The Qing army's bombardment was indeed unprecedentedly good, because the Prime Minister ordered people to carry more than a dozen boxes of silver and place them in front of the battle.
As long as it hits the city head, one shot will give you five taels, and you can hit it on the spot and cash it in on the spot.
It was the Prime Minister who personally distributed the money, and there was no deception at all.
The Erda group of the Xiaoflang machine gun group fired five cannons, and the artillery hit the city head. There were five people in the artillery group, including Erda, and each person was divided into five taels.
If this situation continues, if all the medicine is used up, each person in their group will be able to get at least thirty taels, and the Eight Banners soldiers' salary is only 33 taels a year. Can this artillery be fired? Do they need to work hard?
However, after firing five rounds in a row, Eda's team stopped firing. There was no other way, as the barrel was burning and needed to cool down for a while.
Taking advantage of the opportunity for the barrel to cool down, Eda hurried over to collect the money.
"Shoot five shots and all five shots will hit?"
Jia Liu looked at Eda and the assistant gunner and auxiliary gunner behind him in surprise. After confirming that the record was true, he happily took out five ingots and five taels of ingots from the silver box and stuffed them into the hands of Eda and others.
"Okay, good job. Keep up the good work. The more hits you get, the more rewards you will get. After returning to Beijing, cut more meat and pull more cloth for your wife and children. If you don't have a wife or children, it's also good to give your unmarried daughter-in-law a pair of silver bracelets.
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The Prime Minister's encouragement made Eda and others very excited. They looked at the silver ingots in their hands and saw the Prime Minister who was happier than them, and they all became excited again and again.
If you hit a hit, you will be rewarded with silver. If you hit it now, you will find it. This greatly stimulates the artillery and greatly improves the hit rate.
Normally, when firing a cannon, you need to load the gun with a small amount of ammunition and a small torch. Whether it hits or not depends on God. This time, the gunners and auxiliary gunners of the gun crew were all lying there and taking aim. Everyone shouted OK before firing. It's not like they can fly.
If something can move, how can the cannon be inaccurate?
It's really difficult to follow Premier Jia without making a fuss.
Jia Liu kept sending money out. He was not afraid that someone would dare to cheat under his nose, but he really enjoyed the feeling of handing out money to others.
The taste is so light and exciting, even more exciting than having sex with a mother-in-law.
While handing out the money, he quietly told Goudou Fanwei: "Those who hit three out of five shots should be noted down for me, and all of them will be transferred to the Chang Wei Army later."
"Yes, sir."
Fan Wei hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice whether he should only remember those who were from the Han army, or whether he should remember both Manchu, Mongolian and Han.
"Duji, Duji. I, Chang Weijun, look at whether they are familiar with the business, not their background. If we really wanted to know their background, I would have had you killed by someone who is a gangster."
Jia Liu had a smile on his face.
When he hires people, he doesn't care about his background.
The Qing army's artillery fire was accurate, but the victorious army in the city suffered miserably.
I saw my companions around me who were fine just now, but were suddenly killed by a cannon in the blink of an eye. The timid man cried at that moment.
Wu Da, a farmer from Yanggu County, was originally lying close to the city wall with his butt stuck out. Unexpectedly, his neighbor Gu Er was hit by a falling shell and was so frightened that he screamed and ran towards the side subconsciously.
go.
As a result, a brick bounced off the wall and hit him in the face. Not only did it cut off a large piece of skin, it also smashed two of his front teeth. The pain was so painful that he tore a piece of cloth to cover his face while screaming.
I felt as if I was regretful.
If I had known that the army was coming for real, I would not have fallen into the trap of money and stayed in the city because I couldn't bear to part with a hundred cents. Now, although the money is still there, my life is about to be gone.
After spitting out the blood in his mouth, another iron ball fell not far away. The moment it hit the ground hard, it jumped up again and hit the back of a leader who was shouting at his subordinates not to run around.
The leader's spine was broken on the spot.
The artillery pieces of the Qing army outside the city were firing into the city as if they were free of charge.
The iron ball had not yet dissipated. It jumped again and hit the head of a soldier wrapped in a white scarf. It was instantly embedded in his head and his brains flowed to the floor.
