Chapter 232 Trap (Part 2)

With Duoduo's order, the remaining more than 10,000 Han army Eight Banners, thousands of Korean Eight Banners, and more than 50,000 former Ming surrendered troops rushed out of the formation in a swarm. On the opposite bank, Dorgon, who was watching the battle from afar, almost fell down when he saw this. But at this time, it was too late to stop Duoduo. Nearly 20,000 servants had rushed to the river surface in chaos, and more than 50,000 former Ming formation troops had also rushed to the river beach.

On the Ming Navy warship.

Scarface was looking out at the shooting hole. Seeing that tens of thousands of Jiannu had already rushed to the river with howling, a trace of inexplicable ferociousness suddenly appeared on his face, and he raised his arms and shouted: "Immediately!"

"yes!"

The navy general Zhang Yanlin, who was standing next to Scarface, agreed with a slight trembling voice, and his right arm was shaking hard. More than a dozen navy soldiers who were waiting for the battle shook the fire twisters and leaned towards the lead in front of them. The lead was ignited when it encountered fire, and ignited out of the shooting hole with blue smoke, and continued to burn along the ice surface...

Scarface, Zhang Yanlin and all the navy soldiers in the cabin covered their ears, turned around and squatted on the floor.

More than 50,000 Ming surrendered troops, more than 30,000 Eight Banners servants were still shouting and rushing forward. Five thousand archers with blue flags were still shooting arrows on the Ming army's naval warships on the river. No one noticed that more than a dozen pieces of leads, as thick as thumbs, quickly burned ten feet away from the leads, and then suddenly disappeared.

The air seemed to stagnate for a moment, and then more than a dozen huge red lights rose from the river surface. Accompanied by the dazzling red light, more than a dozen mushroom cloud-like smoke rose into the sky, and there was a violent explosion sounding through the sky. At this moment, there was no other sound between the sky and the earth, only a deafening roar.

Seeing this terrible scene, all Jiannu who were rushing forward stopped stupidly, staring at the rolling smoke ahead with some at a loss. The five thousand archers inlaid with blue flags also forgot to shoot the archery. Their eardrums were making noises and no sound could be heard.

"Crack!"

"Crack!"

"Crack!"

The crisp sound of shattering continued to sound.

The Jiannu, who were aware, stopped and looked down one by one. The snow covered on the ice blocked their sight. They saw nothing, but they could feel the ice under their feet shattering at an astonishing speed. I don’t know who yelled, and everyone turned around and rushed towards the river bank frantically.

However, it's too late!

The ice layer on the canal surface has been blown up by more than a dozen large holes, and the ice layer that has lost its integrity will immediately become fragile. Just like an egg, a complete egg can withstand a lot of pressure, but if a hole is poked in the eggshell, the whole egg will become fragile.

Accompanied by the sound of crisp ice chunks, Jiannu, who was crowded on the river, suddenly lost the support of the ice layer under his feet and fell into the cold and bone-broken river water. The ice layer on the river was broken piece by piece, and Jiannu, who was crowded on the ice, fell into the water piece by piece...

The five thousand archers inlaid with the blue flag, more than 10,000 Han military flags and more than 10,000 Korean Eight Banners fell into the water one after another. Only the former Ming surrendered army was too large and more than 40,000 people had no time to rush up the river, so they were spared.

On the right bank of the canal, in front of Jiannu formation, Duoduo was already stupid.

Among Jiannu's generals, Duoduo was already a war, but the savage was still a savage after all, and the wild boar skin would never learn the Han military skills. He never expected that the Ming army had already done something on the river! The Ming army soldiers seemed to be poking the ice in vain a few days ago, but in fact they were just to confuse Jiannu.

Among the piles of ice flowers that were turned up, the Ming army soldiers had secretly buried dozens of barrels of gunpowder!

Even the hard-core traitor Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan, I didn’t expect that these two guys were just Confucian scholars in the late Ming Dynasty. What they were best at was eight-legged articles and intrigues. Since Neo-Confucianism became popular, few scholars around the world have learned from military, legal, Mohist and other miscellaneous scholars.

