A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 102 Shelling
The Qing army's cavalry lined up solemnly, exuding a breathtaking aura.

At this time, their military discipline was still strict, all the sergeants just stood quietly, and there was no noise in the entire army formation.

Outside the city, there are pure white flags with red borders, and from a distance, there is a piece of red and white.Right in front of the Qing soldiers' army, there is a big banner erected high up. The leader of the Qing soldiers under the banner is the Jialazhangjing who slaughtered Huang Guoxiang near Taiping Fort.

He felt the difference in Shunxiang Castle from Huang Guoxiang, and he felt uneasy, and he wanted to destroy it quickly!He mobilized all his soldiers and horses to come, and after entering the boundary of Shun Township Fort, he really felt that this place was different. A small thousand-household house had solid walls and clear fields. In the entire territory, there was no small village that could supply looting. All the people went to the empty building.

This made Jiala very angry. They burned all the empty fortresses, and finally came to Shunxiang Fort.

At a glance, Najia Lazhangjing couldn't help laughing, it turned out to be just such a small fort.Such a castle, in the old days, was not even worthy of being captured by the Qing soldiers. It was small, remote, poor, and there was no oil or water to speak of.

Najia Lazhangjing also knows a lot about the defensive forces of Ming Dynasty's castles. Such a remote city of thousands of households is only two miles a week, and the defensive soldiers inside are no more than three to four hundred at best, and most of them are unable to fight. Even if a new castle is expanded and built in the northwest of the fort, there will be no more than five or six hundred soldiers at most, and it is estimated that there will be less than three hundred soldiers capable of fighting.

With my [-] troops, it is estimated that I can send hundreds of warriors to charge and kill them all at once, and they will be able to defeat them in one go.It’s good for these Ming people to strengthen the walls and clear the country, all their population and materials are concentrated in this castle. After the city is broken, all their wealth will belong to themselves, and the Dingkou women inside will also become their slaves.

Thinking of this, he laughed loudly, waved his horsewhip, and said something in Manchurian, and the Niulu beside him also laughed together.

At this time, in the Qing army under the city, five Niulu formed a large formation, and each Niulu formed a small formation separately, with the soldiers in front and the auxiliary soldiers in the rear, totaling more than 550 people.

Among the five Niulu, each Niulu has two official banners and two flags and two soldiers.Next to Niu Lu, there are two Kabashi soldiers, who are the soldiers of the vanguard battalion of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. They all have flying feathers on their helmets, behind them there is a flying tiger with a flag on their backs, and they are dressed in bright helmets and armor.

In addition, there are 17 Baibai Yala soldiers, commonly known as Baijia soldiers, who were the guards of the Qing Dynasty in later generations.

The seventeen white-armored soldiers were led by a man called Zhuang Dao by the Manchurians, with bright armor and red tassels, and a slanted true-color flag on his back.

Among the soldiers of the Later Jin Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, each of them recorded three hundred soldiers, and one of the three was wearing armor as a soldier, which was divided into infantry and vest, and the rest were auxiliary soldiers, divided into those with horses and those without armor. foot follow-up.When Huang Taiji was in power, he slightly adjusted the types of troops in the army, canceled the red battalion and black battalions, and listed them as ordinary armored soldiers.

Among the five Niulu, in addition to the personal soldiers of each Niulu, Kabashi soldiers and Baijia soldiers, there are 40 vest soldiers in each Niulu.The armored soldiers have bright helmets and dark armor, fifty arrows, and one bow and knife each. They are commanded by two Manchurian officers called Fende Pashiku.

There are also 50 infantry soldiers, led by two infantrymen, Pashiku. All of them have black tassels on their helmets, and they all have a two-foot-square flag on their backs.

Regardless of vests and infantry armor, there is one chief for every few or ten people, and the Manchus call it the small leader of Zhuanda.

Among the Qing soldiers in Jiala, there were more than 500 armored soldiers, and the rest were followers and auxiliary soldiers. They did not wear armor, or only wore cotton armor without iron leaves inside.In addition, there are dozens to dozens of blacksmiths and saddlemakers in each Niulu.

In front of the army, a small Shun Township Fortress was naturally ignored by Jia Lazhangjing. He laughed for a while, and ordered a few times. Immediately, a Niuluzhangjing rushed out, accompanied by a few white armored soldiers as guards. Accompanying him was Nahan Tongshi who was beside Najia Lazhangjing.

