Chapter 542
Chapter 542
Chapter 542
Zhu Yihai was a little dizzy.
This feeling is good, a very strange sense of familiarity, he feels as if he is flying in the sky.
When he shook his head and became a little more awake, he remembered where he was.
He was seven or eight percent drunk from drinking, and he was taking a convenience at this time.
He shook his head again, cleaned his hands after finishing the work, and looked at the bronze mirror on the table. He was indeed a little drunk, his face was flushed, and his mouth was breathing alcohol.
This reminded him of that time and space. On weekends, he would often meet up with friends, sometimes drinking tea, sometimes drinking, and when he got excited, he would also get half drunk. The slightly smoky feeling can always be forgotten. trouble.
But since coming here, he has rarely drank alcohol, usually just a few symbolic sips, and he will never let himself get drunk again.
He straightened his clothes in front of the mirror, and went out, there were waiters outside, he walked through the corridor, and there was a loud noise from the hall.
Many princes and ministers are toasting.
Well, he remembered, today is the new year.
Shaotian's two years went smoothly, the offense and defense changed, and there were no major battles in the second half of the year. Under his leadership, Da Ming completely gained a firm foothold, and even gradually counterattacked.
Wang Ye is not partial to peace, and ZTE is making progress.
It was a bit difficult for the Tartars. Last year, the Tartars killed four princes in a row, especially the sudden death of the emperor's father and the regent, which caused another wave of internal strife in the Manchurian center.
Jiang Guan raised troops in Datong, and the Tartars mobilized elite troops to quell the chaos.
As a result, soldiers besieged Datong for several months. Not only did they fail to break through Datong, but they lost a lot of soldiers and generals.
Geng Zhongming successfully reopened Dongjiang Town in Pidao.
Shen Tingyang, governor of Liaodong, took Gai, Fu, and Jin, and sent troops to capture Jiulian City on the Yalu River and Phoenix City on the Caohe River, a tributary.
Offensive and defensive.
Now the Tartars are not only on the defensive in Xu, Ying, and Jinan in Shandong, but also in Wuchang and Jingxiang in Huguang.
Even after winter, the Ming army did not withdraw the defenders from Juehua Island in Ningyuan.
When the ice layer thickens, the Tartars want to repeat Yuan Chonghuan's defense of Ningyuan. They sent troops to cross the sea and ice on horseback, landed on Juehua Island 20 miles offshore, slaughtered [-] soldiers and civilians on the island, and seized [-] stone. The old matter of grain and grass.
As a result, it failed this time.
Didn't Daming know that the sea ice on Juehua Island would freeze in winter, and that he could ride a horse directly to the island?
But why retreated from Haizhou last year, but stayed on Juehua Island in western Liaoning this year?
Because this year is different from previous years, the Ming army came prepared.
Before it was frozen, Juehua Island had been rebuilt for more than half a year. Not only did it restore the original grain storage city, it also restored the city that was about one mile long from north to south and half a mile wide from east to west. The city was more than three feet high and two feet wide at the bottom. It was reinforced, and two bastions, one large and one small, were newly built outside the city.
The big bastion is outside the north gate, leading directly to the outer port, which can not only protect the transportation channel, but also defend the north gate.
There were originally two gates on the south wall, which connected to the dragon's neck, and now a small bastion has been added.The main island is wide at both ends and narrow at the middle, like an irregular gourd, hanging alone in the sea.
A bastion and a fort were built outside the south gate, so it was natural to guard against danger.
Juehua Island fell during the Battle of Ningyuan, mainly because Ningyuan City was besieged and could not be reinforced, and because at that time the island was mainly composed of sailors who were not good at fighting on foot.
Moreover, their defense strategy at that time was to break the ice, to break the ice every day, trying to keep an ice trench out, but the weather was too cold at that time, one side was broken and the other side was frozen, so the Qing army came without defense, and finally the whole army was wiped out.
But the Ming army had no intention of using the sea ice to defend the city at all, and even transferred the navy ships to Lushun or Qingdao Liangbuying Port in advance before it was frozen.
The Juehua guard plan drawn up by Zhu Yihai himself stationed an entire imperial battalion on the island, with [-] soldiers and [-] auxiliary soldiers. Many guns were shipped.
This was originally a poison pill intended to lure the enemy.