Yang Hao, the Liaodong governor who was defeated by Sarhu, and Yuan Chonghuan, the Ji Liao governor who was easy to talk about, were even touted by Qing history and some so-called expert professors as unprecedented national heroes. In fact, they did not understand strategy at all, and might not have read a military book systematically.

If Yang Hao had read military books and strategies, he would never have divided his troops into four groups without taking too much advantage in the situation!

There is also Yuan Chonghuan. As long as he has a little strategic vision, he should see how much restrained Mao Wenlong, the general of Dongjiang Town, has to do with the Later Jin Dynasty. As long as Mao Wenlong is there for a day, the Later Jin Dynasty will always be armed with a sharp dagger on its weakness. Jiannu will never dare to enter the pass and rage the Central Plains.

If Yuan Chonghuan was an excellent strategist, his wisest approach would be to appease Mao Wenlong, rather than to establish his prestige by killing Mao Wenlong!

In short, except for Hu Zongxian, Wang Shouren, Sun Chengzong and other very few knowledgeable people, few scholars in the late Ming Dynasty had studied military arts, and there was no way to talk about proficient in military arts. Their study rooms may be filled with various military books, but they were just decorations and storefronts.

So much so that Wang Pu, who only learned three moves and two styles of military strategy from TV lectures, traveled to the Ming Dynasty and could turn hands into clouds and rain. However, when it comes to the use of firearms and the tactics of firearms, compared with the people of this era, Wang Pu is indeed a master-level expert, which is why he can win more with fewer firearms.

During this battle in Liaocheng, Jiannu once again tasted Wang Pu's power.

After a huge shock, Duoduo finally came to his senses and shouted shrillly: "Hurry, find a way to save people, where to save people..."

Although the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the Eight Banners of Korea were just the servants of Jiannu, no matter how many people were, they were 40,000 to 50,000 people. Without these servants as pawns, the casualties and consumption of the Jiannu's direct lineage would increase significantly, which was beyond the poverty of the wild boar skin's pitiful military force and the same pitiful population base.

Many Jiannu rushed to the river and handed the spear in his hand into the river, hoping to pull Jiannu who was trapped in the ice water to the ashore.

The river was filled with ice and water mixed with the river, and Jiannu was struggling with the lucky Jiannu was still struggling desperately with a few pieces of floating ice. The lucky one had already sunk to the bottom of the river. There were also many Jiannu who were familiar with the water and cheered up and swam to the shore desperately. Many wet Jiannu struggled to climb to the river bank...

At this moment, Jiannu's nightmare came!

Because all the five thousand archers inlaid with the blue flag had fallen into the water and the bows and arrows on the shore were not reachable, the Ming Navy in the middle of the canal no longer had to worry about Jiannu's bows and arrows suppressing them.

The Scarfaced Five Thousand Muskets team snatched the deck from the cabin and lined up intensive shooting queues under the shouting of officers at all levels. The Nanjing-made flintlock rifle used by the Central Military Musket Battalion was more than 100 meters long, while the river bank was less than 70 meters long from the heart of the river, which was completely within the effective range of the Central Military Muskets.

"Boom boom boom..."

The fire shines, the smoke churns.

Accompanied by the violent gunfire, Jiannu, who rushed to the river to save people, and Jiannu, who had been fighting for his life, fell down one by one, and the blood flowing down quickly dyed the river bank red.

The Jiannu, who was crowded by the river, retreated in panic and retreated far enough to save the people. The Jiannu in the river had to endure the biting cold and retract back into the water, and would never dare to appear easily. The Ming army's firepower was too strong, and the bullets poured out were like raindrops.

The Ming army's musketeers also stopped shooting at the right time, but as long as Jiannu had the courage to try to get ashore, dense bullets would immediately pour out, and all the Jiannu who had luck were smashed into sieves! The Ming army's intention was already very obvious. They wanted to completely block the river bank with muskets and prevent Jiannu from falling into the water from going ashore!

