Chapter 765: Breaking Through the City
Sun Chengzong, who also saw this scene from the telescope, was still immersed in a huge shock, he could never have imagined that there was such a terrifying weapon in this world, and the impression that the inextinguishable flame exuding a dark blue color gave him was too shocking.
He turned his head to take a look, and found that the generals of the Liaodong Army behind him also had different expressions, Zu Dashou looked sluggish, and his left hand kept drawing a pattern in mid-air that he didn't know what it was.
His cousin Zu Dale kept muttering words that no one understood, and Wu Sangui, who had just received thirty military sticks, had a mouth so big that he could stuff a duck egg, and the other generals of the Liaodong Army were about the same, and everyone was stunned by this kind of flame that seemed to come out of hell.
In the face of this kind of flame that cannot be resisted by manpower, many people's faces are ugly, especially when they see those fire people whose bodies are covered with flames and dance in pain, all the faces of those who see this scene are extremely pale.
In fact, not to mention the generals of the Liaodong Army, the generals of the Jiangning Army are no better. After all, this kind of incendiary bomb was used on the battlefield for the first time since it was manufactured, and except for Yang Feng and a few officers and gunners in the artillery battalion, no one knew that there was such a mass killing weapon in their army.
At this moment, something that later generations called civilization began to show its hideous sharp teeth, but everyone who saw this scene felt a feeling of despair in their hearts.
"Master Sun...... Ladies and gentlemen, I thought it was time for the whole army to attack......"
Yang Feng's voice sounded in Sun Chengzong's ears again.
"Oooh......"
Sun Chengzong, who was reminded for the second time, came back to his senses, and he glanced at the collapse of the southern city wall that was still burning again, and then turned to the generals and said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Tartars have been tyrannical, since the thief chief Nurhachi raised his army, he has brutalized my Ming people and plundered my people's property.
Now this governor has ordered everyone to follow Jiang Ninghou to attack, listen to his orders, and there must be no mistakes! Do you understand everything? ”
"The last general understands!"
"Whoa!"
As the generals agreed, Yang Feng glanced at the generals and said lightly: "Later, I will lead the Jiangning army to go first, and take the lead in opening a gap, you must immediately lead the troops to follow, if you are not willing to follow up, you can also wave the flag outside the city." ”
As soon as Yang Feng's words came out, the generals of the Liaodong Army were furious, and even Zu Dashou was so angry that he was angry.
I saw him shouting: "Jiang Ninghou needs to look down on people, why do you want the Jiang Ning Army to take the lead, our Liaodong Army is not a bad breed." ”
After speaking, he hugged his fists towards Sun Chengzong and said: "Governor, the last general asks for orders to lead the army to take the lead, if you can't break into the city and be dealt with by military law, please give permission!" ”
Sun Chengzong glanced at Yang Feng and said, "Since General Zu asked for his life, how can this governor refuse, you can go." Jiang Ninghou, this governor has overstepped his responsibilities this time, you won't be angry. ”
Yang Feng smiled faintly: "Since General Zu has the heart to kill thieves, how can Ben Hou be strange, take Ben Hou and lead the army to follow General Zu, let's kill the enemy together." ”
After assigning the offensive plan in a few words, the general offensive of the Ming army finally began.
The 10,000 Liaodong Army led by Shi Zu Dashou who rushed to the front, these armored soldiers began to move towards Shengjing City in a neat formation, and when they were three hundred steps away from the city, they began to let out a burst of shouts, and a famous soldier rushed towards the gap under the leadership of the officer.
At this time, a Qing soldier also began to appear on the city wall, and began to fire arrows towards the city.
Arrows rained down, and soldiers kept falling, but the people next to them ignored them and still charged forward.
The armored Liaodong army had already rushed to the city wall, and many of them were carrying long ladders, although the rain of arrows at the head of the city was still dense, but they did not stop.
"Artillery Battalion...... Suppress the fire immediately! ”
On the artillery position in the distance, Qiu Disheng was lying on the territory of an artillery team, and while correcting the angle, he ordered the artillery battalion to open fire, and this time the artillery battalion fired not napalm, but solid shells and flowering shells.
"Boom ......"
A flowering bullet exploded at the head of the city, blasting several infantry soldiers who were shooting arrows into the air, and the shock wave caused by the explosion even flew a few stones to Zu Dale, who was commanding the battle, startling him.
Zu Dale looked at the smoking city wall in front of him, and couldn't help but scold: "Damn, what are those rabbit cubs doing in the back, dare to shoot at this time, if you accidentally hurt Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will make him look good!" ”
In fact, when Zu Dale didn't know, this kind of infantry and artillery coordination, which seemed to be common in later generations, was a great innovation in this era.
The so-called infantry and artillery coordination is the ability of infantry and artillery to work together.
The main thing in this kind of thing is to rely on the improvement of the accuracy of the artillery, but also on the adequate training of the artillery.
In the past, as soon as the infantry began to attack or charge, the artillery would stop firing, fearing that they would accidentally damage their allies.
But now, these Liaodong troops have rushed to a distance of about 100 meters from the city, and the artillery is still firing.
This also proves that the gunners of the Jiangning Army have reached a very high level of artillery operation, and at the same time have full confidence in themselves.
The projectiles and cannonballs that hit the city, and the earth and stones that were smashed out flew from time to time in front of and even on the besiegers.
And the Tartars at the head of the city who were using bows and crossbows to shoot arrows under the city were miserable under the shelling, and some of them had turned into bloody corpses before they even had time to put their bows and crossbows.
This shelling did not stop until the Liaodong Army rushed to a distance of more than sixty meters from the city wall.
But this is not the end, in the rain of arrows, a Jiangning army wearing iron armor was led by an officer to a place more than two hundred meters away from the city, these sergeants are different from ordinary Jiangning soldiers, the firearms in their hands are longer, and the workmanship is more sophisticated.
The person at the head is none other than Song Ye, the head of Yang Feng's family.
I saw Song Ye with 500 family members, armed with Nimi rifles, to the city, taking over the artillery battalion to suppress the city's firepower.
Speaking of the Nimi rifle, although it has high accuracy and great power, it is precisely because of its destructive power that it can even pose a threat to itself, so so far Yang Feng has not equipped it with troops on a large scale, but only equipped it with his own family and a small number of elite Ye Bushu, and those ordinary troops are only equipped with Brown Beth Firearms.
Relying on the long-range and accuracy of the Nimi rifle, the three hundred family members led by Song Ye suppressed the Tartars on the city head so that they could barely raise their heads, which also made the troops led by Zu Dale rush into the city wall from the collapse mouth without encountering too fierce resistance.
When Zu Dale led the Ming army to rush into the city, Zu Dashou, who was in command behind, couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart and roared loudly: "Brothers, the city is broken, all rush with me!" ”
After speaking, Zu Dashou took the lead in rushing towards the city, he had already made up his mind to be the first general to rush to the head of the Tartar city, which would be of great benefit to him in the future!