Chapter 168

Because they are covered with heavy armor, in terms of killing effect, they are heavier than unarmored targets, and as long as the 32 mm lead bullet hits the vital part, it is possible to pick up a life, because this will form penetrating wounds, such as missing arms and legs.

However, with the protection of iron armor, it is completely different, the lead bullet rolled, forming a larger wound, and the five hundred white-armored soldiers under the command of Ao Bai broke through the defense line of the Dongjiang Army, with no more than a dozen dead and wounded, but in just half a pillar of incense, no one could still stand.

After the white-armored soldiers in the front row who were used to attack the fortified position fell to the ground, it was soon the turn of the Jiannu light cavalry in the back.

The rate of fire of the Thunderbolt continued unabated, and the sixty-four Thunderbolts were reloading their ammunition, and the remaining sixty-four Thunderbolts were like sixty-four scythes of death, fiercely sweeping towards Jiannu's light cavalry.

At this time, the Jiannu lightly armed cavalry, like wheat that had been cut down, fell to the ground layer by layer.

"Retreat!"

Huang Taiji's teeth were almost bleeding, he knew that he had lost the opportunity to defeat Ning Haijun at this time, and the entire battle situation was developing in the direction of getting out of control.

First of all, the various armies used to drag and cover Jiannu's breakthrough from the right flank of the Ning Navy's legion, they withstood the rain of bullets and bullets of the Ning Navy, endured the heavy casualties brought by the mines, and finally gritted their teeth and rushed into the range of more than 30 steps in front of the Ning Navy's formation.

At this distance, whether it is the musket or the crossbow machine of the Ning Navy, there is no advantage in the rate of fire, and the archers of Jiannu can shoot a series of arrows, causing huge damage to the Ning Navy.

All the Jiannu thought that they could make a major breakthrough and that it would be a very victory.

However, at this very moment, rows of grenades flew through the sky.

The grenade smashed on the helmet and shoulder armor of the Jiannu Iron Cavalry, and the Jiannu Cavalry who were smashed didn't feel anything, but looked at the wooden-handled iron hammers on the ground that were sizzling and smoking with some confusion, and looked at each other with a confused look: "What the hell is this?" How can you hurt the enemy if you throw it on the ground? ”

Do you want to smash us to death with this?

That's too light, isn't it?

If you want to crush our hammer, you should throw it accurately!

"Boom Boom ......"

A series of impermeable explosions suddenly sounded, overwhelming the screams of thousands of troops and horses, and the Jiannu and Mongolian cavalry turned their eyes in shock, only to see the fire rushing in the middle of the cavalry on the front line, shrapnel was in the air, and many war horses were directly overturned by the blast wave.

Those that were not overturned were also hit by shrunk and steel balls flying at a rapid speed, and suppressed screams came from the airtight helmet. In the face of the anti-killing fragments and steel balls flying at explosive speed, no matter how thick the armor is, it is useless, and the ironclad cavalry who rushed to kill in a dense queue were cut down by shrapnel like wheat, and they were killed and wounded!

Huang Taiji is no stranger to the wide variety of firearms of the Ming army, and there is a heaven-shaking thunder in the firearms arsenal of the Ming army, and Jiannu has tasted it.

However, this thing is a wooden pot or clay pot with a large number of iron nails and pot fragments, which is lit and thrown out, and a large piece is blown up in one fell swoop.

But the problem is that this thing weighs more than a dozen pounds to say the least, and it can only be used to defend the city, and it has to be thrown with a trebuchet if it is barely used in field warfare.

The grenades used in the battle between the Jiannu cavalry and the Ning Navy scouts were actually used on a small scale and did not attract the attention of Jiannu.

However, in the process of all-out attack on the Ning Navy, the soldiers of the Ning Navy swept over in pieces, and the explosion was vigorous, and the invincible Jiannu light and heavy cavalry, and even the white-armored soldiers finally tasted the bitterness, and the grenades fell like hailstones, and there were flames everywhere, and shrapnel flying sideways everywhere, blowing them up half of them and their horses, and many of them were blown to pieces, with broken hands and feet, and those who were not bombed were chilled.

Within thirty steps before entering the Ning Navy's formation, a grenade exploded and they were dizzy, and the Ning Navy continued to attack the Jiannu cavalry with firearms and crossbows at a distance, and they had no way at all, so they could only be passively bombed.

