"Tell the defenders in front to wait until the shield truck passes before firing the mine cannon!"
"After Bao Yi's formation was in chaos, the white-pole soldiers attacked! Kill all Bao Yi, I don't want any prisoners!"
Liu Zhaosun was not interested in the loyal slaves. It would take a lot of energy to transform these people, which was far beyond the ability of the generals to summon their souls. In comparison, it was more cost-effective to kill them all directly.
After Liu Zhaosun finished his instructions, he began to inspect the defenses of each battalion under the protection of several servants.
The black coated soldiers pushed the shield cart, and when they were about to reach the moat, they were stopped by two trenches in front.
Soon, several coated soldiers climbed into the ditch to lay planks. Some were stabbed by iron caltrops in the ditch and screamed in the ditch holding their feet. The caltrops buried by the Ming army were soaked in horse manure. If they pricked the soles of their feet, they would get tetanus. With the battlefield medical technology of this era, those who are infected will either die or become disabled.
The Lord General had no time to feel sorry for the ants in front of him. He looked at the protruding horse's face at the top of the city, showing a slight look of relief.
When the Ming army arrived at Kaiyuan City, the original horse face was in dilapidated condition. Ten thousand Liaodong refugees worked day and night, and finally the repairs were completed before the Jin army arrived.
The horse face at the head of the city can increase side firepower, greatly reducing the blind spot under the city.
In the Ming Dynasty, almost all cities with important strategic defenses had horse faces built outside them, and Kaiyuan, an important town in Liaodong, was no exception.
There are crenellated walls on the three outer sides of the horse face at the head of Kaiyuan City. The crenellated walls on the left and right sides have crenelated openings, which are convenient for throwing bricks and stones, releasing arrows, and blocking the Jin army from attacking the city.
In this era, European bastions already have a concave shape, and there are basically no blind spots for shooting. Kaiyuan cannot do this for the time being.
Similar bastion technology had to wait until the Chongzhen period to spread to China. After this war, Liu Zhaosun planned to send people to Macau to hire some Portuguese mercenaries to come to Liaodong. These mercenaries had more professional military skills and were more reliable than missionaries.
For now, it is better to defend Kaiyuan and save our lives.
Between the moat and the city gate is the second line of defense of Kaiyuan City. About fifty steps away from the city wall, the Ming army temporarily built an earth wall more than one foot high.
Last night, Liu Zhaosun asked the auxiliary soldiers to water the earthen wall. It was quite cold in Liaodong in March. After one night, the river water froze and mixed with the clay, becoming as solid as concrete. Heavy arrows could only leave spots.
Liu Zhaosun estimated that it would be difficult to penetrate the earthen wall unless Jiannu continued bombarding it with Hongyi cannon.
Since there were only 300 North Korean gunmen left, Liu Zhaosun transferred 500 gunmen from each battalion, together with the southern archers, to make up a thousand people, who were on standby behind the earthen wall. They were responsible for carrying out long-range strikes against the enemy.
Behind the earth wall is a relatively flat open space, which ensures that the white-pole soldiers and Fran cannons can move freely.
The auxiliary soldiers built a gentle slope behind the earth wall. The position close to the earth wall was only about three feet shorter than the earth wall, and the soldiers could expose half of their bodies.
In this way, the Ming army could be in a higher position, relying on its terrain advantages to attack the Jin army from a commanding position.
Qin Jianxun led the white pole soldiers to complete the formation. The young general was still wearing the white robe. In front of him, a thousand white pole soldiers stood quietly behind the gunmen and archers, waiting to attack.
Liu Zhaosun walked up to Qin Jianxun and patted him on the shoulder. Qin Jianxun, who was dressed in chain mail, looked a little childish in front of Liu Zhaosun, and his face covered with pimples had the determination to die written on it.
"Slave thieves are rampant. General, please take the first step. I will arrive soon! See you in hell!"
After Liu Zhaosun finished speaking, he turned around and continued to patrol the city defense.
The earthen wall in front of the Baigan soldiers was divided into dozens of sections. The connected parts of each section protruded outwards. The protruding parts were the entrance and exit channels for the Ming army.
The passage is about one foot wide, only enough for about five soldiers to enter and exit. A trench two feet wide is dug in front of each protruding part.
In other words, if the enemy wanted to break through the Kaiyuan city defense from the front, they had to cross the moat, then cross the trench, and finally climb over the earth wall.
