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

Chapter 394 Hard stubble, not easy to mess with
"put!"

There was another sound of firing guns, and a large cloud of white smoke rose in front of the sheep and horse wall.

The hungry soldiers who broke into the army screamed and fell one by one, rolling to the ground and howling in pain.

Bird guns are no better than bows and arrows. If the arrow is not critical, there is still a possibility of survival. If the body is hit by a bullet, it is absolutely impossible to survive.Especially in the case of the powerful firearms of the Shunxiang Army and the severe winter months.

Soon the blunderbussmen fired once in a round, and Chen Cheng had already loaded his fixed paper tube ammunition, and stepped forward again.The forward sergeants beside them all looked at their blunderbuss enviously. The blunderbuss used by the Shunxiang army were really good.

They also have bird guns in their army, but they are far behind those of the Shunxiang army.Not to mention the quality problem, but the cold winds in the north are fierce in winter, and the bird guns used in their army do not have the automatic fire door device of the Shunxiang Army.

Therefore, even if the sergeants of the Qianfeng Battalion used firearms, they generally used three-eyed guns.

At this time, the ground was already full of corpses and wounded soldiers of the invaders. Their blood was steaming in the cold wind, and the smell of blood came along with it.There are also many people who were shot and survived, rolling and crying on the ground.

However, there were too many hungry soldiers rushing howling, and it was too much to fight, even if they fired fiercely from the blunderbuss, it was useless.Many hungry soldiers have successfully thrown the earthbags on their shoulders into the trench, turned around and ran, and then another wave of hungry soldiers came roaring.

A huge thunder surged, and the sergeants of the Vanguard Battalion in front of the wall of sheep and horses fired another hundred rockets, and a large number of intruding soldiers were shot out, and the crowd in front of them was empty.

Then, a mass of black heads came up from behind.

Crowd Tactics...

Under the terrified eyes of the hungry soldiers on the opposite side, Chen Sheng and others set up their own bird guns on the crenel. Compared with the rockets, the bird guns of these officers and soldiers frightened the hungry soldiers more.

There was a burst of sound and a flash of fire, and dozens of intruders screamed and fell obliquely, all of them had bloody arrows on their bodies.

Shocking thunder rolled across the sky, large swaths of smoke rose from the north bank of the Jinshui River, and the overwhelming rain of rockets shot from there again.

"Avoid the arrow!"

Some Shun Township Army officers who had experience in the Battle of Julu and other places shouted.

But the rockets came too fast, they roared, and many soldiers were hit by arrows.

Ju Yiwu, who was about to retreat after firing the gun, was shot by a rocket that came in from the crenel and tumbled out.Like Ju Yiwu, more than a dozen Shunxiang Army soldiers and Qianfeng Battalion soldiers were shot and staggered backwards and fell out.

"Pay attention to cover."

The officers shouted orders.

Chen Sheng came to Ju Yiwu's body with a low waist, and called, "Brother Ju, are you alright?"

Ju Yiwu said, "I'm fine."

He was wearing an iron mask, and the voice behind the mask was a little muffled.

Chen Cheng took a closer look and heaved a sigh of relief. Although Ju Yiwu had been shot in the chest by an arrow, but he was wearing an armor inlaid with iron cotton, the rocket couldn't go in.It's just that the arrow was shot head-on, with quite a force, which caused a dull pain in Ju Yiwu's chest, and he panted and spoke in a hurry.

In this round of rocket shooting, more than a hundred soldiers from the Shun Township Army and Qianfeng Battalion were hit by arrows on the three sides of the Yangma Wall.Shunxiang's army is alright, all of them are well armored, the iron armor and iron cotton armor they wear can't be pierced by idle arrows.Even if you hit dozens of arrows, you can jump around alive and well.

However, the sergeants of the Vanguard Battalion who fought together had simple equipment, and many lieutenants only had leather armor or cover armor.Ordinary sergeants wear Tsing Yi battle skirts, or mandarin duck battle jackets, with a sash on the outside, which are just cotton vests, not even cotton armor.

It was okay to be stabbed by an arrow falling from the sky, and he was slightly injured.

