"Jiangjun Qiao, this cannon is not a blunderbuss. How can it be so fast?"
Mao Yuanyi held a dirty ruler in his mouth and could not speak clearly. He was writing and drawing on rice paper with charcoal.
In fact, due to the astonishing recoil of the Hongyi cannon, the target coordinates need to be recalibrated after each launch, coupled with the tedious steps of cleaning the barrel and loading gunpowder. Even if it is operated by the most skilled British gunner of this era, it can only guarantee two minutes. The firing speed of one round.
One shot in two minutes is the level of an experienced player.
Mao Yuanyi and the others obviously do not fall into this category.
In the past six months, in order to keep it strictly confidential, except for the cannon test in July, Mao Yuanyi never touched the red cannon.
At this level, if it doesn't explode after ignition, you have to thank Guanyin.
Qiao Yiqi didn't care about this. He put down the short gunner he had picked up, feeling indignant.
Han Zhenyi finally returned to the ground with his feet, coughed twice, glared at Qiao Yiqi bitterly, turned around and continued to adjust the Hongyi cannon.
Qiao Yiqi shook his head. Without Mr. Liu, everyone was like a piece of scattered sand.
The remaining three gates were all stormed to the top of the city. The spearmen drove Bao Yi down again and again, smashing these loyal Houjin slaves to pieces.
Everyone now knows that the focus of Huang Taiji's attack is Kaiyuan North Gate.
The North Gate was about to fall, and the fusiliers who had high hopes were besieged by more than a thousand Houjin archers and suffered heavy casualties. It was not known how long they could last.
There were less than a thousand pikemen left.
One thousand new soldiers will be added to the 5,000 Zhenyi armored soldiers and 3,000 coated soldiers.
There were no artillery, no reinforcements, and the outer positions fell. This was a siege battle without any suspense. It was only a matter of time before the North Gate fell.
The positions on both sides of the moat were flooded by the influx of Zhengbai Banner soldiers.
The armored soldiers crossing the river were busy removing obstacles such as the deer's feet.
On the other side of the moat, a dark mass of coated soldiers shouted slogans and pushed various siege engines across the pontoon, approaching the Kaiyuan city wall.
Baoyi shouted so loudly that he could hear it from miles away.
Qiao Yiqi thought these wrappers were disgusting. Seeing how hard they worked, Supervisor Qiao suddenly remembered that there were still many miners missing from the original mine.
However, he was shocked by this spectacular sight. For the first time, Qiao Yiqi saw the terrifying strength of the Zhengbai Banner. With over 10,000 troops, even the soldiers were so excited. This overwhelming force far surpassed the Xilan Banner led by A Min.
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Eight pontoon bridges were erected on the narrow city river, and the coat soldiers pushed more than 30 shield vehicles and ladder trucks slowly across the bridge.
"I didn't stop you from crossing the river. Thousands of people came over at once, waiting to be reincarnated!"
Qiao Yiqi cursed loudly, concealing his inner despair. According to the plan they agreed on three days ago, General Liu was supposed to capture Tieling yesterday, and then lead his elite troops back to Kaiyuan, where they would attack Zhengbai Banner together with the defenders in the city.
Why hasn't General Liu launched an attack yet? It's because he is waiting for the opportunity. This opportunity is to kill the slave chief with one shot!
"In order to attract the slave thieves to attack Kaiyuan, I, together with Yuan Xuntai, were beaten with twenty army sticks by the stubborn Liao Town! You, you are just dawdling here. If you fail to hit later, you won't be able to do it." When Jiannu breaks the city, I will reward three of you with 200 military sticks and break your legs!"
Mao Yuanyi knew that Qiao Yiqi was on the verge of madness, so she let him scold him and didn't care about him.
If Huang Taiji cannot be killed with one shot, all plans will be in vain.
General Liu and his three thousand elite troops will eventually be surrounded and annihilated by Xianglan Banner and Zhengbai Banner between Kaiyuan Tieling.
Although Mr. Liu still has several back-ups.