At the age of seventeen or eighteen, they joined the army at the age of seventeen or eighteen, how much hardship they suffered, how many vicious battles they fought to practice such superhuman martial arts, the war horses they rode and the iron armor they wore were all painstakingly collected by Jiannu, and they were expected to be able to play a decisive role when facing the Ming army.

But the problem is that when the Ning Navy's grenades bombarded them in one round, they were turned on their backs......

Jiannu, who was in charge of attacking the Ning Navy, did not retreat, and they expected that the other Jiannu could break through the defense line of the Dongjiang Army, drive the rout of the Dongjiang Army, rush through the defense line of the Ning Navy, and successfully win the battle.

It's just a great pity that they are half the battle.

Although Ao Bai took advantage of Huanglong's weakness and successfully broke through the defense line of the Dongjiang Army, and successfully stirred up the defense line of the Dongjiang Army, when they were expanding their results, the Ning Navy gave them such a sudden.

Fortunately, Huang Taiji ordered the retreat too quickly, and there was a dense sound of thunderbolts in the direction of the right flank, and the left wing and forward corps of the Ning Navy were no longer kept, and four or five hundred thunderbolts began to speak.

That's the equivalent of 12,000 guns firing, and it's a spectacular sight.

Jiannu retreated, and when they left, they took some of the corpses with them, many corpses, and they didn't even have time to take them away.

To say that the unlucky is still Aobai, a slave thought that Aobai was dead, so he used a horse rope to lasso Aobai's head, Aobai was awake at the time, supported the rope with his arm, and shouted.

It's a pity that the battlefield was too noisy at that time, Aobai's voice was almost hoarse, and he didn't let the Jiannu who dragged him escape turn back, just like that, Aobai was dragged by the Jiannu soldiers from the right wing of the Ning Navy to the Jiannu camp, which is nearly seven or eight miles away, Aobai's armor was worn through, and his body was also ground into a blur of flesh and blood......

Jiannu retreated, and Jiannu's tidal offensive was finally blocked, and the officers and men of the Dongjiang Army who had fled regrouped, finally stabilizing the situation on the right flank.

Cheng Shijie also breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately he had transferred Zhou Ning earlier, otherwise the defense line of the Dongjiang Army would definitely be broken through, and the consequences would be unimaginable!

The current situation is that the Ning Navy has more than 30,000 men and horses, blocking the onslaught of 50,000 or 60,000 Jiannu troops, the Dongjiang Army is barely supporting on the right flank, and the cavalry of the Guanning Army is leading the Houjin cavalry under the leadership of Zu Dabi to circle around the edge of the battlefield......

That's right, more than 4,000 cavalry of the Guanning Army are leading seven or eight thousand Houjin cavalry around in circles, and the flexible movement has caused great pressure on Jiannu, and seven or eight thousand men and horses must be used to defend against these cavalry, lest they suddenly attack.

But in the same way, the cavalry under Zhao Wencai's command and Jiannu were very tragic, and the casualties of the Ning Navy were mainly concentrated in the cavalry division, and more than a quarter of the officers and soldiers of the cavalry division were killed or wounded, directly killed more than 1,000 people, and nearly 1,000 people were injured.

It can be said that Zhao Wencai used twice as many men and horses as Zu Dabi, and barely managed to lead seven or eight thousand Jiannu people, but the price he paid was even greater than Zu Dabi, and the results were much smaller.

This shows that the cavalry units of the Ning Navy still have a long way to go, and the Chinese army and the school yard have set up dense tents, and a large number of wounded soldiers have been placed in the tents, including the wounded soldiers of the Ning Army, the wounded soldiers of the Dongjiang Army, and the wounded soldiers of the Ning Navy.

Since the Dongjiang Army and the Guanning Army did not have military doctors and formed medical personnel at all, these wounded soldiers could only be taken care of by the field hospital of the Ning Navy.

Although Sun Chengzong did not directly command the battle, the military intelligence did not hide him, and Sun Chengzong judged from some clues that Cheng Shijie's pressure is actually not small now.

The first is the flowering shell, this is Cheng Shijie's trump card, all the flowering shells together, only seven hundred and two, which is equivalent to less than thirty rounds per artillery, which means that the artillery shells are only half a base.

