Chapter 540: Huang Taiji's ruthlessness
In the face of this battle, which is more and more like a one-sided massacre, on the position of the Houjin army, Fan Wencheng, a military guard who is guarding Huang Taiji's side. With a solemn face, he reminded: "Great Khan, you can't fight anymore, the firearms of the Tiger and Leopard Army are really powerful...... If you continue to fight, there is no difference between it and sending it to death? β
Seeing that the expression on Huang Taiji's face did not change in the slightest because of this, Fan Wencheng continued to remind: "Great Khan, the tens of thousands of Khan and Eight Banner soldiers we dispatched are already about to lose two thousand people. And the Tiger and Leopard Army defending Liaoyang, with a full battle, only lost two or three hundred people. Almost seven or eight Khan and Eight Banner soldiers can exchange the lives of a tiger and leopard army. More importantly, the longer this offensive continues, the greater the proportion of losses between friend and foe......"
"Great Khan, order the soldiers to retreat...... This attack, we lost again......"
At this time, Huang Taiji, who had been paying attention to every move on the battlefield, so that he had not spoken until the end, finally spoke. looked at Fan Wencheng and his surrounding subordinates, and said unwillingly.
"Strategist, you're right, the firearms of the Haw Par Army are too powerful...... If we continue to attack according to this proportion of losses, even if we fight all the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Khan that we brought, we will not be able to take Liaoyang. β
"If you can't take Liaoyang, there is no way to eliminate all the tiger and leopard army garrisons in Liaoyang and take Liaodong as your own...... Therefore, in order to take Liaodong and Liaoyang, even if you know that if you continue to attack, you will let Khan Baqi go to death, and this attack cannot be stopped. β
"Not only must we not stop, but we must further strengthen the offensive ......"
Hearing this, Fan Wencheng faced. Directly revealed a look of surprise full of incredulity.
Huang Taiji's words had just been finished. Fan Wencheng subconsciously asked.
"Great Khan. Are you going to ......"
Under the simultaneous gaze of more than a dozen pairs of eyes, a thick murderous aura quickly emanated from Huang Taiji's body. Then, without hesitation, he commanded.
"Draw another 5,000 musketeers from the Eight Banners of Khan, join the battlefield, and launch an attack on Liaoyang City."
"Although the muskets we are equipped with are not as powerful as the Haw Par Army. However, we can be quantitatively. Overpowering the Haw Par Army...... In addition to the musketeers of the five thousand sweats and eight banners, another thousand archers were drawn from the yellow banners, mixed among the musketeers, and shot the tiger and leopard army on the city wall......"
Looking at the subordinates who left in a hurry in front of him, Huang Taiji continued to speak.
"The musketeers and archers are up, and the artillerymen cannot be idle...... Order the remaining heavy artillery of the artillery team to immediately open fire on the city walls, and use all flowering shells......"
"As long as you can open a gap in the wall of Liaoyang City, rush into the city. Drain all the flowering shells and blow up all the heavy artillery by the Haw Par Army. I also don't hesitate to ......."
Ben Khan didn't believe that the tiger and leopard army that held on to Liaoyang were all iron. In flowering bombs. Muskets, bows and arrows, so many long-range weapons can be attacked without collapsing the battlefield......"
Heavy artillery was used when the attacking troops had already rushed to the foot of the city walls of Liaoyang City, and flowering shells were also used. For the Houjin Army, there are not too many flowering bullets on the head, and perhaps most of them will be smashed on the heads of the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Khan.
In this way, the damage to the attacking troops of the Khan Eight Banners will definitely be more than the damage to the Tiger and Leopard Army.
Therefore, as soon as Huang Taiji's order was issued, Fan Wencheng, the nominal commander of the Khan's Eight Banners, raised his own objections.
However, as soon as he finished saying his objection, two murderous eyes shot at him.
As for the owner of these two gazes, it was no surprise that it was Huang Taiji, the person who issued the military order, who shot outward.
At the same time as the two eyes shot at him, a murderous and very cold answer also spit out from Huang Taiji's mouth: "Ben Khan's order, when will it be your turn to question a Han person." β
"In order to be able to take Liaoyang and Liaodong, even if all the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Khan die here, Ben Khan will not frown...... Immediately go to pass on the order of Ben Khan, the artillery team, and immediately open the cannon......"
"Boom, boom, boom, boom......" Within a single cup of tea, the roaring sound of artillery spread from the scattered artillery positions.
Dozens of flowering bullets, with a screaming sound, crossed most of the soldiers of the Eight Banners on the battlefield, and smashed around the walls of Liaoyang City without hesitation.
Fan Wencheng was not wrong, in this shelling, more than sixty percent of the flowering shells fell directly in the middle of the dense soldiers of the Eight Banners of Khan outside the city, and in the siege formation of the Eight Banners of Khan, more than a dozen blood flowers mixed with fire and gunsmoke were instantly set off, which was very dazzling and wonderful.
As for the remaining forty percent of the flowering bombs, not all of them fell on the city walls.
Instead, half fell on the city wall, and half fell inside the city of Liaoyang.
