Chapter Ninety-Six: The Battle of Shanhaiguan 2
When the Jiannu side saw and heard the sound of their Hongyi cannon, they immediately shook their spirits, and many Jiannu pulled out their waist knives and raised them into the air and screamed, excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
It's a pity that their cheers are a little too early, these cannons of Jiannu opened fire, which looked spectacular, but after all, they fired solid bullets, some of them were stone bullets, not even iron bullets, if they were used to bombard the enemy's city wall, these Hongyi cannons were undoubtedly a big killing weapon, and the solid bullets fired would cause great damage to the enemy's city wall, but they were used for field battles and beating people, it was a bit bad, and this was not a problem for Jiannu on the one hand, including the Dazhong Army that was more powerful than them. Although the Great Chinese Army has been equipped with flowering shells in batches, that is, explosive grenades, the artillery of this era is destined to use solid shells as the main type of ammunition, and the power on the battlefield is far less powerful than that of the cannons of later generations.
So after these dozen or so seemingly powerful shells fell, not to mention their power, just talking about their accuracy, it made everyone a little contemptible, these Jiannu's Wuzhen Chao Han gunners obviously have not completely mastered the artillery expression, plus they use bulk gunpowder, the charge is not easy to control, more than three miles away, if you want to accurately hit the array of the Great Chinese Army, it is obviously a little difficult for them.
Therefore, most of these dozen shells hit too close, either in front of the two armies, or fell too far behind the array of the Great Chinese Army, and all fell on the open ground, and even one of the shells simply flew too close, not in the queue of the Great Chinese Army, but fell in the array of the Wuzhen Chaoha Battalion of the Jiannu Army, which was slowly advancing.
There were only three or four shells, which were relatively accurate to fall in the formation of the large Chinese army, or in front of the formation, and then the heavy shells bounced on the ground, jumping and rushing into the large Chinese army array, tearing apart the bodies of one or twenty soldiers of the large Chinese army along the way, raising a blood mist, and the stumps flew everywhere, so that the large Chinese army suffered the first wave of losses in this battle.
However, for the large Chinese army, such a blow could not shake their formation at all, almost every soldier and general was indifferent, as if they had not seen these shells at all, even if there were robes that were torn apart by the shells beside them, they did not stop, but gritted their teeth one by one, continued with a look of indifference, step by step to the drumbeat of the marching drums, maintained a neat formation, and continued to move forward, the gap made by the cannonballs in the queue, in the cheers of the officers, It was quickly bridged, and the formation was immediately restored.
Huang Taiji was watching the battle situation in front of the person, and when he saw such an artillery effect, he was obviously a little dissatisfied, and after snorting coldly, someone immediately flew and rushed to the position of Wu Shoujin's artillery position, and scolded Wu Shoujin with his head and face.
Wu Shoujin pulled out the black line on his face, such an artillery effect, he also felt that it was a bit unreasonable, as a Han general, he was actually more proficient in using artillery, knowing that at this distance, the accuracy of the artillery bombardment was very average, but at this time, after all, Huang Taiji was also watching the battle, he felt that he couldn't explain, especially the cannonball that hit his own people's formation, which made him lose face, so Wu Shoujin immediately ordered to drag out the gunner who was responsible for aiming the cannon that shot the cannonball and cut off his head. shouted and scolded the Han gunners under his command, ordering them to immediately adjust the muzzle of the cannon, and quickly continue to reload the shells, ready to fire again.
After watching the Jiannu first artillery bombardment, the artillerymen of the heavy artillery battalion of the Dazhong Army also widened their eyes, revealing a look of anger, and someone immediately asked Huang Shengqiang, the artillery master, to fire artillery to fight back against the Jiannu army.
But Huang Shengqiang rejected the request of his subordinates with a serious face, and reprimanded them: "Don't fuck nonsense, the effective range of the twelve-pounder cannon is 800 steps, although it can hit the enemy formation at the farthest, but the power is not enough!" What role can it play? Let's be embarrassed if we don't get into the effective range, no one is allowed to fire a fucking cannon! Otherwise, I'll kick his ass! Go and bring our housekeeper out and let Jiannu Tartar taste our awesomeness in a while! ”
When the artillery commanders heard this, they immediately went down one after another with a sinister smile on their faces, and some gunners immediately went to the back of the artillery array to bring up boxes of shells, opened them and put them next to the cannons.
Jiannu's cannon was indeed arrogant, the first round of shelling was seriously ineffective, after Wu Shoujin beheaded a gunner, the remaining gunners were more nervous one by one, carefully aiming through the door, and adjusting the muzzle with a skid, after a busy work, finally began the second round of shelling.
This time, Jiannu's cannon hit much more accurately, and after more than a dozen heavy guns roared, more than half of the solid cannonballs fell in front of the Dazhong army's formation, and then continued to fly forward with the help of the ground, crashing headlong into the array of the Dazhong army.
Such a heavy cannonball is simply irresistible to a person, no matter how good the armor you wear, as long as the heavy artillery has only one dead word.
