Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 239
"Tiger crouching cannons! I saw a lot of tiger crouching cannons in Haizhou City, and they were all adjusted to the southeast and southeast.

When Yang Chao inspected the city defenses, he saw that there were many large and small tiger crouching cannons in Haizhou City, as well as general cannons. There were no heavy cannons like red cannons, but they were more than enough to fight captive soldiers.

So Li Wuliu was asked to mobilize them.

At this time, Yang Chao was still in the stage of integrating the guard forces of Haizhou. Song Lian supported Yang Chao, but Song Lian could only focus on civil affairs in the city, so Yang Chao had the final say on the city.

Li Rui immediately clasped his fists together: "Your Majesty, let's go with Lord Li."

It would be best to have Li Rui, a local snake and the highest military officer in Shanghai prefecture, come forward. Yang Chao nodded.

"Thank you, Li Qianhu."

There are hundreds of cannons in Haizhou City, the most powerful general cannons are less than [-], and the rest are small cannons like tiger crouching cannons, weighing from [-] to [-] catties.

They were soon arranged on the southeast and southeast sides, plus Yang Chao's twenty tiger squatting cannons, and there were fifty on each wall. Unfortunately, the city walls are too wide. Haizhou City is more than nine miles away, and each city wall is more than two miles on average. , the average of fifty cannons is only a few feet long, which is equivalent to 20 meters in later generations to place a cannon.

Fortunately, the captive soldiers were filling the river at this time, so they gathered in a narrow area, giving Yang Chao the opportunity to gather cannons and bombard them.

What made Yang Chao dissatisfied was that the sound of the cannon was heard after an hour.

The control of Haizhou's power is still too loose, and it is obviously inefficient to organize it just now. As for Yang Chao's own artillery team, it can fire at any time, but Yang Chao wants to pursue intensive firepower, so after all the cannons are in place, Only then would he fire the cannon.

At this time, the captive soldiers had already filled the moat in the south of the city to a length of ten feet, and went deep into the river for a section of three feet. It could be filled in more than two feet, and at this time the cannon finally rang out.

The captive cavalry were on the other side of the river, a hundred paces away, a distance that could not be threatened by the bird guns. It was said that they were holding up the formation of the captive soldiers filling the river, rather they were supervising and preventing these soldiers from escaping. Suddenly they met fifty soldiers. The intensive attack of the door tiger squatting gun.

For a while, people roared and horses neighed, and the scene became chaotic.

However, these captive soldiers were trying to control, instead of fleeing immediately.

Behind one of the shield chariots, a captive soldier who was drawing his bow and arrow immediately trembled, and the bow and arrow fell to the ground without aim, not even hitting the city wall, let alone the people on the city wall.

This man was wearing heavy armor, obviously not an ordinary captive soldier, but he could only hide behind the shield car and shoot arrows, and he was also watched by the cavalry behind him.

The shelling made the captive soldier very panicked, his hands trembled, and his legs couldn't help but wanted to run back, but he still held back because he was concerned about the cavalry behind him. He knew that under every puff of white smoke, there was a cannon mouth that breathed death, but it was blocked by the city wall, so he couldn't see it. Only when the cannon was fired, the light and small cannon would be lifted up. .

The reason why this captive soldier is so familiar is because he has suffered a lot.

This person is Dunbai, who is a Jialazhangjing in Hongqi. With his status, he should not be driven here to cover Baoyi, but should stand in the rear on a horse, arrogantly watching Baoyi in front, but who It is actually a kind of punishment to let the beizi in the flag fall, and let him cover the coat.

Although Dunbai has no complaints or regrets, he is really afraid.

It's not that he has never seen cannons. He also came here in a bloody battle in Liaodong. He has seen the red cannons of the Ming army before. He was even more frightened by the small cannon squatting, because this kind of small cannon was fired at a short distance. Whether it was accurate or bloody, it was not comparable to the red cannon fired a few miles away. Death happened right in front of you. Don't be afraid.

What he didn't know was that the tiger squatting cannon was not very accurate, but Yang Chao had been using it intensively all the time, and the captive soldiers were standing in a dense manner.

Yang Chao looked out from the arrow holes in the Nancheng Tower and saw that the first wave of shelling caused at least a dozen casualties of soldiers and more than 30 horses. He was very satisfied with the effect.

The captive soldiers deployed hundreds of cavalry on the other side of the river, all in a dense formation. If a cannonball hits the past, as long as it does not go wrong, the cannonball can only be released on the cavalry and horses, and the kinetic energy is absorbed by these troops. Naturally it is big.

However, the captive soldiers did not run away, because it took time to reload the tiger squatting cannon, which was much slower than the Franji, and much slower than the bird gun.

However, Yang Chao didn't plan to use the Fran machine because there were not many shells. Zhoucheng has no production capacity yet, so it has to be reserved for critical times.

Therefore, only the tiger squatting cannons are used for bombardment. These tiger squatting cannons can be cast in Haizhou City, so there is no need to worry about consumption.

Yang Chao also saw on his side, sandbags piled up to the crenel behind the city wall, and a group of gunners next to the sandbags were cleaning the gun bores and reloading them. Once they were filled, they immediately put them on the sandbags and waited for other artillery to fire together.

