Looking at the few shield vehicles that were still advancing tenaciously under the bombardment of artillery fire, a smile flashed across Chen Zheng's face.
Today, the Tatar soldiers died in person, and they were still Tatars with yellow flags who belonged to the personal bodyguards of the slave chief Huang Taiji. This made Chen Zheng very satisfied, and it also proved that his strength is worthy of being taken seriously by the Tatars, and they will not use trash fish to rotten shrimps anymore. to deal with yourself.
But after all, Xianghuang Banner was the royal force under the direct command of the slave chief Huang Taiji, and its combat power should not be underestimated. Chen Zheng also dealt with it carefully.
He strictly ordered not to fire artillery without permission, but let the Tatars advance without any obstruction to make them despise him, and then fired at close range with a musket to prevent the Tatars from passing the second trench.
It was not until the Tatar shield vehicles pushed through the second trench in a sparse manner that they ordered the artillery of all sizes to level their muzzles and destroy the Tatar shield vehicles with level fire. Under the bombardment of this round of artillery salvos, the Tatar shield vehicles were Not much left.
However, at this time, the Tatars with yellow flags were only more than fifty steps away from the low wall. Whether or not they had a shield car actually meant little to them.
Just hearing the sound of war drums at the foot of Changling Mountain, Prince Duduo of Henan in the Qing Dynasty was already a little anxious, apparently urging the Tatar soldiers to step up their attack on the Ming army's position in Changling Mountain.
At this time, the military discipline of the Qing army was very strict. Once the order for a full-scale attack was given, everyone on the front line must not look back.
The drums of the Chinese army were beating, and they were beating faster and faster. Under the rapid urging of the drums, the Tatar soldiers with yellow flags who were not injured by the flying artillery also hurriedly urged the wrapped slaves who were still alive. , lifted up the two-foot-long large wooden board and rushed towards the third trench.
The shelling just now left the coated slaves in shock. At this moment, they were urged to lay the last trench in front, where they were closer to the Ming army behind the low wall, which meant that the danger of death was greater.
However, the Tatar soldiers had no regard for their lives and killed dozens of timid slaves on the spot, and then frightened the rest.
If you rush to lay a trench, you will most likely die, but if you don't, you will die immediately. If you choose between possible death and immediate death, as long as you are not a fool, I believe you will choose the former without hesitation.
The coated slaves are just a group of vulnerable people enslaved by the Tatars, they are not fools!
They roared and rushed up the last trench as if their lives were dead. Even if the guards behind the low wall on the opposite side fired waves of bullets, they could not stop the crazy slaves.
Tian Mingyu watched the large wooden boards being erected and laid in front of the third trench. He couldn't help but feel anxious: "Damn, are these people crazy? They don't even know how to avoid firecrackers. The last trench It was just laid over here!"
Chen Zheng watched all this calmly from the side. He was not as anxious as Tian Mingyu. The trench could only delay the Tatar attack, but could not completely stop the Tatar front.
Otherwise, why would we need the low wall and the nearly 10,000 Xuanfu soldiers behind?
Drink the northwest wind and watch the fun?
This is not the style of the Xuanfu Army!
Tian Mingyu asked anxiously from the side: "My general, how about we throw away the 'enemies of ten thousand people' and bomb him? The Tatars are paved with wooden planks. I'm sure they will all be blown to pieces with one bomb!"
"That's inappropriate. The grenadiers in the car camp can't throw it at a distance of twenty paces."
Chen Zheng rejected Tian Mingyu's proposal without thinking.
He turned around and looked at his men, and said calmly: "Don't worry, it's not a pity to die for these soldiers, but our real enemies today are the Tatars waiting to charge behind them."
Chen Zheng then said to him in an orderly tone: "Go to the front of the formation and take command. Remember it for me. When the Tatars rush onto the planks, the gun soldiers will fire again."
He continued: "There were also Tatars who rushed through the ditch and within twenty steps, the gun soldiers stopped shooting and threw big rocks instead."
"Here!"
Tian Mingyu received the order loudly, turned around and ran towards the front trench.
After he left, Chen Zheng ordered the messenger to go and inform Du Chungang, the Qian Commander of the Chaoying, that if he was asked to command the grenadiers, they must wait until the Tatars rushed within ten steps of the trench wall before throwing thousands of enemies, so as to avoid surrendering. Not too far away to effectively kill the Tatars.
Chen Zheng even warned: "Remember to tell Du Chungang that we have ten thousand enemies, but if we use one, we will lose one. Ask him to give me more precision. Don't dare to waste it!"
