The wheel on one side of the cart was missing and it immediately fell over, exposing the people behind it.
Then, a solid spherical bullet from the Three Generals Cannon flew in, hitting a dozen people who were panicking behind. Three people were penetrated, and two people were scratched.
Although the three general cannons are not big, the shell speed at 400 meters cannot be underestimated.
A direct hit will cause the body to erode, and the edge will cause limb breakage.
The five men immediately fell to the ground. Abuqai immediately shouted: "You six are carrying the axle over there, and you must not stop moving forward."
The dozen or so people under him immediately grimaced, and the carriages were heavy. It was obvious that they had to be rotated constantly. But they were going to suffer.
At this time, the laws of the slave-building army were strict, and anyone who did not give orders to retreat or cowered forward would be executed.
Therefore, even if one of the wheels of the cart is broken, it still has to move forward even if it is lifted.
Ma Dengyun looked carefully and saw that the results of the dozen or so artillery pieces were not very good. They only hit three carriages. This was already five rounds.
The accuracy of artillery guns in this era is indeed not very good. The main reasons are poor processing accuracy and poor sealing. The cannonballs are not round enough.
The Mongols moved first. They did not wait for the slowly moving carriages behind them. They carried simple ladders and launched an attack on the city wall.
Because Huang Taiji said that the tribe that ascends first can have priority in looting.
The first row of herdsmen held small bucklers. These were covered with rawhide. The second, third and fourth rows all held spears. Behind them, there were elites holding scimitars, and finally there were those holding big bows.
shooter.
Chifeng City is not close to a river, and the moat has no water source. Moreover, the city is simply rammed earth. The soil from the moat was dug out and used to ram the city wall. A trench with a gentle slope was formed, and there was no obstruction.
A large number of Mongolian soldiers successfully approached the city wall.
"Fire the three-eyed blunderbuss and bows and arrows, prepare to shake the sky with thunder." Ma Dengyun shouted. "Fire the catapults in the city."
After all, Chifeng is the core city of the defense line on the upper reaches of the Liao River designed by Dong Lin, and it still has sufficient offensive and defensive equipment.
This is a savanna, and the wood has to be transported from the mountains. The soil layer here is also relatively thin, with sand below it being more than a foot deep.
It belongs to that kind of place where the natural environment is very fragile. It can only be used for grazing.
If it is cultivated, it is easy to dig out the sand underneath and be blown up by strong winds, turning it into a desert. Naturally, there is also a lack of stones here.
Chifeng City was built using lime burned in the southern mountains, mixed with clay and sand. Therefore, the rolling logs here are all recycled. Iron nails are driven into the logs, like a mace, with ropes and ropes at both ends.
winch.
Smash it down from the top of the city and then pull it up. If you throw it away directly, there will soon be no rolling logs left in the city. The same goes for the stones. They are all mined from quarries in the mountainous areas in the south. In winter, water is poured on the road to freeze it, and then used
Cattle and horses were dragged here.
Stones are mainly used to make building materials. At this time, there is no need to worry about it. The stones stored in the city are first used as ammunition for trebuchets.
There were more than a dozen small trebuchets in the city. They fired rubble outside the city. From time to time, Mongolian soldiers marching forward were hit and fell to the ground screaming. Their cowhide helmets were poor defense against stones.
I watched the Mongolians walk to a distance of thirty meters and enter the moat. The dry river here has gentle slopes on both sides. There is no obstruction. Because when you dig deep, it is filled with sand. It cannot be like loess. erect.
When the city was first built, we tried our best to choose places with thicker soil. But here, more than a meter of digging was still sand. There was even only one foot of soil on the grassland.
The three-eyed cannons opened fire one after another, and for a while the city was filled with smoke. Other miscellaneous fire cannons also opened fire one after another. The firearms of these soldiers and horses have been passed down for hundreds of years, and the Wanli Dynasty did not issue many new firearms to the army in the northwest. .
The Broken House Gun, the Four-Eyed Gun, the Lianzi Gun, the Kidnapper Gun, the Thunder Gun... etc. opened fire one after another.
These firearms were very complex and varied in quality. Some of them even exploded when fired. The shooter threw the gun and covered his face and screamed.
Some of the Mongolians within thirty meters fell to the ground one after another. After being hit by lead bullets, these people fell down directly. However, most of them still rushed to the bottom of the city, and they immediately put up ladders.
The city wall in Chifeng is not very high, only over six meters. After all, time was limited and it was not built too high.
Three rows of Mongolian soldiers, armed with cavalry spears of five meters and four meters in length, and with the support of their height and arms, could completely reach the crenel. For a time, densely packed spear heads were stabbing towards the crenel.
The defenders used knives and various weapons to block. At the same time, they had to guard against the Mongols who shot arrows with big bows behind them.
Seeing that the crenel was disturbed, the swordsmen held their scimitars in their mouths and began to climb the city.
Madeng Yun frowned and looked at these brave Mongolians. This kind of fighting style created a lot of trouble for him.
"Use a pole to push them down."
Following the order, the soldiers picked up the pole, held it tightly with both hands, and stabbed it down the ladder.
The pole is a tool that can not only prevent enemies from using flying ladders to climb the city, but also can be used to kill enemies who climb the city.
A wooden pole over four meters long, with a horizontal arc-shaped blade at the top. It is used to push down and kill enemies on the ladder.
When the enemy's flying ladder is close to the city wall, you can use the chisel blade at the front of the fork pole to resist the ladder and push it down. Or when the enemy climbs halfway up the wall, use the fork pole to push down the ladder and chop it hard. The horizontal blade can also kill many enemies.
Gergen is struggling to climb up with a scimitar between his teeth. He is a warrior in the tribe. He can take the first place in wrestling at the annual conference held by the prince. In his opinion, as long as he climbs up, he will be like a goshawk. Just like killing rats and rabbits, kill these Ming people.
But suddenly, a cold light flashed before his eyes, and a half-moon-shaped huge weapon with a cold light was pushed down from above.
There was a click, and the two arms he was holding on to the ladder to climb the city were cut off by the blade. He screamed and fell off the ladder. Blood spurted out from the two broken arms. The rod was then inserted into a Shifu behind him. Long, Shifu Chang had one of his thighs cut off and fell off.
The metal part of the blade that inserts the pole weighs seven or eight pounds, and it is pushed down from above with great force.
The third person finally had time to react and hurriedly used his machete to block, but the impact of the pole was very huge. Although he blocked the pole, he and several people behind him were still pushed off the ladder and fell. on the ground.
Then, the one who inserted the pole three times and divided it by two cut off the crude birch ladder, which was as thick as an arm, and turned it into a pile of broken wood.
Huang Taiji was on a huge Lu Gong car, looking coldly at the siege battle of the Mongolian soldiers in front. This was the first time he had seen this kind of weapon. It seemed that the Ma family had a lot of good things.
He had been fighting with Nurhachi since he was a child, and had many experiences in various siege battles. During the Manchurian Unification War, siege battles were almost always fought. But this was the first time he saw such a defensive weapon.
This chapter has been completed!