Chapter 195: Attacking the Village (2)
These cannons were not like the Furlong cannons used by the Ming army, which could be reloaded, and the four stone cannons on the camp were cumbersome to reload and had a very slow rate of fire.
But fortunately, after a few cannon shots, these riders were also frightened.
After leaving behind the bones of seven or eight soldiers and war horses, he fled on horseback.
"Good, good." Seeing that his horse team successfully lured out the firepower of the Ming army guarding the village, Mosin also applauded again and again.
"Attack." With Mosin's order, four hundred soldiers rushed towards the Ming army camp.
Four hundred soldiers, armed with swords and shields, dressed in rattan armor, and rushed towards the camp in front with four or five rushing cars.
"Quick, destroy these rushers." Seeing these soldiers rushing towards the car, a flag officer shouted.
"Your Excellency has just finished releasing the gun, and the gun is still loading." Several gunners carried stone bullets and gunpowder in a panic, and in the panic, black powder was scattered all over the ground.
Rushing the car, also known as crashing, is responsible for the siege equipment used in the siege of the city.
The rushing car used by the Fan people is relatively simple, but the problem is that the camp of the Ming people is not as strong as the Nanong City.
If you let the car rush to the bottom of the camp, the village must be broken by the car.
"Quick, release the rocket." The archers in the camp fired rockets at the rushing carts.
The soldiers guarding the rushing car held rattan shields to block the rockets.
For a while, the rocketeers of the Ming army couldn't help these rushing cars.
The reason why the soldiers used the chariot to attack the city did not have much effect was because there were too many artillery pieces of the Ming army defending the city.
Before he could rush to the city, he was beaten into parts by the Ming artillery.
But the camp guarded by the Qianhai battalion in front of him did not have so many artillery, and the only four stone cannons were also used to drive away the fancai, and now they are still tediously loading shells.
Compared with the previous attack on Nainong, the firepower of the Ming camp in front of him was much weaker, and the attacking soldiers also let out bursts of shouts.
"Put." The gunners on a stone emplacement, finally finished their work.
"Bang!" A six-pound stone bullet smashed into a rushing car in an instant, and several of the guards flew out.
The rushing car was directly knocked apart, and the wooden wheel was knocked out by the huge inertia and smashed straight into the leg of a soldier.
After that, the remaining stone cannons also opened fire.
Since the distance is only one or two hundred paces, the accuracy of the stone cannon is also very high.
In just a few shots, three vehicles were destroyed or damaged.
At this time, the soldiers who were at the forefront had also rushed to the front of the camp.
The soldiers carrying the siege ladder had already rushed to the bottom of the camp, and after the ladder was erected under the city, they lined up in a long line, and climbed up step by step under the cover of a large number of archers.
"The archers and firecrackers suppressed, and they can't let the fans rush up." One of the flag officers shouted.
"Bang, bang, bang"
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh"
The sound of firecrackers on the city wall, mixed with the sound of the wind when some bows and arrows were fired, quickly suppressed the archers under the city wall due to their condescension.
But by this time, the soldiers had already climbed the city wall.
A soldier dressed in rattan armor jumped up with a sword.
Before he could stabilize his figure, three or four spears stabbed him.
The rattan armor did not block the sharp spearhead, and the soldier had a hideous face, wielding a long knife in his hand.
Several villagers dragged their spears and stabbed forward, and gradually the soldier stopped moving.
But before the villagers could breathe a sigh of relief, another soldier rushed up.
Several village soldiers didn't have time to collect their spears, and watched as the soldier jumped onto the camp.
The soldier slashed off the hand of one of the villagers with a knife, and the villager screamed and fell to the ground, the blood spilled from the severed hand splashed on the faces of the other villagers.
"Bang!" A flag officer holds a firearm and heads at the head of the soldiers.
"What are you still stunned about, don't hurry up and get me a spear, I'll have to die when the people come up." The flag officer cursed, pulled a spear out of the soldier's corpse, and threw it at a village soldier.
