Chapter 285
Stewie felt that he was about to die, and felt someone tap him on his shoulder. When he turned around to look, he realized that some unlucky guy's severed hand had landed on his shoulder.
Li Dingguo next to him was even more unlucky. There was someone's intestines hanging on his head. It was sticky and stuck to his body, and he couldn't shake it out even after pulling it twice.
The pillar of fire on the ground looked like a cat that had stepped on the tape. Its legs and claws were stuck upside down at random points, and I didn't know what it was upside down. Stewie didn't care about him. The kid was probably scared out of his mind. He said he was eighteen.
Yes, but looking at his face, even Shi Dewei believed him.
Time has no concept of Stewie now. If the burning grenade nearby is not thrown out quickly, then this life will be over.
I finally understood how the Tatar soldiers threw the grenades. They actually used primitive trebuchets. They just had to light the grenades, then put them on the trebuchet and throw them into the city.
Sometimes, three or four grenades can even be thrown at one time. No wonder the city is surrounded by smoke, but the grenades thrown cannot blow up anyone. They are still a hundred steps away, how the hell can they blow up.
Bullets were flying "whoosh" and "whoosh" in the sky, and Li Dingguo couldn't control much of it. The shield in his hand was rounded, and the grenades falling from the sky flew away. The effect was good, but it attracted bullets more. After a while, the shield had already been
With several holes in it, I have to say that this thing is really lucky.
Shi Dewei regrets it very much now. Originally, he was going to take the imperial examination today. But just a word from his father, he had to come to the Nanjing Forbidden Army and become a Qiu Ba. Now, I am going to die. I still have to fucking
The girl from the Xu family, who was not married but had made an appointment to get married, took a peek and saw that she was a first-class beauty. She couldn't go back, and she didn't know what kind of beast she would be advantaged by.
A grenade exploded in the air, and the shrapnel flew past Stevie's forehead, leaving a large wound on his forehead. The air wave of the explosion directly pushed Stevie backwards, and his vision was quickly obscured by the blood that poured out.
"I'm going to die, Shi Kefa. I won't be your son in the next life." Stewie's words spurted out from his chest, but on the noisy battlefield, his words were like fine sand thrown into the sea, without even a bubble rising.
Shi Kefa didn't realize that he was scolded by his son. As soon as he walked out of the bunker in the city, he was shot by the guards. No matter how he kicked, beat and cursed him, he pushed him into the bunker. Three or four big men rushed over and killed him.
He was pressed to the ground and rubbed. Shi Kefa was so angry that his head was smoldering, but there was nothing he could do. Even if he was tortured by military law, the guards would not let go.
If this continues, it will be a matter of time before Liguan Town is breached. Shi Kefa now knows what war is in the age of firearms. Whoever can fight far will be the boss.
Now I know it is too late. According to the Tatar custom, after so many people died, the city must be massacred after the city was broken. Poor soldiers who followed them from the south of the Yangtze River will die with incomplete limbs in this desolate Liaodong.
No one on the city dared to raise their head to fight back. As long as their heads were exposed, they would attract bullets like locusts. While the Ming army was suppressed, a carriage quickly rushed towards the city gate filled with rubble and bricks.
Dorgon, Jirharang, Azige, and Fan Wencheng stared at the carriage with their eyes wide open. As long as the carriage blew open the city gate, the passage for the Eight Banners soldiers to go south would be open.
A few dozen steps away from the city gate, the guy driving the car lit the fuse. He whipped the blindfolded war horse a few times on the buttocks, then turned over and jumped to the ground. He rolled a few times and then stopped.
He kept his momentum and ran back without even looking at the carriage.
That was a whole cartload of gunpowder, and the force of the explosion could kill him alive.
The war horse brought the gunpowder and hit hard against the rubble and bricks that filled the city gate. The carriage tilted slightly, and a "boom" was heard before it overturned.
The huge explosion force tore the carriage into pieces in an instant. The pulling horse even flew up to the top of the city with one of its legs and half of its buttocks.
Thick smoke enveloped the entire city gate, and the battlefield was silent for a while.
A group of cavalry with yellow flags rushed over on flying horses and ran to the city gate to take a look. They immediately waved the flags in their hands like crazy!
"Oops! The city gate didn't explode. Fan Wencheng sent a second carriage." Dorgon saw the knight waving the flag and immediately shouted to Fan Wencheng.
"Hey!" Fan Wencheng responded, and the second carriage quickly drove out.