Before the war, the Ming army conducted experiments. For an ordinary soldier to break through the ditch, moat, ditch, and earth wall, and rush from the moat to the foot of Kaiyuan City, under the condition that the defenders' cannons and bows and arrows were completely silent, it would take at least Half a stick of incense time. Having walked this distance in actual combat, I would have probably been beaten into pieces.
According to the original plan, Liu Zhaosun wanted to build another parapet behind the earth wall to further delay the Jin army's offensive. He had enough manpower, but time was too short, so he gave up. Moreover, he was worried that if the defense was too strict, the four Baylors might Don't dare to attack hard.
If Jiannu summoned tens of thousands of Baoyi Aha, surrounded them without attacking, and starved Kaiyuan City to death, Liu Zhaosun would be a joke.
During the Nurhaci era, the post-Jin regime transitioned from slavery to feudalism, and the Eight Banners leaders still had great power, unlike the cowards in the later Huang Taiji era.
If they had beaten the Houjin Army painfully from the beginning, Daishan and the others would not have cared about the Great Khan's military orders, and they would certainly not have continued to attack hard.
There were sporadic explosions in front of the position, and a few unlucky soldiers stepped on the mine cannon.
This kind of mine cannon is most effective against dense arrays of enemies. The earthenware pot filled with black gunpowder is mixed with rusty iron nails and stones. Each explosion is not very powerful, but it will set off bursts of blood near the explosion point.
A strong man in a coat, Aha, screamed and rushed to the dam ditch. There were flying iron nails in his eyes, and he let out a scream that was not like a human voice, and rolled down the dam ditch. , the body was impaled by the sharp wooden stakes scattered at the bottom of the ditch.
"I'll let you go without armor and I'll blow you up!"
In front of the dam ditch, the wrapping queue fell into chaos, and then, around them, deafening explosions sounded one after another, and the sound was so dense that people could not distinguish between human voices and explosions.
The area around the moat was completely shrouded in white mist, mixed with sand and dust, and countless coats were wailing in pain in the middle.
When they rushed to the front of the shield car, many of them had stopped. The area around the shield car was in a mess. Hundreds of soldiers were lying on the ground. Many people were killed on the spot, and many more were hit by flying nails and stones. They scurried around the battlefield like flies, until they rolled into a horse trap covered with bamboo sticks and iron caltrops, and died in extreme pain.
The wrappers pushing the cart in front were frightened by the tragic scene in front of them, and many people began to push back. The Zhenyi warriors behind them immediately shot at them with heavy arrows.
"As expected, the Tatars have strict military discipline, okay! Kill a few more soldiers for me! I will thank you very much later!"
Liu Zhaosun was talking to himself. At this time, the sound of neat footsteps and the scraping of armor leaves came from the urn city, which was quite pleasant to Liu Zhaosun's ears.
As the main force in the Battle of Kaiyuan, 7,000 pikemen, mainly Nanbing, will appear in the finale.
Liu Zhaosun prayed silently in his heart, hoping that this powerful army would not be destroyed in Kaiyuan, and at least some seeds should be left for the Qi family army. Yiwu had no strong men left, at least in front of him, only a few strong troops such as Zhejiang soldiers and Baigan soldiers could Save Liaodong.
The Lord General, surrounded by his servants, walked through the corridor of Wengcheng and stood at the gate of Wengcheng.
The seven thousand newly trained soldiers were arranged in rows according to the establishment of each battalion. The soldiers from all over the Ming Dynasty had a look of determination on their faces at this moment, and the training officers of each battalion were doing the final mobilization.
"I don't care if you were a Zhejiang soldier, a Liao soldier, or a Xuan soldier before! Today, you are all Lord Liu's soldiers!"
A dark-skinned instructor with a slight Shaanxi accent stood in front of a group of soldiers. His neck turned red and he shouted loudly.
"If you are alive, Master Liu will give you land. If you are dead, Master Liu will summon your souls!"
"Only Mr. Liu pays us wages, and only Mr. Liu does not abandon us!"
"Thousands of brothers died in the Battle of Hunjiang, and the bodies were all brought back by Mr. Liu!"
The Shaanxi trainer shouted hoarsely, his voice hoarse, and he yelled with all his strength:
"Master Liu said that he will die in battle today! He is not willing to serve as a coat for the Tatars! Are you willing?!"
The surrounding area fell silent, and the cheers of the soldiers came from the nearby battalions. A moment later, the soldiers speaking different regional dialects shouted in unison:
"I don't want to!"
"I don't want to!!"
