Chongzhen Ming Dynasty: Starting from Meishan Chapter 467 Killing Dorgon with one shot
The sound of intensive volleys of musketry was heard, and the green battalion soldiers who had just rushed to the top of the wall fell backwards, rolled down the 45-degree slope, and fell into the ditch.
At least hundreds of Green Battalion soldiers fell into the trench.
And he sank directly into the water and never got up again.
The remaining green battalion soldiers hurriedly climbed back to the naval warship.
Obviously, the green battalion's wooden signs could not withstand the Ming army's self-made fire cannons at close range.
Hong Chengchou said with a dark face: "Master, the lethality of the Ming army's self-made firecrackers may not be as lethal as our Qing Dynasty self-made firecrackers."
Dorgon hummed lightly and didn't say anything more, but his eyes were fixed on the battlefield ahead through the telescope. Next, it was the navy's turn to counterattack.
Sure enough, just as Dorgon changed his mind,
Nearly two hundred warships of the Qing Navy opened fire one after another.
More than two hundred Franco machine guns and more than five hundred bowl-mouth blunderbuss fired fiercely at the Ming army's gun platform at the same time. The scene was extremely spectacular, and the periphery of the gun platform was instantly shrouded in smoke and dust.
This time the Ming army was badly beaten, because when the Qing navy opened fire, each of the Ming army was holding a self-produced musket, with half of their body from the chest up exposed on the protective wall, hunting the fleeing Green Camp.
Now the Ming army musketeers were directly beaten by the navy.
Through the spreading smoke and dust, Dorgon could vaguely see that a large number of Ming army musketeers behind the gun platform's protective wall fell instantly, at least two to three hundred.
The Fran cannon and the bowl-mouth blunderbuss both fired lead.
These lead rods won't work against a three-piece rammed-earth retaining wall.
It is most useful for attacking the Ming army behind the protective wall.
In just one shelling, two to three hundred Ming troops were killed and injured.
However, it is estimated that not too many Ming soldiers were actually killed.
But Dorgon couldn't help but cheer loudly: "Okay!"
The Qing army finally caused substantial damage to the Ming army in Dagukou.
Prior to this, the Qing army suffered so many casualties and lost so much supplies and equipment, but it failed to cause substantial damage to the Ming army in Dagukou. It was really frustrating.
But today, I finally saved some face.
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On the watchtower, Chen Mingyu's expression suddenly changed.
"Don't panic." Yan Yingyuan said very calmly, "No one will die in a war."
"But this wave of casualties just now was a bit too great." Chen Mingyu said worriedly, "I estimate that at least two hundred soldiers were injured or killed, but this is only the number one of the Jiannu Navy.
It’s just a wave of bombardment.”
"Precisely because this was the first wave of shelling by the Jiannu Navy, the casualties were so high."
Yan Yingyuan's perspective on problems is always different: "The Holy One once told us that the only lesson humans can learn from history is that they will never learn from history."
"It's the same in war. Normally, no matter how much you say, it's useless."
"But once they suffer a loss, they will become smarter."
"Some people and some things always have to hit their heads and bleed in order to remember them."
"So, it will be difficult to achieve such a result once the second wave of bombardment by the Jiannu Navy comes."
"What's more, the first wave of shelling by the Jiannu Navy just now used mostly lead, so most of the people in front should only be injured."
"I hope what you said is right." Chen Mingyu breathed a sigh of relief and raised his telescope again to focus on the gun platform in front of him on the left. He saw that the green battalion soldiers had launched a second wave of attacks.
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Jiannu still hoped to seize the Ming army's gun platform as soon as possible through a strong attack.
Of course, the red flag will not be used to launch a strong attack, but only the green camp soldiers can launch a second wave of strong attack.
Under the coercion of Jiannu, more than 500 green soldiers jumped to the wall, and then rushed to the top of the wall carrying heavy wooden signs. This time the green soldiers quickly rushed to the top of the wall.
In fact, the outer wall of the parapet is only about seven feet long.
Those who are tall and have long legs can reach the top in two steps.
As expected, the Ming army in the gun platform learned their lesson and quickly made adjustments to their defensive tactics.
It wasn't until more than five hundred green soldiers rushed to the top of the protective wall, ready to cross the five-foot-wide platform on the top of the wall and rush into the gun platform, that the Ming army suddenly stood up and fired another volley with their flintlock guns.
There was a dense sound of gunfire, and the green soldiers on the top of the wall fell to the ground one after another.
Dozens of lucky green soldiers were lucky enough not to be shot and jumped into the gun platform.
However, what awaited these dozens of Green Camp soldiers was a more tragic ending: being stabbed to death with random knives.
