710 terrible casualties

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"Ahhh

Bursts of screams, artillery bombardment on the wall of Yanmen Pass, and dense bullet rain killed and injured a large number of Qing soldiers below.

It's just that the bombardment of these tiger squat cannons and the Fran machine did not affect the siege of the Qing army under the city wall, and more Qing army foot soldiers around were climbing along the ladder to the city wall.

"Rolling wood, rock, smash it hard for me, hurry up and get the gold juice ready."

Guan Ling walked around the city wall of Yanmen Pass and shouted loudly at the soldiers of the Ming army.

At this time, the Ming army's way of defending the city was basically no different from the past, and the only difference was that the number of their firecrackers was larger.

On the other hand, on the Tartar side, although the siege method has been improved and equipped with more artillery, it still has not gotten rid of the cold weapon siege method.

There is no way, the men and horses on both sides, strictly speaking, still belong to the cold-weapon army, which determines their way of war.

Even the White Dragon Army under Li Zixiao at this time, equipped with new artillery and flintlock guns, can only be regarded as a half-hot weapon and half-cold weapon army.

This time, the Han army launched the siege with two units of men and horses, blue flags and red flags, with more than 30,000 people, plus a banner of Mongolian soldiers, with a strength of nearly 40,000, stormed Yanmen Pass.

In particular, the Eight Banners of the Han Army should be said to be inferior to the Tartars in field battles, but if they attack the city, they are much stronger than the Tartars.

At this time, the combat power of the Eight Banners of the Han Army in the hands of the Tartars has surpassed the Ming army by a lot, and they are all extremely brave.

Therefore, at the beginning of the siege battle, the Qing army's offensive was extremely fierce, and the Ming army's side suffered many casualties.

"Archers release arrows!"

Outside Yanmen Pass, a Mongolian general shouted at more than 2,000 Mongolian archers behind him.

Immediately, the Mongolian archers lined up behind him used their longbows to shoot at the wall of Yanmen Pass.

The dense rain of arrows crossed the half arc in mid-air, and then caused a lot of casualties to the Ming soldiers on the wall of Yanmen Pass.

The longbow used by the Mongols was different from the bow used by the Tartars, who had a longer range but were weaker than the Tartars' bows.

At this time, these Mongolian archers gathered and shot a dense rain of arrows to strike at the Ming army in the form of projectiles, which was amazingly powerful.

Because the Mongolian archers carried out projectile shooting, their arrows could cross the city wall and kill and injure the Ming soldiers on the city wall.

At this time, the musketeers of the Qing army under the city were not as useful as these Mongolian archers.

The shot of the musketeer is a flat line, and the lead bullets shot are easily blocked by the city wall, and it is more difficult to shoot the Ming soldiers who are hiding behind the city wall.

Squeak, squeak!

And with the Qing soldiers behind them pushing their cloud carts up, the firecrackers under them can play a greater role.

With the help of a ladder, those Qing gunners sent them to a height about the same height as the wall of Yanmen Pass, so that they could kill and injure the Ming soldiers on the city wall by shooting flat.

"Fire, attack the enemy's cloud carts, with their firecrackers on them, take them out first."

When he saw the cloud cart of the Qing army outside the city, carrying a lot of musketeers to the high place, and attacked them.

Guan Ling also paid attention to this, and he immediately organized the musketeers of the Ming army on the city wall, and gave priority to defeating the gunners of the Qing army on these cloud cars.

Bang bang bang!

Immediately, a burst of crisp gunshots like fried beans continued to resound in the sky above the Yanmen Gate, accompanied by the screams of those who were shot.

The bursts of gunpowder smoke caused by the fire bolt shot kept rising, emitting a pungent smell, and floated in the sky above the Yanmen Gate.

"Grenadier, prepare, throw!"

A Ming army general shouted at the Ming soldiers under his command.

Immediately, more than a dozen Ming soldiers behind took out an iron-shelled mine the size of a small leather ball from the wooden box.

Have one of the people next to you light the fuse, and after a few moments of burning, throw it under the wall.

Thundered!

Soon, there was a loud noise on the city wall, and with the explosion of the iron-shelled thunder, within a few meters around, many Qingjiang foot soldiers were holding their wounds and rolling on the ground.

"Hurry up, the prince has spoken, the first person to kill the city pass, upgrade to three levels, reward one hundred taels of gold, and you can raise the flag, kill!"

A Han army commander outside the city who commanded the siege of the city with a blue flag, at this time, in order to boost morale, shouted loudly to the Qing soldiers who were besieging the city.

The price offered by Azig is indeed very high, which does have the effect of boosting morale.

At this time, the Han army besieging the city was inlaid with blue and red flags, and the attack was more violent.

Even, there were many soldiers who climbed to the top of the ladder and tried to climb the Yanmen Pass, but they were beaten down by the Ming soldiers on the city wall.