"When all the Sichuan soldiers are dead, come on! Find your teammates who usually train, form a group of eleven, and form a small three-person formation! If the ones in front die, the ones behind will take over! Do you hear me!"
"Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!"
Liu Zhaosun called his servants to go away quickly. He didn't want to see these soldiers who were about to die, and he didn't want to remember these familiar yet unfamiliar faces. Fortunately, the surrounding soldiers were in high spirits and no one noticed them.
Liu Zhaosun quickly climbed to the top of Wengcheng and felt that sand had entered his eyes.
It is forbidden to pretend to be gods and ghosts in the army, but Liu Zhaosun used the little sacrificial knowledge he had before time travel to summon the souls of the dead;
Private payment of military pay is prohibited in the army, but Liu Zhaosun raised his own money to pay the soldiers;
Sworn worship is prohibited in the army, but Liu Zhaosun begged Wei Zhongxian, a man of good character;
Many things were done without any utilitarian intention before being done, but after being done seriously, great achievements were achieved.
He rubbed his red and swollen eyes to calm himself down.
In the direction of the north gate, smoke filled the air, and gunmen began to shoot at the coated soldiers who were in chaos. In the vast array with blue flags in the distance, the dead soldiers holding thick shields and swords were eager to retaliate with a single arrow from Hunjiang River. hatred.
From the direction of the south gate, there was a faint thunderous sound of horse hooves. Liu Zhaosun's heart tightened, knowing that this was the dispatch of his own cavalry.
According to the battle plan, two thousand cavalry under the command of Yu Chengming and Shi Fengming were responsible for containing the Mongolian tribes. Unexpectedly, the Mongols came to attack the autumn wind so soon.
Liu Zhaosun was imagining the heroic scene of the cavalry charge in Liao Town, when another explosion came from the north gate.
The coated soldiers who swarmed forward withstood the attack of the Ming army's artillery, bows and arrows, crossed the minefield around the trench, entered the moat, and began to build a pontoon bridge by the river.
Bao Yi pushed dozens of shield carts to stop in front of the pontoon bridge and stopped moving forward. While covering the continuous stream of Bao Yi soldiers catching up behind him, he fired arrows at the Ming army whose heads were exposed behind the earthen wall.
These coated soldiers were quite brave, and their archery skills were also excellent. With the cover of the shield car, they could shoot calmly, and their accuracy immediately improved a lot. Soon one of the gunmen was shot in the face and fell to the ground with a groan.
"Tell Qin Jianxun that it's time to fire!"
The servant immediately conveyed the General's order to the south gate. Soon, the 20 furlong machines ambush behind the earth wall opened fire at the same time, and the earth wall was suddenly shrouded in white smoke.
Fran's machine aimed at the shield car first, and then the pontoon bridge. The shield car was very close to the earth wall, and the target was huge. There were many Baoyi Aha who were eager to make contributions to their master.
boom! boom!
The white smoke gradually dispersed. Liu Zhaosun and several servants looked up to the opposite side. The shield cars waiting to cross the river had been blown to pieces. The ground was littered with wood and corpses. Countless wrappings in the shield workshop were rolling around on the ground. Many people It rolled directly into the moat.
"After shooting the shield car, then attack the pontoon bridge. Before Jiannu's large number of artillery cannons come up, shoot him a few more times!"
Before Liu Zhaosun could finish his words, a cannon sounded from the front, and a thick smoke spewed out from the coated shield car.
When Liu Zhaosun looked carefully, he found that behind the several shield vehicles were actually two French cannons.
Judging from the style of the artillery, it is exactly the same as the Ming Army Franchise behind the earthen wall. It should have been captured by Nurhaci from Jun Jun and given a blue flag.
Liu Zhaosun looked at the Fran machine coldly. It was advancing forward with several shield vehicles, and fired a cannon at the Ming army's earthen wall from time to time. Fortunately, the Franchise's accuracy was not good enough, and the shell hit the earth wall crookedly. A few pieces of soil fell off.
Liu Zhaosun sneered, Fei Yingwu was a bit wise in fighting, a bit like a blitzkrieg, but it was a pity that the slave chief was too stingy and only gave Xianglan Banner two artillery pieces.
"Order the gunners to concentrate all artillery and aim at the two Franchise aircraft to bombard them!"
After hearing this, Pei Dahu quickly said in surprise: "Sir, the coat soldiers are building a pontoon bridge. Our fire cannons cannot penetrate the shield car."
"With the white soldiers here, what are you afraid of? Bao Yi is here to die! The Franco machine behind is the big trouble!"