The green soldiers who were injured and lying on the top of the wall or simply lying on the top of the wall pretending to be dead quickly crawled back when they saw this, and climbed back to the warship along the 45-degree inclined plane on the outside of the protective wall. The second storm ended in failure.
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But many Green Camp soldiers could never go back and sank to the bottom of the ditch forever.
Moreover, this time the Ming army also learned its lesson and did not rush to hunt down the fleeing Green Camp.
This made the Jiannu Navy, who had been waiting for the opportunity, wait in vain.
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"How?" Yan Yingyuan turned around and asked Chen Mingyu.
"You really have a long memory." Chen Mingyu nodded lightly.
"However, I'm afraid it won't be so easy next time."
Yan Yingyuan continued: "If nothing else happens, Jiannu should give up the attack and start a firearms exchange with us across the wall of the gun platform."
"The Fran cannons on the Jannu naval warships are useless."
"But those bowl-mouth blunderbuss on the warships of the Jiannu Navy can hit our troops in the gun platform."
The Wankou Gun is not a gun, but a kind of artillery similar to the Crouching Tiger Cannon. It can shoot in a curve over obstacles of a certain height. The guard wall of the gun platform is only five feet high, so naturally it cannot stop the Wankou Gun.
After a pause, Yan Yingyuan continued: "Most of the Jiannu Navy followed Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi who defected from the Dengzhou Navy or the Dongjiang Navy, so it is likely that there will be a large number of firearms, such as cupping jars.
Fire tubes and rockets, etc., it would be even more troublesome if this were the case."
When Chen Mingyu heard this, he began to worry again.
"Jian Heng, can you not hold the cannons on the left and right?"
"That's definitely not the case. We can still defend it."
"It's good if you can hold on, as long as you can hold on until dark."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Chen Mingyu breathed a sigh of relief and subconsciously looked back.
All I could see was that the North Sea was pure blue and there was not a single ship in sight.
Chen Mingyu began to worry about gains and losses again. Wouldn't the navy not come?
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It was not only Chen Mingyu who worried about gains and losses, but also Dorgon.
Dorgon's face also fell when he saw the more than 500 green battalion soldiers who launched another strong attack retreated.
No way? With the support of the Navy, it won’t be possible to capture it, right? If he still can’t capture Dagokou this time, Dorgon simply can’t figure out what to do, withdraw his troops and go back?
It is impossible to withdraw our troops back.
The knife at Daqing's throat must be removed.
At that moment, Dorgon turned around and shouted to Cao Eryu: "Pass my decree and push the Jinglan cart forward another five hundred steps."
Dorgon instinctively wanted to get closer to the battlefield in order to grasp battlefield information more accurately and in a timely manner.
This way, when necessary, timely intervention can be made to prevent Azig from making mistakes at critical moments.
"Master, if you go five hundred steps forward, you will almost reach the position of the red cannon." Cao Eryu said with some worry, "Is this too dangerous?"
"What danger could there be?" Dorgon said angrily.
"The red cannons of the Ming army only have a range of 700 or 800 steps. Go and deliver the message."
"Hey." Cao Eryu did not dare to persuade him any more, and immediately ordered Bao Yi from Zhengbai Banner to push several well-mounted carts forward.
Several Jinglan vehicles carried Dorgon, Fulin, Luo Luohun, Luck Dehun and other Manchu nobles as well as Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng and other Han officials slowly moved forward, and finally arrived in front of the artillery camp position after a quarter of an hour.
At this time, the entire field of vision is much wider than before.
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"Gongchen, what do you think that is?"
Yan Yingyuan pointed at the Jinglan car that was slowly approaching in front of him.
"Is this... a well lantern?" Chen Mingyu turned the telescope, and after watching for a while, he suddenly said, "No, this seems to be a watchtower converted from a well lantern?"
"Yes, this is the watch car. I discovered it on the first day when the slave army arrived."
Yan Yingyuan said in a low voice: "If nothing else happens, Dorgon and Fulin will be there."
In the past few days, the Ming army also captured many prisoners of war from the Green Camp. From the prisoners of the Green Camp, they learned that not only Dorgon and Fulin, but also almost all the princes, counties, princes, Beile and Beizi who had established the slaves were here.
"Jianheng, you deliberately let the Hongyi cannon be half-charged with gunpowder. Is that your intention?"
"Why not? If Dorgon can be killed with one shot, Jiannu will definitely be in chaos, and it is entirely possible that it will fall apart overnight, because currently no one in Jiannu can shake the Eight Banners except Dorgon."
After talking about this for a while, Yan Yingyuan said again: "If Jiannu falls into chaos or even internal strife, it will not be a question of whether we can defend Dagong Pass, but whether Jiannu can withstand our thrust on Beijing."