Just wait for the Qing army to attack as soon as it freezes.
Once the ice freezes, there will be a period of several months of freezing. Juehua Island hangs alone in the sea, can the Tartars resist the temptation to wipe out this army?What's more, there have been successful precedents before.
Before the battle began, the Ming army transported all the people on the island, including those from Liaodong who had been brought back from Liaoxi, to Shandong and other places.
There are only six thousand and eight soldiers on the island.
At the end of November, the sea froze and the island was frozen.
The Tartars mobilized [-] cavalry squadrons as forwards to attack Juehua Island.
The rear golden cavalry galloped on ice.
They were preparing to land on the Duo Island at Mohekou, and the journey went very smoothly. The Ming army did not send anyone to break the ice. They successfully arrived near Mohekou and were ready to go ashore and take the city in one fell swoop.
It turned out that when they arrived, they discovered that there was actually an extra fort here.
The fortress is not too big, just a bastion, which looks very irregular, and there are even some separated and protruding forts, etc. The fortress wall is not high, and the trenches are also dry trenches.
The fortress that appeared unexpectedly, the generals of the Qing army did not take it seriously.
An isolated city, and another fortress, so what?
However, as they rode their horses to approach, the cannons on the bastion fired in unison. The firepower was so fierce that they even killed a leader of the team, Baya Lazhangjing, in the first round.
This is a forward general.
They also attacked with the same tactics they used to deal with the Ming army's Guan Ningjin defense line, and even regarded it as a small island town, but they didn't expect that this was a new defense strategy under the new tactics of the imperial camp.
Although the bastion is not big, it is equipped with [-] soldiers as assistants, including a whole battalion of [-] cavalry.
More importantly, there are a lot of artillery in this bastion, especially the matching is very particular. Cannons, long cannons, rotary cannons and other heavy, long, and close-up types are available. A multi-level and three-dimensional artillery defense system has been established, with a large number of musketeers.
In charge of guarding Juehua Island is a new imperial camp built by the emperor, Tianxiong Town, with Lu Xiangguan as the commander-in-chief.
This is a new-style imperial battalion. To say they are new-style means that this is a unit equipped with a large number of firearms, but unlike the artillery unit of Shenji Town, they are infantry.
In other infantry battalions, one battalion has four sentries, one sentry has eight teams, one sentry has one or two musket teams, and the best equipment is at most two musket teams, one team with guns and one team with small cannons.The other four teams are all armed with swords, spears, bows and arrows, but the Tianxiong Army is different.
There are ten combat battalions in one town of the Tianxiong Army, not only equipped with a cavalry battalion, but also an artillery battalion. The two associations have four marks and eight infantry battalions, each with four sentries. It is sentinel level, with two teams of cavalry, two teams of artillery, two teams of heavy guns, and then six teams of muskets.
The eight teams under the four whistles are equipped with four teams of muskets, two teams of captain guns, one team of small cannons and one team of heavy guns.
Even the spearmen of the two captains were equipped with three-eyed blunderbusses. Although they were backward muskets, they could fire three shots in a row at close range. gun.
The emperor prepared 50 catties of gunpowder for them.
What is this concept?
These gunpowder can be supplied to Tianxiong Town, there is no need to consider the gunpowder reserves, if you let go, you can fight for at least [-] days.
This is calculated based on the daily amount of each musketeer shooting one hundred times a day. A catty of high-quality gunpowder can be used for a musket to complete forty or fifty shots. A soldier consumes two catties of gunpowder a day. The 5000 people all took muskets to fight, each shot a hundred rounds, and that day only cost [-] catties.
In fact, no matter how fierce the battle is, it cannot reach this level.
Although the gun charge is much more than the bullets, the number of shots fired is also much less.
The emperor fully considered the demand and stocked up enough artillery, firecrackers, shells, lead bullets, and gunpowder in advance.
There are even incendiary bombs, grenades, stone bombs and so on.
There are two bastions, the big bastion can accommodate 5000 people, and the small bastion can also accommodate 3000 people.
On average, each soldier is equipped with one hundred catties of gunpowder, and two hundred catties of lead weights according to the ammunition ratio of two to one.
The first wave of attack by the Qing army was a cavalry raid.
Twelve teams of cavalry, a total of [-] cavalry came to kill.
