Daming kill

Chapter 292
The Daxi army on the fortress was shocked that the Ming army advanced under the fortress wall so quickly and smoothly.

And what happened next left them even more dumbfounded!

Countless round things with long ropes smoking and small fire pots were suddenly thrown up by the light soldiers hiding behind the heavy armored soldiers of the Ming army under the fortress in a rope throwing method that had never been seen before.

Immediately there were explosions on the fortress, followed by a sea of ​​flames.

And some gunpowder and kerosene accumulated on the fortress were ignited and exploded, and the lime dung juice was blown up and flew all over the sky, which further added to the shocking effect.

It gives people the illusion that the Great Western Army on the fortress is attacking the city and then thrown into purgatory.

The Daxi Army, who had never experienced such a situation, was completely dumbfounded.

Many people instinctively jumped off the wall which was not wide enough to escape.

However, taking advantage of this chaotic opportunity, some Ming soldiers in heavy armor climbed up with surprising speed and inexplicable ways, leaving those brave and those who were just completely dumbfounded and left in place. The Great Western Army looked dumbfounded.

And Ma Yong, who was the first to jump onto the fortress, glanced anxiously at the south side, and without thinking about other things, he first attacked an enemy who rushed over with a quick reaction and was also wearing full-body iron armor.

The oil fire that was still burning under their feet was not big, and it didn't have much impact on the two men who were fighting in iron armor.

These oil fires were actually caused by combustion cans made according to the principle of later generations of combustion bottles.As long as the body is not directly hit by this thing and causes burning, the damage is limited.

Of course, the ignited fire caused by the original kerosene storage tank on the wall is another count.

As for the round thing that was smoking, it was a grenade, and it relied on the instantaneous explosion damage. At the beginning, it obviously failed to effectively expel or harm the Great Western Army wearing iron armor.

Because it is filled with black powder, whether it is an explosion or a fragment, it is difficult for this new type of weapon to cause great damage to people at a very short distance. It may not be as powerful as it is directly hit on the head. The more effect is actually scary.

Of course, throwing it into the crowd can really scare people half to death.

This was the case with the hand grenades produced in some of our border areas during the War of Liberation.

The fragments after the explosion often only have a few petals, and the lethality is so pitiful that being sniffed at by the soldiers of the national army is worse than being directly hit by a stinky egg that has not exploded.

However, many national troops were indeed frightened by the rain that the People's Liberation Army made with this thing.

In the 20th century, the frontier region, which has experienced modern warfare for many years, is still like this. The power of the grenade rushed by Song Baolai is naturally conceivable, and because the problem of pulling the fire cannot be solved for the time being, each grenade must be ignited with an open flame. It is very inconvenient.

Li Ping didn't use it before, because he considered that the actual combat significance of the current grenade is really limited, and it also consumes a lot of precious resources and even more precious manpower.

Industry is like this, much more complicated than many people think.

Another example, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, we decided to use an arsenal in Kunming, Yunnan to imitate the Soviet RPD light machine gun, which is the famous Type 56 aircraft.

The predecessor of the factory was founded by the Party-State Ordnance Administration in 1939. During the Anti-Japanese War, it successfully imitated the Czech-style light machine gun. It has a strong foundation, technical force, and experience.

And at that time, the Soviet Union also promised to provide a full set of drawings and all complete tool molds.

Not to mention at the time, even now most of us may think that this should be very simple.

However, after receiving more than 8000 drawings and 7600 design process devices from the Soviet Union without reservation, the factory was dumbfounded at the time, especially in the face of [-] new processes that had never been touched. Tremendous stress.

But that's industry.

It looks simple, but it is actually very complicated. Every seemingly small progress in industrial products often requires a complex system to support it, and this system needs to achieve a step forward as a whole.

But once it's live, it's crushing.

Therefore, although the Great Western Army on the fortress was caught off guard, the loss was actually not that great, and more of them were just stunned.

Moreover, Ma Yong and the rushing enemy hacked each other for a long time, but no one was able to hurt the other.

Ma Yong wears iron armor, and so does the enemy.

Iron armor in the cold weapon era, especially many generals habitually wear chain mail or cotton armor inside the outer layer of iron armor, or even all sets of multi-layer armor. The protection is quite powerful in close combat.

Fortunately, although the enemies on the fortress have a high armor rate, most of them are not iron armor, and most of them are single-layer armor and half-body armor.The Great Western Army does not have the high capture rate of Li Ping's army after it has won victories against powerful enemies.

What's more beneficial is that Ma Yong's attack was not only sudden, but also his follow-ups continued.

