Chapter 51: The Battle of Jinhua II

Facing a steady stream of Qing troops rushing in through the gap. Xu Jiaying's face was grim and he didn't say anything. Just watching.

But the people around Xu Jiaying will feel this, and arrows and bullets will swarm down. For a while, they were beaten all over the place, but there were still some people who stubbornly held on to the iron shield and rushed in.

But as soon as they rushed in, they fell into the trench in a daze.

The trench was dug close to the city wall, and it was more than a foot deep, and there were many wooden stakes stuck upside down under the trench, and the upper ends were sharpened. As soon as he fell, he was immediately pierced from below by this sharp stake, and he was killed, even if he was not pierced, he couldn't climb up for a while.

In addition, the Qing army rushed in front and back, and under the blow of arrows and firearms, there was no room to retreat at all, and they fell down one by one.

But in a moment, the trench was filled up, and the people who fell down struggled to escape.

Xu Jiaying sneered and said, "Is the cannon ready?" ”

"It's ready." Xu Jiaying said to the person behind him.

Xu Jiaying said: "Since that's the case, let's start." ”

"Yes."

The reason why the Qing army was able to advance so easily under the city wall was that the firepower at the head of the city was somewhat weakened, and the reason for the weakening of the firepower was that at least five cannons were withdrawn from the first wall.

At the moment is moving quickly on the second wall,

Of course, a few thousand catties of things are not fast enough, from the beginning of the lack of a hole in the city wall, Xu Jiaying ordered the artillery to be moved, and it is not in place until now.

Xu Jia gave an order.

They immediately made preparations, first packed the gunpowder, and then poured a whole barrel of crushed stone and lead into the artillery. Then use a red-hot iron to stab at the fire door. The gunpowder pack exploded suddenly, and the propulsion of the explosion sprayed out countless lead rubble.

The range of the shotgun is not long, but there is no problem in covering these people.

A violent storm went down, and this gap suddenly quieted down, I don't know how many people were beaten into a ball of minced meat, no matter what three-layer armor, or the iron shield in his hand, it was not easy to use. Even in comparison, the person who fell to his death in the trench may be a little luckier, at least there is a whole corpse. And this group of people who were killed couldn't tell each other apart at all, they were all blood, water, and minced meat.

At this time, the Qing soldiers would be too stupid if they didn't know what was going on.

"Change to live ammunition." The two gunners said loudly.

Immediately, they raised the muzzle of the cannon slightly, replaced it with live ammunition, and with a roar, the shell crossed a graceful arc, crossed the city wall, and hit the crowd of Qing troops outside the city

Smash a bloody path.

As long as you use too much of anything, you can develop a lot of new technologies.

Although Yan Yingyuan built another city wall behind the Jinhua city wall, the situation was urgent, so this city wall was much shorter than the original city wall. These gunners invented the method of intermittent firing almost without a teacher, so that the cannons could be fired behind the city walls, and thus also protected the cannons.

Although the accuracy is not very accurate, it does not need to be more accurate at this time.

Under the fierce fire of several cannons, the Qing army turned around and ran, retreating like a tide.

Li Chengdong was furious, and first killed more than a dozen deserters to set an example, and then asked the reason in detail. Only then did I know that the Xia army had already been prepared after the city wall.

Li Chengdong secretly said in his heart: "This Jinhua is really a hard bone. ”

Most of the siege cities, generally breaking through the city wall, the morale of the defenders collapsed, but I never thought that Jinhua had broken through a city wall, and there was another. stormed Jinhua, and the dead were all Li Chengdong's subordinates, and Li Chengdong didn't want to attack the city anymore.

However, the situation is stronger than people, and the urging of the rear again and again made Li Chengdong dare not have the slightest idea of reducing the intensity of the offensive. Immediately sent an order, saying: "Put on the artillery, demolish the Jinhua city wall for me, he will build one, I will tear it down, I want to see how strong they are." ”

"Yes."

And so an artillery battle continued.