They rushed to a distance of more than 100 steps from the head of Shunxiangbao, and stopped far away.

That Niu Luzhang Jing yelled at the senior officer next to him, and the senior officer responded and came out tremblingly.

He ran a few more steps and yelled at the top of the wall: "Listen to the Ming army upstairs, you surrender quickly, otherwise the Qing soldiers will attack the fort and destroy everything. You must think carefully, lest you regret it too late!" "

"Great Qing soldiers?"

Han Chao, Han Zhong, Wen Fangliang and others on the tower were all surprised. Han Zhong said in surprise, "Didn't the Tartars call themselves Dajin? When did it become Qing Dynasty?"

All the generals were talking about it, and they all found it strange that only Wang Dou was silent. The Ming Dynasty naturally blocked the news about the change of the country's title after the Jin Dynasty, and it was impossible for everyone in Shunxiangbao to know about it.

Han Zhong stared at Niu Luzhang Jing who was more than 100 steps away. He was standing on his horse under the protection of layers of white armored soldiers' heavy shields, looking at the movement in the city with impunity.Han Zhong looked annoyed, at such a long distance, bows, arrows and firearms couldn't hit him, he said: "The Tartars are too rampant, how about a shot?"

Wang Dou said: "I'm afraid I may not be able to hit it right, so let's see what they are doing!"

The officer called for a long time, but there was no movement in the city, so he reluctantly returned to Niu Luzhangjing to report to him.

Niu Luzhang Jing yelled loudly, and he ordered a few times, and immediately a white armored soldier came out beside him, and galloped back to the army formation.

Soon, there was a burst of shouting and crying. Wang Dou and others saw that it was a group of Qing soldiers escorting a group of Ming people out of the army formation. As they got closer, they saw that the group of Ming people had men There were women, some old and some young, all of them were crying in terror, and they didn't know where they were captured by the Qing soldiers.

The group of Qing soldiers were proud of themselves, they whipped the commoners wantonly, while screaming strangely at the top of the city from time to time.

Seeing this situation, the sergeants of all Shun Township Forts in the city were very angry, and they all cursed.

Seeing the reaction in the city, Niu Luzhangjing was even more proud, and even most of the Qing army on the other side of the army formation let out bursts of laughter.Suddenly, Niu Luzhangjing shouted an order, and all the Qing soldiers attacked together, hacked with knives and stabbed with spears, and all the common people of Ming Dynasty died outside the city immediately.

There was no sound from the top of Shunxiangbao, and the Tongshi was ordered to step forward again. He shouted: "You have seen it all. If you don't surrender, these people will be your fate!"

Everyone on the tower was very angry, Wang Dou said coldly to Han Chao: "Go and bring the captured tartar up!"

Han Chao took the order to leave, and soon, the Qing soldier Boda was escorted by several sturdy Shunxiang Fort Discipline Sergeants. After being tortured, his whole body was covered with scars and his spirit was extremely listless.However, he was still unyielding, struggling all the way, yelling from time to time.

He was escorted to the tower, and immediately shouted at the Qing soldiers below the city in Manchurian.

Seeing him appear, the Qing soldiers outside the city were silent, everyone was dumbfounded, even that Niu Luzhangjing was speechless with his mouth wide open.Unexpectedly, someone from our own side was also captured by the Ming army. Although there were few people, among this army, it was a serious blow to their morale.

Even the large formation of Qing soldiers in the distance became commotion when they heard the movement.

Wang Dou said to Han Chao: "Give me your pistol!"

He filled the gunpowder, lit the matchlock on the pistol with a medium, and said calmly: "Tell the tartars, if they attack the city, they will end up like this!"

After saying that, he aimed the pistol at the head of the Boda, pulled the trigger, and with a bang, the head of the Boda was blown away, and the brains and blood spattered.His body fell headlong and landed heavily on the ground of the city.A strong smell of blood, mixed with the hot weather, spread in the city tower, making people want to vomit.

The Qing army below the city screamed at the same time, they all beat their chests and yelled and cursed, all of them were very angry, while the soldiers of Shunxiangbao above the city cheered.

