The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 341

At this time, the bombardment in the direction of Yong'an Gate in Jinzhou had been going on for an hour and a half. Twelve six-pound field guns had fired 360 cast iron spherical shells, which were close to the Ming Dynasty's unit of measurement of four and a half catties, and more than half of them fell to the top of the city.

The splashed masonry fragments killed and injured many Houjin soldiers, and some particularly unlucky Jiannu were directly hit by shells and smashed to pieces.

Later, the Jin army learned to avoid blocking, and learned to lie down on the horse path behind the crenel when the situation was not good, but today is different. They not only have to guard against the precise direct fire of the minigun, but also beware of the projectile projectile. Also beware of the refraction of splashes.

And here comes the big trouble, which seems inevitable.

Later, the Jin army could not observe the direction of the Ming army's artillery fire at will, so it was rare to find out where the Ming army was aiming when it fired, and it was even more impossible to predict the landing point.

After being bombarded, the Jin army certainly refused to give up, and Na Hai immediately ordered all the artillery to fight back immediately.

The savages took it for granted, thinking that the Ming army fired artillery to the top of the city of Jinzhou, and they should be able to hit the Ming army's artillery positions when they counterattacked. Unfortunately, they don't know how to compare goods and throw them away.

The big traitor Ma Guangpu didn't distinguish, because he knew that it would be very funny to discuss artillery knowledge such as elevation angle, landing point, ballistics, etc. with these idiot-like barbarians. Our artillery can't reach the Ming army's artillery positions.

He immediately commanded the gunners of the Han army to fire all the artillery deployed on the northern city wall of Jinzhou.

Of course, the gunners knew that the range of effective projectiles from flat shots and accurate elevation angles would never be able to hit the Ming army's artillery array, but the master ordered them to fire indiscriminately, so what else could they do?
So they tried their best to raise the muzzle of the guns so that the shells could hit as far as possible, and they didn't care what they hit.

After more than ten shots, the Jin army's artillery finally fired a round, including the two or three kilograms of artillery shells fired by the short-range Frang machine gun, all of which fell into the Ming army's position without exception.

Their luck wasn’t too bad, it wasn’t that they got nothing. A poor military conscript was hit by a cast iron ball about seven or eight catties fired by a Hongyi cannon, and a few splashes were injured. The Ming army had armor on them, didn’t they? Damage from splashes that are too large is mediocre.

Trouble arose just as the Hou Jin army was about to play the second round. That was when the artillerymen took the wooden pole to clean the barrel and forgot for a moment that there were Ming army musketeers hiding under the city.

As soon as he stuffed a wooden pole wrapped in cotton cloth and soaked in water into the barrel, a flower of blood appeared on the artilleryman's back.

The snipers have been keeping a close eye on the top of the city. The gunners of the Han army who are in charge of firing the cannons are behind the barrels. The snipers who are ambushing about [-] steps away from the city wall of Jinzhou can't hit them. Be polite, the miniguns fired one after another.

The gunners of the Jinzhou Han army stopped after one round, and their loading speed was seriously affected. Ma Guangpu, a traitor hiding behind a Hongyi cannon, immediately ordered the Han army to use their guns to find the Ming army who was releasing guns under the city. hit.

Raising a gun against a Minigun is not a contest of the same level. The traitors who are forced to carry the loaded gun just put it on the crenel will be attacked by no less than four Miniguns.

None of the Han soldiers had the awareness to go all out, and no one dared to aim. In order to deal with the Shangguan, they had to come and shoot. They had countermeasures. Where did the double buckshot go?

Then they hid behind the crenel and slowly cleared and reloaded, and when they were urged tight, they emptied their guns for the first time.

This is the case with the servant army. They were forced to participate in the battle. Compared with the "Red Banner Army" who took the initiative to come to Jinzhou City to attack the slaves, there is a world of difference.

It was difficult for the gunners of the Han army to reload smoothly, so the second round of strikes could not be completed quickly. Ma Guangpu's order to raise the gun to suppress it was basically ineffective. The cover gunner clears and reloads.

The Franco cannons that use sub-guns are loaded in the rear, and it is faster to fire again, but Ma Guangpu knows that firing these poorly airtight and small-caliber cannons at the maximum elevation angle is deceiving himself and others, so he can only count on the Hongyi cannons to show their power.

The counterattack of Jinzhou artillery fire is how can there be room for survival with this efficiency?This is enough to explain the hard truth that if you fall behind, you have to be beaten!

During the second round of shelling by the Ming army, the landing point of the shells was much more accurate, because the artillery observers corrected the coordinates based on the first round of landing points.

As the third and fourth rounds of artillery shells fell, the position of the Jinzhou artillery had become the hardest hit area. At this time, only half of the city head cloth fireproof artillery that had been fired for the second round was still able to fire.

The artillery battle was in progress, and the artillery shells of the Ming army continued to fly to the top of the city. The traitor gunners were beaten up by the splashing iron slag, stones, and brick crumbs, and at the same time, some bouncing iron balls hit the back of the city. The Jin Army's Hongyi Cannon and Frang Machine Cannon.

The cast-iron cannon was so fragile that it was broken, two or three doors were cracked, and those that were not hit by the shells were not much better. Nine out of ten muzzles were distorted by the bricks and stones that were lifted up.

The falling Hongyi cannon weighing two or three thousand kilograms was not something to be trifled with. Several Han soldiers lying on the ground were unable to dodge and were crushed to the point of blood splattering. The scene was horrible.

The [-]-[-]-jin Frang machine cannon that was hit and rotated by the shells was also terrifying. After being rubbed or touched, the Jin army was either killed or injured.

The city was in a mess, with broken arms and limbs all over the ground. The artillerymen of the Han army finally couldn't hold back. A Han army who was sprayed all over his head and face with the blood of his comrades yelled in despair:
"It's hopeless. Our cannons have no way to fight back. If we stay on the cannons, we will be hit by the shells of the Ming army. We will die in vain. Brothers, run away, we can't stay here."

Unexpectedly, he just ran out seven or eight steps and stepped on a large pool of blood. He slipped and fell far away with a plop, and hit his head on the corpse of a Jiannu who was directly hit by a shell, and his intestines hung on his face. .

The tragic situation of the dismembered corpse stimulated the Han army even more, and he howled: "Run away, brothers, if you don't run away, you may be directly hit by shells and be smashed to pieces. At least you can leave a whole corpse behind if you run back!" ah!"

At this time, more than a dozen Han soldiers also shouted loudly: "Run, run, I've had enough, I don't want to be broken."

"Brothers, let's run together! The law does not blame the public!"

Immediately afterwards, more and more Han troops chose to flee. The gunners and gunmen who had no will to fight no longer wanted to stay at the top of the city as cannon fodder, and they collapsed.

(End of this chapter)