Pei Dahu agreed, turned and left, while Liu Zhaosun looked forward.
Encouraged by their own artillery fire, more and more coats of clothing pushed the shield carts forward to the moat. The dead soldiers behind them had already been dispatched and were slowly coming towards this side.
Liu Zhaosun had an ominous premonition. If these coated soldiers and dead soldiers were allowed to cross the moat and attack the earthen wall, would the white soldiers be able to stop them?
His understanding of the white pole soldiers only stayed in the historical forum of later generations.
It is said that this powerful army is good at mountain warfare and once caused a lot of trouble to Hou Jin. However, now they are fighting on the plains. I don't know what effect the white pole soldiers will have.
Liu Zhaosun had no choice. He now had no troops to use. The troops in Wengcheng were the last reserve team in Kaiyuan. The Liao Town cavalry was at the south gate to contain the Mongolian and Houjin cavalry. The other troops also had to defend the gates.
If the white pole soldiers don't attack, the North Gate will not be able to be defended by the strong men of the Liao people.
The Fran cannons of both sides began to bombard each other, and the Ming army temporarily took advantage. Iron balls weighing several kilograms roared across the sky, smashing the shield vehicles into pieces.
The excited coated soldiers were vulnerable to the iron bullets, and their bodies were beaten to pieces.
Despite this, there was still a steady stream of Bao Yi approaching the moat. The dead soldiers who were getting closer and closer forced Bao Yi to move forward. The Bao Yi who was at the back was shot by his masters.
These Jurchens from remote areas are more ferocious than Jianzhou Jurchens, and they kill their own people without mercy.
Twenty French cannons were all aimed at the two artillery pieces in front of the moat. After just two rounds of shooting, the shield cars next to the moat were beaten into honeycombs, sawdust flew into the air, and the Houjin gunners who had just joined the bombardment were all torn to pieces and died. Whole corpse.
After solving this problem, the gunners began to turn their shelling targets to the dark coated soldiers on the pontoon. Some coated soldiers had already crossed the river to form formations, and more people were crowded on the river.
Under the skillful operation of the Ming army's gunners, twenty Fran machine cannons fired shotshells at the pontoon bridge at a rate of two rounds per minute. Some Fran machines fired chain bombs. The coated soldiers who came up behind and lost the artillery cover were like targets. Generally, they were swept away by various artillery shells. After a while, only the remaining limbs and blood stains were left on the pontoon.
The coated soldiers who rushed across the moat quickly formed a formation. Some of them held shields in their hands, crossed the horse traps and ditches, and covered their companions with bows and arrows to shoot at the Ming army behind the earthen wall.
Within this distance, bows and arrows have certain advantages over fire guns, and more and more Ming troops were injured on the earthen wall.
After the massacre, the Franco machine gradually stopped to dissipate heat, and more soldiers were forced by the dead soldiers to rush onto the pontoon, stepping on the internal organs and limbs on the ground, and rushed towards the Ming army's earthen wall.
The Ming army behind the earthen wall responded to the Baoji bows and arrows rushing across the river, while shooting at more and more Baoji soldiers on the pontoon.
The coats were crowded on the narrow pontoon, and some people were squeezed directly into the river. Some people who were hit by firecrackers fell to the ground and screamed inhumanly.
At this time, Franji, which had been silent for a long time, finally resumed its bombardment. Qin Jianxun ordered to directly interrupt the pontoon bridge, because thousands of coated and dead soldiers had already rushed over.
Two kilograms of shells smashed the bridge deck into a honeycomb shape. Amid the screams from behind, the pontoon bridge finally broke completely.
More than a hundred Baoji who came up from behind saw that there was no shield car to cover them, and there was no pontoon bridge in front to cross the river. They could only stand by the river and take the bombardment. They fled in all directions. Some people wanted to retreat in a large formation, but were killed by the people behind them. The dead soldiers were killed with broadswords, bows and arrows. Some frantic soldiers jumped directly into the moat, trying to swim to the other side. Their bodies were stabbed by iron caltrops, and they struggled needlessly in the cold river water more than a foot deep. This group of soldiers were exposed. Both parties will be eliminated together.
Liu Zhaosun let out a long breath. The pontoon bridge was broken, and the more than a thousand coated soldiers who rushed over could hardly escape the end of destruction. He was about to ask Qin Jianxun to lead the white pole soldiers to attack, when he suddenly saw Zhang Mazi running towards him panting and said to him:
"Sir, General Yu Shen and others found wolf soldiers in the south of the city!"
