I thought so, I said so, but under the brutal artillery fire, the gunners of the Tianyou Army were bombarded with corpses all over the field, and they ran away with their heads in their hands. No matter how Jia Shikui shouted and cursed, no one was willing to take the initiative to die.
The gunners are not fools. Instead, they are all very smart, much smarter than the infantry. If the dog barbarians hit them with red cannons, they might be able to fight back.
But nowadays, objects that can fly into the sky can explode into a large area. The explosion just now killed dozens of people and injured hundreds of people. Anyone who goes up there will definitely be gone forever.
The twenty red cannons deployed in the Deshengmen area required nearly a thousand people to serve them. Plus the horses and vehicles for transporting ammunition and baggage, they occupied a considerable area.
Even if Jia Shikui ordered an immediate retreat, in less than half an hour, a group of people would have to stay where they were, unless they abandoned their heavy weapons and ran away like they did now.
But the Qing Dynasty was not very wise. There were a mountain of military orders, and any one who dared to escape from battle would be punished by military law. This was not as simple as Mogami said.
Even if he is a bannerman, he will be demoted in the lightest way, and in the worst case, he will be demoted. Once these surrendered generals and soldiers from Man Ming are punished, the result will be self-evident.
"Stop asking barbarians to succeed in a sneak attack! All of you must obey my orders. Anyone who dares to escape from the battlefield will be killed without mercy by this general!"
If he suffered two rounds of artillery fire from the Ming Dynasty defenders, his troops would collapse. Even if Kong Youde didn't say anything about his son, he would not be easy when he got to the emperor.
Jia Shikui knew this very well, so he decided to fight to the death. The dog barbarian used the red cannon in this way, and he must be risking the risk of exploding the barrel by firing rapidly. He was afraid that if he tried it again, the cannon would be blown to pieces.
However, the gunners did not have the courage and courage of the general, because they might not be beheaded for a while after escaping, but if they fought with the defenders at the top of the city, they would be blown to pieces immediately!
Gou Manzi's artillery fire was fast, accurate, and powerful, catching his own side off guard. Everyone originally thought that Gou Manzi did not dare to fight back, but they did not expect that the other party was deliberately showing weakness and was waiting to attack the Qing Dynasty King's division.
"General, pull all the cannons three miles away! Quick!"
Jia Shikui thought that Gou Manzi was gambling on his luck and risking the explosion of the red cannon to bombard his own side. Master Wang would have done the same and would have been beaten in vain if he stayed in place and fired slowly, so he could only retreat first.
However, a red-coat cannon can weigh anywhere from over a thousand kilograms to three or four thousand kilograms in weight. This cannot be pulled away by just pulling. Even if it is placed on a cannon cart, a pack horse must be pulled over to drag it.
A red cannon requires at least four pack horses to pull it. For the gunners of the God's Blessed Army, horses are not a worry. The difficulty is that the pack horses are frightened by the shelling and are more afraid of death than people.
"Boom boom boom..."
Just when the gunners finally calmed down the restless packhorses and were about to pull away the heavy and heavy red cannons, another batch of cannonballs came from the top of the city.
One of them hit a pack horse without missing a beat, splitting the unlucky pack horse in two from the middle of the body on the spot, and blood immediately sprayed all over the floor.
The gunner who was holding the horse was covered in blood. Looking at the horse's round head with eyes wide open, he was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground. He didn't even dare to breathe, and his hands began to tremble.
"Well done! Keep up the good work, brothers!"
"okay!"
With the wooden stakes as rulers and the Hongyi cannon as a reference, it was very easy for the artillery units at the head of the city to standardize. Moreover, they had already tried firing at the same gun position and faced targets at the same distance more than a dozen times, so they were very familiar with it. .
They were aiming at nothing else but the Gou Tatars' Hongyi cannon. It didn't matter how many Gou Tatars were on the opposite side, as long as they could kill the Red Yi cannon in the opponent's hand, they would be completely doomed.
As long as the Gou Tatars' long-range weapons are eliminated, then the Gou Tatars will either have to besiege the city for reinforcements, or they will have to send troops to attack the city. If you want to continue bombarding the capital, you must have Hongyi cannons.
Due to the thorough training in peacetime, during wartime, the entire process from cleaning, loading, firing, and resetting was done in one go without any sloppiness, and it was able to fully meet the two-minute rapid-fire requirement ordered by the Crown Prince.
Chen Guowei and his subordinate officers used telescopes on the top of the city to see the fire from the opposite position, thick smoke everywhere, and the dog Tatars howling like ghosts.
When the new bronze cannon maintains rapid fire every two minutes, the total projection per unit time is eight times that of the red cannon.
For the Dog Tartars, it was equivalent to suffering a devastating blow like a catastrophic disaster. They didn't even have time to fight back. The cannonballs fired from the city were one after another.