As a result, because the landing site was too dense, the artillery on the bastion was directly replaced with shotgun attacks. There were cans, barrels, and cloth bags directly. All kinds of iron pieces and nails were blasted out, but it was Can scan a large area.
The unlucky Ba Ya Lazhang Jing was hit by a shotgun filled with iron nails in a tin can, and the tin can spread out in a fan-shaped pattern, directly turning his team of hundreds of people upside down. , About 80 people were swept down, [-] or [-] died on the spot, and another [-] or [-] were seriously injured.
And that's just the beginning.
A series of heavy cannons blasted out one after another from the fort of the bastion, falling into the dense cavalry of the Qing army, and the long cannons mounted on the fort on the second floor were smaller than the cannons. , but with a slender body, its range is farther, and it can also fire shotguns.
And placed in the front row are the rotary cannon (Francis machine), stone shooting cannon and so on.
There are even many city wall guns, which are small guns that are bigger than ordinary guns, about forty to fifty catties each, with longer barrels, placed on rotating brackets, and equipped on the city wall. His biggest advantage is blocking , especially shooting and killing enemy commanders and signal soldiers, gunners, etc.
This kind of gun has a fast rate of fire, a wide angle of fire, high accuracy, and the consumption of ammunition is much lower than that of conventional artillery, and it does not require many people to operate.
It has a long range and can penetrate thick armor. No matter how thick the armor is, it will be vulnerable to these city wall guns, and it will be soul-stirring with one shot.
In the frosty wind, the surprise attack of the [-] Tartar cavalry was quickly beaten to collapse.
When they tried to turn around and escape, the cavalry battalion came out in time. The cavalry were also equipped with muskets and sabers, and beat the dogs in the water behind.
In the end, 200 people fled desperately to the shore, and the [-] miles of sea ice left countless corpses. In the end, only more than a hundred people fled back to the shore.
This battle can be said to have made the tartars dizzy.
The Tartars in Ningyuan City were furious and refused to accept such a defeat.
He stopped attacking, and directly mobilized tens of thousands of horses to attack.
In coordination with infantry and cavalry, a large ice ship was also built, dragging artillery behind.
This time I came to the island carefully, with the shield car roof in front, the artillery was mounted on the wooden fort, and the musketeers and archers were called in to press in step by step.
Prepare to attack hard.
But as soon as the Tartars blew the attack horn, the Ming army's artillery fired first again.
This time the long guns were aimed at the artillery positions of the Qing army. The [-]-pound long gun was the first to show its power. It has a longer range, more accurate, higher safety performance, and its destructive power is enough to destroy the soil set up by the enemy within the effective range. Barriers, wooden fences, etc.
The Tartars hadn't realized the strength of the Ming army's artillery on Juehua Island at all. They carelessly pushed the artillery directly into their attack range, but they didn't know that this completely exposed their artillery to the Ming army's long artillery range, and even This distance is still within their stronger range.
The Tartars just laid wooden rafts on the ice as a fort, and simply surrounded the outside with a wall of ice packs, ready to join the battle.
As a result, dozens of long cannons of the Ming army showed their power. In the first round of bombardment, the ice wall of a red cannon of the Tartars was hit.
Then the gunners of the Ming army adjusted the parameters, and several shells accurately fell into the cannon inside the ice enclosure. This cannon was also about [-] pounds, but its performance was far behind that of the Ming army's Zhoushan Cannon Factory.
This [-]-pound long gun is also one of the main guns. It is widely used in city defense, field battles, and even on naval ships. It has high performance, good quality, and has a well-known title.
General Krupp Tianxiong Cannon.
Not only was he named a general, but he was also named an earl, with the title of Krupp.
And it did not live up to expectations, and one after another the Tartar red cannons were named by Krupp.
Every Tartar heavy artillery faced the bombardment of more than ten Ming army artillery, including several Krupp with extremely high precision.
The Tartars did not expect the Ming army's artillery to be so fierce. Their artillery positions were very simple, consisting of wooden rafts on ice surrounded by an ice wall.
Still very far ahead, completely within Krupp's superior range.
Few shots were fired.
The ten red cannons of the Tartars were all blown away.
Without the red-clothed cannon, the other Tartar cannons could not enter the range, and they were already bombarded by Krupp of the Ming army directly outside their range.