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In the telescope, Chen Zheng, the commander of the Monolith Infantry Battalion of the Xuanfu Army, saw clearly that the Tatar soldiers with yellow flags in Manchuria were rushing forward like a tide under the urging of war drums.
He understands that this wave of fighting is destined to be more intense and cruel!
Chen Zheng's eyes flashed with cold light, and he thought to himself: "If these Tatars don't give up, then let them come over."
He believed that on such a strong defense line, no matter how fierce and brave the Tatars were, they would shed all their blood and wring out their flesh and blood.
Chen Zheng put down his telescope, looked at the Tatars attacking the mountain formation with no end in sight, and said silently: "Humph. Today's Changling Mountain is not the Jia Zhuang of the past."
Thinking of the battle in Jiazhuang that year, Chen Zheng felt as if a huge boulder was pressing on his chest, and he couldn't help but yell:
"Come on... fight!
Even if you hit your head and get bleeding, you can know what it means to be as solid as a rock! "
I saw that in front of the low wall all the way to Dan's feet, there was a turbulent flow of Tatar soldiers, covering the slopes on both sides of the north and south sides of the east side of Changling Mountain.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."
The moment the Tatar soldiers rushed from the front row and stepped onto the wooden plank, a clear and sharp swan-tone trumpet sounded, and the Xuanfu gunmen behind the low wall fired the first round of volleys.
In the spray of fire, a cloud of smoke rolled upwards. The Tatar soldiers who rushed from the front row fell to the ground and struggled even if they were holding shields to protect their vitals.
But after all, the Tatars have a large number of people, not to mention that Duduo is determined to win. They have spent a lot of money today, how can they be easily repulsed.
Although a piece of the front row fell, the back row quickly replenished and rushed across the wooden plank bridge over the last trench in an instant. They rushed up against the cannons and cannons of the Ming army guarding the mountain.
One thing that is very strange today is that the Ming army only fired two rounds of artillery after the shield vehicle passed the first trench, and there was no movement after that.
Even Prince Duduo of Henan in the Qing Dynasty, who was watching the battle at the foot of the mountain with a telescope, didn't understand what this meant?
However, he was eager to attack the mountain, so he still ordered the Chinese army to beat the war drums, and the warriors with the yellow flag tried their best to fight forward and capture the mountain as soon as possible.
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"Everyone, give up the firecrackers and rocks and roll the wood, come on!"
On the front line of defense of the Xuanfu Army in Changling Mountain, Qian Zongtian Mingyu from the left side of the Dushi Infantry Battalion shouted loudly.
It turned out that he commanded the gunmen to fire two rounds of volleys in succession, but he only had a total of 456 fire cannons on his left side. Even the Yunzhou II-type cannons, which are extremely convenient to load and fire, could not be fired in such a short time. Inside, being able to fire two rounds of volleys is already rare.
This is also thanks to the Xuanfu army's hard training on weekdays. If it were any other Ming army, I am afraid that even a salvo would have been messed up!
Although these two rounds of volleys killed hundreds of Tatar soldiers, they could not stop the Tatars from surging up. After all, there were too many of them.
Tian Mingyu ordered the gun soldiers to quickly discard their fire guns, and from a high position, he threw the large stones and logs prepared in advance. At the same time, Tian Mingyu shouted to the four cold soldiers of the two divisions of the ministry: "Every hundred generals quickly return to their positions." , cold soldiers and killers are ready. Listen to my military orders, when we charge, you have to keep up.
Let’s remember it all, that jump-starter will be punished by military law! "
Almost at the same time, hundreds of large rocks with sharp corners and sections of thick logs rolled down the slope.
The slope of this section is gentle down and steep up, and after the first trench, another longitudinal trench was added, dividing the Tatars attacking the mountain into teams, making it difficult to support each other, while the defenders were more difficult to support each other. Easy to defend.
Nowadays, these rock piles and the like can still be used when defending the city, but they cannot be used for defense in the wild and flat areas.
But it was different now. Due to the influence of the mountain at that time, the slope was much steeper than the section at the foot of the mountain. The defenders almost did not need to throw them vigorously. They only needed to lift the big rocks and logs over the low wall. height, just push it down along the wall slope.
These big rocks and logs will naturally continue to swoop down at an accelerated speed.
In fact, at this distance of more than ten steps, the attacking Tatar soldiers could connect with each other and intercept the falling large rocks and logs. However, there were too many large rocks and logs rolling down, and it was impossible to intercept them.
For a moment, the charging Tatar soldiers were in a mess again, but after all, they were soldiers who had fought in old battles. They were suddenly startled at first, and then found a way to deal with it.