If it is shot head-on by a rocket, it will cause a lot of damage. The armor and girdle can't stop it at all, and even leather armor is dangerous.Even though the rocket came from the north bank of the Jinshui River, it took more than 100 steps, but due to the propelling power of the gunpowder, it was still very powerful, and many people were shot and staggered and fell out.

The sudden rain of rockets and arrows in the Chuangjun caused dozens of soldiers from the Vanguard Battalion to be injured.

Fortunately, the Shunxiang army has no casualties for the time being, and this is all due to their excellent armor.

When hot and cold weapons alternate, armor and protective equipment are still important. This is no more than when both sides have hot weapons, then armor may be useless.

In Beiguan, there were some local township braves who were used by Wang Dou as auxiliary soldiers in the army. Seeing that someone was injured on the sheep and horse wall defense line, they quickly came out holding their shields and helped the injured soldiers of the vanguard battalion into the pass city.There, the military doctors of Shun Township will treat them immediately.

"Watch out for the arrows, shoot freely."

Gao Xun gave the order.

After seeing their own rockets fired, the firepower of the officers and soldiers weakened significantly.Rockets blared continuously in the army formation, and waves of howling arrow rain came over, hitting the officers and soldiers behind the sheep and horse wall so that they couldn't lift their heads, so they had to hide tightly behind the stacked wall. The firepower was too fierce.

In the space from the sheep and horse wall to the pass wall, there are many nests built and covered, which are used for the rest of the guards of the sheep and horse wall.The front and top of these bunks are covered with old quilts, which can be wetted with water at any time, which can effectively prevent arrows from being shot.

At this time, the armored spearmen of the Gaoxun Department in these nest shops were quietly on standby, it was still too early for melee combat, and it was not their turn to appear for the time being.They were sitting in the hut, listening to the continuous sound of waves on the roof, and after a moment of silence, a team officer came out and saw that the hut they were in had become a hedgehog's nest.

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"Fire arrows!"

Chen Yongfu was very angry when he saw that many soldiers were injured behind the sheep and horse wall.Order the sergeants of the Qianfeng Battalion at the head of the city to fire rockets at the intruders over there.

Seeing that the effect was obvious, many infantrymen crossed the Jinshui River from the ice under the protection of layers of shields.Taking advantage of the cover of the river surface and the slope of the south bank, they held rocket launchers and continuously fired rockets at the officers and soldiers on the sheep and horse wall to cover the hungry soldiers filling the trenches.

"Fire the rocket."

The officers of the vanguard battalion roared.

Hundreds of sergeants from the Vanguard Battalion at the head of the city held all kinds of rockets such as "Swarm of Bees" and "Fire Dragon Arrows", and tried hard to aim at the soldiers of the intruders on the other side of the river.Hundreds of soldiers stood behind them and blew on the torches in their hands. Under the orders of the officers, they ignited the ropes behind each rocket launcher.

There was a sound, and thick puffs of smoke rose from the top of Beiguan City. Like the rocket launchers of later generations, sharp arrows roared into the sky, with obvious fireworks trails.Finally, a rain of arrows that seemed to cover the sky and rain formed in the air, and the storm went towards the river.

Wang Dou was eye-opening. Although he had fought against Qing soldiers' rockets in the Battle of Julu, this was the first time he had encountered such a large-scale rocket confrontation.Compared with the firepower of the rocket, the firepower of the bird gunmen under his command is weak.

However, according to this style of play, whether it is our own side or the Chuangjun side, I am afraid that within a few days, all the rocket stocks in Henan Mansion will be exhausted.

It was obvious that there was a panic on the other side of the river. Hanoi and both sides of the river bank were crowded with all kinds of soldiers, many of whom did not have shields.A dense rain of arrows came over, like the wind blowing ears of wheat. Although many people ran away, under the cover of the arrow rain, in a short while, people still fell one by one.

The advantage of defending the city and attacking the city is here. On the side defending the city, there are all kinds of ideal places to hide, while the side attacking the city does not.

With the sound of cannons and thunder, the fifteen Franglers on the north wall of Beiguan opened fire one after another. The Jinshui River was two hundred steps away from the pass city, which was the effective range of all kinds of Franglers at the top of the city.

