Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 460 Flesh Mill ([-])

Sure enough, the last thing to underestimate on the battlefield is the enemy's determination.

After the rout was contained, the frenzied commander of the Qing army sent today's fourth wave of assault troops.With the unremitting efforts of this team of about 1000 people, the last obstacle of the East Coasters was also removed or destroyed.Looking at the wooden piles burning in the raging fire, both sides knew that the real siege battle would follow.In order to qualify for this siege battle, the Qing army lost a total of nearly [-] soldiers and more than [-] masters in the past few days.It is like a life-swallowing monster, a flesh mill, constantly twisting the incoming fresh humans into various corpses, no matter how nervous a person is, it is impossible to remain indifferent in the face of such casualties.

The Qing commanders are embarrassed these days, because they probably haven't killed even a single soldier on the east coast, but they have paid the price of 2000 casualties.Although the dead were all cannon fodder, everyone's face was still very dull, and the prospect of this battle had changed from being more optimistic before to not so optimistic.How many lives must be invested in this small castle to conquer it?Where did this guy come from?Why did their artillery fire so far and so accurately?Why are there so many types of guns, and why are they so lethal?No one can answer.

Many were frustrated at the thought that they hadn't even seen the face of the enemy they'd been killing them so efficiently.Even for those soldiers of the Eight Banners and Eight Banners of Han who served as the supervisory team, although they have not killed or injured a single person in the past few days, their morale has inevitably been affected.

After launching four consecutive waves of offensives and being defeated, the morale of the Qing army also suffered a setback.In addition, it was almost noon, and everyone was a little hungry, so the two sides stopped fighting with a tacit understanding.The Qing army withdrew to the camp, and the cannons of the people on the east bank stopped firing.The sky is big and the stomach is the biggest. Soldiers on the east coast went to the public canteen to eat in batches. There were wheat cakes, salted fish, and potato roast meat as a wartime snack.Officers and veteran non-commissioned officers can eat in the officer's restaurant, where there are fresh vegetables, moose, roe deer, wild boar, salmon meat taken from the ice cellar, red wine and beer, and even a small amount of coffee Beans (only for officers above the second lieutenant), the conditions are quite good.

As for their opponents, the Qing army, because it is wartime, they will also receive good treatment for three meals a day, but their staple food is corn rice mixed with sand, black beans for horses, and a very small amount of pickles to add salt.And this kind of crude food that the people on the east bank will send their logistics staff to the gallows after seeing it is unimaginably high-level treatment for those soldiers of the Ming army who surrendered. They used to eat even food Not full.

Just like that, the battlefield became silent again, as if it was just an ordinary early spring noon.

At noon, fine snow fell in the sky, and the north wind gradually picked up, but this could not stop the fierce fighting passion between the tens of thousands of people on both sides in the Yantai area.

After lunch, the Qing army launched a new offensive, showing their urgency.They dispatched about 500 troops this time, carrying a few ladders, and some sword and shield fighters walked in the front. They held thick shields, which was to prevent bows and arrows from shooting, but they couldn't prevent them. Lead shot from a musket.

The 104th Company of the Army where Zamparini was stationed was stationed at Tower A on the southern city wall.This is an irregular protruding part, the area is not very large, except for the area where the six cannons are placed, it can only accommodate 400 people at most.At this moment, the 104th Company of the Army only sent 120 musketeers to Jiacheng Tower. In addition, 5 soldiers from the 250th Squadron of the First Battalion of the Volunteer Squad were also concentrated here.On the upper floor of City B, another 104 musketeers from the 120th company and 4 people from the 250th Brigade of the Standing Team were deployed.In the middle of the city wall, there are relatively strong troops. In addition to 150 supplementary company musketeers, there are also 3 people in two squadrons 6 and 500 led by Junior, the captain of the first brigade of the stand-up team.

In addition, Pei Qin, the deputy captain of the First Brigade, led the four squadrons 7-10 drawn from the Zhifu Island military camp to stand by the city. The 105th Company of the Army, the 1st Battalion of the Eight Banners New Army, and the Yantai Artillery Company were on standby in the military camp.Now this "small scene" does not need them for the time being, they just need to recharge their batteries so that they can go to the top of the city for a round of battle at any time.

120 army soldiers sat quietly against the city wall in units of platoons. Their company commander Mao Desheng went to the second tower to command, and the leader here was naturally the deputy company commander Gao Shan.Gao Shan walked up and down the city wall, watching the movement of the Qing army outside the city through the observation hole on the top of the city wall from time to time.Except for the artillery, all the troops on this tower are temporarily under his command, including the 5 people led by Gao Cuihuan, the captain of the 250th Squadron of the Standing Squadron.