The sharp sword! At that time, the Holy Lord will personally lead the Xuzhou army to take advantage of the situation and go north, and the slaves will directly destroy the country!"
When Chen Ming heard this, his heart skipped two beats.
But soon, Chen Mingyu sighed again and said: "Unfortunately, the distance is still far. If these wells can be moved two hundred steps further, our 4-inch field artillery can hit them."
"Don't worry, Jiannu's Jinglan will continue to move forward."
Yan Yingyuan said: "It's not dangerous after all, is it?"
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Azig has realized that he cannot blindly attack.
Counting on a blind attack, the 20,000 green soldiers would be unable to take down the gun platform even if they were all dead.
So Azig also quickly changed his offensive tactics. He first sent the green camp sword players to squat behind the protective wall, and then asked the green camp musketeers to use the sword players to lure the Ming army's musketeers to shoot at them.
As soon as the Ming army's musketeers showed their heads, the Green Camp soldiers quickly fell down en masse.
Then the muskets and Fran cannons on the naval warships will take the opportunity to fire.
Of course, this is just Azig's idea, and it is impossible to achieve such a tacit understanding in practice.
Either the blunderbuss or the Fran cannon were fired late, or the Green Battalion musketeers failed to lure the enemy, and sometimes there were even accidental injuries. The scene was called chaos.
But even without a tacit understanding, this strategy was still extremely threatening to the Ming army.
In addition, in addition to shooting with muskets, the Jiannu and Ming armies also used various attack methods.
The Ming army kept throwing grenades outside through the parapet wall, and sometimes dropped thousands of enemies on the top of the parapet wall.
Thousands of enemies often burn a large area on the top of the wall, killing and burning many Green Camp soldiers in an instant. Hand grenades can also pose a certain threat to the warships of the Jiannu Navy.
After the two sides were in a stalemate for about half an hour, a warship sank after being hit by multiple grenades.
Of course, the greatest threat to Jiannu was the twenty squatting tiger cannons in the gun platform.
Because the Crouching Tiger Cannon can directly launch bombardments at the naval warships outside the wall through the five-foot-high protective wall.
The only pity is that the Tiger Crouching Cannon can only fire 30 taels of closed-mouth bullets or five-cent lead. The five-cent lead can only kill and injure the slave builders, and the 30-tael closed-mouth bullets can only be fired during the construction period.
Holes were drilled one after another on the deck or side of the Slave Navy warship, making it impossible to directly blow up and sink the warship.
If you want to sink a warship quickly, explosive shells like grenades are the most effective.
However, under the attack of the Ming army's squatting artillery, grenades and tens of thousands of enemies, the Jiannu Navy was also in a very embarrassed state. It was very busy just plugging the holes in the deck or side of the naval warship.
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But the Ming army in the gun platform was not at all relaxed, because the Jiannu Navy still retained many traditional weapons of the Ming Navy, such as chimneys, smoke cans, fire bricks, rockets and even the flying crow.
And these weapons can also launch attacks through five-foot-high protective walls.
In addition, the Jiannu Navy's bowl-mouth blunderbuss is particularly threatening. It is the same as the Crouching Tiger Cannon.
Suddenly, flames shot into the sky inside and outside the two gun towers, and the smoke was so thick that people couldn't even open their eyes.
The situation was at a stalemate for the time being. Jiannu was unable to enter the gun platform, but the Ming army could not do anything to the Jiannu navy outside the protective wall. The two sides could only throw their firearms at each other across the five-foot-high protective wall.
Nu hoped that the Ming army would run out of throwing firearms first, and the Ming army also pointed to Jiannu to run out of all kinds of firearms first.
But in fact, both sides prepared sufficient firearms.
At least there is no worry about running out of firearms in the short term.
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The fierce fighting continued until evening and did not end.
The Ming army and Jiannu all unanimously lit up the torches.
From the Beihai more than ten miles away, you can clearly see the entire battlefield.
The two brothers Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui, who were standing on the battle mast of the navy's flagship, saw this scene. Even though they were more than ten miles away, they could still vaguely hear the sound of gunfire.
Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but become excited.
After the Battle of Liaoluo Bay, we have not experienced such a big scene for more than ten years.
At that moment, Zheng Zhilong shouted: "Every ship listens to the order, raises the sails, and moves forward at full speed!"
Zheng Hongkui immediately shouted to the bottom: "Raise the sails and move forward at full speed!"
The sailors on the flagship quickly raised the hard sails one after another, and the signal soldiers guarding the middle mast also quickly hoisted the light signal. Seeing the light signal on the flagship, other warships of the navy also raised the hard sails.
, driven by the southeast wind, the originally slow-moving warship gradually began to speed up.
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