Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1253
After the Mongolian army formed, 1 people rushed forward like a tide. The soldiers in the front row charged forward with shields and scimitars on their shoulders, and the archers in the back row rushed forward with battering rams and stone catapults. Follow along.

The Mongolian soldiers held their shields high, waved their scimitars, and ran forward with high morale. The shrill horn sounded, urging them to move forward. The army spread out on the ground, like ants crawling on the white ground.

On the city wall, on enemy towers and on horseback, Ming army officers and soldiers were tensely on alert. The musketeers loaded their ammunition and were catching their targets. The gunners next to each artillery were observing the large enemy equipment.

Xie Qian and others walked all the way to the barn city in the north, and the Mongol soldiers had already rushed over, and the artillery group was also being set up.

After watching for a while, he understood the tactics of the Mongols, that is, the sword and shield fighters in front were responsible for climbing the city and fighting, the archers suppressed the top of the city, covered the sword and shield going up the city, and the artillery carts bombarded the city wall, destroying the enemy's tower and horse face, and destroying the defense on the city wall fortifications.

The ancient city wall was not a straight line. It also had parts protruding from the city wall, which were convenient for shooting the enemy troops at the foot of the city wall and climbing up the city. These fortifications were horse faces and enemy towers.

"Commander, hit the battering ram!" The Ming army general pointed to a giant log pushed by nearly a hundred people and exclaimed.

There are forests everywhere in Liaoning, which provides convenience for the Mongols to manufacture equipment. However, the Mongols are not good at siege after all, and the equipment they manufacture is still somewhat insufficient. They only make a few things that their ancestors learned, and there is no innovation. .

If the Ming army is attacking the city, among other things, at least a row of shield chariots will be pulled out and pushed down the city to form a wall to protect the archers.

At present, the Mongols' equipment can be considered luxurious for the Mongols, but in the eyes of the Ming army who are good at attacking cities, they are much simpler. There are only hundreds of climbing ladders, one battering ram, and more than a dozen Just a trebuchet.

In fact, it’s not that Wu Keshan doesn’t want to make more equipment. First, he thinks there are already a lot of them. Second, time does not allow him. He is afraid that the Ming army will come to support him, and he is also afraid that the food and grass will be consumed too quickly, so he prepared so much and started. Attacked.

Xie Qian didn’t pay much attention to these equipment and others. The only threat was the dozen or so gun carriages. He looked at them and immediately raised his finger and said, “Use solid bullets first to bombard the artillery group, and then switch to shotgun bombardment.” Archer!"

When the Fulang machine on the city was replaced with a sub-gun filled with solid bullets, the Mongolian soldiers below the city were wielding a scimitar and had already killed within 150 steps.

At this time, the gunners of the Ming army on the city wall fired first, and a row of gunfire on the city wall fired at the same time, releasing a rain of bullets.

The Mongols rushing to the front only heard the continuous sound of "bang bang bang" and white smoke rising from the top of the city, and their companions around them were beaten upside down one after another.

For a while, the dense formation of the Mongols seemed to be combed by a comb, and the Mongol soldiers fell to the ground one after another. When they entered within a hundred steps, they were knocked down like mowing grass.

However, the huge casualties did not stop their pace, and the Mongols quickly rushed to the city.

Because the weather was too cold, the moat had already been frozen, so the Mongolian soldiers could rush directly to the city, which greatly improved the convenience of attacking the city.

This is also due to the insufficient preparation of the Ming army. If there is enough time, dig a few trenches outside the city, and fill them with antlers and horse rejection posts within the range of the firecrackers to ensure that the Mongols cannot approach the city wall at all.

The Mongols began to set up ladders and climbed along the city wall, while the archers stood under the city wall, unleashing their bows and arrows, shooting a rain of arrows, and the Ming army and young men on the city suddenly suffered casualties.

