The battle started at around nine in the morning, and by noon, more than a dozen sections of the eastern trench had been filled in. Many slaves carrying sacks also fell dead in the trench. There were both sacks and corpses in these passages. There are also dismantled shield vehicle components.
Huang Taiji saw that it was almost done and said, "That's enough, let the army rush forward."
He did not intend to wait until the trenches were completely filled. You can fight now. It was a small town that he had yet to take seriously. There are now more than a dozen sections of filled-in trenches, enough for thousands of people to rush up.
There aren't many soldiers in this small town. At this time, Huang Taiji thought it could be easily taken down. After all, there are many battles in history where hundreds of them defeated thousands of people.
With the blowing of the horn. A large number of construction slaves carried ladders and rushed up from the more than ten sections of the moat that had been paved, shouting. The shield carts were also pushed to the edge of the moat, about ten meters apart, to protect the slaves as they continued to fill in the trenches.
The bird gunners and fire gunners of the Han Army Flag also hid behind the shield car, relying on the large shield as a cover to shoot at the city head. By this time, the artillery had stopped firing. Because their soldiers are about to board the city. Shooting at this time will hurt your own people.
As soon as the artillery fire stopped, a large number of Ming troops appeared behind the battlements. They used bows and arrows, sharp guns, three-eyed guns, broken-down guns and other firearms to shoot at the enemies crossing the trenches.
As he watched, a large number of Eight Banners soldiers fell to death under the city.
The Eight Banners' archers hid behind and immediately drew their big bows and shot at the city wall.
As soon as the shooting began, the Ming army suffered a heavy loss. The Ming army's archery skills were really not good enough in front of the Eight Banners. If you show your head even a little bit, you'll be shot. They can even hit the eyes of the Ming army at fifty meters.
A long arrow hit a Baihu. The long arrow penetrated into the brain. The huge kinetic energy sent Baihu flying backwards and hit the wall behind. Then it fell down with a loud bang.
Ma Xi saw that it was not possible. The Ming army would suffer too much if they shot each other like this. The bows of the Ming army were all bows with three to five strengths. The bows of Jiannu are all hard bows with ten strength. Moreover, their archery skills far surpassed that of the Ming army. At a distance of fifty meters, the Ming army's arrows were already flying.
Because the gentlemen from the Ministry of War and Ministry of Industry secretly replaced the carved feathers with goose feathers in order to save money. It's fine if it's not windy, but if it's Category 5 wind, it won't be usable at all.
Using goose feathers as arrow feathers is a trap. The price difference is ten times higher. Goose feathers are things that are thrown away and no one wants them.
"Shangxuanhu!" Ma Xi shouted loudly.
Even though Jian Nu was superb in archery, Ma Xi was not unable to deal with them.
Hanging a household sounds like a magical thing, but in fact it means hanging quilts on wooden shelves. And put water on it to make it wet. Then pick it up with a long pole and place it on the crenel.
This thing is soft. Unable to float around in the wind. The enemy's bows and arrows are coming. If you encounter a quilt, you will be blocked. The reason for pouring water is to prevent the enemy from burning down the hanging houses with rockets. After all, cotton is very flammable.
Following the order, many hanging households appeared on the battlements. The Eight Banners' bows, arrows and firecrackers hit the hanging doors one after another. The bow and arrow were blocked and bounced away. The lead bullet punched a hole through it.
The soldiers on the top of the city carefully opened a corner of the quilt with a bamboo pole, fired at the bottom of the city, and put down the quilt after the shooting. Now the Eight Banners' bows and arrows were useless. The Ming army on top of the city could no longer be shot.
At this time, a large number of Eight Banners and Mongolian soldiers had rushed to the city. Ladders with steel hooks have been set up one after another.
At this time, a strange scene occurred. Because outside the city wall, water froze a three-foot-thick ice wall. Therefore, these ladders cannot reach the battlements. They were all stuck by an ice wall lower than the battlements. In this way, even if the Eight Banners soldiers climbed up, they would have to climb over one meter of sloping ice to get close to the crenel.
Moreover, the most magical scene of Xianhu also appeared. Because it was picked out with a pole. Multiple bamboo poles can be used to control the opening of the hanging door for shooting. At the same time, there is also some distance between the hanging household and the battlement entrance. Looking down from the crenellations of the city wall, you can see the densely packed Eight Banners soldiers attacking the city below.
And Kanto blocked the bow and arrow fired from a distance of fifty meters in front.
The officers and soldiers of the Ming army picked up the stones and bricks and threw them down from the crenel.
, smashing those who tried to climb the city.
At this time, the Eight Banners soldiers who rushed to the city were going crazy. Because of watering. Under the city, a large amount of ice appears in an arc shape. The open space between the moat and the city walls was fundamentally untenable. If you are not careful, you will slip into the moat.
Once you fall, you can't get out on your own.
What made them even more irritated was that it turned into a slope of ice. The steel hook on the ladder cannot hook the wall tiles and cannot be fixed. And the bottom is too slippery. As long as people go up, they will slide backwards under the action of gravity.
at last. Even people and ladders fell into the moat.
Niu Lu'e really checked and found that the ladder couldn't stand and the ground was too slippery. He picked up his mace and smashed it against the ice on the ground. Two small holes were soon punched out. The ladder can be fixed.
He quickly called to the people on the left and right to hold the ladder. Now that the front and rear are fixed, the left and right still need to be secured.
Yimutu was a Batulu, and he had fifty men. He is about 1.8 meters tall and very stout. He held the knife in his mouth, held the shield in one hand, and climbed up the ladder quickly with the other. He was followed by five of his right-hand men. They all wore cloth armor with a layer of chain mail and a layer of cotton armor inside.
This is the legendary three-layer armor, which is basically immune to Ming Dynasty's muskets. A three-eyed bludgeon cannot penetrate at all.
Yimutu quickly climbed to the top of the ladder with his agile hands and feet. After all, this is just a military fortress, and the wall cannot exceed seven meters. In cities at all levels in the Ming Dynasty, the height of city walls was strictly regulated. Only the city wall of the imperial capital is the highest in the country.
He climbed to the top of the ladder and was stunned. The top is not a battlement at all, but a sloping ice surface that continues for more than one meter. He is wearing heavy armor and will definitely slip and fall if he goes up.
He was thinking about how to climb over.
He saw a row of black guns pointed at him. Just when he jumped onto the ice without hesitation, he heard the roar of muskets.
Two three-eyed cannons and three shotguns were fired together. At such a close range, lead bullets penetrate very well. His triple armor could not stop all the lead bullets. Two three-eyed muskets fired six rounds of lead bullets, all of which hit the target.
At such a close range, there's no need to aim.
Then, he was hit backwards by the huge impact. He screamed and fell down. The huge kinetic energy of the six lead bullets directly broke several of his sternum and ribs.
Even though Yimutu wore three layers of armor, he was not as protected as Yang Fan's armor. Although there was no penetration, the huge impact still caused blunt injuries.
He screamed and fell from the ladder, hitting the ground hard. This immediately made him unable to move. Then he slid along the curved ice surface and entered a moat filled with corpses, wounded people, and some soldiers who accidentally fell in.
When he fell into the moat, the last thing he saw was that a log was suddenly thrown down from the crenel where he climbed, with three-inch steel nails all over it.
As soon as this thing is thrown down, it will break the ladder directly. The log rolled from top to bottom, smashing all the soldiers on the ladder into the moat. Then the winch turned, pulling the ropes at both ends of the holed log, and pulling the log back again.
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