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Chapter 804

Two miles to the south of Jinzhou City, the Nuerhe River meanders through. On the south bank are Rufeng Mountain and Shimen Mountain, which are the gateways to Jinzhou from the south, especially the east-west Shimen main road of Shimen Mountain.

Now, this place is filled with gunpowder smoke, people roaring and horses neighing, and the sound of wailing and mourning is everywhere. The entire Shimen Mountain area from West Shimen to East Shimen, the Ming and Qing Dynasties are fighting fiercely.

Although the Ming army had a great advantage in the number of troops, the Qing army had been operating here for a long time, and they used the mountain to build strong fortifications.

What's more, although they have few troops, they are dominated by the Han army and the Korean army. These Ertars are not proficient in horseback archery and bow and arrow skills, but they are good at handling firecrackers and iron cannons.

Although these abominable Ertars were under duress, their combat power was almost brought to the extreme. Looking at the situation on the battlefield, it seemed that the North Korean soldiers still hadn't done their best.

However, the Tianyou Army and the Han Army stationed at Shimen Mountain were very brave. Under the urging of the real tartars and Shangguan, they fired guns and cannons, causing heavy casualties to the Ming army attacking the mountain, and became a major obstacle.

The soldiers of the Ming army who attacked the mountain had to use shields as a cover. Facing the sharp arrows of the Qing army, they often managed to attack the front of the wall and trench, and were beaten by the dense artillery shells, crying and running away. And back.

At such a short distance, the sharp arrows of the armored soldiers of the Qing army's Tartars were all extremely accurate.

Although their arrows do not shoot far, their armor-piercing and blood-letting abilities are extremely strong. Whenever many soldiers from Ningyuan Town rush to the front of the Tartar formation, once they are shot by the Tartar arrows, they will soon feel Weakened and unable to fight.

The bird guns of the Korean army are different.

The military officers and soldiers in North Korea used to be more accustomed to using cold weapons to fight, and the long-range weapons were mainly bows and crossbows. Although they liked artillery, they were very resistant to firecrackers.

All of this is actually due to the distribution of benefits. After all, swords, guns, swords, halberds, and crossbows have been used for hundreds of years. Although there have been several improvements in the middle, the general form has not changed.

Continuing to this day, I don’t know how many families in North Korea have made bows and arrows as their business, and many of these big families have connections with courtiers and generals.

And even for those ordinary soldiers, there are many people in their families who use this as a means of livelihood.

Once a large number of guns such as matchlock guns are used in large quantities, how many big families will decline from now on, and how many people will never be able to make a living. Just imagine, how to promote the use of this new type of big killer with such intertwined interests entangled in it ?
Furthermore, the technical threshold for bird gun artillery is still very high, and it basically has nothing to do with bows and crossbows, everything has to be learned from scratch.

As far as the production technology of gunpowder is concerned, North Korea has never mastered it, and the sub-powder used in its pitifully small artillery has to be imported from the Ming Dynasty.

After all, gunpowder and firecrackers are all powerful weapons of the country. Although Daming has good relations with North Korea, he does not want the production technology of such sharp weapons to be mastered by other countries, so the control is extremely strict.

This situation was maintained until the Korean War broke out in the 22nd year of Wanli, and it did not change!
This war lasted for seven years. At that time, Japan was at the end of the Warring States Period. A generation of hero Toyotomi Hideyoshi ended the war in Japan with the "people of the world" and completed the unification of national power.

At that time, in Japan, the daimyos from all sides fought civil wars for more than 100 years. Now after being unified by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a large number of battle-hardened samurai have been idled.

At the same time, after ending the Warring States Rebellion in Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's strength was unprecedentedly strong, and he gathered almost all the powerful Japanese troops under his command.

As a result, his ambitions swelled tremendously. At the same time, in order to alleviate the danger of a large number of samurai with nothing to fight in the country, he even came up with the idea of ​​using North Korea as an excuse to attack Ming.

To this end, a huge and grand plan for the Ming Dynasty was formulated, and a total force of nearly 30 was mobilized. The infantry army responsible for landing operations alone had nine regiments, reaching 15 people.

In addition, there are 9000 people in the navy, driving more than [-] warships, responsible for transporting infantry between the straits, and transporting food, grass and luggage to the front line along the way.

In the early days of the Japanese invasion, after all, they were veterans who had fought for more than 100 years. The battle-tested Japanese army attacked fiercely and powerfully. In just one month, they successively captured the capital of North Korea, Seoul, and the accompanying capital, Pyongyang.

Since then, it has been rushing forward all the way, heading straight to the Liaodong border of the Ming Dynasty.

