On the battlefield, Yang Guozhu received an urgent messenger sent by the Chinese army and learned how to use sacks and bamboo baskets to hold soil to block Qing artillery shells. He suddenly cried out with regret.
Yang Guozhu was also a person who participated in the Battle of Julu. Liu Yan used a large number of sacks and bamboo baskets to hold soil in the Julu defense line to block the Qing army's bombardment. At that time, sacks could be placed on the ground as a line of defense. Now, of course, they can also be mounted on chariots and pushed forward. Why couldn't I understand such a simple change of direction?
Yang Guozhu immediately ordered the civilians accompanying the army to take action immediately, preparing sandbags as they walked, and deployed them all on tanks in front of and in the military formation to block the Qing army's artillery fire.
At this time, Yang Guozhu's forward force consisted of about 4,000 people. After paying the price of hundreds of casualties, it was already very close to the first line of defense of the Qing army at the foot of the mountain, only about one or two hundred steps away.
Although some artillery and cannons were deployed on the wall of the Qing army in front, they had already suffered heavy casualties under the previous artillery fire of the Ming army, and there was basically not much firepower left at this time.
Moreover, after approaching the foot of the mountain, due to the slope, the Qing army's artillery on the main and middle ridges also shifted their targets, allowing the forward soldiers and horses of Xuanfu Town to finally break through the "death zone".
Correspondingly, the carriage artillery and a large number of mountain attack equipment in the middle and rear sections of the army in Xuanfu Town have now entered the range of the Qing army's heavy artillery. In addition, these equipment move slowly, so they have become the main ridge and the center. The target of Lingqing's artillery.
These carriage camps were basically soldiers and horses from other towns. At this time, they were constantly bombarded by the artillery fire of the Qing army, and there was already turmoil. If it were not suppressed by the soldiers and horses of Xuanfu Town, they would have been defeated long ago.
Fortunately, after Yang Guozhu's order was conveyed, the military tanks began to be equipped with sandbags, bamboo baskets and other equipment at a very fast speed. In addition, modified tanks were continuously sent from the rear, allowing Xuanfu Town and Shanxi The protection of the town's officers and soldiers has been greatly improved.
The cavalry officers and soldiers in the two towns also dismounted and led their horses to follow the nearby chariots. The other soldiers and civilians also hid closely behind the earthen chariots.
Everyone was nervous at first, and many people didn't know that these modified tanks were useless.
However, it turns out that these earth-moving vehicles can indeed effectively protect the Qing army's artillery. Sometimes the earth-moving vehicles are hit by roaring artillery shells, causing dust and cloth to fly, but the entire vehicle will not explode and harm the people hiding behind the vehicles. Safe and sound.
Moreover, after the Qing artillery shells hit the earth-moving vehicle, it was difficult to cause extensive ricochet damage. Although their artillery still inevitably caused some casualties, because some shells passed over the earth-moving vehicles and directly hit the tanks and the troops, it was much better than the previous heavy casualties.
So Yang Guozhu ordered the entire army to advance quickly, and Li Fuming also ordered to advance quickly. The two armies suddenly accelerated and soon rushed within a hundred steps of the Qing army's first line of defense.
At this time, Yang Guozhu's Chinese army also stopped a hundred steps away. Immediately, a large number of civilians rushed over, deployed a large number of sandbags around, built fortifications, and protected Yang Guozhu and the Chinese army from being attacked. Qing army artillery fire hit.
On the mountain, Dorgon and others were stunned when they saw that the power of their own artillery fire was greatly reduced, and the Ming army's attacking army rushed directly to the foot of the mountain. They didn't know what had happened.
Dorgon was furious and immediately asked: "What's going on with the artillery fire? Why did it cause so little damage to the Ming army!"
Just now, Dorgon saw clearly with the help of a telescope that the Ming army had pushed in many more tanks. Even after their own artillery fire hit those tanks, they immediately stopped firing, no matter how big the shells were. Hitting it was like hitting cotton with a punch, it would not cause any damage at all.
Even under the bombardment of multiple artillery pieces, Dorgon saw a few artillery shells hitting the front of Yang Guozhu's commander-in-chief flag, and thought about whether he could kill a Ming army general, but those shells stirred up some Apart from the mud and rain, it did not cause any damage at all.
"why is it like this?"
Duduo also saw the situation ahead, and roared angrily: "It must be Liu Yan who did the bad thing again, it must be him!"