This is also a matter of no choice, the process of making flowering bombs is not mature enough, and the yield is naturally low. The most important thing is that the output of fire wool is too low, only seven or eight thousand catties of nitric acid a month, it is needed to make smokeless gunpowder, it is needed to make fire wool, and everything has to be used with it.

After learning about this situation, Cheng Shijie issued an order to Yuan Shiliang: "If it is not necessary, temporarily stop the use of flowering shells!" ”

Of course, the situation of the Franc machine artillery is even better, there is still a base left, and there are still more than 1.3 million rounds of ammunition for the fire gun and the thunderbolt gun, so there is no need to worry about the problem of insufficient ammunition for the time being.

"Too much medication?"

Cheng Shijie said: "In the name of Ben Shuai, I ordered the management committee to let them transport the medicine as soon as possible!" ”

"Yes!"

Just as he was talking, Wu Sheng walked up to Cheng Shijie and whispered softly: "Cheng Shuai, Huang Shuai is gone!" ”

"What's missing?"

"Gone is gone!"

When Cheng Shijie saw Huanglong, he saw the corpses of about 100 Dongjiang Army soldiers around Huanglong lying on the ground in different shapes, in the center, Huanglong was half-kneeling on the ground with a spear in his hand, and more than ten feather arrows were inserted in his body, and a wolf's tooth arrow was shot through his iron helmet from the front door and out of the back of his head.

Huang Long's face and beard were covered with blood, and his eyes were wide open, and he couldn't bat at death.

Cheng Shijie looked at the Dongjiang Army soldiers kneeling on the ground and shouted, "What are you doing to eat?" What are you guys up to? Why didn't you protect Huang Shuai? ”

In history, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, a total of thirty-one generals died in the Liaodong battlefield, and Huanglong was the thirty-first general soldier who died in battle, of course, he was Chongzhen on July 14, the sixth year of the battle, died in Lushun.

It's a pity that in this time and space, he died early because of Cheng Shijie......

The surrounding Dongjiang Army generals were ashamed.

Huang Long's nephew Huang Sizheng took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Cheng Shijie: "Cheng Shuai, this is what Huang Shuai asked me to hand over to you!" ”

Cheng Shijie scolded the generals of the Dongjiang Army, but in fact he couldn't change anything.

There is no need to look at it, Cheng Shijie also knows that this is a letter left by Huang Long to Cheng Shijie.

Sure enough, the letter was written in advance, just to ask for a reward for the brothers of the Dongjiang Army here in Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie pointed to the letter and said, "Do you know what Huang Shuai wrote in the letter?" ”

The officers and soldiers of the Dongjiang Army bowed their heads and did not dare to look directly into Cheng Shijie's eyes.

Cheng Shijie roared: "Huang Shuai asked Ben Shuai, hoping that Ben Shuai can agree, and the officers and men of the Dongjiang Army who died in this battle can enjoy the treatment of the officers and men of the Ning Navy!" ”

The officers and soldiers of the Dongjiang Army looked at Cheng Shijie with a look of hope.

The treatment of the fallen officers and men of the Ning Navy is an open secret. The families of ordinary soldiers can receive a pension of twenty taels of silver and one hundred acres of land, which can be tax-exempt for five years and ten and a half years for eternal inheritance.

Although the pension has been increased according to the ranks, the standard of reward for 100 acres of land is the same treatment as a soldier and a general.

What this makes the officers and men of the Dongjiang Army care about the most is actually the last one: "Eternal heirloom!" ”

One hundred acres of land can ensure at least three generations of worry-free food and clothing.

"Huang Shuai was still thinking about you before he died, is that what you did to him? Exercise! ”

Cheng Shijie couldn't help but want to curse.

Of course, in the face of the expectations of the officers and soldiers of the Dongjiang Army, Cheng Shijie also knew that he could only agree, otherwise the Dongjiang Army would have no way to use it, and it would be related to the Ning Army.

Cheng Shijie said: "In this battle, there are brothers from the Dongjiang Army and the Guanning Army to help, and the commander treats everyone equally, beheads one level, rewards 50 taels of silver, 75 acres of land, and 20 taels of silver, 100 acres of land, five years of tax exemption, ten and a half years of tax, and will be passed down forever!" ”

"Cheng Shuai is mighty!"

