Chapter 313: The Tragic Gunner
Zhou Huchen's army was advancing, and there were two routes, one was that Zhou Huchen and Huang Degong personally led the team from Bazhou, and the other was that the nearly 100,000 troops led by Mo Xiancheng were slowly advancing to the northwest in Tianjin. The momentum of the flanking attack has been achieved, which has plunged the Qing army in the entire Bazhou into a storm.
With the combat effectiveness of Zhou Huchen's army, Bazhou undoubtedly became a dead place, and Zierharang reluctantly retreated slowly, and the helplessness of this force and situation made him have to withdraw from Bazhou and withdraw to Gu'an.
On the front line of Baoding, He Tengjiao is still advancing steadily, the speed is slow, slow is like crawling forward, but this slowness makes the Qing army helpless. With the effectiveness of this tactic, He Tengjiao became more and more experienced, except for the scouts acting outside, He Tengjiao's entire army was completely a huge fortress. The entire army was divided into several huge phalanxes and huddled together, surrounded by the iron-clad shields provided by Zhou Huchen, and behind the shields was a defensive line of mortars and countless archers, and behind these long-range weapons was Rulin's phalanx of spears.
The hedgehog array is a kind of coercion that does not move, and it is slowly pressed, which makes people very depressed, making Azig, Aobai, Li Shutai, Wu Sangui and others breathless.
Slow, but still moving in the past, sooner or later it will advance to the northern capital. The helpless Azig let Ao Bai and Wu Sangui make a move, he didn't dare to send foot soldiers, the artillery of the Ming army was too powerful, it was equivalent to death. This time it was the cavalry attacking on both flanks, and Azig himself met the enemy head-on.
The cavalry is powerful and precious, the rumbling of cannons made the cavalry of Ao Bai and Wu Sangui fall into sorrow, the precious cavalry became cannon fodder, every cavalry was blown off the horse by the explosion will make Ao Bai and Wu Sangui drip blood in their hearts, the price of this blood drop is too high, and the Qing army cannot afford it.
With huge casualties and facing the whistling cannonballs, the Qing army finally approached He Tengjiao's hedgehog array, and the white feathers rose into the sky like flying locusts. The lethality of the bow and arrow cannot be compared with that of artillery and firearms, but it still brings damage and fear, and as the small number of cavalry of the Qing army approached the huge formation, the rainstorm of grenades was thrown out
In addition to panic and confusion, Azig found that he had nothing to do, and he couldn't attack it, so he just watched the Ming army advance to the city of Beijing?
The situation made Azig a little desperate in Baoding, and the Qing army's battle on the front line of the Badaling Great Wall in Yanqing Prefecture was also launched at the same time.
The Badaling Great Wall is an important outpost of Juyong Pass, and it was called "the danger of Juyong is not in the pass but in Badaling" in ancient times.
Wang Deyong and the Qing army were not fighting for Juyong Pass. It's the Great Wall. Badaling mountains are stacked, the terrain is precipitous, the whole Great Wall is winding and rugged and extremely majestic and magnificent, it can be said that it is a complete military defense system, Wang Deyong is aimed at this kind of winding and long, because he is more general than the Qing army.
The battle line of the entire Badaling Great Wall is very long, and the terrain is extremely complex, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. These unfavorable conditions are very selective and sometimes advantageous for Wang Deyong, who has the advantage of troops. Because he can choose a place to attack and contain, and then he can sneak attack anywhere he wants to take.
"General, in front of you is the mouth of the Huamu Liangkou, and on the east side is the shortest section of the city wall nearby. There is a mountain pack there that is very close to the Great Wall, and there is no artillery on the Jiannu on it. ”
This is a local guide, and the guide has some inroads for the delicate clairvoyant mirror in his hand, not to mention the usefulness of it. I have never seen it, he is holding a clairvoyant mirror and is ignorant, or Wang Deyong on the side personally demonstrates this guide to understand how to use this rare thing. The guide is naturally familiar with the geography of this area. The mountain bag he pointed to was Wang Deyong's first target.
