Chapter 658: Earth Fortress, Houjin Army's Alternative Way of Fighting
It didn't take long for the assembled conch horn to sound, and a continuous sound of war drums came again.
At the same time, among the people on the front line, Jin Zhong and Lai Zi, Yu Ding, who had been singing white-faced before, shouted "Throw fire and thunder!"
Laizi immediately took out a fire mine from the blanket he was carrying, drew a fuse and lit it with the torch at hand, and threw it desperately outside the trench, and there were more than a dozen coats around him throwing fire mines at the same time.
A moment later, the violent explosion outside the trench rang out, and the smoke of gunsmoke filled the trench several kilometers long, almost blocking everyone's vision.
Laizi felt that this wave of explosions had passed, and there would not be another gravel that would suddenly pop up and jump after him, and then threw out a second fire thunder.
After a series of explosions broke out again, Yu Ding, who was holding a war knife to supervise the battle, howled and waved the war knife in his hand again, and scolded loudly.
"All the people hurried up to fill the earth bags, and those who ran at the back were beheaded on the spot, and those who dared to surrender to the enemy before the battle were to be put to death."
After he finished yelling, he slashed towards the last coat, and in the miserable cry of the stunned coat who had not yet reacted, Laizi and other wrapping minions hurriedly climbed the ladder and carried heavy dirt frames to the ground.
In front of the first rammed earth wall, tens of thousands of Houjin Baoyi rushed into the smoke of gunpowder carrying the soil frame, and rushed towards the Huaxia army trench more than ten steps away from them in front.
And in the trench of the Houjin side behind them, there were countless dense feathered arrows raised, and countless archers of the Houjin side threw them towards the battle line where the Huaxia army was located.
The feathered arrows are like flying locusts in the sky, covering the sky and the sun.
At the same time, on the earthen wall of the Houjin side, several earthen walls were suddenly toppled down by their own people, and splashed patches of smoke and dust, and when the dust settled, one huge red-coated cannon after another was revealed in those holes.
If you look closely, you can also find the location of these red-coated cannons, which is exactly opposite the location of the field artillery of the Huaxia Army on the opposite side.
Amid the fierce roar of the red-coated cannons, the most fierce attack of the Houjin army so far finally began.
On the front-line battlefield outside Lushun City, dense muzzle fireworks and muzzle fire flashed everywhere, and after Houjin's red-coated cannon revealed its figure, it immediately aimed at the position of the Huaxia Army's field gun on the opposite side and fired.
The artillery of the Huaxia Army also fired back in the direction of the muzzle flame flashing on the opposite side.
At night, the Houjin army quietly dug up a section of the rammed earth wall, and the remaining part of the earth wall was reinforced and supported with wood, and then they secretly transported the red-coated cannon in and set up a gun position.
The surrounding area was also camouflaged with earthen ramparts and other things to hide the detection of the soldiers in front of the telescope on Cockscomb Mountain after dawn.
On the side of the Later Jin Army, both the quality of the artillery barrels and the quality of the shells were not as good as the quality of the Huaxia Army, and the clearance of the shells of the Houjin Army was very large, making their artillery accuracy far inferior to the same type of artillery of the Huaxia Army.
However, the prototype of the Houjin red-coated cannon was originally a naval gun, and the long barrel unique to the naval gun, as well as the large weight of the barrel itself, made the shells of the Houjin Army have a higher muzzle velocity than the mountain grenades and howitzers of the Huaxia Army, and at the same time, they should be more stable when shooting.
More than a dozen large-caliber smoothbore guns were captured in the artillery of the Later Jin Army, and most of them were nine-pounder and twelve-pounder guns when they were engaged with the Ming army.
Later, there were already a lot of Tianyou Cheering Generals made by Hou Jin himself, mainly firing seven-pound shells, although some of the cannons were blown up due to mistakes in casting, but there were still at least thirty or more left.
These large-caliber smoothbore guns were all scattered throughout the line by the Houjin Army, specifically attacking the breastwork wall of the Huaxia Army and the exposed artillery positions.
The first round of gun salvos of the Huaxia Army rang out at the right time, and the Houjin Cloths who rushed to the front row fell down in unison as if they were cutting leeks, and the remaining Clothed Servants also continued to advance under the supervision of a small number of Houjin soldiers.
About a few paces away from the trench dug by the Huaxia army, they erected earthen frames and established a forward position.
In the trench behind them, groups of Mongol soldiers carried the frames and bags of dirt at the bottom of the trench to the ground, and let the coated minions continue to carry them to the front position.
The Huaxia army immediately opened firepower, except for the last hole cards on the south city of Lushun, all other firearms that could be used were being fired.
Even the heavily armed platoons of the few engineer units that had been silent began to shoot rockets in the direction of the Houjin Wall.
Tens of thousands of feather arrows with gunpowder power quickly swept across the sky, and the trajectory of gunpowder smoke sprayed out by the feather arrows to the rear filled the entire sky.
The sound of guns and rockets swishing one after another was deafening, and the explosions of fire mines, grenades, explosives, ash bottles, and fire oil bottles that were constantly thrown at each other by the two sides were so continuous that it was almost impossible to tell where the explosion point was.
Cold weapons, hot weapons, and all kinds of strange weapons are performed on the same stage here, composing a symphony of generations.
The battle was most fierce in the middle part of the front, and the Wuzhen Chaoha and Tianyou troops on the Houjin side were all equipped with a large number of bird guns and small cannons.
Even, there are hundreds of flintlock rifles imitated from China in the current Han army, which are called self-generated firearms in the Later Jin army.
Moreover, the density of their artillery was also the densest among the attacking troops on the whole front, and the Huaxia Army and the Houjin Army jointly created a large amount of gunpowder smoke in the center of the battlefield, which made the vision of both sides blurred, and there was no way to aim carefully.
Countless post-gold coats, on this battlefield filled with gunpowder, are running like ants, struggling for that little chance of survival.
In the middle of these Bao Yi, there are also scattered Jurchen Eight Banner Yu Ding and some unlucky armor soldiers from time to time, they howl loudly and are responsible for supervising the battle, while slashing and slashing those who have fallen into a mental breakdown, or are physically exhausted and unable to walk.
Their bloody suppression of knives and guns forced the other coats to burst out with a strong survival instinct, and quickly erected one earthen rampart after another only a few steps away from the trench of the Huaxia army.