"Cheng Shuai Wansheng!"

"Cheng Shuai is domineering!"

The surviving soldiers of the Dongjiang Army, who were originally lifeless, invariably reached out to touch the weapons beside them, they waved their weapons and shouted loudly: "Fight, fight, fight......"

Even the wounded soldiers, who were scarred, raised their arms and shouted.

Looking at the murderous surviving soldiers of the Dongjiang Army, their morale actually skyrocketed, and Sun Chengzong felt that the Dongjiang Army was a little strange at this moment......

A cavalryman of the Guanning Army, holding the half-corpse that had long been dead, burst into tears: "Brother, you heard, Cheng Shuai rewarded you with a hundred acres of land, plus the head I cut, our family can still live!" ”

Zu Dale opened his mouth, but did not make a sound.

He knew that he dared to object, and the sword of the Guan Ning army would not recognize him.

Cheng Shijieguang had to pay more than 1 million mu of land for the officers and men of the Dongjiang Army or the Guanning Army, and he also had to pay more than 100,000 taels of silver, and the casualties of the Caning Navy may exceed 200,000 taels of silver......

Cheng Shijie broke a fortune, Huang Taiji already wanted to cry without tears, and now in Huang Taiji's big tent, Dai Shan, Yue Tuo, Du Du, Mang Gurtai and others are like frosted eggplants.

No one expected that the Ning Navy would be so strong, not only was his long-range attack ability incomparable, but his melee combat ability was not inferior to Dajin, especially the light grenade. Whether it is a white-armored soldier or a red-armored soldier rushing up, they will soon be blown into a hornet's nest, although they are also constantly killing and injuring the Ming army, but such an exchange of scarce Houjin is really unbearable!

The attack on the Dongjiang Army was quite successful at the beginning, almost breaking through the defense line of the Dongjiang Army, but the Dongjiang Army launched an almost crazy counterattack under the cover of the Ning Navy and the leadership of Huanglong.

Every minute and every second is devouring the lives of a large number of Dajin warriors, and the performance of the Ming army has clearly told them, want to break through our defense? Yes, fill it with twice as many corpses!

Even if he made the greatest determination to destroy the Ning Navy at any cost, he still couldn't bear such heavy casualties, and Dajin couldn't afford to fight this kind of battle!

"What should I do?"

Mang Gurtai tugged at Yue Tuo's shirt and asked Yue Tuo to admonish Huang Taiji.

Yue Tuo's relationship with Huang Taiji is closer than Huang Taiji and Haoge's own son, Huang Taiji can listen to it, and the most important thing is that even if Huang Taiji doesn't want to listen, he won't punish him for anything.

Yue Tuo said: "Fifth uncle, what do you want to say?" Our Dajin Kingdom is not like Daming, right and wrong, nothing? ”

Huang Taiji said: "What does the fifth brother want to say?" ”

Mang Gurtai shouted: "Why can't you beat it, what should I do!?" ”

Before Huang Taiji finished speaking, Yue Tuo said angrily: "If you can't beat it, you can gnaw it layer by layer, what else can I do!" ”

Mang Gurtai's eyes breathed fire: "Layers of gnawing? According to this way of playing, when we gnaw the defense line of the Ming Army, we will not have many living people! ”

Du Du sighed and said with a painful face: "It's better to withdraw the army...... If it can't be defeated, even if it can be fought, the casualties will inevitably be extremely heavy, and our Dajin Kingdom can't afford to fight this kind of battle! ”

Huang Taiji didn't go on a killing spree, but laughed miserably: "You guys...... Do you all think that the withdrawal will be fine? ”

The crowd did not dare to look up.

Huang Taiji sneered: "In order to fight this battle, we delayed the reserve of pasture grass and the autumn fat for cattle and sheep; Due to the blockade of the Ning navy, we have not bought food and cloth from the Han Chinese for several months; At the same time, we don't know how much hay and dry cow dung were burned by them, how many cattle and sheep were snatched away, and even if we withdrew to Shenyang, how many people would survive this winter? ”

Huang Taiji's words made everyone breathless.

Life in Liaodong was already hard, they worked hard to graze, endured hunger, and survived until autumn, and risked their lives to break through the border to loot the border areas to obtain food and cloth, in order to survive the winter, and now they have nothing to grab and a large number of people have died, and a large number of wintering pasture and fuel have been burned by the Ning Navy, how can they survive this winter?

