Wanli 1592

Chapter 1128

Although the elite appeared on Hai Longtun's first checkpoint, it was right to think that in this case, if any checkpoint was broken through, it would be a devastating and desperate blow to Hai Longtun's Bozhou native soldiers.

The psychological effect of the checkpoint being breached is far greater than the actual effect, and may even directly destroy the resistance will of the Bozhou soldiers on Hai Longtun.

So even if only one checkpoint is breached, it is unacceptable to Yang Yinglong and Hai Long's guards. If they want to defend, they must defend all of them. Any checkpoint that is breached will be destroyed.

This offensive and defensive battle lasted for an hour, but the Qin army still failed to take the tower, and the fierce battle on the tower intensified instead.

More and more soldiers of the Qin army rushed up the tower to join the bloody battle, but the Bozhou soldiers on the city just refused to retreat, as if they were red-eyed and completely forgot about life and death.

With excellent armor and excellent weapons, the Qin army failed to push the Bozhou native soldiers into desperation when they were superior in military strength and weapons, and the battle situation gradually became stalemate.

An hour later, the Bozhou reinforcements arrived. The Bozhou local soldiers did not retreat but advanced, and began to gradually regain the tower stronghold occupied by the Qin army. The Qin army refused to retreat and fought back desperately. The fighting on the city wall became more intense.

Both the Qin army and the Bozhou soldiers fought desperately, even desperately. The city was full of swords, lights and swords, and corpses fell down the tower from time to time, some from the Qin army and some from the Bozhou soldiers.

In terms of the overall situation, the Qin army failed to gain an advantage. It is estimated that the Guancheng is too high and it is difficult to climb up. Therefore, the number of the Qin army has always been too small to do anything.

After the two armies met at close quarters, the crossbowmen and musketeers under the city did not dare to fight again. Only the dragoons with rifled flintlocks could strike a little and give some support.

However, these support appeared to be insignificant after the arrival of reinforcements from Banzhou native soldiers.

The Qin army's attack was hindered, and the situation had not been opened up. After more than an hour of bloody battle, Qi Dayong's brows in the binoculars frowned and blue veins appeared on his forehead. If the captain of the staff hadn't stopped him, he would have taken the lead in battle with a weapon in hand.

The battle situation is unfavorable, seeing that the time is approaching, Qi Dayong is really unwilling to let the advantage he gained in exchange for losing troops make it cheaper for later generations, but the rules have been set, and he cannot violate this rule.

In the end, Qi Dayong's army lost hundreds of soldiers and failed to take Houguanguan City, so he had no choice but to withdraw his troops.

Although the army maintained a complete formation when retreating, the soldiers in the city suffered heavy losses when they retreated. Although they were covered by crossbowmen, the losses were still not small.

Qi Dayong's entire army retreated, and at this time Liu Ting's troops, who had already eaten meat and dry rice, had finished recharging their batteries and sharpened their knives. Seeing Qi Dayong's troops retreating, Liu Ting stepped forward to shoot He patted Qi Dayong on the shoulder.

"Hahahaha, don't worry, Lao Qi, if I win this pass, I will share half of the credit with you, and I won't take advantage of you!"

Qi Dayong's face was as black as the bottom of an iron pot, and he slapped Liu Ting's hand away: "I tell you Dadao Liu, this pass city is not so easy to fight, and you may not be able to live with it if I suffer!"

Liu Ting grinned: "Okay, okay, you've been fighting for three hours, are you tired? Hurry up and take someone to lunch, don't exhaust the soldiers."

Qi Dayong left angrily, Liu Ting watched him leave with a smile, and turned his head with a serious look on his face.

"Although Qi Er is a bad-hearted person, he has a way of leading troops and has his own rules. The Qinglong Battalion is the most elite regiment in the Great Qin Army. It can block the Qinglong Battalion. I'm afraid this level is really hard to win."

