After several shells collapsed the stone house, they were buried beneath the stones. But soon the shells exploded, and only a few loud booms were heard. The shells under the rocks exploded, shattering the layers above.
The rocks flew in all directions. The flying rocks flew very fast and hit the Qing soldiers behind who were avoiding the shells.
Many Qing soldiers were injured by these stones and fell to the ground rolling and groaning. Two soldiers of Gelulu were cut on the face by the gravel, covered their faces and screamed loudly, the sound was heartbreaking.
Grelu was also hit by two rocks, but he was wearing three layers of heavy armor and was not injured.
However, the stone houses in this area have become a pile of ruins and can no longer be used to avoid shells.
Geleru was chased by artillery shells all the way, and knew that he had been targeted by the Ming army's artillery. He was anxious to find a place to avoid the artillery shells, and Zhang Huang ran out with his soldiers, subconsciously escaping to the top of the mountain.
The watchtower where Dorgon was on the top of the mountain was built very solidly and could not be hit by explosive shells. Geleru could no longer think about how Dorgon would punish him after escaping without permission. Life was most important at this time. He was attacked by twenty cannons.
The feeling of aiming is more terrifying than Dorgon's punishment.
Along the way, Geleru found that the Qing troops who had been driven to the edge of the high platform by him just now hid in the corner, and each of them gave up the defense of the high platform. However, Geleru could no longer care about these soldiers, and he wandered around.
I ran wildly on the winding path up the mountain, hoping to get back to the top of the mountain as quickly as possible.
There was another rumble of artillery, and the sixty-nine heavy artillery at the foot of the mountain fired artillery shells again. Twenty artillery shells were fired towards Gelulu relentlessly, and nineteen shells missed and were scattered on various high platforms beside the path.
Above. However, one cannonball hit Grelu steadily and hit him in the lower back.
Grelu only felt a huge force hit his waist, and then his waist went cold, and his entire lower body lost all feeling.
The soldiers around Gleru could see clearly: Gleru's entire body was split into two pieces from the waist by cannonballs, and the upper and lower parts were separated. The flesh and blood organs were sprayed everywhere, spraying several soldiers next to him covered in blood red.
The overwhelming pain was the last thing Grelu felt. He looked at the miserable condition of his waist with blood-red eyes, and then he collapsed on the path and died.
The soldiers of Gelulu were frightened when they saw Gelulu being smashed into two pieces. But seeing the exploding bullet that fell under Gelulu's body, the soldiers did not dare to go up and rescue Gelulu's body.
After a few seconds, the explosive bomb exploded under the two pieces of Gelu Lu's body, blowing up Gelu Lu's body into a piece of minced meat and blood mist.
The surrounding Qing soldiers looked at the tragic death of Gelu, and their faces turned pale. Melezhangjing was killed by a cannonball. The morale of the Qing soldiers who were bombarded was even lower, and they had no confidence in guarding the hill.
Cao Bianjiao and other generals did not see the scene of Li Zhi bombarding the Qing army at Bijiagang. At this time, they looked at Dabi Mountain with a telescope and saw explosions of flames coming out of the mountain. They were frightened. When they saw a Qing army,
The senior official was killed by a cannonball, and he was even more shocked and stunned.
Li Zhi's artillery was too sharp. With such bombardment, how could the Qing army on the mountain have any morale at all?
Cao Bianjiao could see clearly through his telescope that all the Qing soldiers on the mountain had hid in bunkers and behind the mountain to avoid the shells, and no one was still guarding the edge of the high platform for defense. Attacking the mountain at this time could be said to be a piece of cake.
The artillery fired at the mountain for two hours made the Qing army frightened, and Li Zhi began to organize soldiers to attack the mountain.
Dabi Mountain is full of trenches and high platforms. Although there is a winding path leading to the top of the mountain, it is not cost-effective to take that path and go around and face the Qing army's firepower on the entire hill. The only realistic option
The way to attack the mountain is to use a long ladder to climb up the trench. Cao Bianjiao's troops had already built many long ladders, so Li Zhi just used them.
Li Zhi's soldiers and horses rushed to the first high platform at the foot of Dabi Mountain, preparing to attack this high platform. Before the soldiers attacked, the artillery first covered the small high platform with artillery fire.
Not only were 69 heavy guns used for bombing, but 80 six-pound light guns were also dragged up for fire suppression. The six-pound guns had to be within one mile before they could fire, so they would enter the Qing army's light Hongyi cannon on the top of the mountain.
However, the Qing army's light artillery fired only two rounds before being knocked off by Li Zhi's heavy artillery, and nothing was hit.
All one hundred and forty-nine artillery pieces were moved to one mile at the foot of Dabi Mountain, and they took aim at close range. They used blooming bullets and solid bullets respectively to carry out carpet bombing towards the high platform where the soldiers were preparing to climb. Only the thrown blooming shells were seen.
The solid bullets fell like raindrops, and sparks exploded on the first high platform.
After two rounds of fighting, the Qing troops on this platform were killed, injured, and fled. No one dared to take advantage of the danger to defend.
The soldiers of the Trap Regiment climbed up to the first high platform without losing any blood.
After climbing up to the first high platform, the soldiers aimed their rifles at other higher platforms on the mountain, and fired when they saw the Qing army emerging. The Qing army was so discouraged by the cannons that it became a chaos on the mountain.
The legions surrounded them and had long since abandoned the mountain and fled. After Li Zhi's soldiers and horses climbed up to the high platform, only sporadic Qing soldiers attacked down the mountain. Most of the Qing soldiers lay on the ground to avoid the shells and did not dare to take the lead.
The artillerymen aimed at the next high platform the soldiers wanted to attack and fired.
The artillery continued to pour artillery shells in the direction of the soldiers' main attack, clearing obstacles for the soldiers to attack. The soldiers in the rear row used rifles to shoot at the resisting Qing soldiers on the mountain, breaking the Qing soldiers' will to resist.
The soldiers who were attacking the fortress climbed up the ladder with grenades and torches. When they climbed outside the high platform, two soldiers cooperated to light the grenades and threw them into the high platform. Even if some Qing soldiers hid behind the earthen wall on the edge of the high platform and prepared to resist,
Will be killed by these grenades.
The soldiers of the trapping regiment advanced up the mountain layer by layer with very few casualties. The 6,000 Qing garrison defenders on the mountain basically only fled and did not organize a decent counterattack at all. From the afternoon attack to the evening, the soldiers
We have already reached the halfway point of the mountain. If the sky had not darkened, the trap group could have attacked directly to the top of the mountain.
It was pitch dark at night in this era, making combat extremely difficult. Therefore, after Li Zhi advanced to the halfway point of the mountain in the evening, he stopped attacking upward.
I believe that if we attack for another day tomorrow, we can capture Dabi Mountain.
At midnight, when the sky was darkest, Li Zhi had already fallen asleep in his tent, but suddenly he heard a cry of killing. Li Zhi ran out of the camp and found that there was no fighting nearby, and the shouting of killing came from the north of Dabi Mountain.
Come.
It took a long time before a messenger from Hong Chengchou came over.
The messenger ran to Li Zhi and knelt down in front of Li Zhi and said: "The Marquis of Xingguo, Dorgon abandoned Dabi Mountain, led six thousand Tatars to break out from the north of the mountain, and fled toward Jinzhou at night!"
