Chapter 508 The Battle of Haoshui Bridge (6)
The sound of guns roared, and the bird gun projectiles pierced into the Ming army's crowd, and rows of spear soldiers fell down. The Ming army's bird gunners, crossbowmen, heavy musketeers and Folang machine gunners opened fire and counterattacked, killing and injured Han army's flag-fire weapon soldiers, and left a corpse in front of the trenches.
A group of new recruits were replaced by a group of veterans from the Eight Banners of the Mongolian Banners and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty. This transaction was very cost-effective for the Ming army. The spear soldiers lost by the Ming army were all new recruits adapted from refugees, and the cost was extremely low. In addition to consuming some of the food they had grown, they almost didn't need to spend money. The Korqin Meng Banners soldiers who were killed were all veterans of the Mongols. They practiced riding horses and archery since they were young, but when they came here, they were shot like prey. The firearm soldiers of the Han Dynasty flag were also veterans who followed Kong Youde to Liaodong. Many people have been in the army for more than ten years. It is difficult to replenish those veterans of the Han Dynasty who were skilled. If one died, one would have to be retrained. They could only be promoted from Aha. It would take several years to train a veteran.
In order to eat Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army and the Xuan army of 10,000 people in one bite, Dorgon also took the initiative to launch a fierce attack regardless of the losses.
In order to avoid unnecessary losses, Li Guodong ordered the Ming army in the sandbag ridge in the southeast corner to retreat and retreat to the village.
The Qing army occupied the sandbag basin, and several Qing soldiers came back with the dug sandbags. A Qing soldier knelt on the ground and beat him up: "Best Prince, these sacks are all filled with sand, and they are ordinary river sand. The slaves have checked it and there is no other magical thing."
"The sack is filled with ordinary sand?" Dorgon couldn't believe his ears. He thought it was really incredible, so he put some sand into the sack. How could it have such a good defensive effect? The red cannon can collapse the city walls built by stones. If it bombards the blue brick wall and a shell goes up, a piece of brick falls on the ground, which can create a crack in the city wall, but when it hits the sandbag, it will not work?
Kong Youde thought for a moment and bowed to Dorgon and said, "Prince, I thought that the sack is filled with sand, which is very soft. The shells of the Red Cannon were shot. Although they were penetrated through the sack, the shells would have no power when they encountered the sand. Prince, for example, if the shells fell on the hard ground and jumped up, they could kill many people. But if the shells fell on the sand and fell on the ground, they would be eaten by the sand and could no longer jump and hurt people. This might be the reason."
Dorgon suddenly realized: "It's reasonable to obey the king's words! This should be the reason! Since this is the case, we can also replace all the soil in the mash bags with sand. When attacking the Minggou Nikan City in the future, we will use a shield cart to push the sandbags to approach. Even if the shield cart is penetrated and protected by sandbags, we can protect the Qing warriors behind us! If we pile up sandbags into turrets when siege, we can set up artillery on it to attack the city! Hahaha! It's amazing! It's amazing!"
"Brother, the sandbag is just too heavy, heavier than a shield truck. How many people need to carry it?" Duoduo asked in confusion.
"Isn't it enough to build a shield car bigger, just use more Aha?"
Duoduo asked again: "But this is not a city ahead. Our move may take too much time, right? Hangou Nikan has retreated into the village. If we work harder, why don't we conquer it?"
"I'm talking about the future method, not to waste time building a large shield car now!" Dorgon snorted.
The Qing army had already attacked the corner of the outer buildings. The Qing soldiers who had originally planned to carry a ladder to climb the houses found that the building was not completely closely connected, and there was an alley that could enter the village. So a large number of old Baoyi and a large number of armored people rushed into the alley. The alley was very narrow, only three feet wide, and groups of Baoyi and armored people rushed into the alley, blocking the alley. With all kinds of weapons and shields, people could not squeeze through.