The king of North Korea, Li Yan, also fled to the north in panic, until he fled to Uiju, and sent envoys one after another to beg for help from the suzerain Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Daming also found out that Japan had the ambition to attack Daming through North Korea. The court decided to keep the enemy out, send troops to North Korea to expel the Japanese army, and then help the King of North Korea return to the capital.

At that time, Li Rusong, who was the commander-in-chief of the Shaanxi Rebellion Army, had just put down the rebellion in Ningxia, and was appointed as the admiral of the Eastern Expedition when he was in danger. He led nearly [-] elite divisions of the Ming army to North Korea.

After seven years and countless battles, the mighty Japanese army was finally defeated and expelled from the Korean peninsula, winning the final victory of the Korean Anti-Japanese War.

This battle not only further consolidated the friendship between China and North Korea, but also helped North Korea from subjugation to restoration, but also caused Japan's vitality to be severely damaged by World War I, and the power of Toyotomi Hideyoshi Group was weakened, which indirectly led to the rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Moreover, the king, ministers, and generals of North Korea, down to ordinary soldiers and ordinary people, have all seen the power of firearms such as three-eyed blunderbuss and bird blunderbuss.

They fought against the iron guns of the Japanese army with bows and arrows, and were driven all the way from Busan in the south to the Yalu River, where they saw the power of the guns.

The soldiers and horses of the battalions of the Ming army entering the court were also equipped with a large number of firearms. Among them, the cavalry of the Northern Army mostly used three-eyed blunderbuss, while the soldiers and horses of Jizhen mostly used bird blunderbuss.

Whenever the Ming army and the Japanese army were fighting each other, the Korean army could not get in the way, and the Korean army was reduced to a foil to the war, doing some logistical assistance.

The soldiers of the Korean army proved with their lives how accurate the evaluation of Ming army god Qi Shaobao's "hit with a bird gun, ten times faster gun, and five times faster bow and arrow" is accurate.

Therefore, the whole country of North Korea was united, and they not only paid a lot of money to learn how to operate the matchlock gun from the Japanese prisoners of war.

He also openly poached the corners of the Qi family army who aided the dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, and paid a lot of money to hire lower-level officers among them to stay as bird gun shooting instructors.

From then on, the whole country of North Korea began to use the blunderbuss as the most powerful weapon, and it also carried out a large number of equipment in the army, and strictly practiced it. Later, it bought gunpowder production technology from the Ming Dynasty.

After more than [-] years of development, the bird guns of Korean soldiers have been widely used, but compared with the Ming army, they still seem to be lagging behind. Their bird guns are still almost the same as those in the war against Japan.

But even so, it is much sharper than a bow and arrow. If it is hit by a North Korean soldier's bird gun at this distance, the consequences will be equally terrible.

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On the West Shimen Mountain Road, Jialazhangjing Yierza was also anxious.

The situation on his side was more critical than that on Shimen Mountain. Although there were several stone walls and ditch defense lines before him, the Ming army was also cunning, and their main attack direction was not on the mountain road of West Shimen.

Bai Guangen, who is as cunning as a fox, naturally has two advantages in being able to sit in the position of the chief soldier of Ji Town. He has long seen that the West Shimen Mountain Road is tortuous and rugged, and it is really not easy to attack.

Therefore, the main attack was placed on the mountains on both sides. For this reason, he personally went to Hong Duchen to ask for many small cannons for the army and horses responsible for attacking the mountains on both sides.

But after all, it was selfish, and the small artillery that he asked for was assigned to his own main battalion, or to those battalions that were close to him.

According to his strategy, all the battalions in Ji Town who were not very close to him were sent to attack the West Shimen Mountain Road and act as cannon fodder.

These cannon fodder attracted the attention and artillery fire of the Qing army defenders in the mountain road, while the battalions close to Bai Guangen advanced on the mountains on both sides. They used these small artillery to open the way and bombarded all the way forward.

In this way, although there were some casualties, it was much better than a hard attack and robbery. For this reason, Bai Guangen borrowed a lot of gunners from the Supervision Battalion with money.

Those battalions who were the main attackers on the mountain road knew that Bai Guangen was seeking personal revenge, but they couldn't do anything about it. After all, Bai Guangen was still the chief soldier of Ji Town, and they couldn't bear the consequences of resisting the military order.

However, the mountains on the West Shimen Mountain Road are rugged, and the mountain road between the mountains on both sides is gentle, but it is very tortuous. Strong and thick, it is difficult to collapse without heavy artillery.

It's really great that one man is in charge of the gate, and ten thousand men can't open it!