If you want to advance, you can't retreat, even at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Jurchens have never tried to be so passive, they have never tried.

Huang Taiji stood up, looked around at everyone, and said in a terrible voice: "We have no way out!" Minggou will not leave us a way to live, if we retreat this time, they will intensify their efforts, deploy more giant artillery to the Liaodong border pass, and build the cities more strongly, and every day that passes, the difficulty for us to take down these cities will increase by one point! These cities and cannons have become shackles around our necks, and every day passes, this shackles will be tightened a point, and we Dajin will have no way to retreat, and we will have no time......"

The Baylors fell silent.

Huang Taiji stared at Cheng Shijie's general banner in the distance, his eyes were so red that he almost wanted to spurt blood.

He is actually the one who regrets it the most now.

As early as February, when the more than 10,000 troops under Duoduo's command were wiped out, he could actually easily destroy Cheng Shijie.

At that time, how many people was Cheng Shijie?

In the early 10,000s, less than 20,000 horses, nearly half of them are sailors, and more than two-thirds are recruits.

He didn't even need to send troops, he only needed an order, ordering Duoduo to regroup, and with the strength of the three Dolgon brothers, it was more than enough to clean up Cheng Shijie.

It's a pity that at that time, Huang Taiji had to think about creating infighting between the three brothers Azig, Duoduo, and Dolgon, and it can also be said that he despised Cheng Shijie.

That's right, it's to despise Cheng Shijie.

Underestimating Cheng Shijie, the consequences are very serious.

Huang Taiji looked at the crowd: "King Ben Khan is wrong, and you are actually wrong!" ”

Fan Wencheng's heart tightened: "King Khan, how could you be wrong?" ”

Huang Taiji said: "Although the power of their giant cannon is terrifying, it is impossible to fire non-stop, and after fighting for a long time, it must stop and let the barrel cool; Although their guns are powerful, the barrels will turn red after a long time! We can beat them! Divide into several waves, launch an uninterrupted attack from multiple directions, don't care about any casualties, only by taking Haizhou City, we can live, only if we live, we are qualified to feel sorry for the casualties of the tribal warriors! ”

Huang Taiji's words are right, only by taking Haizhou and seizing the grain of Haizhou City can they have a glimmer of life, and there is no other way!

"Bloody battle to the end, never to the death!"

The roar of a beast resounded through the military tent, and all the Jurchen nobles trembled.

Yes, there is no way back for them.

From Huang Taiji decided to attack Haizhou......

No, it should be said that from the moment Cheng Shijie decided to send troops to take the entire Liaohe Plain, they had no way to retreat.

If they hesitate under Baliwan City, Cheng Shijie will definitely not be polite, he will definitely open his bloody mouth, revealing a mouth full of fangs ready to tear them to pieces!

Huang Taiji has no way to retreat, and there is no way out for the entire Dajin Kingdom.

Of course, the morale is up, and it can't be fought anymore.

It's getting late, fighting at night, and the threats and variables are greater.

Just when Huang Taiji and other Jurchen nobles were killing sheep and roasting meat and discussing countermeasures, Cheng Shijie looked at the sky.

The snow he was looking forward to finally came.

At first, it was just a small snowflake that was sprinkled one after another, and it took about half an hour for a thin layer of snow to spread on the ground, but as time went on, the snow became heavier and heavier, and the snow on the ground became thicker and thicker.

Cheng Shijie smiled: "Our time has come!" ”

Sun Chengzong seemed to understand: "You have been waiting for this snow? ”

"Yes, teacher!"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the direction of the Jiannu camp in the east and said: "What Jiannu believes in is nothing more than a strong bow and angry horse, and the decisive battle location I chose for Huang Taiji is very conducive to Jiannu's cavalry raid, but once it snows, the war horses can't run, and they deserve to be finished!" ”

Sun Chengzong stroked his beard and smiled: "Do you want to say that Li Jing attacked Yin Mountain at night?" ”

"No, no, no!"

Cheng Shijie shook his head and said, "I'd rather close the door and beat the dog!" ”

PS: The update is very slow these days, and Lao Cheng is also very helpless, I was recruited, A stream, and I almost couldn't write.

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