Sajiala is not a fool. Although he has never fought against the Zhou army head-on, he has seen the power of fire cannons from the Jianzhou army, and he knows very well that it is not so easy to take down the fortress of the Zhou army.
But he also knew that he had no choice but to take on this task.
Nurhachi asked the East China Sea Jurchens to go all the way around the border wall and then come in to fight this battle. They were not just to accompany them, but to really go into battle.
In war, people will die and sacrifices will be made. This is true for the Zhou army, the Jianzhou army, and the East China Sea Jurchens.
The Donghai Jurchens have no choice. Since they have joined Jianzhou and want to fight for a place for the Donghai Jurchens in the future, the Donghai Jurchens must prove their worth.
Jianzhou captured Anlezhou, Tielingwei and Shenyang. It turned out that the border wall built by Zhou Dynasty to defend against enemies was also under Jianzhou's control. It has formed an overwhelming advantage over Liaodong. If this battle is won, basically
The entire Liaodong is in the pocket, and the Jurchens of the East China Sea need to prove themselves in this battle.
Five thousand warriors is the greatest sincerity that the East China Sea Jurchen can show, and it can also be regarded as a certificate of honor, so this battle of Sajiala must be started well.
These five thousand people were all selected from the Jurchens of the East China Sea. They were all hunters who were good at hunting in the forest. Their skills with knives, forks and archery were no less than those of the so-called warriors of Jianzhou Jurchens.
After joining Jianzhou, strict military training and discipline allowed the Donghai Jurchen warriors to understand the difference between fighting and hunting. The mandatory military discipline also turned the five thousand warriors of the Donghai Jurchen into a group of real warriors.
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Although Zhou Jun's firearms are sharp, as Hu Erhan said, such a camp only has more than a thousand people, and the damage and threat it generates are limited. Relying on the thick shield and the leather shield to protect the body, the power of the firearms can be offset to the maximum extent.
Once you reach the camp, it's time for the East China Sea warriors to show themselves.
As the order was issued, the Donghai warriors under Sajiala began to advance in a file. The large shield held high was like a giant door panel, blocking the soldiers. Two soldiers used wooden scales to hold up the upper end, and the two soldiers below held it firmly.
Hold the handle of the large shield, keep it upright and balanced, and advance towards the fortress at a constant speed.
Even Tao Dasheng didn't expect that the Jianzhou Army who came from afar could actually produce hundreds of giant wooden shields at once. These wooden shields were thick and difficult to penetrate with ordinary fire guns from a hundred steps away, unless they were used.
Eagle-billed muskets, but this time, considering the overall integrity and the presence of the Crouching Tiger Cannon, the camp was not equipped with heavy muskets.
This made the whole situation suddenly become serious.
"Hu Er, have you seen it? The Jianzhou Army has actually prepared so many large shields. Your Crouching Tiger Cannon may be too powerful." Tao Dasheng looked at Hu Er with an indifferent expression, "How many long-barreled cannons did you bring?"
"Who the hell would have thought that these grandsons would go around for hundreds of miles and still carry large shields? I only brought three long-barreled cannons as backup, and I almost didn't even bring these three. The brothers all thought they were carrying heavy shields.
The mules and horses are too lazy to pull,..." Hu Er snorted angrily: "I really encountered it."
"Stop talking nonsense and quickly put out the long-barreled cannons. They will come in handy at some point. We can't just watch these Jianzhou Army walk in front of us and then fight. Their bows and arrows are enough for us to drink a pot."
"Tao Dasheng's heart sank when he heard that there were only three long-barreled cannons, but it was still better than nothing. It just depends on whether the rhythm of this artillery team is fast enough.
"Let me tell you, damn, when I saw these grandsons using big shields, I knew that this battle would not be easy for us, so we have already arranged it." Seeing Tao Dasheng's solemn look, Hu Er curled his lips and said,
"Don't look like you are dead to your parents. Although there are only three long-barreled cannons, the ground is enough for them to drink a pot. The ground is so frozen that if a cannon is ejected, they will be strung into pieces.
Hulu, let's see, let Pan Laosan and the others keep an eye on it. Once our cannons break through the enemy's shield formation, they will hit a big gap. I don't believe they can still hold on!"
The arrangement of the long-barreled cannon was much more troublesome than that of the squatting tiger cannon. The heavy barrel weighed more than two thousand pounds and required more than ten people to move it using a pulley crane with moving wheels.
Fortunately, he had prepared the tools for this when he brought the long-barreled gun. Feng Ziying also considered that the long-barreled gun was inconvenient to carry and place, so he introduced the pulley crane that had been widely used in shipyards into the army and reduced the size.
It facilitates the use of the artillery team.
There are not many places on the high ground suitable for placing long-barreled cannons, so we had to move a few squatting tiger cannons that had already been arranged before the long-barreled cannons could settle down.
It took less than half an hour to complete this operation. At this time, the Jianzhou Army, actually the East China Sea Jurchen infantry, had already pressed forward with huge shields and overwhelming force.
