The sudden change suddenly knocked out the Green Battalion artillery.
Obviously, the Green Camp Artillery did not expect that the Ming Army also brought artillery.
At least 30 camels were beaten to pieces, and other camels were also frightened. They instinctively got up and tried to escape. Fortunately, the Green Battalion artillerymen were well-trained and held on with all their strength.
"Hold still, hold still, no one can run away."
"Don't be afraid of Ming Gou's bombardment, the second round won't be so accurate."
The green camp leader who led the team raised his saber high and roared at the top of his lungs.
Under the scolding of the commander, the camel artillery quickly stabilized its position.
As a result, the camel that got up lay down on the ground again under the control of the camel's hand.
While the Green Battalion artillery was busy, the Eight Banners Mongolia instinctively distanced themselves from the two wings and moved as far away from the Camel Artillery position in the center as possible to avoid suffering disaster.
After a while, the camel artillery was loaded with ammunition.
"Fire!" The green battalion ginseng leader pressed down the waist knife hard.
More than a hundred gunners unanimously lit the fuse of the camel cannon.
The Camel Cannon is actually an oversized flintlock gun, but such a large flintlock gun cannot be used as a firing mechanism, and even if it is, it cannot be pulled, so the fuse can only be used to ignite the fire.
Almost at the same time, a row of dazzling red lights burst out from the Ming Army artillery position opposite.
Fortunately, the Ming army's artillery had reloaded their ammunition in less than a minute and fired a second row of shells at the Qing army's camel artillery position.
If Chongzhen stood here, he would be so angry that he would curse his mother.
What the hell is this? That’s not how cannons are used!
Before artillery was used, it was mainly used to bombard large-scale fortifications, such as city walls, castles, and strong fortresses. There was only one situation where it would be used to attack infantry, and that was when the infantry had already rushed forward. At this time, the cannon
It will be loaded with hundreds of bullets, that is, shotguns, and directly targeted at the infantry's face.
But attacking infantry from a thousand or even two thousand steps away is really a blind attack.
There is only an iron lump, let alone whether it can fall within the enemy's infantry formation. Even if it falls within the formation, it can only penetrate a line at best.
If the enemy attacks in three stages, there will only be three people in one line.
More often than not, cannonballs can only land in open spaces or gaps.
Therefore, using artillery to hit infantry from a long distance is more of a deterrent.
The so-called deterrence is used to weaken the enemy's morale and improve one's own morale.
It's even more nonsense to use artillery against artillery. As long as the enemy spreads out the artillery positions and increases the distance between the two cannons to twenty or even fifty steps, what's the hit rate of a solid iron bullet? Purely.
waste!
That is to say, the distance between the 200 camel artillery pieces of the Green Camp just now was too small, and they were arranged in a staggered manner. Therefore, the hit rate of the Ming army's mountain artillery was invisibly improved a lot, otherwise it would just make a sound.
But the second round of shelling by the Ming army's artillery was no longer such a good thing.
Because the first round of shelling just now had shaken away the parameters.
The cannons at this time were all rigidly connected, and the parameters could easily be shaken off after firing.
Only with the invention of the barrel retraction machine and the retraction machine can the accuracy of the cannon be qualitatively improved. With the addition of explosive ammunition, the lethality will be significantly improved.
But today's artillery does not have a retraction machine or a recoil machine.
Moreover, after the chaos just now, the distance between Jiannu's artillery has been widened.
As a result, the artillery of the Ming Army and the artillery of the Qing Army fought a "fierce" artillery battle.
I saw that the artillerymen on both sides were constantly firing, reloading, firing again, and reloading. They were very busy.
Cannonballs continued to fly through the air, leaving a long series of screams that seemed to tear the sky apart, and then crashed to the ground with a bang, plowing a long groove in the ground.
But when I looked at the landing point, I was so stupid that I flew to Java.
All in all, after a fierce operation, the result turned out to be zero and five.
Yes, the Ming army's artillery destroyed five more camel cannons in almost half an hour of artillery battle, but the Jiannu artillery could not even destroy a single Ming army's mountain cannon.
It's not that it didn't hit, it's that it failed to destroy.
The disparity in battle results is partly due to the fact that the Ming army's mountain artillery had better performance and could fire more accurately.
Furthermore, the mountain artillery of the Ming army had a small area to be hit by shells, while the camel artillery of Jiannu had a huge cross-section, so the chance of being hit by the shells was greatly increased.
The bigger reason is that as long as Jiannu's camel cannon is killed or a camel is injured, it means destruction, because without the gun mount, it can no longer be used, but the Ming army's mountain cannon will be hit even if it is hit.
The gun mount doesn't matter, because the main body of the gun mount is made of iron and cannot be damaged.
Hitting the wheel is useless.
The Ming army brought spare wheels.
But the results of the Ming army were just like that.
Ninety mountain guns fired fiercely for half an hour and hit five camels.
There is actually another reason why the hit rate of both sides is so low, and that is the smoke that envelopes the positions. The continuous shelling generates a large amount of smoke, completely covering the artillery positions of both sides.
At this time, I couldn't even see the figures of both sides, and I was fighting entirely based on feeling.
Zhu Cijiong was the first to realize that this wouldn't work. Isn't this a fool's errand?
It was not easy for Zhu Cijiong to think of this without Chongzhen's guidance.
This is equivalent to the first ant to set its sights on the three-dimensional world.
Zhu Cijiong immediately turned to Hu Guozhu and said: "President Hu, if we continue like this, we won't be able to win even after dark. Why don't we let the 2nd Mountain Artillery Brigade change its target and attack the Mongolian cavalry?"
