When Shi Tingzhu saw that eight or nine of his seventeen artillery pieces were taken away at once, his face was ashen and he was speechless. These cannons are Shi Tingzhu's only treasures.
Shi Tingzhu rushed to kneel down in front of Du Du and asked loudly: "Master Baylor, what should we do now?"
Du Du was trembling all over, but he was helpless and could not speak while holding on to a baggage truck.
Du Du didn't understand that Li Zhi could withstand a Qing army that was seven times his own with such a stronghold. How could the same stronghold be so vulnerable when he got it, and was beaten without the strength to fight back.
In fact, Du Du didn't understand that when Li Zhi originally designed the Qingshankou camp, he designed it based on his own firepower advantage. The entire camp used the firepower of the Huben Division that was stronger than the enemy. Therefore, the Qing army relied on its firepower advantage to defend the Ming army from attacking the camp.
, fought handily. Thirty thousand Ming troops attacked the stronghold, but were easily defeated by the Qing army's artillery.
However, the camp designed by Li Zhi is not suitable for a party with a disadvantage in firepower. Once the firepower is at a disadvantage, the seemingly solid walls, forts and trenches of the camp will become weak and vulnerable.
How can those walls that protect bows and arrows withstand the bombardment of artillery?
The Qing army had just learned a little bit about warfare in the era of thermal weapons from Li Zhi, and there was still some distance between them and being able to use appropriate thermal weapons tactics for combat.
Li Zhi's cannon loaded again, ignited, and fired a third round of shells towards the Qing army camp.
Amidst the rumbling sound of cannons, the walls of the camp were shattered piece by piece. The shells rushed through the rows of gunners behind the wall, claiming an unknown number of lives. The camp was in chaos, and the people were clear.
The army could not fight back at all and could only be beaten on one side, and its morale was very low.
When the Tatars were panicking, someone discovered that the reason why many people were injured by the flying shells was because the shells bounced on the ground. If they lay down, they could greatly avoid the chance of being hit by the bouncing shells. Some Tatars reacted first and lay down.
On the ground, as expected, the artillery shells rarely hit these Qing soldiers lying on the ground.
The other Qing soldiers saw this and quickly followed suit. In the end, all the Qing soldiers in the camp lay on the ground.
Li Zhi used a telescope to observe the Qing army's camp. The wall of the camp had been riddled with holes, and Li Zhi could easily see the situation inside the camp. Seeing the Qing troops lying on the ground to avoid the shells, Li Zhi sneered.
Shouted loudly: "Change the bombs."
The artillerymen replaced the artillery shells with explosive shells and fired these explosive shells into the Qing army's camp.
Li Zhi's shells are very thick and can break the earthen walls of the camp. What's even more frightening is that these shells will explode after being shot into the wall, and the shot pellets will sweep across the surrounding area for several meters. Although lying on the ground can
The probability of being hit by a cannonball is reduced, but if you get too close, you will still be killed by a cannonball.
Only the roar of explosions was heard in the Qing army camp. Li Zhi looked with a telescope and saw sparks one after another in the camp. Shotgun pellets were flying, and he didn't know how many Tatars were blown up by the bombs.
die.
The Tatars had lost the ability to resist. They could only lie on the ground one by one and pray that the shells would not fall around them.
Seeing Li Zhi's bomb through the telescope, Hong Chengchou's eyes widened.
Hong Chengchou heard that the artillery in the Beijing camp would use explosive shells, but the use of such shells was very complicated. The shell and propellant were ignited separately, and then fired quickly before the shell exploded. In order to prevent the flame of the propellant from directly detonating the shell,
That kind of blooming bullet requires several layers of soil, damp cloth and other barriers between the shell and the blooming bullet. It takes a long time to play with each shot. And even so, it is still easy to explode the chamber.
Even so, the artillerymen in the Beijing camp still kept the specific operation methods of explosive shells as secrets and never leaked them to outsiders.
As for Li Zhi's explosive shells, the shells can be fired directly after being stuffed into the barrel, without the risk of exploding the barrel. Moreover, the destructive power of those explosive shells seems to be much greater than that of the Beijing camp soldiers.
This kind of explosive bomb is really a weapon for attacking camps. How many people in the Qing army will be killed by blowing them up one by one like this?
Hong Chengchou stroked his beard and said nothing, secretly saying that after this battle, he wanted to ask Li Zhi for advice on the secret of this explosive bullet. He just didn't know if Li Zhi was willing to teach him?
Li Zhi's cannon fired round after round, about one round per minute, for eight rounds, which made the barrel very hot. After eight rounds of cannonballs, the cannon was too hot and could no longer be fired. It needed
Cool for an hour.
After cooling down for a while, the artillery can be fired again. Li Zhi asked the cannon to fire again as soon as it cooled down, pouring as many shells as possible into the Qing army camp on the hill.
From noon to dusk, Li Zhi's 70 cannons poured more than 2,000 shells onto the mountain. Half of the Qing army's southern wall had been knocked down, and half of the camp was exposed. Inside the camp, the Qing troops were everywhere.
Lie down on the ground to avoid the shells. Once you find that the shells fall next to you, you will panic and run away.
Even so, many Qing soldiers were still killed. Every time a round of artillery shells exploded in the camp, screams could be heard in the camp. The Qing soldiers who were killed were mixed with the Qing soldiers who were still alive.
Even when he fell to the ground, he couldn't tell which of the people on the ground were alive and which were dead.
The blood from the wounds of the dead people merged into a stream, flowing down from the hills, dyeing the water in the ditch protecting the village blood red. The north wind blew, and the air was filled with the smell of blood, even Li Zhidu, who was two miles away from the camp.
Can smell it.
This is no longer a war, this is a one-sided massacre.
The Qing army only has 20,000 people. The Ming army has 15,000 strong troops under Li Zhi and 10,000 Chinese troops under Hong Chengchou. The 20,000 Qing troops dare not rush out of the camp to die. They would rather be bombarded in the camp.
Nor did he leave the village.
Zheng Kaicheng observed the Tatars with a telescope for a while and said with a smile: "Uncle, at least a few thousand Tatars were killed in the bombing today! Why haven't the Tatars abandoned their stronghold and fled?"
"I don't know! Maybe the Tatars are planning to run away at night!" It gets dark very early in the winter in the North. Li Zhi looked at the increasingly dark surroundings and said: "We'll call it a day and set up camp. If the Tatars don't escape tonight, we'll continue tomorrow.
Bomb these Tartars."
The flag was fluttered and Li Zhi's order was passed on. Li Zhi's troops retreated two miles and camped south of the Qing army's camp.
Hong Chengchou's defeated troops had basically been gathered back by Hong Chengchou. In this freezing cold weather in western Liaoning, there was no food anywhere except the military camp. Since there were no Qing troops chasing behind them, all the defeated troops returned to the military camp one by one.
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Hong Chengchou reorganized his discipline and led an army of 40,000 to camp in the west.
When it was time for dinner in the evening, Hong Chengchou used carts and horses to carry carts of bacon, dried meat and various pickled vegetables to Li Zhi's army to reward the troops.