More than a dozen cannons weighing one to three kilograms roared towards the river, and with a bang, iron balls smashed into Hanoi one after another, smashing the soldiers on the ice or on the river bank to pieces of flesh and blood, and their arms were broken. ruins.The hard ice made those iron balls jump and roll even more powerfully when they shot into them, increasing their lethality several times.

"it is good!"

Huang Yinggui yelled loudly, the cannon he was in charge of shot into the river, and immediately rolled away a bloody alley, with remarkable lethality.As the aimer of the Franc machine, Huang Yinggui felt that his face was bright, and he couldn't help but glanced at the gunners of the Shunxiang Army beside him.

The commander of the Hongyi six-pound gun of the Shun Township Army smiled and nodded at Huang Yinggui. He had seen the gun just now, and Huang Yinggui's strength had won his respect.

The Frang machine has a great advantage in firing speed. Although the training of these local gunners in Beiguan is far inferior to that of the gunners of the Shunxiang Army, they still fired several shots in a short period of time.

Iron balls whizzed past one after another, continuously shooting into the river surface and the river bank.Wherever they went, there was a crackling sound, limbs flew flying, flesh and blood were left in the air, and I don't know how many trespassing soldiers had their hands and feet broken, and there was a mess everywhere.

Those intruders were like ants on a hot pot, crowded together everywhere, and it was no longer a matter of filling in trenches and firing arrows.

"boom!"

With the deafening sound of cannons, a red six-pound cannon at the top of the city spewed out thick puffs of smoke, and a solid iron ball weighing five catties roared away.Their targets are the hungry soldiers, infantry, elite cavalry behind the cavalry, and the old battalion.

Wang Dou knew that the core of the Chuang army was the old battalion and the cavalry, and it was useless to kill those hungry soldiers no matter how many people they killed.Without losing the backbone, Li Zicheng and others can easily gather a large number of troops.According to my own information, although Li Zicheng now claims to have 10,000+, 20 troops, in fact, including the cavalry, the core force is only more than 1.

Among the more than 1 people, there are about two to three thousand in the old camp. They are all people who followed Li Zicheng many years ago, and they are considered to be skilled in bowing and horses.Many people have the infantry and vest of the Qing army, and even the force of the Bala soldiers.They were scattered by officers and soldiers during several encirclement and suppression campaigns, but now they are slowly gathering, and many have returned.

These people are the core part of Li Zicheng's camp.The rest are fine cavalry, and there should be three or four thousand. It is estimated that they have the combat power of the Ming army.The last is the cavalry, many of them are horse thieves, poles, or cavalry among the original officers and soldiers. If they perform well, they will be recruited into the fine cavalry, and if they perform well, they will be recruited into the old battalion.

Finally, there are infantry and hungry soldiers. Most of the infantry are the Ming army who surrendered, or the hungry people who have stayed in the camp for a long time.The rest of the hungry soldiers are pure cannon fodder and are used for consumption.This part of the population is the most, probably 10,000+, old and weak, sick and disabled, including women, children and children.

After Wang Dou's observation of the tentative attack of the Chuangjun, the old battalion they dispatched may have hundreds of people, one or two thousand elite cavalry, and the rest are infantry and hungry soldiers.

The wave after wave of attacks did not see the figures of the horsemen, but only saw them marching behind the formation to supervise, and sometimes beheaded and killed some retreating hungry soldiers.

It seemed that they also knew the power of the Shunxiang army's artillery in Chengtou, although the hungry soldiers who had not yet attacked were lined up one by one behind, waiting for their own attack.However, the formation of these people's cavalry is very sparse, and many people on horseback run around in groups of three or four.

It doesn't matter if it's sparse or sparse, killing one of them is better than killing a hundred hungry soldiers.

In the binoculars, Wang Dou reckoned that the cavalry who broke into the army were less than one mile away from the city. Of course, they couldn't retreat any further, so they retreated into Li Zicheng's formation.

This distance is exactly the distance for the artillery of the Shunxiang Army to show its talents.

Amidst the whistling sound, the solid iron ball weighing five catties had already hit the heads of those cavalrymen who broke into the army.

(End of this chapter)