Officers and soldiers of the Ming army continued to jump up to the fortress along several slopes formed by stacked tortoise shells laid out by two teams of heavily armored and thick shield soldiers under the fortress.

This method of tortoise shield climbing is a typical tactic used by the Roman army when attacking low-level fortresses.

It is simple, fast, and has strong anti-sabotage capabilities, but it also requires high training, strength, and size of soldiers, especially the height of the fortress must not be high.

Because stacking two layers is its limit.

Soon, a soldier rushes to Ma-young's side to help.

After the two worked together to knock down the guy who was probably the general of the Daxi Army, Ma Yong finally found a chance to stab the enemy in the face.

But after pulling out the knife, Ma Yong was not relieved.

On the contrary, he looked to the south even more anxiously.

He knew that a temporary breakthrough meant nothing.As the Great Western Army gradually reacted, it was entirely possible to use absolute superiority to beat them down or cause them huge casualties.

But when Mayong was anxious, there were bursts of violent bird guns firing and explosions suddenly sounded from the south of the Daxi Army Fortress.

Ma Yong breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and then shouted to organize the troops.

The Great West Army were all frightened and uneasy. They all looked behind in panic. The generals of the Great West Army who were organizing defenses and preparing for a counterattack even turned green.

Most of them are not rookies, of course they know that the sound from behind cannot be that the friendly soldiers are playing with themselves, and if they eliminate the interference and listen carefully, they can definitely hear the faint shouts of killing.

What's more terrible is that even a large number of bird gunners who are not suitable for melee combat have come in. How many Ming troops there are!Has their fortress been secretly breached by a large number of Ming troops from elsewhere?

The hearts of all the Great Western Army were confused.

At this time, Chen Zidao, who was leading the charge in the fortress, was also very anxious.

He grabbed a person beside him and said, "Don't worry about other things, I will protect you, you just need to lead the way."

The person captured by Chen Zidao was a small leader of the Great Western Army in the fortress here, and he was also from Macheng.

It was he and a few others like him who were familiar with the reality of the fortress and the road conditions, leading hundreds of people including Chen Zidao and Skinny Monkey to climb up from an unguarded cliff along the river in the early morning.

Most of these hundreds of people are just a group of people who have been mysteriously transferred away. They have been receiving secret special training, especially dangerous and difficult rock climbing training.

In the early stage, Chen Zidao and Shouhouer performed a lot of seemingly unimaginable actions around Tongluoxia, which not only provided a strong cover for the sneaking approach of the siege troops, but also created favorable conditions for them to sneak into the most heavily guarded Tongluoxia River.

And the rain last night helped a lot.

And although the air is clearer after the rain, thick fog often appears on the river in the early morning after the rain, and it just happened today.This further effectively protected Chen Zidao, Shouhou'er and others from being discovered by the Daxi Army on the Nanshan Mountain on the opposite bank, making their intrusion extremely smooth.

But everything has pros and cons.

Originally, coordinating an attack was extremely difficult.

They dare not be too early to prevent the assault and removal of the enemy's outpost fortress from affecting the siege force.

Normally, it is best for them to sneak into the enemy's main stronghold to harass when the enemy's outpost fortress is attacked or pulled out, so as to confuse the enemy and make it easier for the siege force to approach the fortress and carry out the siege.

It would be even better if you can take advantage of the chaos and directly occupy a certain gate or a certain section of the wall in advance.

For this purpose, each of them carried a pistol and two hand grenades.

It's not about how many enemies are killed, the main thing is that they can create enough movement to confuse the enemies and confuse the enemies who block them in the early stage.

Of course, it would be the best to be able to carry a blunderbuss, but that thing is too long and heavy, which greatly affects climbing and takes up energy, and it is impossible to become their main weapon in battle.

As for the combustion tank, since it cannot be carried when diving and climbing, it can only be given up.

But the problem is, although there is no problem with the weapons and equipment and the climbing equipment, they have already activated all the technologies that can be used, but the cliff they want to climb is not tens of meters high, but hundreds of meters high. It was slippery after the rain and disturbed by heavy fog. It was very difficult for them to grasp the timing of their cooperation.

What's more, they didn't expect the siege troops to advance so fast.

Fortunately, the attack alarm and confusion in the enemy's fortress and the sound of the guns can provide them with a good time point correction, allowing them to make adjustments so that there will not be too many nights.

Originally, according to the plan, half of them should be led by Shouhou to harass and harass the enemy so that the enemy could not distinguish the situation and could not concentrate their strength, and half of them should be led by Chen Zidao to go north to support.

