Chapter 131: Arrogance Again
"Lord Belle, the Haw Par Army has retreated, and the warriors have captured the first line of defense of the Haw Par Army......" A Tartar general standing beside Dolgon, swept away the frustration and low morale caused by the fiasco in the field just now, and shouted at Dolgon.
At this moment, you don't need to look at it to know that Dorgon's goal of killing two birds with one stone has begun to be slowly achieved.
After glancing at the equally excited subordinates behind him, Dorgon couldn't help but cast a look of appreciation at the advisor next to him who had come up with the idea, and then continued to ask.
"Sir, should we continue our attack......
"Of course, Lord Baylor...... The Haw Par Army had just experienced a defeat, and morale was low. We can take advantage of this time to continue to attack the Haw Par Army, and we can take advantage of the victory to attack and further expand the results of the battle."
"Okay, I'll listen to you in today's battle, sir, I hope sir won't let me down......" Dolgon, with a hint of victory and joy, affirmed loudly without thinking about it.
Because, after the battle that Tong Guò had just witnessed with his own eyes, Dolgon was confident that his adequate preparation could already be described as invulnerable for the defending Haw Par Army.
If you can capture the first line of defense of the Haw Par Army with sufficient preparation, then you can easily capture the second and even the third line of defense.
So, at the sound of Dolgon's order, the infantry who were hiding behind the shield cart raised their shields, crossed the shield wall, and cleared the large number of barbs that the Haw Par Army had inserted upside down on the defensive line, clearing a smooth offensive channel for the shield chariots.
On the wall of the mushroom Yu wall, although the guns and cannons of his own position were fired in unison, a steady stream of lead bullets and shells were fired forward, but the results achieved were very limited, and they could even be described in four words.
Not only Zhou Shuyuan and his subordinates, but also Wei Zheng's own face showed an unprecedented solemnity.
By the time the Tartar attacking forces came out, Wei Zheng had already judged from Dorgon's ample preparations that the power of the firearms under his command would be reduced by half in the face of the strong defenses of the Tartars.
However, the battlefield in front of him directly told the Tartar that in the face of the strong defense of the Tartars, the firearms troops under his command could hardly inflict damage on the Tartar attacking troops at a distance of 100 paces.
Watch as the Tartars occupy the first line of defense, and then, like snails, slowly push forward, eating away at their own positions step by step. Zhou Shuyuan, who was standing beside Wei Zheng, was anxious and shouted at Wei Zheng.
"General, we can't be so passive in blocking the attack, otherwise, we won't be able to inflict mass damage on the enemy through the trench group outside the city. At that time, even if we had the grenade as a weapon to defend the city, and faced with the Tartars and infantry who did not suffer much loss, we would be greeted by an unprecedented hard battle to defend the city. Because the enemy's forces are too many, even the simplest tactics of crowds are enough to put us under very strong pressure. ”
Under the gaze of a pair of anxious eyes, a sneer quickly flashed away from Wei Zheng's face.
Then, he said to Zhou Shuyuan: "Military advisor, I have a way to deal with the Tartar shield car. It's just that I don't want to waste gunpowder. Although we have plenty of gunpowder, we can't produce it after all, and we will use a little less. So, since the battle just began, I haven't thought about using the explosives bag again, which is very wasteful of gunpowder. ”
"But, now, it seems that in order to defeat Dorgon's arrogance, to break his shield cart, and to make him have to fill the ten trenches we have placed outside the city with his human life, we will have to use explosives once again."
"Order the artillery battalion to immediately dispatch 10,000 catties of gunpowder, rush to make 500 20-pound explosive bags, and use trebuchets to deliver the explosives bags to the top of the Tartar attacking troops."
It took a whole hour for the heavy Tartar shield carts to all cross the front-line positions that the Haw Par Army had just abandoned.
Subsequently, the Tartars' offensive against the second line of defense of the Tiger and Par Army began.
Hundreds of soldiers of the Tiger and Par Army desperately fired lead bullets and cannonballs forward, trying to block the advancing shield wall, more than a dozen catapults, assembled by hundreds of gunners, quickly appeared in front of everyone.
"Upper explosives pack...... After a loud shout of bomb ......" sounded in the middle of more than a dozen catapults, the long arm of the catapult quickly lifted from the ground, and after being at a 90-degree angle to the ground, it froze directly in the air, and let out a very dull trill.
The arm pole was waved high and stopped, and the explosive bag filled in the bomb pocket quickly broke away from the shackles of the bomb pocket under the action of inertia, and quickly passed over everyone's heads under the gaze of hundreds of pairs of eyes of the Haw Par Army. Then, after drawing a white parabola in the air, with a series of slight whistling sounds, he flew towards the Tartar attacking troops who were getting closer and closer to his second line of defense.
As a very primitive long-range throwing weapon in Chinese history, although it has gone through hundreds of thousands of years of development, its firing accuracy is still an unsolvable problem.
Therefore, of the dozen or so explosive packs projected forward by the dozen catapults in front of him, only four of the explosive packs fell into the front and back of the tight shield wall, and the hit rate was less than 30%.
However, it was the huge power of the simultaneous explosion of 20 catties of gunpowder that made the Tartars and infantry followers hiding behind the shield wall no longer feel safe.
Before the earth-shaking explosion reached Wei Zheng's ears, four orange-red fireballs were already rising in front of and behind the shield cart.
Wei Zheng, who was holding the binoculars, saw with his own eyes that the three shield carts shrouded in fireballs were like papier-mâché, and they were thrown into the sky by the huge shock wave generated by the explosion of the explosive pack. Subsequently, the wooden skeleton of the shield car was also torn to pieces in an instant under the impact of the air wave.
After losing three shield vehicles in an instant, a gap with a frontal width of more than three battles appeared in front of the Tiger and Par Army.
The distance of 100 paces is not only the best range for the neutral Franc aircraft, but also the best range for the new arquebuses equipped with by the Haw Par Army.
Therefore, the Haw Par Army, which held the second-line position, was like a hungry wolf that smelled blood, quickly focusing its eyes and attention on the gap. Of course, the black hole muzzle of the three hundred arquebuses was also concentrated in the gap at this moment.
After the sound ......of a bean-like gunshot, three hundred hot buckshot bullets whizzed along the gap into the attacking formation of the Tartars and the infantry.
The negligible casualties in the assault on the first line of defence of the Hawpar Army made all attackers confident in the shield wall in front of them. Therefore, when attacking the second line of defense of the Haw Par Army, they were confident that they would not be attacked, like chasing ducks, gathering densely behind the shield carts.
The explosives pack destroyed the shield cart, and three hundred buckshot bullets followed through the gap and roared.
In the blink of an eye, nearly white infantry fell to the breach, either dead or wounded.