Chapter 168
Because they are covered with heavy armor, their killing effect is heavier than that of unarmored targets. As long as the 32mm lead bullet hits the vital part, it is possible to save a life, because this will cause penetrating injuries, such as missing parts. Arms and legs missing.
However, with the protection of iron armor, it was completely different. The lead bullets rolled over, causing larger wounds. Five hundred white-armored soldiers under Ao Bai broke through the Dongjiang Army's defense line, with only a dozen casualties. However, in just half a column, During the incense, no one could still stand.
After the white-armored soldiers in the front row who were used to attack the formation fell to the ground, it was soon the turn of the Jiannu light cavalry behind them.
The rate of fire of the thunder cannons continued unabated. Sixty-four thunder cannons were being reloaded, and the remaining sixty-four thunder cannons were like sixty-four death scythes, swiping hard at Jiannu's light cavalry.
At this time, the Jiannu light cavalry fell to the ground layer by layer like wheat being cut down.
"retreat!"
Huang Taiji's teeth almost bled from biting down. He knew that he had lost the chance to defeat Ning Haijun and that the entire battle was moving out of control.
First of all, it was used to involve and cover the various armies that Jiannu broke through from Ning Haijun's right-wing legion. They withstood the hail of bullets from Ning Haijun and suffered heavy casualties caused by landmines. Finally, they gritted their teeth and rushed into the front line of Ning Haijun thirty thirty Within the range of remaining steps.
Within this distance, Ning Haijun's muskets and crossbows had no advantage in rate of fire. Jiannu's archers could shoot a flurry of arrows, causing huge damage to Ning Haijun.
All the slaves thought that they could achieve a major breakthrough, which would be a great victory.
However, at this moment, rows of grenades rained down from the sky.
The grenades hit the helmets and shoulder armor of the Jiannu cavalry. The hit Jiannu cavalry felt nothing. They just looked at the sizzling iron hammers with wooden handles on the ground with some confusion. They looked at each other with confused expressions. His expression: "What the hell is this? How can it hurt the enemy if you throw it to the ground?"
Do you want to kill us with this?
Is this too light?
The hammer that wants to smash us to death, you can throw it more accurately!
"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."
A series of airtight explosions suddenly sounded, overwhelming the screams of thousands of troops and horses. The Jiannu and Mongolian cavalry looked over in shock. They saw flames blazing among the cavalry on the front line, shrapnel flying across the sky, and many horses being exploded. The shock wave knocked it over directly.
Those that were not overturned were also hit by shrapnel and steel balls flying at explosive speeds, and suppressed screams came from the airtight helmet. Facing the fragments and steel balls flying at explosive speed, no matter how thick the armor was, it was useless. The armored cavalry who lined up in a dense formation to charge were cut down in clusters by shrapnel like wheat, leaving them dead and injured!
Huang Taiji was no stranger to the wide variety of firearms of the Ming Army. There was Thunder Thunder in the firearms arsenal of the Ming Army, and Jian Nu had a taste of it.
However, this thing is just a wooden or clay pot filled with a large number of iron nails and pot fragments. After it is lit and thrown out, it will blow up a large area.
But the problem is that this thing weighs at least ten kilograms. It can only be used to defend the city. It can only be used in field battles and has to be thrown with a trebuchet. Even if it is carried by a single soldier, it cannot be thrown far at all.
The grenades used in the battle between the Jiannu cavalry and the Ning navy scouts were actually used on a small scale and did not attract the attention of the Jiannu.
However, in the process of an all-out attack on the Ning Navy, Ning Navy soldiers passed by in large numbers and exploded with great force. The arrogant Jiannu light and heavy cavalry, and even the white-armored soldiers finally tasted the pain. Grenades fell like hailstones, and there were explosions everywhere. The fire was full of fire, and shrapnel was flying everywhere, blowing up half of them including men and horses, and many of them were blown to pieces, with broken arms and legs flying around. The people who were not bombed were shivering all over.
Within thirty steps of Ning Haijun's formation, grenades exploded and they were stunned. From a distance, Ning Haijun continued to attack the Jiannu cavalry with muskets and crossbows. They had no choice but to Passively bombed.
