Once the gap is opened, the next step is to expand the gap.
Battalion Commander Lin Hu immediately ordered Bai Yin and Bayar's team to rush up from behind. All teams approaching the gap immediately boarded the city.
Zhang Qiang's team has completely climbed onto the city wall and is constantly attacking from both ends to expand the area of control. As they kept throwing grenades, they threw out four grenades per person without hesitation. More than a hundred grenades exerted great power.
These offensive grenades are all shock wave killing types. It is easy to injure yourself with fragmentation grenades on a long wall without cover.
With the intensive explosion of grenades, the servants could no longer withstand it. He ran back, rolling and crawling. Hei Mingxiao roared angrily and could only retreat.
"Damn it, you dog Tatars, just wait. The Tiger Crouching Cannon and the Three General Cannons will come soon. Let's see who among us is more powerful." Hei Mingxiao gritted his teeth and cursed.
As Baiyin's team and Bayar's team climbed onto this section of the city wall, everyone in the headquarters breathed a sigh of relief. Linhu Camp was the fist force of the cavalry army. They lived up to expectations and were the first to board the city in the frontal attack of the three battalions.
"Behind, there are several teams waiting to board the city." An Sanxi asked.
"Report to the commander, there are also Ma Feiyun Squadron, Wuri Gengda Lai Squadron, Narisong Squadron, and Wuyun Squadron"
An Sanxi nodded, three teams had already gone up, and four more were ready to climb the city. There are 210 people in total, and the situation has basically been stabilized.
"Let the camel artillery prepare, wait for orders, and use explosive shells to support the northern city wall." An Sanxi continued to order.
"Here, the artillery is ready."
"If the North City Wall is lost, Shanxi merchants will go crazy for a while. They will not care about how many people or soldiers each family will send. They will go out collectively and counterattack to take back the North City Wall."
Although the Camel Cannon is a light artillery, it also has a range of 500 meters.
This place is 200 meters away from the north city wall, just out of the range of bows and arrows. But the artillery can hit 300 meters inside the city. The entire Zhangjiakou Fort is a small castle 500 meters square.
In other words, from this position on the hillside, artillery can easily hit Wenchang Pavilion in the center of the city. Sixty percent of the entire city was covered by artillery fire.
Soon all seven teams had climbed onto the northern city wall and were attacking in both east and west directions.
The walls of Zhangjiakou Fort are only ten meters wide. A squad of flintlocks can seal it. Just form two shooting arrays.
Bayar stood in front of the formation, pulled out his command knife, and shouted: "Everyone fix their bayonets and form two lines of battle. Prepare and release."
As gunfire rang out, a group of broken soldiers were shot in the back and knocked to the ground while escaping.
A row of fifteen people just closed the entire city wall. The volley fire effect is very good, and the staggered volley fire effect between two rows is even better. A dozen people can be killed at one time.
In front of the Bayar team is the Baiyin Dengcheng team.
The first row of them held shields and Mongolian knives and moved forward in a semi-crouching formation. The second row, holding three-meter Swiss halberds, followed closely behind. Once Yang Fan's infantry forms an array, their combat effectiveness is immediately doubled.
Heiyunlong's servants tried to drive back the retreating guardsmen, but were defeated again in front of the sword and shield array. The stabbing and slashing and hooking of the Swiss halberd. Killed more than fifty people directly.
Hei Yunlong frowned, the guardsmen were already frightened and couldn't bear to fight anymore. If it weren't for the enemy soldiers on the city wall and the supervising servants behind, they would have run away long ago.
Yang Fan's infantry's hot and cold weapons equipment, formation changes and coordination are all top-notch in this era.
After all, five hundred years since 1500 have been full of battlefield practice, enough for modern people to clearly study these arms, weapons, and formations.
No need to take any more detours at all. Use human life to try and make mistakes.
On the other side, Team Wuyun was in front, and Team Ma Feiyun was behind with flintlock guns. Attack the wall on the other side.
At this time, Hei Yunlong and his two sons had been blocked in the west. They commanded the remaining servants of more than a hundred people, and used long spears and three-eyed blunderbuss to hold the remaining more than a hundred guards soldiers to desperately resist the troops who were ascending the city. attack.
On the other side of the city wall, the camp commander Wang Fen led three hundred battalion soldiers to resist desperately on the east side. But both ends are retreating. More and more enemies began to enter the city.