At this time, the young and strong at the head of the city began to use rolling stones to smash the climbing Mongols. The Mongols who had climbed halfway screamed and were beaten to the ground, and fell to the ground together with the wood. On the body, the soldier kept spitting out blood.

There was also Qing Zhuang, holding a piece of wood, hitting the ladder on the city wall. After a few hits, he knocked off the iron hook at the top of the ladder, and then pushed the ladder to the ground with all his strength. On the ladder, a group of Mongols and The ladders fell hard together in the snow.

The gunners of the Ming army on the city were shooting at the archers below the city. The Mongols were shot down again and again, and the large snow field had been dyed red. However, there were so many Mongols after all, and the rain of arrows they shot rose into the sky. , fell on the top of the city like locusts, and the Ming army also shot arrows again and again, so that the Mongolian sword and shield hands were covered and could keep climbing.

At this time, a Mongolian centurion ran up the top of the wall along the ladder. Just as he was about to jump onto the top of the wall, there was a sudden sound of a gun from behind, and he was shot, and he fell directly to the top of the wall.

The gunners of the Ming army hiding on the horse's face and on the enemy's platform are constantly shooting from the side of the raised part of the city wall to kill the Mongolian soldiers under the corner of the city wall and climbing.

From a point of view, the gunners of the Ming army on the city cannot attack the enemy troops under the corner of the city wall and climbing along the wall, but the Ming army on the horse face can do this.

At this moment, the two soldiers on the horse face kept loading and shooting, and they had already killed four or five people in a row. One of them was raising his gun to aim and was about to shoot the sixth person, when the sky suddenly darkened, and a cannon stone hit him. Ma Mian immediately smashed the bricks and stones, and the protruding part of the front was smashed to collapse.

At this time, the artillery of the Ming army had already bombarded, and countless shells hit the Mongol artillery group.

The Xie Qian Department is at the level of the local town army, and it has only recently begun to change its equipment. It is equipped with self-generating firecrackers, but the artillery is only the Franc cannon.

Two hundred steps away from the city, nearly twenty trebuchets were creaking, and the long throws bounced, threw the stones in the leather pockets, and smashed towards the top of the city roaring.

At this time, dozens of iron bullets were fired from the Fran machine guns in the city. Although the shells were only the size of a fist and could not compare with the boulders thrown out, once they hit the cannon carts, the wooden cannon carts were immediately smashed into sawdust. splash.

No matter what, the Francophone is still a cannon. An iron bullet hit the throwing pole, which immediately broke the throwing pole. The front counterweight immediately fell down, and the whole trebuchet was instantly paralyzed.

The siege battle did not last long, and the Mongolian trebuchets were successively destroyed by artillery with higher shooting accuracy. After the destruction, the gunners of the Ming army immediately replaced the solid ammunition with shot ammunition.

The Mongolian archers under the city were standing together, bowing their bows and setting arrows together, shooting towards the head of the city. Suddenly, the four gunners lifted up the Fulang machine gun that ignited the fuse, and then lowered the muzzle, and there was a "boom", The archers below the city fell immediately.

More than a dozen Mongolian archers fell to the ground and cried out at the same time. Although they were hit by shotguns, they might not die, but they were also injured and could not fight anymore.

Shotguns mainly shoot out iron sand, which is not powerful and not fatal, but he can injure a large number of enemies with one shot, making them unable to fight any more.

Under the suppression of artillery, the Mongolian archers who had been tied with the Ming army on the city by virtue of their numbers, suddenly fell into chaos, and when they were in chaos, the Ming army on the city was less suppressed, and the Mongolian sword and shield players who ascended the city were quickly defeated by the Ming army. The army rushed down.

Wu Keshan, who was observing the siege outside the city, saw at least 2000 people dead in Mongolia, the artillery carts were destroyed, and the swords and shields on the city retreated again.

The Mongolian army in the northern city retreated like a tide, and the Mongols who feigned attack on the east and west walls also retreated, and the Ming army cheered on the city...

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