At this point in the war, the elite Jiannu elites must have felt very aggrieved. They began to practice martial arts hard at the age of five or six. They fought hard and joined the army at the age of seventeen or eighteen. They endured a lot of hardships and fought many vicious battles before they became good at it. Such superhuman martial arts skills, the horses they rode, and the armor they wore were all painstakingly collected by Jiannu. It was fully expected that they would have the final say when facing the Ming army.
But the problem is, Ning Haijun's grenade bombardment knocked them all off their feet...
The Jiannu who were responsible for attacking the Ning Haijun did not retreat. They expected that other Jiannu could break through the Dongjiang Army's defense line, drive the Dongjiang Army's defeated troops, break through the Ning Haijun's defense line, and successfully win the battle.
It's just a pity that they were half successful.
Although Obai took advantage of Huanglong's weakness, successfully broke through the Dongjiang Army's defense line, and successfully disrupted the Dongjiang Army's defense line. Just as they were expanding their results, Ning Haijun came to them.
Fortunately, Huang Taiji ordered the retreat too quickly, and dense thunder cannon sounds were heard from the right wing. Ning Haijun's left wing and forward army no longer retained, and four to five hundred thunder cannons began to speak.
This is equivalent to 12,000 firecrackers firing, and the scene is absolutely spectacular.
The Jiannu retreated, and when they left, they took away some of the corpses, many of which they didn't even have time to take away.
The unlucky one was Obai. One of the slaves thought that Obai was dead, so he used a horse rope to wrap around his head. Obai was awake at the time, holding the rope with his arms and shouting. .
Unfortunately, the battlefield was so noisy at that time that Obai's voice was almost hoarse from shouting, and he did not let Jiannu, who was dragging him to escape, look back. In this way, Obai was dragged by Jiannu soldiers from the right wing of Ning Haijun to Jiannu. At the camp, which was nearly seven or eight miles away, Obai's armor was worn through, and his body was bruised and bloody...
Jiannu retreated, and Jiannu's tide-like offensive was finally blocked. The fleeing Dongjiang Army soldiers regrouped and finally stabilized the situation on the right wing.
Cheng Shijie also breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he had transferred Zhou Ning earlier, otherwise the Dongjiang Army's defense line would have been penetrated, and the consequences would have been disastrous!
The current situation is that the Ning Navy has more than 30,000 troops, blocking the fierce attack of 50,000 to 60,000 slave troops. The Dongjiang Army is struggling to support the right wing, while the cavalry of the Guan Ning Army, led by Zu Dabi, leads the Hou Jin Dynasty. The cavalry circled the edge of the battlefield...
That's right, more than 4,000 Guan Ning Army cavalry are leading seven or eight thousand Houjin cavalry in circles. The flexible mobilization has put tremendous pressure on Jiannu. Seven or eight thousand cavalry must be guarded to prevent them from launching a sudden attack. .
But similarly, the cavalry commander under Zhao Wencai fought fiercely with Jiannu. Ning Haijun's casualties were mainly concentrated in the cavalry commander. More than a quarter of the cavalry commander was casualties, with more than a thousand people killed and injured. Nearly a thousand people.
It can be said that Zhao Wencai used twice as many men and horses as Zu Dabi, and barely managed to lead seven or eight thousand men and horses to build slaves. However, the price he paid was greater than Zu Dabi, and the results were much smaller.
This shows that Ning Haijun's cavalry unit still has a long way to go. If the Chinese Army has a large army, densely packed tents have been set up in the school grounds, and a large number of wounded soldiers are placed in the tents. Among them, there are also wounded soldiers related to Ning Jun. There were also wounded soldiers from the Dongjiang Army and Ning Haijun.
Since the Dongjiang Army and Guan Ning Army did not have military doctors and organic medical soldiers at all, these wounded soldiers could only be taken care of by Ning Haijun's field hospital.
Although Sun Chengzong did not directly command the battle, military intelligence did not conceal him. Sun Chengzong judged from some clues that Cheng Shijie was under considerable pressure now.
The first is the explosive ammunition. This is Cheng Shijie's trump card. All the explosive ammunition added together is only 702 rounds, which is equivalent to less than 30 rounds for each artillery. This means that the artillery shells are only half the base. .
