Win the Ding 1617

A round of shells landed on the top of the city wall of Shanghai County, although there were many straw bags and bamboo baskets filled with soil on the top of the city, and water was poured on them to make them more humid. Letting the shell fall on it reduces the kinetic energy of the bounce.However, when the huge hot shells fell on the city wall, they would still roll and bounce more or less, because there was always room for people to move.When the cannonballs fly and bounce, they seem to be very slow. In fact, the angular speed of the cannonballs is only visible to the naked eye. In fact, the speed is very fast. When people see the cannonballs flying and jumping, the body wants to react. That's too late.

The county seat of Shanghai was built in the 32nd year of Jiajing to guard against Japanese pirates. In order to shorten the construction period, rammed earth was used inside and a layer of city bricks outside.The thickness of this layer of city bricks is basically the same as our current Sanqi wall.Readers, you can imagine what kind of effect it would be if a shell weighing more than ten kilograms hit such a wall.And still keep hitting it?Soon, cracks appeared on the city wall. Under the action of the shells, these cracks became denser and more, and the cracks became cracks. Finally, a section of the city wall collapsed, forming a sloping slope outside the city.

"Okay! Well done! The Nanban is nothing more than that! Seeing the sharpness of the artillery fire of this general, they are scared!" Pingnan General Luke Dehun looked at the huge giant on the top of the city through the telescope. The gap, can't help waving the horsewhip and shouting loudly.

"Master! Shouldn't the infantry be sent up? Just now several general soldiers sent someone to ask for orders."

"Well! Good! This general will fulfill their desire for meritorious service! Tell them, after taking down Shanghai County, you will be followed by Nanban's business district! There are many good things there! Give this general a good fight!"

"Hey!" Goshha of Luck Dehun was about to ride his horse to send an order to the army, but there was a sound of horse hanging bells behind the flag formation, and it was Wang Yuele of Anjun who arrived.

"Great general! Nanban is afraid of cheating!" The sweat on Yue Le's face is very obvious, how he has rushed all the way.

"What's the trick?! The city was blown down by the general's Hongyi cannon. What else can they cheat?"

"General, my Qing soldiers have been firing for a long time. Have you ever seen any heavy artillery fire from the Nanban? Since the first battle between Hexiwu and our Qing soldiers, Liang Guogong has always been famous for his sharp and intensive artillery fire. But today, Did he, Li Huabao, ever fire a cannon? The servant can see clearly from behind that there will be artillery fire from the city, and they are all small cannons such as Franglers and six-pound guns to deal with us! His heavy cannons did not fire a single cannon. !"

"Furthermore, the soldiers and horses of the Li family never relied on the city walls to fight. They are the only soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty who dared to fight face-to-face with our soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty! There are dense fortifications, criss-cross trenches, and countless blockhouses. But you see, such intensive artillery fire only hits the city walls, and the defenders in those trenches and blockhouses have no casualties at all!"

"There must be fraud here! General, this is clearly Li Huabao's intention to show weakness, and it's better to be careful!

Luck Dehun curled his lips at Yue Le's analysis, expressing his disdain.

"Firstly, the Nanman have always relied on sharp artillery fire to fight our Qing soldiers. Today, I used the navy to cover the rear, and Li Huamei's navy had to go out of the port to deal with it. He lost the naval artillery support. Not only did he lose his water For the artillery fire of the division, he will also deploy artillery to the riverside for defense, in case my navy in the Qing Dynasty copy the rear. This is why you are worried that there is no heavy artillery to fight back, and those heavy artillery have been transferred to the riverside for defense. !"

"Two, in this small town of Shanghai County, my general invested tens of thousands of soldiers and horses at a time. No matter how many fortifications, bunkers and trenches there are, what use will these tens of thousands of people be able to use?! One person, one sip of water , can drown them too!"

"General!..."

"Don't talk too much! You go to the rear army to pass orders on behalf of the general! Order the 8 troops to mobilize, and your troops will hold down the ground for the general in the rear!"

