Chapter 139: The Bastion Shows Its Power and Beats the Jianslave)
The bastion has several corners like a star. The corners of the bastion stick out as turrets. The turrets can be used to place muskets and artillery to kill the enemy from multiple angles from the front, sides, and back.
The walls and turrets of the bastion can form a flanking attack, greatly improving the defensive effect of the city wall, and are most suitable for taking advantage of the Southern Army's long-range shooting advantage.
Nurhachi discovered this after watching for a while, so he ordered the second round to start. Half of the shield carts covered the archers and shot the people on the turret, and the other half of the shield carts pushed down the turret. When they reached the wall, half of the soldiers climbed up the wall to attack.
The other half directly used a knife and ax to chisel the turret.
It's just so rough.
When Jiannu attacked the city, he often asked the soldiers to use knives and axes to chip away at the city walls. This seemed like a stupid move, but it often worked wonders with great force. Many earthen cities and fortresses in Liaodong were directly broken down by them to gain entry.
Did Wang Hongyu expect this?
Of course it was expected.
Are there any special precautions taken in this regard?
Why don’t you take precautions~
I hope Jiannu will do this.
When it was built before, it was nominally a temporary small prison, but in fact it was just a small fortress. Wang Hongyu used a lot of civil materials instead of a lot of rocks, so he didn't want to build it solidly.
Because I just want the slaves to build the fortress~
At this time, the foundation of a turret has been chipped out, and Jiannu can drill through the entire wall no matter how hard he works.
Chiseling, chiseling, people kept being shot in the back and sides; chiseling, chiseling, and when the weapons were chopped to pieces, they picked up the weapons in the hands of the corpses and continued to chisel.
Finally in the fourth round, it is about to be penetrated!
"Hoho!"
"Yeah yeah!"
The Jiannu slaves roared happily, and the Ming army's momentum was almost suppressed by them.
"Don't be impatient!"
Wang Hongyu reminded everyone to cheer up, because the surprise is coming soon.
A tall and powerful slave soldier with a shaved head and pigtails picked up a big ax and struck hard!
"boom!"
The last section of wall at the northeast corner of the bastion was cut open.
The slaves formed a battle formation and were ready to charge. According to usual experience, the enemy would be inside the wall.
"boom!"
The big ax Jiannu struggled to open another opening.
Some slaves directly drew their bows and shot into the cracks.
Some arrows also flew out of the cracks, and several people were shot down.
"Kill!"
The slaves were furious, and more people shot into the cracks, and more arrows flew out of the cracks.
"Break down the wall!"
The rest who didn't shoot arrows all wielded their weapons and chipped away at the wall. Finally, a big gap was opened in this section.
"Kill him!" the slaves shouted.
"Kill over!" The other side shouted the same thing.
Swarm up and charge forward!
In the darkness, Jian Nu got into a fight with another group of people.
Both sides are heavily armored, both are very ferocious and good at fighting, and both are unable to defeat the other in wrestling and hand-to-hand combat.
"Very strong! Come and help!"
The other person yelled the same thing again.
Same thing?
Some Jiannu thought something was wrong. Why were the people on the other side of the wall shouting in Manchu?
"Ouch!"
"Hoo ho ho!"
I shouted randomly and communicated in Manchu, and found that it was one of my own people on the other side!
This side is the Zhenglan flag, and the opposite side is the Zhengbai flag.
After the wall was cut open just now, it was all our own people beating our own people~
This is the secret of why the bastion is so difficult to defeat~….
When you attack the wall of the bastion, you will encounter several protruding corners and shoot at the flanks and back.
Attacking the corner of the bastion, whether it is climbing the wall or drilling through, blowing through, or blowing to pieces, is of little significance~
Because the corners of the bastion stick out, even if they are knocked off, you can't get into the bastion. Especially when wall-cutters like Jiannu cut through a corner, the back of the wall only sticks out the back of the corners, which is not an edge at all.