There is nothing that can be done about this. The technology for making explosive bombs is not mature enough, and the output is naturally low. The most important thing is that the output of collodion is too low. There are only seven or eight thousand kilograms of nitric acid a month. It is needed to make smokeless gunpowder, it is needed to make collodion, and it is used in everything. If you divide it up, there will not be much left. There is only so much guncotton available for use as explosive ammunition.
After understanding this situation, Cheng Shijie issued an order to Yuan Shiliang: "Temporarily stop using blooming artillery shells unless necessary!"
Of course, the situation of the Folang machine artillery is still better, and there is still a base left. There are still more than 1.3 million bullets for the Fire Gun and Thunder Gun, so there is no need to worry about running out of supplies for the time being.
"Consumption of medicines too much?"
Cheng Shijie said: "In my name, I am giving an order to the management committee to bring the medicine up as soon as possible!"
"yes!"
While talking, Wu Sheng walked up to Cheng Shijie and whispered softly: "Cheng Shuai, Huang Shuai is gone!"
"What's gone?"
"It's gone, it's gone!"
When Cheng Shijie saw Huang Long, he saw the corpses of about a hundred Dongjiang Army soldiers lying on the ground in various shapes around Huang Long. In the center, Huang Long was half-kneeling on the ground with a spear in his hand, with more than ten feather arrows and a wolf stuck in his body. The tooth arrow penetrated his face through his iron helmet and exited from the back of his head.
Huang Long's face and beard were covered with blood stains, his eyes were wide open, and he refused to close his eyes.
Cheng Shijie looked at the Dongjiang Army soldiers kneeling on the ground and shouted: "What do you do for food? What are you doing? Why didn't you protect Huang Shuai?"
In history, there were a total of thirty-one generals above the deputy general rank and file who died in the Liaodong battlefield in the late Ming Dynasty, and Huang Long was the thirty-first general to die in battle. Of course, he was born on July 14, the sixth year of Chongzhen. Died in battle at Port Arthur.
It's a pity that in this time and space, he died early in battle because of Cheng Shijie...
The surrounding Dongjiang Army generals were extremely ashamed.
Huang Long's nephew Huang Sizheng took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Cheng Shijie: "Cheng Shuai, this is what Huang Shuai asked me to give to you!"
Cheng Shijie scolded the generals of the Dongjiang Army, but in fact he couldn't change anything.
Even without looking, Cheng Shijie knew that this was Huang Long's final letter to Cheng Shijie.
Sure enough, the letter was written in advance, just to ask for a reward from Cheng Shijie on behalf of the brothers in the Dongjiang Army.
Cheng Shijie pointed at the letter and said, "Do you know what Huang Shuai wrote in the letter?"
All the Dongjiang Army officers lowered their heads and did not dare to look directly into Cheng Shijie's eyes.
Cheng Shijie roared: "Shuai Huang requested from me, hoping that I would agree. The officers and soldiers of the Dongjiang Army who died in this battle can enjoy the treatment of the officers and soldiers of the Ning Navy!"
All the Dongjiang Army officers looked at Cheng Shijie with hopeful expressions.
The treatment of Ning Haijun's fallen soldiers is an open secret. The families of ordinary soldiers can receive a pension of twenty taels of silver and one hundred acres of land. These one hundred acres of land can be tax-free for five years and half-taxed for ten years, and can be passed down to the family forever.
Depending on the level, although the pension has increased, the reward standard for one hundred acres of land is the same as that of soldiers and generals.
What the Dongjiang Army officers care most about is actually the last one: "Eternal heirloom!"
One hundred acres of land can guarantee food and clothing for at least three generations.
"Shuai Huang was still thinking about you before he died, and this is how you treated him? Damn it!"
Cheng Shijie couldn't help but want to curse.
Of course, facing the expectations of the Dongjiang Army soldiers, Cheng Shijie also knew that he could only agree, otherwise there would be no way for the Dongjiang Army to use it, and Guan Ning Army.
Cheng Shijie said: "In this battle, brothers from the Dongjiang Army and Guanning Army are helping me. I will treat them equally and behead the first level. I will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver and seventy-five acres of land. For the fallen soldiers, I will be given twenty taels of silver as a pension." One hundred acres of pension land, tax-free for five years and half-tax for ten years, will be passed down to the family forever!”
"Cheng Shuai is mighty!"
