They were unable to defeat the Ming army in close combat, which made all the armored soldiers very frustrated and desperate. This was their own strength.
The armor of the dog barbarians seemed to be much thicker than the armors they wore, and the swords on their waists seemed to be useless at all.
Even the head was completely covered by the iron piece, only a pair of eyes were exposed, and the protective area was much larger than his own.
The parts that could be fatal are covered by thick armor, so how to start?
When you cut it with a knife, it felt like cutting an iron plate.
The waist knife can be used to chop stones, wooden boards, and iron sheets, but if it is used to chop iron plates, there is no chance of success.
At most, it can leave a semi-shallow mark on it, but this will have no effect at all.
Even if the opponent stands still and lets you cut him, and after an hour, you have made hundreds of cuts, and your arms are sore, you may not be able to kill the man in armor!
How can you fight in the field while wearing such heavy armor? ? ?
At first, many Qing soldiers did not understand and believed that their side would definitely use its mobility advantage to achieve a complete victory in the field battle.
Later, after suffering losses one after another, I gradually came to realize that they would not fight with me in the field at all!
Just fight in the streets and walk a few hundred steps. In this way, the disadvantage of heavy armor can be ignored.
Thick armor can greatly improve a soldier's defense and reduce his own casualties.
The corresponding disadvantage is that it moves slowly, consumes physical energy, and does not last too long.
Because of their heavy armor, the infantry of the Zhao and Song armies frequently suffered losses in field battles against the cavalry of northern countries.
However, when defending the city, the shortcomings of the armor were well covered up, causing the Northern Army to often lose troops when attacking the city.
The new armor of the Ming army borrowed the style of the Song army to improve defense and give up the mobility of infantry.
When defending the city, there is no need to emphasize so-called mobility. The longest distance is only three to five miles.
But this strange design gave Ming soldiers great confidence and morale when the infantry of both sides fought in close combat.
No matter how the Qing army chopped and shot, they could not penetrate the armor of the Ming soldiers.
If you can't penetrate the armor, you won't be able to kill people. Instead, you will be defeated by repeated counterattacks by the Ming army.
The armored soldiers under Wang Shixuan took advantage of the slow movement of the Ming army's infantry and divided and surrounded them into many small pieces during the melee, trying to eat them one by one.
However, as the battle continued, the Ming army formed a circular formation with squads and platoons as units. The outer layer used the bayonet on the musket to defend the enemy. The inner layer could also be loaded with ammunition or throw grenades directly outside.
The waist saber of the Qing army was shorter than the Ming army's musket itself. After all the Ming army's muskets were equipped with bayonets, they were more than a foot longer than the waist saber.
This is a big advantage in close combat. Unless the veteran is particularly skilled in swordsmanship, he will usually be stabbed by the bayonet before the Qing army can hit the opponent with his sword.
The Ming army's bayonet tactics were very simple. A single soldier would stab in a running style, while a group of soldiers would stab in a back-to-back style. If there was a numerical advantage, it would be easier to kill the enemy in person.
The goal is also very clear, that is, to stab directly in the face. In this place, Dog Tartar has no armor at all, and as long as it is stabbed, Dog Tartar will be seriously injured at least.
This made the armored soldiers completely uncomfortable with this style of fighting. Because they had never practiced before or encountered enemies with similar fighting styles, they felt that it was very awkward to fight.
The dog barbarian kept throwing greetings at his face. As long as he was stabbed, his face would be disfigured at the least. If he was unlucky, he would be stabbed directly in the brain by the sharp knife.
Hearing the screams of their injured comrades, the armored soldiers who were still fighting were frightened.
It was even more horrifying to see a person whose eyes were poked out, white liquid leaking out of his brain, and his mouth was still talking.
When they kill barbarian soldiers or civilians, they naturally won't have a similar feeling of horror.
But if the same thing happens to me, I am determined not to accept it, let alone bear it.
Not only can't get a share of the money in Man Ming Imperial City, but he also has to risk his own life in it.
No matter how much I thought about it, I felt it was not worth it. The more I thought about it, the more panicked I became.
As more and more companions were injured and killed on the spot, under the brave fighting of the Ming army, the armored soldiers who rushed out finally couldn't resist it and began to run back to their own formation.
Naturally, Wang Zhilun's men would not let go of this perfect opportunity. They fired at the prey's back, and out of the nearly three hundred armored soldiers, a hundred or so survived.
The rest either died on the spot or were being killed with bayonets by the Ming army.
Seeing Wang Shixuan angry and anxious, he no longer knew how long he could hold on to this line of defense.
According to Gou Manzi's style of play, Wang Shi couldn't win with long-range shots, and he didn't have much chance of winning if he charged in at close range.
The shelling and close combat just now probably cost him no less than three to four hundred men.
For the total force, it is not too much.
But after these people were hit hard by the enemy, I am afraid that few of them can survive to the end.
Nearly half of the casualties were killed, and the remaining people had other thoughts in order to survive...
Because he had too much blood debt in his hands, Wang Shixuan had no intention of surrendering to the Ming army.