Suddenly, there seemed to be the sound of rolling thunder in the distance. Dorgon looked at the moon in the sky in confusion. It was the end of October. The sky had turned cold and there were no clouds in the sky. How could there be thunder and rain?
Azig's expression immediately changed, and he pointed at the col as if his eyes were about to pop out.
A group of black-armored cavalry seemed to appear suddenly from a crack between heaven and earth. The horses galloped wildly, and the knights on the horses were dressed in black armor. They looked like cotton armor, but there was something strange about it.
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Under the silver moonlight, there were nearly two thousand cavalry, rushing toward the battlefield like demons slain from hell.
The officers of the Eight Banners of the Han Army directed their troops to turn around like crazy, hoping to form a linear formation before the cavalry arrived. They used their muskets to eliminate the cavalry that suddenly appeared.
Grenade no longer dropped from the sky, and bullets no longer flew by "swiss" and "swish". Shi Dewei and Li Dingguo took the courage to poke their heads out to see what was going on below.
The demon-god-like black-armored cavalry rushed into the battlefield quickly. For the cavalry, the distance of two miles was only a blink of an eye.
After these black-armored cavalry rushed up, they actually...actually fired their guns.
In their hands was a strange kind of firecracker, with three tubes arranged in a square shape, which could eject three bullets at the same time. Two thousand cavalry formed a wide fan and fired at them with a volley of guns. The Han army was in chaos.
The Eight Banners immediately fell like wheat.
Some people wanted to run away, but the officers worked hard to maintain the battle line. The already chaotic military formation suddenly became even more chaotic.
Those black-armored cavalrymen used up all their bullets and flipped their wrists to change their grip. The firecrackers in their hands could be used as big hammers, and they used the momentum of their horses to charge crazily towards the chaotic military formation.
When they were still twenty or thirty meters away, the cavalryman in the front row took out a grenade with one hand. With a raised hand, the grenades were thrown into the Han Eight Banners' military formation like rain.
There was a burst of dense explosions that could not be distinguished at all. After countless shrapnel flew and wreaked havoc, the black-armored cavalry rushed into the Han Eight Banners' military formation like sharp knives.
The leader of the young general was like a tiger, a horse, and a dragon. The firegun in his hand swung out the bayonet that was thrust into it, and then smashed it down after rounding it. The head of the young officer of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty immediately shattered like a watermelon.
The horse quickly swept sideways and knocked off the horse a Han Eight Banners cavalryman and his weapon in front.
Seeing a guy in the distance holding a gun to shoot, he threw the gun out of his hand. It hit the man's shoulder and the shot flew away. Before the gun hit the ground, the scimitar in his hand shot out like lightning.
Sheath, cutting off half of the enemy's head.
"Holy shit! These are Marshal Li's soldiers? So fierce?" Li Dingguo's eyes widened when he saw it. He had heard that Marshal Li had a Liaodong cavalry, but he didn't expect it to be so fierce. This is not a war, this damn thing is
massacre.
The cavalry rushed into the chaotic infantry formation, just like a group of tigers rushing into the sheep. The soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty were running around like crazy. Anything that stood in front of the horses would be weighed more than 200 kilograms.
The war horses collided and flew into the air.
The knights on horseback either smashed or bumped into each other. Almost every fire blunderbuss was covered with sticky brains.
The slightly curved saber was extremely sharp. With the speed of the horse, the knights could leave terrible wounds on the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty as long as they held the saber steadily.
Under the silver moon, there were cavalry chasing the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty everywhere. Just when the cavalry of the Zhenghuang Banner rushed out, trying to save their own team.
The young general at the head whistled, and the entire cavalry team neatly drew a large arc and quickly retreated towards the city wall of Liguan Town.
"What are you looking at? What are you doing to these sons of bitches!" Shi Dewei was still watching the excitement when he was kicked in the butt by Li Dingguo.
Those who were still alive on the city wall, whether they were new soldiers or veterans, grabbed the fireguns in their hands and shot at the Zhenghuang Banner cavalry who rushed over. The Zhenghuang Banner cavalry wielding sabers did not even catch a hair from the opponent's horse.
He was shot and turned upside down.
"Grenade!" Li Dingguo saw the yellow flag getting closer and closer, shouted and threw the grenade in his hand.
Because he was standing on the top of the city wall, the grenade was thrown very far. The Zhenghuang Banner Cavalry was once again blown up and turned upside down, but the nightmare was not over yet.
