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Chapter 279

Listening to the roaring cannons behind him, Han Dashan was not at all distracted, but stared at the offensive cavalry of the Later Jin Dynasty who were attacking his position. Han Dashan was confident in his elder brother whether Li Guodong could block tens of thousands of Jiannu, with more than 2,000 infantry soldiers, two thousand civilians and strong auxiliary soldiers, five hundred firearm soldiers, ten heavy cannons, two mortar cannons, four three-pound cannons, plus the nine-headed bird heavy fire guns and bird guns in the hands of infantrymen, as well as more than 300 elite servants sent by various departments to reinforce, it was no problem to defend the western defense line.

Han Dashan was only worried about whether his defense could withstand the attack of the Later Jin army. In his position, there were only four tiger squat cannons and eight light Folang machines, and one hundred nine-headed bird muskets. Among the more than one thousand Dadewang caravans, there were only more than two hundred bird gunners, and the rest were cold weapons.

Their own troops were only 1,200, but there were more than 3,000 Jiannu who were attacking.

However, the Eastern Front has an advantage over the Western Front, that is, the Later Jin Army has no shield chariots, and they are all cavalrymen who dismounted in the cavalry and infantry battles. As long as small cannons and nine-headed birds and heavy muskets are used, they can be hit hard.

Sahalian commanded his Aliha Chaoha soldiers and walked up step by step towards the Ming army camp in front. Most of his soldiers were elite heavy cavalry from Yehe's tribe. After getting off the horse, they also had thick armor on their bodies. Each of them also created a large wooden shield in their hands to cover the Ming army's bird gun projectiles.

The wooden shield can block the bird gun projectile at a certain distance. Even if it enters within thirty steps, the bird gun projectile will no longer penetrate the thick armor after it penetrates the wooden shield.

The Later Jin army approached the first trench. The Later Jin cavalry who dismounted the horse did not have any large siege equipment. They built simple trench bridges on the trench, and then rushed through the trench and began to climb over the low-high sheep and horse wall.

"Minggou didn't fire." Seeing that the Great Jin warriors under his command easily passed the first obstacle and the Ming army did not fire, Sahalian said to himself.

A Jialazhen came up and said with a smile: "Master Beile, Minggou's cannons are all opposite, so naturally there are no cannons here."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a row of deafening roars on the Ming army's positions, and white smoke rose up, and rows of projectiles came over like rain. The Later Jin soldiers who had just crossed the wall of sheep and horses and were about to rush towards the second trench were knocked down one by one by one by the light Folang machine cannon, tiger squat cannon and nine-headed bird fire gun.

Even the shield and thick armor could not protect these Later Jin soldiers. The Jiu-Headed Bird heavy musket shot out five-two bullets, easily smashing the wooden shield, and hitting the armor. Even the three layers of armor were penetrated. The bullets drilled into the front chest and drilled out from the back, leaving a blood hole as big as a bowl.

The eight light Folang machine cannons fired very fast. The projectiles fired by this cannon were only a little heavier than the projectiles of the Nine-Headed Firebull. They fired a projectile that was 5 taels and 9 cents, and their penetration was slightly better than that of the Nine-Headed Firebull. However, the light Folang machine fired extremely fast, and it used a copper sub-gun, which made the airtightness good and the power became greater.

The light Folang machine is four feet long and weighs sixty kilograms, which is much heavier than the Nine-Headed Bird Musket. It is mounted on a rotating wooden rack to launch. The theoretical range can reach 300 steps, and the actual range is only within a hundred steps.

The gunner picked up the Folang machine, aimed at the target, ignited the fire door, and fired a projectile. After firing a projectile, he immediately opened the cover plate, hooked out the sub-gun with an iron hook, put a sub-gun into the abdomen of the cannon, covered the cover plate, and continued to fire. Li Guodong's Folang machine cannon team, each light Folang machine is equipped with ten sub-guns! It can fire one round in an average of ten breaths. The eight Folang machines have an amazing rate of fire, constantly shattering the shields and destroying the bodies of the Later Jin soldiers.

Han Dashan asked the 100 nine-headed bird heavy fire guns to be divided into three groups, two groups of thirty-three, one group of thirty-four, three groups of shooting in turn, the first group of shooting, two groups of filling, the first group of shooting was completed, and the second group was on, so that the firepower continuity could be maintained.

