Chapter 390: Heavy Shelling
Ao Bai refused to send troops, and Zhangtai Tuhai and others were heartbroken: "This is the only chance for our army to win!" Don't miss the opportunity, lose it again! Ao Bai missed the opportunity, I Wuchang is also in danger! ”
The Ming army did not retreat, originally this was a part of the serial anti-intermittent scheme, it doesn't matter if the performance looks like it, Ao Bai doesn't believe it's okay, there is a pig teammate Zhangtai's cooperation, anyway, let the little emperor and the empress dowager believe it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 After about seven days, the Ming army made a comeback and resettled in the positions that had been abandoned seven days earlier.
Ao Bai stood far away on Qinglong Mountain in the south of the city, pointing to the Ming army that was entering the position in an orderly manner: "It's all said, it was a trick to lure the enemy deep before!" Some still don't believe it! If the old man can't see through such a simple scheme, wouldn't the old man have lived in vain for so many years? ”
Tu Hai snorted and turned to leave.
In fact, Tuhai also knew very well that with Zhangtai's talent, it was impossible to succeed in a sneak attack. The reason why the Ming army was attacked by Zhangtai on the grain and grass hoarding point must have been a scheme. It's just that Tuhai has the mission given by the little emperor of Kangxi, and he wants to bring down Aobai, so he pointed the finger at Aobai.
After all, intrigue and intrigue are only auxiliary things, and to really achieve victory, it is still by strength. In order to succeed in the anti-plot and completely solve the great problem of Aobai, it is also necessary to achieve victory on the battlefield. The counter-plot is just the icing on the cake, and it is the combat effectiveness of the armies of both sides that determines the outcome of the victory.
The positions of the Ming army were arranged more than a month ago, before the main force of the Ming army pretended to evacuate, but left the broken troops stationed on the position, the Qing army did not dare to pursue, and did not dare to seize the position. After the main force of the Ming army re-entered the position, it set up artillery on the attack position and began the official attack.
The Qing army's defensive line was arranged with a criss-cross of trenches and numerous fortresses to form an impregnable defensive system, and those forts made of cement and stone were the key points of the defensive line, and naturally, these forts were the focus of Ming artillery fire.
A total of eighteen three-pounder rifled guns and four six-pounder rifled guns were pulled up, and the muzzles of the black holes were aimed at the strong fortress of the Qing army in front. These rifled guns were the nemesis of the cement stone fortress, and only the high-speed rotating shells could easily tear apart the strong fortifications that the Qing army had spent a lot of money building.
The rest of the smoothbore guns were also pushed up, various twelve-pounder field guns, twelve-pounder howitzers, six-pounder guns, four-pounder guns, sixty-four-pounder mortars, thirty-two-pounder mortars and twelve-pounder mortars, all in place.
"Prepare to attack!" Wang Xinyu gave the order.
The rifled cannon let out a deafening roar, and the muzzle of the gun spewed out balls of fireballs, and the high-speed rotating shells whistled and plunged headlong towards the fortress of the Qing army. When the first shell hit a large fortress, the shell pierced into the fortress like an iron drill hitting the scum of tofu, and a large hole immediately appeared in the fortress, in which the stones burst out, and the sharp gravel was like shrapnel, mercilessly killing and injuring the Qing soldiers hiding in the fortress.
One rifled gun after another roared, and the shells accurately hit the fortress of the Qing army, and the fortress that was hit by the bullet continuously withstood the bombardment of high-speed rotating shells, and finally, some of the fortresses were not supported, and collapsed in a cloud of smoke and dust.
With the roar of artillery, the Qing army spent a lot of money to buy cement, and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build strong fortresses that crumbled one after another and turned into pieces of ruins.
At the same time that the rifled artillery of the Ming army launched a bombardment of the Qing fortress, mortar artillery and howitzers began to launch a fierce artillery bombardment of the Qing army's trenches. A mortar and howitzer spat out orange flames one after another, and the flowering shells pulled out ballistics of different heights and smashed down into the trench where the Qing army was entrenched.
The shells fell in the trench and exploded with a "boom", and countless fragments were shot out in an instant. These large and small metal fragments swept over the edge of the large array like the scythe of the Grim Reaper, sweeping down many Qing soldiers. Some people didn't even have time to hum before they stopped breathing. Many more were clutching their bleeding wounds in pain and screaming heart-rendingly.
The continuous explosion sound of "boom boom" sounded on the Qing army's position, and all kinds of flowering shells raised huge fireballs, and the whole earth trembled as if a violent earthquake had occurred.
Jin Fu took a group of new soldiers of the Eight Banners and hid in a trench. Listening to the constant sound of explosions outside, feeling the lumps of dirt falling on your body like rain, as long as you are a person, you will feel extremely stressed. Under the overwhelming shelling of the Ming army, some people have collapsed. Just now, a new soldier of the Eight Banners seemed to be crazy, jumped up desperately, rushed out of the trench, and no matter how many Eight Banner soldiers pulled him, they couldn't pull him.
As a result, needless to say, the Eight Banners soldier rushed into the sea of shrapnel and was shattered by the shell.
"Despicable Han dog! Damn the false traitor! God knows where they got so many flowering shells! Jin Fu shrunk his head tightly into the trench, listening to the constant sound of explosions, and cursed viciously in his heart.
A large number of heavy artillery was concentrated, and a large number of flowering shells were used as if they did not need money, and the effect of such an artillery bombardment was indeed shocking. And the Qing army did not have no artillery, but did not dare to open artillery to bombard. Not to mention the army's strange artillery with frighteningly high accuracy, just explain that the army's smoothbore guns alone occupy an overwhelming advantage in numbers. As soon as the Qing army's artillery exposed its target, their artillery positions would be blown into flames by the overwhelming shells.
The powerful sixty-four-pounder mortar shell was the nightmare of all Qing soldiers. As long as this heavy shell falls into the trench, it can blow up a large area of the trench into a floating soil, burying all the Qing soldiers inside in the ground.
"Despicable Han dog! Your shelling is endless! If you are a hero, come up and fight face-to-face! You can only bully people with cannons, what kind of heroes are you! Jin Fu shouted angrily.
The artillery shells of the Ming army ploughed the ground like they did not need money, and the deer barricades and wooden stakes in front of the Qing army's position were blasted to pieces; Patches of trenches were buried by the falling floating soil, and they were blown into trenches one by one, dotted with countless craters, and the entire position was blown to the surface of the moon, and most of the fortresses that were used as fire support points had collapsed, and some of the fortresses were directly hit by 64-pound mortar shells, and they were shattered in one fell swoop.
The sound of artillery gradually stopped, and the Ming army's position sounded a rapid drum, and groups of Ming troops came out, lined up in a neat formation, and advanced towards the Qing army's position.