Due to the excellent effect of the shelling, the artillerymen were greatly encouraged when they saw this, and they were all very excited. After being bombarded by the Dog Tartars before, everyone was extremely worried, but now they finally waited until they could feel proud and proud.
The Dog Tartars may be good at close combat, but when it comes to artillery fire, especially crossfire, the artillery of the Donggong Guards can beat them to the point of calling them grandpas.
But at this time, even if the other side has kowtowed and plans to recognize themselves as their ancestors, these people at the top of the city will not give up.
These ignorant dog Tatars are here to kill their own brothers. How can we reject such kindness?
Since the dog tartars feel tired of living, there is no need for the brothers to be polite to them.
Just send them to the west with one shot. If one shot fails, just use a few more shots. It can be achieved.
There is another reason, that is, the prince sent a photographer to take pictures of the majestic appearance of shelling the dog Tatars!
You must not be lazy here. If the embarrassment appears in the photo, it will be very embarrassing. Everyone is still eagerly looking forward to the benefits next week!
If the cannons of the Dog Tartars can be wiped out in one breath, it will give the division commander and brigade commander a chance to breathe. The money the prince spent on the East Palace Guards was not in vain.
"You guys, have a good fight! I'll spend my own money to feed you some meat tonight!"
"Okay! Thank you brigade commander!"
Chen Guowei was very happy when he saw that his artillery bombardment was very effective. In order to encourage the artillerymen, he decided to reward them all.
If nothing else worked, he would still have the money to add a bowl of meat to each of the two companies of artillery.
A bowl of oily, braised fat meat cubes that crunches when chewed is the most attractive thing to eat.
The officers and soldiers of the two companies were nothing more than buying two big fat pigs.
What's more, Chen Guowei and the senior officers in the brigade can still enjoy "four pieces of pigs", which can be regarded as "one pig eats two".
At the moment, Chen Guowei is sitting near the window, drinking wine, eating salt and pepper peanuts, and watching his men beat the dog Tatars across the way to death. This scene is called "beautiful"~!
Just a year ago, he was frightened by the dog Tatars. Then he led troops to Dezhou with that good-for-nothing Ni Chong. Then he was tricked by Yang Sichang and was imprisoned and executed.
Unexpectedly, now that he has become a prince, he has no worries about food and clothing, and he has become the commander of an elite army. His subordinates can beat the Tatars until they are unable to fight back. It is really a trick of fate!
The Ming army began to counterattack in the morning. The reason was that they could take advantage of the good weather and excellent visibility to carry out artillery bombardment. Even if the artillery shells landed poorly, they could still make up for it by firing multiple times.
Twenty times in one hour, one hundred times in five hours, the ten new copper cannons can fire a thousand shells in total, and they can destroy the opponent's artillery position.
The principle of bombardment of the Donggong Guard Artillery Unit is that if the dog Tatars run away, they can't stop them, but all the Hongyi cannons must stay. If you want to run away with the people and the cannons, that's definitely not possible!
If you really want to take away the cannon, you can wait until it is turned into scrap metal. Gou Tatar really wants to recycle the scrap metal, and the Ming artillery can also be lenient.
Obtaining these Hongyi cannons is equivalent to giving the tiger more wings. Destroying these cannons is equivalent to breaking the tiger's wings.
When the tiger pounces, pluck out all its claws and teeth, and then cut off its tail. This will greatly reduce the threat the tiger poses to you.
"Master, let's withdraw, my brothers can't hold it anymore!"
The tooth general ran over to plead with Jia Shikui with a mournful face. The barbarian on the opposite side had gone crazy. In a short time, a batch of artillery shells came over, making the artillery team unable to parry. Dance in Chinese
Of the 900-man artillery team, after excluding the dead, wounded and those who escaped, there are now less than 400 soldiers still fighting on the artillery position.
Most of these people were still hiding behind and did not dare to come out. As soon as they got close to the cannon, they would be bombarded head-on by the defenders at the top of the city.
At first, under the supervision of Jia Shikui's personal troops, the gunners could still perform their duties under the artillery fire of the Ming Ming defenders, but after only two batches of artillery shells, everyone could no longer bear it.
The cannonballs have no eyes, so they can really kill people. Even a pack horse can be beaten in two, let alone a living person. No one expected to become a cripple with missing arms and legs before the city was broken.
The dog barbarians on the opposite side are protected by city walls, but they have nothing here. As long as they are bombarded, they can only resign themselves to their fate.
Fuck you old Jia Shikui!
If you want to die, die yourself!
We men won’t play with you anymore!
I haven't seen half a tael of silver, so it's a good idea to be bombarded first!
Only a fool would obey orders at this time!
The dog barbarian is very cunning. When everyone goes up to rescue the cannon, the dog barbarian explodes again on a large scale like just now, and everyone becomes wary.
If you have the ability, just go up to the city and take away all the artillery and gunners of the defenders at the top of the city. When you return in triumph, we men can kowtow to you and call you grandpa.