The Nine-Headed Bird, which used a fixed-loading cartridge, was only a little slower than the bird gun. A gunner could load it in about thirty breaths, so that the three groups of Nine-Headed Birds could fire at a rate of ten breaths and one shot, and the firepower was still as continuous as the light Folang machine cannon.

The four-gate tiger squat cannon is relatively weak, and its firing rate is not as good as the Florida machine and the Nine-Headed Bird with a third-segment shooting. However, the advantage of the Tiger squat cannon is that it is light in weight and has a greater power than the Florida machine.

As the Later Jin army approached, two hundred bird gunmen also joined the shooting ranks. The black-hole gun barrels stretched out from behind the wooden fence from time to time, spewing out flames. Two hundred bird gunmen were divided into three rows, two rows of sixty-seven, one row of sixty-six, and one row of sixty-six, and three groups of gunmen shot in turn. The sound of guns continued, knocking down the Later Jin soldiers who had crossed the second wall of sheep and horses and entered within fifty steps one by one.

At a distance of fifty steps, the bow and arrow of the Later Jin Dynasty could also pose a threat to the Dadewang Caravan Guards who were guarding the city. The Jin soldiers who had climbed over the second wall of sheep and horses took out their bows and arrows, slapped the arrows, and shot arrows into the camp.

The escort player immediately raised his shield to block the arrows shot, but many of the guards were still caught in the arrows and screamed and fell down.

It was not that Wang Quan had no money to equip every guards with armor, but that the national law did not allow it. In any ancient dynasty, the people prohibited privately hiding armor. Before, when Wang Quan had not had a hundred households, he and six old friends secretly equipped several sets of armor, and the rest of the caravan guards had no armor. Now that Wang Quan has a hundred households, he can only equip more than 100 elite soldiers with armor within the scope of the law, and the rest of the caravan guards had no armor. This time he was pulled on the battlefield, and Li Guodong handed them some leather armor seized from the Mongolians. The light armor protection ability was extremely limited and could not stop the heavy arrows shot by the Later Jin archers.

Relying on the narrow terrain, the firearms and troops blocked each other layer. The attacking Later Jin army paved the way with corpses and paved them all the way, and finally attacked the periphery of the wooden fence.

Spears were stabbed in the wooden fence. Although the spears in the hands of the infantry were difficult to pierce the heavy armor of the Later Jin army, the spears more than one meter long were stabbed from behind the wooden fence like hedgehogs, making it difficult for the Later Jin soldiers to get close to the wooden fence. If they accidentally stabbed the throat or face, they would die immediately.

The spear only blocked the Later Jin army, making it impossible for them to get close to the wooden fence and chop with swords and axes. The real firepower output unit was the bird gunner behind. The spear in front blocked the Later Jin army, making the Later Jin army unable to advance. The bird gunner behind kept firing, knocking down the Later Jin soldiers close to the wooden fence piece by piece in front of the wooden fence.

The archers of the Later Jin soldiers shot arrows behind and also shot down many caravan guards, but those archers were the primary targets of the light Folang machine and the Nine-Headed Bird Musket, and were killed and injured countless times.

The members of the Dadewang Trading Guards also threw out ten thousand enemies, blowing the Later Jin army that rushed to the wooden fence so much that they cried and called their parents.

On the western defense line of the city, Dorgon and Yuetuo's main Jin army paid a significant price and finally filled the first trench. The shield chariot pushed the fill trench through the fill, and the captured Han people drilled into the wall of sheep and horses and dug the wall of sheep and horses with iron shovels and iron knives. The defending cannons and muskets could not attack the quasi-coated trench that drilled into the wall of sheep and horses, and could only bombard the rear formation of the Later Jin army.

"The time is almost done, let our warriors and the Korqin people retreat." Yuetuo said to Dorgon.

The Jurchen soldiers and Mongolian soldiers who were standing within the coverage of the Ming army's artillery fire heard the sound of gold and retreated one after another.

The captive Han people also wanted to retreat, but someone stood up and shouted, "Brothers, the Tartars have retreated, we should not retreat. This is a good opportunity for us to be rescued. Dig up the wall of sheep and horses and surrender to the Ming army inside."
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