The mountain pack is not high, but it has an advantage because it is very close to the Great Wall, that is, less than two miles away.
"Shanzi, this is no problem, right!?"
Wang Deyong turned his head, next to him was Wang Yunshan, the commander of the artillery battalion, this Wang Yunshan was actually Wang Deyong's cousin, he had been serving as Zhou Huchen's artillery battalion training instructor in Zhenjiang, due to the decisive battle with Jiannu, Zhou Huchen dispatched most of the troops, and the young and capable Wang Yunshan was also transferred to the front line.
"Marshal, as long as you need it, this section of the Great Wall guarantees that there will be no living creatures." Coach Wang De can use Wang Yunshan's nickname, but Wang Yunshan doesn't dare to call Wang De uncle, which is completely different.
"Come on! Get ready! ”
The figure on the Great Wall is shaking, and there is a pier not far from the front, and it can be seen that the number of garrisons of the Qing army is indeed small.
Soon ready, nearly a thousand soldiers ran out of the hidden low mountain under the command of Wang Deyong. Because of Wang De's long-term harassment tactics, the Qing army was very vigilant, and these soldiers were discovered as soon as they ran out.
"Enemy attack~~" The rapid sound of the gong sounded on the Great Wall, and then the beacon fire of the pier was ignited.
"Kill~"
Nearly a thousand people let out a loud roar and began to rush forward, very loudly, especially in this mountain, where the sound has been echoing all the time.
In fact, the Ming soldiers were not rushing fast, but the sound was very loud, and when they were still more than a mile away from the Great Wall, these Ming soldiers stopped, followed by a few small artillery pieces and quickly stood up.
At this time, the Qing troops in and near the beacon tower ran over, and these defenders quickly hid behind the battlements. There are ready-made rolling wood and stones on the Great Wall, there is no shortage of stones and wood in the mountains, there are many stones behind the battlements, and there are many bows and arrows of the Qing army.
A Ming officer waved his hand and began to command, and then the cannon sounded, and a projectile first rushed to the Great Wall with a sharp whistle, and then the projectile crossed the Great Wall and made a loud noise behind the city.
It's scary, but unfortunately, the accuracy of the Ming army is not flattering, and this cannon seems to be a little too big.
There was another loud bang, and a projectile whizzed past the city wall, but the shelling continued to be even bigger this time, and the projectile crossed the Great Wall high. The accuracy was not enough, but the Ming army outside the Great Wall did not relax, and these soldiers hurriedly continued to reload.
This seems to be a novice, and the legendary Ming artillery is very powerful and is played like this. The Ming officer in charge of the command was furious, he kicked a gunner to the ground with a single kick, and then began to point fingers under the gaze of the Qing army.
The gunners of the Ming army began to retreat with all hands and feet, which caused a lot of laughter from the Qing army on the city wall.
After retreating to a certain distance, the artillery was once again placed, and with the roaring projectile rising into the air again, the officer of the Ming army was depressed again, and this time he simply slapped a few soldiers to vent his anger.
The projectile did not cross the Great Wall this time, it was too close, and the explosion of the projectile kicked up a puff of yellow dust and rubble halfway up the hillside.
The shelling continued, and the Qing troops on the city wall were completely speechless.
Almost thirty cannons were fired, and except for one shell that exploded under the city walls, which startled people, not a single shell fell within the city walls.
The officers of the Ming army were completely on fire this time, and the fire was big, and if the commander was on fire, some people wanted to be tragic, and the officers of the Ming army took off the sheathed combat knife on their waists and slashed their heads and faces at those gunners. The Qing army at the head of the city was completely relieved this time, it turned out that they were all rookies, and the luck of these rookies was extremely poor, so bad that they couldn't do it with a single shot. (To be continued......)