Now, with more and more troops entering the city, they are very anxious. It seems that this section of the northern city wall is about to be lost.
Hei Minglian shouted: "All the shield soldiers, go to the front. Hurry up. Follow with the three-eyed gunmen, and all the gunmen will pass."
At the critical moment, the remaining sixty three-eyed guns were finally loaded. The performance of these three-eyed blunderbuss is poor, and reloading is time-consuming and laborious.
The thirty shield bearers in the servants were originally to protect the general. Now, I have to go to the front.
The shields used by these soldiers are swallowtail shields. This kind of shield was invented by the Cantonese during the Wanli period. The main advantage is that it is made of relatively light paulownia wood and can block Japanese swords. At the same time, because of its light weight, soldiers do not need to wear armor and stomach, and can rely on waving shields for protection.
Because it can block Japanese swords and can be easily wielded with one hand, various light shield tactics have been developed.
After Qi Jiguang took command of the northern frontier army, he brought him over when he was reorganizing and training troops in the Jiubian. Later it became Jiubian's standard shield. And deeply influenced the later Manchu and Qing shield styles.
This kind of shield is rectangular, about 80 centimeters wide and about 1.4 meters high. The top is not flat, but has a triangular slit cut out from the bottom, somewhat like a swallow's tail. That’s why it’s called Yanwei brand
This kind of shield is placed diagonally forward, with a certain slope backward. Not easily pushed.
The shield soldier can fully cover his body by crouching, while the three-eyed gun can place the gun rod on the dovetail groove as a stand for shooting.
boom! boom! boom!
There was a burst of smoke, fifteen three-eyed muskets opened fire, and three consecutive rounds of bullets hit the Baiyin team.
At this time, all the grenades have been shot, and they can only be blocked with a shield.
The performance of the three-eyed blunderbuss is really outstanding, but the firepower density of this kind of door gun is not bad.
But the penetration power was so poor that it couldn't penetrate the shield with a quilt sandwiched between the double pot lids on the opposite side.
The pots of this era were relatively large, usually eighty or ninety centimeters in diameter. The pot lid is more than one meter in diameter. Two back to back, plus a folded quilt, the weight is not light.
The soldier holding the pot lid and shield felt a huge shock to his arm. Although the power of the three-eyed gun was extremely powerful, the intensive blows caused the shield to fly with sawdust, and the lead bullets were blocked by the quilt, which still caused pain in the arm.
But the three-eyed gun, with its tear-inducing accuracy, has no idea where it will hit if it exceeds ten meters. As a result, it caused casualties to the Baiyin team.
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Seeing the three-eyed gun stretched out from the opposite side, the soldiers of Baiyin's team immediately acted like a conditioned reflex and put their shields against the three-eyed gun for protection.
As a result, many three-eye muskets made of very poor quality seriously missed the target, causing three people to be shot in the calves and feet. After the three people fell, a gap appeared in the shield array.
Then, the second wave of three-eyed cannons on the opposite side went off.
At this time, Heiyunlong still had sixty three-eyed guns left in his hand, enough for them to line up in four rows and fire four times in a row.
As a result, the three men fell down, revealing the halberdier behind them. The second round of three-eyed muskets fired intensively forty-five lead bullets. The two people in the front row were shot again in their lower limbs, screaming and falling down with their shields. The four halberdiers behind him were also shot.
When Bayar saw that this was not going to work, he asked them to finish the four rounds, and Baiyin's team would have to lose half of their men. He shouted: "All members of the first team lie down."
The first team was well-trained and according to the rules, everyone immediately fell to the ground. Directly revealing the flintlock rifle team behind.
"The first row is kneeling, the second row is standing, and fire."
The thirty flintlock rifles of Bayar's team took advantage of the time when the opposite party took down the heavy three-eyed musket and replaced it with a new one, and opened fire decisively.
Bang bang bang! There was a burst of smoke and a flash of fire.
Thirty third-generation flintlock muskets opened fire en masse.
This flintlock can at least reach the level of the British Brown Spey rifle during the Crow War. The special propellant and fixed ammunition have surpassed the Brown Spey rifle in terms of range, accuracy, and penetration.
Especially the steel core inside the lead-packed bullet greatly enhances the penetration power.
This kind of weapon was originally developed by Yang Fan for the triple armor of Jiannu heavy infantry, but now it can be enjoyed by Hei Yunlong's Yanwei brand sword and shield wielders in advance.