Meleseth also used a telescope to look at it again and again. He couldn't believe his eyes at all. He was very horrified. How could he use some simple sacks and baskets to withstand the invincible cannon? This tactic did not even appear in Europe at this time. Could it be that in terms of tactics, the noble white people have fallen behind these yellow people?
The Qing artillery battalion in Huangtuling was still bombarding desperately, but the Ming army's battle formation was still pushed to the foot of the mountain step by step, which was unacceptable to the Qing army. Even the morale of each banner was hit to varying degrees.
Huang Taiji and others on the mountain city were also a little unable to sit still. The Ming army used sacks and earthen baskets to block their own artillery? Even their luxurious and sturdy tanks cannot stop the artillery. How can some simple mud bags placed on some simple vehicles block the heavy and whistling artillery shells?
At this moment, Huang Taiji suddenly shouted: "No, our artillery is useless to them. When their artillery is brought up later, we must prevent them from shelling me!"
"Instruct the defense lines in Huangtu Ridge to immediately transport and fill a large number of sacks and earth baskets, and place them on various defense lines to prevent possible artillery bombardment by Ming people!"
The trench walls of the first line of defense in Huangtu Ridge had collapsed in many places. Although the slaves in the army worked hard to repair them, they had little effect under the Ming army's artillery fire. But there are three trenches in front of the main wall. The low wall behind the trench blocked the horses, and the wooden stakes and ropes were mostly intact.
At this time, seeing that most of the Ming army was close at hand, the Manchu soldiers supervising the battle took the opportunity to order the handymen to repair the trench wall. Jia Lazhang Jingyanza, who was on the pier of the Empress Temple, roared for the artillery on the pier of the village wall to return fire.
However, because the Ming army was approaching too close, no matter how low the firing rate of the Hongyi cannon they set up on the village wall and the empress temple was, the shells still flew far over the heads of the advancing Ming army. Even if some Folang machine guns hit the earth-moving vehicle, they would not be able to cause much damage.
At this time, the Qing artillery on the main ridge and the middle ridge no longer bombarded the forward Ming army due to the slope of the mountain.
Just when the Qing army was in a hurry, Yang Guozhu, according to the pre-plan, ordered the soldiers from all ministries to transport sandbags to the front of the formation, and built a defense line made of sandbags within a hundred steps in front of the Qing army's defense line for supply. It was used by gunmen and artillery firemen in the army to prevent damage from the Qing army's firepower.
At this time, there were not many troops left in the first line of defense of the Qing army, and they were all remnant soldiers who had been baptized by the Ming army's artillery fire. They had no courage or ability to attack. They watched helplessly as the Ming army's defense line was set up, and the Ming army behind them Under the cover of earthen vehicles, the car camp braved the artillery fire from the Qing army on the main ridge and the middle ridge, and desperately pulled up a large number of artillery such as Folangji and Huzun artillery. There were countless mountain attack equipment behind them, and they also tried their best to pull up Will come up.
A large group of gun soldiers from Xuanfu Town approached the first line of defense of the Qing army, facing a Qing army's village gate a hundred steps away. In front of the village gate, there was a deep trench with a heavy suspension bridge on it. Not far to the right of this village gate is a collapsed wall of the village gate. It seems that it was destroyed by Ming army artillery fire not long ago.
Looking around, I saw that many of the Qing army's stronghold walls had collapsed. As long as our own mountain-attack equipment was pulled up, we could break through the Qing army's stronghold wall defenses in the blink of an eye.
Soon, another group of gunmen and spearmen came up, and they hid tightly behind several dirt trucks. Behind them, hundreds of earth-moving carts were pushed up. Behind the many earth-moving carts were Xuanfu's bird-suppressing soldiers wearing bright red cotton armor.
The Qing soldiers behind the wall were shouting wildly and pointing at the earthen carts in Xuanfu Town. Some soldiers of the Qing Dynasty fired their muskets. At such a long distance, most of the muskets flew to nowhere. Some of them hit the dirt carts, only stirring up a small amount of soil flowers, and the sacks hissed and leaked soil.
Suddenly there was a sound of drums behind the village wall, and the suspension bridge at the village gate in front was lowered. After the village gate opened, more than two hundred Tatar soldiers wearing white armor with red trim rushed out. They all held heavy shields. The shields in the front few's hands were extremely heavy, and they were probably made of iron.