One of the back-up men that Mao Yuanyi knew was Lin Danhan's 20,000 cavalry, who were said to be on their way to Kaiyuan.
Lin Dan Khan said that he would teach Nurhaci a lesson, just as Houjin Khan wanted to teach Lin Dan Khan a lesson.
But the Mongols are not trustworthy. Mao Yuanyi has seen the Mongolian envoy, who is talking nonsense and talking about the Great Khan (Lin Dan Khan). The 400,000 cavalry will arrive soon, and they will meet General Liu at the plowing court in the cave of Hetuala. Dudu is even more outrageous.
The guard brought a maza and asked the injured Supervisor Qiao to sit down.
Qiao Yiqi got tired of scolding and sat at the top of the city to look at the scenery.
The country is picturesque, the setting sun is like blood, dark clouds are pressing over the city, and reinforcements are cut off.
A terrible thought flashed through his mind, whether Mr. Liu had encountered Xianglan Qi and couldn't escape, otherwise they should have returned to Kaiyuan by now.
The shouts of killing at the south gate drowned out the roar of artillery. The brave and fearless soldiers fired flintlocks at the top of the city, set up ladders, and began to climb. The Liao people who defended the city poured the boiled gold juice down. Amidst the screams, the coated soldiers fell to the ground like leaves one after another, and where the golden juice was poured, white bones were exposed.
"snort."
Qiao Yiqi sneered and looked back at the city wall. Eighty steps in front of the city wall, there was a breast wall that had just been built. It was the last line of defense of the north gate.
Qiao Yiqi looked at the pikemen in formation behind the parapet, and then at the Houjin formation with dark clouds looming over the city, and suddenly loudly ordered his guards to raise the flag of the supervisory army.
"Sir, the Tatars have French cannons. Many people were killed at the south gate. Our shield can only block arrows, but not cannons. If the flag is raised..."
"As a general, you should be as immovable as a mountain. Put up my command flag! Let the soldiers see that the North Gate has not been captured yet!"
Qiao Jianjun went through several fierce battles and learned nothing, only Liu Wei's immovable nature.
The two soldiers raised their long cards. Qiao Yiqi sat on the horse and closed his eyes slightly, like an old monk in meditation.
A large supervisory flag measuring one foot and two feet slowly rose at the top of the city, fluttering against the beacon fire all over the city.
Two heavy arrows whizzed over and hit the long card, making a buzzing sound.
Qiao Yiqi didn't open her eyes and cursed:
"Dog Tatar, dare to stab someone in the back!"
There are less than 5,000 troops in Kaiyuan City, and the 5,000 men are divided into four gates. They are spread out very thinly.
After Huang Taiji arrived in Kaiyuan, he keenly felt that there was a shortage of troops in the city, so he immediately changed the siege strategy he had formulated previously to surround the city.
He ordered the troops to be divided into four groups, and the strength of the four groups was not biased. In other words, Huang Taiji wanted the original four gates to bear the same offensive pressure.
Mao Yuanyi did not have Liu Zhaosun's experience in charging into battle, so he did not dare to leave the city easily to fight.
In order to strengthen the defense of the city gate, they ordered the soldiers deployed outside Kaiyuan to be withdrawn, leaving only a small number at night.
Since they could not determine the opponent's main attack direction, they could only distribute 5,000 soldiers evenly among the four gates. Since then, the shortcomings of insufficient military strength have been further highlighted.
Zhengbai Banner approached the moat with almost no losses.
Under the watchful eye of the defenders at the top of the city, thousands of coated Aha leisurely built a pontoon bridge on the moat. Then, tens of thousands of armored soldiers crossed the moat and began to attack the main city.
If Amin knew that Zhengbaiqi had captured the city so easily, he might be pissed to death.
Half a year ago, Amin, who was still the leader of the Xianglan Banner, led the main attack of the Xianglan Banner to open the original north gate. Just in front of the moat, more than two thousand soldiers of the Xianglan Banner died.