The two cannons aimed at the south were already firing.The sweaty gunners were very busy, but they had a relaxed expression on their faces. Their cannons, as always, caused terrifying damage in the enemy formation.The soldiers of the stand-up team were a little nervous. Their squadron leader Gao Cuihuan was reprimanding the North Korean soldiers who were stiff because of fear, while some other Shandan people or veterans of the Shun Army looked at those North Korean soldiers with contemptuous eyes. The pale North Koreans secretly muttered to themselves that North Koreans are only qualified to be soldiers, and they are not qualified to be soldiers.

"They're coming up! Captain of the high school, act according to the plan!" Deputy Gao Shan of 104 Lianlian yelled violently, and ordered to Gao Cuihuan.As soon as Gao Cuihuan heard this, he immediately began to give orders to his team leaders. A team of archers (50 people) immediately stepped forward. They took off their step bows from their shoulders, put the bow and arrow on the string, and pointed it at the front right.

The Qing army had rushed to about 100 meters from the city wall.The long-barreled cannons on the top of the city had given up attacking them and continued to bombard the front, where the second wave of more than 1000 Qing soldiers were pouring out of the earth wall like a tide, as if they were about to launch a continuous offensive.The two short-barreled howitzers facing the front right have been replaced with grape shells. At this time, they don't need to aim or bother to correct the trajectory, they only need to aim and shoot directly.

The scattered grape bullets hit the crowd of the Qing army, causing considerable damage immediately.Some unlucky sword-and-shield fighters were split open with their shields, and the bloody scene was shocking.But the Qing army continued to attack, and they had already entered the area of ​​60 meters. At this time, the North Korean gunmen on the front wall had fired their guns, and some Shandan archers with extraordinary arms also pulled away. He drew his step bow and shot a heavy arrow forward.

After they shot, the archers on the towers on both sides also shot their arrows down the city.At this time, they don't need to aim anymore. In fact, most of them have very poor archery skills. Many of them just learn how to draw the bow temporarily. One can imagine how accurate they are.However, the crowd of the Qing army is relatively dense. They only need to roughly shoot their arrows at the crowd of the Qing army, and they can basically get something.

In this way, under the attack of six howitzers in three directions and about three or four hundred blunderbuss soldiers and archers, the Qing army of about 500 people could not hold on any longer, and almost He fled to the rear with a nervous breakdown.They left nearly [-] corpses on the battlefield, but what they got in exchange was just the opportunity to put a ladder on the wall of Yantai Fort.A few archers among them made a limited counterattack, causing several weak casualties to the people on the east bank on the city head.The main reason why the casualties were so slight was that the soldiers of the defensive stand-up team were all temporarily assigned a breastplate, and the bows and arrows fired upwards by the Qing army archers could not effectively break through the defense of the high-strength curved steel armor.Therefore, as long as it is not the unlucky guy who was shot in the face and arm, basically no one will be killed or injured in the confrontation with the Qing army, and this undoubtedly greatly increased the morale of the officers and soldiers who came forward.

But this is the luxury that people from the east coast can have.You must know that in this era, the cost of armor made purely by hand is astonishing. If [-] to [-]% of any army has iron armor, it can be called elite.And this is probably some chain armor. If it is the light full-body plate armor of the East Coast, only nobles and knights in Europe can afford it, and the quality is probably not as good as that of the East Coast people.In this era, only the powerful productivity of the East Coast Republic can equip frontline soldiers with such luxurious equipment. This is the power of technology!The power of science and technology that the Qing army must fill with flesh and blood!

Combat is so easy! Gao Shan, the deputy company commander of the 104th company, also relaxed a little from his tense spirit. Any Qing army rushing to the city would have to face blows from the left, right and front, and there was no place to hide under the city. , so that the casualties were quickly exhausted.The army on the east bank didn't even make a move. It was too easy to repel the Qing army with the artillery, the crappy archers who had just learned how to archery for a few days, and some gunmen.

The second wave of the Qing army collided head-on with the retreating Qing army. They suddenly became a mess on the narrow frontal battlefield, and were seized by the east bank artillery to bombard them.After inflicting heavy damage on them, the two waves of the Qing army simply fought together and retreated together, making the people on the east coast of the city laugh.

The Qing army killed and injured about 600 people before and after this offensive, but what about the casualties of their opponents from the east coast?In addition to the five people who were hit by the bows and arrows of the Qing army (two people died), there was only one soldier who was seriously injured because of the use of inferior firecrackers...

(End of this chapter)