Chapter 148: The Battle of Jinzhou (9)
Updated: 2012-12-07
After the Jin army rushed through the range of the cannon, Shi Dayong had some regrets, only hated that he didn't understand the artillery, and he didn't have time to measure the distance in advance, otherwise he would have to locate these artillery pieces in the city, instead of one or two salvos, it would basically lose its effect, and it would be of no help to the next battle, unless the Jin army had follow-up soldiers and horses to follow up, otherwise, these cannons could only be an indifferent bystander.
How to use artillery, Shi Dayong's mind was blank, and he only knew that there was a "infantry and artillery coordination" combat plan in Ludao, but he didn't know how to do it. After all, in his previous life he was just a gambler, not an artilleryman.
The Jin army is about to attack the city, and the Cao battalion that has passed through the Han army's siege is somewhat calm, but Zuo Liangyu's battalion has just come up, and he suddenly saw so many full Tartars under the city, but he was a little flustered, but no one was afraid, standing silently behind the arrow board, waiting for the officers' orders.
Zuo Liangyu led a few sub-divisions to look at the city a few times, and then did not look again, but took people to check how the equipment such as wood, boiling oil, and crashing cars were prepared.
His words and deeds are very calm, and he has a bit of a famous demeanor.
Shi Dayong roughly estimated that there were no less than 5,000 Jin troops attacking the city this time, and from the banners, there were four flags inlaid with red, yellow, white, and white, plus the remnants of the Han army, that is, there were seven or eight thousand people attacking the city at the same time. At most, there are only 2,000 people who can go to the city, and if there are more, the city wall will be impassable, and how to defend the city, if you don't get shot alive, it will be a big fate.
A vicious battle must be a vicious battle!
If you don't look at anything else, just look at the armor on those Jin soldiers, and you don't know how much stronger Lu Dao is than the Han army.
Those golden soldiers who rushed to the front were all wearing two or three layers of heavy armor, especially those who were leading Shi Deba, who were like wolf cavalry all over their bodies, and even their heads were covered under iron helmets, like pangolins, which made it difficult for people to start.
"Shoot the arrows!"
The artillery battles had run out, and the Ming army could only stop their advance by dropping arrows at the city. However, there were not many soldiers in Cao's camp who knew how to shoot arrows than those who knew how to shoot guns, and in a volley, only one hundred and ten arrows were shot into the crowd of the Jin army, but not a few were killed. It was the ones who hit a lot more, but compared to the Jin army that came in like a tide, the number of kills was too small, so small that it didn't even have the effect of slowing them down.
Seeing that Cao Ying's archers and guns were not many, Zuo Liangyu frowned, and without waiting for Shi Dayong's order, he asked his battalion soldiers to go up immediately.
He even took dozens of his own soldiers to hide behind the battlements and fired arrows at the Jin army.
Zuo Liangyu's archery is very accurate, it can be said that he has a hundred shots, and a big bow is in his hand, as if it is a deadly weapon.
His dozens of pro-soldiers were not bad, arrows and arrows hit the flesh, and after only a few rounds of salvos, they put down more than 100 golden soldiers.
The 1,000 soldiers in his department were all guns, and when a volley came down, the momentum was obviously much stronger than Cao Ying's, killing and wounding no less than 200 Jin soldiers.
Jialaerke found that the blow of the Ming army in the city seemed to be more powerful than before, and hurriedly ordered the three Niu Lu to fire arrows far away to completely suppress the firepower of the Ming army in the city.
In a rain of arrows, dozens of Ming soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, and were immediately carried away by the young men who were squatting behind.
The Ming army occupies the advantage of the high city, but the Jin army has the advantage of strength, and is more capable of archery than the Ming army, and is more fierce than those Han troops, daring to ignore the danger of being hit by an arrow, and rushing forward to shoot at close range, which brought great casualties to the Ming army in the city.
After several rounds of fire, Cao Ying and Zuo Battalion each suffered more than 100 casualties, and as the Jin army got closer and closer, the casualty number also increased significantly.
The companions who kept falling by arrows made the Ming army a little flustered, and the joy of successfully retreating from the enemy disappeared, and they were a little afraid of the real Tartars under the city.
"Siege!"
After arriving at the city, the Jin generals began to organize a siege of the city, and ladders were erected one after another. This time, it was no longer those Han soldiers who climbed, but the golden soldiers wearing several layers of heavy armor, most of whom were born Jurchens.
The Jin army played up its strengths and avoided its weaknesses, and knew that there were not many defenders of the Ming army on the city, and they kept firing arrows under the city, so that the Ming army did not dare to lie on the battlement.
The situation was a bit critical, and Shi Dayong's nose was oozing sweat. The city wall is too long, he can't just care about a little, after finding that the Jin army organized a team of heavily armored dead soldiers to push the shield cart to rush to the city gate, he handed over the defense of the city wall to Cao Bianjiao and Zuo Liangyu, and ran towards the city gate building with a dozen personal soldiers.
There were about five or six hundred golden soldiers pushing the shield cart to hit the city gate again, all of them were wearing two layers of armor, and the commander was a Niu Lu Ezhen wearing three layers of heavy armor, and the white armor soldiers who were surrounded by this Niu Lu in front of and behind him, about fifty or sixty, each holding a heavy shield, held it high, and surrounded the Niu Lu Ezhen.
"Kill!"
After the ladder was erected, the Jin army sounded a shouting and killing, wave after wave of offensive like a tide, and the Ming army on the city wall kept running back and forth, waving the long knife in his hand, and kept reminding the soldiers guarding the battlement to be careful that the Jin soldiers climbed up.
The Ming army is guarded by a team of four people at the battlement, one person holds a fork pole, one person holds a spear, two people hold a knife, once it is found that there is a golden soldier climbing up from the ladder, then stand up with a fork rod to cut, cut it with a spear, and then do not work, then two knife hands guard both sides of the battlement, and cut one when it comes up.
However, there were too many ladders of the Jin soldiers, and the casualties of the Ming army were getting bigger and bigger, and some places began to be overwhelmed.
Under the city, wave after wave of arrows shot up to the city, the arrow board was shot "dingdong" sound, from time to time there were Ming soldiers and young men in the arrows, one by one arrows splashed on the city pieces of blood.
"Break Jinzhou and recapture the banner!"
There was a sudden roar from the city, and when the braided soldiers on the more than two hundred ladders heard this roar, they became more and more desperate, and their hands and feet kept climbing upward. The Ming army used forks and rammed cars to stop them again and again.
Once the city is broken, the whole family will be taken captive by Jiannu. The young men know what awaits their fate once the city is broken.
They kept lighting the artillery and throwing it down, and in the sound of "thunderbolts", the Jin army under the city screamed again and again.
"Sprinkle lime!"
The Ming soldiers shouted loudly, and bags of lime were cut and thrown down the city by the young men, and suddenly, there was a white mist under the city, and many of the golden soldiers gathered at the base of the city wall were choked with their eyes, and the mission was to rub them, but the more they rubbed their eyes, the more painful they became, and the tears could not stop flowing.
The lime entered the human eye, and it was enough to cry, but once it cried, it suddenly became splashed, and the pain made those golden soldiers cry and cry to the ground.
Unable to stand the lime sprinkled from above, the golden soldiers retreated one after another, but they were soon driven back, but it was the banner lord Azig who led his own soldiers to the moat to supervise the battle.
"Attack, no one is allowed to retreat!"
Looking at the city, Azig was furious and painful. If he doesn't take Jinzhou, where will his losses come from to make up for it!