The trees around Kaiyuan were cut down by Liu Zhaosun's order. If Zhengbaiqi wanted to build ladders and shield vehicles for siege, he had to go to the forest more than ten miles away to cut down the trees.
Although Huang Taiji wanted to occupy Kaiyuan as soon as possible, he would not let the Zhenyijia soldiers attack the city. The Ming army defending the city was brave and fearless. If the ants attacked such a strong city, all Zhengbai Banners would probably die.
So he ordered his troops to cut down trees overnight and make shields, chariots, ladders and other siege equipment.
Due to the large amount of work, more than two hundred wrappers were exhausted overnight.
Qiao Yiqi and Yuan Chonghuan were in charge of the north gate and south gate respectively. The east and west gates were in charge of the two new military battalions, General Qian.
The last fortifications built were completely destroyed by the Jin army, and the defenders built a new line of defense.
Moats, breastworks, caltrops, deer's feet.
At present, the trenches have been filled with sand by Bao Yi. Since the Ming army did not go out to fight in the city and only fired arrows from a distance, more than a hundred people were killed by Bao Yi who filled the trenches.
After Baoyi Aha completed his mission, Zhengbai Banner soldiers with more than ten Niulu (one Niulu had 300 people) launched an attack.
As they walked, they pushed down the red deer's feet behind the trench so that the shield carts and ladder carts could follow and attack the city.
Behind the trench is a parapet more than two feet high. Behind the parapet are musketeers and pikemen.
This is the last line of defense. If it falls, Jiannu's shield chariots can reach the city. With Zhengbai Banner's offensive, dozens of ladder chariots swarm up and capture the north gate in half an hour at most.
The fiercest battle between the two sides is about to begin.
One hundred gunmen armed with new flintlock guns quickly came to the parapet, stretched out the flintlock guns from the crenels, aimed at the slaves who were pushing down the horses, and suddenly pulled the triggers.
There was an explosion, and large clouds of white smoke rose above the parapet.
Eighty steps away, twenty or thirty armored soldiers fell immediately.
Their chainmails were shattered by lead bullets, which penetrated into their muscles and made a terrifying sound of flesh shattering.
The hit soldiers fell to the ground and howled in pain. Some of them covered their exposed intestines and tried to stuff them back into their stomachs.
Seeing this, the surrounding armored soldiers raised their shields to protect themselves, and Niu Luzhen shouted loudly:
"The archers throw light arrows, and the armored soldiers get close and shoot straight with heavy arrows, kill them all!"
From the occupation of Qinghe in Fushun to the great victory in Sarhu, the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Dynasty were invincible and defeated the Ming army many times. Of course, the Ming army here did not include the Ming army under Liu Zhaosun.
Although Hunjiang Kaiyuan was defeated twice, it is generally believed within the Eight Banners that both times were because Amin was incompetent and did not know how to use troops, which gave Liu Zhaosun an opportunity to take advantage of.
Amin has become a joke. Of course, the warriors with the white flag will not repeat the mistake of setting the blue flag.
Niu Lu'er really knew that the Ming army's artillery fire was slow and it would take a long time before firing again after one round. This period of time was enough for the warriors to shoot several waves of bows and arrows.
When the shield cars and Fran cannons came over and fired fiercely at the earthen wall, killing all the Ming army gunners and spearmen behind the earthen wall, Kaiyuan City was captured.
Thinking of the scene of entering the city later to kill the Ming army and rob Han women, Niu Lu'erzhen's gloomy face showed a smile.
He raised his heavy knife, roared, and struck hard at a horse in front of the ditch.
At this time, there was another explosion behind the earthen wall, and the front row of armored soldiers fell down. Within fifty steps, shields and chainmail could not stop the flintlock attack. These Houjin warriors rushed forward, Once again, he used his life to interpret the significance of replacing cold weapons with hot weapons.
"Don't stop! They can only shoot two rounds!"
Suffering two rounds of attacks did not affect the morale of Zhengbai Qi, but instead aroused the murderous intention of these Jurchens.