Le Ke Dehun's order made Yue Le choke and rolled his eyes.This clearly kept his headquarters troops out of the battlefield, not to mention the mountains of spoils piled up in the sub-commercial district, even the documents reporting victory to the imperial court would not have their pen and ink.

"General, this!?"

"Don't talk too much, don't hurry up and mobilize troops?!"

Yue Le left angrily, and Le Kede looked at his back with a sneer, "Think you are the only one who knows how to fight? Doesn't this general know that Li Huabao must have a backup? But this general wants to let those green flag soldiers go up , no matter how many bunkers, how many forts, how deep trenches you have, what can you do if this general overwhelms tens of thousands of people at once? Anyway, your firecrackers and artillery can only be fired one by one. Soldiers and horses are swarming up, let's see how you deal with it!"

The horn was sounded, the flag was waved, and Goshha, who delivered the order, was flying back and forth between the army formations. The artillery fire of the Qing army gradually thinned out, and the infantry began to move.

It is completely different from the well-equipped Eight Banners soldiers and horses in Boluo’s headquarters. The equipment of the Green Banner soldiers and horses implements the consistent tradition of the Ming army. "Shabby!"

The vast majority of soldiers have only one number, which is marked with which town, which battalion, and which general they belong to. The better ones have a waist armor or a full-length armor.Almost all of them have a long gun in hand.This is also very in line with the principle of military leaders to expand the strength of soldiers and horses. Whether it is to recruit strong men or young and strong, giving them a spear is a soldier.Anyway, spearheads are very easy to manufacture. A blacksmith's furnace can make dozens of them with a few catties of iron.These pikemen, whether they are the deputy generals of the Green Banner Soldiers or in the eyes of General Bo Luo, are all expendable items.

They were shouted, kicked and beaten by the officers, and formed into an array of thousands of people.

Behind the pikemen are the sword and shield soldiers of the generals. Compared with the pikemen, their equipment is much more elite.Almost everyone wore armor, at least iron-inlaid armor, and many had chain mail.Holding a knife in one hand and holding a shield in the other, they formed a smaller but stricter square formation.

They are an important basis for the combat power in the hands of generals.Natural treatment is different.

After them, came the servants of the generals.These people were all cavalry, not only were they all wearing iron armor, but many of them were wearing heavy armor, with a Nanzhong breastplate on the outside of the armor.In their hands, there are either mourning guns or extinct knives, and the heads of servants at all levels still have firecrackers on their backs.

These people are used to supervise the battle and are ready to cut off the heads of those soldiers who are cowering.

After the horn sounded, the war drum sounded, and one after another the Qing army infantry gun formations began to move forward.

"what!"

Thousands of people roared loudly, and all their spears were erected, like forests growing out of the flat ground.Dozens of gun formations were slowly approaching the county town. Although they were neat at first, they gradually became scattered after a while. Some walked faster, some slower, and more Some people stagnated because their straw sandals got stuck in the mud, causing the queue to become crooked.

Fortunately, they didn't want to fight against the Hongwu army, but to fill up the trenches, trample down the bunkers, and break through the city, so no one cares if the formation is chaotic.

Gradually, the phalanx completely lost its formation and became a mass of people.The black pressure came over one by one, the spears were like reeds by the river, one after another, as far as the eye could see, there were densely packed spear stabs, and the red tassels jumped up and down like fire.The psychological pressure on people is very high, and the tension becomes more intense as the distance approaches.

"How, how?"

Wu Changqing, who stayed in Shanghai County, has now been promoted to brigade commander by Li Huabao's fire line. However, his brigade is of that kind of temporary organization. Apart from the group of people he brought, there are only people who have recently arrived from Guangxi. Thousands of mobilized soldiers.

Although these recruits said that they had fought some battles in their hometown, they were not rookies who had never been on the battlefield, but not many people had seen such a scene of 10,000+ people fighting to the death.He was not at ease, so he went to patrol the second trench to boost morale.

