Chapter 539: The First Battle of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty

"Boom, boom, boom, boom...... although the General Military Mansion is a distance of one or two miles from the city wall. However, the sound of the roar of heavy artillery still clearly and visibly reached the ears of everyone in the General Military Office.

Facing the sudden artillery outside the city, Wang Feng's brows subconsciously furrowed. With a solemn face, he commanded: "Brothers, the Tartars have begun to attack again...... Everyone has heard the news of the Shanxi Governor's Palace, and Ben Jiang hopes that in the next battle, the family can tell Ben General with actions that you are not frightened by the Tartars outside the city. In the face of the attack of the Tartars, you can still repel them without hesitation..."

"Ben will order, all brothers, to return to their places... Use the muskets and cannons you are equipped to deal another fatal blow to the Tartars outside the city. ”

"Obey the commander's order...... "A dozen officers at or above the regimental level, as if they had been discussed, shouted loudly with a pair of eyes full of heat.

The remaining more than 50 red-coated cannons of the Tartars, in order to avoid being destroyed by the heavy artillery regiment of the Haw Par Army.

More than 50 artillery pieces, under the personal orders of the Later Jin Emperor Taiji, were all dispersed and fired round after round of flowering shells at the city wall of Liaoyang City, two miles away.

After only five rounds of shelling, the walls that stretched for miles were covered in the thick smoke of gunpowder from the explosion of flowering shells.

Of course, the heavy artillery regiment set up by the Haw Par Army in Liaoyang City was not indifferent.

Although he knew that his counterattack would not be able to kill much against the heavy artillery scattered by the Tartars, and sometimes, it would take even forty or fifty flowering shells to destroy a redcoat cannon of the Tartars.

However, in order to alleviate the damage to the city walls by the Tartar heavy artillery, the Haw Par Army heavy artillery regiment with more than fifty cannons. Still without hesitation out of the city. Shoot round after round of flowering bombs.

Shells on both sides. You come and go, and in the blink of an eye, thousands of flowering shells explode on the enemy's position.

Maybe he knew that the flowering bullets he shot could not cause much damage to the defenders of Liaoyang, or maybe it was because the number of flowering bullets he wanted from the Ming Dynasty was limited and he couldn't withstand his continuous squandering.

After ten rounds of shelling, the Tartar fire stopped.

Subsequently, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Later Jinhan Dynasty. With a shout, holding a musket, a broadsword......all kinds of siege weapons, launched an attack on Liaoyang City from all directions.

At this time, the shelling of the Tartars stopped, though. However, the Haw Par Army's artillery units, which had enough flowering shells to squander, continued to pour flowering shells far away.

Among them, the most arrogant artillery that has the greatest impact on the Han Eight Banners is not the farthest range. The most powerful cannon of the heavy artillery regiment, but was deployed to the divisions. Heavy and medium mortars of the regiments.

With the mortar far exceeding the rate of fire of the heavy artillery, the flowering shells with a killing radius of more than two battles continued to fall in the middle of the attacking troops of the Han Eight Banners as if it were raining, setting off a bloody storm of blood.

However, such a blow did not stop the offensive pace of these Han Eight Banners.

Because, behind these Han Eight Banners, more than 5,000 Houjin Iron Horsemen, holding horse bows, were patrolling back and forth. As soon as they showed signs of retreat, these Tartar cavalry would not hesitate to shoot arrows into their chests and shoot them on the battlefield.

Therefore, in the case of knowing that retreating will definitely not escape death. These soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty can only hold on to the hope of life and charge forward as always.

In the blink of an eye, the dense Han Eight Banners rushed through the artillery interception of the Tiger and Par Army, and rushed to a distance of 150 steps from the city wall, which was also the end of the effective range of the flintlock muskets of the Tiger and Par Army.

In the dense and violent explosion of flowering bombs, the sound of gunshots like bursting beans, like the sound of horses' hooves produced by the galloping of thousands of horses, quickly resounded on the battlefield.

The impermeable lead bullet quickly formed a steel storm outside the city, rushing towards the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Houjin Han, who were getting closer and closer to the city wall.

In front of the scorching and high-speed flying lead bullet, the simple armor worn by the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty was like paper paste, and it was very lightly pierced by the lead bullet.

Then, the scorching buckshot, with its speed not reduced too much, pierced directly into the bodies of these soldiers. As a result, strings of blood flowers, like fountains, gushed out of the chests of these people.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of soldiers of the Han and Eight Banners fell on the charging road with a muffled snort, and their life and death were uncertain.

While the death and suffering caused by the first round of buckshot was not over, the second round of buckshot had already arrived, rushing at them from the front, blocking their attack.

However, such blows and deaths still did not make these Han Eight Banner soldiers afraid.

In the eyes of these soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty who held old-fashioned arquebuses. The flintlock muskets of the Haw Par Army are powerful. However, as long as he can rush to a position fifty or sixty steps away from the city wall, the arquebus in his hand can also inflict a devastating blow on the tiger and leopard army on the city wall.

Therefore, I must not retreat because of the blow and death in front of me.

As a result, the dense soldiers of the Han Eight Banners were as if they had taken stimulants. In the face of lead bullet and death, continue to charge forward without fear of death, and charge again, without taking death in his eyes at all.

The attacking force of tens of thousands of people, after continuously paying losses of more than 1,000 people, finally rushed to the effective range of the arquebus.

In the face of the Tiger and Leopard Army, the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, who breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly lit the fire rope, raised the muskets that had been loaded with lead bullets, aimed at the city wall, and counterattacked.

As a result, the sound of gunshots like popping beans also began to sound outside the city.

A steady stream of lead bullets, along with the sound of gunfire, flew towards the tiger and leopard army that was holding the city.

"Ahhh......h

However, the arrogance of these post-Jinhan Eight Banners did not last long.

Because, the mortar group of the Tiger and Leopard Army, which has assembled hundreds of mortars, has adjusted its gun position and aimed the muzzle of the black hole at them.

With the commander's order, a dense burst of bullets, like rain, fell around them.

Not only that, but the Tiger and Par Army, which was holding the city wall, also divided almost half of the musketeers and began to suppress these Han Eight Banner musketeers.

The unstoppable flowering bullets on the top of the head, the lead bullets that are as dense as a fish in front of you... Under the blow of these two weapons, the Han Eight Banner musket array, which had just been concentrated, was quickly beaten into a mess.

In order to avoid being the target of the Haw Par Army, these Han Eight Banner musketeers had to disperse and shoot rounds of very messy and sparse lead bullets at the city.

Unless it was shit luck, it was impossible for these buckshots to kill the Tiger and Par Army on the city walls. (To be continued......)