Rather than being caught and executed late by the barbarian, it is better to take this opportunity to be loyal to the emperor!
Even for the sake of my family members far away in Liaodong, I can only make such a plan now.
Even if he died in the war, his family could still live a good life.
Otherwise, if you can survive, your whole family will be killed.
Fortunately, there are no signs of a full-scale collapse of the headquarters yet, at least it can continue to persevere.
"Uh-huh!"
Just when Wang Shixuan was in a dilemma, Jia La'e Zhen Pan Xiao and the Tianyou Army with three Niulu arrived at the battlefield. They arrived at a very timely manner. For Wang Shixuan, it was like a rain after a long drought.
"you……"
"I am here to reinforce your department on the orders of the Emperor!"
"Very good! Very good!"
After receiving the news of the emergency in the city, Huang Taiji didn't believe it at first, because nearly 20,000 warriors had been sent in through the underground cave.
Among them, the Xianghuang Banner has 3,000, the Zhenglan Banner has 4,000, and the Zhenghui Banner has 1,500. A total of 8,580 banner soldiers, plus the Han soldiers from other departments, can at least stand firm.
Just wait until daybreak to cross the Caohe River and take the Manming Imperial City directly.
Even if he cannot capture the imperial city for the time being, he can send troops for reinforcements.
However, the actual battle situation was far beyond the expectations of Huang Taiji and his four advisers. The Ming army actually crossed Caohe and drove the Qing army in the city back.
The report said that Man Ming dispatched dozens of airships and hundreds of invulnerable armored chariots, which resulted in the defeat of all the king's divisions.
Huang Taiji had never seen an airship, nor had any of the civil servants and generals under his command. At this time, his curiosity even exceeded the idea of increasing troops.
Outside the main camp of Abate's headquarters in Xizhimen, you can use a telescope to see the true face of the airship in Mount Lu. It is indeed a work of miraculous craftsmanship.
Looking at it from a distance will make people feel extremely shocked, let alone if this object actually appears above their heads. It would be a bold person not to worship it.
Man Ming really created a flying thing, which would be difficult to handle, especially for the king's soldiers in the city, the pressure in their hearts must have increased sharply.
Since the strength of Hauge's Zhenglan Banner was almost depleted, Huang Taiji ordered Abatai to mobilize two Jiala's Zhenghui Banner Eighth Banner soldiers to support the front fighting in the Fuchengmen area.
At the same time, Du Du's gray banner was ordered to mobilize 3,000 men to fight. Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming's Tianyou Army sent out six Niulu, and Zhishun Gongshang's Tianyou Army sent out three Niulu.
The Han army's Zhengbai and Zhenglan banners each sent out a Jia La, with a total of nearly 12,000 reinforcements. This should be able to help the king's division in the city stabilize its position and launch a counterattack.
At the same time, the banners of Tianyou Army, Tianyou Army, and Han Army were ordered to carry 300 artillery pieces of various types and corresponding ammunition to help the king's division in the city contain the attack of the Ming army.
The Heavenly Blessing Army and the Heavenly Blessing Army could no longer launch any attack in the cave. They could only think of a way in the hole, retreat a little, dig down first, and then dig forward.
In this way, we can bypass the damn trench dug by the dog barbarian in the city, but if we go through this process, it will take at least a whole day and night, and we will not be able to catch up with the rescue.
As a last resort, Du Du ordered three soldiers to enter the city from the cave here in Hauge, so that they could enter the city faster.
It was not easy to walk from the Andingmen area to Fuchengmen, and then drilled through a mile-long underground hole, which took a lot of effort.
What made the reinforcements angry was that the idiot gunner who did not know which unit actually exposed the ammunition that had finally been transported into the city to the firepower of the barbarian.
After discovering the important target, the Ming army at the top of the city immediately launched a violent bombardment, which not only caused the accumulated ammunition to explode, but also killed more than a hundred people on the spot.
It also caused the cave to collapse, burying many soldiers alive in the cave.
I had no choice but to exit where I was and find another hole in the ground to enter the city.
Unexpectedly, the other exit of the cave was blocked by Ming army artillery fire, and no one could get out at all.
If one goes up, the other will die!
Get in a pile and die!
Even if he wears armor with three layers of iron plates, he will never be able to withstand the heavy bombardment of the cannon.
After losing nearly one Niu Lu soldier, the Qing King's division here was completely at a standstill.
After several rounds of firing, the artillery fire from the defenders at the top of the city landed extremely accurately, all within five steps of the cave entrance.
As soon as the Qing soldiers showed their heads, unless they slowly lay down on the ground and pretended to be dead, they would be greeted by a storm of artillery fire.
The two sides battled wits and courage like this all morning, until the Qing army in the cave no longer planned to continue playing.
After some tossing and turning, it was not until the afternoon that Pan Xiaohe, who was exhausted both physically and mentally, arrived at the front line with his troops.
This is true for all the armored soldiers under his command. The dog barbarian has not seen any of them, and his body is about to fall apart...
After receiving a large number of reinforcements, the Zhenghong Banner armored soldiers, who had previously loosened their will, became firm again.
