One Thousand and Fifty-Seven: Lianzhu Cannon

The Portuguese army's long-range artillery units began to move their positions back, and the long-range artillery they were equipped with was not the equipment brought from Portugal or Macao, which was the crystallization of the wisdom of the Ming people, and Western firearms experts did not know what it was. The Lianzhu cannon is a standard equipment of the Ming army that has been used in actual combat as early as the Wanli Anti-Japanese Aid Dynasty, but the caliber of the Lianzhu cannon during the anti-Japanese period is much smaller than today's Lianzhu cannon.

After years of experimentation and research and development, the Ministry of Engineering finally transformed this large-caliber cannonball from the initial drawings into practical weapons. The construction of this cannon, which can be roughly described as opening a gap over the tail of the Hongyi cannon that is one-fifth long and two-fifths wide. During the battle, the cannon will be equipped with a plurality of inner tanks, each inner tank is pre-filled with gunpowder and projectiles, the gunpowder fuse is on the inner tank, and the inner tank is put into the gap of the barrel when firing, and then the fuse is ignited, after a round of firing, the gunner immediately takes out the old tank and fills the new tank, and a new round of shelling can start immediately.

The world's most advanced artillery technology, combined with the most accurate sighting skills of the Portuguese gunners, made this battle possible. These Portuguese artillery would not fight bayonets with the Qing cavalry, and when the Qing cavalry was about to approach the front of the position, the artillery position was moved. Close firearms such as small cannons, tiger cannons, and rockets on various chariots in front of the Ming army began to fire at the Qing cavalry. Even the heavy bed crossbows equipped by the Ming army were bloody, and they were placed on top of the Ming army's chariots, in conjunction with archers and sword and shield men.

The cavalry's horse bows also began to return fire, but the Ming army had swords, shields and chariots as barriers, and the damage caused by horse bows could be said to be negligible. The sword and shield men of the five armies of the imperial camp also followed the old system of the Ming army, each sword and shield hand was equipped with two or three shuttle guns, and threw the shuttle guns within thirty paces, and then drew their swords and charged while the enemy was in chaos. But in this battle, because the number of cavalry of the Qing army was extremely large, and the Ming army had chariots as a barrier, the sword and shield men did not need to charge, they only needed to let the shuttle gun in their hands accompany the enemy to complete the distance of the last thirty steps.

There were only three arrows in the battle, and in a blink of an eye, it was time for the cavalry who had just been hit to exert their might, and the cavalry roared and rushed to the gap in front of the Ming army, drew their sabers and began to pay tribute to the Ming army. What is about to happen is still tragic, and in the huge battlefield, the place where the two armies clash is more like a bloody grinding plate for life. Human wisdom and calmness have been abandoned, leaving only the sword of hatred and the blood of vengeance.

The blood splattered seven steps, and the blood had poured over the entire earth. The Eight Banners Warriors were exchanging their lives with the enemy, and the deceased still aimed their blades at the enemy at the last moment to cut them down; The wounded broke off their arrows, pulled out the guns in their chests, and pushed down the enemy's chariots to continue their frantic fighting. The warriors who died on their horses charged forward on foot, and the warriors who carried their horses did whatever it took to do so.

On the other side, the bravery of the Ming army was not too much, and in the face of the flood of cavalry, they used guns and shields to confront. Even if the camp is scattered and the weapons are knocked away, they will never retreat! They will rise into the air, cling to the legs of their enemies and grabbing the tails of their horses. Even if you can't kill the enemy, you have to slow them down and try desperately to stop this torrent. balance

When the sea of people turns into a sea of blood, when heroes become heroic spirits, the wind and snow in the sky are getting bigger and bigger, and the people on the battlefield are sweating like rain. This is not a war between two human armies, this is two beasts biting at each other. The snowflakes in the sky did not dare to fall to the ground, because there were swords as weapons on the ground, as well as fists and kicks and steel teeth. The Ming army is like a pack of wolves, even if they are kicked by the war horses, their teeth are still biting the horses! The Qing army is like a bull, they are completely enraged by the blood red everywhere, even if there are a thousand more arrows on their bodies, they will be barbaric to the end!

The snow in the sky is soft, and the snowflakes are scattered with the wind. The bloody ground on the ground solidified one layer after another. The wind in the sky is the north wind, carrying the dead souls all the way south, straight to the sea. The winds of the earth are storms, which sweep up everything and devour everything. In just one morning, an entire army of the five armies of the imperial camp has been wiped out; The 30,000 Qing troops also suffered most casualties. The five armies of the imperial camp are the elite of the Ming Dynasty, and the selection of the Qing army is the elite of the elite. In just one morning, the Ming army killed seven people in the battle of the commander of the three products (5,600 people for one guard), 38 people who were killed in the battle of the commanders of Tongzhi (from the third product), the servants (the fourth product) and more than 1,000 households, and more than 300 people who died in the battle from 1,000 households to 100 households. The 30,000 Qing army Xuanfeng killed five people in Jiala Ezhen and 29 people in Niu Lu Ezhen.

Dolgon was already ordering a second wave of troops to reinforce Bolo, a group of 20,000 infantry led by the Yellow Banner Meljangjing Cho Butai, who was Aobai's second brother and one of their younger brothers, Mulima. Zhuo Butai led this infantry to advance as soon as the cavalry rushed into the enemy camp, and along the way they were able to clean the horse nails and antlers for the follow-up troops, and they destroyed all the chariots and barracks of the Ming army they encountered. Then he began to divide his troops to expand the attack southward along the two lines of defense line arranged by the Ming army from the inner and outer rows of chariots, trying to expand the front of the Qing cavalry attack. They marched all the way south, dragging the Ming chariot with ropes, dismantling the iron locks of the chariot, and pulling the chariots apart one by one, and burning the dismantled chariots, antlers, and horses.

The battle of the Qing army's infantry was extremely fierce from the beginning, and due to the sudden right turn of Zhuo Butai's cloth armor in the frontal attack, it swept past the front of the Ming army and turned to attack south. This sudden change caught Hong Chengchou and Du Yinxi off guard, but Hong Chengchou's adjustment was still very fast, and the two pressed Zhuo Butai's 20,000 infantry with all 50,000 men of the entire right sentry army.

The Ming army dealt with Zhuo Butai with a whole army, which was reasonable and there were also big loopholes, but the battle situation was ever-changing, and Hong Chengchou was already in ruins to meet the enemy's attack with an attack. Having commanded the Battle of Songjin, he certainly knew that if he could not deal the most painful blow to the enemy before they found their weakness, if he lost the hard shell of the outer chariot defense. The infantry on the great plains are the walnuts that have been smashed to their skins, the sheep that have lost the protection of their sheepdogs, and the number of people left is just a piece of food on the board of people.

The Ming army also exploded, and their vanguard was not going to fight the Qing army at all, but pressed the shield in his hand with his shoulder and crashed directly into the enemy. As for how to kill the enemy who was hit, it was a matter for the pikemen in the back row. The battlefield of the two armies in the south was like two waves colliding with each other, smashing everything to pieces where the waves intersected. The big waves are followed by the big waves, and the back waves push the front waves, wave after wave, tide after tide, like the sea of death. In the end, there was a mountain of corpses at this intersection, and even the mountain of corpses formed an island.