The cannonball raised a piece of blood mist in the formation of the Great Chinese Army, opening a bloody alley, a cannonball cut through the leg of a soldier, and immediately cut off his calf from the knee, and continued to fly over unabated, and after bouncing on the ground, he stopped and tore a firecracker into two pieces, making the scene extremely bloody, until the cannonball hit the chest of the last soldier, and smashed his entire chest cavity into a depression, and the cuirass was deeply embedded in his chest, This shell stopped completely, and this cannon Jiannu killed and wounded at least five or six soldiers of the Dazhong Army, even if the soldiers of the Dazhong Army were trained strictly, when they saw such a tragic scene, some people still vomited out of excessive nervousness.
However, although a few soldiers bowed their heads and vomited, they did not stop advancing because of this, the long-term and rigorous drills made them have already formed a mechanical sense of obedience to orders, no one dared to dodge at this time, no one dared to stop advancing because the robes around them were bulleted and turned into a ball of broken flesh, because they knew that once they dodged in a panic and stopped moving forward at this time, it would have an impact on the entire queue, so even if they were under huge psychological pressure, these fierce generals of the army, But they basically turned a blind eye, and continued to march forward in the roar of artillery fire, stepping on the drumbeat of the marching drum, and slowly approached the oncoming Jiannu army step by step.
But there were medical soldiers behind who immediately rushed up with a stretcher, immediately put the wounded on the stretcher, while comforting them, while quickly carrying them down, although these medical soldiers are not combat arms, but I am afraid they are the people who have seen the most blood, at this time there is no panic at all, methodically on the battlefield will be injured in the robe to snatch down for first aid, even the bodies of some of the dead, they were also robbed, don't look at their small number, but on the battlefield, it is everyone's hope, Undoubtedly, it has played a great role in boosting the morale of the large and medium-sized army.
This time, among the generals of the Dazhong army who went north, although some of them belonged to the supplementary recruits, all the generals who could participate in this Northern Expedition were basically elites, and the vast majority of them had seen the scene of flesh and blood, so although the cannon roared on the opposite side of Jiannu, it did not disrupt their marching formation, at most, it was to open a blood alley in their formation, but these blood alleys that were torn apart by shells were immediately automatically bridged by other soldiers. Aside from leaving behind them a small number of severed limbs and pools of blood, the impact of this shelling on the large and medium army was minimal.
Xiao Tianjian is now accustomed to seeing this kind of bloody scene, and this kind of scene has long been unable to affect his thick nerves, it is inevitable that the dead and injured in a war will be injured, what is a war without blood? The price was inevitable, and he was confident that if he waited a little longer, their Dazhong army would pay back this debt at a tenfold price, so that Jiannu would shed more blood.
Although he also knows that these Jiannu troops facing them are basically Han people, but since these Han people have shaved their hair and left a money rat tail, then they are enemies, and they are no longer their own compatriots, for them, Xiao Tianjian will never be tolerant of his subordinates, in the battle of Tongzhou, he ordered the massacre of the captured Jiannu soldiers, many of which are Jiannu Han soldiers, which the Dazhong army has long known his thoughts, so once he starts, no one will be sympathetic to these Jiannu Han soldiers.
Looking at Jiannu's continuous bombardment of his own array, Xiao Tianjian just silently stared at the battlefield in front of him with cold eyes, unmoved, on the contrary, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he nodded lightly, obviously satisfied with the performance of the generals in front.
An army that can face the enemy's artillery fire and watch the robes around him fall, but is unmoved, belongs to a strong army in this world, it is obvious that he has done this, and successfully built the generals under his command into a group of warriors who regard death as home, with such an army, why can't he defeat the self-righteous barbarian army opposite?
Although the heavy artillery on the side of the Great Chinese Army has not yet begun to roar, Xiao Tianjian knows what kind of surprise it will bring to the enemy once they wait for the cannon of their Great Chinese Army to roar.
Playing with Lao Tzu? You Tartars are still too tender, in Xiao Tianjian's eyes, Tartars play with cannons, and now at most they are out of the stage when they have just graduated from kindergarten, and the artillery of his Dazhong Army is at least now considered a high school student.
Although Jiannu knew that before the hand-to-hand encounter, they would first bombard with cannons, but more of them didn't know how to use these cannons, but the artillery of the Dazhong Army had already learned more things on the battlefield now, and when they really showed the sharpness of the artillery fire of the Dazhong Army, Jiannu would definitely feel frightened.
Luo Lidu led his infantry to the battlefield step by step, approaching the enemy step by step, while Huang Shengqiang led the artillery to quietly watch the distance of the enemy behind them.
It wasn't until the Han soldiers of Jiannu's Wuzhen Chaoha battalion saw that they were approaching the distance of 800 steps in front of the cannon of the Dazhong Army, Huang Shengqiang rubbed a wisp of mouse whiskers on his chin, and violently pulled off a beard, he gasped in pain, such a large-scale battle was also the first time for Huang Shengqiang, not to mention that the opposite side was not the Ming army that they could press and beat casually, but Jiannu, who had the same fierce reputation as their Dazhong army, it was impossible to say that he was not nervous at all. However, he, a veteran, is better at concealing than his subordinates now, but he accidentally took off a beard, which still exposed his mood, his beard was not thick, and suddenly he took off another one, which made Huang Shengqiang angry, so he simply immediately threw this fire at Jiannu on the opposite side, and suddenly roared: "Three shots are shot quickly!" Fire! ”
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