Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Three Ten Thousand Cannons Fired
The battle at Liucheng Camp was more intense than yesterday's fierce battle on the north bank of Feiyun Bridge. The stubborn resistance of the defenders already made Bo Hetuo look bitter. He felt overwhelmed by the fierce resistance of the old soldiers of the Dashun Army.
I am deeply disturbed. Can such an army and such a nation really be destroyed and conquered by the Manchus?
Bo and Tuo were still frightened. The corpses of Qing and Shun soldiers were already lying inside and outside the two trenches outside the main camp in the city. One after another, the corpses of warriors fell deep in the trenches, and were placed inside by the defenders.
The wooden thorns stabbed him to death, leaving him unrecognizable. His internal organs also flowed out from the open wounds on his chest, waist and abdomen. Dark red blood and white brain and visceral juices were all over the floor.
Then a large number of artillery shells flew over. Flying lead and molten iron could not describe such a fierce artillery battle. The lava was burning, and the Liucheng camp was still fighting against a few thin walls in the fierce collision.
Defensive counterattack.
The Qing army had to pay a huge price to capture any position.
Bohetuo couldn't bear to look directly at it. He had seen too many Manchurians die, so he had to order the troops to withdraw from the guard camp and use the Green Camp as the main force to attack the city.
Nikan had just returned from supervising the battle on the front line. His body was covered with snow, mud and blood. This extremely ferocious and fierce general actually felt a sense of loss at this moment:
"Li Zicheng is already dead. How can the remaining members of Chuang Ni still carry on for so long?"
Bo Hetuo closed his eyes: "You should remember Li Laiheng's name! This is how a gangster has a son. I have seen it before on the Baigou River."
On the battlefield, guns and cannons were fired, arrows were flying, and the sound of fighting was everywhere. Nikan's bodyguard Kang Dahai also mixed with a group of Manchu guards to attack the city. He was Nikan's coat, so he was actually considered important.
The one above is a banner man. Because of his contribution to rescuing Nikan several times, he is qualified to fight with the guard camp.
These Baya La white-armored elite soldiers were unable to exert the power of armored cavalry charge in the defense depth of the main camp in Liucheng because they needed to break through trenches and walls. All of them were armed with single swords and big axes and dismounted to fight on foot.
Either ambush or advance, first relying on the lives of the Han soldiers in the green camp in the front row to attract the firepower of the subordinate army, and then after approaching the attack distance, everyone jumped up, pounced forward, climbed directly to the wall of the village and started hand-to-hand combat with the defenders.
Gu Kecheng was appointed as General Quan of the Imperial Army and Shandong Economic Envoy. When placed in the Ming and Qing armies, it was equivalent to holding the positions of admiral and governor. With such a prominent position, Gu Kecheng personally led his troops to block the battle line.
He drew his sword and fought hard to kill the enemy. Several soldiers tried their best to push the commander back to the rear.
But Gu Kecheng was Liu Zongmin's deputy general. His martial arts skills were extraordinary and his divine power was unmatched by ordinary people. Even though he had been in a high position over the years, he had never slackened in honing his military formation skills.
"Have Xu Sheng and Mr. Yan withdrawn?" Gu Kecheng asked expressionlessly.
The soldiers replied: "Your Majesty! Xu Zhaofeng has gone to Xuzhou, so there will be no worries in the rear. Please withdraw, Your Majesty! If the Prime Minister is injured by a stray arrow, the situation will collapse!"
Gu Kecheng is not only the highest-ranking economic envoy among the local governors, but also the highest-ranking general among the military attachés. In terms of honorific title, he can certainly refer to the Jiedu envoys who were given the title of Pingzhang or Shizhong in the Tang and Song Dynasties.
Likewise, he can be respectfully called the envoy.
With his valuable status as envoy, Gu Kecheng still stood at the forefront of the battlefield. Behind him were a large number of civilians left by Xu Du and Yan Ermei, who were working hard to build a new line of defense inside the camp in the city.
Gu Kecheng had already prepared that after all the frontline walls and trenches were lost, everyone would retreat into the interior of Liucheng market town and use the original government buildings here to make a final effort to resist.
The soldiers were worried: "Once the Donglu take the outer positions of the camp in Liucheng, they will surround us all. The envoy has a high status, how can he fall into the enemy's hands? The camp has been fighting for so long, it is worthy of the prince of Jin! The envoy
Let’s go quickly!”
Of course, Gu Kecheng knew that as a general with military power and an envoy to Shandong, he could never regard himself as a cavalry general and wantonly engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.