"Rush to the wall and chop them to death!"
As soon as Niu Lu'e's true words finished, firecrackers roared again behind the earth wall. A dozen elite armored soldiers screamed and fell beside Juma. The injured armored soldiers were stopped by Juma. For a moment, they couldn't escape and became firecrackers. living target.
"Archer shoots!"
The Zhengbai flag sword and shield players moved forward one after another, holding heavy long flags to cover the archers approaching the parapet.
Buyantai followed the sword and shield man and quickly passed through a section of uneven ground to an area less than a hundred steps away from the parapet.
My ears were filled with the shouts of the fire armored soldiers and the roar of firearms and artillery. Another armored soldier came over from the pontoon of the moat to reinforce the battle below the city.
Buyantai reached for the arrow socket on his waist, took out a light arrow from the arrow socket, adjusted the bow string with a jade wrench, and then skillfully placed the arrow on the string, pointing the arrow diagonally toward the sky. He held his breath, and the sword and shield soldiers standing two steps in front of him let out heavy gasps. These sword and shield soldiers were physically strong, and their combat power exceeded that of the dead soldiers. Many of them would become Ba Ya La in the future. Buyangu held the bowstring close to his body, and could clearly hear the tight creak of the string. Without aiming, he suddenly released his right hand with the jade finger on it.
The light arrow in Buyantai's hand shot out like a meteor, flying over the defensive position built by the trenches and horses, and merged with other light arrows to form a dense shower of arrows, drawing a low parabola in the air, and quickly moved towards the distant earth wall. Pour away.
Buyantai listened carefully with his ears raised, and the screams of Nanmanzi came from ahead.
He knew that it was just his illusion. Whether the projectile could hit the target at this distance depended entirely on luck. He smiled, reached out and touched the dust on the mouse's beard, and took out an arrow from the arrow holder.
After three rounds of shooting, the surface of the low parapet was densely covered with arrow feathers. From a distance, it looked like a giant beast with black fur.
Behind the wall, more than twenty fire gunners were shot by light arrows and fell to the ground writhing in pain. Within eighty, the light arrows had strong lethality against unarmored targets.
The production of iron armor in Kaiyuan City is limited, and most of them are equipped for spearmen and archers. The gunmen only wear cotton armor, and many of them don't even wear armor.
Niu Luerzhen heard screams coming from the opposite side and felt that these rounds of projectiles were quite effective, so he said to the archer:
"Everyone shoots ten shots. After shooting, stand back and let the armored soldiers come forward!"
This Niu Lu'erzhen knew a lot about the Ming army's firearms, and knew that those fire blunderbuss fired very slowly, not to mention that they were particularly easy to explode and misfire. Within fifty steps, the warriors used heavy arrows to shoot at the Ming army's fire blunderbuss. , has never been at a disadvantage.
When the Zhengbai Banner warriors set out from Fushun, the flag leader Huang Taiji told Niu Lu Ezhen that the number of troops in Kaiyuan City would not exceed 5,000, and some soldiers would be left to defend the city. There would be no more soldiers assigned to guard the city gates. to a thousand people.
Niu Lu Ezhen estimated that the Ming army behind the earthen wall only had 200 people at most, and less than 100 gunmen. In addition to 300 armored soldiers, Niu Lu also had 200 soldiers, many of whom knew how to shoot arrows, so no matter what, This Ming army has no chance of winning.
What's more, there are more than a dozen Niulu warriors on standby.
The light-armored archers continued to shoot towards the earthen wall, and groups of armored soldiers wearing two layers of armor passed by them, carrying bows on their backs and weapons such as heavy knives and sticks, and rushed towards the Ming army's parapet.
Behind the parapet a hundred steps away from this group of armored soldiers, the surviving Ming army gunners were concentrating on loading and shooting. As the target got closer and closer, they almost hit the target with every shot.
Layers of Houjin soldiers came over like a tide. As more and more Houjin archers joined, it is convenient for reading next time, or enter " " in Baidu to enter this site.