And the Ming army cannon heavy artillery, replaced with shotgun, and vented its firepower at the Qing army in front of it.
According to the firepower of the Ming army in the past, the Tatars were equipped with shield vehicles and pushed shields to cover the infantry. As a result, the artillery of the Ming army is several times or even dozens of times that of the Ningyuan War era.
The turret of the bastion not only provides an excellent shooting angle, but also has no dead ends, especially because it is condescending, with overlapping firepower.
Artillery washes the ground.
The Tartars were scattered in all directions.
At the beginning, they continued to rush forward in twos and threes, but at this time the guard of the bastion immediately ordered the cannon to stop attacking, and switched to the range of the wall gun.
Long-distance precise blocking.
If you get closer, there are still guns, and if you get closer, there are musketeers who are less powerful but more numerous.
The distance of a hundred steps is the complete line of casualties.
When they found it difficult to grit their teeth and rushed closer, they found that this bastion was not an ordinary square city wall, and it didn't have only one wall.
It is a three-dimensional defense. Although the wall is not high, there are still several trenches, embankments, corner towers, bastions, and forts. No matter where they stay, they will be attacked.
To rush forward is to truly step into hell, and there is no way to survive.
They don't know the practicability of this kind of bastion, which has shown great power on the European battlefield for 30 years. Although it seems simple, it is a real battlefield meat grinder.
It is easy to repair and the cost is low, but as long as there are enough soldiers defending the fort and enough gunpowder and military supplies, even three to five thousand people can calmly face the siege of three to five times or even ten times the enemy, and defend it for half a year and a year No problem.
This is a war hedgehog armed to the teeth and full of spikes.
The Tartars beat up the Ming army before, how could they encounter such a thing?
Their self-proclaimed excellent cotton armor could not stand up to the salvos of these guns, and even a dozen of those shield vehicles were useless.Even the cannons they carried were first shot out of carelessness.
The Tartar Bayalas, who ride well and are good at shooting arrows, wear thick armor, carry strong bows, and hold heavy arrows, but they have nothing to do with the Ming soldiers on the bastion.
The damage they caused to the Ming army was extremely limited, but the Ming army was able to condescend and bombard them three-dimensionally without dead ends.
(End of this chapter)
Zhu Yihai was a little dizzy.
This feeling is good, a very strange sense of familiarity, he feels as if he is flying in the sky.
When he shook his head and became a little more awake, he remembered where he was.
He was seven or eight percent drunk from drinking, and he was taking a convenience at this time.
He shook his head again, cleaned his hands after finishing the work, and looked at the bronze mirror on the table. He was indeed a little drunk, his face was flushed, and his mouth was breathing alcohol.
This reminded him of that time and space. On weekends, he would often meet up with friends, sometimes drinking tea, sometimes drinking, and when he got excited, he would also get half drunk. The slightly smoky feeling can always be forgotten. trouble.
But since coming here, he has rarely drank alcohol, usually just a few symbolic sips, and he will never let himself get drunk again.
He straightened his clothes in front of the mirror, and went out, there were waiters outside, he walked through the corridor, and there was a loud noise from the hall.
Many princes and ministers are toasting.
Well, he remembered, today is the new year.
Shaotian's two years went smoothly, the offense and defense changed, and there were no major battles in the second half of the year. Under his leadership, Da Ming completely gained a firm foothold, and even gradually counterattacked.
Wang Ye is not partial to peace, and ZTE is making progress.
It was a bit difficult for the Tartars. Last year, the Tartars killed four princes in a row, especially the sudden death of the emperor's father and the regent, which caused another wave of internal strife in the Manchurian center.
Jiang Guan raised troops in Datong, and the Tartars mobilized elite troops to quell the chaos.
As a result, soldiers besieged Datong for several months. Not only did they fail to break through Datong, but they lost a lot of soldiers and generals.
Geng Zhongming successfully reopened Dongjiang Town in Pidao.
Shen Tingyang, governor of Liaodong, took Gai, Fu, and Jin, and sent troops to capture Jiulian City on the Yalu River and Phoenix City on the Caohe River, a tributary.
Offensive and defensive.
Now the Tartars are not only on the defensive in Xu, Ying, and Jinan in Shandong, but also in Wuchang and Jingxiang in Huguang.
Even after winter, the Ming army did not withdraw the defenders from Juehua Island in Ningyuan.
