Seeing the Jiannu army changing their formations, Chongzhen, Xu Yingwei, Jiang Tianyi and Wang Jiayan all laughed.
"Jiannu is not stupid," Jiang Tianyi said with a smile, "You actually know how to put the Green Camp in the front row as bait. Is this to lure our artillery to attack the Green Camp with all its strength?"
"This is wishful thinking." Xu Yingwei said, "We will not be stupid enough to fight with cannons."
Wang Jiayan immediately questioned that the Jiannu artillery was still in the Liaodong period: "Xu Gijian advised that if there is a chance to destroy the Jiannu artillery, it should be destroyed first. After all, the Jiannu artillery is still extremely sharp."
"It is too difficult to destroy the artillery." Xu Yingwei shook his head and said, "Didn't Wang Butang realize that the formations of the Jiannu artillery were very far apart? The distance between adjacent artillery vehicles was even more than fifteen steps! The distance between the front and rear was more than two steps.
Ten steps! With such a large distance, we may not be able to hit even one of our ten shots."
Wang Jiayan was immediately speechless, because the distance between the Jiannu artillery carriages was indeed very large.
The second wave of bombardment by the 7 field artillery brigades just now had a very embarrassing hit rate. Only about 50 solid bullets out of 630 guns hit the Green Battalion array.
Moreover, it failed to completely destroy Jiannu's cannon.
Each of Jiannu's guns has a spare gun carriage.
Even the camel swivel gun has a spare carrying camel.
In contrast, the first wave of shelling destroyed at least 100 of Jiannu's sidecars.
The reason is also very simple. The first wave of artillery hit the dense infantry formation, but the second wave of artillery hit the Jiannu's artillery formation with large intervals.
After a long while, Wang Jiayan said: "The hit rate of the Jiannu artillery is a little low, but it can destroy one after another. In this way, when the Jiannu artillery approaches, the pressure we bear can be as small as possible.
Some."
Xu Yingwei said: "Jiannu artillery can definitely get close to their range. Our artillery can't stop it no matter how hard it is. And even if our artillery tries its best to stop it, it may not be able to destroy Jiannu's artillery."
Eleven, so it’s better to use all your strength to kill the opponent’s infantry.”
Chongzhen nodded: "Artillery is best used to attack infantry."
Regarding this point, Chongzhen has led the scholars from the scholar camp to deduce it countless times on the sand table.
The results show that using artillery to attack the opponent's artillery is difficult to have a big impact on the battle situation, but using artillery to attack the opponent's horse infantry can cause a lot of damage.
Especially when shotgun is used at close range, the lethality is particularly terrifying.
Xu Yingwei smiled and shouted: "Send the order, all field artillery brigades should ignore the Green Battalion and attack the Eight Banners Han Army in the third row. When Jiannu's Chinese Army comes into range, they will attack Jiannu's Central Army together with the Shen Artillery Battalion."
Military attack!"
It was the established policy of the Ming army to concentrate its firepower on attacking the Eight Banners in Manchuria and prioritize hunting the Jurchens.
As long as the Jurchens who built the slave army were severely damaged, the remaining Han people and Mongols would not be a concern.
After the order was passed on, the seven field artillery brigades of the Ming Army did not correct the shooting parameters, but continued to bombard the Eight Banners Han Army that had just entered the range at the maximum shooting angle.
After the Eight Banners Han Army passed the attack range, they then attacked the Eight Banners Manchurian and Jiannu Chinese Army.
Then the seven field artillery brigades of the Ming Army continued to adjust the firing parameters along with the Jiannu Central Army to ensure that most of the shells would fall on the formations of the Jiannu Central Army and the Eight Banners Manchuria.
Therefore, every minute or so, hundreds of bloody roads will be plowed out in the queues of the Jiannu Central Army and the Eight Banners Manchuria, and every bloody road plowed means that a dozen or even twenty Eight Banners soldiers have been plowed.
His limbs were beaten to pieces.
When the formations of the Jiannu Central Army and the Eight Banners Manchuria entered 1,200 steps away from the Ming army, the situation became worse.
Because after reaching this distance, in addition to the 7 field artillery brigades, 360 25-inch mountain guns from 4 mountain artillery brigades also joined the bombardment, so the bloody roads plowed out in the Eight Banners Manchurian Formation became even more.
There was another round of shelling, and nearly a thousand solid iron bullets roared into the ranks of the Jiannu Chinese Army and the Eight Banners Manchuria.
Although most of the solid iron bullets landed in the middle of the queue and in the empty areas in front and behind, more than a hundred of them hit the Jiannu Army and the Eight Banners Manchurian queue, instantly plowing more than a hundred bloody paths in the queue.
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When Sony and others looked down from the observation deck, the scene was extremely bloody.
Among the originally dense and complete Chinese military formations and the six small square formations on the left and right wings, more than a hundred Manchu warriors fell down in an instant as they marched forward.
It was really a string, a long string from beginning to end.
The shortest one has seven or eight warriors, and the longest one has more than twenty Eight Banners warriors.
Most of the Eight Banners warriors had their torsos smashed or their heads smashed and were killed on the spot, but there were also many Eight Banners warriors who were only hit in the legs, feet or arms, and fell to the ground wailing after being seriously injured.
In this wave alone, more than a thousand Eight Banners warriors were killed or injured.
