Once the gap is opened, the next step is to expand the gap.
Battalion Commander Lin Hu immediately ordered Bai Yin and Bayar's team to rush up from behind. All teams close to the gap immediately boarded the city.
Zhang Qiang's team has completely climbed onto the city wall and is constantly attacking from both ends to expand the control area. As they keep throwing grenades, they throw out four grenades per person without hesitation, more than a hundred of them.
Hand grenades exert tremendous power.
These offensive grenades are all shock wave killing types. It is easy to injure yourself with fragmentation grenades on a long wall without shelter.
With the intensive explosion of grenades, the servants could no longer withstand it. They even rolled and crawled back. Hei Mingxiao roared angrily and could only retreat.
"Damn it, you dog Tatars, just wait a minute. The Tiger Crouching Cannon and the Three General Cannons will come soon. Let's see who among us is more powerful." Hei Mingxiao gritted his teeth and cursed.
As Baiyin's team and Bayar's team climbed onto this section of the city wall, everyone in the headquarters breathed a sigh of relief. Linhu Camp is the fist force of the cavalry army, and they lived up to expectations. In the frontal attack of the three battalions, they were the third
One climbs into the city.
"Behind, there are several small groups waiting to board the city." An Sanxi asked.
"Report to the commander, there are also Ma Feiyun's squad, Wu Rigenda Lai's squad, Narisong's squad, and Wu Yun's squad."
An Sanxi nodded, three teams had already gone up, and four more were preparing to climb the city. There were 210 people in total, and the situation was basically stabilized.
"Let the camel artillery prepare, wait for orders, and use explosive shells to support the northern city wall." An Sanxi continued to order.
"Here, the artillery is ready."
"If the North City Wall is lost, the Shanxi merchants will go crazy. At this time, they will not care about how many people and soldiers each family will send. They will go out collectively and counterattack to take back the North City Wall."
Although the Camel Cannon is a light artillery, it still has a range of 500 meters.
It is 200 meters away from the north city wall, just out of the range of bows and arrows. However, the artillery can hit 300 meters into the city. The entire Zhangjiakou Fort is only a small 500-meter-square castle.
In other words, from this position on the hillside, artillery can easily hit Wenchang Pavilion in the center of the city. Sixty percent of the entire city is covered by artillery fire.
Soon all seven teams had climbed onto the northern city wall and were attacking in both east and west directions.
The city wall of Zhangjiakou Fort is only ten meters wide. A small team of flintlock guns can seal it, forming exactly two firing arrays.
Bayar stood in front of the formation, pulled out his command knife, and shouted: "Everyone fix their bayonets and form two lines of battle. Prepare and release."
As gunfire rang out, a group of broken soldiers were shot in the back and knocked to the ground while escaping.
A row of fifteen people just closed the entire city wall. The shooting effect of the volley was very good, and the effect of staggered volleys between two rows was even better. A dozen people could be killed at one time.
In front of the Bayar team is the Baiyin Dengcheng team.
Their first row held shields and Mongolian knives and advanced in a semi-crouching formation. The second row held three-meter Swiss halberds and followed closely behind. Once Yang Fan's infantry formed an array, their combat effectiveness was immediately doubled.
Heiyunlong's servants tried to drive back the retreating guardsmen, but were defeated again in front of the sword and shield array. They killed more than fifty people directly with the Swiss halberd's assassination, hacking, and hook killing.
Hei Yunlong frowned. The guardsmen were frightened and couldn't bear to fight anymore. If it weren't for the enemy soldiers in front of the city wall and the supervising servants behind them, they would have run away long ago.
Yang Fan's infantry's hot and cold weapons equipment, formation changes and coordination are all top-notch in this era.
After all, since 1500, five hundred years have been fully practiced on the battlefield, enough for modern people to clearly study these arms, weapons, and formations.
There is no need to take any more detours. Use human life to try and make mistakes.
On the other side, Wuyun Squadron was in front, and Ma Feiyun Squadron was behind with flintlock guns. They were attacking the city wall on the other side.
At this time, Hei Yunlong and his two sons had been blocked in the west. They commanded the remaining servants of more than a hundred people, and used long spears and three-eyed blunderbuss to lead the remaining more than a hundred guards soldiers to desperately resist the troops who were ascending the city.
attack.
On the other side of the city wall, the camp commander Wang Fen led 300 battalion soldiers to resist desperately on the east side. However, both sides were retreating. More and more enemies began to board the city.