If you don't have the ability, then don't let your brothers send you to death. In private, everyone has already paid their respects to all the eighty-eight generations of Jia Shikui's ancestors.
"A bunch of bastards who are greedy for life and afraid of death! As a warrior of the Qing Dynasty, how can we be so contentious?"
At this time, Jia Shikui looked fearless. The barbarians were just resisting in the corner with their sharp artillery. As long as the artillery at the top of the city was eliminated, wouldn't the huge capital be within easy reach?
However, looking at the subordinates around him, they all fought bravely to be first during the robbery, for fear of falling behind and not being able to catch it. When it comes time to fight a tough battle, everyone shrinks back, fearing that they will be unlucky.
With this kind of virtue, you still want to divide the money after breaking the city?
Would the Eight Banners grandfathers above agree?
After all, does Broken City have anything to do with you?
They had just been bombarding for a day, and then they were beaten to death by the barbarians. Is this still the invincible Qing artillery team?
"Let me go up and grab the cannon! Whoever dares to fall behind! Let me chop them all to death! Go quickly!"
If he couldn't seize a single Hongyi cannon, the emperor would definitely blame himself. Thinking of this, Jia Shikui became furious. Before blaming the higher-ups, he would first execute everyone who kept giving orders.
"嗻!"
It's not that easy to make a living in the Qing Dynasty. Everyone above them is smarter than the last, so General Ya can only bite the bullet and lead a group of soldiers to catch those cowards.
"The barbarian is loading ammunition! Move the cannon away quickly!"
The Ming army had just shelled once, and Jia Shikui used this opportunity to warn his men that as long as they were fast enough, they could still safely transport the cannon in front of them to the rear.
After seeing several of their companions being hacked to death by Jia Shikui's soldiers, a group of gunners immediately plucked up the courage and rushed to the gun positions one after another, getting into trouble.
If the horse doesn't obey the command, you can only use people to pull it back. But to pull a red cannon weighing thousands of kilograms, a cannon cannot be pulled without twenty people.
The main reason is that after multiple rounds of firing, the superimposed recoil caused the wheels to rut, and now the wheel hubs are stuck in them and difficult to transfer backwards.
It's okay to pull back one door after another, but will the barbarian give himself such a long time?
Obviously not!
Not only would they not, the defenders didn’t want them to take away even a single cannon!
The interval between firings at the top of the city was only a short two minutes, two and a half minutes at most, and even three minutes was rare.
"Boom~!"
Just when a Hongyi cannon was about to take the lead, another batch of cannonballs came from the top of the city.
Fortunately, the man and horse responsible for towing the cannon were not injured, and the cannon was also fine.
Just when everyone was congratulating themselves on their good luck, they found that the wheel was stuck in the crater and could not get out. It was just that small!
No matter how hard they tried, it didn't work, so the gunners were so anxious that they hurriedly put rocks in the pit to get the wheel out.
"Quick! Push harder!"
In order to escape the dangerous situation as soon as possible, a group of people and the pack horses used all their strength to stay in this ghost place for a long time. If they were not beaten to death, they would be scared to death.
When we deploy the artillery positions again, we can't get so close to the city. If the dog barbarians are concerned about this, we won't even have time to run away.
The surrounding companions did not have the same luck as this group of troops, or the gunner was hit so hard that his nose and mouth bleeded, and he fell to the ground. Either the gun carriage is damaged or the gun body is broken.
The movements of these people were already very fast, but the barbarian's shooting range was faster than theirs, and the two sides seemed to be competing.
Jia Shikui was also very puzzled, why could he only hear the sound of Goumanzi's cannon but not see its cannon exploding?
Could it be that Gou Manzi used a spell that Shenzi didn't know yet?
With such a rate of fire, it doesn't explode the barrel, which is a wonder!
But this is also a good reason. You can report it to the prince when you go back.
But what made Jia Shikui feel extremely embarrassed was that his men rescued only one red cannon and left the rest on the gun emplacement, along with hundreds of gunner corpses.
In less than half an hour, nineteen red cannons were lost.
This battle was almost the heaviest loss suffered by the Artillery Corps of the God's Blessed Army since its establishment.
The obedient king Kong Youde didn't know what to do and sat on his chair, speechless for a long time.
This almost cost the Tianyou Army more than half of their wealth. Although they still had bargaining chips to make a comeback, there was no doubt that Goumanzi's artillery fired faster than his own red cannon. If they continued to shoot at each other, they would be suppressed.
Unless the red cannon has a longer range than Goumanzi's artillery, even if it is deployed in another place, its position will be exposed as long as it fires, which will lead to Goumanzi's artillery fire.
His Tianyou Army has always been known for its sharp artillery fire. Since its formation, it has been the best choice for the Qing army to bombard the Ming army. Its record is better than that of the Han army and the Tianyou Army.
But now it is quite difficult to encounter such a situation.
If the Ming army's artillery at the top of the city cannot be eliminated as soon as possible, I am afraid that our red artillery will not be of use in the future...
