Chapter 143: Entering the City
"Boom!"
Another cannonball followed, but this time it hit the city wall, which was slightly recessed, and the rubble kept falling!
There was no artillery in the Houjin army, and Sakhalian couldn't believe that the Ming army would surrender, so he asked the soldiers to teach the Houjin soldiers how to fire artillery on the spot. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the accuracy of the Furlong machine gun is not very good, and it is conceivable how many accurate points the artillerymen who have been temporarily taught.
However, under Li Sili's reminder, they used flowering bombs. The advantage of the flowering bomb is that the killing range is large, and the damage to the city gate and city wall is not large. These flowering shells are effective in killing and injuring soldiers even if they land several meters away.
The Furlong machine was a front-loading gun, which was slow to load, and after two shots, the artillery began to reload, and at the same time corrected the direction. Those Houjin soldiers who were originally surrounding Qin Shuhuai and the others didn't know what to do. Continue to rush forward? The cannonballs won't be long-sighted for a while! What if they don't rush? Then watch the Ming army pour into the city?
Sakhalian lacked an understanding of the characteristics of artillery, he only knew that Houjin had suffered countless artillery losses in Liaodong, and only saw the devastating power of artillery explosions, but he did not know how difficult it was to control artillery well. In fact, before Kong Youde surrendered to the Houjin in the sixth year of Chongzhen, there was basically no artillery in the Houjin army, so most people lacked knowledge of artillery, including Sakhalian.
And it was his ignorance that helped Qin Shuhuai and others a lot.
The Houjin soldiers who were originally surrounding them could have killed four people immediately, but because the two Fran machines fired indiscriminately, they retreated one after another, staying away from these four people to prevent them from being hit by shells again.
It was the effort of this small meeting that gave Qin Shuhuai and the four of them a chance to breathe, and waited for the reinforcements outside the city to come in!
But it wasn't the cavalry that came in, but fifty or sixty infantrymen!
The road outside the side gate was blocked, and the cavalry rushed to the rear and was blocked, but was caught up by the infantry behind. After clearing the road a little, a part of the infantry rushed over the obstacle to reinforcements, despite a rain of arrows, asphalt, and boiling oil.
Among them, there are more than 20 brocade guards.
These brocade guards were not originally responsible for fighting, so they were arranged by Zhao Shujiao to be at the back of the army. However, seeing that the army was blocked, he was afraid that the two thousand households would not be able to withstand it, so he rushed forward on his own initiative. Their cultivation is generally higher than that of ordinary soldiers, so they naturally rush to the forefront. But these more than 50 brocade guards, without any armor, suffered heavy casualties under the attack of arrows, boiling oil and asphalt, and when they rushed into the side door, only about 20 remained, and many of them were still wounded.
Seven or eight brocade guards immediately guarded Qin Shuhuai and the others, while the others fought with the Tartar soldiers.
Outside the side gate, the Ming infantry rushed in one after another, more and more people, obviously the barricades outside were almost cleared, and it would not be long before the cavalry could rush in.
The two Fran cannons opened fire again, but one still hit the city wall, and the other hit the Houjin soldiers at their highest concentration.
The Ming army who commanded the artillery surrendered the troops, and there was a subtle smile on their faces.
Seeing that the side gate was about to be lost, Li Sili knew that the general trend had gone, his face turned pale with fright, and he kept saying to Sakhalian, "Sabel, it seems that Luo Wenyu can't hold it, let's withdraw first!"
Sakhalian also knew that the tide was turning, and he clenched his fists in resentment, then turned his horse's head and walked south of the city. Luo Wenyu Pass is just south of Luo Wenyu City, and he plans to return to the key pass and defend it again.
After walking a few steps back, he suddenly remembered something, and muttered a few words in Manchu to the guards beside him. The guard nodded, shouted, and turned back with seven or eight horsemen, wanting to kill a few of the surrendered artillery soldiers who had just commanded.
I didn't expect those artillerymen to spread their legs and run away!
Surrounded by thirty or forty guards, Sakhalian hurried to the south gate.
But he didn't have to go long before he saw a large group of Ming troops killed, numbering at least two hundred! Sakhalian could see at a glance that this was the Ming army that had surrendered before, so he looked at Li Sili coldly.
Li Sili was also stunned, and finally relieved himself, rushed up and shouted to one of the leading soldiers, "Presumptuous, do you want to rebel?"
The soldier sneered, "Master Li, you can leave your wife and children in the pass behind and be a lackey of the Tartars with peace of mind, we brothers can't do it!"
Li Sili's face turned pale, and he trembled slightly, "Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu treats you well on weekdays, so you treat Lao Tzu like this?"
Another person smiled and said, "Master Li, the brothers just want to go home, if you really treat us well, why don't you lend your head to the brothers." The brethren will return in good light. ”
Originally, these soldiers were also responsible for guarding the city gate and the side gate together with the Houjin soldiers, but since the more than 30 soldiers guarding the border gate rebelled, Sakhalian no longer trusted these soldiers, and scattered them throughout the city, where the Houjin soldiers were responsible for guarding and monitoring. However, because of the onslaught on the side gate, a large number of Houjin elite soldiers were transferred, and the task of guarding the troops fell into the hands of the soldiers. These soldiers could do nothing but rob, and their numbers were not as large as the number of soldiers. Seeing that Wang Shi's soldiers were approaching the city, they naturally moved the idea of returning to the Ming Dynasty, and one of the troops took the lead in killing the soldiers, and then ran around the city and gathered all the soldiers. Then everyone summed it up, thinking that they should immediately rush out and join forces with the king outside to get some credit, and turn around to atone for their crimes, and go back openly.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the big guy ran out, he ran into the unlucky Sakhalian and Li Sili, and they couldn't help but be happy. If you can cut off the heads of these two people, not to mention the merits of the crime, it is possible to receive some more rewards.
The killing intent has appeared here, and Sakhalian's side naturally knows it, and after a while, the two sides will fight.
Qin Shuhuai was groggy and lay on the back of a brocade guard, and suddenly heard a brocade guard coming.
"Thousands of households, there is a shout of killing in the south of the city. ”
Qin Shuhuai was stunned for a moment, but immediately reacted, Luo Wenyu Pass is in the south of the city! It must be that the other party's main general wants to retreat to Luo Wenyu Pass and is blocked!
This is providence!
So he shouted with the last bit of strength, "Jinyi Guards obeyed the order, and all rushed to the south of the city to pursue the opponent's main general!"
More than 20 brocade guards responded to the order and immediately rushed to the south of the city!
When Meng Hu heard this, he immediately yelled, "I'll go too!"
Outside the side gates, the barricades were finally cleared completely. One after another, Guan Ning Iron Cavalry rushed in like wolves, screaming and stabbing into the pile of golden soldiers behind!
Qin Shuhuai used the last bit of consciousness to buy an antidote pill, a hemostatic pill, and a Zhonggu Yuan Pill in the system, and then passed out with a crooked head.
In the south of the city, more than 20 brocade guards joined the battle group, and the embroidered spring knife was full of cold light. At the same time, more than 100 Guanning iron cavalry also went to the south of the city to reinforce ......
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