When the ice layer thickens, the Tartars want to repeat Yuan Chonghuan's defense of Ningyuan. They sent troops to cross the sea and ice on horseback, landed on Juehua Island 20 miles offshore, slaughtered [-] soldiers and civilians on the island, and seized [-] stone. The old matter of grain and grass.
As a result, it failed this time.
Didn't Daming know that the sea ice on Juehua Island would freeze in winter, and that he could ride a horse directly to the island?
But why retreated from Haizhou last year, but stayed on Juehua Island in western Liaoning this year?
Because this year is different from previous years, the Ming army came prepared.
Before it was frozen, Juehua Island had been rebuilt for more than half a year. Not only did it restore the original grain storage city, it also restored the city that was about one mile long from north to south and half a mile wide from east to west. The city was more than three feet high and two feet wide at the bottom. It was reinforced, and two bastions, one large and one small, were newly built outside the city.
The big bastion is outside the north gate, leading directly to the outer port, which can not only protect the transportation channel, but also defend the north gate.
There were originally two gates on the south wall, which connected to the dragon's neck, and now a small bastion has been added.The main island is wide at both ends and narrow at the middle, like an irregular gourd, hanging alone in the sea.
A bastion and a fort were built outside the south gate, so it was natural to guard against danger.
Juehua Island fell during the Battle of Ningyuan, mainly because Ningyuan City was besieged and could not be reinforced, and because at that time the island was mainly composed of sailors who were not good at fighting on foot.
Moreover, their defense strategy at that time was to break the ice, to break the ice every day, trying to keep an ice trench out, but the weather was too cold at that time, one side was broken and the other side was frozen, so the Qing army came without defense, and finally the whole army was wiped out.
But the Ming army had no intention of using the sea ice to defend the city at all, and even transferred the navy ships to Lushun or Qingdao Liangbuying Port in advance before it was frozen.
The Juehua guard plan drawn up by Zhu Yihai himself stationed an entire imperial battalion on the island, with [-] soldiers and [-] auxiliary soldiers. Many guns were shipped.
This was originally a poison pill intended to lure the enemy.
Just wait for the Qing army to attack as soon as it freezes.
Once the ice freezes, there will be a period of several months of freezing. Juehua Island hangs alone in the sea, can the Tartars resist the temptation to wipe out this army?What's more, there have been successful precedents before.
Before the battle began, the Ming army transported all the people on the island, including those from Liaodong who had been brought back from Liaoxi, to Shandong and other places.
There are only six thousand and eight soldiers on the island.
At the end of November, the sea froze and the island was frozen.
The Tartars mobilized [-] cavalry squadrons as forwards to attack Juehua Island.
The rear golden cavalry galloped on ice.
They were preparing to land on the Duo Island at Mohekou, and the journey went very smoothly. The Ming army did not send anyone to break the ice. They successfully arrived near Mohekou and were ready to go ashore and take the city in one fell swoop.
It turned out that when they arrived, they discovered that there was actually an extra fort here.
The fortress is not too big, just a bastion, which looks very irregular, and there are even some separated and protruding forts, etc. The fortress wall is not high, and the trenches are also dry trenches.
The fortress that appeared unexpectedly, the generals of the Qing army did not take it seriously.
An isolated city, and another fortress, so what?
However, as they rode their horses to approach, the cannons on the bastion fired in unison. The firepower was so fierce that they even killed a leader of the team, Baya Lazhangjing, in the first round.
This is a forward general.
They also attacked with the same tactics they used to deal with the Ming army's Guan Ningjin defense line, and even regarded it as a small island town, but they didn't expect that this was a new defense strategy under the new tactics of the imperial camp.
Although the bastion is not big, it is equipped with [-] soldiers as assistants, including a whole battalion of [-] cavalry.
More importantly, there are a lot of artillery in this bastion, especially the matching is very particular. Cannons, long cannons, rotary cannons and other heavy, long, and close-up types are available. A multi-level and three-dimensional artillery defense system has been established, with a large number of musketeers.
In charge of guarding Juehua Island is a new imperial camp built by the emperor, Tianxiong Town, with Lu Xiangguan as the commander-in-chief.
This is a new-style imperial battalion. To say they are new-style means that this is a unit equipped with a large number of firearms, but unlike the artillery unit of Shenji Town, they are infantry.