Now, as more and more troops are entering the city, they are very anxious. Seeing that this section of the northern city wall is about to be lost.
Hei Minglian yelled: "All the shield and sword soldiers, go to the front. Hurry up. Follow with the three-eyed gunmen, and all the gunmen will pass by."
At the critical moment, the remaining sixty three-eyed guns were finally loaded. The performance of these three-eyed guns was poor, and loading was time-consuming and laborious.
The thirty shield bearers in the servants were originally supposed to protect the general. Now, they had to go to the front.
The shield used by these soldiers is the Yanwei brand. This kind of shield was invented by the Cantonese during the Wanli period. The main advantage is that it is made of relatively light paulownia wood, which can block Japanese swords. At the same time, because of its light weight, the soldiers do not have to touch the armor and stomach, and can swing the shield by relying on it.
Protection.
Because it can block Japanese swords and can be easily wielded with one hand, various light shield tactics have been developed.
After Qi Jiguang took command of the northern frontier army, he brought it over when he was reorganizing and training the Jiubian army. Later it became the standard shield of Jiubian. It also deeply influenced the later Manchu and Qing shield styles.
This kind of shield is rectangular, about 80 centimeters wide and about 1.4 meters high. The top is not flat, but has a triangular gap cut out from the bottom, which looks like a swallow's tail. That's why it is called the Swallowtail Shield.
This kind of shield is placed diagonally forward with a certain backward slope. It is not easy to be pushed.
The shield soldier can fully cover his body by crouching, while the three-eyed gun can place the gun rod on the dovetail groove as a stand for shooting.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
There was a puff of smoke, fifteen three-eyed muskets opened fire, and three consecutive rounds of bullets hit the Baiyin team.
At this time, all the grenades have been shot, and you can only use your shield to block them.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The performance of the three-eyed gun is really outstanding, but the firepower density of this kind of door gun is still acceptable.
However, the penetration power is so poor that it cannot penetrate the shield with a quilt sandwiched between the double pot lid on the opposite side.
The pots of this era were relatively large, usually eighty or ninety centimeters in diameter. The pot lids were more than one meter in diameter. Two of them back to back, plus a folded quilt, were quite heavy.
The soldier holding the pot lid and shield felt a huge shock in his arm. Although the three-eyed gun was powerful, the intensive blows caused sawdust on the shield to fly, and the lead bullets were blocked by the quilt, which still caused pain in his arm.
But the three-eyed gun, with its tear-jerking accuracy, had no idea where it would hit beyond ten meters. As a result, it caused casualties to the Baiyin team.
Seeing the three-eyed gun stretched out from the opposite side, the soldiers of Baiyin's team immediately acted like a conditioned reflex and put their shields against the three-eyed gun for protection.
As a result, many three-eyed muskets of very poor quality were seriously missed, causing three people to be shot in the calves and feet. After the three people fell, gaps appeared in the shield array.
Then, the second wave of three-eyed cannons on the opposite side went off.
At this time, Heiyunlong still had sixty three-eyed guns left in his hand, enough for them to line up in four rows and fire four times in a row.
As a result, three people fell down, revealing the halberdier behind them. The second round of three-eyed muskets fired 45 lead bullets intensively. The two people in the front row were shot in the lower limbs again, screaming and falling down with their shields.
The four halberdiers behind were shot.
When Bayar saw that this was not going to work, he asked them to finish the four rounds, and Baiyin's team would suffer half casualties. He shouted: "Everyone in the first team should lie down."
The first team was well-trained and in accordance with the drill, everyone immediately fell to the ground, directly revealing the flintlock rifle team behind them.
"The first row is kneeling, the second row is standing, and fire."
Bayar's team of thirty flintlock rifles took advantage of the time when the opposite party took down the heavy three-eyed musket and replaced it with a new one, and opened fire decisively.
Bang bang bang! A burst of gunpowder smoke filled the air, and firelight flashed.
Thirty third-generation flintlock muskets opened fire collectively.
This kind of flintlock can at least reach the level of the British Brown Spey rifle during the Crow War. The special propellant and fixed ammunition have surpassed the Brown Spey rifle in terms of range, accuracy, and penetration.
Especially the steel core inside the lead-packed bullet greatly enhances the penetration power.
This kind of weapon was originally developed by Yang Fan for the triple armor of the Jiannu heavy infantry, and now Hei Yunlong's Yanwei brand sword and shield wielders can enjoy it in advance.
