang Gurtai suddenly pulled out his sword!

"Amma!"

Taken aback, he felt that the sky was about to fall, and he rushed forward like mad and grabbed Mang Gurtai, then snatched the knife from his hand and dragged him backwards.

At this moment, Epilon lost his courage, but he said to Mang Gurtai himself that day, if I had been by Amma's side that day, I would have drawn my sword and killed Hong Tai, why did I end up like this. But today, he didn't do this, he didn't dare to draw his sword at Shi Dayong like Mang Gurtai, he could only desperately hold his Amma, he couldn't let Mang Gurtai's anger ruin their father and son, and even more ruin the comeback plan they had been planning.

Hearing the news, Gushan Cuida stammered and knelt in front of Shi Dayong and begged him to forgive his master's unreasonableness, and he kept looking for an explanation for Mang Gurtai's recklessness, lest Shi Dayong would kill his master because of this.

He was too careful, Dayong didn't have the idea of killing Mang Gurtai, people, there must always be some temperament, if it was him, seeing that his subordinates suffered such heavy casualties, he would also be furious. Therefore, he understands and can forgive Mang Gurtai's sudden attack, but this battle still has to be fought, so in order to prevent the dazed Mang Gurtai from doing something stupid to hurt the feelings of the soldiers on both sides, Dayong asked Mang Gurtai to temporarily rest in the rear, and his people were under the command of Epilon.

Epilon knew that this was Shi Dayong's condition, and if they did not comply, Shi Dayong would definitely be in trouble, so after persuading Mang Gurtai, he agreed to Shi Dayong's condition.

Bai Jia also withdrew from the city at this time, his life was great, whether it was the fight with the Jin soldiers or the artillery bombardment of the Ming army, he was unharmed, but he had a lot of arrows stuck in his body. Epilon briefly told the story of Mang Gurtai, Bai Jia was immediately startled, and only calmed down after hearing that Shi Dayong was not embarrassed for his master. Epilon asked him to put the remnants of the army in order, and immediately prepare to attack the city again, this time with the help of the Ming army, the chances of winning the city were a few points greater than just now.

After Bai Jia nodded, he agreed with the recapture of the city, although the artillery bombardment of the Ming army caused heavy casualties to his people, but the Jin soldiers also suffered heavy losses, and it would definitely be worth the loss to retreat and recuperate now, which would only give the defenders a chance to breathe.

This time, there was no need for Epilun to ask for help, Dayong sent Zhang Cunren, Liu Tianlu, Zu Kefa and other generals to participate in the siege, and there were more than 2,000 Han troops under their command, in addition, they also sent Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, and Li Zhongfu to lead two thousand households in the left battalion of the infantry army to directly participate in the siege.

After carefully observing the siege of the Mang Gurtai Army, Dayong has already made a plan to complete the battle, he wants to open the inner city gate today, so that Shenyang City really falls into his hands.

After Shen Yi, an artillery soldier, observed for a while, all the tiger squat cannons in the general moved forward and placed them less than a mile away from the city wall, and then the auxiliary soldiers carried bags of mud from the rear and piled them up to the height of the tiger squat cannons to hit the head of the city before stopping the pile. After the auxiliary soldiers piled up the abutment, the gunner immediately moved the tiger squat cannon to the top and fixed it one by one, and then quickly loaded the medicine, with Shen Yi's order, the tiger squat cannon fired one by one, and countless lead and stones fanned towards the city and shot quickly.

The 30 Tiger Squat Cannons did little to the city walls, but they were a weapon to kill the defenders of the city.

The Jin army in the city was busy cleaning up the corpses, repairing the city wall, and sending the wounded down to the city, although they knew that the Ming army moved some small cannons under the city wall, but they did not pay much attention to it, and as a result, after the Ming army's small cannons were fired, they found that the power of these small cannons was not worse than those cannons at all.

In the sound of cannons, nearly 100 Jin soldiers who were close to the battlements of the outer city wall were hit by Sanzi and fluttered on the ground in pain.

"Well played!"

Shen Yi saw with his own eyes that an officer who looked like the leader of the Jin Army was hit by a cannon, and couldn't help laughing loudly.

In his laughter, the gunners of the 30 Tiger Squat Guns were brushing their hands and feet neatly, reloading the medicine, and their movements were no worse than those Western light gunners, which can also see how much energy and time Sun Yuanhua spent on these gunners when building artillery.