In other infantry battalions, one battalion has four sentries, one sentry has eight teams, one sentry has one or two musket teams, and the best equipment is at most two musket teams, one team with guns and one team with small cannons.The other four teams are all armed with swords, spears, bows and arrows, but the Tianxiong Army is different.
There are ten combat battalions in one town of the Tianxiong Army, not only equipped with a cavalry battalion, but also an artillery battalion. The two associations have four marks and eight infantry battalions, each with four sentries. It is sentinel level, with two teams of cavalry, two teams of artillery, two teams of heavy guns, and then six teams of muskets.
The eight teams under the four whistles are equipped with four teams of muskets, two teams of captain guns, one team of small cannons and one team of heavy guns.
Even the spearmen of the two captains were equipped with three-eyed blunderbusses. Although they were backward muskets, they could fire three shots in a row at close range. gun.
The emperor prepared 50 catties of gunpowder for them.
What is this concept?
These gunpowder can be supplied to Tianxiong Town, there is no need to consider the gunpowder reserves, if you let go, you can fight for at least [-] days.
This is calculated based on the daily amount of each musketeer shooting one hundred times a day. A catty of high-quality gunpowder can be used for a musket to complete forty or fifty shots. A soldier consumes two catties of gunpowder a day. The 5000 people all took muskets to fight, each shot a hundred rounds, and that day only cost [-] catties.
In fact, no matter how fierce the battle is, it cannot reach this level.
Although the gun charge is much more than the bullets, the number of shots fired is also much less.
The emperor fully considered the demand and stocked up enough artillery, firecrackers, shells, lead bullets, and gunpowder in advance.
There are even incendiary bombs, grenades, stone bombs and so on.
There are two bastions, the big bastion can accommodate 5000 people, and the small bastion can also accommodate 3000 people.
On average, each soldier is equipped with one hundred catties of gunpowder, and two hundred catties of lead weights according to the ammunition ratio of two to one.
The first wave of attack by the Qing army was a cavalry raid.
Twelve teams of cavalry, a total of [-] cavalry came to kill.
As a result, because the landing site was too dense, the artillery on the bastion was directly replaced with shotgun attacks. There were cans, barrels, and cloth bags directly. All kinds of iron pieces and nails were blasted out, but it was Can scan a large area.
The unlucky Ba Ya Lazhang Jing was hit by a shotgun filled with iron nails in a tin can, and the tin can spread out in a fan-shaped pattern, directly turning his team of hundreds of people upside down. , About 80 people were swept down, [-] or [-] died on the spot, and another [-] or [-] were seriously injured.
And that's just the beginning.
A series of heavy cannons blasted out one after another from the fort of the bastion, falling into the dense cavalry of the Qing army, and the long cannons mounted on the fort on the second floor were smaller than the cannons. , but with a slender body, its range is farther, and it can also fire shotguns.
And placed in the front row are the rotary cannon (Francis machine), stone shooting cannon and so on.
There are even many city wall guns, which are small guns that are bigger than ordinary guns, about forty to fifty catties each, with longer barrels, placed on rotating brackets, and equipped on the city wall. His biggest advantage is blocking , especially shooting and killing enemy commanders and signal soldiers, gunners, etc.
This kind of gun has a fast rate of fire, a wide angle of fire, high accuracy, and the consumption of ammunition is much lower than that of conventional artillery, and it does not require many people to operate.
It has a long range and can penetrate thick armor. No matter how thick the armor is, it will be vulnerable to these city wall guns, and it will be soul-stirring with one shot.
In the frosty wind, the surprise attack of the [-] Tartar cavalry was quickly beaten to collapse.
When they tried to turn around and escape, the cavalry battalion came out in time. The cavalry were also equipped with muskets and sabers, and beat the dogs in the water behind.
In the end, 200 people fled desperately to the shore, and the [-] miles of sea ice left countless corpses. In the end, only more than a hundred people fled back to the shore.
This battle can be said to have made the tartars dizzy.
The Tartars in Ningyuan City were furious and refused to accept such a defeat.
He stopped attacking, and directly mobilized tens of thousands of horses to attack.
In coordination with infantry and cavalry, a large ice ship was also built, dragging artillery behind.
This time I came to the island carefully, with the shield car roof in front, the artillery was mounted on the wooden fort, and the musketeers and archers were called in to press in step by step.
