Chapter 142: The Battle of Jinzhou (3)
The 4,000 Han troops rushed to the Jinzhou city wall in such a swarm, but they were also orderly in the chaos. In addition to the 600 Han troops carrying ladders and 400 carrying shield carts, 1,000 archers among the other 3,000 men were responsible for reaching under the city walls and shooting arrows at the city head to cover their own landing and ramming the city gates. The other 2,000 are strong soldiers selected by the heart, and they are also the backbone of this siege.
Azig was not fascinated by the anger, he knew that there were artillery cannons of the Ming army at the head of Jinzhou City, so he only let the Han army rush forward, but ordered the soldiers of the Eight Banners to stand by on the spot, and then move when the Han army arrived at the city.
Li Shutai is also not a fool, and naturally it is impossible to risk being hit by Ming artillery fire to rush forward with the Han army. led the 100 personal soldiers given to him by his father Li Yongfang, as well as dozens of Manchurian Goshha given by Abatai, and if he found that the Han army dared to turn back, he would step forward and kill him.
Although the four thousand Han troops knew that there was a danger in rushing into the city, but everyone was brave, they all thought that it was impossible to defend Zhazhou with two or three thousand remnants, and there were eight banners behind them to supervise the formation, if they did not rush, they would be hacked to death, which would not be considered by them, so they could only spread their legs and run forward, in order not to be hit by the artillery fire at the head of the city.
At the head of the city, Shi Dayong had been waiting, waiting for the foot soldiers of the Jin army to rush into the range of the Hongyi cannon.
The gunners responsible for firing the artillery were all the Liaodong Army of the original ancestor Dashou, with a total of more than 400 people, and they were led by the artillery battalion guerrilla Li Fu, who had personally ignited the medicine and injured Shi Dayong. That artillery firing was also his first actual combat since he served as a guerrilla in the Jinzhou artillery battalion, although it was his own family, but he also gained valuable practical combat experience, and had a clearer understanding of the range and power of the Hongyi cannon.
However, when Fang Jiannu came to persuade him to surrender, he said that Zu Shuai had surrendered, which made Li Fu and those gunners a little confused, all along, they all regarded themselves as under the command of Zu Shuai, and also relied on Zu Dashou to govern the army in a good way, most of the people in Liaodong only knew that there was Zu Shuai, but did not know that there was an emperor. Therefore, when they heard that Zu Shuai had fallen, Li Fu and the gunners couldn't help but be troubled, and they didn't know what to do.
Fortunately, Shi Dayong found out early and told them that it was the empty words and intimidation of the Jiannu, how could Zu Shuai lower them, and he must still be holding on at this moment. As long as we can defend Zhazhou, there will be hope for Zu Shuai and the soldiers and civilians in Dalinghe City, and if Jinzhou is lost, Zu Shuai will have no hope at all.
After Li Fu and the others heard this, they suddenly came to their senses, and they all angrily scolded Jiannu for being despicable, and even used the ancestral marshal to surrender to deceive them, and they must let them taste the power of the Hongyi cannon
When the artillery battalion settled down, Shi Dayong breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at it, those Jin army foot soldiers had already entered the range of the Hongyi cannon
"Open the gun"
The gunners who heard the order immediately took the burning torches that had been prepared long ago into their hands and burned them at the fire signal primers that exposed the chambers.
"Boom Boom"
Twelve authentic Hongyi cannons purchased from the Portuguese were the first to erupt in anger, and the cannonballs whistled out of the muzzles and flew towards the Jin army in the distance.
The sharp sound of the cannon was very piercing.
With a loud bang, a cannonball hit a shield car, which was torn apart on the spot, sawdust flew sideways, and the wooden wheel bounced into the air, and then smashed to the ground in an instant, with a "thunderclap" sound, and shattered into a ball.
The four Han soldiers pushing the shield cart were blown to two places by the cannons, and with the flying missiles of lead, iron pieces, and stones, dozens of Han soldiers were killed or wounded, and within a few feet, they were in a mess.
Twelve shells smashed into twelve places each, causing fatal injuries in the dense crowd of Han troops.
The screams rose and fell with each other, and many Han soldiers were directly hit by the cannons, and their bodies were blown up into many pieces, and their hands and feet flew all over the sky, so it was not terrifying.
The Han soldiers who were not killed on the spot only hated that they could not die early, and rolled on the ground in pain, screaming miserably.
The Han army, who was blinded by the explosion, was even more crazy and grabbed his eyes, but he couldn't see them anymore, and the broken eyeballs were taken out by his fingers, so stuck to the palm of his hand, and gradually he couldn't even tell what it was.
"Good"
The city can see clearly, just these twelve cannons, at least hundreds of Jin army foot soldiers have been killed and wounded, the soldiers are excited and thunderous, Cao Bianjiao also slapped his thigh heavily, and excitedly shouted at the artillery battalion: "Fight well, fight well, continue to fight, blow up the Tartars so that parents can't recognize how many deaths they call."
Shi Dayong also smiled and nodded, the Hongyi cannon was really powerful, it was in vain that he was hit by that cannon, the artillery battalion's artillery was really accurate, and it also played out the morale of the Ming army
However, the 16 Hongyi cannons copied by the Ministry of Industry were not as powerful as the original ones of the Portuguese, and four of them were misdirected, and there was also a dumb fire, which frightened the gunners and the nearby Ming army. Fortunately, it was just a dumb fire, no explosion, and after careful cleaning with an iron hook, the crisis was resolved.
