The wheel on one side of the cart was missing and it immediately fell over. Exposing everyone behind.
Then, a solid spherical projectile from the Three Generals' cannon flew in, knocking out a dozen people who were panicking behind them. Three were penetrated and two were rubbed.
Although the three general cannons are not big, the shell speed at 400 meters cannot be underestimated.
A direct hit will cause the body to erode, and the edge will cause limb breakage.
The five people immediately fell to the ground. Abu Kai immediately yelled: "You six are carrying the axle over there, and you must not stop moving forward."
The dozen or so people under his command immediately grimaced, and the carriages were heavy. It was obvious that they had to be rotated constantly. But you will suffer.
At this time, the laws of the slave-building army were strict, and those who did not give orders to retreat or cowered forward would be executed.
Therefore, even if one of the wheels of the cart is broken, it still has to move forward even if it is lifted.
Ma Dengyun looked carefully and saw that the results of the dozen or so artillery pieces were not very good. They only hit three carriages. This was already five rounds.
The artillery aiming heads of this era are indeed not very good, mainly due to poor processing accuracy and poor sealing. The shells are also not round enough.
The Mongols moved first. They did not wait for the slowly moving carriage behind them. They carried a simple ladder and launched an attack on the city wall.
Because Huang Taiji said that the tribe that ascends first can be robbed first.
The first row of herdsmen held small bucklers. These are all covered with raw cowhide, and the second, third and fourth rows all hold spears. Behind them are the elites with scimitars, and finally the archers with big bows.
Chifeng City is not close to a river, and the moat has no water source. Moreover, this city was simply made of rammed earth, and the soil from the moat was dug out to build the city walls. A trench with a gentle slope was formed, with little obstruction.
A large number of Mongolian soldiers successfully approached the city wall.
"Fire the three-eyed gun and bow and arrow, prepare to shake the sky." Ma Dengyun roared. "The catapults in the city, launch."
After all, Chifeng is the core city of the defense line on the upper reaches of the Liao River designed by Dong Lin, and there are still sufficient offensive and defensive equipment.
This is a savanna, and the wood has to be transported from the mountains. The soil layer here is also relatively thin, with sand underneath more than a foot deep.
It belongs to the kind of place where the natural environment is very fragile. Only grazing.
If it is cultivated, it is easy to dig out the sand underneath and be blown up by strong winds, turning it into a desert. Naturally, there is also a lack of stone here.
Chifeng City was built using lime burned from the mountains to the south, mixed with clay and sand. Therefore, the rolling logs here are all recycled, with iron nails driven into the logs, like maces, with ropes and winches at both ends.
Smash it down from the top of the city and then pull it up. If you throw it away directly, soon there will be no rolling wood left in the city. The same goes for the stones. They are all quarried from the quarries in the southern mountains. In winter, they are poured with water on the road to freeze, and then dragged here by cattle and horses.
Stones are mainly used as building materials. At this time, there was no need to worry about it. The stones stored in the city were requisitioned as ammunition for the trebuchet.
There are more than a dozen small trebuchets in the city. They fired rubble outside the city. From time to time, Mongolian soldiers marching forward were hit and fell to the ground screaming. Their cowhide helmets were poor defense against stones.
Watching the Mongols walk to a distance of thirty meters and enter the moat. The dry river here has gentle slopes on both sides. There is no hindrance whatsoever. Because the deeper you dig, the more you dig. It cannot stand upright like loess.
When the city was first built, we tried to choose places with thicker soil. But after digging more than one meter here, there is still sand. There is not even a foot of soil on the grassland.
The three-eyed cannons opened fire one after another, and for a while the city was filled with smoke. Other miscellaneous guns also opened fire. The firearms of these soldiers and horses have been passed down for hundreds of years, and the Wanli Dynasty did not issue many new firearms to the army in the northwest.
The Broken House Gun, the Four-Eyed Gun, the Lianzi Gun, the Kidnapper Gun, the Thunder Gun... etc. opened fire one after another.
These firearms are very complex and of varying quality. Some even exploded upon launch. The shooter threw the gun, covered his face and screamed.
Mongolians within thirty meters,
Some fell to the ground one after another. After being hit by lead bullets, the men fell down. However, most of the people still rushed to the city, and they immediately put up the ladders.
The city wall in Chifeng is not very high, only more than six meters. After all, time is limited and it is not built too high.
Three rows of Mongolian soldiers, armed with five-meter-four-meter-long cavalry spears, and with their height and arms, can completely reach the crenel. For a moment, densely packed spearheads were stabbing towards the mouth of the crenel.
The defenders used knives and various weapons to block. At the same time, you have to beware of the Mongolians shooting arrows with big bows behind you.
Seeing the disturbance at the crenellations, the swordsmen put their scimitars in their mouths and began to climb the city.
Madeng Yun frowned and looked at these brave Mongolians. This kind of fighting style caused him a lot of trouble.
"Use the pole to push them down."
Following the order, the soldiers picked up the pole, held it with both hands, and stabbed it down the ladder.
The pole is a tool that can not only prevent enemies from using flying ladders to climb the city, but also can be used to kill enemies who climb the city.
A wooden pole over four meters long, with a horizontal arc-shaped blade at the top. Used to push down to kill enemies on ladders.
When the enemy's flying ladder is close to the city wall, you can use the chisel at the front of the fork pole to resist the flying ladder and push it down. Or when the enemy climbs halfway up the wall, use the forked pole to push down the ladder and chop. The horizontal blade in front of the pole can also kill many enemies.
Gergen was struggling to climb up with a machete between his teeth. He was a warrior in the tribe. He ranked first in wrestling at the annual conference held by the prince. In his opinion, as long as he climbed up, he would kill these Akito like an eagle killing rats and rabbits.
But suddenly, a cold light flashed before his eyes, and a half-moon-shaped huge weapon with a cold light was pushed down from above.
There was a click, and his two arms that were holding on to the ladder to climb the city were cut off by the blade, and he screamed and fell down the ladder. Two severed arms spurted with blood. The pole was then inserted into the captain behind him. One of the captain's thighs was cut off and he also fell down.
The metal part of the blade that inserts the pole weighs seven or eight pounds, and it was pushed down from above with great force.
The third person finally had time to react and hurriedly used his machete to block, but the impact of the pole was very huge. Although he blocked the pole, he and several people behind him were still pushed off the ladder and fell. on the ground.
Then, the one who inserted the pole three times and divided it by two cut off the crude birch ladder, which was as thick as an arm, and turned it into a pile of broken wood.
Huang Taiji was on a huge Lu Gong car, looking coldly at the siege battle of the Mongolian soldiers in front. This was the first time he had seen this kind of weapon. It seems that the Ma family has a lot of good things.
He has been fighting with Nurhachi since he was a child, and has experienced many kinds of siege battles. During the Manchurian Unification War, siege warfare was almost always fought. But this was the first time he had seen such a defensive weapon.
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