"Cheng Shuai is victorious!"
"Cheng Shuai is domineering!"
The surviving soldiers of the Dongjiang Army, who were originally lifeless, reached out to touch the weapons around them. They waved their weapons and shouted loudly: "Fight, fight, fight..."
Even the injured soldiers with scars raised their arms and shouted.
Looking at the murderous Dongjiang Army's surviving soldiers, their morale soared. Sun Chengzong felt that the Dongjiang Army was a little strange at this moment...
A Guan Ning Army cavalryman, holding the half-dead corpse, burst into tears: "Brother, you heard it, Cheng Shuai rewarded you with a hundred acres of land, plus the head I chopped off, our family Life can still go on!"
Zu Dale opened his mouth, but no sound came out.
He knew that if he dared to object, the swords of Guan Ning's soldiers would not recognize him.
For Cheng Shijie to only pay for the officers of the Dongjiang Army or the Guanning Army, he not only had to pay more than one million acres of land, but also more than 100,000 taels of silver. Adding the casualties of the Ning Navy, this number may exceed 200,000 taels of silver... …
Cheng Shijie lost his fortune, and Huang Taiji was about to cry. Now in Huang Taiji's big tent, Daishan, Yue Tuo, Du Du, Mang Gurtai and others were like eggplants beaten by frost.
No one expected that Ning Haijun would be so powerful. Not only was his long-range attack capability unparalleled, but his close-combat capability was not inferior to that of Daikin, especially the lightweight grenade. Regardless of whether the white-armored soldiers or the red-armored soldiers rush forward, they will soon be blown into a hornet's nest. Although they are constantly killing and wounding the Ming army, such an exchange is really unbearable for the small number of people!
The attack on the Dongjiang Army was successful at the beginning, and almost penetrated the Dongjiang Army's defense line. However, under the cover of Ning Haijun and Huang Long, the Dongjiang Army launched an almost crazy counterattack. Then, thousands of The gunman's spearhead of Jiannu's attack was quickly flattened, and it turned into a terrible tug-of-war.
Every minute and every second is devouring the lives of a large number of Dajin warriors. The performance of the Ming army has told them clearly that they want to break through our defense line? Okay, fill it with twice as many corpses!
Even if he made the utmost determination to eliminate Ning Haijun at any cost, he still could not bear such heavy casualties. Dajin could not afford to fight such a war!
"what to do?"
Mang Gurtai grabbed Yue Tuo's lapel and asked Yue Tuo to advise Huang Taiji.
The relationship between Yue Tuo and Huang Taiji is closer than that between Huang Taiji and Hauge, their biological son. Huang Taiji can listen. The most important thing is that even if Huang Taiji doesn't want to listen, he will not be punished.
Yue Tuo said: "Fifth Uncle, what do you want to say? Our Kingdom of Jin is not like the Ming Dynasty. It doesn't matter whether you are right or wrong?"
Huang Taiji said: "What does fifth brother want to say?"
Mang Gurtai shouted: "I can't defeat you, what should I do!?"
Before Huang Taiji finished speaking, Yue Tuo said angrily: "If you can't knock it down, just chew it layer by layer. What else can you do?"
Mang Gurtai's eyes were spitting fire: "Eating them layer by layer? If we fight like this, by the time we get through the defense line of the Ming Army, we won't have many people left alive!"
Du Du sighed and said with a painful look on his face: "It's better to withdraw our troops... If we can't fight, even if we can win, the casualties will be extremely heavy. We, the Great Jin Kingdom, cannot afford to fight this kind of war!"
Huang Taiji did not go on a killing spree, but said with a sad smile: "You...you all think it will be fine if you withdraw your troops?"
No one dared to raise their heads.
Huang Taiji sneered: "In order to fight this battle, we delayed stocking up on pasture and catching autumn fat for cattle and sheep; due to the blockade of Ning Haijun, we have not bought food and cloth from the Han people for several months; at the same time, We don’t know how much hay and dried cow dung were burned by them, how many cattle and sheep were snatched away, and even if we retreated to Shenyang, how many people would be able to survive this winter?”
Huang Taiji's words made everyone breathless.