"Damn, get out of here!"

A Ming sergeant roared, and with the fork in his hand, he directly pressed against a ladder erected by the Qing army, and pushed it down, and many Qing soldiers on it were also killed.

"Haha! Dog, Tartar, die! ”

The Ming sergeant saw that he had opened a ladder for clearing soldiers, and excitedly gathered at the mouth of the city wall to watch, and said.

Peng!

But at this time, on a cloud car more than 30 steps away from Yanmen Pass, more than 30 firecrackers also shot at Chengguan again.

Unfortunately, this happy Ming soldier fell down with a scream because he was standing at the battlement of the city wall and was hit in the chest by a shot shot.

"Pour the gold juice, hurry up!"

Soon, many soldiers of the Ming army also ordered to pour the dung water that had been boiled down the Tartar ladder.

Ahhh

Then, there was a terrible scream under the city wall, several times louder than before, and the scream made people shudder to hear.

"Treat the wounded, quickly. Move the wounded down, let the three battalions in the back lead people to fill the vacancy, hurry up, there can be no shortage of people on the city wall. ”

Guan Ling has been walking on the city wall, responsible for deploying Ming soldiers everywhere to better defend the city.

This round of siege by the Qing army began almost at noon, and after more than an hour, the Qing army still failed to kill the Yanmen city wall.

Although during the siege, the artillery, archers and musketeers of the Qing army inflicted serious casualties on the Ming soldiers at the Yanmen Pass.

But these Ming soldiers fought very tenaciously, and no one fled in fear, successfully resisting this wave of Qing army's terrible offensive.

More than an hour later, with the sound of golden gongs from the Tartars, the Qing soldiers besieging the city all breathed a sigh of relief and slowly retreated.

"Finally repulsed!"

Looking at the outside of the city pass, the Qing soldiers who were slowly retreating, Guan Ling on the tower of the city gate of Yanmen Pass also breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a somewhat tired face.

"The generals of all departments immediately counted the number of people and treated the wounded."

Guan Ling did not stop because of this, summoned his other generals, and issued a new order.

At this time, a group of men and horses also came from the south of Yanmen Pass, almost five or six thousand people, it was Lu Xiangsheng who came with the troops, and Qi Wei also came with him.

"See the marshal."

Seeing Lu Xiangsheng enter the customs, Guan Ling hurriedly greeted him.

"Get up, Guan Ling, how is the battle going? The Qing army retreated? ”

After Lu Xiangsheng came to Yanmen Pass, he didn't hear the guns and shouts of killing, so he asked Guan Ling.

"Returning to the marshal, fortunately, the officers and men in the pass used their lives to repel the enemy's first wave of offensive, and the humble position did not live up to the promotion of the marshal."

"What about the casualties?"

"This, the casualties are still being counted, but the Tartar offensive is too fierce, and the casualties of the soldiers are not optimistic."

Guan Ling's face was unnatural, and he said to Lu Xiangsheng.

The offensive of the first wave of Qing soldiers before was indeed very fierce, if it weren't for Guan Ling's sufficient troops at the beginning, there were several city walls that almost let the Qing soldiers attack it.

For this reason, Guan Ling had to send two of the three reserves he had prepared in advance, and wounded soldiers were carried down every moment.

The intensity of the battle, the bravery of the Qing army, and the casualties on their side far exceeded Guan Ling's previous expectations.

"Let's go, take me to the castle tower." Lu Xiangsheng greeted Guan Ling.

"Yes, Sir, please."

Immediately, Guan Ling took the initiative to give way and let Lu Xiangsheng walk in the front, he followed closely, and did not forget to nod to Qi Wei, Hao Qiang and other generals behind.

When Lu Xiangsheng and the others followed the horse road and climbed the city wall, they saw that there were still Ming soldiers and soldiers, carrying the wounded soldiers and corpses down from the city wall in a steady stream.

When Lu Xiangsheng climbed on the city wall, he saw a bloody and tragic scene that he was extremely familiar with, and the corpses piled up together on the wall of Yanmen Pass were everywhere.

At this time, a Ming army soldier was in the pile of corpses, looking for wounded soldiers, treating them first, and then carrying the corpses down.

"Dashuai!"

"Dashuai!"

Lu Xiangsheng walked to the city wall, and the soldiers of the Ming army on the city wall saluted him and shouted.

Lu Xiangsheng's face was grim, and he nodded to everyone.

During the Chongzhen period, if you want to talk about the greatest military power, it must be Yuan Chonghuan, but at this time, Lu Xiangsheng's power is no longer inferior to Yuan Chonghuan back then, and even surpassed.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng was not only the first assistant of the Ming Cabinet, but also the generalissimo of the three armies, nominally able to lead the world's soldiers and horses.

