After saying that, the order to fire the cannon was yelled out from the Minister of War...

Then, the whistling sound of sharp shells began to sound on the battlefield.

Compared with the gunners on the Tartar artillery positions that have not been trained for a long time, these gunners from the border army are undoubtedly much more powerful.

One hundred flowering bullets, nearly half of them hit the Tartar artillery positions or next to the artillery positions...

Amid the explosion of these flowering bullets, four red cannons were directly blown to the ground, and their long cannons were also bent or directly blown into twists.

Of course, this is still a small part of the results achieved by dozens of flowering bullets.

Compared with directly blowing up the red-clothed cannon, the flowering bullets have almost no defense on the battlefield, and the killing of the Tartar gunners is obviously much greater.

On the huge artillery position, wherever the official artillery shells go, it will cause a tragic scream without exception.

At this time, if the commander-in-chief of this artillery was Wei Zheng, he would definitely order the gunner to withdraw from the battlefield without hesitation. Taking advantage of the gap between the opponent's gunner's reload, he would give up the red-clothed cannon and save the precious gunner.

Because, in Wei Zheng's eyes, a skilled gunner who has been trained for a long time is much more valuable than a red-clothed cannon. If the red-clothed cannon is gone, he can cast it immediately. In this way, he can only form a new artillery team in a very short time, and the combat effectiveness of the artillery team will not be worse than before.

If a skilled gunner is gone, it means it will take you a year or even several years to retrain a group of equally skilled gunners.

However, in this case, even if you keep the red cannon, without a skilled gunner, your artillery team will be in name only and cannot form combat power and fight.

However, the commander of the artillery team that was bombarded was not Wei Zheng, but Tartars...

In the eyes of these Tartars, they had the opposite idea. As for the reason, it was very simple. That is, the Later Jin Tartars did not have enough ability to build red-clothed cannons. In the eyes of the Tartars, these red-clothed cannons are treasures, many more important than gunners.

So, at the first moment of being bombarded, the gunners on the Tartar artillery positions were shocked. When they reacted from the shock, the second round of flowering bullets fired by the official army had already come to their heads.

At the same time, the officers who still survived the artillery team were like angry lions, commanding the remaining subordinates around them to transfer artillery.

However, is it so easy to transfer the cannon weighing thousands of pounds?

Just as the Tartars were recklessly transferring the red-clothed cannons, the government troops in Beijing were not idle. Round after round of flowering bullets, as if they didn't have money, they desperately smashed the Tartar artillery positions outside the city.

When the shelling ended, the sound of the cannon stopped, and the smoke that enveloped the battlefield slowly dissipated. A very bloody and tragic scene appeared directly in front of both the enemy and us.

The artillery positions that gathered fifty red-clothed cannons, except for the thirteen red-clothed cannons located on the edge of the position, were successfully transferred. All the remaining artillery was destroyed.

Of course, in the huge artillery positions, except for the red-clothed cannon barrels that were blown into various shapes, looking around, the most are the various corpses that were incompletely bombed by flowering bullets, and the broken limbs and broken arms that could be seen everywhere...

Just when the Tartar general looked at the artillery position with a stunned look on his face and couldn't say a word for a long time, many wounds were blown out by the flowering bullets. The black artillery commander ran to the commander like a stray dog.

Then, as if he had suffered some grievance, he knelt in front of the general and cried: "General, it's over, the artillery team is over... Fifty red-clothed cannons were bombed to the point where there were only thirteen. More than 500 gunners could continue fighting, less than fifty people... General, you must avenge your slaves, and avenge the brothers who died in the slaves. If the slave had not rescued these red-clothed cannons, the entire artillery team would have been destroyed. They all died in battle for the Later Jin Kingdom... "

After hearing the cry of the commander-in-chief of the artillery team in front of him, the anger he was ready to vent at him just now disappeared completely.

Because, the commander-in-chief of the artillery team in front of him was right, and what they did now was for the Later Jin Kingdom. According to the military rules of the Later Jin army, they were not only not punished, but also rewarded.

In this case, the commander of the Later Jin army could only transfer the target of venting to the official army in the city.

After waved his hand to the artillery commander in front of him, he said with a gloomy face: "I have seen all your performances... I promise that I will use the defender's head to avenge you."

After saying that, he ordered directly to the front office: "The artillery team, temporarily withdraw from the battle... The musketeers immediately launched a feint attack on the city wall. The cavalry team, which followed the musketeers, threw arrows at the city wall. The Han people's artillery was indeed powerful, but the warriors of our Later Jin Kingdom were not vegetarian. Today, we will use the riding and shooting that the warriors are good at, and kill them in large quantities, so that the Han people in the city would be frightened and afraid when they saw me..."