Life in Liaodong was already difficult. They worked hard to herd cattle, endured hunger, and even risked their lives in the autumn to break through and plunder border areas to obtain food and cloth in order to survive the winter. Now they Nothing was grabbed and a lot of people died. A large amount of winter pasture and fuel were burned by Ning Haijun. How were they going to survive this winter?
Even in the early Ming Dynasty, the Jurchens had never been so passive. They had never been so passive.
Huang Taiji stood up, looked around at everyone, and said in a stern voice: "We have no way out! Ming Gou will not leave us a way to survive. If we retreat this time, they will intensify their efforts and deploy more cannons to the Liaodong border. Build each city stronger. Every day that passes, it becomes more difficult for us to capture these cities! These cities and cannons become shackles around our necks. Every day that passes, this shackles will If we tighten our grip, we at Daikin will have no retreat and no time..."
The Belles began to fall silent.
Huang Taiji stared at Cheng Shijie's general flag in the distance, his eyes so red that he almost wanted to bleed.
He is actually the person who regrets it the most now.
As early as February, when Duduo's army of more than 10,000 men was wiped out, he could actually easily kill Cheng Shijie.
At that time, how many people did Cheng Shijie have?
There are just over 10,000 people and less than 20,000 troops. Nearly half of them are navy soldiers and more than two-thirds are new recruits.
He didn't even need to send troops, he just needed an order to order Duduo to regroup. With the strength of the three Dorgon brothers, it was more than enough to deal with Cheng Shijie.
It's a pity that at that time, Huang Taiji was considering creating internal strife among the three brothers Azig, Duduo, and Dorgon. It can also be said that he despised Cheng Shijie.
That's right, he looked down upon Cheng Shijie.
Underestimating Cheng Shijie will have serious consequences.
Huang Taiji looked at the crowd and said, "I am wrong, and you are also wrong!"
Fan Wencheng's heart tightened: "King Khan, how could you be wrong?"
Huang Taiji said: "Although the power of their giant cannons is terrifying, they cannot keep firing. If they fire for a long time, they must stop and let the barrels cool down; although their fire blunderbuss is powerful, the barrels of their guns will fire if they are fired for a long time." Red! We can definitely defeat them! Divide into several waves and launch uninterrupted attacks from multiple directions. Don’t worry about casualties anymore. Only by taking Haizhou City can we survive. Only if we survive can we survive. You are qualified to feel sorry for the casualties of tribal warriors!”
Huang Taiji's words are correct. Only by capturing Haizhou and seizing the food in Haizhou City can they have a chance of survival. There is no other way!
"Fight bloody to the end and fight to the death!"
The howl like a wild beast resounded through the central military tent, and all the Jurchen nobles shuddered.
Yes, they have no way out.
Since Huang Taiji decided to attack Haizhou...
No, it should be said that from the moment Cheng Shijie decided to send troops to capture the entire Liaohe Plain, they had no way out.
If they hesitated under Baliwan City, Cheng Shijie would never be polite. He would definitely open his bloody mouth and reveal his fangs, ready to tear them into pieces!
Huang Taiji had no retreat, and neither did the entire Great Jin Kingdom.
Of course, once morale improves, you can no longer fight.
It's getting late, and in a night battle, the threats and variables are even greater.
While Huang Taiji and other Jurchen nobles were killing sheep and roasting meat and discussing countermeasures, Cheng Shijie looked at the sky.
The snow he was looking forward to finally came.
At first, there were just small snowflakes scattered one after another, and it took almost half an hour for a thin layer of snow to cover the ground. However, as time went by, the snow became heavier and heavier, and the snow on the ground became thicker and thicker. .
Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Our time has come!"
Sun Chengzong seemed to understand: "Have you been waiting for this snow?"
"Yes, teacher!"
Cheng Shijie pointed to the direction of the Jiannu camp to the east and said: "Jiannu relies on nothing more than strong bows and angry horses. The decisive battle location I chose for Huang Taiji is very conducive to Jiannu's cavalry raid. But once there is a blizzard, , the war horses can no longer run, and they deserve to die!"
Sun Chengzong stroked his beard and smiled: "You want to say that Li Jing attacked Yinshan at night?"
"No, no, no!"
Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "I would rather close the door and beat the dog!"
PS: Updates have been very slow these days, and Lao Cheng is also very helpless. I fell into the trap of Class A, and almost couldn't write.
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