After the captive soldiers were hit by the first wave, they had no experience in dealing with them. Not only did they not run, but they quickly recovered their formation. However, they also looked at the top of the city in horror, not knowing whether to run or stay, so they could only go to the master. reported.

Dunbai was lying on the shield chariot, showing a pair of eyes, looking at the top of the city, not looking back at the cavalry in the rear.

He really wanted to tell the master above that he should not persist under the cannons. This Ming army is different from those in Liaodong. Their speed of firing cannons is amazing, but he can't, because if he dares to take a step back, he will be cut off by the cavalry behind him. Kill, these are not the people they are holding the red flag, but the one with the white flag, and they will not hesitate to kill his head.

The loading speed is not slow, but after loading, the cannons must be fixed and tied to the sandbags with hemp ropes as thick as stones to prevent the cannons from jumping out after firing. These gunners are also afraid of shooting arrows in the city, so they all bow their heads Not daring to show their heads, which affected the speed.

But finally the cannon was fired, and the cavalry who had been in formation for a long time on the opposite side were suddenly bombarded again, repeating the last control recovery again.

It seemed very stupid, but Yang Chao saw the discipline of the captive soldiers. No wonder they were able to win against the Ming army. In terms of discipline alone, the captive soldiers won completely.

But Dunbai had already seen clearly that the Ming army would squat down and set up the cannon before firing.

During this period, the Ming army seldom showed their heads, and even if they did, it was occasionally one or two people, and they would not show their heads together, so he had no choice but to snipe, but Dunbai found that the moment the Ming army opened fire, they would gather together behind Even though they were behind the cannon and didn't show their heads, if they could lob, it would definitely affect the opponent's ignition at that moment.

Thinking of this, Dunbai immediately greeted the armored soldiers who were covering the archery nearby. Among them, more than 50 people he brought back were here. He told others that after all the cannons of the Ming army were erected, they listened to his password and let everyone throw the city together. Definitely kills the gunner.

At the end of the third bombardment, Dunbai suddenly shouted, and the dozens of barbarian shooters who had prepared heavy arrows suddenly took the risk to stand up from behind the shield car and throw them towards the top of the city.

At the same time, Li Wuliu also shouted: "Fire!"

Dozens of burning matchsticks stretched out to the gunpowder pool at the same time, fifty cannons rang out, heavy arrows fell to the ground, and someone wailed loudly at the same time.

Li Wuliu was in disbelief when he saw that more than a dozen gunners shot heavy arrows, three of them were shot through the neck, seven or eight shoulders and chests were hit by heavy arrows, and some were bruised.

Li Wuliu couldn't help swallowing his breath. The shooters of the captive soldiers were indeed more elite than those he had trained. He had discovered this a long time ago, but he didn't expect that they could shoot so many people in places they couldn't see. incrediable.

But soon he became angry, anyone who dared to kill Lao Tzu, court death!
Li Wuliu ordered the wounded to be carried down, and then continued to load. At the same time, he glanced outside and found that the captive cavalry was a little unstable after being shelled again, but they still didn't run away. The shield carts were still there, and the trolleys were still filling the river. , has advanced another zhang, and it seems that it is only a zhang away from crossing the river.

"Continue to load the guns for me, all the gunners will come up to me!"

Li Wuliu called his gunners over, and they all loaded and stood by, because they couldn't kill anyone, so after the shelling opened fire, they all stood aside.

Li Wuliu waited quietly for the cannon to be reloaded, then set up sandbags, and when he tied them in with a rope, he suddenly yelled.

"Bird guns shoot Lao Tzu's shield chariot!"

After speaking, he himself climbed up to the crenel with a blunderbuss and fired a shot.

Rows of blunderbusses rang out, and the sawdust from the shield carts were splashed everywhere. For a while, he couldn't lift his head. As soon as the blunderbusses rang, he heard the sound of the cannons. He sighed inwardly, feeling that the Ming army had won this time. up.

At this time, farther away, on a high ground, several captives were observing surrounded by guards.

"Well, that pleading looks good. I'm afraid what he said is true. This Ming army is different from the previous one. It's a pity that the Ming court, with such a strong army, didn't transfer to Liaodong. It's a pity that they couldn't fight before!"

The captive chief Turg said regretfully.

But immediately ordered: "Tell Guoke, continue to hold on, and urge the coating to speed up filling the river."

Guoke is a Baya Lazhangjing, the cavalry leader in charge of supervising the battle by the river, and a distant relative of the Aixinjueluo family.

It belongs to Zhengbaiqi and is Turg's confidant, but seeing that the river is about to fill up to the other side, it is impossible to give up all previous efforts, so even if his confidants are suffering casualties, Turg still has to let him persevere.

One of his men immediately rushed to deliver the order on horseback.

Turger said again: "Send Hilgen to get ready. Once he fills it up, he will rush across the river immediately and suppress the city with heavy arrows."

Hilgen is Manchurian Zhenghuang Banner Baya Latuzhangjing, with a thousand elite riders, and is the strongest combat force in Turg's hands at this time.

The two sides fought around the moat for two days, and it was finally time to fill it up, and it was time for the strongest combat power in their hands to charge once.

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(End of this chapter)