Once he was killed or captured by the Qing army, it would definitely have a very bad impact on the morale of the Dashun army defenders.
But he also believed that it was not the time to break out or retreat, and the strength of the defenders in the remaining camp was far from exhausted. In order to contain the enemy, and also to wait until Jin King Li Laiheng arrived in time, Gu Kecheng decided to take another risk
A handful:
"You can delay it as long as you can! We haven't left yet."
He said in a deep voice.
boom--!
Regarding Bohetuo, Nikan's attack on the city was unsuccessful. Dorgon, who was already tired and disappointed, sent monk Kong Youde to welcome the artillery troops belonging to King Sanshun and opened fire with heavy red cannons, threatening to annihilate him.
All resistance.
Since the Qing army marched southward, they have also captured many new red cannons manufactured by the Dashun Army. Since the Dashun Army accepted Jesuit missionaries in Wuchang and absorbed more advanced Western cannon-casting technology, the overall design adopted
Thanks to the missionary's artillery module experience, with a smaller weight, it can exert a power that surprised Yuan Shizhong.
Compared with the old models of the Ming and Qing armies, the new Hongyi artillery of the Dashun Army garrison is more balanced in terms of artillery weight and power. The ratio of the dimensions of the gun body to the inner caliber of the artillery, that is, the ratio of the wall thickness and the internal diameter of the artillery.
The design of the ratio of caliber, including the ratio of barrel length to caliber, is more reasonable.
In the case of reduced weight, the power of the artillery has not weakened, but has increased.
Although Shang Kexi and Kong Youde are also familiar with artillery technology, their understanding of new artillery is still in the era of Sun Yuanhua's Denglai New Army, which is more than ten years ago.
When Sun Yuanhua was the governor of Denglai, a group of experts who knew Western artillery gathered in Dengzhou. Among them was Wang Zheng, the author of "Pictures of Strange Weapons of the Far West", who was appointed as a minister of the Shandong Inspectorate and supervised the affairs of the Liao Navy. There was also "Western Fire Attack"
Zhang Tao, the author of "Illustration", serves as deputy general of the Chinese Army and deputy commander-in-chief of Denglai.
Sun Yuanhua was appointed the governor of Dengzhou. After Liu Xingzhi's rebellion in June of the third year of Chongzhen, Dengzhou was captured by the rebel Kong Youde in the first month of the fifth year. In less than a year and a half, he established a considerable Western Artillery Regiment in Dengzhou and built the new Hongyi Artillery.
There are more than 20 people and more than 300 Western cannons.
Unfortunately, Denglai fell, and Kong Youde rebelled in Wuqiao and swept across Shandong, killing and burning all the way. The cruelty was no less brutal than that of the Donglu.
In February of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the Ming army recaptured Dengzhou. Sun Youde and Geng Zhongming escaped by sea. After surrendering, Jin brought Western artillery to win the favor of the new master Huang Taiji, and became the origin of the Qing army's heavy artillery force.
However, this was only ten years ago after all. After ten years of stagnant development, the once cutting-edge artillery force already had a big gap in technology with the Dashun Army's newer Hongyi artillery.
Because of his doubts, Shang Kexi became increasingly worried about the Qing army's extremely risky southern expedition:
"The artillery of the bandits was so complete. Not only did Dongjiang Town and the later Guanning Army lack such powerful Hongyi artillery, but even Sun Chuyang had never seen this when he was governor of Denglai.
If Chuang Ni can forge such artillery, I am afraid that the hinterland behind Henan and Huguang is not just a gathering of ants as Fan Wencheng, Gang Lin and others thought.
On the contrary, being able to forge such powerful artillery, coupled with the methodical and methodical resistance of thieves during the recent southern expedition, it really seems that there is a new dynasty, and it is not the so-called ant thieves."
Kong Youde looked at Shang Kexi and wanted to say something. But they were already tied to the Qing court's chariot and trapped in Dorgon's army. Even if they had different aspirations, there was no other way.
Kong Youde himself was an extremely ferocious, cruel and ambitious figure. As long as there were enough benefits for him, since he had already betrayed the Ming court, what was the harm in betraying the Qing army again?
But Kong Youde also knew that his old colleague Shang Kexi prided himself on being "loyal and righteous". Precisely because Shang Kexi had already betrayed the Ming Dynasty once, he was even more unwilling to betray him a second time.
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Kong Youde estimated that Dorgon allowed Shang Kexi to fight with him because he considered Shang Kexi's loyalty to the Qing court. In fact, it also played a role in supervising him.
"There is nothing to say. With thousands of guns fired, I don't believe the bandits can still hold on."