The sky was shrouded in thick white gunpowder smoke, and there were dull gunfire and artillery sounds everywhere. Looking down from the sky, groups of soldiers wearing various colored armors and wearing lightning rod helmets on their heads surrounded a village tightly.
, they pushed the heavy shield cart, filled the trench in front with soil, and shot arrows in front. The battlefield was filled with the screams of the wounded and the sound of explosions.
Today is the third day that the Qing soldiers besieged Jiazhuang. Although the Qing soldiers suffered heavy losses, under the strict orders of Yue Tuo and Dorgon, all the Qing soldiers were divided into six teams. One team of Qing soldiers attacked after two hours.
They would retreat and be replaced by another group of Qing soldiers to ensure a continuous attack on the Ming army.
Under this continuous attack, the Ming army obviously felt the pressure. Due to limited manpower, Pang Gang, Xuan Dajun, and the Shanxi army had to divide their soldiers into two teams and take turns defending. Fortunately, they were on the defensive and used mostly firearms.
, so he could still maintain some physical strength, but the hearts of the generals began to feel anxious.
The warm wind blew the earth, but it could not dissipate the pungent smoke and smell of blood on the battlefield. In this village, soldiers from the Ming and Qing Dynasties were risking their lives to kill each other. Use the Ming Dynasty
After the people's plan to threaten the Ming army to fill the trench failed, Yue Tuo and Dorgon could only drive the Eight Banners soldiers to use shield carts and crude wooden shields, as well as their flesh and blood, to fight against the Ming Dynasty behind the earth wall.
Fire gunmen resist.
After several days of fierce fighting, the Qing army also gained some experience. Although the first and second trenches had been filled in, in order to prevent the Ming army from digging the trenches again at night, the Qing army not only transported large stones to
The trenches were filled up, and the first and second trenches were trampled tightly with war horses.
Now, the Qing army was able to push the shield cart to the third trench to cover their own soldiers, but they still did not dare to advance aggressively. Previous experiences told them that when they wanted to use their numbers to pour into the Ming Dynasty from those three channels,
When the Qing army was encamped, the scattered shells fired by the opponent's artillery would cause unbearable losses to themselves. In order to verify this concept, the Qing army had already paid a price of more than 2,000 people. Therefore, the Qing army could only continue honestly.
Use bags of soil to fill the trenches.
Amidst the passionate sound of the horn, countless densely packed Qing soldiers wearing various armors gathered in front of the trench. They were covered with layers of cowhide and protected by rough wooden shield cars. Auxiliary soldiers of each banner kept dodging from behind the shield cars.
He came out and kept throwing the bags filled with soil into the trench in front of him.
The riflemen of the Qingzhou Army behind the low wall kept shooting at these people, knocking the people who rushed out from behind the shield car to the ground one by one. The archers of the Qing Army behind the shield car were desperately covering and shooting.
The third trench is only sixty or seventy steps away from the earthen wall built by the Ming army. At this distance, the Qing army's arrowheads are not very powerful. The chainmail armor worn by the Qingzhou army's infantry is still very defensive.
It doesn't matter even if a few arrows are hit on the body, most of the arrowheads will be bounced off by the hard iron armor. As long as you are not so unlucky to be shot in the face, even if the armor is broken, the injury will not be too serious.
After several days of offensive and defensive battles, the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army also gained experience. Since the Qing army's arrowheads were aimed at their faces, they would immediately retract behind the low wall to avoid being hit by the Qing army's arrowheads.
The probability of arrows will also be greatly reduced.
Hao Dayong held a Mini rifle and lay on the groove of a low wall, his eyes tightly attached to the gun. Compared with the old bird guns and Lumi guns, the Mini rifle not only had better range and
The power has been greatly increased, and a sight is also installed. The rifleman can aim at the enemy using a three-point and one-line method, and the accuracy is greatly increased.
Due to the high frequency of attacks by the Qing soldiers, the defending Ming infantry were also very tired and had to be divided into two groups to take turns defending. Therefore, the manpower was very tight. Even Hao Dayong, General Qian, personally picked up a rifle and went into battle shirtless.
Pulling the trigger lightly, there was a dull gunshot of "Bang!", and Hao Dayong only felt that his shoulder was hit hard. A cloud of white smoke came out of the muzzle of the Mini rifle.
The archer who stretched the long bow to shoot fell backwards as if he had been punched. There was a thumb-sized hole in his chest instantly, but Hao Dayong can guarantee that he
The hole in the back must be as big as a fist.
This archer's accuracy was very good. He had just shot a total of five arrows at the Ming army's position, and two arrows hit the target. Although the two soldiers who were shot in the face were carried down, Hao Dayong knew that they survived.
The chance was very slim, so several riflemen, including Hao Dayong, were eyeing him. However, Hao Dayong was one step faster and knocked down the archer.
After Hao Dayong fired a shot, he immediately hugged the gun and huddled his whole body under the low wall. As expected, when he huddled behind the low wall, seven or eight arrowheads immediately shot at him.
His head flew over.
Hiding behind the low wall, Hao Dayong grinned. The Qing soldier he shot down just now was probably a moderate official, otherwise the Tatars would not have retaliated so angrily. But who made him do this?