The weather is so cold now that Jiannu who fell into the water would be frozen to death if he could not get ashore in time. Don’t think of swimming to other rivers and going ashore. In the cold and bone-blooded river water, Jiannu could not have swam too far! What’s more, after the ice shattered, the Ming army’s naval warships had started to cruise again, and the river section that could be controlled by fifty warships was very long.

Duoduo on the right bank of the canal almost shattered his steel teeth, but he had no choice but to watch Jiannu who fell into the water wailing in the cold and bone-blooded river water, and watch them all freeze to death!

On the left bank of the canal, Dorgon finally couldn't hold back!

Dorgon yelled with his teeth: "Tong Yangxing!"

Tong Yangxing ran to Dorgon and knelt down and said, "The slave is here."

"Pull your red cannons up!" Dorgon's eyes showed a ferocious look and shouted angrily, "Boom, blow all these damn Ming warships into pieces! There are also fifteen Niulu's musket teams to pull them up, and when the Ming army's naval warships were sunk, they trapped the Nanming barbarians on the ship in the same way, and froze them to death!"

When Jiannu entered the pass in large numbers, he also brought twenty red barbarian cannons. The battle in Liaocheng was related to Jiannu's life and death. Of course, Dorgon also brought these twenty red barbarian cannons and fifteen Niulu musket teams. Dorgon originally wanted to capture the Ming Navy's warships, so he did not agree to Tong Yangxing's request to use the Red Barbarian cannons to bombard the Ming Navy's navy.

But now, Dorgon has changed his mind!

It is obvious that it is impossible to capture the Ming Navy's warship. The thick ice layer did not bring good news to Jiannu, but instead became the burial place for tens of thousands of Jiannu! If the Ming Navy's warships could not be captured even if they attacked the ice layer, what other way could Jiannu capture them?

Since it is no longer possible to capture the Ming Navy's warships, why not use cannons to blow them up?

"twitter!"

Tong Yangxing agreed and hurried away.

Soon, twenty ox carts pulled twenty red cannons and lined up on the left bank of the cannon, and fifteen Niulu's muskets also set up shooting queues behind the cannon array. Jiannu did not know that there were red cannons in the Central Army, Dorgon, Tong Yangxing and others just heard the sound of the Folang machine cannons. Although there were also Folang machine cannons on the Ming Navy warship, the range of the Folang machine cannons was incomparable to the Red Cannons.

Central Army camp, high platform.

Seeing twenty black red cannons pulled out of the Jiannu formation, Li Chengdong exclaimed: "Be good, what's the fuck is the red cannon? Twenty!"

"There are also musket teams." Li Ben said in a deep voice, "There are at least five thousand people!"

The generals of the other five towns also looked solemn. They didn't expect that Jiannu also had musket teams and red cannons. In this way, the Central Army would have no firepower advantage over Jiannu.

Liu Rushi and Liu Qingyan couldn't help but turn their heads, and their four beautiful eyes looked at Wang Pu at the same time.

Wang Pu's expression was calm and a faint sneer burst into the corner of his mouth. This time, the trap carefully designed by Wang Pu was a chain of traps. It was still secondly that he was seriously injured by a large number of Jiannu. What Wang Pu really wanted to deal with was the Red Cannon hidden in the Jiannu army!

When the two armies conducted a tentative attack, Jiannu never used red barbarian cannons to attack the Ming army's naval warship. Wang Pu suspected that Jiannu had any intention of the Ming army's naval warship. In addition, the weather suddenly turned cold and the canal surface began to freeze. Wang Pu even more affirmed his guess and set up a chain of traps with his plan!

"Cang..."

Amid the crisp and pleasant sound of gold and iron rubbing, Wang Pu slowly pulled out his waist knife. Lu Liu, who was standing behind Wang Pu, immediately raised the waist knife in his hand. The neat footsteps came from behind. When Li Chengdong and the generals of the seven towns looked back, they saw teams of Central Army soldiers running to the high platform.

Lu Liu took a step forward and shouted loudly: "Release the oil cloth!"

The Central Army soldiers who were in charge quickly stepped forward and lifted up pieces of tart cloth. The "things" covered with tart cloth on the platform immediately showed their hideous true face. They were twenty red cannons. These twenty red cannons have now been replaced, and they are even more incomparable to the twenty Jiannu's cannons.