Han Chao stood up and spoke loudly in Manchurian, and the Qing soldiers under the city were furious. They yelled for a while, and then ran back to the big formation from a distance under the leadership of Niu Luzhang Jing.Only the Han general looked at Shun Xiangbao in surprise for a while, and then followed the horse back.

Najia Lazhangjing was surprised when he saw the changes in the city from a distance, and when the Qing soldiers came back, he was even more furious.As the news spread, all the Qing soldiers outside the city were screaming and gnashing their teeth. It was really hateful for those Ming soldiers to execute their captives on the spot.

They are determined to capture this damned castle and kill all the Ming inside!
A fierce battle is inevitable!
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The sound of the horn sounded, and there was a commotion in the Qing army outside the city. After about half an hour, several shield chariots were rolled out from various cattle formations.It was because they didn't set up camp, and didn't wait for lunch, so they rushed to attack the city, thinking that Wang Dou's actions just now made them very angry.

Wang Dou looked from afar and saw the shield chariot approaching slowly, counted it, there were about twenty of them, and several flags were erected on each shield chariot, so it was hard to see how many people were inside and behind the shield chariot.Moreover, he could see that not far behind the shield cart, there were another Qing soldiers pushing nearly a hundred wheelbarrows, which were loaded with soil and other things, presumably to be used to fill in the trenches.

Wang Dou made rough calculations and estimated that the Qing soldiers dispatched more than 200 soldiers and more than 300 auxiliary soldiers. Although he couldn't see the movement of the Qing soldiers behind the shield chariot, he knew that the Hou Jin soldiers were fighting the Qing soldiers. Xiang used shield chariots as the front line to consume the artillery fire of the Ming army at the head of the city and resist bow and arrow bullets.Then followed the dead soldiers, holding shields, broadswords and spears and other weapons, wearing two layers of heavy armor, chain mail on the inside, and cotton armor inlaid with iron sheets on the outside.

Some generals even wore three layers of heavy armor, the innermost layer was chain mail, the second was iron armor, and the outermost layer was armor inlaid with iron wool.With these three layers of heavy armor, it can effectively protect against bows and firearms from a certain distance.

Most of these dead soldiers were the vests of the Qing soldiers, and they had very rich battlefield experience.Behind the dead soldiers, there are also archers in light armor who are good at shooting. They are used to support the dead soldiers to climb the city and cover the auxiliary soldiers to fill in the trenches.

Finally, there are the sharp soldiers, that is, the white-armored soldiers, who are also wearing double-layer heavy armor, waiting for an opportunity to go to the city for support.If it was a field battle, these soldiers would still be followed by some Jingqi cameras.

Wang Dou saw the shield chariots pushed by the Qing soldiers getting closer and closer, and when they got two hundred paces closer, he could already see their appearance clearly.I saw those shield chariots, with tall and thick wooden planks in front, covered with thick leather quilts, which can effectively resist guns, bows and arrows, and there are rollers on the bottom, which can rotate flexibly.If the trenches were filled, they could be pushed all the way under the city.

In the Eight Banners Army, this kind of shield car has always been their standard equipment. Later, the Jin Army rose up and attacked the city without any disadvantage.

During the discussion among the officers of Shunxiang Fort, there was no other way to deal with the shield chariots of the Tazi soldiers except artillery in the situation of Shunxiang Fort.However, the artillery shooting is not accurate, so I don't know how many shield vehicles can be hit.

Those shield troops came slowly, while the Shunxiang army on the city just held their breath and waited for Wang Dou's order.

Seeing that the Qing soldiers had approached two hundred steps and entered the firing range of several Franco cannons on the wall of Shunxiang Fort, Wang Dou said indifferently: "Fire!"

On the top of the city tower below the city tower, there are four pairs of Francophone bronze cannons, each placed on a four-wheeled iron frame, with a range of hundreds of feet, commanded by a team officer of the city defense artillery team.

When he saw the flag on the tower, he immediately waved the command flag in his hand and shouted: "Fire!"

There are three gunners next to each pair of Franc machine guns. They have learned how to fire from the old and weak gunners of Shun Township Fort. At this time, each Franc machine gun has been loaded with ammunition. A gunner next to the cannon took out a red-hot long iron hook from a burning iron frame next to it, and pointed it at the fire door.

"Boom, boom, boom!" After a few sounds, the four Francophone cannons fired one after another.

(End of this chapter)