When the Qing army entrenched in the Xiaoling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty was bewitched by Sun Sike, a good slave of the Qing Dynasty who was willing to give up money or life, the soldiers of the Ming tycoon army outside Dajinmen were sweating profusely using their "trench tactics."
It is to use a short-handled iron shovel called an "engineer's shovel" to dig outside the first trench outside the Golden Gate... and to dig in front of Zhu Yuanzhang's grave. This behavior is indeed They are quite rich, but all they dig out is soil and nothing else good. And they didn't dig too deep. They just dug a shallow trench along the trench, and piled the excavated soil on the north side of the shallow trench to form a low earth wall.
If a man over five feet tall knelt half-kneeling in a shallow ditch and then straightened up, his shoulders should be higher than the low wall.
If a man of the same height stood in a shallow trench, the earthen wall would probably reach his chest.
If there was another person standing outside the trench, the wall would only reach his waist at most.
In other words, if there are three rows of fusiliers standing in the trench in a kneeling position, in a standing position in the trench, and in a standing position outside the trench, all the fusiliers can be moved without blocking each other. Point the guns forward and fire at the same time!
Since the fusiliers can form a denser formation, if three rows of fusiliers can fire at the same time, the scene can only be described as a rain of bullets!
The low earth wall and shallow trench will become the support for the fusiliers to avoid artillery and save their lives on the battlefield. This is not the era of solid artillery shells. Line infantry can fight their chests against the enemy's solid shells. Now is the era of candy and explosives. If there is no "earth trench" (earth wall plus trench) to block it, then an entire team of infantrymen carrying flintlocks will be killed!
In the historical era of smoothbore artillery bombardment, it was very common to fire artillery for an hour or two before the infantry attack. If the candy cannon was replaced by a "Kaqiu Sha" and blasted for an hour or two...then would anyone dare to be an infantryman?
So Zhu Heji and Zhuge Zhengyang thought for a long time and finally "came up" with this genius trench tactic.
When this tactic is fully popularized, the infantry of the Ming Dynasty will have to have an engineering shovel in each hand, and they will all become "country masters". When they go to the battlefield, they will first dig soil and trenches, and then use the "trenches" to protect themselves!
Chen Yongxia, Chen Yonghua's younger brother, is the general of the First Musket Battalion, which is also the commander of the first battalion. He was originally a young man sent by the Yanping Palace to Zhu Heji to learn "making sugar". After returning, he worked as a "pharmacist" for a period of time. Later, he went to Huangpu Military Academy to further his studies and became Zhu Heji's disciple again... ...With this "double master-apprentice" relationship, Chen Yongxia did not return to the Zheng family army, but joined Zhu Heji's "Central Army", and became the only three fusilier battalion staff generals one.
Now, like the hundreds of soldiers under his command, he has taken off his cloth armor and scarlet robe. With his bare arms, he is wielding an engineering shovel and digging soil, digging trenches and building walls!
The current Qing army's firepower is not weak. There are many Weiyuan general cannons that can fire large explosive shells!
And in this morning's battle, Chen Yongxia also saw the explosive power of the large explosive bombs fired by the Qing army's Weiyuan General's artillery...and those were only black powder bullets and not several times more powerful. Sugar pills.
If the trenches are not dug wider and the walls are not piled thicker, then the Qing army will use sugar bombs, and his men will suffer heavy losses.
Just as Chen Yongxia was piling a shovelful of soil on the low parapet, he suddenly heard a roar of rolling thunder, and then a cry that seemed to erupt from his chest: "Shell bombardment..."
Chen Yongxia suddenly raised his head and saw a dozen black spots appearing in the northeastern sky, flying towards him at an extremely fast speed.
He immediately understood that this was a bomb fired by the Qing army's Weiyuan General's artillery!
And the firepower is several times stronger than before!
"Avoid the artillery!" Chen Yongxia shouted, and quickly rushed to his position on the inside of the low wall with the engineer shovel, then took his cloth armor and saucer-shaped helmet placed against the wall, and then leaned against the low wall with his back. The wall sat down.