Prepare to attack hard.
But as soon as the Tartars blew the attack horn, the Ming army's artillery fired first again.
This time the long guns were aimed at the artillery positions of the Qing army. The [-]-pound long gun was the first to show its power. It has a longer range, more accurate, higher safety performance, and its destructive power is enough to destroy the soil set up by the enemy within the effective range. Barriers, wooden fences, etc.
The Tartars hadn't realized the strength of the Ming army's artillery on Juehua Island at all. They carelessly pushed the artillery directly into their attack range, but they didn't know that this completely exposed their artillery to the Ming army's long artillery range, and even This distance is still within their stronger range.
The Tartars just laid wooden rafts on the ice as a fort, and simply surrounded the outside with a wall of ice packs, ready to join the battle.
As a result, dozens of long cannons of the Ming army showed their power. In the first round of bombardment, the ice wall of a red cannon of the Tartars was hit.
Then the gunners of the Ming army adjusted the parameters, and several shells accurately fell into the cannon inside the ice enclosure. This cannon was also about [-] pounds, but its performance was far behind that of the Ming army's Zhoushan Cannon Factory.
This [-]-pound long gun is also one of the main guns. It is widely used in city defense, field battles, and even on naval ships. It has high performance, good quality, and has a well-known title.
General Krupp Tianxiong Cannon.
Not only was he named a general, but he was also named an earl, with the title of Krupp.
And it did not live up to expectations, and one after another the Tartar red cannons were named by Krupp.
Every Tartar heavy artillery faced the bombardment of more than ten Ming army artillery, including several Krupp with extremely high precision.
The Tartars did not expect the Ming army's artillery to be so fierce. Their artillery positions were very simple, consisting of wooden rafts on ice surrounded by an ice wall.
Still very far ahead, completely within Krupp's superior range.
Few shots were fired.
The ten red cannons of the Tartars were all blown away.
Without the red-clothed cannon, the other Tartar cannons could not enter the range, and they were already bombarded by Krupp of the Ming army directly outside their range.
And the Ming army cannon heavy artillery, replaced with shotgun, and vented its firepower at the Qing army in front of it.
According to the firepower of the Ming army in the past, the Tatars were equipped with shield vehicles and pushed shields to cover the infantry. As a result, the artillery of the Ming army is several times or even dozens of times that of the Ningyuan War era.
The turret of the bastion not only provides an excellent shooting angle, but also has no dead ends, especially because it is condescending, with overlapping firepower.
Artillery washes the ground.
The Tartars were scattered in all directions.
At the beginning, they continued to rush forward in twos and threes, but at this time the guard of the bastion immediately ordered the cannon to stop attacking, and switched to the range of the wall gun.
Long-distance precise blocking.
If you get closer, there are still guns, and if you get closer, there are musketeers who are less powerful but more numerous.
The distance of a hundred steps is the complete line of casualties.
When they found it difficult to grit their teeth and rushed closer, they found that this bastion was not an ordinary square city wall, and it didn't have only one wall.
It is a three-dimensional defense. Although the wall is not high, there are still several trenches, embankments, corner towers, bastions, and forts. No matter where they stay, they will be attacked.
To rush forward is to truly step into hell, and there is no way to survive.
They don't know the practicability of this kind of bastion, which has shown great power on the European battlefield for 30 years. Although it seems simple, it is a real battlefield meat grinder.
It is easy to repair and the cost is low, but as long as there are enough soldiers defending the fort and enough gunpowder and military supplies, even three to five thousand people can calmly face the siege of three to five times or even ten times the enemy, and defend it for half a year and a year No problem.
This is a war hedgehog armed to the teeth and full of spikes.
The Tartars beat up the Ming army before, how could they encounter such a thing?
Their self-proclaimed excellent cotton armor could not stand up to the salvos of these guns, and even a dozen of those shield vehicles were useless.Even the cannons they carried were first shot out of carelessness.
The Tartar Bayalas, who ride well and are good at shooting arrows, wear thick armor, carry strong bows, and hold heavy arrows, but they have nothing to do with the Ming soldiers on the bastion.
The damage they caused to the Ming army was extremely limited, but the Ming army was able to condescend and bombard them three-dimensionally without dead ends.
(End of this chapter)