About twenty or thirty soldiers jumped up to the city.
But they were basically killed by the spearmen, archers, and musketeers of the Ming people, or the city walls were picked down.
"Rush the car, rush the car to the city." One of the soldiers shouted.
Taking advantage of the gang fighting on the camp, a rushing car has already arrived under the walled city.
As the soldier yelled, the soldiers present reacted one after another.
Rolling stones and smashing them down.
But at this time, more than one rushing car had already arrived at the camp.
The soldiers struggled to block the thunderwood and rolling stones that rolled down from the walled city with rattan shields.
More than a dozen soldiers worked together to hit the gate with the crashing wood on the rushing car.
"Knock, knock, knock"
The soldiers shouted in unison, and slammed the slamming wood on the car against the gate, making a loud noise.
Mosin saw that his soldiers had been killed under the city, and according to this way of playing, there would be no problem in breaking through the camp today, and he couldn't help laughing.
"Quick, get the door car up for me." The soldiers of the Ming army guarding the gate hurriedly transferred a few knife carts to block the soldiers.
"My lord, the rush has arrived under the walled city." In the panic, a flag officer reported in a panic.
Li Shi, the guard of Qianhai Town, looked angry, and after only a few cups of tea, he let the soldiers kill under the camp.
If it is so easy to let the soldiers enter the walled city, what qualifications do the generals of the Pinghai Battalion have to meet their colleagues in the Nainong defenders.
An enraged Li Shi kicked down one of the firecrackers who was blocking the way.
The pot of gunpowder in the hand of the firecracker was also scattered on the ground.
Li Shi looked at the black powder scattered all over the ground, and couldn't help gritting his teeth.
Walked straight to a stone cannon emplacement, and scattered a half-used barrel of black powder into the city.
"Listen to it all for me, and sprinkle all the black powder on the wall." Li Shi drank heavily.
As the commander spoke, the non-commissioned gunners present lifted the powder keg one after another, and poured the black powder in the barrel in the direction of the rushing car.
The soldiers who were still attacking under the camp looked confused, only to see countless black powders poured on their faces and rattan armor.
The soldiers pushing the cart and hitting the wood didn't matter at first, but as more and more powder fell around, it was accompanied by a smell of saltpeter and sulfur.
Many of the soldiers were so smoky by the sudden black smoke that they couldn't open their eyes.
"It's gunpowder, run." Several fan leaders finally reacted, shouting and running away.
"Ignition." With Li Shi's order, several torches were thrown down.
In an instant, a fire dragon sprang up under the camp.
"Boom!"
The gunpowder under the camp was ignited instantly, and in an instant, a fire dragon was formed, devouring all the soldiers and rushing cars under the camp.
Mosin stared at the scene in disbelief.
Just now, he was still complacent, thinking that the destruction of the city was just around the corner.
But in the blink of an eye, there was a sea of fire under the camp, and within five meters of the city wall, all the soldiers were engulfed in flames.
Such a rapid fire frightened the soldiers in the rear and did not dare to rush forward.
For a while, the camp became a Shura hell.
Originally, the rattan armor worn by the soldiers was flammable, and the black powder ignited quickly.
The soldiers directly turned into fire men and scurried around.
Some soldiers who climbed to the ladder saw the fire in the rear and wanted to kill it, but they were blocked by the Ming army, and they couldn't stand the scorching fire under the city, so they fell down and let out bursts of screams.
"Hurry up and give me water." The officers and soldiers above did not cheer.
A large amount of water that had been piled up under the city was handed up in buckets.
This water has long been boiled by the villagers, in order to resist the attack of the people, but it came in handy at this time.
Black powder can ignite quickly, but it cannot burn continuously, and it is gone when it is burned.
The Ming officers and soldiers handed buckets of water and poured them down, trying to extinguish the fire.
It was the rainy season and the weather was humid.
The bamboo and wood used to build the camp were very damp, but they were not ignited by the fire under the city.