"It's okay. Brigadier. Let's treat it as fighting enemies in our hometown, fighting for water and woods, but there are more people." Mo Sande, a sentry officer mobilized in Guangxi, was very indifferent, just wiping the short fire in his hand pistol.

"Yo! Good boy, your tone is not small!"

"Brigade Commander, when we scolded the Tartars just now, we also said that our left-behind general is naturally not as capable as the young marshal. He dared to lead a team to fight against the gunfire. We also know that the uncle's back then The Dongfan soldiers are powerful, and now they are still dealing with the Tatars on the ground in Shandong with the young lady. But our Guangxi soldiers are not eating fast and praying to Buddha! All of them climb the mountains to get water under the trees, eat hard, endure the cold and suffer offence. What's more, those of us came from Guangxi, and we have all been greatly favored by the general who stayed behind! The young marshal can train a group of headhunters into powerful Dongfan soldiers, so we Guangxi wolf soldiers will also give the second The young commander fights for breath!"

Hearing what Mo Sande said, Wu Changqing didn't say much, just hammered his chest with his fist, "Brother, fight hard! Make a name!" He took off the firecracker and the medicine box on his body , "Leave it to you, fight hard! Don't let the second young marshal down!"

Wu Changqing's move undoubtedly gave Li Huabao a little more help.In the eyes of the Guangxi soldiers like Mo Sande, the muddy and slippery roads caused by the rainy weather are simply the best battlefield designed for them by God.Others are faltering, but they are walking like flying.

"Okay, it's time to fire! Signal and inform the artillery team, it's time to fire!"

In the bunker, Wu Changqing saw a large area of ​​the Qing army like a flood, overflowing the first ditch and climbing over the first low wall. The chaotic crowd gathered together like an ant nest before a storm. place.

Behind the first low wall is a large area paved with ashes and bluestone slabs, which can accommodate thousands of people.This is a good geomantic treasure land chosen by Wu Changqing and the artillery team for the Qing army.

"Boom! Boom!"

Dozens of artillery fortresses outside the city began to bombard them. Hundreds of cannons above the size of the Dafranc machine, and the cannons weighing seven or eight catties, continued to bombard, and the momentum brought about was astonishing, like rain. The artillery shells fell, and the heavy solid iron balls hit the crowd, as if they were going to tear people's hearts and lungs. The dense shells swept through the crowd like leaves falling in the autumn wind.

boom!boom!boom!

Dozens of Dafulang machine guns fired with double shotguns, which almost perfectly explained what is bullet rain, what is airtight, what is the perfect combination of speed and accuracy, and what is crazy for 1 minute!

Within 1 minute, the Dafolang machine gunners smashed four rounds of shelling on the heads of the Qing army who had rushed into the first low wall.They kept firing, reloading the blunderbuss, firing again, reloading the blunderbuss, firing again, accurate and ruthless.Every round of artillery shot over the low wall, over the trench, and hit the top of the Qing soldiers' heads, quickly turning every living body into a pile of rotten flesh.This never-before-seen method of operating artillery opened the eyes of the officers and soldiers in the city. It turned out that the artillery not only aimed directly at the bombardment, but could also fire like this? !Cannons falling from the enemy's heads? !

The shells poured down like a storm, but the distance of two hundred steps made the shells fired by these artillery amazingly powerful, and the large group of people swarmed together, which happened to provide the best shooting ground for the shells.

The ruthless shells fell on their heads, and a dense shotgun shell swept across their heads and faces. The bodies of those charging Qing soldiers were either broken in two by the shells, with bloody red flesh flying, or their bodies were smashed into pieces. A huge blood hole appeared on the body, exposing the internal organs to the air and emitting an unpleasant smell.Or a whole thigh, or a whole arm was broken, and the blood gushed out like a fountain. The wounded cried and hugged the broken limb, and was trampled to death in a blink of an eye.The battlefield was filled with flesh and blood, blown by the river wind, which filled the air with a strong smell of blood, making it even more ruthless.