It seems that the emperor has not abandoned them. As long as fresh troops can be continuously transported from outside the city, they can hold on until they launch a counterattack.
Pan Xiaohe looked at the devastated surrounding buildings and many of Wang Shixuan's men who looked ragged, and knew how brutal the battle was.
The corpses of soldiers who died in battle can be seen everywhere, there are so many that there is no need to gather them together, the ground is stained brown with blood, and the original earth color cannot be seen anymore.
Many people's eyes were dull, their expressions were slumped, and their lips were chapped. Without receiving orders, they froze there like wooden sculptures, motionless.
It would be fine if the Han army was like this, and so was the small number of Zhenglan Banner men responsible for supervising the battle. The arrogance and clamor of the past seemed to be gone forever.
Pan Xiaohe has not yet fought against Gou Barbarian, so he doesn't know what the opponent's fighting strength is. Judging from his own sluggish state, it seems to be very bad...
"I'm sorry! You still won't surrender! Everyone, stand back and throw white grenades at me!"
The company commanders and platoon commanders who led the attack saw that the dog Tatars on the opposite side were still resisting desperately and had no intention of surrendering at all. The words they just said to persuade them to surrender were in vain. They were just playing the piano to others.
In this case, let the dog Tatars have a taste of the good things tailor-made by the prince!
White grenades are snake venom grenades. In order to avoid red-green blindness and accidentally throw them, the warheads are painted white.
It had not been bright before, and there was melee fighting in some places. Every combat unit was afraid of accidentally injuring friendly troops, so they stayed there.
A large area across the way is now filled with countless dog Tatars, and there are still a large number of them surviving after the shelling.
Then there is no need to keep these highly poisonous things before it gets dark. Throw them out early, which can be regarded as settling a worry...
Worried that the other party would turn around and run away after hearing the word "snake venom", the officers, under Wang Zhilun's order, changed the word "snake venom" to "white".
But the actual meaning is the same, the purpose is to let the stubborn dog Tatar die early, so that they can finish their work early and collect money.
The charge of ten grenades is equivalent to one explosive bag, but if one person throws one, the number is much, and if there are thousands, it can also be equivalent to a large-scale artillery attack.
The advantage of the snake venom grenade over the ordinary model is that it can be poisoned by just scratching the skin, while the latter can only kill or even reduce the number of people by driving the iron beads into the target's bones.
"Boom boom boom boom..."
"Ah~!"
A series of explosions, accompanied by unusually abrupt and various ups and downs of screams, resounded throughout the battlefield.
Since the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers on the front line all wore tactical gloves, they rarely lost their hands when dropping bombs.
Even if there were, the officer supervising the soldier behind the bomb would immediately pick it up and throw it out.
The fuse burned for five seconds, more than enough time to make up for the bombardier's mistake.
Excluding the time for the grenade to fly in the air, even if the Qing soldiers saw the grenade flying over and landed at their feet, they would not have this time to pick it up and throw it back.
The armored soldiers gave up the initiative to attack and hid behind the ruins of the wall. From time to time, they fired cold arrows at the attacking Ming soldiers. It was best to hit them, but it didn't matter if they missed.
If it really doesn't work, no matter how close the troops are, they will neither surrender nor attack anyway. They are in a passive defensive state. They seem to be very reluctant, but the attacking Ming army does not take it lightly.
If you can use grenades to drive these damn reptiles out of the bunker, everything will be fine. Otherwise, you have to conduct a careful search one by one, which is time-consuming and laborious, and you have to worry about being attacked by dog Tatars.
"It's broken! The mallet is poisonous!"
An armored soldier noticed that his comrade who had been shot began to foam at the mouth. Such symptoms were indistinguishable from poisoning. He immediately shouted to remind everyone to be vigilant.
"It's so poisonous!"
Soon, some people also saw similar symptoms. An injured person was not seriously injured at first. He only suffered a flesh wound on his arm, but it didn't take long for his eyes to turn white and he died with eyes closed.
After they shouted, more and more armored soldiers who were injured by the explosion began to show symptoms such as rolling their eyes, foaming at the mouth, unable to speak, and kicking their legs.
Most of the people who saw the incident believed that it was caused by the explosive mallet thrown by the dog barbarian. It must contain something highly poisonous, otherwise hundreds of people would not be in a similar state.
The number of people poisoned is not too large, but the psychological pressure caused is considerable. No one wants to be directly poisoned to death.
These barbarians are really cruel and ruthless, and they clearly don’t want their own soldiers to survive!
"boom……"
As more and more mallets were thrown over and exploded, the Zhenghong Banner armored soldiers who had just regained their confidence were blown away again.
No one has been to hell, but now, maybe you can experience it in advance!
This is a battlefield without emotions. The blood is getting colder and the scorched earth is heating up!
The sound of explosions in my ears kept coming and going, and my heart seemed anxious yet peaceful!
No one wants to die immediately, but has to embark on the road to death!
The various thoughts in my mind were gradually replaced by one thought, and that was despair!
