Chapter 117 The Battle of Tongzhou (3)
Yang Guozhu pointed to the people who were carrying macaobao outside and filled the trench and said, "Supervisor, but those are all the people of the Ming Dynasty. What's the fault of the people, but they are going to suffer this great disaster!"
Sun Chengzong decisively said: "The people outside are the Ming people, aren't the people inside? If they are attacked by Jiannu, tens of thousands of Ming people in Tongzhou will suffer! Send the order and fire the artillery!"
Yang Guozhu ran back, returned to the artillery team, and ordered the gunners: "Fire the gun, raise the gun slightly, and aim it at Jiannu behind the people!"
Hundreds of small cannons such as Folang, Tiger Squat Cannon, and Huo Destroy Cannon all spewed out flames, and the shells roared and hit the Later Jin army crowd a hundred steps away. The gunners raised the muzzle a little, and most of the shells passed over the heads of the Ming people in front and landed accurately among the people of Baoyi Aha.
Although the shields of Baoyi Aha were holding wooden shields, the shields were vulnerable in front of the shells. The shells hit the shields, and the wooden shields that nailed the wooden boards together with wooden nails immediately split into pieces. The shells that penetrated the shields continued to move forward, pierced into Baoyi Aha's body, and immediately knocked the man into a scattered blood mist.
The shell penetrated the human body and jumped again after it landed on the ground. The bumped Baoyi Aha was either penetrated with a big hole or his head was broken, and the lightest one was that his arms and thighs fell from his body.
The wooden shield shattered by shells also caused great lethality to Baoyi Aha. Sharp fragments pierced on human faces, and Baoyi Aha, who had no armor, screamed and fell down.
Of course, the smoothbore cannons of these days are not so accurate. Many shells fell into the crowd of people in the Ming Dynasty, causing a burst of blood mist on the spot. The broken limbs and legs and body fragments flew into the sky. Whether men, women or children, those in the middle of the shells were turned into a pile of minced meat. After being rubbed by the bouncing shells, their arms and thighs disappeared.
The trench was covered with bloody corpses, and it was hard to tell whether it was the people of the Ming Dynasty or the Baoyi Aha. There were countless seriously injured people who fell to the ground and howled, and most of them could not survive.
"Let me go!" Yang Guozhu shouted at the top of his lungs.
The Ming army bird gunners and archers hiding behind the chest wall were inspired by the bullets and arrows. The raindrop-like projectiles mixed with locust-like arrows pierced into the crowd. A large number of coats and Ming people fell down screaming.
The Ming army's unparalleled shooting caused chaos among the captive people. They threw down Mabao, turned around and ran away. Baoyi Aha, who was originally used to supervise the battle, could not stand this bloody scene and joined the defeated crowd.
"The escapees will be killed without mercy!" Gushan Ezhen Kak Duli limped up with several Bayala soldiers, waved the tiger-toothed sword, and slashed the defeated crowd desperately. Whether it was Baoyi Aha or the Ming people, more than 300 people were chopped over in a blink of an eye.
Kake Duli was stabbed by Li Lao Er in the leg before. Although he was lucky enough to die, his right leg was destroyed. He could only hold a knife in his left hand and a wooden stick in his right hand as a crutch.
No matter how the Later Jin army cut and killed them, the Ming people and Baoyi Ahan would rather be killed by the Jin soldiers than rush up and be smashed into pieces by artillery.
"Let your people fire!" Dorgon yelled at Sun Degong.
Sun Degong said "chatter" and turned around and asked his personal soldiers to send orders to the gunner.
The Later Jin army's Fran machine cannons, tiger squat cannons and other small cannons were pushed out from behind the shield formation. The Jin army's gunners set up their cannons, aimed at the positions of the Ming army, and ignited the artillery.
The shells roared on the chest wall behind the trench. The chest walls designed by Li Laoer were piled up with soil, sandbags were piled on the outside, and a layer of wet soil was covered with outside. This design was to prevent the artillery attack of the Later Jin army.
The weather was cold, and a thin layer of ice had formed on the outer layer of the wet soil covered on the sandbag. The shells hit the ice layer, and the ice layer immediately shattered and turned into countless ice edges. The shells penetrated the fragile ice layer, pierced into the soil, and then drilled into the sand. The sand absorbed energy, and the Ming army hiding behind the chest wall was unscathed.
Countless shells hit the sea, and the ice layer outside the sandbag was melted. The moist soil further absorbed the energy of the shells. The shells pierced into the sandbag were like mud cows entering the sea, and there was no sound when they penetrated into it.
After the Ming army's small cannons were loaded, they fired fire and bombarded the Jin army artillery outside.
Inside and outside the position, artillery bombarded the two sides, with gunfire filled with smoke and rumbling. The artillery of the Ming army was protected by chest walls. Unless the gunners of the Later Jin army were extremely lucky and allowed the shells to fall into the Ming army's artillery position, they could injure the Ming army's gunners. Looking at the Later Jin gunners, they stood in the open air and fired at the Ming army's positions, and were bombarded by concentrated artillery fire.
The Ming army ignited the Folang aircraft, and dozens of cannons aimed at one of the Later Jin army's cannons to ensure accuracy.
The Houjin gunner watched dozens of iron balls roaring towards him like lightning. Before he could understand what was going on, he was hit into pieces. The gun mount of a bombed Folang machine cannon was hit, and the wooden gun mount immediately turned into pieces. The gun was hit and jumped up, swept across, and swept over the red-armored gunners behind him.
Another Fran cannon was hit by two shells at the same time. The fran cannon with a twisted and deformed gun barrel flew into the sky, rolled in the air a few times, landing heavily on the ground, smashing a Houjin gunner who had no time to run away into meat paste.
The Folang machine cannon was loading very fast. In a blink of an eye, hundreds of Folang aircraft of the Ming army completed five rounds of volleys and fired thousands of shells. At least ten artillery pieces of the Later Jin army were destroyed, killing and injuring more than 100 gunners, while no Ming army artillery team was injured.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Dorgon immediately ordered Sun Degong to retreat the artillery team.
"Khan, the slaves are not fighting effectively, and the artillery team suffers heavy casualties. It is because Minggou is protected by fortifications, but the slaves are standing on the snow and being shot straight." Sun Degong knelt in front of Huang Taiji to apologize.
"Sun Aiqing, please get up quickly!" Huang Taiji made a gesture and asked Sun Degong to make up. "It is not your fault to defeat the artillery battle, but the Ming people rely on the advantage of defense! Ben Khan also observed just now that the Ming people's artillery team was hiding behind the thick wall. Although it was a simple and low wall, it covered the sandbags and wet soil, so our army's artillery shells could not be penetrated!"
"Thank you, Khan, for not curing the crime of defeat in the slaves!" Sun Degong kowtowed repeatedly.
Huang Taiji smiled on his face: "Ben Khan has come up with a solution to reduce the losses of our artillery team!"
Afterwards, Huang Taiji asked Sun Degong to gather the coated slaves and the captured people, fill them into a large number of sandbags with hemp packaging, and then send the sandbags to the front line with shield trucks, pile them up on the ground, build bunkers to set up cannons.
This is the inspiration that Huang Taiji got after observing the formation of the Ming army.
Sun Degong went back immediately and asked Baoyi Aha to escort the Ming army to build simple forts.
The Jin army was found to have driven out the people to build simple forts, and the Ming army cannons, bird guns and bows behind the chest wall were fired, causing Baoyi Aha and the captured people to fall down one by one.
——I haven’t had time a few days ago, I have time a day, I have time a day, I have time a day, I have time a day.
Chapter completed!