The cavalrymen under the city wall had completed their assembly, and the three-eyed muskets in their hands were reloaded. They turned their horses' heads and charged towards the cavalrymen with the yellow flag again.
Before the Zhenghuang Banner Cavalry, which had just been knocked upside down by the explosion, could recover, a dense rain of bullets came over them. Immediately afterwards, a group of guys who were obviously mentally disturbed rushed over with bared teeth.
There was a horrifying howl coming from their mouths, like a night owl calling. Especially on a battlefield full of dead people, it made people's hair stand on end.
Nearly a centaur was lost before the battle. The Zhenghuang Banner Cavalry, which had always been proud and highly self-respecting, actually collapsed. The horses fled towards the diagonal spurs, and the formation became even more chaotic. Many horses actually bumped into each other, and the knights on the horses actually
He was knocked to the ground. Then he was trampled into a pulp by the horses galloping behind him.
"Gather the remaining soldiers, don't be afraid. They only have more than 2,000 people. Since their cannons are out of shells, push up the artillery and blow up the city wall!" Dorgon also blushed. He boasted in front of his father Nurhachi.
When going to Haikou, we must plunder a large number of Han people and come back.
Now just Li Guan Town caused him a bloody head. There was Jinzhou City ahead of him, which was a much bigger city than Li Guan Town.
"Hey!" Fan Wencheng agreed and sent people to mobilize the artillery. He had just seen that the opponent only had about two thousand cavalry. As long as the muskets are arranged in formation, they will definitely be the perfect nemesis of the cavalry. Li Xiao's
This is how infantry restrains cavalry.
The Dutch's tactics are actually no different from Li Xiao's.
Fan Wencheng sent people to mobilize the artillery, and Fan Wencheng personally led the people to gather the remaining troops. Because the Zhenghuang Banner was dispatched in time, the Eight Banners of the Han Army were not chased and killed. The casualties were actually not large. If they were gathered together, and with the blessing of artillery, the battle would still be
You have to fight.
After beheading more than a dozen escaping soldiers, Fan Wencheng finally stabilized the line. He ordered the junior officers to start reorganizing the team and regrouped the panicked soldiers.
The benefits of the Eight Banners were highlighted at this time, and the officers of each banner shouted. The collapsed army formations returned to their respective banners, and soon the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty reorganized according to the arrangement of the Eight Banners.
The cavalry of Zhenghuang Banner here have already retreated, and those cavalry did not pursue them. Instead, they retreated rapidly southward. Of course, Zhenghuang Banner did not pursue them shamelessly.
"Are you leaving now?" Looking at the black armored cavalry retreating southward, Li Dingguo's face suddenly fell. He finally waited for reinforcements to arrive, so he left after two blows.
"Ship! Ship...!" The fire pillar pointed at the big ship that was approaching the dock, jumping like a monkey.
A large ship had docked at the pier, and the cable was lowered from the bow. The cavalry gathered around the pier, obviously on guard. It turned out that they were not retreating, but going to guard the pier to assist those behind to land.
The ship was lowered into the port, and groups of soldiers quickly disembarked from the ship.
These soldiers are very strange. They all have iron hats on their heads. Under the moonlight, they reflect black light like glass balls. Many of them are carrying mortars. Many guys who look like civilians are unloading ammunition. Looking at
Li Dingguo was speechless at the rows of ammunition boxes. It was so damn rich. I heard that one shell cost dozens of taels of silver.
"Look at this person, there are five grenades on one person." Stewie wiped the blood on his eyelids with an envious look on his face.
The infantry on alert were the first to get off the ship, followed by the artillery guns. After getting off the ship, the gunners immediately found a small high ground and placed the mortars on it as an artillery position!
This is another advantage of mortars, they are easy to carry. Only two or three soldiers can move a mortar, but the shells have to be moved with the help of civilians.
In contrast, the artillery of the Later Jin Army cost lives. It often weighed three to four hundred kilograms and could not be pulled by horse-drawn carriages due to poor roads, so they had to use ox-carts.
The slow ox cart pulling the artillery is still on the road. The mortar has fired its first test shell!
Hearing the sound of the mortar exploding, Fan Wencheng felt his scalp numb. Hearing this kind of artillery fire again, it was a big threat to his own artillery. Because that damn cannon has a fucking direct fire. And the rate of fire is
Chapter completed!