An iron ball didn't know how to bounce, but it passed directly through the stomach of a stunned victorious soldier who was kneeling there, instantly taking away all the flesh and bones, revealing a large, empty round hole that was popping and popping.
Blood.
There were pools of blood all over the city wall, and corpses and broken arms and limbs were scattered everywhere. There was so much blood in some areas that people would slip when walking on it.
Outside the city, the trumpet sound of "Woo Wu" sounded, indicating that the Qing army was about to attack the city.
"Come on, I'll give you five taels for a hairy head!"
The counselor and second-class imperial guard Yingjitu, who volunteered to join the Zhili soldiers in attacking the city, put his braid around his neck, brandished his sword and led his Eight Banners soldiers towards the city wall.
The Zhili soldiers, led by General Wan Chaoxing and deputy general Marqing'a, roared and rushed towards the city wall like a tide.
Some are carrying ladders, some are pushing shield carts, and some are pushing stilts.
A typical cold weapon siege method.
Other gates also began to climb the city after receiving the signal.
Jia Liu, who had been paying close attention to the battle situation, saw from the telescope that a victorious army with its head wrapped in white cloth rushed out of the new city. It seemed that it was on Wang Lun's order to reinforce the old city.
"That leader of yours is not entirely a fool."
Putting down his telescope, Jia Liu asked Fanwei worriedly: "Is it true that Wang Jinglong is guarding the east gate?"
After receiving a positive reply, he nodded.
Suddenly there was a loud "boom" in the distance, which was louder than the Qing army's mountain-splitting artillery and small Franco machine guns.
Jia Liu was startled and looked up. In his sight, a thick gun barrel rose into the air from the city wall, and then fell diagonally from the air.
However, the Ever Victorious Army used the four old cannons that were more than a hundred years old. As a result, I don't know whether it was because they were filled with too much medicine or because the old cannons were too old. No shells were fired, but the barrels were lifted up.
Several gunners who had finally been put together by the victorious army were smashed to death.
Seeing that the cannons were out of action, Marshal Wang Jinglong of the Victorious Army who was guarding the old city of Linqing had no intention of abandoning the old city. Instead, he led his direct line of instructors and began to fire arrows outside the city in an attempt to repel the attacking Qing army.
However, the crossbows of the Ever Victorious Army were captured from Shandong Green Camp. The quantity was not large and the quality was not good, and there were no specially trained archers in the army. Therefore, in the face of the Qing army's swarming attack, they could not condescendingly use arrows to kill Qing soldiers on a large scale.
soldiers.
After suffering dozens of casualties, the Eight Banners soldiers from the forward battalion, firearms battalion, and guard battalion commanded by Yingjitu rushed to the city gates wearing armor.
In order to avoid accidentally injuring friendly forces, the Qing army's artillery stopped bombarding.
He looked down and saw that the Qing army was building a ladder. Wang Jinglong ordered the soldiers to throw stones down.
He and his guards worked together to lift a stone slab weighing more than three hundred kilograms, and then pushed the stone slab down with force while shouting.
"not good!"
When the Eight Banners Soldiers who were setting up a ladder below discovered a huge stone slab on the top, a knight from the Riding School screamed and instinctively ran back, but there was a swarm of Banners Soldiers coming from behind, and there was no way for him to run out.
The stone slab fell from the sky, and a dozen Eight Banners soldiers, including the Xiaoqi Cavalry School, were pressed under the stone slab.
Some died on the spot, and some had their legs pressed under the stone slabs but their bodies were outside.
Around the stone slab, blood, water and meat residue were everywhere.
"Brothers, fight with Qing Gou!"
The Qingshui soldiers on the city, led by Marshal Wang Jinglong, kept throwing stones, causing heavy casualties to the Qing troops climbing outside the city.
After many Qing soldiers were hit by stones, they directly formed a ball with the mud and blood on the ground. They couldn't even see their appearance. They were red, white, black, and sticky. They looked very ugly.
When Jia Liu, who was watching the battle from a distance, saw the miserable situation of his own siege troops under the East City through a telescope, he clenched his fists tightly and said excitedly: "Send my military order, and anyone who retreats without receiving the order will be shot without mercy!"