There were three or five of them in front, and the large shields in their hands were dug deeply into the ground. The rest of them hid behind them and held their backs tightly. In this way, a strong small shield array was formed.
Although their method is indeed effective, it also requires the cooperation of everyone to form a joint force to withstand the falling rocks and logs. Several shield formations were hit by the falling rocks and logs just because of a slight negligence. There was chaos, and the Tatar soldiers mixed with the stones and continued to roll down.
There were also many Tatar soldiers who did not react in time and were hit in the legs, feet or waist, and were also rushed down the hillside.
After a while, the drums of the Chinese Army sounded, and the Xuanfu Army gun soldiers guarding the mountain stopped throwing stones and other objects. They picked up the Yunzhou II-type gun next to them and ran back into the second stone wall thirty steps away. .
Teams of cold-blooded killers holding shields and knives, or holding long spears, took the place where the gun soldiers were just now, preparing to rush out and fight the Tatar thieves in a bloody battle.
Then I saw the gunmen running behind the second low wall, and a group of broad-shouldered men ran out from inside. They only wore red Ming Dynasty military uniforms, but none of them wore armor.
What's even more strange is that they are not equipped with any weapons. They just carry a heavy and strong frame in their hands, and a thick cowhide belt around their waists, and there are various kinds of fire sticks stuck in them. Each of them is. As many as five or six.
This is the grenadier unique to the Xuanfu Military Vehicle Camp of the Ming Dynasty!
As a special branch of the Xuanfu Army, it rarely appears even within its ranks. The last time Zhang Cheng led the army to help suppress the bandits in Henan, his grenadiers did not go into battle with the army, but stayed in Xuanbei to continue training.
Grenadier, as the name suggests, is a unit responsible for throwing "thousands of enemies".
They are not required to have skills such as mounted combat, musketry, or foot combat, but they are only required to be strong and capable of throwing a heavy enemy of ten thousand people very far.
This is like the modern sports competition "shot put throwing", which only requires you to be able to push it very far. Of course, the farther the better.
Now, on the Changling Mountain position, it is their first time to appear in actual combat. Yesterday's performance was very gratifying. They hid behind the shield formation and threw bullets into the trenches against thousands of enemies, becoming a complete attack. The last straw to defeat the Tatar thieves.
Unsurprisingly, today they were sent out as the finale, but today they were in the front, while the shield soldiers and spearmen were behind.
At this time, Qiu Lin, the commander-in-chief of the left division of the Dushi Infantry Battalion, never left Qian Zongtian Mingyu, for fear that if he was not careful, he would miss the military order to attack.
At this time, a "pop" sound was heard, and a yellow smoke signal flare was seen rising from the high platform of the Chinese Army.
Wang Dali, the grenadier commander on the left side of the carriage, shouted loudly: "Throw!"
He quickly pulled out a fire stick from his waist and shook it in the air. At the same time, he opened his big hand on his left hand and directly grabbed a huge enemy that was as big as a human head.
Wang Dali's movements were very skillful. He put the shaken fire stick to his mouth and blew. Ten thousand enemies in his left hand came over almost at the same time. The flame that had just risen happened to ignite the fuse of ten thousand enemies.
Looking at the other grenadiers, it was mostly the same, and their actions were very similar to throwing shot put. After being ignited by the enemy, they casually turned the fuse to the back.
Then, one by one, the grenadiers twisted their bodies and stepped forward, concentrating all their strength on their arms, and with a sudden spin, they threw the heavy enemy of ten thousand people far away.
Thousands of enemies were thrown away like raindrops, braving the "crack" sparks, and once again harvested the fresh lives of the Tatar soldiers.
All this is so ruthless. Thousands of people die every day. I don’t know when this chaotic world will be completely ended and the peace and stability of the world will be restored!
"Get down, everyone get down!"
While throwing out tens of thousands of enemies, General Grenadier Wang Dali did not forget to loudly remind everyone to lie down. However, he always felt that the word given to him by his master Zhang Cheng was too awkward.
Far from the word "get down", it comes so happily. It seems that just shouting these two words is enough to make you feel full!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!..."
The sound of explosions of tens of thousands of enemies kept coming, as if the earth was shaking, and the explosions made the Tatar soldiers howl like ghosts.
Many Tatars even thought that victory was in sight, but as soon as they climbed up the wide low wall, they saw deadly fire bombs flying towards them, and they were stunned on the spot.
Of course, there were also those who reacted quickly. Those Tatars who had climbed up the low wall ran desperately towards the Xuanfu Army, while those behind quickly jumped into the very wide trench. .
Although they had a keen sense of battlefield and quick reactions, they could avoid the bombing of thousands of enemies, but they could not avoid the fate of death!