Hu Er's eyes narrowed. The muzzle of the long-barreled gun was adjusted according to the elevation angle of the artillery carriage. The artillery soldiers began to determine the firing range according to the calculation method. It was not until the soldiers of the three artillery carriages raised their hands that Hu Er said fiercely.
With a wave of his hand, a word came out from between his teeth: "Let go!"
The fuse was lit, making a "sizzling" sound, and the burning process was quickly completed. With a slightly dull but soul-stirring loud noise, it exploded. The three giant cannons all retracted at the same time, and the huge recoil caused
The entire sports car was shaking. Although a recoil spring was specially installed, such a powerful recoil still affected the position of the entire gun carriage.
The soldiers immediately pushed the artillery carriage to recover according to the position they had just determined. At the same time, they also began to raise the telescope to observe the effect of the three artillery shells after they were fired.
The three shells roared out, forming a beautiful and ferocious arc in the air, passing over the distance between the two sides, and heading straight towards the steadily advancing shield array.
Considering the need to destroy the formation of the shield formation, the gunners deliberately lowered the muzzle of the cannon slightly to use the huge kinetic energy of the shells after they hit the ground to cause damage to the entire shield formation.
All the Jurchen soldiers in the East China Sea, including Sajiala in the back row, also heard what was almost a single sound, but in fact it was still three slightly muffled sounds.
But at the same time as the sound of cannons was heard, three artillery shells had already moved from far to near, and quickly fell about twenty steps in front of the shield formation. Then they hit the ground and bounced up.
The ground was covered with thin ice, and the ground was frozen very hard. After the round shell hit the ground, it immediately bounced and ran forward, but the distance it bounced was not as high as expected.
Less than four feet away, it was almost rushing forward crazily along the ground.
None of the Jurchen soldiers in the East China Sea who were marching steadily forward with their shields unloaded had never expected that such a scene would occur. The soldiers who took the lead in raising their shields were all selected strong men. Not only were they taller than their companions, but all of them were
A person who is skilled in martial arts and has great courage, but he still looks so fragile and helpless in the face of this sudden impact.
A cannonball bounced off the ground first and crashed into a wooden shield. The unparalleled force instantly caused the wooden shield to shatter. The four soldiers who worked hard to support the wooden shield didn't even have time to shout.
When he was released, he was hit by the huge impact and his bones were broken, his chest was caved in, and he fell to the ground spurting blood.
The cannonball did not lose any kinetic energy due to this obstruction, and continued to travel backwards rapidly and hit the lower edge of the second wooden shield that followed.
It also penetrated without any hindrance, smashing the lower half of the wooden shield into pieces, breaking the legs of a soldier behind the wooden shield, and then bounced up again after hitting the ground. He slightly changed his direction in the air and hit another soldier who was holding his head high.
Pole support soldier.
The soldier reacted quickly enough and wanted to use a pole to resist the sudden blow, but the wooden pole as thick as an arm suddenly broke under the impact of the projectile. The projectile bounced up and knocked out a huge dent in the soldier's chest.
Before he even had time to hum, his internal organs were shattered into pieces.
But the projectile still continued to run backwards without wanting to finish, until it hit the feet of the soldiers with the third wooden shield, causing the legs of the two soldiers to break and fracture before it stopped.
This is the power of heavy artillery.
And on such a winter day, on the ground that has been frozen hard by ice and snow, even after running twenty steps in one day, the entire resistance composed of manpower and shields can be easily torn to pieces without any hindrance.
force.
The two artillery shells that followed rushed into the shield array from both sides almost indiscriminately, and the result was almost the same as the first artillery shell.
Especially the third cannonball, because it landed ten steps away from the shield formation, had a higher bounce. It almost only touched the ground twice before rushing into the shield formation, tearing the first shield into pieces in an instant.
, the four soldiers behind who were fully supporting all fell to the ground with blood spurting out, and then the shell hit three shields in succession, causing a series of casualties, and penetrated through the junction of the two shields, and directly
After killing and wounding many soldiers, they stopped.
Just three shells caused unimaginable damage to the entire shield array. At least more than fifteen soldiers were killed in this bloody catastrophe, and as many as thirty people were injured, including many internal organs.
Those who are seriously injured or have broken bones or limbs may have a hard time surviving.
Sajiala, who was sitting at the back end, was not sure what was happening in front of him for a while. He only felt that the entire formation seemed to suddenly stop in the middle, and the entire forward formation slowed down, followed immediately by a shout.
The screams and wails of the sky and the earth came from the front, but in such a dense formation, unless the entire formation collapsed, even he, the head coach, would not be able to quickly obtain intelligence information.
When he learned about this tragic situation from the words coming from the front, Hu Er's long-barreled cannon had already fired the second round of bombardment.
This round of bombardment was more precise than the first round.
Almost all three shells penetrated directly into the shield array very cleanly.
Although in a short period of time the Jurchen warriors at the front of the East China Sea used the wooden shields at the back to complete a complete shield formation again, this was meaningless.
This chapter has been completed!