Chapter 771: Straight to Pyongyang City
The superiority of our army was obvious, Sun Yuanhua was unforgiving, and the gunners continued to adjust the coordinates according to the data corrected by the observers.
Artillery commanders such as Fulang Aranda, Fang Sigu, Cheng Qianyong, and Shi Changchun all commanded the artillery bombardment on the front line.
Cheng Liyong, who already has the rank of Sanpin, is the commander of the artillery thousand, and he directly commands the general artillery.
At this time, he personally controlled a twelve-pounder field cannon, and fired ten shells one after another, each of which landed on the head of Pyongyang, and a heavy artillery of the Qing army was completely destroyed by him.
Just when the field artillery fired ten rounds of shells and stopped firing to dissipate heat, the general of the conquest waved the flag of the Chinese army, and the sharp whistle sounded.
The 3,000-meter gunners jumped out of their hidden trenches and charged under the city of Pyongyang, where their mission was to defeat the Pyongyang defenders at a distance of 200 paces.
There were thirty mini gunners under the command of Zhang Geng, the musketeer Baizong, and all of them ran forward at this time.
Zhang Geng was originally tortured to death with more than a dozen comrades-in-arms from Denglai, Geng Zhongming would be punished, he did not regret it, even if he was killed by the general of the conscription, he admitted it.
Who knew that after returning from Jingshi, there was no calmer to talk to him at all, and this matter seemed to be over.
Now Zhang Geng is thinking about attacking Pyongyang and capturing the big traitor Kong Youde, he saw Kong Youde's banner with the distributed clairfront mirror before entering the trench to hide, and even vaguely saw the Jiannu general who was pointing at the head of the city and suspected of Kong Youde.
Although Zhang Geng is Zhang Keda's youngest son, he has never seen Kong Youde at all, so he doesn't recognize the big traitor.
When Zhang Keda served as the chief military officer of Denglai under Sun Yuanhua, Zhang Geng was not in Dengzhou in his hometown of Nanzhili, so he survived.
Seeing that the moment of revenge was coming, Zhang Geng was holding back his strength to capture Kong Youde, the culprit of the trouble, and of course ran with all his strength at this time.
He had a Mini gun in his hand that he had loaded and carefully examined the flint, and a spare one on his back.
Zhang Geng understood that quickly approaching the effective range and killing the gunners at the head of the city in time, resulting in the Qing army being unable to open the cannon was the best means to protect the lives of himself and Paoze.
He is very confident, and this is not at all ignorant and meaningless, but the hard training that has made him infinitely confident.
Zhang Geng carefully maintained his weapons, trusted the two mini guns he had, and believed that as long as he was close to 200 steps, he could kill the Qing gunners on the spot just by feeling and not aiming during the run.
What kind of people bring what kind of soldiers, Zhang Geng, a 30-minute gunner, was originally selected to have a talent for shooting, and he studied hard under his devilish training, everyone can complete the loading blindfolded, and achieve a good score of more than eight rings with his feel.
In fact, when the Mini gun was born in the world, there were hundreds of examples of gunmen lightly attacking the breech-loading artillery position.
The reason why Huang Han first arranged the artillery fire and then arranged for the Minnie gunners to attack was completely because he cherished the life of Paoze.
The Minnie gunners were most sure to shoot within 200 paces, and as they approached the area, they would be hit by the city's fire-barred firearms.
Not only can the ten heavy guns with an effective range of four miles, but almost all the guns can be used when the Minnie gunners are approaching, and the Furlong can sweep a large area within 300 paces of reloading shotguns.
Since Kong Youde found that the "Red Banner Army" was concentrating its forces to attack the south gate, he concentrated as much as possible the small cannons that could be fired without a strong fort, including many Furlong cannons between one and three pounds.
The total number of artillery pieces on the southern wall of Pyongyang has exceeded 100, not counting the more than 30 guns used as defense artillery.
The 3,000-meter gunners approached under artillery fire, and it was completely uncontrollable how many people would fall along the way.
While most of the city's guns are gone, allowing the Minnie Gunners to approach quickly will reduce the cost by much.
Now it is found that the effect of the artillery battle is better than expected, and the killing effect of 800 shells falling on the head of the city is not covered.
Not only were the gunners killed and wounded everywhere, but Pyongyang's fire-fighting guns were also blown off.
As the 3,000-meter gunners approached, only a dozen or so shells sparsely entered the line, which was running forward in a loose formation.
Due to the dirt ground, the shells fell softly and could not be directly hit, so they basically could not cause damage, and only three unlucky Minnie gunners died on the spot, and seven people fell to the ground with broken legs.
The seven young warriors were very tough, and one of them was still the chief flag officer, and they clenched their teeth tightly and said nothing, beads of sweat the size of beans on their foreheads.
Knowing that casualties were inevitable, the medics followed Minnie's gunners and charged closely, and when they found a soldier falling, they treated their wounds in time, and the stretcher team formed by the guards would carry the soldiers to the field hospital for surgery in a few moments.
Zhang Geng and the other fastest 1,200 mini gunners approached within 200 steps of the city wall, he was quick-eyed, raised his hand and shot directly hit a Qing soldier who tried to fire the Furang machine gun, and then quickly took off the Mini gun on his back and bombarded a Qing soldier again.
The other gunners who approached were not ambiguous, and the accuracy rate of firing exceeded eighty percent, and the few recalcitrant ones who were already negative were shot in the head.
More and more Minnie gunners approached the city wall, two or three thousand meters of Ni bullets were shot, and there was no target at the head of the city, very simply, the Qing troops who were not killed were all frightened and fell down without exception.
At this time, the rear positions were once again roaring with artillery, and after a short period of heat dissipation, the 80 field guns of the "Red Banner Army" roared again.
Immediately after that, there was a uniform shout, and it was the guards and the soldiers who were carrying the ladder and preparing to attack the city like a tide, rushing straight to Pyongyang City.
Kong Youde has long been out of the city at the south gate, he is not stupid, he thought that the artillery battle would be able to fight for a few days without falling behind, but who knew that the battle was only less than half an hour before the verdict was made, and he had already lost the ten heavy artillery guns deployed at the south gate.
There are more than 10 heavy artillery pieces in Pyongyang, why did Kong Youde find out that the South Gate was the main attack direction of the "Red Banner Army" and did not mobilize all the heavy artillery to participate in the artillery battle?
There is a reason for that, first of all, the heavy artillery that can fire ten catties of guns reaches four or five thousand catties, and it is so difficult to transport in ancient times without cranes.
In addition, heavy artillery needs a strong fort, otherwise the city wall may be collapsed by recoil, the south gate of the city to build a fort to meet the needs of ten heavy guns, even if the heavy artillery is transported here, there is no place to put it, so you can only transfer the long machine, carry the gun, the bowl mouth gun, and the tiger squat cannon to make up the number.
Kong Youde has been in battle for a long time, and he knows the whole leopard at a glance, he insisted on directing the artillery battle until there was no heavy artillery to command, he sighed, he knew that there was no hope, and decisively fled from the city when the "Red Banner Army" shelled again.
He didn't flee because he was afraid of death, he knew that he was going to die, but he didn't want to be beaten by cannonballs at the head of the city, but hurriedly ran to Gongshun Wang Xingyuan, without even leaving a word of explanation.