Counting the previous five waves of bombardment, plus the casualties caused by the Shenhuo flying crows, the two yellow flag elites of the Chinese army's main formation and the other six phalanxes on both wings have suffered more than 6,000 casualties in total!
Therefore, these short three hundred steps were simply paved with the corpses of their Eight Banners warriors.
Seeing the Eight Banners warriors lying on the ground with their limbs broken into pieces, Sony's heart was bleeding.
Suk Saha cursed with a dark face: "Damn Ming Gou, this is just to catch us Jurchens and beat them up."
"This is also expected." Sony said solemnly, "However, if the Ming army thinks that this can scare us Eight Banners warriors, then they are wrong. We Eight Banners warriors will never be intimidated!"
Eight Banners Manchuria is indeed very tough and has a very high tolerance for death.
From the beginning of the battle to the present, Eight Banners Manchuria has suffered nearly one-tenth of its casualties. However, the remaining Eight Banners Manchuria are still emotionally stable, their fighting spirit is still high, and they are still full of confidence in victory.
But Sony also knows very well that this situation will not last forever.
After all, the Eight Banners warriors are also human beings, and they are also afraid of death.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! If the Ming army's artillery continues to bombard the Eight Banners warriors, and if such casualties continue, no matter how tough the Eight Banners warriors are, they will eventually collapse.
But fortunately, this situation should not last long.
Because the 400 red cannons of the Green Battalion have been set up.
The Green Camp's 500 Franco machine guns have also entered the firing range.
As long as the red cannons, Fran cannons and camel cannons of the Green Battalion launched bombardments against the Ming army's artillery positions, the Ming army's artillery would not bother bombarding the Eight Banners Manchuria array, and the crisis would be over at that time.
However, it is still necessary for Eight Banners Manchuria to increase the distance between infantry queues.
While I was thinking, another scream sounded that seemed to tear the air apart.
And this time the scream was sharper than before, as if it was right next to my ears.
Immediately afterwards, Sony felt a strong wind pass by his ears, and the huge air wave instantly knocked him over. Then there was a soft "pop" sound behind him, followed by a loud bang.
After the loud noise, there was another burst of exclamations, and someone was calling Ama.
Sony quickly turned over and sat up to take a look, only to see Er Bilong lying behind him. The head on his shoulders was no longer visible, leaving only a headless corpse spurting blood.
Following the direction of the blood spurt, Sony saw his eldest son Gabra.
I saw that the back half of the observation tower had been smashed by artillery shells, showing a large gap. Gabra was holding a guardrail that was about to break with both hands, and the ground was three feet high under his feet.
Sony quickly stepped forward and pulled Gabra up.
At this time, Suksaha and others also got up.
Seeing Ye Bilong, Suk Saha and others with their heads smashed, they all felt a little sad.
Sony looked around the observation tower again, and saw that the Chinese army with two yellow flags and the six military formations on the left and right wings had once again plowed hundreds of bloody roads, and at least thousands of people were killed and injured.
"Damn it!" Sony's teeth almost broke.
But fortunately, the red cannons from the Green Battalion have begun to fight back.
The Green Camp's Folan cannon is almost ready.
"Minggou, now it's your turn to taste the feeling of being bombarded!"
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The first row of Jiannu artillery shells finally hit with a scream.
"Long live Lord, be careful!" Gao Qiqian quickly rushed forward and opened his hands to block Chongzhen.
Lu Jiude's reaction was half a beat too slow, but after he came to his senses, he quickly rushed forward with a few young eunuchs, and then opened his hands to block Chongzhen.
Seeing this, Chongzhen couldn't help being amused.
What the hell, this is a cannon, not a rifle.
Are you trying to block me? You can't block it at all, okay?
However, Chongzhen did not scold Gao Qiqian, Lu Jiude and the others.
In any case, these eunuchs have good intentions and should not be scolded.
"Okay, there won't be any danger on the observation deck, because Jiannu's red cannons, Franco machine guns and camel cannons are basically close to the maximum range. They can barely hit our Chinese army, but they still want to shoot at such a high range.
It’s impossible.”
The artillery shells of the Jiannu artillery could only hit the pillars of the observation tower, but the observation tower was built very solidly, so they were not afraid.
Chongzhen patted Gao Qiqian and Lu Jiude on the shoulders and motioned for them to get out of the way and not to block their view.
After Gao Qiqian and the others got out of the way, Chongzhen discovered that the artillery position in front of the Chinese army's formation had been plowed out hundreds of deep grooves by Jiannu's artillery shells, and many artillerymen had fallen into a pool of blood.
The medical soldiers who stayed behind rushed forward to treat him.
Chongzhen glanced over and saw that there were probably more than a hundred casualties.
In addition, the right wheels of two field guns were destroyed and tilted to the ground.
However, the artilleryman assigned to this gun is bringing in spare wheels to replace them.
Chongzhen's eyes moved forward and landed on the infantry line in front of the Chinese army's formation.
The infantrymen in front of the phalanx were seen sitting quietly in the trenches, and no one was injured or killed.
The trench was nearly one foot wide and nearly five feet deep, providing perfect protection for the infantry.
As for the infantry on both sides, half went into the trenches to take shelter, and the other half retreated to the back half of the phalanx. The back half was beyond the range of the slave artillery and was very safe.
Looking around again on the left and right sides, the hollow square formations in the other five towns are similar.
Cavalry Town, because of its remote location, was not bombarded by the slave artillery.
