The servants of the Hei family immediately replaced the frightened guard soldiers. As if they were granted amnesty, these people immediately ran down the horse path and down the city wall.
The servants quickly filled the crenellations of the city wall and blocked the crenellations with ladders with long knives. Others used the crenels as cover and fired arrows at the enemies below.
Although the walls of Zhangjiakou Fort are short, there are also horse faces every 40 meters. The front of the horse face is ten meters wide and extends about ten meters from the city wall. Eleven horse faces cover this section of the city wall on the north side.
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Because the horse's face protrudes from the city wall, it can shoot arrows at the cavalry soldiers climbing the city from both sides.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! A dense barrage of arrows shot down from both sides.
The soldiers all wore bulky and thick cotton-padded clothes. After all, they came through wind and snow, and if they wore too little they could easily freeze to death. The more you wear, the warmer you become. However, people become very clumsy.
Because he was wearing a beaked helmet and his military uniform was made of stab-proof fabric, although these withered feather arrows were fiercely shot at his body, they could not penetrate him.
The shield soldiers below raised their shields to protect the soldiers who had not yet climbed the city. Many soldiers were covered with bullets and arrows, and they were clumsily climbing up the ladder like porcupines.
Bayar saw that the defenders, who had been suppressed by artillery fire, actually cheered up again and filled the crenellations. Immediately ordered: "Everyone is here, shoot freely with rifles, attack the crenellations of the city wall, and cover Baiyin's team."
More than thirty people emerged from the ruins, stretched out their one-meter-three-meter-long third-generation flintlock rifles, aimed at the enemies at the crenellations of the city wall, and started shooting freely.
Seeing these Mongolians climbing the city, they were not afraid of bows and arrows. The servants were also a little panicked. They have a limited number of three-eyed muskets, only about thirty, and more than seventy bows and arrows. Bows and arrows were the main force attacking these Mongols at this time.
Mongols generally rarely have iron armor. They are basically temporary herdsmen levies dressed in leather robes. When the Taiji and Nayan people on the grassland launch an invasion to the south, they usually draw one out of four. After the attack, they go home and continue to herd sheep. In this case, they basically don't wear armor.
Those who can wear iron armor must be at least ten captains or above among the standing cavalry around the nobles, or those at the level of Nayan or Shepherd in the tribe. Ordinary standing cavalry is just a suit of leather armor. Although the herdsmen have grown up on horses and are skilled in bows and arrows, their equipment is poor and they have no protection. Apart from a scimitar, even the arrow clusters are made of bones and stones.
Therefore, everyone took it for granted that these people, who were said to be from the Tushetu Khan tribe, wore leather robes to climb the city. But now, these people have so many arrows stuck in their bodies, which illustrates a problem. These people are wearing armor.
There were more than 300 people climbing the wall to attack from the north.
Three hundred sets of armor were nothing to Ming Dynasty. But for the Mongolians, this can cost them all their money.
Heiyunlong looked worried at these enemies who were not afraid of bows and arrows at all.
He knew that he had too few troops on hand, and he did not expect to be able to repel the enemy on his own. His plan was to delay the Xuanfu army's rescue.
And he knew about Beijing Camp's departure from the customs.
Although I don't know where the 80,000 Beijing Camp has gone. However, the Mongols absolutely cannot defeat so many Beijing camps. So if you hold on, you will win.
"Move the three-eyed guns from other city walls and go quickly." Heiyunlong shouted loudly.
The only weapon that is effective against the enemy now is the three-eyed gun.
Suddenly, a burst of fire flashed through the ruins to the north.
boom! boom! boom! There were bursts of gunfire. A large amount of smoke rose after the fire.
Hei Yunlong showed half of his face in surprise and looked at the opposite side. It's shotgun, so many shotguns. Isn't Tuxie Tuhan in Mobei? Aren't supplies there supposed to be more expensive and scarce? How come he has so many muskets.
Suddenly, a sense of danger came, as if the Northern Beast was targeting him. He immediately fell backward instinctively.
With a snap, a lead bullet hit the blue brick of the battlement where he had just exposed his head. The broken bricks flew everywhere.
If it weren't for the intuition he had honed over many years on the battlefield. The shot just now could have knocked off half of his face.
He climbed up quickly and saw a deformed lead bullet embedded in the city bricks. Inside the deformed lead bullet, a small round ball was shining in the midday sun.
Hei Yunlong couldn't help but use his fingers to pull off the lead bullet. Hold it in your hand and look at it carefully. It turns out that these Mongolian lead bullets have two layers.
There are lead bullets on the outside, and the metal objects wrapped inside are actually steel balls.
Oh my god, are the Mongolians so generous? Steel is so expensive. They were actually willing to make lead bullet cores.
While he was thinking, bursts of screams came from the battlements, and a large number of servants who stretched out their three-eyed muskets and bows and arrows to shoot were named by the flintlock guns on the opposite side.
With every burst of gunfire, someone fell to the ground. Most were shot in the head.
Or a slap in the face. He tore half of his face to pieces. Or hit the head directly and lift the skull. The yellow and white stuff was scattered all over the floor like tofu curd.
The servants all turned pale and were very frightened.
Heiyunlong looked at all this with some trembling. He joined the army at the age of fourteen, starting from a young soldier with no background. In this border town of Xuanda, we have come to this day.
What kind of cruel battle has I never experienced? Even the bloody battle at Hunhe River under Shenyang City was not so cruel.
He didn't know that this kind of steel-core bullet made of two metals with different specific gravity would immediately lose its stability once it entered the human body. The lead coating on the outside would explode and splash, and the steel balls inside would roll. This tears out huge cavities.
There is a very small hole in the front, and a hole as big as the mouth of a bowl penetrates through the back.
The shooting skills of these people on the opposite side were very accurate, and people were constantly being hit as soon as they showed their heads.
As long as it is hit, there is basically no rescue value.
Broken lead will gradually poison people even if they don't die.
Yang Fan was very willing to provide good meals to the soldiers. These Mongolian soldiers had ample supplies of meat and dairy products.
Luncheon meat uses a lot of offal. These are rich in vitamins and their eyesight is very good. Moreover, at a distance of thirty meters, the flintlock gun can fire accurately.
After the establishment of the cavalry corps, they began to replace them with third-generation flintlock rifles. Then, there is intensive high-intensity target training. Each person should shoot at least fifty rounds a day. At peak times, more than a hundred rounds were fired a day.
Because Yang Fan knew that sharpshooters were fed by bullets.
Yang Fan was not afraid of losing his gun. If it was broken, he sent it to the repair shop for repair.
Replace parts. Replace parts. It's time to change the barrel. If the one is scrapped, just get a new one.
There are enough gunpowder and lead bullet tubes. As long as you are willing to fight, you can fight as much as you want.
Even if you don't want to be beaten, you have to be beaten until you vomit. It just allows you to form muscle memory.
The gunfire from the opposite side was sporadic except for the beginning and after several volleys of shots. Hei Yunlong understood that this was free shooting, and each gunman independently chose the target to shoot.
Shoot this round down. The servants who had been shooting with the heavy three-pronged blunderbuss were killed one after another. The three-eyed gun also fell to the city.