For this result, Li Chengdong himself did not want to. After all, blasting open a gap and tearing down a wall are two completely different kinds of consumption. But Li Chengdong values his capital more than consuming gunpowder. That is, the army in hand.

Gunpowder is just a matter of money, there is no force to be requisitioned, anyway, in the prosperous land south of the Yangtze River, there will never be even a little gunpowder money that cannot be collected, but the soldiers and horses in his hands have been damaged too much, maybe he will become a rich idler in Beijing.

This is not what Li Chengdong wants.

However, Xicheng was originally the main battlefield of both sides, and it had been bombarded for a long time, and the city wall was already crumbling, and a collapse seemed to indicate that the durability of the city wall had reached a critical point. With Li Chengdong ruthless.

Within a day or two, the walls were overturned like mahjong tiles.

The second wall is also revealed.

"Kill." Under the supervision of Li Chengdong's soldiers, one or two thousand soldiers rushed up, looking boundless and crowded.

It's not that Li Chengdong doesn't want more, but the battlefield is so big. I can't put it on.

Li Chengdong was also psychologically prepared in his heart, so most of the people sent to attack were surrendered by the Xia army, you must know that in Shandong, the Qing army captured hundreds of thousands of Xia troops, and many of these people were distributed, so Li Chengdong used it

Get up unceremoniously.

Regard his own people as a team of overseers, and those who retreat will not be killed.

For a time, this section of the city wall became a flesh mill.

This kind of confrontation that is really not fancy, makes Xu Jiaying a little unbearable.

At this moment, he ignored Yan Yingyuan's warning before, and he didn't have any intention of saving gunpowder. Almost all the firearms that can fire are used, from the tiger squat cannon, the big and small Franc machine guns, the Hongyi cannon, the rocket, the hundred tigers rushing arrows, this kind of rocket integration, as well as the big rocket invented by Zhang Xuan in the first war of Xiangyang.

This kind of big rocket is not small, but the accuracy is not good. After Zhang Xuan's invention, many craftsmen made modifications, but they could only shoot two or three miles, and they were not better than the Hongyi cannon in terms of range, but the rocket was filled with gunpowder, which would explode after landing. The power of this explosion was greater than that of the Hongyi cannon.

But too much gunpowder was consumed.

These are also the previous stocks, at least now in Jinhua City, all the rockets have been cut down, they are gone, they are replaced with bows and crossbows, and all the gunpowder is kept for artillery use.

But even if Xu Jia used all the means, he still couldn't resist, and the Qing army fought a bloody way from miles away.

Xu Jiaying can't sit idly by.

Dispatch more than 1,000 elites, with thousands of people, and let him go out of the city to fight, and the place of battle is not somewhere else, that is, on the ruins of the original west city wall.

The walls of the city collapsed though. But that doesn't mean that the walls are flat. Rather, it is because the city walls have fallen in different directions, and they have become slopes, and some of them simply seem to be dirt hills.

This place could not be arrayed, and it was within the range of firearms in the back, which not only blocked the Qing army's attack on Jinhua City, but also blocked some artillery in the back, turning it into a firepower blind spot. There are already many Qing troops hiding here, and when there are more people gathered, they will rush to the second city wall together.

"Kill." A team of Xia Jun rushed out, and this team of Xia Jun can be said to be the only elite that can be drawn out of Jinhua City.

The two sides were fighting everywhere on the ruins of the city wall, and it seemed that in this kind of melee, the Mandarin Duck Array could play some role. It is not a complete mandarin duck formation, but a simplified formation. Qi Jiguang is a famous master tactician in ancient and modern times.

Even if the three people fighting bayonets on the battlefield in later generations are still in the formation of modern armed police attacks, and there are secret connections with the mandarin duck array in many places. However, some people learn a dead formation, but they don't know that the Mandarin Duck Array has always been changing in Qi Jiguang's hands.

Now that Xu has fought a lot of wars, he has also thought about a little bit of this truth.

These people are in the same vein as the Jinhua Army, and even many of them are from the Jinhua Army. Naturally, I learned some essence, fighting in this complex terrain, although the number of people is less than the enemy's army, but for a time it will not be left behind.