At the same time, the warning suona also sounded. The fusiliers who were immersed in digging the soil all stopped what they were doing, and then took their positions at an extremely fast speed - they all had their own positions in the "trench", either against the low wall or against the "trench". The other side of the trench.
As soon as Chen Yongxia put a cast saucer-shaped helmet on his head, there was a huge roar above his head!
He looked up and found a huge fireball suddenly appearing in the air dozens of feet away from his head!
Seeing the size of the fireball, Chen Yongxia's expression became a little heavy - this was a "sugar bomb" of the Qing army!
As soon as Chen Yongxia thought of this, clouds of smoke and fireballs suddenly rose from the Ming army's "trench position". Judging from the size of the smoke and fireballs, they should be expensive "sugar bullets"!
Sun Sike is also willing to risk this time! Not only did they take out all the silver to boost the morale of the troops, but they also took out all the precious sugar and boiled it into "sugar medicine", which was all put into the cast iron cartridge cases used by Weiyuan General's artillery and the cast iron grenade hammers used by the infantry.
Kang Mazi didn't give much sugar to Sun Sike, but it was still quite powerful when used in a few hours of fighting.
More than thirty Weiyuan general cannons opened fire at the same time, sending wave after wave of "sugar bullets" towards the Ming army's position.
Although at least two-thirds of the artillery shells exploded in mid-air or simply turned into dumb bombs that could not explode, nearly one-third of the artillery shells still exploded around the Ming army's "trench".
Perhaps there was something wrong with the Qing army's sugar medicine formula, and the smoke from the explosion was really loud, and soon the Ming army's "trench defense line" was enveloped in gray-white smoke. The strong smell of gunpowder smoke filled the battlefield, flowing slowly and making people breathless.
From a distance, the Ming army's position seemed to be submerged in gunpowder smoke.
The Qing army really spent a lot of money on this artillery bombardment, which lasted for a full hour plus three quarters of an hour! Nearly two thousand rounds of sugar bombs were fired one after another, and the bombardment stopped abruptly until three o'clock in the morning.
While the bombardment was in progress, large groups of Qing troops had already formed phalanxes one after another on the Shinto between the Golden Gate and Sun Quan's tomb.
The morale of these Qing soldiers was not very high when they first went into battle, but the continuous shelling for one hour and three quarters of an hour raised their morale to the highest level.
When the bombardment lasted for almost an hour, the clear demons who were waiting in line to attack had already begun to cheer.
They didn't expect that their side would have such strong firepower... The Ming army that was bombarded by artillery must have suffered heavy losses, and it's not certain that they were all dead!
So when the sound of the artillery stopped and the drums of the advance sounded, these demons who had been waiting in line for almost an hour shouted the slogan "Fight the traitors and seize Jiangning", one after another, and the pass had been cleaned up long ago. The three entrances of the Golden Gate are unimpeded and enter the battlefield.
The second trench outside the Golden Gate has been filled with sandbags to create three channels, and the anti-horse guns blocking the road have been moved away.
In the "trench" of the Ming army, Chen Yongxia was squatting in the "trench" with his head in his hands, his head and face covered with dirt. As soon as the bombardment stopped, General Chen Dashen, who had already put on his cloth armor, jumped up and walked around the "trench" battle line he was responsible for, shouting loudly: "Everyone, get up, everyone get up... ...Qingyao is coming to die!
If we win this battle, we will all be the founding heroes of the new Ming Dynasty, and everyone will be rewarded! Everyone, stand up and form a three-row shooting formation! "
When Chen Yongxia shouted these words, he was actually worried because he didn't know how many casualties the Qing army's shelling caused. However, when most of the Fusiliers who were huddled in the "trench" to avoid the cannons were urged by the cursing President Qian and General to stand up and form a team, he finally felt relieved.
Obviously, the "earth trench" anti-cannon effect is very good!
Can we just look at close-range volleys from flintlock muskets and bayonet assaults now?