The shelling this time caused the phalanx of the Qing soldiers holding long guns to be defeated almost on the spot.However, without waiting for Pingnan Great General Le Kede to make a move, the swords, shields and servants of the general soldiers rushed forward, each armed with swords, spears and axes, and chopped off a few heads, and then forced them back.

The dull and huge war drums sounded again, and the sound of horns resounded across the battlefield, and another wave of Qing soldiers rushed forward with spears in their hands.Different from just now, this time, all the general soldiers have deployed some sword and shield soldiers in the spear phalanx, firstly to strengthen their courage, and secondly to suppress them.In order to cheer up the pikemen, they also collected a lot of door panels and asked them to place them in front of the queue for shelter.I don't know, can these wooden door panels block metal cannons?

"See how much blood you have to fill this trench!" Wu Changqing sneered as he watched the swarming Qing troops.

However, Wu Changqing underestimated the Qing army.

Charge accompanied by blood drama staged again.After a sound of drums, countless pikemen rushed towards the west gate. Seeing their black heads like waves and dense spears, even Wu Changqing was a survivor of all battles who had thrown life and death out of the sky. At this moment He was also a little at a loss, and couldn't help but cursed in his heart: "You son of a bitch! Why didn't you see you be so cruel when you beat the tartars back then!"

The Qing army charged fiercely like a tidal wave, ignoring the cannonballs that kept falling from above their heads. After rushing within a hundred paces, the artillery fire under the city lost its effect.This weakness was discovered by the Qing army, and they rushed towards the city frantically.

"Get ready!" Sharp copper whistles sounded from various sections of the trench, and the sentry officers began to urge their soldiers to prepare for shooting.

A heavy soldier carried boxes of medicines out of the cave and placed them in front of each soldier.Not far away, there was a bamboo basket full of horsetail grenades.The grenadiers checked for the last time whether the kraft paper package tied to the grenade body was firmly tied.This was a gift prepared by Li Huabao for them. The kraft paper bag was full of white lime, arsenic, croton and other favorite things.Anyway, they are everywhere in the city. Rather than leaving them for the Qing soldiers, it is better to be generous and give them away outside the city.

These kraft paper bags are all made by each battalion according to the formula mentioned in "Wu Jing Zong Yao" and "Wu Bei Zhi". As for the dosage and composition, it depends on each person's integrity and hobbies.Anyway, these things are not complete supplements that are beneficial to the healthy development of body and mind.

"The Nanman's cannon is dead! Let me rush up! The general has an order! Whoever goes up first will be rewarded with ten silver dollars! Killing a Nanman will be rewarded with 20 silver dollars! Whoever rushes to the city first will be rewarded with 100 silver dollars! Those who want to get rich Whoever dares to shrink back, cut it down on the spot!" The officers supervising the battle in the queue took the opportunity to wave their swords, threatening to lure them with carrots and sticks.

At a distance of sixty steps, the archers of the Qing army lined up and began to throw.The dense arrows flew over the open space between the two armies, and flew into the fortifications guarded by the Hongwu army.

For a while, the bang, bang, the dingling sound of Ding Ding died in people's ears into a chaotic sound.The sound of gunfire, the muffled sound of arrows hitting people's bodies, the impact of arrows hitting helmets and breastplates, and the screams of the wounded were endless.Fortunately, the weather was humid, and the bowstrings of the arrows were all wet by the rain, greatly reducing their power.Even so, people kept falling to the ground and were carried down by the soldiers of the health battalion, and his position was quickly filled.

"Sixty paces! Fire!"

The sound of dense firecrackers sounded continuously, and the thick gray-white smoke formed a barrier of death.

"Forty steps! Drop the bomb!"

With the sound of a copper whistle, the densely packed horsetail grenades were rolled in a semicircle above the heads of the grenadiers, flying into the ranks of the Qing army like a group of vultures pecking at carrion, and even a group of crows reporting funerals.

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