"Come out quickly! Minggou must be cheating!" Shang Kexi shouted anxiously when he saw this.
It was time to speak up, and before Shang Kexi's shouting had fallen, he heard a sound of cannons sounding from the other end of the alley, and a twelve-pound shell drilled into the fifty-step alley.
The shells penetrated the two Qing soldiers in the front, and continued to hit the back with weapons fragments and human body fragments. After knocking over more than ten people in a row, the blocked shells changed their angle and hit the wall. Then they rebounded, and continued to roll and knocked out of the crowd, smashing more than ten people in a row, hitting the wall, and rebounding again, continuing to run forward, breaking through the alley that was fifty steps long, pulling out a flesh-and-blood alley!
The Qing soldiers were crowded into a group, and the alley was narrow, with solid walls on both sides. The shells were bound in a straight line and directly penetrated from the end of the alley to the end of the alley. This shell actually caused nearly 200 Qing soldiers to be killed and injured!
"It's so good! It's so good! I'm afraid this shot will knock down two hundred Jiannu!" Wang Quan, who personally ignited the cannon, burst into laughter.
In the alley pierced by shells, there were fragments of flesh and blood, fragments of broken weapons and shields on the ground, forming a real flesh and blood alley!
After suffering a great loss, the Qing soldiers did not dare to pass through this alley again, so they could only honestly build a simple ladder and start climbing the buildings on the periphery.
The Han flag firearms and the Manchu Eight Banners archers approached the exterior wall and shot arrows into the roof to suppress the defenders. But what is strange is that no one dropped the rolling stones on the roof, nor did he see any enemy of ten thousand people, turbulent oil tanks, lime bottles and other city defense weapons. The Qing soldiers who climbed the ladder easily climbed onto the roof.
Monk Kong Youde Kexi and others were a little worried: "Do Minggou have a fraud?"
But when Kong Youde expressed his suspicion in front of Dorgon, Dorgon said disapprovingly: "When you go up, you will know if Minggou has a backup plan! If there is really an ambush in the village, we will lose a few Ah Ha; if the sharp soldiers follow behind, you can attack Minggou ambush."
The Qing soldiers climbed up the roof and found that the roofs of these houses were all flat roofs, and there was nothing empty on them. They didn't see a shadow of the Ming army, there was no ladder to go down, and there was no entrance or exit to enter the interior of the house. For a moment, the Qing soldiers who climbed up the roof were stunned.
Just as the Qing soldiers were in a daze, countless crossbowmen suddenly appeared on the roof more than ten steps away opposite, including the weak bows of refugees and the strong bows of Xuan Dajun.
"Minggou Archer!" The Qing soldiers who saw the crossbowman climbing onto the roof shouted in horror.
However, the first group of Qing soldiers climbed onto the roof were hand-to-hand combat soldiers, and there were no long-range weapons such as bows, arrows, birds and guns. In order to facilitate climbing, they did not carry defensive weapons such as big shields. At most, there were only a few small round shields, which could not stop the arrows shot from the opposite side. With Lu Xiangsheng's order, the arrows covered the roofs of the Qing soldiers like rain. In a blink of an eye, the hundreds of Qing soldiers climbed onto the roof were shot into hedgehogs.
Even if the weak bow in the hands of the refugee shoots heavy arrows at a distance of more than ten steps, it can tear open the thin armor on Baoyi Aha's body. The powerful crossbow of Tianxiong Army is even more powerful. The double thick armor on the armored man cannot block the powerful crossbow. The armored heavy arrows pierced on the body, and both layers of armored armored man pierced, and the arrowheads pierced into the body, and the armored man shot into a hedgehog slowly fell down.
"There is a Ming Dog behind!" Several Qing soldiers, armored men and armored Aha, who jumped off the roof and escaped by chance, shouted in horror.
"The big shield hand climbs the city, and the archer and the bird gunman follow!" Kong Youde shouted and gave the order.
Chapter completed!