Being greedy, originally the Tatars would be exhausted after shooting four to five more arrows, and would automatically retreat to the back to recover their strength, allowing the archers behind to take over. However, this archer may be relying on his own strength to want to shoot more.
The arrow retreated again, who knew that just such a small delay would cause a gap between yin and yang.
"Bump, bump, bump..."
Not only did gunfire rang out all around, but seven or eight Qing soldiers in front of Hao Dayong continued to fall in the gunfire. They included auxiliary soldiers and archers wearing cotton armor, as well as soldiers wearing heavy armor.
These people were either hit in the face or in the chest. Those who were not dead were lying on the ground crying and howling in extreme pain. There were blood stains from their bodies everywhere on the ground until after a while,
A group of auxiliary soldiers, under the cover of the shield car, crept up and carried them down.
Although the decks in front of the densely arranged shield cars were very thick, they were also beaten by the lead bullets of the rifles. The cowhide wood in front of the shield cars was fluttered, which made the Qing soldiers behind look terrified.
You must know that these shield cars are all well-made shield cars. They have wheels to push, a baffle in the front, thick cowhide and iron sheets, and even water is poured on them to increase the protection. Even such a thick shield
The car was beaten to pieces, but if it hit someone, it wouldn't be a big deal.
Until now, most of the infantry are shooting freely. From time to time, auxiliary soldiers and archers who appeared from both sides of the wooden shield were hit by the Ming army. At such a close distance, even ordinary heavy shields would have to be shot.
It was penetrated by the rapidly flying lead bullets. In order to withstand these lead bullets, the Qing soldiers specially strengthened the heavy shield. This heavy shield was as thick as a fist and required the combined efforts of two Qing soldiers to lift it. And most of those auxiliary soldiers
He was only wearing a thin cotton armor, and as soon as he was shot, a large stream of thick blood mist would erupt from his body, and he would fall to the ground and roll around in pain.
The power of the Mini Rifle is very powerful. Not only did it hit the heavy wooden shields, but the sawdust flew everywhere, and sometimes it even knocked over the two Qing soldiers holding the wooden shields. From time to time, projectiles penetrated the gaps between the heavy shields and knocked down the people behind them.
The Qing soldiers fell to the ground.
However, although the Ming army continued to shoot, the Qing army still stubbornly pushed forward with Mu Dun, advancing from seventy steps to sixty steps, and then to fifty steps.
, forty steps, the distance is getting closer step by step. As the distance gets closer, the threat of the Qing army's archers to the Ming army is also increasing step by step. After reaching the distance of thirty or forty steps, the Qing army's bows and arrows can already attack the Ming army.
The armor of the Ming army posed a great threat. Ming soldiers hit by arrowheads were often penetrated by the heavy arrows on the arrowheads.
Seeing this situation, Pang Gang secretly became anxious. Now even his own defense line was in a hurry, not to mention Xuan Dajun and Shanxi Army. Fortunately, he had sent Hao Dayong and Heitie there, otherwise
The consequences are even more unimaginable.
In fact, the current situation is similar to what Pang Gang thought. At this time, on the Xuan army's defense line, the Qing army had advanced to a place thirty steps away from the low wall. The Qing army's archers fired arrows like rain.
came over and shot many Ming infantry to the ground on the spot.
One of Yang Guozhu's generals said to Yang Guozhu eagerly: "Sir, we can't continue like this. The third trench is about to be filled in. If the Tatars fill in the trench, there will be no danger for us to defend.
"It's over." The general said anxiously, picked up a long knife from the side, and said resolutely to Yang Guozhu: "Sir, why don't you let the last general lead people out to kill for a while, so as to alleviate our crisis."
Yang Guozhu shook his head and said: "No, the Tatars are surrounding us now. If we rush out now, we will play into their hands. You must know that the Tatars' military strength is several times that of ours!"
"Then what should we do? Are we just going to watch the Tatars rush in?"
Yang Guozhu was also extremely anxious at this moment. He looked around and suddenly discovered that Hao Dayong and the Qingzhou Army soldiers who came for reinforcements were still calmly shooting outwards with blunderbuss, knocking down the Qing army archers who were exposed outside one by one.
"Aren't Mr. Hao Qian and the others anxious?"
Yang Guozhu's heart moved, and he was about to call Hao Dayong over for questioning when he suddenly saw Hao Dayong put down the musket in his hand and shouted loudly to the Qingzhou Army infantry around him: "Brothers, prepare for the thunder!"
Hearing Hao Dayong's shouts, the surrounding Qingzhou soldiers lit torches one after another, and then took out black objects from the cloth bags behind them. These objects were in the shape of long-handled cylindrical shapes with something underneath.
Wooden handle, with a small piece of white fuse exposed under the wooden handle.
"What are they going to do?"
Just when Yang Guozhu was full of doubts, he saw Hao Dayong shouting: "Everyone, prepare to drop bombs and light the fuse!"
At the same time, the Qing soldiers had advanced to a distance of more than 20 steps from the defense line, and the rain of arrows they fired became more intensive.
"bomb!"
Following Hao Dayong's voice, the soldiers of the Qingzhou Army threw huge thunderbolts towards the front...