But now, Skinny Monkey had given most of the people to Chen Zidao, and took away most of the remaining grenades, but this greater trust also put Chen Zidao under even greater pressure.

He was very worried that he would not be able to complete the task.

In fact, Chen Zidao didn't have to worry at all.

The Daxi army was already stunned, and had a psychological shadow on Li Ping's army, but their core Dingdong king, Zhang Rujing, had been missing for a long time at this most needed moment.

What's more troublesome is that because Zhang Rujing left secretly for a short time, he didn't have a very clear command relationship after he left, which made it impossible for the Western Army to form an effective unified command for a while.

As a result, under the influence of multiple factors, the Great Western Army on Tieshanping soon fell into chaos.

When Chen Zidao successfully led his men to appear behind the Daxi Army who was desperately resisting Ma Yong, the defense line of the Daxi Army collapsed almost instantly, and the fight on Tieshanping soon became completely one-sided.

Although the fog on the river was heavy in the morning after the rain, it dissipated quickly. Even when the sun just started to shine, all the fog had already dissipated.

At this time, the hordes of Daxi troops who had been trying to watch the battle with their eyes wide open at the Nanshan camp across the river from Tieshanping were all stunned.

Their faces were full of disbelief, fear and despair.

Although the sound of fighting on Tieshanping was still there, their eyes were filled with the familiar flag unique to Li Ping's army.

No one on Nanshan knew that Zhang Rujing was not on Tieshanping.

I don't know who yelled, and suddenly the entire Daxi Army on Nanshan scattered in an uproar, and then everyone started to run away first.

But not long after, when the Great Western Army descended from Nanshan was chaotic and scrambling to flee towards Chongqing through a valley, there were suddenly dense sounds of horseshoes in the woods on the side.

After being stunned, many Daxi troops on Nanshan simply chose to give up resistance and sit on the ground.

They knew that Li Ping's army had strict military discipline, and they also knew that running was useless.

And even if he could run out, so what?
At this time, Zhang Rujing, who was sitting on a boat rushing along the river to Tongluo Gorge, also turned his head helplessly after being stopped by the escaped boat from Tongluo Gorge.

Although the distance between Chongqing City and the water surface of Tongluo Gorge is about 30 miles, the straight-line distance on the map is less than 15 miles. The sound of cannons on Tongluo Gorge can easily reach Chongqing City.

So Zhang Rujing knew that it was not too late for the accident in Tongluoxia.

But he never expected that Tongluoxia would be lost so quickly.

And not long after he returned to Chongqing City, when he was thinking about countermeasures with great anxiety, he suddenly received an urgent report from the detectives that he found a Ming army on the Jialing River organizing a crossing.

It was not yet noon.

"So fast? Where did they get the boat?" Zhang Rujing was not only shocked again, but also froze.

Not only is the city of Chongqing stuck at the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Jialing River, but Zhang Rujing has also emptied all ships on the two sections of the river from Jiangjin to Chongqing and from Hezhou Diaoyucheng to Chongqing.

In other words, if Li Ping's ship wants to lead troops across the river to the land where Chongqing City is located, it is useless just to capture the Tongluo Gorge. It must first go to Chongqing and then pass under the cannons of Chongqing City Defense. Row.

Although he asked a question, Zhang Rujing didn't expect his subordinates to answer, he just lowered his head and thought for a while before he understood.

However, this also made him more frightened.

He finally understood that Li Ping not only played a big game of chess, but also had a big plan.

Zhang Rujing then decisively made the decision to abandon Chongqing and temporarily retreat to Luzhou, and ordered the troops to start action immediately.

As a result, Chongqing City, which was already panicked, immediately fell into chaos.

In the chaos, several civilians were quickly caught in front of Zhang Rujing. Angry Daxi Army soldiers alleged that these civilians not only bewitched others to welcome the Ming army in public, but also tried to win some Daxi Army to surrender and even wanted to close the upper city gate. Prevent the Western Army from withdrawing so that they can go to the Ming Army to claim credit.

Regardless of the crime, the beheading of civilians must be approved by Zhang Rujing himself. This is the iron law Zhang Rujing set after he took charge of Chongqing.

His subordinates did not dare to disobey, but they were actually afraid of being killed.

But Zhang Rujing didn't fly into a rage as everyone imagined, but stared blankly at these few people who didn't seem to be scholars, and sighed after a long time and said: "Lock up first, wait for me Let it go after the army withdraws!"

Zhang Rujing's subordinates were all stunned for a moment, and a few commoners who trembled and thought they were dead were also stunned.

(End of this chapter)