"Fight the Mongolian cavalry?" Hu Guozhu's mind couldn't turn around at once.
"Yes, just hit the Mongolian cavalry on both wings." Zhu Cijiong pointed to the two wings and said, "Do you see how dense the formation of the Mongolian cavalry is? The effect of artillery against Mongolian cavalry is definitely much better than that of Jiannu artillery. The most important thing is that the Mongolian cavalry is hit by
A few rows of artillery will disintegrate, and when the time comes we launch a charge again, and maybe we can overwhelm the Mongolian cavalry in one fell swoop!"
Once the Mongolian cavalry was defeated, wouldn't the Jiannu artillery in the middle become the food of the Ming army?
"Sure!" Hu Guozhu finally reacted, "Hit the Mongolian cavalry on both wings."
Hu Guozhu immediately sent another Guozisheng to inform Xie Yuancai that he would attack the two wings instead.
After receiving Hu Guozhu's order, Jie Yuancai immediately remeasured the parameters, calculated the ballistics, and then turned the muzzle of the gun to lock on the Mongolian cavalry on the left and right sides.
At this time, the Eight Banners Mongolia had more than 30,000 cavalry divided into two large groups, guarding the left and right wings respectively.
Therefore, as long as the 2nd Ming Army Mountain Artillery Brigade aims at the center of these two large cavalry, the hit rate is almost 100%, and even after firing one shot, there is no big problem of parameter deviation.
As long as the landing point error does not exceed 500 steps, you can still hit.
At a distance of a thousand steps, would the impact point of the cannonball exceed 500 steps? Definitely not.
Therefore, the 2nd Brigade of the Ming Army Mountain Artillery could still hit the target even if they fired with their eyes closed.
This is exactly what happened. The first row of cannonballs landed "accurately" in the center of the two big lumps on the left and right wings. In an instant, ninety blood grooves were plowed out in the cavalry formation.
The Eight Banners Mongolia were caught off guard and were defeated by the Ming army again.
You bastards, the Ming army doesn’t respect martial ethics. If you don’t attack the Green Battalion artillery, why are you attacking us?
The Mongolian cavalry was a little confused. They didn't know whether they should continue to maintain their formation, disperse, or retreat.
Just as the Mongolian cavalry was stunned, the second row of shells from the Ming army's artillery roared in again, instantly plowing out ninety blood grooves in the cavalry formations on the left and right wings.
Wherever the solid iron bullet passed, people and horses were turned upside down and their flesh and blood flew everywhere.
The iron bullet, which is 25 inches in diameter and weighs 4 kilograms, roars towards the target with huge kinetic energy. The lethality produced is undoubtedly extremely astonishing and can penetrate more than a dozen horsemen in an instant.
According to historical records, solid iron bullets can penetrate up to 26 infantry columns.
The 25-inch mountain artillery of the Ming army did not have this power, but it could penetrate more than a dozen people without any pressure.
Just these two rows of shelling caused more than a thousand casualties to the Mongolian cavalry on both wings. Those Mongolian cavalry who were not hit by the shells were also greatly frightened.
The scene of broken limbs where the shells passed was really scary.
As a result, the Mongolian cavalry on the left and right wings retreated uncontrollably.
At first, it was just a retreat, but retreating at this time is dangerous and it is easy to be defeated.
The Ming army on the opposite side also seized this opportunity. Zhu Cijiong and Hu Guozhu lost no time in urging the cavalry to cover up the attack.
Seeing the Ming cavalry rushing over, the already panicked Mongolian cavalry instantly collapsed. No longer paying attention to the scoldings of the military leader or the left leader, they turned their horses' heads and galloped down the road.
"Chase! Don't let a Mongolian cavalry go!" Zhu Cijiong looked up to the sky and howled.
In fact, no one could hear his roar at this time, but they could see his movements.
Seeing that the dignified prince could take the lead and charge forward, the Ming army officers and soldiers were greatly encouraged and immediately launched an overwhelming pursuit towards the fleeing Mongolian cavalry.
At this point, it would be useless even if the Eight Banners of Mongolia were replaced by the Eight Banners of Manchuria.
It is true that the Eight Banners Manchuria can suddenly switch to defense or even attack when retreating, but facing the Ming army cavalry that is like a ferocious tiger descending from the mountain at this time, I am afraid they can only be blinded.
The Ming army pursued them directly outside Jinghai County.
If Hong Chengchou hadn't ordered the green battalion soldiers to set up red cannons at the head of Jinghai City, the Ming cavalry would have dared to pursue them to the base of the city wall of Jinghai County and then kill all the Eight Banner Mongolians.
Fortunately, there were red cannons, so the Ming cavalry did not dare to approach.
Only then did Eight Banners Mongolia finally retain some vitality.
But even so, the Eight Banners of Mongolia were crippled this time.
Of the more than 35,000 cavalrymen who attacked, only less than 20,000 escaped.
What made Hong Chengchou even more heartbroken was that not one of the 200 camel cannons sent out to assist in the battle escaped, and the Ming army was beaten to the point of annihilation.
Seeing the Ming cavalry showing off their power outside the range of the red cannon, Hong Chengchou's heart went cold.
This is troublesome. The Eight Banners of Mongolia have been basically defeated and crippled. It is already a wishful thinking to cut off the Ming army's food route. But if the Ming army's food route cannot be cut off, the Qing Dynasty will not be able to consume the Ming Dynasty anyway.