His chief of staff, Li Sheng, said: "General, it's not that the Qinglong camp is not good at fighting, nor is it that the local soldiers in this city are capable of fighting, but that there are not enough troops in the upper city to start the situation, and the cooperation of the troops in the lower city is not enough. , the blunderbuss has no eyes, and dare not hit randomly, General Qi is too hasty."

Liu Ting glanced at Li Sheng: "What do you think?"

"The opinion of my subordinates is to alternately bombard the city tower with the Hongyi cannon and the Fran's machine gun. The Hongyi cannon shoots long-range, and the Fran's machine gun shoots intensively. When the bombardment is almost done, use the Weiyuan general cannon to open the fire. Bomb, mopping up the soldiers on the city.

After the first battle just now, their firearms were destroyed in sevens and eighty-eight, and their power was greatly reduced. We lined up artillery arrays under the Guancheng and bombarded them indiscriminately. They were unable to fight back effectively and could only be suppressed by us. Leave an hour to attack the city. "

Li Sheng's words surprised Liu Ting a little.

"You mean two hours to bomb, and only one hour to attack the city?"

"Yes, try to save the lives of the soldiers as much as possible. If the shells are gone, you can continue to make them. If the cannons are broken, they can be recast. If the soldiers are gone, it will be difficult to train. We have more than 100 Francophone guns and six Hongyi cannons. If it is not fully used, what is the purpose of bringing it here? Sharpening a knife is not a mistake for woodcutters!"

What Li Sheng wanted was to make full use of his own advantages to destroy the morale of the Banzhou native soldiers, not to engage in hand-to-hand combat so quickly, but to use firearms to consume the combat power of the Banzhou native soldiers on a large scale before attacking the city.

Liu Ting hesitated for a while, then nodded and agreed to Li Sheng's tactics, so when Liu Ting's troops of the second team launched an attack, they did not rush to attack the city, but gathered all the artillery and aimed at the top of the city. There was an indiscriminate bombardment.

The Bozhou native soldiers on the top of the city had obviously never experienced such intensive and indiscriminate bombing. Facing the combined bombardment of the Qin Army's Fran machine guns and Hongyi cannons, the entire city was in a mess, and people were running around like headless chickens. Banzhou soldiers.

It's not that no one wants to fight back, they want to fight back, but just when they were manipulating the artillery to aim at the Qin Army's artillery array below the city to prepare to fight back, the Qin Army's General Weiyuan cannon started firing.

Before they had time to fight back, they were blown up by the flowering shells that fell around them. They fired a few shots sporadically, but they didn't cause any trouble to the Qin army at all, and they were drowned under the bombardment of the Qin army's artillery. middle.

Looking at the Bozhou native soldiers who had no way to go to the sky and no way to go to the ground on the head of Houguan City, Liu Chen put down the binoculars in his hand, and his face was full of sighs.

"In the Battle of North Korea, in the Battle of Byejo Hall, Your Majesty mobilized [-] artillery pieces of various types to bombard the Japanese pirates indiscriminately, and destroyed the Japanese pirates. Only then can our army advance steadily and defeat the main force of the Japanese pirates in one fell swoop. Completed the siege.

Tens of thousands of Japanese pirates were annihilated in that battle, which made the Japanese pirates terrified, and Seoul fell. Now it seems that on this battlefield, swords, guns, swords and halberds are no longer as easy to use as they used to be. It's getting easier and more effective.

I also heard that the annual budget of the Ministry of Military Industry is 30 taels of silver, and those who research firearms in it can make contributions, and the rewards are initially 50 taels of silver. The craftsman is too generous, now it seems that the money is worth the money. "

"Isn't it? Your subordinate also heard that His Majesty is asking people to study other new firearms. Some firearms have already been produced and are being tested in the capital. If they are suitable, they can be sent to the army for trial. These firearms are getting more and more popular. More, more and more powerful, from now on, will we mainly rely on firearms in our wars, and we won’t need swords, guns, swords and halberds?”

Li Sheng told Liu Ting his guess.

(End of this chapter)