Chapter 235: Jin Shang Escort

More than 360 gunners entered the city with 30 new eight-pounder mortars, which were extremely accurate and could be said to be a sharp weapon in street fighting. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Zhao Zheng sat on the hydrogen airship and found that a group of Qing soldiers and people on the ground fled into a building in a panic, so he waved the flag and sent out the flag signal.

Six eight-pounder mortars were lined up and aimed at the building three hundred paces away. The gunners unleashed a volley of shells, which landed exactly above the building, and in an instant, the building was in flames.

In addition to the airship guiding the mortar attack, the Ming infantry in front can also use the flag language to guide the mortar artillery to the target. In today's Qiongzhou Army, flag language communication has been further developed, and the flag signal contains richer meanings, which can send various azimuth angles and coordinates to artillery positions. In each hundred-man squad that followed the infantry, there was a cadet soldier who had graduated from the artillery academy and could accurately guide the artillery shelling.

The cannon is known as the god of war, Wang Yu directly moved the mortar cannon into the city, row after row of cannonballs fell, and the stubborn Qing army was defeated and collapsed.

"Don't quit! Those who retreat without permission will be killed! The overseer team composed of the Jin Shang escort saw the people retreat, and one of the escort officers opened his voice and roared hoarsely.

The defeated Minzhuang retreated like a tide, and no matter how those Jin merchant guards slashed and cut off countless heads, they still couldn't stop the defeated Minzhuang. Crowds of people rushed back, scattered the warlords, and were engulfed in the defeated army, and quickly routed.

The crowded Qing army crowded the lake, and the Qing soldiers who were constantly defeating and retreating squeezed the people in front of them into the lake. There were struggling human heads floating on the lake, and for a time the Qing army and civilians trampled on each other, trampling on countless deaths, and more people fell into the water and drowned.

"My lord! The thief's cannon is too powerful! They brought the cannons into the city, and they opened fire from 300 paces away, firing all flowering shells, and they hit them accurately and fiercely, and the brothers couldn't resist it! A Fan family member who served as a team supervisor hurriedly ran over to report to Zhang Fengyi.

"The thief opened fire three hundred paces away?" Zhang Fengyi frowned slightly, "Immediately organize a group of guards with strong martial arts skills to rob the thieves' heavenly cannons!" ”

The housekeeper knelt down on one knee and saluted: "I am willing to take someone to grab the cannon!" ”

"Good!" Zhang Fengyi nodded and said, "The old man allocated you two thousand green battalion soldiers, and you brought five hundred escorts to snatch the thieves' artillery!" ”

Fan Jiading took 500 Jin merchant guards and 2,000 Shandong green battalion soldiers and hid in the building, avoiding the attack of the Ming army's infantry. After the attacking Ming infantry passed, these Qing soldiers walked out of their hiding places one after another and rushed straight to the mortar positions behind the Ming infantry.

"Be careful! There are Tartars coming to sneak attack! "The Ming army, which was hiding in the shadows, did not collect the attacking Qing army at night, and immediately sent a signal to the artillery team behind.

The mortar artillery team had 360 gunners, and another 500 musketeers were guarding the perimeter and were tasked with protecting the artillery team.

"The Tartars are coming!" Five hundred musketeers immediately formed a formation.

The Qing soldiers rushed from the front, and the five hundred musketeers began to shoot at a distance of one hundred and fifty meters, and the five hundred musketeers were divided into four rows, the first man finished his bullets and retreated to reload, the second row stepped forward and retreated after the bullets, the third row stepped forward, and then the fourth row stepped forward. The Minnie rounds were reloaded very quickly, and by the time the fourth row had finished firing, the musketeers in the first row had finished reloading and were ready to shoot again.

The gunfire never stopped for a moment, and the Qing soldiers who poured up were knocked down in front, crowded forward, and knocked down by the dense bullets. The Qing army crowded the streets, like a peeled onion, with a row falling in front and another in the back. The gunfire roared several rounds in a row, and the rest of the Qing army no longer dared to step forward, and those green battalion Qing soldiers scattered on both sides, scattering and fleeing in panic.

The remaining 500 guards were exposed to the muskets of the Ming army, and the Fan family member shouted: "Brothers, the court treats our family master as kind as a mountain, and if you serve the court, you will serve your family master!" Rush with me! ”

The five hundred Jin merchant guards went crazy and charged the Ming army's musket team.

The gunfire continued, and before the Jin Shang escort could rush to the front, nearly half of them were knocked down. Then several more mortars turned their muzzles, and several shells landed in the crowd, instantly blowing up a large area. When the Jin merchant escort rushed to within thirty paces, the Ming army threw a volley of grenades.

When the Jin merchant guards were also outlaws, when the Chongzhen Dynasty was in the Chongzhen Dynasty, they protected the caravan of the Jin merchants out of Xuanda, entered Liaodong through the grassland, and sold important materials such as iron, salt, grain, cloth to the old slaves and Huang Taiji, in exchange for the gold and silver treasures that the Jin Jurchen snatched from the Han people, which were all gold and silver treasures with blood! However, not every time the Jin merchant caravan exited the customs was smooth sailing, the Han and Mongolian horse thieves on the grassland, the Chahar Mongols of Lin Dan Khan, and the Tumut Mongols of Guluge Chuhuer had all done something to the caravan of the Jin merchants.

Because they were a group of outlaws, they were knocked down in pieces, but none of them flinched, and they still rushed forward desperately. There is only one belief in their hearts: rushing to the front, even if only more than a hundred people can rush to the front, they will definitely be able to cut all the opponents like cutting melons and vegetables.

The Jin merchant escort team that rushed to the front did indeed have more than a hundred people.

"Fight the enemy!" Only a loud roar from a Ming army officer was heard.

More than 100 musketeers at the front held bayonets and formed a bayonet formation, and the officers of the Ming army pulled out the Thunderbolt Bolt one after another, and even the officers of the artillery team also drew the Thunderbolt Bolt.

The convoy rushed to the front, but was stopped by the bayonets of the musketeers, who continued to reload. At the same time, more than a dozen officers pulled the trigger, and the thunderbolt spewed out fiery white smoke, and the point-and-shoot was accurate at close range, knocking down one escort after another. And those guards who rushed to the front and were fighting hand-to-hand with the Ming army, at most one Ming soldier was killed by the bayonets stabbed by Qi Brush, and some were killed by the cold bullets fired by the Ming army.

The private soldiers of the eight families of the Jin Shang Dynasty, most of them are some masters of the rivers and lakes, if they fight alone, these people have no problem fighting several at all, and there are many masters who have practiced hard for many years and practiced the internal Dan technique, which can make the qi of the dantian run in the whole body, which is the so-called master of internal strength.

The martial arts masters of the year were not the charlatans of the future, but the real masters. But no matter how high the martial arts are, they can't compete with the army, let alone the firearms army.

In the blink of an eye, all five hundred martial arts masters were beaten into a hornet's nest and fell in a pool of blood moaning.