Lu Xiangsheng looked down at the corpses of the fallen soldiers, and soon found that most of the fallen soldiers had died from arrows or lead bullets.

In a section of the city wall, Lu Xiangsheng even saw an extremely bloody scene, the body of a Ming soldier soldier, only the upper body remained, and the lower body disappeared completely from the waist.

At this time, the Ming soldier was dead, his upper body was soaked in blood, and there was a pool of blood and mud next to him, and he could vaguely see that his legs were smashed.

Combined with the fact that at this time, the city wall of Yanmen Pass is damaged everywhere, and the city wall that can be built of stone can only be said to be a solid iron bullet if it causes such damage.

Lu Xiangsheng raised his head, looked at Guan Ling next to him, and asked, "Most of these fallen soldiers were killed by arrows and lead bullets, and there are still a lot of traces of shelling.

It seems that the Tartars did not attack the city walls, how could there be so many casualties? Is the Tartar's ranged attack so strong? ”

After hearing Lu Xiangsheng's inquiry, Guan Ling also showed a bitter look on his face, and said: "Great Shuai Mingjian, the Tartars who attacked the city this time are not only brave.

What's even more terrifying is that there are a large number of archers and musketeers among them, as many as dozens of artillery, and the long-range strike is extremely terrifying.

Their siege was methodical, first with artillery bombardment to cover the approach of the foot guards, and then their archers would gather together and take advantage of the dense rain of arrows to strike at us.

At the same time, they built seven or eight large building cars, and let the firecrackers board the building cars and shoot at us.

The other foot soldiers, under the cover of these long-range fire, took advantage of the situation to attack the city. ”

Lu Xiangsheng listened to Guan Ling's report, and his face became more and more serious, combined with Guan Ling's narration, and the tragic casualties he saw in front of his own soldiers.

Lu Xiangsheng could already imagine that the siege methods of the Tartars were indeed difficult to deal with.

"Report to the general, the casualty statistics are out, please take a look."

At this time, a logistics officer of the Ming army ran up from under the city wall, knelt on the ground, and handed Guan Ling a casualty statistics sheet.

Guan Ling took it, glanced at it first, and then his eyes widened, revealing a look of disbelief, but then handed the statistics sheet to Lu Xiangsheng next to him.

Although Lu Xiangsheng is the commander, Guan Ling is the guard of Yanmen Pass appointed by Lu Xiangsheng at this time, and Guan Ling is the most direct commander of everything in Yanmen Pass.

Therefore, even if Lu Xiangsheng was present at this time, Guan Ling had to read the statistics sheet first, and then hand it to Lu Xiangsheng.

"Marshal, the command is ineffective, please punish the marshal."

As a result, Lu Xiangsheng had just taken the statistical sheet, and before he had time to look at it, Guan Ling in front of him knelt down directly and asked for sin.

Qi Wei and Hao Qiang, who were next to them, saw Guan Ling's behavior at this time, they didn't need to look at the casualty statistics, they knew that the casualties of the Ming army this time were definitely not small.

Faced with Guan Ling's kneeling plea, Lu Xiangsheng did not respond immediately, but looked down at the casualty statistics sheet in his hand, and his face quickly darkened.

"Hmph, yes! In just one hour, you lost nearly 4,000 men and horses to Ben Shuai, which is already one-fifth of your troops, and it will be gone in an hour.

If you follow this style of play, the Tartars launch a few more offensives, and in less than two days, your men will probably be wiped out, and Yanmen Pass should be returned to the Tartars. ”

Lu Xiangsheng had a gloomy face, holding the casualty statistics sheet in his hand, and scolded Guan Ling who was kneeling on one knee.

Lu Xiangsheng never thought that this wave of Tartar siege would cause such heavy casualties to the defenders of Yanmen Pass.

With 20,000 horses, this wave of attack and defense directly lost nearly 4,000 people, of which nearly 3,000 were killed, and the rest were wounded.

And such casualties were only achieved in a single siege of the city by the Tartars, and it took an hour to come.

The number of casualties far exceeded Lu Xiangsheng's expectations.

Before Lu Xiangsheng came, he knew that this strong attack on Yanmen Pass by the Tartars would basically not have results.

There are 20,000 defenders on the Yanmen Pass, and Guan Ling's ability is also clear to him, only if he is prepared in advance, the Tartars will not be able to attack the Yanmen Pass.

In a group of sieges like the Tartars, the proportion of casualties is controlled at about 1,000 people, which is already a very high proportion.

And, as a rule, the casualties of a siege are much greater than those of a defending city.

Lu Xiangsheng still had 50,000 troops in Daizhou at this time, so he was happy to fight a war of attrition with the Tartars at Yanmen Pass, and he believed that the first to hold on to such a war of attrition must be the Tartars.

(End of chapter)