Chapter 1064: The Decisive Battle of Jinzhou (1)
Everything else is, where will the Tianwei Army give them this opportunity?
As soon as the sky brightened, under the command of Xu Yifan, the Tianwei army launched a fierce attack on Jinzhou City!
Now Xu Yifan has 100,000 troops, a small Jinzhou city, if they still shrink back and dare not attack, it will be in vain to be the number one general of the Ming Dynasty.
Xu Yifan rejected the suggestion of others to besiege Jinzhou, directly mobilized all the artillery, and began to storm Nancheng!
A hundred artillery pieces began to bombard Jinzhou City indiscriminately, and one shell after another roared straight to the head of Jinzhou City in the earth-shaking cannon sound, and fell on the city wall one after another.
On the city of Jinzhou, all the green battalion soldiers are all like earth, they have seen artillery, but they have never seen such fierce artillery fire, hundreds of artillery, you know, before this, all the armies of the Ming Dynasty together had only about two hundred artillery, and in a war, the artillery put into the battle was only dozens at most.
However, this time, Xu Yifan directly used hundreds of artillery, and all of them were powerful red-coated cannons, and even flowering cannons, and the huge cannonballs smashed on the city wall, which was directly a crater, and the bricks and stones flew around!
Jinzhou City is the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong most hit base, specially built to deal with Manchurian cavalry, although the city is not big, but the degree of solidity even exceeds Baoding Mansion and Daimyo's Mansion, the inside is bluestone, the outside is blue bricks, the middle is thick rammed earth, the base of the city wall is three or four zhang wide, even if the top is still more than one and a half zhang wide, it can definitely be called impregnable, the Emperor Taiji of the year besieged Jinzhou several times, are the siege tactics used, cut off the supply of grain and grass in the city, and let the Ming army run out of food and collapse, but he has never dared to attack it directly, just because Jinzhou City is too strong, and forcibly attacking the city will definitely have to pay an unbearable price.
However, today, Xu Yifan is forcibly attacking the city, an unreasonable onslaught!
The shells almost enveloped the entire southern city of Jinzhou, and the shells smashed down, and the bricks and stones that blew up everywhere alone were enough to deal a huge blow to the green battalion soldiers, and under such a fierce artillery attack, the green battalion soldiers had already frightened Xinjiang, and they hid behind the wall battlements one by one, not even daring to show their heads, for fear of being affected.
Even so, under the bombardment of artillery, the Green Battalion still suffered a lot of casualties.
In one day, for a whole day, tens of thousands of shells poured on the head of Jinzhou City, and even at night the artillery did not stop!
This may be the last stop between the Ming Dynasty and Manchuria, a decisive battle, Xu Yifan no longer feels sorry for the shells, otherwise, the war is over, will these shells still be left to lay down?
Besides, this time when they came to Jinzhou City, the Tianwei army carried more than 150,000 shells in one go, even according to the current offensive intensity, it can support more than half a month, and the artillery shells in the rear are still being transported in a steady stream, and there are no worries at all.
A day and a night passed, Jinzhou City was full of bullet marks, the city wall was full of craters and cracks, and in some places, the green bricks had been smashed off, directly exposing the rammed earth layer inside, especially the flowering bombs, once they fell on the city head, they would directly blow up a big pit at the city head, and the surrounding soldiers were nine deaths!
As soon as the sky brightened, the attack of the Tianwei army began.
20,000 infantry, under the leadership of Song Jiaxing and Li Dingguo, began to rush towards Jinzhou City, flanked by musket battalions armed with flintlock muskets, slowly advancing!
"Quick, go and invite General Aobai and King Pingxi, the Ming army is starting to attack the city, go quickly!"
A general of the Green Battalion roared.
After a short time, Wu Sangui and Ao Bai came to the head of the city, looked down, and saw that the Tianwei army had already arrived at the bottom of the city, and the ladders that attacked the city had been pushed up, and they were about to hit the city wall.
"Bastards, damn bastards! What are you still stunned for, immediately release the arrow, release the arrow! Stop the Ming army from approaching! ”
Ao Bai was furious and scolded sharply.
The green battalion soldiers at the head of the city were already frightened, and they even forgot to let the mighty army charge towards the city on this day, and even forgot to counterattack.
The green battalion soldiers only reacted at this time, and they began to release arrows one after another!
It's just that at this time, the Tianwei army is already close at hand, and 20,000 infantry, even if it is archery, where can it be stopped? What's more, the four musket battalions were standing not far away, constantly shooting at the city, and the dense bullets enveloped the entire city, which was much more powerful than bows and arrows, and the green battalion soldiers who were firing arrows were shot one after another, and turned over and planted themselves from the city.
A siege ladder was erected on the top of the city, and the Tianwei army began to climb up along the ladder, the swords and guns in their hands were still constantly striking feather arrows, and the green battalion soldiers on the city were suppressed by the muskets and did not dare to show their heads, and the power of the bow and arrow was suppressed to the minimum, and it was impossible to organize the Tianwei army under the city again.
"Order, mobilize two Manchurian elites from Niu Lu for me, and you must withstand the attack of the Ming army!"
Ao Bai was secretly frightened, the combat power of the Tianwei Army was too strong, once the Tianwei Army rushed to the city, relying on the green battalion soldiers in front of him alone, it was impossible, now these green battalion soldiers are trembling one by one, and it is difficult to even stand firm, so what is the war, what is the repelling of the Tianwei Army? At this critical time, the only way to do this is to use the Manchurian elite.
Finally, one by one, the Tianwei army rushed to the head of the city and began to seize a powerful position to buy time for the Tianwei army behind.
Green Battalion Soldiers, the Green Battalion Soldiers at this time are really too wasteful, not to mention killing the Tianwei Army, and they don't even have the courage to step forward in hand-to-hand combat!
Aobai's eyes are on fire, grandma's, you have to do it yourself!
Ao Bai started the attack with two sabers in his hand, and one person held the position within a radius of one zhang, constantly attacking the sergeants of the Tianwei Army, and squeezed the Tianwei Army one by one from the city.
Fierce battle, tragic fierce battle, only less than half an hour, the double knife in Aobai's hand was already full of gaps, fortunately the Manchurian elite arrived in time, otherwise, let the Tianwei army gain a firm foothold in the city, then it would be really troublesome, even so, the Tianwei army is still fighting to the death, the corpses and wounded under the city head are piled up together, and the blood dyes the city head red!
(End of chapter)