Moreover, those Tatar soldiers with white flags were all wearing heavy armor, holding broadswords and heavy axes, and roared towards them. They wanted to take advantage of the Xuanfu Town brigade's unsteady foothold to destroy the sandbag defense line they had just set up.
In the past, a charge by more than two hundred Manchurian heavy armor was enough to frighten thousands or even thousands of Ming troops, or even make them collapse from fright. 33
However, at this time, the soldiers of Xuanfu Town had just experienced the baptism of fierce artillery fire, and miraculously they did not collapse, and the army structure was still intact. After being baptized by artillery fire, the fighting will of these soldiers has been sublimated. They are different from the past. Even if they face thousands of Qing troops, they will not collapse without a fight.
These soldiers are already an elite force!
Yang Guozhu looked ahead and saw generals at all levels in the army shouting desperately from behind the defense line. Before the Qing army entered seventy steps, the musketeers were not allowed to fire, so there was only an eerie silence behind the carts. There were also earthen carts facing both sides of the village gate, and the cannon soldiers behind them also turned their cannons and pointed them sideways at the Qing soldiers with white flags who were charging towards them.
I saw those Qing troops roaring and rushing down the mountain. They rushed closer and closer, and their ferocious expressions became clearer and clearer. However, the Ming troops behind the carts still held back and remained still.
Several Han and Korean soldiers holding bird cannons and three-eyed cannons also followed behind. They suddenly flashed their shields and fired at the Ming army's defense line. There was a sudden burst of smoke and crackling sounds. However, the soldiers in Xuanfu Town remained calm and ignored them at all.
In the blink of an eye, those Qing troops carried a lot of dust and rumbled down from the mountains. The Qing troops in front rushed seventy steps.
"shooting!"
Following an order from a general within the defense line, the firecrackers behind the defense line opened fire almost simultaneously, and the dense firecrackers sprayed out large plumes of gunpowder smoke.
The Tatar soldiers with white flags immediately knocked down dozens of people, and the traitor soldiers with Han army flags and Korean soldiers were all beaten to death.
The remaining Tatar soldiers were horrified. They found that the shields in their hands, even the iron shields, could not provide protection, and they were all cracked and broken by the incoming projectiles. Just a few breaths later, the sound of musketry sounded again, and dozens more of the rushing Qing soldiers were shot and fell to the ground.
The firecrackers in Xuanfu Town use firecrackers to pass tactics and shoot with people who are good at shooting. Several rows of firecrackers behind them are responsible for filling, handing the loaded birdguns to the shooter's hands, and then taking over the empty ones. Bird gun, emergency reload.
Although the speed at which they reloaded ammunition was far from as fast as that of the new army gunners in Qinglai Town, there were also many errors. But this kind of infantry attack, especially the several layers of gunmen at this time, all have medicine in their guns, so they can keep the firepower flowing.
The sound of muskets was fired one after another, and the charging Qing troops were repeatedly shot and fell over. There were constant sounds of muskets and screams.
The volley only lasted three times, and almost all of the more than two hundred Qing soldiers were killed. Only three or five Tatar soldiers who were not seriously injured fled back.
Yang Guozhu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and at the same time his heart was filled with joy. This battle could be regarded as an interlude before the attack on the mountain. He gathered thousands of firecrackers of various types and launched a volley. It only took three volleys to kill more than two hundred Manchurian heavy-armored elites with white flags. This was unimaginable before.
"If we fight against each other, we will probably not be able to defeat this group of Tatar soldiers unless 1,800 people die!"
Yang Guozhu was secretly calculating in his heart, and at the same time, he was thinking that after returning, he must follow the example of the new army in Qinglai Town and vigorously develop firearms. The soldiers who survived this battle will be his treasures in the future. These are all people who have experienced the battle formation. The elite!
At this time, in front of the Ming army's defense line, the white smoke produced by large-scale firecrackers gradually dissipated. The pungent smell of gunpowder smoke mixed with the hot sunshine, and the smell of blood from time to time, was really choking.
And in the meandering defense line of the Ming army, bursts of cheers suddenly erupted. This small-scale battle was completely a one-sided massacre. There were many enemy casualties, but there were very few casualties on our own side. How could Yang Guozhu not let Yang Guozhu Are your soldiers cheering for joy?
Yang Guozhu also laughed, and then shouted: "Soldiers, prepare to attack the mountain and kill Hu!"
Some people died, but not completely...