As soon as the command of the general was issued, two thousand musketeers who had completed the assembly rushed out.

Faced with the Tartars' rapid reaction, Zhang Qianshu did not dare to neglect and quickly ordered the various artillery arranged by the defenders on the city wall to fire.

For a moment, the battlefield, which was less than half an hour, was once again shrouded by the roaring cannons.

Round flowering bullets, dark solid shells, flying shots... as if they were not worth it, they flew out of the city.

However, what surprised Zhang Qianshu was that his violent shelling did not cause much damage to the two thousand musketeers.

You should know that these two thousand musketeers all came from the Eight Banners of Han, and almost all officers at all levels of the Han Dynasty came from the former Ming generals who surrendered to the Later Jin Dynasty.

As the commanders of the most elite army of the Ming Dynasty, they had long known the various tactics and tactics of the Ming Dynasty's official army. In this case, the musketeers they trained were of course very clear about how to guard against artillery attacks by the imperial government army on the battlefield.

Therefore, the two thousand musketeers who rushed towards Beijing did not gather together like before. Instead, they rushed towards the city wall in a team of ten people and hundreds of people in a team of them, very scattered.

In this way, artillery fixed to the city wall and difficult to adjust the direction of the muzzle can only be fixedly aimed in one direction, causing some slight casualties to the offensive troops outside the city.

In this way, when two thousand musketeers rushed to a hundred steps outside the city, they lost less than three hundred people.

Faced with this situation, Zhang Qianshu showed a shocked expression on his face and ordered loudly: "Military, the musketeer shoots immediately, and you must not let the Tartars approach the city wall..."

So, the dense and dull gunfire sounded on the city wall like firecrackers.

However, the distance of 100 steps was obviously beyond the range of the muskets equipped by the court. Although the lead bullets fired by the official army were dense, they did not cause any damage to the musketeers outside the city.

It was not until the eight banners of Han rushed to eighty steps that someone began to be hit by lead bullets and fell on the charge road.

However, at this time, the Han Eight Banners musketeers could also use muskets in their hands to shoot and kill the officials on the city walls. Because the Later Jin Tartars also bought a lot of them from the Tiger and Leopard Army, and the more inferior quality muskets were fired.

However, with the advantage of geographical advantage and military strength, every time a soldier was killed in the city guarding official army, it could eliminate at least two Han Eight Banners musketeers.

As the battlefield situation was about to tilt towards the official army step by step, a deafening sound of horse hooves suddenly rang out on the battlefield.

The two thousand Tartar cavalry rushed towards the city wall like a field charge.

"Does the Tartars plan to use cavalry to attack the city wall..." This is the first reaction of the defenders in the city.

So, the soldiers guarding the city unknowingly pointed the musket wound in their hands at these cavalrymen who were coming in a fierce manner.

However, it is obviously very difficult to hit the cavalry that ran quickly without organization. What is more important is that these Tartar cavalry did not crash into their guns in a straightforward manner.

The Tartar cavalry that spread out and rushed towards them were about to approach the range of the yard bow in their hands. They began to bend their bows and prepare to shoot arrows.

As soon as he entered the range of the horse bow, the arrows on the bow strings left the string and flew towards the top of the city.

As for the Tartar cavalry, they quickly left the battlefield with their superb riding skills.

Because all this was driving too fast, the defenders on the city wall had no time to react, and arrows with huge force descended from the sky and flew towards them.

Just as the continuous screams began to sound on the battlefield, the Tartar cavalry, who had just left the range of the official army's musket, bent their bows and arrows again, turned their horse's head, and prepared to shoot the second round of arrows at the city.

Since his hopeful fifty red cannons were devastatingly hit, the Tartar general knew that it had become a dream to break through Beijing with his existing strength.

Since that is the case, the next attack has only two purposes.

Release your anger and show the strength of the Later Jin army to the Ming court.

So, the attack in front of him, which used to consume the defenders' forces lasted only half an hour and stopped.

In the eyes of the Tartar general, he had time to fight against the Ming court, so there was no need to fight so hard.

However, even if it was only half an hour, the Tartars caused almost a thousand losses to the defenders. As for these losses, more than 70% were caused by the Tartar cavalry using horse bows.

Later, the Jin army lost less than 600 people in full swing. Most of the 600 people were Han Eight Banners Musketeers who had not been trained for much time.
Chapter completed!