Although they were full of complaints, they could only attack with all their strength, and they were also afraid that they would not try their best when attacking. If they were put on small shoes again, they still don't know what would happen?
At this time, in front of the stone wall of the Qing army, many Ming army corpses and wounded soldiers had fallen, and the flowing blood soaked the dry dust on the mountain road. Although the smoke and dust were less, the disgusting smell It is more pungent.

There are also many stones covered with flesh and blood, rolling everywhere on the hillside, and the fragments of flesh and blood are also scattered everywhere.

The sound of popping bean-like birds sounded from time to time, and a section of North Korean military officers behind the stone wall, speaking incomprehensible Korean, yelled and issued orders, and as the trigger was pulled, the bullets were like popping beans again. hit.

Another wave of Jizhen officers and soldiers attacking the mountain fell down screaming!

Although they held shields as cover, how could these light shields block the bullets fired at close range, but if all of them were holding heavy shields covered with iron, they were so heavy that few people could lift them.

The Ming army in Jizhen didn't usually like to practice bird guns. Some of them were good at using firearms, and most of them were semi-hot weapons such as three-eyed guns and quick guns.

The range power of the three-eyed gun is only effective within [-] to [-] steps. Even the range of the fast gun is limited, not to mention the accuracy of its shooting. Its advantage is that it is easy to operate and can be directly used as a cold weapon Just use it.

Such a firearm, how can it be the opponent of the bird gun?
But if they abandoned the three-eyed blunderbuss and fast guns and used bows and arrows instead, how could they beat those Tartars hiding behind the wall?
Furthermore, because of the narrow terrain of the mountain road here, the superiority of the Ming army's Jizhen army could not be used. Every wave of attack, only a few people could go up.

It's purely a refueling tactic!
The blunderbusses exploded again and again, sometimes artillery roared, and the sound of bowstrings trembled occasionally. Obviously, the Tartar soldiers who supervised the battle were not willing to be lonely. While the Korean soldiers were shooting, they also shot one by one to kill them. sharp arrow.

The big and heavy Tartar arrows came with a "swoosh".

In the blink of an eye, the Ming army who charged this time was constantly screaming and being hit by arrows.

Those who were shot by the Tazi's arrows felt that their bodies were hit hard at first, and then they felt that their bodies gradually became cold, and then they quickly became weak and weak.

From the perspective of the people on the side, these soldiers of the Ming army who were shot by the arrows were all bleeding profusely, and their appearance was extremely scary.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

On the west side of the Xishimen Mountain Road, a few huge rocks were pushed down, and then a few explosions were heard.

A cannon happened to hit the intersection of three gravels on the stone wall. Although it was not as powerful as the Hongyi cannon, it happened to knock the bottom right gravel into the air.

The originally solid stone wall collapsed in an instant, and the gravel rolled and chased the rocks in front, and rolled down the mountain together. They chased each other faster and faster by virtue of their top-down momentum.

It was the first time for the Ming army attacking on the mountain road to see such a terrifying situation. The rubble brought by the rocks rolled down together, big and small, and a large cloud of smoke and dust was raised.

Under their terrified eyes, they smashed their heads and covered their faces!
Amidst bursts of wailing and shouting, many Ming soldiers in Jizhen were smashed to pieces on the spot. Those who hit their bodies spurted blood from their mouths and fell to the ground, while those whose hands and feet were hit had their hands broken immediately The fate of broken feet.

The white stubbles on the bones of many people were exposed at the beginning. They hugged the wounds, all of them were in pain, and wailed and mourned all over the place.

The fighting will of these Ming troops is not strong enough to speak of. At this moment, seeing the howling of the comrades who used to get along day and night, the tragic situation on their bodies is even more unbearable to witness.

One by one, they no longer had the courage to attack the mountain, and the array was defeated and fled immediately. They yelled, cried and fled and retreated, even the hoarse roar of the superiors did not understand.

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The Ming army attacking the mountain road here was in terrible shape, and the Qing army on the mountain on the right was not much better.

Because of that shot, the broken stones on the stone wall fell off, which caused a chain reaction. The originally solid stone wall collapsed instantly, although most of the broken stones rolled down the mountain, which increased the damage to the Ming army on the mountain road. .

However, the Er Tartars of the Han army, who lost the protection of the stone wall, were suddenly exposed to the guns and arrows of the Jizhen soldiers who attacked the mountain.

Moreover, part of the collapsed stone wall also had some broken stones, which fell to the side of the second Tartar of the Han army, and the artillery placed on the high platform was also due to the unbalanced force caused by the collapse of the stone wall, the high platform collapsed, and the artillery fell to the ground.

Many Er Tartars of the Han army were not wounded and killed by the attacking Ming army, but were killed and injured by the stone walls they worked so hard to build, and by their own artillery.

(End of this chapter)