Strictly speaking, the shells used in the dozen or so Hongyi cannons copied by the Ministry of Industry were not flowering shells, because Shi Dayong saw that the shells that hit the cannon did not explode like the fairy scattered flowers made by the Portuguese, as if they were only exploded in half, and the lethality was far less powerful than the flowering bombs.
But in any case, there were also ten shells that hit the Jin army, killing and wounding no less than 200 people.
Where the shells had been blown, the wreckage of ladders and shield carts could be seen everywhere, and the corpses of people were one in the east and one in the west, and there was blood everywhere.
"Spread out, spread out, spread quickly"
"No withdrawal, no withdrawal"
"Rush forward, rush forward"
Under the order of the officer, the Han army dispersed one after another, and rushed forward in fear, even though the artillery fire of the Ming army was terrible, but the consequences of not rushing were even more terrible.
In the gap when the Hongyi cannon at the head of the city was busy changing the medicine and reloading, the Han army rushed forward for more than a mile, and it was only more than a mile away from the city wall.
The distance was too close, and the Hongyi artillery had to adjust its gun position and muzzle to aim at the Jin army in more than a mile to fire, but this was too delaying, and it had to prevent the Jin army's follow-up troops from coming immediately.
Shi Dayong observed and found that the Jin army was only rushing at foot soldiers, and the cavalry did not move, and from the shouts of the Jin soldiers under the city, it was heard that these foot soldiers were not Manchus, nor Mongols, but Han Chinese
Hong Tai is using the Han people as cannon fodder
Deciminarily ordered that the Hongyi artillery did not need to be adjusted, and that as long as the cavalry of the Jin army came up, they would immediately open fire to cut off their contact with the Han army.
"All the small cannons fired at me"
In the roar, more than 40 small cannons of various kinds were fired together, and in the roaring cannons, iron balls shot towards the Jin army's foot soldiers.
The iron ball smashed to the ground, and instantly jumped up again, sweeping like a comet's tail, smashing the golden soldiers in front of him into a puddle of mud.
More than 40 iron balls jumped down and down on the battlefield, and each jump was a human life.
An iron ball was still unspent, jumped again, and smashed heavily on the head of a Han soldier behind him, the iron ball was embedded in his head, and his brain flowed to the ground.
An iron ball didn't know how to bounce, and it passed directly through the stomach of a Han soldier, instantly taking away all the flesh and bones, revealing a large empty round hole "poof" bubbling with blood.
"Reloading"
When Li Fu saw Jin Bing's shield cart, he rushed to the city, hurriedly waved the order flag in his hand again, and shouted loudly: "Open the cannon, blow it up, blow it up for me"
The small cannons fired one after another, but the firing was different and uneven.
Don't look at the proximity of those shield carts, it's hard to hit them. More than 40 small cannons were fired one after another, and as a result, only one shell hit a shield cart and hit several golden soldiers behind the shield cart. When the shield cart was hit, it quickly split, and a piece of wood impartially struck a Han soldier and came out through his chest, and the soldier struggled as if he was nailed there, but he couldn't move.
A guerrilla was too unlucky, he escaped the blow of the Hongyi cannon, but he didn't escape an iron ball, and his left leg was smashed by the fast-flying iron ball, and suddenly the blood gushed like a spring, holding the broken leg that was only half left.
After suffering more than 1,000 casualties, the Jin army, which experienced the artillery attack, finally approached the city wall, and they no longer had to worry about the Ming artillery on the city.
But when they rushed over the moat and climbed up again, they found that hundreds of black things that seemed to be wrapped in paper suddenly appeared at the battlements of the city wall, and the things were full of small black holes, and they did not know what they were.
There are Han army soldiers who look a little familiar, that thing seems to have been seen somewhere, look at it, and instantly remember, almost didn't laugh, that thing is not the rich people in the Guannai New Year's fireworks battle
The Ming army lost its mind and went crazy, did it use the flower cannon battle as a cannon?
The Han soldiers who knew it knew that the Daohua artillery battle could not kill people, and rushed forward without fear, and the Ming army at the head of the city also lit the wedge artillery battle, and suddenly, like a meteor, countless battlements erupted colorful flames to the city.
"Boom, boom, boom"
The flower cannon battle representing the festivity exploded in the Jin army, only a few dozen sounds, and the Han army changed color
In the sound of "thunderbolt", a golden soldier covered his face and screamed, but his eyes were blown up by the cannonball, and his face was bleeding.
In addition to the armor on the officers, there was no armor on the soldiers, and the wedge artillery battle was intensive, and there was nowhere to hide, either on the face, or on the body, or on the top of the head or under the feet, and it also shocked the Han soldiers to jump high like rabbits.
In the smoke of gunpowder, two or three thousand Han soldiers jumped around by the moat, and Azig and Li Shutai, who saw it in the distance, were puzzled, thinking that the Ming army had used some new weapons. In the clairvoyant mirror, Huang Taiji looked carefully, and laughed loudly: "This Ming general who guards the city is very interesting, and he actually uses fireworks as firearms, which is interesting and interesting." ()