Fort.
especially
Especially when it was dark, Jiannu, a relatively reckless person, started to attack as soon as he cut through the wall. He never expected that the one who cut through the wall on the opposite side was also one of his own~
The people in Zhenglan Flag and Zhengbai Flag finally communicated and confirmed that they were their own people, but just as they stopped, there was a light above their heads.
The turret at the northeast corner of the bastion was chipped away, but the section of wall connecting the bastion was still occupied.
The people above were of course Ming troops, and several large bamboo baskets were immediately thrown down from above.
The big bamboo basket was so dark that I couldn't see clearly. I could only determine what was inside. When I reached out and touched it, I found it was quite prickly.
"Iron caltrops! There are iron caltrops tied to the bamboo basket!" A Buddhist slave knew what it was.
"Throw the oil can!"
After throwing away the big bamboo basket, the Ming army threw down a bunch of clay pots from the wall and threw them on Jiannu's face. He reached out and touched the oily pots.
"shoot!"
Some of the slave archers immediately released their arrows, smashing the oil cans in mid-air and scattering them in the faces of the crowd.
"set fire!"
Finally, the Ming army threw down a bunch of torches~
"Boom boom boom boom!"
The bamboo basket exploded! Iron caltrops flew everywhere~
The oil ignited instantly and Jiannu was on fire~
A large number of slaves gathered here, and they were crowded together. They just realized that the people on the other side were their own people, and they didn't have time to retreat.
Now we don’t have to leave, let’s “dance” and “jump with joy” together, so happy~
This caused the Jiannu to lose hundreds of people at once, and it also caused a very shocking visual effect. The Ming army was greatly encouraged, and the momentum of the Jiannu immediately declined.
When Huang Taiji and Mang Gurtai saw him, they quickly ordered their flags to retreat.
We retreated relatively early this time, with the white flag behind us and the red flag behind us. We haven't rested yet.
On the other hand, the yellow flag was on the northwest side of the fortress, and the offensive was still fierce.
So there is a gap on the northeast side of the bastion.
"Cannons in position!"
Li Tiezhu, his uncles and nephews from the Lu family, and the Ming army gunners pushed four iron-core and copper-bodied cannons out of the fortress.
The tanks of the Zhejiang soldiers were also pushed out together, and they lined up in a half circle with matchlocks and Folang machines to carefully protect the gun positions.
Wang Hongyu estimated the time and estimated that there would be half an hour's gap, provided that Nurhachi did not forcefully order the rest flags to be raised now.
"Boom~"
Three cannon shots were fired from the northeast, and the Jiannu cannon fired again. Two of the three shells hit the wall of the bastion, opening a medium-sized hole.
"Time is limited, kill the enemy's cannon!"
"yes!"
Zhao Hannian, the commander-in-chief of the Zhejiang Army, had already observed the location of the enemy's artillery, but he was unable to counterattack because he could not reach the Folang machine in his hand.
Now, the iron-core copper-bodied cannon followed the direction directed by the Zhejiang soldiers, with its muzzle raised and aligned.
"Direction calibration, distance is 2 miles and 75 steps!"
"The direction is accurate, the muzzle is raised, the distance is 2 miles and 75 steps!" The uncle and nephew of the Lu family have no other skills. They are very experienced in the casting and aiming of cannons. Also, because they made artificial cannons for Ace Banya, they have a thorough knowledge of geometric principles and know the flight path of the cannonballs.
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Coupled with Wang Hongyu's guidance, even Li Tiezhu also learned some from them.
Of course this can crush the captured Ming army gunners on the opposite side!
The ammunition has long been loaded.
"put!"
Wang Hongyu roared angrily.
Li Tiezhu, the Lu family uncles and nephews and the gunners lit the fuse.
"Boom boom boom~"
Four cannon shots rang out and four shells flew past.
"boom!!!"
There was a loud noise like the earth was shaking, a violent explosion occurred in the slave camp in the distance, and a huge fire shot into the sky.