However, even so, the seven or eight sisters who fell on the city wall were still blinking an eye, causing direct losses of almost forty or fifty people to the Tiger and Leopard Army.
It is conceivable that this indiscriminate covering shelling, if it continues like this, will not take long. The Haw Par Army that sticks to the city wall will pay a very heavy price.
Not only that, but the defensive line, which was still very tight just now, will also be blown up by these flowering bombs and there are gaps everywhere.
Some might say that while the Houjin army was carrying out artillery bombardment, the Khan Eight Banners were also suffering greater losses than the Tiger and Par Army. However, you must not forget that the total strength of the Khan Eight Banners participating in the offensive is several times that of the Haw Par Army. Even if the Khan Eight Banners paid twice or even three times the losses in the shelling, the Khan Eight Banners could bear it.
And this is the insidious and vicious nature of the Emperor Tai of the Later Jin Army.
In the face of the offensive that seems to have not stopped in the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Army, in the face of the flowering bullets that keep falling overhead. The commander of the first division, who had just arrived at the city wall, had not yet reacted from the surprise of receiving the news from the Governor's Palace, and was overwhelmed by the pressure and changes in front of him.
Wang Bo, who frowned, shouted with a solemn face: "We can't let the flowering catapult of the Houjin Army shoot towards the city anymore." Our troops are limited, and there is no way to fight with the Houjin army outside the city. β
"Heavy artillery regiment, immediately contact the heavy artillery regiment to counterattack the heavy artillery of the Houjin army, and we must destroy them in the shortest possible time......"
While the herald hurriedly left the city wall, Wang Bo, who was full of solemnity, continued.
"The heavy artillery of the Houjin army is too scattered...... With dozens of cannons of the heavy artillery regiment, even if they bombard for an hour, they may not be able to destroy them all...... We can't pin all our hopes on the heavy artillery regiment. β
"The general will order, two battalions of heavy mortars, give me all the mortars at once, all the mortars are set up on the city wall. With the range of heavy mortars, the artillery was fired from the city wall, just enough to reach the heavy artillery positions of the Houjin army. Even if you almost can't reach them, you can harass them and make their flowering bullets lose their accuracy. β
In the face of the counterattack of the Haw Par Army, especially after seeing the Haw Par Army actually set up artillery on the city wall. Huang Taiji's murderous face finally changed a little.
After a sneer quickly flashed at the corner of his mouth, he ordered loudly: "The Tiger and Leopard Army that is holding Liaoyang has begun to be anxious...... Not only that, but our goal of using guΓ² heavy artillery to kill and injure a large number of tigers and leopards on the city wall has also been achieved. β
Ben Khan had just taken a closer look, and in the short artillery fire, less than thirty flowering shells had landed on the walls. However, these 30 rounds of shells caused losses of at least more than 200 people to the Haw Par Army. β
"If you add to that the damage inflicted on the Haw Par Army by the follow-up musketeers and archers. In this attack, we wiped out at least 600 tigers and leopards. And our losses are less than 3,000 people......"
"Compared with the previous days, this result can definitely be called a world of difference."
"Now that our goal has been achieved, to continue attacking is to increase our losses...... Ben Khan ordered to retreat immediately...... Do not forget that when retreating, it is necessary to take all the muskets on the battlefield ......"
Hearing this, even Fan Wencheng, who claimed to be very good at strategy, showed a look of admiration for Huang Taiji on his face.
Because, in the case of equipment inferior to the Tiger and Leopard Army, the tactical tactics used by Huang Taiji are undoubtedly the most suitable for the Houjin Army, so that the Houjin Army will suffer the least losses.
So, as soon as Huang Taiji's order was issued, Fan Wencheng said to Huang Taiji with admiration and flattery on his face: "The Great Khan is wise. The minions now finally understand the Great Khan's painstaking efforts, and ask the Great Khan to forgive the minions for their crossbow blindness. β
On the wall of Liaoyang City, as the battle stopped, the artillery fire stopped, and the ease shrouded in the city wall slowly dissipated, and a picture full of blood appeared in front of Wang Bo.
Ever since he was bombarded by the Houjin army, Wang Bo had already felt that the losses in this battle of defending the city must be greater than any battle of defending the city during this period.
However, when he really saw the tragic Cheng dΓΉ on the city wall, he was still taken aback.
On the two-mile city wall, the corpses of soldiers covered in blood can be seen everywhere.
Among them, especially near the impact point of dozens of flowering shells, it can be described as bloody, even slaughterhouse.
In addition to all kinds of corpses, there are also a large number of stumps and severed arms that have been blown into parts by flowering shells, which can be found almost everywhere.
Of course, in addition to these corpses, the most common ones were the wounded who fell on the city walls, and were wailing.
Seeing this, the expression on Wang Bo's face was directly covered by heaviness.
Because, the battle that just ended made him faintly feel that the next battle was definitely not as simple as he imagined.
Soon, the battle losses were sent to Wang Bo.
In less than an hour of fighting, 553 officers and men under his command were directly killed, and 195 were seriously wounded and lost their combat effectiveness.
Faced with this result, Wang Bo didn't dare to imagine how many people would be left in his own division if there were two more attacks in this one. (To be continued......)