Wang Pu has installed sights and sights for these twenty red cannons for aiming, and also asked Song Yingxing and Fang Yizhi to summarize a simple and practical finger distance measurement method and teach each gunman in the artillery battalion. Although the finger distance measurement method has a large error, experienced gunman can accurately estimate the distance of the shooting target and adjust the corresponding shooting angle.

"Boom boom boom..."

Before the Ming army cannons on the platform opened fire, Jiannu's twenty red barbarian cannons fired first. Rolling smoke rolled over, and twenty solid iron bullets roared into the heart of the canal.

Unfortunately, Jiannu's Red Cannon did not have a targeting device, and Jiannu's gunners did not know how to measure fingers. Although the Ming army's naval warship target was large enough, the hit rate of Jiannu's artillery was pitifully low. Twenty shells actually hit only two shots, and two holes as big as pots were smashed on the side of the two naval battles.

The other shells either landed on the river in advance or roared past the Ming army's naval warships. Another shell hit the other side of the river, killing dozens of Jiannu.

After the shell was shot, the Jiannu and the gunmen were busy erecting the fired Red Barbarian cannons, first pouring water to extinguish the sparks in the cannon chamber and cooling the scorching cannon chamber, then pouring water over the cannon chamber, then cleaning the residual water stains in the cannon chamber with strips wrapped in cloth, and finally filling them with gunpowder...

Just as Jiannu's gunners were busy refilling ammunition, the gunners of the Central Army's artillery battalion had already aimed at Jiannu's artillery position, and then half-kneeled on one knee, stretched out their thumbs one by one, first closed their left eye, then closed their right eye, used their eyes and thumb to calculate the approximate distance between the Jiannu's gun array, and finally slightly sorted out the shooting elevation angle of the Red Cannon.

"The No. 18 gun position has been adjusted!"

"The No. 16 gun position has been adjusted!"

...

"The No. 9 gun position has been adjusted!"

Accompanied by the loud sound of horns, the gunners who had adjusted their shooting of the world stood up one by one. The official belt standing behind the gun position had raised the waist knife in his hand, and his twenty eyes were looking at Wang Pu.

"Open fire!"

Wang Pu's eyes turned cold and the knife in his hand slashed down hard.

"Open fire!"

"Open fire!"

"Open fire!"

Twenty gun battalions officers waved their waists and shouted loudly at the top of their lungs. The ready-made gunners ignited the leads at the bottom of the barrel with fire twisters, and then ran back several steps away. They squatted on the ground with their hands covering their ears. The leads ignited into the barrel with blue smoke, and soon they were out of sight.

"Boom boom boom..."

Time seemed to pause for a moment, and then a violent explosion sounded through the sky.

Twenty flowering bullets whizzed out of the cannon chamber and landed on the Jiannu Cannon Camp in the blink of an eye. With the more violent explosions, twenty flowering bullets instantly bloomed into twenty extremely gorgeous giant fireworks. A large number of fragments were whistling with scorching red flames. Jiannu's gunners and the Jiannu Musket Team lined up behind fell down in an instant!

Although the Jiannu's artillery camp's position target was not as large as a navy warship, at least eight of the twenty artillery shells from the Central Army's artillery battalion hit the target, and one of them hit the stacked powder barrels directly, causing a more violent explosion, directly blowing two red cannons into the sky, and when they fell down, they had already turned into a pile of scrap copper and iron!

Six more shells fell into the Jiannu musket queue, killing and injuring at least one hundred Jiannu musket soldiers.

"Damn it, how is this possible?"

Tong Yangxing widened his eyes in surprise, unable to believe everything in front of him. As far as he knew, the red cannons of the Ming Dynasty were not much better than those of Jiannu, and the shooting deviation was very large. It was basically difficult to hit a target of the size of a house just a few steps away. Therefore, the red cannons were generally only used to bombard large targets such as city walls.

It was already a bit difficult to bombard the Ming Navy warships with red cannons. Using red cannons to engage in artillery battles was something that Tong Yangxing had never thought of.
Chapter completed!